I bought this book when it came out, in 1972. We entertained a great deal, and because I also worked full time, this fun book made putting on a large feast for a big gathering easy to do. People were always impressed that I could work and still put together a huge meal without being stressed! Amusingly written, the menues are both varied and unusual, and with the integrated preparation and cooking techniques which are described, really very easy to prepare. Each menu has a shopping list, with the price of the ingredients noted (a fun look back at prices, e.g. 5 lbs of boned lamb just $6.00, or a 12 ounce bottle of vegetable oil - 28 cents!), equipment required, then the step-by-step approach to putting the entire menu together in an hour. According to my handwritten notes on a few pages, some of the recipes were over-peppered, but I do know that they were quite good! The prices may change, but the flavours and techniques do not...a fun book for preparing a good meal for a crowd!

This is a wonderful story, admittedly not all that original: an unwanted toy, the one child who wants and loves it.... But, the touching and special twist in this book is the presentation of the story in both roman letters and braille. Combined with the fact that the little girl in the story is blind, it really brings home the "beauty is in the 'eye' of the beholder" lesson. A treasure. Plus, the illustrations are excellent. A treat for multiple senses!

This is a beautiful book. It's rare to find such large reproductions of drawings, all in color! (Most drawings, if not all are done in pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk.)

Twenty-six drawings whose locations are unknown appear in an appendix in black and white at the back of the book.

The text appears on the opposite page from each drawing. The author provides a brief, but helpful interpretation of each scene. Many of Tiepolo's references are not immediately familiar to the modern non-scholar reader, so a little guidance really enhances the visual experience.

Best of all is Tiepolo's delightful rendering of the human comedy. His Punchinellos are ridiculous, loveable, pathetic and even heroic or tragic. This is one of my favorite journeys with an old master.

The text also provides information regarding provenance, bibliography, exhibitions and current ownership.

Enquist's obsessive meditation on the task of living, on the redemptive power of acceptance and forgiveness, and on the need to search for the voice we deny ourselves and others when we hide our deformities away, builds its themes through repeated juxtapositions of its narrative strands: a freak with two heads, a couple grieving their twice-lost child, and the narrator's longing for the father he never knew.

Despite its sometimes difficult subject matter, the book sustains a tone of hope and renewal. Its poetic language, its sensitive depiction of the process by which love rescues the outcast, and-- above all-- Enquist's deft touch with his imagery and his ideas, all give this book a magic which transcends its apparently depressing elements.

As a somewhat novice coin collector (2 years), I've found theEdmund's Coin Price Guide a very easy to use reference.Even moreimportant, the prices quoted in the current Edmund's Coin Prices Guide are right on the mark as to what my coins are worth now. Coin values fluctuate constantly, ... invested semi-annually in the current issue of Edmund's more than pays for itself by keeping my knowledge of buying, selling and trading values current.

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This book takes us all back to the post-revolutionary breakdown of a rural socialist community. After an initial global survey of similar social structures, the elaborate description of the geographic factor in so-called aboriginal socialism is a gift to the reader. You really ought to buy this book.

Per describes an island society that has embraced all of the 60/70's ideas (in extreme) - but can only survive using the free market (which it, of course, abhors). On the mainland a group of generals sets out to bring the island back under their control again.

Written by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (a Tibetan monk who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries) and enhanced for a western readership with an informative commentary by Lopon Tenzin Namdak, Heart Drops Of Dharmakaya is a complete Dzogchen meditation manual for the Tibetan religious way that is known as Bon. Written in the direct, personal, and meaningful style of instructor to student, Heart Drops Of Dharmakaya also features a commentary by Lopon Tenzin Namdak, a master of Dzogchen who was responsible for translating this holy work into English. Heart Drops Of Dharmakaya is enthusiastically recommended reading for advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism and its meditation practices.

With his newest work of science history, Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy, physicist and author Per Dahl pulls off the remarkable feat of delivering both a scholarly work and a nail-biting thriller. *** Late in 1938, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman discovered the phenomenon of atomic fission; physicists everywhere realized that if chain reactions could be tamed, fission could lead to a new source of power. What was needed was a substance that could "moderate" the energy of neutrons emitted in radioactive decay, so that they could be captured by other fissionable nuclei. Heavy water was a prime candidate for the job -- its role in world affairs thus forever assured. ***While plenty of books and movies have dealt with Allied efforts to deny heavy water to the Germans in World War II, Dahl's is the first history of the substance itself -- not as "a purely technical treatise," he writes in the preface (although there are details and diagrams aplenty), but "a social history." ***Deuterium, a hydrogen atom whose nucleus includes one neutron, was discovered before the neutron itself. In 1931, most scientists thought the differing weights of isotopes were due to extra protons bound to "nuclear electrons." By Thanksgiving of that year, Columbia University chemist Harold Urey had identified the spectral lines of what he would later call deuterium in a few cubic centimeters of concentrated liquid hydrogen. Not until February 1932, in Cambridge, England, did James Chadwick discover the neutron. ***Deuterium is physically so different from ordinary hydrogen (roughly twice as massive, for one thing) that chemists eagerly turned their attention to it. They wondered what differences deuterium instead of ordinary hydrogen might make in the behavior of chemical compounds; what the effects on plants and animals of water with two deuterium atoms per molecule might be; and even what therapeutic potential this literally heavy water might possess. *** The protean Gilbert Lewis, Urey's mentor at the University of California at Berkeley, was a pioneer in these investigations, and he soon made more heavy water than Urey himself -- enough that, among many other experiments, he was able to feed two-thirds of a gram of the precious stuff to a mouse. The mouse survived, Lewis reported, but showed "marked signs of intoxication." ***Concentrating heavy water requires enormous amounts of electricity. In the 1930s, one of the few places in the world with power to spare was the Vemork plant of Norway's Norsk Hydro-Elektrisk, which had harnessed a 144-meter-high waterfall to produce fertilizers. Norsk Hydro supplied the world's scientific community with heavy water only as a sideline. Inebriated mice aside, what was it good for? *** Nuclear fission supplied the answer. The best candidates for moderators in atomic reactors were heavy water and pure graphite. Dahl relates the fascinating events, including romantic distractions, that persuaded German scientists that graphite wouldn't do the job. When, in late 1939, the Germans began ordering heavy water in very large quantities, Norsk Hydro management suspected "some kind of deviltry." ***Frédéric Joliot knew perfectly well what kind of deviltry, and with the cooperation of Norsk Hydro, the French managed to spirit the company's entire stock of heavy water, some 185 kilograms, out of the country under the noses of watching German agents. Later, Joliot's assistants smuggled most of it out of Vichy France and used it to convince the British that chain reactions were practical. ***Meanwhile the Germans had invaded Norway, and the Allies set out to destroy Vemork, a story familiar from the 1965 Hollywood film, Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris. Despite tragic loss of life, the Norwegian underground repeatedly sabotaged Vemork's heavy water production until the Germans finally gave up. *** The German attempt to build a reactor was feeble and disorganized -- and their effort to build an atomic weapon nonexistent -- but the Allies didn't know that. German interest in heavy water was a major factor in the race to build the A-bomb. ***Per Dahl masterfully recounts all these events and many more. There is wisdom in his judicious treatment of persistent historical debates, including the rancorous argument that still rages about the motivations of Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, and the other members of the German "Uranium Club." His style is lively, his research thorough, his organization superb. ***The Institute of Physics Publishing company has matched Dahl's efforts by giving Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy the scholarly apparatus and handsome production it deserves.