From the tv series, this is a collection of great recipes from great chefs.

I say for the more seasoned gourmet, because there is not much included on technique or buying ingredients or prep, but just the recipe and a write-up on the chef.

But for the adventuresome, there is much to be said for the recipes here --- very creative stuff with vivid color photos. Examples from Jasper White, Dean Feaaring, Stephen Pyles, Emeril Lagasse, Daniel Bouloud to mention but a few.

This book is probally the most valuable tool you can own in your tool box. The manual covers not only full engine overhaul but also tune up procedures and general maintance.

The manual is laid out very well and allows those with little or no car experience to easily perform numerous tasks and trouble shoot problems they may have.

You can't go wrong at the price because even if you use it once it's more than paid for itself.

This book is fun to read, as long as you're not expecting great literature. In contrast to most fantasies, where the protagonists pursue high-minded and altruistic goals, the adventures in The Maze of Peril seem predominantly interested in themselves. It's an amusing change of pace to see fantasy characters who squabble over treasure instead of devoting their efforts to some world-saving quest.

The format is a mass-market paperback, but this isn't a novelization but rather the screenplay as the movie was made. You'll notice that last has a subtle distinction. Oftentimes screenplays differ notably from the movies as you see them--scenes are cut because they didn't work, cost too much to do, or just because of the limits of time. The screenplays of Brazil and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are full of wonderful little tidbits that didn't make it to the screen. Unfortunately, for Life of Brian, there's only the parts that did get made, which are funny indeed, but you've already seen them.

For the past four decades, Eric John has been an important (if often iconoclastic) contributor to Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Now, he has assembled many of his ideas about the Anglo-Saxon world into a book aimed at an educated lay audience. Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England is not a general survey of the period; rather, it is a topical treatment, covering those areas that interest the author. A basic knowledge of the period is probably necessary to fully appreciate this book (for which I would recommend The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell, Patrick Wormald, and Eric John himself), but for the Anglo-Saxon enthusiast, John's work is highly stimulating, even provocative, and entertaining.

The chapters deal with, respectively, the Germanic origins of the Anglo-Saxons, their conversion to Christianity, the Mercian hegemony, the Viking raids of the ninth century, the growth of Wessex, the monastic revival, the intellectual revival of Wulfstan and Ælfric, the fall of Wessex, Cnut's empire, the reigns of Emma's sons, and the Norman conquest. Throughout, John's style is breezy and accessible, although learned. Frequently he makes amusing observations that prevent the proceedings from becoming too formal (e.g., when discussing French and English nationalism in Norman Conquest historiography, "The only thing more absurd than Harold taking afternoon tea with the Queen at Balmoral would be William dining with President Mitterand at the Elysée palace. If one sought a place where both would have been at home I cannot think of anywhere more congenial than former Yugoslavia or Afghanistan" [p. 168]). He freely criticizes opposing viewpoints, sometimes in a sarcastic or exasperated tone, but even at his most biting, he is entertaining. His views are not always orthodox - in fact, they are some times wildly unorthodox - but they are always interesting and thought-provoking, and will often inspire the reader to, with John, reassess Anglo-Saxon England.

At first glance, this Golden Book looked too cluttered and cheesey. Most pages contain "fact" secions with cartoon-type illustrations. The first reading with my four year-old son proved my initial impression wrong. Each of the cluttered, cheesy illustrations further explains a point in a way that was appealing to my son.

The book does a very nice job of explaining our solar system to a preschooler. It starts as describing our solar system as a neighborhood. It presents interesting information about our sun, moon, and space travel, including living in space. Limited information is presented on the planets, meteors, asteroids, and comets. Each planet is very briefly described in only one or two sentences. As an example, the infomation on Jupiter does not mention the red spot.

A two-page spread of cartoon does a good, age-appropriate job of explaining what we do and do not know about space aliens. It's presented in a question and answer format between a girl and a grown man.

Fast facts about the planets are contained on another two-page spread. A graphic displays the planets relative sizes and lists their sizes in miles and kilometers. For each planet, information is given under headings of: Big or small, Surface (rocky, hard, soft, etc.), Hot or cold, Interesting fact, and Moons. The number of rings on the gas giants is not compared, nor is the information on each planet robust.

The final two pages contain space related puzzles and their answers. All are appropriate for my four year old.

Because of the format and illustrations, this book is very appealing to my children. The cartoon illustrations provide a special appeal. The lack of actual photographs don't seem to bother them. For it's price, it's hard to beat the amount of interest my preschoolers have in this book.

As a storyguide beginning his third MAGE chronicle and as a player starting in a separate chronicle, I found this book very useful in further detailing the ways in which true shamans work in the World of Darkness. In some ways, the book continues the themes expounded in the Dreamspeaker tradition book, but it goes further and is not limited to Dreamspeakers alone.

That said, this book does focus on shamanic methods and viewpoints, and has a heavy emphasis on interaction with spirits. It's not a spirit compendium, unlike Werewolf's Axis Mundi, and though it touches on shamanic possibilities for all Traditions, it seems far less useful for non-shamanic groups like the Celestial Chorus and the Order of Hermes.

Outstanding features involve blessings and curses of being a shaman, new merits and flaws, the potential "catch-all" nature of Spirit magick, discussion of totems and the World Tree aspect of the Umbra, and finally a new collection of spirit-related rotes. It's all well-written and presents minimal rules-related content. The story is illustrative without being intrusive.

Bottom line was that this gave me a greatly expanded perspective on what it means to be a shaman, the responsibilities as well as the benefits. The only drawback for me was that the authors chose not to explore alternative visions of shamanism, such as technomancer or Hermetic possibilities. Consequently, the book will be primarily useful to chronicles featuring Dreamspeakers, Verbena, or Cultists.

It is a great book to have for learning the principals of interventional radiology. I have read since I started my fellowship last year. Dyet's Textbook of endovascular procedures is a complete solution to getting up to most daily interventions,and also including recent procedures, like carotid angioplasty and stenting and uterine fibroids embolization.

Here's a fascinating tale by John Taine, who is actually mathematician Eric Temple Bell. As I read this, back in the Sixties, the book contained two other stories: The Purple Sapphire, and The White Lilly. All these stories are somewhat dated, but quite original pieces, that stand by themselves. The Time Stream follows several travelers, who make use of some rather interesting properties of time - apparently it behaves like water flowing, and thus has eddy currents that can be used to move both forward and back if you know how. The Purple Sapphire is an adventure tale set in the wilderness of Tibet, and assumes there are places on this earth that are remote and mysterious. It's a good yarn, and well spun, if you can set yourself back to those times. The White Lilly is a fairly dated "jekyll-hyde" piece about the good and not-so-good aspects of experimentation with radiation, (something that has been done to death).

Still if you can find them, you'll find them well-written and fun. Well worth trying to find.

this is a great book if you would like to know how the city and others cities have changed . the many changes you will learn about is transportation, the economy, population and anything else ther is to do with the world changes.