If you are looking for a cookbook full of classic dishes sure to be a hit with your entire family, check out "From My Kitchen To Yours: Treasured Recipes of Kim Makoski." Great, tasty meals from traditional to super fun, there's something for everyone.

This cookbook is great for the novice family chefs as well as for the more advanced. With 8 sections ranging from appetizers to desserts, canning, crockpot cooking and microwaving it gives this divorced dad of three plenty of selection. I found that 98 percent of the recipe ingredients were in my kitchen cupboard which means no special trips to the grocery store. I particularly enjoy the honey garlic ribs and the apple streusel coffee cake! ... Bon Appetit!!

This book is a beautiful book about German photographer Germain Krull. Her career spanned the 20th century and several continents. Her work during the 1920s in Paris helped shape the modern photographic style, and Kim Sichel's writing about this photographer is clear and insightful. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in influential women or in photography.

I was on the Maine Photographic Workshop's 1999 Golden Light Award committee (with photographers Slyvia Plachy and Len Jenshel, in April 2000), and we voted this best retrosepctive photography book of 1999. It's a comprehensive, lively, and engagingly designed overview of this intriguiing but little-known artist's work. Our critieria: books we'd want to have on our shelves at home. Coming from a photo book publisher, 'nuff said.

After my 1st grade daughter received her first "research" assignment, we searched through Books-A-Million, WaldenBooks, and Borders, and finally came across this series. Wonderfully written, colorful and full of great information! I am buying the other 3 titles in this series for her library (Spain, Germany and France). Barron's would be foolish if they didn't attempt to expand on this series with other titles; it could be easily sold to many schools that are truly interested in valuable education

This is a very attractive and informative book. My second grade students found it easy to use to find information about the culture and geography of Italy. I really like the format with subtitles for Famous Places, Famous People and Facts about Italy.

My 11-month old can't get enough of this book (and it's partner, Fantastic Feet). The bold colors and the pictures of happy children's faces are enough to set her squealing with excitement. Then there are little tabs for her to pull so she can make the hands clap, drum, play piano, etc.

I'd highly recommend it for 1-2 year olds.

My daughter absolutely loves this book, as well as the companion book "Fantastic Feet". Every night before bed my little lady always asks for this book in the bedtime reading list. I definitely recommend it.

I love both of these books. I wish they would hurry up and translate some more, already!! I discovered them by accident and am finding myself giving them to all my friends. They are funny, silly, and wonderfully surreal, and totally satisfying. I keep reading them over again.

In Harum Scarum, I am reminded of Blood Music, the book where some strange scientific experiment goes waaaay out of control. Except this is much less nihilistic, and in fact the story goes totally over the top in just the right way. It's a kind of anti-Scooby Doo thing: instead of pulling the mask off of old man Carlson -- aw, you gotta read it yourself. I loved it. It was hilarious, a total find.

What makes a comic book a chef-d'oeuvre ? Suspense ? Action ? Humour ? Pretty pictures ? Witty dialogues ? Well, everything and much more appears in Harum Scarum, by one of the best European cartoonists. - The scene takes place in France at the beginning of the century. The someday-famous McConey, a naive student, is unwillingly attracted in zillions of adventures : he'll meet a mad scientist, an ambitious journalist, a rather curious police officer, as well as burglars, snipers, lizard-looking monsters, time-travel machines, terrorists and so on. Amazingly enough, this all makes sense in Trondheim's World, where characters never lose neither their self-control nor their sense of humour. This book may please children of every age, and also adults (even more, maybe) : there's MUCH more in this comic book than in an usual cartoon. You'll be amazed !

Kim Stafford's Having Everything Right is a beautiful nature book, full of quiet observation and fine, original description. I could have been satisfied with that, but the pleasing bonus is Stafford's openness, both to himself and to the reader, about his reactions, "random" associations, memories and plans evoked by what he sees and hears. Whether poetic, quirky, amusing, really unique or just nuts, he puts his thoughts out there in a way that opens the reader to him and his subject. The transparency of the observation increases the transparency of the subject. A book to read over and over.

Kim Stafford is a natural storyteller. By that I mean he has an inherent gift for telling stories, and he pays attention to nature. In HAVING EVERYTHING RIGHT, the author takes a moment to look around him, at a place you or I might notice and walk past, or not notice at all. What he discovers he relates with skill. His essays resonate with interest, care, humor and sometimes even awe. In some ways it is a quiet book, but offers surprises and delight. Surely you will come away with an appreciation of how stories are not just published in books or magazines, but are part of who we are, and where we are.

As a TaeKwonDo student of Grandmaster Y K Kim, this text is required reading, not so that he can gain royalties, but that his entire philosophy for the techniques of life is contained within. From the definition of a healthy life to meditation to movement to stretching to TaeKwonDo, it's all here, and explained in a very easily-understood format. Please read this book. You will never regret it!!

This book cuts through all the gimmicky 'get fit' plans and shows you simple common sense techniques to feel good all the time. I believe that following Y. K. Kim's advice in this book will improve any health problem we face. His martial arts expertise puts him light years ahead of bestselling health ideas. The emphasis on breathing, the relationship of mind, body, and heart are invaluable in every day life. Anything you want to do with your body can be possible with the help of this book. Martial arts has long been marginalized in American culture/recreation. I believe that Y. K. Kim's martial arts techniques are what America needs to cure it's ailments. This book is the way to start with yourself.

Henry Sugimoto: Painting An American Experience is the companion volume to a major exhibit of a remarkable Japanese-American artist. Henry Sugimoto (1900-1999) had an art career that spanned the 20th century and whose work reveals a talented, gifted, complex, and engaging painter. From his early work (influenced by European impressionism and then the post-impressionists) to his painted documentation to the Japanese-American experiences of World War II era Arkansas-based internment camps, to his later efforts in New York City, this superbly presented, full-color survey of his life and work is a fitting testament to a great artist.

Whether your interest is in art or in history, you definitely will find pleasure here! Regardless of where your interest may lay, this book is a highly accessible one. Sugimoto's art is accessible to non-artistics (if there's such a word ;-) and Kristine Kim's narrative is accessible to non-academics. As an American of Japanese ancestry, I find that our history is depicted in a way that satisfies both the eye and the intellect.

An immigrant from Japan and an impressionist artist whose work later reflected his exposure to the Mexican muralists, Sugimoto's work documented the Japanese-American experience. Drawing on his unpublished autobiography, as well as other source documents, Kristine Kim appropriately delivers Sugimoto's art within the historical context that so strongly influenced his style and subject matter. Each chapter in Sugimoto's life is followed by the artwork created in that period. The most significant period being World War II.

WWII was a dark time for Japanese-Americans (and for US citizens, as a whole). Sugimoto was incarcerated: first at the Fresno Assembly Center and later at concentration camps in Arkansas. While in the camps, where cameras were forbidden, Sugimoto used his brushes and canvas to document the existence of persons imprisoned solely for their ethnicity. His work is filled with the emotions of that time - hope for the future, sorrow at injustice, longing for freedom, pride in country, sadness at the thought of sons fighting far away. On the surface, many of the paintings seem to show "normal" everyday life but subtle signs (pink ration book, guard towers, mess hall) hint at the fact that the people in the paintings are incarcerated.

Having seen several times the Sugimoto exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, I have seen many of the paintings included in this book. The panels of those works represent them well. Be sure to check out his painting titled "When Can We Go Home?" It is remarkable in that it's startling, emotional and bold and subtle at once. It struck my heart in a way that's difficult to put into words.

Never one to cease growing in his art, in the 1960's Sugimoto experimented with woodblock prints. They are amazing! Beautiful, detailed, with depth of feelings.

Henry Sugimoto was a talented artist whose work reflects not only his experiences but his wondrous humanity and compassion. He is not well known. Hopefully the current exhibit and this book will rectify that!

I am a Vienna boys choir fan since 15 years but i had never read a book about their history, in fact I have no seen any other in english,now I get one and I can say is very interesting how the author describes the places, situations, dificulties, great moments, disadvantages, the war period, and how they obtained the coats of arms of the republic in their tunics, it's a very good job, maybe you have to wait two months, depends on your area, but if you really want to know about them, you have to obtain one.

I've been a fan of the Vienna Boys Choir for many years. I have over fifty of their recordings. But before I purchased this book, the only thing I knew of them was what I read on the LP's & CD's that I own. This is the only book I've seen, written in English, that tells of their history. I never knew the difficulties that they've endured throughout their hstory, especially during world war two. If You're a fan of the Vienna Boys Choir, as I am, then I think this book will help You know more about them. I believe You will enjoy ths book very much.

Although I didn't like this one as much as Harum Scarum, it was still pretty fabulous. I found these books in a comic store and bought them on a whim (I go into comic stores about once every five years, and usually don't buy anything). They were every bit as satisfying as Tintin or Asterix were when I was twelve! Only better. These books are silly, funny, raunchy, and impossible to describe. The characters are wonderfully fallible, and the plots are totally off-the-wall, without being impossibly surreal.

In the Hoodoodad, you're never sure if there really IS a curse on the cool rock that they find. The guy who finds it is convinced, but it's not until the story takes a few twists that you really believe him. And of course his friends are no help; they're too busy being rude to each other in that laddish, fin de siecle slacker sort of way. It's hilarious.

Lewis Trondheim renews European comic book tradition, mixing animal-like characters such as Walt Disney's, English humor and French-Belgian style. In this album, the famous rabbit McConey faces a strange spelled rock. He and his friends run from one problem to another, but never lose their sense of humor. They'll meet amazing people such as Wilfried, the painter who don't want his pictures to be seen (he wouldn't be reincarnated as long as someone remembers him), the crazy director of the Museum and an all-around magician (voodoo, African wizard, Shaman, astrologist - you name it !) Most funny and witty indeed ! - No sex, no violence, no explicit text, but I wouldn't call it a book for children anyway : their parents may like it more than they would. And what's exciting is that Lewis Trondheim has got many other comic books waiting for a translation !