The photos are beautiful, the book gives you a lot of ideas for themed parties and menus. The author also gives you step by step instructions and checklists for every party. It is a wonderful book and a must if you are in the business.

This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of nutrition for horses. With all of the charts on every vitamin and mineral needed for equine's, it is very easy to understand for the lay-person. This book goes into great detail on precise amounts needed for each type of discipline and what you may need to add or subtract to "balance" your horses diet. I would strongly recomend this book for any and every horse owner's library.

For young readers this is a wonderful depiction of a historical saga put in language that is uncomplicated and exciting! I would recommend it for Sunday School classes and reader's clubs!

I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as Medea--it settled an argument too on how it 'originally' ended.

An authoritative reference / textbook containing "thumbnails" of applicable evaluation theory and practice by experts in the field.

The current U.S. Poet Laureate has this to say about "Every Sky":
"Eleanor McQuilkin well understands poetry's power to compact
huge meanings into small spaces and to provide a place where
emotion and wit can happily coexist. Her concise and
circumspect poems are clever, heartfelt, and brimming with
canny observations. It is a joy to hear her clear voice come
off the page. --Billy Collins

And Anthony Hecht (Pulitzer Prise winner in poetry):

"Eleanor McQuilkin's beautiful, artfully arranged collection
of poems begins unassumingly and modestly with the common
consolations of rural life--with gardens, birds, trees, wind
and weather--and opens gradually to embrace more and more of
the world. Along the way it findss room for mischief, for
tough honesty, for humor and gaiety, as it expands into distant
and exotic parts, finally to arrive, in what is its deeply
moving and eloquent culmination, at an "undiscovered country"
revealed in the same spare, honest language with which her
journey had begun. "Every Sky" is as severe, as lovely, as
forlorn as some of the paintings of Edward Hopper; as witty as
the music of Erik Satie; as lean as the poems of Stephen Crane;
as unflinching as the photographs of Walker Evans. But its
terse and powerful ending, with its rich, orchestral
resonances, is altogether and triumphantly the work of Eleanor
McQuilkin. --Anthony Hecht

Iremembered this book when I was A child about 8yrs. old and I am now 27 and this book has been on my mind since. can hardly wait to see if this the one I am looking for.

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

This short magical book, with 30 intmate photographs, does a great service to all who may have wished they had known Mrs. Roosevelt(The "Mrs.R" of the title). The author, William Turner Levy, reveals, in the affectionate telling of his longstanding friendship with Mrs. R, very touching and human dimensions to the already very detailed and historic portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt. It is through his enchanting and loving memoir, told through short delightful anadotes, that I gained new insights and perspectives into the private life and personality of Mrs. R. Indeed, not only did I gain nuance, I gained a strong emotional sense of who this woman really was. The excellent comments incorporated throughout the book of Cynthia Eagle Russet, a professor of history at Yale University, provided valuable historical and contextual insight into the significance of the role of Mrs. Roosevelt in shaping history and politics. I highly recommend this charming book to all those interested in Mrs. R and a part of American history coming alive in new and fascinating ways.

This book provides an overview of some of Australia's and Papua New Guinea's most intriguing and beautiful little birds. Fairy-wrens have fascinated ornithologists and lay-people alike from early European settlement in Australia. And rightly so. The males are strikingly coloured in deep blues, brilliant cobalts, daring reds and purples. They have a lovely, far-reaching song, well-known to many Australian with a suburban garden. Their social system is intricate and fascinating, living in small social groups of varying complexity. Plus the fariry-wrens are the least faithful of all birds, with females routinely cuckolding their social partners. Emu-wrens and grass-wrens are somewhat more modest in their appearance, and more elusive to the uninitiated bird watcher. But the beauty of the emu-wrens lies in the detail of their feathered tail, whereas the grasswrens are the most cryptic of them all. This book is a delight, well written by Australia's two leading - and most sympathetic - wren-biologists, providing a plethora of interesting facts presented in an appealing style that can captivate experts and interested lay-people alike. The plates by Peter Marsack are delightful, accurate and atmospheric, perfectly capturing the essence and beauty of these wonderful birds.