The applique designs are lovely, realistic, and disarmingly simple. Watch out for small applique pieces. The individual flower designs seem to me to work better than the larger composition pieces shown, but all in all a refreshing new look.

The author and designer of this book has a great sense of humor. Her designs are realistic and her technique is simple and easy to understand. Gone is the pressure to be perfect because nature is not perfect. The color plates give excellent ideas on use of the various line drawings. Designs are presented so they may be mixed to create a realistic flower garden appearance.

Carol and Robert's book is a beautiful mix of love letters and poetry that are a joy to read. They have so much to share about the wonders of love and life and express these emotions in such a fun, yet intense way. It is a very moving tribute to how new love at any age can be such a wonderful experience. I encourage you all to read this book and use the inspriration you get from this book as a catalyst to write about your own experiences. Highly recommended!

i like the doll song best

Excellent resource for the novice or intermediate Cobol programmer. Very clear explanations and abundant examples aid understanding. The authors favor a "hands on" approach which encourages the reader to try out the concepts in each chapter. The authors are careful about pointing out differences between Cobol-85 and Cobol-74 as they arise. While this may seem to be a minor point so soon before the release of Cobol-9x, it is helpful to those who work with older systems that are not fully Cobol-85 compliant. The included disks contain the input files for the programming exercises (a time-saver for students) and a Cobol compiler and editor for DOS. The compiler is not a serious competitor to any commercial compiler, but it is sufficient for a student or someone just starting out in Cobol. This book/disk set is the best resource I've seen for Cobol at this level. I strongly recommend it

When one ones to know the degry of celebrity an artist has earned over the years following her death,just check out the numerous biographies published about the person.SARAH BERNHARDT is the most famous actress of her time;she played many roles of the repertoire ,and she also created many like ROSTAND's L'AIGLON and DUMAS's LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS.Like many actresses,she had an eccentric life and she actually made her name with her talent,not her beauty.This book allows you to encounter many important figures like VICTOR HUGO,ALEXANDRE DUMAS,EDMOND ROSTAND and OSCAR WILDE who were part of her life.The book is filled with pictures of the different decades of her life.If you want to read one book about her,this one can satisfy you.Beware of SARAH's memoirs,because it is a well known fact that she enjoyed the art of lying.After reading this,i had this thought.Would SARAH have managed to make the career she had in today's world?My answer is yes,even if in the process,she probably would have cut a few throats of repulsive columnists.

Good poets hate to be put in boxes--and they write accordingly. Carol Snow's book of poems, "For", is confessional language poetry in a coffee table zen garden. It is a book of cool-headed searching that is not afraid to be domestic, married, and in love. Yet it is a sophisticated tease: it's frustrating to have a preposition floating on its own as "For" does on the cover of Snow's book. "For" what? we wonder. It's a question not formulated as one, and it keeps pointing towards the unknown. "For" is quiet at first hearing. The lines don't at first snap and lodge in one's memory, but they do look long and hard at the world, for something the eyes can latch on to. The language is tentative, edged with the cold stare of Experimental poetry, though it is a passionately lived and felt incarnation of the poet's spiritual quest.

"For" roams, looking for a place to attach the wordlessness that comes at life's difficult moments. In the title poem Snow confronts the death of her father, as thousands of poems do, but she does so with wonderful confusion and uncertainty: "To begin, even in the--even with the--disarray." The substitution of prepositions delicately expresses the difficulty of telling about a loved one's death. "In" suggests that the speaker is still living in the event. "With" brings it along as luggage. The speaker exists both in the remembered event and in the present moment. Later in the poem the father writes a note to remind himself of the day. "They [doctors] usually ask me this." The speaker and her sister respond to this with a mixture of shock and laughter. In watching this, the sisters are compared to a mask "turned outward toward you, for--something heartless the heart goes out to." This is a chillingly honest description of dying--and the watching of it. Linguistically the speaker and her sister are in the same scary and oddly comical position as the father facing and entering death.

"For" opens with a longing for a place where matters are reconciled. In "News Of" the speaker tries to reconcile "another massacre" with "the clear bright morning." Here, then, is another dangling preposition and a feeling of disconnection. There are too many things to attach "of" to and so many are not really known and felt. How do we attach our feelings and language to horrible events such as Columbine, especially when we are fine, and it is beautiful outside?

Many of the poems, such as "Mask Series," explore this distance between self and world with the image of a tether: "It ran away from me." Snow compares this experience of losing the tether to a childhood game of "naming a series of natural objects placed in a box" and to God: "God wanted to behold/God," but balances her ambitions with the humble and warm image of the speaker's husband feeling in the dark for the flannel nightdress over her thigh. Carol Snow's semiotic and theological musings are never allowed to wander too far from sensory experience. She feels in the dark for fragments of meaning--a stone found in a zen garden or a "...heart flung down like a stone." "For" is for someone and some thing the speaker cannot put a finger on. With a cool and steady gaze, Carol Snow's poems feel for a soft heart in hard matters.

The musical selections are choice! The are well organized and introduced with lovely poetry and prose definatly invites one to listen all the way through again and again.

Ripley's Believe it or Not has been an absolute favorite of mine ever since visiting one of its numerous museums. Its revealings of many of the world's strange and unusual facts had me from the start. This rare book collects many of these facts, culminating in a great read. Very straight forward. Each fact is accompanied by a small comic like strip approach. A must have for any and all Ripley fans.

America is in the heart is an excellent book talking about a man's struggle to survive in his native islands and be accepted into the harsh society of America. This book truely shows the trials and hardships an immigrant goes through and I reccomend id to those who struggled as a child and struggled to be accepted into American society. This book makes us aware of the harsh realities of the way people were treated early this century. Famaly tradegies and struggles.

Very well done, comprehensive and still even at this date perhaps the best review of the issues in trauma and disaster from superb group fo authors. Excellent chapter on debriefing.