A very complete and informative book on when,and what to buy during each of the four seasons, along with some great recipes.
Also some wonderful photography and stories of some of the vendors at the market. I cannot say enough good things about this book. I found it very hard to put down once I started reading it.Forget the Supermarkets and learn about buying FRESH from the growers themselves.Very educational and would highly recommend this book to anyone who cooks, be it on the amateur or professional level.

This is a fun introduction to a little piece of New York's history, the famous Urban Farmers' Market, as well as a handy guide to cooking with produce that is in season. If you use fresh fruits and vegetables in your cooking, you are undoubtedly aware that, while some foods may be available 365 days a year, they are usually most flavorful when they are grown and ripened naturally. Charts help make sense of the many varieties of produce available, and recipes are organized around the calendar, so you may find 'Red & Green Fresh Vegetables with Pasta' for summer, and 'Bread and Cabbage Soup' for winter. Each of four seasonal chapters lists the produce, flowers, dairy and meat available during that season. In general these are basic recipes that can be made by the beginner cook.

My only complaint is that, with all the gorgeous photographs of the people and the market, there are no pictures of the finished dishes, a feature that I appreciate in a cookbook. Otherwise this is a great, and fun, cookbook with good recipes.

If you have ever wandered aimlessly through a farmers' market, this may just be the book for you. It will bring back memories of the smell of fresh vegetables, ripe peaches and corn on the cob. Now what do you do with all this fresh food? No problem, there are plenty of recipes. The beauty of this book is that it teaches you to cook the foods that are available. So where is the nearest farmers market in your area? This book will inspire you to get out of the house and find it!

Mr. Schwartz summarizes clearly how reformers in the past tried to fight poverty with spreading virtues such as thrift. Since this idea is a resurgent one especially with the welfare reform movement, this book is unusually timely. It is also very well written and fairminded and non-polemical. I recommend it to anyone concerned with these issues.

Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles Of Anna Heilman gathers and presents the memories of Anna Heilman, who fought for survival in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Anna's life in Warsaw became one of loss and a fight to live as she recalls her life before, during and after the war. A striking, gripping memoir of life in the camp and a very strongly recommended addition to academic and community library Holocaust Studies and 20th Century European History Studies readling lists and reference collections.

I have not read this book. Indeed, how could I? The title and cover illustration are extremely offputting.

I find it so tragic that this wonderful piece of my life - one that has kept me company on the sunny summer days when my mother was at work and friends were off doing other things, and on the rainy winter days when school was getting too much to handle and I was bursting in anticipating for the warmth of spring to arrive - is going out of print (along with its may-even-be superior sequel, Upchuck Summer's Revenge).

What kind of world are we living in where a publisher will not keep these masterpieces on bookshelves for newer generations to fall in love with?

To this day, whenever I am asked what my favorite book is, Upchuck Summer is always the first utterance from my lips. That's all you need to know. Buy the book.

I must've read this book when I was seven years-old. It was probably the book that I ever called "my favorite." I remember waking up at 2 AM and finishing it with a flashlight. I really loved it. This is just a really fun(ny) book. The story shows such a good understanding of what summer fun at camp really was like during those great days of our youth. It's a real nostalgia trip now that I'm graduating, but that's part of the fun.

I loved this book! It is told through the eyes of Eric, who is going through the *great* changes of puberty. Not only is it about him going through puberty, it is about his sister, also going through changes. It is a great book!

This book was one of the best I've read in a long time. It was written as the journal of a 13 year old boy going through normal things in his life. He writes about changes in his body and voice (puberty), his famliy and friends, and life at school. It was a very realistic and down to earth (although it was written somewhat before my time) book with hidden information (he'd write about the effects of drugs and alcohol by reviewing a school assembly he just had) and humor. I think that this book is one of the best written for today's youth.

This is pretty good book. It holds your attention, is easy reading and flows well.

This book was written in 1988 by Joel L. Schwartz. But despite the title, this book has barely anything to do with spaghetti or showdowns. The main character is a skinny little kid with a name he doesn't like (Eugene) and a best friend who is big and "pleasantly plumb" of the same name. Eugene's parents are divorced and he is having a hard time learning life without his . This is a good book with sort of a surprise ending. It's pretty easy reading, and I would recommend it.

Dean Oakes has made a great effort here, basically tries to find the info that the late Chuck O'Donnell already had. All interested should understand how difficult gathering info. is. My contribution is noted, and at least I have my name on the "contributors" page.

. "The Long Boom".....simply an awesome visionary GLOBAL BLUEPRINT ...... professional career and life shaping content......

By 2050, the world may come back and cite the book's authors as the forefathers of the course vision which attempts germination of harmonious global community convergence.

....establishes a practical mindset of vast scope political, social, economic, global inter-dynamics

...should be classified must read material at every worldwide higher learning institution, in the same manner that Ethics and Business Policy is required at every MBA program as capstone courses.

Very well repected Washington Kiplinger Editors offer similar book reporting similar trends in Global Business, Geo-politics and Technology.... ...."World Boom Ahead"....

...never expect a guarranty how mankind will advance globally......but plenty of room for thoughtful, practical blueprints and scenario planning.....

...offers very practical advice for world's business and political leaders....not intended to be a detailed roadmap for global destiny....

If for the first 50 years of the world's 21st century mankind aligns toward this course blueprint, then mankind has the opportunity to make up for the tragic first 50 years of the world's 20th century.

All need to read this book so as to know what policies to be demanding from their local, state, regional, federal politicians and business enterprise leaders.

Scott D. Barnette 37 yrs old Sr. Sales Director Hitachi Corporation

This easy-to-read, collaborative, and well-edited book reads like a mystery novel without the mystery as the plot is revealed in the introduction. The story is about the economic opportunity before the world now. Three technological waves (futurists love waves) are washing the shores of nations worldwide: the internet, biotechnical manipulation and lower-cost energy. This is however less a book about technology and more about a new politics (think, fresh mind sets) needed to renew lagging economies, save the planet, enhance the role of women, prepare for the new sciences and, thus, realize a new global civilization.

The authors' method of discovery (i.e., research) was world-touring among an impressive list of leading thinkers.

The story begins in the previous century (1980's, more or less) and ends about 2050, 30 years beyond the predicted new civilization.

The result is some kind of "blue print" for the future. The story will warm the hearts of optimists; pessimists will be less convinced.

The book comes with a fine index, rather general footnotes, an annotated bibliography and the now ubiquitious web site illustrating one of the 10 principle beliefs/behaviors the authors' promote: Stay Connected.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is full of hope and optimism, yet grounded in the reality of today's world. The authors have developed a "possible" vision of the future...not a "prediction." That, to me, means there is something beyond the horizon that is worth working towards. The content of the book also provided me a wealth of information about our world today and I feel I had a chance to get caught up on "current events." Furthermore, the authors put these events into a context that gave them new meaning.

I also liked the way the book was written. The letters written in current time and the documentary broadcast in the future looking back at the past 40 years added some very interesting perpectives.

The Long Boom should be required reading for everyone as it opens up a door to what is possible that most people don't consider in the narrow viewpoint of daily living.

Don't believe what you read in the popular press or hear on the media - that's the lesson affirmed by the authors. They review a gaggle of cases where the reportage of some issue or event was obviously filtered, through intent or incompetance, to fit the story the author wanted to state.

Rabid liberals who don't realize how far left the media has seemed to come will view this book as a subtle right-wing treatise. However, these are people who, like their reactionary counterparts, internally filter out anything that doesn't fit into their own paradigm, and they are better ignored. Nothing will help people who are too tilted in either direction, but this is not a reason to dismiss important work.

In all, this should be required reading for every newspaper and television reporter and editor and journalism student, not to mention every adult who wants to think independantly.

Once again,we have a book that exposes the PC-orthodoxy of the media and of some of the junk scientists out there. Once again, we have mini-reviews (in content and thinking) which use ad hominem (the author's are right-wing) attacks; question the author's motives and finding sources--and, never deal with the content. And, these "reviews" are from the usual suspects (places): Cambridge, San Jose and other bastions of leftist university cant.

Well, as a person with a BS in math and both as MA and Ph.D in psych--the authors are dead-on in the misues of stat by both the media and the junk scientists the media are so fond of.

Try not to present your thinly-disguised PC/Leftist ideology as a "review." It is but a knee-jerk reaction to the cognitive dissonance produced when the truth invades your little world. But, do not worry, you will find others to reinforce what passes for logic in your PC-laden miasma.

Oh, yes, lest I forget, get the book--and Bias and Coloring the News and The Shadow University--then, try and say it's all a vast right-wing conspiracy. If you are sane and open-minded, you will be both disgusted and ready to really question what gets on the biased, PC media and why.

This is one of the most-used lies in the English language, and these authors demonstrate that another often-used whopper is "Studies Show That..." This book is a well-balanced and sensible expose of junk science and the misuse of "facts," especially by researchers and the mass media. But the authors do not claim anti-corporate bias as the only possible explanation. They show how the demands of journalists' jobs give them incentives to be lazy, careless, and all too quick to hype dramatic bad news in place of good news that isn't so interesting. Many actual facts are cited to prove the authors' points. One of the points they make by logical argument rather than factual proof, however, may be the most important of all: the intolerable smear that a researcher's "corporate funding" (which is often very tenuous, exercising little or no actual control over the researcher's activities) automatically invalidates his research! This tactic is often used today (as can be seen in one of the reviews below), but the only honest approach is to question a researcher's FINDINGS, not his MOTIVES. After all, as the authors point out, journalists (and certainly political activists) have their own agendas that give them strong incentives to fudge the truth; and the fact that their motivation is not pecuniary matters little to the only important question: how much truth is in what they say. Also, many researchers DO have a sort of vested interest of their own: they know that if their studies "prove" that a pressing problem exists, they'll get more funding to do further studies, so they won't actually have to go out and WORK for a living! Not surprisingly, their "studies" tend to find terrible problems everywhere. One gets the impression that there are so many new, horrendous health hazards now that a person would have to be lucky to reach old age. So why are people living longer and longer, if there are so many health dangers lurking everywhere? Read this excellent book and you won't be so quick to believe that all the junk science hype that's being quoted everywhere actually proves what it claims to prove.