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I purchased this book for my grandaughter, and it was just exectly as I expected.It was a used book, in perfect condition, and it was shipped very quickly. I am pleased.. Thankyou

For those who've long lived with Bernstein's The Careful Writer and other titles, the Reverse Dictionary is just one more example of why he's essential to the word-conscious reader and writer. As the title implies, this dictionary takes you from definition to word and makes it possible for the mind of a certain age to regain all those terms that have slipped from the tip of the tongue to some less accessible region. The perfect enhancement for after-dinner conversation -- a must for the diningroom reference shelf.

I first found this book at the library when I was a newlywed. I was not a good cook, and I was looking for some help. I needed healthy simple recipes, with common ingredients, but interesting flavors. I brought this book home and found it easy and yummy.

These are the traditional recipes that Grandmas brought with them as the came to America from Europe, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Things like Basque Sheepherder's Bread, Danish Aeblekage (apple cake), German Pea soup with Bacon, Greek roast leg of lamb, Hungarian sauerkraut soup, Irish stew, Jewish blintzes, Polish Krupnik, Swedish Glogg.

The author says that she was inspired to write this book when she was trying to replicate a recipe for a friend who could only remember how her grandma's Polish pierogi tasted. There were no recipes available that came close, so they experimented and experimented until they got it right. That set the author on a quest to find more comfort food from the past that Grandmas made from memory. These are not recipes that call for a can of Cream of Mushroom Soup and a package of pre-grated cheese. These tell you to go get the cabbage, onions, carrots, and a sprig of rosemary, so they are full of vitamins, flavors, and comfort.

Now I am remarried, and my new husband is a Foody. We have many great recipe books, standard ones like Fanny Farmer, and specialty books like 30 Minute Meals, but this is our favorite because it makes things that taste like long ago. We are giving this book to everyone for Christmas; no one will mind if their copies are used because the recipes are so yummy.

this book is not very popular at my country.We usually use Barrons very common.If you are get bored of classical TOELF practices this book will give you a good chance of find your mistakes and improve your score. Excelent study tips. At least worked on me!

This is an excellent read for academia. Although it can be somewhat slow-its a comparative analysis of two complex African American leaders- and how their intellect threaten and forever changed main-stream America. Depicted as polar opposites by the press (the machine) it takes one to the threshold of truly acknowledging Malcomn X and DR King as being much more alike (the Cross Roads) than they were different. Pass this one on to your love ones.....or challenge your HS or collegiate students.

The late Beverly Nichols was an eccentric Englishman who wrote mostly about gardening and some other topics. In his gardening books and autobiographies you will often find him digressing about his cats. He finally decided that since the cats kept creeping into anything he wrote that he had better devote a book to them.

This is the second of two books dedicated to his cats and their "lifestyles." In it you will find much information about cats in general that is very useful if you are a new cat owner and much that will have veteran cat people nodding in agreement and laughing out loud. He talks about people as being F or non F (for feline)and draws humorous pictures of the people who wander in and out of the cats' world. He is not a "cat expert" but he gives us all an insight into the private lives of cats. There is obviously more to any cat than meets the eye.

If you love cats, buy this!

This book is a treatise on developing psychic skills with more than 15 black and white reproductions of the author's oil paintings interspersed throughout the text. As explained by this excerpt from the book's introduction:

"It is perhaps understandable that we lost sight of the simple fact that through trance(a common altered state of consciousness) one can develop his or her psychic abilities. The easiest way to induce trance is through hypnotism. Yet hypnotism is only a tool. As in typing, once a person has the know-how to use it, everything then depends on what he has to say; the typewriter is merely the medium. Hypnotism is a very simple tool; it is the fantasies which can be used during the altered state of concsiousness that allow us to open and develop our psychic powers.

Everyone has psychic potential. We are talking about an art, not a science; which means that we quiet our brain and awaken our intuition. When playing a musical instrument, most people are not going to be so gifted that they will fall into the genius category. Yet most everyone can develop enough skill for his own joy and esthetic development. To use another analogy, we all developed our math skills and have more than enough to carry us through life; we so not have to be an Einstein. Yet not to know any math is as ridiculous as not to have developed any of our psychic abilities.

Here is where we come to this book. It was written so that anyone can understand the concepts; all that is then necessary is practice. Like playing the piano. It does take some practice. But unlike playing the piano, the developed skills can totally change and enhance your life."

Dr. Stephen Monfort Vail, my great great great grandfather, wrote this book. Dr. Stephen Monfort Vail was a prestigious minister and a renound abolitionist. The book is a great intellectual and enlightening book that tells how God disapproves of Slavery. Dr. Vail displays examples of his proof of God's disapproval of slavery in the Bible. If you are interested in the abolitionist movement in the late nineteenth century, this greatly written book, I recommend to you.

I think everybody in the whole world should get one of these I and my family love it I especialy love the embroidery

What a shame that this book is no longer in print. Cut-aways are, simply put, a marvelous way to study architectural design. Allow a child to sit uninterrupted with this book and he will learn quite a bit about techniques, optical tricks, building design, sculpture, friezes, and so on.

Ten buildings are the subjects of this illustrated book: the Great Pyramid in Egypt, Abu Simbel in Egypt, the Parthenon in Athens, the Colosseum in Rome, Notre Dame in Paris, Bodiam Castle in southeast England, Mont Mt. Michel off the northwestern coast of France, the Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City in Rome, the Taj Mahal in India, and the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

Each structure is laid out in two two-page spreads with a general history and overview in the first spread, then particular details in the next spread. For example, in the first, the many buildings that made up the Parthenon are shown and identified, and structure is described. In the second, the optical illusion of straight columns is detailed, sculptures are explained, and figures identified. A brief history of the destruction is illustrated.

The same setup follows for each of the remaining nine. No matter the beauty, no matter the preference for style, the one that stands out above the rest for architectural and engineering brilliance, attention to details is the Colosseum. Built in the first century A.D., the Colosseum was the largest Roman amphitheater built exclusively for gladiator events. It was built of concrete and supported by a system of arches and vaults. Below ground was a series of passageways that led to hundreds of rooms that housed gladiators and animals. In fact, several species of animals were hunted and eventually eliminated for the sport of arena fighting. The open section of the Colosseum could be shaded by a huge awning, and the arena could be flooded for mock battles.

A case could be built for each structure as the most incredible. Children could spend hours pouring over the illustrations for these ten building and come back to find new details. Cultural and historical backgrounds are provided, as well as a geographical location by use of a globe and identified country.

The X-Ray Book is written at probably the fourth grade level. Heartily recommended.