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No kitchen should be without this book. My most used reference in the kitchen. Knowing how to store produce to maximize its life keeps down the waste. The book is well organized with a good index and is very easy to use.

This book is a perfect addition to your cookbook shelf in your kitchen!

Ten years ago Janet Bailey was puttering around the kitchen and came across rice she had bought several months back. She wondered whether it was still good, fresh, healthy. She discovered that finding answers to this common kitchen staple was a monumental task with no definite answers. Since then, Ms. Bailey has sifted through details of hundreds of books, interviewed food growers, processors, wholesalers, and kitchen testers to bring you an indispensable kitchen manual that answers the common daily question, 'Should I throw it out?' and information on storing foods with an eye for freshness and maximum nutrition. Keeping Food Fresh tackles common questions such as 'Can you freeze cheese?' and 'Which cheeses keep best?' Do you know how to sift through all the flour choices? Enriched, bleached, presifted, self-rising, cake, bromated, instant, all-purpose, enriched? In this book you'll find why your baked goods taste and look different.Simple hints on potatoes and onions: Why shouldn't you store them together? to herbs: dried, ground, whole, frozen, What's the difference?- and food storage: What's best for shelf, refrigerator, and freezer? You'll find it all here. Even the most experienced cooks will find surprising and revealing information that will change how you choose and store food. This book is a must for everyone wanting to know how to store food at its most colorful, succulent, and nutritional peak!

This book is a MUST for anyone serious about food! It tells you everything you need to know about storing any kind of food you can think of! I am constantly having to look up something, so mine is pretty dog-eared. Make that "was" pretty dog-eared --- it is SO good that people borrow it and don't return it! I am anxiously awaiting a new (my third!) copy of the book. So guard it well, it is indispensable!

After contracting food poisoning from a restaurant meal several years ago, I became very interested in the topic of food safety and storage. This is THE book for those who would like extremely detailed and thoroughly researched information on this topic. It includes virtually every food item you can think of, with the proper buying and storing techniques for each item. A wonderful reference tool.

This book is the winner of the 1998 Spur Award for Best Western Novel (selected by the Western Writers of America).

Cynthia, has captured the events of a very special time in our history and built beautiful characters around the very people who played such an important role in that point in time of the american west.

Cynthia Haseloff has written a great western that very much deserves the 1998 Spur award recieved from the Western Writers of America.
The Kiowa Verdict is based on the trial of two Kiowa Indians, Satanta and Adoltay also called Big Tree, for taking part in the "The Warren Wagon Train Massacre." Satanta led about 100 Kiowas and Comanches and attacked a wagon train with only a dozen white men. This took place west of Fort Richardson, Texas, in the spring of 1871. There was little doubt who was responsible, for Satanta himself bragged to Quaker Indian agent Lawrie Tatum at Fort Sill:

"Remember this. If any other Indian comes in here saying he led the raid he will be lying, because I, Satanta, led it."

Satanta and Big Tree were the first Indians to be tried in a white man's court in Texas for crimes committed against Texans.
Historically both Satanta and Big Tree were convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. Governor Edmund J. Davis commuted their sentences to life imprisonment. Later Satanta committed suicide by leaping headfirst from a second story window at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville and smashing his head on stone paving.

Adoltay, or Big Tree, a young warrior, converted to Methodism while in prison, was eventually released, was ordained as a Methodist minister, returned to the Kiowa-Comanche lands around Fort Sill and was instrumental in converting many Kiowas and Comanches to Methodism.

One of the characters in this novel, Joseph A. Woolfolk, a Confederate and Frontier Regiment veteran, was appointed by the Thirteenth District Court of the State of Texas to defend the Kiowas. The prosecutor was S. W. T. Lanham, who later became governor of Texas.

Transcripts of the trial don't exist, so what courtroom action there is - and of course the thoughts and fears of Joe Woolfolk - are entirely fictional. What is real is the fact that poor Joe Woolfolk instead of putting up a token defense, actually defended his clients in court.

To paraphrase the sometimes Western writer Mark Twain, "the reports of the death of the Western have been greatly exaggerated." The modern Western has been part of the American literary scene ever since - and arguably long before - Owen Wister introduced readers to "The Virginian" in 1902, and it shows no signs of riding into the sunset.

Cynthia Haseloff has captured the spirit of the American frontier in a way that kept me spellbound from beginning to end. Not only did I come away with a true sense of the era, but I also became a new fan of the Western genre, as well (at least the Haseloff Western genre). I can't wait to read her prequel to this book, "Satanta's Woman." I would highly recommend "The Kiowa Verdict" to anyone looking for a great beside-your-bed read.

Cynthia Haseloff has made a grand effort in this fictionalized history account of a raid by Kiowans on a freighter train, a trial and a verdict. Because records of the events have mostly been destroyed, or were deliberately never made, Haseloff has been forced to assume a lot about what happened and why it happened. It's generally a good job.

The legalities of trying Comanches and Kiowans raiding into North Texas while residing 'out of reach' in Oklahoma weren't vague at the time. The raiders understood enough of the law to know they were immune from prosecution by Texans for depredations in Texas if they escaped to Oklahoma. In this instance, the laws were ignored. Two men responsible for a raid that resulted in the deaths of several freighters and torture of one were arrested, taken back to Texas, tried and hanged.

From a strictly practical perspective, it was probably the right method of dealing with the event, though illegal. Even though Comanche raids continued for several years after this trial, the security of refuge provided by the Oklahoma Territory was never again to be trusted. Comanches who remained at war with whites in Texas were forced to remain on the high plains and face white retribution for their acts. This eventually allowed Colonel Ranald McKenzie to destroy the entire horse-herd of the raiding bands, putting them afoot and ending their ability to conduct raids without exterminating the entire tribe.

The fate of Penateka Comanche, the Karankawa, the Lipan Apache, the Fara'on Apache, and many other tribes caught in the vicegrip of Spanish and Anglo migration into the American West and Southwest is a bloody illustration of the other alternative.

The author has done a good job of reconstructing the events, the setting, the characters and the context. I recommend it for anyone interested in that phase of Texas history.

I like the spiral binding, easy to keep the pages flat, you get a large number of music pieces, many well known, nice variety. The only problem is they are not exactly easy for a beginner and I found one piece (so far) where the note just does not fit, it sounds off comparing to what I remembered, however that may be just me.

I have been playing for about 10 months and enjoy this book, but most of it's too hard for me. The advantages - LOTS of music, a good variety, not just classical like in some books (though there's nothing remotely modern in here - no pop or rock or anything). But as one reviewer said, it's not "easy", just easier, and it's not for beginners. For example, most beginner books have most or all the music in C, F or G or their minors (either no or one sharp or flat), in this book, a lot is in keys with 2 or more sharps or flats. The two isn't so bad, but the "or more" is a challenge. Also, the music requires a lot of playing both hands simultaneously (as opposed to beginner books that have more playing mainly chords and close half or quarter notes on the left hand, so that the amount of simultaneous movement is reduced).

This AMSCO Publications product (1998) contains some of the same
compositions found in their Library of Piano Classics book (1987); but the latter has 350 pgs of unaltered (I think) classical music, while the former
has 239 pgs of simplified classics and light standards.

Both books contain Debussy's Le Petit Negre in the same form. Therefore I suppose that the publisher considers the real composition easy enough to include it unaltered in Easy Piano Favorites. But other classical
compositions common to both books are indeed simplified. This is
accomplished by using fewer notes, rewriting in "easier" keys, and shortening
the original compositions so as to leave out hard parts. For instance, Liszt's
Liebestraum in the "hard" book is six pgs. long and is written in the key of
A flat (4 flats). In the Easy Piano Favorites book it is two pages long and is
presented in the key of F (1 flat). Beethoven's Fur Elise, generally considered
to be easy enough (key of C, etc) that generations of piano teachers have
taught it to generations of students, is 4 pgs in the original. In Easy Piano
Favorites it remains in the key of C, but has a different (easier?) bass and takes
up only one page.

Your reviewer, who once played reasonably well in his youth in his own
living room, has forgotten most of his piano skills in his old age. But I can play much that is in Easy Piano Favorites, and expect to be able to play most of it
in the foreseeabe future. I'll never be able to say that about the contents of
the more difficult Favorite Piano Classics.

What a nice surprise to open a book with almost 150 of the world's best classics in easy to play arrangements! This book contains 237 pages of music from the early composers such as Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, etc. It also contains music of such great composers like John Philip Sousa, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Gonoud, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, etc . This book is beautifully bound with a sturdy, plastic comb making the pages easy to turn on the piano. The pages are quite legible and bright. This book is highly recommended for all ages. My students love it. It is a spectacular collection and quite a bargain for this amount of repertoire.

A great book for first or second year piano players. Covers classical as well as favorites. The spiral binding helps to keep the book open. Both my daughter and I are enjoying this book.

One of the best golf coaching books I have read, and I've read a few trying to learn this game. Instructions, both the photos and the written are clear and easy to both follow and understand. I have had fellow club members ask me if I had been having lessons from the club pro as they have been amazed at my improvement over the last few weeks. Once again thank you Mr Smith.

Everthing I was expecting & more. Really helped me with things I was working on.

I have been getting lessons from Marshall for many years now, but do not live as close to him as I once did. This book puts me right out on the practice range with him. Marshall gives you a simple approach to an incredibly complex game. The instructions in this book give you the tools to keep your natural swing while incorporating a few essential principles that allow you to elevate your game no matter what level you play at now.

This is by far the very best book I have read on golf and how to improve your came. Marshall Smith is simply wonderful and his book is easy to understand. Its easy to tell this man has been around golf for a long time.

In this book Marshall Smith a golf pro for over 60 years gives his take on the golf swing.
He does not try to reinvent or offer a new scientific approach to the golf swing.
Instead he demonstrates to the reader with easy to follow tips practice drills and advice what her considers the important points to learn in a golf swing.
In my opinion this is one of the best instruction books I have read.
It has helped my game no end and is worthy of a place in any golfers library.

i can`t say anything about this wonderful. if you read this book you will now how good it is.

I thoroughly enjoyed Lion Hound by Jim Kjelgaard when I was a child going to school in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. I treasure my memories of this story and I wish I could locate a decent copy. I'm surprised Disney didn't make this one into a movie.

I read this wonderful book when I was a school boy. I still consider it my favorite book today--35 years later! I just received an out-of-print copy from my beloved girl friend as a gift. She couldn't have choosen a more appropriate surprise gift for me. Her gift touched me deeply. What a great family read aloud book.

I first read this book when I was in 5th Grade. I have always been interested in the Outdoors. This book guides us through an extraordinary adventure with a boy, his older friend, their dogs and a mean old Mountain Lion which they all hunt. It's filled with suspense, and will keep anyone glued to the book. Excellent Read! You'll most likely have to check it out at the library. It's tough to find!

Jim Kjelgaard's books are filled with excitement and a healthy appreciation for a rugged way of life in the great outdoors, and while Lion Hound may not be his best effort, it has all of the trademarks that make this a book well worth reading. The clean prose brings us into the story with an immediacy that many more literary authors fail to achieve.

The main characters are the old, wise mountaineer Jake Kane, the young and good-hearted Johnny Torrington, and Buck, the titular Lion Hound who is raised to be of use to his human companions.

As in many Kjelgaard books, we get a vicarious thrill from watching Buck progress from puppyhood to his prime, against a backdrop of beautiful wilderness and sometimes-harsh conditions.

The three friends are plagued by a mountain lion, a formidable predator made all the more dangerous by a stint in captivity.

The plot is filled with action-packed conflicts, and interesting details about life in the outdoors. There are some life lessons in here that should be appreciated by any parent, but the book never preaches. It's simply a good, solid act of storytelling that is reminiscent of Louis Lamour for its simplicity and ability to captivate.

I recommend all of the Kjelgaard books, and that certainly includes this one. I would start with another selection (Snow Dog, Wild Trek, and Big Red are some of my favorites), but there are no losers in this series. Enjoy!

One of the great mystries of the business world skillfully uncovered, at least for me.

T'was nearly perfect

The basic premise of this book is based on the relationship between two things: location and market. To borrow a quote from the book - " The right location in the wrong market will cause your business to fail - more than if you plan the wrong location in the right market." Building upon this belief, the author teaches the reader how to systematically go about researching for the right information as well as analyzing it. The book is written in a down to earth manner and is very easy to follow. It is comphrehensive and is one of the best books on choosing location.

Simply the best practical book for finding the best location for your retail store. It is full of practical ideas and tips on how to choose a location. I have read evey single page several times. The proposed techniques are useful for a start up business and a mega chiain store. It is full of sketches to show the impact of different locations on the store traffic.

If you only need one book for store location. Then this is it.

The best book about location. No theoretical lesson, but the essentials to work with. I'm a McDonald's rep in Belgium and 'll use the guidelines in my work. Belgium is one of the 7 countries were McDonald's losing money due to bad locatios!

this book is a excellent read. one of my favorites Brenda Jackson is one of my favorite aurthors you will enjoy readingabout the madaris family

This is a great book for readers new to Brenda Jackson's books. I first read Surrender and wondered who are all these people she's talking about? Now I know. Justin, Dex, and Clayton are highlighted in their own books in this collection. My favorite by far is "Eternally Yours" -- Clayton and Syneda's story. They don't have as much emotional baggage as the others in their books (which is a good thing), but they did have plenty of sparks flying between each other. The funniest scene is when they are in Florida on the porch after returning from dinner. That was hilarious!

If you are new to Ms. Jackson, please get this book. You won't be disappointed to get to know these brothers from the beginning. Now as I make my way through the rest of her books, everything and everybody fits.

The 10th Anniversary Collectors Series was a great way for me to get caught up with the Madaris novels I have missed. I thoroughly enjoyed all three tales about the Madaris brothers. This novel was filled with romance, love, sensuality, as well as suspense and drama! Justin, Dexter and Clayton definitely showed us that romance IS NOT DEAD! The storyline flowed smoothly and the secondary charaters introduced throughout the novel only aided in adding just the right amount of spice and intrigue to these tales. I have to say "Eternally Yours" is my favorite of the three. Clayton and Syneda were HILAROUS. And I enjoyed the fact that they were friends before they became lovers. It made the romance and intimacy between them more realistic and extremely HEATED! Each story built on the next and only improved in richness and texture as Mrs. Jackson weaves all the family members, business associates and friends lives together. I will definitely have to search for subsequent titles to complete this series because I just have to know what happens, not only to the Madaris family, but also to their circle of friends! A Definite MUST READ!

This book is great, especially for the new fans of the Madrais family, because the first book in the series(Tonight&Forever) is out of print. This book contains the first three complete stories that started the saga of the Madrais's. This is a continuing series, so for those who have read other books in the series and need to know how it started, pick up this book. For those of you who have not been intrested in the Madrais's, I would advise that you get intrested. I have read every story in the Madrais collection and I have yet to be disappointed, Mrs. Jackson has a way of leaving you wanting more.

As of this writing,I just finished reading the "Madaris Saga" and it was excellent. Justin, Dex and Clayton are truly some fine men even if Dex was irritating at times. I`ve been late to work on many occasions due to being up at all hours of the night reading this book. Everytime I say "just one more chapter", I always read more. It`s that addictive. I truly have to say that Justin,Dex and Clayton are men who love and love hard. Now that I`ve read their saga, and Christy`s story(Unfinished Business),I hope that Ms. Jackson`s future novels focus on the other Madaris sisters(Traci and Kattie). Come on Ms. Jackson, you`ve got to write about them too. Brenda Jackson is truly in a class all by herself. Excellent Storytelling!!!!!!!

This is an excellent resources on phonics instruction. It not only gives practical instructional strategies and activities but it also explains the rationale of why the activities are meaningful and necessary. This is a must have resource for a first or second grade reading teacher.

One of the best professional how-to books in education. I've tried the principles from the book and they work with my hard to teach students. It was also an easy read.

I have ten years of teaching experience, from pre-school to third grade. It has been easy teaching about 80% of my students to read, over the years. They respond well to my small guided reading groups, carefully planned literacy centers, and limited but focused phonics instruction.

But the other 10 percent%? Well, they have needed something different, and this book, "Making Sense of Phonics," is it. Isabel Beck strikes a perfect balance in this book between theory, research, and application. I read the book over a weekend after attending a seminar about how brain imaging and neuroscience is helping to make sense of the process to learn to read. Beck's research was discussed at length and quite convincing, and so I bought the book, read it, and began teaching lessons using her protocol to the 6 lowest readers in my class.

Results? After just three weeks I already note marked improvement in these students' ability to sound out words, blend sounds, and make the connection between the letters on the page and the sound they produce with their mouth. It's fast paced and simple to do, once you've taught just a few lessons. If they continue at this rate, I will be completely sold on it and plan to present to the primary teachers at my school in hopes of convincing others to use it, as needed.

I think that a parent could just as easily do this with their child as well; in fact, it could be even better because the child would receive that one on one attention. It does seem pretty important to stick to Beck's suggestions regarding how to emphasize letter sound correspondance to all parts of the word as opposed to just initial placement.

Bottom line, if your student or child is a struggling reader and you've tried lots of things and are going nuts because they know a word on one page and forget in on the next or they just look at the first letter and then make a guess, then this is the teaching strategy for you!

I discovered this book because it is part of my district's Reading First grant library. The grant itself is fairly amazing and has resulted in our having an awesome set of instructional books along with all of the teachers receiving their own Tungsten Palm Pilot. I took a look at Beck's work to get a better handle on phonics interventions in the classroom and it definitely proved useful. Early intervention is essential in the author's mind (and in everybody else's) which is intrinsic to Reading First's emphasis on explicit, systematic phonic instruction. Beck's defining of terms was of great benefit. I needed some background on the meaning of diphthongs and digraphs as I rarely encounter such lingo on a daily or annual basis. How the alphabetic principle applies to learning was also illuminating. Some of the specific methods, such as the Word Pocket and Word Building sequences, will be of assistance to teachers. Unfortunately, like most education books, this one is overpriced, but that is not the fault of the author or her subject.

In this book, Beck outlines procedures for essential beginning reading activities such as letter-sound correspondences, blending, and word building. I really liked how this book focused on classroom practice, and how the author applies every concept to real students. Beck also supplies appendixes to supply the materials needed to make your own centers that were used in the classroom practice examples.

I really liked the idea for word pockets, where students place the letter where they heard the sound(beginning, middle, or end.) Also, now each one of my students now has their own set of alphabet cards. When we have free time, they are busy putting letters together to make a word.

My wife and I just read this book to our five-year-old who loves farm animals, and all three of us were laughing out loud. My wife and I agree that this is our favorite children's book of all time, slightly better than Jan Brett's "The Mitten."

I purchased this book for my library and read it regularly during my storytimes to pre-schoolers. I have also read it to the kids during the Summer Fun program. The story lends itself very well to reading aloud and is a very entertaining book for all ages. I enjoy it so much, I've decided to buy a personal copy.

My children love this book. We have checked it out from the library so many times I figured I might as well buy it. The cows are so loveable and the story even appeals to adults.

I bought Minnie & Moo go to the Moon for my 4-year old daughter. While reading it to her, I laughed so hard I could hardly continue the book. It's a great story for children and adults alike. I liked it so much I went back and bought 5 more copies to send to family & friends to read. My office mates even bought copies for themselves. A wonderful hilarious story.

This uproariously funny book had every one --adults included -- laughing throughout. Minnie, always the logician, decides that all she needs to drive the farmer's tracker are his boots and hat. A skeptical Moo joins her for a tumultuous ride through the farm yard, passed a flying pig to...the moon? We loved the magic words the cows used to get the tracker started. The moonsters looked suspiciously like angry, featherless chickens.

A very beautifully written book, with fine photography. A great resource

I thought that this book was beautifully written by Risa Palazzo. While giving much valuable historical perspective, the spirit of the periods covered was wonderfully captured with great feeling.

A terrific book on antique china, silver and glass that was well-written and beautifully photographed. I felt like I was part of the periods discussed.

Risa Palazzo has truly captured the feel of the periods covered and made me feel as if I was there! A very good book.

I thought Risa Palazzo's writing was beautiful in this book. I gained a real understanding of the eras covered, especially for the way that women lived and entertained during the 1920s and 1930s. A very worthwhile book for anyone interested in table accessories.