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Worth every penny. Wonderful expose into the shady world of art. Could not put the book down.

A thrilling lifestory of worlds smartest art dealer. The Author takes you into the fascinating world of art bussines in different cultures of the world. The book is thrilling, easy reading and with lots of suspense. At the end of the book one would like to know what the autor is doing at the moment.

This is the perfect book for any beginning bartender. It has all of the most popular drinks being served in bars. There are quick descriptions of each drink so you can make sure you make each drink just right.

This is the best book out there if you want to learn how to pour drinks like a pro. It has just about every drink you could possibly imagine. The instructions are easy to follow, whether it's a mixed drink or a shot.

This book is so awsome! If you want to be an awsome painter than you should order this book! I garuntie that if you read this book through, and paint by its directions than you will be selling pictures like me! I just started out and couldn't paint in a square and I just sold my last painting for $5,000!

This book is awsome it taught me how to use oil paints and now I'm selling paintings! I heighly recamend buying this book if you want to get good at painting!

Totally sweet, gentle book for children with pen and ink illustrations that will appeal to adults as well.

The transformation of a woodland creature to a human-appearing "Hugh Pine" is handled so skillfully that you wish it was possible. The name "Hugh Pine" itself is a particularly smile-inducing happenstance. This is not a Bugs Bunny or Porky Pig cartoon character. Hugh is an animal who works hard at his transformation, and all along the way we celebrate each success with him.

Everything from Hugh to his human friend that looks remarkably like a porcupine is handled with skill and sensitivity.

Lovely, lovely book.

This illustrated children's story is a delightful read-aloud choice for parents or teachers, and they will enjoy and ponder the message at least as much as their young listeners. Written by an author better known for his adult mysteries, it is set in his adopted Maine and features an eccentric porcupine who agrees to rescue his own kind from highway death when they declare themselves incapable of solving the problem for themselves. When his plan turns out to have its own unwanted consequences, he accepts responsibility for trying again and, this time, succeeds. It's a satisfying story on its own. As a fable, it's a wonderful taking-off place for serious discussion of social and political issues. I have read it with great success to sophisticated eleven and twelve year olds and recommend it with great enthusiasm. Readers who enjoy this one might also check out "The Lemming Condition" by actor/author Alan Arkin

Gerrit was Associate pastor at our church in Walla Walla when I was a kid. There is so much I wish I could talk to him about after reading this book. At the time I was too young to realize what a full life he had, and how strong his love and faith in Jesus is. This is a VERY uplifting book, I would recomend it to ANYONE, its not simply a book about his life, he includes his thoughts from sermons he gave along the way as well as alot of history for what was happening during the time he is speaking of.

This is a wonderful book - all who read will truly enjoy!

While the Baby Boomers like to think they invented sexual liberation, people have known a lot about it for a long time. This book is quite informative, although you have to get past van de Velde's technical language (as it is written as a scientific treatise rather than a self-help book). The instructions are quite specific, and quite good. Plus, it is always great to read older scientific books, because back in the day, it was acceptable to write beautiful prose. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn the marital arts.

This book was first written in 1929, and is just as up to date today as when it first came out. I first read this book in the early sixties on recommendation from another book I was reading at the time. Since then I have given it as a wedding gift to newly weds, and have purchased other copies to give away.
This book could be a little dificult for some, as it is authored by a Gynocologist, to be read primaraly by his peers. However, if one who is unfamiliar with all the medical terms will persevere,they can derive much knowledge, and enjoyment from this book. There are some great homework chapters that should prove beneficial to a couple.
In all, it is a very intresting, and informative book.

A must have for any collection of film and African American book collection.

"Imaging Blackness: Race And Racial Representation In Film Poster Art" is compiled, edited, curated and presented by Audrey Thomas McCluskey (Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies). Professor McCluskey draws upon her years of experience and expertise when she was formerly the director of the Black Film Center Archive at Indiana University to present a series of movie posters for the 'race movies' that were a part of cinematic history from the late 1920s through the early 1940s when African-Americans were largely barred from mainstream Hollywood productions (except for stereotypical roles as maids, butlers, and comic relief characters), necessitating independent and small budget productions featuring African-American casts. Posters were a widespread means of advertising and promotion, designed to persuade members of the public to buy a ticket and see the film publicized by the images depicted in the poster material. "Imaging Blackness" shows the steady evolution of how African-American men and women were pictured on those posters in incremental changes that paralleled the discrimination and slow progress of change of the broader American culture. A fascinating approach to film history that accords with vigorous academic standards of scholarship, "Imaging Blackness" is an especially recommended addition to academic and community library African-American Studies and American Film History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

I really love these books for their variety, I want to make everything I see in these Leisure Arts books. I would recommend them to anyone, especially if you want to get addicted to crochet books.

In Love With Crochet edited by Anne Childs contains the usual assortment of afghans, includin grannies, mile-a-minute, lacy, quick, one piece, baby and embroidered.There is also a nicely done baby section that has a christening gown and a hooded towel. You can find novelties done in both thread, yarn and fabric strips.Check out the clown faces, pink pig and tic-tac-toe game. The fashion corner brings you hats,sweaters and a baby bikini. A few holiday patterns like a scarecrow doll and a turkey round out the patterns.But, what gives this book it's charm is the inclusion of a delightful set of birthday fairies! Made with small amounts of yarn and crocheted from head to toe, you'll create all 12 darlings in no time. I have one dangling in front of me! There are projects for all levels of skill here. This is a book you'll cme back to again and again.

When young readers look at the faces on the cover of "In the Promised Land: Lives of Jewish Americans," they should immediately recognize Steven Spielberg. Depending on how much they now about history and the news they might recognize Harry Houdini and Ruth Bader Ginsberg from the faces on the cover, and maybe Judith Resnick. But they will not recognize most of the faces any more than they will recognize most of the names of the thirteen distinguished Jewish Americans for whom author Doreen Rappaport and illustrators Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu have picked for this book. For example, I recognize the name Jonas Salk, but I do not know his face the way I do Albert Einstein.

In his Author's Note at the beginning of the book Rappaport says that the first Jews who fled persecution and violence to come to the New World arrived on the "Sainte Catherine" when the ship landed in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654. After the American Revolution there were about two thousand Jews living in the United States, while in the 1830s and 1840s more than 200,000 German Jews arrived. From the 1880s to the 1920s more than 2 million Jews from Eastern Europe fled anti-Semitic violence to make a new life in America. The common denominator of their experience was that each wave of Jewish immigrants found themselves barred from certain professions, schools, neighborhoods, and organizations. Sometimes there were actually laws barring them and sometimes they were unwritten codes reflecting such prejudices. But the stories told here are about those who broke through these barriers to become successful (Rappaport points out the Jewish women face the double exclusion of religion and sex).

Each two-page spread tells of one key scene in the lives of each of these thirteen people, whether it is Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss) plunging into the Mississippi River with his wrists manacles together or young law student Ruth Bader being barred from entering the Lamont Library on Harvard's campus. The other people young readers will meet in this book are Asser Levy, who wrote petitions against unfair treatment by the governor of New Amsterdam, Ernestine Rose, who demanded women should have the same rights as men and be given custody of their children if divorced, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, who took daguerreotype-types of the terrain when John Fremont was mapping out a railroad route through the Rocky Mountains, Jacob W. Davis, who created what we now know as Levis Strauss jeans, Lillian Wald, who started the Visiting Nurse Service in New York City's Lower East Side, Pauline Newman, who led a strike of garment workers in New York City when she was only 19, Lillian Copeland, a Olympic champion discus thrower, and Ira Hirschmann, who pleased for Turkey to accept "illegal" refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.

At the end of this 2005 publication young readers will find themselves on more familiar ground, with Salk inventing the polio vaccine, Ginsberg ending up on the U.S. Supreme Court, Resnick dying on the space shuttle "Challenger," and Spielberg creating E.T. In the back of "In the Promised Land," Rappaport explains about the research done to pick each pivotal event in the lives being told, while Van Wright and Hu talk about the difficulties of painting people for whom there are no known paintings or photographs. Selected Research Sources are provided where young students can find out more about these people in books or On-line. This particular trio has collaborated on a similar volume, "We are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians," which teacher and students should find of interest as well.

Here's a new approach to biography: a retelling of pivotal moments in the lives of notable Jewish Americans in In The Promised Land: Lives Of Jewish Americans, a picturebook for grades 2-4, embellished with drawings by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. 'Notable' doesn't necessarily translate to 'famous', as these stories show: among the featured are frontier tailor Jacob W. Davis, who invented the durable overall design Levi Strauss came to sell, Harry Houdini, master of magic, and Asser Levy, who fought against unfair treatment of Jewish citizens in Amsterdam - in 1654. Thirteen extraordinary Jewish people are treated to one-page detailed biographical sketches.

All I can say in incredible. If you're an IU fan you NEED this book.

Incredibly comprehensive, historically correct, and utterly fascinating telling of the history of Indiana University Basketball. I read this book cover to cover and even use it to look up different facts (like seeing if 45 points WAS the Assembly Hall shot clock record low point total).

If you are a fan of one of the most storied programs in NCAA history, the IU men's basketball team, this is as close to a must have as you can get.