Ware Books

I am brand new at collecting Fiesta Ware. I really enjoyed this book. Great pics. It has been a wealth of info for someone new like me.

The title of this book "Fiesta" can be a little misleading to the novice or seasoned collector. Beyond actual Fiesta and Fiestaware by Homer Laughlin the author's detail company history by delving into Harhequin, Riviera, Mexican lines, Kitchen Kraft, even promotional items and advertising.

For Fiesta identification pieces the pictures and Plate descriptions are very good. Pictures, specifically are very clear and concise while the page quality is excellent. In particular, this book will provide a very wide range of history and the wide variety of products offered by Homer Laughlin Co. over many years. Although the title suggests a book on Fiesta, this portion is limited.

If your looking for price comparisons or rule of thumb the book is weak in this department, it does not effectively handle all colors preferring to provide information strictly on the "hot" collector pieces such as 'medium green.' Of course, prices quoted in books are strictly "guides" as the internet, antique malls and live auctions mix up values on a weekly basis. Current research and personal perspective will be the true guides for market value at any given time.

Fiesta is covered in the first 73 pages of this book (pre/post 1986) and then moves on other topics or products produced. This book would be a fine starter for the novice but additional resources will need to be added for a complete library on Fiesta and Fiestaware.

This is the third book in this series I have purchased by these authors. I like the book a lot.

I just received the 10th edition copy of Collector's Encyclopedia of Fiesta, and other related items. The new layout and design are exactly what this edition needed to set it out above the previous ones. It seems the forward is a bit lengthy. Each page is framed in the turquoise color. The new pictures are numerous!! And for those who collect New Fiesta (produced since 1986, the pages for this are expanded to include up thru Scarlet and quite a few of the pieces produced thus far in color pictures. I rate this book at 4 stars for one reason. I feel the prices are inflated and out of line. Yes, there will always be some "rare" items at high prices. There are a fair share of pictures that are the same as previous books as well.

One of worst of the newer "collector" books out there. There isn't even a color chart with the names, you need to deduce them by flipping through all the pages and guessing at collections of variuos colors and doing a process of elimination. Fakes are mentioned, and the author says "you'll know them when you see them". Thanks alot! All the marks aren't even listed. What about newer peices versus old?

Some Encyclopedia, more like ramblings of a collector. The medium green issue is already covered by others, the book mentions it everywhere but gives very little evidence of it (maybe the author has medium green envy?).

Not worth the bargain price spent on it. Certainly not a reference book.

p.s. I give other collector books 5 stars, so I'm not just a grump.

if you're the kind of person who doesn't know what way to turn a screwdriver you'll probably think this is a great book. if you're the kind of person who's even moderately handy it's pretty much going to be a bore. as was said before, the information is now widely available on the internet, available for a reasonable price or is just common sense. if you already have a solid homebrewing library, you're not going to find much in here that interests you.

As a library administrator, I get to see and read a lot of books pertaining to all my hobbies and I can honestly say that this book is a must have for anyone starting out in home brewing. It details all of the equipment you will need for basic to semi-advanced brewing. I particularly like the fact that this book gives you instructions on how to completely fabricate your own equipment, partially fabricate it, and what to look for if you intend to purchase commercially manufactured equipment. It is sort of the bible of brewing equipment and I was so impressed with it I actually bought my own copy (the highest recommendation a librarian can give). Cheers!

I can't tell you how many times I've picked this book up with the intention of buying it. I've ended up putting it back on the shelf every time. Reason? There simply isn't enough content of value. First, a lot of it is simply obvious. Second, a lot of it is available elsewhere. Third, it's simplistic. Fourth, it's irritating that that it includes commercially-made items (i.e., not everything is about home-made items, in spite of the title). Finally, it's just not that well written. I've read it through standing in the bookstore a dozen times. I guess I think I'll find something I've missed. I never do ...

Buy it only if you're absolutely strapped, are just starting out, and really don't know where to begin.

Good step by step procedure on how to make your first batch then takes you to the next levels step by step. Tells what essential equipment needed, offers simple alternatives. With this book I was finally able to see and understand the process clearly.

I recommend this book as a collection of plans and details you can generally find in many other places. However, most of the information is available for free elsewhere.

If you are just getting started brewing, this book might save you a little money in giving you the basics of how to build your own equipment, but a caveat to that is that you should also subscribe to a good online brewer's forum.

Was hard to stay interested in this book. I found it very boring to read.

Excellent book.Couldn't put it down.A touchy subject that most won't write about but if no one does then we will never learn from our past.The author tackles the subject of his life,evils and in the end his loneliness.

A very helpful, scholarly bio with information about Mengele's entire life. A great book for those seeking more than just an overview of Mengele. If you want to know more about Mengele's work, visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's website for "Deadly Medicine" exhibition, now at Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta this summer (2007).

That's the feeling one -regretably- obtains after going thru all the pages of this book. One quarter of it is dedicated to his ignominious "works", so it's the only chance we get to know about this criminal; because the other three quarters are about the his wherabouts since the war ended.

There are no first hand testimonies or interviews to peersons who knew him. It all sounds like third person stories, and this is not to question his atrocities at all: there's more than proof to have had him executed many times. I am not looking for necrophilic detail or sadistic descriptions. What I wanted is to know the man closer, his way of thinking, his circumstance, his motivations. The book deals with this very, very, superficially.

The hunt can't be called exactly a hunt, not by far as interesting as the The House on Garibaldi Street (Classics of Espionage) on Eichmann, one of the most exciting books I've read of any subject.

Posner's book lacks substance, grip, interest. A subject like this guy is almost hard not to make it interesting.

First of all: A damned good book! Bonechilling material!! Furthermore:
What kind of punishment do you give a man like Mengele?
Deathpenalty? Life in prison? The first one is over too quick and the second one is too easy. No, I think Mengele has got the best punishment he could have. He was 34 years on the run. Never had a moment of peace in his entire life after the ending of WW2. The stress it brought him, even gave him a shorter span of life. He developed a lot of stress related sickness. Always had to look over his shoulder. Did they recognize him? Was this his last day of "freedom"? If he had been sentenced for life in prison he could have reached, like Hess, a respectable age well over 80 years old. Now he died 68 years of age. Alone and forgotten in some Godforsaken place in Brazil. He sticked, untill his dead, to his beliefs about the Nazi's and the Jews. A rigid and untolereant character of a man.
He never got the chance to fullfill a job on his intelectuel level, always lowpaid workman's labour. Never could socialise with people of his intelect. That hurt him like hell. So, in fact, life in "freedom" was in fact life in hell. Never the hell he created for the people who died through his hands or command. But even we, as normal people, couldn't give him, if he had be captured, the torments he gave all those other innocent people. For that, we are to civilised. No, I think it has been for the best that he stayed on the run. He punished himself with it. More then we ever could give to him. I feel sorry for his son Rolf. You only get one biological father in your life and he got this one.

An excellent read! I felt as if I were living and breathing the life in beautiful Cornwall. Ciji Ware is a great writer!

Another great novel I recommend is a book written by Susanna Kearsley called "Marianna". Another fabulous read that you don't want to put down, nor wish for the story to end! Enjoy!

I LUVED THIS BOOK!!!!! i read it over the summer 4 the first time & read it again 3 more times! & i'm reading it again right now! itz fantastic! i luv it! it has suspense, luv, passion, & everything a girl could ask 4! hooever it was hoo said that u should leave the book on the shelf is crazy! i luv it. & that person hoo chucked the book at pretty much the v. beginning was idiotic bcuz the book getz better! xspecially wen the x-husband shows up!

A Cottage by the Sea is a fun, page-turning read. The feisty heroine charms, while drawing the reader further into the story. Her interactions with the past help to shape her plans for the present and future--a literary device Ciji Ware knows how to use to the fullest. There's a wealth of local color also, especially for gardeners and lovers of Daphne duMaurier. It's diverting and entertaining enough for an airplane ride or lounging on the beach, but intelligent enough to hold the interest.

I did not like this book at all. It seems to be typical of a particular genre where all the characters are rich and famous and wear only the best labeled clothing. The women are all glamourous, the men, model handsome.
This book caught my attention because its setting was the Cornwall of Daphne Du Maurier and supposedly its premise was similar to that of Du Maurier's great romantic classics. This could not be further from the truth. The characters in "A Cottage by the Sea" are utterly vacuous parodies; the time travel sequence is ridiculously unbelievable.
Instead of wasting your time and money on this book, pick up copies of "Rebecca", "Frenchman's Creek", "Jamaica Inn" and the "Scapegoat"; even if you've already read them, you will get more out of a repeat read than a first go at this. If you love time travel, try the Gabaldon Outlander series; although there are some improbable situations in these stories, at least they are entertaining as well as well-written with real characters who laugh, cry and speak as we do.

If you are a fan of Bush, you owe it to yourself to get this book. It will tell you everything you ever wanted to hear.

One can only imagine how embarassed the authors are at this point in time (2008). They should have given Boy Bush a few more years in the saddle before she threw the word "genius" his way, and decided to present his obvious weaknesses as "strengths." But like so many other self-delusionals, they were probably in thrall to "The Decider" after 9/11 scared them senseless, and absolutely giddy when he heroically landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln. But he was always an intellectually incurious, stubbornly self-righteous moron more than willing to surround himself with yes men instead of talent, and while remaining devoid of any real understanding of or respect for the US Constitution and the rule of law. To say nothing of our military, which he has used to lay waste to Iraq in what can only be described as a vanity war. The smirking chimp will occupy the bottom rung of the presidential ratings ladder forever.

There are so many wonderful leaders out there and many books about what they do. Oh yes, this book is about what Goerge W. does but most important for me, it tells step by step how I can be disciplined like he is and develop my personal core values and hold people accountable, etc.

If you want to enhance your ability to lead - read this book. Mine is covered with notes and I bought one for each of my staff!

I am an avid reader of biographies and this book provided a biographical sketch of President Bush's lifestyle and then used that foundation to show how his management skills transformed his life. I grabbed a pencil and highlighter half-way into the first chapter and began writing in the margins. I liked this book because I could open to any page and find a nugget of information with a down to earth example. Some of the examples were just real funny and actually made me laugh out loud.

Then after reading the first few chapters, I realized that this book was not about President Bush's politics (although there was some strategies revealed) or about his faith (although his personal convictions are the heart of his core values) or even about his IQ level (his emotional intelligence is recognized as highly intuitive). This was a book was about how an average person can become the leader they want to be.

I finished the book quickly from a purely biographical point of view and now am going back over each chapter to concentrate on the leadership competencies and how I can learn from the examples. The authors know what they are talking about but they also made it real easy for the reader to put into practice the lessons that need to be learned.

After reading this book, I also came to appreciate and admire President Bush and how his personal discipline is one of the timeless principles of his leadership. I am glad that I read this book at this time in history.

"The Leadership Genius Of George W. Bush" is a rare combination of biography and business school case study.

This book centers on the study of characteristics of George W. Bush's ten leadership qualities and how the reader can apply them to his own life.

From the perspective of a business case study, I found Bush's discipline to be inspiring. In his discipline to reserve time for exercise I find affirmation of my own practices. In his discipline in leaving work at a regular time I find a tremendous challenge.

Lessons in Bush's leadership are drawn form episodes and issues encountered in his life. From these we gather an insight into his life story.

I often evaluate books by whether it alters my view of things. This one meets that test. The lessons of leadership are causing me to rethink some of my own practices. The stories of George W. Bush's life have heightened my respect for him.

This was another of Fern Michaels wonderful works. I really enjoyed it but wish she would leave some of the nasty words out of her writing.

Aloha, Fern Michaels!!! "Desperate Measures" is absolutely, positively, indeed, My Favvvvvvvvv Fiction Book in the Whole Wide World. I truly enjoyed reading it -- immensely!!! It was so heart felt and touching, especially concerning the two young boys, who made promises to each others. Although time, age, distance and dire circumstances kept them apart for decades, they reunited later in life. I often reread that part when things are going sour in my life as to glean a lil more hope and strength.

The ending was simply, superb. I've read many of your books and look forward to reading more. You're indeed my favvvvvvvvvv author in the whole wide world of fiction, hehe. Keep up the {{{GOOD WORK, FERN!!!}}} I shall read perhaps alllllll of your books, this life time, lol.

Mahalo for sharing your ingenius wrting talents w/ the UNIVERSE.

God Bless,

JASMINE STARR in Hawaii

I have liked all of the books I have read of Fern's but this one is the first that has crossed the line for my distaste in reading two different ways to curse.
I have stopped reading it and hope that the othe4 10 books I have by her lack these words.
Ms. Michaels, please do not use God's name in vain in your writings and the F word.
This is my humble opinion.

It is so much easier to fall in love with a stranger than your good friend who'd put everything on the back burner to come to the aid of a friend. I thought that growing up without a mother was hard until I read about Pete losing both parents as a young child, as did Addie and Janny who also grew up in the foster care program. Now, that has to be the pits.

Pete had dreams of finding his cousin and using the thing his mother left to him as a remembrance, simultaneously at the age of sixteen. Neither worked the way he had imagined. With the monetary help of an uncle who lived a sullen, unforgiving life because he could not marry the woman he loved, Pete attended Harvard where he met his destiny, Annie, and yet it took a total disaster in Pete's personal life for him to learn these facts.

It was twenty years after he gave up on finding Barney, that he found what he thought was his true love. She was so wild, lovely and different from him. He was old beyond his years. As the lovebirds were planning a future together, he secured the funds for Mattie to find her dream life in a store she named appropriately "Fairy Tales." He'd thought that this gypsy girl was his destiny and soon put Annie on the back burner of his life. He was living a fairy tale, as Mattie and her childhood friend Janny were. Janny always had the goal of finding her birth mother, as the adoption did not take and she grew up in foster homes along with Mattie.

It's a good thing these young women were tough on the inside as they witnessed a terrible murder and were taken into the Protective system which was a Hell on Earth. Annie left her career in law on hold and rushed to her friend's assistance to carry on with "Fairy Tales" and to decorate his new fancy house out by the lake along the Eastern coast near his uncle's mansion. During this separation, both Pete and Mattie changed drastically; they learned to never take things for granted again and never presume, never assume.

Annie learned the hard way that she had actually loved Pete all these years more than as a friend. She learned that love meant putting the other person first and was wanting the other's happiness more than you want your own. Pete had no time for trips down Memory Lane, and he persisted in dreaming of Mattie. One day he realized what he had been missing and looked at Annie through the eyes of love. How could something so ordinary be so wonderful? He had depended on her for his emotional needs since their Harvard days; when she went her own way to find some solace for her broken heart, he goes after her.

She finds Barney for him, his good fortune, as Pete gives him the uncle's house and all of its contents. He has a new home and a woman to complete the picture of domestic tranquility. From that moment, he meant to live in the present and put the past completely behind him. Who has time to wallow in self-pity?

This book "Desperate Measures" is a very good book. In the book Pete Sorenson talks about how he lost his mom and dad, and he remembers memories from when he was little. Me reading that and comprehending that makes me think how lucky I am to still have my mom and dad. I think it's great that Pete has such a great friend like Anne Gabriel. They're friendship makes me charish mine even more! I think it shows true friendship when Anne drops everything to go help Pete. I think in a way Pete needed Maddie to show him who he really truley loved. By almost marrying Maddie it made him see that he really loved Anne, not Maddie. Pete had to go through many difficult times in this book. He not only lost Maddie but he lost his uncle Leo too. Pete went to desperate measures to try to get Anne to feel the same way as he did for her, which in the end worked out for the best.
Reading this book makes me appreciate life and be thankful for what I all have. I will admit I tend to take life for granted and I think, whatever happens, happens. I now do not think that way anymore. You have to live while you're alive, is what I now think. Like Pete's feelings for Anne and how he couldn't tell her, I have the same problem. There are so many people I care for and love so much, but they don't know that and I wish so much that they did know. I just don't have the courage to tell them my honest feelings. With the help of this book I have been able to tell a lot of the people I care for, just how much I care for them. I owe it all to "Desperate Measures." Thank you!

As a die hard Index fund fan, I would disagree with the author's book title that it is possible to beat the Index year after year. However, the author's unusual mix of Myers-Brigg people type categorization plus investing was an interesting read. I gained the most from this book from the author's thoughts and stories about the creative thinking process more than anything else. Enjoyable book to read, but not sure his techniques can be practically applied by an investor.

I know Jim Ware, and he knows I love to read. So when his book was published he offered to send a copy. Sitting next to me was a large pile of "to-be-read" books, so I was certain a book for investment managers would reside near the bottom for a long while. That was then...

Shortly after it arrived, knowing that reading diverse topics offers insights not available if I stick to the familiar and friendly, I began to read. What a shock (no offense Jim). This is a wonderful book! Even before I was finished, I found myself referring to it in a conversation about different methodologies for strategic planning...totally unrelated to investments. By using Myers-Briggs Typology, Jim gave me a renewed sense for how I can be more successful when I approach others based on what makes them comfortable, rather than from my own comfort zone.

Jim obviously shares my interest in synthesizing diverse subject areas. He, quite naturally I thought, shows how wisdom from quantum physics, large scale change, eastern thought, creativity and-god help those analytical investment types-spirituality can lead to new ways of thinking within any profession. Jim offers a wonderful synthesis for anyone who wants to see the world from several leading-edge vantage points.

And, I loved Jim sense of humor. Near the end, he implies that many investment managers take the "fun" out of fund. I began to wonder if fund is the past tense of fun? Thank you Jim for this enjoyable journey.

This book does not stand out in any fashion other than as a forum for the author to show off his anecdotal tales of philosophy and finance.

I found nothing concrete to implement for my investment style. And the exercises to expand my "mental boundries" for unique thinking, seemed like rehashed, rhetorical self-help.

There was little correlation between the title and the content; again reminding us that one should not judge a book by it's cover.

... making you aware of your own/your clients' biases and giving you practical tools to defuse them. Specifically, by way of example, money managers (I am one) will learn to:

- recognize their own typical behavior, or that of colleagues or clients, as belonging to one of several psychological types ... - thereby stopping short of saying/doing stupid things and also circumventing problems at the workplace; - identify actions that will boost behavior that you or your firm seem to lack: creativity, focus, a will to use analytical skills, etc; - identify industry mantras ("team approach", etc) for what they are or identify actions that transform a mantra into action

Overall, I agree with the other reviewers that this book is a surprise, a very positive one. Basically it convinced me that every money manager should have, packed with his/her baggage of technical skills and intelligence (standard and "emotional"), also some psychological training. This book goes some way towards such education.

I am uncomfortable with a couple of Ware's ideas, particularly the "listen to intuition" advice towards the end of the book. As an "owl" I would be inclined to say this, but basically I met too many fakers who would justify rash investment moves only on intuition and long-running experience, lose money or fail to recognize the moment to take profit, and never talk about it afterwards. Intuition may come before analysis, but if it cannot be supported by reasoning I don't see that it should be followed; as a matter of practice you won't be able to anyway, because first you have to sell it to clients, team members, or bosses, and you won't.

But stars measure how good is the book, not how much I agree with it, and this one is great. I'm serious, buy it. Even more so if you don't believe in the psych stuff: do violence unto yourself, buy it now and read it, you'll need it more than others do.

After reading Mr. Ware's book, I found his writing style to be witty and concise. However, his book is not at all practical or useful as an investment guide. As a professional money manager, I didn't think that the book had good enough concepts in it to warrant "Beating the Market". Definitely not in the same class as, say, Warren Buffett's annual reports and his letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.

I seriously doubt that applying the concepts in this book will be helpful in "beating the market", especially the S&P 500 index, which has consistently beaten approximately 80% of all actively-managed mutual funds.

This book makes a nice attempt at relating psychology to finance but falls short, in my opinion, by falling back into common sense generalities that should already be known, without having to read this book, by those hoping to profit in the markets.

I am a doctor, and use this book in my practice, and have for several years. The data that was collaborated to write this book is astounding. It is truly an amazing piece of work. There are so many diets and diet fads out there, and more arrive weekly. This is no fad. It is real, and it works. The only negative I have about this book is that it can be difficult for some people to figure out their body types. I have been 'diagnosing' peoples body types for about 7 years, so it is a bit easier for me (muscle testing is a big advantage).

I got really frustrated that there was a lot of repeated information at the beginning of the book. She kept saying the same things but in different ways. Until she finally got to the specific body type information (which, I'll admit, was interesting), I really wondered if she'd ever get to the point. I began to think I'd been "taken" by forking out $30 for this book.

Also, I do have a hard time believing that someone's dominant organ could be their eyeballs! The body-type info made sense but attributing it to different organs seemed a little weird.

When she said I'd know exactly what to eat, I expected specific information about portion sizes and frequency of eating certain foods. I just didn't find that in this book. Maybe it's there but I didn't find it. Having to sort through so much repetition got old. And then there was also the fact that she skipped around telling details about this type and then that type and just scattering info all over the place. It was annoying. And the guidelines she did set about the frequency of eating certain foods just didn't make sense to me. They were too vague. I don't know, maybe that was the point of the diet, that you don't have to measure or think about it too much.

I did, however, find my "type". I thought at first that maybe it was like horoscopes and that any type I read would fit me, but that wasn't the case. I read through the other types and my type was obvious. So I am going to try the guidelines she set and see what happens. She's certainly not suggesting anything crazy like eating grapfruit for a week.

I personally don't think the book was worth $30 but I did find it at least interesting.

After having read and successfully participated in the body type diets prescribed by Dr. Abravanel, I am a believer that not everyone benefits from the same type of foods, or the same type of diets.

Dr. Abravanel only determined four body types for women, Dr. Carolyn Mein, the author of this book, goes into much more detail by breaking down body types into 25 different categories! Think of the years of research that went into this book, and the potential to once and for all determine the best type of nutritional support your own body needs.

I discovered through this book, that I am a Pineal. My review is 4 stars out of 5 because I found it slightly challenging in determining my type. Initially I thought I was a Lymph, then a Thalamus. Only after I ordered her Body Type Questionnaire off of her website, was I able to determine my absolute type. Others might not have the same level of difficulty. My only criticism is that her questionnaire should have more psychological profile questions in it, and it should be included in the first few chapters of her book. Perhaps for the next edition!

I still highly recommend this book.

While I found this book very interesting, I thought it was really confusing at the same time. I had a really hard time figuring out my type. The author suggests using "muscle testing" to find your type, but she does not tell you what kinds of tests to use. I tried to have my practitioner test me, but she had no idea what tests to use either. I think it is a really great concept, but it should be easier to "type" yourself.

I found the book read like a textbook. It was very informative, but once you find out what you are, thats it. I recommend a few people go in together and buy it. We have had a lot of fun at work finding our different types. I had myself convinced I was a Heart, but later after reading all the bios, found that I am definately a Pancreas....not very glamorous.. The profiles are very informative and interesting.. I do wish, in regard to the foods list that it went more in depth with the portions of foods etc. but I guess that is pretty well know anyway. I was pleased with my purchase.

The book gives sme guidleines (supported by research) but it won't be suitable for practioners but as a text book of no very good use for an information visualization course. It was tedious to have it as our text book I don't know if this is what I think or is it the actual case.

WOW. This guy did his homework! Ware covers the basics and more advanced topics. I felt he goes beyond most books on this subject by giving his suggestions and not just stating facts.

This is a basic introduction to InfoVis, covering topics from human perception to improving the decision-making processes with visualizations. It is worth having if you are in the field or are serious about improving your visualizations.

Some of the negative comments in reviews must refer to the first edition. My second edition has (some) color images as appropriate throughout the book. There are still a few errors, but not a large number. There are definitely a few low quality examples.

This is the best single volume book on the subject of information visualisation that I've read. Sure, there are other very nice books on diagrams, maps, data analysis, modelling and scientific visualisation. However, none of them have the scope of this book.

And therein lies the problem. For a single volume book Ware's effort tries to cover too much and some of the chapters are quite weak (chapter 0 and 10). Also, the fact that it was written by a psychologist shows in a good and bad way: human visual cognition is correctly the foundation upon which to build visualisation. Unfortunately the examples and the ideas for implementation are often lacking or poor in quality.

The first edition also has typesetting errors, so be sure to get the second edition.

All in all, it's still a book worth getting if you're in any serious way connected with the practise of visualisation. However, don't expect it to be the bible of the field, as such a thing does not exist (yet).

Ware's book provides a technically accurate and well-written overview of the gamut of issues pertaining to information visualization -- from basic visual anatomy and physiology to techniques for creating effective displays from multidimensional data.

Yes, it's "introductory" in nature, but it's the most comprehensive introduction I've seen to this complex and emerging field. It would make an excellent reference or textbook.

The 5-star content gets 4 stars because of the book's numerous editorial flaws. For example, several illustrations in the text reference color plate images that simply don't exist. And at least a half-dozen works cited in the text don't appear on the reference list. All-in-all, a rather slipshod editing job.

I was expecting a lot more info on the products and did not expect as much personal information on the author.

I found the book to be insightful and full of a plethora of information that experienced and new collectors could use. It is a worth while edition to any fiesta library. I also was thrilled to see the paintings of artist Philip Carroll in the book and on the back cover of paintings using fiesta. What a wonderful concept!

I find Schiffer collector books in general to be amateurish and of poor quality and this one is no exception. Many of the photos suffer from unprofessional lighting, rendering the supposed colors unrecognizable. There are also numerous typos, and the writing style is more of a personal narrative than a factual account. Some people might find this chatty style appealing but I find it distracting. I also don't think we need so much coverage of the "artistry of John Parry," especially of his jewelry. I'm sure he was a very nice man, but I think this info would have been better put at the end of the book as an appendix rather than in the front. Most people buy collector books in order to readily identify and price their items--the biographical information, and the stuff about "morgue" items is interesting, but shouldn't take up so much space. I recommend the next edition go more in-depth on the officially licensed go-along items, as these are more likely to be encountered by the average collector than some of the more obscure decaled lines that have pages written about them.

I was very pleased w- this book! I have been a Fiesta collector for several years & found this book not only extremely informative, but a very useful tool too. The writing is superb! This book carries current values for lilac, sapphire, & other HTF pieces. Because post 86 Fiesta is currently in production & "readily available", I understand that it is impossible to put values on anything else. I was especially fascinated & intrigued with the many great pictures, espeically of the rare & morgue pieces. Overall, this book is the best post 86 book on the market; it is definitely a must have for any collector!!!

I was very pleased w- this book! I have been a Fiesta collector for several years & found this book not only extremely informative, but a very useful tool too. The writing is superb! This book carries current values for lilac, sapphire, & other HTF pieces. Because post 86 Fiesta is currently in production & "readily available", I understand that it is impossible to put values on anything else. I was especially fascinated & intrigued with the many great pictures, espeically of the rare & morgue pieces. Overall, this book is the best post 86 book on the market; it is definitely a must have for any collector!!!