Amateur Books

TIME Life Books are great for instructional purposes. This book is easy to read and provided many pictures to guide you as you build your outdoor project. We use this as a guide for building our fence and outdoor patio cover. Great book!

I LOVE THIS BOOK! We all want to make the right choice when redecorating. Sunny Goode is very experienced and has put her vast knowledge and creativity into beautiful printed pages and easy-to-follow directions. I have done several faux finishing wall/room projects in the past so most of the "how to" sections were a review or variation on techniques. What I loved was the additional ideas and use of stencils. I'll use this book for years!

This breaks each technique (verdigris, liming, stippling, etc.) down into 5 to 7 steps. Each step is shown in a photos. The book is compact, but covers a lot in 224 pages. Some effects I hadn't seen before in books or in the brochures at paint stores. There is one showing painting faux sandstone blocks.
I can hardly wait to get the paint and try one of these effects. They are shown for a variety of surfaces (walls, floors, furniture, accessories).
Highly recommended if you want something besides plain ol' paint.

This is a great book for the decorative artist. The effects you can achieve are both stunning and easy to create. They give a unique look to any project.

The book starts out with an overview of wide color shaper types and basic strokes as well as instructions for preparing and finishing surfaces. Then it shows you how to create faux stone, faux wood, fabric looks and fantasy textures. Some projects include a malachite chest, marble table, blue patterned cupboard, kilim floorcloth, damask roller blind and ceramic tile trivet.

Further pattern recipes are in the back. Some of these include lapis lazuli, woven plaid and wavy cross-band design. The instructions for everything are excellent, demonstrated step-by-step with photos. Most projects use latex paints, glazing liquid and a water-base varnish and include a complete materials list.

My only wish for the book was a suppliers list. Wide color shapers can be difficult to find. Buy this book with the color shaper included if you can.

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Whether your shortwave interest is home news from Ireland, Nigerian music, clandestine political movements, or just plain curiosity about the rest of the world, this is the only guide you need.

Written in understandable English with the beginner in mind, the Passport will be useful to the advanced listener as well, with up-to-date listings for the most exotic stations and their addresses, equipment tips and recommendations, advice on recording programs, a channel-by-channel guide, and much more. A new and special feature is the guide to Web Radio, where you can listen to the world right through your computer.

With this guide and a modest shortwave receiver, you're off to great listening adventures.

He left St. Adele, Michigan as a boy and returned to it as a man, having served in two world wars in military intelligence. Now John McIntire and his British wife are trying to become a part of the community. He becomes the town's constable and she is the publisher of the local newspaper.

John looks forward to some serenity, but almost immediately he investigates a homicide that he quickly solves. A year later, fisherman Nels Bertelsen is found dead aboard his boat, the victim of a bee bite. At first it appears to be a tragic accident, but John uncovers evidence that leads him to conclude that someone placed the bee in the victim's clothing while the medicine that would have saved Nels was replaced by something useless. The only problem is nobody had a motive to murder the man.

PAST IMPERFECT is a very well written regional mystery starring an enigmatic hero who is readjusting to life in the USA. The supporting cast is colorful and eccentric while the plot is fast-paced and exciting. Katherine Hills makes the 1950's in the peninsula of Northern Michigan seem real in the mind's eye of the reader, who along with reviewer, looks forward to more works starring the True Grit like character of John McIntire.

Harriet Klausner

For the inexperienced this book is a great beginning. It offers a set simple bases to begin experimenting with fragrance. The instuctions are in common measurements with no need of special scales or [pricey] equipment. If you are just courious and would like to try this hobby "Personalized Perfumes" is a good start.

Visually the book is stunning. The graphic design and the wonderfully composed photographs are the equal to any coffee table book. This little gem is a pleasure to own.

I am about to leave for Africa, so I needed some preparation. McDonald's book exactly served my needs. It is helpful, with both technical advice and inspiring photographs. He makes you believe that you will be successful. I later found referrals to this book in the nature photography usenet group; so it seems that others find the book helpful as well. Small enough to take along. Packing lists too.

Since Amazon left out any information as to what the story is about, here goes:

This is a novelet originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in the July/August 2005 issue. It launched the award-winning "Pit-Bull" Peter Geller series (about a physically handicapped man with an eidetic memory).

Pit is slowly drinking himself to death in his Philadelphia apartment when a former college friend contacts him for help with a blackmail problem. How Pit pulls himself from his alcoholic haze, takes charge, and solves the problem are the heart of the series.'

There are 2 more Pit stories published, and more upcoming in AHMM.

The order process was very easy and safe! Order was received in perfect shape...just as described! I would definitely order from Amazon again.