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The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables
The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables

Review:Out performs the regular version of the flavor bible by a long shot. Great for those of us who aren't vegetarians to spark some new ideas even includes some nutritional information, descriptions of what the foods actually are, and ideas on how best to use them. Just get this book, if you can live without the pairings with meats and fish (everyone already knows rosemary goes with lamb and bacon goes with scallops anyhow). Read more

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll  Ever Need
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need

Review:Great book that really helps to clarify the often confusing, meandering aspects of grant writing. This is grant writing instruction told straight. Very helpful and useful. A solid, reliable resource to improve your grant writing skills ... and you have them! Read more

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of How (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books)
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of How (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books)

Review:This rating is for the kindle version. The hard copy may be great. I plan on ordering it. The kindle version is not at all eye catching. The sample is just enough to know that I don’t want the kindle version. Read more

The Ultimate Book of Vehicles - From Around the World
The Ultimate Book of Vehicles - From Around the World

Review:I learned so much while playing with this book! My knowledge of construction vehicles was always pretty lousy, right down there with my dinosaur know how. But there is so much motion in this book, due to the pop up action and cutaway illustrations, that I can at last get a real feel for what a crawler excavator is. So nice to see a dump truck that really dumps the garbage! A scissor lift that really lifts, and a combine harvester that opens to reveal what goes on inside a combine harvester. All... Read more

How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future - The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future - The Price of Inequality

Review:Provocatively written with a rich reference of data and research, this book is a great example of a neo-Keynesian assessment and critique of the economy.

The central theme of The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Engenders Our Future, written by Colombia professor, winner of the Nobel Prize of Economics, and overall economic wizard, is that political and economic forces have shaped and reinforced the extent to which concentration of income at the top is created and protecte... Read more

A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)
A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)

Review:Delightful reading - now I am anxious to read the play by Lucas Hnath which is a sequel titled A Doll's House, Part 2 and is being performed in NYC at the present time. The sequel is said to be consistently funny. Read more

Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry
Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry

Review:An good read for anyone interested in Freemasonry. Inspired me to visit a local lodge after reading it. Also, never lend to a Freemason if you're a Non-Mason because you will not get it back from them, had to buy a second copy. Read more

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Review:This book is a treasury of relevant scientific theories and findings; none of the wishy washy vague nonsense they teach in other books, this is practical real world advice, that tries to back itself up with science, and is honest about itself. The exercises are all explained, so that the reader knows the how and why, and they work. This is a must have for anyone wanting to improve their art, regardless of the level they may be at. Read more

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Eats - Shoots & Leaves
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Eats - Shoots & Leaves

Review:One can hardly grant full marks to a punctuation book that does not extol the serial comma. The author (usually) omits it and gives no reason for her preference; unlike most who avoid the serial comma, she mentions a couple points in its favor. Ironically, she fails even to note that her later example "Don't guess, use a timer or watch" lacks the ambiguity she ascribes to it if written by an author who consistently uses serial commas. If you require solider reasons for insisting on its use, try ... Read more

On Writing Well Audio Collection
On Writing Well Audio Collection

Review:Probably the best writing teacher I have some across. William Zinsser's wisdom is simple, straight forward and he has been my guiding light for years. I have read his books and wanted to own the tape to listen to on my walkman while I walked the dogs. The tape is in practically new condition and I am so happy to have it to hear his voice. I am only sorry I never met him and was deeply saddened to learn of his death recently. Read more

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