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Review Date: 2/8/2014
Excellent collection of floral motifs will inspire many future projects. Nice level of detail and variety of patterns.
501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged (501 Verbs Series)
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Review Date: 2/1/2014
Excellent compendium of conjugated Russian verbs. Material is comprehensive and well-organized. An ideal companion for non-native students of the Russian language. This one's a keeper!
Review Date: 6/27/2012
Rifkin is an internationally-known social thinker who has made it his mission to call out social Darwinism and some of the pitfalls associated with genetic engineering and the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature. Taken it its historicial context, this book provides a window into the anti-genetic engineering sentiment that arose in response to more broad applications of the emerging molecular biology technologies.
Review Date: 11/29/2014
This book provides a most excellent translation of this classic 19th C. tale chronicling the affair of a married Russian socialite and an affluent military officer. Shunned from high society when the affair is found out, Anna becomes increasingly isolated and suspicious that her lover has committed infidelities against her. She ultimately commits suicide by train when consumed by her own conflicting feelings. Thus, Anna's pain allows Tolstoy to explore the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, carnal desire and passion, notably juxtaposed against the experiences of several other couples as the story unfolds. Tolstoy also explores aspects of Russian life associated with the country [agrarian connection to land] in contrast to the lifestyles typical of the city. An excellent read!
Review Date: 8/31/2012
Wonderful selection of tasty and attractive finger foods! Great ideas for impromptu events or planned parties!
Review Date: 6/27/2012
Jeremy Rifkin has written a most provocative book. As a practising applied scientist, I consider that his criticisms and predictions tend to be based on the His writing style can be a little irritating and dramatic, but having attended some presentations that he has made, realize that is a manifestation of his own rhetorical voice. He is a social thinker, not a scientist. But his book is worthy of being read by people from many different walks of life, both within and outside of the sciences. His ideas have value for helping shape one's own opinions, even if you do not agree with him on every point.
Review Date: 6/27/2012
As a practicing ecologist, I found Avise's account an interesting autobiography. In the tradition of E.O. Wilson, it recounts how his love of the natural world and his intellectual curiosity combined and led him to take up an interdisciplinary career studying issues at the interface of natural history and genetics, fields that previously were studied separately. While his healthy ego occasionally gets the better of him, these occasional passages are forgivable -- Avise's achievements and professional publications support that he has the credentials to back it up.
Review Date: 10/22/2012
Very easy to follow treatment of the subject. Includes helpful diagrams for standard Cathedral Window and some variations. Recommend!
Change One: The Breakthrough 12-Week Eating Plan: Lose Weight Simply, Safely Forever
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Review Date: 6/27/2012
Excellent and reasonable approach for sustained weight loss! Focuses on slowly learning about better nutrition, making better choices, and changing behaviors that contribute to becoming (and remaining) overweight. My family has benefitted tremendously from this book, particularly my husband, who now controls diabetes completely through his dietary intake, and having lost about 75 pounds, has better blood chemistry than when he was in college (he's over 50 now). It does not matter if you are young, middle aged, or elderly, this book puts YOU in charge of changing just one thing in your lifestyle each week. We liked feeling more in control of making the decisions, and have together lost and kept off over 100 pounds as a couple.
Country Doughcrafts: 50 Original Projects to Build Your Modeling Skills
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Review Date: 8/27/2012
Delightful reference for beginners, but enough creative extras to be of use to more expert crafters. Relies on the use of salt clay as a medium. Includes templates for some projects, I will use this book mostly for inspiration for creating my own original projects. Nicely illustrated.
Review Date: 6/19/2012
Delightful collection of country-themed sweaters! Clear patterns are versatile and could be used in a variety of alternate knitting projects that use up your spare yarn stash!
Review Date: 6/27/2012
Good, solid book! Plenty of doable projects for beginners and intermediates at cross stitching, enough inspirations for more skilled stitchers to create their own projects or take these ideas to the next level.
Review Date: 7/15/2013
Amazing variety and detail in these clever cross stitch cat portraits! Suitable for both CCS and needlepoint. Great inspiration!
Review Date: 7/12/2012
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This book provides a positive approach for organizing and prioritizing one's life and career aspirations. A good, solid book that renders logical advice without being too preachy. A very good first book for someone in the throes of changing his stride to accommodate new situations or directions.
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
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Review Date: 7/22/2012
Gottlieb presents the history of how environmentalism arose as a coalition of earlier movements that had not previously been defined as environmental. He was the first to consider how other sociological concerns such as race, ethnicity, gender and even economic class have contributed to the evolution of environmentalism as we know it today. Gottlieb's work initially evoked some important controversies, and presents many points to ponder.
Review Date: 7/12/2012
Classic Garfield! Very light reading, great for those times you are feeling down and just need to chuckle.
Review Date: 7/12/2012
In this episode, Garfield encounters his ongoing weight issues by way of diet foods, talking scales, and exercise. Does he get outdone by his taste for treats once again? A classic maneuver from the tried and true arsenal of many pet companions!
Review Date: 7/12/2012
Funny review of the various classic antics that cats perpetrate on their owners -- Garfield-style! I think this one is my favorite in the whole series!
Review Date: 7/12/2012
Garfield is dreaming of a luxurious vacation in paradise, but Jon is being more thrifty. Imagine the results! This book is produced in color.
Review Date: 7/12/2012
Classic Garfield and Odie! Plus, the ingenious ways that Garfield overcomes his burgeoning & bulging belly to acquire the next culinary objects of his desire!
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