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The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:46:04 PST

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55 Christmas Balls to Knit

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:44:10 PST

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The Troubled Man

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:43:11 PST

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When his father-in-law, a retired naval officer, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Kurt Wallander uncovers disturbing evidence of Cold War espionage, a ...

風工房のフェアアイルニット

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:40:24 PST

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モチーフとエジング

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:38:40 PST

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いちばんよくわかるかぎ針あみの基礎

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 6:36:24 PST

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かぎ針編みの基礎を、段階を追ってわかりやすく解説。間違えやすいところや、知っておきたいポイントにも注目して ...

Inside the Vatican

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 4:07:44 PST

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There are one billion Catholics in the world today, spread over every continent, speaking almost every conceivable language, and all answering to a single authority. The Vatican is a unique international organization, both in terms of its extraordinary power and influence, and in terms of its endurance. Popes come and go, but the elaborate and complex bureaucracy called the Vatican lives on. ...

Outliers

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 4:06:35 PST

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, thei ...

Still Life With Oysters and Lemon

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 2:08:27 PST

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Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why

The Return

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:00:34 PST

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Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is forced to unlock the secrets of a nearly perfect murder in this taut psychological thriller. On a rainy April day, a body—or what is left of it—is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of a brutal, methodical killer. The victim, Leopold Verhaven, was a track star before he was convicted for killing two of hi ...

Voices

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:59:40 PST

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Silence of the Grave

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:59:26 PST

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Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archeological dig. Bone by bone, the body is unearthed, and the brutalizing history of a family who lived near the building site comes t ...

Anachronic Renaissance

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:58:52 PST

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In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of pat ...

The Tourist

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:45:17 PST

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In Olen Steinhauer's explosive New York Times bestseller, Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as ...

Mind's Eye

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:44:44 PST

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And now, The Mind's Eye, the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English.The ease of the conviction left Van ...

Borkmann's Point

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:44:28 PST

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Internationally bestselling author Häkan Nesser makes his U.S. debut with this riveting tale of murder and suspense that reveals the deep humanity of the characters portrayed even as it sends chills up the spine. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police in the investigation of two recent ax murders. Soon the case turns from bad t ...

Jar City

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:43:51 PST

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The Gold Dagger Award-Winning Author When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of horrible crimes. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, ...

Before the Frost

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:43:20 PST

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In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the cas ...

Firewall

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:42:59 PST

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Seventh in the Kurt Wallander series. A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murd ...

One Step Behind

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 5:42:38 PST

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Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden ...

The Fifth Woman

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 2:04:58 PST

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Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his seclude ...

The Man Who Smiled

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 2:04:32 PST

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After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over the head and dies. Within a week the lawyer’s son is also killed. These deeply puzzling mysteries compel Wallander to remain o ...

The White Lioness

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:34 PST

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Third in the Kurt Wallander series. The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex--and dangerous. The ...

Sidetracked

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:06 PST

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Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series. In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden's former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the ...

The American Meadow Garden

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:00:39 PST

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A prairie style planting is a place you "want" to be. With decades of experience as a nurseryman and designer, John Greenlee is the perfect guide. If there's one lesson every homeowner must learn, it's this: The traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes. In The Ameri ...

Party of One

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:00:03 PST

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Isaac Newton. Michelangelo. Anne Rice. Barry Bonds. Haruki Murakami. They and countless others belong to a subculture that will never join hands, a group whose voices, by nature, will never form a chorus. They are lonersand they have at least one thing in common: They keep to themselves. And they like it that way. Self-reliant, each loner swims alone through a social worlda world of teams, tro ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 6:56:48 PST

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Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expos on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a ...

The Dogs of Riga

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 6:56:17 PST

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Second in the Kurt Wallander series. On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country ...

Faceless Killers

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 6:55:26 PST

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First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is "foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they ...

Cover Her Face

Tue, 1 Jun 2010 6:52:54 PST

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Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed h ...

The Pyramid

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:24:07 PST

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Filling in the missing pieces of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series, "The Pyramid" tells the story of Wallander's beginnings through ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:23:28 PST

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The Golden Spiders

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:22:18 PST

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Champagne for One

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:22:06 PST

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Faith Usher tells anyone willing to listen that she wants to kill herself. So when she dies after drinking champagne at the annual gala for unwed mothers, everyone insists that it was suicide. Everyone except Archie Goodwin, the perennial wise guy, who was watching her drink.

And Be a Villain

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:21:51 PST

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This intricate case proves portly detective Nero Wolfe's brilliance beyond a shadow of a doubt. A flamboyant radio talk show host and her suddenly very dead guest are just the beginning. As always, assistant Archie provides good humor and serious legwork for his sedentary boss, who fits all the pieces together from his specially constructed leather chair.

Black Orchids

Sat, 29 May 2010 3:21:28 PST

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A remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show lures Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone. But before the detective and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder puts a blight on the proceedings. The murderer to be weeded out is definitely not a garden-variety killer. Wolfe must also throw his considerable weight into another thorny case, thi ...

Plot It Yourself

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 4:53:54 PST

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The First Five Pages

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 3:48:53 PST

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IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it's the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's the job of the writer to produce a manuscript that ...

The Essential Tales of Chekhov

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 3:47:47 PST

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Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss," "The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush!," and "Champagne." These ...

The Uncommon Reader

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 3:46:43 PST

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From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning "The History Boys," a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and I ...

A Dash of Style

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:14:41 PST

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The first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks reveal clear, lucid thinking. Punctuation can be used to teach the writer how to think and how to write. This short, practical book shows authors the benefits that can be reaped from mastering punctua ...

The Plot Thickens

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:14:21 PST

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As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this i ...

Imagining Numbers

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:12:56 PST

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Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathemati ...

Secrets of Mental Math

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:12:23 PST

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These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers. Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing numb ...

Red Square

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:01:03 PST

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Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But his enemies are very much alive, and foremost among them are the powerful black-market crime lords of the Russian mafia. Hounded by this terrifying new underworld, chased by the ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, an ...

Gorky Park

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:00:30 PST

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The Space Between Us

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:59:55 PST

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Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair ...

The Second Confession

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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In The Second Confession,a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to uncover the background of his daughter's boyfriend but Wolfe isn't sure he wants to be involved.

Three Witnesses

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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Three Doors to Death

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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The Silent Speaker

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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When a powerful government official turns up dead, the great Nero Wolfe takes notice. On the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon another victim is found, a stenographer's tape disappears, and the dead man speaks after a fashion. As the business world clamors for a solution, Wolfe patiently lays a trap.

Death of a Dude

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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Trouble in Triplicate

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:50 PST

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The Mountain Cat Murders

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:48:48 PST

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Over My Dead Body

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:45:44 PST

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When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's fencing school ends up dead after a pointed lesson. As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry into a tangle of documents, identities and i ...

Deep Writing

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:45:44 PST

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Our Man in Havana

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:48 PST

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Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's "entertainments," it tells of MI6's man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret a ...

Atonement

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:48 PST

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On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into t ...

Art of Time in Memoir

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:48 PST

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Reading Like a Writer

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart—to take pleasure in the long ...

The Art of Subtext

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they al ...

The Way of the Small

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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A practical and spiritual guide to making everyday living sacred. The Way of the Small: Why Less is Truly More explores the principals of a sound, wholesome exisistence for both the individual and society. Addressing the search for finding true happiness, meaning and success, The Way of the Small gives us new perspectives based on old wisdom on what makes for a truly lived life. A practical ...

A Most Wanted Man

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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Burning Down the House

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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The Art of Time in Fiction

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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The Art of Syntax

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:47 PST

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All Passion Spent

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:45 PST

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Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel. Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slan ...

Introduction to Manuscript Studies

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:45 PST

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Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are ...

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:44 PST

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What is a florilegium? What is an incipit? What is batarde script? This book--part of the Museum's popular Looking at series--offers definitions of these and numerous other techniques, processes, and materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts. Concise and readable explanations of the technical terms most frequently encountered by the museum-goer are presented in an easily portable fo ...

The Map as Art

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:44 PST

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Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement ...

Written Letters

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:43 PST

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The mystic art of written forms an illustrated handbook for lettering

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:43 PST

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Designing Web Interfaces

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:42 PST

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Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technolog ...

Navigation Through the Ages

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:41 PST

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Illuminating the Word

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:39 PST

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In this companion volume to The Saint John's Bible, Christopher Calderhead takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this extraordinary project. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, this book tells the story of the makers of the Bible and the community at Saint John's Abbey and University. The day-to-day struggles of such a monumental undertaking included challenges such as the selection and p ...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:39 PST

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We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and J ...

花のデザインノート

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:39 PST

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アトリエに入ると、さあ今日はどんなデザインをしようかとテキパキ頭が動き出します。水泳のとき、するりとプール...

Advanced Bread and Pastry

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:39 PST

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Artisan Baking

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:38 PST

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It’s a crunch and aroma you can savor in your mind before you even take a bite: that perfect crust and that perfect crumb you can get only in bread baked with craft and care. Artisan Baking puts that bread within reach of every home baker; even the beginner now deftly will be able to turn out sourdoughs, pizzas, corn breads, and baguettes that are truly out of this world. Step-by-step instruction ...

Art of the Tart

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:38 PST

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Tarts are the perfect self-contained treat, a delectable indulgence. In this special collection, Tamasin Day-Lewis provides classic recipes and new twists for an assortment of savory and sweet tarts. She explores the rituals of their preparation, from rolling to primping and patching to whisking, all of which make tarts the most satisfying of foods — to make and to eat. The home chef is taugh ...

Bread

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:37 PST

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The warm, complex aroma of a fresh-baked loaf of bread can be utterly tantalizing; the first bite, a revelation. In Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes , award-winning master baker Jeffrey Hamelman presents the definitive, one-stop reference on the art and science of bread baking - a kitchen essential for seasoned home bakers and professionals alike. Hamelman, a professional bake ...

Food in History

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:37 PST

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An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed with intriguing information, lore, and startling insights--like what cinnamon had to do with the discovery of America, and how food has influenced population growth and urban expansion.

Come musica

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:37 PST

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Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:36 PST

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With this whole grain follow-up to the acclaimed BREAD BAKER'S APPRENTICE, home and professional bakers will be making whole grain loaves so delicious that they put white breads to shame. After much tinkering and trial and error (with help from more than 250 recipe testers), beloved baking instructor Peter Reinhart has improved and simplified his groundbreaking delayed fermentation method to ...

Bread Science

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:36 PST

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Cresci

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Visual Food Encyclopedia

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:33 PST

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What does a tree tomato look like? What's the difference between a turnip and a rutabaga? Where does malanga come from? How do you trim an artichoke bottom? The Visual Food Encyclopedia answers all these food questions ? and thousands more.The Visual Food Encyclopedia is the cook's companion in the market and the kitchen, illustrating and explaining everything other cookbooks assume you already k ...

The Recipe Writer's Handbook, Revised and Updated

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:33 PST

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Praise for The Recipe Writer's Handbook Revised and Expanded "Barbara Ostmann and Jane Baker are experienced food editors who know their stuff. To achieve success, a recipe must be written with impeccable accuracy and unambiguous clarity. The Recipe Writer's Handbook achieves both objectives in full measure."-Irena Chalmers, author and professional food writing lecturer at The Culinary Insti ...

Tiramisù e chantilly

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:33 PST

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L'abilità di un esperto pasticcere si unisce alla prelibatezza e genuinità degli ingredienti per preparare dessert golosi che incanteranno il palato dei buongustai. La scuola di pasticceria svela i segreti del mestiere, le ricette base, gli utensili adatti; la sezione delle ricette raccoglie numerose variazioni sul tema: dal tiramisù tradizionale ai semifreddi alla frutta, dalle creme vaniglia e ...

Ice dream.

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:33 PST

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Tante idee per gelati di ogni tipo. oltre 130 golose ricette

Professional Baking

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:33 PST

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This new edition gives professional and home bakers peerless up-to-date coverage of the theory and practice of baking. Keeping pace with current trends in the field, this edition includes a new chapter on baking for special diets, expanded and detailed information on ingredients and their use in baking, and new sections on sugar confections, as well as 100 new photographs. Complete with more than ...

The French Laundry Cookbook

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:32 PST

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Thomas Keller, chef/propietor of the French Laundry--"the most exciting place to eat in the United States," writes Ruth Reichl in The New York Times--is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. His flavors have clarity and intensity. His methods dazzle. Every mouthful is an explosion of taste. This cookbook, Keller's first, is as satisfying as a French Laundry meal, a series of s ...

Professional Cooking, College Version

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:32 PST

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Key features of this new Sixth Edition include: * Over 100 new, fully tested recipes * A brand new chapter on vegetarian cuisine, featuring different types of vegetarian diets * Expanded and updated information, such as a con-temporary look at presenting and garnishing food and a detailed history of modern food service * Nearly 1,200 illustrations-including over 100 new photographs-highlight ...

Pure Dessert

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:32 PST

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A refreshing change in every respect When you are working with great ingredients, you want to keep it simple. You don’t want to blur flavor by overcomplicating. This is why Pure Dessert, from the beloved Alice Medrich, offers the simplest of recipes, using the fewest ingredients in the most interesting ways. There are no glazes, fillings, or frostings—just dessert at its purest, most elemental ...

Digital Food Photography

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:29 PST

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Great food always elicits strong reactions?the smell of freshly baked bread, the taste of a perfectly prepared steak. The job of a food photographer is to elicit that same mouth-watering reaction, but without the benefit of scent or taste. A well-shot photograph can send crowds flocking to a new restaurant or boost the sales of a culinary magazine. Capturing the perfect image requires a trained e ...

Jamie's Italy

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:28 PST

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Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver's food and cooking. In Jamie's Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure that Italy's influence reaches us all. Italy has in ...

Le ricette degli altri

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:28 PST

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C'è un vecchio adagio, presente in tutti i paesi del mondo soprattutto inrelazione alla cucina. Dice così: ogni scarafone è bello a mamma sua. Cioè lapropria cucina, del proprio paese, della propria regione, della propria cittàe soprattutto della propria mamma è sempre la migliore. Ciò detto, nessunonega che esistano altre mamme, città, regi ...

La cucina

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The Complete Guide to Cooking Techniques

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:27 PST

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The most accesible, comprehensive, visual guide to cookery techniques, all photographed step-by-step. Over 200 recipes from simple soups to dramatic desserts. Classic techniques as well as modern innovations- the best and most effective methods for every task. Helpful advice on ingredients and equipment.

Cuochi si diventa

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 3:45:27 PST

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La cucina di casa italiana è cambiata di più negli ultimi trent'anni che neidue secoli precedenti. Si pensi alle tecniche nuove, come il teflon, che hapermesso praticamente di eliminare i grassi. Si pensi a come sono cambiati iprodotti, sempre nuovi e numerosi, si pensi alla frollatura della carne e allacomparsa dei pesci, al sottovuoto e alla porzionatura fatta all'origine.Questo l ...