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The Chocolate Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest
Bobbie Hasselbring
Wordsworth Publishing
PO Box 311, Beavercreek, OR 97004
0-9665619-0-2 $17.95 1-877-800-7700
Here is a marvelous travel guide to everything chocolate in Oregon, Washington,
and British Columbia including more than 400 restaurants, bakeries, ice
creameries, and chocolate shops making terrific chocolate items. This superb
320 page speciality travel guide is divided by regions and cities and offers
chocolate facts, stories, profiles, tips, great places to stay, fun things to
do, and mouthwateringly delicious recipes.
The Art of Record Production
Richard James Burgess
Omnibus Press/Music Sales Corporation, dist.
PO Box 572, Chester, NY 10918
0-7119-5552-2 $19.95 1-800-431-7187
Richard Burgess has produced hit singles and albums for a number of artists and
musicians including Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Kim Wilde, Five Star, King,
Colonel Abrahams, Living in a Box, and Shriekback. He is also a hit songwriter,
session drummer and an acknowledge expert on multimedia. In short, Burgess
knows all there is to know about the art, technology, and business of record
production. In The Art Of Record Production, Burgess reveals just what it takes
to become a successful record producer. In a witty, anecdotal portrait of the
recording industry, Burgess answers all the practical questions an aspiring
record producers needs to know including how to get started; what kind of
producer to be; dealing with artists, record companies and lawyers. He also
authoritatively explores broad issues like career management, working in
different musical genres, and the impact of multimedia upon the recording
industry. The Art Of Record Production is entertaining, informative, and the
ideal guide to the art and business of record production today.
A Venomous Life
Struan Sutherland, M.D.
Hyland House/Seven Hills Book Distributors
1531 Tremont Street, Cincinnati, OH 45214
1-864470-26-7 $21.95 1-513-471-4300 1-513-471-4311
http://www.sevenhillsbooks.com
A Venomous Life is the autobiography of Professor Struan Sutherland and begins
with his childhood in the small town of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. Dr.
Sutherland relates his active childhood filled with family and friends, and an
uncanny ability to get himself into trouble. Dr. Sutherland knew as a boy that
he wanted to be a doctor and eventually realized his dream. He went on to serve
as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy. But it was at the
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories where Dr. Sutherland began the work that would
make him famous, finding antivenoms for some of Australia's most poisonous
creatures. His work at the CSL dealt with spiders, snakes, ants and marine
creatures. However, after bitter disagreements with CSL superiors, he left to
begin the Australian Venom Research Unit, which provides medical advice to
doctors and hospitals, works to increase public awareness and conducts
antivenom research, among other duties. Despite the onset of a neurological
disease akin to Parkinson's Disease, Dr. Sutherland continues to work with the
AVRU. A Venomous Life is an engaging memoir of a most remarkable man who has
spent most of his adult life as Australia's brilliant and controversial
toxinologist.
Working With Animals: The UK, Europe & World Wide
Victoria Pybus
Vacation Works/Seven Hills Book Distributors
1531 Tremont Street, Cincinnati, OH 45214
1-854358-224-0 $19.95 1-513-471-4300 1-513-471-4311
http://www.sevenhillsbooks.com
Many an animal lover would enjoy a career working with animals, especially in
ways that would take them overseas, traveling to new and exotic countries in
order to view how the rest of the world works with domesticated animals and
wildlife. Working With Animals is a guide to such opportunities as zookeeper,
jockey, forest ranger, kennel staff, even turtle rescuers and circus
performers. Each country is profiled with its location, population and brief
history, as well as its native animals and philosophy regarding wild animals
and pets. All pertinent information is provided regarding employment
opportunities within each country, and unique ventures are cited, such as
volunteer work in Poland's primeval forest (the last remaining in Europe).
Hundreds of employers are listed along with the qualifications and experience
needed for each job cited including the pay scale and how to apply. Working
With Animals is an important and unique addition to any academic career
counseling department or employment agency reference shelf.
The Encyclopedia of Snakes
Chris Mattison
Checkmate Books/Facts on File, dist.
11 Penna Plaza, New York, NY 10001
0-160-392-3 $35.00 1-800-322-8755 http://www.factsonfile.com
The Encyclopedia Of Snakes is a wonderfully illustrated compendium that covers
the most popular aspects of snake biology. The color photographs throughout
document the fascinating variety of snake coloration as well as illustrating
and clarifying points of interest. Each chapter has a main them with text,
photographs and diagrams. The Encyclopedia Of Snakes offers detailed coverage
of snake classification, evolution, natural diversity, size, shape and
coloration, physiology, ecology feeding, defensive behavior, breeding,
mythology, superstition and modern human attitudes to snakes. There are "fact
boxes" within each chapter comprising items of special importance and interest
such as scale-type, population in the wild, egg incubation, and more. The
Encyclopedia Of Snakes is a welcome and informative addition to any personal,
academic or community library pet and wildlife reference collection.
Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
Christopher Nyerges
Chicago Review Press
814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610
1-55652-344-0 $14.95
Christopher Nyerges' Guide To Wild Foods And Useful Plants is filled with the
practical wisdom and personal experiences. Nyerges has led wild-food outings
and survival skill hikes for 25 years and shares a wealth of resource details
concerning the medicinal and practical uses of 70 common wildplants, including
unique ways to use dandelions, mugwort and shepherd's purse, as well as
identifying poisonous plants such as castor bean, jimsonweed, poison oak, and
poison ivy that must be avoided on nature walks or camping trips. Guide To Wild
Foods And Useful Plants is enhanced with informational keys to leaves, fruits,
and seeds, along with more than 100 helpful photographs and drawings that will
enable readers to handily identify plants at a glance. Guide To Wild Foods And
Useful Plants is a valuable and authoritative reference that should be part of
the equipment for every backpacker, nature walker, and outdoor camper.
Second Time Around: Help for Grandparents Who Raise Their Children's Kids
Joan Callander
BookPartners, Inc.
PO Box 922, Wilsonville, OR 97070
1-58151-021-7 $15.95 1-800-895-7323
Joan Callander's Second Time Around is an invaluable resource for grandparents
who accept the responsibility for being the primary care-giver in the raising
of their children's children. It is a story Callander has lived, based on her
own daughter and grandson, and her personal search for healing in behalf of her
family. Second Time Around is an inspiring book about family and relationships
and parenting. Callander covers all aspects of a grandparent faced with the
practical responsibilities, emotional and physical burdens, and parentally
rewarding opportunities in raising children "the second time around". Highly
recommended reading for prospective and participating grandparents involved
with raising the "third generation".
The Imaginary Voyage
Shimon Peres
Arcade Publishing
141 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
1-55970-468-3 $23.95 1-800-343-9204
In The Imaginary Voyage, Shimon Peres (twice Israel's prime minister and the
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994) takes a loving but critical look at
his country from the perspective of over four decades of service and
dedication. Peres resurrects the spiritual father of modern Israel, Theodor
Herzle, and with him takes an imaginary voyage to look at Israel's
accomplishments as well as its disappointments and mistakes since its founding.
Perez explains why his country is so filled with armed soldiers from border to
border, as well as describing the background and horrors of the Shoah that were
visited upon the Jews after Herzle's death. The Imaginary Voyage uses an
original, informative, and innovative literary technique to successfully
provide an insightful assessment of one of the world's youngest (and oldest)
nation states as seen through the ideas of two great twentieth century jewish
political visionaries -- Theodor Herzle and Shimon Peres.
The End of the Class War
Catherine Brady
Calyx Books
PO Box B, Corvallis, OR 97339
0-934971-66-8 $13.95 (pb) 0-934971-67-6 $27.95 (hc) 1-541-753-9384
ca...@proaxis.com
The End Of The Class War is a series of stories exploring the lives of
working-class women and charting the psychological and moral terrain of class
in an America littered with Jeep Cherokees and cell phones. Set in San
Francisco and Chicago, these tales focus on Irish-American women contending
with the holy trinity of the Irish: melancholy, melodrama, and morbid guilt. It
is precisely their Catholic upbringing that imposes these oppressive
obligations, but also offers a sustaining faith in the end. The women in The
End Of The Class War negotiate an unstable, conflicted compromise between
personal aspiration and the compelling ties of family. For the women in these
stories, "playing nice" often means playing to lose as they contend with the
illusions of the American Dream. Those who are ambitious may struggle for more
than their mothers had, but they retain their bred-in-the-bone suspicion of
milled-class platitudes. And those who are meek, steeped in the faith of their
Catholic upbringing, can't stifle the rebellious reflex of their native irish
wit. Catherine Brady's lyrical writing moves readers to participate in the
lives of the people she writes about, people struggling with circumstances
often beyond their control. Brady is one of those compelling writers so easy to
pick up and so hard to put down.
On A Good Day
Gay Rubin
Plain View Press
2009 Arthur, Austin, TX 78764
0-911051-96-4 $14.95 1-800-878-3605 http://www.eden.com/~sbpvp
Gay Rubin is an accomplished writer who has been published in many literary
journals, including Iowa Woman, Iris, The Bridge, and Metro Times. She is also
founder and editor of Michigan Hot Apples (an annual anthology of poetry and
fiction) and a writing instructor at the University of Michigan. On A Good Day
is an anthology of seven of her best short stories to day and includes Looking
for Paul Newman; My Mother's Sapphires; If It's a Good Day, One Thing; An
Ordinary Ride Up an Old Trail; His Mother's Piano; Last Chance Louie; and Howie
the Bum. Rubin writes with a skillful eye for the complications of the human
condition with all of its struggles and joys, disappointments and
accomplishments. Her art and talent as a story teller is so finely honed that
these tales and the people in them truly come alive in the mind's eye of the
reader with a vivid clarity that lingers on long after the stories are finished
and the book set back upon the shelf.
The Elements of Style, 4th Edition
William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
Allyn & Bacon/Simon & Schuster, dist.
0-205-30902-X $6.95 http://www.strunkandwhite.com
First published in 1919, The Elements Of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
was recently selected by a panel of the Modern Library as one of the "100 Best
Nonfiction Books written in English during the 20th Century". Now Allyn and
Bacon have brought out this famed manual for aspiring writers in a revised
fourth edition, in part to tie in with the 100th anniversary of E.B. White's
birth, July 11, 1899. This updated edition features a new glossary while
retaining the book's original and unique tone, wit and charm. Far from being a
dry, English grammar piece, The Elements of Style is packed with practical,
authoritative, reliable information presented with subtle humor and sly wit.
This handy little pocketbook volume is a "must" for all serious practitioners
of the written word.
Kitchen Express: Good Food Fast -- For Real People With Real Lives
Dee Wolk
Quail Ridge Press/Kitchen Ex-Press
Celia Rocks (publicity)
7 Saratoga Court, Beachwood, OH 44122
0-93755-277-1 $12.95 1-800-770-4336 http://www.ThinnerYou.com
Dee Wolk's Kitchen Express offers tips on kitchen organization to help the
family chef get a meal on the table in minutes. Also offered are nutrition
basics on how to make healthy choices and changes. Her recommended approach and
recipes makes accomplishing this easy, using foods that are available at any
supermarket. Additionally, Wolk provides smart shopping tips and a list of
low-fat foods to keep on hand in the kitchen. From Shrimp Creole, Herbed Baked
Sweet Potatoes, and Sunday Turkey Meat Loaf to Dee's No-Fried Breaded Chicken
Breasts, Yogurt Applesauce Parfait, and "Pudding on the Ritz" Lemon Moouse,
Wolk's Kitchen Express will serve to put delicious food-additive-free meals on
the table from freezer or refrigerator in twenty minutes or less. Also highly
recommended is an invaluable section on exercise as a key element to overall
wellness and good appetite. Highly recommended.
Betsy L. Hogan
Reviewer
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