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- Executive Mansions
- excellent coffee table book
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Our Governors' Mansions
Cathy Keating
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Executive Mansions.......2006-01-14
This book is well researched and the subject matter is very interesting. Every state is represented, with the exception of the few states, California!!!, that don't have an offical exective residence. The book is well layed out, my only qualm is the visuals, it's not that the images are poor, it's just the quality of visuals are poor, they are not vivid, they are not crisp, I can only assume it has something to do with the quality of the paper used, whatever the reason it is quite noticable and too bad because other wise it is a very good book, having said that I still highly recommend it because it's not the author fault for the quality of the photos, that lies with the publisher.
excellent coffee table book.......2000-01-25
This book dedicates 4-5 pages to each Governor's mansion in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Written history of each home is included, as well as pictures of the different mansion's exteriors and interiors. At the end of the book are addresses to contact any of the 50 Governors or First Ladies of the United States...
Our Governors' Mansions.......1999-11-28
For years I have looked for a book about the Governors' Mansions of the United States. This book was recommended to me by the director of Alabama's Governor's Mansion and I was very excited and proud to get it! With beautiful pictures and interesting stories of every mansion this book is a real gem. It is a great book for anyone interested in history, architecture, or interior decorating. Our country is indebted to First Lady Kathy Keating for all her hard work.
fascinating, rare look at historic governors' homes.......1997-10-05
Believe it or not, this is the first of its kind, a complete look at every occupied governors' residence in the nation. This is a fun read with interesting historic tidbits about these beautiful homes. Great pictures too!
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This digital document is an article from Business North Carolina, published by Business North Carolina on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 373 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Lurker at the threshold: It's scary. Our mover and shaker of the year is the ghost in the governor's mansion. (Feature).(Brief Article)
Author: David Kinney
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Date: January 1, 2002
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Volume: 22
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Quickly master techniques of silk-screen printing for both art prints and textile design. Constructing a printing board and frame, preparing inks or dyes, printing the color runs, working with different resists, more, including special print project for the beginner. Clear explanations and 193 illustrations, including 19 in full color.
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Serigraphy: Silk Screen Techniques for the Artist
Kenneth W. Auvil
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This comprehensive introduction to the use of many rich and flavorful spices--including cardamom, black pepper, ginger, and cinnamon--takes readers beyond usual notions of Indian cooking. When combined with meats, fruits, and vegetables--especially in dry curries and rice dishes--such spices will leave anyone who has enjoyed Indian cuisine with a new appreciation for the unique southern style of cooking. A must-read preface provides a colorful description of the region and a historical overview of the state of Kerala, a center for the spice trade located on the southwest coast. More winning, the chapter features compelling background and autobiographical information about the author, her family, and her roots in Kerala. While the recipes, collected from many trips to the region and time spent in the kitchens of Indian relatives and friends, are full of exotic spices and vegetables, Kaimal offers alternatives to some of the unusual ingredients that may be difficult to find in the typical grocery store. Sourdough Crêpes with Potato Masala, Sweet Green Mango Chutney, Spicy Beef Curry, and even Christmas Cake are just a few samples of the variety. For those interested in traditional Indian cooking, this is both a rich source of history and a thorough introduction to the southern Indian palate. --Teresa Simanton
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"I was nine years old when I first went to Kerala, my father's boyhood home, where the lush tip of India meets the Arabian Sea. I'd heard stories about this place, seen photographs, and even tasted the lively South Indian curries my father cooked in our suburban Boston home. Still, nothing prepared me for how extraordinarily exotic it would seem when I stepped off that Indian Airlines plane ...."
A colorful land of spices and coconut palms, the southern state of Kerala is home to some of the most vibrant and flavorful cooking in all of India. Virtually undiscovered by Americans, its distinctive cuisine is influenced as much by its abundance of fresh ingredients (including fish, lamb, coconut, ginger, green chilies, black pepper, tamarind, and curry leaves) as by its different religious groups (Hindu, Christian, and Muslim) and cultures that make up its population. Now acclaimed cookbook author Maya Kaimal offers a unique culinary journey to Kerala, sharing the authentic recipes passed down by her family and other Keralan cooks.
Vastly different from the familiar North Indian staples of tandoori chicken, fried breads, and thick sauces, the food of Kerala has a lively tropical spirit, revealed in dishes like Tamarind Shrimp, Vegetables in Fragrant Coconut Milk, Batter-Fried Bananas, and the ubiquitous Sourdough Pancakes known as dhosa. Kaimal offers more than one hundred of these flavorful recipes, each carefully adapted for the home kitchen. Chapters on getting started, stocking your pantry, and planning a complete South Indian meal
provide thoughtful explanations of ingredients, seasonings, and techniques, making it easy for home cooks to create the complex layers of flavor that characterize Keralan cuisine.
Enlivened by Kaimal's passion for her father's homeland, and by outstanding four-color photographs, Savoring the Spice Coast of India is more than simply a cookbook. It is a captivating taste of a culture and cuisine to which you will want to return again and again.
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Kerala cuisine, yummy recipes.......2007-07-09
This is the best, most authentic cookbook I've seen for Kerala cuisine. Maya's love for the region and the food really shows. Also, the recipes are very easy to follow. I commend the author on figuring out appropriate quantities, because most Keralites cook with amounts like "some of this" and "some of that" that aren't exactly quantified! Anyway, I recommend this to anyone who enjoys South Indian cuisine. There are both vegetarian and non-veg recipes. The book is not exhaustive, but there are plenty of recipes in many categories of meal courses.
Great cookbook .......2006-08-13
I absolutely love this cookbook. I was shopping around for indian cookbooks and this one interested me because I have not really tried anything from the Kerala region in India. I was pleasantly surprised that the book was so well organized, the pictures are as wonderfully delicious as the recipes. The author begins this book with an introduction to Kerala, and her family. She then gives you a list of ingredients, and spices that you will likely use in her recipes and she even has some websites listed for hardder to find ingredients (i.e. curry leaves). Luckily there is an Indian market near where I live and was able to locate the hard to find curry leaves. I have tried around 9 recipes from this book so far: the chicken kurma, potatoes with cabbage, and even the noodle pudding. All of the recipes won rave reviews. Best of all I now have an excellent Chai recipe, not to sweet not too strong, so i won't be paying the ridiculous $3.80 for it anymore at the coffee shops. I discovered that the recipes once you have a well stocked pantry are easy and inexpensive to make. This is great since i am on a student's budget!
Too much emphasis on appearance;.......2006-02-23
Appearance of the cookbook, not the food to be cooked. I used to have a rule never to buy a cookbook with color pictures in it. I find it hard to take a cookbook seriously if it looks like a travel brochure. This cookbook has that look to me.
But, the content of the cookbook seems just fine. My rule about color photographs has adapted over the years since there are some well written cookbooks with pictures if you search around enough. I've only made one recipe out of this cookbook so far, a spicy beef curry. I like the cookbook, I just wish it was a little less gaudy.
authentic kerala recipes.......2005-12-27
My husband is from Kerala, and, so he tells me, many of the recipes in this book are just like his mother's cooking at home. I have never been to India, and yet the Spice Coast---more so than Kaimal's other book Curried Favors, which I also have---has taught me how to make specialties of Kerala cuisine. When we have friends over for dinner who are likewise from Kerala, I love to see the surprise on their faces when I serve them dishes from this book. They are amazed that an American can cook the same dishes that they enjoy at home!
Also, Kaimal often comments in the intro to each recipe which religious community in Kerala cooks which dish, and her remarks are very useful. Most of the Indians I know come from the Syrian Christian community there, and the recipes which she specifies as being from that community are truly the ones that they grew up eating at home. This book is a must-have for any homesick Keralites out there!
Savor this collection of Keralite recipes.......2005-03-15
Drawing inspiration from her roots, Maya Kaimal shares some of her wonderful recipes. The foreword briefly outlines the history & influences which touched Keralite cuisine. The authors explains setting up the pantry, equipment used, the basics of spices & the processes to create various blends of dry & wet "masalas". Recipes are for both vegetarians & non vegetarians. Having tried out most of the recipes, I enjoyed most of them, - my favourites are the Peppery Chicken Curry & Lamb Vindaloo. Well laid out with a number of color photographs & the author's conversational style makes it an interesting & easy read.
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Kerala: The Spice Coast of India
Raghubir Singh
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- Authentic Kerala recipes!
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Kerala Cooking: A Distinctive Cuisine from India's Spice Coast
Anoo Verghis
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Kerala Cooking .......2007-09-19
Thanks to this cookbook, we have some wonderful dishes that have become family favorites. One of those is the Lime Rice; it is a delicious dish that is as stunning to present to guests (lovely yellow color) as it is eat! Best of all it goes with everything from barbeque meats to grllled vegetables. I have even brought it to church "covered dish" lunch!
The suggested "menus" at the back of the book, such as "vegetarian for beginnners" or "fish & meat for the more adventurous", help take the guess work out of planning a well-balanced menu.
Authentic Kerala recipes!.......2007-09-10
A great cookbook for connoisseurs and novices alike! This book has some very authentic recipes that bring back memories of my childhood in Kerala. I've found recipes in here that I thought I could have only at my mother's house. All the recipes are well laid out and easy to follow.
practical & authentic.......2007-09-01
I am from Kerala, & have found that the dishes come out tasting exactly the way they are supposed to, very practical, most ingredients are easily available. The author has tried to make the recipes as healthy as possible in terms of minimising oil & coconut use which are a major part of Kerala cuisine. Should be a very useful resource for those who are trying to learn how to cook this kind of food.
Kerala Cooking.......2007-08-23
The recipes in this cookbook are easy to read and follow. I especially liked the fact that The ingredients can all be found in the US, and that recipes go from easy to more time consuming. The variety of recipes is very good, and the ones I've tried so far came out delicious.
Indian Cook Book.......2007-08-19
This cook book is more than a cook book. It gives a lot of details about the indian state of Kerala which I found particularly interesting. Being a reluctant cook, I found the recipes easy to follow as the author gives step by step instructions on producing the meals. I also found the nutrition information very useful.
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Museum Strategy and Marketing is the most comprehensive and level-headed presentation of its subject I have come across. The authors are sophisticated marketeers who really understand the differences between market-driven businesses and mission-driven museums. The book is not about selling widgets; it's about building museum audiences and strengthening institutions.
- Robert P. Bergman, director, The Cleveland Museum of Art
In a long-awaited answer of one of museum's most pressing challenges, Neil Kotler and Philip Kotler draw on unmatched expertise and experience to reveal how museums can build revenue, audiences, and resources while maintaining and advancing mission. In this first and only guide to planning strategy and marketing for museums, they offer an in-depth, hands-on guide to developing successful museums. The authors explain the strategic relationship between missions, audience and funding--and how managing this relationship is vital for a successful museum--and reveal how marketing tools can be used to grow healthy, vibrant museums.
The book's encyclopedic approach covers everything museum managers need to know--from strategic planning and budgeting to advertising, media relations, and fundraising--providing them with the tools to create and nurture a thriving museum.
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Curator: Spice Up Your Boring Museum with Kotler!.......2006-02-15
At the intersection of marketing strategy and museum administration, this is an absolutely necessary reading for any serious museum decision-maker. Neil and Philip Kotler are world-class marketing experts, who have been cultivating a parallel interest in non-for-profit organizations since the 1970s. This book is very useful, elaborating on each stage of the development of marketing strategy, with excellent examples and case-studies which provide a practical perspective on marketing tools applied on museums. The book is, at least, very insightful. Highly recommended.
Modern Museum Marketing.......2000-01-28
An up-to-date compendium of marketing analysis and techniques for all flavors of museum. This book includes detailed marketing strategies to find the visitor, determine their wants and meet those desires. All aspects of museum work is presented: fund raising, exhibit development, collection policy, staff development, etc. We have used the guidance of this book to frame future expansion of the Minnesota Transportation Museum in St. Paul, MN.
Includes detailed charts to develop mission statements, arketing plans, interview visitors, develop advertising, perform continuing assessment of the museum.
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Practical, easy-to-read, mathematically accessible - and filled with an abundance of real-life examples - this book explains how to collect data on investment properties, how to use the HP-12C financial calculator to process data, and how to interpret the data to make decisions on buying, selling or keeping an income producing property. The procedures are applicable to any property owned or considered for purchase.
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An excellent workbook!.......2003-06-11
If you are ready to invest, you must also learn how to evalulate a real estate investment from a financial point of view. This book is ideal for that purpose. The author has done an excellent job in coming up with a workbook that will give you plenty of practice. The concepts are explained from a straight forward manner and the calculations are easy to follow. More importantly, it has laid out a lot of the possible expenses that a beginner investor may not be aware of. This is a must read if you want to find out whether or not your investment is actually going to make any money! Happy Investing!
Should be titled, Real Estate Math with the HP-12C.......2002-03-02
A descent book showing the common problems for financing and anylzing properties. Each lesson shows the problem, the variables, an example, and how to do it using the HP-12C calculator (a reverse polish notation RPN style calculator)...since each problem has dedicated steps to this calculator you may find that you don't read most of this book unless you have the calculator. Using a regular calculator you have to figure out the functions on your own. Overall I got limited use from this book, but it does contain most of what you would need for analyzing investments.
At last! A Practical Guide to Property Investment........2000-04-06
All too often, books on the "practical aspects" of real estate investment in income producing properties are nothing more than expositions of simple and often useless concepts. In this book, Mr. Tompos shows that he understands the value of using "real-life" situations..actual case studies. He deftly shows the reader how to use an inexpensive and portable hand-held calculator... to make all of the critical calculations needed to evaluate an investment property. I am a professor of finance and would recommend this book to any of my students who want to know the "how to" side rather than the "theoretical" side of the real estate investment process. A must read for all who claim an interest in understanding how to analyze investment properties.
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Analyzing Real Estate Decisions Using Lotus 1-2-3
Austin J. Jaffe
Manufacturer: Reston Pub Co
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Real Numbers: Analyzing Income Properties for a Profitable Investment
Joseph T. Sinclair
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The first book to focus specifically on the mathematics of valuing investment real estate, Real Numbers gives you the skills needed to determine precisely what a property should return.
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good overall treatment.......2000-06-01
A good treatment of the re financing process. Geared more for the investor than the individual home buyer, the line-by-line analysis offers valuable detail on the facts behind the numbers and builds the actual calculations nicely.
While I have some philisophical differences about some few details of the valuations the author proposes, I found it a useful counterpoint and good check-list for investing.
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