The United States Early Silver Dollars 1794 to 1803

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Not worh the 'new' price!.......2005-05-18

This book is full of errors. That said, it does have a lot of information and I appreciate its narrow focus. Find a nice used copy for $5-$10 and you'll probably be satisfied -- pay $38 and you'll go ballistic!

The United States early silver dollars from 1794 to 1803

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The United States early silver dollars from 1794 to 1803
M. H Bolender
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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The United States Early Silver Dollars 1794-1803

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The United States Early Silver Dollars 1794-1803
Jules Reiver
Manufacturer: Krause
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H2652S

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The adventures of private invetigator Jessica Jones continue in ALIAS VOLUME II with two new cases: In "Rebecca, Come Home" Jessica travels to upstate New York to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl rumored to be a mutant in a prejudiced small town. In "It's Raining Men," Jessica goes on a date with... Ant-Man?

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

More of the meltdown of Jessica Jones. This is definitely more of your Sex and the City type tale. Neurotic, messed up, needy, can't relate to anyone, and her super hero wannabe days are over. Are things spiralling out of control for the ex-Avenger? This is more of what happens in this book.

Flawless.......2005-02-27

It is true tht Jessica Jones works best when she's in New York city; but even so, Bendis understands Jessica Jones so thoroughly, an she, herself, is such a compelling character that this is a non-issue.

This is a fairly short volume. Incidentally, there's an issue missing between the last trade paperback and this one. It's a stand-alone issue, and it has no effect on this issue. If this is an issue, I reccomend purchasing volumes two and three at the same time, as Alias #10 is the first issue in the "Underneath" trade paperback.

The artwork, of course, is as wonderful as ever. Gaydos' caracters, facial expressions, backgrounds, and inks are very perfectly suited to this book, and the coloring is great, as well.

Not the best of the series, but still great stuff.......2003-07-31

This volume, containing Alias issues 11-15, takes Jessica out of NYC and to a small town, in search of a runaway who may or may not be a mutant. It isn't about the mystery, though, so much as an opportunity for Bendis to explore Jessica's personality in a new environment. Throughout, we get glimpses of the runaway's journals, which have been lavishly illustrated by David Mack, and development of Jessica's potential boyfriend, Scott Lang (the second Ant-Man).
These aren't the best issues of Alias, or Bendis' best work, but they're still far better than most comics out there.

Small Town Detective Tale.......2003-03-11

My friend tried to explain to me the tenets of deconstruction. The best I could get my head around it was using the theme of American Beauty, "look deeper". In this story Bendis takes small town America and puts it under the microscope revealing the ugliness inside. This is not a heartwarming story to give to the kids, but it is quite good.

Jessica Jones, former super hero turned private detective, is hired to investigate the disappearance of a 16 year old girl. The mother suspects the father harbored impure thoughts and is the culprit. Other suspects include her high school classmates or the always pleasant hate crime. What appears to be an easy case takes a quick turn to the messy by the end.

Fans of Bendis' work on Powers will like this story. Also the art features the unique style of main artist Michael Gaydos and contributions by David Mack and Mark Bagley. Alias "Come Home" is a tightly written and well executed detective story told in the back alleys of the Marvel Universe.

Small Town Detective Tale.......2003-03-11

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Fools,he must be a Yankee fan!

A sad attempt. Poorly written.

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Yankees Suck! The Unofficial Guide for Fans Who Hate, Despise, Loath, and Detest Those Bums From the Bronx
Jim Gerard
Manufacturer: Chamberlain Bros.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1596090421

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Do pinstripes get you peeved? Do you wish the "House That Ruth Built" would get condemned? Are you convinced that George Steinbrenner is in league with Lucifer? Then this is the book for you! Let's face it, Yankees-haters have two favorite teams: their team, and whatever team is playing against the Yankees that day. Now, the Bronx Bomber bashers have their own handbook that shows how anyone, anywhere, of any age, can hate the Yankees like a pro in no time! Full of fun facts and anecdotes from around the league-as well as helpful, easy-to-follow rituals, chants, and keys to helping every non-Yankee fan focus their rage, disappointment, and burning jealousy from opening day right up until the Yanks walk away with yet another completely undeserved World Series Championship!

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Fools,he must be a Yankee fan!.......2007-06-21

I read this little tomette and thoroughly enjoyed its content, despite the somewhat disjointed manner in which it was written.The in depth knowledge of the inner workings of Yankeedom displayed, cut far deeper than the typical mudslinging rot engaged in by Yankee -haters.There is no way that a Yankee hater would be up to snuff on the Ed Whitson Phantom Gastroenteritis due to his Yankee stadium phobia, or the homophobic attack against the dugout assistant by Mariano Rivera et al, which were almost invisible in the main stream media.Only a a yankee fan would be so embarrassed and outraged by Mariano`s, all too human foibles and dumbstruck by the Whitson meltdown, as I surely will never forget!No, folks,you all missed it!This author wrote this as a paragon for the Yankee hater, but from the perspective of a Yankee fan, clearly with some glossal mucosa wedged in cheek!Now, go back and re-read this, knowing that the author is a yankee fan and then review the book.You`ll be amazed how much more intelligent of a read it makes when you pursue it without the reflex revenge of your own pro-yankeee prejudice.In other words, many of you hated the book, simply because you assumed the author was a yankee hater.How foolish of you and how perceptive of me!

A sad attempt. Poorly written........2006-06-02

It is too disorganized to keep your attention for very long. But that doesn't matter. You can read this very quickly with half your brain. Steinbrenner is a felon. Aside from that he is just like many of the owners: a greedy grasping swine with very little knowledge of baseball. He's just better at it (& richer). Very little in this book that will make a Yankee hater feel better.
However, every year that the Yankees don't win the World Series is good for baseball. When the playoffs, pennant & the World Series are not brought (See the Mets this year) or won by the teams with the highest payrolls, that is good for baseball. Go parity! I paid $0.01 (plus S&H) for my copy. That's about right.

There's a Better Book on this Topic.......2006-02-10

If you want to read a more intelligent take on this increasingly popular topic, take look at "Why I Hate the Yankees" by O'Connell and Pahigian. These guys, who also wrote "The Ultimate Baseball Roadtrip," are much more insightful and infinitely funnier.

Low-brow entertainment.......2005-12-31

"Yankees Suck" is a quick read that requires no brain power, and unfortunately very little brain power was used by the author either. The text is rambling and disorganized, and instead of any kind of summation, the book simply winds down to nothing. If you're a die-hard Red Sox fan you might find this book mildly amusing.

WOW.......2005-12-24

There's www.keepmanny.com and now there is www.wheresJonny.com

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Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays.In the figure of the alien, Loughlin finds a metaphor for that which is both most feared and desired: the body and its cravings. Secular culture follows St Augustine in thinking sex an alien force within the body. But the ancient church also found in sex the presence of a yet stranger desire that secularity forgets: the divine eros that is always other to us even as it draws us into its embrace. In God we find that which is both infinitely alien and intimate to ourselves.Alien Sex explores the Christian tradition of 'sacred eroticism' - from Gregory of Nyssa to Hans Urs von Balthasar. Through a close reading of such films as The Devils, Breaking the Waves and Derek Jarman 's The Garden, Loughlin shows how Christianity calls us to view sexuality from the perspective of heaven, not in order to escape the body but to encounter it more intensively. Through desire of the body we regain paradise.

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This book provides all the guidelines to play as a declarer, the reasoning behind them, and explains when you should not follow the rules. By assuming only a minimum of knowledge, the authors have brought the subject within the reach of many players, and introduce the beginner gradually by placing the slightly trickier topics towards the end of the book.

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Golden Rules of Declarer Play
Julian Pottage; Smith Pottage
Manufacturer: Cassell P L C
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MC4HBO

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On Cooking is a celebration of the culinary arts that will benefit anyone considering cooking as a profession, as well as serious amateur cooks who want to improve their skills--particularly in butchering and charcuterie. Wolfgang Puck, Mark Miller, and Alfred Portale are just 3 of the 30 chefs who share with us their combined wisdom and know-how.

This mighty encyclopedia covers a wealth of subjects, including nutrition, food safety, and standardizing a recipe. The book does assume a fair amount of culinary knowledge and expertise when it comes to proper textures, cooking times, and accurately judging "doneness." There are recipes for more than 700 dishes, including classics such as Turnedos Rossini and Crabcakes Benedict--as well as the basics for making great sauces, stocks, soups, pastry, and so forth. New-style cooking also features prominently, with a delicious recipe for Duck Prosciutto with Fresh Mango being a fine example. On Cooking: Techniques from Expert Chefs is quite an achievement.

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Excellent resource.......2006-06-02

On Cooking is an excellent resource for basic and mid level food knowledge. Besides recipes, On Cooking provides insights into food safety, nutrition, menu planning, history, knife skills and many other basics. On Cooking also contains many useful and tasty recipes to reinforce the skills presented in the book. On Cooking is an excellent "general" cookbook containing everything from salad dressings to desert. You should note that if you are a student and this is a required text, there are 2 versions of On Cooking under each edition. One being the complete version sold to institutions and another (probably available on Amazon) with a couple chapters removed and having a green cover instead of white. I'm not sure why this is done but you should know what your getting when you but it.

On Cooking.......2006-03-09

Excellant how to text. Covers all cooking methods and foods. We used it as a text in Intro to Culanary Arts at the local Vocational School.
I will use it forever as a reference.

Culinary Arts........2004-12-04

One of the many neat features of studying at Cornell University is that, even if you're not enrolled in its famous School of Hotel Administration, you can attend one of the cooking and wine tasting classes organized especially for non-Hotel School students, and get at least a flavor of the five star culinary instruction provided by the chefs teaching at that school. (That is, you can do so if you're willing to get up an extra hour or two early on the morning of non-Hotel School student enrollment, and if you're lucky enough to beat the crowds or at least slip in as a substitute participant.) In addition to numerous recipes and pieces of valuable advice, information and memories - particularly of the last night, on which we had to put together a four-course meal, fine dining style, complete with menu, garnishments and perfectly laid table - Cornell's "cooking class" has enriched my kitchen by two items I have since found it very hard to do without: A professional grade chef's knife, and Sarah Labensky's and Alan Hause's "On Cooking," which we used as our textbook.

Much more than that, however, "On Cooking" is in fact a near-complete reference on everything related to the culinary arts, from the history of cooking to new foods developed in the 20th century, from sanitation and safety to nutritional values, from recipe writing to menu composition, from knifes and other pieces of equipment to edible kitchen staples, from the principles of cooking to various techniques and food presentation - and of course, on every conceivable kind of food, from coffee, tea, spices and condiments to dairy products, stocks, sauces, soups, red and white meats, charcuterie, fish and shellfish, eggs, vegetables, potatoes, grains, pasta, salads, fruits, sandwiches, hors d'oeuvres, canapes, breads, pies, pastries, cookies, cakes, custards, creams and frozen desserts. Along the way, numerous tables, diagrams and pictures illustrate and exemplify the given information, making it easy to digest and memorize. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and recommendations for further reading, and a detailed glossary of essential culinary terms.

Recipes are chosen to match individual chapters, and provide both a practical application and a more profound understanding of the respective chapters' subject matter. They include everything from American and international classics (assorted muffins, scrambled eggs and eggs benedict, focaccia, club, Reuben and other sandwiches, minestrone, French onion soup, gazpacho, New England clam chowder, Cesar, Roquefort, Thousand Islands and other dressings, various mayonnaises, coleslaw, cobb salad, Asian chicken salad, salade Nicoise, potato salad, Thai noodle salad, spanakopitta, grilled portabella mushrooms, carpaccio, lemon curd, hummus, various salsas, guacamole, pesto, hollandaise, bolognese, barbecue, bordelaise, bearnaise, Madeira, mornay, tartar, bechamel and other sauces, various stocks, broths and consommes, polenta, various kebabs, pilafs and risottos, paella, falafel, quiche lorraine, pizza, cannoli alla siciliana, macaroni and cheese, fettuccine Alfredo, clams casino, gravlax, oysters Rockefeller, fillet of sole bonne femme, matzo balls, duck confit, chorizo, chicken cacciatore, coq au vin, chicken curry, pico de gallo, chicken and veal fricassees, osso buco, chili con carne, Swedish meatballs, assorted burgers, meatloaf, T-bone, pepper and other steaks, cassoulet, chateaubriand, tournedos Rossini, beef Stroganoff, entrecote bordelaise, boeuf bourguignon, Hungarian goulash, ratatouille, baked beans, spaetzle, gnocchi, hush puppies, roesti potatoes, gratin dauphinois, baked potatoes, crepes, applesauce, New York cheesecake, sabayon, frangipane, assorted pies, tarts and tortes, various meringues and sorbets, creme brulee, chocolate mousse, chocolate angel food cake, sponge cake, brownies, ladyfingers, Madeleines, toll house cookies, gingerbread cookies, buche de noel, and spiced cider) to more unusual dishes such as:

Chilled cherry soup
Perfumed shrimp consomme
Beet vinaigrette
Shallot curry oil
Walnut pesto
Nopal cactus salsa
Pink peppercorn beurre blanc
Crayfish butter
Zucchini bread
Potato cheddar cheese bread
Salmon and sea bass terrine with spinach and basil
Salmon croquettes
Grilled red snapper burger with mango ketchup
Tex-Mex turkey sausage
Sauted pork medallions with red pepper and citrus
Marinated loin of venison roasted with mustard
Roast pheasant with cognac and apples
Stuffed wontons with apricot sauce
Wild rice and cranberry stuffing
Goat cheese ravioli in herbed cream sauce
Spicy sweet potato and chestnut gratin
Grits and cheddar souffle
Potato-ginger puree
Cilantro puree
Grilled seckel pear with sherry bacon vinaigrette
Balsamic raspberries
Figs with berries and honey mousse
Kirsch mousse
Pistachio citrus cheesecake
Chocolate flourless cake
English muffin loaves
Oatmeal stout ice cream
Quince jam

At 1100+ pages a veritable brick, despite its size "On Cooking" has become as much a key part of my kitchen as my chef's knife, my tea infusers, and various other pieces of equipment. I don't harbor any intentions of becoming a professional chef (nor any aspirations to even remotely that level of culinary skills), but I love to cook, and this is one of the cookbooks I'd be least likely to part with - ever.

"Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen." - Robert Burton, British author (1621).

For future chefs and instructors.......2004-09-25

I use this book as a guide in my cooking school. This is a book with a professional focus, not for the home cook. Most of the recipes are made in large quantities. Great for chefs, culinary arts students, caterers or anyone running a food operation looking for excellent reference and techniques.

1 Word Wow!.......2004-08-09

Amazing, insightful book, a culinary bible I hold dear to me at school. A Must have for future chefs and home cooks. Five Stars.

On Cooking: Techniques From Expert Chefs, Trade Version (3rd Edition)

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On Cooking: Techniques From Expert Chefs, Trade Version (3rd Edition)
Sarah R. Labensky; Alan M. Hause; Sarah Labensky; Steve Labensky
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHZ1N0

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