David, We're Pregnant!: 101 Cartoons for Expecting Parents

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David, We're Pregnant!: 101 Cartoons for Expecting Parents
Lynn Franks Johnston
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UUUG36

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David, We're Pregnant!: 101 Cartoons for Expecting Parents
Lynn Johnston
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook Press
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When National Geographic sent Charles O'Rear to photograph a little-known region of Napa Valley for a book about rural America, he was immediately enthralled by the area's natural beauty and vibrant tradition of winemaking. He soon made the valley his home and in the twenty-three years since, he has watched it grow from an obscure, secluded hollow in the California landscape to an internationally recognized food and wine destination. O'Rear has accumulated thousands of photographs of his idyllic environs, the best of which are brought together in this awe-inspiring volume. Each photo exhibits an artistry and grandeur imbued with the familiarity and immediacy that can only be gleaned by a Napa Valley local. From the people who grow the grapes and create the wines to the variety of winery architecture and unrivaled vistas that distinguish the land, NAPA VALLEY offers a personal and stunning look at the places, people, and events that have shaped this now-famous region. Without a doubt, O'Rear's collection is the most original and comprehensive treasury ever assembled on Napa Valley.

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Captures the essential qualities of the Valley.......2005-10-12

I have been visiting the Napa Valley for 10 years now and this excellent book captures the Napa Valley extremely well. The photography is up to the high standard set by National Geographic phtotograpers. Highly recommended from someone who does know the Napa Valley.

Great book for anyone wanting to retire a gentleman farmer........2003-04-16

This is a great book. It details the Napa Valley and the families in a great photographic format. I was completely fascinated by the imagery and the passion that they conveyed about wine making. Mr.O'Rear is a skilled photograher teller that weaves a silent story about the lives and art of wine making into one great book.

One of my desires is, after I retire from futures trading, is to own a vineyard. Mr.O'Rear has written a book that has convinced me that is what I should do.

Almost as good as being there!.......2001-05-31

Stunning imagery of the Napa region and the people behind the industry. O'Rear shows the reader the real Napa, and his breathtaking pictures do justice to this terrific region. The centerfold is a four-page foldout of the ornate wooden gates of each winery in the region; both clever and masterful at once. O'Rear shows Napa as only a true insider can. This is the one to buy and will impress anyone who opens it. A must for the true wine lover!

Napa, Napa, Napa, wine, wine, wine!.......2001-05-20

Napa: yep, that's it. The area just breathes the atmosphere of old times as can be found in the south of France.. but now in today's California, just north of San Francisco. And this book captures it all. The only thing *missing* from the book is the actual taste of the wine.

Once you've been there (either by car, or the famous Napa valley wine express) and you have seen and tasted this beautiful area, you will love the book as a souvenir. The quality of the prints is overwhelming - ranging from super-macro closups of cobalt blue grapes till wide, outstretching landscaping views.

And the book puts a face to the labels of your favourite wine. All the labels are listed, together with the matching winery's door, and some of the most famous Napa valley characters. Looking at these beautifully lighted out characteristic faces will give you an impression of the world behind the wine you are drinking.

WARNING: don't read this book if you are out of wine. You'll get too thirsty to resist.

Now let's wait for the video, Chuck! And the poster with the foldable airplane-ready frame.

Napa Valley Land Wine People.......2001-05-18

This is an excellent book. I recommend it to all wine enthusiasts.

Napa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People & The Colour of Wine: Photographs From the Vineyards of Marlborough, New Zealand. (Books).(The Colour of Wine: ... review): An article from: Wines & Vines

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Napa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People & The Colour of Wine: Photographs From the Vineyards of Marlborough, New Zealand. (Books).(The Colour of Wine: ... review): An article from: Wines & Vines
Lucie Morton
Manufacturer: Hiaring Company
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0008EZU76
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Wines & Vines, published by Hiaring Company on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 493 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: Napa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People & The Colour of Wine: Photographs From the Vineyards of Marlborough, New Zealand. (Books).(The Colour of Wine: Photographs from the Vineyards of Marlborough, New Zealand by Kevin Judd) (book review)
Author: Lucie Morton
Publication: Wines & Vines (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Hiaring Company
Volume: 83 Issue: 5 Page: 3(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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I have no catchy title.......2006-07-11

Although not drawn by elfquests original artist this is undoubtably one of the best non wendy books.Theres no way to sum up all the great moments of the shards war.You sit through the agonizing loss of characters you have never met yet seem to know like your best friends and you cheer along with the rebellion and final victors.The story sucks you in and you find yourself crying laughing and not being ashamed of it.
So...A awesome book but not to be read in the company of strangers.
They may give you funny looks.

Great Read, Despite Poor Paperback Edition.......2002-01-30

I'm a big fan of all the original Elfquest graphic novels, and while this one is far from being one of the best, it's still an excellent read. Reprinted from the second half of the "Shards" series, with excellent writing from Wendy and Richard Pini, this follows the wolfriders final ascent to restore the palace and stop Winnowill once and for all. The art, while not even close to Wendy Pini's abilities, is done particularly well by Brandon McKinney. Most notable though is the art done by Wendy who returns for the last 3 chapters of this book. The most interesting aspect is the final chapter of the book which is done in a storybook form instead of the regular comic form. The only real downside is this is one of the tortured victims of the xeroxed in black and white from the orginal color comic books (with the exception of the last few chapters which were originally published in black and while), which is unfortunate cause it deserves much better.

Trash........2000-07-25

Before I begin my tirade on this disappointing addition to the Elfquest series, I would like to aquatint the reader with my past experience with Elfquest. I first discovered Elfquest when I was eight and from that encounter I learned to read well and not only that, to love reading. Ten years later I'm again interested in the series. I reread the first four books and was happily surprised that the sentimental power of Elfquest had not faded; collectively, these books are unequalled in their ability to attach the reader to the characters. However, the quality of the artwork has declined sharply since Quest's End and the narrative has suffered a similar depreciation. Don't get me wrong, I thought all the books up to Reunion were pretty good, if not at Elfquest's peak. Unfortunately, Reunion is trash. The drama begins with an interesting plot (the palace is destroyed, Rayek's duel with Cutter, etc.) but is rapidly reduced to embarrassingly trite and unoriginal characterization and story line. For example, the human girl Joan of Arc character is utterly ridiculous not to mention terribly contrived....right, this girl organizes a revolt, saves the Elves, and becomes a warrior within the course of two nights. To make it worse, the cliché of the evil warlord is repeated yet again: Evil Warlord's repressive policies incite revolt giving the heroes the time to sneak into the enemy compound and save the day. Trash. I can't understand how the gifted artist who produced Quest's End could stand to let this be printed.

If you want to read this book despite these glaring flaws, plop down in a bookstore and read it there (like I did) and save your money. With this, much of the very rich tradition of Elfquest is squandered.

A walk through grief, toward joy.......1999-08-21

"Reunion", volume 12a in the Reader's Collection and the sequel to "Ascent", features the heartrending conclusion to the story of the elves' quest to reclaim the Palace of the High Ones from Winnowill and her partner, the warlord Grohmul Djun.

The story in these episodes is the most sobering and poignant yet seen in the Elfquest series - and, ultimately, the most uplifting. Surprisingly, the suspense does not come from wondering whether the elves will survive their attack on the Djun's fortress. Rather, the story revolves around how the heroes react to the deaths of two of their own (just in the first three chapters!), and whether their quest is worth so much suffering. The sobering death-scenes early in the story serve only to heighten the effect of the climax, to make it much more meaningful. Many, indeed most, Elfquest stories have been as memorable, but none have been as moving as this one.

Although this book is not in color, a note on the production is in order. The artwork, which had been rendered in color originally, reverted to black-and-white beginning with the fourth chapter of this book; for budget reasons WaRP Graphics gave up color production in September 1995, the year the American comic-book market tanked. Understandably, some of the BW chapters look sketchy, since these were to have been colored-in originally. The last chapter, though, was drawn entirely by Wendy Pini, and is a visual treat, nothing new for her! (It also served as a preview for the artistic style she would show in the "Dreamtime" series, now published as Book 8a in the Reader's Collection.)

Despite the production troubles I have mentioned, this is a most memorable tale and a fitting capstone on this series. (Moreover, the Pinis are currently working on the _sequel_ to this story - stay tuned!)

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"Richard Roud has brought to life a man as picturesque and as contradictory as a Dickens character... Thanks to Roud... a thick and well-kept-up curtain of mystery rises to reveal to us the founder of the Cinémathèque Française, a man who was both unassuming and extravagant, a fabulous man, an obsessed man, and man animated by an idée fixe, a haunted man." -- François Truffaut, from the Foreword

When Henri Langlois began collecting prints of films in the 1920s, most people -- even many in the film industry -- thought of movies as a cheap and disposable form of entertainment. Langlois recognized them as a priceless form of art and worthy of preservation. In 1935, he founded the Cinémathèque Française, the legendary film library and screening room in Paris which Jean Renoir described as "the church for movies" and Bernardo Bertolucci called "the best school of cinema in the world." Indeed, some of the world's most influential filmmakers -- including Godard, Resnais, Truffaut, Rivette, and Wenders -- learned their craft by watching the classic films Langlois devoted his life to saving from destruction and obscurity.

As Richard Roud reveals in this "affectionate, intriguing biography" (Times Literary Supplement), Langlois was a brilliant and temperamental man who could be, by turns, charming and maddening. Marvelously creative, Langlois was also so incredibly disorganized that, once the Cinémathèque became a government institution, he was dismissed as its director in 1968 by then Minister of Culture André Malraux, an action which caused Europe's eminent film personalities to protest in the street of Paris until he was reinstated. By the time of his death in 1977, Langlois's genius for rediscovering the cinema of the past (he championed the works of Abel Gance, Carl Dreyer, and Louis Feuillade when they were considered passé by his contemporaries and defended Howard Hawks against the disdain of American intellectuals) and his desire to share his discoveries with the world (at a time when other film archives refused to screen any of the films in their collection) had inspired a great and abiding love of cinema in a generation of filmgoers, leaving behind a legacy director Nicholas Ray considered "perhaps the most important individual effort ever accomplished in the history of the cinema."

A Passion for Films. Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise.

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A Passion for Films. Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise.
Richard Roud
Manufacturer: Viking
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I316D4

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A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise.
Henri]. Roud, Richard. [LANGLOIS
Manufacturer: NY: Viking
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UFYCRW

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A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise.
Richard ROUD
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ASIN: 0436428318

A PASSION FOR FILMS: HENRI LANGLOIS AND THE CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE. Foreword by Francois Truffaut.

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A PASSION FOR FILMS: HENRI LANGLOIS AND THE CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE. Foreword by Francois Truffaut.
Richard. Roud
Manufacturer: Viking,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NI8UVU

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John Blacking is widely recognized for his theoretical works How Musical Is Man? and The Anthropology of the Body. This series of essays and articles on the music of the Venda people of the northern Transvaal in South Africa constitutes his major scholarly legacy.

Venda Children's Songs presents a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda. Among its many original contributions is the identifying of the role of melody in generating rhythm, something that distinguishes this form of music from that of Venda adults as well as from other genres of African music in general.

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Great Information; not an easy read........2006-11-15

There is really no other place you can get this detailed and authentic information about the music of the Venda people. This book is extremely detailed in an analytical, scientific way, but it is compiled by an expert in the field who actually lived in Vendaland for 22 or so months and documented many of the childrens' songs and ritual music of these people in the sixties. The best part of the book is the musical transcriptions and translations of the songs themselves. Useful for anyone wanting information and notation for authentic South African music.

VENDA CHILDREN'S SONGS A STUDY IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

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VENDA CHILDREN'S SONGS A STUDY IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
JOhn Blacking
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOQWNQ

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Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
John Blacking
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOS0MM

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Get smart with two tremendous workouts that really train the brain to think sharp.
With detectives such as Sherlock Holmes offering a cool series of puzzles, it's no mystery why these whodunits require strong powers of deduction. Join sleuth Thomas P. Stanwick as he examines "The Case of the Dubious Drowning," and Inspector Forsooth as he goes on "A Trail of Two Cities." By the time you're done, you'll know what kind of detective you truly are.
Are you an Einstein in the making? Find out, with a series of super-tricky brainteasers, science puzzles, and word games. Go through the "Fabric-ation" grid crossing out every word that names a fabric; use the remaining letters to find the answer to a joke. Do crosswords, crack coded riddles, untangle anagrams, and find lots more to challenge your sleuthing savvy.

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Great text on many levels.

Good idea, but fall short on quality.

Good book for a quick, concise overview of the biotech industry

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Building Blocks

Building Biotechnology: Starting, Managing, and Understanding Biotechnology Companies - Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Investing, Science, Patents and Regulations
Yali Friedman
Manufacturer: Thinkbiotech
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Binding: Hardcover

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Building Biotechnology helps readers start and manage biotechnology companies and understand the business of biotechnology. This acclaimed book describes the convergence of scientific, political, regulatory, and commercial factors that define the scope of biotechnology. In addition to its popularity among business professionals and scientists seeking to apply their skills to biotechnology, Building Biotechnology has also been adopted as a course text in more than fifteen advanced biotechnology programs including MBA programs at UC Irvine, Tepper, and Schulich; the Johns Hopkins biotechnology MS/MBA program; and extension programs at Berkeley and UC San Francisco. This second edition significantly expands upon the foundation laid by the first, updating case law and business models in this dynamic industry and adding significantly more case studies, informative figures and tables.

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Great text on many levels........2007-06-13

I have always been interested in the link between a good idea and successful business. This well written text supplies readers with a great overview of biotech, as well as nicely focused examples of the history of the field.
I spent a nice Saturday on the beach reading this book not knowing exactly what to expect. I received an easy to follow enjoyable read that was informative. I ended up reading the entire book twice as well as a number of select chapters numerous times. Each time a picked up the book I got something new out of it.
I would strongly recommend this for any Biotech professional as well as interested MBA students/professionals. It pulls together nicely a number of very important parts to creating a successful start up company (biotech included)
As a scientist my ungood grammar and lack of a more creative summary don't do this outstanding book justice. Worth every penny of $60.

Good idea, but fall short on quality........2007-03-09

There are numerous typos, probably one every chapter. The idea behind this book is great, however the author has a very difficult way of explaining the concepts leaving you reading and re-reading sentences over and over again. There needs to be more depth, and a professional review to correct grammer, typo's, and perhaps write more coherently.

The book is good, I would own it, but it really needs major improvments.

Good book for a quick, concise overview of the biotech industry.......2006-10-21

I bought this book for a biotech project management class aside from the required books for the course and found it more helpful than any of the required books (not on project management, but as far as understanding the biotech industry). It provides a very good overview of the biotechnology industry that would be helpful for almost anyone touching this field - investors, professionals considering working in the field, patients considering a new drug therapy or participating in a clinical trial, doctors... I would recommend this book as an excellent first read to get the "lay of the land" followed up by more in-depth research in areas you need/want to know more about. By the way, my whole team ended up using the book to help them each prepare their part of our final project, which was a product development plan that took a novel cancer drug from phase 1 through commercialization. Thus you can see the scope of the book is quite broad and yet direct, the book is only 200 pages plus several useful Appendices (e.g. one is on careers in biotech and another provides and index of websites for different biotech areas).

Book Quality.......2006-08-31

This is in response to the review stating that a book was bound upside down. I would like inform everyone that this was an isolated printer error and in no way reflects the Publishers attention to detail or concerns for quality. Occasionally a make-ready (set-up) copy slips though which is the likely scenario in this case. We (the printer) take full responsibility for any inconvenience or skewed review.

Building Blocks.......2006-08-30

Yali's book is really an excellent starting point for many people interested in knowing the basics of the biotech world. This includes an increasingly broad number of people. First, I highly recommend this book for MBA students interested in careers in biotech and healthcare. Second, this book should be bought by every medical school and bioag research university and given to every new faculty member. Why in 2006 do we still find faculty members who have no clue about the technology commercialization process which has allowed their field to expand into a muli-billion dollar industry. Perhaps every bio grad student should be given a copy. The book covers much ground, sometimes quickly. If you are into the field, the book could have been longer and more detailed, but its emphasis is clearly introductory. The case examples are great learning tools and a bit of history for the industry. Learning from the successes and failures of others is not new, but perhaps the next version will include more historical perspective on the boom and bust in the industry. The cycles of mergers and acquisitions, public financing windows, and valuation fluctuations could be of increased value.
Overall this book is highly accessible and an enjoyable read. Go to the Glossary and see how many of the words you can accurately define. Yali keeps the amalgam of topics together through concise writing and useful case examples.

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