Ultimate Hotel Design

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This sumptuously illustrated, beautifully produced book takes the reader on a visual tour of more than sixty of the world's most outstanding hotels. Divided equally among metropolitan and resort hotels in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East and packed with hundreds of color photographs, Ultimate Hotels is a must-have for anyone interested in distinctive style, service, and design in accommodations.

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An Excellent Addition to Your Library!.......2005-02-13

This book offers a serious, well-informed, insider view of the hotels currently at the avant-garde of interior designing. Many of the properties illustrated represent "la creme de la creme" of the hotel industry in the past decade; and least to say are well worth staying at.

I would particularly recommend this fascinating book to the experienced traveler who takes pride in indulging him or herself in an ambience of exclusiveness and inspiration. A must have!

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Brilliant & Captivating Seaforms That Soothe The Soul.......2006-01-24

In Chihuly Seaforms, Artforum art critic Joan Seeman Robinson discusses Dale Chihuly's most exquisite and ethereal series, invoking the spontaneous automatic drawings of the Surrealists, the water lilies of Claude Monet, the action painting of Jackson Pollock, and, most cogently, Henri Matisse's Swimming Pool. Oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle, former Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finds in Chihuly's evocative Seaforms not only "reflections of skill, passion, teamwork and sheer genius" but also "tributes" to the sea. Together these writers help to illuminate what many consider Chihuly's quintessential series, which was begun in 1980. The saturated color of the 40 full-color pages, including many double-page spreads, conveys the sensuousness of Chihuly's work.
Hardcover 7 1/4" x 9 1/4"
112 pages, 44 color reproductions

Glass magician.......2005-10-31

I have admired Chihuly's work for many years and finally got to see his work up close and personal. Nothing beats that experience, but having this book to glance through -- with a great cup of tea or glass of wine -- is a very special treat.

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SEAFORMS
Dale Chihuly
Manufacturer: Portland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QAV20G

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Great Book.......1999-01-11

If you're a new photographer and you need to know when/how to add color into your photographs, this is the book for your. Tons of pictures, how the pictures were taken, and why the picture is so nice. Written in languag a beginner will undstand, but transforms your photography into something great!

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Clamshelled package includes a 4 inch PVC figure of Beetle Bailey with a 5` x 8`, 128 page, black & white collection of strips featuring him!

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What can you say.........2002-07-02

about Beetle Bailey. Having read the comic strip for decades it is like revisiting an old friend. A newer generation will enjoy it too!

PRIVATE BEETLE BAILEY REPORTING FOR WORK, SIR!.......2001-03-13

This book is truly a work of brilliant satire. The world's laziest comic private has one laughing yet again. As funny as this work is, the "Taps for Sarge" section is moving. "Beetle Bailey" without Sarge is like computers without the Internet or TV without cable. A vital element is missing.

This book takes you through a full range of emotions, from bittersweet sadness for the irate, yet lovable Sarge to rolling with laughter at the irrepressible private.

It's time to report to work, Sarge!

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"My first meal in France, in a hushed and formerly elegant dining car, was a revelation. The menu was absurdly simple; there was a choice of an omelette aux fines herbes or a sandwich jambon beurre. I chose the omelette and was delighted by the flavors of chives, tarragon and chervil mingling in the creamy lightness of the eggs, all so new to me. If the food in France was so good even in a train, I thought I might have a happy life here after all."

In 1947, as Paris recovers from the war, young Colette returns to the city of her birth after eight years spent among warmhearted Egyptian relatives in Cairo. Initially Paris seems gray and forbidding to the young Colette, especially after her mother abandons her to the disinterested care of her stern grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Her transformation from "l'Egyptienne" to "la Parisienne" begins when she is taken under the wing of the family cook, Georgette, who introduces Colette to the city's markets and inspires a love and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates to and from her lycée -- occasionally skipping class altogether, thus beginning a decades-long habit of making room for adventure in an otherwise disciplined life. Colette is sixteen when her mother returns with a new husband, and although initially suspicious of the round man with the twinkling eyes, she soon realizes she has a soul mate in Almire Ducreux, her new stepfather. Mira introduces Colette to her first truffle and her gastronomical self. He will also be the only one to support her when she falls in love and runs away with a young American, scandalizing her proper French family.

With Return to Paris, Colette Rossant proves herself the true heir of M. F. K. Fisher. In clear, understated prose she writes of a life lived and enjoyed passionately. Memories and family stories segue gracefully into descriptions of great meals and recipes. This is food writing at its finest.s

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Not nearly as good as Memories of a Lost Egypt.......2007-09-16

In Return to Paris, which covers her teen and early adult years (after she left Cairo permanently), Collette Rossant constantly showed an air of superiority toward others. When she married an American, this trait became even more evident. She was rude to the American Army wives and spent her time alone rather than mingle with them. When she and her husband moved to New York, she acted the same way toward her mother-in-law. While living with her mother-in-law, she wasn't gracious enough to hide her dislike of the food she was served, sometimes refusing to eat it. Yes, a lot of American food was convenience oriented in the 1950s, but there were plenty of good home cooks. CR was from a family who had full-time cooks, and she was a food snob.

Her attitude made me not like her and not feel sympathy for the poor little rich girl. I will not buy or read any more of her books.

A wonderful conclusion to a gastronomic adventure.......2003-08-08

I read this book trying to forget about the stiffling heat we're experiencing in Europe in one day. As wonderful as the first book is (Apricots on the Nile) this book is even better. Collette takes us on her journey back to Paris after being wrenched away from her loving coccoon of close family in Egypt to the great unknown. Soon however she finds solace in the kitchen & rediscovers her passion for food. Faced with many life changing decision, she recounts the events that took her all over Europe & (later to the US) on different adventures & always with food as her loyal companion.
A wonderful read that ended too soon, & although I rated this book with 5 stars, I felt it ended a bit too abruptly ... but then again you alawys want more of a great book don't you?!

Dinner with Colette.......2003-05-26

I loved this little book and read it in one sitting on a rainy Sunday afternoon. It made me wish that Colette would invite me to dinner! The writing swept me along throughout the journeys in her life. The recipes were a surprise bonus for me as I had never read her other books and had no idea she was known for cuisine. It was the beautiful cover that sold me! Highly recommend this book. I can barely cook, but am going to try the Agvolemono soup, a favorite from my 20's when I worked upstairs from a Greek Deli in downtown Boston.

The Piaf of Food Memoirs!.......2003-04-18

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Reading _Return to Paris_ (and preparing its recipes) is like listening to a Piaf song, at once strikingly beautiful and hauntingly sad, something that commands your attention to the very end.

So, dear reader, beware! For should you open the first page of this book, you may find yourself swept away to a Paris you never knew of, to return to a present made a little sadder by finding there are no more pages left to turn.

I also recommend these other books by Rossant which I have read:
- Memories of a Lost Egypt (the first of her food memoirs)
- Bocuse a la Carte (translator)
- Colette Rossant's After Five Gourmet
- Colette's Slim Cuisine
- New Kosher Cooking
- Vegetable

from cairo to paris--a remarkable life with recipes.......2003-04-17

I don't usually read food-related books. I generally stick with novels or straightforward history/biography. Yet I could not resist Colette Rossant's earlier memoir, Memories of a Lost Egypt, for its poignant, delectable interweaving of memories, recipes, and passionate observations about the tastes and foods she discovered as a child growing up in remarkable circumstances. (Her recipes are fabulous, by the way--easy to recreate.)

Rossant's new book, Return to Paris, continues the story of her extraordinary upbringing. I really recommend reading both books, which are delightfully different but ideal companions. In fact, I so loved Rossant's evocation of Cairo in both writing and recipes, and her candid portrait of her family there, that I wasn't sure at first how I would react to her new memoir's focus on Paris, where she returned as a teenager. As it turns out, I enjoyed the dramatic turn this book reflects, in both her life and her culinary education, as she describes her difficult adjustment to postwar life in a country so different from her beloved Egypt. I was touched by young Colette's largeness of spirit as she accepts her losses and isolation, and opens up to the delights of Paris and its food.

Rossant is a wonderful writer with an explorer's personality, which makes her books transcend their genre. Lovers of good stories and good writing, as well as marvelous food, will enjoy Return to Paris. I'd like to add that given the events of our time, in particular the appalling anti-French and anti-Arab behavior some folks exhibit, it is compelling to read how one young person bridged two strikingly different cultures with grace, open eyes, and receptive tastebuds.

Return to Paris (Large Print)
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Return to Paris (Large Print)
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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ASIN: 1425075568
Release Date: 2007-05-04

Return to Paris [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
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Return to Paris [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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ASIN: 1425079288
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Return to Paris [EasyRead Edition]
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Return to Paris [EasyRead Edition]
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Return to Paris [EasyRead Large Edition]
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Return to Paris [EasyRead Large Edition]
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes
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Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes
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THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE is a history of Western civilization from 8000 B.C. to the present. In addition to the chief political developments, this text offers students comprehensive treatments of economic trends, cultural and intellectual movements, daily life and social change, the changing position and role of women, and the status of ethnic and religious groups. Europe's history is placed in the context of world history--developments in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific are discussed in terms of their relationship with events in Europe.

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HYPNOTISM THEN AND NOW explores the Superconscious World of Reveen the Impossiblist

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John A Henderson MD.......2005-04-08

The cover describes this history of hypnotism as, "by Peter Reveen as told to William Harwood." That seems like a strange collaboration. Reveen was a concert hypnotist whose bread and butter depended on convincing his audiences, including the book's purchasers, that the performers on his stage were really hypnotized. But historian Harwood is on record elsewhere as concluding that, "Hypnotism has never been demonstrated to exist and almost certainly does not exist." Not surprisingly, the book endorses the sincerity of pioneers like Anton Mesmer and James Braid, but without making claims with which the book's editor could not associate his name. Did Reveen believe in hypnotism when the book was written? Probably. Does he still believe in hypnotism? Even Harwood cannot answer tht one.

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