books about: 1997     books:       The 1997 Joy of Cooking295 reviews Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, ... Scribner, 1997 My go to book for fast everyday family meals I'll start this review by saying I consider myself a little bit of a foodie. I have many cook books that cover all the basic types of cuisine we enjoy. Most of these cooks books have been used to execute elaborate dinner parties, to impress. But, when it came it cooking every day food on a budget, I was sometimes at a loss. I finally broke down and asked my mom for the Joy of Cooking for my ...             The Diana Chronicles131 reviews Tina Brown Broadway, 2008 Detailed Portrait This is an even handed, rich portrait of a very complicated young woman. I purchased the audio thinking it was a fluff piece I could listen to while working out, but found the book fascinating and was sorry when it was over. Tina Brown presents each of the major characters in this tragedy as multifaceted individuals, making this not the usual tabloid nonsense, but a sociological study of a very ...             Digital Fortress: A Thriller902 reviews Dan Brown St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004 Very good but not his best. I liked this book very much. He's done better work but I still thoroughly enjoyed this. In my opinion if you like Dan Brown's writing you will enjoy this book.             Hatchet1145 reviews Gary Paulsen Aladdin, 2006 Paint with Words Gary Paulsen "paints with words" as he writes a descriptive story about a fifteen year old boy contending with his parent's divorce. This book is rivoting. The reader wants to read on as a young boy learns through discovery about how to survive in the Canadian wildernes. I read this book to my students and they were lined up in the library to check out Gary Paulsen books. Gary Paulsen writes ...             BMW 5 Series (E39) Service Manual: 1997-2002 (2 volume set)18 reviews Bentley Publishers, 2003 Great buy When you pay top dollar for something with the name Bentley on it, you get what you pay for!             Time and Materials: Poems 1997-200514 reviews Robert Hass Ecco, 2007 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize I'm thrilled that Hass won it, as no one deserves it more. It's been a decade since his last book, and the contemplation of time and materials he experienced has constructed this continually delighting and surprising book, which I'd put up there with Field Guide and Praise as my three favorite books by Hass, who has become one of our most vocal ecological poets.             The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice136 reviews Christopher Hitchens Verso, 1997 Not a fish in a barrel, but definitely a hypocrite in a habit When I met Christopher Hitchens at a conference in '99 I had just read this book. He said that he was surprised that no one had written it before because the hypocrisy and sanctimonious false modesty of Mother Teresa was so obvious to demonstrate. She was so sanctimonious she didn't try very hard to cover her disingenuousness, but like anyone doing bad or hypocritical things in the name of the ...             Porsche Boxster Service Manual: 1997-2004 Boxster, Boxster S (Robert Bentley)28 reviews Bentley Publishers, 2005 Boxster Service Manual This manual has everything a weekend tinkerer needs to keep their Porsche Boxster running in top condition. Manual is very well organized and easy to follow.             On Wings of Eagles36 reviews Ken Follett NAL Trade, 2004 Outstanding I was on the edge of my seat from the first 10 pages. This story was unbelievable and knowing that it was a true story made it even better.             A Simple Path21 reviews Mother Teresa Ballantine Books, 1995 To understand, rather than be understood. The book is perfectly titled. Mother Teresa's biographical information is minimal and the book does not canonize her. Apart from introducing the thoughts of volunteers who work with the Missionaries of Charity, her own words are few. What we find are simple views of a simple path, and beauty in simplicity. This is not the story of a famous nun, it is the story of a way of seeing ones world and of ...             de Kooning: An American Master27 reviews Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Creating the World This volume, "de Kooning:an American Master" by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan is a masterpiece itself. The couple took ten long years to research and write this hefty biography of Willem de Kooning and along the way give us an inside look at the creation of the world of American contemporary art from the post World War II New York period forward. Before that revealling section of the book we ...             When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures, 1997.)9 reviews Barbara Brown Taylor Cowley Publications, 1998 The Dilemma of God's Silence In this book of lectures delivered at Yale Divinity School, Taylor states that the task of a preacher is not to give answers or advice but to "usher people into the presence of God who may or may not answer." She states if we have a God who always speaks, who's never absent or silent, perhaps we are worshipping or speaking to an imaginary God. "Only an idol always answers," she writes. ...             High-Performance Jeep Wrangler TJ Builder's Guide 1997-2006 (Cartech) (Cartech)4 reviews Christian Lee Car Tech, 2007 Another hit from SA Design If you are interested in modifying your Jeep TJ for better performance off-road, then this book is for you. This guide takes you step-by-step through the process and gives plenty of options and advice, so that you can customise your own build up. It also explains the principles involved in the modifications from a technical standpoint, but in a very down-to-earth manner. It is well-illustrated ...             Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War48 reviews Robert Coram Little, Brown and Company, 2002 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War An excellent read. As a former Naval aviator and now an employe for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics where the F-16 is built, I can attest to Boyd's drive to build the best lightwight fighter in the world. He was certainly correct in his methodolgy to build somethng that the rest of the world did not have. Sales prove that. But the information in the behind the scenes tactics that Boyd employed ...             Something Beautiful for God15 reviews Malcolm Muggeridge HarperOne, 1986 Something Beautiful for God In this book it describes how Mother Teresa established her Missionaries of Charity and how they served the sick, suffering and dying in Calcutta. She gave everything she had and her life was totally dedicated to her mission, her calling and those who were hungry, homeless, and very sick. This book makes me realize that everything that I have today is a gift from God! Great book.             Collected Poems 1947-19974 reviews Allen Ginsberg Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 Ginsy's Collected Poems I just finished reading Ginsberg's collected poems, 1947-1997 -- fifty years and over a thousand pages of poetry. My overall impression is that he was probably the kindest, most moral member of the beat generation. When the other beats were penniless & borrowing money, Ginsberg was the one they borrowed money from. Corso would steal Ginsberg's manuscripts and sell them to used book dealers to ...             Stephen King's Danse Macabre44 reviews Stephen King Berkley, 1987 Dead rats in Lucite "Danse Macabre" should have been subtitled "Horror Fiction in Cinema, TV, and Books: 1950 - 1979" so that Stephen King's fiction fans wouldn't accidentally pick it up and start reading it. They might be horribly disappointed. At what is supposed to be the climax of this nonfiction book, at the sentence in which the author is summing up everything he has been trying to teach us for 397 pages, ...             Honda Accord Automotive Repair Manual : Models Covered, All Honda Accord Models 1994 Thru 1997 (Haynes Auto ...5 reviews John Haynes, Jay Storer, ... Haynes Manuals, Inc., 1999 The best book for all you do it your selfers This is one of the best books for all of you do it yourselfers. Save yourself a lot of TIME and MONEY with this book. When i bought this book it saved me at least so far about 20 hours worth of looking around for the wrong thing! You can save yourself money by not having to take your car to a mechanic to get the simple stuff done. Defintly buy this book!             A Blue Hand: The Beats in India3 reviews Deborah Baker Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Fascinating portrait of interesting times I read in the New York Times that Deborah Baker was Barack Obama's editor for his memoir, so I was curious to see if she was as good a writer as she was an editor. I'm happy to report that she is an excellent writer. I was thoroughly engrossed by A BLUE HAND. To be honest, I was never a big fan of the Beats in general, but Ms. Baker's book reads like a novel and I find her portraits of the ...             The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower Robert Baer Crown, 2008              search for books 1947-1997, 1997-2002, 1997-2004, 1997-2005, 1997-2006, american, automotive, beautiful, beecher, builder, changed, chronicles, collected, dealing, digital, fighter, fortress, hatchet, high-performance, lectures, materials, missionary, performance, position, practice, service, something, superpower, thriller, wrangler books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Acorn Entrepreneurs home  impressum - about us