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A Taste of the Past
Lane, John
2004 10018391 Lane, the son of one of Buckingham Palace's chefs, has been amassing a collection of menus since he was a boy. He presents dozens of the strikingly illustrated menu cards in this delightful volume, which also provides a bit of historical background, brief explanations of the guests in attendance and of the type of food served. History buffs and those interested in culinary studies will enjoy reading about the St. Patrick's Day dinner President Eisenhower gave for President O'Kelly of Ireland in 1959, which included Roast Stuffed Long Island Duckling and French String Beans Almondine. The menu on board the Queen Mary's maiden voyage to New York in 1936, Lane reveals, offered guests Clear Turtle Soup with Sherry and Chestnut Ice Cream Sundaes. And at the 1874 wedding celebration of Prince Alfred and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, well-wishers noshed on Boiled Salmon, Chicken Rissoles, Roast Venison and Spiced Fillets of Beef with Madeira Sauce. Lane's comprehensive knowledge and copious illustrations-ranging from the menus themselves to illustrations of great hosts-make for a fascinating romp through American and British gastronomic history. About the Author: John Lane has been collecting menu cards since his father, a chef at Buckingham Palace, introduced him to the world of gourmet dining as a boy. Growing up surrounded by some the the greatest chefs in Europe, John's interest never abated and now he has a collection of hundreds of these delightful and valuable artefacts. OVERSIZE! David & Charles Publishers 0-7153-1842-X / 9780715318423
Hardcover w/book jacket Newton Abbot
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A Taste of the Past - a collection of menus
Lane, John
2004 10017352 Lane, the son of one of Buckingham Palace's chefs, has been amassing a collection of menus since he was a boy. He presents dozens of the strikingly illustrated menu cards in this delightful volume, which also provides a bit of historical background, brief explanations of the guests in attendance and of the type of food served. History buffs and those interested in culinary studies will enjoy reading about the St. Patrick's Day dinner President Eisenhower gave for President O'Kelly of Ireland in 1959, which included Roast Stuffed Long Island Duckling and French String Beans Almondine. The menu on board the Queen Mary's maiden voyage to New York in 1936, Lane reveals, offered guests Clear Turtle Soup with Sherry and Chestnut Ice Cream Sundaes. And at the 1874 wedding celebration of Prince Alfred and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, well-wishers noshed on Boiled Salmon, Chicken Rissoles, Roast Venison and Spiced Fillets of Beef with Madeira Sauce. Lane's comprehensive knowledge and copious illustrations-ranging from the menus themselves to illustrations of great hosts-make for a fascinating romp through American and British gastronomic history. Review: "A rich collection of menu cards from historical feasts forms the basis of this journey back to an age of excess, via wartime culinary quirks and unusual gourmet delights, where kings and princes dined in style and politicians and presidents entertained one another with the fashionable food of the time. The menus themselves are delightfully decorated, and beautifully made. A dinner held in honour of General Garibaldi was graced by a paper lace meny card - the delicate filigree is still perfectly intact, unlike the warlike guest of honour. And Art Deco ladies lounge langorously in fruit dishes on the cover of a hotel menu from the early 1920s. From royal weddings to dinner at the captain's table, this fascinating collection of menus is brought to life by a commentary exploring their historical context, the people involved, and the culinary nuances of the menus themselves. David & Charles Publishers 0-7153-1842-X / 9780715318423
Hardcover w/book jacket AS NEW CONDITION Newton Abbot
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ANCHORING AMERICA : THE CHANGING FACE OF NETWORK NEWS
Alan, Jeff; Lane, James Martin
2003 02871791 Soft Cover. Brand New. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). 6 x 9". 410 page book reveals a whole new side to the anchors you loved and the ones you hated on Network Television! The lives and careers of 19 anchors and one influential network are explored through the evolution of the anchoring job. The book traces the decline of the anchors' influence since the 1970s and explores the outlook for the future of network news after Jennings, Rather, and Brokaw retire. This is an 'advance uncorrected readers proof copy in softcover with black & white photographs! Bonus Books 156625194x / 9781566251945
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Gardener's Answer Book
Editors, Sunset Lane
1983 2873541 Over 400 Western Garden problems and solutions given in 160 illustrated pages; 8-1/2 x 11", very good condition. Keyed to 24 western climate zones, this important book covers common pests & diseases, and has a colorful illustrated sections offering tips for identifying and controlling pests, weeds, and plant diseases. This is a companion volume to the popular Wester Garden Book. Sunset Publishing Corporation 0-376-03186-7 / 9780376031860
Paperback - Softcover As New Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
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HERRON'S PRICE GUIDE TO DOLLS
Herron, R. Lane
000540 Mr. Herron's guide is charming, enthusiastic and informative. His categories are not the standard ones in the field now.. he includes paperdolls, for example.. and it's not difficult to figure out where his own tastes in doll collecting lie. But, even after all these years, there are some dolls for which I have to go back to Herron's guide. There's also no arguing with his taste in dolls, which is refined and informed. It may not turn out to be the most-used volume in your doll reference library, but it's a valuable source with many black-and-white photos and covers some dolls that have been left out of more recent guides. Condition: As New, some shelf wear around edges. NEW inside! Iola, WI, U.S.A.: Krause Publications, 1990 0870695436 / 9780870695438
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Needlepoint By Design - Variations on CHinese Themes
Maggie Lane
02872877 Hard. Very Good/Good w/wear 'n Tear Jacket. Out-Of-print. 8 x 10". Written by well known needlepoint designer who has done custom designing of needlepoint for a very select clientele. This bvook adds something new, fresh and extremely stylish to the needlepoint repertoire. Introduces the author's method of working directly from a harted design onto an unmarked canvas. Gives completely worked-out, large-scale graphs for 24 Orientally inspired designs with clear directions that even an unexperienced needlepointer can easily follow. Most of the graphs show a central motif and border. By interchanging these, there are over 90 possible designs for pillows, rugs, Parsons tables and small accessories. 114 pages in stock now 2004. Price clipped from book jacket, which has wear 'n tear 1970
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PINOCCHIO: THE BOY
Smith, Lane
2002 19944 Lane Smith -- crackerjack illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man and creator of The Happy Hocky Family -- tickles us with his retro '50s take on what happened to Pinocchio after he became a real-live boy. In Collodi City (the name's a nod to the original author), the Blue Fairy has "turned the wooden puppet Pinocchio into a real boy." The trouble is, he's asleep so he doesn't know it. After he sees that Geppetto has taken ill, Pinocchio sets out to find chicken soup and soon realizes he's out of moolah. Looking for quick cash, the boy tries out for a job as a store mannequin (the shopkeeper sees him as a big "smart aleck"), can't hock his ultra-long hankie (sized for a growing nose) to a local pawnbroker, and even gets booed out of "the puppet theater where just last week he was a Big Sensation." Fortunately, though, Pinocchio meets an advice-giving girl along the way, who happens to know the Blue Fairy firsthand, and through a media surprise, they both wind up back at Geppetto's, where everything is set right. Adding his comical off-the-wall slant, Smith combines cool 1950s-style illustrations with a zippy story line. Vivid, mainly non-primary colors and eye-catching patterns are set magically against the snowy Collodi City backdrop, while dramatic angles and perspectives give us the scope of Pinocchio's feelings. Storytime audiences will sit awestruck over this puppet-turned-boy tale, and Smith fans -- along with lovers of picture books that take artwork to the next level -- will be ga-ga over his new creation. A treasured fairy tale with a wacky new twist! Matt Warner From the Publisher Everyone in town knows Pinocchio, the puppet, but what about Pinocchio, the boy? From Lane Smith comes the story of what happens to Pinocchio on the very first day after his wish to be a real boy comes true. But there's one problem: Pinocchio was asleep at the time and he doesn't realize that he's now a boy! No one else in town recognizes him, either-not his talking cricket, not the audience in the puppet theater, and not even his father, Geppetto. Set in a town that's a winter wonderland, this stunningly illustrated sequel to a classic tale will appeal to children and adults alike. Author Biography: Lane Smith is the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales and the author/illustrator of The Happy Hocky Family! From The Critics Publishers Weekly Consummate jester Smith (Baloney [Henry P.]) revisits the classic tale of a misbehaving puppet, and needless to say, this ain't 19th-century Italy. Smith summarizes all of the Pinocchio story in two pages of 50s-retro cartoons, then zooms in for a gauzy close-up of the Blue Fairy changing the marionette into a flesh-and-blood boy. There's one minor glitch: "That nutty fairy had changed him while he was asleep," and Pinocchio doesn't look in the mirror when he wakes up. He's too preoccupied with poor Geppetto, who's "sick and wet from that fish's belly," and he needs to buy some chicken soup in Collodi City (a dense comic-book metropolis and a subtle reference to the original author, Carlo Collodi). Smith's playful subtitle begins to make sense. As a real boy, Pinocchio is persona non grata to his friend Cricket and gets booed offstage at "the puppet theater where just last week he was a Big Sensation." Luckily, he finds one friend, a bratty urchin with a surprise connection with his magical benefactor. In addition to providing a sumptuous visual presentation of the events, Smith's artwork places the adventures in an edgy modern space of steep angles and flat geometric planes, chockablock with shop signs, laser-sharp beams of light and cascading snowflakes and polka-dots. Pinocchio heads for home after hearing Geppetto's all-points-bulletin on TV, and eventually his father recognizes him without the wood-grain finish. Smith sidesteps the novel's moralizing and the movie's heartstring-pulling in this airbrush-sleek, sharply designed comic sequel. Viking 0670035858 / 9780670035854
Hardcover Very Good Condition [New York]
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Santa Cows
Lane, Daniel (Illustrator)
1991 10018682 A wonderful, tongue-in-cheek presentation of "The Night Before Christmas" that starts: " Twas the night before Christmas, and in our duplex, the children were plugged into special effects, while pizza with sausage and peppers they downed, With soda plus popcorn and chips by the pound." And the famous poem continues.....you'll have to get the book to see the rest. It is in full color with interesting drawings of the family, the cows (i.e., reindeers) on the roof, etc. Prepare to laugh at the uniqueness of the story. The book is a softcover, with shelf wear around edges of the cover. The pages inside are clean and unmarked. Trumpet Club 0-440-84959-4 / 9780440849599
Paperback good condition
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10.00 USD
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SCIENCE AT THE EXTREME: SCIENTISTS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF DISCOVERY
Taylor, Peter Lane
2000 10874 "This is a book that will astonish you." National Geographic Adventure Whether hanging from suspension bridges to track the flight of raptors, scuba diving into the crushing cores of moving glaciers, or exploring the burning cauldrons of active volcanoes, there is a special breed of scientist willing to go wherever they must and do whatever it takes to get the data they need. Science and nature writer and photojournalist Peter Lane Taylor, accompanied nine of these "extreme scientists" and experienced firsthand the rigors of their special brand of research. In Science at the Extreme, he combines stunning original photographs with gripping narrative accounts to take readers on a thrilling adventure with a purpose to the very frontiers of discovery. SYNOPSIS Enter the endless possibilities of extreme science With a fascinating narrative and stunning photography, Science at the Extreme destroys the stereotypes of the scientist as a white-coated laboratory hermit cut off from the real world. This dazzling new breed of candid, impassioned, and risk-taking explorers have emerged to tackle today's most bewildering scientific mysteries, and are the practitioners of what Taylor has dubbed "extreme science." Framing the adventures within the larger context of science's enduring mission to test the limits of human knowledge, Taylor vividly relates his exploits alongside nine extreme scientists. Together they hang from suspension bridges, climb the tallest trees on earth, crawl into the cores of glaciers, and explore the cauldrons of active volcanoes. These stories hold tight to the axiom that there is no substitute for first-hand experience-and absolutely no room for mistakes. Featuring over 140 striking photographs and a foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy-biodiversity counselor to the Smithsonian Institution & the United Nations-Science at the Extreme is a finely wrought, rich narrative; a consistently eye-opening achievement, transporting readers to realms as exotic and endangered as any that could be imagined. Published at thirty dollars. . McGraw-Hill Companies, The 0071354190 / 9780071354196
Hardcover New New York
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SHARKS DON'T GET CANCER: HOW SHARKS CARTILAGE COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
Lane, I. William
1992 10302 ABOUT THE BOOK Sharks Don't Get Cancer: How Sharks Cartilage Could Save Your Life ANNOTATION It has not changed in over 400 million years. It never sleeps or rests. It is said to be "the perfect living machine." And, within the last decade, it has been found to hold the key to reversing cancer as well as numerous other major diseases. Sharks Don't Ger Cancer is the story of this amazing breakthrough. Dr. Lane gains credibility as we learn the degree is a Ph.D. (Much quackery is published by ill-trained and self-admiring physicians.) Lane's credentials, though, include a patent on shark bone. Avery Publishing Group, Inc. 0-89529-520-2 / 9780895295200
Soft Cover As New Garden City Park, N.Y.
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14.64 USD
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Transistor Radios : A Collector's Encyclopedia and Price Guide
Lane
1994 TR-7129 170 pages with prices..this ID guide to 2500+ radios gives model names, numbers, descriptions, and dates listed in alphabetical order by manufacturer. Hundreds of black and white photos, eight pages of color, a glossary & bibliogrpahy enhance the book. A list of collector's clubs will prove quite helpful to the collector in communicating with other like hobbyists. One copy only in stock now September 2003. Krause Publications 0870697129 / 9780870697128
Soft Cover NEW Iola, WI, U.S.A. Out of Print
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University Physics - year 2000 edition
Reese, Ronald Lane
1999 10016847 Reese writes a text that embraces the spirit of many reform goals, such as better integration of modern physics topics, a stronger emphasis on conceptual understanding, and an attention to different learning styles. Most importantly, however, Reese writes for students to allow them not only to learn the tools that physics provides, but also to see why those tools work and the beauty of the ideas that underlie them. Because students sometimes fail to see how the topics of physics connect to each other or to the world outside the classroom, Reese introduces each new topic by describing how it relates to experiences and phenomena with which the student is already familiar or to topics previously discussed. Reese emphasizes introductory physics, rather than encyclopedic physics, leaving appropriate topics for more advanced courses. His thinking is that it is better to build technical knowledge on a firm foundation of fundamental principles rather than on a large collection of mere formulas. In doing this, he helps students develop a thorough understanding of the principles of basic areas of physics: kinematics, dynamics, waves, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, relativity, and modern physics. Because most students cannot discern simplifying patterns and connections when faced with seemingly complex ideas, students learn physics through practice. To assist them, Reese integrates the most significant material from previous chapters into new material; provides an accurate conceptual understanding of fundamental physical principles by placing great emphasis on these principles and how they arose; points out the limits of applicability of the theories and equations of physics; and stresses connections among topics by incorporating many aspects of contemporary physics and astronomy into a mix of traditional topics. 1,265 fully illustrated pages + appendices of 24 pages + Quotations Index + Reference Index 6 pages + GENERAL INDEX of Thirty pages. Clean and unmarked inside pages - book cover has edgewear.Oversize shipping. Brooks/Cole Pub Co 0-534-36962-6 / 9780534369620
Hardcover As New Condition
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68.50 USD
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