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Carving Signs: The Woodworker's Guide to Carving, Lettering, and Gildingby Greg Krockta and Roger Schroeder List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $13.96 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Whether carving signs for personal use or starting a business carving signs for other people, this book is filled with the information professional and hobbyist woodworkers need to get started making wooden signs. It includes tips on which woods work best for outdoor signs, indoor signs, and boat signs, as well as design tips on finishing signs and sign shapes. In addition, techniques for embellishing signs are provided, including hand-carving letters and numbers, carving appliques and relief carvings, and gold leafing. About The Author Greg Krockta has carved, lettered, painted, and gold-leafed more than 6,000 signs. He lives in Smithtown, New York. Roger Schroeder is the editor of Wood Carving Illustrated. He lives in Amityville, New York. |
Frommer's Nashville and Memphis (Frommer's Nashville and Memphis, 4th ed)by Anna Rittman and Karl Frommer's Nashville & Memphis Samson Available from Amazon $0.11 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Life is short. vacations are shorter. Relax!. Trust your trip to Frommer's. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You:
Publisher Description These two cities are on a roll. Nashville is home to more than 200 recording studios and 100 music clubs and venues showcasing great blues, jazz, gospel, rock, and of course, country music. A new $37 million Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is set to open in 2001, as is the new Frisk Center for Visual Arts. Thousands of new hotel rooms have been added in the last two years, as 9.5 million visitors arrived in 1998. Memphis, too, has long been known as the home of Graceland, but its attracting millions of new fans each year, too, all flocking to experience the city that gave birth to the blues. A new state-of-the-art Gibson guitar Plant will soon open for tours downtown and will contain the Smithsonians Rock n Soul: Social Crossroads exhibit. Sun Studios, which still operates as a recording studio is also opening a new museum, featuring rare recordings, photos, and other music memorabilia. And Peabody Place, a new $150 million retail center, promises to revitalize downtown. All this new development is sure to attract even greater numbers of visitors, wholl rely on this completely updated new edition for all their travel needs. From blues clubs to the best BBQ joints, its all here in this concise, easy-to-use guide to Americas music capitals.
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Geography of Travel and Tourismby Lloyd E. Hudman and Richard H Jackson List Price: $104.95 Available from Amazon $87.59 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description If you are adventurous in your travel or are interested in knowing more than what is found in travel brochures, this book makes for interesting reading. It gives a basic geographic overview of the world and each major geographic region, providing insights about the geographic character of specific regions to show how it establishes a setting for tourism. All regions or countries have a brief overview of the cultural, physical, and tourism characteristics of the region or country. The cultural characteristics are in the form of cultural capsules pertaining to the people and some tips as to personal actions that are acceptable and others to be avoided. Following the analysis of the geographic character the text discusses the tourist attractions in each of the regions, focusing on the geographic features that are important for creating a desire to visit that region. The authors highlight the most significant attractions, which combine with the geographic facts of the region to form the uniqueness of the area for visitors. In some cases there are differences of opinions concerning which are the major attractions, but those presented in the text provide an overview of the character of each specific tourist destination region. Tourists themselves also create geography. An area with few tourists is different in character from an area with large numbers of visitors. The origin of tourists also affects the environment; as for example visitors from Great Britain create a different environment than those from France because of their differing expectations and resultant services. About The Author Lloyd E. Hudman attends the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston on the 25-29 of March. Richard H. Jackson attends The Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston on the 25-29 of March. |
Guitars From George and Leo: How Leo Fender and I Built G&L Guitarsby George Fullerton and Leo Fender List Price: $19.95 Available from Amazon $13.57 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This complete history of Fender and GandL reveals, through rare pictures and first-hand accounts, an insider's view of this amazing success story and the friendship that lasted a lifetime. |
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Wayby Richard Branson List Price: $16.00 Available from Amazon $10.40 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review In this autobiography, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says one of his prime business criteria is "fun." Fun made Branson a billionaire, and few business memoirs are one-billionth as fun as Branson's, nor as niftily written. Not only does it relate his side of near-death corporate experiences, it tells how the chairman literally cheated death by gun, shipwreck, and balloon crash. Branson's empire--now encompassing interests in an airline, pop music, soda pop, e-commerce, and financial services--began when the dyslexic 16-year-old dropped out of school in 1968 to found the British magazine Student. His headmaster said, "I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire." Briefly imprisoned for dodging customs selling records, Branson got his first million by releasing Tubular Bells, a maverick recording all the stuffy executives rejected. (1998's Tubular Bells III puts the series' sales over 20 million.) Despite wild tales of Branson's wife-swapping and Keith Richards fleeing naked from Branson's studio at gunpoint with another man's woman, the most shocking parts of the memoir concern British Airways' James Bond-like "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin Atlantic, resulting in the biggest award for damages in English history. Though it's filled with famous names, witty quotes, and pulse-pounding accounts of lunatic balloon adventures, it is as a business thriller that the book really scores. His instinctive bet-the-ranch tactics could cost him all, or earn another billion. Either way, Branson will likely remain the most entertaining entrepreneur in Europe. --Tim Appelo
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Roadby Jaimie Hall Available from Amazon $19.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Marcella Gauthier, Escapees Magazine, Mar/April 2002 This is a must-have reference book for anyone wishing to work while traveling in an RV. Stephanie Bernhagen, Workamper News, Mar/April 2002 You have everything you need to find rewarding jobs. With this book you can make your dreams come true. |
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Culturesby Frans Johansson List Price: $29.95 Available from Amazon $18.87 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly Johansson, founder and former CEO of an enterprise software company, argues that innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations. Because of ions, "the movement of people, the convergence of science, and the leap of computation," a wide range of materials available for new, recontextualized uses is becoming a norm rather than an exception, much as the Medici family of Renaissance Italy's patronage helped develop European arts and culture. For cases in point, Johansson profiles, among others, Marcus Samuelsson, the acclaimed chef at New York's Aquavit. An Ethiopian orphan, Samuelsson was adopted by a Swedish family, with whom he traveled widely, enabling him to develop the restaurant's unique and innovative menu. (Less familiar innovators include a medical resident who, nearly assaulted by an emergency room patient she was treating, developed outreach programs designed to prevent teen violence.) Chapters admonish readers to "Randomly Combine Concepts" and "Ignite an Explosion of Ideas." Less focused on innovations within a corporate setting than on individual achievements, and more concerned with self-starting and goal-setting than teamwork, Johansson's book offers a clear enough set of concepts for plugging in the specifics of one's own setting and expertise. But don't expect the book to tell you where to get the money for prototypes or production. Copyright © Reed business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The Financial Times, 23 September, 2004 "there is a good deal that managers can draw from this collection of ideas." |
Yonder Stands Your Orphanby Barry Hannah List Price: $13.00 Available from Amazon $10.40 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page From Publishers Weekly Hallelujah! After a 10-year absence, Hannah (Airships; High Lonesome) is back with a vengeance with a Southern gothic novel full of every kind of excess: violence, sex, religiosity, creepiness and humor. Here we have Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews, Peter Dexter and Clyde Edgerton all squished together, baked in hush-puppy batter, dipped in honey and sprinkled with Jim Beam. Set in a lake community in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss., the story revolves around a fellow named Man Mortimer, a thief, pimp and murderer and those are his good qualities who physically resembles the late country singer Conway Twitty. On his trail are Byron Egan, a somewhat reformed biker-turned-preacher and prophet, and Max Raymond, a former doctor who plays saxophone in a bar band and has an attractive Cuban wife who sings, sometimes for the band, sometimes nude in her back yard. Meanwhile, the young town sheriff, distrusted since he hails from the North, manages to shock even the most degenerate denizens of the area with his affair with a luscious 72-year-old widow. The plot is kaleidoscopic, with flashes and slashes of wonder, humor and the macabre expertly mixed. Hannah tosses off linguistic gems on almost every page: " sometimes he felt he was a whole torn country, afire in all quadrants." Describing a car, "It smelled like very lonely oil men." Reading today's fiction is too often like eating stale bread. With Hannah (finalist for the American Book Award and the National Book Award), just imagine your most mouthwatering meal, take a double helping and you've come close to the pleasure of reading this book. (July)Forecast: This is Hannah's first novel in 10 years, and arguably his finest. Grove is celebrating it with a 25,000-copy first printing, and retrospective Reviews and features will ensure that readers sit up and take notice. sales will be strongest in the South, but should be steady elsewhere, too. An evocative, Faulkneresque jacket will attract browsers. Copyright 2001 Cahners business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Library Journal Hannah's first novel in ten years (since Never Die) concerns a motley group of eccentrics living along a lake near Vicksburg, MS. Among them are Man Mortimer, who resembles the late country singer Conway Twitty and has his hand in nearly every kind of evil in the area; Max Raymond, an ex-doctor turned saxophonist; Mimi, his smoldering, Cuban-born wife and singer with their Latin band; Sheriff Facetto, a young lawman and amateur actor in love with a still-attractive 72-year-old widow, Melanie Wooten; and Gene and Penny Ten Hoor, who run a cult-like camp for orphans. The plot revolves around the increasingly malevolent consequences of Mortimer's attempts to retrieve some bones, evidence of an old crime, found by the children of a former lover in the trunk of a 1948 Ford coupe. This is a wildly colorful, darkly comic, and ultimately sinister tale of madness and murder. For larger public libraries. Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA Copyright 2001 Reed business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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