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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.
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Happy To You: It's Your Birthday! is a collection of charming artwork divided into three sections. The first section, "It's Your Birthday," features artwork reflecting the "honoree," the second section, "You Take the Cake," is a showcase of artwork containing the most important element of the birthday - the cake, and the final section, "Something Tells Me It's Your Birthday," displays artwork that acknowledges that special day and that special someone. This gift book, which contains Mary's stunning signature illustrations, its own slipcase, and a package of confetti (to be thrown whenever the honoree wishes), is sure to make a great gift for that special someone!
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All-Audio Advantages Take advantage of effective on-the-go learning! All Audio Learn on the go! Instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 16 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk 1-2-3 in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. You don't just study the language--you gain real proficiency in using your new language! . . . and learn it well! The allTalk methodology not only teaches well, but will take you to full intermediate level in speaking and understanding spoken Spanish. Other popular all-audio courses require three times the cds, three times the money and three times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk does with 16-one hour cds.
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This communicative, "natural approach" to introductory Russian emphasizes reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Everyday topics are presented to allow readers to begin communicating immediately. Grammar is presented as a necessary tool for communication and is introduced throughout. The book aims at comparing and contrasting cultures, rather than presenting the target culture only.
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AWFUL - don't waste your money!.......2007-01-25
Troika is a complete disaster. NOWHERE will you find complete declensions of nouns, ie, all 6 cases. Table at book's back can fool you, because it cannot display exceptions, eg pisatel and ychitel are not the same endings. This is fatal, as individual chapters attempt to teach one case at a time, so one rarely practices constructing a useful sentence. Rebecca Domar's Basic Russian, pubd 1960 has it all, declensions of nouns & adjectives. Troika is designed to prolong the required coursework of students to become fluent. So dumbed down!
Schaums's outline has more for $15, and Dover's Essential Russian at $6.
This is a good Russian textbook to start out with........2005-12-19
This is the textbook we used for our Russian classes in college. I studied under the author for 2 semesters at UT-San Antonio. My other Russian professor (for the other 2 semesters) was Ukrainian. Even after 2 years of studying Russian, I didn't consider myself fluent. It will take further study (either on your own or with others) to become truly fluent in Russian, but this book is a good start.
Very helpful........2005-08-12
I ordered this to accompany the Pimsleur Language Russian program, as Pimsleur, although very powerful for learning to speak, has little more than a pamphlet to teach you to read. So, I picked this up, and it is very handy. It has made the process of learning to read fairly easay and enjoyable.
I would have rated this a 3, however, because you lose a LOT of the meat of the book if you don't have the audio recordings, which aren't included in the book. At least, they weren't with mine. However, I poked around online and found that they're available for download off this website:
http://mllc.utsa.edu/troika/student/mp3.htm
I don't know how long that site will be up, but if you intend to use this book to teach yourself to read and speak, those MP3s will be invaluable.
Fabulous, if you never need to look anything up........2005-06-12
The order in which material is introduced is fine and the examples and explanations are good. However, except for the wonderful charts in the last two pages of the book, this book is about as poorly organized for finding anything as a book can be. If you have a photographic memory and never need to look anything up, this book is fabulous. But if you need to find something - the meaning of a word or a rule of grammar - plan on looking in three or four places. And don't count on finding the word your looking for in the glossary. For example, there in no mention in the glossary of the word "when." This isn't a bad book, but unfortunately it is frequently a frustrating one.
Almost five stars.......2004-09-28
I am using this book in my Russian 101 class right now. The book itself is well organized and the grammer rules are clearly presented, but this book is in desperate need of a set of(or at least one)CD's to practice pronunciation with. The lab audiocassettes that are available don't go over the exercises in the book, just the listening exercises in the workbook. If this book came with some audio materials, it would get five stars. It is great for someone who is just getting a start in Russian.
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Indigo! Why!?.......2005-01-05
Indigo leaves the Brabazon family heads north to her love's homeland. There she meets the family he left behind. Now she must discover how a white tiger, a family secret, and an axe and shield are related, while dealing with her emotions toward a man that greatly resembles her beloved Fenran.
It seemed that this story was quickly written and was over too quickly. Doesn't explain the demon very well, and Fenran's relationship to this family. Were they his cousins or nephews/nieces?
I thought that we would learn more about Fenran since Indigo was staying with the family, but you learn nothing about his background.
I see that most of the reviews claimed that they liked seeing Indigo get a love interest, but I thought what she did was stupid, reckless, selfish, and very very thoughtless. She not only hurt herself with her relationship with Veness, but she hurt Veness, Grimya, and of course Fenran (he HAD to have known)!
Of course, this proves how human Indigo is and she is prone to mistakes, but.....she knew better darnit! She knew better......
A bit confusing..........2000-10-23
I really liked this book, especially because Indigo finds something of a solace from her tribullations. But I rated it less because it's a bit difficult to understand the nature of the demon.
In this book Indigo travels North to the land of Feran, her dear love, who is trapped in a demon world until Indigo kills the last of the demons she has released. But when she arrives at her 'destination' she meets a man who is almost identical to Feran. She is very surprised, but soon discovers that he is from the family Feran left in the North. She has to spend the Winter with these people and things get a bit out of hand... More, she discovers that the demon is right under their roof.
But exactly what this demon is, I think it's up to you to make your own interpretation.
Low point of a good series.......2000-02-17
I was surprised to see so many positive reviews of this chapter in the Indigo Saga, while the series was excellent. A wonderful concept carried through very well, this is the one book that falls gravely short. First, in all of the books save this one, she is desperatly embittered by her seperation from Fenran. In this book outside of references relating to internal conflict, he is not present. It is almost as though Indigo forgot that it was her own foolishness which condemned him to unending torment until the demons are destroyed. People always seem to focus on how difficult indigo's struggles are, and while her quest is quite substantial, she at least has some power over her situation. She could have at least had the self-control to avoid any romantic situations. Fenran was supposed to be the motivator of her quest. A reason for her too succeed, and while a romantic interlude may please some of her fans, it really undermined the entire meaning of her quest. If Veness wouldn't have so convienently died would she have delayed her quest to make a life with him? Louise alluded to that being the case. The problem with that is obvious. My other issue with this book is the Demon itself, out of all the Demons it is the least delineated. Their is more focus on Nemesis than on the actual Demon she is destroying. There are no reall characteristics attributed to it, and frankly its demise was altogther too vague. All you had was an affirmation that this was the situation.
There are also a great deal of timeline issues. Louise didn't do an effective job of explaining where the demon was motivating from, was it influencing idividuals, or was it possessing the artifacts. If it was in the weapons, at what point did the demon take control over them, because its effect on those that touched them were consistent with the curse placed on them centuries prior to the release of the demons from the Tower of Regrets. If it was possessing the people with the power of vengeance this was only marginally alluded to, because their motivation could just as easily been covetouness and greed. The book, however, did keep ones attention and is worth reading, it falls short of the level usually Louise Cooper ascends to. Read all eight books, and you can over look this one. Good luck in finding it.
Mystery/Adventure/Fantasy - even a little Romance........1999-07-11
This is a brilliant series of books - Louise Cooper does an awesome job at giving each book a unique and captivating plot. Very few authors could do for a trilogy, what she successfully did here with no less than eight books... Of all of them, this book is my favorite, combining all the best elements of the series, as listed above.
I loved it.......1999-05-06
This is one of my favorite of the Indigo books.Cooper always does a wonderful job on characters and plots,and all the books in this saga.I love Grimya very much,and even though Indigo insists that she isn't worthy of such friendship,I think she is,despite her...antics.Indigo is a strong-hearted woman,and is not quite as foolish (I believe) as the books make her seem.I enjoyed Troika's plot very much.I was nearly horrified at first,when I found out where she was staying,and about the man that looked so much like Fenran.I just couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for her,despite the obvious fact.This is a must-read book in a must-read series!
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Under the glare of three suns, three beings travel across an endless desert. They argue, whine, wheedle and needle each other. Sometimes they switch identities when the sandstorms roar in. As The Troika rolls on, we learn more about Alex, who started out as a man, then became cyborg, then jeep. About Naomi, a veteran soldier who woke up from her cryogenic storage tank to a new life, now a dinosaur. About Eva, who fled her native land to escape her fate as an organ-donor for the emperor. Fantasy? Surrealism? The desert landscape spins and alters as we look at the man behind the curtain: mad angel Dr. Mazer, testing a controversial therapy program at his isolated asylum. Science fiction after all?
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for 1997,The Troika is speculative literature at its finest. --Bonnie Bouman
Customer Reviews:
Truly a fantastic shard of dementia.......2005-01-11
Alex, Eva and Naomi are a jeep, an old woman and a dinosaur, respectively. Or maybe not. They're walking across and endless desert and they can't die. Or maybe not.
The Troika by Stepan Chapman is truly an excellent book, witty, profane, brilliant, demanding... much like Samuel R Delany's 'Dhalgren' or Philip K Dick's 'Valis' but not derivative of anything, it plays around with identity, with history, mythmaking, delusion, good, evil, insanity and redemption. It rewards repeated readings, and is rapidly becoming one of my favorite books.
and you thought you had problems..........2001-01-23
Three connected, lost souls wander the desert submerged in madness and despair. Did I mention that one of them is a Jeep? This surreal story is at once intensely tragic and hopeful. I highly recommend it.
A challenging read, but worth the effort.......1999-06-28
Let me start with a warning: this is a difficult book to read. You can't skim it or read without your full attention like you can with -- well, with almost everything. The characters switch bodies (or think they do), they're unreliable narrators whose perceptions may not match reality, they contradict themselves, there are flashbacks and dream sequences galore. Only well into the book is it possible to even get any idea of what's going on. As confusing as The Troika can be, it is very much worth the effort. Trust is required here. You're on a drive, but someone else is at the wheel. Slide into the moment, enjoy the view and stop worrying so much about where you're going. You *are* going somewhere, but the trip itself is the best part of the experience. There are stories and images in The Troika that will stay with me for a long, long time. There are passages in the book that are as beautiful and carefully sculpted as anything I've ever read: the line of girls with their tongues frozen to the parking meters; skating upside down along the bottom of the ice; the fish-headed sacrifice who escapes moments before her heart is cut out. I was reminded of Dick, Kafka and others, but Chapman's voice is unique and original, and he clearly has a love of language and words. The Troika was one of the strangest books I've ever read, and among the best I've come across in several years.
Spectacular........1998-08-30
I am the kind of person who can't really like a movie if I can't understand it, or the plot is rife with holes. I did not have that problem with this book. Chapman's lyrical, beautiful writing carried me through this tale of three lost souls, and I loved the book because of it. This is the kind of book you want to reread the minute you finish, so you can understand it more, and experience its characters again. This is one of my favorites.
Brilliant.......1998-07-06
Well, it's simply brilliant but You have to use brains to read it. Comparisons with Borges, Kafka, Dick are inevitable.
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Summoned to Destiny is an anthology of original fantasy stories based on the theme of self-discovery. From that starting point, the stories are as diverse as their authors, ranging from traditional fantasy to shapeshifters, from dragon-haunted cliffsto simple country inns. But all share a love of things wondrous and magic. Discover that power has its price . and a destiny involving magic is never quite what you expect. Featuring original fiction by: Marie Brennan, Ed Greenwood, Kevin G. Maclean, Jana Paniccia, M T O'Shaughnessy, Ruth Stuart, Karina Sumner-Smith, and Michelle West. With cover illustration by Kenn Brown and Chris Wren.
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Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite in its variety, otherworldly in its taste: It's chocolate, and here's all the impetus you need to indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for impeccable recipes that produce stellar results, has written
Chocolate Holidays especially for people who love to bake but don't have enough hours in the day. Without compromising on flavor, texture, or ingredients, she pares down the preparation steps, teaches us resraint, and comes up with fifty amazing recipes, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicty.
An ideal year in chocolate might start with a New Year's brunch starring Chocolate Blini with Berry Caviar. Then there are Valentine's Day chocolate scones and St. Patrick's Day Irish Coffee Chocolate Mousse. And of course any "holiday" your imagination can conjure up is a perfect reason to indulge: perhaps a decadently rich hot chocolate served in demitasse portions to exorcise those end-of-February blues.
Spring might whisper chocolate Giant Krispy Easter Treats or a Passover Chocolate Nut Sponge Torte, or white chocolate-glazed Apricot Orange Cupcakes for a wedding shower. Summer suggests fruit and ice cream desserts such as the Independence Day red, white, and blue sundaes, followed by autumn's pies and tarts laden with chocolate and nuts. And no matter what you've been putting on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays past, it will be out-chocolated by Alice's Chocolate Cranberry Pudding and her Chocolate Hazelnut Roulade—both unequivocally year-end musts.
In
Chocolate Holidays, Medrich unlocks the secrets of our favorite sweet, offering chocolate desserts for every season, for every reason.
First published in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate (Warner Books, 2001)
Customer Reviews:
good for gourmets.......2007-01-09
This cookbook is a fun, neat cookbook - especially for those looking for recipes to bake for Jewish holidays. However, this book is certainly not for the amateur baker. Even if you are a chocoholic, like me, don't buy this book as your first cookbook.
Chocolate Holidays Unforgettable Dessert for every season.......2007-01-03
It looks like a wonderful book. My wife wanted it for Christmas, and she will be using it. We loved Alice Medrich's desserts when she had a retail store.
Alice is a pioneer in American fine chocolate!.......2006-05-28
Fifty stellar chocolate desserts, each a jewel of elegance and simplicity, designed to celebrate every holiday and special occasion. Medrich has created memorable desserts that will make the traditions of your celebrations all the more unforgettable--one mouthful at a time.
I'm so glad that Alice and her publisher released this revised edition of the previously published "A Year in Chocolate" because I loaned out my copy and never got it back.
Great book, glad it's affordable and in print!.......2005-12-20
I love all of Alice's books, but I didn't pick up A YEAR IN CHOCOLATE while it was in hardcover. Now, instead of paying for a second-hand book, I was able to get CHOCOLATE HOLIDAYS, which is truly gorgeous. And, for a chocolate lover, how great to have such fun ideas for each holiday!
This is a great book at a great price, and I'd recommend it to anyone looking for holiday ideas or just anyone who loves chocolate.
Quite honestly, it deserves 1 star .......2005-09-27
If you love Alice (as I do) you'll have probably have a hard forgiving her for this one. Although the title is "Chocolate Holidays : Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season" this book (as mentioned in the Editorial Reviews above) is actually "A Year in Chocolate : Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts" in papberback form (the printing info states, "This book first appeared in hardcover as A Year in Chocolate : Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts"). If Alice was going to bless her fans with a reprint surely "Cocolat" would be the steller choice (esp. since it's been going for $100+ for very good copies on auction sites and third party reselling) but instead we're given a retitled book that (see reviews) isn't her signature work.
I have both "Chocolate Holidays" and "A Year in Chocolate" and the main difference is that Alice dropped her editor and managing editor from the Acknowledgements :-) The number of pages hasn't changed (a good thing for the editor: the references still work :-) The "new" book claims to have "an extended section on ingredients, equipment, and decorative touches and detailed notes on how to customize the recipes to use the chocolate of your choice"... hmmm, let's see. Hey! "microplane" is now spelled "Microplane"! And the listings for Pastry Tips and Pastry Brushes have been flipped! Pastry Brushes goes first now!!
The only added feature (the aforementioned "detailed notes on how to customize the recipes to use the chocolate of your choice") is the "Chocolate Note" that appears on some (not all) of the recipies. Calling this feature "detailed" is a bit of a stretch, especially since many of these Notes consist primarily of "You can use any domestic bittersweet or semisweet chocolate that does not have a percentage on the label, or any boutique or imported brand marked 50 to 72 percent." Wow. Thanks. *Cough*
I love ya, Alice, but you could have done yourself (and your fans) a greater service by publishing this tome under its true title ("'A Year in Chocolate : Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts' Second edition, featuring a few cosmetic tweaks but the same pics") or, even better yet, given yourself full justice and treating us to another edition of "Cocolat: Extraordinary Chocolate Desserts" (a book that could be reissued without revision and still be worth rebuying 8-)
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