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Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals
Carolyn V. Platt , and
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Gelato: Finding Italy's Best Gelaterias (Happy Belly Guides)
Michael McGarry
Manufacturer: Fancy Pants Press
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Gelato!: Italian Ice Cream, Sorbetti & Granite
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The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book : A Complete Guide to Gelato, Sherbert, Granita, and Semmifreddo, Plus Frozen Cakes, Pies, Mousses, Chiffon Cakes, and ... of Ways to Customize Every Recipe to Your
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East Coast Scoops: Finding the Region's Best Ice Cream Parlors, Gelaterias, and Custard Stands
ASIN: 0974911801 |
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Gelato contains reviews of over fifty of the best gelaterias in Italy's most visited cities. Additional Gelato Lore sections explore the history and myths surrounding this long-revered treat and Tips & Info sections assist readers on a variety of gelato-related matters, including how to spot a worthwhile gelateria and an explanation of the differences between gelato and ice cream. With 4-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this book is truly gelato for the eyes. Whether recommending the sublime riso (rice) gelato at Florence's beloved Vivoli or the breathtaking view of Capri from Naples' Bilancioni, each entry presents up-to-date information for travelers looking to optimize their gelato consumption, while enjoying an authentic Italian custom. Stories range from Nero's quest for snow from remote mountains to how a Tuscan chicken farmer helped introduce gelato to France.
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A+ Guide.......2006-07-14
This is the perfect guide for anyone planning a trip to Italy. Pocket-sized, and beautifully illustrated, Gelato, will be the ultimate way for any tourist to get the inside scoop, literally, on Italy's gelato hot spots. Gelato is a way of life and with this book you can experience Italy through the eyes of someone who knows the best places and hippest areas in the country. This will definitely make your Italy trip all the better. If you like this book and want to learn about Michael McGarry's newest venture check out [...]
Useful and Funny.......2005-08-17
I was given this book right before I went to Italy for vacation. I am not the biggest Ice cream fan but I have been told that Gelato is an experience of its own, which I found to be very true. This book is very funny, it had me laughing out loud at certain parts. Not only does the author take you visually through the gelataria, he lets you know what to expect and gets you prepared to face the "gelato man". He even gives you tips for when you get jammed up, with what is call his "go to cones".
Great book!
Review from Dreamofitaly.com.......2005-08-03
When investment banker Michael McGarry's wife received a year-long art history fellowship in Bologna and Rome, he wasn't sure what he would do while she was working. A visit to Bologna's La Sorbetteria convinced him that his calling was gelato. And so began a year of first-hand research that culminated in this impressive book. If you love ice cream, you'll love this book. McGarry reviews over 50 gelaterias in northern Italy as well as Rome and Naples. He plans a follow-up volume on southern Italy and Sicily. Interspersed with reviews, McGarry explains the history of gelato and how it is to be eaten properly. He also includes a glossary of over 75 flavors, which is very helpful for any serious gelato lover/traveler. The author has a special place in his heart for the legendary Roman gelateria, Gioliti. "Half of it is the experience. It is always packed and there is always a scene he says," he says. Gelato changed McGarry's life. He has left investment banking and started his own publishing company.
Gelato:Finding Italy's Best Gelaterias.......2004-11-15
"Gelato: Finding Italy's..." by Michael McGarry is not only a book about Gelato, it is a "how to" book for enjoying Italy. I will give a copy to everyone I know who is embarking on a trip to Italy whether it's for the first or fifteenth time. It is well researched- full of history, practicle tips, and richly flavored with humor. The guide is well organized and creatively illustrated. And it's just the right size to fit in a large coat pocket next to your passport. However, if you're not planning a trip to Italy soon- you can still drool over this book at home- it will be the inspirations for a host of sweet dreams. Ciao, J Kordonowy
Ice Cream Convert.......2004-09-16
I was what you call a hardcore ice cream addict, eating a pint a day at my height. I owned 2 ice cream making machines and even painted my kid's room 31 colors in honor of Baskin-Robbins. Then, before a vacation to Italy a friend gave me this book - and I know this sounds cliche - but it changed everything. I was so intrigued that I had my first taste of gelato hours upon landing in Rome. Art museums be damned, I sought out a new gelateria daily with the help of this book. The book is dead-on in its descriptions of the establishments and is amusing as well. The way the author wraps his own experiences around the reviews make for that personal touch that you just don't see in food guides and such. Thanks to the book, I am now a proud gelato addict (and 10 pounds lighter, to boot!)
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In the 1930s the Public Works of Art Project of the Treasury Department started a program "to secure suitable art of the best quality for the embellishment of public buildings." Post offices built under the New Deal were among the beneficiaries of this program. In Indiana, thirty-six of the thirty-seven original murals still exist. The color photography by Darryl Jones, a noted Indianapolis photographer, brings the murals to life.
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Excellent history, well written with good photography.......1999-01-03
This is an excellent book, with a "guide-book" type of layout for the reader to get information on each of the murals individually.
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U.S. mail;: The story of the United States postal service,
Arthur E Summerfield
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0007DFFG4 |
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Wasted Effort.......2005-09-17
While the text provides some interesting information all the art work is in mostly poor black & white images. The book is a major disappointment.
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The History of the Post Office (The Timeline Library)
Barbara A. Somervill
Manufacturer: Child's World
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ASIN: 1592964419 |
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ART AND HISTORY COMBINED.......2004-05-26
You know the old saying, "One Man's Meat Is Another Man's Poison." Well, one man's art, in the case of surrealism, abstractionism, and a number of other forms, may be another man's anathema. However, it's a good bet to say that this collection of post office murals found in Texas holds every man's art.
These murals began during FDR's New Deal program that mandated a public relief program to provide jobs for unemployed artists. These artists were hired to create and paint murals in federal buildings throughout our country. This mandate was two fold - to provide the artist's with an income and to provide Depression weary Americans with objects offering hope and inspiration.
In this collection by Philip Parisi one finds 100 full-color paintings discovered in 69 Texas post offices. Subjects of the paintings are varied, ranging from Sam Houston to Quanah Parker, from cowboys to Longhorns, from pioneers to industry. Artist represented included such well known names as Tom Lea, Jerry Bywaters and Alexandre Hogue.
More than works of art these murals represent our history.
- Gail Cooke
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News in the Mail: The Press, Post Office, and Public Information, 1700-1860s (Contributions in American History)
Richard B. Kielbowicz
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Until telegraph lines spanned the continent in the 1860s, the post office and the press worked together as the most important mechanism for distributing news and public information. Public policy linked these complementary communication agencies; the post office provided free and low-cost news-gathering services for the press as well as subsidized delivery of publications to readers. News in the Mail charts the relationship between the press and post office from colonial times through the Civil War. The book explains why the federal government underwrote the circulation of printed matter and how the postal policies governing public information reflected the cultural tensions of the early and mid-nineteenth century. News in the Mail not only looks at the government's role in disseminating news and promoting communication, but also examines the structure and implications of the early U.S. communication system. This book is a valuable source for those interested in journalism, communications history, the history of federal policies and operations, postal history, and nineteenth-century American social history.
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Galilee, Jesus and the Gospels: Literary Approaches and Historical Investigations
Sean Freyne
Manufacturer: Fortress Pr
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Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture: A Gentle Reconstruction
Sue Bridwell Beckham
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began.
In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies.
Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.
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A Major Contribution.......2003-08-23
From time to time a book on aviation history comes along that is well researched, written with clarity and fills a void needed in the field. "Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth
of the Commercial Aviation Industry" by F.R. van der Linden is such a book. The content of the book has new material presented in a scholarly manner for those interested in the story of how the U.S. civil aviation industry was established in the United States between the two World Wars. This outside of the cockpit story is a dynamic dissertation that provides insight on how forward thinking individuals both in government and industry overcame bureaucracy, hidden agendas, uncertain budget cycles inside the two party political system to establish a new reliable and safe transportation system we know today as the Airlines. In addition, the author provides the reader with a detailed explanation of key events that drove the airline industry and government to make the kind of legislative, regulatory and management decisions they made during the turbulent decade of the 1930's.
Bottom line, this book, is a major contribution to written aviation history and will serve as an excellent source of factual history for those interested in airline development in the United States.
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Artist, writer, product designer, architect, graphic designer, illustrator, educator, and philosopher Bruno Munari created an enormously successful and utterly charming book in 1942 called Le Macchine di Munari. Faithfully reprinted here, it contains instructions for building the most fantastical of mechanical structures, including a machine for taming alarm clocks, a lizard-driven engine for tired tortoises, a mechanism for sniffing artificial flowers, a humiliator for mosquitoes, a machine for playing the pipe even when you are not home, a machine for seeing the dawn before anyone else, and a tail wagger for dogs.
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Munari is a genius.......2006-12-29
This is a great book. Munari is an inspiration in they way he thinks and approaches his work. Such fun!
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