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With a hey diddle diddle, the creators of Why Cats Paint return with another version of feline (and human) reality. And suffice it to say that in Burton Silver and Heather Busch’s hands, Kipling’s cat that walked by himself has turned into a deeply codependent dervish. Their first book was a brilliant parody of artspeak–Busch’s photos of creative felines matched by Silver’s text. Their second, Dancing with Cats–an epic three years in the making!–juxtaposes psychological and spiritual mumbo-jumbo with the language of dance criticism. As Silver explores everything from visualization to mirroring to empathy, Busch is busy with her human-feline pairs. In one sequence, Fred, clad in tabby tights, kitty-cat body paint, and a tanga with a long black tail, leaps about the place with a slightly puzzled pussy: “I share its grace, power, and oneness with the universe. I relate to Fluff and the whole spectrum of feline physicality on a profound level–I even regard birds differently.”
On the very next page, chubby Helen, sporting a tie-dyed purple gown and a deeply sworn belief in feng shui, identifies perhaps a bit too deeply with chunky, amber-eyed Boots (who looks suspiciously like “Trans-Expressionist” Bootsie from Why Cats Paint). And then there’s Sue and Zoot. In one photo, the recumbent gray and peach cat raises his left paw to the sky as his ecstatic human does the same. Then Sue dons a feathery jerkin “in order to dance out some of her past traumas.” It’s difficult to say which is funnier, the photos or the text, as Silver catches pseudo-therapy’s mixture of self-affirmation and non sequitur: “Dancing with Zoot helps Sue reenact and come to terms with the joy and sorrow of a brief but painful relationship: when she fell in love with her daughter’s father while he was photographing bridges in the neighborhood.” Though the two-legged models must have been prepared for this inspired silliness, one does wonder what on earth the cats made of their eurythmic adventures. Alas, until interspecies communication reaches a greater height, we can only dance amid our uncertainty! –Kerry Fried

Product Details

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books (June 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811824152
ISBN-13: 978-0811824156
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.7 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.10 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: based on 34 reviews. (Write a review.)

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21: Every Day Was New Year’s Eve

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:33:06 +0000

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Marketing Management (12th Edition) (Marketing Management)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:13:18 +0000

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Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar: Signal Processing Algorithms (Artech House Remote Sensing Library)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:51:30 +0000

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Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats–A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:00:52 +0000

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Food Network darling Ray wants home cooks to become more “instinctual,” and this assortment of quick meals is expansive enough to encourage even novices to wing it. The author hopes readers cook their way through the entire book; to that end, she organizes the recipes not by course or main ingredient (though there are indexes), but by number. The organization takes some getting used to. Helpful but occasionally jarring “tidbits” pop up everywhere, and many “recipes” make more than one dish, so cooking just one requires a fair amount of reading. For example, number 16 encompasses “Oregon-Style Pork Chops with Pinot Noir and Cranberries; Oregon Hash with Wild Mushrooms, Greens, Beets, Hazelnuts, and Blue Cheese; [and] Charred Whole-Grain Bread with Butter and Chives.” Readers making just the hash must read around the instructions for the other two dishes. Still, the recipes are great. They vary in technique and ethnicity, and many give instructions on expanding the dish (after making Spicy Shrimp and Penne with Puttanesca Sauce, for example, “now try” omitting the olives and capers, swapping linguine for the penne, reducing the number of shrimp, and adding lump crab meat and mussels to make Frutti di Mare and Linguine). As Ray would say, “Yummo.” (Nov.)
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Book Description
Even your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when itâ€™s in constant rotation, so mix it up! With her largest collection of recipes yet, Food Networkâ€™s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees youâ€™ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year… without a single repeat!

Based on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you donâ€™t have to reinvent the wheel every night. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and youâ€™ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Try your hand at Spring Chicken with Leeks and Peas and youâ€™re all set to turn out a rib-sticking Rice and Chicken Stoup that looks and tastes like an entirely different dish.

As a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows, Rachael Ray believes that both cooking and eating should be fun. Drawing from her own favorite dishes as well as those of her family, friends, and celebrities, she covers the flavor spectrum from Asian to Italian and dozens of delicious stops in between. Best of all, these flavor-packed dishes will satisfy your every craving and renew your taste for cooking. With so many delicious entrees to choose from youâ€™ll never have an excuse for being in a cooking rut again.

How about a brand-new 30-minute dinner every night for an entire year?

Tired of making the same old same old, week after week after week?

With Rachaelâ€™s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, youâ€™ll have everyone at your table saying â€œYummo!â€ all year long.

Itâ€™s amazing what a half hour can do for your tastebuds â€¦ 365 days a year!

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:42:38 +0000

Editorial Reviews

Book Description
Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you’ve finished perusing the volume, you’ll have a new understanding of the graphically rich, fully accessible sites that CSS design facilitates. In sections on design, layout, imagery, typography, effects, and themes, Dave and Molly take you through every phase of the design process–from striking a sensible balance between text and graphics to creating eye-popping special effects (no scripting required).

About the Author

Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential CSS Zen Garden Web site (www.csszengarden.com). As well as being a member of the Web Standards Project, Dave is the owner and director of Bright Creative, and he writes about all things Web for his daily weblog, mezzoblue.com. With over 6 years of experience working on the Web, Dave is a leader of the new generation of Web designers that believe in responsible Web design.

An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E. Holzschlag has written over 27 books related to Web design and development. She’s been coined “one of the greatest digerati” and deemed one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly is one of the most fun and vibrant Web characters around. As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. For more about Molly, check out www.molly.com.

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Product Details

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press (February 17, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN: 0321303474
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.79 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
average customer review: based on 63 reviews. (Write a review.)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,923 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
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Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG1 (Smart Pop series)

HART (1-800-HART) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:05:54 +0000

Book Description

The questions What mind-set is at the heart of the television series Stargate? and What really goes into the creation of each episode? are examined in this anthology. Featuring essays from such noted contributors as archaeologist Sue Linder-Linsley, astronomer Sten Odenwald, parasitologist Francine M. Terry, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and science fiction author Melanie A. Fletcher, this collection delves into every aspect of the series with the same humor and intellectual curiosity of the show itself. Commentary from the show’s special effects head, James Tichenor, and actor Tom McBeath is also featured.

About the Author

P. N. Elrod is the author of 20 novels, including the Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire series and the Vampire Files series. She lives in Ft. Worth, Texas. Roxanne Conrad has written 12 books, including Exile, Texas. She lives in Arlington, Texas.

Product Details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Benbella Books (October 28, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 1932100326
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.48 ounces

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Jimmy Stewart : The Truth Behind The Legend

HART (1-800-HART) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:56 +0000

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Sample Books – Designer Dogs

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:38:51 +0000

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