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Knit Tricks!: 25 Stylish Projects from Simple Rectangles
Rebecca Wat
C&T Publishing, 2007
knit tricks, not too tricky
i requested this book as a gift, before it came out and not having seen what was inside of it. it's nothing ground breaking but the ideas and patterns really aren't too bad!
i know that lots of people hate non-shaped clothing. as a large busted (and i mean 44 ...
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Carpe Diem
Autumn Cornwell
Feiwel & Friends, 2007
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
With a name like Vassar, you would assume that the person would have her entire life planned out. And you would be absolutely correct. With the help of her goal-oriented parents, who have predicted which Ivy League school their daughter will attend by naming her after ...
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Vietnam and Angkor Wat (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
DK Publishing
DK Travel, 2007
Great!
Like all the Eyewitness Guides I've used, this is chock full of pictures and lively information. I'm sure it will be hugely useful on my trip.
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Angkor Wat & Siem Reap Encounter (Best Of)
Nick Ray
Lonely Planet, 2008
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My Century (New York Review Books Classics)
Aleksander Wat
NYRB Classics, 2003
History as remembered
Aleksander Wat created this exceptional memoir solely by talking to Czeslaw Milosz during one year in Berkeley in the sixties. The memories of Wat (at that time already ill and very depressed) together with questions put to him by Milosz, a Nobel Prize winning poet and ...
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Fantastic Fabric Folding: Innovative Quilting Projects
Rebecca Wat
C&T Publishing, 2000
Excellent!
I absolutely loved this book and also bought A Fresh Twist on Fabric Folding. Both are beautifully illustrated and the instructions are simple and clear. The color photographs make it very easy to follow the steps. I have made several "flowers" as well as the other ...
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Frommer's Vietnam: Including Angkor Wat (Frommer's Complete)
Sherisse Pham
Frommers, 2008
Well Done
I used this book while in Vietnam in August 2006. It was very helpful in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Cannot comment on it's usefulness in other cities.
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A Fresh Twist on Fabric Folding: 6 Techniques--20 Quilt & Decor Projects
Rebecca Wat
C&T Publishing, 2006
Excellent!
I absolutely loved this book and also bought Fantastic Fabric Folding. Both are beautifully illustrated and the instructions are simple and clear. The color photographs make it very easy to follow the steps. I have made several "flowers" as well as the other ...
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Hooway for Wodney Wat
Helen Lester
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2002
Hooway for Wodney Wat
Munsinger's expressive watercolors give the comical rats depth and personality. A great help for children with speech problems. How not being able to pronounce r's and being teased about it can turn into an asset. Wodney ends up saving his whole class from Camilla ...
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Angkor Wat (Unearthing Ancient Worlds)
Alison Behnke
Twenty-First Century Books (CT), 2008
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Selected Articles on Buddhism
Somdej Phra Nyanasamvara (Suvaddhanamahathera)
Wat Bovornives Vihara, 1989
A paperback book in English, printed in Thailand, covering many aspects of Buddhism: uniformity versus multiformity,the contemplation of feelings, moral conduct (sila), the six groups of feelings, and much more. Hard-to-find stateside.
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Accordion War: Korea 1951--Life and Death in a Marine Rifle Company
Trafford, 2006
Heart and Soul--Blood and Love
Charles Hughes saw the best and the worst of warfare in Korea as a medical corpsman in the USMC. Here are plenty of fireworks for those who like action adventure, and here are the Thoreauvian reflections of a wise and good man who writes beautifully about his ...
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Jack the Ripper
William Beadle
Wat Tyler Books, 1995
Elementary My Dear Watson
William Beadle totaly deflates all the other Ripper myths to arrive at the conclusion of who he believes to be the real Ripper. An excellent Ripper book.
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Buddhist Temple Life in Laos: Wat Lok Pa Luang
Ilse Schrama
Orchid Press, 2006
A sensitively written and beautifully presented photographic essay exploring the lives of a community of Buddhist monks and nuns, young and old, in Laos. This is a unique record of some of the less obvious facets of the devotees' lives of hardship and joy.
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Past Lives of the Bhudda: Wat Si Chum and the Art of Sukhothai
Prapod Assavavirulhakarn
River Books Press Dist A/C, 2007
Wat Si Chum is unique among Sukhothai temples. Inside, lining the ceiling of a dark and narrow staircase that leads to an open roof, are 86 inscribed stone reliefs depicting Jatakas, the former lives of Gotama Buddha. Their unique character and unusual arrangement have puzzled generations of scholars.
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