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8 reviews
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

For Dummies, 2001

Excellent Resource on French Wine
This book hits it right on the head. An excellent, easy to read reference guide on French wine. The book is well-organized and provided good tips and pronunciation keys to help navigate through the French language. This book is a must for the professional or amateur alike and a good value for the money. Useful appendixes contain vintage charts and a handy guide to classes of wine under the ...

War and the Iliad

3 reviews
Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff

NYRB Classics, 2005

Historic Rescue from the Sands of Time
Besides being thankful to the New York Review of Books for publishing some of the most intelligent and expansive literary criticism around, we can now be grateful for one more gift from the series of New York Review Classics. This one, two essays ostensibly on the Iliad by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff, attains the very special pantheon of a glorious literary event. Both pieces were written ...

Red Wine for Dummies

7 reviews
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

For Dummies, 1996

Easy to understand, complete in its coverage
As I wrote in a previous review of The Sommelier's Guide to Wine, I am just beginning my introduction to the fascinating world of wine. While the former book has been invaluable, so has this - Red Wine for Dummies. As always, the language is very accessible and the subject material easy to understand, even when some of the more difficult or intimidating aspects of wine are discussed (such as ...

The Human Challenge: Managing Yourself and Others in Organizations (7th Edition)

1 review
Mary L. Tucker, Anne M. McCarthy, ...

Prentice Hall, 2002

tediously dull writing and uninteresting layout
A required textbook for my kid's college class. I have an MBA and am usually interested in anything having to do with business. I thumbed through this very expensive book and gratefully closed it after slogging through a few numbing pages. If you're a business teacher thinking about using it for a class, do the world a favor, put your copy out of its misery and send it to goodwills.

The Group

16 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harvest Books, 1991

A must have read ! Sweeping, emotional, unmistakable !
Mary McCarthy tells the emotional and ,for the time she lived in, really provocating story of eight friends that want to go their own way in life, career and love after their exam at Vassar in 1933. A group that couldn't be better mixed up, from a beauty to ugly one, from poor to rich, from profound to superficial, from ambitious to lazy.... Mary McCarthy shows the women in a period of 7 years, ...

Wine For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking))

62 reviews
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

For Dummies, 2006

Great book for beginners!
This book is really helping me learn the basics of wine. It helps you know what to look for in a good wine, and to help direct you to wines you may like. I am really enjoying it!

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

7 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harvest Books, 1972

Young Mary
As an off-again, on-again admirer of Mary McCarthy, I sometimes wondered if she ever had a childhood or just appeared full-blown, rapier-witted and sword at her side. While never doubting her talent, reading her was frequently as pleasant as drinking a glass of vitriol. Mary indeed had a childhood, and unusual it was. I am sure it marked her forever to lose both her parents within a week of one ...

Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialectics

3 reviews
Jack L Nelson, Stuart B. Palonsky, ...

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006

Subjective Evaluation
The arguments are, as stated in 1st review, slanted. They are supposed to be! The book uses a pro vs. con argument format and tries not to judge. Summary is limited to a mild discussion of the importance of the issue. I was required to use it in an education course and actually kept the book. I was looking for an updated version when I stumbled here, although in education as in all things it ...

The Stones of Florence

18 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harvest Books, 2002

Concise Historical View
This account of the history of Florence is a good, basic, easy read. The opening chapter lowers any visitors' expectations of the area, especially in comparison to other cities in Italy. Yet, Ms. McCarthy reveals that this area has had a notable rich past. Her research discloses the unique historical events that took place over the centuries that allow us to understand the personalities of the ...

Italian Wine for Dummies

5 reviews
Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Ed McCarthy

For Dummies, 2001

A Modern View of Italian Wine
Italian wine was for many years seldom more than pretty good--and then something wonderful happened: the global economy. All of a sudden winemakers everywhere were competing for customers everywhere, and for most of them that meant they had to improve quality, and fast. Italian winemakers responded and successfully to the challenge. They now produce some of the most esteems top-of-the-line wines ...

The Company She Keeps

3 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harvest/HBJ Book, 2003

McCarthy's first book and one of her best
The book consists of six somewhat lengthy "episodes" dealing with a young woman in the 1930s who runs with a very intellectual and bohemian crowd. All of the episodes are interesting and well told, but the best is "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt." It is so good that it alone is worth the cost of the book. It describes an encounter between the young woman and a young man on a train, in which ...

Cape May for All Seasons

6 reviews
Mary T. McCarthy

Preservation Media., 1998

What an excellent book!
I was so pleased after I read the book. I am a big fan of Cape May and I try and go often during the summer. After reading the book, I'll be visiting every season!

Making Books by Hand: A Step-by-Step Guide

9 reviews
Mary McCarthy, Phillip Manna

Quarry Books, 2000

A direct, to-the-point, "user friendly" instructional guide
The collaborative effort of self-employed book artist Mary McCarthy and educator/writer Philip Manna, Making Books By Hand: A Step-By-Step Guide is a direct, to-the-point, "user friendly" instructional guide to the art and craft of creating beautiful and useful scrapbooks, photo albums, diaries, blank books, and more. Full-color photographs illustrate each part of the process of crafting ...

The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed (Penguin Modern Classics)
Mary McCarthy

Penguin Classics, 2006

Critical Thinking: Reading and Writing in a Diverse World

1 review
Joan Rasool, Caroline Banks, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Thinking Critically!
Excellent book, with "different" excercises that stimulates the mind into thinking in a different manner. Digs deeply into the manner into which we think, and analyzes every aspect. This book is a standard resource at all Bryant & Stratton college campuses....

Venice Observed (Art and Places)

7 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harvest Books, 1963

Pure pleasure
This is one of McCarthy's most delightful books, although it may also be her least controversial. VENICE OBSERVED might be the best single travel book ever written on Venice, and MCarthy's tone is leisurely and informative, her style witty and engaging. Her asides about her personal experiences in the city complement her grander historical and artistic musings: you never feel alienated from her ...

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis: Adult, Child, Women's Psychiatric, Gerontic & Home Health ...

4 reviews
Mittie D. Hinz, Mary Ann Lubno, ...

F. A. Davis Company, 2002

Clinical Applications of Nursing Diagnosis
This textbook on nursing diagnosis is an indispensible guide in creating the nursing diagnosis. It is well organized and easy to read. The diagnoses are grouped according to the 11 functional health patterns. Interventions are simple and broken down into easy to apply format. Additionally, interventions are listed for adults, women, psychiatric, gerontic, and for the home health care ...

Risk From the CEO and Board Perspective: What All Managers Need to Know About Growth in a Turbulent World

6 reviews
Mary Pat McCarthy, Tim Flynn

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Highly Recommended
This is an easily accessible, short and reasonably thorough introduction to the subject of risk. The authors touch on almost every dimension of the topic, including financial risk, operational risk, reputation risk, governance risk and even the risk of terrorist attack. The book might have been quite a bit shorter and somewhat more focused on corporate management if the authors, KPMG vice chairs ...

Vino Para Dummies/wine For Dummies

1 review
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Norma S A Editorial, 2004

Excelente Libro!!
Un excelente libro para los que comienzan a degustar esta maravillosa bebida y quieren saber más.

White Wine for Dummies

4 reviews
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

For Dummies, 1996

Tempranillo in Spain
Style, terrior of Rioja, production and influence, and the famous brand

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