September 2012 | Built In Entertainment Center

The Site Book : A Field Guide to Commercial Real Estate Evaluation (Mesa Professional Development Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is great for everyone from the beginner to the seasoned sales forecaster. I browse it every now and again to remind myself that there are fundamentals to this business, and we know how costly veering from those can be.It's a fast read, and I highly recommend it to those doing site selection.Click...

Popular Woodworking Practical Shop Math Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is one of those rare ones where the title literally says it all: It's a practical shop math guide; however, it's also a little more than that.The book starts with a review of basic math, focusing on operations involving fractions, followed by a review of basic geometry. The material about converting...

Moon Coastal Maine: Including Acadia National Park (Moon Handbooks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Moon" books were recommended to us as great books on travel. We are going to Maine and we have never been. We bought the book and love reading about this great state. This book has it all and is the perfect place to start a trip. We feel like we have had a great briefing. It would take much longer than...

The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love old movies. They have some kind of magic that sadly I can't find in movies today. What this book does is to study the classical years- The classical narrative and how the system, style and people made together these classical movies. The starting point of this book is that almost all of the movies...

Getting Around Tokyo Pocket Atlas and Transportation Guide: Includes Yokohama, Kamakura, Yokota, Yokosuka, Hakone and MT Fuji Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been collecting and reading Boye De Mente's books for over 25 years. He knows Japan better than most people know their home country. He knows the culture, subculture, geography, people, history but most of all he can write it in such a way that the reader comes away enlightened are far more knowledgeable...

In Praise of Commercial Culture Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Tyler Cowen has done an outstanding job of making the case for free competition in cultural pursuits. Culture and commerce are revealed not as antagonists, but as complementary. The tension between them enriches both. Stands the Marxist cultural critique on its head. Must reading for anyone seriously...

Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America's Baseball Landmarks Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I cannot remember enjoying a baseball book this much. It focuses on hundreds of historic baseball landmarks, and the breadth of places is fascinating. There are all of the classic former ballpark sites like the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field, complete with a description and photos of what is there now....

Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Cultural Tourism - The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management" presents a strong and well argued case for building a vital and productive partnership between two potentially competing interest groups. The book is an excellent and thorough disertation and expansion on the principles...

Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City & the People of God Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is THE text book that everyone involved in urban ministry needs to read. Conn & Ortiz have worked together to create a book that covers almost every aspect of urban ministry, not only informing the reader of the challenges of urban ministry, but equipping the reader to face those challenges....

Trapped (Pete the Cat) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Pete, the cat, has helped to write another good story. This time he helps a pig in trouble. Pete understands what his humans are saying but is not pleased that they never seem to listen to him. If you like a well-written story, this one's for you.Click Here to see more reviews about: Trapped (Pete the...

Shopping for Furniture: A Consumer's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Mr. Lewin's guide was the most complete source I could find covering everything from different types of raw materials used in making furniture to how to buy from retailers. He has amassed a wealth of knowledge in his 36 years in the business and shares the information in an enjoyable manner. He covers...

Vastu Living: Creating a Home for the Soul Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Finally someone with a good knowledge base has written an introductory book for Western readers on Vastu Shastra! Thank you, Kathleen, for writing this very helpful book. The information is very useful in creating more harmonious living and working environments. It is also a wonderful companion to studies...

Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro's Cuba Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Henry Louis Taylor has produced an accessible and important work with Inside El Barrio. His review of the pre-revolutionary period gives us an excellent grasp of the ways in which the U.S. military occupation set the stage for continued exploitation and suppression of the Cuban people through the first...

Living In Singapore, An Expatriate's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This recently published guide covers the key topics a Singapore expat needs to know. I was pleasantly surprised to find how much was covered - not just the essentials I'd learned on my own over the last few years living in Singapore, but also new things I never knew before but wanted to know. Like what...

Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been a professional college counselor for more than 10 years, and I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's an upstart title in the college guidebook industry - this is the first edition - but it has such a novel take on the process, and offers such innovative features, that I'll be very...

No Worries Hawaii: A Vacation Planning Guide for Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In my work at Guide to Travel Guides, we concentrate on finding excellent travel books from smaller publishers, books that travelers may not yet be familiar with. No Worries Hawaii, newly published in late 2007, is just such a book. Really a travel planning guide without peer. Its 160 pages are fabulous...

Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Nestled on Biscayne Bay, Miami is barely one hundred years old. Yet its natural assets, primarily weather and water, have inspired successive generations of architects to create an urban and suburban lifestyle unlike that of any major city in the world.Published in time for the first convention of the...