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Golf by Design: How to Lower Your Score by Reading the Features of a Course

Few people understand the game of golf better than Robert Trent Jones, Jr. In this book, he draws on his life-time of experience as both a designer and a player to teach golfers how to improve their game by analyzing each hole from a designer's perspective - how to beat the course by outwitting its architect. From tee to green, from fairway to rough, Jones decodes the designer's intentions, explaining how architects use optical illusions, elevation changes, forced carries, trees, sand, and even different types of grasses to challenge a golfer's playing skills. He then presents expert strategies for counterattack - from constructing the ideal approach shot to taking advantage of the wind and playing across water. Peppered with delightful personal anecdotes about the construction of many of the world's most dramatic courses, illustrated throughout with dazzling color photographs and instructive diagrams and drawings, Golf By Design is a not-to-be-missed guide to one of the world's best-loved pastimes.

Black & Decker Complete Guide to Dream Bathrooms: Design Yourself & Save - Features New Products & Materials - Step-by-Step Instructions (Black & Decker Complete Guide)

Carving Eyes: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating Realistic Features and Expressions (Carving Expressions in Wood)

Carving realistic facial features poses a challenge to even the most experienced carver. Through step-by-step photographs, this guide shows woodworkers how to correctly position the eyes on a carving, how to create the proper shapes, and how to correct common design mistakes. Carvers will be able to more accurately carve lashes, brows, and pupils. Also discussed is information on anatomy to help carvers better understand how the muscles of the face dictate expression. Details on carving tools, carving wood, and reference material are included as well.

Carving the Nose & Mouth: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating Realistic Features and Expressions (Carving Expressions in Wood)

Big-Block Quilts by Magic: 30 Projects from Squares & Rectangles, Features Easy & Accurate Diamond-Free Technique, 14 Bonus Quilting Designs

* Big blocks mean big results fast!
* Lots of ideas using only squares and rectangles--no complicated angles
* Show off special fabrics

Now perfect piecing is perfectly simple with techniques from block expert Nancy Johnson-Srebro--and all of them use only squares and rectangles. Even stars are easy using the exciting Diamond-Free Star technique! Clear, easy-to-use charts show exactly how to cut and assemble blocks that showcase favorite fabrics in quilts, pillows, and pillowcases. Two quilting options for each project mean lots of great choices.

The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them

THE BOOK LOVER’S COOKBOOK

Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature
and the Passages that Feature Them

Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen
Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermilk Scones, courtesy of James Herriot’s All Things Bright and Beautiful and Ichabod’s Slapjacks, as featured in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. There’s homey comfort food like Connie May's Tomato Pie, created with and inspired by Connie May Fowler (Remembering Blue); Thanksgiving Spinach Casserole (Elizabeth Berg’s Open House); and Amish Chicken and Dumplings (Jodi Picoult's Plain Truth) . . . Sample salads, breads, and such soul-warming soups as Nearly-a-Meal Potato Soup (Terry Kay’s Shadow Song); Mr. Casaubon’s Chicken Noodle Soup (George Eliot’s Middlemarch); and Mrs. Leibowitz’s Lentil-Vegetable Soup (Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes) . . . After relishing appetizers and entrees, there’s a dazzling array of desserts, including Carrot Pudding (Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol); Effie Belle’s Coconut Cake (Olive Ann Burns’s Cold Sassy Tree); and the kids will love C.S. Lewis's Turkish Delight from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Sprinkled throughout with marvelous anecdotes about writers and writing, The Book Lover’s Cookbook is a culinary and literary delight, a browser’s cornucopia of reading pleasure, and a true inspiration in the kitchen.
Shaunda Kennedy Wenger enjoys creative cooking and writing children’s stories and articles. She is currently working on a novel. Her work has been published in Babybug, Ladybug, Wonder Years, American Careers, South Valley Living, and Short-Short Stories for Reading Aloud (The Education Center, 2000). She is an active member of the League of Utah Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She regards her monthly book club meeting as one life’s essential ingredients.

Janet Kay Jensen is published in Healing Ministry journal and The Magic of Stories. She has received numerous awards for essays, poetry, and short stories, including three ByLine Magazine honorable mentions. A speech-language pathologist, she holds degrees from Utah State University and Northwestern University. She is writing a novel, teaches poetry classes to jail inmates, and is a literacy tutor. Married and the mother of three sons, she is a consultant at Utah State University.

TASTY RECIPES AND THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THEM

Jo’s Best Omelette . . . Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
No Dieter’s Delight Chicken Neapolitan . . . Thinner by Stephen King
Extra-Special Rhubarb Pie . . . The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Grand Feast Crab Meat Casserole . . . At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Persian Cucumber and Yogurt . . . House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Tamales . . . Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Bev's No-Fuss Crab Cakes . . . Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
Macaroni and Cheese . . . The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Veteran Split Pea Soup . . . The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Alternative Carrot-Raisin-Pineapple Salad . . . Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Summer’s Day Cucumber-Tomato Sandwiches . . .
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Refreshing Black Cows . . . The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Dump Punch . . . Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Not Violet, But Blueberry Pie
. . . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Innocent Sweet Bread . . . The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Daddy's Rich Chocolate Cake . . . Fatherhood by Bill Cosby


. . . and many other delectable dishes for the literary palate!



From the Hardcover edition.

Secret ORACLE - Unleashing the Full Potential of the ORACLE DBMS by Leveraging Undocumented Features

Secret ORACLE is the definitive guide to undocumented and partially documented features of the ORACLE database server. This book will improve your efficiency as an ORACLE database administrator and enable you to master more difficult administrative, tuning, and troubleshooting tasks than you ever thought possible. Topics covered include: The MERITS performance optimization method, which extends the state-of-the-art wait event tuning paradigm. Controlling processes of an ORACLE instance with the fragmentarily documented ORADEBUG command to trace SQL statements as well as wait events and dump process state, call stack, and hang analysis information. Tracing the cost based optimizer to understand its cost calculations and decisions. Understanding hidden parameters that govern Automatic PGA Memory Management. Leveraging undocumented features of the Oracle10g/11g scheduler and other partially or fully undocumented PL/SQL packages, such as DBMS_SYSTEM, DBMS_SUPPORT, and DBMS_UTILITY.

The Magic of Acrylic Painting with Brenda Harris Series 4 (Features 4 easy to paint projects with step by step instructions, 4)

The Magic of Acrylic Painting with Brenda Harris Series 3 (Features 5 easy to paint projects with step by step instructions, #3)

The RKO Features: A Complete Filmography of the Feature Films Released or Produced by RKO Radio

Noted for its "B" westerns, RKO also produced several movie classics; two were Citizen Kane and Gunga Din. Comprehensive filmographic data are included here for all of the studioÂ’s features: title, year of release, production credits, cast, genre, running time, alternate titles, availability on videocassette, and plot synopsis. Many entries give background information on the filmÂ’s production and stars.