Non-Fiction Reviews Archive

What Happened Here? San Francisco Knowledge Cards
by
Pomegranate
ISBN: 0-7649-2955-0

This is just one of a nifty set of cards that make great fun and good games...[more]

A Fine Romance: Hollywood/Broadway
by Darcie Denkert
Billboard Books
ISBN: 0-8230-7774-8

Imagine that Hollywood and Broadway are streets that cross each other...[more]

The Theatermania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings
by Michael Portantiere
Backstage Books
ISBN: 0-8230-8435-3

I love musical theater, and this book is a real gem. This is the most comprehensive collection of such recordings dating back to the beginning of the Twentieth Century...[more]

Madvertising
by David Shayne
Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 0-8230-3081-4

Mad Magazine has been around now for some fifty years. Here is a collection of the "Mad" takeoff on the advertising world...[more]

Pineapple Lace
by Vogue Staff Nihon
Japan Publications Trading
ISBN: 4-8899-6189-5

I cannot do this kind of knit work. I remember that my granny could and did make a lot of lacy doilies for the family, and I still use some of them...[more]

Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook : Culinary Cartoons for the Humo
by Allen Weiss, Charles Addams
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0-7432-6775-3

Taking the word "culinary" to a most hideous extent, Charles Addams shows why he was the master of dark humor...[more]

Unfold/ Enfold
by Kveta Pacovska
Chronicle Books
ISBN: 2-0206-9417-4

This is another beautiful and confounding book from this publisher...[more]

City Walks San Francisco
by Christina Henry de Tessan
Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0-8118-4563-x

Walking is good for you and if you happen to in San Francisco here are some great walks...[more]

Scrapbook Styles: Celebrate Your Stories
by Anita Louise Crane, Caroll McKanna Shreeve
Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 0-8230-6842-0

If you are into scrapbooking or just beginning to think that this might be fun you will find many ideas and methods fully explained in this book...[more]

Farm Aid : A Song for America
by Willie Nelson
Rodale Books
ISBN: 1-59486-285-0

Here we have a rich souveneir from the historiacal event called Farm Aid...[more]

Our Eleanor : A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable
by Candace Fleming
Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN: 0-6898-6544-9

Author Candice Flemming give us scrapbook to savor. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of a president and a major figure in her own right is well worth passing on to yong people...[more]

Underground Buildings: More Than Meets the Eye
by Loretta Hall
Quill Driver Books
ISBN: 1-8849-5627-0

I was surprised to find that there are so many buildings that were built underground...[more]

Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Bric
by Meinhardt Raabe, Daniel Kinske, Mickey Rooney
Backstage Books
ISBN: 0-8230-9193-7

Welcome to this delightful walk that is fully illustrated down the Yellow Brick Road of OZ...[more]

The Making of
by Walt Disney Productions
Boxtree
ISBN: 0752225855

I wish I could report that this handsome book shows the wonders of the recently released film...[more]

Is For Good Men To Do Nothing
by Chris Verrill
Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1-4134-5674-X

What was your initial reaction to the September 11th atrocity? For Chris Verrill, the first reaction of shock was quickly followed by a burning desire to do something constructive...[more]

Fashions of the Thirties : 476 Authentic Copyright-Free Illustra
by Carol Belanger Grafton
Dover Publications
ISBN: 0-4862-7580-9

One of Dover's gems for anyone interested in clipping, scrapbooking or any form of using these wonderful images...[more]

The Big Book of Designs for Letterheads and Websites
by David E. Carter
Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 0-8230-0488-0

Everybody wants have their own website these days. You and me and the fellow next door...[more]

Government Phone Book USA 2005: A Comprehensive Guide To Federal
by
Omnigraphics
ISBN: 0-7808-0693-X

This amazing new edition of an important directory for business folks to own is updated for this year...[more]

Athabaskan Language Studies: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Young
by Robert W. Young, Eloise Jelinek
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0-8263-1705-7

This heavy book is a collection of essays on the works of one Robert Young and his study of the Navajo language...[more]

Dishing : Great Dish -- and Dishes -- from America's Most Belove
by Liz Smith
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0-7432-5156-3

When it come to "dishing" the information about the famous and the notorious there is no one any better to listen in on...[more]