books about: essentials

books about: essentials

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Essentials

Eric Carle

Philomel, 1994

Charming Classic
The classic story about the little catepillar who starts at the beginning of the week as an egg, becames a very hungry catepiller and winds up as a butterfly. The book helps teach the days of the week, various foods and numbers as the catepillar winds the way ...

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)

Thomas Paine

Signet Classics, 2003

Freedom and Rights of man
I have read much on the history of our beautiful country and also of other countries as well. This book by Thomas Paine "COMMON SENSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN" is an extraordinary out line of how man should form his government and live in harmony with his fellow man ...

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chris Orwig

Adobe Press, 2008

Great support tool
Experienced and intermediate Lightroom users will find this a great reference. It's an excellent support tool, topically organized, in the order of Lightroom's modules and tools. If you need help with a particular tool, like the new gradient filter, it's simple to go ...

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

HarperFestival, 1991

Excellent read!
For some reason, my child loves this book and it remains a favourite bedtime story book! I like reading it to him since it is soothing.

The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most ...

Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Empowering Tool for Deliciousness
Prolific culinary author duo Page and Dornenburg are at it again! Supplying truly remarkable, creative,useful tools for the chef who desires max delicisiosio for their guests. This continues their trajectory in the earlier "Culinary Artistry" of not being ...

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Bill Martin Jr.

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1996

Sweet brown bear
Never get tired of this one... love that sweet brown bear and all his friends

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Christopher Hitchens

Da Capo Press, 2007

Of Course, There is no god! How stupid can you be?
Monsieur Christopher Hitchens has performed a necessary intellectual work of mercy. Once humankind desists from its vulgar notion of deity, it can begin the tiresome duties of keeping as much of us as possible alive. Since we are competently trained in ancient ...

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

New World Library, 2001

Another spiritual inspiration.
This is a wonderful companion piece to "The Power of Now". Meditation is a great stress reliever. And not worrying about where you came from or where you are going is the key to enjoying the present moment. great book.

Essential Words for the GRE (Barron's Essential Words)

Philip Geer

Barron's Educational Series, 2007

The Best
This book is very well organized, this book will help you to learn and memorize numerous words in short period. Each unit contains 10 words with explanation and examples, after that, there are some exercises that helps to memorize the words. In just 1 week, I ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)

Robert B. Cialdini

Collins Business, 2007

Should be required reading
Nutshell review - This should be required reading. It discusses and explains many ways in which we are being influenced and persuaded, often to our detriment. If you want to know how it is done, and how to defend yourself against it, then read this book - a few times.

Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (7th Edition) (MySocLab Series)

James M. Henslin

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Sociology review
I would like everyone to know that for a class that calls for the latest edition, which is usually hundreds of dollars, they can easily get an A with an older edition. I have proved it with this book. Even though the teacher said I would have a hard time I found ...

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...

Clayton M. Christensen

Collins Business, 2003

Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's ...

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

Collins Business, 2002

How companies "grow up"
Having already read the sequel, Inside the Tornado, I wondered whether this book had essentially been summarized in that one. While the basic premise of the technology adoption lifecycle is common to both books, this book, as the name implies, gives much more focus ...

Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) (Essential)

Colin Moock

Adobe Dev Library, 2007

Essential ActionScript 3.0 - Colin Moock
This book is brilliant. It's encyclopedic. It is a must-have to better understand AS 3 and to hopefully lower your frustration when coding. I am a designer fairly new to AS 3 and found this book gave clear, detailed explanations on every aspect of AS 3. Like an ...

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

Knopf, 1992

An essential book for a beginning chef...
...I've referred to this book over the years for technique and authenticity of Italian cooking...it is a wonderful book. I agree that it is on par with Julia Child's French cookbook. I've made many of the recipes and they are fabulous....the poached shrimp, easy and ...