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A textbook designed for all students of foodservice management. Divided into four parts, providing an overview of the industry, a chapter on each of the operational functions of foodservice, a section on foodservice facilities, and a section tying all of the concepts together in the various aspects of management. Previous edition: c1997. DLC: Foodservice Management. ... Read more

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Handicrafts are fast becoming a favorite American pasttime. Another, of course, is a good mystery. Combine the two and you have this delightfully different anthology on the art and craft of murder, in which the likes of knitting needles, handblown glass, wood files, and adhesives prove to be implements of a nastier sort of handiwork. ... Read more

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crafts
This books has a unique idea: murder and mystery side-by-side with crafts. The mix of authors is fun to read, and a good way to see their different styles. And besides the stories there are craft how-tos.

A Good Arrangement
I'm not big on short mystery stories, mainly because the plot seems to be either way too thin to offer much intrigue, or way too complicated to be packed into a few thousand words. I was pleasantly surprised with Murder Most Crafty. Most of the stories were meaty enough to offer some level of speculation regarding "whodunit," while not too complicated to follow. I found some old favorites, as well as some new authors to check out - and the craft projects were an added plus.

A Mixed Bag of Suspense and Crafts
"Murder Most Crafty" offers the reader 15 short stories which combine murder/suspense with a "craft" theme.Each short story is followed by a simpleintroductory project for the craft featured in the story.Crafts run the gamut from basket-making and fly-tying, to making paper by hand. As in any collection of stories, the quality of the stories varies widely.My favorites in the collection were "How to Make a Killing Online", by Victoria Houston, "The Deepest Blue" by Sujita Massey, and "The Collage to Kill for" by Susan Wittig Albert.In "How to Make A Killing Online", wemeet a crafter of dry flies, Martha Estabrook, who gets mixed up with a online stalker.Ms. Houston is a new author for me, but this great story will certainly prompt me to check out her other books."The Deepest Blue" features information on the Japanese method of dying indigo cloth, and was a well-told mystery.Ms. Albert's story "The Collage to Kill For" features her heroine China Bayles and was thoroughly enjoyable, especailly for fans of the China Bayles series. Other authors whose stories are in the collection are: Maggie Bruce, Jan Burke, Dorothy Cannell, Susan Dunlap, Monica Ferris and Denise Williams, Parnell Hall, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Tim Myers, Sharan Newman, Gillian Roberts, and Paula Woods.

Many of the stories feature characters in existing series, which readers unfamiliar with the series might have trouble following.That is my main criticism of the book, that many of the tales were hard to appreciate if you aren't familiar with the author's stories.Still, if you are a fan of "hobby mysteries" you might enjoy discovering new authors featured in this book.

Too much crafts, not enough craft
This is supposed to be a short-story murder-mystery anthologywhere all the stories have a "crafts" tie-in. Unfortunately, it serves as an excellent example of the things I find wrong with much of the current "hobby mysteries" craze.

There are 14 stories in the collection, all by authors with at least one professionally-published murder mystery to their name. Out of that 14, four aren't murder mysteries at all; they're descriptions of how the killer got away with it. Another is about a theft rather than a murder, but is otherwise competently written. Several of the stories veer sharply away from mystery and into horror; one of those has no sympathetic character anywhere in the story, and its ending is so ambiguous as to go well beyond "making the reader think" and over into "making the reader say, 'What the fleep is supposed to have happened here?'" And one story telegraphs its ending in the second scene, then proceeds straight to said ending without even the courtesy to the reader of a single red herring -- "mystery" on the fourth-grade reading level.

The important thing about each and every one of these stories isn't the mystery; it's the craft-project instructions at the end. And you can tell which of the authors cared enough about their readers to come up with a reasonably well-crafted mystery as well as a craft project, and which ones just dashed off the first idea with a crafts connection that came into their heads, took the check, and ran.

I might look into the series novels by a couple of the listed authors, but this book is going straight into the cull box for the secondhand store. Which is where I suggest you look for it, especially if you like to play with the project instructions in hobby-mystery books, because they're pretty clearly the part the writers and the editor spent the most effort on.

superb anthology
Though technological advances have made mass production not only much easier but customized so the phenomena of craft shops and shows around the country might seem like an anachronism but remain very popular.This fifteen short story collection anthology adds murders as the extra ingredient in the artistic crafts.The tales are top rate with each hooking the audience (and not just because the star is making a rug) as the reader seeks the pattern to the homicide.Fan favorites include China Bayles, Lili Marino, Betsy Devonshire, Rei Shimura, Catherine Levendeuer, etc.In other words, some of the craftier series sleuths star in these shorts.Each author provides a craft tip, but what make MURDER MOST CRAFTY worth reading are the latest appearances of some of our favorite detectives starring in fine tales.

Harriet Klausner
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Core text for foodservice management and/or Introduction to Foodservice courses in dietetics and Hotel Restaurant programs. Appropriate for 2 year colleges. ... Read more

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For more than a century the incomparable beauty of Point Lobos has drawn admirers from around the world. The jagged rock outcroppings, driftwood-strewn beaches, and silhouetted cypress trees, twisted grotesquely by the wind, were favorite subjects for photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. Point Lobos is also a favorite playground for seals, sea lions, and otters, and migrating grey whales pass just offshore. Barking sea lions reminded 18th-century Spanish explorers of sea wolves, in their tongue, lobos marinos, and so they named it Point of the Sea Wolves. Now a California State Reserve, Point Lobos draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. ... Read more

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Beautifully constructed...
I grew up in Carmel, just a few miles from Point Lobos, with family roots in the area, so I thought I knew the history of Point Lobos. Such a beautiful, gem-like block of land, it has attracted the attention of artists for many decades, most notably Ed Weston. It turns that the history is both deeper and richer than I knew, and I owe my knowledge of it to this book.

It isn't about the beauty of the landscape but rather the history of the people who dwelt there, usedthe land, and ultimately preserved it. It puts faces and names to the place and demonstrates what a near-run thing it was to have this land preserved at all.

This book presents both the beauty and the people using small amounts of carefully written text paired with many, many well-chosen historical photographs. If you live near or have a love of Point Lobos and the middle California coast, then I think you'll find this a fascinating addition to your library or coffee table. ... Read more

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Written by a team of experienced authors, the texts provide examples of all the required text ranges including reports, explanations, instructional texts, recounts and biography.Each book is strikingly illustrated providing early readers with clear visual cues to the words and meaning of the text.In turn, the text provides plenty of practice in reading the prescribed high-frequency vocabulary and the context words related to the topic. Available either as a mixed pack of six different titles or as a class pack of six of each of six different titles. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 1023 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Wonder bread.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Author: Wendy Smith
Publication: American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 77Issue: 1Page: 4(2)

Article Type: Letter to the editor

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Ce livre de poche permet au premier coup d'oeil de voir clairement et distinctement tous les détails dont on a besoin pour réaliser un bon examen. Avec ses «trucs et astuces», cet ouvrage présente tous les critères d'un cliché bien radiographié. Plus de 200 dessins ont été réalisés, pour indiquer l'essentiel, accessible au premier coup d'oeil. Des schémas bicolores facilitent la compréhension. Des détails tels que plans de projection, rayon directeur, position de la cassette sont clairement indiqués. Des paragraphes bien structurés décrivent les paramètres, la position du patient, la technique d'examen, les variantes... Des techniques d'incidences anglo-américaines ont été incluses afin de donner à cet ouvrage une valeur d'application universelle. ... Read more