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Anyone can yell 'Let's get Naked!', but it takes a true artist to make that command a testament to illustrative excellence. Enter Bruce Colero, in his third gallery of fleshy perfection that fans just cannot get enough of! Who are we to argue with excessive success?!

Erica Gibson’s comprehensive guide provides a much-needed catalogue of ceramic makers' marks of British, French, German, and American origin found in North American archaeological sites. Consisting of nearly 350 marks from 112 different manufacturers from the mid-19th through early 20th century, this catalog provides full information on both the history of the mark and its variants, as well as details about the manufacturer. A set of indexes allow for searches by manufacturer, location, mark elements, and common words used. This guide will be of interest not only to historical archaeologists, but material culture specialists, collectors, museum professionals, students, art historians, and others interested in ceramics.

Despite the fact that Chaucer introduced Petrarch's work into England in the late fourteenth century, Petrarch's influence has been very little studied. This book, the first full-length study of Chaucer's reading and translation of Petrarch, examines Chaucer's translations of Petrarch's Latin prose and Italian poetry against the backdrop of his experience of Italy, gained through his travels there in the 1370s, his interaction with Italians in London, and his reading of the other two great Italian medieval poets, Boccaccio and Dante. The book also considers Chaucer's engagement with early Italian humanism and the nature of translation in the fourteenth century, including a preliminary examination of adaptations of Chaucer's pronouncements upon translation and literary production. Chaucer's adaptations of Petrarch's Latin tale of Griselda and the sonnet "S'amor non ", as the Clerk's Tale and the "Canticus Troili" from Troilus and Criseyde respectively, illustrate his various translative strategies. Furthermore, Chaucer's references to Petrarch in his prologue to the Clerk's Tale and in the Monk's Tale provide a means of gauging the intellectual relationship between two of the most important poets of the time.

WILLIAM T. ROSSITER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia.

A Message from the Author: "Young Minds; Young Chefs" Kids are wonderful people. They are funny, spontaneous and brutally honest They also know what they like and dislike. Encouraging a child's interest in cooking and baking at a young age can be most beneficial to their future, while creating lots of family fun. No matter what career choices a child ultimately makes, cooking encourages self-reliance and a necessity for living and eating well. Planning and preparing meals together ensure some extra quality time for you and your child, while involving them in various eating experiences (some their choices, some yours). Creating different and delicious menus can be an exciting and memorable experience for the entire family. I know from personal experience, it's a labor of love. Janet Christon Of Zenovia Catering

Chapters: Sangre de Cristo Range, Crestones, Westcliffe, Colorado, Silver Cliff, Colorado, Bishop Castle, Continental Divide, Querida, Colorado, Wetmore, Colorado, Columbia Point, Crestone Peak, Humboldt Peak, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Crestone Needle, Mount Adams, Custer County High School, Silver Cliff Cemetery, Wet Mountain Valley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sangre de Cristo Range - A more comprehensive list of Sangre de Cristo Mountains is given at Pikes Peak Photo and SummitPost sites: see External Links. Seen from the San Luis ValleyMost of the range is shared by two National Forests, which abut along the range divide. Most of the northeast (Arkansas River) side is located within the San Isabel National Forest, while most of the southwest (San Luis Valley) side is included in the Rio Grande National Forest. The central part of the range is designated as the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness. The Great Sand Dunes National Park sits on the southwestern flank of the range at the edge of the San Luis Valley. The range divide is traversed by no paved roads, but only by four wheel drive and foot trails over Hayden Pass, Hermit Pass, Music Pass, Medano Pass, and Mosca Pass. The highest peak in the range, located in the south, is Blanca Peak (14,345 feet/4,372 m); it is flanked by three other fourteeners, Little Bear Peak, Mount Lindsey, and Ellingwood Point. Other well-known peaks are the fourteeners of the Crestone group: Kit Carson Mountain, Crestone Peak, Crestone Needle, and Humboldt Peak. Two sub-peaks of Kit Carson Mountain, Challenger Point and Columbia Point, are named in memory of the crews of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the Space Shuttle Columbia. The range is also home to many high peaks in the 13,000 to 14,000 foot (3,900-4,30...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=53097

Chapters: Uriah Heep, Wilkins Micawber, David Copperfield, James Steerforth, Edward Murdstone, Peggotty, Betsey Trotwood, Dora Spenlow. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield. The character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity. His references to David Copperfield as Master Copperfield are repeated so often that they quickly seem insincere. He is the central antagonist of the later part of the book. David first meets the 15-year-old Heep when he is living with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter Agnes, in chapter 15: was quite as cadaverous as it had looked in the window, though in the grain of it there was that tinge of red which is sometimes to be observed in the skins of red-haired people. It belonged to a red-haired persona youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much olderwhose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep. He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.Uriah has been employed as clerk to Wickfield for four years, since he was eleven. Uriah's father, who instilled him with the need to be humble, died when Uriah was ten, and for the first part of the novel he lives alone with his mother in their "umble abode." Uriah is repeatedly mentioned as ugly and repulsive, even in his youth - tall, lank and pale with red hair a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5275

Friendship torn asunder, Nick and Brian vie for Kathryn, body and heart. But Kathryn refuses to chose between the two men struggling to protect her, and also refuses to reveal her deadly secret.

When the ghost of her murdered friend tries to contact her, Kathryn will have no choice but to drag Nick and Brian into the nightmare that's plagued her since childhood. But her psychic connection with the murdered victims attracts the attention of the serial killer responsible for their deaths. When the killer returns and threatens the life of the woman they both love, Nick and Brian's friendship will either be mended or all three may be destroyed forever.

"Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, menage (m/f/m), violence."