A Better Life

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A BETTER LIFE includes home improvements, health, coffeetable books, crafts, family matters, investing, food, poetry, humor, nonfiction, novels, sports, opera, travel, whatever makes your life better.

For a fuller listing, check these sites: Histories & Mysteries, Savvy, College Editions, eCrater.com, Biblophelia (on Bonanzle), Biblio.com, and Alibris.com.

COFFEETABLE BOOKS

C.D.B. Bryan. The National Air and Space Museum.
Christopher Chant. Warfare of the 20th Century. Armed Conflicts Outside the Two World Wars.
Phillip Stewart Charis. A Lasting Tradition. The Studio Portraiture of Phillip Stewart Charis. Edited and text by Robert A. Sobieszek.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two. A complete illustrated directory of German battle tanks, armoured cars, self-propelled guns, and semi-tracked vehicles 1933-1945. By Peter Chamberlain and Hilary L. Doyle. Technical Editor: Thomas L. Jentz.

CRAFTS

Kenneth F. Bates. Enameling. Principles and Practices.

FAMILY AFFAIRS

James Alvino. Parents' Guide to Raising a Gifted Toddler.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. First Edition, first printing. ISBN 0316136366. Hardcover.
Sheldon H. Cherry. Planning Ahead for Pregnancy. Dr. Cherry's Guide to Health, Fitness & Fertility.
Sean Covey. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide.
Dr. Glade B. Curtis. Your Pregnancy Week by Week.
Joan Didion. The Year of Magical Thinking.

FOOD

Arboretum Foundation. Cultivated Palate. The Arboretum Foundation Cookbook.
Frank G. Ashbrook. Butchering, Processing and Preservation of Meat. A Manual for the Home and Farm. Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Game, Poultry, Fish.
Catherine Atkinson. The Complete Book of Cookies. With recipes by Joanna Farrow and Valerie Barrett.
Dr. Myles H. Bader. 10,001 Food Facts, Chef's Secrets & Household Hints. Reader's Digest Special Edition.
Dana Bovbjerg and Jeremy Iggers. The Joy of Cheesecake.
Ruth Ellen Church. Mary Meade's Magic Recipes for the Electric Blender.
Coffee. A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying. Kenneth Davids.
Merle Ellis. Cutting-Up in the Kitchen. The Butcher's Guide to Saving Money on Meat and Poultry.

GOOD READS

Douglas Adams. Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Mitch Albom. Tuesdays with Morrie.
Donald Allen. The New American Poetry.
Isaac Asimov. Treasury of Humor. A lifetime collection of favorite jokes, anecdotes, and limericks with copious notes on how to tell them and why.
Jean M. Auel. The Mammoth Hunters.
Jean Auel. The Shelters of Stone.
Jane Austen. The Complete Novels.
Sydney Biddle Barrows. Mayflower Madam. The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Tom Bodett. Small Comforts. More Comments and Comic Pieces.
Chris Bohjalian. The Law of Similars. A Novel.
Sarah Bradford (Viscountess Bangor). Elizabeth. A Biography of Britain's Queen.
Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Mists of Avalon.
Art Buchwald. I Chose Caviar.
Pearl Buck. Pavilion of Women.
(Bukowski paperbacks)
Brian Burrell. Postcards from the Brain Museum. The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds.
Bennett Cerf. The Life of the Party, some drawings in red.
Kate Chopin. The Awakening and Selected Stories. Reprint.
Agatha Christie. An Autobiography.
Agatha Christie. Miss Marple, The Complete Short Stories.
Laura Chester. The Stone Baby.
Tom Clark. Disordered Ideas.
James Clavell. Gai-Jin.
James Clavell. Whirlwind.
Bill Clinton. Giving. How Each of Us Can Change the World.
Bill Clinton. My Life.
Hillary Clinton. Living History.
Irvin Cobb. Irvin Cobb at His Best.
Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist.
Rich Cohen. Sweet and Low.
Stephen Colbert. I Am America (And So Can You!).
Howard Cosell. Like It Is.
Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. The Art of Happiness. A Handbook for Living.
E.L. Doctorow. Billy Bathgate. A Novel.
Ruth Downie. Medicus, A Novel of the Roman Empire.
Theodore Dreiser. Fulfilment and Other Tales of Women and Men. Edited by T.D. Nostwich.
Umberto Eco. Foucault's Pendulum.
Bart D. Ehrman. Misquoting Jesus, The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.
Linda Ellerbee. "And So It Goes." Adventures in Television.
Bret Easton Ellis. Glamorama.
Clayton Eshleman. Hades in Manganese.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Women Who Run With the Wolves. Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
Jules Feiffer. Tantrum.
Richard Feynman. A Life in Science. John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin. Thais Frank. A Brief History of Camouflage.
Estelle B. Freedman. No Turning Back. The History of Feminism and the Future of Women.
Nancy Friday. Jealousy.

HEALTH

AMA (American Medical Association). Encyclopedia of Medicine. An A-Z Reference Guide to Over 5,000 Medical Terms Including Symptoms, Diseases, Drugs and Treatments.
AMA. Family Medical Guide.
AMA Home Medical Encyclopedia
James F. Balch and Phyllis A. Balch. Prescription for Nutritional Healing. A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Food Supplements.

HORSES

Glenn Balch. The Book of Horses.
Judith Campbell. The World of Horses.
Sue Henderson Coen. Horseback Riding Made Easy and Fun. Let's Ride. An Equitation Guide for Riding Instructors and Beginning Students.
Harry Disston. Horse and Rider. 1,000 Questions and Answers for the Equestrian.

HOSTING

Peter Bohrmann. The Bartender's Guide. Over 1400 Recipes.
Esquire's Handbook for Hosts.

HOUSEHOLD

Basic Wiring. Time-Life.
Black & Decker. Built-In Projects for the Home.
Patricia Coen and Bryan Milford. Closets. Designing and Organizing the Personalized Closet.
Stephen Corbett. The Practical Woodworker. A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Course in Working with Wood.
Mario Dal Fabbro. How to Make Built-In Furniture.
Recipes for Surfaces. Decorative Paint Finishes Made Simple. Mindy Drucker and Pierre Finkelstein.

MONEY STUFF

John Bollinger. Bollinger on Bollinger Bands.
James J. Cramer and Cliff Mason. Jim Cramer's Mad Money. Watch TV, Get Rich.

OUTDOORS

The Audubon Society Book of Wildflowers. by Les Line and Walter Henricks Hodge.
Lee Bailey. Lee Bailey's Country Flowers. Gardening and Bouquets from Spring to Fall.
Scott Bestul. Secrets for Hunting Big Bucks. How to Take Whitetails in Heavily Hunted Areas.
Gerald Bethge, ed. Advanced Rut Hunting. Strategies for Taking Whitetails During Prime Time.
Thomas J. Elpel. Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills. A Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills.

SAVVY

1,001 Perfectly Legal Ways to Get Exactly What You Want, When You Want It, Every Time.
American Heritage Dictionary. New College Edition.
Brewer. The Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.
Britannica World Language edition of Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language.
David Craig. On Singing Onstage.
John Davies. A History of Wales.
David Ewen. Encyclopedia of the Opera. New Enlarged Edition.
Phil Farrand. The Nitpicker's Guide for X-philes. Covers all episodes for the first four seasons.
Rudolph Fellner. Opera Themes and Plots.
J. Cree FischerPiano Tuning. A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs.
William Freeman. Dictionary of Fictional Characters. Revised by Fred Urquhart.

SPORTS

James T. Allardice. Medical Aspects of Competitive Swimming for Coaches Parents, and Swimmers.

STYLE

Suss Cousins. Hollywood Knits Style. with 30 Original Suss Designs. A Guide to Good Knitting and Good Living.
Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford's Basic Face. A Makeup Workbook.

TRAVEL

Natural History of Britain and Ireland. Photographs by Heather Angel.
Jean Baer. Follow Me! Travels and trysts abroad for the woman alone.
Erwin A. Bauer. Treasury of Big Game Animals.
Barbara Brown. Travels Through the Mind of India.
P. and C. Cannon-Brookes. Baroque Churches.
Claudine Dervaes. The Travel Dictionary.
Essential Arabic. A Guidebook to Language and Culture.
Robert Etienne. Pompeii. The Day a City Died.
Frederick Franck. African Sketchbook. Text and Drawings by Frederick Franck. Preface by Graham Greene.

OTHER STUFF: check the home page for a complete listing.

WW II THIS WEEK

LEAD UP TO WAR
Days of Wrath. Malraux
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Map Room.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Rose Garden.
E. Roosevelt. Murder and the First Lady.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the West Wing.
Civilization on Trial. Toynbee

PACIFIC THEATER
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown.

EUROPEAN THEATER
Leon Uris. Mila 18.
The Last 100 Days. War in Europe.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW II.
Russia at War 1941-45.
The Battle for Rome.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
Pocket Book of the War.
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944. Warsaw Uprising
Psychology for the Fighting Man.

BACKGROUND
The Story Pocket Book.
The American Legion. 1919-1989.
4 Life Magazines 1944-1945

RADIO
Arch Oboler. 14 Radio Plays.
Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other
Free World Theatre. 19 New Radio Plays. Oboler/Longstreet.
Radio's Best Plays
Cooke. Just Passing Through.
How to Write for Radio.

AFTERMATH
Michener. Return to Paradise.

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday.
Isak Dinesen. 7 Gothic Tales.
Selected Poems of John Keats.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt.
John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong.
Zweig. The Royal Game.

VIDEOS ABOUT BOOKS
Joy of Life
Luria Travel Sketches
Jewel in the Crown
Hungarian Art
New Yorker 50's cartoons
Who Is Bookaholic?
Bollinger Bands
French Lithography
Designing with Flowers
Jerry Hall's Tall Tales
Blake drawings/Dante

THIS MONTH: WWII COVERS

Days of Wrath, Malraux
Murder and the First Lady
Murder in the Map Room
Murder in the Rose Garden
Murder in the West Wing
Civilization on Trial, Toynbee
Making of The Jewel in the Crown
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
We Were There at the Battle for Bataan
Mila 18, Uris
The Last 100 Days. WWII in Europe, Toland
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII
Russia at War 1941-45, Karpov
The Battle for Rome, Katz
Up Front, Bill Mauldin
Pocket Book of the War
American Servicemen in Britain
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944
WWII, James Jones
Navies of WWII
Psychology for Fighting Man
Story Pocket Book
The American Legion
Life Magazine. 4 issues 1944-1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Skinner
Green Dolphin Street
14 Radio Plays, Arch Oboler
Ivory Tower and Other, Arch Oboler
Free World Theatre, Oboler/Longstreet
Radio's Best Plays, Joseph Liss/Norman Corwin
Just Passing Through, Dwight Cooke
Best of Rob Wagner's Script, Rob Wagner
How to Write for Radio
Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower
Return to Paradise, Michener
Murrow interviews Oppenheimer

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton
Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen
Selected Poems of John Keats
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
My Family Right or Wrong, John Philip Sousa III
The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig

February 22,