Charming original illustrations recreate domestic architecture and interior design of typical Victorian home. Exterior, front porch, parlor, kitchen, library, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, more. Informative well-researched text covers furnishings architectural details historical background, etc. Introduction. Bibliography. Color illustrations on covers.

Voyager Tarot: Way of the Great Oracle blends shamanism, psychology, art, and mythology into a modern ritual for self-creation. Featured are "The Four Golden Truths" and "The Seven Steps of Power" - processes for easy every-day use of symbolic imagery for self-empowerment. Way of the Great Oracle brings together symbols and signs as never before so that everyone can become their own oracle and realize their highest dreams.

Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival — and she has the scars to prove it.

In Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress — part memoir, part social commentary, part guide on how to behave when dining out-Ginsberg takes readers on an intimate journey of her twenty years as a waitress at the dingiest of diners, a soap-operatic Italian restaurant, an exclusive five-star dining club, and more. While chronicling her parallel evolution as a writer and single mother, the book also takes a behind-the-scenes look at restaurant life — revealing that, yes, when pushed, a server will spit in food, and, no, that's not really decaf you're getting-and at how most people in this business are in a constant state of waiting to do something else.

Colorful, insightful, and often irreverent, Ginsberg's stories truly capture the spirit of the universal things she's learned about human nature, interpersonal relationships, the frightening things that go on in the kitchen, romantic hopes dashed and rebuilt, and all of the frustrating and funny moments in this life. Waiting is for everyone who has had to wait for their life to begin — only to realize, suddenly, that they're living it.

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."—The London Times.

The editors of Tricycle, a magazine of Buddhism in America, offer a collection of anecdotes, blessings, meditations, and recipes illustrating the Buddhist philosophy of food, which views cooking as a spiritual endeavor. Original.

Caribbean cooking is gaining recognition as a distinct cooking style, and dishes such as Jerk Chicken are turning up on menus far and wide. All the traditional island recipes are here—Dip and Fall Back (mackerel with coconut sauce), Stamp and Go (saltfish fritters), Jerk Chicken Rundown, and Pepperpot Soup. As well as wonderful photographs of the food itself, Walkerswood Caribbean Kitchen is enlivened with specially commissioned location shots of the sunny, smiling Caribbean.

What if everything in your life was out of your hands and those around you propelled your fate? Your girlfriend left you for your best friend; your boss gave your job to someone better. What if then, after all this, someone gave you back total control? What if he revealed you were the next in line to join a secret society of super-villains that controlled the entire planet? Mark Millar and J.G. Jones provide a look at one man who goes from being the world's biggest loser to the deadliest assassin alive.

The author of The Color Purple travels to Gambia, Senegal, and Burkina to interview a group of women trying to eliminate the traditional practice of female clitoral circumcision, a practice forced on women by the men of those societies. 100,000 first printing.