The Best Reference Books 2024

1. Rose's Christmas Cookies, (Hardcover)

Rose's Christmas Cookies is the go-to guide for cookie baking throughout the holiday season! Complete with 60 cookie recipes and a color photograph of each cookie for handy reference, this easy-to-use and fun-to-read book will result in scrumptious, festive, and splendid-looking cookies every time. Who can resist Chocolate-Dipped Melting Moments Cookies or moist Mini-Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd . . . or David Shamah's Jumbles, a fabulous cross between a chocolate-chip cookie and a chunky candy bar bursting with raisins, chocolate chips, and pecans. Whether you need a cookie to decorate your tree or grace your mantelpiece (cookies like Stained Glass or Christmas Wreaths), a sweet to send (Mahogany Butter Crunch Toffee, Maple Macadamia Bars), or a special holiday treat for your dinner party (Praline Truffle Cups, Chocolate-Pistachio Marzipan Spirals), you'll find that perfect something here.

Rose's Christmas Cookies, (Hardcover) Author: William Morrow & Company ISBN: 9780688101367 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1998-10-21 Page Count: 272

2. Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe 9780670856619

ISBN: 9780670856619 ISBN10: 0670856614 Contributors: Seibold, J. Otto, Seibold, J. Otto, Walsh, Vivian,

While borrowing a small canoe from a large elephant, Mr. Lunch, bird chaser extraordinaire, has a scary encounter that sends the pooch paddling for his life. What is this strange city he has paddled to? All the roads are canals, all the cars are boats, and all the pigeons in the world seemed to have settled here. Full color.

3. Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook (Hardcover) by Carolyn B Mitchell, Betty Crocker

9780671867676. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 442. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 442 p. Betty Crocker's original cookbook taught millions how to cook. Now, Betty Crocker's New Choices shows them how to eat correctly. Learn how to create healthy dishes--or how to "remake" favorite ones--with this collection of more than 500 recipes. 50 full-color photos.

9780671867676. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 442. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 442 p. Betty Crocker's original cookbook taught millions how to cook. Now, Betty Crocker's New Choices shows them how to eat correctly. Learn how to create healthy dishes--or how to "remake" favorite ones--with this collection of more than 500 recipes. 50 full-color photos.

4. Dreaming and Storytelling (Hardcover)

Are dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but not to be taken too seriously? Is there any reason to think about them at all, other than in terms of questions such as 'Why should Aunt Sarah turn into a bird and invite us all to dinner in her sycamore tree?" In this witty and eminently readable book, Bert O. States rethinks both the meaning of dreams and the relationship between dreaming and the telling of stories. Dreams constitute a private literature of the self, he says, that--despite their seeming lack of order or structure--can help us to understand the very nature of shared literature. Observers have often pointed out narrative elements that are common to dreams and stories--including "cinematic" visual techniques and such plot devices as reversals of fortune and paired villains and antagonists. Drawing on current work in such fields as neurobiology, cognitive psychology, literary theory, and dream theory, States asks whether dreaming and storytelling may share similar psychic processes as well. He first considers the bizarreness of dreams compared to the expected intelligibility of stories. He then surveys a wide array of stories and reported dreams, focusing on them as narratives with varied beginnings and endings, character functions, cause-and-effect relationships, archetypal structures, even generic constraints. Turning to the question of intentionality, States addresses the perennially intriguing question of whether dreams actually do have meanings, or whether we thrust meaning upon them. Anyone interested in the poetics of imaginative experience--whether approached from the perspective of the literary critic, the psychologist, or the psychoanalyst--will want to read Dreaming and Storytelling.

Dreaming and Storytelling (Hardcover)

5. Symptoms : The Book That Answers The Questions: Am I Sick? Is It Serious? Should I Call My Doctor? (Paperback)

You hold in your hands the most valuable and easy-to-use home medical reference ever published. Written by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, a distinguished physician and best-selling author, Symptoms is a complete guide to all the aches, pains, and physical "distress signals" you many experience. In his war, reassuring style. Dr. Rosenfeld tells you how to interpret your body's warning signs, when to seek medical treatment -- and when you don't need to worry. Complete with advice on evaluating your personal susceptibility and reducing your risks for various diseases, Symptoms is an indispensable resource -- the next best thing to having a doctor in the house!

You hold in your hands the most valuable and easy-to-use home medical reference ever published. Written by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, a distinguished physician and best-selling author, Symptoms is a complete guide to all the aches, pains, and physical "distress signals" you many experience. In his war, reassuring style. Dr. Rosenfeld tells you how to interpret your body's warning signs, when to seek medical treatment -- and when you don't need to worry. Complete with advice on evaluating your personal susceptibility and reducing your risks for various diseases, Symptoms is an indispensable resource -- the next best thing to having a doctor in the house!

6. Pre-Owned Perspective Without Pain (Paperback) 0891344462 9780891344469

Imagine perspective without pain--no T-squares, complicated equations or mechanical terms--just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step further--imagine having fun with perspective. With this book, you will. Here Phil Metzger give you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms--with a lot of friendliness and a little humor tossed in along the way. As an experienced artist, he understands how you work, and he knows that the last thing you need is a lot of rigid rules to tie you down. Here you'll learn techniques of perspective that will help your creativity--not hinder it. You'll learn how to: Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of--and the distance between--similar objects Use soft edged and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value Draw from any viewpoint--on either side, above or below Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices Use perspective to track down the problem when something you've drawn just doesn't look right Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures and an awkward one Properly draw roads, paths, streets, fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape.

Perspective Without Pain

7. Older and Wiser (Hardcover) by Richard M Restak, Richard Restack

9780684829760. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. The author of the bestselling "The Brain" reports on the latest discoveries on the frontiers of research. Reminding readers that the best thing to do to keep the brain in shape is to use it, Dr. Restak evaluates the latest scientific research; gives advice on such matters as controlling depression and preventing stroke; and explains how certain lifestyle changes may help prevent dementia and keep people's brains healthy and sharp as they age.

9780684829760. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. The author of the bestselling "The Brain" reports on the latest discoveries on the frontiers of research. Reminding readers that the best thing to do to keep the brain in shape is to use it, Dr. Restak evaluates the latest scientific research; gives advice on such matters as controlling depression and preventing stroke; and explains how certain lifestyle changes may help prevent dementia and keep people's brains healthy and sharp as they age.

8. Feeding and Care of the Horse (Paperback)

This is the concise, easy-to-use version of Dr. Lewis's Equine Clinical Nutrition, Feeding and Care. It includes a full-color section identifying toxic plants and provides practical information on the diversified effects of different nutrients, feeds and supplements on a horse's athletic performance, reproduction, growth, hooves, appetite, behavior and disease. The book can help prevent common, but expensive problems in horses of all ages.

Feeding and Care of the Horse (Paperback)

9. Why Most Investors Are Mostly Wrong Most of the Time (Paperback) by William X Scheinman

9780870340994. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 352. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p.

9780870340994. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 352. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p.

10. Cheesecake : Thirty-One Fantastic Recipes (Hardcover)

Thick, dense and delicious, cheesecake has long been an acclaimed feature of the classic dessert tray. This festively illustrated addition to Chronicle's Artful Kitchen series displays the versatility and myriad flavor possibilities of this satisfying favorite. Full color. Thick, dense, and delicious, cheesecake has long been an acclaimed feature of the classic dessert tray. This festively illustrated addition to Chronicle Books' Artful Kitchen series displays the versatility and myriad flavor possibilities of this satisfying favorite. From traditional New York and chocolate cheesecakes to those flavored with fruit and liqueur; from new, lighter cheesecakes to savory appetizers, the 31 clearly written recipes in Cheesecake offer a contemporary, innovative approach to a quintessentially American dessert.

Thick, dense, and delicious, cheesecake has long been an acclaimed feature of the classic dessert tray. This festively illustrated addition to Chronicle Books' Artful Kitchen series displays the versatility and myriad flavor possibilities of this satisfying favorite. From traditional New York and chocolate cheesecakes to those flavored with fruit and liqueur; from new, lighter cheesecakes to savory appetizers, the 31 clearly written recipes in Cheesecake offer a contemporary, innovative approach to a quintessentially American dessert.