1 comments about Rgvedic Society (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 2) (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 2).

1. Aguilar I Matas provides a rare yet necessary look at the complexity of Rgvedic SOCIETY instead of focusing, as many do, on Rgvedic religion. He shows that aryas were a heterogenous community composed of a number of groups including the ari and the suri. The Rgveda promoted suri ideals and Indra religion. This text also depicts the ari as antagnistic to the supremecy of Indra and the soma sacrifice while venerting Varuna as sovereign deity. This book is essential for any scholar of Vedic tradition.

1 comments about Simple Solutions: Bedrooms.

1. This is not a bad book on bedrooms, if you are just starting out exploring interior decoration. The pictures are nice and the text fairly informative. However, for interior design junkies there is no new ground covered here, especially if you already own several books on bedrooms. I was not inspired by the photos. Probably because the style seems kind of bland to me.

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3 comments about Country Living True Colors (Country Living).

1. I am rereading this right now and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in cottage, country style. It is very inspirational...you will love it!



2. Employs use of different color hues from brilliant to subtle. Teaches you how to use the colors together so that anyone can learn to utilize color as an interesting decorating tool. Beautiful pictures, well written!



3. I received this book as a gift from a friend that knew I love fabric and love color. I have spent hours (literally) thumbing through this book, enjoying the colors and enjoying the different decorating styles. My friends and I pulled it out at one of our Girls Only slumber parties (I'm 39) and spent 2 hours looking, and ooing and ahhing over it! I also got the nerve to paint my living room sage green, and I love it! Fun, fun, fun book!

5 comments about Kitchens: A Design Source Book.

1. I take this book off the shelf all the time to skim it for new ideas (someday I'll actually undertake my renovation, I hope). Every time I read it I see something I hadn't noticed before. I love the variety of kitchens in this book--very modern, very retro, very traditional. There are tons of colors, tons of kinds of photographs. I also love that many of the kitchens are not perfect--there are funky, home-made countertops, old floors, jumbles of utensils, and so on. It's refreshing in the face of so many books and magazines that assume that everyone wants a perfect, "new" looking kitchen with top-of-the-line everything. A lot of the kitchens appear to be European, which I appreciate because I think a lot of them use space in ways that American kitchens do not.



2. Small type, cluttered pages, white type dropped out of photos -- I got a headache trying to read this book. There may be good ideas here, but I'll never know. Unless your vision is 20/20 and you have a good reading lamp and magnifiers, skip it.



3. I enjoyed the other book in the series, so I assumed this would be a delight as well. I am so glad that I decided to buy this! Wonderful detail and full of great ideas, this gets the creative juices flowing! Kitchens is a great buy.



4. After reading this book you'll realize that, gone are the old notions that a kitchen is the place where June Cleaver baked cookies for The Beaver, Wally, and the omnipresent Eddie Haskell! The kitchen has now become a showcase of sleek design and gleaming stainless steel, and YES you CAN cook in it! This book is full of ideas for designing your kitchen and using available space to maximum advantage without sacrificing beauty. From the traditional to the contemporary kitchen you will find many excellent ideas, and it will broaden your horizons about what can be used in a kitchen. Imagine having a set of chairs by: Charles Eames, Alvar Aalto and Marcel Brever sitting side by side while the Dualit grills your sandwich!



5. I checked this out from the library hoping to find some good ideas for a kitchen remodel. This book is full of showy kitchens that no real cook would tolerate. If you want you kitchen to look pretty, modern, or authentic, this may help you. If you want to use your kitchen instead of just dressing it up to look nice, buy another book.