There are only a handful of great collections of personal thoughts, opinions and conclusions based on the author's rich experience of the world. This one, the harvest of a large life in dozens of countries and situations, has been accepted as one of the unique accumulations of wisdom and experience in recent centuries. It stands in the company of the Maxims of la Rochefoucauld and Eric Hoffer's The True Believer. The author draws his observations from his many careers: as an advisor to Latin American trade unions, as a New York stock market wizard (according to Louis Rukeyser of Wall Street Week), a creator of dozens of companies in many countries. He is also a prolific writer. Train has lived for years in Italy, where he married a Florentine, and in Paris, where he was a founder of the Paris Review, ran a wine chateau, and created a highly successful finance company. In London, he was a director of a merchant bank and several very large emerging market mutual funds. The lessons of all these experiences are distilled in this book. John Train has enjoyed a remarkable life. A writer, investment manager, and government official, he has worked in every country in South America and Europe, and many in Asia and Africa. He has been appointed by two Republican and two Democratic Presidents. His 25 books and 500 columns cover such subjects as investments, Oriental rug symbols, international and military affairs, wit and love.

The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money

Humor & Entertainment

TRAIN, JOHN

Humor

Maria Teresa Train Mtt Scala

European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection is not only an essential tool of reference for university and museum libraries as well as curators, but also for collectors and dealers. The Frick Collection in New York City will be the only venue for the first public presentation of this distinguished private collection devoted to the art of the statuette of the fifteenth through eighteenth century. The bronze sculptures all share an exceptional level of quality, and this catalogue will also set a new standard of excellence among exhibition catalogues. In addition to the exemplary works by Italian masters of the genre, such as Giambologna, the Susini and Hendrick de Keyser, the collection is notable for the number of meticulously beautiful compositions that still await attribution. Together the sculptures in the Quentin Collection reveal the extraordinary range of artistry, invention and technical refinement characteristic of works made when the tradition of the European statuette was at its height.

European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection

Leithe-Jasper, Manfred

Reference

The Olive Tree of Civilisation has a rich and varied history. The gnarled tree and its fruits has been extolled by bards from Ovid and Homer to Kipling, Tennyson and Nerua. What other fruit provides light, is a fundamental ingredient in perfume and adds joy and flavour at the table? The ancients knew these virtues and olive oil became a key to their religious and political ceremonies, from the temples of Ra in Egypt where lamps burned olive oil, to the temple of Soloman, where kings were anointed with oil based ointments. Christ was offered a sip of oil on the cross; Hanukah is, at its origin, a festival to celebrate olive oil; the tree and its oil are found in the Koran. Today the oil is worshipped by chefs for its flavours and its colours. For decades, cooks and anthropologists have divided Europe along an olive oil/butter boundary; that line is vanishing as olive oil spreads around the globe. This book explores and brings to life the olives's glorious past, with chapters on the fruit's role in

The Olive, Tree of Civilization

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the story of the orange from earliest times. Brought back from India by Alexander the Great, citrus proved to be a lifesaver on long sea voyages, since it was the antidote for scurvy, which could incapacitate an entire crew. Columbus took it to the new world, and later Portuguese and Spanish kings required all captains to carry along oranges and plant them. Thus arose the vast proliferation of oranges in Florida. At the same time, the Italians and French made the orange a centerpiece of the Medici castles in Florence. This practice was followed by all the European courts, from Versailles to the Great Mosque in Cordoba. It is, of course, a favorite theme in art of the time, many of which are illustrated in this volume. The book also describes other uses of the citrus fruit, for example, cosmetics, perfumes, confections and liqueurs. In addition to its delicious quality as food, the orange is one of the world's favorite decorative plants. Th

The Orange: Golden Joy

Cooking by Ingredient

This delightful volume is a collection of memorable writings—from Horace and Shakespeare to Rilke and Robert Frost—on the four seasons of the year, highlighting the happiness we can find in each. Accompanying the texts are beautiful and evocative paintings: from Botticelli to the wonderful Swedish modern Carl Larsson. These classic authors and artists share their visions of the beauty and poetry of every season. This latest offering of the renowned editors John Train and Linda Kelly will make a perfect Christmas gift.

Joy of the Seasons

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

KELLY, Linda

Gardening & Landscape Design

Tells the origins, myths, symbolism and the many practical uses of the apple.

Comfort me with Apples

Tie Breaker tells the history of tennis in the 20th century from its grass court, amateur play beginnings to the celebrity, money-driven, and world-televised, professional sport it is today. The story begins with the first national championships at Newport's Casino, the cradle of American tennis and continues to the mid-century when the sport became popular and less exclusive, and concludes by talking about tennis today with its huge money prizes, and appeal as a spectator sport. This beautifully illustrated book also centers on Jimmy Van Alen, an energetic personality, nicknamed the Newport Bolshevik, for both his conservative and revolutionary opinions. A lifelong lover of tennis, Jimmy's goal was to lead tennis into the next century, reforming its traditional and often confusing scoring rules. His solution was VASSS (Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), a scoring system which was easily understood and included the tiebreaker. By 1970, the tiebreaker was accepted and used at the U.S. Open and other major tournaments, and it enabled the showing of matches on TV, which are hugely popular today. In addition to telling how Jimmy saved the Casino in the early 1950's and founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Tie Breaker deals with many important tennis personalities of the past, including: Bobby Riggs, Bud Collins, Gardner Mulloy, Rod Laver, and Pancho Gonzales.

Tie Breaker: Jimmy Van Alen and Tennis in the 20th Century

Sports & Outdoors

Dwight, Eleanor

Racket Sports

Our reactions to the creatures that share our world include love- sometimes reciprocated- curiosity, wonder, fear. Here are some writings on this theme that have particularly taken our fancy.

Animals and Us: A Very Special Relationship

<ul><li>Describing the joy of gardens has been a pleasure for prose writers, poets and painters, since earliest times, as the selections in this book delightfully reveal</li></ul>
 "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies"Gertrude Jekyll The first garden, we are told, was the Garden of Eden. Perhaps garden lovers have been trying to get back to paradise ever since. For beyond the hard work and disappointments, we have an ideal vision of that we would like our gardens to be: places of beauty and refreshment, which brings us close to nature and where the sheer joy of growing things gives a unique sense of fulfillment. The pleasures of gardens and gardening have been the themes of art and literature since ancient times: here to inspire us, is a selection of choice pieces.

Garden Magic

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