While The Pot and How to Use It contains numerous and surprisingly varied recipes for electric rice cookers, it is much more than a cookbook. Originating from a blog entry on Roger's popular Web site, the book also includes readers' comments and recipes alongside Roger's own discerning insights and observations on why and how we cook. With an introduction by vegetarian cookbook author Anna Thomas and expert assistance from recipe consultant and nutritionist Yvonne Nienstadt, The Pot and How to Use It is perfect for fans of Roger's superb writing, as well as anyone looking to incorporate the convenience and versatility of electric rice cookers into his or her kitchen repertoire.

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to that film with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm–or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Ebert’s selections range widely across genres, periods, and nationalities, and from the highest achievements in film art to justly beloved and wildly successful popular entertainments. Roger Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for our most important form of popular art with a scholar’s erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again. The Great Movies includes: All About Eve • Bonnie and Clyde • Casablanca • Citizen Kane • The Godfather • Jaws • La Dolce Vita • Metropolis • On the Waterfront • Psycho • The Seventh Seal • Sweet Smell of Success • Taxi Driver • The Third Man • The Wizard of Oz • and eighty-five more films. From the Hardcover edition.

100幅经典剧照，由纽约现代艺术博物馆电影剧照资料馆提供，这座资料馆拥有全世界首屈一指的近四百万张剧照收藏。 100部伟大电影的卓绝评论，来自全美最负盛名、最可信赖的影评人罗杰•伊伯特。他所评述的影片，在他看来真正呈现出电影的伟大。 在过去多年中，罗杰•伊伯特每隔一周都为一部“伟大的电影”撰写评论，给予新鲜而热忱的褒扬。《伟大的电影》一书精选了其中的100篇文章，每一篇都是评论 和鉴赏的提炼，是热爱、分析和历史的糅合，它们让读者以崭新的目光和重燃的热情回味（或者说先睹为快）所评述的影片。伊伯特的影评广泛覆盖各种类型片、各个时代和各个国家，从电影艺术史上至高无上的经典作品到深受广大观众喜爱的娱乐作品。在文章中，罗杰•伊伯特成功地将学者渊博深刻的电影知识、纯美学的判断力与明白晓畅的鉴赏文字融为一体，再配以现代艺术博物馆电影部负责人玛丽•科里斯精选的珍贵剧照，使本书成为所有电影爱好者与观众的珍宝库、无可匹敌的观影指南。

罗杰·伊伯特将他惊人的能量、敏锐的判断、广博的知识、探索的眼光和尖锐的幽默感，都融入了他关于电影的评论文章中，它们是我们时代最具洞察力的影评文字。 伊伯特已经成为了权威。作为得过普利策奖的新闻工作者（他也是获此殊荣的第一位影评人），他已成为杂志和报纸行业的中流砥柱；他主持的电视节目为同类电视影评节目开创先河，至今已持续播出长达三十年；他的著作——不光是影评集，也包括那些论述更大电影议题的文章——如潺潺流水绵延不绝。 本书收入的那些散文充分说明，伊伯特是如今为普罗大众写作的影评人中最有思想的、从历史角度来说也最见多识广的一位。电影之所以吸引我们，不仅是因为它的故事，其纹理结构也同样重要，伊伯特毫不张扬的文笔正好符合这个道理。 所以，光是冲着伊伯特那些影评文章的力量，这本集子就值得一看，更何况它还有附加的价值：《在黑暗中醒来》记录了美国的电影历史和电影文化在多个层面上的各种变化。或许伊伯特自己都没能深刻意识到这一点，但事实上，他按时间顺序记录下的确实是电影制作、电影欣赏、电影评论等方面的诸多重大发展变化。于是，伊伯特的这些大作便成为了一份引人入胜的历史记录，记录下极具智慧的他如何面对当代电影的巨大变化。 《在黑暗中醒来》记录了一位重要影评人的感性时刻，也是对过去四十年中我们电影文化发展历史的宝贵记录。它一定会被放在你的书架上，和艾基、法伯以及极少数与他们旗鼓相当的名字一起。