My ten-year-old did not understand that this otherwise useful book was heavily threaded with Christian material and Bible quotations, theology, etc. when she bought it with her carefully-saved allowance. The subtitle, impossible to read on the Web page, is "money-making ideas and God's principles for making them work." The Amazon mention of "biblical principles of stewardship" is not clear enough. If this is what you want, ok, but you should know it's there.

Also, she commented, "the money-making ideas are good, but not for people who live in a city like we do!"

I really loved this book. It made me realize that my kids really can make their own money. A must read!

Moyad's book is excellent in several ways but it has one major drawback. The book is excellent in recommending five servings of fruit and vegetables, in its description of each supplement, and in basing its choices on double blind studies. This last is also a major drawback. Vitamins and supplements often work together and should be tested together. See "The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book", by Lieberman and Bruning. The book is in error in evaluating vitamin C. The controversy between Mayo Clinic and Linus Pauling should not be used to discard vitamin C.... I recommend the book for its detailed information on supplements. It is fair to poor for cancer therapy. Reagan Houston,6/28/00.

I am a prostate cancer survivor who has had to make tough decisions on what treatment is best. This book was great in that it defined terms and procedures so the patient can make educated decisions. The info on chemo, radiation and surgery was very informative. Technical jargon like Gleason scores are defined in lay terms. This is the best book on the market for prostate cancer patients. Read this first before having any procedure. Your are responsible for your own health decisions and this will be the best tool in your education process.

As the wife of a man just diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, I found this book very disturbing because it seems to over-emphasize deaths and tragedies and not survivors in many places. For example, in the section on how prostate cancer impacts spouses and daughters, there were nine women's stories--five of whom had their men die of prostate cancer, two of whom had upsetting stories about advanced prostate cancer, and only two with men who had had locally confined prostate cancer and seemed to do alright. Since 13 percent of all men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and only 2-3 percent of all men die from it, this seemed to be a VERY VERY unbalanced treatment.

More than 80 percent of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer DO NOT DIE FROM it according to my reading--but in this book more than half of the examples of the men in the women's lives did die! I was looking for people who had gone through what I can expect to go through and instead read A LOT about a minority who suffered horribly ("The last five years have been a whirlwind of anger, fear, uncertainty, indifference, anxiety and depression" from one. "My future was wiped out . . . Loss of income, lonliness, no companion, no best friend, no lover. Long, lonely evenings, days, weekends. . . Widow" as the CONCLUDING words of another.) This was not helpful to me. And the acocunts from survivors were not in-depth enough on the whole, though I did really like seeing all their names and faces--that in itself was reassuring. But there was only a scant paragraph from Bob Dole, for example.

The book is graphically VERY well done but not as informative overall as the prostate cancer books by either Dr. Walsh of Johns Hopkins or Dr. Loo or Cornell. Both of those gave me more facts, understanding and a more realistic understanding. The ABC's of Prostate Cancer seems designed to have people take prostate cancer seriously and get tested--which I'm all for. It is not the best book for those with early disease to read or even more advanced disease in my opinion since the in-depth profiles are not representative of the frequency and ditribution of prostate survivors. There is also not enough on diet and new treatments.

The ABCs of Prostate Cancer is simply the finest book in its class. It elegantly and cleanly takes the most difficult concepts and clearly and simply lays them out. The use of graphic is the best I've encountered in a popular medicine book. Dr. Oesterling's devotion to his own father, who had prostate cancer, is remarkable. This gives any prostate cancer patient a sharp and clear edge with the best presentation of the most up to date material yet. Nice Job!

This book simply includes a few "leftist" accounts of what happened after the war was over. That is, about the naive Greeks putting into action new things they learned during the war, and, specifically, what the British Secret Operations Executive trained them to do: "set Greece ablaze, by fire an Axle." But, the book is worth having for the following simple reason: to see how a contemporary "historian" translates the name E.L.A.S. E.L.A.S. was the Communist militant organization that the S.O.E. financed in order to commit crimes against the German solders. Since the E.L.A.S. militants were cowards and feared the Germans, they concentrated their criminal efforts on fellow Greeks. No Greek can make any sense out of the British policy towards them because it was not meant to make sense. On page 4 of this book, the "historian" author, Mazower, translates E.L.A.S., (Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos) as Greek People's Liberation Army. How about, National Socialist Liberation Army? But, what do the words "national" and "liberation" have to do with Marxism? Mazower cannot answer this; it is a question for real historians and those who really know what is behind British policy.

Mazower's previous book on Greece in the 1940s was outstanding for providing a clear picture of life "on the ground" in occupied Greece. Several of the essays in this new book similarly provide a texture of life during the civil war, while others provide a texture of Greek life after the insurrection ended. I don't see this as a book favoring either the left or right (a formulation that would mean little now anyway), but as showing the difficult decisions that ordinary Greeks had to make at that time. If you are tired of books about the Greek civil war that revolve around the actions of the King, Churchill, Truman and Stalin, this book is a must.

Published in 1996, this book is already dated. Many treatment protocols have since changed. Carrying a Washington Manual or a 5 Minute Consults book provides much more information.

this book is good in evaluating medical problems can faced a primary health care provider on adaily basis

Historian after historian continue to baffle me. These Phd's seem to base their historical assumptions upon a country that did not exist in the 19th century: America [Read: Alexis De Tocqueville 'Deomcracy in America."] The young republic had not yet, prior to the War Between the States (Civil War) forge an identity for itself. Noll fails to grasp the widening gulf that seperated North and South theologically and political (The Hamiltonian view of the Constitution which favored government banking, involvement in infrastructure and Jeffersonian states rights agrarian tradition.] Southern theologian James Henry Thornwell [Whom Cornelius Van Til said was the greatest American thinker ever produced on this continent besides Jonathan Edwards] got it right: the War Between the States was a theological war in many ways. Noll, who believes an "America" existed prior to the War Between the States fails to grasp that puritans in the North long ago abandoned anything good about their religion, except the need to control the rest of the country politically. Noll, however, gets Lincoln right in so far as declaring him a rather "odd Christian." This probably explains Lincoln's uncharitable attitude at invading fellow states who exercised the right of secession [sorry, I do believe in this doctrine: our founders did!.] Noll is right, evangelicals have no hero in Lincoln. I've always been perplexed as why many evangelicals hold him in high esteem? But, Noll, like any other Northern historian, fails to analyze the Southern intellectuals of the 19th century and completely glosses over President Jefferson Davis' Christian commitment as an Evangelical Episcopalian. "It is true that we are completely under the saddle of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and that they ride us very hard, cruelly insulting our feelings, as well as exhausting our strength and substance." Thomas Jefferson- a Virginian first. (May I suggest Anne Norton "Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Culture" University of Chicago Press, 1986.

What we have here is a remarkably comprehensive examination of the role formal religion played in the United States from the Colonial period through the Civil War. For various reasons, those who formulated the Constitution insisted on a separation of church and state as well as certain checks and balances within the federal government. What I found most interesting in Noll's book is his analysis of the transition from European Puritanism (after almost 200 years) to what could be called American Evangelism (emerging in the late-1790s) which not only allowed but indeed celebrated freedom of religion. Noll's primary subject is the evolution of American theology. He necessarily examines the historical context within which that process occurred. My only quarrel with him, probably more an honest difference of opinion than a complaint, is that he suggests -- or at least assumes -- a homogeneity in America's religious life which seems to be contradicted by what the separation of church and state made possible: religious heterogeneity protected by the Constitution and sustained by the checks and balances. Nonetheless, Noll succeeds brilliantly in explaining how and why religion was central to early-American history.

In book are manny colour pictures but low qwality information. I don't recomend to bay this book.

"American Cabinetmakers" catalogues marked American furniture from 1640-1940 and is an unparalleled reference book for antique collectors and dealers. The information is organized alphabetically for easy reference. Each cabinetmaker's entry contains information about his furniture markings. The marks take many forms from a name or initials scratched into wood, a hand-stamped brand in pencil, ink, paint, or chalk to elaborate labels made of paper and metal. Additional information about his life and work is often provided and there are numerous black and white photographs of furniture and cabinetmaker marks. There are over 1,600 artisans included in the book and photographs of 400 marked pieces. It's a treasure!

American Music: A Panorama is a cd that has many different tracks from American Music History. I think that it contains many good examples of this, but there could be so many more. Elvis, the artist of the century, has no songs, as well as many other influential artists from the 50's and 60's. The booklet in it also had many errors in track numbers and song title numbers in it. Overall it was good but could be better, and I definitely do not think it was worth the money.

I teach a course in United States music history at the high school level, and this college text is a good stretch for my students. It is clearly written, well organized, and provides great points for departure in my lectures. The accompanying CD set, though not perfect, is a convenient way to bring in examples and allows for some independent study. Music history teachers can augment the examples with their current CD holdings.
The text surveys "American" music, not just music of the United States, although that is in the majority. The distinction of American versus U.S makes for a good discussion point throughout the semester. We do not take the chapters in order (we begin with music of the early European settlers), and the book lends itself to that flexibility.
Although there may be better texts for specific music history topics, (i.e., Jazz or contemporary "serious" music) this is an excellent survey text for the advanced high schooler or college music history survey course. Term paper suggestions, questions for additional research and bibliography are included at the end of each chapter.

In this lavishly illustrated little book, Mark Brend offers brief critical bios of several of the most influential 60's singer/songwriters, nearly all of whom have fallen under the radar of the contemporary music scene. Most are now deceased, and of the living only Tom Rush continues to tour, although his recording output in recent years has been sparse. But all of these troubadours had real influence in their prime, and Brend does a terrific job of explaining just what that influence was. He is obviously a real fan of these artists but is able to view their lives and careers objectively. I have seen most of them perform and for me this book revisits an important part of my life and the music that has mattered to me.

this book has chapters on some of the best songwriters of the era, ranging from the, more or less anyway, fairly well known ( like tim buckley and phil ochs)to the undeservedly obscure, like david ackles. these artists do vary in quality, but the stories are always at least interesting, and often fascinating. there are lots of fine pictures of the performers in the book as well,if anything the work is a little short. people who enjoy the writings of richie unterberger and vernon joynson probably will like this as well

For the student of Japanese Society, Culture, and language, (or any person interested in Japan or Cross-cultural psychology wanting to pursue the notions of self in a Japanese societal frame or context) The Anatomy of Self is a great starting point. Dr. Takeo Doi explains the psychological and cultural significance of inner and outer notions of the self in relation to others in Japanese society...Doi uses the terms Ura/Omote, Honne/Tatemae, Uchi/Soto rather than 'inner' and 'outer'. While Doi argues that these notions are present within all humans, he also explains the significance of the linguistic phenomenon that allows the Japanese to have explicit linguistic signs relating to these notions, thus making them unique to the Japanese. However, while Dr. Doi does give great insight to how participants in Japanese society relate to one another, he also happens to propound a particular world view of the uniqueness of The Japanese, which has been a source of great criticism by Western and Japanese intellectuals alike. (ie. The Japanese experience of nature as something uniquely Japanese) The Anatomy of Self succeeds at analyzing the complex notion of self within Japanese context, however Doi does make great leaps from one concept to another that may force the reader to re-read throughout several areas of the text. This text, I believe, also falls into the category of Nihonjinron (my translation: Discussions or Theories on Japanese (people) and Culture), which falls inline with theories of Japanese uniqueness.

Dr. Doi has successfully mastered the modern art of synthesis in this book. Not only does he bring together vast literary and intellectual references to create an incisive analysis of the modern human condition, he does so in a way that keeps the reader interested. His style, though serious, is clear and readable to anyone outside the psychological profession, and his content is vital to anyone living in modern society.