I had hoped for more. The title sounded so intriguing. But what I got was nothing new. I have other decorating books (and magazine articles) that cover the same ground. Tips such as using your wardrobe as a guide to colors you want to live with are old clichés and don't always apply. (I wear only neutrals yet have a colorful house.)

Pluses:
The photographs in this book are great. As you might imagine with a book by this title there is a bold use of color. The style is modern, but will probably stand the test of time. I like the way the book is sectioned into chapters that fit a particular mood you might want to create (e.g. colors for fantasy). Also, there are general decorating tips scattered throughout the book.

Bonus:
The color choice quiz. Listed from A-Z all the emotions/moods you could ask for. You choose which emotions/moods you want to promote in a room. Then, you look at the color choice key to see which color matches those emotions/moods.

Minuses:
After buying the book and looking at it more carefully, I realized something...it has some of the same pictures as a book which I also own titled Color Healing Home by Katherine Sorrell. For example, check out pg. 27 of Color Healing and pg.63 of Color Therapy.

How to differentiate between the two: Color Therapy focuses more on how to promote moods. It lists moods and tells you what colors enhance that mood. Color Healing Home gives you more choices of color hue. They have a page for each hue and then tell you what moods each of these hues promote. You say tomatoe and I say tomato. I decided to keep both books, but I am a color junkie.

Recommendation:
What makes Color Therapy standout is the color choice quiz. If that is something that interests you, I would recommend this book. Otherwise, it is a coin toss between Color Therapy and Color Healing, and other books with bold uses of color.

I thought this was a very good book

this book was pretty good but had less info on the regular game. also, the charts are a little less comprehensive. u should get the official prima guide instead

I read the book and it didn't help me hardly at all. Most everything mentioned in the book I had already known. Maybe it was just me, this book probably could help a newbie out alot.

This book is great if you love to cheat but are appalled by the lack of codes availabe for the game Diablo. Even though there are some strategies available for this game through vgstrategies.miningco.com this strategie guide is far better

This is not worth anything close to the price that I, unfortuneately paid for it. Unless, of course, you love reading the kind of thing academics love to write to impress other academics and relatives. I cannot begin to tell you how so far off the mark everything in this book is. Suffice it say, it is not an encyclopedia of creativity. It is a collection of accademic papers which rehash the same old things. One has to wonder if any of the contributors have ever read any of the classic books on creativity that are out there. They, I think, could learn a lot.

Wonderful work. Comprehensive and varied. It is "Academic," for the most part, but NOT highly technical. Best of all it has articles by everyone who is anyone in the field. All of the major figures in this field contributed. Not light reading, but if you want to know what the experts say, this is the book.

This is an essential set of books for people who are seriously interested in learning what is known about creativity today. The writers are academics who have spent many years investigating and writing about creativity. They carefully avoid "you can do it" cheerleader type material based on half-baked ideas and unproven notions.

That said, some of the entries could be clearer and better written. Nevertheless, I found many inspirational ideas and resources from both a personal and business perspective.

what a teribale waste of money!the story was bad,the plot stunk, the art was worse yet.a total waste of the flash's cariture.lets have him run around through half of the book racing his foe,how stupid.i don't recomend this one to anyone and i'm a flash fan.

Well this story took place in The Flash issues 108 to 111 and Impulse issues 10 and 11 and have been collected here. The story is about Savitar who is in his own mind the God of speed, and when he finds out others are using the speed from the speed force and so he cuts them off...All but wally west The Flash and thats when all hell breaks loose. This story has it all, lots of speedsters like the first flash and others and you have "Speed Ninjas" who work with Savitar so all in all you get a good story with lots of the "Flash family" in it. Also you have the death of a few speedsters as well so if your a flash fan you will not want to miss the story about that.

My one problem with the book is that it has a cliffhanger ending! trades should never leave the ending open like that because you buy a trade for the complete story not cliffhangers. but DC comics have published the second book "Race againist time" so you might want ot pick it up at the same time if you want the whole story.

That's the question this storyline seeks to answer. In The Return of Barry Allen, Wally had to fight someone who sought to replace his mentor. Now he has to battle Savitar, an enemy just as fast as the Flash, but who has studied the origin of their power for years. He can do everything the Flash can do, and more-- he can lend speed to others, he can accelerate and decelerate objects, he can metabolize his wounds and heal instantly. He's ruthless in his quest to embrace the Speed Force, and will do anything to accomplish this-- including destroy everything and everyone Wally holds dear...

This book completely leaves out Calvin's fourth book, his treatment of the church. My suspicion is it was omitted because Calvin's doctrines didn't line up with those of the publisher. This ignoring of the doctrine of the church reinforces the erroneous idea that the body of Christ is insignificant when Calvin himself considered the Church our Mother.

This book completely leaves out Calvin's fourth book, his treatment of the church. My suspicion is it was omitted because Calvin's doctrines didn't line up with those of the publisher.

I bought this little book to help me teach a class on Book IV of the Institutes. But guess what? It only covers Books I-III. Book IV basically deals with Calvin's concept of the Church, so this little book will not be found too helpful if you're in the same position as me. However, the book is an excellent help on Books I-III. Very graphically oriented; it teaches just by means of its formatting! I'd like to know why the editors didn't include Book IV.

I hate to be negative, but this book is bad - it's poorly written, and I can only assume poorly researched - the author said he heard the band 'Fish' (complete with quotes) play in Burlington, VT. The band is Phish, and whoever fact checked the book should have picked this up.

I actually expected typos, considering the caliber of the grammar. Luckily I didn't find any, but I didn't spend too much time looking. And Love Canal? I can't imagine it's a great place to visit/live no matter what the EPA says.

I'm sorry. I don't understand the point of this book at all. The book is supposed to be about unique towns in which to live, yet by encouraging people to move to them the author is merely helping to destroy the very things about them that make them unique. Makes no sense.

I love this book, but it wasn't as good as I hoped. The author rates places based upon such criteria as social and cultural diversity, pedestrian friendliness and mixed use zoning. For the review of my hometown, his description was correct, and funny. He gives good information--and ideas--for someone looking for a culturally vibrant place to call home. Unfortunately, he doesn't mention some key things, like how expensive it is to live there, whether you can really survive without a car, and whether or not there are any real jobs.

This book had some very enjoyable moments. I really enjoyed the Janeway/Tuvok/Kim interaction. And it was nice to see the spiritual side of Chakotay again.

The aliens were interesting, and I got a kick out of the way Paris and Chakotay were almost unable to resist, but it was a bit overdone.

While I enjoyed some aspects of this book, it failed to really draw me in and capture my imagination.

I don't care if this gets posted or not--I just want to say, what is with that last (or first, I guess it would be) review???????? Someone reviews a Voyager book to tell us to go read a completely different book called "Dorella"?? WHY WAS THIS POSTED?? If you want to praise "Dorella," go right ahead--but not in the space for another book. HELLO, AMAZON?

This was the first Voyager novel I ever read. I'm new to the Delta Quadrant (I started watching in Season Four, how's that for new?), and before Voyager I never watched a Star Trek in my life! So, as far as this book goes, it was pretty good. I enjoyed the setting of the planet (Janeway, Tuvok, and Kim) much more than what was simultaneously transpiring on Voyager itself. I was VERY frustrated with Chakotay! Paris's reaction to the beautiful aliens is to be expected, unfortunately, but I was hoping for more objectivity from the usually level-headed Commander. Other than that obvious inconsistency, I felt that the others were mostly in keeping with character. It's good to see the same people in the novels that we see on the show . . . instead of reading and saying, "Oh, they would never do that!" As far as the whole "ghost" story, though, I wasn't very impressed. It never was made very clear exactly what they were--at least not for me. Why couldn't the crew have just discovered this new race, had to deal with the treacherous Televek (although their treachery was awfully obvious quite early on), and been able to shift the moons and save them, without a bunch of ghosts?? Yeah, I know that without the ghosts Janeway couldn't have had the knowledge that she needed to rescue the aliens, but any author who could write a Star Trek novel in the first place must be creative enough to come up with a better solution! And to agree with someone else, the whole transporter solution was a little too last-minute to be plausible. But I'll give it to them--after all, it's my first novel, I can't be too critical. To close, this will not be my last "Voyager" novel, but I do hope that there is some improvement in the others. I hesistate to give the book three stars; I think it's more deserving of two and a half, but keeping in mind that I'm new to Star Trek, I decided to give it the higher of the two ratings.

I second the notions of the other reviewers who feel this collection sits heavy on the stomach of the mind (so to speak). Too much bland starch of info, too few servings spiced with literary feel, emotion, significance.

In no fewer than 234 entries (in 30 chapters), I found intensity of the writer producing intensity in me, only in these five items:

1. Wechsberg's report on the social-gastronomic intricacies of a boiled beef restaurant in earlier Vienna. Such fussing! Such snobbery. But, such expertise!

2. Grigson on English food. Sad but incisive critique of her nation's failings--at that time.

3. E. M. Forster on ditto--cameo sketch of a perfectly awful breakfast on a train is a gem.

4. Pelligrini on "the abundance of America"--heartfelt hymn to ham and eggs and more, with feeling.

5. Curnonsky on the political spectrum of gourmets, from far right (starched traditional), right, center, left, and far left (exotic ingredients and more). A classic truth perhaps.

Mere information is basic nourishment perhaps; literary quality is "finer cuisine" probably...?

For food literati greedy for the ample feast Choice Cuts offers in its 452 pages, two outcomes may arise. 1 - The charming collection of food history, recipes, and eloquent opinions is enough to satisfy the reader in a nightly-nibbling sort of way (you really will have to take it chapter by chapter). M.F.K. Fisher is predominantly laced throughout the other narratives and her presence alone warrants a read through as a daily reminder of the pleasures we could encounter everyday...

or

2 - Every night after you put down the book, however charming the prose or hindsight-humor of ancient observations on cabbage you'll sit and wonder why it's subtitled: "A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World..."

Apart from a brief recipe for Baghdad Onion & Eggs and Confucian musings on the effects of food, the focus is acutely European/Western and if my georgraphy knowledge serves me correctly, there's still alot of the world left terribly underrepresented in the collection...

That is to say, perhaps other cultures didn't devote as much thought to the realm of food, agriculture, and health, etc. Or perhaps such writing never survived, never existed, was never bothered to be translated/researched properly. Judging, however, from the infinite number of dishes that manage to delight the palate whether or not served in the dilapidated charm of a tiny french restaurant, the book is a little lop-sided.

But still, for greedy ones like me, a good leisure read.

CHOICE CUTS
Mark Kurlansky, Editor
ISBN 0-345-45710-2

This book, a collection of writing about food, drags somewhat from the burden of including too much arcane material, for example Pliny the Elder's note on onions from the first century. Elsewhere, another chapter devotes too many words to the difference between a gourmet and a gourmand, which is perhaps not as critical to the reader as to the editor.

There are some excellent pieces in this book however. Among the best are the articles by M. F. K. Fisher, who was a food writer, but felt that food, security, and love are entwined. She also wrote very well. Her story about a last meal at a favorite restaurant before leaving France in 1932 is warm and witty. Fisher almost did not get the last meal because a waiter failed to recognize her and her husband. He spotted her precious accordion she was carrying on to the ship, assumed that they were street musicians, and showed them the door. In another article, Fisher writes about bachelors' cooking, "few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman."

Another fine piece by Jeremy Wechsberg about a restaurant in Vienna before the war, where the boiled beef specialties required a customer to have a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of a steer, is one of my favorites. The restaurant kept herds of cattle, fed with molasses and sugar beet mash to supply its pampered customers. The story, written in 1948, reflects a past lifestyle to which few of us could relate. It was said that Austrian poets lavished rhymed praise upon the delicacies they consumed at "Meissl & Schadn".

The George Orwell article about cooks and waiters in Paris is the writer at his best. The waiters made more than the cooks, and the waiters had the mentality of snobs. A shorter piece about English food is equally good. In it, Orwell offers, "England is a very good country when you are not poor." I also admired John Steinbeck's article about hunger in California during the depression. Steinbeck wrote that, when children starved, the coroners wrote "malnutrition" on the death certificate because is sounded better "when a thin child is dead in a tent".

This book offers a number of satisfying entrees, even for those whose main interests are other than food. However, one has to get through too many bland side dishes between them.

Poorly written book. Disorganized. Would have been better if the author had focused on a specific geographic area, e.g. Manhattan/Bronx/Queens or L.A.-- alternatively, focusing on the culure and organizational dynamics of a single office (e.g. Manhattan) or unit (e.g. sex crimes). The author is all over the place, and really does not give the reader substantive info.

Im sorry to say this is a very mediocre book. It's got no heart, ir poorly organized and feels like it was put together in a week. The author interviewed 30-some people and tries to use their experiences to tell a story much too large for the effort he has invested. All the quotes are anonymous, which leads to reader to wonder just how real they are. This is a good idea, poorly executed, one that promises far more than it even attempts to deliver. It's a deceitful book and a real disappointment. Stay away.

I am glad I did not let other customer reviews dissuade me from reading this excellent book on prosecutors. The editorial reviews are much more akin to my experience.

I love Peterson's Guides, but the birds of Mexico is severely lacking. The art certainly holds up to the standard set by the guides to North America, but unfortunately, it can only be considered complete if you tag along two other Peterson Guides. Perhaps a good addition if you wish to complete your collection of Peterson Guides, but otherwise, buy Howell's or Edward's Guides, both of which far outshine this guide when considered alone. Howell's is certainly the most complete, but Edward's guide is a bit handier in the field.

I ordered this book, used, even though there was an unfavorable review. I have a number of Peterson books and like them all. The Mexican book is the exception. The one I received was from a very old edition, had incomplete illustrations of many birds, making identification difficult to impossible, and did not picture many birds found in other Peterson guide books. It is the worst. The reseller did ship the book promptly but I did not pay attention to the edition date and was unaware that there was a later edition of the book.

Other reviewers have already indicated the limitations of this book: pictures of many species and Spanish names are missing. I would add that the bibliography is lacking up-to-date references to the most usefull other guides about Mexican birds:

- A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, by Steve N.G. Howell and Sophie Webb;

- A field guide to the birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas, by Ernest Preston Edwards. (revised edition, 1998)

Both these books also have their limitations but they are essential complements to Peterson's guide and Howell and Webb's guide is much more comprehensive.

For Spanish-speaking people I would strongly recommend to buy the Spanish version of Peterson's guide:

- Aves de Mexico. Guía de Campo. (Editorial Diana, Mexico).

This Spanish version includes explanations and pictures of all Mexican birds and it even has the English names (no index of English names, however). Amazon is not stocking this title but perhaps they will, if you insist.