While not a cookbook, this is definitely a "how-to" book by a woman who's forgotten more about "how to" than I'll ever know. Betty explains not only how to research, analyze, and document the entire spectrum of possible environmental impacts, but why, and she does it in easily accessible language. The bulk of her experience is in transportation, and it shows in the text, but the principles and procedures apply to any federal project. I made sure my staff had a copy so they wouldn't keep swiping mine. Thanks, Betty, we needed this...it's everything you promised and more!

Lea Ann Perrego, EIT, Sr. Project Manager, McCormick-Taylor Associates

This would be excellent for use as a college textbook in engineering, planning, or administrative curricula. As a guide throught the environmental regulations maze, it is an invaluable to consultants and agency personnel alike. The advice and tips related to preparing better quality and more efficient environmental documents is well worth the investment in this book. C. Huntington Assistant Vice President Parsons Brinckerhoff

Like Richard Moore's "The High Blood Pressure Solution" and Herb Boynton et al.'s "The Salt Solution", this book explains in detail the importance of balancing your dietary intake of potassium and sodium. When done properly, it has been scientifically proven that you can dramatically decrease your risk of disease.

We've all heard the old adage that we must eat our fruits and vegetables, and that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. This books explains why this is true (including an accessible description of how this changes the functioning of our body cells). And you will see why perhaps a better saying is that a banana a day keeps the doctor away.

The cliche "don't judge a book by its cover" is true in this case. The packaging is simple, but the information is an eye-opener that will change the way you eat for the better. This is not just a book about fatigue. It outlines a simple way of eating that lessens the probability of a number of diseases including stomach cancer, kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and many others. Everyone should read this.

I bought this book for my 78 year old friend who found this title in our public library, but wanted her own copy. She had been feeling ill for 6 months, and was finally diagnosed with a low potassium level. This book is an excellent comprehensive guide to understanding the effects a potassium deficency has on a person's body and how to recognize symptoms. Most importantly, it gives valuable dietary advise to control the level of potassium in your body. This book uses a holistic approach to regaining health using quaility supplements, proper nutrition and exercise. It has made a vast improvement in my friend's health.

The Eye Of The Needle is a retelling of a Yupik tale from the Alaskan northwest, with Teri Sloat engagingly recounting and colorfully illustrating the story of Little Amik, a boy who lived with his grandmother in a tiny sod hut on the shores of the Northern Pacific. In this Native American fairytale, Amik swallows an enormous quantity of sea life (including a whale) along with the ocean waters until he is to large to enter his grandmother's house. Grandmother releases the magic in her sewing needle and all that Amik swallowed comes flowing and tumbling out as he finally learns the importance of sharing. A very highly recommended picturebook for young readers ages 4 and up.

This book has delightful and accurate illustrations of thearea. It is an exceptional outline or guideline for a storyteller,and helps students see another culture. The ending can be changed, or explained to children that the author decided to give Amik another chance. The book is a very good introduction to arctic and sub-arctic culture and traditional ways. Every group of students I have read this story to has absolutely enjoyed the story and helped with the swallowing sound effects.

Frazetta's work has graced album covers and book jackets. In this first volume you'll see some of his finest. His techniques for drawing your attention to primary and secondary points of interest in his works are done beautifully like a photographer uses light. His works are lush and sensual, celebrating the human anatomy like the ancient Greeks. The facial expressions of his subjects convey intensity, strength, and will. You can actually feel the energy jumping out at you. Too bad it's out of print, but I suspect these masterpieces will be popping up frequently in various compilations.

If you love Frank Frazetta's art then you must see the _Fantastic Art Of Frank Frazetta_ Volumes 1 to 5. This is the most complete collection of his work in print. The reproductions are first rate and on high quality glossy paper. Although they've been out of print for over a decade it's well worth the trouble and expense to obtain these books. They will, no doubt, appreciate in value.

"Fly Away" is a novel with a huge heart. A woman dreamily on the lam in a stolen moving van, filled with the dog-pound rejects she cares for, in her fitful way, wins over her dyspeptic pursuer by means of her sheer, stubborn humanity. James is a more benevolent version of Flannery O'Connor, with a sharp, satiric eye for people's foibles--but their shortcomings make her cherish them all the more. I loved the way this novel took me to desolate, out-of-the-way places and made me want to be there. Some of the comic scenes, such as the highly distractable heroine's driving off from a gas station with the pump hose still attached to her truck, and the ensuing havoc, are not to be missed. Treat yourself to this one."

"Fly Away..." is one of the best books I've read this year. Thought-provoking and insightful, this novel deals with many aspects of the human spirit. The reader is introduced to an enterprising, elderly homeless woman who struggles to provide shelter for an abandoned child and a troop of orphaned dogs. Their antics are sometimes illegal but always ingenius, and in the end the reader cannot help but be moved--profoundly--to a deeper understanding of words such as decency, pride, respect, and honor

This is a very important book, and a reprint edition would be welcome indeed. I have found it to be fascinating.

Take the following passage (pp. 168-169) from the chapter titled "Methodology", for example:

'Many of the annotations in Keynes MS 58 and at least some of the processes derive from John de Monte Snyders' "The Metamorphosis of the Planets". Snyders wrote other works, and apparently all of them were published in Latin or in German, but "The Metamorphosis of the Planets" had only German editions and seems to have existed in English translation only in manuscript. Newton somewhere acquired a copy of it and made a complete, carefully written transcript of it which included an elaborate title-page and a detailed symbolic frontispiece. Newton also numbered the pages and even the lines, for easy reference. By handwriting, Newton's transcript probably dates from early in the 1670s.

'Newton's autograph transcript of Snyder's work was one of the items that so horrified Sir David Brewster when he went through Newton's papers in the middle of the nineteenth century, it will be recalled. And truly it is a distressing document to read, being a complicated allegory that rambles on through thirty-one chapters. The whole comprises sixty-four pages, and in Newton's small early handwriting that is a substantial amount of material. Very little of it is couched in rationalistic language.

'Nevertheless, Brewster would perhaps not have been so horrified had he looked a litle further and seen what Newton did with the material. For the essence of Newton's approach to Snyders was exactly the same as that which he used in the interpretation of prophecy: a rational, matter-of-fact analysis aimed at finding the true "significations" of Snyders' allegorical figures and their actions. The only variation in method in the case of this alchemical study was that Newton, instead of checking his "significations" against actual historical events as in the case of prophecy, in alchemy checked them against experimental results.

'So that it may be seen just how great a distance Newton had to travel to get from Snyders to the laboratory, one passage in which Snyders treats of the eagle and scepter of Jupiter (or Jove) will be given here. . .'

If you have any interest in Sir Isaac Newton or in the early history of experimental chemistry, Dr. Dobbs' study is an essential part of your reading, well worth tracking down.

Was Newton an alchemist?

When John Maynard Keynes purchased a trunkful of Sir Isaac Newton's private papers at a Sotheby's auction early in this century, he was shocked to find out how much time and effort Newton had spent in alchemical pursuits. This book explores why Newton did so.

Keynes' reaction after reading Newton's alchemical notes was to label him "the last of the magicians".

Similarly embarrassed by alchemical writings in Sir Isaac's own hand they found among his papers, Newton's Enlightenment-era biographers had suppressed mention of his work in alchemy--or dismissed it as a recreation, pursued as a diversion from his "real" work in establishing the foundations of modern mathematical physics.

They all missed the point of Newton's alchemical work, because they only saw it through the lenses of their own eras. They projected the effects of the great man's discoveries backward into the years before the discoveries, when he and his contemporaries struggled to find ANY conceptual keys that would fit the locks of physical reality. Keynes and the biographers simply forgot that "the past is a different country: they do things differently there."

Dr. Dobbs' carefully researched study goes a long way toward correcting these misunderstandings of Newton. She explores Newton's extensive alchemical experiments in the historical context of his own era, and shows how this research influenced key elements in his discovery of testable physical laws.

In the last lecture of his 1964 series on "The Character of Physical Law", Caltech physicist Richard Feynman described what it takes to seek new such laws:

"...The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. We have to find a new view of the world that has to agree with everything that is known, but disagree in its predictions somewhere. . . . And in that disagreement it must agree with nature. If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery. ...A new idea is extremely difficult to think of. It takes a fantastic imagination."

Newton had both that fantastic imagination and the incredible discipline it took to put it into Feynman's strait-jacket. As Dr. Dobbs shows in her book, his fine-grained experimental investigation of the claims of alchemy developed both his amazing powers of concentration and the broad range of ideas to try that he could bring to bear on a problem.

While Newton may well have been disappointed by his years of intense alchemical research, it was still an important part of the rigorous intellectual regimen he set for himself in pursuing verifiable truths. His alchemical studies fed his imagination fruitful ideas to be tried in his other areas of research. He tested some of these ideas mathematically against accurate observations and experimental results reported by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei, and changed the way we view the world forever. Read this book carefully, and you'll have a better understanding of how--and why--he did it.

-dubhghall

If you are raising support or are getting ready to. This book is a must have. My wife and I have recently got this book and it is revolutionaling the way we view support raising. It not only goes into the biblical and theological purposes for raising support but also gives practical how to dos on raising support. This book has changed how me and my wife do it and I know it will change yours. Spend the 8 bucks and make a very worth while investment that will benifit you the rest of your life! God Bless and go reach the world!

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I am a therapeutic riding instructor who purchased this book to supplement my lesson plans. I never saw it in person and was absolutely thrilled to see the wealth of ideas it contains. I sometimes run short of creative games to play in my classes and this book has definitely changed that. Since my largest class only has five riders and the levels don't follow the same lines, I don't really follow the instructions to form. The games are easily adaptable for therapeutic riding. I would encourage any TR instructor to purchase this book. I'm sure it would be great for regular riding programs as well. It is the most useful games book I have ever seen.

Lots of fun suggestions that will work for your next speed show or just for having fun with friends. The book indicates what level the rider needs to be at for each game, as well as advises what safety precautions should be taken. There are games for all seasons of the year and for all riding levels. The book includes drawings of arena or field setup where necessary and has photos of riders participating in the games. The instruction on each of the games also includes information about what skills the rider and horse are developing while playing these games.

Sarah moved to a new home which used to be her Great Aunt Magaret's house. Few weeks later her aunt moved in from the Nursery. After that, strange things began to happened when Sarah and her aunt are along in the house. Like the light turns on by themselves and the rooms get deathy cold and Sarah hears strange footsteps in the upstairs hall. And everytime Sarah looked at a painting she found( which was her aunt's) she sees that the painting has changed. I think you should read this book because it is scary. So grab " A Ghost In The House" By Betty Ren Wright and start reading! Also enjoy other books by betty Ren Wright. See Ya!

I read this when I was ten and found my self putting the book down ever so often because I was so scared. I'm 21 and now I'm reading it with the 9-year old I tutor. She loves it too! Not a dull moment!