I found this book a wonderful view of French Provencal style, blended with American verve and elegance. Many of us have traveled in France, and know the French are also very influenced by the freshness and ease of American design.

Remember it was not an English, but an AMERICAN interior designer, Nancy Lancaster from Virginia USA, who revolutionized English Country style. She became Lady Colfax and changed the look of country houses from stiff to chintz.

I think the author introduces the beauty of Euro/American design in this book. The French Provencal Style in AMERICA title is a great clue that the pages are not full of 17th century French country village interiors.

Also, it always helps to read a book before you judge it!

Ok, so this isn't "authentic French Provence design." Suppose you won't be visiting Aix-en-Provence and running around looking for all the pieces you need, and then figuring out how to fill up a shipping container and send it through customs, etc etc, (can you imagine doing this in a foreign country in a foreign language?!) You just aren't going to find a lot of genuine French furnishing and fabrics in the US. What if you want to use French elements in your decorating (as we did) and only have access to American furniture lines and the fabrics sold here?

This book provides a great solution. American houses are DIFFERENT than European, and what's sold in furniture and decorating supply shops is different, too. "Provencal Interiors" shows you how to get that effect with things you can get here. THAT'S great. If it isn't authentic, that's ok. If you don't have unlimited funds for a decorator to buy worldwide to create "real" Provencal, this book works really well. Maybe better.

The pictures give good examples of Provencal style rooms, and there are lists of suppliers that are helpful. The color schemes are perhaps the most useful part. Another useful thing are the fabrics and how to mix them. I myself have problems figuring that out; this helps.

I LOVE French country interiors and I love this book! I've been waiting for someone to show the beautiful interiors of great designers here in the United States. Finally, Charles Faudree's canines, delecious colors and endless yards of toile', all in one book. The writing is delightfully smart and usable covering information on textiles, antiques, techniques and the whole concept of the French country. This book gives a real sense of the talent of designers here and also how to reach them and a list of shops and dealers in French furnishings and accents. Betty phillips is a professional in her feild of interior design as well as in her ability to capture the essence of French country in this book.

I actually picked up this book in a used bookstore for about $... Read it in two days, even took notes. It has a lot of excellent advices for a novice as well as an experienced shopper. The book is designed to create a system in your head, so you can create and follow your plan shopping for what you need, so you actually wind up with a few worthy items rather than a closet full of completely useless stuff. I keep going back to it time to time(especially when it's time to clean the closet). It is a good reference tool to have.

This book is the next best thing. It forces you to think about your personal style, body type and lifestyle and create a wardrobe that works with it. I think it is a must read for those who don't just put on clothes but really dress themselves (truly, there is a difference!).

Additionally, I think that any company that has business casual dress code or casual friday should make "The Dressing Down Dilemma" chapter standard reading or add it to their employee manual (have you seen some of the things people try to pass off as "business casual" lately?). She very clearly defines what is acceptable and what is faux pas with simple guidelines and suggestions.

I loved this book. It reminded me of shopping as a young girl when there were women in all the grand old department stores who knew about clothes and would pass their knowledge on. So much of this has been lost in our self-service world. With this book, Betty Halbreich offers her expertise not only to the well-heeled patrons of Bergdorf-Goodman, but to the rest of us. And her take on the whole "fashion thing" is so light-hearted. After reading Secrets of a Fashion Therapist, I am savvier at shopping -- and I have more fun doing it.

I used this book, which came highly recommended, to teach a graduate-level course in Family Therapy. At first glance it seemed like a useful text, having earned a great deal of praise from other professors. However, the book was a disappointment to both myself and my students.

While I would not go so far as to say that the book contained no useful information, much of the book's potential utility was overshadowed by the authors' transparent political agenda. An example of good clinical advice provided by the authors was to ask wealthy families, in an initial interview, how they are using their funds to help the poor. Coming across with this overtly judgmental and clinically irrelevant question in the first interview is clearly not the way to win over a troubled family.

When studying the book, it was often possible to forget that families seeking therapy may actually have troubles of their own. The articles in the book focused largely on sociopolitical issues. Obviously, one cannot discount the influence of the larger context; however, struggles with gender unfairness in the workplace are rarely the presenting problem which drives an entire family into a therapist's office. Perhaps it was for this reason that focused, practical clinical advice for the budding clinician was nearly absent from many of the articles.

Pragmatics aside, the book was also lacking in terms of scholarship. A variety of grand claims were made by various authors with limited citations to support these claims. Despite the reference lists at the end of each chapter, I found it jarring to read several consecutive paragraphs without footnotes describing, for example, the "typical" presentation of clients from different cultural groups. There was also a surprising tendency on the part of some authors to make detailed references to their personal lives in the article. While anecdotes can certainly be illustrative, they should not serve as the basis of an article.

Overall, I was very disappointed in this book and would not assign it again. While there was some useful information embedded in a few of the articles, on the whole this book attests to the need to keep textbooks agenda-free.

I think this may be the best book I've read on the family life cycle events we are told to anticipate (marriage, motherhood, launching of children, aging) as well as the unexpected difficulties life plunks down in our path. It is so clearly written that I recommend it not only to family therapists, but also to just plain folks who want to learn more about how families work. It's rich, comprehensive, pioneering, bold,inclusive and very helpful.

As a psychology intern who has worked with families for teh last year, I have found this book to be extremely helpful in understanding the families that I work with. It has helped me keep their life cycles in perspective, and has allowed me to understand the not-so-conventional families. We used this book in class, and I have been surprised at the amount of times I have turned to it since. In my quest to do the best job possible, I have read many other books on family therapy. This book was extremely valuable and helpful to me, and offers realistic content that is not found in most other books.

I am tired of buying books which don't give any sort of clear solutions to the problems they are addressing. This book basically tells me what every mother and father already know. We don't need to know it will go away with TIME. To write a book like this and basically tell us what we already know should be a crime. I should have looked at it's ranking number before I bought it, I think that says enough.

I did take one more chance and also bought Dr. Marc Weissbluths, "Sweet Babies", now that's a book that is worth buying and really what all parent's of colicky infant can use. Thank God someone knows what he is talking about!

My daughter was colicky for about 4-5 months. I was really glad to have found this book when she was 4 months old. (Wish I had read this when she was a newborn.) I almost cried when I read it. All those months I had struggled with this screaming little baby and wondered if I was doing the right thing. Other people told me I was spoiling my baby and I should change the way I was dealing with her crying, but I couldn't bear to let her suffer alone in her crib.

This book is very supportive for parents who want to nurture and calm their fussy, colicky babies. I thought that the Sears' provided nice tips for handling baby and I also found there advice on breastfeeding helpful.

My baby is now 10 months. She is trusting, good humored, smiley, and very sociable. I feel like all my hard work has paid off. I don't think that I would have been able to do it without this book.

Even though my child was past six months by the time I had the energy to read this book, it validated the various strategies that I had attempted in order to have some relief from the screaming. My child screamed 95% of the time when we first brought her home and slept less than 8 hours a day. Many of these strategies provided me with at least temporary relief. Therefore I highly recommend the book, especially for the chapter on creative ways to soothe a fussy baby. Also, validation of the feelings of shared by parents of similar babies helps one feel understood at a time when perfect strangers constantly offer useless advice. The chapter on hidden causes of fussiness in infants is one that is still of interest to me as we as parents continue our search for answers to our struggle. I read other reviews that were not as complementary, however as a parent of one of the most difficult children that I have ever met (professionally, I deal with parents and children) this book was especially helpful to me in looking at our struggle from many different angles and feel encouraged that we will survive. Some are opposed to the idea of the "family bed" however if a child is truly difficult, parents are willing to try "ANYTHING". The "ANYTHING" is what I believe the Sears have willing explored and shared. The only thing that would have been better for me was if this book would have been on videotape or audiotape so that my arms would not have been free to consume the information contained.

I was so excited when I first heard about this book--a woman who has a near-death experience, but because she's tried to commit suicide, instead of a glimpse of eternal bliss she goes to HELL! I wondered if she actually saw devils with pitchforks, or Cerebus guarding the Styx. But what happens is she goes through a tunnel, loses her breasts, and ends up in what looks like a crappy old bedroom with a bunch of other suicides (mostly teenagers), while a woman in a beehive talks about what a lot of problems she's got. Then Jesus starts chewing her out (the author, not the woman with the beehive) for killing herself and tells her what a jerk she's been for trying to take the easy way out. Then she comes back to life feeling much better and determined not to listen to rock and roll anymore, because she realizes now it's a Satanic plot.

I cannot believe that the creator of the universe would be so petty as to punish pop music fans by locking them in a bedroom full of bad hairdos for all eternity. I give this book no credence whatsoever.

I don't know if I can "add-on" to my original review titled "A Powerful NDE Account, but Appreciated with Skepticism", but here is what else I meant to say. Given my natural skepticism, my intuition tells me that Angie Fenimore's NDE is genuine. I feel that it is genuine because, if she were making this up, I believe that she would have concocted a totally different NDE scenario. Now whether or not she was actually on the threshold of death is something that I cannot answer, but somebody does not necessarily have to be near death in order to have a profound experience with God. It doesn't matter what served as the "gateway" to her experience, for it shows that we all are subject to God's spiritual laws, that we have the choice to choose between light and darkness. Yet more importantly, even for those souls suffering in the depths of hell, God has not abandoned any single one of them, and they can turn from the darkness to God's loving Light when they are ready, for Jesus already paid the penalty for all people's sins, for all times.

Finally, regarding my doubts about the pre-existence of the soul before birth, it is quite possible that some part of us existed prior to our existence in this world. We may very well have had a pre-existence before birth, having lived as spiritual children with God, but I believe that we are not privy to these details in the earth realm, for our energies should be focused on making a better world and spreading God's love in the here and now.

This book is just amazing. Her life, the things that she went through as she was growing up, made me just cry. It is incredible. You can see why God had mercy on her and let her come back. I HIGHLY recommend this book.

Please tell me how I can, either speak to a customer service rep. or send a notice to someone. I received a book, with the proper title "Kentucky's Domaine of Power, Greed and Corruption", however upon opening it, I found that the contents were "The Sighted Singer", a book on poetry. I have no idea on what I should do. I tried to get into my account, but have forgotten my password. I followed the procedure 3-4 times, and can't get an e-mail, from you giving me the password. Please e-mail me, as what I should do.... If I don't hear from ypu soon, I know nothing to but file a dispute with American Express, which will stop the payment. I would like to have the book, but I can find no way to speak yo anyone, except through this review. I hope you can help me.

Thanks to Ms. Ellison, our friends in Lexington have another opportunity to correct their ways. One of the most penalized schools in NCAA history, the University of Kentucky has not changed much since the basketball team had to cancel two seasons in the 1950s because of player involvement in gambling scandals. Back in the early 90's, a new athletic director was hired, pledging to clean things up. And things did appear to have changed on the surface. However, within less than a decade, the football team has been cited for more than 35 violations of NCAA rules, including some major violations.

One of the problems UK inherently faces is the expectations of many fans in the state whose entire lives seem to revolve around the program. Not that this is unique to UK, but Kentucky's fans place UK right up there with the heavenly kingdom. UK can do no wrong, as far as they're concerned. Anything to the contrary is considered a direct attack on their holy grail.

Ms. Ellison has done a great job of illustrating the problems surrounding the UK legacy.

This book gives a detailed account of the decades of corruption surrounding the university of kentucky's athletics program. Otherwise known as the "Dirtiest Program in the History of College Athletics."

Bravo to Mrs. Chavez for writing this incredibly personal story.

I feel like I know the characters, and my heart goes out to each one of them. The author's attempt at reaching her sister in the Concerned Christians cult through every possible medium (i.e. this book) is a true statement of her love and her dedication to her sister Jan and Jan's daughter (Nicolette) who was left behind by the cult to fend for herself.

This book will tear at your heartstrings. It will make you smile. It will make you angry. It will make you cry. But most of all it will make you (as it made me) understand how easy it is to take precious memories and relationships for granted. The media coverage is gone, but the suffering of the families continues now, and will continue until the day their families are reunited. Now, they are only able to remember their past experiences, and I thank Mrs. Chavez for allowing me to share in those memories.

I just finished reading this book and it was wonderful. Betty's unconditional love for Jan was heart-warming but also heart-breaking. To know that Betty had done everything in her power to reach her sister, not only emotionally, but spiritually as well, and not have her sister respond like a person should just tore me apart. I know this family indirectly through one of my family members, so it really hit home. The only question I had though was, in this day and age of internet/email, why couldn't someone trace the emails back from where they had been sent? I know it can be done, especially knowing that this particular Concerned Christians "dooms-day cult" was potentially dangerous. All in all, this book is definitely worth reading - it will frustrate you, tug at your heart-strings, and make you realize how fortunate you are to have your loved ones with you and not somewhere unknown in the world.

This book is one of the most moving and brilliantly written memoirs I have read in several years. The story perspective and the passion the author's words are a testiment to her sisterly love and devotion. Having just lost my brother to cancer, I deeply feel Betty's emotional quest to reach her sister. I pray that Betty's search for her sister will have a happy ending. I wish her the very best. Losing someone you love is hard. God Bless

This book was kind of lengthy, but I truly enjoyed it. Bette Ford can really write. I love all her books.

Okay, so this book did not have all the qualifications for a Five in my book, but it did have Four Star quality. "All the Love" had a good storyline and the characters had great chemistry together but the book was lacking something. Bit I must said what Ford lacks in this book she makes up for it with the love scenes. Better luck next time!! Much love Ford!

I read the review that said this was not one of Ms. Ford's best. I beg to differ, it is just what I expect. I am a true fan of her writing and will continue to support her always! It was this book that highlighted the career of photojournalism which I felt was an interesting career. Ray Coleman, photojournalist comes home after an accident. Amber Spencer, director of a nursey school has a long history with Ray. This is like the story with unresolved love issues between Ray and Amber. So here, we have a book that deals with Ray and Amber's relationship both past and present, then we have the secondary story of a dangerous man on the loose who causes some serious problems. But the author, who manages to provide these two stories in a way, that makes it in my opinion a very good story to read. Now, I have said Ms. Ford is an author who can deliver those hot loving scenes, and of course she does it again in this book. So to my fellow readers, give this one a try, read it, its an easy read, not boring and very good. If you enjoy Ms. Ford's work, check out these other published books by her: One Of A Kind (a 1999 release), For Always, After Dark and Forever After.

I don't mean to be mean, but this book gave me no new information about ADD. It is the same info from everything else that I have read.

Those of you who have read other books by Barkley have already read this one. It is the same thing over and over and over again. Don't waste your money.

My main reason for writing is to point out that the earlier reviewer who criticized Barkley for the passage about the 3 Little Pigs completely misunderstood the point Barkley was trying to make. Barkley was not saying that he thought that ADHD people deserved what they got; he was saying that some people who misunderstood what ADHD was all about might believe that ADHD people deserved what they got. The reviewer did not read Barkley carefully.

this has got to be one of the very worse books i have read. love true crime but this one put me to sleep. waste of money- what can i say?

One easily forgets that the grandmother had as much right to her life as the teenagers did. They committed this murder and should be punished accordingly. There is little sympathy for cold blooded killers who use age and circumstances as excuses for their behavior.

When people see this book people think that this girl and this guy must be cold and heartless but, that is not the case. Wendy's grandmother emotionally and physicly abused her. Wendy's grandmother emotionally killed her. The only thing her grandmother didn't do was physically kill her. Which, I'm not so sure she wouldn't of done anyways. And as for James... it is not known for sure if he actually killed her. But, as bad as it sounds, James was just a pawn.