Azok provides detailed road map for someone who is serious about losing weight over the long term. He presents the tools you need to take on this life long challenge. The scientific and physiological information that is presented will make you think about how you want to live your life. Even if your just curious about weight loss, I think the reader will derive a very uplifting experience from Azok's inspirational prose. I feel that I am a better person after reading this book.

Discover the wisdom and realism in Living Smart Healthy and Happy in a High-Tech World. This inspirational masterpiece is laced with everyday truths and humor. It deals with topics and facts we often think about, but choose not to embrace because of our tendency to please others rather than ourselves. The author approaches such topics as: Enjoy you Sexuality, Don't go on a Diet and Slam the Door On Greed in masterful simplicity. Living Smart Healthy and Happy in a High -Tech World is a powerful yet gentle instrument for positive change; acceptance of one's self and a chance for a lifetime of happiness. This book is a; "Must Read."

This book has been awarded a Bisto Book of the Year merit award and the Eilis Dillon Memorial Award 1996.

It is a gripping story of an orphan boy, Lockie, who flees from his uncaring foster parents. Through the twelve years of his young life the rebellious Lockie has been moved, like a piece of unwanted furniture from one foster home to another. All he needs is acceptance as a member of an ordinary family, but so far he has failed to get it. His flight is away from the past, from people, because amongh them his life has been misery, but he has no idea of where he wants to go.

Then he meets the vagabond, Dadge, and other ecccentric characters, including Pasha and Mammy Tallon, all hovering on the edge of society. In them he finds soul mates. With great generosity they give him the love and acceptance he has always craved. Now too he has a goal - to dwell with Pasha and Mammy Tallon in their old home on idyllic Tallon Island. But will the powers-that-be allow that to happen?

The story is enthralling as adventure, a superb read, and it is garnished with thoughtful intimations of the thick-skinned attitude of respectable society to the social and emotional needs of those on the fringe.

Frank Bredell grew up in a small city located in upstate New York. A traditional American community safe for a young boy to roam in all neighborhoods and where the exploits of the Waterman Street Gang were exceeded only by the imaginations of its 10-year-old members. It was an era when the deprivations of the Great Depression, followed by the rationing of World War II failed to dampen young spirits. It was a time in a magical place and yesteryear that will never come again. Lockport Boy is a superbly written and totally engaging memoir that offers us a "window in time" to a slice of American life that now lives only in nostalgia.

This the the first novel by the great critic a much neglected-novelist, Andrew Lytle. The story is narrated by an older uncle to his nephew during one long night as he tells the story of his Alabama family around the period of the Civil War. Like Cold Mountain, Lytle's research and knowledge of the customs, speech, and lifestyle of his characters is perfect. Though this was his first novel, you'll see Lytle was already a master of fiction. When you're finished read "The Fathers" the Civil War novel by Lytle's friend poet, Alan Tate.

The photos are amazing, the closeups are incredible, the details are excellent for teaching a myriad of concepts relating to the natural history and biology of pond critters. The text is broken up into nice, readable sections and paragraphs, making this a perfect science book for middle elementary grades. But it's really the photos that star in this book, they are some of the best I have seen in any pond book! They draw the kids in and encourage them to read the text.

One of the most fascinating memories of childhood, is remembering the tidal pools in Africa. They were filled with life and you could find hermit crabs, tiny fish, beautiful starfish and sometimes a trapped octopus.

Life in a tide pool is quite beautiful and this shows false flowers, crabs, water weeds, sea spines, sea spines, velvet crabs, rock stars (well, OK, starfish) and sea lemons/slugs.

Beautiful Pictures and lots of information on the plants and animals. Recommended for children who love the beach!

This book contains a lot of limericks. There are famous ones, e.g. by Edward Lear and other well known ones but also a few by Frank Jacobs. The funny illustrations by Larry Daste make the book even more delightful!

"I have devoured his work repeatedly and voraciously, not merely because he is a great comic writer, but because I think he is arguably the greatest musician of the English language I have ever encountered. He may not have anything to say about Real Life (he would hoot at the very idea) but art practised at that level doesn't have to be *about* anything..."
- Douglas Adams, quoted in Muir's introduction

Only the first 6 Blandings stories in this collection can be found in _Blandings Castle_. (For those unfamiliar with the Earl of Emsworth, there are also several Blandings novels, starting with _Something Fresh_).

In the introduction, Muir, who knew Plum (if I may call him so), draws a few comparisons between Plum and Lord Emsworth: both men's lives were run by strong women (Ethel Wodehouse in one case, Emsworth's sister Lady Constance in the other), and they shared "the agony of having to dress up and waste time being social; the disinclination to argue (Plum once tried to arrange with Guy Bolton that should one of them be talked about insultingly the other would not argue but agree, and, if possible, add details)." :) (Muir also quotes a lot of Plum's good lines, which is bound to pep up anybody's writing.)

Lord Emsworth is an elderly, widowed peer devoted to Blandings Castle, his home in Shropshire; his greatest joy is his prize pig, Empress of Blandings, and his greatest trial is his younger son Freddie. Like the Wooster stories, a lot of young people crop up in various states of romantic difficulty. According to Freddie, the family treats Blandings like a Bastille to separate youngsters from unsuitable entanglements (being in Shropshire, it's inconvenient to reach from London).

Emsworth's mind won't stay on anything except important matters, such as whether the roses have greenfly or Whiffles' _Care of the Pig_. He's not foolish, but it's so hard to get him to concentrate on anything that doesn't interest him that it's usually hard to tell.) His butler has more of a grip than he does, but Beach isn't a Jeeves clone.

"The Custody of the Pumpkin" Blandings has a tyrannical Scottish head gardener, McAllister by name. This story introduces Aggie Donaldson, a young American relation of McAllister's who's just become engaged to Freddie, Emsworth's younger son. Since Emsworth has always dreamed of some eligible girl who'd support Freddie, thus relieving *him* of having to do so, he immediately tries to pressure McAllister into sending Aggie away, leaving 2 problems: 1) Freddie's romantic entanglement, but 2) the bigger problem of Emsworth having sacked his head gardener just before competing in the pumpkin class at the Shrewsbury Show. And Angus McAllister has his pride, of course...

"Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best" - but in this case, his new beard has made him a laughingstock behind his back, to the point where Beach plans to give notice so as to speak his mind. Emsworth, of course, is clueless; he's worried about why Freddie has returned from America 8 months after marrying the daughter of Donaldson's Dog-Biscuits, and sending telegrams that he's in trouble. (Freddie fits right in with Bertie Wooster's crowd, except that he has a job.)

"Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey!" After Blandings' pig-man got 14 days for being drunk and disorderly on his birthday (that's a good one in itself), the Empress stopped eating, so Emsworth's more worried about the Shropshire Agricultural Show than who his niece Angela wants to marry.

"Company for Gertrude" - another of Emsworth's nieces, sent to Blandings to separate her from an unsuitable young parson. But "Beefy" Bingham was at Oxford with Freddie, and Freddie's back in England, trying to sell dog-biscuits. Unfortunately, Freddie is the last person to know how to impress Emsworth...

"The Go-getter" is Freddie, who's actually a lot like his dad, but about selling dog-biscuits to his aunt Georgiana rather than about Blandings. Even he notices that cousin Gertrude's engagement to Bingham is coming unstuck, now that she's met a BBC tenor staying with Lady Constance - somebody far less promising than Bingham.

"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" The 'girl friend' is actually a little girl from London, out for the August Bank Holiday, who wins Emsworth's heart by throwing stones at McAllister, the head gardener - and for her sake, Emsworth might even show a little backbone for once. [Rudyard Kipling considered this one of the most perfect short stories he knew.]

"The Crime Wave at Blandings" Emsworth's little grandson George stalking Blandings with an airgun isn't the problem; the problem is that the *adults* can't be trusted with it after its confiscation. :)

"Birth of a Salesman" Lord Emsworth, attending a wedding in New York, mistakenly chose to stay with Freddie rather than with a female relative with 6 Pekinese dogs. Now that Freddie's finally earning a living rather than sponging on his father, he's gotten uppity about people who neither toil nor spin.

"Sticky Wicket at Blandings" Not only is Freddie at Blandings on another UK sales campaign - so is his uncle Galahad, his father's younger brother. Two generations of no-good younger sons in residence at once. :) Topping it all off, Lady Constance has taken it into her head that Blandings needs a more up-to-date butler than Beach.

De Caro & Jordan have selected a range of travel accounts that manage to capture the diversity, contradiction, and character of Louisiana, from colonial times to the present. Their contemporary travel updates make this book useful to modern-day trippers, and the inclusion of selections by literary luminaries such as Steinbeck broaden its appeal beyond Louisiania lovers.