If you're looking for a first book to get into countercultural, simple/sustainable living which reflects your personal convictions, this book is for you. One of the first written on the topic, it was produced after many of the author's friends kept asking, "So just how do you do it?" You'll get a no-bull, simply written format full of simple things you can do to start changing your life. I recommend starting with one of the suggestions and building from there. Long term habits take time to develop. You won't feel that the ideas are being rammed down your throat, just presented in simple clear logical reasoning.
As a human rights activist living overseas, this book has helped me immensely in adjusting my life to that of the people around me in the 'two-thirds' world, and staying that way when I come home.

This is a delightful light read, full of wonderful "people" stories told by a man with a reputation as one of the finest doctors ever to practice in Vermont. It is not only entertaining and insightful, but it also includes some delightful offbeat humor. Highly recommended!

This book really told the untold story of William Inge, a great American playwright. He is not as well know as his long time friend, Tenessee Williams, but this piece gives him the parise he deserves. The look into his inner mind hepls to understand his masterfull plays even better. I reccommend this book to any Inge fan, or evn any one who thinks themself a dramatist!

Bicycling For Life covers one man's sixty-five years of bicycling from the early years of the Great Depression to the beginning of the new millennium, from a primitive one-speed to the 24-speed superbikes of today. As Walter Baumann takes a ten-day bike journey from West Los Angeles to Yuma, Arizona and back, he thinks about the major traumas of divorce and stroke he's experienced. But he also remembers pas adventures on a bicycle and by journey's end he has a newly revised life plan -- twenty years later, he is still bicycling and in good health, both physical and mental. Although a superb work of fiction, Bicycling For Life holds a great many truths for the dedicated cyclist and is a pure and unique pleasure to read.

I have been "collecting" herbal books for a couple years now. I am a Master Gardener, and have been studying herbal medicine in various cultures. I would highly recommend this book for beginning herbalists. It has information on plant identification,how to grow and propagate herbs, identifying diseases and pests, and scientific information on different species. It also includes color pictures and sketches. It does'nt have a ton of herbs, but most of the more common ones used in gardens, and for potpourris.

I found the book an excelent resource for transport phenomenom, but found confusion in understanding some of the parts. However, the explanations were far better and more detailed than others I have seen

The male Emporer penguin goes without food for two months to keep an egg warm between his feet and belly... the African Honey Bird leads humans to beehives in order to share in the bounty (it wants the wax, not the honey). Birds do the strangest things! I remember loving this book as a child (along with Animals do the Strangest Things) and was glad to find a copy in a used bookstore to read my own child. It is still just as fascinating as I had remembered! I wish Scholastic would reprint this series.

This book is loaded with color pictures of numerous birds from around the world..I found pictures of birds in this book that I couldn't find in my other bird books (I have many). Though it's an older book,it's a useful addition to my bird reference library. Definitely worth buying if you like pictorial bird books.

This book is extremely important in that it gives a full perception of "newer," or less traditional African American bodies which made a significant impact on the black religious experience. Arthur Huff Fauset (1899 - 1983?) was a novelist and anthropologist whose interest in the Black Church may have stemmed from the fact that his father was an A.M.E. minister, even though he died when Fauset was an infant. His mother was white and a Christian convert of Jewish heritage (Fauset, 1971, 127). He was a member of a literary family: his older sister, Jessie Redmond Fauset (1884-1961), was a novelist and poet, and was considered "the most prolific of the Renaissance writers of the genteel school" by Calvacade magazine. Arthur Huff Fauset's 1944 book, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults in the Urban North, provides a glimpse of five black religious bodies: the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc.; the United House of Prayer for All People; Church of God (Black Jews); the Moorish Science Temple of America; and the Father Divine Peace Mission Movement. These were chosen because they were "among the most important and best-known cults of their respective types, and hence among the most representative" (Fauset, 1971, 10). Using participant observation, he presents their origin, a portrait of their respective leader and/or founder, their organizational forms, and an explanation of their practices and rituals. He was a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and was further prepared by studying folklore "extant among Blacks in Philadelphia, British West Indies, Nova Scotia and in the South" in 1931. His master's thesis, "Folklore From Nova Scotia," was the first collection of black folklore in Canada (Fauset 1971, 127). Other books included accounts of Sojourner Truth and a biographical account of the American Negro. He was a contributor of many essays, short stories, articles and book reviews to Crisis and Opportunity. He also wrote several novels, including African Lament on Shaka, King of the Zulus. According to the biographical account, Fauset was involved in "militant civil rights activism." His friends included Alain Locke, W. E. B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Paul Robeson, and A. Philip Randolph. This lead to work as the editor of the Philadelphia edition of Powell's newspaper, The People's Voice. He was also honorably discharged from the Army just before being commissioned during World War II due to his prior civil rights activities (Fauset 1971, 128). In the introduction to the 1971 edition of the book, John Szwed states that Fauset's book is important because it gives a heretofore unavailable description of the practices and beliefs of blacks in the United States: The beginning point for understanding any religious institution is at least elementary knowledge of its practices and beliefs. But it is a sad fact that we have better descriptions -- incomplete as they are -- of religious beliefs and practices in West Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean than we have of those of black people in the United States. And it is in this respect that Black Gods of the Metropolis is a singularly important book. Fauset, in writing one of the first books of urban American ethnography, took very seriously the culture of the Negroes of North America. (Fauset, 1971, v) Fauset (1971, 107-108) concluded that African Americans' "over-emphasis ... in the religious sphere" was related to the comparatively meager participation of blacks in other institutional forms of American culture, the result of racial discrimination which forbade black participation in mainstream society. Thus, the one institution with which blacks are closely identified was a form of cultural, spiritual, physical and leadership expression. He maintained that blacks were attracted to cults because they offered both spiritual nurture and freedom to control their own destinies through businesses, politics, social reform and social expression. He also surmised that the personal charisma of the leader was an important factor in attracting members, that the cults had rigid taboos "over certain features of the private lives of its members, frequently reaching into the most intimate details of their lives." Sexual inhibitions were of ultimate importance in most of the cults he studied. He also found that the literal adherence to the Bible as a guide lessened as the programs of the cult became focused upon social, economic and political uplift.

A thorough collection of information about this fungal disease. Includes topics on the virology, ecology, epidemiology, pathology, immunology and prognosis and therapy. Also includes a chapter on blastomycosis in animals. Reasonably understandable even for readers without a medical or veterinary background. Provides information not readily available, about this little known disease. Suggested drug therapies may be slightly out of date for some treatments, since the book was published in 1992.