An excellent guide for those of you who are tired of trying totalk about the way you are feeling and want to take action. Stopworrying about everyone else and look after yourself for a change! A great practical book to use in conjunction with other self-healing books. The "how to" of making positive changes to the way you think about your life. Habits and negative thoughts take a while to change, but help is there. Become aware of your conscious and unconscious mind and how this can affect your life and your choices. Forget the past. Confront your different feelings and emotions. "Taking Control of Your Life" helps you face those challenges in a calm and reassuring manner. A great book for those who are sceptical of meditation. You are guided step by step through visualisation exercises that you will remember when you most need them. A book you can keep referring to when you are feeling a little bit out of control.

Of all the books on the arts and crafts movement in America I regret and am dismayed at the discontinuance of this book. I have read some fifty books and none presents as clear and concise a documentation of the A&C Movement in America as Ms. Kaplans. Those seriously interested in the movement can not achieve a solid understanding without reading this work. Comprehensive, extremely well documented with photographs and research with essays that are remarkable for their breadth and depth. Exceptional book

This is an outstanding piece of research by Dr. Salmond. She is obviously a leader in the study of Russian arts and crafts.

Asian Sauces & Marinades is a recommended pick for any who would learn the secrets of Asian cuisine and who have access to a well-stocked Asian market. Marinades, stir-fry sauces, curries, and glazes are accompanied by tips and hints on how to prepare classic dishes in home kitchens. Both familiar and unusual recipes for all types of Asian dishes are accompanied by color photos. Asian Sauces & Marinades is a welcome addition to any kitchen cookbook collection!

This has differnt recipes to Avelines complete guide to macro cooking so it is worthwhile buying both. This is proper macrobiotic cuisine......it also explains how to do the diet

This book has great rhythm and rhyme, 4 words per page. The child has breakfast, gets dressed, goes on a walk into town, goes to stores, passes construction site, plays in the mud at the park, has a bath at home. Great for teaching language to little kids. Ends with "Kisses, hugs, I love you!".

Yes! Small-town America was once to be found in Southern California and this book takes you there. Travel back to Leucadia, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Encinitas, Solana Beach and Olivenhain, in the coastal region of San Diego county, the most southwesterly part of the USA. With the rush of people to California, all have now grown into flourishing towns with shopping malls, a freeway and burgeoning developments.
'Backward Glances' tells you how it was in the old days. Based on her continuing columns in the region's local newspaper, Wendy Haskett weaves us into the lives of the early settlers in these areas. There are fifty chapters garnered from the memories of the settlers themselves, their children and their grandchildren.
Read about the early days of the Del Mar racetrack, the adventures of the first veterinarian in Encintitas, and how there was a plan to fly bats with incendary bombs attached over Japan in World War II. Hollywood stars were often seen in this area, too. John Wayne, Robert Young, Bing Crosby and others were well known to the early inhabitants.
The writing is smooth and lively, and the tales are interesting. If you like down-to-earth stories of earlier American life, this is the book for you.

Dennis Le Croissette

I've just stumbled across Wendy Hornsby and her protagonist, Maggie MacGowen. My initial reaction was anger: How could I have missed this writer for so long? I've since discovered, however, that a good many people seem to have missed her as well. And that's a shame for all concerned.

"Bad Intent" is that rarest of creations (or perhaps Hornsby achieves this as a matter of routine, I can't wait to find out): It's a compelling mystery that succeeds equally well as a novel. I found myself gripped with equal intensity by the questions of how to merge two households into one, how to reconcile one's perceptions of a loved one with the day-by-day realities they present, how to pull up stakes and move to a different locale and go about the whole process of starting anew, even the eternal question of how-the-hell-does-a-parent-deal-with-a-budding-adolescent-child?, as well as those usual questions of "whodunnit" or, equally importantly in this book, "whydunnit" and "who-done-what"?

Maggie MacGowen is a jewel of a protagonist, outwardly a Berkeley liberal, yet realist enough -- the result, one infers, of a lifetime of experience -- to accept the need for pragmatism as a credo. Toughminded without being hardhearted, smart and hip without succumbing to the lure of cynicism, Maggie steps off the printed page as a person rather than simply a character in a book. She lives, she breathes, she acts. In that order.

As do all the characters in "Bad Intent." Hornsby seems simply incapable of creating a single "cardboard" character or locale, let alone a premise. Character, as any writer learns in his/her first class, determines plot, while plot illustrates character; to me it's obvious that Ms. Hornsby has taken this lesson to heart. It's equally obvious that she has researched her characters with a degree of diligence other writers would do well to emulate. Her cops, as one striking example (and of course, most notably, Maggie's lover, Mike Flint), burst forth in all their strengths and flaws; neither saint nor sinner, simply individual people with foibles determined by their upbringings, experiences and reactions to their job.

Things happen in this novel; they happen for a reason (and not, as opposed to many mystery/thrillers, simply to provide a body). Questions are asked, and answered. And the reader's interest is maintained throughout. The fact that this interest is maintained to such a high degree is what makes "Bad Intent" the book that it is. And what it is, is -- to put it quite simply -- a book to savor.

The Fordor guides are a good source for the various locations around the globe. They are not as good as the Arthur Frommer guides. The Fodor guides are not for the budget traveler. They focus on the pricier accommodations and restaurants. But, what they do rate there is a wonderful detailed description. The maps are better than the Gold books.

I got a copy of this book and gave it to my daughter in May. She wasn't interested in it at all. Then, 3 weeks ago, we came back from vacation in Maine, and she searched through ALL of her books to find it (she's almost 3). Now, we have to read it every night. I don't know whether the ocean theme inspired her, but she really enjoys it. The story of a young boy bear not quite sure that he is ready for school is one that many kids can relate to. My little one had much separation anxiety when she first started. Now, she can read this book and look back on those times from a new perspective. The illustrations are charming - who wouldn't want to live on Nantucket? It's a very empowering message to give young kids. School, like other hings in life, isn't easy to get used to, but you can with the support of those around you. My only gripe is that the friend Barnaby makes is just like him, but female - a little diversity would have been welcome. Another gripe - we need more Barnaby books! The author needs to get some new ones done (easier said than done, I am sure ;-) ) and the older ones need to come back into print. Here's to my little one's newest friend - Barnaby!