i found this book to be the finest and most useful book to get started with magnet therapy. not only does it cover a wide range of conditions and symptoms, but it also goes into background and theory, as well as advising what cautions on should exercise. there is no better book in the field.

This book is entirely entertaining as well as informative.

I am truly fortunate because my brother was nice enough to stand in line to get me an autographed copy of this book!! The stories within, some you've heard and some you've not, will make you laugh and cry. "Damn Good Dog", I guess that sums it up!

Go Dawgs!!
UGA Alumni, relocated North of the Mason-Dixon

This is a must have for any true UGA fan. Excellent stories and pictures.

Perfect for any coffee table, waiting room, or library.

Damn good book!

This is a book that actually needed to be written for a variety of reasons. On many differant levels, the story of the growth of Uga 1 through Uga V1 is also the story of the growth of a family, a region, and that of a world class university.
In 1956, Mr. Frank Seiler and his wife,Cecilia, receive a English Bulldog puppy as a belated wedding gift. These two people who hail from Georgia were just getting started in life as a married couple and in their careers. Mr. Seiler as a law student at Georgia on his way to becoming a well known Savannah attorney, and Cecelia as a homemaker and fellow university graduate. While working at the Georgia ticket office in 1956 Athens, Mr.Seiler is asked by Coach Wally Butts if the university could use their dressed up English Bulldog to generate some excitement for the football team after Uga 1 causes a stir in the stands during a game. This is where the rest of the story begins.
By using archival photos and recollections, Mr. Seiler relates how the Uga legend came to be. It tracks the growth of the Seiler family which eventually includes four children who all became caretakers to the Uga line. This story also explains the hard work and dedication that The Seiler's have shown in going to all Georgia home games and many away games.Even with a busy law practice and a growing family, The Seiler's give their time and energy to growing the dogs both as pets and as world famous mascots. Damn Good Dogs! is the story of a loving, hard working family and the dedication they show towards a university that has grown by leaps and bounds in 45 years. Today, Uga VI is the face of the University of Georgia. Anywhere in the world it is a symbol for everyone associated with the University of Georgia and the city of Athens, Georgia. This book tells how this actually came to be.

This book, written by environmental writer Kim Erickson has three major points. Commercial cosmetics have carcinogens and other unsafe chemicals. Even the "earth friendly" cosmetics cannot be trusted. There are many homemade cosmetics that are safer.

Drop-Dead Gorgeous has over 100 recipes for cosmetics. The recipes are, for the most part, safe. Those that are questionable include the appropriate warnings. (For example, horseradish can burn sensitive skin.) Most recipes have been published in other magazines and books and have been around for a while. The use of these recipes may not be practical, but they are unlikely to do any harm. The book includes a recipe for skin cleaning to treat acne. If you use commercial cleansers or the organic recipes, you keep the skin clean and acne will be less frequent.
For athlete's foot, there is a recipe that includes garlic oil. Lucky there is also a recipe for smelly feet. It includes baking soda. There are recipes for hair dies, shampoos, rinses, facial scrubs, nail soaks, and sunburn lotion. This is handy information to have in any household.

The author uses a few pages to condemn the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics. One test is the LD-50. Basically, how much of a product, force fed to a critter is enough to be fatal in 50% of the cases. Maybe she doesn't realize this is also done with the basic chemicals found in organics. For example, cinnamon oil is about 75% cinnamic aldehyde (depending upon the type of oil). LD50 (orally in rats) for cinnamic aldehyde is 2220mg/kg. This means I (if I was a 200 pound rat) could eat about a third of a pound of cinnamic aldehyde with about a 50% chance of survival.

On page 11 she makes a special point to discredit a company that makes my favorite brand of peanut butter. "One company resisting the trend toward more humane treatment of animals is Proctor & Gamble, the manufactures of Cover Girl, Max Factor and Vidal Sassoon brands." She cites evidence that, "In 1993 alone, Proctor & Gamble invested $2.4 billion on advertising while spending only $450,000 in scientific grants to develop actual alternatives
to animal testing." The advertising number includes potato chips and hundreds of other products besides beauty products. P&G only does animal testing when required by law. Specifically European requirements for cosmetics. In addition to spending money on grants for alternatives to animal testing, P&G is active in promoting these alternate tests.
(Disclaimer: I do not own stock in P&G nor am I expecting a lifetime supply of Jif(tm) to start showing up at my door. It is just an easy thing to investigate.)

The author has a bias against commercial products and the contents. When writing about a commercial products on page 23: "Glycerin is a solvent, humectant, and emollient. The FDA issued a notice in 1992 that glycerin has not been shown to be safe or effective." When writing about her recipe products on page 41: A sweet, syrupy byproduct of soap making, glycerin has been used for thousand of years a humectant, emollient, and lubricant in skin care preparations, It is available at most pharmacies. She doesn't mention if she means organic glycerin or not. Organic glycerin is made from animal fat. She conplains that cosmetics make products that may cause cancer in rats. Yet one of her receipes uses tobacco leaves.

While no one can be an expert in everything, the author is careless with facts. On page 165 is says, "Deodorants simply inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause odor, while antiperspirants stops perspiration by blocking the pores." Later on the same page, "Antiperspirants, on the other hand, curb wetness by temporarily shrinking the size of the sweat glands." Antiperspirants do neither to stop sweat. Antiperspirants change the electric charge on the skin. Sweat has a positive charge. It is attracted to the skin by the negative charge. The antiperspirant reduces the negative charge, by changing most of it to a positive charge.
Like charges do not attract, they repel.

I do agree with the author, that we should make an effort to have fewer cancer causing elements in our lives. She does suggest that using cosmetics with unproven and dangerous chemicals might be causing cancer (and mutant fish in Lake Erie --page 9). Statistic doesn't help her cause. Women get cancer less often than men in America in every category shared by the two genders except for breast cancer. (Breast cancer is usually fatal for men. In America one man a day dies of breast cancer.) If cosmetics were a factor for cancer, you would expect women to have a at least a greater rate of skin cancer. The author writes in a charged fashion about the possible dangers of cosmetics. But her recipes for homemade cosmetics are safe.

I am a makeup queen and as an induvidual who has not only worked in the cosmetics industry as well as having a huge collection of cosmetics this book is priceless. I thought I was relatively educated...hardly. I found this book to be easy to read and understand. But more importantly it educated me and also gave me insight as to why I had reactions to certain products.

I appreciate Kim's easy to do recipie's and also her guide to shopping for "safe" products. My only problem with the book is her recipies, some needed to be reworked as the proportions are wrong. As well I couldn't get some to mix. It did get somewhat frustrating but she did provide a comprehensive listing of existing products.

It is scary to read some of things she has to say but I feel that education is the best way to alert people of the dangers in everyday products.

Anyone that uses any beauty products must read this book!

I've used this book during two years of Arabic at the University of Texas. My professor cannot stand this book, and beginning in Fall 2002, the beginning Arabic textbook will be replaced by another (al-Kitab, I believe). My TA despises the book, and very, very few of the students could glean any information from it.
My professor's major problem with the book are the Basic Texts and Comprhension passages which appear in every chapter. They are terribly out of date, and frankly, pointless. They are written in a "dumbed down" way, which makes sense in the initial chapters, but as you continue throughout the book, it gets very annoying.
My TA made the point to me that the book's emphasis on grammar is not the ideal way to teach a language. It makes sense if you wish to understand Arabic as a linguist, but for those trying to learn the language for reading and speaking purposes, the information is seriously over-detailed. Entirely too much emphasis is placed on specific grammatical exceptions that I rarely employ in my reading or speaking of Arabic. I feel this time could have been better utilized learning more common elements of Modern Standard Arabic.
As a student, I have a strong command of English grammar. This served me well in the lengthy explanations of grammatical elements, and after some struggle I could understand the concepts through the linguistic jargon. Most students, however, are not grammar experts. If you start trying to learn Arabic without a prior knowledge of simple grammatical concepts like what the imperfect case is in English, you will be dead in the water. This is a simple point, I know, but one which frustrated 95% of the students. The book offered them no definition on what imperfect is, and without others telling them it is just a fancy word for the present tense, they would have never guessed that from the book. Such difficulties become more and more pronounced as the book progresses through the lessons.
My biggest complaint is with the vocab. I can talk for hours about politics and school in Arabic, but if I try and discuss a topic of a nonacademic nature, I'm fnished before I start. Example: the word for walk does not appear until lesson 32, a lesson not even in the first volume.
And one more note: if you are trying to learn Arabic without the help of a native speaker, then do not buy this book. Pronunciation of certain letters in Arabic is markedly different from that of English, and there is absolutely no way you will speak correctly if you try and learn it from reading a book.

This textbook is designed to cover the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic. The text also provides information about the geography of the Arab world, prominent characters in history, festivities in Arab culture, the media, daily life, and the family. Exercises in comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing attend to both form and meaning and develop functional abilities and knowledge about the Arabic sound, writing, and language systems. The book needs an updating and it will be an excellent book. MOHAMED A ALSIADI,The State University of New jersey,RUTGERS .

I have been studying Arabic for 5 years now. When I first started, I used this book. Subsequently, I used the Georgetown Al-Kitab and the OSU study materials. Based on my experience with all these beginning books, I have been able to form an opinion of "Elementary Modern Standard Arabic".

The advantages of the book are its easy structure, grammar emphasis and easy-to-understand explanations. The book covers 30 chapters/lessons. Each one of them is structured very rigidly: grammar points, new grammar sets and reading comprehension with new words from the same lesson. I find this structure of each lesson very conducive to learning and reinforcing what the student learns.

The disadvantage of the book is its lack of rich vocabulary, its special focus in choice of texts for the lessons. In addition, the lack of graphics, pictures, etc makes it somewhat unengaging compared to other language books.