This is an excellent piece of work for people who like a lot of content and process information. Compares favorably to the great Terry Winters one (forgive me, I can't remember the title) of about the same time. And , for me (who is not fully convinced about Kiefer), the work itself is more affecting, telling, resonant, intimate, and just plain interesting, than the very grand paintings. Highly recommended especially for those who, like me, were unable to see the show itself.

Nan Koehler, who is a master herbalist, life skills teacher, and midwife, specializes in helping mothers give natural birth. A timeless introduction to natural childbirth after cesarean section and other medical traumas. V/BAC is a term coined by Nancy Wainer Cohen which means, Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. From my point of view, mothers who have been sectioned surgically have a special calling to heal the Earth by healing birth. The voices of those traumatized by the normative obstetric abuse of our time, cesarean surgery, need to be heard. This book transforms childbirth through word medicine (mindful anecdotal evidence). Artemis Speaks covers much, much more beyond pregnancy and birth ~ it's for anyone devoted to healthy, loving transitions, and keeping families whole. The collected notes from a generation of home-based practice from a granny midwife/herbalist with contributions by many others.

I fell in love with this book first. I wasn't sure if my 19month-old child would like the book but she Loves this book. This is the first book we have to read during reading time. I have recommended this book to many friends and relatives. I sent this book with my daughter to the babysitter one evening - the next day the babysitter bought the book and she doesn't even have children. How wonderful for children to know that Mama is praying for them all the time. At the end of the book I tend to get tears in my eyes. This book has even inspired me to make a quilt with angels for my daughter so she will always remember the message in this story. Thank you Bonnie for writing such a wonderful book and thank you Nan for the great illusrations!

This work offers great insight into the problems that people faced in the South during the drought. Woodruff is simply supurb in her writing style. A must read for those interested in domestic American History between the world wars.

There aren't enough doctors in China for all those people, so This book is used by many "paramedics" or 'midwives' to fill the gap. Included are herbal medicines, accupuncture and western medicine treatments for just about anything that ails you.

Seduction at its best! She wants to vindicate her family for what was stolen from them. She only has her body as a weapon as she plans to steal first his heart, and then their child and get back the land that his father stole and should have been her birth right. He is an unwitting innocent who falls head over heals for her heartless seduction. But they both lose their hearts and gain far more than they had hoped.

I read your entire book last night.Could not put it down. I cannot think of any other word but awesome.

You touched on so many things I have felt, thought of and wished I had known a long time ago that I cannot thank you enough for writing and sharing your thoughts and feelings with those who care.

One of your comments hit home with me and is something I have tried to convey to the people who were/are in the bereavement group at our church. "I do not know how you feel, no matter how similar our circumstances could be.Because I am me and you are you.But I can connect with you and we can get and give strength and hope to each other."

Nan, thanks again for sharing.

Another Bereaved Parent

I accidentally ran across this book in the "new arrivals" section of a university library last night, and stayed up until 2 A.M. reading it. It contains the life story of the neglected Tibetan master Dolpopa, a subsequent account of the ill-fated legacy of his teachings, and two brief treatises by The Omniscient himself. I am not a specialist in Buddhism, and in fact had never even heard of Dolpopa 24 hours ago, but now I will never forget him.

Cyrus Stearns has obviously put an impressive amount of research into this volume without ever sliding over into pedantry. His concern is to tell the story of a simple and profound idea as it unveils itself in the spirtual and geographic vastness of 14th century Tibet. The central issue of Zhentong is explained clearly and memorably, and in such a way as to make it relevant for Western philosophers as well. Lucid works of this kind do far more for a true East-West dialogue than any amount of "multicultural" preaching. All who read this book with an open mind will be moved to cure their ignorance of the history of Buddhism.

I feel as though a new portion of the human past has been opened up for me by Stearns' work. It deserves to be read by anyone with even a trace of interest in world religions, world history, or the past and future of metaphysics in all traditions.

This book is a biographical gem. It reviews the life and photography of David Seymour in an understated style of writing which was the man himself; bald, spectacled, yet powerful in his humanity and in his skill at nurturing friendships with photography as a shared interest.He lived a romantic European life of high times and tragic personal losses including his own premature death in 1956.The photographs are brilliant. Foreground and background tell a story in many of the photos. It is not a book of nudes or still-lifes. It is more intimate than that.

This is not a book for people looking for architectural or landscape photographs of Naples; the pictures focus solely on the people (mostly female children) of this ancient Italian city.

The photographs in this book are not technically brilliant, even by standards of the time, yet the dark shadows are rich with secret meaning: a woman in a doorway is seen only as a skirt and arms holding an infant, for example. The essay does a dutiful job of answering questions about why the photographs were taken in the loose fashion that some of them were, and why they are mostly focused on girls, but is neither boring nor compelling.

However, the real reason to get this book is to get a sense of the living, breathing city, both old and young, in its extremes of glamour and squalor, that makes you both wish you could go see that time and place and hope that it has vanished.