Victoria Secunda is a thorough hard-hitting researcher and writer on topics everyone knows exists but rarely want to admit. This book examines the impact fathers have on daughters -- whether the father is actually present or not. The research looks at several different types of fathers -- including the absent father, and the one who has died. The impact plays out again and again in the woman's adult relationships in life, unless she can recognize it and confront it.

Perhaps the most telling and helpful bit of information (which can be applied to your relationship with anyone, not just your father) is that you don't have to confront the actual person in order to let go of the emotional baggage. Usually a physical confrontation is an excuse to tell the other person how they are wrong rather than resolve any emotional issues. Very true words!

Reading this book was such an eye-opener. It made me identify areas of my life deeply influenced by my relationship with the first man in my life. The truth in its pages was crushing at times, but also a wonderful challenge.

For a new runner like myself, with a super busy schedule, this book is a wonderful companion for starting and maintaining the running life. It is easy to read with great visuals and tips on how to fit running into your busy life. Whether you are running for fun, staying in shape or training for a marathon, this book can help you achieve your goals.

This book was the best down-to-earth, usable book on running that I've found. It's no-nonsense advice will have you running and enjoying it. I don't run marathons, but I do run to stay fit and this book really got me motivated! It has some fantastic tips you can use right away.

The Women's Guide to Non-competitive Running is GREAT!

If you liked or found this book useful, you might also like "The Healing Journey Through Retirement" by Phil Rich and Dorothy Sampson. It's a book about the transition from work to retirement, and talks about how to make retirement a meaningful and satisying experience. The book provides lots of good ideas and information and uses a journal writing format.

This book is well-organized, thought-provoking, with helpful exercises to get you thinking about how you'll spend not only the next 50 years, but your next year or two. I found it very useful in terms of evaluating my own choices and plans, AND it has helped me broach similar issues with my mother who is moving into retirement. I highly recommend this book to anyone over thirty. Start thinking about this stuff now!

We used this book last year for a six week discussion group. The group consisted of singles, married, young and middle-aged, men and women. It enabled very good discussion on a fairly deep personal level. We found it a good introduction to the thought of Brother Charles and very inspirational. It raised our level of concern for the poor and marginalized. Many of us read the book or at least sections of it several times. I have given copies as gifts and recommended it to many. I would definitely consider it one of my best book finds for the year.

Before dying of aneroxia in 1380 the famed Dominican tertiary forged an extraordinary legend. She was in her time a woman of substantial political clout. In 1376 she helped urge Pope Gregory XI, then living ignominously at Avignon, to Return to Rome. In where later, and through the strength of her voice and conviction, and amid turbulence. She counceled the Pope Urban VI through a wicked Church Schism, and through the dissipation of Urban's fanatical reign. A young charismatic woman in a world being destroyed by men. (...) in '15 days of Prayer with St Catherine of Siena' by Chantal van der Plamke and Andre Knockaert, I find a new saint that I barely knew before. This book is a little jewel for the inner life. Full of wisdom always hinting at Catherine's favorite urges: Truth and Humility. It has a wonderful preface deliniating Catherine's life. A very original course. The book is part of a series that includes St Teresa of Avila, etc.

This book is a must read for all history buffs. It provides much insight into the 20th century and depicts all countries in nearly the same light which is unique for a history text book. The book includes great chapter reviews to check that the concepts were instilled correctly and all of the information was provided. Buy it! You won't be disappointed!

I really enjoyed this little booklet because it made aromatherapy self care so simple and easy to follow. Real preventative maintenance for stress and skin problems.

"Advice to a grand-daughter" is a collection of letters from Queen Victoria to her granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse, wonderfully selected and edited by Richard Hough. The letters date from April 1870 to July 1900. Victoria of Hesse was the oldest daughter of Queen Victoria's Hessian grandchildren, and after their mother (the Queen's daughter Alice) died in 1878, Queen Victoria undertook to raise them long-distance, often by barraging Princess Victoria with instructions on how to deal with the younger children.

As always, the Queen's charming and forceful-- if occasionally overbearing-- personality makes itself felt in her letters. The Hessian royal children grew up to be forceful personalities in their own right. Princess Victoria married Prince Louis of Battenberg; the family changed their name to Mountbatten towards the end of the First World War; Victoria's youngest son is best known as the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and one of her grandsons is Prince Philip, the current Duke of Edinburgh. The second girl, Princess Elizabeth, married a son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and, after his murder by anarchists, took the veil and was herself murdered during the Russian Revolution. The third, Princess Irene, married the only brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The youngest daughter, Alix (or "Alicky", as she appears in these letters), married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; she and her entire family were killed during the Revolution. The boy, Ernest Louis ("Ernie"), was the last reigning Grand Duke of Hesse, a patron of the arts.

These letters provide a detailed and fascinating recounting of some of the childhood events of the Hessians-- Princess Victoria's marriage, the Queen's hissy fits over each marriage, in turn, of the three youngest girls', family births and family deaths, the Queen's trips to Europe. An absorbing book, highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Queen Victoria and the intertwined relationships of European royalty of the period.

The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins is a refreshing look at life at the end of the American Frontier. The feminist view that Robins carries to the gold rush of 1900 offers the reader not only a glimpse into the life of women at the time, but offers an in depth look at the struggles and hardships faced by men and women alike as they fight for survival in the Klondike. Just as Gates promises in the introduction, "At times the reader may forget that it is a day-to-day account of events as they unfold and think it instead a novel," the diary flows with the practiced ease of thinking to oneself. In addition, Gates' careful editing is complimented well with augmenting photos that lend to the flow. The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins exemplifies the literary spirit and zest for life for which popular culture has acquired a taste. Gates' novel is carrying on the spirited tradition Jack London Style.

this was a realy great book, i hope all the people who look at this book really enjoy it!