I have been searching for an authoritative text like this for a long time, and finally here it is. This complete book is an invaluable resource for every medical and research library, professor, doctor, and student. Don't wait to add this one to your shelf. You'll refer back to it time and again. I recommend it without reservation.

This textbook is a welcome addition to the field. I have been searching for a definitive reference for a long time, and finally here is a smart, readable text which I can go back to time and again. I recommend this book with no reservations.

This is an important work that has clearly been written by a thorough and thoughtful scientist. Ms. Gore brings a cohesive understanding of and a unique perspective to GnRH neuron research that has heretofore been lacking. If you are in the field of endorcinology, neuroendocrinology, repreproduction, or molecular endocrinology, this is a must read.

This is the best book for those of you looking into the paralegal profession. It helped me land my first paralegal job. A must buy!

Andrea Wagner tells you everything you need to know to get your first paralegal job. Everything. This honest and to-the-point book offers examples of everything you'll need for your job search and detailed information about how to use each piece of paper and each opportunity. The practical advice on where to look for jobs, who to talk to when you find them and how to dress for the big day are critical. The list of probable interview questions along with potential responses to difficult or inappropriate questions will give you confidence, and the advice on how to negotiate better compensation will enable you to get what you're worth. Wagner also provides an impressive list of legal buzzwords that will help you sound like an old-timer once you are on the job. If you're serious about getting your first paralegal job, do yourself a favor. Buy this book.

In my job as Career Development Coordinator for a major ABA-approved paralegal school, I frequently recommend this book to current students and graduates alike. I recommend it to new paralegals as a step-by-step guide to finding a job, and to experienced paralegals as a great tool for making sure that your job-search skills are as sharp as your legal skills.

This is the first book on the internet I read that did not confuse me with terms I do not understand.

I like this book because it is easy to read. There are lots of examples.

What I like about this book is that the specific software that the authors talk about are included in the cd-rom that comes with the book. I do not have to search for these utilities on the internet.

This book of Jean Young's lessons is a tribute to all mothers. They are valuable life lessons for any woman. These may not be the exact lessons your mother taught, but if you add them to your mother's loving lessons of life, you are sure to have a great map to follow.

March 5, 2000 On reading this book, I reconnected with the tremendous love felt for my mother and the rich experiences she provided me and my siblings. Throughout, I smiled on recognizing the churchgoing experiences and other events also present in my childhood and the southern expressions incorporated in my speech. Thank you for a book that not only celebrates Ms. Young's outstanding African-American mother, but also, my mother and many other unsung mothers who shared special, loving relationships with us, their daughters.

I always like to read about the lives of other people. Especially one as famous as Jean Young. Her daughter has written a lovely biography as well as life lessons that were taught to her by her mother. A wonderful gem of a book to be read by young and old alike.

This is a wonderful book written by a wonderful person. Andrea Hill is my aunt... but even so this book is very helpful. She has tons of experience and I wish there were more books out there like this.

Finally, a book written by an actress turned psychologist who's empathetic and logical. Very insightful and helpful!

Finally, a book for actors written by an actress turned psychologist who's both empathetic and logical!

I wasn't a 'new mom' when i read this book, but found it helpful when doing research for a birthing ritual for a friend...it reveals so many views of impending motherhood from many different cultures...very informative and very touching. I wish i'd had it when i first found out i was pregnant!

This book is a rare gem. It compiles many famous writers' comments concerning pregnancy and birth. It portrays pregnancy and birth as beautiful and spiritual.

It also includes different spiritual perscpectives on the different phases of pregnancy and birth. It incudes Native American, Celtic, Polynesian,...poems that describe pregancy and birth.

I used this book to find a poem for my sons birth announcement.

When I saw this book I knew that this was the perfect life-long gift for my daughter-in-law, Amy, who is well on her way to becoming a midwife. Along with her already inspirational and spiritual self, she will surely treasure this book, it is so Amy!! When I saw the Zuni prayers and poems I was even more excited as this is where she and my son are living!

Open and Clothed is one of the most interesting, intelligent, funny and unique books I've read in a long time (and I am an avid reader!). It is not only about clothes and fashion, but about the human being wearing the clothes and the dynamics thereof. A person's relationship to clothing is explored in a way that opens the subject in what I think is an unprecendented way. A must read for all who wear clothing!

Every few months I buy a "woman's" magazine or fashion magazine looking for that elusive "something". Within the pages of OPEN and CLOTHED, however, I found it all. This is a book for people who want integrity with their fashion statements, whatever they may be. This book offers insight and support for REAL women (and men), not just wannabe models. Siegel's voice is strong and clear, full of warmth, humor, and above all, a style that never goes out of fashion.

I'm not a passionate clothes lover. My wife got this book. Still I find myself reading it every chance I get. You can open to any page and get fascinating history/anecdote/thought on humans and their clothing and how it might all relate to you. Lots of quotes, lists, questionnaires, ideas, advice, etc. And scholarly endnotes to boot. As a lazy reader who appreciates a quick fix of entertainment/enlightenment I recommend it totally.

Though I majored in English, I never took a creative writing course while in college. When I started writing fiction a few years ago, I knew that I couldn't enter an MFA program because I'm a full-time attorney with a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. So, I decided that I should read as much fiction as possible to help teach myself the craft of writing. One of the books I purchased was the then-new 1998 Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards. I couldn't have made a better choice! In this one volume, I read Lorrie Moore's heartbreaking "People Like That Are the Only People Here," Steven Millhauser's chilling "The Knife Thrower," Alice Munro's evocative "The Children Stay," among many other wonderful and powerful fiction from The New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Harper's, and others. Larry Dark, the series editor, and the prize jury, Andrea Barrett, Mary Gaitskill and Rick Moody, did a wonderful job pulling together the best short fiction of that year. This collection not only gave me great joy as a reader, but also wonderful lessons in the art and craft of fiction writing.

Excellent collection of cutting-edge short fiction. If you want to see the extreme edges of today's scene and what, hopefully, is the future of short fiction, buy this collection every year. Extremely compelling work, wide variety of styles, and not the same old names.

As an avid reader of the O.Henry series, I felt that it was in a bit of a rut until this new editor, Larry Dark came along. Last year and especially this year, the O. Henry has become exciting and cutting edge, and Dark must be given all the credit. C'est magnefique Monseiur Dark!!

Fradkin travels the length of the San Andreas by car, by kayak, and on foot, describing its perils and its history. Into his story of the San Andreas he weaves parallel threads about earthquakes elsewhere, always playing up the public's denial of earthquake hazard.

As a seismologist, I found the book often irritating (right down to its title: there is no evidence that the San Andreas has ever suffered a magnitude 8 earthquake or that it ever will), and sometimes too dramatic, but in the end it left me with a feeling of chagrin. Fradkin put together a good, coherent story of the San Andreas' hazards, but to do so, he had to fight his way through arcane jargon. His comment that the scientists don't know how to communicate makes me squirm, but it is absolutely right.

Not only is this a must-read for anyone within 200 miles of the San Andreas, it should be required for all seismologists and emergency managers who ever have to talk to the public.

This is an important work; well researched and well written. It should be required reading for all public officials in California. More illustrations would have been useful. Highly recommended.

Yesterday, August 17, I was sitting in Point Reyes, CA., home of author Phil Fradkin, directly overhanging the San Andreas fault. I was on page 121 of Magnitude 8, when suddenly the house began to move. It swayed back and forth like a tree hut in a gale for about 15 seconds. Yes, it was a minor 5.0 magnitude quake centered in nearby Bolinas. Powerful Writing!

Great book by an author who has put his heart and soul into internalizing the meaning of these mysterious earth processes.

The author provides a well written history of plant preservation and pressing with summaries, comments, illustrations, and a comprehensive "how to" section. Anyone interested in pressed plant collecting should own this book.

As an avid fan of leaves and wildflowers, with not a few pressed examples stuck in books and files, I was glad to find a book that celebrates all kinds of pressed plants, from ferns to seaweeds (!), as art. There's an amazing fossilized impression of a prehistoric plant, photos of Victorian botanists' carefully pressed samples, and sun prints done with photographic paper over a century ago. Plus a few modern artists' examples. This book proves that Mother Nature has been one of the best artists all along, and that we humans can have a sort of artistic partnership by preserving botanical specimens in one way or another. The wide array of images is mouth-watering; and the book can be used as a sort of tasting party to get you started on a new collection, or, using the how-to at the back of the book, a new hobby or art.

For years I searched for a book that would direct me through the process of pressing ferns and other plants. This is it! This exquisite book is a treasure! The author shows the nature lover how to complete the process of preserving plants, just as the Victorians did. However, this wonderful hobby did not originate with the Victorians, they just renewed it with avid inspiration and volumes of renditons and renderings. This book takes the reader through the history of plant preservation, and shows the eager "artist" three different techniques for display: using the real thing, printing with paints and inks, and sun printing. This book is so wonderful, you may want to have two. The numerous copies of original and rare prints are so gorgeous, you may need an extra volume to "cheat" with: you know remove from the volume and, voila, inexpensive yet exquisite art!