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Flower Power: Fresh, Fabulous Arrangements
Published in Hardcover by Clarkson N. Potter (12 November, 2002)
Authors: Rebecca Cole and Helen Norman
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Ho-Hum.....Hardly!
ANOTHER book on flower arranging? Ho-hum I thought. But wait, the author is Rebecca Cole, the charismatic and incredibly talented floral arranger and author. A relatively tired subject is made crystal clear and amazingly new by Rebecca. The book includes basic flower care advice, excellent instructions and photography, and makes you love flowers almost as much as the author. As with her two previous books, highly recommended for the visual enjoyment as well as the writing, to say nothing of the incredible ideas.

Flower Power Rocks
This is the third book I've read by Rebecca Cole and they just keep getting better. Rebecca's new book is filled with cool concepts and writing. She talks about creativity, encourages it, and uses refreshing--sometimes even irreverent--humor throughout the book. Flowers are not too precious for this designer and this reader appreciates all of the tongue in cheek. The flower arrangement results are sometimes whimsical and always stunning. Funny, smart, and beautifully photographed and designed, Rebecca's book is my current favorite gift item.

Wonderfully creative!

I don't know how she does it, but Rebecca Cole delights, amazes and inspires me again! Her third book contains arrangements from the whimsical to sassy and she breaks them down step-by-step, like a big floral arrangement cookbook. I have attempted the Checkerboard Flower Box (about half the size of the one in the book) and it lasted nearly two weeks, thanks to the wonderful conditioning tips. My other favorite section is the Welcoming Windows, about making the all important first impression. Throughout the book, Rebecca Cole shares personal stories from her childhood.

Helen Norman's photographs are breathtaking - sharp and colorful - and there are a LOT of them. This great book helps a lot during long, grey winter days until my own garden begins to bloom again.

The Rustling of Angels: Discovering the Power of Unconditional Love
Published in Paperback by 1stBooks Library (2002)
Author: Helen Heinmiller
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It makes you think.......
This was a very good book that makes you think about how your actions affect other people. It also makes you realize that things are not always the way they seem & people react for reasons that are not always obvious.

This book was well written & keeps you reading to find you what happens next. It can make you laugh as well as cry.

Bike racing, family and hard times make this story ...
This book reaches into the heart of the American family. It shows that little is what it seems when looking from the outside in. What you think is clear to you, may sometimes be only your view and the sacrifices made by those around you not seen. Everyone can relate to what they believe is unfair treatment by family or those we love. This book shows you how to reach inside your heart and see the other side of the picture, heal the wounds within your heart and seek out a better understanding of others.

We can only have hope and faith to guide us through tough times and even though it may feel that you are not lucky, if you have the love of your family and peace in your heart, the healing of your sadness within you can be lessened.

This book will make you think about your own life, your past decisions and give you a sense of direction with how you handle the challenges in your future. If Heaven is as beautiful as shown in this book, then we all should look forward to our visit there.

It shows that no one is perfect, but can still reach the gates. It will make you feel good and cry, but in the end you will remember the lesson within.

Do What You Have the Power to Do: Studies of Six New Testament Women
Published in Paperback by Upper Room (1992)
Author: Helen Bruch Pearson
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Learn how much Jesus loved women
I have used "Do What You Have The Power To Do", a number of times as small group bible studies. It convinces the student that indeed, Jesus did love women. It causes a thirst for more knowledge about the bible and serves as a primer for healthy feminist thinking. I haven't found a better tool for my own study or for my leading of others. It is important for some to learn within the context of the faith. Clearly, Helen Pearson believes the scriptures but is perceptive about our need to see ourselves as women. If you, as I have, felt partronized when hearing how Jesus loved women, this book makes that belief powerful. It truly gives power to women and anyone one who reads it. Women often fear and shy away from power. Power has been angry and devisive. If that is to be avoided, this book shows another way to power. Pearson does not limit her study to the New Teastement. She takes us all over the bible and and creates a desire to know more. This techniqe gives power in itself. It makes the statement that we are learners and we feel empowered to learn. We come to know 6 New Testement women very well and long to know others. I recommend this book to everyone. It can be used as it is written as a total study and meditative tool, it can be divided and applied to short studies, or it could be used for individual stucy. You'll want to keep it on your desk for reference. Just read it. It will change your life. I beg Helen Bruch Pearson to write another book for us. Soon.

Girl Power in the Classroom: A Book About Girls, Their Fears, and Their Future
Published in Library Binding by Lerner Publications Company (1999)
Author: Helen Cordes
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A must read for anyone with a daughter.
I have a 10 year old daughter who does not strive to be a A student in school beacause of the ways others react to her. I never could understand any of her reasoning. A neighbor suggested this book to me and I am so glad I read it. Anyone with a daughter in the school system should read this. I also think every young girl around junior high age should read this to help them understand what pressures are facing them and to see that they are not alone in their feelings. The book describes the pressures the girls are under and how they are treated both by their fellow students along with the teachers. The stories written are by girls and for girls. Easy reading in simple terms. It really opened my eyes to alot.

The first stone : some questions about sex and power
Published in Unknown Binding by Pan Macmillan Australia ()
Author: Helen Garner
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What has become of feminism? The good, the bad, the grim?
One of those books you can't put down, and thus read from early afternoon 'till 3 the next morning. A highly controversial Australian best seller, this is a personal account of the Author's attempt to discover the truth behind a claim of sexual harrassment. Two young, astute and attractive young women are the complainants, a quiet, genial (clumsy or innocent?) college warden approaching retirement the "victim". Helen Garner, a feminist of the old school, questions the destructive bitterness the direction modern feminism has taken on this case, and further questions the portrayal of the young women in the case as "powerless" - the very opposite thing feminism should be doing, in her view. What I can't put in words is the beautiful writing; the sympathetic, transcendent portrayal of the human condition with all its foibles. You must read this book!

"Post-Structuralist Feminist ideology in the Campus"
This book brilliantly reveals the perversion of feminist ideals and the highly destructive nature of gender-ideological warfare on campuses in Australia in the 1990s. It is a lucid piece of investigative writing that explores the highly complex world of gender politics and its miserable downfall in a country where public opinion has been motivated by default to sympathise with the woman in cases of sexual harassment as a result of stereotypical imagery of male aggression and dominance in the sexual environment. Most importantly, the book describes how incorrect and false these stereotypes can be.

The First Stone illustrates the destruction of one man's life; his profession, his family, his reputation as a respected member of the academic community, all this despite his acquittal, due to the relentless attacks on his person for being identified as a cultural outsider (in the College he ran with great success and enthusiasm) by feminist interest groups hell bent at 'getting back' at the class he is meant to represent. This is a highly recommended book by those who wish to understand the other side of the story.

Winding Roads - A New England Notebook of Wisdom and Wit
Published in Paperback by Limited Editions (21 April, 1999)
Author: Helen Powers
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This book picks up your spirits on the clcoudiest of days.
Helen Powers writes with canny wisdom of the ordinary things of life, lending a sense of adventure to the most potentially melancholy of topics: growing old, closing up a family home, dealing with sickness and injustice. And she leaves us laughing! Her wit sparkles, and her sometimes politically incorrect gems make me wish I'd said them, She's a pioneer of staying creative in the later decades, and a role model for anyone who's noticed more than a dozen gray hairs on the comb. Short entries make brief reading sessions enjoyable, but you'll want to devour this book, it's so funny and so philosophically adroit. Keep writing, Ms. Powers!

This book should be required reading for anyone who can read
This is a most enjoyable little book. I believe that anyone who can read can relate to at least some of this book. Most adults should be able to relate to the book in its entirety. The author encourages us to appreciate our environment wherever we are. Also, rather than sitting around wringing our hands over the mess the world is in, take action, even if it is only cleaning up a mess in our own home! It is my belief that the author points us in the right direction, in order to make a difference, to improve things where we are. This should definitely be on the required reading list.

The Writer's Rules : The Power Of Positive Prose--how To Create It And Get It Published
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (1998)
Author: Helen G. Brown
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this guide was semi-helpful
this book was written in "Cosmo-speak", which really isn't much of a surprise since Brown was the editor of Cosmo. In addition, Brown gets most of the writing tips for this book from other writers' guides. It would probably be best just to buy the other writing guides that she makes reference to. She does share some interesting stories, though, but nothing relatively important to helping someone with their writing skills.

A Huge Surprise
I admit it: Helen Gurley Brown has long struck me as being silly and sex mad. I expected nothing when I picked up this book and was pleasantly surprised. There is excellent advice in this book for the begining writer. In fact I now reccomend it to students of the writing class I teach.

A practical and simple book to help a first time writer!
Although this was the first book I have read on the subject of getting published, it was very easy to follow and gave a lot of encouragement and support for a novice writer. Definitely a good start on the road to writing professionally.

Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do
Published in Paperback by W.W. Norton & Company (1994)
Author: Helen, M.D. Caldicott
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Frightening claims in order to sell books!
According to Helen Caldicott, the criteria by which she judges the nuclear power industry to be an evil and destructive influence on society could easily be applied to every major industry that we have. Should we then accept the moral challenge to fight every one of these industries? Obviously not, since this makes up the fabric of our society, for better or for worse! Nuclear power has its risks, like any power source that we have. But then, each of us wants our lights and tv's and stereos without any sacrifice or cost. Ms. Caldicott obviously preys upon the uneducated of our society. And who can blame her?! Her scary, frightening tales of the nuclear industry and their conspiracies sell books! And who can blame her for wanting the money!

My main complaint with the book is the way in which it ties the nuclear industry to the nuclear weapons programs that were shrouded in secrecy during the Cold War (for obviousl national security reasons). These two "industries" are not related. Are nuclear weapons bad and destructive? Of course! Is the nuclear industry going to destroy humanity and kill everyone on the planet? The mere claim is absurd! The nuclear industry is more heavily regulated than just about any other industry we have. And its safety record tops that of any of the heavy industries in America. Even the worst accident in the American nuclear power industry didn't claim a single life. There isn't a single heavy industry that can claim that.

Education for the Masses
Everyone in America should read this, and her new book, "The New Nuclear Threat." Dr. Helen Caldicott is one of the most brilliant minds of our time and should be thoroughly thanked for her strength as a human to inform the rest of us about this horrible threat. And to the man who wrote that scaring the "uneducated public" sells books, you obviously don't know anything about Ms. Caldicott, who is fully opposed to capitalism. Shes a socialist, and isn't doing it for the money, shes doing it so you don't die.

A Most Important Truth Facing Survival on Earth: Brilliant
"Helen Caldicott as usual is one of the great saviors of our time. What she says here is absolute truth from my personal experience with the nuclear industry as a scientist sent in to measure radiation leakage from nuclear power plants through the 1970's-80's. This is a filthy, lying industry with no redeeming qualities and when the plants become obsolete they cost even more to clean up than they did to build. It's a mess and the cause of much cancers of all kinds world wide. The nuclear power industry is an unneccessary, damnable mess and should never have happened. Wind, water and solar is the way to go. There's no need for this filty, dangerous industry which hasn't figured out how to dispose of its lethal waste. Nothing on earth is filthier and more lethal!... Listen to Dr. Caldicott. She tells truth that is vital as can be!"...

A Good Swing Is Hard to Find: How Women Can Play the Power Game
Published in Hardcover by Doubleday (1998)
Authors: Helen Alfredsson and Amy Ellis Nutt
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Done in bad taste
This book is just plain demeaning. I thought I missed the humor but I see from the reviews that others feel the same. To the publisher, do women's golf a favor and do not reprint this book or if it is reprinted please completely revamp it and do a tasteful second edition. This book is a slap in the face to any woman who takes the game of golf seriously.

A Good Book is Hard to Find...
That Helen Alfredsson, one of the most beloved characters of our homeland, Sweden, should have her name associated with this book, leaves me in disbelief! It was obviously written by an American, it is demeaning to women, it is an insult to all the progress we have made. This book has no literary merit and an important aspect of any golf book is clearly missing; golf instruction! Furthermore, whence the instructional philosophy of the inner game of golf, and wither the social implications of PMS? Hence, this book constitutes an affront to all golf-lovers, a profound disapointment from one of the game's greatest players.

not sure what to make
Who wrote this book? The instruction is ok at points but the book is basically demeaning? Chapters like the the Rythmn Method is the best? I guess that's funny, but believe it or not i am actually looking for good golf instruction. i felt rather insulted after reading this book, just read the sample chapters.

Winding Roads: Treasures From an Attic in New England
Published in Paperback by Limited Editions (2002)
Author: Helen Powers
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