I own this well informed book that gives you a motivational read to lead a healthier life. It provides some proven strategies to live by. As a cookbook author myself, I've found this book compares similar to my writing of recipes that are low in fat and high in fiber, finding some tasty and delicious recipes in this book that will add variety to anyone's diet. Recipes that are lowfat with added fiber and a section to help you cook with whole grains and where to buy them.There's even a section of muscle toning exercises to help one become a fat burner at all times. Having had health problems in the past this book has been an inspiration to pursue better health in my own life. With a bad back, I find the lower back muscle toning and stretches soothing to my aching back.

Low Fat Living is an informative book full of simple techniques you can incorporate into your life to lose weight and become healthier. Instead of fighting your desires for fatty foods or the urge to be a coach potato, Dr.Cooper and his wife Leslie teach you easy techniques to help you work with yourself not against yourself. For example he explains how drinking cold water can help you burn off fat as your body uses calories to warm it to core body temperature. In the book the authors explain how you can turn on your bodies fat burners by making easy to follow lifestyle changes. Little changes that can add up to long term, permanent weight loss. You will learn how artificial sweeteners can increase your cravings for sweets, why breakfast is such an important meal (and what to do if you are not a breakfast eater), snacks that trigger insulin reactions (and thus cause fat storage) snacks that are great anytime, ways to decrease your desire for fats, easy ways to get moving (even if you dislike exercise), mental and physical excercises and much more. The book is loaded with easy to follow suggestions to help you change your health permanently. Many delicious recipes are also included. A wonderful, simple way to help you get on the road to a healthier lifestyle!

My only complaint with this book is its title, "Low Fat Living." It goes far beyond that. This is really the "whole mind, whole body" approach to weight control and more. This book seems to be a collection of everything that the authors could find that contributes to weight loss, organized in an interesting and integrative manner. I particularly loved the study that showed that people watching television burn up fewer calories than people sitting and watching a blank screen. As a woman at age 53, I was wondering if I could ever again shed pounds. My old approaches didn't work. The one thing that I knew was that people who successfuly do lose weight and keep it off do so through making life-style changes and they tailor what they do to their own bodies. This book enabled me to have a comprehensive understanding of what those changes needed to be concerning (1) nutrition, (2) exercise (including simply increasing motion), (3) water, (4) sleep, and (5) stress management. To my surprise, stress management has actually been the most challenging-and perhaps the most rewarding. I am no longer in the "diet" mentallity. I am now concentrating on making the small changes--trying this and that until I find ways that appeal to me and that I can sustain--and these are adding up to large changes that affect not just my weight, but my general health. Through this process and over several months, I am finding that my body and mind are changing in what they want. It is like my whole system is resetting to different standards. I'm beginning to actually be drawn to vegetables and whole grains, walking the dog, and skipping TV. Who'd'a thunk?

My husband and I would eat fish 7 nights a week if we could but we live in the midwest so it's not very cost efficient--we settle on 3-4 nights a week. I have over 20 cookbooks on seafood alone. This book is the BEST book I have found. It not only tells you about the fish (briefly, not too detailed), it gives you other fish options to substitute for each recipe (which is nice if you are limited to what's available at the fish store), breaks the index down by type of fish AND type of sauce and other ingredients so if you feel like something with avocado or black beans or tomatoes you can search the index by ingredient and not have to search the entire book for specific recipes. And, unlike other "quick meal" cookbooks, this one truly is quick. Finally, each recipe frequently calls for one or all of my four favorite ingredients: fresh garlic, fresh flat leaf parsley, extra virgin olive oil or butter and wine.

I have more than 2,000 cookbooks (I'm a cookbook editor), and only three of them stay in the kitchen; this is one (and the only one I didn't work on). I've had this book for about three years. It's stained and splotched, there's breading in the binding--ample evidence that every recipe I've tried (probably two-thirds of the book) not only tastes great but WORKS. The sauces and toppings are all richly flavored yet easy. The techniques are simple and thoroughly explained. Best of all, though, is the author's tone. Fish can be tricky, and Leslie Revsin gives enough detail so you know, for example, that it's okay if the fillets curl when you turn them over. I love this book (and so does my husband).

I can't begin to remember all the nice pieces of fish that my wife and I had collectively sent to the Badly Cooked Place in the Sky. Talk about being clueless! We're trying to eat healthier but when it came to seafood, forget it. Something had to be done. After scanning the seafood cookbooks on Amazon I quickly narrowed it down to Leslie Revsin's book, GREAT FISH, QUICK. Written with easy to follow directions, utilizing readily available ingredients, this is THE book for fast and incredibly delicious meals using fillets and shellfish. Your personal fears about cooking such entrees will disappear as the words of praise pour in. Most main courses take under 40 minutes to prepare and since many of the recipes can be made by interchanging different types of fish there is a great diversity of possible dishes. What's also nice is that you don't need exotic cookware or mysterious ingredients. Leslie offers sound advice in choosing the healthiest pieces of seafood and avoiding frozen and chemically processed junk. Also included are sensible cooking and preparation techniques, sauces, garnishes, marinades, serving advice, party and grill specialties, etc. Her writing style is pleasant and highly readable and so far, according to my wife, I'm batting 100 on successful dishes. What more could you possibly ask?

As a great lover of medieval art this calendar is just beautiful. Every month a new work of art to gaze at. Highly recommended.

I was a Medieval History major in college. This calendar is full of interesting and insightful information. The colors are wonderful, and a joy to purchase year after year.

I have bought this calendar for the last several years and it has become the standard by which I rate all other calendars. They all fall short, because this one is illuminated (gold and other colors used shine in the light) and is illustrated thoughout, not just in the top reproductions, but also in the bottom grid area, where the actual squares for the days are. It will please the artistic in you!

I picked this book up as a "filler" for some spare time, and wasn't able to put it down until the early hours of the morning! This time-travel is well-researched, with a lot of historical detail on 19th century ships and seafaring. The characters are very believable, with a lovely romance between the two main characters. There's also a Labrador Retriever featured (you can never go wrong by making dogs part of the story--in my book, anyway!). The author handles the psychic abilities of the main character quite well. There's an interesting twist to the plot that completely surprised me! For lovers of 19th century ship romances, this will be a treat!

This was the first book of Susan Leslie Liepitz's that I have ever read and I was captivated from start to finish. Her writing is wonderful ... descriptive, sensitive and very touching. The story was so believable that by the end, I was almost in tears. Don't pick up this book unless you you have the time to finish it in one setting, it is that good.

Fourth grader Andrew Charles of Huntington Beach, California was on an overnight field trip with his school. The class was staying on a rebuilt nineteenth century sailing ship, The Mystic, when somehow the lad vanished into thin air. His desperate father turns to noted psychic sleuth Cara Edwards to find the missing child. Though reluctant to take on the case, Cara agrees to board the ship in order to trace Andrew's footsteps. On the ship, an invisible portal to everyone but her opens up and she enters to find herself on board the Mystic in 1833.

A storm soon washes Cara and the ship's captain, Blake Masters onto a nearby shore line. Together they search for a missing twentieth century lad even as the pair falls in love with each other. However, though it might appear that their love has all the time in the world to cement a permanent relationship, their century apart origins would ostensibly send both scurrying back to their rightful time because this time, even love might not be enough to make things right.

MYSTIC MEMORIES is a very interesting time travel romance that will be fully enjoyed by readers. The story line is typical of the sub-genre, though written better than most. However, the characters are incredibly developed (in both centuries) and seem genuine, making this one of the better time travel entries in several years. Susan Leslie Liepitz is a very talented writer, who knows how to elegantly employ the English language in her novels.

Harriet Klausner

RIVERS OF THE SOUL was an exceptional read. It was a humorous, painful journey through one's soul. The main characters Toni and Jerome have been in love with each other for twenty years and their envious friends and their own personal insecurities destroy their budding relationship. The novel takes place with the characters meeting each other twenty years later, but before they can truly be together they must take a soul searching journey into their hearts and minds and purge themselves of all the bagga ge and dirty laundry they have been carrying around. On this journey they find out that many of their friends are jealous of them because of what they think they have accomplished. This was a profound and enlightening novel, and I guarantee you will enjoy it tremendously and it will be a conversation piece for many years.

Rivers of the Soul does not have readers anxiously looking
for drama. Instead, it entices them to slowly read each page
savoring the essence of everyday living while looking into
the hearts and minds of real people who are dealing with
missed opportunities.

Antoinette and Jerome were planning to share forever, but Toni
leaves for college, Jerome leaves for the Air Force and life
rewrites the script.

Fast forward 15 years later; Toni is just returning home
to rebuild her life, she's lost everything; her independence,
her husband, her finances, her figure and her spirit. Her
only bright spot is her four year old daughter.

Jerome, a blue collar worker, is now married with four kids;
each night he comes home from a 14 hour work day, checks on the
kids and stares at his bleak reality. He's been hibernating
for the last 15 years and it's time to wake up. So he makes
a decision that has him homeless and he puts a strain on
all the friendships. But Jerome cannot stop, he needs to live
again and he wonders if this is his second chance. When he
finally sees Toni, he has his answer; she is 'the river of
his soul, he tried life without her and it did not work.
His spirit almost died and turned to dust, she is his
healing water'.

Ms. Esdaile has written one of the most compassionate, real,
down to earth stories I've read in a long time. As a reader,
I could not help feeling drawn to the characters and
feeling as though I too, shared in their personal lives and
experiences. I anxiously await her next release.

Reviewed by aNN

Rivers of the Souls is a soul stirring love story. Antoinette "Toni" and Jerome were high school sweethearts who went their separate ways after high school and through fate, crossed each other's paths twenty years later. But was that love really lost or were Toni and Jerome just going through the motions?

Twenty years seems like a lifetime and things have changed tremendously with their families, friends and themselves. While this story explores Toni and Jerome's emotions at the changes and needs in their lives, it also examines that of their friends and families. Buddy and Snoop are Jerome's friends from back in the day and Val and Trace, while married respectively to the aforementioned, are friends of Toni. Toni's father is remarried to meddlesome May and Toni's sister Adrienne is a free spirit living in Los Angeles. The relationship between Toni, Adrienne and May is touched upon but you feel that there has to be more. And of equal importance is Aunt Pearline who spouts her own brand of wisdom. The secondary characters are very important to this story as it gives the novel its completeness.

Leslie Esdaile has crafted a touching story utilizing metaphors, foreshadowing, detail, debates and loose ends to leave you hanging to await the sequel. This is not a neatly packaged romance novel where everything is happily ever after because when completed, you have no idea what the future holds for the characters. Excellent story!

I have a 9 month old son who would eat only bread type things! I make scones with fruit in them, with veggies in them, etc. and he loves them! I was so happy to find this book!

I searched high and low for a book on scones, and finally found this one a few years ago. Since then, it has been used frequently. I have tried many of the recipes in it, and without exception have found them to be delicious. The book also contains recipes for spreads you can use on scones. I would highly recommend it for anyone who loves scones.

Every recipe I have tried from this cookbook has been fantastic. There are some wonderful combinations such as orange and chocolate scones. The directions are easy, the ingredients are usually common items that are easy to find and all the recipes I have tried turned out yummy.

Although it is a small book, in size, it is not small in yumminess or easiness. I have to admit that scones have become a staple in our house, due in a large part, to this book.

Enjoy.

This gorgeous book is worth its weight in gold. It sits open on my coffee table where every day I select a different spread of luscious photos upon which to feast my eyes and spirit. Feinstein's images are invitations to meditate on life's mysterious gifts and the manifold perfections all around us. What inspiring teachers these flowers are! The words are wonderful, too. Sydney Ellison taught me much about the secret life of flowers ... I'll never look at them in quite the same way again. A.D. Coleman's essay provides artistic context and testament to the breadth and depth of this photographer's vision and body of work. Greg Piotroski's descriptions of the individual flowers in the book range from practical to rhapsodic. I loved the literary references sprinkled throughout this book. My summation in four words is "Wow! and Thank You." This book is pure beauty. I know what gift I'll be giving my special friends this year!

ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS is a joy to behold! Harold Feinstein's magnificent photography of the flowers that grace our gardens are enclosed within the pages of this spectacular new book in a way not seen before. He teams with Gregory Piotrowski, who skillfully provides the lilting prose for this endeavor giving the reader information about each of the hundred and leaving him wanting to know more. After examining these glorious photographs, I don't think I will ever look at a flower in quite the same way again. Mr. Feinstein's photography pulls the reader into a place of brilliant color, design, and fluidity. This "bee's view" as it is called, allows the reader to see into the very soul of each flower pictured. One takes away a new appreciation of the miracles of creation. You will give yourself a gift by owning this book. I plan to purchase it for friends and family as I strongly feel that no one should be deprived the beauty, the sensuousness, the vitality found springing to life on the pages of ONE HUNDRED FLOWERS. I can only hope for one hundred more!

This man's artwork is astounding! As rendered by Mr. Feinstein's photography these flowers will transport you to an inner world where the awesome detail of nature's beauty comes alive as never before observed by the human eye. I use his pictures as a form of personal meditation to elevate my mood and transform my consciousness.

I was so pleased to receive my copy of this wonderful book and share it with my friends - it makes for endless conversations on the nature of beauty. I don't have enough money to buy copies of all the prints Mr. Feinstein has to offer, so I bought the book instead! Now I have 100 of his most magnificent pieces of art in my home!

I have been following Mr. Feinstein's artistic pursuits and tremendously enjoy his remarkable photography as documented by Life Magazine and TV's Nightline (did you know his work was placed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York when he was just 19?). He certainly is one of the world's greatest living photographers. I had to own this book!

This is a good book. I liked the people in it and the stories were interesting. There was a lot of stuff here I never knew before.

Hainsworth and Toomey have done an excellent job in creating an overview of women as pilots and the special challenges they met in WWII through the Mercury Astronaut testing program. Their research is sound, the writing is easy to digest. They do credit to two groups of women who have been often kept from the history books.

I picked up this book on a friend's recommendation and with few expectations. I had had no interest in aviation, am a tremulous airplane passenger, and when my fourth grade class assembled to watch the histoic moon landing, I had more interest in one small boy next to me than I did in one small step for man. Not anymore. Haynsworth's and Toomey's gripping narrative style and rigorous scholarship provide what few history books do, page-turning excitement. This book conveys the miraculous wonder that spectators must have experienced at early barn-storming events: breathless amazement at mankind flying high and fast beyond the clouds and straight into the impossible. From contraptions of wood and wire, barely recognizable as planes, to 6.2 million pound machines hurtling through the air at speeds of 6,000 miles an hour, Amelia Earhart's Daughters presents the great scope of the history of women in aviation. Walk, run, hell, fly to your nearest bookstore and pick up this book, you'll be glad you did and grateful to these pioneer women aviators and the authors for letting you share the ride.

I enjoyed this book, Death in the Afternoon, Hear No Evil. I started reading it with my classmates and teacher. We read a chapter almost every night and learned more and more facts about the characters. This novel was about a teenage girl, Sara Howell who is deaf, and lives with her older brother Steve. Sara's mother wasn't mentioned in the novel, but her father was killed in a hit and run accident. Sara and her brother become suspicious for who killed their father. Sara is being followed, and soon gets messages sent to her by a mysterious person. There are much more facts to what happened in this novel. If you want to know what happens next, you should read the novel for yourself. I liked the author's stile of writing. I especially liked how the author wrote,"gooseflesh," instead of,"goosebumps." The suspense of the book became pretty intense for me at times because you don't know what was going to happen next. I basically enjoyed this book at all times, if you are the kind of person who enjoys reading mystery books, I would definatly recommend this book to you. Sarah, age 12

For my Reading class we read the book Death in the Afternoon (Hear no Evil 1) by Kate Chester. It was pretty good book. Some of the parts were very exciting while other parts were not. The characters of Sara & Steve were very intelligent thinkers. The plot was planned out very well by Kate Chester. It was very differnet to who the killer was then who I thought it was. The book almost seemed like it took place over a long period of time but it did not. But, If you like a a mystery stroy that is not to intense then this is a great book for you!

This story was well written. This book kept me on the edge of my seat. The suspense was intense and the author made me feel like Sara was a friend of my own and I felt very afraid for her. If I had to rate this book from 1-10, I would give it a perfect 10.I suggest this book Hear No Evil Death in the Afternoon to all people who love mysteries. People who love to put clues together and solve cases would enjoy this book. I think this book is great and it will always be one of my favorite books.

I think this was one of the best thriller stories of its time. I personnally think it also is one the best water thrillers ever. I think any who is scared of the water should read this book.

If anyone out there either surfs or enjoy's Surfing as a way of life, this book is for you! Go out there and purchase this book! Jaws is more than a book, the colourful pages come alive in front of you, looking at Laird Hamilton coming down the faces of massive 50+foot surf, it's like your right there below him (holding the camera) Blue Max did an amazing job of illustrating these waves for us, I was lucky enough to have visited Maui, for others out there, what are you waiting for..? Killer Waves..Best Surfers in the world.. see it all..? or save your money and buy this book

aloha Jim Mellanis :-)

Jaw Maui has much more to offer than your average coffee-table book. It is an incredible blending of inspirational writing and insightful interviews with the watermen themselves. Charlie & Leslie Lyon have done a great job letting us in on the inner workings of these accomplished athletes. Everyone that visits us gets a chance to read Jaws, and has come away mightily impressed (and longing for a trip to Maui!).