For the broadest overview of healing methods throughout the world and history, this book is well footnoted, and more entertaining than books this educational usually are.

The broadest and deepest revealing I've seen of what medicine is and how we as a species have come to practice healing arts and sciences, taking into consideration the entire repertoire of knowing we currently employ and do not (universally) employ - the rational and the pre or post or non-rational modes of knowing, at times called empiricism. This book has engaged me in not just its subject matter, but has invoked in me a reassessment of what I am doing with my life, and what I should be doing with my life. An ever present undertow of the text is the sustained consideration of what it means to be conscious and to participate in the various modes of either being the recipient of or initiator of (or both) an attempt to mitigate and come to terms with not just experiencing and trying to 'get rid of' disease but trying to know what this is, what it portends, what it does not portend, and what this means and may have meant for various cultures present and past. It, immersing itself in & examining the broadest range of ideologies of healing, embraces no single one nor abandons any of them. Essential reading for an assessment of not just what medicine or healing is (& what we might agree are the differences between our current commodizized notion of what medicine is as against what healing might be given our notion of what medicine is) but also a detailed examination of how we come to consider what medicine is (& is not). At times poetic, the prose never succumbs to a pre-packaged conceptual terminology, oftentimes riddled with assumptions and steeped in an end-product paradigm, which itself is in need of genealogical elucidation. With the widest casting of critically perspicacious (meta) scholarship, this volume serves to conceptualize in the widest breadth of taxonomic epistemologies how we have come to practice a multitude of medicinal strategies and what these strategies are within and without these same systems of taxonomic modes of knowing; firmly establishing, at least for me, that rational, linguistic frameworks of knowledge, do not preclude, and are not precluded by, empirical 'alternate' experiential constellations of knowing and engaging health and illness. A consistently compassionate but nevertheless unrelenting examination of Planetary Medicine, this volume gives us a rather high bird's eye view of the at least 5 million year old human practice of coming to know & practice medicine, and how we can perhaps come to be (like?) birds too in our quest for knowing.

So far,I've worked my way through 2 different adventures..I've got like several more to go before I finish the book.This is a very good thing to have on long train or car rides,on rainy days,or even if you're in the hospital!I recommend this book to everyone who wants a great adventure.

I picked up this book at a bookstore, and even though I didn't buy it, It looked really good. Now of course this is a good book only if you like pokemon. This is the first Choose Your Adventures Pokemon book. You should browse through it first to see if you like it, but I say that it looks like a really good book.

My 3 boys and I LOVED this book! After we were done reading it about 10 times in a row, the kids walked around the house for the next 3 days reciting the book, because it is so fun and catchy. They haven't gotten bored with this book yet! Thanks, from one happy mom!

The book is excellent for 3 & 4 year olds. There is only afew words on each page, and the pictures are full of color andexpression!

Alex Stuart was trained as a barrister, the peculiar (to Americans) profession that, bewigged and berobed, represents the Crown or the accused in British courts of law. Removing his own robe and wig and taking up pen and paper, Stuart figuratively disrobes his former colleagues in his clever cartoons. Combining his hereditary British understatement with sly and insightful humor and a gift for caricature, Stuart's book elicits many a chuckle. Lawyer jokes never had it so good.

It is a must for fans of the topical Steuart & Francis legal cartoon in The Times. I enjoyed it very much.

For any Rifter, this is the must have of the collection. With details of the Pecos Riders and other such empires, the information alone is worth it. But there is also more character classes, weapons and gear than one can shake a stick at. The best part of the sourcebook it that it'll help recall some of the best (and worst) westerns you've seen and BAM instant adventures.

This book is great. I suggest the preacher, which is good for interesting play. For psychic players, there is a psi-slinger and it is great. The best list for the best TW weapons I have ever seen.

This is a great Christmas book! It is too bad it is out of print. I can remember taking it with me to 3rd grade for sharing. I have read it every Christmas! It is fun and snappy, giving Santa and his raindeer plenty of personality. This is a pillar of our Christmas book collection because it is more than your average Christmas story.

If you are able to find this book it is well worth your while. I have been read the story every Christmas that I can clearly remember and it invokes great nostalgia. Children will love Alex, Santa, Teddy, and Jeremyinstead of Rudolph!!(: So will all other ages. The illustrations are great; some are in black and white, the rest are color and the dialogue is very funny! "Don't strp on the grass!!! Don't step on the grass!!" Have a blast reading a Christmas story that will never stay on your shelf!

This 54-page 5-chapter book tells the story of Joe Browder's successful 1969 effort to defeat the planned construction of a major airport 50 miles from Miami in the Big Cypress Swamp. As head of the Miami chapter of the U.S. National Audubon Society, Browder felt that his only chance to stop the destructive development in the swamp would be to gain support from others. He convinced both old-time alligator hunter Gator Bill and Miccosukee chief Buffalo Tiger to join his fight.

Next Browder drafted Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Douglas had written her legendary book, River of Grass, in 1947. He drove her to the site of the jetport, where some trees had already been cut and the swamp drained. She decided then and there to help. The people of Florida could have a jetport or the Everglades, but they couldn't have both. The former, if constructed, would destroy the latter.

Douglas formed the Friends of the Everglades and took the fight to Washington D.C. and then Interior Secretary Walter Hickel and Secretary of Transportation John Volpe. They ordered an environmental study, which found that the jetport would so pollute the Glades' water, its lifeblood, that all wildlife there would be threatened.

At last, Joe Browder too made it to Washington, where he met with President Richard Nixon. Transportation Secretary Volpe supported the jetport, while Interior Secretary Hickel opposed it. Nixon sent his daughter Julie to Florida to see the Everglades. When she returned to Washington, she told her the President that the Everglades were a national treasure. Nixon called a press conference and opposed the jetport.

This is a great book for children, which shows what can one person can accomplish if only he tries. And of course, it extols the virtues of one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Alyssa A. Lappen

While written as a social studies textbook for young children, Save the Everglades is the most accurate account ever published about the time so many years ago when environmentalists, Native Americans and the people who lived and hunted in the Everglades joined together to protect America's most endangered National Park.

Save the Everglades is part of a series of 28 books edited by the late historian Alex Haley (of Roots fame), written to help children understand how change in America is made by real people. Haley placed this book about a conflict between protecting nature and building an aiport in the same category with the series' book about the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott -- books about people working together, making choices about what kind of communities they want to have.

Save the Everglades tells how very different people who all shared a love of nature fought to stop political leaders and real estate developers in Miami, Florida from building what would have been the world's largest airport, just a few miles from Everglades National Park and within the Big Cypress Swamp, the wildest and richest part of the Everglades. Hunters, alligator poachers, Miccosukee Indians, school children and environmental leaders started a national campaign that convinced the President of the United States to withdraw federal money and permits for the airport project, and then to buy the Big Cypress and make it part of the Everglades protected by the National Parks System.

This book is about one of the campaigns that helped bring together the national environmental movement of the 1960s, but the book is also important for people who care about today's environmental issues, because Everglades National Park is, in the year 2000, once more threatened by another airport project sponsored by Miami political leaders and real estate developers. So people in Florida and across America are once more appealing to the President of the United States to Save the Everglades.

To make the publisher's first draft more suitable for children, the author added some false drama (fear of flying) and eliminated some true drama (death plots by real estate promoters, oddly enough referenced inaccurately in a more recent book about Florida, Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief). The writer of this review is also the principal subject of Save the Everglades, and so can personally confirm that with those exceptions, the story is accurate.

A nation at war, all hands to the tiller. Henshaw, already renowned as a young solo long distance record-breaking pilot, after a brief spell twiddling his fingers at Vickers, Weybridge meets Geoffrey Quill - another talented young flier, already chief test pilot of the Spitfire. In no time at all, he is offered and accepts the post of production test pilot at the massive, barely finished Castle Bromwich factory in the heart of the Midlands, with its Black Country weather.
By the end of the war, Henshaw had flown over 3,000 Spits straight off the line, barrel rolled Lancasters and flown upside down along ....!
Excelling in inverted flight, Henshaw's required to demo the Spit at the drop of a hat, flight test them in appalling conditions and keep a large team of disparate pilots working foir the common good. His sheer professionalism, commitment and outstanding flying skills shine through. Modestly written, a superb account of a great plane and great pilot.

The exploits of Alex Henshaw are done some fine justice in this book. It highlights testing of dangerous airplanes during WWII and how so many people contributed without mention. any flying fan will trully love this one! A must for aviation fans.

Each year I bring out this book as I teach Spanish to my kindergarten class, and soon during the day you can hear them chanting "Caldo, caldo, caldo!" This keeps up until the excitement reaches fever pitch on the day we make caldo in a crock pot in our classroom... mmm! (Recipe included in back of book!) No other Spanish-English book so engrosses them and makes them want to try different foods and understand the warm, loving atmosphere in a great hispanic home. Super for any classroom!

I enjoyed this book very much. This is a terific book to read to young children. The illustrations were beautifully done. I especially liked the way the author wrote in English and Spanish. She was very descriptive and made the story interesting.In addition the story had humor that children could enjoy and relate to. I recommend this book. I give it five stars!

This is a great story and I had to read the book from cover to cover. It's funny, insightful and shows just what it is that a real fan goes through. I had tears in my eyes from the despcriptive narrative and it also had me crying with laughter. Very funny indeed. Go buy it if you're a true fan.

I loved this account, and felt I was right there with the writer. Anyone who has stood on the terraces, especially ManU fans, should read this book. A funny, emotional, graphic record of this 'love-struck' guy for his team, even when they were at rock bottom. I couldn't leave this book, and will read it again before too long.