As a physician who takes care of many female patients, I have been delighted with the practical and accurate information provided in this book. I am routinely recommending it to all of my patients and have purchased copies of it for my own family members. This is a must read for any woman who is concerned about her health and well being. I give this one 5 stars without hesitation.

From Library Journal: Obstetricians/gynecologists in private practice, Newman and Stevens have collaborated with five other physician specialists to produce this book on women's health. Written in a clear and conversational style, it explains how women can maintain good physical and mental health through life. The first part, which focuses on gynecological health from adolescence to menopause, treats topics like dating, marriage, motherhood, weight control, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), cancer prevention, menopause, and incontinence, with a balanced emphasis on clinical and psychological issues. Part 2, on obstetrics, guides women from the pre-pregnancy test through the three trimesters to labor and delivery. Additional resources are listed after each chapter, with recommended books, organizations, and Internet sites all included. Aiming to better educate women and give them the confidence to manage changes and stresses, this guide is a useful supplement to such women's health classics as Our Bodies, Ourselves. For larger public libraries and hospital patient education collections.Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock

This book provides a wealth of helpful information in a format that's really reader-friendly. Its topics are relevant to women in every stage of life. With so much mis-information out there, it's great to have a resource you can trust!

"The Palm at the End of the Mind" is indeed High Art but I'd like to suggest this book as a must for the casual reader of poetry. This is not a book you need to be afraid of -- you will enjoy it. Others will enjoy it. Next time you're thinking of buying Cousin Minnie "Chicken Soup for the Soul" buy her this book instead.

He is simply our greatest High Modernist.

One of the three major creative forces in the verse of this century, Wallace Stevens, like Yeats and Eliot, rewards repeated readings, and The Palm at the Mind is a fine place to start. Every poem inside its pages shows Stevens's distinctive musicality, moral sophistication, and virtuoso command of the language, combined with his signature unexpectability. This last trait often results in something close to playfulness, and how Stevens's poetry balances such lingual fun with philosophical authority is one of the primary miracles of his art.

In these poems Stevens combines technical mastery approaching Yeats's with a cerebralness typically associated with Eliot. Yet Stevens's work is more emotionally complex than the Irish poet's and more nimble and sure than the English expatriot's. While Stevens is the only American of the three, his verse is unemcumbered by geography or nationalism.

Reading The Palm at the End of the Mind pleases on so many levels-the wordplay of The Emperor Of Ice Cream, the Zen feel of Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird, the fertility of O Florida, Venereal Soil, the music of The Man With The Blue Guitar, the philosophy of Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself, the self-consciousness of Of Modern Poetry. Or one can enjoy virtually all of these things at once in masterpieces like The Idea Of Order At Key West, Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction, or The Sail Of Ulysses.

This definitive collection is not only essential poetry for one's collection but, more importantly, good reading as well.

Not only are these letters to Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Donald Hall, Robert Frost (and many others) fascinating and entertaining, but the comprehensive index makes it possible to find Stevens' own comments about and explanations of individual poems--for instance, his favorite poem was "The Emperor of Ice Cream"--and details about the circumstances in which they were composed. Not only does Stevens outline his evolving theory of poetry, he also expresses his opinions about contemporary art, music and more.

Readers that enjoy literary correspondence should also see One Art (the letters of Elizabeth Bishop).

Beverly Palmer has done a much needed service to history by collecting the works of one of the most important figures in American history. It is a joy to read.