If I had to summarize this outdoor grill cookbook in one sentence it would be "Not your ordinary grilling cookbook". "Grill Cookbook" starts with a section on types of grills, maintenance, accessories and similar items. From there it makes a sudden turn from the ordinary grilling cookbook and moves out into a category of its own. Sample recipes that include Thai Shrimp on Lemongrass Skewers, Grilled Portobello Mushrooms on Salad Greens, Grilled Ravioli with Spinach and Two Cheeses, Halibut Veracruz Style, Pacific Rim Chicken with Peanut Sauce, Poundcake Kabobs with Chocolate-Coffee Sauce, or Pear Bruschetta (absolutely delicious). Of course it also has the obligatory backyard hamburger and barbecue chicken but that is where any similarity with other grilling cookbooks ends. Wonderful recipes that produce an elegant dining experience, it is a highly recommended book.

Very nice book, small, but big beautiful pictures to make you drool over the great innovative recipes. A must for the new home chef!

My favorite of the William-Sonoma series. The recipes are creative and all delicious!

I found the book to be pretty straightforward and easy to read. It gives all the pertinent information on the subject from the law to how to stop sexual harassment to your legal remedies. One of the best features is that provides an array of case studies that clear up a lot of the gray areas. I used the book to help me develop a training on the subject, I recommend it to anyone who needs more info on the subject.

As an employment attorney and human resource consultant who trains organizations on harassment policy, I use this book as a great reference material. I often suggest it to supervisors who want to know more about how to deal with this complex and difficult problem....

Every business with employees that does not have a sexual harassment policy in place needs to buy this book now.

Actions the authors say employers need to implement regarding sexual harassment include: Do whatever it takes to understand the law, the issues, and keep current; put in place a zero tolerance sexual harassment prevention policy that prohibits specific behaviors of verbal harassment, non-verbal tactics, and physical harassment; take action to stop sexual harassment that does occur and prevent reoccurrence and reprisals.

I have suffered for months from food intolerance, including MSG-related problems. Numerous doctors could not make the connection, so I had to educate myself through reading. Dr. Walsh's book has been a Godsend. It is extremely helpful and is presented in a positive way.

I work with Dr. Walsh and when I first did a preceptorship with him I was given his book to read. After first reading the book I thought the ideas seemed extreme, but I am not an allergy sufferer nor do I suffer from any sort of migraines.I then began to visit with a few patients who have taken this book to heart and are praising Dr. Walsh for his medical expertise. Their quality of life has changed, maybe yours will too.

A book that will impact the life of many individuals. Many people today go through everyday thinking the headaches and many other symptoms are merely associated to stress. This book provides many practical causes of the day-to-day symptoms of food allergies many of us suffer from. I had never thought much about sweetners and had mearly heard rumors about MSG and the impacts it can cause some people.

Also, when one mentions diet, I think about scrimping to find something to suppliment the diet for lack of choices. Dr. Walsh provides not only causes but also solutions/alternatives to food sources that will not cause or at least diminish these symptoms.

In keeping things short I would encourage this book not only to individuals that know they have food allergies but also to those that suffer from many of the symptoms like headaches amd nausea who are probably like me and never thought the food eaten may be the source of the problem.

Wonderful book and easy to read.

This is the long awaited basic textbook for osteopathic medicine. It is surprisingly complete, covering philosophy, history, research, and manipulative techniques. The beginning osteopathic student may find it most useful for its practical discussion on the techniques--high velocity, myofascial release, etc. I believe it is also helpful in standardizing our terminology, which will make it easier when taking board exams or talking with colleagues from other osteopathic schools. It includes contributors well known within the osteopathic community, including Michael and William Kuchera, Melicien Tettambel, Eileen DiGiovanna, and many others. As a family practice resident I frequently turn to this textbook first when I want to know more about how to treat a patient or when preparing lectures for students and housestaff.

This text is actually required reading for most if not all osteopathic medical students. It is a 'textbook', however, and hence completely (sometimes exhaustively!) comprehensive. But it is easy to read so that anyone with an interest in OMT will get a methodic how-to for myriad techniques, also a thorough history of osteopathic medicine to boot! One of my OMT professors at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine wrote or co-wrote a few of the chapters so of course, I think those are the best! If you are looking for an educational approach to learning manipulation and the reasons behind it, this is a valuable resouce.

Gary and the Very Terrible Monster was a favorite of mine when I was young. I loved reading the story, and making up sound effects. This book is a great story about responsibility and a new friend!

Gary became apart of my children's library many years ago. Then the book became a much loved part of my class library [first grade]. I have used it so-o-o many times I could not count them all. Now my students make their own Terrible Monster books and they lead to wonderful sharing and learning.

This is an excellent reference about your life's healthy journey. The easy reading with straight facts about your choices affecting your health have convincing ideas about keeping your health in your hands. The book includes facts about moral decisions people make but covers the subject fairly without persuasion - just obvious facts. Psychology, mental and physical health, exercise, diet, and life changing lessons fill the book in a no nonsense manner. This book does not cover AIDS because of its early printing, otherwise, it is "current" in relevance for 2000.

This book covers everything from diet and exercies to psychology and drugs. I first read it as a student about 15 years ago and have kept it at my side ever since because of its topical relevance and message: Your health is your responsibility and most of your emotional and physical health is decided by your own choices - that is why I guide myself by this book. As the paperback has worn and lost a few pages, I have been interested in a new copy, thus you find my review.

I found this book after reading the prequel "Titanic Crossing" to be just as good, if not better, than the first book. Anyone who lives in Baltimore will definitely enjoy the turn of the century references, as I did to such things as the amusement park and "Roland Park", where I actually live close to! A great read and definitely a page turner as you find out Emily's coming to grips with being a Titanic survivor and learning a lot about life and herself. A must read.

Fans of Titanic Crossing will remember Emily Brewer, a girl that Albert, the main character, befriended aboard the Titanic. In this sequal, twelve-year-old Emily is the main character. Barely a week after the ship sank, and just a few days after they finally arrived in America, Emily, her widowed mother, and her younger brother and sister have come to live in Baltimore. Thankfully, Emily's brother quickly recovers from the mysterious illness that plagued him in India, where Emily's parents were missionaries until her father's death. Emily is haunted by visions of those that did not survive, especially because none of those people had to die if the Titanic had carried enough lifeboats. Emily's mother tells her to stop dwelling on those she couldn't save and start helping those she can save. So the rest of the book from that point onward is about Emily discovering the terrible conditions of child laborers, and her struggle to help them, even though she is putting herself in more danger than she realizes. This story could have been told without the Titanic background, but I liked reading about what happened to the characters of Titanic Crossing, so I didn't mind. There's less action in this one, but readers who want to know more of Emily and Albert's (he's in this one for a short time) adventures will enjoy it anyhow.

In a Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's loveliest comedy, the world of four lovers collides in a magical woods one night during midsummer with hilarious results. Pandemonium reigns and misunderstandings abound; nothing is as it seems, or should be, and that is what makes this play so perfect.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's extraordinary talent for creating poetry that is unrivaled is effective in both establishing character and demonstrating the theme. The characters of this play all speak in poetic form with the exception of the English rustics who speak in prose. This helps to place the fairies and the lovers on a higher and more transcendental plane that the artisans. The artisans, as a result, become even more comical and serve to heighten the misunderstandings of love.

The poetry of Shakespeare's genius also helps to clarify the play^s theme of the extreme confusion and blinding power of love. The rhythmic words help to create a magical setting while the rhyming scheme serves to portray the confusion each character feels while under the power of love.

Those who think that love is only a blissful dream, will find that Shakespeare, in this play of clever intrigue, shows also that love can be a place of extreme confusion. As the audience ponders the revelry they have just seen on stage, Puck steps forth to conclude the confusion:

If we shadows have offended/ Think but this, and all is mended/ That you have but slumbered here/ While these visions did appear/ And this weak and idle theme/ No more yielding than a dream.

The audience is left in as much ambiguity as it felt throughout the performance; the play appropriately ends in a puzzling state of confusion.

The majority of events is this play take place during the night, even the rehearsal for the farcical play-within-a-play. All of the mishaps occur during the nighttime hours and the confusion is not cleared up until the next morning when the four lovers are discovered. This setting of night allows the audience to drift into the idea that the entire play could well have been nothing more than a fantastic dream.

Sleep in another theme that threads its way throughout the play. All of the mishaps and mistakes occur through the guise of sleep. One of the major influences of sleep is that it allows Puck and Oberon to make use of the magic love flower whose power is only effective if its intended victim is fast asleep. The flower, however, causes an hilarious love triangle that is not set straight until Oberon once again finds all of the confused lovers asleep. When they are discovered the next morning and asked to explain their crazy night, the only explanation that can be given is that it was all a dream.

There seems to be no other way for Shakespeare to end this riotous entanglement of lovers, mythological beings, fairies and artisans but to explain it as a dream. Throughout the play, with its nighttime atmosphere and frequent occurrences of sleep, the dreamy state of the characters is passed on to the audience. The play itself is still in an inconclusive state when the characters leave the stage and many questions remain in the mind of the audience. Puck's closing monologue, however, explains that puzzlement is the appropriate emotion to be felt during the course of the play. Puck then goes on to persuade the audience that the only logical explanation for the ambiguity of the play, itself, is that, just as the characters themselves experienced, the audience has just awakened from a comical and fantastic dream.

Yes, Shakespeare has a sense of humor; he proved it in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I have enjoyed all of his books, especially Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth, but A Midsummer Night's Dream is, in my opinion, his best work. There are many love stories in this book, one of which is about Hermia and Lysander. They hide in the woods because Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius, a wealthy man. In order to win over Hermia's father, a woman named Helena tells him where Hermia is, and they immediately go after the two lovers. What happens to Hermia and Lysander? Does she marry Demetrius? You'll have to read it in order to find out. There are other great stories in this book, including the one of Theseus and Hippolyta -- two royals that are about to get married. With Shakespeare's ability to write a beautiful love story with a touch of poetry and precise comic timing, this is a classic that everyone should read. I highly recommend it!

An excellent, comprehensive, and very readable text, written by a true expert on the subject. I highly reccomend it.

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This winter break I went on a Shakespeare buying spree, and this book is one of the fine gems I found. A large, but fascinating book, this work of great scholarship and excitement takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of Shakespeare, even into rather obscure corners of his works (Trollius and Cressida, Timon of Athens). This book is a must read for any would be deep thinker about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare as Political Thinker is a must for everyone interested in the political thought of William Shakespeare. This reprint will finally allow new comers to become familair with a commonsensical approach to Shakespeare's plays. The introductory chapter by John Alvis is worth the price. Perhaps the best Shakespearean critic alive, Alvis has an uncanny ability to show Shakespeare's moral seriousness without making the bard an unquestioning adherent to any political school or theological creed. Many of the essays that follow are also well done: Jaffa's chapter on Shakespeare's entire corpus, Laurence Berns' meditation on Lear etc.

The second printing of Shakespeare as Political Thinker gives hope to those interested in relearning ancient wisdom and pays tribute to its inspiration, Shakespeare's Politics (Allan Bloom).