Marcia Williams is back doing what she does best, retelling five classic tales from ancient times and as the table of contents reminds you: "DANGER Monsters on the Prowl!" Told in her wonderfully engaging and entertaining comic book format are the stories of the Roman monster, Basilisk, The Bunyip, from Aboriginal mythology, the Norse legend of Grendal, from Beowulf, the three headed Chimera, from Greek mythology and Isikukumanderu, an African she-monster from Bantu folklore. Each intriguing tale is written in a straight forward, easy to read text and depicted in Ms Williams signature bold, expressive and detailed artwork that's sure to whet the appetite and leave kids wanting more. Perfect for youngsters 8-12, Fabulous Monsters is a marvelous introduction to mythology, folklore and ancient legend and is sure to send you back to your library, on-line bookstore or retailer looking for more.

I have used this book in my practice as an OB-GYn Nurse Practitioner and have recommended it to many of my patients and friends with daughters about to enter puberty. It isn't the dry, clinical text seen in earlier works and the illustrations make it fun. I believe the best chapter to be "What if...?" as it was written in collaboration with the author's 15 yo niece.

This is the first book I bought when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It is the "bible" for women with the disease, and recommended by them for newly diagnosed women. And so many breast cancer patients can't be wrong.

The book is chock full of great information. But for those of us diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, that information is so scarey and hopeless sounding that I began to wonder if I should even bother with treatment! I would never recommend the Breast Book for an IBC patient. (In fact, I warn them off, and I have talked with other women with IBC who had my same reaction.) I agree that it's important to be a "straight shooter" and give all the information, but to deny hope is a terrible thing -- especially in a field where the odds change every day, as new drugs and treatment regimens are discovered and implemented. No book on breast cancer will ever be truly "up to date." By the time it's published and available to readers, the research is at least a year old. But if Dr. Love wants to tell us how grim our outlook is, she also needs to point that out. (In fact, by the time I was diagnosed her book was sadly out of date with regard to IBC survival rates, which had skyrocketed with new treatments.)

So, yes, a very good reference book, but one to be avoided by women newly diagnosed with IBC (and perhaps some other advanced breast cancers).

Dr. Susan Love clearly defines the difference between lobular carcinoma insitu and ductual carcinoma insitu.This helped me make a decision to follow my breast surgeon's recommendation to go to a cancer center for a second opinion when I was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in February, 1997. Only 10% of breast cancers are lobular in nature. The multidisplinary team approach that the cancer center offered me was very similar to the one that Dr. Love described in her book. This helped me to understand more about my type of breast cancer and to make an informed decision as to type of treatment. I thank Dr. Love for being courageous enough to come out and encourage women to be active participants in decisions made in regard to their health.

I bought this book for my sister when she was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago. This became a bible to her - she referred to it at every point - surgery, radiation & chemotherapy and every set-back during treatment. She lives in the UK and had me send several books to her friends and later to her gynocologist (all diagnosed with breast cancer). The gynocologist believes it to be the best book written on breast cancer.

Low and behold if I wasn't also diagnosed with breast cancer this year. This is a huge book and I found I could only read the parts that were significant to me at the time. Knowledge is power - and this book definitely gives every reader this! It gives strength to make decisions and understand the options. Dr. Love explains how some women choose not to follow treatments recommended - and how they still survive. Yet, how others follow standard treatment and for no rhyme or reason the cancer returns. (There were just a couple of examples mentioned). Dr. Love gives you all the facts. I did not find her book scary - I want to know whatever I can! There are many charts giving info on studies. I found the chart showing the recommended treatments were right on for what both my sister and I were recommended.

Without a doubt I feel that Dr. Love's book (and her Website with live chats with specialists) has helped me tremendously. I am sure I would have felt lost without this help. I highly recommend this book!

After purchasing the new edition of this book by the same authors -- it is now called the "National Job Hotline Directory: The Job Finder's Hot List" -- I was surprised to see that this outdated edition is still available. The new edition is, of course, much more up to date with a lot more job hotlines in it.

But it also includes a really good chapter on how to effectively use job hotlines as part of a "savvy, balanced" job search. It emphasizes that while job hotlines give you an early shot at job openings before they are advertised elsewhere, they should be just one of several tools used in your job hunt. The book is also better organized, easier to read, and easier to use than the 1997 edition. It also includes great advice for tracking down new area codes and changed job hotline numbers. And it includes free updates via the Internet (in fact there are a few sample chapters there right now) and includes coupons for $90 in discounts on really useful job search resources.

All-in-all the new edition, which AMAZON.COM sells, is a substantial improvement on an already good book.

Lists 3,000 24-hour phone numbers for checking the latest employment listings at large companies, government agencies and colleges. The new edition also inclues Internet addresses, although these change more often than telephone numbers.

I first saw this book in the new-book section of the local library. I took it home and tried several of the recipes. I found the book to be easy to read and the recipes, in general, good and easy to prepare. There is an emphasis on red-pepper and hot sauce in many of the recipes (the author is from Louisiana)and I would suggest going lightly on those ingredients if, you have children, like I do - they refused to eat the dishes they found too hot and spicy. I was unable to find the cheese often listed as an ingredient, but the author did list a source for ordering it if it was unavailable in your local grocery stores. Many of the recipes used baked bananas or un-cooked, mashed bananas as sweeteners. This is fine if you can eat the dish in one or two sittings, but bananas do not keep well and turn dark upon refrigeration, making the dishes unappealing to look at. The author also recommends using apple juice concentrate as a sweetener in many of the dishes and this worked well. The author included a wide variety of dishes and many that were vegetarian for those interested in meat-free recipes. I particularily enjoyed the chicken salad and some of the pasta salads. Over all I found the book interesting and informative enough to purchase and add to my collection of favorite low-cal cookbooks.

When her husband developed significant health problems and was placed on a restrictive diet, Marcia Sabate' Williams had to give up her traditional way of cooking. In Cooking the Fat-Free, Salt-Free, Sugar-Free, Flavor-Full Way, she shares her new, healthy recipes--the ones that brought her husband's cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and weight down to normal levels. Williams says that modifying her cooking habits was hard at first, but it got easier with practice. "It really isn't that difficult, and it's good, regular food--not weird food. I still cook the dishes I made when I was first married, except I just prepare them differently." The Pritikin no-salt, no-sugar, no-fat diet is the foundation of most of her recipes. A native of New Orleans, Williams "cajunized" many of the recipes. She begins her book with a general discussion of how healthy foods can still be flavorful. Then she gives an overview of sodium, fat, and sugar, and how to use herbs and spices in cooking. She provides a list of suggested basics to keep on hand, with explanations of why some ingredients are preferable to others. An extensive list of food exchanges, helpful to diabetics and others following the ADA Exchange System, is also included. The recipes start with the basics, like stocks and gravies, then move to breakfast specialities. Entrees' are divided by meat, poultry, and fish. Vegetables have a chapter to themselves, as do grains and beans. There is also a chapter for salads and salad dressings and one for snacks and dips. As does most cookbooks, this one ends with desserts. All recipes have a complete listing of nutrition information. Each starts with Williams's comments about how she developed it. The ingredients list is printed in bold type, followed by the preparation instructions in regular type. There is one recipe per page. Readers already cooking restrictive diets, as well as those interested in following a healthy diet as a preventative measure, will find lots of useful recipes in Cooking the Fat-Free, Salt-Free, Sugar-Free, Flavor-Full Way.

I recently read the first part of Don Quixote, and I have to say that I was expecting a real snoozer. And I have to admit that, yes, Cervantes does drag on a bit. But critics of the novel's length are doing the work a misservice. We must remember that this book was written well over four centuries ago, when the very concept of a linked narrative must have been more than enough to hold the reader's interest. Cervantes's energy sizzles off the page at times, and you can tell he's really having fun with the work. I loved almost everything about this book, and while I might have liked to see it trimmed a bit, I still think Cervantes did a bang up job. Oh. One more thing. I lot of people seem to like Sancho more than Quixote. I'm totally the opposite. Quixote is the dreamer, the one who dares to look at things that never were and say " They might be giants ". I for one think thats boss.

I was assigned to read this book this year in my senior Humanities class. We were not expected to read every chapter, but once I started, I couldn't dream of skipping anything. Don Quixote, Book 1, tells the story of a man more optimistic and idealistic than any other in literature. He sets out as a "righter of wrongs and injustices" and doesn't let anything stand in his way. Book one is also incredibly funny in many parts, both physically and intellectually. Book 2, although a somewhat difficult read and much less humorous, is by far the better work of art. At first, I was apalled at the ending of the book, but I now feel that Cervantes was justified in his ending because he wanted us to mourn the absence of chivalry and hope in our world. I cannot express how much perspective this book will add to your life. Tip: If you are reading Don Quixote in English, I reccommend the Putnam translation.

The definition of classic. Dostoyevsky considered Don Quixote the most beautiful of people and I cannot disagree. Cervantes wraps all things human into one book and almost always has you feeling every emotion all at once - slapstick humor, dark tragedy, dogged optimisim, dry realism, love, insanity, poetry vs utility, and wit, tons and tons of wit. If you read the information about Cervantes life you get more out of this book. You will see that this book is written about and from its author's soul, not a thought out plot. Disfigured through war and a hostage sitting in prison for the better part of his life, Cervantes knew what it meant to be taken in by the romance of war and how it contrasts with its harsh reality. He knew what love was and how it is related to "irrationality" or a poetic insanity that makes us human.

If I was approached by an alien who asked me to give it a description of the soul of a human, this is the book I would give it. At certain times in the book I laughed and on second readings I felt sorrow over the same part.

It is written in the 1400s, but is not a difficult read whatsoever. ...

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It was refreshing to read a book that is so honest and so revealing about the current situation women find themselves in today in corporate america. The statistical breakdown of women in power was shocking.

The insights and strategies the book lays out have already begun to work for me in my career. Thank you...

This book is truly "well-written and engaging" and "big-picture focus(ed)" as described by Toddi Gutner in her article in Business Week. Her review of the book peaked my interest and I found What Every Successful Woman Knows every bit as insightful as she stated. However, I believe that the suggestions offered, rather than being time consuming, are a challenge that will help me focus and, in the end, free up my schedule.

The word "houses" is repeated frequently.
This makes the book a good supplement for a lesson on plural nouns.

Unlike many other books from this publisher, there is not a simple repeating text.

Make sure you're paying a fair price, though; the book is only 16 pages.

This is a well illustrated book that can be used for creating classroom handouts. Written for teachers, but aimed at elementary students, it explains the steps taken to create a science fair project, from the planning stages, through research and doing the experiment, to logging the observations. Older students can get valuable information from this book as well, if they aren't put off by it's definite grade school format.

When we were looking for a good book for a 6-year-old whose name is Agamemnon, to give him some context for his name outside of our family, we found this book at the library. He really enjoyed having us read it to him, then later for him to read himself. A great book!

In our house this is more a 5-8 year old book, my son asks for it as he climbs into bed many a night. It's a great way for him to have fun and get the basic storyline of a classic...

I would just like to say to the earlier review this book is not meant to be a school textbook. It is not supposed to be a wonderful introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Marcia Williams books are just for fun, it is just a bonus that you children can get the basic story line of a classic. I would highly recommend any of Marcia Williams books.