This book has excellent suggestions, and after trying this rotation diet for myself and my family, I "discovered" we ALL had a sensitivity to one food or another. I helped me discover why my son always coughed when the school year started. I now know why my daughter is dairy intolerant, my husband is also.

I recommend this book highly for its ability to help the individual really look at how they eat, and why.

This book is an excellent resource for food allergy sufferers. It lists the main food allergy ingredients (corn, eggs, milk, nuts, peanut, soy and wheat) for over 3000 brand name products. It is must when shopping and trying out new products. Some of the ingredients listed in the book may be listed as "natural flavors" on the package, and the book lets you know what they are. I only wish they had an updated version.

If you love hiking in Colorado,this is your book,well written by a guy who lives to hike and ski Colorado

The photographs are stunning. The text is enlightening. Did I mention, the photographs are stunning.

Though time took its toll on the communal life in the Amana Colornies, the spirit of strength and sincerity continues as a legacy to the new era in these seven villages in Iowa.

The photograph at the end of the book conveys the spirit and sincerity imbued by this heritage. Children are pictured walking in the Schulwald (school woods, so named because the trees were planted by school pupils) pine forest. "The trees became tall and erect, and they whispered in the wind, and walking beneath their lacy boughs became one of the soft delights of communal Amana." The trees of the Schulwald were felled for lumber, at the request of the United States Government during World War II, but the visual impressions and historic testimony of a people's heritage are preserved in The Amanas Yesterday.

Today, the Amana Colonies are Iowa's largest tourist attraction with more than a million visitors annually. Visitors find a heritage preserved in the museums, former communal kitchens and living quarters, furniture factories, woolen mill, family-style restaurants, unique stores and shops, traditional meat processing plants and bakeries, wineries, industriously farmed land and a major industry in the nationally successful Amana Refrigeration Plant.

In life Amon G Carter was all for getting the American plane industry off the ground. In fact, he flew the first airplane to Ft Worth, Texas, in 1911. With his death, in 1955, he hoped to open up the arts to all. So, by his will, a museum was set up to house as many works as possible by Frederic Remington and Charles M Russell.

His museum more than meets that goal. Its catalogue shows it to be the place to go for the art of both American frontier artists. For example, the museum has A dash for the timber. This oil on canvas made Remington a major painter, in 1889. The museum also has The fall of the cowboy. Two cowboys with their horses about to pass through gate rails, under a gray sky, in a wintry landscape, are painted so close in tones that you know a way of life's in its twilight years. Also, the museum has The outlaw. The bronze freezes in time the realistic folds in the rider's hat and his shifting weight against his pitching horse.

The catalogue also shows the museum to be the place to go for American drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures and watercolors. The staff sees as landmark additions American Indian symbols by painter Marsden Hartley and Barber shop, Bass rocks #2, Blips and ifs, Chinatown, and Egg beater #2 by lithographer and painter Stuart Davis. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, too, is seen as a catch. It contrasts the girl's carefully worked face with the thinly painted rest. Who can forget the brilliant white with blue and pink in her jacket and folds of her blouse?

Pride of ownership also goes out to sculptures by Alexander Calder and David Smith. There's Lunar landscape by Louise Nevelson, on painted wood. It goes out also to photographs. In fact, the museum's photography collection now swells at over 250,000 objects. For example, there's Berthoud by Robert Adams. There's Great gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, by Linda Connor. There's Music - a sequence of 10 cloud photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.

There are even daguerreotypes by Josiah Hawes and Albert Southworth. Two women posed with a chair has quite a range of clear tones, because of an extra layer of silver having been electroplated to copper plate. The smallest detail in their lace collars is caught. The light from the ceiling skylight also catches both women, in a Rembrandt-like highlighting.

Patricia Junker et al have come up with nicely arranged illustrations and clearly thought out write-ups for each item in the exhibition. AN AMERICAN COLLECTION's a keeper. It works well, too, with Junker's JOHN STEUART CURRY: INVENTING THE MIDDLE WEST and WINSLOW HOMER: ARTIST AND ANGLER.

If I could give it more stars, I would. Here we have a rare treat; a dynamic duo, a tremendous twosome. Eugene Achet, who some call the father of modern photography and who is arguably the greatest photographer of all time is teamed up with John Sarkowski, certainly one of the greatest curators, editors, and writers about photography of all time. This 3 volume set is absolutely stunning. It's at the very least a must see, if not a must buy, for anyone who is seriously interested in photography. I had a photo prof. who said this book was more important than the Bible for an artist. I'm not exactly sure wether this is a more profound statement about the spiritual state of artists or the importance of this book, but it was cool either way. The works in this particular volume are mostly urban landscape/architecture. To the modern eye they may seem slightly banal, but we have to keep in mind here that the reason they seem slightly common is that Achet is the source. Anything that looks even vaugely like this work came from Achet. There are very few of these later works, however, that are done with such mastry of light and composition as is constant in Achet's work . That man, more than just about anyone else, knew how to have his head in the right place at the right time. The whole collection is exquisitely selected arranged by John Sarkowski. This volume, this whole set in fact, is a true treasure.

This book is by far the most outstanding book written on the subject of Antonio Canova. Clear, concise, and masterly.

Books of photographs can all too often depict nothing more than a surface prettiness. This is not the case with Arctic Discoveries: Images from Voyages of Four Decades in the North. As well as being beautiful, the images and layout give not only the appearance of the landscape but also the very feel of it, in an emotional sense. Taken from John Bockstoce's many trips the photographs cover the Arctic from the Diomede Islands, between the Chukchi and Bering Seas in the western Arctic, to Spitsbergen, the Faeroe Islands, the Shetland Islands in the eastern Arctic, with Greenland, Iceland, Labrador, and the Canadian Arctic in between. Really, how much more romantic can you get? There is enough description with the photographs to give a clear idea of the locations, and the text enhances and does not overwhelm the eloquence and elegance of the images themselves.

Arianism and Other Heresies

This is a collection of short works by Augustine. The table of contents is as follows:

The Heresies (with Introduction and correspondence between Augustine and Quodvultdeus)

To Orosius in Refutation of the Priscillianists and Origenists (with Introduction and Orosius's "Memorandum to Augustine on the Error of the Priscillianists and Origenists")

Answer to the Arian Sermon (with Introduction and "The Arian Sermon", by an unknown author)

Debate with Maximus (with Introduction)

Answer to Maximus the Arian (with Introduction)

Answer to an Enemy of the Law and the Prophets (with Introduction)

Index of Scripture

Index

The translations, introductions, and notes are by Roland J. Teske. The supplementary material provided by Teske is quite good. He gives every work its own introduction, which he uses primarily to provide the historical context of the work. The extensive notes which Teske provides are used mainly to identify Augustine's references to people, movements and other works. The index, interestingly, locates references by the book and chapter in the structure of the original work rather than the page number in this edition. The only caveat I would have is that I prefer notes at the bottom of each page, rather than collected together at the end of each work, which is how Teske does it.

"The Heresies", the first work in this collection, was written as a reluctant response to repeated requests by a deacon of Carthage, Quodvultdeus. Quodvultdeus wanted a short summary of all the heresies that had existed since the beginning of Christianity. Augustine replied that it had already been done, and that there was no need for him to add another, but finally gave in and wrote it. Augustine's original plan was to prepare the work in two parts - the first listing and describing the heresies and the second defining what a heresy was. Augustine completed the first part, which is heavily derivative (as Augustine had complained that it would be), but Augustine died before writing the second part, which would likely have been the more interesting of the two.

"To Orosius..." is a short work. It was written against two heretical doctrines. The first was the Priscillianist belief that man's soul is part of God, as distinct from the orthodox Christian belief that the man's soul is a creation of God. The second was the Origenist belief that all spiritual beings created by God were equal at first, and then assigned bodies according to their merits, and that all (including the devil) could be redeemed. Against the first, Augustine argued that the soul could not be part of God because the soul was changeable while God was not. Against the second, Augustine argued that such a doctrine had some absurd aspects and was not supported by scripture.

"Answer to the Arian Sermon" was written in refutation to an Arian creed. While this document no longer exists, so much of it is quoted by Augustine that a reconstruction is possible. The central Arian doctrine asserted therein and attacked by Augustine was the Arian concept of the Trinity - not as a single God, but as three different divine beings: The Father, who begot the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who proceeded from the Son. The unity of God, according to the Arian position, was a unity of opinion, not of being. Augustine's rebuttal was primarily scriptural, focusing on the Old Testament assertions that there is only one God, and that the Arian position contradicted that scripture.

"Debate with Maximus" and "Answer To Maximus" are properly taken together. Near the end of his life, Augustine was summoned to debate Maximus, an Arian bishop. The debate degenerated into speeches, in which Arian's were much the longer. The debate was to be followed by an exchange of essays, of which only Augustine's survives (it is not known whether Maximus even wrote his). The documents are not a total success from the reader's point of view. The first problem is that the level of ad hominem on both sides is rather high, and while it might have been an expected rhetorical style, it does not advance the reader's understanding of either position. The second problem is that the format resulted in documents that are somewhat repetitive and not particularly well structured. The content is similar to "Answer to the Arian Sermon".

"Answer to an Enemy..." was written in rebuttal to a document circulating that was an attack on the God of the Old Testament, holding Him to be both evil and an antagonist of Jesus Christ, who was man's saviour from that God. Scripture that held to the contrary was asserted to be Jewish fabrication. Augustine's rebuttal focused on the continuity of the Old Testament and the New, that the alleged differences in God and Jesus were the result of selective citation of scripture, and that the unity of the Old and New Testament could clearly be seen in that the Old foretold the New in prophecy. Much of the "Enemy's" line of argument is still used by enemies of Christianity today, and much of Augustine's counter-arguments retain their value in Christian apologetics.