If you or a family member or a close friend has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, this is the book to read. It explains the various aspects of the disease, what one can expect to happen, how to cope with the pain and how to organize your life in order to minimize the stress the disease can cause. The book does not candy-coat the disease, but does show how it can be managed. It explains the different drugs that are available to help and it explains their side-effects, also. There are helpful hints to diet and exercise, as well. I found this to be a very important book for me because it gave me the ground-work for dialog with my doctor. I am glad I found this book.

After checking ARTHRITIS: WHAT EXERCISES WORK out of the library for the third time in a year, I broke down and bought it. It's terrific. The exercises are tied to specific joints, ranging from the small, fingers and toes, on to shoulders, hips, knees, etc. Some you can even do in bed, but many are much more challenging--there is a range. Doing these for just a couple of weeks increased my flexibility tremendously--washing my back, tieing my shoes, and so forth much easier. And I'm a 53 year old professional female who is in "good shape" with aerobics and strength training--but the targeted flexibility/joint exercises here were new to me. I highly, highly recommend.

Great!! This book takes all the hard questions, and gives us clear answers that don't leave us wondering 'how does this translate to real life.' The chapter on 'What Can I do with My Moods?' really helped me. Buy 2 copies one for yourself and one to share with a friend!

At the water's edge

Muskokaá Boathouses.

This book gives the reeder a chance of dreaming back to the early yaers of the 20th century and experiance how the riche and famuose people spent there weekends and holidays. If you are intrested in old houses, especially bothouses, and architect designs this book is a must.

This book is my best inspiration ever.

Peter Östlund Stockholm Sweden

Has a "picture story book" ever brought tears to your eyes? Well, this great book did. The author eloquently captures the transition of Atlantic City from an over-crowded, polluted town (your typical NJ town) to an over-crowded, polluted town with lots of money. The authors covers this transition from an objective viewpoint and does not let his personal bias(es) toward Jersey interfere with the story. Mr. Schwarz should be nominated for the Pulitzer, but from what I hear the prize money would be pocket change to him. To conclude, if you or someone you know is interested in traveling to Jersey please SEEK IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION and then buy this book!!!

Reminiscent of the Eyewitness Explorers Series, illustrations fill every page in this graphically beautiful series. Short descriptions give a concise eclectic overview of topics. A nice supplement to encyclopedic reference works with broader and more in depth coverage, but which may be lacking in illustrations. Ideal for young or reluctant readers because there are so many pictures calculated to capture student interest. Includes Index and maps. Series includes the following titles: Atlas of World Cultures, Atlas of the Classical world, Atlas of the Bible Lands, and Atlas of the 20th Century.

AUSTRALIENATION.PORTRAIT OF A BI-CULTURAL COUNTRY

A book of photographs can sometimes be so well chosen that turning the pages becomes like reading a poem. Ogden's black-and-white compilation, spanning every mainland Australian state and the years '72-'99, is so exquisitely apt that it achieves this effect. He begins, movingly, with the open faces of aboriginal children in the Northern Territory; he then shows the indigenous presence in inner-city Sydney, and in prison. Abruptly the focus turns anglo: little white kids, subcultures, suburbia, the army, the old and the eccentric. Gradually people vanish altogether from the picture to be replaced with images of urban decay and futility, walled-up doorways and 'registered lawns'. The environment closes in, and the punchline hits home. Ogden, who is white, calls Australienation his "comment as a photographer on bi-cultural Australia" - 'bi-cultural' because of the vast gulf separating the original inhabitants and the peoples who arrived later. There are no koalas or Harbour Bridges on show here, just everyday scenes conveyed with unaffected humour, subtlety and humanity, as intimate as a personal diary and profound as a state-of-the-nation address, the collection speaks volumes.

Nick Dent,black & white magazine review, Dec '99.

This soft cover book is the best collection to date of Bacon's instinct's on photo's as "a record" for motion and emotion, which led, as far as I am concerned, to his "violent colours and form's" that produce an "incredible, emotional charge which is "an impressive sort of violence".People often speak of Bacon's work's as violent, but Bacon said himself that he never saw any violence(in terms of a negative, painful meaning) in his work's.Bacon did see a violent execution in Picasso's work's through colour and form.
Bacon did state his work's were positively charged with incredible emotion's through his colours and forms which might be veiwed as violent ,but in the positive.I also feel, as Bacon did, that word's diminish an artist's work's, so that is why I am qouting him so often from the book "Francis Bacon In conversation with Michel Archimbaud".Bacon's Eye is full of photo's, some of his early unseen work's, and his use of colour and form after veiwing the photo's in the book.There is also an interview with Barry Joule, a close friend of Bacon, at the end of the book.
Bacon gave Joule a thousand never seen work's on paper before his death.This book has only some of them, and I would love to see the remainder if ever published some day, but you will get a much indepth look at Bacon's work from the one's supplied.This book is not to be passed by if you want something rare and intimate of the artist.If you were to compare this book to the one other book featuring Bacon's drawing's, which name I can not recall right now, Bacon's Eye is ten times better.It also has different textured paper for the plates and the interview section.

A great text for students, pastors and other practising counselors. It contains goals every counselor should strive to achieve. Clinebell also describes the positive characteristics a counselor should portray . The methods and types of counseling are also spelt out in this book. This book is an invaluable guide for me, one which can be adapted to some of the situations in my country.

This book is the perfect companion volume to Charter's biography of Kerouac, or to any other account of the Beat era. It is filled with over 100 of her best photographs. It is practically a photographic catalog of all the people you've read about but may never have put a face to: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Diana di Prima, Lawence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Rexroth, Anne Waldman, Phil Whalen, and so many others. And these photographes are taken for the most part in their own homes and haunts- without that posed sense. Not only that, but the book's introduction, accompanying biographical sketches, and poems are a good introduction to the Beats in it's own right.

My only criticism lies, ironically, in the photos of Kerouac. The best Kerouac related photographs are of the funeral and gravesite. The rest are from the last days back in the late sixties when he was living at home with his mother and waiting for death. I'm not saying that these photos don't tell a story, but I wish they were more balanced. Of course, this also demonstrates that Charter's didn't actually meet Jack until well after the _On the Road_ years were gone.

Of yes, there is also a sizable section devoted to Ken Kesey, and the legendary bus, though I've never really seen him and his Merry Pranksters as Beats. Still, it's nice to see Kesey, his farm, and what remains of the bus....