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The first book in the new Children's International Series by the great Russian writer Kornei Chukovksy. Doctor Ouch tells the story of a gentle vet who travels from Russia to Africa to save the jungle animals.
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An Uncommon Wisdom.......2002-11-18
Changespell Legacy (2002) is the third in a series about a horse, Dun Lady's Jess, who has been transformed into a human and now has the ability to be either women or mare. Along the way she has made friends with Jaime, Mark, Dayna, and Arlen and has become the lover of Carey, her former owner.
The present story starts with Arlen of Anfeald away from home while the Wizards Council of Camolen investigates a strange new phenomenon near Secondary Siccawei. Something happens to cause wild magic to flare up and the investigating wizards are all killed. Arlen is presumed to be dead and the only known survivor is a palomino stallion.
The Secondary Council moves its operation to Secondary Siccawei to be near the phenomenon and then shuts down the transfer booths. The Mage Dispatch service begins to bog down under the load and running the Anfeald courier service is keeping Carey and Jess very busy.
Jaime shows up for a scheduled visit and discovers Arlen is not there. Although grieving for Arlen, she assumes some of the burden of running the courier service. Jess and Suliya, a new courier rider, go to Secondary Siccawei in response to a message from Dayna. When she tells them that the council have rejected her recommendations and are essentially wasting time, the three women take Rumble, the palomino stallion, and return to Anfeald.
Dispatch reports begin to indicate that the strange phenomenon has started to grow and has appear elsewhere. Without any help form the council and unable to gain reliable information in any other way, Carey decides to interrogate the palomino by turning the horse into a man. Jess, remembering her own transformation, tries to talk Carey out of this idea, but hesitantly agrees when all other sources have failed.
Jess, Carey, Dayna, Suliyu, and Rumble tranfer back to Earth and, in the process, Rumble is transformed into a man. They gather at the Dancing Equine farm -- Jaime's home -- with Mark and try to plumb Rumble's memories.
Back on Camelon, Arlen has been delayed in reaching the council and perceives their death as it occurs. Realizing that he is now the only senior wizard remaining, he is trying to return to Anfeald, but has to travel slowly by coach and horse now that the transfer booths are shut down. He tries to performs as little magic as possible to prevent other sensitives from recognizing his signature while he lies low and tries to find out what is going on. In his travel, he encounters other instances of the strange phenomenon and learns that it is excited and grows whenever magic is used nearby. Then he is recognized and attacked, but overcomes his attacker. Now knowing that he is being hunted, Arlen avoids the main roads and public means of travel, but still heads toward Anfeald.
Jaime also begins to recognize a pattern. She is visited by two strangers who claim to come from Chesba to learn the truth about recent events, but later inquiries disprove these claims. Then the Secondary Council sends an investigator to determine who has used forbidden spells in the vicinity of Anfeald. Jaime knows that one of the usages would have been Jess and her party, but the other may have been the imposters. Are they following Jess and company with intent to cause harm? Things get rather tense thereafter.
Durgin has wrought a complex and suspenseful plot as a background to the continuing humanization of Jess. While she has not been an innocent regarding humanity -- after all, horses soon learn that there are good humans and bad humans -- Jess has been naive about the perversity of human nature. Now she is confronted by Carey's inability -- or unwillingness -- to generalize from Jess to all other horses.
After I read the first two novels in this series, I brought the books to the attention of my youngest daughter. She is a horse person, currently attending a course to prepare her as a horse trainer, and she does not like to read anything that is not required by her teachers. However, she became intrigued by my synopsis of these novel and has read and enjoyed both prequels. Now she is eagerly waiting for me to pass this book on to her. Overall, I think she is impressed by Durgin's grasp of equine matters and ways.
If you like animals, try Doranna Durgin's novels. She has a way with words as well as a good knowledge of animals and their owners. In this novel, she beautifully portrays a personality that is a blend of horse and human, with an uncommon wisdom from both sides.
-Arthur W. Jordin
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Two thousand years after Pilate pardoned Jesus, the Roman Empire-backed by nuclear might-holds the wild men of the North in check...
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Eternal Rome.......2006-09-15
Ever since I read Robert Silverberg's "Roma Aeterna" awhile back, Amazon has been suggesting at every turn that I tackle Kirk Mitchell's "Procurator". I am only human, and eventually I succumbed to these insidious blandishments. I am glad I did.
This is one of your classic counterfactual "What if the Roman Empire never fell" works of speculative fiction. The turning point? It turns out that Pilate did NOT send Jesus off to be crucified, the consequence of which is that Christianity never really took off and the Empire never splintered and fell. Now it's many centuries later, the Romans have some primitive steam tech, they rule all of Europe and North Africa and parts of the Middle East and apparently they have a toehold in the New World. But over in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), they are facing an uprising by their world's version of the followers of the Prophet, who happen to have some mystical powers and who are aided by your usual treacherous scum within the Imperial household.
Our hero is Germanicus, the titular procurator, who initially seems to be a simple man of action but who reveals depths that perhaps even he was not aware of. He is aided by Rolf, a veteran German centurion that he added to his staff almost at random and who is fiercely loyal and extremely pragmatic. Can they figure out who the bad guys are? Will the Anatolian barbarians be turned back? And will success spoil Rock Hunter?
At just over 270 pages, this is a slim novel that can be quickly read, especially as the plot moves on quickly and the trials and tribulations advance with a sense of inevitability. The prose is deceptive in its simplicity and sometimes touches on the lyrical. While the characterization is generally excellent, with some of the characters being surprisingly multifaceted, we don't get much of a sense of this alternate Empire, as most of the action takes place near Mount Ararat.
Originally published in 1984, "Procurator" is the first volume of a trilogy, with "The New Barbarians" following in 1986 and "Cry Republic" in 1989. Mitchell, a former law enforcement author in California, remains active as an author, with his most recent titles coming as part of a mystery series with a Native American protagonist.
"Procurator" is highly recommended both for students of history and alternative history alike.
Portents for things to come........2004-07-09
This book wasn't written, It was channeled from an alternative reality. Great introduction to greater series. More please?
Only 3!.......2001-10-31
YES, if you are into alternate histories, be sure to read this trilogy. In order...Procurator/The New Barbarians/Cry Republic. Read in this order, the characters have a natural development and there is no *water under the bridge* effect that comes with reading the last first. With winter acomin' on, this trilogy will fit right in with those who live in the snow/rain/sleet/dark, etc. For readers in sunnier climes, these may cool the temperature for you. No matter what, the author tells a tale that is quite entertaining. Be good to yourself and read 'em!!
Transcends the genre.......2001-10-05
An extraordinarily long-lived and static Roman Empire has entered the machine age but with another erratic Julian Emperor and facing revolts around its edges. In the East we follow a procurator, Germanicus Julius (weren't Roman provincial governors like Germanicus called proconsuls instead?), struggling against fanatical Muslim-like terrorists with a psychic killing power. In the course of the novel Mitchell adds a fascinating religious layer to his military focus to develop an ultimately compelling and deep story.
The initial atmosphere of the novel is gray, bleak, mechanized, and military. Some scenes are pretty horrifying. Yet Germanicus is involved in a crucial love triangle with his assistants, although the author did not first lead me to care much for those three. (The lady's motivation never did come clear: this book could use a prequel). But the dynamics of the novel require that eventually the three must make tragic choices. As we learn more of the rebels and their ideology this story remarkably rises into a gripping theological fantasy of transcendent change based on Jesus sayings forgotten in this alternative timeline. Mitchell's writing style is merely competent and the characters didn't evoke my sympathies until late in the story as the plot moved from the military onto a theological and dreamlike plane. In one of several wrenching dream scenes Germanicus even slips momentarily into our parallel world of 1944.
Except for the sheen of a few titles and Latinized names, I don't see what is particularly "Roman" about this story. And surely more evolution of the terms, offices, and organizations mentioned would have been expected. Historical issues of slavery and technology, succession, and the internal east-west split aren't addressed, while Eastern religions, barbarians, and boundaries are significant here. A new fantastical element is introduced: psychic telemagic, that skips around in a convenient but unexplained fashion and may bleed over along family lines. Gurney's cover art doesn't match the technology I think is described in the text. Then again, description and atmosphere are not Mitchell's strong points (while plot development, incident, ethnic differentiation, and intellectual interest are). The publisher provides no clue whatsoever that this is actually the first of three books (followed by New Barbarians and Cry Republic). Perhaps this omission deliberately increases the suspense as to who survives this story. The Sibyl's oracular "hooks" left loose on the final pages seemed too explicitly revealing (quite un-Sibyl-like, in fact) to permit a sequel, until I was alerted by other Amazon reviewers.
Why Use Magic?.......2001-07-24
I can only add a little to the previous reviews as they are pretty accurate and complete as to the story and its virtues and flaws. After ensuring a reasonable, historically based explanation is used to justify the on-going existence of the Roman Empire, the author bases the story on a 'magical', psychic ability called 'massing.' WHY? There are so many possibilities for conflict and interaction, yet 'massing' becomes a critical part of the storyline. Really detracted from the quality and was largely pointless anyway. On the other hand, the subtleties of the evolution of the Roman Empire were handled very well although it was very hard to tell what the equivalent year in our reality line would have been.
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Title: María de Lourdes Madrazo, "la hermana incómoda" del procurador.(México)(TT: María de Lourdes Madrazo, "the uncomfortable sister" of the procurator.)(TA: Mexico)
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This paper examines an attempt to introduce a male administrator at a Benedictine women's monastery in Catalonia in the fourteenth century. It argues that records from the monastic and episcopal archives indicate the existence of a complex and dynamic interplay between the nuns and their abbess and the bishop. Due to this complicated process of negotiation, the bishop did not succeed in imposing a new male authority figure over the traditional leadership of the community. Over the next fifty years, the abbesses reasserted themselves and redefined the procurator's role as one subordinate to themselves. The episode illustrates that nuns could employ varied tactics to resist attempts to change their traditional administrative structure.
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Penelope Casas, the foremost American authority on Spanish food and the author of the bestselling Tapas, presents more than 175 robustly flavored yet amazingly simple recipes representing the best of Spanish home cooking—the cooking handed down through generations of Spanish “mamás.”
Long overshadowed by France and Italy, Spain has finally taken its rightful place as one of Europe’s great culinary meccas. Consider the reborn cities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao; the new respect afforded Spanish wines; the popularity of tapas bars in the U.S.; and Spain’s widely influential Michelin three-star chefs, Ferran Adrià and Juan Mari Arzak. Despite the world-wide acclaim for these chefs, arguably the greatest Spanish food is found not in the nation’s restaurants, but in private homes off-limits to tourists, where women still cook the recipes their mothers and grandmothers cooked before them. Now, Penelope Casas takes us into those homes to uncover the secrets of this simple, easily reproduced, and altogether marvelous cuisine.
For La Cocina de Mamá, Penelope Casas has collected recipes from great chefs and traditional home cooks in every region of Spain, all of whom have shared with her the dishes they grew up loving and still cook for themselves today. There are recipes for tapas, like Clams in Garlic Sauce; elegant soups and hearty one-pot meals like Stewed Potatoes with Pork Ribs; many wonderful seafood dishes like Fish Steaks with Peas in Saffron Sauce; meat and poultry dishes, such as Pork Tenderloin in Orange Sauce, Rack of Lamb Stuffed with Mushrooms and Scallions, and Lemon Chicken with Ginger and Pine Nuts; paella and other rice dishes—and even a few pasta dishes; unusual vegetable preparations, including Sautéed Spinach with Quince and Toasted Sesame Seeds; and desserts like Basque Apple Custard Tart. Whether of Roman, Moorish, or peasant origin, all of the dishes appeal to today’s tastes and exemplify the virtues of the Mediterranean diet—lots of olive oil, lean meats and fish, and vegetables. Sidebars throughout discuss ingredients, areas of Spain unfamiliar to most Americans, travel vignettes, and more. At last, Americans can discover the unique and irresistible flavors of authentic Spanish home cooking in La Cocina de Mamá.
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A sound investment even if you have a Spanish mother.......2006-09-29
This attractive book contains a tempting collection of recipes for robustly flavored, down-to-earth family dishes that are generally simple to prepare. The author's discussions of Spanish cooking methods, ingredients, and wines are very helpful and informative. I have only one caveat: the text is printed on different colors of paper and may be a little difficult for some people to read; however, the recipes themselves should appeal to those who appreciate homey, heartwarming fare.
Another book that offers great Mediterranean home cooking is "Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen," by Sonia Uvezian, which features a wealth of uncomplicated recipes that highlight healthful ingredients and vibrant flavors.
La Cocina de Mama: The Great Home Cooking of Spain.......2006-08-03
Mouthwatering and delicious----I haven't found a bad recipe yet and they are all well described and explained. The book is well worth the money and the food prepared from the recipes is extremely and well explained.
I love this book!!.......2005-07-28
Truely inspiring. I have given away 2 copies to dear friends. Fun and beautiful.
Excellent, Inexpensive Intro to Spanish Cooking........2005-05-10
`La Cocina de Mama' is Penelope Casas' fifth book on Spanish cuisine, becoming very much to Spain what Marcella Hazan and Lydia Bastianich are to Italy, in their presentations of their respective national cuisines to American readers and eaters. We do not get the high theory of Spanish cuisine as we do from Hazan with her very Italian techniques that border in sophistication on great French culinary thinking.
Unlike Hazan and Bastianich, Casas is not a native of her subject country and she does not live there full time, so we get no books about the cooking of `My Spain', as we do from Bastianich' first book on the cuisine of Istria and northern Italy. However, this book, unlike all her previous volumes, comes close to being a presentation of Spanish `home cooking'.
Her four previous books can be easily divided into two pair. The first pair is the smaller volumes on the two great Spanish contributions to world cuisine, `Tapas' and `Paella'. The second pair cover the entire range of Spanish cooking, with the first, `The Food and Wine of Spain' being a very systematic, classic approach. The second, `Delicioso', is less formal, but does follow a very useful structure based on the culinary regions of Spain, to which Casas gives some very inventive and illuminating names such as `The Region of Sauces' for Galicia and `The Region of the Casseroles' for Catalunya and the Baleares Islands.
`La Cocina de Mama' is more anecdotal than the previous four books, picking up lots of recipes from home and restaurant cooks which have great interest in themselves, but which may not have been as representative of typical cooking in Spain.
I was especially pleased to see a Foreword from the very important Spanish chef, Ferran Adria as it would have been especially curious to see a book on Spanish restaurant cooking without a not to Adria, who has been touted from here to Timbuktu as the world's greatest working chef. And yet, there are no Adria recipes in this book. One has to believe that some time soon we should see a book in English on Adria's cuisine, but we get no hints of his famous foams on these pages. Instead, true to the nature of this book, we get a recipe for a Paella done by Adria's mother. Like bouillabaisse and so many other classic dishes, I always give a little wince when I hear paella described as a `simple, peasant' dish. I confess that relatively speaking, Ferran Adria's mother's dish of rabbit, green beans, tomato, and rice is pretty easy, but it is definitely more complicated than your typical 30-minute meal. Even so, Casas takes a little liberty with the procedure for the benefit of inexperienced American cooks and finishes off the dish in an oven rather than doing everything on the burner. Casas does repeat her caution from `Paella' to bake about 10 minutes longer in an electric oven than in a gas oven.
It seems to be the season for recanting old beliefs, so just as Mario Batali recently confessed that Italians do indeed eat their fair share of pastry, Casas has discovered that pasta is a more important ingredient in Spanish cooking than a simple noodle in Catalunya (northeastern Spain, with ties to old Spanish possessions around Naples) soups. The newly discovered flagbearer of pasta in Spain is a thick soup / thin stew from the grandmother of Andalusian chef Bartolome Rodrigo Lucena. Even more unusual than the pasta dish itself is the fact that the recipe gives a recipe for fresh pasta to be used instead of the dried pasta of southern Italy. The bland fresh pasta almost plays the same role as central European dumplings by offering a bland contrast to the strongly tasting salt cod, artichoke hearts, two types of paprika tomatoes, and green peppers.
With each of Casas' books, I am again and again amazed at the predominant role of sweet red peppers in the cuisine of Spain. They seem to be in practically every dish in every region. In spite of this overwhelming presence, Casas has yet to explain the seeming connection between the paprika's of Spain and the paprika's of Hungary, halfway across Europe. The Moorish connection doesn't work because sweet peppers came from the New World a few years after the Moors were expelled from Spain. The only other connection may be the royal house of Hapsburgs that ruled both Spain and Austria-Hungary.
The book has the obligatory map of Spain (if you don't realize how important this is, try reading a book on regional dishes without a map) in the front and a very simple organization of chapters on Tapas, Salads, Vegetables, Soups, Rice and Pasta, Fish and Shellfish, Poultry and Game, Meats, and Desserts.
One new `vector' I discovered in Spanish cooking is the important role of canned tuna in the salads. While France has its classic salad Nicoise, Spain gives us three major salad recipes with canned tuna. Aside from the omnipresent paprika or fresh red peppers, there is a lot of hard-boiled egg, cooked beans, and canned white asparagus.
The desserts have their fair share of chocolate, especially hot chocolate, the favorite form of the Aztecs from whom the Spanish acquired the brown gold. There are also spicy doughnuts that are made in almost exactly the same way as you would find in New Orleans or in Amish Pennsylvania. As you may expect, custards are also a big thing, plus lots and lots of almond, meringue, and lemon. One thing I miss in all of Casas books is bread. If Ms. Casas is listening, I should mention that in none of her books is there any mention of the special tool used to flip tortilla Espanola, of which I read in Ruth Reichl's new memoir, `Garlic and Sapphires'.
Excellent, low priced introduction to great Spanish cooking and stories about Spanish food.
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You and your dog can become a therapy dog team!
Are you looking for a new and meaningful way to work with your dog? Do you want to improve the lives of those who because of illness or disability would benefit from visits with a volunteer canine "therapist"? Then think bout becoming a Therapy Dog Team and you will create the kind of magic that enriches lives.
Therapy Dogs, Training Your Dog to Reach Others, 2nd Edition gives you all the information you need to select, socialize and train your dog for this work. What better creature than a dog to offer comfort, companionship and even entertainment to people in a wide variety of settings?
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PERFECTION.......2007-06-13
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fantastic book.......2007-01-09
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I purchased this book because the reviews from other shoppers were so good. I was a little disappointed though because the book is more a basic dog training guide than how to get started in the business of therapy dogs. It just wasn't the right book for me.
Helpful Guide for New or Aspiring Therapy Dog Teams.......2006-11-11
I found this book to be a helpful introduction for people getting started in animal-assisted therapy/activities. One of the other posted reviews almost put me off, but I'm glad that I decided to take it with a grain of salt. In spite of their statement that the book does not adequately define what "pet therapy" is, I found that it did indeed deal with the definition and the different terminology that is used. The book gives many helpful tips and is a good basic guide for new therapy dog teams. I would also recommend it to those who are thinking of getting involved in pet therapy in the future.
A gold mine of information and ideas.......2004-02-07
Kathy Diamond-Davis knows dogs (and their handlers) like no other author I have ever read. This book carefully and clearly covers topics from choosing an appropriate dog for therapy work, through socializing the dog and building your relationship with the dog, to finding an appropriate organization to work with and doing therapy dog visits. She emphasizes positive training that builds the dog/human bond and produces a happy, friendly dog. Realistically, she emphasizes that not all dogs (and not all handlers) are suited for therapy work.
I am currently working with my second therapy dog, who is registered with Therapy Dogs Inc. and who visits hospice patients. The ideas in Kathy's book continue to make us a better team.
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Perched atop the African continent where East meets West, Morocco has been a destination for Europeans and Americans since before the turn of the last century. With its intoxicating mix of Berber, Arab, Spanish, and French Art Deco styles influencing and informing both homes and hotels, this country may be the birthplace of fusion. And as new waves of travelers succumb to Morocco’s charms and make it their home, they have added their own styles to the mix, respecting the roots of Moroccan design, yet altering it in subtle ways.
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New Moroccan Style, author Susan Sully reveals four emerging trends in this world of design: Delirium, Fusion, Minimalism, and Repose. Each represents a different aesthetic—whether it be the clean, elegant lines of Minimalism or the mingling, sinuous Asian and Islamic notes in Fusion—yet all are distinctly Moroccan. In chapters replete with gorgeous photographs by Jean Cazals, Sully takes readers on an unprecedented tour through private homes, stylish resorts, and intimate guest houses—many never before published.
We visit Dar Tamsna, outside Marrakech, the epitome of Moroccan fusion, and a riad, or courtyard dwelling, that is a meditation in gray and white. Orientalism reigns in a villa in a date palm grove and an old stone house outside of Essaouira has been transformed into a sensually rustic retreat. Sully catalogs both traditional crafts and contemporary arts to show readers how to introduce the beauty and spirit of Morocco into their home décor—as Gogo Ferguson has in her Martha’s Vineyard house.
Entertainment is as much a part of the Moroccan experience as the glorious rugs and intricate furnishings. Complementing the various houses are twenty-five recipes and tips for entertaining Moroccan-style, as well as a comprehensive source guide for travelers and shoppers.
A treasure trove of ideas and images,
New Moroccan Style is a treat for the eyes, palate, and imagination, brought to light by a fresh new voice in design.
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Good, but not great..........2005-02-15
I confess that I was a bit disappointed by this book. I was hoping for a book about sumptuous Moroccan decorating and living the Moroccan lifestyle. This book really only barely touches on that. The actual focus of the book is concentrated on a few hotels and restaurants located in Morocco but owned mostly by people foreign to Morocco, with the addition of a few homes of wealthy people in the United States who have been somewhat influenced by Moroccan style. This book contains no pictures of the interiors of homes of the average Moroccan citizen at all.
Also, the decorating style advocated in this book is one of an overall Contemporary style with Moroccan influences. In the case of this book, "New" Moroccan Style equals an almost Asian minimalist approach with a few Moroccan handicrafts thrown in. If you're looking for a book with pictures featuring the more well-known "More is better!" Moroccan decorating approach, with layer on top of layer of textile and color, you are bound to be as disappointed as I was. The decorating style featured in this book is very restrained compared to most other books on Moroccan style that I have encountered.
I still give the book four stars overall for content and information. For what the book actually is, it's not a bad book at all. It just isn't exactly what you'd expect it to be, either. The text discussing the origins of Moroccan style, from the Berber influence to Andalusian style, is especially informative. The recipes included in the book, along with pictures, are also a nice bonus.
Gorgeous!.......2004-05-17
This is such a great book! Spare yet sensual interiors, there are ideas for interiors in here that everyone can do. Moroccan interior design is not based on lots of money, or elaborate settings, but rather arranging things you have in unexpected ways - decide what's pleasing to you, and get bold with color!
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ASIN: 1840911786 |
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Indulge your senses in an extravagant, evocative experience--first in photos and then, following their lead, in your own home. Here is an intensely personal view of what is most pleasing to the eye, delicious and fragrant to taste and smell, nice to the touch, and soothing and seductive to the ear. Taking each sense in turn, a visually sophisticated photographer shows how it functions individually, affects our moods and emotions, and interrelates with the others. Explore all the possibilities and as your roam these magnificent interiors, think of fresh ways to bring pleasure and comfort to your private dwelling. Every image calls forth more than one perception and sense--memory. Even though the picture of leather chairs appears in "Smell," and instantly suggests that fabric's warm, subtle aroma, how could you not think of how wonderful it feels to the hand's touch and the body nestled contentedly on the seat? Every photo will enlighten and inspire.
Customer Reviews:
Certain to delight all of your senses!.......2006-12-05
I picked this up in a bookshop in Bali, a place which knows all about sensual living! It's not an instruction book as such, however it does inspire one to create a more sensual environment in which to live.
This book sparked my interst as I had decided to undertake a sensual living type project of my own, to look at how I could enhance my life through looking each of the senses - for example, expanding the range of music I listen to (everything from Brazilian Hip Hop to Funk, Jazz or Tibetan chants - I've found plenty of music that I love and yet would never have listened to a year ago), the types of foods I eat, that kind of thing. I've found the process extremely beneficial in enhancing my enjoyment of everyday life. This book works perfectly for that. Each chapter delves into one of the senses, with reflections and thoughts on the particular sense and beautiful supporting color photographs. The photos alone are reason enough to buy this book.
It's a wonderful book to pick a chapter, reflect upon the sense it involves and what that means to you and how you could enhance your lifestyle by making adjustments in your life. Great also for the coffee table to inspire your guests!
If you like this style you may also want to check out The Wabi-Sabi House by Robyn Griggs Lawrence.
Recommended reading.
Sensual reading.......2002-04-27
Big leather chairs, soft fluffy towels, candlelight-these are but a few examples of sensual living that Claire Lloyd incorporates into her book. This is not so much of a decorating how-to but a living how-to. She gives you ideas into adding things to your home that excite all your senses and allow you to be stylish and comfortable at the same time. Enjoyable from the first page to the last, don't let this one pass you by. A++
the essence of gracefulness.......1999-08-17
This book has revolutionised the way I relate to my environment. Claire Lloyd shows how the domestic and mundane can be transformed and integrated into a sensuous landscape that, without clutter or fuss, enhances your sense of being alive. Beautifully photographed and designed, this book is a graceful expression of the free-spirited lifestyle that is within reach of anyone with a penchant for all things sensual.
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- What many books promise--this one delivers
- Fabulous and good for those who don't have time to cook
- Great Advice if You Have the Time and Money
- My favorite health book of the year.
- This book is not only an inspiration--THE PROGRAM WORKS
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Sexual Radiance: A 21-Day Program of Breathwork, Nutrition, and Exercise for Vitality and Sensual ity
Susan L. Taylor
Manufacturer: Harmony
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0609601601
Release Date: 1998-10-27 |
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Sex appeal--that mysterious, sensual, alluring quality--has nothing to do with good looks or seductive dress. It's "sexual radiance," a quality of vitality and sexiness that all women can evoke or recapture, says nutritional biochemist Susan Taylor. "It's as simple as understanding your metabolism--and learning ways to invigorate it." The keys are diet, movement, and breathing, and Sexual Radiance shows you how to use them to unlock your vigor and sensuality. Half the book explains the concepts--such as when and what to eat to regulate your energy, how to breathe from the diaphragm, how food affects hormonal function, and how to activate the second and third chakras (energy centers) with diet, breathing, and exercise. Taylor introduces Tantric sex, discusses how a woman can have a powerful orgasm, and describes how our emotions and experiences can affect our sexual response. Plenty of anecdotes personalize the information. Next Taylor presents her 21-day program, including diet (herbs, spices, and supplements as well as menus and recipes), breathing, and exercises that energize sexual vitality and release lower-body tension. Follow this plan, and Taylor promises you enhanced energy and sexual radiance. --Joan Price
Book Description
Years ago, we called it It, that indefinable quality that some women have and others don't. Later we called it sex appeal. Women who have it don't have to be overly physically attractive--men would flock to them anyway. Their dresses are no shorter or more revealing; they do not parade around in Lycra. These women have sexual radiance, a quality innate in all women. If you don't have it now, you can evoke it. If you've lost it, you can bring it back.
Sexual radiance is the combination of physical vitality and the free flow of sexual energy. For the first time, Dr. Susan Taylor offers a comprehensive system combining Western medicine and Eastern mysticism to achieve sexual radiance.
Sexual Radiance features a step-by-step 21-day program that incorporates the latest findings from scientific research and simple exercises derived from ancient yogic practices.
Drawing on her background in biochemistry, Dr. Taylor explains how surprisingly simple adjustments to diet can radically enhance metabolism, thus fueling the creation of energy, specifically sexual energy. By following Dr. Taylor's program of nutrition, exercise, and breath work in
Sexual Radiance, readers can achieve a more profound level of sexual fulfillment, a healthier life, and that most alluring quality of all--It.
Customer Reviews:
What many books promise--this one delivers.......1999-07-14
I love the integration of East and West. The best of all possibilies. The passion and energy of this author is apparent on every page. And to meet her was further reinforcement that she practices what she teaches. A must for very woman (or man) of any age.
Fabulous and good for those who don't have time to cook.......1999-02-26
Dr. Taylor provides a simple presentation of the fundamentals of metabolism combined with sexuality. For those who come from different walks of life, her program is adaptable. It is for those who want to take charge of their health. What I liked most is it is authentic offering clear difinitive ways that people can restore their vitality. This is definitely material for Oporah. I hope we see Dr. Taylor in the media. Her message supports the health and welfare of humanity. Three cheers to Dr. Susan Taylor. You have helped me change my life. I will pass your book on to others.
Great Advice if You Have the Time and Money.......1999-01-05
Susan Taylor's very readable and engaging book makes some very good points, but as with many books of its type, successful practitioners of everything she advocates would need to fit the profile of her anecdotal cases - who all seem to be actors, opera singers, etc. That is, women in glamor professions with very flexible hours and plenty of money, not to mention leisure for endless self-focus. As a single working woman of average income (and a one-hour lunch break), I don't have TIME for her elaborate meal preparations, especially at lunch, or the money to afford the multitude of ingredients. (With the recent citrus freeze, her fruit shake recipes alone make for a $5 breakfast.) And if it's hard enough for a single woman, how many married women or women with children have time to toast their own oats for breakfast? Sounds like a Martha Stewart parody. I started trying to follow the plan, but I can see I won't make it until the next payday. Home-made falafil for lunch? Wouldn't it be nice. And who eats the rest of the four cups of chickpeas, since the recipe plan changes daily? As for never eating after 7 p.m., I rarely make it HOME before 6:45! Just once I'd like to read a book of health recommendations NOT written for the leisured upper middle class - a book that acknowledges that affording vitamins can sometimes be a problem, and that it's NOT "simple" to track down all of this rotating fresh produce. As for Taylor's book, I'd like to see the recipes re-written as single portions - OR an acknowledgement that this one serves 4 (at least, I can't believe that two pounds each of three leafy vegetables is a single serving!). In other words, a tiny dose of reality to go with the pep talk and the illustrations that reinforce the idea that sexual love is for the physically perfect (or maybe that's her point).
My favorite health book of the year........1998-12-22
I am always looking for books that treat the woman as a complete person--mind, body, sexuality, etc. It is very difficult to find a book that does this. Until I came across Dr. Taylor's book. What a star she is. I have transformed my health and eating habits through following her program. I am sharing this book with all my friends. It makes a great gift for someone you really care about. Kudos to Dr. Susan Taylor!
This book is not only an inspiration--THE PROGRAM WORKS.......1998-12-08
A close friend of mine recommended Dr. Taylor's book to me, as she had taken a workshop Dr. Taylor gave at the Learning Annex in NYC, and thought highly of her work and ideas. I have only been on the program laid out in the book for 2 weeks, but the difference I am feeling in my energy and vitality is downright extraordinary. I read the entire book in one night, as I found it so engaging and readable (she has a great sense of humor too). I was impressed to discover how deeply the her ideas are grounded, academically and scientifically. Normally pretty skeptical about things that smack or even hint of new age nonsense, it became clear very quickly that this was a book rooted in research, wisdom-and common sense not common enough. I have changed my diet, and am in the process of changing my way of looking at myself in terms of sensuality and vitality--and the reaction I am already getting from friends and strangers suggests that it's not all in my imagination. This is an integrated, holistic view and treatment, of the mind and body-and I recommend it HIGHLY to anyone wishing to recover -or maintain vitality, health, and radiance. (Don't get waylaid by the title-it's about that but also so much more!).
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Niki De Saint Phalle: The Tarot Garden
Pierre Restany , and
Niki de Saint Phalle
Manufacturer: Charta
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 8881581671
Release Date: 1998-09-02 |
Book Description
This book details the construction and presents all the elements of Niki de Saint Phalle's seminal public sculpture, "The Tarot Garden". Located in Italy, this truly dazzling creation was a labor of love for the artist over an extended number of years. The symbolic, nature of each of the work's sculptures is presented thoroughly. The substantial essays included in the book consider the multifaceted nature of Niki de Saint Phalle's creation.
Customer Reviews:
A woman with a vision.......2000-02-15
This book looks into the wonderful Tarot Garden which was made in 20 years by Niki de Saint Phalle. It has many pictures and opens the mind for great, colorful, living art.
Book Description
The Tarot Garden, situated in Italy, is a sculpture park, planned and created by Niki de Saint Phalle. It is her very personal vision of the personalities of the tarot-game: the world, the fool, the hermit, death, the wheel of fortune.
Book Description
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.
Customer Reviews:
A Journey Across Langston's Life.......2006-12-28
When I started writing here on Amazon reviews I was thinking of placing pieces of my memory from books that shaped our family so that my daughter who was reading and living on-line might share a few minutes with me as I reflected back on things that might tell the stories of us. Being very ill it seemed a logical kind of thing to do. One of the reasons I waited until Christmas to write this particular piece was it fits, the title of this story taken from an Appalachian melody of Christmas, among the most beautiful I know for my playing on dulcimer. The tune which inspired his title is just a simple,hill country piece of handiwork. The other reason I waited was having made an Amazon friend who is inspired at a fundamental level by Hughes and who is dear to me, it gave me awhile to think about what to say here of this book. I know he lives in close connection to Hughes spirit and may indeed embody and carry this work and truth. Not an easy thing at all...but the world is better for this. I hate to do it a disservice and I'm inadequate to the task, and yet the book is among my most favorite ever read. I'm surprised that it isn't reviewed by many more here , this volume for me one of the most amazing secrets ever kept. It is an autobiographical journey, a tale from his life; it serves to create inner spaces, visceral visual ones, to consider Hughes and to look upon his perspectives. All I can conclude is something I find tonight as I type, it's daunting to write to the book and do it any real justice. It is worth purchasing for anyone, especially for someone who loves to read of the times of our lives in the 20th century..
Hughes opens the book, which covers time from 1931 to 1938 as a piece to carry on from The Big Sea his first autobiographical work. As I read them out of order I cannot say I am sorry this was my first. It stays solidly in my head. He tells of traveling in a car on a reading tour in the South and the west. On opening the tale of wandering we are where he was reading his work in small often rural settings and revealing black community and his meager circumstances as he was essentially becoming the writer. He becomes involved in a film project and goes to the Soviet Union which is such an amazing thing to read....it is a project that doesn't work out and he stays and continues traveling. Just to know more about this time in history from his perspective in areas we could not know enough about is worth the book....and it is these observations and how he finally returns to the US, I found the most compelling of the narrative. I felt I was wandering, wandering free of some of the limitations of American political shaping, looking at the Soviets as they took on the start of building their country, listening to Hughes describe the adventure, what he sees. Hughes is not given to excessive internal dialog, he is almost remarkably absent of this-which of course is a vehicle he creates-he relates what he sees and it has a kind of universal journey construction...almost ...so perfectly of those times, so completely crafted that I lose my "self" in the pages...I am a train, or a days delicious seafood with boiled bananas and Spanish rice learning to rumba. I am ill equipped to summarize but Hughes is a genius, creating a kind of tableau that for me stands as visually there as the great human artists of these times, this he does so easily. And I feel this trip across Russia as an experience. I think what moves me is that Hughes recounts human interaction, the simplicity, the everyday as it might be felt by myself or was felt by himself. I've spent most all of my life living in teaching in ordinary everyday, poorer worlds by choice learning of the dignity and indignity, suffering, laughing, discovering others, in the valid and real lives of ordinary people. It makes me anecdotal and determined to honor lives. And I note in the book foreword him stating, "I've now cut out all the impersonal stuff down to a running narrative with me in the middle of every page...the kind of intense condensation that, of course, keeps an autobiography from being entirely true, in that nobody's life is pure essence without pulp, waste matter , and rind-which art, of course, throws in the trash can." Ah always genius.
Because I had read a great deal of these times interested in Lillian Hellman and many other figures, his recounting his story with Arthur Koestler was so interesting. Again threaded through this personal anecdote was so much good information and his perspective. He talks of Haiti and I've given these pages many times to friends connected to this country, of Cuba, China and Japan ending in Carmel in an area I lived with close life there for 9 years, which was remarkable for me as I first encountered the book reading it sitting in a bookshop in Carmel and wandering the streets reading and thinking and enjoying thoughts of his times there. These were times of Communism, Marxism, the Scottsboro Boys, and only a bit becomes part of the book though I was discerning much because I did know of the times from my interests, reading and from reading more to understand his times.
I have stated in writing I've done of my teaching life that Hughes lived writing of black America, of politics, of difficult constructs, from his background, then his education, from his broadening views, from traveling, meeting such a wide spectrum, he was writing of the lives of the poor, living the lives, but also a writer, thinker, a man apart. I sense his frustration as much as I can from my inadequacies in trying to speak to these issues of fairness, of poverty, of the travesty of greed, of human lives affected by prejudice and economic and political failure. I write anecdotally of teaching in South Central, in migrant areas trying to reach out and tell the stories of kids hoping those that read can draw conclusions and understand better their real realities. I sense Hughes left to his readers a responsibility to use his journey, his insights, to think about how to make America a fairer place. How to work to create a just world. And to understand how broad a world it is.
I read in the forward about the books reception as "shallow". And I wonder....as I too wander. There is an elegant powerful truth that Hughes carries, a silent power in a poets voice spoken in the face of revealing things no one can hear or will hear. There is a basic return to the voyage as meaning itself, a telling of a life, a looking at life as a movement forward. I just cannot find that shallow. I find Hughes as ever one of the touchstones of my life.
this should be on required reading lists everywhere!!.......2001-09-19
As the sequel to "The Big Sea", Mr.Hughes again speaks the language of a poet so well that he makes the reading of his life seem like a first-person experience. After his travels on several ships and the taste of his first successes(and failures), he simply explores and writes: of Paris, Russia, and Cuba, and shares his experiences with the reader. His writing is so rich and vivid that he makes every location in the world seem like poetry in motion. This book and "The Big Sea" should definitely be on reading lists everywhere-or, if you have a friend or relative who feels like they're a "wandering spirit", these books would make great gifts. Mr.Hughes touches on everything human: from the strained relationship with his father to the blatant racism he encounters everyday; to the women he becomes fond of and his neverending thirst for experience and knowledge; to the countless sights of wonder in the world that one never sees when they are ignorant. Beautiful writing by a true poet.
BRILLIANT, EYE OPENING.......1999-02-02
IN THIS BOOK , MR. HUGHES REALLY OPENS UP AND LETS THE READER INTO HIS WORLD. IT IS NOT HARD TO IMAGINE BEING IN THE PLACES THAT HE DESCRIBES. THE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS POP OUT AT YOU. THIS BOOK IS AN ENJOYABLE READ
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I wonder as I wander: An autobiographical journey
Langston Hughes
Manufacturer: Rinehart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0006AUK04 |
Customer Reviews:
Tree tombs up!.......2000-06-01
The way that langston Hughes write in this book makes you think that he is talking to you. the way that he describe the countyr that he is visiting in the real he is one of a kind writer. i just love the way that he write and the way that he can take you away.........
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