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The compact, portable, and very readable EAT SMART guides to world cuisinethe first of their kindhelp travelers experience the delicious culinary delights of a foreign destination. This popular series contains fascinating food history, insight on regional specialties, great recipes to preview the tastes of the country, useful phrases, handy shopping tips, and two extensive bilingual dictionaries to simplify navigating menu and market. Travelers can now easily determine whats on the menu, whats in the market, whats on their plate, and what they can ask for as they travel.

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EAT SMART IN MEXICO with this essential new guidebook!.......1999-02-16

While most Mexico guides devote a section to eating, authors Joan and David Peterson see food as an integral part of the journey, the very basis of travel, and their new guide "Eat Smart in Mexico" (1998, Ginkgo Press, $12.95) reflects that sensibility. One of a series that includes Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey, Eat Smart gives a historical survey of Mexican cuisine followed by an overview of each Mexican region, describing its most representative foods, from the North to the Yucatán. We learn, for example, that Michoacan residents eat churipo, a stew made with potatoes and corn and flavored with the sour cactus fruit xoconostle.

A recipe section presents essentials like birria, mole poblano and chiles rellenos, as well as more exotic offerings like cheese-stuffed squash blossoms and mezcal sea bass with black bean sauce. The recipes have been provided by a number of restaurant owners, cookbook authors and culinary experts.

The most useful section of Eat Smart is its extensive glossary, which is broken down into a menu guide and an ingredients guide. The definitions, written with the gusto of those who are passionate about what they eat, should help readers decipher menus just about anywhere in Mexico. It includes obscure items like codillo enchilmole-pig's knuckles in a black spice paste made of burned chiles, roasted onion and garlic, and juice from the bitter Seville orange, and ayocotes en coloradito-large broad beans in a rich, red, complex sauce of ancho and guajillo chiles, spices, nuts, seeds, raisins and chocolate. Browsing this glossary is certain to whet your appetite to seek out these dishes in the places where they're prepared. -Daniel C. Schecter, Business Mexico

We find much to learn from this book........1998-12-25

In spite of our having traveled in Mexico many years, and having prepared its cuisine at home as well, we find much to learn from this book. And the authors strike us as folks we would like to meet, and even travel with. Carla and Herb Felsted, co-editors, Mexican Meanderings, A Newsletter of Explorations in an Enchanted Land

Take this book with you!.......1998-12-08

Besides containing a brief culinary history of ancient and contemporary Mexico, this very intelligent guide has two sections that are of incredible use to the traveller. "Menu guide" is an encyclopedic translation of hundreds of dishes one will encounter in the menus of Mexican cuisine annotated with phrases such as Regional Classic, National Favorite, etc. "Food and Flavors guide" goes from A la Albanil to Zempasuchil. Take this book with you and you will never be lost in the marketplace or restaurant.

Ron Cooper, President, Del Maguey, Ltd. Co., maker of Single Village Mezcal.

Eat well with savvy.......1998-09-30

Anyone sensible enough to buy a copy before taking off for Mexico will be able to eat really well and even more importantly, to understand what they are eating.-Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz, Author of "The Complete Book of Mexican Cooking"

Wonderful quick study.......1998-09-23

A wonderful quick study for anyone who wants to encounter the foods Mexicans really eat. -Professor Rachel Laudan, Culinary Historian

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Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.

Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?

Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo

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Anthony Summers' biography of Richard Nixon reveals a troubled figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers reveals a man driven by an addiction to intrigue and power, whose subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. New evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, was at times mentally unstable, and was abusive to his wife Pat. Summers discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixon's role in the plots to topple Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in l968, and his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced fifty years of American history, in ways still reverberating today.

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This is a Rant, Not a Biography.......2007-08-31

What Nixon did over the years was utterly unforgiveable, but this relentless diatribe--at times, tantrum--does little to give us an accurate picture of what went on. Summers paints Nixon as somewhere between Vlad the Impaler and Jeffrey Dahmer, spending his entire presidency picking wings off flies. They call this kind of writing "one dimensional" and it may be fun reading, but it hardly contributes to an understanding of the whole man. It actually became silly to read, it was so biased.

Most laughable was when he repeatedly painted Nixon's most enthusiastic hatchetmen, Haldeman and Ehrlichmen, as altar boys speaking during the Nixon years with such reason and later, of course, such balanced hindsight.

It's a shame. Obviously, Summers did tremendous research for this book and he had the resources, therefore, to produce a credible, balanced work instead of just a blatant bloodletting.

But it does sell.

An unrelenting and rapid-fire assault.......2006-05-22

Right or wrong, Richard Nixon has been singularly defined in biographies, commentaries, TV and film productions and, yes, even an opera, by his resignation in 1974 of the presidency of the United States. Not here. Just as author Anthony Summers did in his definitive analysis of another 20th century icon ("Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe"), he lays out more than 600 pages of incredibly minute attributions in a relentlessly negative yet saucy treatment of the nation's 37th president. Although not scandal, Summers' final product is, if nothing else, racily relentless and throughly negative. Through it all, we get more of Nixon's alleged misbehaviors and unethical and illegal acts than a truly defining psycho-profile of this truly dark - even scary - figure. This isn't to say that Summers' work isn't a contribution to the continuing Nixon saga. It is. If nothing else, Summers' "challenge" to other writers might be to throttle them out of 1974 - and for most Nixon commentators, if not all, it still is and always will be 1974 - to probe the man capable of orchestrating the alleged events that Summers lays out in this book. Among them: Nixon's only Senate campaign in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, she who was "pink right down to her underwear" and was ravaged by Nixon's defamatory and anti-Semitic and trademark smear ideology, was funded in part by mob money from Mickey Cohen. Just a few years earlier, as a junior member of Congress' obscene Communist witchhunt committee, Nixon stooped to the illegal altering of evidence to condemn his dogged nemisis, Alger Hiss, to four years in a federal prison. Another unethical, if outright illegal plot after another in a supposed link between Howard Hughes, Fidel Castro and - yes - Watergate is laid out. And while there's never been any direct evidence that Nixon ordered the break-in that led to his presidential self-destruction (although he clearly authorized its cover-up), Summers claims here Nixon okay'ed more than 100 other break-ins throughout his political career. While the reader gets more of Nixon's alleged but previously unknown examples of illegal and unethical conduct, we get fewer explanations of what has been elusive to virtually everyone studying the man: what drove him. But we do get some glimpses into the Nixon psyche that could account for what made the total man: an ambition with no goal that started as early as age six but whose goal targeted politics a few years later; a never-satisfied thirst for power that was abused to "punish" Nixon's "enemies" and for the purpose of holding onto that power; a descent into experimentation with Seconals, Dilantin, speed and Scotch; having as his favorite limo the SS110X which, coincidentally, was the one in which JFK was killed; and, maybe in a brief concession to his dark side, an attempt with "Paviovian technique" to become "a better person." By book's end, Summers makes one thing "perfectly clear:" there was definitely something wrong with Richard Nixon. What exactly is elusive. But Summers' bio is still an important and compelling contribution to the written body of the Nixon library, and we can only hope that post-Watergate writers and researchers will carry Summers' work further and do what any few Nixon-ites have: to try to define the man by his totality rather than by his single act of being the only president in U.S. history to resign the world's most powerful seat.

BEST book on Nixon.......2005-12-23

Anthony Summers has written a masterpiece; no other way to put it. Well written and researched--the best book on Nixon, bar none. Get this! P.S. He interviewed former Secret Service agents Art Godfrey and Jerry Behn (as have I)
Vince Palamara
Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of 2 books, in over 32 other author's books, etc.)

Unrewarding.......2005-12-10

There's a wealth of fascinating, behind-the-scenes detail to this book, but on the whole I found too many instances where the author was plugging the gaps with his own imagination. Unbiased works about Nixon are hard to find, and I didn't find one here. It would be refreshing to come across a text that seeks neither to vilify nor redeem Nixon's public image. Perhaps, given the damage he did to political idealism in this country, it simply isn't possible to approach him without an agenda. Or maybe we just need more time to go by before we try to digest his impact on American life.

A real headshaker...........2005-08-18

I new that Anthony Summers' books had a reputation of tearing apart its subjects. I liked Nixon and was afraid that this book was going to trash him. But, after reading the book and noting the extensive footnotes, I conclude that most of his reports must have a ring of truth to them. I had just finished reading Nixon's "In The Arena" and then started Summers' book. Summers painted a completely different picture of Nixon than Nixon painted for himself. It appears that Nixon really whitewashed himself in "In The Arena". I believe that Summers' book paints a more realistic picture of Nixon.

The only thing about the book that I didn't really like was that he would begin one chapter and expound upon the subject, then move into Nixon's latter years and how he still felt about the particular subject. Then, Summers would start a new chapter and it would go back to when Nixon was young and move forward again. I believe the book could have been better structured to read as an historical novel without the jumping around in time.

Nevertheless, worth reading if you enjoy Nixon history.

The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon : An article from: The Ecologist

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Anthony Summers
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In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family.

Elizabeth, a member of the “sandwich generation”—people caught in the middle, simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents—is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and responsible for both. Hers is the story of a woman’s struggle to keep her family whole, to raise her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the house keys in his slippers.

In this story full of everyday triumphs, first steps, and elderly confusion, Ava, a baby, finds each new picture, each new word, each new song, something to learn greedily, joyfully. Daddy is a man in his twilight years for whom time moves slowly and lessons are not learned but quietly, frustratingly forgotten. Elizabeth, a suddenly single mother with a career and a mortgage and a hamper of laundry, finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head-on.

Written in wonderful prose and imbued with an unquenchable spirit, The House on Beartown Road takes us on a journey through the remarkable landscape that is family.

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A very readable book.......2007-08-30

The author writes of her father's decent into Alzheimer's Disease (being more
and more child like in his progression of the disease and her young son growing up from a toddler to young boyhood..the opposite ends of the spectrum. A very moving book. I may reread this one.

Memories of past happiness.......2005-07-02

In September 2004's Australian Reader's Digest, the story "The Unlikely Gift" had me in tears. It moved me so much that I searched out and ordered the book it was taken from - "The House on Beartown Road". I had been mourning the
death of a favourite and much loved friend who died from the ravages of a similar brain disease (vascular dementia). Although her body died recently, the soul and the entity that I loved which made her who she was, was taken from me many years ago when the diagnosis was made and the slow but inevitable slide began.

My friend Kath, whom I met in 1980, taught me joy and sharing, she took me into her family as if I was one of her own. As I am of a different background, she taught me to enjoy roast dinners and chocolate ripple cakes. She was a favourite auntie, a surrogate mother and most of all, a best friend. In the later years, I have been unable to be in her presence,
as I couldn't reconcile the angry, violent person as being the same caring friend I had known. She was diagnosed in her 60's which is much too early and didn't allow her to enjoy her twilight years with those she loved and who loved her.

Elizabeth Cohen's book is a beautiful and simply told homage to the reality of family life and in my opinion, a must read.

Welcome to life, and all it brings.......2004-07-30

What a wonderful book. I have noticed that many who review this book are intimately involved in Alzheimers, be they professional or private care-givers. I don't have anyone in my immediate family with Alzheimers, but I read this as a potential gift to a friend who does. I am grateful that I was motivated to read this lovely, loving account of a disease and the way if effects those who are near it. The author and her family serve as reminders that love comes in all forms, and may be asked of you at the most inconvient moments. Don't wait until you have Alzheimers in your family to read this book. So much gentle learning to be done, so much joy to be given, so many miles we go, travellers through life.

Excellent read! You won't want it to end........2004-06-21

Few books have brought me to tears. This one did. The author writes in a matter-of-fact way about the heart-wrenching disease of Alheimer's, its impact to her life, and the lives of those around her. I didn't want the book to end. It is a quick read. Great book.

SUCH FINE WRITING.......2004-05-14

I found "The House on Beartown Road" shelved in our local library (Pound Ridge, NY) under Mental Health/Alzheimer's. I don't know who decides these things, but this wonderful memoir ought to be prominently placed along with other contemporary memoirs. Elizabeth Cohen is a fine writer and she deserves recognition for this generous tribute to her 80-year-old father, Sandy, to her daughter -- one year old Ava, and to new-found neighbors on Beartown Road and to friends in the Binghamton, NY, community. Sandy and Ava of these are at opposite ends of the verbal spectrum, one forgetting language and the other learning. Elizabeth Cohen herself is there in the middle, somehow trying to work full time as a reporter, managing day care for the two people who depend on her, figuring out how to survive the winter in one of the nation's true snow-belts, and keeping her own sanity as a harrassed single mother.My own mother is 97 with Alzheimer's and I have a one-year old granddaughter, so this book is close to the bone in many ways. I tell everybody about it. I use it in the memoir course I teach. I want to keep it to survive as a classic memoir and as a year-long account by an un-self-pitying caregiver. Elinore Standard Pound Ridge, NY

The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (Unabridged)

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Elizabeth Cowen
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The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Bernadette Dunne's full 7.5 hour reading of "The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... As a member of the "sandwich generation," Elizabeth is caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for both a child and an aging parent. She finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with disaster, she confronts life head on.

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Designing he Doll by Susanna Oroyan

Gorgeous, thorough, downright addictive!

Would give it a 10

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Designing the Doll: From Concept to Construction
Susanna Oroyan
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An in-depth guide to doll making from concept to "imaginative engineering," this book is for every collector and artist. A gallery of all of the important "art" doll makers today-a record for collectors and inspiration for doll artists. A wide variety of construction methods, the techniques for getting proportions correct, and ideas on how to develop ideas and then construct advanced art figures or dolls are covered. 250 color photos plus over 200 drawings. 160 pages.

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Designing he Doll by Susanna Oroyan.......2007-07-04

I own all of Susanna's books and think they are excellent. I would suggest that anyone interested in doll making invest in them, and this is a good one to start with. I honestly think this is 5 star all the way. I use this, and her other books, frequently while working. I am a serious cloth doll maker and usually buy every doll book when it comes out - some I resell immediately, but this one I am keeping!

Gorgeous, thorough, downright addictive!.......2007-05-18

The pictures in this book are incredible! The multitude of eclectic styles inspire, and while this is not exactly a how-to, it gets you thinking about the possibilities. In the book, Oroyan focuses more on the different options an artist has: planning ideas (and ways to do this), materials, questions to ask when thinking of the concept, elements of design (e.g. form, scale, color, etc), and she includes some sample sketches that illustrate these ideas, showing some do's and don'ts along the way.

While I have never made a doll, this book has been useful on a few levels. The discussions on scale, caricature (again, with do's and don'ts and how to achieve different goals there), creating abstractions of the form, trying different styles, working with faces and hands, gestures, clothing patterns for the dolls, different materials, anatomy...this book has so much to offer! The images alone earn Designing the Doll 5 stars--everything else is icing on the cake!

Would give it a 10.......2006-10-17

For any of you who believe that dolls are just children's toys or cutesy collector's items, you have obviously not seen this book. Oroyan's Designing the Doll: from Concept to Construction, is a very impressive book. While it is as advertised, a book on making dolls, it is first and foremost an art book. Throughout the book, the author is addressing the student as artist. She covers issues such as color, texture, drawing, abstract and impressionism, scale, etc. The details of construction are included as are some patterns, but the greatest value of the book is actually in the illustrations of finished dolls, some by the author and some by others. These are exceptional works of art. Some are actual portrait works, capturing in miniature the personalities of those portrayed. Others, while they may have had human models, are designed to capture an essence or spirit, an impression or meaningful event. When one sees dolls such as these, one understands instantly why a person would collect them: they are Michelangelos in miniature.

designing the doll.......2006-03-09

I enjoyed the book it has great inspirational color photos with lots of technique ideas

dollmaking in mostley known techniks.......2003-08-21

this book is recomanded for all dollmakers wich intends to make
realy serius work! the author is explaining in detail almost
evry way posible to create dolls. the text is easy and clear.
mrs. oroyan shows you the true path to your own creativity,
not just techniks. and that is the most imporyant think in
books!!!

Designing the Doll: From Concept to Construction

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Pruning and Training Systems for Modern Olive Growing
R. Gucci , C. Cantini , Riccardo Gucci , and Claudio Cantini
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Olive growing is expanding rapidly in many countries around the world in which olives have not previously been widely cultivated. Pruning olive trees is quite different from pruning other fruit trees of the temperate zone, because of their biological peculiarities. Errors in pruning may result in yield losses or higher cultivation costs. Pruning also determines the training system which, in turn, is one of the major factors for successful tree performance and orchard profitability.

Pruning and Training Systems for Modern Olive Growing summarises the most up-to-date information available on current pruning techniques and training systems. It specifically addresses the problems faced by growers, professionals and students who are new to olive growing and provides information previously not available in English.

The fundamental aim of this book is to explain the basic concepts at a practical level. It will allow the reader, whether experienced horticulturist or beginner, to develop his or her own skills and pruning strategy.

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Read it for the core message, not the science.

This book was awesome!

Great insight for its time, a little dated/elementary for those familiar

A must-read for every pregnant parent

Peace on earth begins with peace at birth

The Secret Life of the Unborn Child: How You Can Prepare Your Baby for a Happy, Healthy Life
Thomas Verny , and John Kelly
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Release Date: 1982-07-15

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Read it for the core message, not the science........2007-01-07

This book was originally written in 1981, and its citations and science should not be taken literally. Many of Verny's points are unsubstantiated-- based on research that looked promising at the time that has since gone nowhere. Other points have been proven wrong over the course of time.

None of this takes away from the important central message in the book. Bonding with your child in the womb is important. The choices that you make regarding how you conduct your pregnancy and birth should be made with that bond in mind. Verny does a very good job of driving that point home. Honestly, I'm not sure that it can be repeated often enough.

Read the book, but read it with a grain of salt. Some of the dated science is actually a little bit harmful, I believe. There's an implied association between unready mothers and stillbirths, for instance, which is particularly unkind to those who have gone through a stillbirth. Childbirth has worry enough involved, without having to take some of the (unproven) points in here to heart.

This book was awesome!.......2006-07-07

I read it when I was pregnant with my son and have never forgotten it. I highly recommend it to anyone that is pregnant.

Great insight for its time, a little dated/elementary for those familiar.......2005-08-31

Dr. Verney was certainly a pioneer and remains a leader in the field of pre and perinatal psychology. This book is a good primer, filled with citations and references. If, like me, you are someone familiar with the ideas presented, this book may seem elementary. I would have preferred to purchase one of his more recent titles with updates to his theories. This book is a little bit of singing to the choir, not a wholly dispassionate scientific study but that doesn't detract from its central message that the pre and perinatal environment matters.

A must-read for every pregnant parent.......2005-02-25

This book throws light on the serious physical,psychological damages caused to humans from the type of birth experience and womb life they have.It is purely based on scientific studies and is a great eye-opener to modern medicine and its attitude towards birth.Today's moms are drugged heavily,split open and babies dragged out.And today's youngsters are just a reflection of those birth experiences.Studies show that children of moms who take pain relieving drugs during labor are more prone to abuse of drugs later in life. We just lost that loving tender moments of birth and its place in family.This books supports the Natural Childbirth and the fact that the unborn child does have a consciousness from the moment of conception.I have experienced certain moments in my pregnancy with my first kid,whenever I was depressed,or angry or broke down,I could immediately feel the baby kicking frantically and squirming about,and I would immediately stop at least for the sake of my baby.I remember an incident when a friend of mine came upto me once and cried about how her husband was treating her badly.She had a 4 month old son in her arms.Whenever she cried,the child would look at her frightened and cry with her.Each emotions the mother goes through,including her negative emotions like anger,sadness,unforgiveness,rejection etc can be sensed by the baby in her womb.And if we want our baby to be healthy,along with good nutrition,we should keep a good mental hygiene too,keeping away bad thoughts,resolving any past hurts and problems,being happy and loving your baby abundantly in your womb.This makes it easier for the baby to enter the world.
Inspired by this book,I went in search for a natural childbirth and took Bradley classes,and also incorporated prayer into the nine months of pregancy.
These are some more books I suggest for further reading:
Nurturing the unborn child
Birth without violence
Prayer during Pregnancy
All the best to all parents who wish to make their child's life much peaceful and beautiful by choosing more natural ways of pregnancy and birth and good relationship to God!

Peace on earth begins with peace at birth.......2004-05-17

Kelly and Dr. Verney's book was introduced to me five years ago and it was life changing. I wish I'd read this book twenty-five years prior when I was birthing my first baby. I read this book after twenty years of working to improve social service and educational systems and feeling like we just aren't getting to the real causes of dysfunctions. This book was instrumental in leading me to healing my own birth trauma and moving into my present work in prenatal and birth therapy and midwifery. Dr. Verney and Kelly are brilliant, ahead of his time. This book should be mandatory reading for every profession that attempts to work with children---obstetricians, pediatricians, teachers, as well as lawmakers and hospital administrators. If read and understood by those in power of medicalized birth (obstetricians, hospitals, and politicians) who could support birthing women and men in a different way, we as a society could create profound peace in our homes and communities, and in the world. www.BabiesRemberBirth.com

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Marcel Breuer - A Memoir --- by Robert F. Gatje.......2000-11-02

The book tells a fascinating story about Breuer's contributions to modern architecture, and it's difficult to put it down once you start reading. The author has crafted a superb, engagingly written-as well as information packed- volume.

Gatje has woven a great insider's story about Breuer and his creative processes, including the structuring and daily operations of Breuer's architectural offices while they were engaged in a variety of trend-setting projects. He candidly discusses project development politics from drafting room-to client-to the ministerial levels of foreign governments. The long, often arduous, journey from master plan to project completion is graphically portrayed by a number of examples. Also discussed are highlights in the personal and professional lives of Breuer and the many persons intimately involved in his work.

Breuer was one of the brilliant professionals living in our generation. The book should be of interest to technical and business professionals as well as lay readers, an unusual quality.

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Marcel Breuer: A Memoir
Robert F. Gatje
Manufacturer: Monacelli Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KIS2IE

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Gur Cake & Coal Blocks
Eamonn, Illustrated by Delaney, Liam MacThomais
Manufacturer: O'brien Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NV2WV6

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Gur Cake & Coal Blocks

Manufacturer: The O'Brien Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000CSBYCI

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Down and out in Dublin during the second world war

Gur Cake and Coal Blocks
Eamonn MacThomais
Manufacturer: O'Brien Press Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0905140087

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Down and out in Dublin during the second world war.......2006-02-05

An authentic recollection of life in Dublin during the childhood of the author while WWII was happening. His jobs, his experiences are described in humorous detail and the wonderful illustrations enhance it (Liam Delaney). One of the best descriptions of Dublin since O'Casey.

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