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Laura's New Heart hits home!

Laura's New Heart: A Healer's Spiritual Journey Through a Heart Transplant
Laura L. Fine
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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"Laura's New Heart" follows the dramatic journey of a vibrantly successful Wholistic Healer, teacher, coach and counselor as she learns she has congestive heart failure. Laura sweeps you along in her struggles to implement spiritual, creative, healing beliefs and practices in the face of a rapidly deteriorating condition. Deeply challenged by her years as a teacher, having trained hundreds of students, Laura is faced with the formidable task of practicing what she preaches, only to discover flaws and limitations of these beliefs. We follow Laura through her daily life as she applies her training and understanding of various alternative-healing modalities in efforts to heal herself - to no avail. It is not until Laura is on her deathbed that she consents to be evaluated for a heart transplant after which a series of uncanny miracles remarkably unfold. She invites you intimately into her mind and way of being in human struggles, failures and triumphs. Laura reveals her most intimate thoughts about living, dying, death and her relationship with God. Her deeply moving tale makes us laugh, cry and lifts us in an unsuspecting invitation to reflect on our own beliefs. Laura's natural teaching abilities are clearly present in her writing as she turns the lessons learned into practical opportunities for those of us who have ever been or will become seriously ill as well as those of us who walk beside anyone facing a serious illness. This book inspires an opportunity to reevaluate our lives as it broadens our perspectives about illness and wellness.

This book is highly recommend for anyone in the field of healing or creative arts. Doctors, nurses, artists and healers are invited to see a new refreshing perspective into the lives of those they touch on a daily basis.

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Laura's New Heart hits home!.......2004-08-28

This beautifully written book describe one woman's journey through congestive heart failure to heart transplantion. The journey is filled with emotional highs and lows and is described from a spiritual perspective. Besides making for a fascinating tale---imagine coming back from the brink of death to lead a completely normal life---the spiritual guidelines offered should allow the reader to better cope with everything life has to offer.

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Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care’s leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves.

This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care; personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.

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How to empower health care consumers.......2006-06-06

Although this book was written a few years ago, the issues addressed in it by Regina Herzlinger and other contributors seem even more relevant - indeed, more urgent - now than they were in 2004. How does Herzlinger characterize consumer-driven health care? It is "fundamentally about empowering health care consumers - all of us - with control, choice, and information." Such control will "reward innovative insurers and providers for creating the higher-quality, lower-cost services we want and deserve." What would be the role of government? She asserts that "government will protect us with financial assistance and oversight, not micromanagement."

The material in this substantial volume is organized within five Parts. Herzlkinger wrote the first, "Why We Need Consumer-Driven Health Care," then edited the contributions by others which comprise Parts Two-Five. She also wrote Chapter 78, "A Health Care SEC: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth." For most of us who are not health care professionals, this volume provides about as much information as we could possibly need, much less process. I especially appreciate the fact that Herzlinger and her associate contributors make a conscious effort to avoid jargon, vague theories, oblique hypotheses, etc. They obviously believe that major health care issues are too important to be packaged as flimflam, swamp gas, and flapdoodle. Hence their rigorous focus on explaining (from a variety of perspectives) why consumer-driven health care is needed, and, how to establish and then sustain it.

Of special interest to me were these chapters whose titles correctly indicated what their respective authors discuss:

Chapter 5, "Health Care Productivity," Herzlinger

Chapter 20, "An Insurance CEO's Perspective on Consumer-Driven Health Care," Leonard D. Schaeffer (Chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks)

Chapter 25, "Challenges of Consumer-Driven Health Care," Eugene D. Hill III

Chapter 34, "The Role of Information: J.D. Power's Paradigm Lessons from the Automotive Industry," J.D. Power III

Chapter 52, "Consumer-Driven Health Care: Management Matters," Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano

Given the fact that this volume offers a total of 81 chapters, my guess is that each reader will find at least 10-15 of special interest to her or him. I presume to suggest, also, that many of those subjects which may seem to be of least interest and value will, in fact, generously reward a careful reading. It remains for each reader to review the Contents and then decide what to read and in which sequence.

Those who share my high regard for this volume are urged to check out Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg's Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition, and two books by Lawton Robert Burns and his Wharton associates: The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers, and, The Business of Healthcare Innovation.

Huge but a litle simplistic.......2005-01-18

Sub-Title: Implications for Providers, Players, and Policy-Makers --,Citizen participation, Consumer satisfaction, Evaluation, Health & Fitness, Health Care Administration, Health Care Delivery, Health Care Issues, Health Policy, Health planning, Health/Fitness, Medical / Nursing, Patient Compliance, Patient satisfaction, Health systems & services, Medical / Administration, Personal & public health, Medical ==If your interests or profession lies in any area of health care this is a book that you almost have to have. In its almost 1,000 pages nearly every aspect of health care coverage is discussed. The format of the book includes some 200 pages written by Professor Herslinger followed by some 72 articles written by some 93 participants in a conference she held. As you would expect, the quality of the papers vary greatly. ==There are also a few reasons to disagree with some of Professor Herslingers basic thesis. She seems to believe that health insurers would compete in a fair market place to provide care to anyone. This is simply not true. If an insurance company can pre-select to eliminate giving any coverage at all to the sicker or more risky patients, it is to their benefit. An AIDS patient, with a requirement for expensive drugs can be folded into the coverage written for a large group, but an individual policy would have to be very expensive, or simply not written at all. The coverage of such patients is covered with what I think are unrealistic assumptions. ==The book presents a series of views that are just a bit simplistic, but which are forming a part of the national debate on health care. The information is needed if only to be aware of the discussion.

Thoughtful Contribution.......2004-07-26

In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Regina E. Herzlinger, a leading health care thought leader and a professor at the Harvard Business School, provides a thought-provoking look inside a new, powerful force slowly transforming America's dysfunctional health care industry. Consumer-Driven Health Care builds on her popular 1997 book Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry.

In the first part of her new 900-page book, Dr. Herzlinger makes a convincing case about how and why health care is broken and why market-based solutions - which empower consumers - are best. She restates the case she made in Market-Driven Health Care for putting consumers directly in charge of their own decisions (picking insurance plans, making medical decisions).

Through transparency of information, a realignment of incentives, and new tools to support decision-making by patients, the consumer-driven model gives individuals a clear stake in their own health care. While not unique to other parts of the US economy, the approach is a radical departure for the $1.7 trillion health care market. As Dr. Herzlinger makes clear in her energetic analysis, the absence of these proven market-based tools goes a long to explain why health care became our most inefficient, outdated, and error-prone industry.

The second part - about 80 percent of the book - is a collection of 73 think pieces written by 92 other experts. With short introductions by Dr. Herzlinger, these articles serve as a useful initial knowledge base for a growing field with an uncertain future.

The book has its limitations. For example, Dr. Herzlinger's case for the consumer-driven model fails to address the Medicare and Medicaid systems. It also leaves a variety of practical transition and execution issues unaddressed, although these are beyond the purpose of this volume. Because articles were written several years ago as part of a conference and most of the writers lack purchaser-side experience, the book also does not deal with the growing list of market-based reforms underway by large employers and innovative health plans.

In addition, since the field is still in its infancy, Dr. Herzlinger is a business researcher, and the contributors are largely wide-eyed entrepreneurs, the book will likely frustrate health policy wonks and others stuck in the technical minutia and ideological fights that characterize most health care discussions. But then, that's just as well. Too often analysts forget that health care is a business and operates as a market, albeit a flawed one insulated from tools proven to drive quality and efficiency. And we need all the wide-eyed, out-of-the-box thinking we can get.

Dr. Herzlinger also has her detractors. It reminds me of the old joke that there are two kinds of people in the world: people who like Wayne Newton and people who don't. Well, it seems that health care wonkdom is divided by those who like Reggie Herzlinger's ideas and those who don't. However, given the massive problems in American health care, her plain-spoken, business-savvy contributions remain as useful as they are provocative.

For a good primer on consumer-driven health care, I recommend you start with Let's Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care, a concise article by Dr. Herzlinger in Harvard Business Review (July 2002 issue). Available here on Amazon ($7, PDF).

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Our favorite Doyenne of the Dainty serves a delicate and oh-so-tasty blend of low-fat elegance in this handsomely designed cookbook. No calorie counter, Martha proves how a lush variety of grains, fruits, and veggies can be a delicious alternative to fatty dishes. She offers more than 170 recipes, showing how to transform the freshest seasonal ingredients into scrumptious treats guaranteed to delight both the palate and the eye. From Grilled Portobello Pizza to a luscious Lime Soufflé, Martha will change the way you think about healthy eating.

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No one epitomizes the pursuit of healthy pleasures more than Martha Stewart. And nowhere is this clearer than at home in her kitchen. Now, the millions of fans who seek her guidance can prepare the food that gives Martha her remarkable energy and vitality. Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook presents an all-new collection of 52 quick, easy menus--with more than 175 sensibly lightened recipes--for the kind of food we want to eat today.

Over the years, almost effortlessly, Martha has changed the way she cooks and eats. With unparalleled style and good sense, she has trimmed the fat and intensified the flavor of her favorite recipes to create meals that are unfailingly delicious, absolutely healthy, and strictly no-nonsense. A wonderfully filling frittata, flavored with sage, "enlightened" with egg whites, and paired with herb-infused garlicky stove-top potatoes, is a terrific low-fat, nutrient-rich meal to begin--or end--the day. Simple, yet no less special, sandwiches and incredible salads of brilliantly matched ingredients--seared tuna burgers splashed with soy sauce and swabbed with fiery wasabi mayonnaise, sugar snap peas mixed with whole mint leaves, and delicate shavings of baby golden beets tossed with fresh basil--reflect Martha's genius for casual yet sophisticated cooking.

Instead of concentrating on calorie counts, fat grams, and sodium content, Martha teaches how to eat well intuitively: how to make a variety of grains, fruits, and vegetables a delicious part of everyday eating; how to create menus that are supremely satisfying and nutritionally sound; even how to indulge a sweet tooth properly by enjoying small portions of such classic desserts as whisper-thin lemon tarts, ginger cookies, and fruit crisps. And her recipes come from all over the world, making healthy meals as exciting as they are fulfilling.

In her chapters of spring, summer, fall, and winter menus, Martha explains how to use simple low-fat cooking techniques to transform the freshest ingredients of each season into fabulous dishes. You'll find quick grills and sautés of such light delicacies as butterfish, softshell crabs, woodsy portobello mushrooms, and mangoes. There are high-heat roasts of winter root vegetables, succulent poussin, pomegranate-lacquered rack of venison, red snapper--even juicy plums. She uses flavor-raising steam for Brussels sprouts, baby spinach, and halibut packaged in grape leaves--and there's an easy stove-top smoked salmon, too.

This is inspiring food, presented as only Martha Stewart can. This book will change the way you think about healthy cooking--and what you create in your kitchen every day.

Martha Stewart presents a collection of brand-new recipes for the healthful foods that energize her every day. These 52 quick, easy menus represent the effortless style and practicality we have come to expect from Martha. The more than 175 sensibly lightened recipes--all exquisitely prepared and photographed--will change the way you think about healthy cooking and what you create in your kitchen every day.

Japanese Risotto
Grilled Scallops with Spring Greens
Roasted Root Vegetable Ragout
Seared Beef and Oranges with Arugula
Sage Egg-White Frittata
Mussels and Baby Artichokes Barigoule
Wine-Poached Chicken with Charmoula
Poached Salmon Trout with Poppy Seed Vinaigrette
Seared Tuna Burger with Wasabi Mayonnaise
Farmstand Salad with Grilled Turkey Sausage
Vegetable Handrolls

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Great reading for anybody!.......2005-06-25

I bought this book as a little gift for a friend who was in the hospital. The book is not as big as the Martha Stewart Christmas book that I had previously ordered which I loved. However, the pictures are great and the overall layout makes reading it a lot of fun. As always, Martha has a wonderful flair for making cookbooks enjoyable reading even if you never try any of the recipes.

This Delivers.......2004-03-12

Most people think it is impossible to deliver on a weeknight a dinner that is elegant, healthy and quick. This book makes the impossible quite possible.

The only reason I've nicked it a star is that for some, a cookbook titled "healthy" requires nutritional data, which this does not have, and quick in this instance sometimes means more simple than last-minute preparation. MS makes a case for not including the read-outs, about learning to fly without training wheels (sorry about the mixed metaphors). As for the simple vs. last-minute, a case in point: the wild rice pilaf with dried fruit is elegant and very easy to prepare, but it does require cooking the wild rice ahead and setting it aside. If you start an hour before dinner is to be served, no problem; in fact, starting the wild rice that early leaves you quite a bit of time to throw in a load of laundry or complete other chores before you pull together the rest of the recipe in the last 10 minutes.

I've never had a problem with a MS recipe. Things always cook up in the allotted time, they always make the proposed quantity, they brown as they're supposed to, rise as they're supposed to . . . The charge has been made by another reviewer that dishes are underseasoned or bland. I suspect that is because the MS style is to emphasize the natural flavor of the basic ingredients. A lot depends, then, on the integrity of the ingredient.

Martha's "healthy pleasures".......2003-09-09

This 1997 book grew out of what Martha Stewart calls her "ever-growing search for the new and different", and it has many interesting ideas and recipes for fresh, healthy eating, and menu planning. As one would expect from Martha, the appearance is almost as important as the contents, with marvelous photography, and great use of vintage plates and Depression glassware
It is divided into seasons, and as I live in California, and primarily eat fruits and vegetables, the Spring and Summer sections are of most interest to me; they have novelties like "Cool Jicama Slaw" (pg. 77), which consists of julliened jicama, minced jalapeño peppers and chopped cilantro, in a orange and lime juice dressing, and a fabulous "Corn, Fava Bean and Cucumber Succotash" which includes red bell pepper and white onion to make up this colorful and wholesome recipe.

For the colder climates, there are wonderful hearty soups and stews, roasted vegetables, and rice, quinoa, and couscous dishes. There is a lot of what Martha calls "clean food", where "the flavors are clear and straightforward" and come from the "quality of the ingredients rather than elaborate techniques".
There are some unique desserts, like "Frozen Chai" (pg. 126), which can be made without an ice cream maker, using a food processor instead, and a "Rosé Gelatin with Blackberries", which I have not tried but looks lovely. Some of the desserts, like the rich chocolate sorbet pictured on page 193, are served in teacups with saucers, making an attractive table setting.
This is a beautiful book to look at, and it is full of ideas on how to add interest to a health-conscious diet, with simplicity, and a lot of flavor.

Not Up To The Usual Martha Standard.......2002-09-16

I was disappointed in this book...Had high hopes....not really "healthy" recipes, imo, and the recipes are un-appealing. I've seen way better health-conscious cookbooks, shocked to see Martha miss on this one!!

Disappointing.......2001-12-14

This is my first Martha Stewart book. I like her shows, and have previously tried two of her recipes (made one myself, tasted someone else's) which I both liked. The recipes in this book looked enticing and not too complicated. But the amounts and cooking times are off. There is so little fat that you are not frying or baking, yet not enough liquid to stew. So food burns easily. Nothing gets salted until the very end, and thus is not as tasty as it could be. If you cook with perfect, freshest ingredients (which Martha always recommends), maybe the results will be better. But I do not live in Napa Valley, and my ingredients, even those bought in expensive organic supermarkets, don't do the trick. Want healthy *and* tasty? Get Jacques Pepin.

Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook - Four Seasons Of Great Menus To Make Every Day

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Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook - Four Seasons Of Great Menus To Make Every Day
Martha; Photographs by Merrell, James Stewart
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Hardcover
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guppies today.......2007-01-04

I bought this as a Christmas gift. My sister thought it had useful, practical information as well as very nice illustrations.

Excellent.......2006-03-01

High quality book, filled w/ thick glossy beautiful pictures as well as a lot of information on keeping and breeding guppies. Well worth your money in the end!

a good guide about guppies.......2003-04-18

I found this book to be most helpful in learning about the how and what to do for the proper care of guppies. It explains things in easy to understand terms. I have found that I constantly refer back to this book when I have questions.

Beautiful pictures of show quality guppies.......1998-12-05

Though the information is on a novice or intermediate level, the pictures reflect the highest level of beautiful photography of some of the finest guppies I have seen.

I was not disappointed! Definitely a keeper!

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Easy-to-follow diagrams and simple instructions enable even beginners to create a host of striking Native American designs. Color-coded patterns for buffalo, kachinas, eagles, and more will add delightful ornamental touches to T-shirts, lend distinctive touches to handbags, headbands, and belts, and enhance cushion covers, table linens, and other household accessories.

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a great pattern book.......2005-11-05

I was so excited when I received this book. There are lots of wonderful patterns to do. It is in my opinion the best bead book I have found so far. thank you...

80 PAGES OF COOL DESIGNS!.......2005-09-21

It is in black and white, a minor problem for just doing the designs off the pages. But I solved that problem by coloring them in. There are 3-5 designs on most of the pages, not all really Native beadwork but well worth the price for ALL the designs for LOOMERS! It is hard anymore to find a book with so many loom ideas and this one is FILLED with them. Ther are a few small mistakes in a couple patterns but nothing worth complaining about. This is not an instruction book! Be warned you need to know how to do beadwork to use this book. Photo copy the pages so you can work on colors of your own choosing other than the ones offered if you don't like the combinations. It is a book you can get use out of for years!

Great book of designs.......2004-05-08

I highly recommend this book because it offers a vast array of designs to choose from. Every design is unique and individual and will give your project a one-of-a-kind look.

Great book of designs.......2004-05-08

I recommend this book because it has a lot of interesting and unique designs. A must for anyone interested in American Indian beadwork.

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When you create opportunities for kids to practice such things as kindness, empathy, respect, and conflict resolution, youll be amazed at the results. The Kindness Curriculum is designed to provide such opportunities. It is the outgrowth of the authors ten years teaching in the Early Childhood Education Program of St. Paul, Minnesota, and is in contrast to most other preschool curricula, which emphasize the cognitive domain. The activities in this book help build character. They teach the loving values and skills that children need in order to develop into happy, productive, and caring individuals.

The first four chapters deal with the fundamental values of Love,

Empathy, Gentleness, and Respect. In the fifth chapter, children learn about the powerful technique of Visualization followed by chapters on Self Control, Friendship, and Conflict Resolution. There is also a chapter of take-home exercises to encourage parental participation. The activities are fun and easy while creating an atmosphere of acceptance, and love in which children can seek out the goodness in themselves and each other.

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During the final decade of his century-long life, pioneer artist and photographer William Henry Jackson became a living symbol of the Old West. Jackson painted scenes of the Oregon Trail and traded stories with other old-timers who met regularly at the Explorers Club and the Adventurers' Club in New York City. One of his closest friends, a young man named Elwood R. Bonney, kept a journal of Jackson's recollections and accomplishments during those years. Based on Bonney's journal, this book is an engaging look at a man whose life and work spanned the development and transformation of the West, from the 1860s to World War II.

William Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait : The Elwood P. Bonney Journal

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A Wonderful Read of a Wonderful Man

William Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait : The Elwood P. Bonney Journal

Manufacturer: Colorado Historical Society
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A Wonderful Read of a Wonderful Man.......2001-05-09

A truly incredible diary kept by William Henry Jackson's good friend, Elwood Bonney during the last ten years of Jackson's ninety nine year life. The editor is astutely sensitive and the footnotes provide a great deal of information. One will learn more about Jackson through this book than any other. It would be fair to say that Jackson would agree with the latter statement as his opinions are expressed so well by Bonney. The friendship between the two will be coveted by the reader.

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