The Auhtor uses this word to describe the cosmic force that drives everything that is today. You will get some ideas about using it right now.
The Seeker
Book Description
Candid, compassionate, authoritativea rich source of insights, information, and practical guidance
"The first major work on the topic." Gay Community News "A much needed comprehensive study of what happens to husbands, wives, and children during the coming-out crisis.".; The Reverend Jane E. Vennard, founder Task Force for Spouses of Gays and Lesbians "The new enlarged edition adds important factors, especially children's reactions to a parent's coming out. Well-researched and insightful." Fritz Klein, M.D., author of The Bisexual Option "Anybody practicing in this area would be well advised to read this book." Professor Arthur S. Leonard, New York Law School In two million marriages, one spouse is gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Having a spouse or parent disclose his or her same-sex attraction is a shattering experience fraught with pain, confusion, anger, and a profound loss of self-esteem. Amity Pierce Buxton spotlights this exploding phenomenon and reports constructive coping strategies that spouses and children have used to resolve problems of sexual damage, family breakdown, deception, and homophobia. Illustrated throughout by riveting personal narratives, this expanded edition of The Other Side of the Closet traces the family's journey from initial trauma to eventual transformation. This invaluable source of information for spouses, families, and professionals is based on Dr. Buxton's eight years of research, including interviews with 1,000 straight spouses and children, her own personal experience, and her counseling work with spouses of gay, lesbian, and bisexual partners.
Customer Reviews:
The Other Side of the Closet.......2007-07-31
This booked helped my so much. I started reading it within a month of finding out about my gay husband. I never know there would be so many of us in the same situation. This was a subject that I knew nothing about. Reading the book and learning of the phases that we all go though, helped me to understand my feelings. Reading that everyone has periods of these same feelings, made me feel that I was not alone. Anyone who has to face this crisis MUST read this book. You have to see that you will move on with time, this book shows you the steps you will take along the way.
This book saved my sanity.......2007-05-03
My ex and I were married for 15 years. He never came out. Still insists he's not gay and that I am crazy and vindictive. But I knew he was gay at the end of our marriage. For several years I thought I was the only person this happened to. After reading this book, I found that there are so many circumstances in which these marriages happen, and it was like reading my own story in some places. I learned that this wasn't just a fluke, and it wasn't just me - there are patterns here that I recognized.
I also learned that the whole drama of coming out or staying in the closet is not just up to the homosexual when a straight spouse and family are also involved.
I have been coming out of his closet for a long time. This book was the start. The straight spouse network also really helped me, and continues to help me. The resources in this book are invaluable for anyone who is just starting to deal with this, and for those of us who have been dealing with these family situations for a while.
Doom for married bisexuals.......2006-10-01
I came out to my husband five years before he read this book. He didn't believe I was bisexual, but the more often I tried to talk to him about the issue, the further he would shut down. Eventually, he read this book and decided that our marriage was doomed, despite that we had been together for close to twelve years at the time. Our marriage would have been possible to salvage if he'd not read this, bought the propaganda that being married to a bisexual was a disaster, and actually attempted to communicate about the issues both of us were having.
If you're bi and your spouse reads this, expect to be served divorce papers.
Life saving reading.......2006-09-17
No one ever expects to hear the words I heard my husband of 11 years say when he sat me down last January and told me he was gay. We had been together for nearly 16 years and have two young children. I was devistated. I went through (and am still going through) extreme emotional rollercoaster girations that left me dizzy. I felt every emotion nearly everyday. I didn't know which way was up. I didn't know what to do, who to talk to, who to trust. Trust was the first thing I started challenging in my day to day life. Friends, family, coworkers... any one I met I wondered if they too were lying to me. It was a destructive mind set that I eventually, through the help of counseling, got over. Like the book mentions, there is a moment when the strait spouse feels they've been pushed into the closet. Hiding what they know from everyone, pretending things are normal. Having been there, I can attest that that was a very scary time and this book did help me get through that and helped me rescue myself from the closet. 8 months later, I'm in my own house, feeling the freedom to have my own routine, getting on with my life, and we're divorsed but still friends. Most importantly, we're both happier now that we have been for several years. The kids have come first through this whole ordeal and we have managed to keep them on track that there is no shame in who their father is. We still do things as a family, after all, we got divorced from each other not the kids. we even do things as a big happy family with my ex and his partner. The kids seem to have adjusted pretty well so far, but I know the road is long and we've just started the journey.
If anyone is just starting this journey or is having difficulty with a similar situation, I strongly urge you to get this book AND seek counseling. This book helped both of us understand what the other was going through. It will help you. And you will heal over time. Good Luck.
I'm disappointed.......2006-08-11
As a friend, I know that Jennifer left a LOT out of her book. Like, the fact that their marriage broke up before her husband came out of the closet. She never mentions the Mormon Church, yet they were very active in it; her husband decided to leave the Church, and that was when they separated. While they were separated, they BOTH started dating. Then, her ex admitted that he was dating a man.
I'm very disappointed, Jenni, in a book that calls itself "brutally honest". What else did you leave out?!!!
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- Authentic recipes, best gift for ex-Rhode Island relatives
- Rhode Island culinary delights!
- From Gaggers to Kwah Hawgs-this one's got it all!
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The Providence and Rhode Island Cookbook: Big Recipes from the Smallest State
Linda Beaulieu
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Recipes from a Very Small Island
ASIN: 0762731370 |
Customer Reviews:
Authentic recipes, best gift for ex-Rhode Island relatives.......2007-06-13
This book provides a good introduction of the state to the first time visitor to Rhode Island, as well as authentic recipes. It was also a welcome gift to my homesick aunt in California...
Rhode Island culinary delights!.......2007-03-09
I purchased this book because I grew up in Narragansett RI. (My great Grandfather was a chef in Providence.) I moved away and miss it terribly! These recipes brought back wonderful memories of my home state. Some of the recipes have a valuable familiarity about them that makes me smile. When I make food from this book, everyone is very impressed and I feel like a piece of home is always with me.
From Gaggers to Kwah Hawgs-this one's got it all!.......2006-01-31
Being a native Rhode Islander transplanted to New York I found myself missing the old RI grub. I longed for "tree all da way" and Palmieri's Pizza Strips and a cold Del's, but to no avail. Nothing here compares to a weiner from Olneyville.
Are these recipes exact duplicates? Not quite, but close enough to take the edge off the homesickness. I highly recommend this book to any lost Rhode Islanders longing for home-even just a taste of it. Just the names conjure up memories of Providence and the ocean--Silver Lake Pizza, Coffee Milk, Lemon Squares and Zeppoles, Rhode Island Clear Chowda or Buddy Cianci's Marinara Sauce.
Now--if I could just figure out how to make Allie's Doughnuts.....
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- A solid, if patchy, general guide to snake keeping
- Keeping and Breeding Snakes
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Keeping and Breeding Snakes
Chris Mattison
Manufacturer: Blandford Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 071371865X |
Book Description
A fully revised edition of the classic book on snake care! Featuring the most up-to-date equipment, expanded facts on feeding, and newly written species accounts, along with 70 full-color photographs and updated diagrams, this guide provides all the essentials that every snake-keeper should know. * Set the correct degree of temperature, humidity, and light for your snake to thrive--it not only wants to be warm, it needs to be. * Fix up a cage in ways that make snakes feel comfortable and secure. * Keep your snake healthy with valuable advice on disease prevention, covering overhandling; the introduction of wild species into a cage; bacterial, viral, and parasite infections; and other miscellaneous problems. * Mate and breed snakes--even incubate eggs. Plus--special information on selective breeding. * Full species accounts include boas, pythons, colubrid, venomous, and small snakes. You'll turn to this handbook again and again! 224 pages, 95 color illus., 6 x 9.
Customer Reviews:
A solid, if patchy, general guide to snake keeping.......2001-07-21
The first edition of this book appeared in 1988. This second, "fully revised" edition is essentially an entirely new book. Some material has been reduced (for example, breeding tables and information on keeping venomous snakes), and the new photographs, found throughout the book, are spectacular.
As a general introduction to keeping snakes in captivity, this book is first-rate, if only because there are few such books on the market. While there are many guides to specific kinds of snakes (e.g., boas, corn snakes), few approach the subject in general. This book does so in a thorough and authoritative manner. Very little is left unsaid and, for an adult beginner, this book can serve as a useful reference. Its principal shortcoming is its patchy coverage of individual species: for some snakes it is excellent, whereas for others it leaves much to be desired. Its usefulness to the reader will depend on how well it covers the particular snakes in which the reader is interested.
Its coverage of boas and pythons is very comprehensive, and even lists species rarely available. The exception is its coverage of sand boas, which is limited to a single species.
Coverage of colubrids is more uneven; the one long chapter on this very large family of common snakes affords very good coverage to the genus Elaphe (rat snakes), New World and Old World species alike. Its coverage of kingsnakes is fine but less detailed. Those interested in other colubrids may well be disappointed; the material on pine and gopher snakes and garter snakes is underwhelming, and some species, such as the rough green snake, are omitted altogether. While no book can credibly claim to cover all species equally well, these omissions and shortcomings are surprising when you consider that there are sections for blind snakes and snakes from other families that are seldom kept.
The first edition's section on venomous snakes has been reduced to the most cursory of summaries; those with an interest in this subject must look elsewhere for information.
Keeping and Breeding Snakes.......2000-11-16
A great book for anyone. It gives details on breeding specific species of snakes. It is also good for anyone who owns or is thinking about buying a snake; or for those who just want to learn about them.
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A-Z of Snake Keeping
Manufacturer: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Reptiles & Amphibians
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ASIN: 0806982462 |
Customer Reviews:
We sure liked it!.......2002-12-04
I really enjoyed the book because it had a wealth of information concerning keeping and breeding these reptiles. It helps alot in raising your own personal snakes. I believe that everyone who has the oppurtunity to own a snake should purchase this book. I though it had alot of beautiful photographs of the snakes in their own natural envirnments.
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- A GREAT CORN SNAKE BOOK!!!
- Informative but needs more color pictures.
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The Keeping & Breeding of Corn Snakes (Reptile Care)
Michael McEachern
Manufacturer: Advanced Vivarium Systems
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1882770161 |
Customer Reviews:
A GREAT CORN SNAKE BOOK!!!.......1999-08-21
I keep and breed corns snakes, and this book helped me out a lot. McEachern has had a LOT of experience with these snakes, and I don't know if I could have gotten far without this book. By far the BEST corn snake manual around!!!
Informative but needs more color pictures........1999-03-15
A good book with good information. Learned alot about keeping and breeding corns. Would be better if book was in color to show different color patterns and variations.
Product Description
For the first time a book covering all Australian python species written by leading Australian breeders. Provides information on natural habitats, behavior, housing, sexing, breeding, egg incubation and raising young snakes. Includes information on diseases, disorders, color and pattern mutations of Australian pythons. Individual species accounts, Many color photographs, graphs, charts, and breeding calendar.
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- The first book to get on Corn Snakes
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Keeping and breeding corn snakes (The Herpetocultural library series. Series 400)
Michael J McEachern
Manufacturer: Advanced Vivarium Systems
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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| Invertebrates
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ASIN: B0006F63PK |
Customer Reviews:
The first book to get on Corn Snakes.......2005-12-17
I recommend this book, because it's 60 pages long, so the time spent between researching corn snakes and actually purchasing an animal would be significantly less than going here and there for information. The author goes into every topic, from care of newborns to adults, and on to breeding and care of eggs. The only thing I wish it had was instructions on how to force-feed hatchlings that won't eat. The illustrations are in black & white, which is acceptable, but color photos would have made a significant improvement for learning purposes. This is a good companion book to the author's other book titled "A Color Guide to Corn Snakes."
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Snakes: Keeping & Breeding Them in Captivity
John Coborn
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0793820227 |
Customer Reviews:
Not enough detail.......2001-09-03
This book has nowhere near enough information. It is meant for first-time snake owners, but does not supply them with all the facts. It also barely has any information on snake species. However, it has nice pictures and a good snake disease section, hence the three-star rating. A much better book on the subject is Breeding and Keeping Snakes, by Dr. Dieter Schmidt.
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- Lots of great photos, but lacking any real good information.
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Breeding and Keeping Snakes
Dieter Schmidt
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0793801265 |
Customer Reviews:
Lots of great photos, but lacking any real good information........1998-12-09
This book is full of really nice photography, but trys to include too many species and therefore doesn't give any complete accounts of any particular species. As we all know, all snakes are different and we cannot be too general in our husbandry. This book was not for anyone seriously interested in breeding.
Book Description
Jim Widess, co-author of the best selling Caner's Handbook, owner of The Caning Shop, and one of the field's top authorities, presents crafters with five amazingly detailed chairmaking projects they'll treasure for years to come. Best of all, with the help of a thorough basics chapter, reader-friendly instructions, and a plethora of illuminating color photographs, even beginners can complete every beautiful item. Find out how to use machine-made caning to restore an old chair, or create an entirely new one by hand. Fashion a durable and comfortable rush seat, using fiber that's twisted into long strands, or create a traditional splint-caned porch rocker. There's invaluable information on the different types of available cane, various woven patterns, and interesting rattan wraps.
Customer Reviews:
decent book.......2007-10-11
The instructions for weaving a cane seat were much better than the instructions for replacing a rush seat. For the caning section, he could have included some tips for what to do when strands break and better advice for avoiding out-of-whack patterns. Also, the directions for weaving the binder cane were not very clear. For the rush seat instructions, beware the instructions in the beginning where you are told to measure your chair to determine how much of the corners must be filled in in order to "square off" the chair. After you determine the measurements for the chair you are working with you are instructed to "mark off one inch." Don't do it! Mark off the measurement for your chair, not the example chair the author uses.
good starter book.......2007-06-08
This is a good book for anyone starting out in chair restoration. Instructions are clear and there are many good illustrations.It gives good basic instructions but no variations in pattern.All in all, it is an excellant starter book.
Beautiful Pictures and Concise Directions.......2007-04-04
Pictures illustrate techniques words can't explain, while the clear directions will have you rushing or caning a chair in no time.
You need this book.......2007-02-13
When it comes to explainging how to apply rush to a chair, words just don't get it (...then over and across then under then thruough...). This excellently-illustrated book shows what words can't explain. If you have never "rushed" a chair--get this book. It covers more than rushing: caning is in there, too (I'm not interested in caning so I'm not reviewing that part of it--which is the largest part of the book).
Complete Guide to Chair Caning by Jim Widess.......2006-11-10
It provided me with all the information I needed and much more. I was very happy to get it.
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Glorious Gardens: A Portfolio of Ideas for Planting and Design
Francesca Greenoak
Manufacturer: Congdon & Weed
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0865532079 |
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In 1992 two mothers founded Black Books Galore, the nation's leading organizer of African American children's book festivals, and set out to identify and distribute fine children's literature that was for and about African American kids. Ultimately, authors Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker selected a stellar assortment of books for boys from birth through eighth grade for inclusion in this fabulous resource for boys (as well as hundreds more in the version for girls: Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books About Girls). Parents, teachers, librarians, and kids themselves will find this an invaluable resource, as well as a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience. The authors include brief, lively descriptions of over 350 books, such as Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, often including text excerpts and pictures of book covers to impart the flavor of the books. They include several special features, such as "The Creator's Reflections"--spotlights on talented authors and illustrators, from Angela Johnson to Tom Feelings to Mildred Pitts Walter--as well as quotations from well-known African American personages and from young readers and their parents. The selections are arranged alphabetically by title and numbered sequentially for easy cross-referencing. Each entry includes title, subtitle, author, illustrator, publisher of hardcover and paperback editions, original publication date, and a brief synopsis of the book. Significant awards are noted, as well as any sequels, prequels, companions, or series titles. --Emilie Coulter
Book Description
A Treasury of Hundreds of Books that Help Boys Grow and Flourish
"Images-strong, proud and happy, brave, and now also humorous . . . what a joy it is to see black faces of all shades in our children's books."-Doug E. Doug, Actor, The Bill Cosby Show
"As a child . . . I wish there had been more books that reflected my world and my interests."-Earl G. Graves, Chairman, Publisher, and CEO, Black Enterprise magazine
How do you know which books are the best for boys at every age? Now, two of the mothers who founded the esteemed Black Books Galore!-the nation's leading organizer of African American children's book festivals-and the authors of the highly acclaimed Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books, share their expert advice. Let BBG! help you open the door to a wonderful world of reading for the boys in your life.
Invaluable for parents, teachers, and librarians, this easy-to-use, delightfully illustrated reference guide features:
- Quick, lively descriptions of over 350 books
- Hundreds of young black heroes and positive role models
- Reflections from kids, famous authors, illustrators, and public figures about their favorite childhood books
- Easy-to-find listings organized by age level and indexed by title, topic, author, and illustrator
- Recommended reading for parents of boys
"This is a great resource that fills a tremendous need. It should be on parents' shelves at home as well as in every school."-Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Harvard Medical School, on Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Resource.......2006-10-01
I found this to be an excellent resource to help locate books with black boys as main characters. This book is divided into different sections --- preschoolers and upward --- which helps you select age appropriate titles. Wonderfully detailed descriptions and opinions of books are given as well as publisher information, etc. Books are of a great variety (educational, entertaining, etc.). Certain authors are highlighted with a biographical sketch. Also highlighted are real black boys of various ages who briefly tell of there favorite book. I never new that 90% of these books existed.
Black Books Galore.......2005-07-26
I purchased the book relating to boys and found it to be an extremely helpful resource in locating books that depict black children in the stories. The book entries are categorized by the age of the child reader from newborn to teenager, and is accompanied by a thorough description of its contents, as well as background information on the authors. I know I will return to this resource time and time again as my grandson enters each new phase of growing up.
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A Gift for Admiration: Further Memoirs
James Lord
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
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With Schoolcap, Label and Cardboard Box: Recollections of a World War Two Evacuee
George Prager
Manufacturer: The Pentland Press
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