Medic: The Mission of an American Military Doctor in Occupied Japan and Wartorn Korea (East Gate Book)

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This book treats many complex topics such as the relationship between brain and consciousness, the 'Chinese Room' argument, and also Searle's aesthetic and political ideas. The interviewer has an attitude, he is very critical and controversial. And on top of that, the books has many stories about Searle's years at Oxford that are a lot of fun.

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Praise for No More Sleepless Nights

"The best book this reviewer has seen on insomnia."-Library Journal

"Nearly everything you always wanted to know about sleep and what can go wrong with it . . . with step-by-step suggestions."-Publishers Weekly

Give yourself a good night's rest If you suffer from poor sleep, help is in your hands--literally. In this sensible, simple-to-follow workbook, based on the acclaimed No More Sleepless Nights program, one of the world's leading insomnia experts gives you the tools to be your own sleep therapist. Filled with interactive quizzes, sleep logs, and self-evaluation exercises, which may be used in conjunction with the patented Sleep Timer, the workbook will help you uncover the underlying cause of your own sleep problem, and then put together a personalized action plan for getting a good night's rest.

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No More Sleepless Nights Workbook
Peter, Ph.D.; Linde, Shirley, Ph.D.; Jarman, Murray Hauri
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VDS4ZE

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Not true

Not my cup of (green) tea

Impressive

This book does not accurately reflect Japan

Real Japanese eating habit.... NOT

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
Naomi Moriyama
Manufacturer: Delta
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ASIN: 0385339984
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary secret?

Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own high-energy, successful lifestyle–and the key to the enduring health and beauty of Japanese women–in this exciting new book. The Japanese have the pleasure of eating one of the most delicious, nutritious, and naturally satisfying cuisines in the world without denial, without guilt…and, yes, without getting fat or looking old.

As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in the food utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare is prized as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent much time basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture: her mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditional secrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embodies the perfect marriage of nature and culinary wisdom–Japanese home-style cooking.

If you think you've eaten Japanese food, you haven't tasted anything yet. Japanese home-style cooking isn't just about sushi and raw fish but good, old-fashioned everyday-Japanese-mom's cooking that's stood the test of time–and waistlines–for decades. Reflected in this unique way of cooking are the age-old traditional values of family and the abiding Japanese love of simplicity, nature, and good health. It's the kind of food that millions of Japanese women like Naomi eat every day to stay healthy, slim, and youthful while pursuing an energetic, successful, on-the-go lifestyle. Even better, it's fast, it's easy, and you can start with something as simple as introducing brown rice to your diet. You'll begin feeling the benefits that keep Japanese women among the youngest-looking in the world after your very next meal!

If you're tired of counting calories, counting carbs, and counting on being disappointed with diets that don't work and don't satisfy, it's time to discover one of the best-kept and most delicious secrets for a healthier, slimmer, and long-living lifestyle. It's time to discover the Japanese fountain of youth….

From the Hardcover edition.

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Not true.......2007-09-26

Can I just say that Japanese women do get old , and not as fat as in other countries, but they do not sustain the figure of their youth. Immediately after marriage and after the desired number kids they usual turn into a obasan. Live life as it happens, and accept what you are.

Not my cup of (green) tea.......2007-06-24

I picked this book up in a Japanese food store because I'm interested in Japanese cuisine and lifestyles.

I need to address the writing style in my review as I never got over it: I agree with what another review wrote about the smarmy writing style of Ms. Moriyama. There's a lot of unnecessary, self-righteous fluff in there where she touts statistics and ideals repeatedly; oftentimes, the same information appears twice on the same page! Her affluent background also doesn't seem to make the everyday Japanese woman that she keeps mentioning feel credible. She implies that all japanese mothers cook naturally and with wholesome ingredients 100% of the time. What about the aisles and aisles of prepackaged curry and hayashi rice sauce and ramen in the Japanese supermarkets? Would there be so many of these products if Japanese mothers are still cooking these traditional meals she writes about every day? I really find that hard to believe...

Writing-style aside, the recipes seem easy enough to follow and are backed up by plentiful (at times superfluous) factual support. I haven't tried out any yet, but I may.

Overall, this book wasn't really my cup of (green) tea.

Impressive.......2007-05-10

What an amazing book. Cool recipes, actual facts and japanese history, probably one of the best books for introducing japanese food in it's best way.

This book does not accurately reflect Japan.......2007-03-27

I agree that this book is out of touch with modern day Japan. I've been living in Japan for quite a while and `healthy' is the last word I would use to describe most meals that I've eaten here. Products containing wheat and grains are nowhere to be found while starchy foods such as white rice, white bread, processed flours, and loads of potatoes dominate the palette, not to mention the prevalence of fried/oily foods and fatty meats which appear in almost every Japanese meal I eat.

While the recipes listed in this book are great, they in no way reflect reality.

The people I know who lost weight in Japan were college students whose diets in America consisted mostly of greasy pizza and French fries.

I on the other hand had a relatively healthy diet in the States and have actually really struggled because I GAINED weight eating traditional Japanese meals.

I personally found the portions here larger (never-ending bowls of white rice and ramen). I am often constipated and lethargic. The way I feel after these meals is the same if not worse than how I feel after those (rare) occasions when I've eaten a supersized BigMac meal.

I also must concur that eating disorders and the use of diet pills here are rampant (and there is very little being done to help out the girls with these problems). Their image if an ideal woman's body puts Hollywood to shame, and the men here tease their wives and girlfriends viciously if their abdomens are not perfectly concave, ribs visible.

No one exercises. Granted, this food is better than American fast-food, but that's how it is with all home-cooked meals. Almost all of the negative reviews of this book are from people who've actually lived in Japan. By all means try the wonderful recipes in this book, eat smaller portions, but listen to the people who've been there (a country with flaws no better no worse than the rest of us) rather than forming idealized images that this is how Japan is.

As for that myth about Japanese women not growing old, I've seen some evidence but not nearly to the extent that it is purported to be. The large amounts of Green Tea that they drink contains anti-oxidants which helps prevent cancer and aging. But I've seen plenty of girls in their mid-20s and 30s whose skin is beginning to wrinkle. Smooth acne free skin among the youth is just as common as where I come from. The girls who don't have perfect skin cover it up with 5 pounds of make-up...Actually everybody wears five pounds of make-up regardless of skin. I say that the ultimate beauty secret: protecting your skin from the sun, is the best piece any of us can follow.

Real Japanese eating habit.... NOT.......2007-03-21

First of all, this book is interesting because it contains unique anecdotes and information about the history of certain Asian food. i.e. how tofu was made...

I am a 22-year-old who has been living in Tokyo for many years and I found the content of the book very UNREALISTIC and INAPPLICABLE to most Japanese busy lifestyle today. The author is definitely NOT an average Japanese and she has been living in a privileged lifestyle her whole life. The Japanese cannot even identify with her, let alone an American.

I am not against the idea of learning more about Japanese food and eating habit but if you're getting this book to be "thin" like the Japanese, please read this first:
The sad truth is 24 out of 29 of my Japanese acquaintances in her 20s to 30s are constantly taking DIET PILLS to lose weight; more than half of these girls are underweight. It feels rather odd to be normal there. Try browsing through a Japanese lifestyle magazine and look at the advertisements, you'll understand~ [Please look at the review on this book made on 22 March 2006; I completely agree with that what that person wrote]. Maybe... there are some older Japanese mothers who are still living these idealized Japanese eating habit.

Also, being slim or youthful is not exclusive to Japanese. Many European and Asian countries also have healthy eating habits that are laudable. i.e. the Scandinavians?

Hence, I am not sure if you want to read this book if you want to understand more about the REAL Japanese eating habit/ lifestyle today. But it is an entertaining FICTION.

If you are more interested to learn about about delicious and healthy Japanese recipes, I strongly recommend "Quick and Easy Japanese Cook Book" by the lady who won IRON CHEF. Simple Instructions & great pictures- and definitely more REAL.

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Naomi Moriyama , Mireille Guiliano , and William Doyle
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WJQ756

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2 Books: Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen / 2) French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure (by Mireille Guiliano) (Unboxed Set of Books), Shipped in one package to save on shipping costs.

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Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother's Tokyo Kitchen
Doyle, Naomi, William Moriyama
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What a great way to celebrate dogdom.......2002-05-06

I love this book! I've purchased it for all my dog-loving friends. I think it's brilliant, funny, creative, beautiful. What a fun discovery!

A DUD!.......2000-12-30

Where was I looking when I should have been reading about his book? Total disappointment for an art lover ... I was expecting something totally different, perhaps some beautiful paintings of canines, done by the old Masters. My mistake I guess for not "digging" further. I personally would not recommend this book at all. The one star is only there because I could not do this review with a zero star.

Mutts of the Masters.......1999-12-18

This little book is A MUST for all dog lovers. In my opinion, it ranks at the top of the list along with "How To Live With A Neurotic Dog" and other classics of dog humor. One of my favorites in "Mutts Of The Masters" is the Matisse rendering entitled "What the Dog Does Just Before He Licks Your Face." This book includes many wonderful tales of the role of dogs in the lives of such Masters as Michelangelo, Matisse, Picasso and Edvard Munch. I am giving this book out by the dozen for Chanukka and Christmas to my friends who have and love dogs. One's library is not complete without this book!

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Leatherwork: A Manual of Techniques
Geoffrey West
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Once Upon a Windowsill: a History of Indoor Plants

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Consider Another Book

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Androgen Disorders In Women: The Most Neglected Hormone Problem
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Androgen disorders are perhaps the most common and overlooked of female hormonal problems. Women's health writer Theresa Cheung describes how the hormone imbalance affects women both physically and emotionally, explaining how these disorders can be treated by conventional and alternative means and noting ways to prevent the problem as well.

Customer Reviews:

Consider Another Book.......2004-07-10

This books has some good information, but it seems to be poorly edited. It's somewhat redundant, and there are blatant grammar errors and even an obvious math error ("1,300 + 130 = 1,630"). These flaws take away from the points the author tries to make. I'd also like a little more information about some of the researchers and studies she cites. There are resources in the back of the book, but no footnotes to help you identify which sources support which statements.

Useful information. My Dr. told me to buy it........2003-06-30

The book was not hard to read at all. I learned a lot about what I am going through and it explained most of the things I feel. If you do have syndrome X, read this book.

A great Place to Start PCOS research.......2000-10-12

This is one of three books I have read on PCOS. It is well written and easy to understand. I took it with me to my first visit with a new Doctor and referred to it many times throughout my appointment. Its great reference so you know if your Doctor is ordering the right diagnostic tests and correct treatment. You can get a feel for how "up" your Doctor is on PCOS by reading this book. (If your Doctor doesn't take what you learn from this book seriously, move on to another Doctor!!)

Ms. Cheung refers to and cites the book, "Good News About Woman's Hormones", by Geoffrey Redmond, a great deal. "Androgen" is an easier read, and more specific to PCOS. If you can only buy one book, start with "Androgen" and then get "Good News". "Androgen" eases you into the terminology and how things work and fit together, "Good News" is far more detailed and will build on the "Androgen" book. Both are a "must have".

excellent.......2000-04-22

I work in this field and so was really pleased to discover a straight forward but detailed account of this very serious problem. This book describes the problems but also offers help. I recommend this book, it is excellent.

Interesting and informative.......2000-04-19

This book was accessible and easy to read. I liked the author's style. Having suffered from PCO for many years the book was an incredible acknowledgement to me. I recommend it highly.

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A fascinating look at the American artist who introduced home industries to St Anthony, Newfoundland.

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Taigu Ryokan (1759-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication, Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool" and refused to place himself within the cultural elite of his age. In contrast to the typical Zen master of his time, who presided over a large monastery, trained students, and produced recondite religious treatises, Ryokan followed a life of mendicancy in the countryside. Instead of delivering sermons, he expressed himself through kanshi (poems composed in classical Chinese) and waka and could typically be found playing with the village children in the course of his daily rounds of begging. Great Fool is the first study in a Western language to offer a comprehensive picture of the legendary poet-monk and his oeuvre. It includes not only an extensive collection of the master's kanshi, topically arranged to facilitate an appreciation of Ryokan's colorful world, but selections of his waka, essays, and letters. The volume also presents for the first time in English the Ryokan zenji kiwa (Curious Accounts of the Zen Master Ryokan), a firsthand source composed by a former student less than sixteen years after Ryokan's death.

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The Method to Ryokan's Great Foolishness.......2007-02-13

Something about Ryokan just captures the imagination. An eccentric Zen monk living in a hut in the mountains, dashing off fine poetry and refined calligraphy after making the rounds in the towns below with his begging bowl, playing ball with the kids and sipping sake with the farmers along the way. Living a life free of the many conventions and responsibilities that hem us in, Ryokan seems to speak directly to us with a straightforward, friendly, unpretentious eloquence. Apparently this is a voice we find greatly appealing, and there are a great number of fine books about him and his poetry in English.

Still, of these, "Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan" really stands out as an excellent scholarly treatment of Ryokan and his art. Special attention is given to the nature of his religious orientation and his place in late Tokugawa literary society. His relationships with sponsors and fellow literati (of both Confucian, Kokugaku, and Buddhist persuasions) are fleshed out through translations of his letters, his role and image in local society exemplified by Kera Yoshishige's firsthand biography (one of the earliest), and his strict Soto Zen religiosity are revealed in several sermonistic essays on Buddhism--these latter especially reveal a very different Ryokan, strident and very critical of the state of institutional Buddhism in his day, erudite in the difficult writings of Dogen and the canonical Mahayana sutras, whose practice of seclusion and begging turn out to be highly unusual in his own context and thus a very intentional manifesto of his firmly-held religious principles. And of course there are the poems, lots and lots of them, both kanshi and waka, all of which have been specially selected with a view to shedding light on many of these same questions--for what they tell us about Ryokan the literatus, Ryokan the local weirdo, Ryokan the Soto Zen monk, and hence Ryokan the man living during late Tokugawa Japan.

The three scholarly essays at the beginning of the book by Haskel and Abe outline these same themes as well as discussing perceptions of Ryokan in modern and contemporary Japan, his role as a kind of household name and folkloric culture hero and the very divergent academic takes on him by his different Japanese interpreters. Much consideration is given too to the evolution of Ryokan studies over time and of the nature and reliability of the sources we use to understand him. All of this makes this book extremely useful, almost indispensable really, for anyone who wants to study Ryokan in-depth, and this more than makes up for the fact that the translations of the poems themselves seem just a tad prosaic sometimes. Highly recommended to anyone interested in late Tokugawa Buddhism and its relation to literature as well as to all diehard Ryokan fans, of course.

The Great Life of a Great Fool.......2005-11-02

"Great Fool" is the best English source I've found for Ryokan's poems and life history. When I feel a bit overwhelmed, I always turn to Ryokan and his simple and direct approaches to life.

"Great Fool" starts off with three essays that deal with (among other things) Ryokan's modern popularity and the debate whether Ryokan was an enlightened Zen man. This last topic I found greatly interesting, especially his being coopted by Marxist thinkers who saw in him a failed zennist and bitter poet.

Next is a collection of stories of Ryokan's life and the poems, Kanshi poems written in Chinese and shorter Waka poems written in Japanese. Ryokan shares alot of spirit with Han-shan, or Cold Mountain, except that Ryokan's poetry seems livelier and more personable than Cold Mountain's, though this could be a result of the translations. It also could be the result of Ryokan's constant association with people - indeed, like a Bodhisattva, Ryokan never really left the world. Instead of running from inquirers with shreiks and giggles, Ryokan delightfully pulls a rubber playing ball from his sleeve.

The book ends with a collection of letters and essays written by Ryokan, which give a great insight into his daily life. I especially like how he ends some of his letters:

That's all.
Ryokan

Enjoy! That's all.

The Best...........2002-05-04

I discovered Ryokan around 20 years ago when I took out "One robe, one bowl" from the library. Since then I've bought that and most of the other English translations that have appeared. I finally gave in and spent the extra bucks to buy this one and have been thoroughly impressed and glad with my purchase. Not only does it contain more of his poetry than the other collections, but it also contains some superb biographical and critical essays. If you want to know more about this wonderful poet and person, this is THE book to get. I would hope every library in America would purchase it as well. Although I'm sure Ryokan would find this rather amusing, I can't help but call this the "Cadillac of Ryokan anthologies." A fantastic book!!

The essential Zen poet.......2001-06-12

Ryokan,a great zen monk who dubbed himself"the great fool" is one of the most revered figures in all Japan. As a wandering begging monk{one robe, a bowl and walking stick} Ryokan celebrates the quotidian,whether a stong pot of tea, sake,playing ball with village children,or the warming embers of a dying fire in the midst of Winter,he makes these images come alive,with vibrancy and suppleness. This volume conatins remembrances of Ryokan from contemporaries,disciples,students and those he met along the way. Along with his Reflections on Buddhism,this volume also contains a very helpfulessay, a poetics of mendicancy by ryuichi abe`,and another essay by ab`,commemorating ryokan. the introductory essay by peter haskel, ryokan of mount kugami puts ryokan in his historical perpective. However, above all, it is the pure airy poetry of the master himself.Cleansing and wonderful...

Exquisite hardcover binding with well rendered translations........1998-10-14

This beautiful cloth covered book brings Ryokan to life. An extensive biography helps place him firmly in the lineage of zen fools. His poetry is well rendered, cutting to the heart of his enlightenment, his lonely village. Some of the preface seems a bit misplaced and foolish, attempting to address the question of whether he was 'enlightened,' with deep and silly consideration of his views relative the deconstructionist movement. But his skill as calligrapher and poet are well treated: the beauty of his poetry is not random! If you can afford it, the hardcover's worth the extra bucks because of the sweet binding, really a nice book to hold in your hands.

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