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Dating After Divorce: Preparing for a New Relationship

More than just a book about dating More like how to make wise choices and navigate through the issues and uncertainty of life after divorce. Timely and wise guidance from some caring, compassionate marriage and family experts! Great book!!!

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Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West: A Guide to Identifying, Preparing, and Using Traditi

This book makes it easy to understand the preparation and use of herbs for a variety of everyday family herbal-aid applications. The instructions include the part of the plant used flower, root, leaves, berries, bark etc. It goes on to explain why fresh or why the dry plant is useful and how to deal with your own gathering of the plant and what to do in simple A to Z instructions.

I recently moved to the Sonoran Desert but had no idea what treasures awaited me until I bought and read this small book. This guide has opened my eyes to what is around me. I've taken pictures of interesting plants along the roads but didn't know they were medicinal or edible until I read about them here. The next time I go for a walk or drive, it will be with newly opened eyes. The illustrations are good, the instructions are specific. Some of the explanations and narratives are so hysterically funny, you will have no problem understanding effects of either taking or not taking described potion or poltice. I heartily recommend this quide on several different levels.

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I've been utilizing this book for over 10 years as a teaching tool and reference for my Medicinal Plants of the Baja class. Michael Moore is

a hoot, excellent research on plant constituents and medicinal uses. Couldn't have done it without him! Check out www.bajabotanicals.com

Thank you, Michael.

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This book was very easy to use. I wished there was more color photos but with such good descriptions and drawings you really don't need them. There are color photos for about half the plants described in the book. I love the way Michael Moore writes. He makes it so easy to read and understand. This book will be used for years to come in my home.

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Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West: A Guide to Identifying, Preparing, and Using Traditional Medicinal Plants Found in the Deserts and Canyons of the West and Southwest by Michael Moore was a disappointing book. As someone who lives in the desert I do a lot of hiking and camping so I thought this book would provide useful and easy to use information should I become sick or injured. Unfortunately, this book falls short on providing quick and usable treatment using local plants.

For each of the plants listed the author uses the following format to discuss the plant: common name, Latin name, other names, map of location, appearance, habitat, constituents, cultivation, collecting, stability, preparation, and medicinal uses.

Areas about this book that I did NOT like include:

1. The book provides only three pages on preparation methods to utilize the plant. These methods include: teas, eyewash, salves, poultice and tinctures. These methods range from too complicated if you have never done this before or too general with not enough usable information. If you have never prepared a plant to use as a treatment you are not going to learn it from this book. Each plant listing does provide a "preparation" section but again I did not find the information easily useable.

2. There are 69 plants reviewed in the book but only 30 color photographs and some of the photos come 6 to a page. There are many black and white drawings of the other plants but such drawing fail to do the plant justice.

3. The product description states, "This book can be used as a field guide", yet many of the preparation methods would not be possible to use while in the field. For example on one of the plants you need to heat it to 250 degrees or you need other ingredients that you probably would not be carrying with you. Being able to identify a plant in the field is significantly different from being able to utilize the plant in the field.

4. The font size used throughout the book is very small. I estimate the font size to be 7pt or 8pt.

The following comes from the introduction:

"If you like lists, here is one to keep in mind when using this book:

1. Be sure of the plant you are picking.

2. If the herb makes you sick, take less or throw it away.

3. If it doesn't work, use more or forget it entirely.

4. Trust your own judgment above all.

5. That which stimulates can irritate; that which helps can hurt.

6. If you don't get better or get worse quickly, call your doctor."

While some of that advice can certainly be applied to traditional medicine it surely does not foster confidence in using herbal medicine especially if I am the one who has to pick the plant and prepare it correctly! Herbs are not harmless and mistakes can be harmful or even deadly. Yes, the same is true about traditional medicines but I at least know exactly what I am getting when I pick up medicine from the pharmacy.

In today's electronic age of the Internet and websites such as YouTube it is possible to conduct online research that will provide much more useable information. Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West is a book that I would not recommend unless you have a solid background on herbs and herbal preparations.

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The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, a

This is a hilarious and courageous book about one individuals authentic battle to find her self worth in the midst of all the inner and outer messages, subtle to blatant, sacred to profane, that assure us of our failure to be good enough, worthy enough, attractive enough, etc. That fear of rejection lies so deep in our hearts and minds that we seem endlessly vulnerable to any variety of fear monger from playground bully to the political scold, to advertising promisers of making us better if we just buy that thing. This author has the toughness and determination to take a hard look at where all the manipulation is coming from as she also discovers her own goodness, strength and yes, beauty that always has been hers. I love that she took a stand, held her ground and through that stubbornness and fight learned so much about where those scary voices come from. The challenge to become authentic is universal and timeless for men and women, whether it's over the matter of make-up, or about carrying weapons, what to do with ones life, or how to serve the country, none of us escapes this gauntlet of life. Thank you Ms. Baker for giving us such a crisp, funny and honest look at how you managed. Bravo!

We've all struggled with image maintenance, but hardly anyone will admit it. This brave book is better than any dozen "How Not to Look (Old, Fat, Otherwise Bad) Books."

If you ever checked yourself out in a store window's reflection or tried on 15 coats only to leave the store empty-handed, you've finally found a sympathetic soul and a great read. Now in the AARP zone, I can tell you that the issues really don't go away ... because now you get to worry about being fat AND old AND invisible.

Unless, like Phoebe, you just pull the plug on the ridiculous beauty treadmill and start living instead. Reasonable maintenance and hygiene, of course, but then ... you look how you look? What a revolution!

She also shines in this book with her take on being an expat trailing spouse. Her experience is exactly how it really is to be the wife/appendage in an alien place. Again, no one is supposed to admit that what appears to be an "adventure" is actually often a bleak, lonely, depersonalizing domestic struggle, but it is, even if you don't have new-baby stress, as Phoebe also does.

I could hardly resist reading this book straight through, because I wanted it to last.

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This book really isn't just about the no-makeup, no-fashion experiment; it's about the struggles of an exhausted young wife/mother living in Hong Kong with a husband who's frequently away. She writes really well and I enjoyed the book a lot, but it seemed to me that she got off-topic. I sort of got the impression that she originally wrote it as a general memoir, but maybe the publishers decided that the beauty/fashion boycott idea was a good marketing hook. SPOILER ALERT: In the end, she goes back to using makeup and shopping again, and I didn't get the sense that the big "experiment" had really changed anything for her.

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Had the author not jumped back and forth between time zones, but detailed her beauty experiment more chronologically, this book may have sustained my interest a little better, because the basic premise--forcing oneself to eliminate make-up for a year--is interesting.

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It's one thing to sit down after New Year's begrudgingly with a book that looks like it might be a list of to-do's or a "guide to a better you". But surprisingly, The Beauty Experiment is not that. It's a beautifully woven tale about a woman confronting her demons, and they just happen to be the same ones that many of the rest of us also have lurking in our closets. What makes this book so powerful is that while it is a thoughtful expose of ideas that are hard to buck, and perceptions in society that are powerful windmills (even if they are just windmills), it is also a fascinating story. Almost immediately I found myself thinking about how I see myself (beautiful? plain? old? flawed?) alongside a sense of wonder at the vivid descriptions of streets and life in Hong Kong. Perhaps what this book does best, through its exquisite writing, is allow the reader to confront big ideas while sinking into the kinds of characters and places that make reading so worthwhile.

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The Healing Home: Practical Ways to Harmonize Your Home and Energize Your Spirit

The Healing Home Book is at long last a book that gives the reader easy to follow, effective practices to create a home filled with peace, light, happiness and love.

Based on the Native Tradition of the Medicine Wheel, it allows the reader to pin-point areas of disharmony and resolve them using the power of tested and tried methods based on years of experience by the author.

Learning to deal with ley lines and water lines without disturbing the harmony of the Earth is as important as clearing stuck emotional and spiritual energies within the living space in an effective and safe way.

The second part of the book gives beautiful ways of re-connecting to the source and creating balance within ourselves, so we are well prepared and able to redress the balance within our living and working space.

I would recommend this book to everyone who is aware of the importance of balance and harmony in the space that we inhabit, so that they can create for themselves a life filled with happiness, peace, abundance and health.

Collard Green Curves: A fat girl’s Journey from Childhood Obesity to Healthy Livin

I enjoyed everything about this book raised by grandmother a single women who took care of me and my siblings cousins aunts and uncles along with who ever came along I was taught too take care of my self never to depend on anyone. Now I am wife and mother of three struggling too keep my marriage together I know sees why we struggling I have in the back mine I always need to be prepared to play that role of mom and dad even though my husband is right there I have trust issue not so much as if he cheat but anything can happen death sickness or just one day he don't won't the life style anymore reading this book open my eyes too the fact that I need open my heart and let my guard down I also need to focus on a better relationships with God and eating healthy and living healthy. Shot out to Miss Bowick

Book was easy to read, very personal, and speaks directly to minority women raised in a home where food means love. Great work and I recommend it to all women who are looking to transform themselves mind, body, and spirit. Best stories to read during ties of self-change are personal stories from women who have been there...and I def recommend this one to women of all ages.

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Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

Things I like about the book:

1. It's incredibly beautiful! I love LOOKING at it, and it's inspiring.

2. He talks about emotional aspects as well as physcial ones, and gives you good information on anatomy, aspects of the asanas, and building a practice for yourself.

3. The structure of the course in general is excellent, and there is a great deal of knowledge put into each sequence. He has good reason for placing asanas in the order he has.

4. The photos make it easy to follow the daily sequence

5. He offers alternative postures for every asana.

WHAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK:

1. It seems like a book a beginner could use, but as a long time practitioner/instructor, I find it falls short with simple things like positioning of the feet or the hips in certain asanas.(eg. Trikonasana requires that hips are facing the side and the rear foot should be at a 45degree angle, etc)

2. The meditations don't give much for a beginner to go on, and seem flimsy at times for those who do have experience. It could quickly frustrate a beginner or turn them off from an essential aspect of a full yoga practice.

3. There are no warnings about postures that are potentially dangerous for beginners, or information about postures like back bends, that for many people may take years to work up to.

4. Frequently the alternative postures are too difficult for students with limited abilities and the presentation implies that the alternative is the 'easy' pose.

If you are a beginner, or are not confident with your own knowledge of asana/the physical body...please, please, please find a qualified person to take you through DAY 1 at least. This will give you solid knowledge about which postures are feasible for you at the present moment and which ones you should alter.

Don't be afraid to stray slightly from the book....you don't need to do every posture he recommends...some of them will only create injuries if you force your body into something it's not ready for.

Having said all this, I will say I am living in the Middle East in the middle of the desert and I am using this book as a base text to teach a number of expats in my community. We are all enjoying the program...but I've made several key changes:

i)I've added basic breathing practices(pranayama); ii)I've removed postures that are too difficult and substituted them with something more appropriate for beginners; iii)I've changed the meditations and frequently change the suggested postures for the meditations.

When it's all said and done, personally I really like the book, and recommend it to anyone who has experience with asana classes, and is at the point of wanting to establish a home practice. This book helps you lay a great foundation of 'asana knowledge' that will ultimately allow you to create a personalized practice suited to your needs. However, I have more than 10 years of knowledge and I found that I frequently supplemented with my own knowledge to make my experience more fruitful and pleasurable.

If you buy this book, make sure you also get a book on pranayama/breathing....Like Donna Farhi's book for example and one on meditation...like Lawrence LeShan.

If you want to create a full practice, it's important to incorporate all aspects of yoga, not just asana.

I really loved this book. I've just finished the 8 week program it took me more like 10 to get through with my schedule, but I loved the organization of it.. each week has a different focus, and every day within that week a different angle on the week's focus... there are different versions of each pose so that you can really see how the placement of the body matters. the pictures were quite good and in the end, you have yourself weeks of practices that you can comfortably reconfigure over and over. this is a slow moving practice; generally you hold each pose for 30 seconds to several minutes. it covers a really wide range from standing poses to inversions. I really feel that I can just turn on some music, lower the lights, and comfortably make my own home practice on the fly of any length.

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This book is outstanding for someone like myself who has a little over a year of Yoga and somewhat of a foundation of the asanas.

Part of what Rodney asks us to do in this visually appealing, thoughtfully put together instructional book, is to do the asanas from different perspectives from modified to advanced. And even if one feels confident and believes they can just move to advanced wait follow Rodney's advise and do it all. You are not taking one step back when you follow his execution of a modifed version. Instead, you feel the asana from a different perspective that helps you understand the movement even better, making it more meaningful for your practice when you do move to the advanced version. His teaching method allows one to further discover the benefit and beauty of these asanas (and therefore Yoga as a whole).

I love this book of the many DVDs and books I have bought over the last year, this is truly the most valuable Yoga purchase I've made to date.

Nancy New York, NY

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For those of you who want to practice yoga at home, this is a wonderful book. Videos can become very monotonous, but this book encourages personalizing your practice. Throughout the eight week program, the different poses are presented in clear photographs and descriptions with different versions of each pose for different levels. The book moves from the more familiar sun salutation to the more intimidating handstands, backbends and such. There are sequences to familiarize the reader with the poses and sequencing. The book includes specific meditations at the end of each day's work. At the end of the book there is advice about creating your own sequences.

It is a wonderful book for doing yoga at home and personalizing practice.

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This is a beautifully illustrated book with a nice sequence of practices that build up to more advanced routines. There are also many preparatory exercises for difficult asanas and even sequences of asanas to improve body awareness before moving to more advanced positions. I really like this aspect of the book and a lot of this information is well presented.

What I didn't like about this book is that I don't think it offers enough warnings or fine points on asanas for beginners. While the routines take things slowly and build up to more advanced positions, it would actually be a monumental task for a beginner to reach these levels without a good teacher because the book lacks sufficient detail. However, it could be adequate if you have a good teacher or attend regular classes with a qualitifed instructor.

I'm glad I bought this book and I have used some of the ideas from it in my practice. However, I would augment it with something like "The 30 Essential Yoga Poses" by Judith Lasater which provides more detail and warnings on performing asanas correctly or "Dancing the Body of Light" which goes in to great detail about the asanas.

If you have a bad back, then I would start my yoga practice out with "Back Care Basics" by Mary Pullig-Schatz. She is an Iyengar instructor and M.D. with lots of experience using yoga to rehabilitate people with various types of neck and back problems. In fact, this is how she became involved in yoga.

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Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet

This book offers tips and home treatments for individuals seeking natural health care options. As a podiatrist and author of Those Aching Feet, I can say that this book has many helpful and safe tips. If you are looking for in depth information and treatment options for specific foot problems this book is not for you. But, if you want simple, basic, cheap and easy solutions for common foot problems, I would recommend this book.

I originally got this book out from the library but renewed it so many times that I decided to buy a copy.It is a great resource for personal foot care and wonderful make at home remedies for your feet. As a reflexologist it also presents some good client friendly information for foot care and exercises, and recipes for foot care products that clients will love.

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My wife like it, she happy with it. Good seller, delivery on time and we buy from them again. Recommend it.

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I really love this book! It never stays on my bookshelf very long! I'm glad she took the time to write this book.

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The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

I wrote a longer review of "The Emperor of Scent."

The Good: Turin definitely has an interesting, original theory of olfaction. As I said in my earlier review, I think there's some chance that he may be right, even though many other olfactory experts dismiss the theory. I'm ready to believe that he could be a creative genius. Turin has a curious writing style that is worth noticing. At his best, he discusses scientific issues in a manner that will make intuitive sense to laypeople. He weaves in some intriguing nouns, metaphors, images, and colorful descriptions. He provides (mostly) generous descriptions of the theorists who proceeded him. Sometimes, he creates a surreal descriptive world in which perfumes seem to become dramatic sculptures, or plays. At first, I found myself dismissive of his grand and perverse expressiveness. But as I sampled colognes and other scents, I had to admit that there was a method to the author's descriptive madness.

The Good, Part 2: My sense of Turin and his work was enhanced by material available on the web. NPR has a series of radio reports on Turin, including some featuring Turin, and some featuring Chandler Burr. There's an interview with Chandler Burr on "To the Best of our Knowledge" (available via the Wisconsin Public Radio website). Turin's Flexitral website (science section) is worth a look. Some new work on electron flow in the presence of odor, by Brookes et al (University College, London), is consistent with the theory.

The Bad: Turin hasn't done the sorts of experiments that will persuade the scientific community that his theory is correct. In fact, there's a strongly worded essay in the journal Nature that suggests that the theory is as wrong as it is popular with the uneducated masses. I believe that Turin's theory remains viable... but I'm not an expert on olfaction per se.

The Ugly: Turin seems to have antagonized a fair number of sensory scientists. If you read this book, or "The Emperor of Scent," you'll see why. Turin sometimes descends into a gossipy and highly critical style. He rips into scientists the way that the tabloids rip into celebrities. He seems to antagonize and villify the people who might be most interested in testing his model. For instance, I'm a sensory scientist, experimental psychologist, and a psychophysicst (among other things). Turin doesn't have kind words for people in my line of work, suggesting that we are flat, uninteresting, and too interested in quantitative measurement (I can't remember the exact words. It wasn't pretty).

The Ugly, Part 2: Turin points out the ugly side of science, including the various cliques and petty squabbles that rule the day. He points out conflicts of interest and close-minded groupthink. If you aren't familiar with the scientific world, or if you've never had a creative idea, you might conclude that Turin is simply bitter and self-absorbed. But Turin is often on target, I must say. I don't know much about the world of olfactory scientists, but I've watched the group dynamics among scientists for years. A creative, temperamental person like Turin will have difficulty being accepted and appreciated by the scientific mainstream, even if his ideas find their way into mainstream theories. You might come away with the idea that Turin is the good guy and that the scientific establishment is inhabited by the bad guys. LOL. It isn't that simple!

The Ugly, Part 3: I enjoyed the book and would even recommend it. It was fun to read. But I'm amazed at the public's uncritical reaction to books like this one. Beware of the reviewers or media types who say that books like this one should be "required reading." Most reviewers enjoy Turin's drama but are not in a position to evaluate the scientific merits of Turin's work.

We have a pretty good idea about how eyes work to bring light inputs into our brains, and the same is true for ears bringing in sound. We rely on those two senses for a great deal of our information about the world, well above the sense of smell, whose operation is still largely mysterious. It is fun to think that this is quite possibly because smell is an ancient detection system; even one-celled animals can somehow sense molecules floating around them, and approach or avoid. Also, it may be because smell is intimately part of the brain itself; the smell sensors are extended bundles of brain neurons. Anyone who cracks the code to know just how molecules of a certain formation produce a certain smell is liable, not only to advance basic human knowledge, but also to gain a great deal of money. Everyone knows how big the market for perfumes is, and there are also industrial scents put into soap and detergent at no small price. Luca Turin thinks he knows how smell works. He'd be the last to say that the system is fully worked out, but his is the latest explanation, and he is gainfully employed in using it, which would seem to indicate that it works in a practical way. He has written about his theory, and the economic world of odors, in _The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell_ (Ecco), a look into a singular world of economic and scientific ambitions.

Turin has to tell us about some basic chemistry, and his analogies are good, although some of the chemistry is so fundamental he even has to delve into a bit of quantum physics; in other words, don't expect to understand the details because nobody does. He is excellent at introducing us to the tools of his trade, like the gas chromatograph: "This machine is to smell what a prism is to light... and without it the life of the fragrance chemist would be hell." Molecules in smells are able to get to our noses because they are loosened by heat (body heat in the case of perfumes); cold things have little smell. Molecules are all tiny, but it is the small, simple ones that smell, while our noses usually can't pick up the big, complicated ones. The aldehyde family of molecules if they have an odd number of carbons smell mostly waxy, while if they have an even number they smell mostly of citrus; it is as if our noses have carbon counters in them. Perfumes often have expensive ingredients, but that isn't what makes perfumes expensive, since only 3% of the price goes to the smell itself; the rest is packaging, advertising, and margins. "Functional fragrances" rather than perfumes are what goes into soap powder, fabric softeners, and so on. They basically cover the smell of the working ingredients, and have to be cheap, but they bring in as much money to the fragrance-maker because there are so many of them, used in such large quantities. But they are not to be sniffed at, except literally; Turin writes, "Some functional perfumes are true works of art: I would pay real money for a bottle of the 1972 fabric softener Stergene which smelled sensational." Musks are a foundation for such scents, but they could not be so used before they were cheap. They used to come from face glands of oxen, sex glands of deer, excrement of pine martens, or urine of badgers, so getting a gallon of the stuff was not cheap. It was in 1887 that an explosives chemist, Dr. Baur, invented what is now known as Musk Bauer; he was tinkering with TNT. Since then, all perfumers have used synthetic musks.

Turin says that solving the structure-odor problem required of him knowledge of biology and chemical structure, which he knew about from his professional training as do many others, but then also a special interest in odor, which was just a hobby that a friend said he should write about. He wrote a guide on perfumes, and although he was paid peanuts for it, "this ugly little book" got him into the best perfumery labs. When he started writing up his ideas of smells caused by molecular vibration, other researchers got interested. There was a media buzz that has not hurt his cause, including a BBC documentary on his work. When his understanding of molecular vibration enabled him to stick an extra carbon into a molecule to make a lemon smell that was stable, and he told a friend who was a businesswoman about it, they started the fragrance company Flexitral. Soon he not only had ideas for fragrances but bottles of the real thing. It is interesting that in a recent audit, Flexitral's success rate in making an aimed-at fragrance was one in ten, which sounds low, but for the industry based on shapes of molecules rather than vibrations, it used to be one in a thousand. Cut-throat competition has given evidence that Turin's explanations are on the right track. It has not been easy. He has some interesting remarks here on the peer-review process that is the basis of modern scientific research; something is basically wrong with a system which, in his case, calls on peers from the small pool of a specialized field, all of whom would have conflicts of interest in judging the work. He is also scathing on the university system: "Universities are businesses these days, and every square metre of lab space must be made to sweat cash." Bitterness is not the tone here, however; as an amateur (literally, one who is pursing a goal for love, not money), Turin writes with a jolly enthusiasm about a subject which is inherently interesting and whose science is still in its beginnings.

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I am delighted with this book! Finally I can take a really good, long look at all the structures of molecules with familiar smells and try to sort it all out for myself. This is what Turin tries to do, along with a continuously dry, irreverant humor that just makes it so much fun to read.

Even if you don't have a background in chemistry, you might be able to give this book a try, though it will take some willingness to sit down and try to mentally fit together all the jargon, which he defines nicely. But it this book will be more fun for someone with a tiny smattering of knowledge of organic, like knowing the definition of a functional group.

But this isn't just a book about smell, he could be onto something big in general, about how receptors really work. Of course it still needs proof, but his theory is that molecular vibration, rather than shape (although vibration and shape are related) may be better predictors for receptor activation by a molecule. If that is so, think of the pharmacological implications. That's big!

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This book is a more in-depth exploration of Luca Turin's hypothesis (a pretty darn good one, if you ask me) that the nose acts as a spectroscope. If you read and enjoyed "The Emperor of Scent," or if you really like organic chemistry and fragrance, you'll like this book. However, if you're not into pages of discussions about keto groups and catalysts--or if you're one of those who demand their therories to be built in solid, tiny steps instead of broad intellectual leaps--you may want to skip this one.

(By the way--note how wonderfully appropriate the cover is!)

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This book is to writing on perfumes what Sacrebleu! is to perfumes. I couldn't put it down more entertaining than "entertainment", witty, brilliant, and totally accessible to the general public, though it deals with biophysics. It is pointless to repeat all the superlatives which this book already earned, so let's just hope that the fragrance molecules Mr. Turin creates in his firm are just as beautiful as his tale of the scent.

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