If you keep your perspective in check, this is an excellent resource. Good, basic advice. I was struggling training my girlfriend (I am advanced, she a beginner), and this book made it much easier to convince her that I wasn't crazy with my training advice. It is a simple and clear book, pretty basic, but I am a big believer that 90% of the results come from the basic stuff, and the last 10% is for when you hit sticking points, or reach an advanced level. But the book is getting on in age these days; still, don't let that disuade you if you can pick up a copy.

I came across this book at a used book store and love it. It is one of the best pure women bodybuilding books for females available.

And who is more qualified than the greatest bodybuilder of all time?

I understand that Arnold used to run a gym in Germany back in the 60's and he was one of the first to promote bodybuilding for women to develop a shapely figure.

Some people think you will build big bulgy muscles like a man, as Arnold explains, that is not possible since women have different hormones than men and are not likely to train with the intensity of a male competitive bodybuilder; 6-7 days a week, twice a day plus three to four days of running 3 miles per day and a spartan diet.

For me, I found Arnold was right. I developed a more shapely figure. Better tone and looked more feminine.

Arnold has another winner her. I think other women avoid it because they don't understand it.

I also recommend Arnold's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding to help break plateaus and get more exercise variations.

My wife has several workout books but as she states, "not one matches Arnold's". This book not only covers subjects like what to eat, it also goes into great detail on what workouts work what muscles. Great book!

I am very pleased with this book as far as the content. As a Clinical Psychologist who works with bereavement issues, I think the exercises and handouts contained in this look very good and very applicable to people dealing with grief and loss. I was very disappointed though, to have paid $40 for a book that was listed and described as bound, and I received only loose pieces of paper that I now have to find some way to bind myself. Be aware that this description is inaccurate and I don't think it would have hurt the publisher to spend a little bit of money binding the handouts. Even if it was cheap binding, I'd feel better about paying $40 for somthing that was bound than loose pieces of paper!

These handouts are a godsend. I use them in my bereavement support groups and am able to use some of the handouts with other groups/individuals. I am pleased they are not bound as they are easier to reproduce. (pages are numbered and there is a contents page) Pfeiffer provides practical, concise and poignant information that is essential for the bereaved. As a professional counselor I send a copy of Pfeiffer's Book: A Different Season to clients/members of my church who have lost a loved one.

I have used these reproducible handouts with clients who are grieving, for the bereavement support group I facilitate, and as an adjunct to Mr. Pfeiffer's book "A Different Season". Each topic is so appropriate to the grieving individual--topics such as "anger", "depression", "how long will this grief last", and what to do with "possessions" of the lost loved one. I have recommended this to other therapists, bereavement group facilitators, and even a local funeral home. I also have utilized some of the handouts as assignments for clients in between sessions. I highly recommend it!

A neat story that 3-7 year-olds will surely enjoy. The story is about a proud female caterpillar who boasts to all of her friends that when she grows up, she will turn into something else. She meets a polliwog and relates this story to him, he is facinated. Later, the polliwog learns that he too will change into something else, although he belives he'll change into a butterfly. In the end, the story ends happily when the polliwog learns to love himself for who he is.

First-rate illustrations, entertaining and unique story.

This book does an excellent job of introducing young children to the basic facts of caterpillar and frog life cycles, how they are alike and how they are different. The anthropomorphic bent takes a little getting used to, but it's not a bad quality. Giving the animals in the story personalities makes the tale more engaging and adds another layer of interest. The story has a sense of humor that kids and adults will enjoy. The cartoon-like pictures are fun too. There's a nice subtle message to go along with it--some of us take a little more time to metamorphize than others, but we get there eventually!!

This is a really great story to read to your kids and to have your kids learn to read. It's not too short and not too long. It has both a moral lesson and a humor factor. Just as funny to adult readers as it is to the kids.

The third book in this series is a good book and helps to tie up all the loose ends of the first two. It is a shorter book, just like the second one, and very easy to get through. You'll want to read straight through to find out how it all ends. V's husband is such a jerk, and you just want to root against him through the whole book. I would recommend this entire series of books.

Like the other 2 books in this series, this one delivers. I am anxiously awaiting #4, and hope Debra Kent publishes it soon.
Valerie is doing okay considering her marriage has fallen apart, and her child is having problems adjusting to things.
But, with grace and dignity, Valerie handles things great. Don't want to give away the plot, but if you liked the first 2 books you definitely need to read this one as well.

Valerie Ryan is finally divorced from her philandering husband Roger and has temporary custody of her son Pete. She is struggling to make ends meet while her lawyer battles the attorney of her ex so she and her son can have a piece of his fortune though he has in actuality hidden his assets.

Valerie is also starting to delve into the singles dating scene. However, that has changed from her memories of her premarital days as a gay person trying to go straight want to ask her out while a lesbian wants her to change her sexual orientation. Finally, her neighbor wants her trees best out of his yard.

This tale is a witty social commentary about life after the divorce. The characters are drawn true to life and run the gamut of human behavior. Ever trapped Roger is the villain of the piece though there are a few moments when readers will actually feel sorry for the bum. Valerie is a role model of a survivor of the divorce wars.

Harriet Klausner

Okay, yes, it's a nice gaming environment, but it's depressing! it also dosen't fit in with the other rifts books, it's way, way, too different, and too much time is given to other topics that aren't really important. But, i suppose, this will be balanced out with the follow-up suppliments. However, i do have to say this for australia: NO MUNCHIES HERE !! ;)

One of the best Rifts books to date. The Song Jucier is great

The charicters were cool. The weapons were just great. And even there were only a few vehicles and such they were cool too.

This book is valuable if you are a Rorty fan and have followed his career. It is the best insight into his personality. Namely, his peeves and dislikes. For example although he is a staunch liberal, he strongly dislikes hand wringing extremists and nihilists. He really is a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps pragmatist. And if you push him too hard he pulls the gloves off. He is also a realist in the Aristotilean sense of he knows he is a well paid humanities professor living in an ivory tower (brownstone actually - Stanford) and that most of many of his (analytic) peers don't care for him. What I really like about Rorty, and this comes out clearly in this little book, is his attitude that the playing field has been leveled since Wittgenstein, Derrida, et.al. 'So hey, why not make the world a little better place than you found it?' (Kind of like what your Mom used to tell you.) What I don't like is his "blind eye" towards religion (as a friend who got his Ph.D. from him at Princeton once described him). But that's just the way it goes sometimes for some people. If you have read a lot of Rorty, get this book. If you haven't, then start where you are supposed to: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.

Two earnest grad students take on a cantankerous professor during a 4-hour interview! The results are explosive!

If you don't know who Richard Rorty is or what "Oligarchies" means, you will after reading this. "Six bucks". How can you go wrong?

I found that this book was very helpful in preperation for the ARE. Although the book did not cover all the topics on the actual exam, it proved invaluable on the areas of study that were tested. The chapters were highly organized and easy to follow while the content was neither too broad to be ambiguous, nor too precise to be cumbersome. The only gripe I had with the book was that some information (minor in detail) was contradictory to current trade manuals and other study material. Other than that, I highly recommend this book as an aid to studying for the exam - and it makes an excellent reference book for your library.

If you can overlook the poor proofreading it is of great help. The actual ARE is easier than the quizes in the book. Good Luck!

I found this guide to be extremely valuable. It covers a broad range of topics in the appropriate detail. Of course, it doesn't have all the answers to the ARE, but those tests are meant to have many "unanswerable" questions. But this guide will give you a strong base from which to work. It also has valuable information and rules of thumb that apply to practicing architects. I leaned most heavily on this resouce in order to take my exams.

Although there is useful information in this book, I found it disappointing compared with the recommendations that I read.

Part 1, which is about 200 pages, is the text of the book and covers planning and implementing your campaign. Part 2 which is about 300 pages is a collection of about 35 sample documents.

I found the text, which included chapters by other authors, rambling and verbose, giving lists of functions and lists of alternatives without reaching conclusions. I skimmed this part and found little worth reading carefully. (In contrast, I just read Tony Poderis concise and excellent "Its A Great Day to Fundraise" from cover to cover.) The author attempts an academic approach, with unhelpful citations. Examples of somewhat useful items were an outline of a case statement and examples of gift charts.

Particularly weak was a chapter entitled "Technology in Fundraising" which claimed that it was about the single most important support factor in fundraising. We learn that we need a broad team to select this technology; that we need to attend user groups of the system we are considering; that we need to meet current users; that we need to test the system at our site; that the system should be easy to support; that to install the system we need leadership, time, funding, involvement, communication, expertise, testing, training, defined reports, standards, process, etc.; and on and on and on with more generalities. We are NOT told what it is reasonable to expect such a system to do, what features have proved useful, or any other specific information that someone who had actually used such a system might provided.

The sample documents, which were largely from an Indiana University campaign, struck me as examples that I would not want to follow, although I found some useful items.

I have been fundraising for over 8 years, primarily for higher education, and have run 3 successful campaigns, so I thought I knew nearly everything about doing it. This book, however, brought new insights, advice, suggestions and examples on how to do it better.
I highly recommend this book to everyone who is serious about fundraising. I have put it on my recommended reading list for my current office.

I have recommended this book to my fellow church leaders--men and women--of many denominations. Too often churches feel their situations are "different" than those of other nonprofits when it comes to fundraising. On the contrary, the techniques are precisely the same. Church leaders would be well-advised to obtain this book for their church library. It is the bible of capital campaigns for all nonprofits. Valuable details on every aspect of planning as well as identifying, cultivating, and asking prospective volunteers and donors for their help. Get it and use it!

This company is terrible. I'm not sure if the book is good or not because I never received it. Ordered june 12, 01 and am still waiting for a refund. I have gotten jerked around by them several times and am really getting fed up. But at almost $32.00 including s&h I will keep going till I get my refund.

There's a truth to the saying "knowledge is power". The more a person learns about the functions and dis-functions of their own body, the better chance they have of living a healthy life. But most people don't talk to their doctor or visit a hospital on a daily basis - so how would you know, for example, if your diet is not the best one for your gout.

By no means am I saying the "Disease Prevention and Treatment" book should replace your visits to the doctor - but it's an amazing source for medical knowledge.

Just about anything you need to know from preventing acne to treating cardiovascular disease can be found in this well written and easy to comprehend reference book. What I found most interesting is that Melanie Segala and The Life Extension Foundation are not biased when offering treatment advice. Both traditional treatments and therapies not yet accepted by mainstream medicine are explained as well as a comprehensive overview of the disease itself. All the information is backed up by years of scientific research.

If you care about living healthy, as opposed to just living, I highly recommend this book.

The size and weight of a telephone directory, this amazing volume puts together everything anyone would want to know about the latest scientifically proven treatments for most diseases from the common cold through arthritis and rheumatism to cancers and heart diseases.

The authors do not shrink from telling readers bad news where appropriate, and do not hold out false hopes or offer quack cures - all of this is hard, sometime brutal, science. However many recommendations are far better than you can get from an overworked doctor who hasn't time to keep up with all the latest advances. Full references are given so that your doctor can follow them up if he wants to check. As you are reading this on the Internet, you will have the facilities to go to the web pages given in the book where you get the very latest version of the article you have just read in the book.

The foundation that publishes this book is run by people devoted to prolonging healthy lifespan. They want to be part of developing a future world where death is optional - that is their prime objective, making money is merely a secondary objective in order to spend it on their scientific research. Many of their products are outside the ordinary government run medical systems, and they have had to set up their own quality control procedures to ensure that customers get the best possible results. They are not afraid to admit when they have been wrong and pull their own products from the shelves when appropriate. It is possible that this foundation will become the model for the way medicine is practised throughout most of the 21st century.

If you buy and read this book you will be reading about the medicine of the future, the medical practise of the future, and will learn what you can do right now to get the very best the world has to offer.

Newly in harbor, Capt. Bolitho is approached by a mutineer for his intercession in the vast British fleet mutinies of 1797. Being the preternaturally fair man he is, Bolitho must become involved, a choice that will dog him through the rest of his time with the crusty admiral whose ship he now captains. (Oddly enough, Kent never mentions the grievances and demands of the mutinous crews and how they were satisfied-and it was not just by hanging the ringleaders as the admiral mentions here.) Kent again challenges Bolitho with a less than stellar superior for a bold incursion back into the Mediterranean (abandoned the year before). With his admiral's head stuck in the strategic clouds of yesteryear, we get to see our Bolitho growing in command to excercise (Lord Nelson's) new more flexible and break-the-line squadron tactics. He also has to contend with a spy, a shifty spymaster, and the usual impossible assignments. A study in proper subordination, Bolitho manages to get his brilliant ideas put into effect by, or despite, his closely attending and rigidly doctrinaire admiral. Uniquely in this book we see explicit discussion of the evolving tactics of sea warfare rather than just the usual literary ploy of conflicting personalities or command styles.

Kent uses flashbacks to re-view later the routine or tedious intervals in the plot while skipping ahead towards the next action. (Conversely, Dudley Pope uses interpolated instructional pieces in his Ramage series to slow the action and build anticipation). Kent also shows here one oddity of Bolitho (as contrasted with Pope's series): Bolitho often misses the really big true actions, like Cape St. Vincent, in favor of minor, peripheral, or perhaps fictitious actions. While there is still much swashbuckling action on view, we are also treated to the cerebrations and considerations of more exalted command levels than before, as we follow Bolitho's rise in rank and breadth of responsibilities.

In 1797 Richard Bolitho is back in the Mediterranean after his recent foray to the West Indies. He is now captain of the flag-ship of an inflexible and rule-bound Admiral whose approach is totally unsuited to a fluid strategic situation in which initiative and imagination are essential. The need for acquiring a base inside the Mediterranean prompts an expedition to capture a North-African fortress, giving Bolitho once more the opportunity to engage in the land-attack operations in which he excels. There is however plenty of action afloat as well, the most exciting part of which is the defence of an already shattered and half-sinking transport against a swarm of oared-galleys manned by ferocious Barbary corsairs. Apart from the hazards ashore and afloat, and the frustrations represented by his superior, Bolitho has to cope with an admirable but dangerous French enemy agent and a British political representative whose motives and objectives are unclear to say the least. It's also satisfying to see Bolitho's protégée Inch, whose self-confidence and capabilities he so carefully nurtured in earlier years, now coming into his own as the very effective commander of a bomb vessel. The story ends with the British position in the Mediterranean still weak - but there is light on the horizon, and the following year will see Nelson turning the tables - and there will be a role for Bolitho. In summary, a thoroughly enjoyable naval yarn.

Once more, Mr Kent has propelled the reader into the turbulent and dangerous waters of adventure. Richard Bolitho is once again locked in mortal combat with not only the French but ruthless Barbary pirates. Some terrific actions sequences as Bolitho is in a battered Spanish vessel that he just captured. The ship is beset by the pirates and one of the most thrilling sea fights you can read about takes place. Great high adventure. Many characters people this novel, some new and dangerous and many others that prove more friendly. Great old friendships are rekindled, some tragic events and some heroic actions. Plenty of toppling foremasts, upturned 32 pounders, flashing and thundering broadsides and flaming hulks. Nautical fiction at it's finest.
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