Maggie and Cara have created one of the most beautiful books I have ever seen. When Maggie's pen touches paper, inspiration blooms and grows in your own heart. You feel a sense of kinship when you read her books. It is as if you were destined to read them from the beginning of time.

Perhaps the author gained her inspiration from her surroundings in East Blue Hill Maine. She is living my dream! She writes in her cabin in the woods, which is surrounded by wild flowers.

Before you even begin reading Maggie's words you will be captivated by Cara Raymaker's joyful and detailed expression of the words. I truly hope to see more of her art in children's and inspirational books.

"Flowers help us feel better, we know. Anywhere's home where the flowers grow." --Maggie Davis

I love Maggie's sing-song poetry and her writing in this book reminds me of the way a child sees the world.

"One day when I was young and walking with a friend, a field dry as straw bloomed with flowers." To me, this represented how we can walk through life and create happiness where there was none, or make life better and make someone smile. Perhaps I see this in her writing because she has devoted her life to caring for others and has brought a smile to my face with her writing. She knows that when we reach out to others we receive happiness in return. No one can tell you how to get to the path where you will see the flowers growing, you just have to look inside your own heart, and then you will know how to make the flowers bloom.

"Find one work in your life that never bores you. Make sure the work is joy for you to do. Then do this work, no matter what. It is your gift to the world. It is your blessing to yourself." -- Dr. Edward Bach

In this work, she is celebrating nature and the life of Dr. Edward Bach. The Dr Edward Bach Healing Trust is a Registered Charity formed in 1989 to help the elderly, the poor and others. It makes donations to good causes and to those working in difficult circumstances to help others. He believed that the mind and emotions create bodily conditions for disease to manifest itself. He also created Bach Flower Remedies based on the belief that flowers have healing properties. The flowers are still prepared by infusion methods and are used to help remove negative emotions that can impede overall health. Here is a quote from "Heal Thyself" written by Dr. Edward Bach in 1931:

"The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self-love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity. Such defects as these are the real diseases (using the word in the modern sense), and it is a continuation and persistence in such defects after we have reached that stage of development when we know them to be wrong, which precipitates in the body the injurious results which we know as illness.......But yet there is no cause for depression. The prevention and cure of disease can be found by discovering the wrong within ourselves and eradicating this fault by the earnest development of the virtue which will destroy it; not by fighting the wrong, but by bringing in such a flood of its opposing virtue that it will be swept from our natures."

I was very pleased when I learned that the essential oil of roses can remove anger. It is also interesting that men will sometimes give women flowers when woman are angry at them. Could this have some deeper message? I could completely relate to this book as I take Echinacea and believe we can heal our bodies with plants and also prevent disease.

When I read the first few words of this book, I remembered a day my nieces and I once went to a favorite park. On the first visit we had walked in the dry grass. On the second visit, Ashley ran into the park and exclaimed with delight: "It happened, it happened, my wish came true." "What wish," I asked. "I wished that the next time I came to this park it would be filled with flowers." Ashley got her wish and now I will give her this book. She knows the flowers can bring happiness with their faces turned to the sun and their petals fluttering in the breeze.

"God in Man's World" represents an attempt in Biblical historiography--that is, the derivation of ethical and empirical principles from scripture with the view of applying them to the reading of history. Although Davis denounces the cyclical view of history as un-scriptural (scripture views history as definitely teleological), he recognizes that history follows certain patterns. What is unique about this study is its attempt to derive those patterns from the Bible's teachings and to see how they work themselves out in history.

Davis deals with many such principles, such as sowing and reaping, the creation principle, the sin principle, the dominion principle, the principle of diligence and perseverance, and others. Davis shows dramatically how these principles have worked themselves out in history, as humanity has fluctuated between repentance and humility before God and rejection of God and exaltation of the self (humanism). The last two chapters are particularly exciting, for here Davis draws out a scenario for the future based on how the principles reveal themselves in the present.

This book is highly recommended for Christians interested in prophecy and history, and for academic historians interested in an alternative historiographical theory that has unfortunately been all but ignored in the last century (but was once taken as a matter of course).

I found this book at a clearance bookstore. I thought it was cute, but didn't know if I would use it. Since, I have used it over and over when teaching about change. (in animals--ie. frogs, butterflys,etc...) My students thoroughly enjoy the story and its bright illustrations! This is a book I will never part with and will be sad when it finally falls apart from so many readings!

I read this book this past year not having anything more than a general idea of Confederate history although I am a lawyer and very interested in U.S. constitutional legal history. I thought Prof. Davis did an excellent job of telling the story of the people and political forces which resulted ultimately in the writing and issuance of the Confederate Constitution. Davis's writing style is engaging, fast paced yet informative. The story "flowed," and the book was a "page turner." I felt he "got inside the head" of the principals of whom he wrote. I found that I particularly liked and was interested and intrigued by the figure of Alexander Stevens ("Little Aleck"). Davis's book made me want to read more about the Confederacy and about this remarkable Southern politician who served as the South's vice president

Hey that's my sister on the cover, so I have to give it five stars. (I would have anyway.) pj

Chase McKay is the friend all of us wish we had. This book has been one of the favorites of our entire family. A great, fast and suspenseful read with a surprise ending. It's one of those novels that stays with you for years. Chase, Rosalinda Rivers and Mr. Sarak become real people, very real.

If you like Garfield you'll love the postcards! My friends loved geting them and so will your friends.

Gail Stewart opens her wounds so we can heal ours. Her technique of interspersing "real time" journal entries with reflective narration is highly effective. Grief Passages lets us experience, through Gail, the traumatic, gut-wrenching, blow to the stomach sensations associated with the death of a loved one.

Why would anyone want to read a book about death that pulls no punches? Because the loss of someone or something close to us WILL happen and when it does we will be filled with emotions never before experienced

Grief Passages is a survivors handbook that educates and let's you know you're not alone.

This book provides excellent companionship to those who have suffered a loss. But equally as important, Gail's open sharing of her mistakes gives readers an insight on what may be done today to ease the guilt sure to surface when a big part of our life dies

When we were having babies we had a small library of books on pregnancy and childbirth. All three of our children were born at home and this was THE book we devoured. It explained everything a lay person needs to know. It was perfect for us.

Oh, yeah. My wife agrees :-)

Too bad it's no longer in print. I don't know how her new book is. We don't do babies anymore. Our youngest wears size 11 1/2 shoes.

"... the work has withstood the test of time and remains the only work of such geographic breadth --yet with the insightful simplicity of line drawings"

With these words, the revised, improved, enlarged and much needed second edition of Ronald Kapp's "Pollen and Spores" has been published. Davis (University of Arizona) and King (Cleveland Museum of Natural History) have continued the work of the late Ronald Kapp, and have provided palynologists, botanists, allergists and others, with a pictorial key of pollen and spore types from North America. Kapp had earlier begun a revised second edition of his work; but his efforts were cut short by his untimely death in 1990. Many of us have used the first edition of this guide for many years and have found it to be one of the "standards" we keep near our microscopes.

This second edition continues the tradition of an easy-to-use, keyed guide, to the pollen forms found in Quaternary deposits. It has been improved by expanding the original key with several new illustrations, providing a consistent format for each taxon which includes Latin binomial, parent plant common name, size (in micrometers), geographical range, and notes regarding details of pollen morphology.

The introduction to the revised edition includes information about the study of palynology since the publication of the first edition (1969), specifically noting the proliferation of pollen keys and illustrated guides which cover specific areas of the United States and/or Canada. Additions to this edition include a section titled "Unusual palynomorphs and microfossils that might be confused with pollen" and include a brief description and illustration of some pre-Quaternary pollen forms (e.g. Normapolles), algae, dinoflagellates, chitinozoans, forams, diatoms and phytoliths. A well-illustrated glossary, bibliography and a systematic list of illustrated species are found at the end of the guide. I found the glossary especially helpful.

Despite a dozen or so typographical, grammatical or spelling errors, and despite the fact that some of the line drawings are less sharp than those illustrated in the first edition, the guide remains useful and, considering the price, a worthy purchase.

The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation has published the 2000 edition, and has managed to keep the price ...reasonable for students to purchase. The book is spiral bound, with a glossy, plastic cover that folds back to allow the guide to open flat on a desk surface. Copies of this excellent publication may be ordered from The AASP Foundation. Contact: Vaughn M.Bryant, Palynology Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, U.S.A. (FAX 979-845-4070; vbryant@NEO.tamu.edu).