Lots of colour pictures, nice layout etc make this book easy on the eye. But they've made such a 'negligent error' that you should think twice before buying. The whole idea about food combinations is represented by a diagram on pg 45 which uses arrows to show the foods you can and cannot combine. The problem is THEY'VE MISSED OUT HALF OF THE ARROWS!! It's just silly. OK you can piece together the rest of the diagram if you read the book but, hey come on, we're paying money for this.

This is a wonderful book and I love the recipes. This book along with exercise has lowed my blood pressure. I wish I had read it along time ago. It has opened up a new world for me. Thank you Jan and Inge Dries.

I cook a lot and after understanding the Hay diet found no reason I could not come up with better recipes. The dressings section was good but I found the rest to be pretty basic. Several recipes for steamed veggies, no need to tell me to add califlower and steam...

If you know anything about the Hay Diet and would like to spice up your plate with more exciting meals, this is the cookbook for you! The author, Erwina Lidolt, gives plenty of ideas to choose from. Even if you are picky, like me, and will only eat certain foods, Lidolt has recipes that you will find very appitizing and yet, easy to make. For those that are unfamiliar with the Hay Diet, Lidolt explains the most important facts briefly and gives good tips to the novice. Sadly, she cannot cover everything in her cookbook because it is, well, A COOKBOOK! I recommend that you find a book on the Hay Diet to give you more details and supplement this one. GOOD EATING AND GOOD LUCK!

I was not aware that this was a live stage play. It was hard to follow on the audio tape. This was not really a 'story' being told. You really had to visualize who the characters were and what they were doing. This is not good for an audio book content.
I am an avid audio book listener.

Noel Coward delights again with this hilarious partner-swapping comedy. The performers joyfully embrace the material as Coward explores the wonderness and the pitfalls of love and desire.

The good point of this book (and the only one) was that it showed how difficult life was in the olden days (1910 to be exact), defting conservative notions of a golden age better than Stephanie Coontz has done. The bad points are that the language is dated ("Slav" is considered a race, as is "Colored") and the book is rather boring. Not much duller than most sociohistorical works but not as informative either. Slightly recommended.

I found this book extremely helpful for a report I was writing. I wouldn't recommend it as a casual read, or for anyone looking to get a comprehensive history. It is part of The Pittsburgh Survey series and, as the name implies, it is a survey- a cross-section of a narrow group of people at a specific time. I'll admit to a fascination with the history of Homestead and therefore a bias, but I liked the book so much I would like to buy a copy for myself.

The title up above is because the book comes basicly down to this: Say you love yourself every day, than you'll start believing it and showing it to the outside. If you really want to get to know your so called authentic self, than you may want to look into Phil McGraw his books or Wayne Dyer. The first one can be frequently very direct and harsh, so for a more gentle approach read things of the second. But still changes come all down to hard work, which only you can do, cause no one else can do it for you!

Thanks, Louise! You've done it again! The simple message that "You can Change Your Life" shines right through in yet another of this Science of Mind minister's wonderful, affirming, life changing works. In this book Louise speaks with a candor that speaks simply and plainly of how we can change our thinking to improve the quality of our life. She goes more deeply into the concepts of death and dying and the treatment of the elderly (advocating the "elders of excellence" movement). She also recommends juicing and other holistic methods of caring for the body, sharing her own personal habits and suggesting many choices for a healthy lifestyle. I listen to the book on tape 'cause I used to drive a lot and I've grown to love hearing Louise's voice reading to me. I listen to it whenever I need to remember "Oh Yeah! That's what it's all about! " Thanks again, Louise!

If you are looking for a collection of ceremonial moments, this book is not for you! I was looking for ceremonial type rituals that I could do in order to encourage and empower myself. What I did find was an adequate explanation about brain waves and how to get to the "Alpha" state. Once in the Alpha state, the author has the person repeat affirming things to herself, such as "I AM God's beautiful love energy," or "I AM an optimistic and positive thinker." I was hoping to go a little deeper here. Meditation is great, and I use it all the time. But this book didn't live up to its title.

After reading this book and following the guidelines laid out within, I was able to realize that you only need yourself to be really happy. Dr. Zaffuto shares his experiences and life's knowledge with his readers in a way that is both spell-binding and educational. The style in which it is written allows the reader to almost experience the alpha state WITH the author. One of the most personal, insightful books I have had the pleasure to read.

Ok if you just need simple affirmations to mediate, buy this one or from my point of view go to the library. But if I were you, I would get Life! or her most famous book You can heal your life, because than you can have affirmations/ extra info (can't explain it here sorry) and a guide with a dictonary with physical signs, for example a headache means you have no intregrity or selfcritism or fear and than you get some affirmations which will change that. The basic idea of L.Hay is if you say enough times you love yourself, you will do that in the end and from that point show it on the outside.

As a professional counselor, I share this special book with a group of cancer survivors. Each week one person volunteers to open the book to a random page and reads Louise's meditation to the group. Everyone agrees that whatever message is opened is the one the group needs for that week. The meditations are powerful and awaken a positive spirit in each of us. They have made a big difference in the "can do" attitude of the group and have become the focus for our best discussions.

I thought this would be a fantastic tool, for my to use, and all of her(Louise Hay) books are just fantastic. This however is not at all what it is represented it. She talks in the begining about about 5 minutes if that and then the rest of the tape is Kenny G like music. The affirmations they refer to are typed on the inside of the tape cover and you are suppose to say them. I was under the impression the affirmations were on the tape and you hear them being told to you. This tape was not as represented. I am not happy with the tape.

I purchased this for my 11 yr. old daughter who is struggling with her body size. She is not over weight but feels she is. I bought the audio tape and she listens to it every night going to bed. I see a huge improvement and would reccommed it to any parent. Thanks!

The jacket blurb compares this book to McPhee's "The Survival of the Bark Canoe." While Klinkenborg tries manfully to achieve something like McPhee, he doesn't make it. He comes close at times, but only close and that not often enough.

From Klinkenborg I got only glimpses of the places and people living a life I know next to nothing about. He took me to the edge of the field, but not up close enough to understand what they are doing and why. A few times he describes machinery or processes well enough for me to see them, but most of the time he drops names with only the barest description, leaving me in the middle of nowhere. In contrast, when I finish one of McPhee's many books, I feel like I could BUILD the canoe, pick the oranges, or pilot the ship.

Klinkenborg does better with the people in the story, many of them family of his, and those parts were fine. But the heart of the story is in its title, and I was left wanting much more than I received.

Klinkenborg knows this topic is off the beaten track. No puns, metaphors or euphemisms intended, it is literally a book about the production of hay in the vast fields of Minnesota and Iowa. His fascination perplexes no one more than the author's relatives, who make a living at it and observe his enthusiasm for the work with benign bemusement. Of course in the process of learning the family trade, Klinkenborg learns something about his own heritage, but he presents this as mere incidental observations, like an old friend waved to at the end of a row just before turning the combine around to get back to business. The writing is superb. I'd give it a 10, but he does tend to go a tad overboard with loving descriptions of the machinery.

I usually love reading books written pre-20th Century, as this one was (1796) but I didn't really enjoy this one as much as I expected. Even though it caused a mild scandal when first published, it is (naturally) rather tame by today's standards. The heroine's great crime is to declare her love for a man before he declares his. How shocking!

The book is written as a series of letters to her beloved's son telling him about her great crime, in order to save him from making the same mistakes. I did admire the way she examined and analyzed her feelings, and how she could stand back and see how her actions didn't always coincide with her intentions. She just loved this guy passionately and she couldn't talk herself out of it, no matter how hard she tried. It got to be rather tedious though, after a while, and I wished she could just get over it and get on with her life.

All the melodrama in the book comes in the last thirty pages, which is such a contrast to the mild, slow-paced rest of the book. It seemed very foreign to the first part, like the author felt she ought to throw in some action at long last. All in all, it was okay, but not great.

Any fan of Mary Wollstonecraft should turn next to books like this one. Hays's novel is part of the first wave of responses to *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* (1792) and shows that Wollstonecraft could produce thoughtful responses from British radicals that balance the unthinking ones from conservatives. With Amelia Opie's *Adeline Mowbray*, this novel tells us much about early British feminism and its interest in the novel.