This is an amazing book that should be in everydody's reference section. It makes it great fun to learn about the foods you are eating with old legends and historical tid-bits. It really motiveates me to continue to eat whole foods and is filled with great information of the nutritional and medicinal uses of each food. My background includes Physics, natural foods culinary school, nutrition and herbalism and I must say that this book never ceases to impress me in the breath and depth of the author's knowledge. If you must buy one book this year, buy this one and learn about why and how our food can keep us healthful. Happy eating.

This has it all - vegetables, grains, even herbs. It has lengends/lore, as well as the nutritional facts. I really love this book - very complete, not so dry that you hate picking it up. I find myself just browsing through for no real reason. Great book!

No kitchen, personal or professional, should be without this book. One can easily find information. Each subject is dealt with in an easy to read fashion, and quite completely I should add. When you feel that you "want to know", this is the place to go. An excellent investment, and I have found it makes a great gift too!

Controlling diabetes goes beyond reducing sugar intake: it also involves staying healthy by reducing fat and increasing exercise. Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook promotes a vegetarian diet high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans and is especially valuable for its tips on how to juggle diabetic needs with vegetarian perspectives. Recipes are simple and easy to follow.

Enhanced with information on diabetes and nutrition by Patricia Berton, The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook by Patricia Stevenson and Michael Cook offers an imaginative and diabetically sound approach to using whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruit in a culinary wealthy of meat-free recipes, each designed to help control diabetes naturally. The reader is provided with an informative overview of diabetes and how to control diabetes through diet and exercise, along with an invaluable section on meeting the nutrient needs of the diabetic including fiber in the diet, counting calories, carbs, protein and fat, as the vegetarian diet with respect to minerals and vitamins. Of special interest is the information provided on exchange lists for meal planning, as well as cooking and shopping tips. The delicious, palate pleasing, appetite satisfying recipes range from Strawberry Muffins; Tofu Potato Salad; and Vegetable Fried Rice; to Falafel; Broccoli-Mushroom Casserole; and Apple-Oat Drop Cookies. The Whole Foods Diabetic Cookbook is a strongly recommended addition to the cookbook collection for diabetics.

I turn to this cookbook regularly. Whether I'm cooking for myself, for company, or for a potluck dinner, I can always find something good *and* easy in its pages. The Far East Fried Rice recipe is now my standard (and much-complimented) potluck dish, and several others, including the Easy Lentil Stew, are regulars in my kitchen. Although I was a meat eater and therefore not used to vegetarian cooking when I bought this book, I never found the recipes to call for ingredients I couldn't find at my regular grocery store, or thought that the end products were anything less than delicious. This is more than just a cookbook -- the helpful discussion of nutrition and diabetes at the beginning of the book makes it a good reference, too -- but the recipes are really what makes it special. The cooking directions are brief but thorough and easy to follow. Also, because I am now a vegan, I greatly appreciate the simple and tasty recipes for making alternatives to standard cheese dishes. Whether you are a vegetarian/vegan or not, whether you need to follow a diabetic diet or not, I recommend this cookbook highly.

This is the best book for identifying wildflowers that I have ever used. It works!! The blossom pictures are clear and make matching my finds to the pictures certain. My old copy was damaged. Since I was getting a new edition, I took the old copy to work. My coworkers liked it as much as I do. Several are buying their own copies for home use. This book is terrific!

This is a valuable resource for the naturalist as well as the wildflower enthusiast which describes 600 wildflowers found in Arkansas. Color photographs are provided for 484 flowers. Plants are arranged by family; this may seem awkward at first, but the book is well indexed. A glossary, state map showing regions, and diagrams of plant parts are other helpful tools provided in the book. This book is a must for me while hiking or driving the highways and backroads of my state. The only way Hunter could have improved this resource, is by providing a color guide for quicker idntification.

I imagine Mr. Hunter worked long and hard on this project. I recommend this guide without reservation-- great pictures, text, and layout by evolutionary relationship. Compared to the Peterson Guide covering this region, this is far superior for its geographic specificity. Whether your interest lies in other areas, such as birding or butterflying, or general natural history appreciation, this guide will improve your knowledge of Arkansas wildflowers and their associated fauna ten-fold. The best wildflower guide for the region, period.

This book had everything I was looking for - beautiful, full page, color photos of every flower. The design and layout of the book are wonderful, and the full page plant desription and notes is a great read. If you love wildflowers and learning about them, you will love this book

Clear, direct, informed!! This is possibly the handiest and most usable wildflower reference for high country walkers of the eastern U.S. The photos are clearer and with better contrast than any other reference we have.

You do not have to hike the 1,000+ miles of the AT to appreciate this book. These flowers are all over the eastern US. The descriptions are easy to understand and the photos are absolutely magnificent.

This is the best (and I mean best) cookbook on the market today. There are few "fancy" ingredients and 99% of the recipes can be made with what you have on hand. If you don't have something, it's easy to substitute. Need something elegant, look here. No nonsense, easy to use, and better yet, great recipes!

I checked this book out of the public Library and liked it so much after using it for several soups, I decided I needed it for many other reasons, such as the investment cooking section. I never thought I would need another cook book, but I just couldn"t pass "The Woman"s Day Cookbook.

This book is great, especially for a novice cook. The recipes are clearly labeled: low fat, easy, 30-minute, make-ahead, etc. There's a section called "cook once eat twice" for making a new recipe from the leftovers of another dish. They also have "investment cooking" where you spend 3-4 hours in the kitchen and you've prepared 6-8 completely separate meals to freeze for later. I always hated to cook, but I've been using this book for 3 weeks now and cooking almost every night. It's fun!

This book is an absolute must for anyone studying Joseph Smith. To ignore this book would be like biographizing Lincoln, and ignoring the Gettysburg Address.

It is a collection of the 173 Nauvoo discourses of Joseph Smith, covering the years 1839-1844. It is an interesting mixture, since the Prophet wore so many hats. We normally see him as Prophet, Seer and Revelator, but he was also Mayor, General, and Presidential Candidate and was a Husband, Father and Lover. This book opens up Joseph Smith and we hear him as the early saints heard him.

For example, on 180-181, James Burgess includes some of the Prophet's rhetorical "Oh no!" and "Oh yes!" flourishes. Sometimes we sand down Joseph Smith, thinking that he has some rough redneck edges. But I imagine that he would be quite a personable speaker. Judging from these notes, I am quite convinced of it.

I confess that we do have the "distance problem." We have a few autograph manuscripts, so we must work through the scribes. Then again, this is no different than the Socrates-Plato perplexity, and we still recognize Socrates as a great thinker nonetheless.

The gem of this book is the six contemporary accounts of the King Follet Discourse. You see how the early historians amalgamated the text into a seamless whole, and can see that there was no deception involved with the synthesis of the talks into one whole.

The book is divided among the five years, 1839-1844, with the spectacular notes placed at the end of each year-section. This novelty allows of easy access to the information, and makes the book thoroughly user-friendly.

This is one of my favorite books. I continually refer to it to double-check the talks in the official History of the Church, and Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Admittedly, it is a technical book, and not for casual reading, but for the serious hard-core scholar, it is a library essential.

This book is not an end all to the Joseph Smith question, but it brings us closer to a solution.

This is an excellent book which uses contemporary journal accounts to give a presentation of what Joseph Smith, Jr. ^really^ taught in his sermons. The general practice of the 1840's was to have scribes who scribed speeches, sermons, etc., as they were being given in order to preserve an account of such things.

The source documents which are quoted in this book come from the collection of journals in the archives of the LDS church. The history of these documents is important in that when the division between the RLDS and LDS churches occurred after the death of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, most of these journals were "arrested" from the possession of Smith's widow, Emma, by Brigham Young. She applied to receive them back but was denied. As a result, these journals made the trek west to Utah with the group that went there and became what is now known as the LDS (or "Mormon") church.

The book contains most of the recorded sermons and remarks made by the prophet during the 1839-1844 time period (the last 6 years of his life). However, some of them may not be completely accurate considering there is recorded court testimony by those who worked in the LDS historian's office after Joseph Smith's death to the effect that many of Joseph Smith's recorded sermons and history were altered to give credibility to some of the doctrines which the new leadership was wanting to teach. The largest amount of "changes" occurred, however, when the LDS official published accounts of Joseph Smith's history and teachings were made, using many of the journal accounts in this book as source texts. You will find that in many cases those "official" published sermons and statements read very differently than the journal accounts in this book.

It was found by going back to these journals that such things as the alleged 1844 "Rocky Mountain Prophecy" never occurred. The true wording of the prophet's statement gave no indication that the Latter Day Saints were ever to go to the Rocky Mountains. (And, as a point of fact, most of them didn't.)

A most interesting thing about this book of the prophet's teachings is that you will find no mention whatsoever of the doctrine of polygamy, which the Utah LDS later taught and claimed came from Joseph Smith. In this book you ^will^ however find his denunciation of the doctrine of polygamy as well as his repeated proclamation of innocence with regard to the accusations people were making against him at the time, namely of committing adultery in the name of religion and having several "secret" wives.

Within the footnotes of this book, however, you will find that the LDS editors make several attempts to pin the polygamy doctrine on Joseph Smith though there is no such actual reference to it in the text.

As a 4th-great nephew of Joseph Smith, I greatly appreciate the painstaking work of the editors in preserving the exact wording (including original punctuation and spelling) of the journal accounts that were available to them. Everyone of RLDS background or beliefs should be very interested in this book as it is the most accurate source available for the prophet's Nauvoo sermons.

Joseph Smith is an American prophet who restored Christ's church to the earth. I have read this book and the footnotes, carefully, 3 times. It contains the journal entries of persons who were actually present when Joseph Smith spoke. By having multiple accounts of different persons of the same discourse, one is able to more fairly judge what was said. The talks given are amazing: containing Christian doctrines that have lain dormant since before the time history calls the Dark Ages. The doctrines in these sermons represent a true Restoration of the doctrines taught by Jesus. The discourses are filled with references to the Bible and Jesus Christ. In addition, they contain much of history and give a feeling of events that unfolded in the United States of America in the years 1839 to 1844. The diary entries are left unchanged in grammar and punctuation and have the unmistakable imprint of authenticity.[There are also excellent annotations.] What did Joseph Smith teach? What was he like? In any true study one must go to the source and to eyewitness acccounts. Did God, our Father, have a plan in the finding, founding, and establishment of America? Yes, a land of religious freedom where the Gospel of Christ could be restored to the earth, after having been rejected by the people at and after the time of Jesus. Yes, the same Gospel, the same Church. Joseph Smith was a prophet just as Adam, Abraham, and Moses. The Lord has always worked through prophets. Joseph Smith is an American prophet and this book contains the Words of Joseph Smith.

Whether you're in the corner office of a Fortune 500 company or chairing the local Girl Scout Council, this book will help you run more productive meetings. (I'm using it for the local Library Board!) Nancy Stevenson makes difficult concepts easy to understand and provides lots of quick tips. This is a real "must have" book!

Whether you are a businessperson, an educator, or a parent, this book gives great ideas and strategies for motivating others. Chapters are broken into small chunks. I'm using this with teachers as a discussion book. I shared it with my friend who owns his own business, and he is using it with his managers.

This book is the best one I've read ever!!!

Where can I find directions on how to make Orson Bean's paper eucalyptus tree that he demonstrated on several talk shows (including, I think, the Tonight Show) in the late '50's??

This book is an excellent resource for my classroom. It is a great way to integrate following directions, the alphabet, and fun into snack time! ...and, the ingredients listed are all items that can be brought by parents or purchased inexpensively!

What a fabulously clever book! Please thank the authors for this creative yet easy-to-follow snack book. My son can't wait to learn his next letter and we both enjoy the snacks. Your readers must try this book!!

I received this book as a wedding gift in 1964. The husband is long since history, though we cooked our way through it together, and I raised three kids on it, but now, I have somewhere along the way misplaced my badly used copy, and can't find it in bookstores. I would love to have another copy. it's a must for every cook who has to make a meal or two or three every day, and still live on a budget.

I recommend it to everyone, one for yourself and at least five in reserve for wedding and shower gifts.

Great recipies for raising a large family on a budget. Good variety and simple to read & follow. Young cooks can learn quickly & easily too.