Jeani-Rose Atchison, author of Everyday Vegan, walks the walk. She grew up on a typical American diet as most of us did: "with no thought of nurturing, just the primitve notion of survival." This continued into her early thirties when she learned that she had compromised liver and kidney function. When she eliminated certain foods such as meat, dairy, and refined foods, she witnessed dramatic results: her body felt more relaxed, she moved easier, her joints were not stiff, and her breathing improved. Yes, this is a vegan cookbook, but more importantly, the first 70 pages are devoted to chapters on Conscious Living, Thinking of Children, Food Group Facts, and Food Philosophy. Attention is called to organic food and genetically engineered food, with case studies about the use of pesticides and children.
Recipe categories include appetizers/dips/spreads, condiments, soups, salads/dressings, breads, side dishes, entrees, desserts, and beverages. Instructions are given on how to sprout, and how to make tempeh. Winning recipes include Cashew French Toast, Asian Spring Rolls with a tamari/lime dipping sauce, and Carrot Cake that uses fruit as a sweetener. Everyday Vegan provides invaluable information, not just for those starting out on a vegetarian path, but for all health conscious individuals.

This book really changed my life. It is written in more of a casual format, but its content is very good. It contains a great deal of diet guidelines, as well as a number of very good vegan whole-natural-food recipies. I own a number of vegan cookbooks but this is the one that I go to 90% of the time. In addition, following this book, I've lost about 50 pounds!

Gambling as a recreation? Yes. Gambling as an addictive/compulsive disorder which could lead to homelessness or suicide? Yes, that too. This book is highly satirical and funny and to use a phrase: Love it or leave it, this book pokes fun at many of the taboo's which thrive in Las Vegas. With the spread of gambling to other states, which other ills may follow? Gambling - it comes with a caveat emptor gaurantee. -- a long time Las Vegas resident

A great book on the ghost towns of this beautiful state! One of the best I've seen on the subject!

This book has very good photographs of the 3 railroad passes with both steam & diesel locomotives in action (passenger & freight). The book also gives history of the Santa Fe RR as well as it's predecessors. Operations & geographical information. Timeline 1950's.

This book is a must for any high technology small businesses. The book diagrams all of the necessy ingredients to prepare a proposal for the government multi-million dollar SBIR program. I have used the book to sucessfully win 5 Phase I and 3 phase 2 contracts for over $2.5 million in contracts . The contracts were from the Air Force, Department of transportation and the Wright Laboratories.

This book by John Signor is among the best of the Signor tradition. Extra fine hand drawn maps, rich text about the present and history of each stop AND information about the overall area are Signor's hallmark. If you want to know about heavy-duty western mountain railroading, get it! Read it!.

"Santa Fe Railway"
Steve Glischinski
ISBN 0-7603-0380-0

It would seem that this book was written for railroad enthusiasts. It is not without facts about engine model numbers and wheel configurations, but more importantly it also brings back the feel of the glory days of one of the most famous railroads in American history. My interest is more in the latter. My dad worked for the Santa Fe as a switchman. My family was a railroad family. At night, we heard the boxcars being banged together in yards not far from our house. I can remember standing on the front porch, as a small boy, to watch the "Texas Chief" approach.

A particularly interesting chapter in this book deals with Fred Harvey's remarkable success in his food service business with the Santa Fe Railroad. Prior to Harvey, food at railroad restaurants was notoriously bad. In 1876, Harvey approached the Santa Fe. He was given a try. He succeeded by providing fine meals and service at his first location in Topeka. The Santa Fe asked him to open more restaurants at train stations further west. Within a few years, he had branched off into building hotels for railroad employees, but eventually for the general public. His restaurants and hotels went from Kansas to California. One of Harvey's most popular hotels was at the Grand Canyon. Harvey's restaurants were staffed by attractive young women of good character relocated from the East to work in his establishments. The "Harvey Girls" lived in supervised dormitories he provided. Ultimately, Harvey relocated over 5,000 young women. Many of whom married and remained in the West. When the Santa Fe started providing dining cars on its trains in the 1890's, Harvey received a contract for that as well. The book has a photograph of a dining car menu from the 1960's that is certainly nostalgic to read.

Railroading was an extremely competitive business, about which one could draw parallels to the present day computer industry. For one thing, railroads were about technology. The railroad that had the fastest and most powerful locomotives had a competitive business advantage over the others. As with computer companies, no advantage held up for long. The Santa Fe was constantly innovating, such as when it began trying out diesel locomotives. The Santa Fe was not above employing technological stunts to get publicity, such as when in 1905 it accepted a challenge to get a train from Los Angeles to Chicago in 46 hours. The three-car, so-called "Coyote Special" made it under 45 hours. Railroads, also like computer companies, often sought to acquire other railroads, the ultimate fate of the Santa Fe when acquired by the Burlington Northern in 1996. But the Santa Fe ran for over a hundred years.

This book brought back a lot of good memories for me. It may for others as well.

This book covers every aspect of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from its beginnings in 1868 to its merger with Burlington Northern in 1995-96. The various chapters cover segments of that history, with others on Passenger trains and Santa FE's steam and diesel locomotives. Of particular interest are Santa Fe's growth and acquisition of important rail routes, its pioneering role in development of intermodal traffic, and its passenger service which was second to none. Who could not help falling in love with those Warbonnet E- and F-units pulling stainless steel coaches! Modern diesels (not including AC types) are covered as well. There is a photo (or a map) on nearly every page, mostly color, with some nice old black-and-whites. The pages are laid out well with a minimum of blank space, and the text is well-written and very readable without being overly technical. On pages 8-9 a 1967 system map shows Santa Fe's major routes with many connecting ones of other railroads; just looking at brings back memories of railroads long gone (Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, Frisco, even Pennsylvania).

While this book may be a bit pricey for a softcover, it's sure to please. If it doesn't make you a Santa Fe fan, probably nothing will. --- Paul H!

I got this book a couple weeks ago and immediatly was hooked. It's nicely written, has alot of steam plus enough diesel piccies to keep me happy. A nice history of the Harvey services also included.
I'm a rookie railfan, and I learned TONS from this book. SF & BNSF are my favorites, nothing compares to the warbonnet.
Most of the book is all history from day one to the merger with Burlington Northern. Then it covers the steamers and diesels in their own chapters. Well worth buying.

This is an an easy to read but very informative book, excellent for students. The end of chapter glossary and list of commonly used drugs is invaluable. This book provides the need to know stuff about OT.

I am taking my Adult Physical Dysfunction class right now and almost every diagnosis in the book is one that we are studying. The case studies throughout the book are very helpful and BEST of all, the book gives an Occupational Performance Profile to let me (as a beginning OT) know which performance areas and components are being affected for each specific patient. It is a wonderful book.

This book has good content, particularly for ophthalmic optics. The description of optical aberrations is useful. However, the treatment of paraxial optics is confusing. The authors should avoid the use of symbols that are not writeable (e.g. Cyrillic), and obscure Greek letters. All in all, a useful book.

I am a researcher in the field of visual optics. I first obtained a copy of this book nearly 5 years ago, when I was a lecturer at the University of Auckland. I thought the book was excellent then and the subsequent passage of time has reinforced my view.

I refer to my copy constantly. When I am dealing with a new and complicated topic as part of my work my first instinct is to check if Smith and Atchison have anything to say on the topic, and I'm usually rewarded. They nearly always provide good introductory material and analytical tools. The book contains very basic level material which is suitable for undergraduates in the area of clinical optics and develops these concepts to postgrad and research levels.

The section on aberrations is extremely useful, although it does not use the Zernike polynomials that have become popular in the last few years, it has still allowed me to do useful analysis of my data. I have also found the sections on optical quality calculations extremely useful, and the appendices on schematic eyes are the most complete I've come across in the literature.

I look forward to many subsequent editions of this text. An excellent book for researchers and students.

This book should have been titled an introductory survey rather than an introduction. The author paid way too much attention to some subjects while other were just summarized. With its poor organization, this 250-page book had it's moments but was not succinct enough to serve as a good primer.

Some universities recommend potential linguistic students to read 'Teach Yourself Linguistics' in order to see if studying this interesting subject is really what they want...

That's pretty astonishing! For the book is not 'an introduction to an introduction' as its foreword states. It is more of an outline, with more deep-cut analysis of whatever the author happens to feel like going deeper into. The book can also serve as a reference on terminology.

But that's all, really...

Furthermore, it is far too theoretical and schematic. The examples are always taken from the same languages and are often very far-fetched.

It is a pity, for the subject does need a basic introduction book, a point to start. The best feature of 'Teach Yourself Linguistics' is that it might serve as an appetizer for what particular branch of linguistics one would want to explore further.

I have always loved language, and have been especially interested in foreign languages, so I thought that I might like linguistics. After reading this book I found that I was indeed interested in the area, and now I am considering making it my college major.

The book started out by asking basic questions (What is language?) and describing the topics that comprise linguistics; it then branched out into areas such as sociolinguistics, concluding with an overview of Chomsky's ideas. The clear diagrams were very helpful in explaining the text. At the end, there is a list of suggested titles for further reading, organized by topic.

I was delighted to discover that even things we think we know, such as what one word is, are not always clearly defined. The book is full of interesting information and anecdotes to illustrate points. I learned, for example, that in the Welsh language there is a color which roughly translates to the English "blue," but the color also includes shades of what we call "gray" and "green."

The Chomsky section was a little dry because it was so abstract and lengthy, but overall the book was fascinating. I think that it is much more than a list of terms, as one reviewer asserted. Also, I agree with the reviewer who observed that this books gives readers an idea of what specific areas of linguistics they are most interested in. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in linguistics.