This is the book that changed everything for me. Its about approaching this disease with Love, Strength and Courage.
Frena shows you how to get thru a day at a time and most of all how to keep yourself intact. We get lost in this disease, it consumes whole families. She shows you how to listen, your loved one is still within this person afflicted by this disease,you just have to listen carefully and you will see the person you love is still inside and has alot to tell.She shows you how to cope. Frena is my strength, she gave me the tools from reading her book 3 years ago. This book is my foundation and Frena is an angel. No other book affected me as much as this one. If you want to truly understand this disease, this is it!

For anyone with a loved one suffering with Alzheimer's this is the book to get. It will help you understand the disease and how to cope. Written in everyday language it is packed with information on the stages these victims go through and how you can help them. One of the best I've read!

This is a tremendous resource for people who believe in the healing power of Love. Frena Gray Davidson has written a very spiritually centered book that will inevitably help any caregiver and their loved one.

She speaks about how we'll see the "divine child" untouched by darkness or sickness - our loved one - emerge in this process. And she states that we must listen to the feeling behind the words. That little statement has changed my life. When someone asks for their mother, who may have passed on decades earlier, they're really seeking comfort and security and reassurance. We need to hear their feelings that lie in back of their words.

She goes on to say that 30% of language is verbal, the rest is expressed in body language and behavior.

Further on she makes the observation that Alzheimer's patients are sensitive to the thoughts of those around them and to always give plenty of Love, both in word, action and thought.

She states that "unconditional Love is not a measure, it is a flow. You cannot give it or get it, you can only be part of it. When you love a person with Alzheimers, clarity and awareness come to that person." [p149]

The other wonderful point she makes is that so much of our disappointment in Alzheimers patients is tied to our notion of their "proper" mortal identity. Your mother doesn't know she's your mother anymore, but you can value and cherish who she is in the here and now. Don't live in the past but nurture the childlike qualities she is expressing in the present.

Tons of good advice. The other book I'd recommend for anyone dealing with Alzheimers is "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures" by M. B. Eddy. It is a terrific sourcebook on powerful prayers that heal and restore. It is the "how-to" book of prayer.

The Gastronomical Tourist: Memories And Recipes Of A Bistro Crawler At Home And Abroad combines over 200 bistro recipes with an affectionate recollection of fine dining in small bistros around the world, and discusses such varied topics as what makes a Nicoise Salad, and memories of eating Peruvian Chowder in San Francisco. Mouth-watering descriptions blend with dishes which are equally appealing and surprisingly simple.

This book is a delightful page turner! It shares treasured eateries and makes you want to indulge in the people, places and well indexed catagories of dishes provided. You can't help but make the "Home Bistro" meals--they ensure great creations that celebrate places, people and well proven finds abroad--right in your own kitchen, at home! The PLATS DU JOUR is a wonderful recipe--Vegetable Pudding XXIV is also a must! Thank you Arthur Bloomfield for sharing your treasures!

This book combines great eating and great travel experiences into a unique reading experience. I can't imagine any reader putting down this book without either running eagerly into the kitchen or booking a flight to some of the romantic eating places described here. A wonderful bonus is the delightful writing style.

Everything Bloomfield guessed about teaching reading has been confirmed by modern neuroscience. This is the best approach to teaching reading because it works with how the human brain processes language. It is even better than phonics. Children who learn to read with this system will be able to read nearly everything by the time they are in junior high.

I have joyous memories of learning to read from Lets Read when I was three, and my mother, who taught one of my brothers and me, still speaks of it fondly. So when I went on line, without much hope, to try to find a copy for my small niece, I was thrilled to see that it was still in print.

What a shock, however, to discover that it was written by the linguist Leonard Bloomfield! It appears that he devised the method and materials for his young son, who wanted to learn to read.

Looking at it now, as an adult (and, coincidentally, a one-time linguist), I find the book's approach fascinating. It is based, seemingly, on a simple assumption: that if you give children carefully controlled examples that demonstrate specific rules of written English, they will extrapolate and internalize those rules on their own without too much conscious effort. Bloomfield went systematically through the English language, figured out the rules of representation of sound in our occasionally bizarre writing system, and grouped words together in ways that demonstrate the rules automatically to an absorbent young mind.

There is no commentary for the child, no lesson as such, merely words combined to make them easy to master as one acquires a broader and broader knowledge base. The heavy use of rhyme adds to the pleasure, for the child, and is part of the system at first. The text advances from two, three or four word sentences at the beginning ("Nan can fan Dan. Can Dan fan Nan?") to a complex "big kid" story at the very end. It is a relaxed and enjoyable program and very accessible to a child who wants to learn to read but is still too young to go to school. It assumes an eager child and a mild schedule of perhaps 15 minutes per day for several months. A patient and willing teacher (I was extremely fortunate in mine) is also a necessary part of the deal.

Bloomfield's introduction remarks: "Purely formal exercises that would be irksome to an adult are not irksome to a child, provided he sees himself gaining in power." The phrase reflects precisely the sense of empowerment that I as student and my mother as teacher vividly remember coming with each successive chapter.

Of course, it is more than 50 years now since Bloomfield and his colleague Clarence Barnhart (who learned of the materials when he mentioned to Bloomfield that he was looking around for a text to teach his own child) first began to look for a publisher. The reading samples in the Let's Read text, once you move beyond the "Dan Nan fan" stage, are unmistakably dated. It's startling to remember that in 1949 textbook mothers ironed and cooked while fathers took trains to work. The Nans and Dans would probably divide up their activities differently now, but I did not see anything in a quick glance-through that made me terribly worried of fostering an anti-feminist brainwashing of the next generation. If one is bothered by the stereotypes in the old texts, however, one can easily take the words from each chapter - a useful index is included -- and use them to write little stories of one's own.

I am not a teacher and know nothing of the other systems of teaching reading, but I suspect that Bloomfield's approach may be a good one. It may lead to practices of analyzing language that go beyond simply learning to read English text. At any event, it should certainly do the latter. And it was wonderful for us.

I am the proud parent of five children that could all read BEFORE they were in the first grade! This book is amazing. It is logical and it is proven to teach the concept of reading. All the talk about education is just that- talk. This book is the best tool that I have ever seen for teaching reading, it should be manditory in every school system in the United States and I can't for the life of me figure out why it isn't. Get a copy, look at it and try it- I am sure you will agree with me

Bloomfield and Goldberg manage to take a comprehensive and heartfelt perspective on a very sensitive subject: how do we explore and understand our relationship with God? They ask the hard questions from many different viewpoints in a way that invites us to ask those same questions of ourselves--what do we expect of God, how do our own attitudes of God color our vision of God? Ultimately the authors show us ways to find peace within ourselves and with the Divine by both challenging us, and empathizing with us, as we explore and strive to reconcile our connection with God. The book was rich with stories, metaphors, humor and pathos, allowing the reader to connect with this delicate issue in many different ways. I highly recommend it! --Susan Quinn

I'll admit I approached this book with some skepticism. I initially feared that the authors were bringing a feel-good, self-help approach to a subject that demands considerably more gravitas; and in any case "God" has not been an operative term in my vocabulary for some years now. I was pleasantly surprised. Bloomfield and Goldberg skillfully mine sources both Eastern and Western, scriptural and secular, and extract an expansive definition of God (or rather an expansive appreciation of the undefinability of God) that blows past the usual Sunday school Superbeing that has sent so many intelligent people running for the exits. There's a lot of warm humor and feet-on-the-ground spiritual pragmatism here. One innovation that I found particularly helpful is the idea, adapted from the Enneagram, of nine types of people (the Reformer, the Lover, the Boss, etc.), who all find different dynamics at play in their quest for the infinite, with different resources and different challenges. As the authors caution, everyone has elements of more than one type, but these psychological portraits can still be extremely valuable in pointing up limiting patterns and assumptions that we have been so locked into that we don't realize we're locked in. Once you see these patterns, you're a good part of the way toward transcending them. This is a useful book that will open doors for people who care about a relationship with God, and for many who think they don't.

TOO DARN HOT reads like a latter twentieth century time capsule of American sexual culture, packed with tales, poems, essays, criticism, and ravings by everyone from Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison to Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Outrageously candid, deliciously witty, and often devastating, this smattering of carnal attitudes, insights, politics, and nostalgia travels down almost every avenue of sexuality. The oppressed, celibate, abused, confused, angry, holy, ecstatic, ambiguous, and salacious all have a voice here. Perhaps the only opinions left out -- though not missed -- are those of online cyborgasm junkies.

WhatÕs most striking about this collection is how stories that would make for eyebrow-raising evening news headlines are transformed into beautiful testimonials of the inexplicable yearnings lurking within each of us. In Philip ApplemanÕs ÒA Priest Forever,Ó a priest trying to explain to the parish board his fondling of 68 Òangelic,Ó very underage boys evokes images of sweet, wistful desire, rather than repugnant abuse. And when a mother caught masturbating caves in to her inquisitive daughterÕs repeated requests that she share the riches of her humming vibrator -- ÒBuzz my cunny, Mommy!Ó -- we can hardly fault her for embracing the experience as a ÒJust this once, HoneyÓ rite of passage between mother and daughter.

The editors of this anthology had the right idea in beginning each of its four sections -- Desire, Society, Body, and Ritual -- with a clip dating back to KinseyÕs era. Opening pieces such as a book review of The Kinsey Report and Hugh HefnerÕs ridiculous editorial from the first issue of Playboy (Ò...we arenÕt a Ôfamily magazineÕ. If youÕre somebodyÕs sister, wife, or mother-in-law and picked us up by mistake, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to your Ladies Home Companion.Ó) jar us right back to that pre-Elvis mentality. Often the juxtaposition of the more current piece that immediately follows is precious. You canÕt help but snicker ! as pre-war marriage counseling pioneers Drs. Hannah and Abraham Stone preach their Leave It to Beaverisms of marital success, only to be succeeded by the detailed Joy of Sex snippet on how to lick, stroke, and straddle a male partner like a pro.

TOO DARN HOT is at its best when treating sex as the life-affirming, hilarious, raucous blast (no pun) it was intended to be. ChrystosÕ poem ÒI Bought a New RedÓ giddily recounts a feverish date between two women hell-bent on upstaging everyone from the restaurantÕs onlooking Òblazer dykes,Ó doomed to a humdrum night of Ògirl scout sex,Ó to the roommate who labels them disgusting for doing it on the stairs while guffawing and shredding their clothing to bits. Even more priceless is Philip RothÕs diatribe of an adolescent whacking off compulsively and ever-so-inventively -- into a milk bottle he keeps hidden in the basement, into a cored apple at a family picnic, onto a piece of liver he bought at a butcher shop onto his way to bar mitzvah class.

In their introduction, the editors stress that this book, with its carefully culled cross-section of sexual behavior, is more meant to illuminate, rather than titillate. And for every irresistible piece on the joys of a really good romp, there are two on the psychological pain of sex gone awry. The excerpt from Eve EnslerÕs play ÒThe Vagina MonologuesÓ beautifully depicts the repressive shame a woman harbors about her genitalia for more than 40 years, ever since a high school lover was so disgusted by her lusty flood of an ejaculation. When asked what her vagina would wear if it could dress itself, she answers, ÒIt would wear a big sign -- CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.Ó

Most anthologies of erotica require a willing suspension of disbelief. They're filled with silly soft- or hard-porn works, fantastic scenarios, happy endings. This anthology is for the thinking reader and it shows how difficult it is to write about sex -- and how well some of our greatest writers have managed to describe the emotions and situations that have moved and affected us all -- physically as well as psychically. There is humor, longing, contemplations of the meanings of pornography, and blow-by-blow descriptions that will get you, yes, Too Darn Hot.

it is very difficult to get hold of a copy, but it is definately worth it! It takes you around the world of web ads and how teh consumers react to them. The Authors conclusion though tend to understimate all the other papers that were published in the book. Well deserved 5 star.

This book is a very good teaching aid, it is clear and precise and gives intructions simple enough for young children but also features advice that more experienced players will find very usefull. The flowmotion pictures are really great and help show a player exactly how to move. Each picture is anotated and the book covers every aspect of our wonderful game from pitching to sliding and from bunting to catching flyballs and crowhops. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their technique.

This is a great photographic history of Michigan. I recomend itto anyone interested in their city's heritage. I loved this book! END

A very well researched, very well compiled history presented with a sense of appreciation and affection. This book contains a truly spectacular collection of historical pictures. It's obvious a lot of effort was put into this book. The authors covered everything including Brookside School and the ONT factory! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

This book is a very easy to read guide which helps get you through the loss of a loved one, whether that loss is due to death or a break up. It starts from day one - "what happened?!??!" - and takes you to the end stage - moving on to the next love. It provides basic, common sense advice (we all know that in these times we sometimes lack that common sense!), poems, stories, and basic companionship. It acts as a friend, a guide, a helpful companion. You can sit down, read the portion applicable to you at that time, and then come back to the rest later. For example, if you are at the grieving stage, read that section, digest its advice, absorb the poems, and then, when you are ready, read on - to the next stage. The guide is constructed to lead you through the stages of grieving and moving on. Reading ahead can be helpful - so you know where you are heading - as is reading back, so that you can see how far you've come! And, if you aren't normally a poetry fan, don't worry! These are poems which are easy to read, funny, deep, and non-threatening, all at the same time. Get this book - you won't regret it!

I first read this book in 1992 after the loss of my grandmother to a stroke. It helped me to go day by day through my stages of loss.

Since then I have read this book many times through my losses of jobs, friends and boyfriends. Most recently I have once again taken "How to survive the loss of a love" out after the tragic death of a friend in a car accident. This book in simple terms can help anyone relate their loss to everyday life. I'm sure that in years to come this book will once again be needed in my life. I leave it in my bedside table for those nights my losses come back to haunt me.

I'm almost done reading this book and find it most helpful. It is short and easy to read, which is good, because someone dealing with a loss has very little attention span. The best thing about this book is that it lets me know that what I am going thru and how I feel is perfectly normal and to be expected. There are words on these pages that could have been taken straight from my heart. And I must disagree with the previous review -- I love the poems -- I find them inspired. If you are going thru a loss not of your choosing (mine is a divorce), I highly recommend this book to let you know you will survive and you will be ok.