This book was a life saver - I have been looking for a book like this for a long time. I had a complete hysterectomy at 28 and couldn't find much to help me along with the sudden Menopause - this bok has explained so much - now I don't have to think I lost my mind - I realized I'm not alone in this and there a reason for what is happening to me not just "it will pass". I've recommended this book for friends who are still too be going through Menopause but will be someday and need to prepare - this book is a great way to do that.

I got this book because someone close to me was forced to undergo a hysterectomy at a very young age. Upon reading it, however, I discovered that I could learn as much from it as could any menopausal woman. The author includes a great deal of information that is useful for all women, everything from ways to address dry skin to nutritional concerns to infections. She offers non-traditional ways to address problems that women can try themselves, rather than just resorting prescriptions (although she does provide information on those). She includes "coping strategies" for the problems she identifies, and ends each chapter with bullet points from the chapter, which makes the material much easier to digest. She also ends the chapters with points to talk about with your doctor. Women who read this book will not only get health information but also tips on taking charge of their own health, and will no longer be satisfied with a doctor's dismissal of their very real conditions and concerns -- that might be the best result of all. I have recommended this book to every woman I know. Turns out that buying a book for
someone else was really buying a book for myself!

After having a hysterectomy with removal of my ovaries, I was unprepared for being thrown into menopause at such a young age - I am only 25. I was searching for answers and getting very little direction from my health care professional. Thank God I stumbled across Sudden Menopause by Debbie DeAngelo. I find this book to be extremely beneficial. The aspects I found most useful are the case histories and the coping strategies. After reading the case histories, I realized that I wasn't alone in what I was feeling and experiencing and the coping strategies are helpful in managing my symptoms. I also learned from reading this book that I am at a risk for osteoporosis as well as heart disease even though I am so young. It is obvious that this book was written by a woman who has been through sudden menopause and is concerned with helping other women to cope.

What's common with most Parker novels (and let me say that this is the ONLY common thing about them), is the length, around 200 pages a pop. But for the 20th and final Parker adventure--until the aptly titled COMEBACK was published in 1995--Richard Stark has treated us with a fat 300 page epic called BUTCHER'S MOON. And what a treat it is! Parker, our favorite anti-hero, has once again teamed up with fellow professional thief, Grofield, to recover the stashed loot from a previous score. The loot is long gone, of course, and soon getting it back takes a back seat to getting revenge. Parker calls in all of his old friends--and I mean ALL of 'em, even retired thief Handy McKay jumps at the chance to join the party--because what Parker has planned is nothing short of a war, The Thieves vs. The Hoods, and when it's over an entire town will be cleaned out, a mob outfit will lay in ruins and Parker & Company will be stepping over the bodies.

It took me 13 years to find this book and I can honestly say it was worth the wait. Those who have encountered Parker before do not need encouragement to read this, but for the first timer this book will open your mind to a totally different kind of hero, one you find yourself rooting for even though you find no common principles between you. Fairness, the ability to see an argument from another's view, willingness to compromise, to Parker these are foreign phrases. In this book a Mafia boss tries to make Parker understand that what he wants is simply not possible, indeed more than one person tries to make Parker see sense. But Parker is as unstoppable and inevitable as the juggernaut, if you attempt to interfere, at best, you can hope he'll ignore you, at worst, you'll make him mad. This book showed for the first time that Parker can get emotionally involved, which he had always resisted as it may have affected his judgement. The "new" side to Parker merely cemented his reputation as the toughest antihero in crime fiction. If you read this book you will read the rest of the series. In a lifetime of reading books this is the only series I continue to come back to. After writing this Stark could not "find the voice" for nearly twenty years. Thankfully this is not the last Parker, but if it had been I'm sure the author would have been justifiably proud to have ended on this high note.

When the mob holds his friend hostage, and they send him a finger , Parker goes after them with a fierce revenge. This is the best book of the parker series I have read to date.

My name is Joe, I'm 14 and play guitar. I didn't know how to read music but wanted to learn so I started looking for books to get me started...when I saw that this book has a CD inside also, I got it...it's not confusing like other books I've looked at and you can check with the CD to make sure you are playing right!

My name is... and I got your sight reading for guitar book. It's teaching me to read music and it's funner than I thought..I like the CD you can listen to so you know you're playing right...now I'm teaching my friends too the notes on their guitars....What's another good guitar book after I'm done with this one? Thanks,...

First of all, this book comes with a CD to help you all the way. You won't guess if you've learning something right, you will know by audio example and you can do this at your own pace. Perfect for the guy like me who can play guitar but has not had the chance really to read music yet and doesn't know where to start...this is your book if you are a guitarist wanting to educate yourself...

There are plenty of books on the market about figure skating. Most of them cover individual skaters or they lightly gloss over the "pretty" aspects of the sport with colorful photographs of skaters posing. You'll find behind-the-scenes books telling you the inside scoop about what happens on tour or the life of a competitive skater. What there aren't many books about are those that cover the actual mechanics of skating past learning how to tie your skates and do a waltz jump.

The late Carlo Fassi was one of the premier skating coaches that the sport has ever known. He worked with top skaters and brought out their best. The author of this book has impeccable credentials.

If you're interested in photographs of skaters performing each move, seek out a copy of John Misha Petkevitch's "Figure Skating." You'll just find hand drawn illustrations here. I find that these drawings capture movement better than photographs and skating is all about movement.

Other reviewers have mentioned the chapters about triple jumps and various spins. What I'm finding very helpful is the chapter about compulsory figures. Just ten years ago, figures were dropped from international competition. Since then, they've been dropped from the U.S. competition structure and it's extremely difficult to find patch time or instruction. The sport is losing part of its heritage and the coaches I've spoken to bemoan the loss of edge quality in up and coming skaters who haven't done figures. I'm finding this one chapter to be most instructive.

This is really the only book I have found to include triple jumps as well as camel and other spins. What a great skaters resource whether you are on singles, doubles or triples. I had the pleasure of meeting and training with Christa and their techniques really work. Carlo Fassi was a great figure skater and a great teacher. This book is his legacy to all of us who are still trying to achieve those jumps.

Fassi applied his considerable coaching experience to the creation of this book. It contains his commentaries on common corrections to frequently made errors. As well as numerous stop action snapshot drawings of complex multiple jump. While there is not the ice tracing treatment provided in Figure Skating : Championship Techniques By: John Misha Petkevich, there is more attention to body position during the entire jump.

Although out of print, copies are still around, & may be avalable from your University Library.

I read that Stark thought "The Jugger" was his worst book. I disagree. I think I see where he's coming from, though. This story and book are out of character for Parker. He actually has to explain himself a couple of times and his enemies are outside of his world. So, it's a bit different from the previous books. I think, however, that this is the best plotted since the first book. I really enjoyed the novel and it could easily stand alone outside of the series. I hope "The Seventh" comes back in print soon.

Joe Sheer, a fine old man, retired safecracker (jugger), has been Parker's contact man for years. Parker receives a disquieting letter from Joe and wonders if he is getting a little old for the job. Parker decides to pay him a visit, not to present a gold watch, but perhaps to help Joe along to his eternal rest. The usually overly careful Parker flies to Sagamore, Nebraska to have a hands-on visit with Joe using his clean-as-a whistle alias, Charles Willis.

Picture Smalltown U.S.A. Friendly folks, picket fences, nicely clipped lawns, tree shaded lots, porch swings, and you have Sagamore. Now picture deadly purposeful Parker strolling down the sidewalks. Neither one of them are quite ready for the other. Alas for Parker, there is no heist this time, Joe is already dead, and the local and state police are taking far too much interest in Charles Willis. Parker has to put his superb planning abilities in high gear to settle the natives, and solve the mystery of Joe's alleged buried fortune. Parker's sole interest in this is to get Charles Willis back to Miami unknown and uninvestigated.

This is a fine Parker outing where Parker is the only one in Sagamore with good sense, and with much exasperation has to lead the law to the truth. To get the job done, a few homicides happen, and a left over lady with "the eyes of a pickpocket and the mouth of a whore" helps him out. "The Jugger" is best read after you have read a couple other Parker novels for background. For all other Parker aficionados, this is choice.

Talk about waking from a coma. The Jugger begins confusingly - good confusingly, that is - with Parker in a hotel room in a small town in Nebraska. There's a dead guy in the obituary column, an annoying guy hanging around Parker, a cop outside. Everyone knows more than the reader at this stage, but nobody really knows anything. Turns out after a few chapters that the dead guy is the titular Jugger - a locks man who knew too much about Parker. The annoying guy and the cop think the dead guy knew something else - like where his life's earnings are hidden. Parker needs to make sure no one else knows what the dead guy really knew.
The story unfolds piece by piece, and Parker responds in the only way imaginable for one of fiction's most amoral characters.
Tough, very tight.

This book is one of the funniest books I've read this year ranking up there with David Sedaris' NAKED. The book starts off hilariously and doesn't let down. It is a cynical look at post-college life and pokes fun at the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff type of advice books. This is truly a very funny book that will make you laugh out loud heartily... It is a MUST read!!!

Carl Kozlowski has done it again with his wit and style of humor all his own. This book is the antithesis of all of Oprah's Remembering Your Spirit shows. (How approppriate that both these authors, also, come out of Chicago.) This book leaves the reader laughing so hard that he/she is crying, because of its nonstop irreverence. It is a MUST READ!

Tim Joyce just ROCKS! Okay, flattery aside, this book is full of witty and pithy observations that will help the naive people bravely entering the world for the first time as a young adult really "get it" and gives some very helpful survival insight.

Oh, yeah, it is FUNNY too!

I expect this book to become THE standard fare as a graduation gift for high school and college grads alike. This book picks up where Dr. Suess with his "Oh, the Places You'll Go" leaves off. It is also a great read for anyone about to face new challenges.

Did I mention it was FUNNY?

As a devout Christian (Catholic) the book is convincing testimony about the necessity of God in one's life to provide balance and direction in the trials that beset each of us from time to time. While my own inner struggles were settled some time ago, my spiritual life was stagnant. MY SEARCH FOR THE INFINITE provided helpful insights that helped spark and re-kindle my spiritual flame.

The book is a bedside favorite and I often medidate on its words before switching off the lamp at night. JCT

The author writes compellingly about coming to terms with negative destructive emotions, sharing how she overcame rejections by her mother... The book weaves through childhood to adulthood sharing the many travails that beset her. At age 88 she put pen to paper to provide instructions to other seeking the Truth. Scattered carefully throughout the book one finds glimpses of her personal association with Joel S Goldsmith. The author has also included dozens of her inspired and illumined poetry. This inclusion adds to what is already a gripping story of a Messianic Jew who triumphs above personal heartaches and set backs. A must for Goldsmith devotees and those interested in mysticism.

Written as though dictated by Scott M. Peck!
Highly recommend! RC Texas

This book continues to help so many of us on our own inner journeys - I, for one, will refer to the writings time and again for help, guidance and, more importantly, encouragement...The book is wonderfully illustrated with many of the author's beautiful poems - at the most appropriate point - love the many quotations which are so helpful. MM Great Britain

If you are intrigued by the allure that the Arctic has for some people, or are yourself unable to resist subzero weather at the top of the world, then Ring of Ice is a must. Stark has collected a truly diverse range of stories beginning with the comedy of errors endured by Georg Wilhelm Stellar, the German-born scientist aboard Vitus Bering's 1741 Russian expedition to the North American coast, and ending with the luminous prose of modern Artic explorers such as Barry Lopez.

Stark's informative introductions to each essay are both helpful and amusing. He has also sought to balance the primarily European writers and their points of view with those of the native Inuit people by preceding each essay with an Inuit poem. "The poems emphasize the Inuit ethic of sharing, egalitarianism, and incessant hunting, as well as the simple joys and fears of life." They are, of course, in sharp contrast to the accounts of the European explorers, who sought to conquer rather than work with nature, and usually perished as a result.

The book is divided into 4 sections (called books), but the progression of pieces is linear. The 1998 piece entitled "Tale of a Hunter's Daughter," is so pignantly written and captures the feeling of both the land and the woman struggling to make her way in it, that it is worth the price of the whole book. Of course there are other stand-outs, including "How Dr.Hayes Learned to Love Seal Blubber," "Nansen Strolls Farthest North," and "Cold Oceans: By Sea Kayak to Greenland."

Oddly enough, the poetry, which I thought was an excellent idea, is made inaccessible and difficult to read by the fact that it has been set in a script font that is too small to read comfortably. As a result, your eyes naturally gravitate towards the correctly sized, regular fonts used in the essays. This is really strange, given the time and effort that obviously went into the rest of the book, and I hope that Stark has made a very loud stink. It's hard to make yourself work at reading the poetry, which by its nature takes a little bit of work to appreciate. Otherwise a fine collection.

This is a wonderful book! Peter Stark has selected an extraordinary collection of vignettes from a wide range of original writings about the Arctic and its explorers. I've read many (but certainly not all) of his sources in their entirety, and enjoyed re-reading extracts of those that I have read before as much as I enjoyed reading for the first time those that were new to me. Stark has a fine eye, an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Arctic and a gift for weaving together these many tales into a fine, telling tapestry of Arctic adventure. Terrific!

Over the last two centuries expeditions have penetrated the Arctic and brought back important information - if they returned at all. This provides true stories of Arctic exploration and adventure, presenting the journals, letters and firsthand experiences of the explorers and natives of the region alike. An excellent addition for any collection covering world exploration.

I noticed this book at a local Christian discount bookstore two days ago, and I almost didn't pick it up. That would have been a huge mistake! I purchased this book for my husband, who normally doesn't read anything except Reader's Digest. He hasn't been able to put this book down! He keeps laughing out loud, which of course, prompts me to read over his shoulder :) We've had a great time and shared many laughs while reading this book, which is a bonus I didn't even consider when I gave it to him.

I went back to the bookstore yesterday to purchase a few more copies for my gift closet, and I also discovered Dave's book on raising boys. Now my husband is reading both at the same time!

Not only is this a funny book, it has many great insights regarding Christian parenting, and is thought provoking as well. I will be looking forward to new material from this author and highly recommend this book!

Witty. Funny. Brilliant. All the stories hit home, which is not terribly surprising since I wrote the thing. But what about reader reactions?

A fun, witty, lighter look at fatherhood. Kind of a cross between Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck. Lines like "A baby is the most effective form of birth control ever invented," will strike a chord with any couple whose plans to engage in a "little round of conjugal fellowship" have been thwarted.

Meurer writes: "Sure, babies look all innocent and adorable and helpless, but behind all that sweetness and cooing and drool works the tiny mind of a person who wants all the toys for himself. And the easiest way he can secure that inheritance is to make sure that you and your spouse never have sex again."

Very funny -- and true!

Stark is a character that is tough to forget. I read this series about one year ago and was just checking for an update to see if Stark would fight again. (See, I can't forget him).
His unswerving sense of ethics and ability to keep his troops together is reminiscient of L. Ron Hubbard's Lieutenant in Final Blackout. Great characterization and a fascinating story. I will read anything that comes out by John Hemry in the future.

I started with Stark's War, chheezy cover art and all. The story itself kept my nose glued to the book all evening. I couldn't put it down if I tried. The Third one was a fitting end to the trilogy. The storyline and plot were good, and Hemry gave his characters flesh and personality. It was more enjoyable than Tom Clancy. I am really sorry to see it end.

I got this book in the mail earlier today, at about, oh, 2:45 in the afternoon. It's 9:51 right now. Minus a few hours of work I had to do, I read the whole book straight through. Nonstop. I couldn't stop! I'm just glad I didn't end up losing any sleep!

Stark's Crusade is a fitting end to the trilogy. I don't know what more I can say, honestly! It was a great book. If you've read the other two books in the series, you *MUST* read this one. If you haven't read the other two, then GET THEM and READ THEM! SOON!

But make sure you have plenty of free time to do that in.