This book is a good example of a completely outdated view on diet and nutrition. If you wish to know what people thought was a balanced diet and nutritious in the 1950's, then by all means buy this book. If you are looking for something a bit more contemporary, find another book that has a more healthy view on carbohydrates and sugars and preparation of healthy meals without highly refined or processed ingredients.

This book is essentail for healthy people to enrich their nutritional background. It instructs people how to select healthy foods and avoid bad nutritional habits.

Together with a calculator, I found and find this book to be absolutely indispensable in putting together and maintaining a healthy balanced diet, getting all the necessary nutrients, maintaining my weight and limiting as much as possible my intake of saturated (bad-cholesterol raising, and therefore possibly lethal as possibly heart attack/atherosclerosis/heart disease causing, if consumed in excess) fat at this time (after my cholesterol was determined by my doctor to be too high and I was advised by him to change my eating habits and improve my nutrition generally). In the beginning of the book is a short introductory chapter in which the basics of a healthy balanced diet are briefly discussed together with a graphic representation of the FDA's FOOD PYRAMID GUIDE and discussion of it, including what constitutes a portion and how many portions of the various kinds of foods comprising the pyramid one should have daily generally for one's sex, age range and activity level. One thing the author said that I liked very much and which helps me is that if one doesn't eat as healthily as one should one day, there is always the next day in which to improve. This book is the only resource of its kind which I have which lists Total Fat in grams AND SATURATED FAT IN GRAMS. I appreciate the fact that this information is included and that it is presented in this way (and not just as a percentage of the Total in the case of Saturated Fat) as this makes it as easy as possible for me to process quicky and simply. It continues to be particularly helpful to me in limiting my consumption of total fat, in general, and saturated fat, in particular, which as I said above is someting that I have been told need to do on an ongoing basis and which I do try to do. It lists a wide variety of foods and nutritional information in a format that makes it possible for an unusually large number of them to be included without their taking up a great deal of space. This makes it paricularly helpful to me in making healthy choices - getting enough of the nutrients I need without too much of anything I should not have too much of, and exercising portion control. Highly highly recommeded.I wouldn't want to be without it and I continue to refer to it for necessary nutritional information on an ongoing basis. The author is highly qualfied and has done an excellent job.

I was looking at this book in the library and it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. The girls in here have terrible jumps and they won't improve a girls jump if she is a cheerleader (because she would look at the incorrect way). They show you how to make pom poms and skirts from things at home, but it's more of a childish book for kids up to 3rd grade. I do not reconmend this for anyone wanting to try out for cheerleading or anything else. This is just to have fun with little girls.

I teach reading and this book would appeal to elementary girls

Well this book is like the best I mean if i were a little kid and I wanted to be a cheerleader this is the book I read it to my tutor class and they loved it. Coming from a head cheerleader and the altime number one that all the guys went for it is like so good mostly if you want guys

Geostatistics is a fatally flawed variant of applied statistics because it violates the requirement of functional independence and ignores the concept of degrees of freedom. Without degrees of freedom, unbiased statistical inferences are impossible to obtain.

This is the best treatment of this subject that I've seen. It covers just about everything that you need to know on geostatistics.

Practical Geostatistics 2000 is an excellent volume for both teacher and learner written by world authorities in the field of statistics and geostaticstics. It combines theory with examples and exercises from various 'real world' applications of the techniques presented. With the software and data sets being free with the book, both teacher and learner can enforce and revisit the principles presented.

The importance of this book cannot be ignored by any learner in this field, with the nature of the practical approach and use of data from actual applications making it a necessary companion to every user in whatever field of application (be it mining, ecology, agriculture, fishing or any other known or unknown application).

I was fascinated by the details of Shaker life--the customs, the lifestyle, the furniture. What spoiled it all was the unrealistic dialog of the characters. Their words were not realistic speech; the dialog was there to convey meaning, but one would never hear people speak in such a way. There was no discernible difference between the characters' speech. So often after a good author has a book sell well, she/he rushes to get the next one on the market without tending to the details that made the first one good. I fear this is what happened here. Too bad. I feel cheated, and probably won't buy anything by this author again.

Kate Marburn learned to protect herself carefully after the horrible disgrace that her ex-husband left behind. While he absconded with millions, Kate was left to face charges of fraud in court, plunging from Toledo's elite society to scandal. Her ex-husband also left behind a suicide note but no body, and a daughter whom Kate loves as if the teenager were her own. Making a new start as the rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy widow, Kate enjoys her new quite life.

Unfortunately, Kate again plunges into the murky world of lawsuits and fear when Sara dies under mysterious circumstances. Subsequently, Shaker Run, a village originally owned by the Shakers and now restored offers Kate a position as their rosarian. There she meets Jack Kilcourse, an expert on Shaker furniture and a gifted furniture builder. Jack's kisses are as dark as they are delicious. Despite not revealing anything about his past or hidden pain, Jack proves entirely too alluring. Little do Kate or Jack suspect the dangerous criminal element that will threaten both of their lives.

SHAKER RUN provides an intriguing look into America past, and while the creative license lends its own shading to the facts, the sparkling originality of the background proves tempting and fascinating. Shakers, as the author clearly states in her note, did not use hallucinogenic drugs, but the shading of history provides a remarkable background for fraud and murder. SHAKER RUN has a couple of distracting weaknesses. Despite defrauding his clients for millions, we never clearly learn what the antihero did with his money, or why he wants Kate's money. In addition, the daughter truly got on my nerves and I wanted to throttle her selfish ways. Nevertheless, SHAKER RUN is enormously entertaining and engaging. Highly recommended.

Two years ago Katherine and Mike Marburn were new kids swimming in the elite social pool of Toledo. That crumbled when the SEC decided Mike committed fraud. He swindled clients out of millions, vanished, leaving behind a suicide note, but no corpse. The furor reigned on Katherine who also was left with Mike's daughter from a previous marriage.

Kate takes a job as companion to the elderly Sarah Denbigh. However when Sarah mysteriously dies, the police feel Kate killed her because the senior citizen changed her will and left everything to Kate rather than her two own children. In the midst of her second public furor, Kate accepts a job at historical Shaker Run where she meets Jack Kilcourse. She quickly realizes that something is not right with her co-workers and soon turns to Jake, a person she is beginning to fall in love with, for help.

SHAKER RUN provides an engaging look at an interesting segment of American History. The story line is loaded with action, but a meander or two too many makes it difficult at times to follow. The lead characters are warm and will hook the reader early on, but Sarah's children especially her daughter is just too obnoxious to be real. Still, fans will enjoy Karen Harper's romantic suspense because Kate and Jack make wonderful romantic guides escorting the audience into a piece of Americana.

Harriet Klausner

If you are actually looking for paper dolls, these are very nice, but if you are looking for fashion information, the book is not as helpful. The illustrations are not labelled at all, so unless you already know what you are looking at, well, you don't know what you're looking at. Try Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898 for research.

The paper dolls in this book actually span the period 1867-1898, unfortunately (I was actually looking for the 1870s!) If you are looking for paper dolls per se, these are very nice, with four dolls (Abigail, Beatrice, Caroline and Daphne) and their accompanying ensembles in full color and considerable detail. However, the clothes are not dated. You'll need some further references to follow the change of silhouette through the decades (try another Dover publication, Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar 1867-1898 - the two books complement one another).

This book does an excellent job of reproducing Victorian fashions. The figures and costumes seem to be taken directly from Harper's Bazaar - one of the main sources of Victorian fashion - rather than to be based on an author's conception of what people and fashions may have looked like. The dolls give an overview of the variety of dresses, fabrics, hats and accessories popular in the late 19th century.

a collection of poetry from as far back to phillis wheatley to today, so if you a fan of black poets from older day, you can find some of their works in this collection

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton, is reminiscent of a somewhat earlier anthology EVERY SHUT EYE AIN'T ASLEEP (also edited by Mr Harper and Mr Walton). The poems in the Vintage Book span three centuries, from Jupitor Hammon and Phillis Wheatley, to Carl Phillips and Reginald Shepherd; the 20th century, as one might expect, is most generously and gloriously represented. This reviewer has always prized the work of Countee Cullen and of Robert Hayden; and is grateful to make the acquaintance of Sterling A. Brown and Gwendolyn Bennett (her poem "To A Dark Girl," written early in the last cnetury, is an irreducible greatness); Langston Hughes is shown to advantage in the selection of his work, many of the chosen poems being new to this reader. It shames us that hithertofore we had not been familiar with the work of Boston-born William Stanley Braithwaite. Claude McKay and Jean Toomer appear in these pages, McKay's finely wrought sonnets being familiar from other anthologies. New to us, and a gift for which the reader is grateful, is Margaret Walker's "October Journey," of Keatsian loveliness.

Stylistic diversity exists here, and surfaces in a salient fashion as we reach the middle of the twentieth century: Gwendolyn Brooks (both formal and colloquial); Bob Kaufman (can we cavil at the omission of his fine eulogistic poem "Afterwards, They Shall Dance"?); Etheridge Knight (whose diamond-like haiku enliven our sense of the possibilities of the form); and the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, whose "Bounty" is indeed a marvel. Raymond Patterson's baldly unsubtle imitation of Wallace Stevens ("Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman") strikes this reader as a culpable generosity of inclusion on the part of the anthologists.

We find merit in the poems of Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton; Sonia Sanchez's piece urging nuclear disarmament does not affect us positively, on either a political or an esthetic level, a slack garrulity that is too long-winded to be a slogan and too formless to be a poem. Jay Wright, Michael S. Harper, Al Young and Toi Derricotte (almost exactly contemporaneous) fashion lyrics of beauty, ingenuity, toughmindedness and considerable appeal. We value Marilyn Nelson's poem (charmingly sardonic) called "Emily Dickinson's Defunct." Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, and Rita Dove -- justly renowned poets -- are in the Vintage Book (Komunyakaa a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1994, Dove a recent U. S. poet laureate). Nathaniel Mackey's poems display an unparalled intelligence and ability to renovate and renew the language; his work should be more widely known. Elizabeth Alexander cages wrath within formality in "The Venus Hottentot", and is quite effective in her sequence of poems about Muhammad Ali. And finally, an autumnophile reviewer must congratulate Anthony Walton on the achievement of his lyric "The Summer Was Too Long"; great poetic force is also to be found in his poems on Thelonious Sphere Monk and Emmett Till.

In short, this is a splendid anthology, recommended to all. There are lapses into the ineffectual stridency of sloganeering; nonetheless, we venture to say that the reader will be nourished and fortified by the majority of the poems in the Vintage Book of African American Poetry. These are lyrics of immitigable beauty, of consummate artistry, of serious esthetic accomplishment.

An excellcent collect of African American Poetry. Never really been interested in poetry, but after reading this book can't wait to read more poetry any kind of poetry.

There's a reason great actors get paid the big bucks: their voices have a quality that makes anything they read interesting and thought-provoking. Not so with these amateurs. They all sound like my past English teachers who made me hate poetry. Having no inate vocal qualities, they over emphasize every word and emotion, like someone reading a poem to young children. There is no subtlety or sub-text. If you just want to hear some famous poetry, maybe you'll like this. But if you're looking for something that will actually move you as you listen, this ain't it.

poetry is one of those things wich either you can't stand or simply love. Having been exposed to very little myself I decided to give this coolection a try. I have purchased Naxos products in the past so I considered myself to be safe. Naxos after all is a great publisher. Well, I popped in the first CD and boy I was drawn in. The various readers used on this production were simply outstanding. I have never heard such narration before. I don't know why the reviewer below me is complaining. I have very little knowledge about the poets included in this collection but I feel I got a crash course in some ways. It was a pleasure to simply listen to the text being read. It makes for a great companion when enjoying a good cup of coffee as well. I will most definitely buy more poetry collections done by Naxos; in fact I have started listening to another set all ready. Bravo to the readers and to a fine audiobook. It is one of those books I will listen to over and over again for the works here are timeless indeed.
This audiobook contains two CD's. The narration is done by a variety of readers and the poems are complemented with musical interludes.

The content of the book was usually clear. However, there is no glossary at all, and the index is horrible. As a textbook, this is unacceptable. Trying to study from it was a nightmare.

With this book, the writers adapted there previous release ("Ecology : Individuals, Populations and Communities", third edition) for easily understanding of the matter. But they don't just adapted it, they rewrote it. They focused, for example, on problems that are still unresolved. It has been written for students in ecology but also for everyone who wants to learn more about populations, evolution and ecosystems. I hope it will lead to a better understanding of ecology...

I'm an active duty soldier and business student. I have experience in the civilian business world, and will re-enter business upon completion of my term. Mr. Sullivan apparently has little experience outside of the military, and it shows. Although much can be learned from the military in terms of structure, team development, and decision making, it must be severely tempered with a dose of good business sense. The Army does not operate for profit, and therefore will never achieve the same level of pursuit of excellence that a highly motivated businessman can. Because the Army lacks both customers and shareholders, underperforming leaders routinely get away with murder in their progress reports, since much of what they do in peacetime is subjectively interpreted. In business, profit and loss are not easily concealed, and underperformers are shown the door. Change is painfully slow in the Army's layered bureacracy, and a modern business this sloth-like soon becomes lunch. The authors obscure any possible connections to civilain business practices by conspicuous absence of examples and analogies, instead substituting "there I was" war stories and abstracts that a civilian will not easily relate to or care about. The introductions to each chapter read more like West Point commencement addresses, and are about as interesting and as long. Overall, the book could be useful if more concise and relevant. However, since it's more likely to be read by Army officers rather than business people, it will still sell. For real business generalship, study Al Dunlap.

I cannot remember a book so well written, so full of business principles, and yet so easy to understand. I am a management consultant in the housing industry, and this book is required reading for every existing client, and I do not take on a new client until this book has been read by the management team. Sullivan and Harper, with pinpoint accuracy, identify the principles which make good companies great, and great companies, untouchable.

If you're looking for a well-written, well-researched, informative herbal reference for pregnancy/childbirth issues, this is NOT the one. For an herbal book, it's shockingly UN-natural. She assumes that the mother will be birthing at a hospital (doesn't even mention birth choices or the possibility of homebirth as an option) does not even touch on natural birth choices (and mentions her first birth was an emergency c-section, second birth was an ELECTIVE c-section). She simply pays lip-service to breastfeeding (""The best advice I can give is go ahead and give nursing a try. If you both like it, keep going as long as possible; if you don't, stop. Don't feel guilty about your decision: it's your body.") and gives downright BAD advice for things such as treating mastitis. But since she only nursed her 2nd and 3rd children for two months each and then switched them to homemade formula, what would one expect? This is a book for dilettantes who think herbalism is a trendy thing to do, but aren't serious about it. If you're looking for a serious and GOOD herbal reference for pregnancy, stick with Romm, Ody or Gladstar.

Too many books on pregnancy follow a doctor/patient cycle of what to expect, what to eat, how to exercise, and so on. I found that The Pregnancy Herbal came across as a GIFT to all women who want to experience a CHANGE in opinion - It isn't about natural birthing, it's about supporting and creating a happy and beautiful mother and a healthy fetus/baby, during pregnancy. With medicinal, cosmetic and nutritional herbs, I found that Ms Harper-Roth's own pregnancy experiences and research filled her little book with hundreds of easy to follow ideas to make every woman feel special, loved, and self-expressive. Cesarean or natural birth, at home or in a hospital, it's a birth experience. What matters, and I feel what comes across as important in this book, is that the pregnant woman herself, is made to feel pampered from conception to birth.

A wonderful little book brimming with great ideas and tips for pregnancy care and either maintaining or introducing herbs into the home. I found it a fascinating read, and although I do not practice herbalism, I feel that it offers a new, adaptable and exciting alternative outlook on both mother-to-be and newborn care. I only wish this book had been around when I was pregnant, a time when hospital birth was the only option. It makes a cesarean birth seem less frightening and with all the advice on breast feeding, milk production preparation and breast care, I know a lot of women will find comfort in their choices to nurse, or not. More importantly, this book truly makes the pregnant women feel 'loved' and special, even if she's going it alone, and who wouldn't want to feel pampered nine months and counting?