I read this book because I decided to take up golf, and didn't really understand it. It's cute, the illustrations are charming, and I finished with a slightly better understanding of golf. Overall, its an okay read. I would recommend it for younger children, though. Although it's written by an eighth-grader, it seems more suited to a fourth or fifth grader. It would be great for kids starting golf, and is good for adults. (just dont let any of your friends see, or they might tease you forever.)

The little one's view on golf opened the doors into his world. In his book, we see how his everyday observation on the green brings life and color to this wonderful sport. The extrodinary sense of humor and playful metaphors make this book a great buy!Your kids will love the insight and the humorous pictures that accompany Drew's style of writing.

So many people have written books about their personal lives in Rome. William Murray was a long-time resident of the eternal city and continues to go back each year. I lived in Naples for a couple years and every chance I had I went to Rome. It was only a two hour train ride and it was nice to be able to "do Rome" in short one and two day visits instead of the tourist gun shot through Rome in a week. I must have visited Rome 20 times and I still haven't seen everything there is to see. The only solution is living there and that is what the author did. His book is part history lesson part personal passion. He describes neighborhoods, churches, and monuments from a travelers perspective and from the historians perspective. He relates personal stories including his family, artists, and just people he knew in "the neighborhood." If you have a few days to spare before your trip to Rome you should read this book to give you some personal insight from someone who has been. It is very easy to read and once you start, it will be hard to put down.

After World War II, a young student who grew up with "the sounds of Rome" in his ears returned to the city of his childhood to study opera. On the fifth floor of an apartment on the Via Fontanella Borghese, where an hour-long lesson cost fifty cents, this young man "cracked a high note at the end of an aria." A voice called out from the courtyard below that he should change his profession. Lucky for us, he did.

In CITY OF THE SOUL, William Murray, who began his writing career as a stringer for Time-Life and later penned The New Yorker's "Letters from Italy" column, quickly proves that there is no better way to see Rome than on foot. He wends his way from the Piazza del Popolo, just inside the ancient Aurelian Wall on the north side of Rome, through the medieval streets in the historic Centro, to the Jewish ghetto on the banks of the Tiber River.

Murray offers a new perspective on heavily trafficked tourist sites like the Piazza di Spagna, where on weekends "all of Rome seems to be passing through" and the Pantheon, which until 1847 was the site of a fish market. From the Colosseum to the Castle San Angelo to the Forum, he makes clear why it is "impossible to go anywhere in the city without becoming involved in its past. The very stones you stand on are the ones over which emperors, kings, popes, nobles, artists, soldiers, humble folk and history's great rascals and victims all passed in an endless procession dating back over twenty-five centuries to the city's founding."

For Murray, a walk through Rome is as much about his own personal history as it is the city's past. It's these personal memories and shared stories that add an intimate quality to CITY OF THE SOUL and elevates it above a traditional guidebook. In particular, Murray recalls moments from his childhood with his mother, grandmother and two aunts. As he walks the city, "the streets seem emptier and haunted by the ghosts of these four Roman women."

If you're interested in more than armchair travel, CITY OF THE SOUL is filled with tips for visitors to Rome. The delights of the Villa Borghese --- and the grounds on which it is located --- should not be missed. Walk along the Via Condotti and then turn back for a spectacular look at the Spanish Steps. Both tourists and locals frequent the cafes, restaurants, wine bars and shops in the Piazza Navona, "the beating heart of the city." The roof of the Capitoline Museum is open to the public and "provides the most magnificent view over the whole city."

Murray returns to Rome every spring and it's easy to see what keeps him coming back. In CITY OF THE SOUL, he quotes an English friend who has long resided in Rome: "It's not only the physical beauty of the place.... It's the smell of it, the aura of great history in the stones of every street and every building. To be in Rome is to be in touch with everything in life that really matters."

--- Reviewed by Shannon McKenna

This handbook is a shorter version of the textbook of Natural Medicine published a few years ago by the first two authors. The three present authors are all affiliated with the Bastyr University, Washington in the United States. This college of naturopathic medicine was established in 1978 by Les Griffith, Bill Mitchell and Joe Pizzorno in the name of their teacher John Bastyr. He was one of the pioneers of natural medicine, who had grown up with a father pharmacist and a mother interested in healthy living in the beginning of the 1900 in Seattle.
The Bastyr University today offers the student acupuncture and oriental medicine, applied behavioral science, exercise science and wellness, nerbal sciences, nutrition, psychology with a health concentration, spirituality, health and medicine. Joe Pizzorno, a former midwife, co-founder and past president of the University has been instrumental in bringing scientific methods to natural medicine and setting educational standards for teaching in this field.
This book has 74 chapters or entries on 74 common diseases from Acne to viral pharyngitis and a useful index. Each entry is arranged in a reader friendly way with therapeutic flow charts to help in the decision making process. You will find information on diet, supplements and natural medicine treatments and when needed also traditional medicine options.
The book can be recommended to the therapist interested in learning about natural medicine options in various diseases and for the physician interested in using natural medicine in addition or sometimes instead of traditional drugs...

I am so happy with this book. The information in it is well organized. The reccommended treatments include the scientific data/studies that support the modality. This is the best written handbook of natural health that I have found.

This is a very slender book, but it has some of the best descriptions of the doshas, or humors, I have ever read.

The constitutional type test is the best I have seen. Yes, even better than Chopra's (though his is very good).

The book painstakingly describes each physical and temperamental trait and how it may mainfest in the individual according to his doshic make-up. Outstanding.

The other information is not very lengthy, but I think this book is incredibly valuable for what it does contain: treatment of the doshas in incomparable detail.

The book in my hand, has brought the knowledge to understand myself in a way I never thought possible, a book I will refer back to again and agian, a must for the experienced and the beginer!

Luke Rodd

this is a great review for my nursing classes and career choic

This is the best book we've had in my RN, BSN program so far. The content is very easy to read. The sentences are kept short and to the point. The content is repeated over and over in different places in the chapters as well as throughout the book, making it easier to remember the main points. The summaries at the end of each chapter really focus on the main points and great for last minute updating. I wish all of our books in nursing school were this good.

This book is a great example of Murray's witty and lucid writing style. However, you'd better read up on your Mann, Hemingway, and Faulkner before you read this.

This is a complicated essay; like the previous reviewer mentioned it might be a good idea to have some Thomas Mann and Hemingway under your belt.

That being said, this is the most witty, insightful, coherent and thought-provoking essays I have ever read. Not only is Murray's style pure thrilling joy to absorb, but his examinations into aesthetics, the blues, tragedy, and improvisation are masterful. This book entirely changed the way I view the role of literature and art in life.

That is about all I can say. Murray knits a view of confrontation with life in art that nimbly leaps between Hemingway and Duke Ellington. I found his conclusions about the role of the blues and books in life endlessly compelling. I consider this book to be a treasure, from one of the unsquarest cats I've ever read.

This is an excellent book for Tennessee waterfall enthusiasts. Mr. Plumb must have done a lot of in-depth research as his detailed directions to the trailheads and waterfalls are quite accurate, and his descriptions of the waterfalls themselves are vividly fitting. Amy and I have been to over 100 waterfalls in Tennessee and this book pointed out several waterfalls that we had never heard of. This book is a great tool to have while exploring the splendors of Tennessee!

This book was very helpful in giving me hiking directions to various waterfalls listed in the book. He also has pictures and ratings of most of the falls in his guide.
I must have seen about 19 different waterfalls when I visited Tennessee last June and it was one of the best vacations I ever had!

This book is a reprint of Murrays monumental work, first published in 1913. Murray is a scientist, and his writing shows this: we have discussions about legibility of manuscripts, theories of the spreading of chess, etc.

What we find in all this is a thorough and precise account of how chess came into existence, and has spread over the world. Where many books on the history of chess are best in describing the modern history, this book is best in telling about the roots. Also, we find hunderds of historic chess puzzles. If you really want to know how the origins of the best game there is are, then read this book.

Murray has written a truly monumental description of the evolution of chess, filled with descriptions of ancient and oriental variations on the theme of chess. It can be a hard read in places, but it's well worth the effort. The section on Shogi (Japanese Chess) gives an introduction to a game every bit as deep and satisfying as Western Chess.

The book made me feel all Christmasy and cozy, and to think I read it in October! It takes place in the 1800's in the mountains of the Adirondacks and tells a little tale of Christianity and love through the voice of a little old trapper. It made me want to be a better person for having read it. I plan on reading it this Christmas Season to my family while we're all cuddled around the fireplace with hot chocolate. You'll feel like it too, I'll bet!

I have an autographed copy of this wonderful book by the author. I collect his old books and this is one of my favorites. John Norton, the old trapper, is the main character, and what a wonderful character he is.His humor, his wisom, his old cabin & his dogs along with his friends will make you laugh and cry...but that's OK, its Christmas!

The conclusion of this book synthesizes what the hundreds of details and citations have been about. Murray sees homosexuality around the world throughout recorded history asa being age-stratified, gender stratified and egalitarian. In addition, he wants to demonstrate that the social construction of these activities did not eliminate the desire of the pleasure of them, asa some researchers try to maintain.

The first two types of homosexualities predominate history. Some of these stratifications become sacralized in the society's religious foundations. The egalitarian type is more pertinent to the 20th century.

What Murray accomplishes in this book is a description of a wide variety of meaning in homosexual activity. There are different constructions throughout history and even within a particular society on the meaning, purpose and acceptance of certain acts.

This is a well-researched book. For the creative writer there is a mine of information from which to use the imagination. What is so important to understand is that 20th and 21st century criticism often assumes the terminologies more recently developed. Murray and others successfully demonstrate that one has to be more discrete in interpreting literature and art from ancient cultures.

What is fascinating is that throughout the world the same kind of age stratified or gender stratified acitivties have similar meanings. Each culture has particular meanings or levels of acceptance. But somehow humans have found meaning in what today many would call perversions or sickness. Who knows best?

This is a very recommendable and readable book, although it contains not so few mistakes, especially orthography/misspellings.

But, it sounds a little bit strange for us Japaneses the title "Homosexualities", since we didn't have such an odd term which meant both male/male love and female/female love,---- we had a different word which meant male/male love "nanshoku", and did male/female love "nyoshoku", and sapphic love "toichi-haichi"respectively. Of course we don't have religious or superstitional prejudice against both same-sex eroticism and different-sex one at all.