Our church's Christian Education Department used this book to teach our 2-5 year olds the 10 commandments. In 12 weeks, the children not only could recite the commandments in order, they could also tell you the commandment indiviually by number - out of order. The book made the memorization of the 10 commandments fun and easy for the children. I recommend book this to every teacher in children's church.

This is an excellent and simple presentation of the 10 Commandments for children. Using the very creative illustrations - created to work the way a child's mind works - my 5-year-old son memorized the 10 Commandments in 15 minutes with no previous training. And even more powerful - he still remembers each and every one at will months later. The greatest benefit, however, is that he not only knows what they SAY, he knows what the MEAN.

A fun little book of quotes, questions, stories, and illustrations. Inspires you to renew yourself.

I have always been a fan of the 7 Habits, and this is a wonderful way to share its principles in a lighter format.

This book has wonderful, inspiring advice and is fun to read and share with others. I can't wait for the whole series to be available!

Harmony restored!

A captivating book. Thoughful and stimulating, skillfully weaving together Dr Sagar's scientific and creative insights.
This outstanding work is compelling reading. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in health and healing.

Dr Michelle Kohn
Medical Advisor in Integrative Cancer Care

The appropriate place of complementary medicine in the treatment of cancer can be hard to discern. For example, can acupuncture have a favourable influence? And what is the place of herbal therapy, therapeutic touch, or meditation alongside conventional regimens such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy? Restored Harmony addresses all these questions and more. Written by a respected oncologist with extensive experience with both traditional and complementary medicine, the book weaves science and ancient wisdom together in a lucid and engaging style.

The conventional medical view is that cancer represents a clone of cells which has outgrown its environmental constraints and control mechanisms. But as Dr. Sagar points out, this view is giving way to a deeper holistic view, which includes complexity theories, informational field effects, and the science of complex adaptive systems. In complex systems there is a dynamic balance point between chaos and order, the stability of which reflects the system's overall fitness. Cancer arises when this balance point shifts away from order toward chaos, which in turn reflects a disharmony in the information field. Because field disharmonies are the very stuff of acupuncture, herbs and therapeutic touch, the emerging holistic view bridges the gap between orthodox and complementary medicine.

Dr. Sagar's wide ranging discussion goes from mechanistic reductionism to quantum theory, from psychoneuroimmunology to the Chinese 5-elements, from chemotherapy to herbs and acupuncture, while remaining concise and to-the-point, and without getting caught up in hard-to-understand scientific verbiage of evidence-based medicine. In doing so he enlarges our view of cancer, demonstrating the underlying beauty of the human body and its responses to life challenges. Dr. Sagar is a rare breed of physician, a visionary oncologist and mystic, who has the ability to share his wisdom in the written word. Anyone interested in the place of alternative or complementary medicine for cancer will find this book immensely valuable.

If you are reading this review, I suspect that you are already aware of the stature of this book, and are simply browsing to see if everyone else agrees with what MUST be your shared opinion: that this is the retrovirology bible. How could it possibly earn less than 5 stars? It is as up-to-date and specialized as possible at the time of writing (1997). In preparing my master's thesis in the field of virology, this text was absolutely indespensible. The organization is top-notch, the breadth of coverage is comprehensive, the diagrams well rendered and informative. It is the epitome of what a good textbook should be. I was particularly pleased by the inclusion of a chapter on retroviral vector development.

This text is enormously informative, attractive, destined to be a classic, and should be on the shelf of your personal library if you are in any way connected with the field of retrovirology.

As a side note, the publication of the paperback edition was a godsend to a poor student who was at odds with the prospect of paying for the high-priced hardcover.

Dear Dr. John M.Coffin! There is Dr.Adelya R.Kalinina, M.D.,Ph.D., Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Russian Acad. Sci., Moscow, Russia.

Take my admiration about your book!

I would be very thankfull for you if you could send me sheme(illustration) of Mouse Mammary tumor virus...It's very important for me, because I want to use your data for lectures materials for student study. Sorry, right now we (Russian scientists) have not possibylities to use modern scientific literature in full volume.

Thank you very mush.

Dr. Kalinina Adelya.

This was a fabulously frightening book! It has a mixture of realism and supernatural elements that are guaranteed to keep you on the edge of terror! I don't recommend reading this on a dark night.

I liked the book rockabye baby but I don't think that the title should be different. I think that it should be, "The Many Powers of Darkness." I made the title up by myself. I not dissing your creativity or anything but it could be better.

Everybody knows the song, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", but what happens after the boat leaves the stream? In this short little tale two children set out in the boat to open sea, landing on an island filled with exotic creatures. The book is filled with very warm illustrations and the book inspires inspiration and creativity in children, challenging them to imagine and think for themselves.

This is a wonderful book based of the well known children's tune row, row, row, your boat. Each page is delightfully illustrated and has a verse which adapts to the original tune. Two young children explore both the fun and the fantasy of a magical boat ride encountering elephants, monkeys and a lion. The journey home (to the original verse) leaves the young children questioning was this reality or a dream. Its a fun way to read with your children while encouraging imagination and creative thinking!

Absorbing, illuminating: Lehmann and Faber's biography of Rudolf Serkin is a remarkable achievement - it's also a great read.

The book is a lively combination of narrative and interview. The first half of the book tells the story of Serkin's life (his time in Europe and his move to America), and the second half, based on interviews, examines Serkin's career as a pianist.

What most impressed me was the authors' deep understanding of Serkin, his place in the world of music and the world in which he lived. The authors share with the reader their rich knowledge of piano repertoire and 20th Century performance, but without resorting to the sort of technical language that can exclude all but the professionally trained musician. Crucially, Lehmann and Faber help the reader to understand what was at stake for Serkin. Through a thorough examination of Serkin's life and choices, this biography, like all great biographies, ends up being about the big issues. Ultimately, this is a book that invites you to examine your own life.

Intelligently designed (for example, photographs are next to the relevant passages) and beautifully produced (the CD of previously unreleased performances is exquisite).

In short: a great book.

He is my favourite piano player of all. To mark the centenary of his birth here is what I would call a brilliant illuminating and very readable account of his life, character and service to music. As well as the book we get a CD of previously unreleased live performances of Bach's 4th French suite, six Mendelssohn numbers and Chopin's op25 etudes.

What a pleasure it is to read an account of a major executant musician, in this age of groupies and supporters' associations, that is actually intelligent. You will not find here any attempts to rank Serkin, nor any talk of expressiveness or inevitable organic unity in his or anyone else's playing. What the authors have done is to provide first a brief sketch of his life. He was born in the Sudetenland to an ethnically Jewish but atheistical father and a mother whom he overheard telling a neighbour that he was an unwanted pregnancy. His talent was recognised early as being not just outstanding but as of an unusual type. He was particularly lucky in attracting the notice of Adolf Busch, reform-minded as a musician and vehemently anti-nazi, and also, in a very different way, in being taught by Schoenberg. Throughout his life Serkin remembered Schoenberg with affection as well as reverence, but he disliked his music and said so once he had safely got Schoenberg's commendation. Schoenberg never forgave this apostasy, but the bellicose and revolutionary imagery that Schoenberg used ('you must decide which side of the barricades you are on' and so forth) clearly displeased Serkin and helped cool any early revolutionary ideas he might have acquired from his father, Karl Popper and others. It looks as if he was always on the liberal side of the political argument, e.g. he fund-raised for Stevenson against Eisenhower, but he knew he was a textbook example of the American self-view as a land of opportunity. Oddly, the puritanical exclusiveness that he objected to in Schoenberg was a striking characteristic of his own. On the one hand he was indifferent to the sexual peccadilloes of his friends: on the other he could break friends completely with someone who gave an unworthy performance of Mozart, Beethoven etc, and he reacted with spinsterish horror when someone told him (rightly I would say) that the end of Beethoven's 5th symphony is naff.

The rest of the book is reflexions on him by associates, and most illuminating they are. Behind all his interpersonal skills, astuteness, genuine humility and not infrequent deviousness, Serkin was a man possessed. If anyone ever embodied Stapledon's grim maxim 'find your calling...or be damned' it was Serkin. As a teacher he instilled a fierce work ethic but never taught by demonstration. As a performer he was wayward and vulnerable to nerves, a bit like Richter. I remember him starting Beethoven's op31/1 in a flurry of wrong notes. Technically the passage is dead easy, but to allow any music to be easy was anathema to him. His great sausages of fingers were odd in a man of medium height and slight build, but they can't have been more of an impediment than to big men like Rachmaninov and Richter, on whom huge hands were in proportion. He could turn out virtuosity equal to any, as some of the Mendelssohn and Chopin pieces on the disc attest. His tone gets some comment, as he is often said to be indifferent to tone-colour, at least in his prime, which is interesting as Serkin's tone-production is near-impossible to mistake, like Michelangeli's or Gould's in that respect if in no other. One contributor puts his finger on the point by saying that Serkin was not 'a smoothie'. He is not alone in that -- Horowitz and Cziffra were not smoothies either. The trouble set in with Michelangeli and Gould. They spawned, unintentionally, a whole generation of players for whom absolute evenness was a basic requirement like perfectly straightened teeth, and Michelangeli himself expressed disgust at this result. There is nobody quite like Serkin when his demon is in the right mood. His command of rhythm and timing surpasses anyone else's. His discography is far more varied than I had realised, and I have to get hold of his Liszt and Debussy performances. On the disc with this book is a complete set of the Chopin op25 etudes, and despite the recorded sound this is terrific Chopin-playing. It is not like Pollini (an admirer of his) nor Ashkenazy but very like Cziffra. Of his other Chopin readings the A flat polonaise does not seem to be on record (I bet he was memorable in that), but the Barcarolle is and I shall find it or die in the attempt.

'Serkin says "You do it like THIS"' was how he was described to me by a friend whom I introduced to his playing. Serkin's mighty Waldstein, the greatest I have ever heard, is not his studio recording but a live performance owned by the BBC. His Appassionata is in the same bracket -- but where do we go from there? Players can't go on doing it 'like this' forever, but attempts at novelty, however distinguished their perpetrators, strike me as travesties of Beethoven. It's a real problem. I can't solve it, but at least there a lot of his recordings I hadn't known of, and the photo on p145 of the figure I came to know so well and who taught me so much about music is one I would have bought this book for by itself.

Wow what a testimony to the rich cultural and ethnic history of Buffalo, NY; a city which has not received the national recognition it so very much deserves. Stephen Powell brings to life the essence of the vibrant ethnic cultures that molded the fabric of the area in making Buffalo, NY an All American City by virtue of any endeavor they undertook.

One of the pubs illustrated in this book is Ulrich's Tavern located on Ellicott Street in Buffalo. This tavern is the oldest in the City and continues to carry on the traditions of the old while welcoming in the new. Vistors to the area should make a trip to this establishment a must. Cheers was set up on a television sound stage but Ulrichs is the real thing. There is something for everyone here with a lot of convivial conversation and a "let your hair down" atmosphere. This book takes up where Verlyn Klinkenborg's "The Last Fine Time" left off. I can't wait for Stephen Powell's next project.

Steve Powell's book takes you through nostalgic and humorous times of brewing in Buffalo, it is very well researched and his picture archives can bring back memories for the older crowd that saw the demise of brewing in Buffalo, this book is the bible of brewing in Buffalo and should be read all beer history buffs.

Stephen Buhner's Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations In The Practice Of Indigenous Herbalism is a welcome and informative introduction to Native American herbal medicine. A general survey of the cultural and medicinal role of herbs in Native American cultures is provided, along with informative instruction on finding medicinal plants; making the plants into medicine, the role of ceremony with regard to herbal medicines; a compendium of plants and their sacred uses; and more. The authoritative, "reader friendly" text is augmented and enhanced with suggested readings and herbal sources, "wildcrafting" ethics and guide lines, an extensive bibliography, and an index. Sacred Plant Medicine is very highly recommended for alternative medicine and Native American studies reading lists and reference collections.

This book is the best book I have ever seen on sacred herbalism. Unlike Eliot Cowan's book, this book goes into much needed detail and tells how to physically heal a person with a plant as well as emotionally. Stephen Buhner has very good control over his writing and he makes the reading fun as well as educational. I suggest this book to those who want to have an in detail knowledge about herbs and the spiritual healing that plants can have on all of us.

In sam sheep can't sleep he obviously can't sleep so he seeks help from his friends(a continuing theme in the series) and each friend has their own advice and help. Sam does sleep. Pay attention to the yellow duck and see if you see a recurring theme here also!
This whole series is great for all children from 18 months to beginning reading. It rolls when reading to your children the art is whimsical and the stories have some plot and are focused on problem solving together. It is the phonics and the rhyming that you will love, and they are short enough to keep you and your childs attention.

The phonics in this book are fantastic! Almost every word in it can be sounded out. It has a nice musical rhythmn when reading it out loud. The flaps make it interesting for younger children and the illustrations are comical. It's fun to read.