This revolutionary take on the healing arts is so fundamentally sound that I found myself wondering why no one had thought and said these things before! Julie's experiences and descriptions of how she helps her patients process their surgeries and illnesses and GROW through them are truly inspirational. Our bodies want to know and understand our choices, and Julie does the obvious: talking to the individual organs and helping her patients truly inhabit their own bodies. This book is SO well-written and moving - You may not agree with every hypothesis she presents, but you will definitely FEEL happy to be human as a result of reading this book!

As healers we often forget to look at the best tools we have been given, our hands. "Hands of Life:Use your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery and Transformation", reminds us of the blessing of touch. Reflective as well as informational this is a great book to give for a graduate going into the healing or teaching profession. We find ourselves starving for love and affection in our daily lives. Ms. Motz teaches that in this world where touch is seen more and more as invasive and suspicious, we can use the healer in us all to affect this attitude. We can teach others that touch is another form of nutrition that feeds the spiritual heart as well as the physical body. If you are looking for the best book on the subject of hands on healing, this is it.

"Hands of Time" is an amazing work of poetry, exercising a broad range of intellectual & cultural observations! What a pleasure to find poetry & prose that really resonates with today, while honoring the past, & even looking toward a brighter future! E. Barrie Kavasch is a pleasure to read! This is fine quality! Poetry is both musical & prayerful. I enjoy the close integrity with Nature & the Land, with Native American Cultures, & with family. Excellent!!!

This exceptional book of poetry, prose, haiku, & tanka embodies tours through Indian America, dozens of different American Indian Reservations, & travels to Europe, & shamanic journeys, plus dream journeys. This is a book to stretch you quite far beyond where you are now! I enjoy rereading each piece as a mirror of another time & place & soul of understanding! ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL! I LEARNED SO MUCH!!!

This book has clearly written instructions for all types of dyeing. From the beginner, to the expert - Hands on Dyeing will be used over and over again.

I have used this book over the past several years, and find I can't be without it. I have worn it out, and it is stained with dye. It is time to buy a new one soon!!!!! This book is the best.

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Journalist LynNell Hancock has produced the book that finally tells the story of the people affected by former President Bill Clinton's promise to "end welfare as we know it." Anyone interested in social policy should be extraordinarily grateful for Hancock's eloquent, evocative work. Following the lives of three women for several years and documenting their struggles to get off welfare, Hancock details the bureaucratic difficulties and the every day obstacles -- like the lack of affordable, decent child care -- that make this goal so elusive. With a journalist's careful eye and graceful prose, Hancock interweaves each woman's story with detailed analysis about the history of national and NYC welfare reform. In the tradition of Jonathon Kozol, her work is page-turning, deeply moving, and intellectually astute. As the clock is about to run out on the five-year limit set by Clinton's legislation, Hands to Work couldn't be more important -- or timely.

Finally an antidote to five years of endless conservative cheerleading about how wonderful welfare reform has worked to get the unworthy poor off the public dole. The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996, signed by then Pres. Clinton, launched a massive remaking of how federal, state and local governments aid the poor and define who is deserving of help. By one measure, welfare reform has been an unmitigated success: it pushed millions of poor people off the rolls and into a limbo of dubious workfare programs that offered street cleaning, for one example in New York City, as a job training. What has this all meant for poor people buffeted by welfare reform? The policy wonks and elected officials have paid scant attention to that critical question.

Luckily, journalist LynNell Hancock has trained her sights on the impact of welfare reform on real people--not the statistics we're usually offered. The women she shadows for several years in researching her book are as different as they could be: a Puerto Rican mother with a drug addiction; an African American mother fending off a ex-husband with a murder conviction; and a Russian immigrant with the drive to become a doctor. Hancock is our medium as we visit their lives and witness the absurdities, the indignities, and the incredible work invovled simply in being poor. All these women, Hancock included, deserve a merit badge for having confronted the welfare bureaucracy and survived its limitless hurdles, its rules crafted by people who live in mahongany paneled offices, not roach infested apartments.

With careful, sharp-eyed reporting and lively prose, Hancock lets these women's stories--with all their flaws and strengths--come shining through. They are not heroines for being poor; these women are heroines for keeping hope alive in the face of countless humiliations and degradations and for continuing to fight for better lives for themselves and their children.

As Congress prepares this spring to reconsider the 1996 welfare law, every member who will cast a vote should read this book. Beautifully written, politically astute but with no finger-wagging, Hands to Work is a must read for all who think they know anything about the poor among us.

Hands-On Archaeology Explore The Mysteries Of History Through Science by archaeologist and educator John White is specifically and effectively designed to be an archaeological manual for the classroom teacher in preparing and implementing a curriculum to teach students about various aspects of archaeological inquiry through a wealth of "hands on" activities, worksheets, readings, and examples. Every facet of the science of archaeology is covered from the formulation of a working hypothesis , to the keeping of field notes and records, to creating a museum display. The fascinating consequence of John White's highly recommended Hands-On Archaeology is that the students will not only learn about the science of archaeology, but in the process they will become functioning archaeologists themselves!

I have found that my students just love this area of learning. When they hear the word Archaeology they perk right up. This text is a great tool for their introduction to this seldom taught field. A must for any elementary or junior high teacher.

I have found this to be an excellent concrete learning experience for elementary students. They are given enough concrete that the abstract comes easier.

My third grader LOVES this system! She actually asks to "play" Hands On Equations... If your child loves math - or is afraid of it - get this system. It works.

At last an attractive alternative to the tedious and time-consuming pharmacology books around! Info on over 100 commonly used drugs is beautifully laid out on one page per drug, and all you would ever want to know is there: how the drug works, what it's used for, the side effects, clinically important notes and much more. And what's more, it is different to any other pharmacology book in that it distinguishes between common and rare side effects (clinically, a very valuable distinction). This neat little book also tells you the pharmacological management of common medical conditions such as an acute asthma attack or Parkinson's Disease. As a nurse, I have found "Hands-on Guide to Clinical Pharmacology" a very valuable companion to my practice in hospital! And even better, it's really cheap.

this book is just what is missing on the medical student book market. have you ever seen a pharmacology textbook shorter than 200 pages? this book is a very valuable guide to your pharmacology revision: it is both concise and informative, written by medical students who know what it is expected of them. i can heartily recommend it to anyone studying medicine or pharmacology.

Having read and used fund raising books and materials for over twenty (20) years, I am very impressed with this book. It is excellent, very thorough, and covers all major areas for an organization's fund raising program. I highly recommend that every non profit organization own a copy and use as a reference guide on a regular basis. Its truly solid and complete.

The following describes the Second Edition of Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide published in April 2001 by Aspen Publishers, Inc. in Gaithersburg, MD

"The second edition of this best-selling book provides new and updated information that every beginning fund raiser or board member needs. Case studies and real-life examples provide practical guidance and an overview of the field while giving board members and development staff, managers, and directors a platform from which to operate their fund raising programs. This primer remains a "must-have" for anyone entering the fund raising arena or studying for the CFRE exam.

The new edition updates and strenghens: 1) Giving trends; 2) Computer hardware and software available in the fund raising field; 3) Cost estimates and workflow timetables; 4) Use of the Internet in fund raising; 5) Relationships between associations and their foundations regarding fund raising; and 6) New and successful case studies that relate fund raising theory to practice.

Practical advice and valuable insights from two savvy pros with more than 45 years of combined fund-raising experience."

If you are interested in spiritual or energetic healing, this is a must-have reference. Well-written, clear, brings the subject into finite, manageable terms accessible to all. I have bought many books on energy healing and spiritual healing methods, and this is the best I've found so far.

Jack Angelo explains the principal and technique behind hands on healing using a series of exercises. This book is very well illustrated and a must for anyone interested in healing of any type.

This book highlights rare breeds of sheep and gives all kinds of fascinating information about them: where the breed is to be found, how it came about, the type of wool the sheep grow, and the status of the breed in terms of rarity.

If that isn't interesting enough, there are pictures of projects done in various wools like Jacob, California Mutant Red, Pitt Island, Leicester Longwool and Cotswold. The projects range from knitted lace to woven rugs. If you are a handspinner, weaver or knitter who likes fine wools, this is a very interesting little book. I really enjoyed it.

Many knitted and woven garments and a woven carpet as well, all made out of wool. Accompanied by pictures of many of the endangered sheep breeds. Its mainly a picturebook, no instructions on how to do the projects. It begins with an explanation on rare breeds, then comes a short chapter on the history of spinning and some comments about the spinning of the yarn and the making of the finished piece. In the end you can find an introduction into spinning (combing, carding, handspindles, washing of yarn). 80 pictured pieces and many sheep.