An excellent program for incorporating exercise, meditation and nutrition into your life. I found this amazingly useful in setting a program for my daily activities towards total wellness. The book is easy to read, fun and light, yet packs a bunch of information into its pages. A great wellness book.

This is a valuable and practical book. It describes a daily process based on A Course In Miracles but stripped of religious overtones. It has a solid foundation as Todd Davidson, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Hospital (Milwaukee) tested the program on his patients and staff before writing the book.

I have personally found the book to be wonderful for my own development and I have recommended it to friends and family.

Try it! You'll like it and benefit if you stick with it.

Crucial thinkers from the phenomenological, structuralist, psycho-analytic, hermeneutical, and post-structuralist traditions are presented here in the form of crucial, seminal, in-depth writings.

Todd May's long, impressively comprehensive introductory essay is a highly illuminating starting point for engaging the various thinkers and movements featured in the text. It also stands alone well as an in-depth and very accessible overview of the history of 20th Century Continental thought for those with very little or no previous understanding of it. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

In the anthologized writings themselves, Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty explain their phenomenological approaches to method, Ferdinand Saussure provides his most controversial and fascinating insights into language which Claude Levi-Strauss then applies to anthropology and which Jacques Lacan draws on as part of his taking psychoanalytic theory to new levels of philosophical complexity and interdisciplinarity. Also here is chapter 2 of "The Sex Which Is Not One," Luce Irigaray's mindblowing psychoanalytic feminsist account of female sexuality in contra-distinction to the Freudian/Lacanian one. Feminist psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva provides a very dense and richly insightful essay exploring some questions of linguistics and commenting a good deal on Husserl, and Hans-Georg Gadamer is here in an accessible yet dense introduction to his philosophical hermeneutics.

And as if all this wasn't enough, we also have Martin Heidegger's difficult classic "Letter On 'Humanism,'" Jacques Derrida's justly famous, unavoidable 1968 essay, "Differance," Michel Foucault's frequently anthologized "Nietzsche, Genealogy & History" and an essay from Lyotard, the coiner of the word "postmodernism," which provides a characterization of the meanings of the words "postmodernism" and "modernism" which I would think all those who ever venture to use these terms should reckon with and be instructed by.

A difficult yet extremely helpful and rewarding anthology and introduction to an amazing century in Continental philosophy.

This book is with out a doubt one of the best things I have seen as a youth worker. It is filled with diverse and exciting games that bring my students in and keep them coming back. If you desire to have Cutting Edge games but don't have the imagination of the expertise (like myself) this book is for you. Other game books are boring and cheesy, this provides an atmosphere that is filled with excitment. Definitely the best investment I've made in a long time.

Todd Ray is relentless in his pursuit to detail the Bay Area's finest inline skating sites. Not only is this book a fine skating guide, Ray also offers insight into alternative inline skating adventures such as downhill inline skating. Many insightful tips are offered. So, if you're looking for a great inline adventure, this is a great one!

This small book, with a simple title, Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, is a huge resource in the area of cultural landscape, and our connections through culture to nature. The initial attraction was the fun and entertaining sound of the title- understanding ordinary landscapes. Something for recreational travel reading? It was not to be. Months later I have yet to reconcile more than a few of the classical issues, dilemmas, enigmas, and debates in this seemingly simple subject area of our relationship to the world we live in.

Understanding Ordinary Landscapes is a collection of contemporary cultural landscape essays and is a theoretical basis for comprehending the mysteries of perception of the landscape, the environment, and furthering the culture versus nature discourse. It brings critical analysis, and an annotated bibliography to the relatively new area of landscape architectural theory. A must for professionals and anyone interested in the landscape.

Copyright 1998 Robert Hotten

In The Value Sphere: Secrets Of Creating And Retaining Shareholder Wealth, John Boquist, Todd Milbourn, and Anjan Thakor collaborate to show how any corporate manager can devise breakthrough strategies and alignments to increase value of their company's shares in today's market. Here offered are specific techniques to help in the re-invention of a business organization toward a gold of unlimited value creation. Included along with practical and innovative strategies are invaluable advice on resource allocation, performance metrics, people and organizational culture. The Value Sphere is "must" reading for anyone charged with a responsibility for enhanced and increasing the value of their organization in today's highly competitive local, regional, national, and global marketplace.

Great book! Hints and suggestions for VATS procedures as well as the basics. All residents should own a copy!

This is the second of a five-book series; all are available from Amazon.uk (first four in paperback, fifth in hardcover). They all ought to be available from Amazon.com, too. They are great!

War of the Gaedhil with the Gaul or, Wars of the Irish with the Norsemen, is a treasure trove for all those who love the historic adventures of Vikings and Celts.

First published in Great Britain in 1867, this compilation and translation by James Henthorn Todd of the classic manuscripts of an unknown medieval author is the source of a quotation known to all modern readers who are familiar with Celtic and Viking lore:

"In a word, although there were an hundred hard steeled iron heads on one neck, and an hundred sharp, ready, cool, never-rusting, brazen tongues in each head, and an hundred garrulous, loud, unceasing voices from each tongue, they could not recount, or narrate, or enumerate, or tell, what all the Gaedhil suffered in common, both men and women, laity and clergy, old and young, noble and ignoble, of hardship, and of injury, and of oppression, in every house, from these valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people..."

In fact, this tome does enumerate and illuminate the injuries and oppressions suffered on both sides during the two hundred year-old conflicts between the Irish and the Vikings of old. It does so in language that reads like pure Irish poetry. The spirit and passion of Irish alliteration and embellishment is translated into powerful English prose, with the words of the Old Irish manuscript printed on each left hand page, and the English translation printed on each facing right hand page. The individual people, the places, the battles and heroic duels spring to life on these pages with such vividness that one might see tiny, blood-stained footprints tracked across the page. Notably, the names of hundreds of victors and vanquished on both sides of the wars are named, and their heroism thrillingly described. Throughout these 200 pages of history, we witness the conflicts not only between the Irish and the Norse, but between the "White foreigners" who were Norwegian and the "Black foreigners" who were Danish, fighting against each other to wrest control of Irish kingdoms. At the same time, intermarriages of the Irish and Norse played an important role throughout the generations, pitting Irish against Irish as they took sides with the White or Black. That practice of internecine war was certainly nothing new in Celtic history.

Footnotes are often the bane of the modern reader, but Todd presents nuggets of pure gold information that today's reader can cherish. Thankfully, he also translates Old Irish spellings of names that are difficult for Americans to pronounce. For example, the original author's "Cennedigh" becomes the most familiar "Kennedy," a name we can all relate to.

The long wars of the Irish with the Norse ended on the shores of Dublin Bay at the Battle of Clontarf on Good Friday, April 23, 1014. Clontarf marked the death of Irish hero Brian Boru, son of Kennedy, and the end of Viking rule in Ireland. It is described in poignant and electrifying detail, with meteorological information so complete it enabled geologists of the 19th Century to confirm the date without reservation.

Todd was remarkably well-versed not only in the Irish annals and manuscripts that he worked with here but, equally, in the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, the Icelandic Sagas and the Landnamabok. He refers to, and compares them with, the Irish versions of the same events. He clarifies discrepancies in dating and reporting of historic events by various annalists in different parts of Ireland and the Scandinavian homelands, always a problem with medieval texts. He gives the modern place-names, wherever known, of battles that had different names a thousand years ago. Best of all, like a true scholarly detective, he takes the Irish names of Viking conquerors and hunts them down until they lead back to the Nordic names and identities that lovers of the Sagas instantly recognize as the heroes they know. The grisly death of Turgesius, who was thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes by a Scottish king, is fully recounted by the Irish author of this manuscript, and is recognized by aficionados of Viking tradition, thanks to Todd, as the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, or "Hairy Breeches."

Eighty pages of appendices are filled with rich information on the lives of individual men and women of the period covered, and includes genealogical tables of its most important celebrities. The 46-page Index is not the thin list of words we usually find in indices today but, typical of the time in which it was compiled, is a complete reference that serves as a ready source of information in itself.

This reproduction of the Wars of the Irish with the Norsemen is a gem that the follower of Celtic or Viking history would be proud to have in his or her library, and be happy to refer to time and again - not only for intricate facts but for beautiful language and stirring martial romance.

The price is high, but worth every penny. The wait for import delivery is long, but worth every minute.