This book features a comprehensive approach to fitness...cardio, strength training, stretching and healthful eating. Each body type has a slightly different recommendation, in order to target (with toning exercises) particular problem areas. Denise's manner of writing is informative, friendly and encouraging.

What I liked best:

The cardio workout recommended is walking, which is nice because it can be done any time, anywhere. There are four walking workouts per week: an endurance walk, an interval walk, a walk with toning exercises incorporated and a combination interval/toning walk. Every two weeks the length of the walk is increased so that if you follow the schedule you will be walking 45 minutes/walk four times a week at the end of six weeks. There is a modified schedule for those who are quite out of shape, starting out. The fact that there is variety in the workouts makes it more interesting and less likely to result in a fitness plateau.

There is a wonderful chapter on emotional eating. Basically, Denise's suggestion is to keep a "hunger" journal...noting down what time you eat, how hungry you were (on a scale of 1 to 5) and what the surrounding circumstances were. I have tried this myself and keep going back to it occasionally as a touchstone. I've found this a very helpful tool as far as modifying my habits.

There are three eating plans along with suggestions for which would be most appropriate: a 1,400-calorie-a-day plan, a 1,600-calorie plan and an 1,800-calorie plan. Denise also has suggestions for modifying them. As one example, Denise explains why some women might find it most successful to alternate between the 1,400-calorie plan and the 1,600-calorie plan.

The food on the included menus has lots of variety and is delicious. I don't think anyone would feel deprived. It's also quite flexible, making it user-friendly. For instance, the shopping lists note which foods not to buy if you're planning to eat out on a given day during that week.

Finally, following her three-times-a-day stretching routine has been one of the best things I've done for myself. I've always stretched before and after workouts, but never throughout the day, every day. In the past month or so, little aches and pains that I used to have by the end of a day in the office have melted away.

As I get older, I find myself less concerned about a number on the scale, per se, and more concerned about maintaining strength and flexibility so that as the years go by I will continue to be able to do with ease the activities I love. I found Denise's advice in this book fit right in with my goals for a lifetime of fitness.

This book has sexual confessions by gay authors such as Bob Condron (who also wrote the novel Easy Money), Donovan Lee (who also wrote the novel Getting Past Almost), and Shaun Levin (whose stories have appeared in many anthologies and journals). All the stories here will keep you reading, to see what will happen next. I'll give you a hint: it might involve sex! This is a fun read, which is what gay readers expect from Alyson's erotica anthologies.

I highly recommend this book to all readers who love poetry. Ted Burke, Paul Dresman, and the other cast of poets included in this book share a talent for writing and yet maintain individual and unique voices.

It was funny,hilarious at times but I got a bit bored in some stages of the book. Most of the funny parts were REALLY funny!
BUT ALL IN ALL IT WAS A GREAT BOOK AND I SUGGEST YOU READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a highly recommendable book. A must for everyone interested in how human-comupter interaction is studied or conceived or debated.

Read about those topics, that are hot or ever-greens for the usability-interested.

Maybe you don't know all of those names in the title, but you will surely see why THEY've been chosen for the interviews.

The topics are presented the way they were raised with the interviewed persons - as dialogues, interviews.

This is a great way of approaching and exploring the thoughts and concepts that go across the entire field of software and internet development, and not through just one or two writers.

It's a lot of food for thought.

I wish I had read this book much earlier in my Christian life. It would have saved me a lot of unnecessary spiritual setbacks and outright defeats! What makes this a dynamic book is its recipes for personal victory over sin and the devil. It contains plans of action that have been worked out over time as Barry and his wife Kay have wrestled with the Scriptures and waged spiritual warfare against the Enemy. They are instructions that have known the test of time. The book also gives powerful illustrations about how to pray effectively and that get results. The chapter on how to pray for non-Christian relatives is a must read for all Christians! I highly recommend this book. Ross Tooley, author and lecturer.

My husband and I travelled to Texas on holiday and this book was brilliant it saved us time and helped us find things we wouldn't have found with out the help of this book. I would recommend it in an instant.

Nooooooo! This book must be available to the public! it is a medeocore translation, but who cares (:-))

This book from Shaykh AlAkbar was written because someone said to him that there was no no more tasawwuf left, let alone there were no Auliya left.

What did he do? He wrote Ruh Al-Quds wa Al-Durrat AlFakhira! Included in this book are pages of the Auliya whom he met, studied with and learned from, including women!

Ibn AlArabi is the qutb of men, and we may not be able to understand him, or be like him, but this translation is easy to understand, and digest!

For anyone who is seriously interested in all aspects of the Graffiti Culture, Joe Austin pulls it all together in this scholarly, but easily readable, excellently researched new book.
The author has spent the necessary time to know many of the important writers, to review the major material written in the last thirty years and to organize it in a way that helps the reader develop a more comprehensive understanding of this unique art form. "Taking the Train" joins a very select list of books that make up the "Graffiti Book Hall of Fame"

"T. Austin-Sparks was one of the greatest spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Perhaps no one in the last one hundred years gave us ministry that is so Christ-centered. When the measure of a man's ministry is taken as to how much he exalted Christ, then T. Austin-Sparks is without peer.

Sparks wrote over one hundred books. The golden chord, which ran through all these works, was the exaltation of his Lord. He has given us more spiritual insight into Christ then perhaps any other man of the last 1700 years . . ..

Sparks' writing speak little of the Christ of Galilee-rather he has given us the resurrected and enthroned Lord. He has gone even farther than this, to show us the insuperable Christ who dwells within us. This presentation of his Lord would be enough to make Sparks' ministry unique, but Sparks went on to join head to body (Christ and the church). As surely as his spoken and written ministry exalted the Lord, so also Sparks called forth the almost forgotten centrality of the church. For T. Austin-Sparks, the two were inseparable. Nor did he speak of the church that most men have known and experienced."

Gene Edwards (Author)

T. Austin-Sparks was also the spiritual father and long time respected mentor of Watchman Nee of China.

Doug Riggs