As someone completely new to Ayurveda and/or the Ayurvedic approach, I found this book informative, interesting and worth the money. It was explained in a simple, linear fashion that I understood and can now incorporate. As for Ayurveda itself, I particularly appreciate the preventative approach behind the medicine, and the emphasis not only on the correct foods to eat, but the setting and manner in which we eat them.

If you want to learn more, and know nothing now, I recommend the book. However, if you're Deepak and seeking to enhance your extensive Ayurvedic base of knowledge, keep looking, because this one is for beginners.

Peace in the valley.

While I'm not an outright skeptic, I've had my doubts about books like this for years. No more. After finishing reading this book I immediately put into many of its practices and see (as well as feel) immediate results. I wish there was more on those of us with a mix of constitutions, but I can overlook that in favor of excellent writing, clear instructions, terrific insight, and practical tips. I'd recommend this to anyone new to the field or still with questions about its merit.

I read this book when I was 12. The difficulty level is not very high so anyone looking for something challenging might look elsewhere, but any hockey or even non-hockey fan looking for some light reading would enjoy this book. You might want to have a little understanding of the game of hockey so you can follow some of the parts about the actual play. The characters are fun and and the dialogue witty. More conservative parents may want to look at this series before allowing their children to read it. Overall the whole series is fun to read, most of all the two books about Woodsie.

When I read this book I was 12 yrs. old and obsessed with hockey. This book is great for anyone who is a old-time hockey fan or a newcomer to the game. Fun, imaginative,very interesting and good characters. I recommend the entire series, especially the two books about Woodsie.

I read this novel because I loved The Chess Garden by Hansen, and I found it very interesting. Each character in the novel provides a retrospective of the main character, Ethan Boone. Ethan held a deep love for his mother, and spent his adult life attempting to understand his father's betrayal of her and her death. AA raw novel, and at times disturbing, I found it a worthwile read.

Perhaps I favor the works of Brooks Hansen a bit too much to be objective....but, the magic and soul in his writing never ceases to amaze me. Read it.

Boot, the Wings great right wing is great crusing the margins and sneaking in a shot when least expected. But midway body checking is allowed. Boot will not hit and he is the only one on the team that is being creamed. Will he hold back as long so he doesnt get respect or even worse lose his place on the Wings?

Boot is the Woolfbay Wings right wing. He likes to sneak in his great shoots in games. But in the squirt season bodycheacking is allowed. Boot finds this hard and his game suffers. Will Boot find a way past this Problem?

The Wolfbay Wings collection is great for young hockey fans or players.

This book's property reviews are startling in their candor. It's startling that one man dared be frank about the condition of the property he hoped to sell or rent--and hilarious that he included impressions of the former owners.

I bought it excitedly after having heard about it on the radio. Then, when I finally got it, I realized I'd basically heard the best ones on the radio--but they're buried in there for you to fine. And the less-than-best are still quite more interesting than anything you'd find in circulation today. Mr. Brooks has a great vocabulary and a wonderful way of reducing many a dynastic saga to a column-inch.

I have withheld the fifth star because of the printing rather than the "work". It seems the novelty of a narrowly shaped book was deemed necessary to further titillate the prospective reader-far more necessary than legibility. As other reviewers indicate, it's hard for the American reader to get some of the jokes unless she's spent some time in London and has a familiarity with the neighborhoods. Further, the abbreviations standard to a newspaper in another era, in another country in my case, are indecipherable. Each of these shortcomings could have been addressed with a map of the city and a key to the abbreviations and their meanings-either of which would be far preferred to the hasty and uninspired line drawings the publisher saw fit to include.

Since the real estate listings are so small they make perfect bathroom feeding fodder. I have this book on the back of the throne and break it out whenever I wish to spend a few minutes relaxing.

The listings are generally quite funny (although the humor can be a bit tame). Some references are obscure for Americans (as the real estate listed in in London).

Decent book if you like this sort of thing.

"Casting Stones" is a very well written book about prositution and the reasons behind prositutions. In reading this book you will find that the authors took this subject and the writing of the book very seriously, researching, visiting, and speaking to prosituties and those in the prositution industry.

Perhaps, most interesting is the information that the authors provided on Asian prositution. The authors, traveled to Asia to research the economic, cultural, and religious reasons behind prositution. An example of some of the topics that are discussed: sex tourism in Asian countries, how young girls are perfered due to the AIDS epidemic, and the mindframe of prositutes which prevents them from leaving prosituition.

It should also be noted that the authors wrote this book from a Christian theologoian perspective, with a sensitivity to other religions and ways of life. This is a very interesting book with a different view of prosituition, and a worthy read.

Politics, sex, global economics, religion: sounds like a pot-boiling fiction best seller. But, while there are many harrowing scenes and both despicable and heroic characters, there's precious little "romance" in this study of prostitution and the international sex trade in Asia (Korea, Japan, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan) and the United States. As the authors quote one prostitute, "It kind of kills you, but it's over fast." And yet, one Thai military officer, suspected of being more than a customer, took offence at the authors' use of the term "sex industry"!

The authors, both Christian feminists, interviewed hundreds of prostitutes and those who would provide them refuge on both sides of the Pacific, and their analysis owes much to Liberation Theology, particularly Korean minjung theology.

"Evil," they write, "should be reconceived as whatever increases human helplessness, reinforces or inflicts pain without a healing purpose, and/or creates separation from relationships of love and nurture. Those three things - helplessness, pain, and separation - define evil as it is experienced by those exploited by the sex industry." It is no surprise, the authors point out, that this particular form of evil trade has taken root in and between the United States and (with the exception of Singapore) the most developed and developing countries of Eastern Asia. "The temptations of market economic theory are to reduce every aspect of human life to its value in the marketplace. .... The way in which certain economic systems contribute to human sin is to institutionalize the lack of care in a society and to make the consequences of this lack of care invisible."

This is an extraordinarily written, researched and thoroughly thought out work. The authors do their humanly best to understand and have compassion for all the players in this industry. As an introduction to how the world presently works, there may be no better book.

Read it.

I used this book for a complex variable course as part of my engineering study. I found this book very insufficient to explain things well as a beginner in the subject. There were often problems I could not understand because the book only offered a couple line explaination and no example. In fact almost all the class thought the book was terrible and didn't even read it. Now my school Rochester Institute of Technology has returned to its previous book. If you are well versed in math and want to explore another realm, go ahead with this book, but if you are no mathematician try something else.

It is wonderful to see this great book on undergraduate complex analysis back in print at even a more affordable price. I've used it in in one of my junior level courses and been totally satisfied with it. I will use a part of it again in a continuation course.

What is nice about this book is that it is a textbook, and not a cookbook nor a book that tries to include everything and fails at all of them. This book never lists too many results; instead it aims at the understanding of the subject matter. Its treatment of Cauchy's theorem clearly exposes the fact that different points of view (derivatives, series, integrals) in the complex plane lead to the same object, analytic functions. The sections on geometric and applied topics, such as linear fractional transformations and fluid mechanics, are a delight to read.

The book assumes nothing other than calculus (Green's theorem) as background. Topological concepts are kept at a reasonable level and some are introduced later when necessary so as not to hinder the development of its main topic. Some short side issues are discussed in tiny sections within the exercises. There are also plenty of regular exercises ranging from elementary calculations to rigorous proofs. This book also contains an appendix that I love on the zeros of polynomials, including the cubic and the quartic.

What attracted me most in this book is that one can read it straight through. There are no secondary undeveloped paths, sections to omit, unnecessary details, or long list of formulas. I recomend it for any course or self-study at the introductory level complex analysis.

Perhaps I was too put off by the comment in the forward that early Greek poetry was being neglected because it wasn't kept alive by be scriptural as the Rg Veda, the Psalms, etc. to give this book a fair chance. I can too easily identify other early and neglected poetry - Egyptian, Tamil, Sumerian, or the Avestan.

The selection of poems makes a nice mix -Archilochos, Alkman, Sappho, Alkaios, Erinna, Stesichoros, Ibykos, Anakreon, Solon, Mimnermos, Timokreon of Rphodes, Simonides, Phokylides, Praxilla, Socrates, Plato, Kallimachos, Theokritos ...

Unfortunately, as it doesn't suit my taste, so poems are made from multiple fragments, some poems which survived intact are given only a fragment here. The poems are decent poetry, but unlike Barnhard's translation of Sappho, I feel that I am reading a modern mind's interpretation of the ancient mind rather than reading a translation of a poem by an ancient.

Still, the book serves a real purpose as an introduction to early Greek poetry without being scholarly or obtuse.

I picked up this book of translations because I'd read one of the poems on Poetry Daily and was instantly captivated. The poems don't read like translations--they are vital, graceful, funny, bleak--and in that sense they certainly feel contemporary. But I wouldn't say that they are ever contemporary at the expense of the classic originals--instead they remind us that perceptions and emotions rendered this sharply and cleanly centuries ago still have the power (when translated by the right person) to reach us in the here and now. This volume doesn't read like a set of translations; the voice is compelling, it's range is considerable, and each time I open it a different poem becomes my favorite. (It's probably also worth saying that the production values on this book are impressive--it's a beautiful object to keep around.)

Although the book was easy to read and easy to move around in, but it was embarassingly fundamental. I only suggest this book for those who truly are "beginers".

This book is a great starting point for those interested in learning more about counseling. It is modeled after the English book "The Elements of Style," and it's numbered format makes it really easy to follow. It can be read from front to back, or skipping around chapters. It was a very easy read and I will enjoy having it around to re-read some of the "elements" as the need arises. I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in a quick overview of the theories in counseling.