I am sorry that I did not buy this book before I bought my rabbit. I wish I had read it before doing so many mistakes. I recommend you to read this book before buying this lovely creature, at least not to hurt it against your will.

I read the paperback edition, which I enjoyed immensely. The information is presented in a way that is easy to read and understand. The pictures are precious! The cutest rabbit in the world is on page 9, a purebred Thuringian dwarf. I wish I could find a rabbit like that one! If you read this book, you will definitely want a rabbit for a pet.

This book helps you get off to a great start with your new rabbit, great clor pictures and easy to read. I loved the pictures and the information was valueble to me I am now looking forward to buying my first rabbit this has helped me feel more confident about my decision.

This book makes for a great wedding present, especially for any teachers you know who are getting married. While parts are a tad cliche, others are unexpectedly poignant, and most of the book is refreshingly funny. One of the best things about this book is the illustrations, which were done by the children to accompany their advice.

My grandmother gave this book to me when I got married. It is so cute, real, and down-to-earth, that we have since given it as part of the wedding gift at every wedding we attend. Kids speak the truth, and their innocense is portrayed through the simple, yet honest statements and drawings.

This is the perfect wedding gift. I ordered three; one for each of the couples getting wed this summer.

Good book to read to see the light hearted side of the Vietnam war experience. It is good to know that during all of the tragedy for the U.S. and South Vietnam the American humorus spirit was undaunted.

I just finished reading BROWNWATER. If you were in the Service, you can relate to Charles Edwards from Baltimore,MD, U.S.Navy, in reporting to his first duty station. Charles' and Dan's Viet Nam experiences are serious but very humorous. Not all the danger was in the jungles; the bars and bar girls were also hazardous. Every serviceman has met a "Big Bertha". These two sailors used every mode of travel available to get to their duty station. I just started reading "BROWNWATER II". Already Seaman Edwards has gotten off to a bad start; thank goodness for Dan! This book kept me laughing throughout the hunt for the U.S.S. Summit.

Serious story with a lighthearted side. tells the story of a young man and is adventures in reaching his assigned duty station in the Navy during the Vietnam war. a very enjoyable read. anyone who served during the war will enjoy the book and it will bring back memories.

This is a fun little guidebook, and a must-have for serious fantasy fans. It has actually been helpful in some of my writing, and it definitely is an entertaining read. You can learn how to spot a dragon in today's world (difficult, but possible--look for burn marks on buildings!), how to befriend it (sometimes), how to negotiate peace between the dragon and nearby humans, and how to (if all else fails) slay one without being slain yourself!

You'll love Lori's work. I've know her work for years and it only gets better! Kudos on the book, Lori.

A faithful Paradigm fan,
Ophelia

Lori is an awesome author, I suggest all of you get this book. I know Lori's work ,and you won't be disappointed!

Most books about weighing more than you want, or having eating disorders, treat the issue like a chemistry problem. Change what you put in your mouth, and the weight will reach more appropriate levels. While that's certainly true to a point, many people are using food as a source of badly needed emotional solace. If they ignore their emotional needs, inappropriate uses of food may well continue. That's the situation that this book approaches.

Body Sense is unusually good at helping you locate sources of explicit and repressed emotions that can be influencing your eating. I was astonished at how many childhood memories the questions dredged up that I had not thought about in 40 or more years. The book also wisely focuses you on identifying which foods trigger binges and other inappropriate behavior, allergic reactions, blood sugar highs and lows, and other individual-specific reactions. There's also some basic information about how body chemicals affect mood and physiology, and ways that choice of foods can help.

Body Sense overcomes my main complaint about books offering new diets in that they usually offer one solution for everyone, and each person has to follow the advice pretty rigidly. As more research is conducted, it is becoming clear that individual reactions to foods vary quite a lot. For example, Live Right 4 Your Type shows that blood type is one important differentiating factor. In the future, we will probably learn more. For example, other research has shown that some people just have slower metabolisms than others, and will weigh more than people who eat more. Until better methods of finding out about our bodies is available, carefully understanding our reactions to food in an emotional and physiological sense is a logical and constructive step to take.

I had three negative reactions to the book that concerned me, as much as I liked what I described above.

First, we all have had bad experiences in our lives. If we are 5 pounds overweight, do we need to drag through all of that? 10 pounds overweight? 20 pounds overweight? 30 pounds overweight? I'm not sure that this degree of psychological self-examination is required unless the degree of eating disorder is pretty great. If more examination is needed, shouldn't we have some professional help?

Second, the book doesn't say much about exercise except to warn against overdoing it. Most people would benefit from more fitness from exercise more than they would from losing a few pounds. I can imagine that people have very big hang-ups about exercise from their psychological backgrounds that need to be addressed as well. I was surprised that a book called Body Sense didn't include this topic.

Third, the process described here would take many months to do for most people. How many people will have the persistence and patience to work through this many issues on their own? In my experience, very few. The process here needs either some streamlining, or some way to make a person want to keep pursuing it.

Ultimately, who's to say that your weight is the biggest symptom you should be challenging? After all, it's mostly social norms that cause people to even think about their weight. I would argue that the harm we do to others and ourselves outside of how we eat is often worse. Perhaps the psychological approach here should be more like in Life Strategies, in trying to identify where change is needed first . . . before launching off into dealing with that area.

What can you do today that will be positive, gratifying, and something you would be proud to share with the world?

If you got nothing else from Body Sense, the model of the Cycle of Pain is a visual aid that you can use in all situations to stop being a food abuser. There are real tools that challenge one to think about what leads to looking for food , when food has no magic to comfort the pain. The Cycle of Pain is like having a watch that now tells me where I am in my feelings, why, and what is most likely about to happen next.

The second most valuable part of the book is the way it clearly and logically goes deeper into the emotions connected with eating disorders. I wish every physician new about Body Sense and could recommend this book to their patients as a healing tool.

Lastly, almost any addiction I can think of would benefit from the use of the tools in Body Sense. Thank you .

Ms. Crawford-Clark has gathered the wisdom of the counseling field, combined with the knowledge of human nature, female mystic and male dynamics, with chemical dependency knowledge, eating "disorders" and presents a valued, insightful and very helpful book on this complicated subject.

Her reflections and specific exercises offer the reader a practical, logical and manageable approach to a long-standing problem facing most Americans and American families.

It is with great support I take the time to write this brief review. I recommend this book to all my friends (both personal and professional), as well as to the general reading public.

This glossy book depicts some really beautiful and unique home (plus one on a boat) offices. However, it could have been so much better!

Missing are floorplans and dimensions of the offices shown in this book. Also missing are sketches depicting the relation of the office space to the rest of the home - something useful to those contemplating new construction. What species of wood comprises those cabinets, and how were they finished? How was that floor made? The reader must guess at these and dozens and dozens of other questions the photographs evoke.

Instead, the author chooses to annotate the photos with useless comments such as where a pillow was made... the owner's collection of inkwells... what artist drew the prints on the wall... you get the idea. One gets the notion Ms. Paul never once asked herself what information would be desired by someone buying her book. She seems more interesed in the interior decoration aspects of home offices than their design.

The Home Office is a great and unique source of inspiration. This book has been a wonderful resource for me in organizing and defining my home office. Donna Paul has written in-depth and high quality chapters on an enormous variety of home offices (totaling 45) located across the United States. The photographs by Grey Crawford are exceptional.

My personal experience with this book has been to be inspired to use what I already have in a creative (and inexpensive) way and to incorporate into my home office personal items and a personal touch that I would not have used in a downtown high rise office.

If I could only have one home/decorating book, whether or not specifically for a home office, this would be the one. It's great!

If you are thinking about setting up a home office , this book is fabulous. How Ms. Paul found these amazing home offices I don't know. But they are full of great design ideas. Beautiful photography. Great writing!

I was a little disappointd about this book and was glad that I oniy paid half price on it. Because the half price was all it was really worth. Some of the contents in the book was poorly written. The only positive thing that I saw in the book was a wonderful relationship between Cindy Crawford and her son, Prestley. And that was it!!

An adorable book! My son loves when I read the lyrical words and imitate the photos in the book. It takes traditional rhyming and typical finger plays one step further to engage your child with facial gestures, body movements and language. My son Henry laughs and loves our time together when we use the book as inspiration for our own play. Cindy Crawford's introduction is sweet and poignant and gives insight to her love of Motherhood and appreciation of her own Mother.Seeing Cindy get silly can be an impetus for all mothers to do the same!

i bought this book for my niece and nephew, along with several others but this is the one they ask for all the time. they love the pictures and the funny faces we make when we read it.

Anyone who enjoys whole foods cookery, herbal healing, and organic gardening will appreciate Crawford's observations. Those with a philosophical bent will appreciate them even more. His reflections on a life lived close to nature are a bit like those of Thoreau or Jefferson, but Crawford appears to also be very much the guy who brings fresh produce to your local farmer's market.

Few of us have probably given much thought to the growing of garlic bulbs, which really consist of "cloves" that can be divided and planted or used to season everything from marinara sauce to stir fries. You might have noticed the green sprouts that begin to emerge from cloves of garlic kept too long in your refrigerator, but Crawford suggests garlic plants are difficult to grow because their life course is different from that of many other plants. Garlics have adapted to life in stressful places where rainfall is not always forthcoming but when they need moisture, they need moisture. To avoid death, the bulbs spend a good part of the year "resting" or dormant. In a chapter called "Waiting" Crawford says that's exactly what the garlic farmer does. Much of the year, garlic like other bulbed plants are in hiding, and the farmer must be patient and wait until they are ready for the harvest.

But Crawford's interaction with plants isn't only about garlic. He relates how he "tasted the landscape" as a child in his native California-peeling and chewing the white pulp of anise growing by the side of the road in winter; sucked the syrup of nasturtiums, smelled the pepper tree berries, and searched the orchids for loquats, limes, and mandarin oranges. Today, children are not so fortunate. Pollution, chemicals, other noxious matter have made much of the landscape dangerous. Crawford toyed with both conventional and organic farming. He says he wishes to ask those who enquire whether his products for sell at the weekly market are "organic" if they lead organic lives. Do they earn their money in organic ways. He says, "Perhaps in the poisonous desert of the city there is little else you can do besides seek out what you hope is "pure" food. In addition to being informative and philosophical, Crawford's book is provocative.

When Henry David Thoreau left the comforts of civilization to build his own house with his own hands and deliberately live close to nature, his experience at Walden Pond became a classic in American literature. Even today, many of us trapped in the mundane horrors of urban life long to escape, as he did, to a small plot of land somewhere outside the realms of commerce, overcommercialization, and petty-minded consumerism.

Novelist Stanley Crawford had the courage to do more than dream about it. He left California for the rigorous, simple life of a New Mexico garlic farmer and, like Thoreau, has written a wise and thought-provoking book about his experiences. His account spans a year in the life of garlic, tying topics as diverse as the nuclear bomb and the challenge of maintaining community to the rhythms of building one's own house from adobe and learning to plant and harvest responsibly.

After closing the cover of this book, I was ready to drive to New Mexico and seek out Crawford in the Farmer's Market, to buy my own bulbs of top-setting garlic and somehow bring some of the beauty of his life into my own. I may never stand in Santa Fe behind his pickup, buying a woven garland of organic garlic to hang in my kitchen, or perhaps I will travel there and stammer some foolish words about his writing as I hand him a handful of crumbled dollar bills. In some sense, the physical journey has become irrelevant: Crawford's New Mexico has already illumined my heart and wakened me to the rhythms of my own life. I don't have the strength or the patience to tend a field or a garden, manufacture adobe or create a home, brick by brick. But I, too, have a place in the world, and eyes to see--A Garlic Testament is one of those books that wakes us from habitual slumber and reminds us, as Thoreau so aptly put it, to advance confidently in the directions of our dreams, and to put the foundations under our castles in the air.

This is one of the best-written books that I have ever read. Each word is well-chosen, effective, and yet easy to read. At one point in the book, he alludes that he has written poetry previously. Each of the 39 chapters is a few pages long, presenting a brief essay on something related to garlic farming in New Mexico. There's an obvious love and care that he gives to his work (both garlic farming and writing), and he's able to show respect for others who have not chosen this path. The book also presents some information about how garlic is grown, but it's by no means a gardening book. It's a descriptive story of the cycles of the growing season. Like in his other excellent book, Mayordomo, the author also shares his community with us - talking about how farming, farmers markets, irrigation, and such intertwine a community, even one that contains members who originally went there to "get away from it all."

This book is nothing new. I suppose the information would be entertaining if it was the first book I read on the subject, or if I believed it. A lot of the explanations and revelations seem VERY similar to Sylvia Browne's, who was the first to write about the subject of "the holding place", "dark entities", and our charts, or blueprints we make before coming into life.

What Sylvia says works and makes sense, and I see a lot of psychic authors jumping on the Sylvia bandwagon. If all this is true, why wasn't it all revealed 10, 20, or 60 years ago? Why now all of the sudden?

Anyway, this book is very comforting to read, and nice to believe in, although it just doesn't ring true to me.

Jenny Crawford, from New Zealand, radiates kindness and is a world-class clairvoyant medium, in the same league as James Van Praagh and John Edward. She's a close personal friend of mine, and I'm happy to report she conducts her personal life with the same love she exhibits on stage and in her professional readings. Her new book, Spirit of Love, details some of her experiences as a medium. The stories are rich, heart touching, and very healing. This lovely book will provide answers for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one, or just curious what it is like to be a medium. Jenny is "the real deal," and I fully endorse her work.

I could not leave this book alone until it was finished. I wanted information on what it is like to be a medium and to help myself on my spiritual quest. This book did both. I highly recommend it.

Fans of ghost stories and horror fiction can't go wrong with this collection, which includes "The Upper Berth"--perhaps the best ghost story ever written. Crawford was one of the finest writers in this genre, and was tremendously popular in his day (though, ironically, not for his ghost stories--he wrote some 44 romantic/realist novels between 1890 and 1909.)

There IS one huge flaw in this White Wolf edition, however. The final story, "The King's Messenger," is missing the ending--the last page to be exact. It's not Crawford's best by any stretch of the imagination, so you're not missing much, but it's still a nuisance. Still, you can't beat the price, which makes this collection more than worthwhile.

Surely, this compilation has to be a Victorian classic in the same vein as Lovecraft's Cthulu Mythos. I found Crawford's style truly unique, which ranged from the blood-curdling of "The Upper Berth" and "Man Overboard!" to the moving of "The Ghost Doll". This was really enjoyable and fans of Gothic and Victorian certainly would not want to miss this.

This collection of F. Marion Crawford's blood-curdling short stories is well worth tracking down. Though all of the stories are worth great merrit, there are a few in particular that need to be highlighted. "For The Blood Is The Life" is one of the absolute best tales of the folkloric vampire of tradition - yet Crawford puts a unique and eerie Romantic spin on things, which enables the story to still strike contemporary readers. "The Dead Smile" dreadfully builds to a gruesome climax with the protagonist's unforgettable descent into an ancestral crypt - a purely horrorific physical description that foreshadowed the work of Lovecraft. "The Screaming Skull" is a spine-chilling tale of a man who innocently and unintentionally inspires his friend to murder his wife. But nightly, her vengeful frigid shrieking from beyond the grave reminds him of his folly. And finally, the strange happenings in an accursed room aboard a ship is the focus of "The Upper Berth," which was admirably praised by Lovecraft as "one of the most tremendous horror stories in all literature" and though not as haunting as the other works, it is definitely a great tale.

Crawford's plots are well-structured, the writing is easy to digest and is demanding on the readers emotions and threshold for fear, rather than on their patience. His restrained style of seductive evil is classy and very effective, and is more akin to J.S. Le Fanu's subtle creeping terrors than to Lovecraft's more cosmic and direct approaches. Whatever the case, this is classic horror that will be treasured by casual enthusiasts and scholars of the genre alike.