There are many books on PCOS but very few on adrenal androgen problems, which are less common but not all that rare. This book describes very clearly both problems and how to treat them. My doctor read some passages from this book (which he confirmed with his own book) and this helped me get treatment. I think all doctors should have to read this book so women with androgen problems that are not PCOS could get treated and not swept under the PCOS rug. He also discusses menopause and other hormonal events. The book is well written and zippy enough that I read the 500 plus pages in a couple of sittings.

This book was printed in 1995 and I only wish I'd found it then!! Every OB/GYN should have this in their wating room as well as on their night stand. I learned so much from this book. It is organized well to find exactly what you want to know and is written so that a layperson can understand it. A very informative read as well as a great reference book. The Book "Androgen Disorders in Women" (Cheung) sites this book numerous times. "Androgen" is a good start to get your feet wet and then "Good News" takes it even further. A Must read for ANY woman who has concerns about her health!!

Dr. Redmond has given me an excellent resource for my hormonally confused electrolysis clients. I am a sixteen year veteran of the field of permanent hair removal by needle electrolysis. It has always been a challenge to help guide my clients to the proper hormonal treatments for their varied causes of hirsutism. Especially in today's climate of managed care, consumers need to go into their physician's offices armed with the information necessary to help their doctor diagnose them properly. I keep several copies of this book available for my customers to borrow. It will help you know what is significant to mention to your physician.

I love this book. Laure writes with honesty and frank discussion about "body hate," a distressing emotion that we've all encountered at some time during our lives.

Laure used to be fat, but she overcame her problems with eating and is now a respected fitness and life-style expert. Her recommendations are simple and easy to follow. Drink lots of water. Treat yourself. Sit up straight. Exercise for 10 minutes a day. In all, there are 10 steps in her program. Nothing is grueling or so difficult that a regular woman (or man!) couldn't handle it.

I'm planning on buying this book for my sister and my mom.

Give it a try for 8 weeks, and I promise you'll feel better about your body.

Throw out all your health and fitness books and buy Feel Good Naked. It is the only one you'll ever need!

I just love the candor of Laure's writing. She is so open, genuine and tells it like it is. I could completely relate to her story and the stories of the other women in the book. I think that too much emphasis is placed on having a perfect body, instead of having a fit and healthy body. Laure helps women (and men) get to the root of their weight issues and overcome them. She creatively makes it fun to exercise and eat more healthy. She makes people be accountable for their own actions without blasting them and making them feel awful.

I would DEFINITELY suggest this book to anyone that struggles with unhappiness about their appearance. Laure will help inspire you into taking charge of your own life and making it what you want it to be.

The Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook is absolutely the best medical handbook that I have found to date for remote medical support operations. Besides being very compact, which makes the manual a very functional travel companion, the book is packed with an incredible amount of useful medical information. If you are a remote medical practitioner, this is a medical reference manual that you will not want to be without.

C. Leigh Culver
CEO, Global Med-X LLC

Not only is the content in this book exceptional (especially for you survivalist types), the best part is the writing. The style editor must be incredibly talented. I happen to know he recently used some information from this book when he had to relocate his own shoulder...

The best wilderness/expedition medicine field guide bar none. I have had a chance to speak to most of the Special Forces Medics who have been in Afghanistan and the one thing we all agree on is that this book is the best thing that the military has put out ever for SF medics. I carried this book along with a Sanfords and Pocket Pharmicopia and ran sick call on my guys and the locals and didn't need any other references. The only negative is that this is some heavy book. Not something that you would want to carry on your ultra-light backpacking trip. Great for base camp or vehicle travel though.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book which my parents-in-law gave me in what I suspect is their latest salvo in the battle which erupted after my twins Farouk and Kylie's christening.

The information I found in this book helped me tremendously in my search for names. With their usual wit and flair, Rosenkrantz and Satran present what you need to know about British names, the most stylish choices now, and important issues about class. Of course, if you've ever read any other books by them, you know they're into lists, and­­sure enough, there's plenty of lists here. I find English names almost perfect­­elegant, cool, calm, mysterious, but warm-hearted. Although some (like Emma, Isabella, and Justin) have been used to the point of critical mass in the US, most are astoundingly fresh yet at the same time familiar and usable today.

This book will help you find a distinctive name for your child that others will complement him or her on but will not make him/her feel like an outcast. Most of the time, the names on the "upperclass" list are classics or at least names that will not go out of style, whether they've ever been well-used or not; and the names on the "lowerclass" list are, while not making a person with that name a lowerclass person, generally choices that are dated, overly trendy, or not very well-thought-of. And just watch: as American parents get tired of the Wonderbready top picks that they're choosing today, they'll be turning to names like these to save the day.

Other than Beyond Jennifer and Jason, I think this is Rosenkrantz and Satran's best book, and is definitely worth shelling out the bucks for. Great job, guys!

This book is for those with eccentric tastes who don't want something totally weird or made-up sounding. The English use some fabulous names; hopefully this book will inspire more Americans to follow suit.

Effective Executive's Guide To Windows 2000: The Seven Core Skills Required To Turn Windows 2000 Professional Into A Business Power Tool was designed and written specifically for corporate executives, managers, and professional needing a fast-paced, filtered, executive summary of the core Windows 2000 Professional software, enabling them to understanding the desktop layout, manage files and folders, print out data, participate on a network, customize Windows 200, use the Internet for web browsing and email, as well as general troubleshooting. Pat Coleman has a flair for writing "user friendly" text which is enhanced with two appendices reviewing the Windows 2000 Professional Accessories and explaining how to use Windows 2000 Professional on a portable computer. Effective Executive's Guide To Windows 2000 is an invaluable instructional and reference text for anyone utilizing Windows 2000 Professional to carry out their corporate responsibilities.

Though I've been working with Windows for almost 10 years, I still learned new tricks with this book. Of course I skipped over some basic parts, but I can see how others might find the background information useful. As an added bonus, the book has a nice glossary and index to facilitate searching for specific topics.

This book is an effective step-by-step guide to using Windows 2000. Although it is not intended for the system administrator, it is a thorough discussion of all of Window 2000's functionality. Effective Executive Guide to Windows 2000 is as useful as a reference for the experienced user as it is as a tutorial for the Newbie.

I just received my copy of "The Baby Naming Journal" today. We are preparing to start a family, and I wanted to get ahead of the game, if at all possible. What a unique book this is!! I was thrilled at all the options suggested for choosing baby's name. I think the best part is that it's not just a list of names. It's an interactive project for the expectant Mom and Dad. The Family Tree section is wonderful! Not only do I intend to complete this keepsake for our first child, but I will be sure to purchase a copy for all our children!

I was so excited to discover this book. Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz are -- hands down -- the very best baby namers in the business and I have always found their advice to be extremely useful. Their previous books (including Beyond Jennifer and Jason & The Last Word on First Names) were far and away my favorite books when I was naming my first 3 children. Pamela and Linda are always funny and hip and all of their books make fine pregnancy reading. This newest book, though, is a real treasure. Not only is it a beautiful keepsake gift for us to be able to pass down to our next baby, but it created some special time for my husband and I to reflect on our family histories and what's really important to us and our future. It is a great book and one I will be giving to all the pregnant women I know and love.

IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME is an intricate blending of a life story with and inspirational message. Patricia Fortner Redmond shares a bit about her life, starting with her childhood in the Deep South and her first encounters with racism. She then goes on to share about her high school sweetheart, who later became her husband, and their life together. Over the course of their long relationship the couple developed a life plan for themselves in which they established goals for their future. Their life was going as scheduled when their first child Jamilah was born, just as they had planned. But as Jamilah got older, it became evident that she was not reaching developmental milestones as expected and ultimately Patricia learned that she had a special needs child. Aside from adapting to the uniqueness of Jamilah's special needs, Patricia felt a great deal of guilt and self-blame for her child's difficulties. What follows is an arduous journey in which Patricia slowly but surely learns to put her full faith in God.

Not only is this book a memoir, but it could also be considered a self-help book. The author shares the ups and downs of her life with a heartfelt sincerity that will touch all readers. As she shares the story of her journey, she includes details about the particular Biblical passages or Christian themed books which provided her with the additional strength, encouragement, and skills that she needed to move on. Although the book would be particularly helpful for other parents of special needs children, this book will truly inspire and strengthen all who read it.

Reviewed by Stacey Seay
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

In the Fullness of Time talks about the author's life, but most of all, her eldest daughter, Jamilah's handicap, which wasn't diagnosed until years later(she has several severe developmental challenges. In this book, she doesn't whine, complain, but she does petition God on her own behalf and believes in a miracle for her daughter. This book is great for those who need a boost of faith as well as for those who have challenges such as Patricia and are looking for help.

Throughout history, music and rhythm have been used in religious ritual, to bring human beings into the ecstasy of the divine presence, by whatever name that has been called at any given time. And, specifically, rhythm was prevalent in the ancient Goddess religions of the Mediterranean. I never realized, until I read _When the Drummers Were Women_, how many of the Goddess traditions included sacred drumming. But it's right there--Cybele's devotees ate and drank from drums and cymbals, Inanna was given drum music as an offering, and votive figures of drumming women have been found in many places. It's like what I've heard happens when a woman gets pregnant--all of a sudden, she sees pregnant women everywhere. Not because there are more pregnant women than there were before, but because her focus has changed. Layne Redmond gives us a new focus--percussion--and suddenly we're able to see the pattern of rhythmic ecstasy that ran through many of these rituals, which many of us hadn't noticed before. And she also suggests drumming as a way to the divine today, and emphasizes that drums were not always seen as "masculine" instruments as they are seen today. Are they seen as masculine? Ask me, ask any woman who played percussion as a young girl. A lot of weird looks still follow a female drummer. But that's changing, thanks to prominent female drummers like Redmond.

Why not five stars? I think it's a personal issue of mine. I've read a lot of "history of the Goddess" books in my life, and at this point I'm heartily sick of reading about the matriarchy and its suppression by the patriarchy. This isn't Redmond's fault, it's mine. But this book contains the exact same story arc I've seen many times before, the very same oversimplified history. (The best three-dimensional account I've seen of this theme is Baring and Cashford's _The Myth of the Goddess. Other writers' tellings of this story come off as too sweepingly general after the Baring/Cashford book.) It's up to you whether the drumming angle justifies buying another book about the matriarchy/patriarchy story. For me, it was justified, because I am interested in Demeter, Persephone, and Dionysos, and got some new information about their rites from Redmond's book. It's the big question to ask yourself before buying this book.

This book outlines the history of drumming and empowers women today to take up the drum. This is a well researched piece of work that reaches into ancient history. Layne Redmond traces the history of the drum and how women were the first drummers until patriarchy emerged and discouraged and then prevented women from using the drum. It is interesting and informative.

This book made a major change in my life as a woman & a drummer. Filled with photos of funereal friezes, statuettes & bas relief of women holding frame drums or tambourines from centuries & centuries ago before written history, this is the telling of one woman's journey along her spiritual path & the discoveries she made. A lovely lyrical effort & one I eagerly recommend. It will change your life!

Mr. Callahan provides a well-organized, easy-to-follow tutorial on application development in Microsoft Access 95, emphasizing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This book is an excellent introduction to Access programming. Hands-on training is provided on the accompanying diskette.

Great tutorial with specific examples that walk you though customizing Access DBs with a business purpose in mind. Really great book, I highly reccommend it to anyone who is planning to learn how to build customized access applications. Worth every cent you spent on it.

I love this book. I learned more in 3 hours with this book than I did in a month of wading through various Access and VBA tomes. It is a perfect fit for the fairly technical Access user who is new to Visual Basic. Is your database dying under the weight of its macros? You need VBA and this is the book to teach it to you.

For those of us who followed Mike's columns and commentary in the Indianapolis daily papers over the last decade or so, this book brings him back full circle to writing about what he knows (and loves) the best--his wild, crazy, and wonderful family. He gives us twelve great chapters here, each devoted to a family member or family custom such as Christmas or Thanksgiving. While he mentions so many of our regional influences (including a certain basketball coach now in the Lone Star State), I think that anyone who grew up a. during the 50s and 60s; b. as part of a large immediate and extended family; c. anywhere in the middle of the country; will relate to Mike's stories.

I do need to warn you though: if you've seen "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and thought Nia's family of 27 first cousins was huge--well, just hold on. The MacKenzie clan (Mike's mom's family) boasted 50!! And like Nia's family, there were some real characters amongst the MacKenzies as well.

Each of his three siblings gets a chapter, as does his mom. He often wrote about his brother, mom and older sister in his weekly columns for the Indianapolis Star, and this book gives you their "backstories." Mike's father was also a newspaper reporter for the Indianapolis papers, but Mike never wrote much about him except for one column when the Indianapolis News ceased publication. He also gets a chapter here. While most of the time Mike's writing makes me laugh out loud, this chapter made me cry.

And to me, that's the true worth of Mike. He can touch your heart through his humor--and through his sincerity as well. If you'd like to read more of his commentary, he has a column on his website. No, I don't work for him and I'm not related to him. But I think he's in a class with Dave Barry and Mitch Albom. If you like their work, check his out.

Enjoy this book and pass it on to your own cousins at your next family reunion.

I enjoyed Mike Redmond's essays about growing up in northern Indiana during the "boomer" years because of the true pictures painted with his words. His book brought forth memories of places I know myself (having come from the next county over) and times when life seemed simpler, without being sappy or gushy. My Arizona cousins who like "local color" will enjoy this slice of Hoosier life.

Finally! Now the rest of us can enjoy what has, up until recently, been a Hoosier best-kept secret. I have read Mike Redmond's humor columns in The Indianapolis Star for years during numerous trips to Indiana. This book reveals his rare talent for taking his readers back to their own "kidhoods", with all the embarrassments, traumas, and antics that define growing up. His ability to recall the uniqueness of coming to age in the 50's and 60's makes this a book that all baby-boomers can relate to - no matter what part of the country they grew up in. If you like good story-telling, if you want a good laugh...this is the book for you.