This book, which was the very first one that introduced me to the works of Edgar Cayce, changed my life dramatically.

WHY IT'S GOOD: It's practical. One of my biggest complaints about the more popular self help books out there is that they tend to be all fluffy, idealistic, super New Age talk without any real, practical advice that you can use. Yeah, it's great to be pummeled to death with the idea that "with your mind," you can do anything you want to do. But in order to change your life, you still need practical solutions you can use. Luckily, this book is one of the rare New Age ones that is a happy balance between New Age ideas and practical wisdom. Even if you think there are some weird concepts in here that you might not cotton to, you will still walk away from it having learned some important practical things you can apply in your own life, like:

1. Setting ideals (instead of goals).

2. Looking at role models for inspiration (instead of "looking deep into yourself" and going, "I think I can, I think I can")

3. And learning to turn negative traits in yourself into something positive (this is a far cry from typical self help books which always tell you that you should only look at the positive in yourself).

This is an excellent book. Don't let its New Age-ness scare you (or the fact that its material was based on the readings of a psychic). ARE Press, the people who published this, produces the most practical, well thought out, and realistic personal growth books on the market today-- better than Chopra, better than Zukav, even better than Weil. You'll find no vague, mumbo-jumbo, pseudo wisdom here, but real down to earth advice. So please buy it! Your life will definitely change for the better.

Eliza is a spirited young girl who travels with her parents to Ireland. There she gets her best friend, Panda her dog. But since Eliza and her family are out of the country. It will be hard to get her dog back to the United States. Will Eliza dog be alowed on the plane or will this border collie have to stay in Ireland.If your dying to know why don't you find out? Why don't you read this book, it's great. You have my word for it.

This book examines how Mao's hatred of intellectuals resulted in the torture and murder of millions. The author explores the events leading up to the Cultural Revolution, how and why it happened, and the aftermath of a tragic decade in Chinese history. Because this book is based on interviews conducted with people who lived through the Cultural Revolution, it gives a lot of insight into what was going on in the minds of the Chinese populace. There are many remarkable stories here of cowardice & heroism, cruelty & kindness, suicide & the awesome determination to survive. This book is a must for anyone wanting to better understand the Chinese people and the Cultural Revolution.

This meditation tape really helps the beginner meditator. Not expecting one to have prior beliefs or religious convictions (though Cayce himself was a devout Christian and read the bible once for every year of his life), you can really benifit from this tape in amazing personal ways

This book has been reviewed by R.C. Preston in "Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology" 25:487-488; 1999. His recommendation is:

"This is an essential book for engineers and physicists who want to know and understand how ultrasound has been applied in medical imaging, NDT and industrial process control."

One might think that Thurston Clarke is compiling his travel books by geographical feature, first a book on the equator and now one on islands. We might expect his next to be about the Tropic of Cancer or salt marshes. Whatever it is, I suspect it will be a worthy and fascinating concoction.

While he writes this book from the perspective of what he calls a "islomane", one who fascinated with islands, it makes compelling reading for someone who lacks this particular fascination. As a prairie boy I am more fascinated by mountains than islands, but because Clarke weaves so much collateral information into his text, you will never be anything less than fully engaged. He visits all kinds of islands from tourist meccas to summer cottages to northern coal mines. These journeys seem terribly difficult, but Clarke never lets the encumbrances of modern travel get in the way of his examination of both the fascination he has with islands in general and the particulars of what makes any given island worth visiting. He comes to many surprisingly interesting generalizations about the nature of islands and islanders (that for example changes on islands are usually more permanent than elsewhere).

As a traveler he reminds me of Paul Theroux, and certainly his writing is on that level, though without the annoying flashes of ego that often make Theroux painful. It is interesting to compare Clarke's island jaunts with Theroux's Happy Isle of Oceania. Both authors distinctly render the sense of desperation that emerges from these isolated places, but Clarke appears to have a greater sense of the humanity of the people who inhabit them. Perhaps it takes an islomane to truly empathize with those likewise afflicted.

Much as I enjoyed this book, I would also recommend Clarke's book on his travels around the equator. I found these places more interesting, and the quality of the writing is just as high.

I first read this book as a teenager. Was my second book sent to me from a club..My first was the green ripper.. This book though was an opening to my mind for reading outside the class room. The lure was a futuristic time when cars were not so much out lawed, but you had to be "elite" to own one. The main charachter is not really poor. But is from a middle class type home. Typical 16 year old stuff of wanting to get on with life. So he buy's a beat up mustang and heads out into to the new world. THe Kick is that it is illeagle to drive junkers and the highway is forbidden. Leaving the prosecution of his home life. As he travels the united states he encounters bad people and good.. this is his story in a time when the rich control and the rest of us serve.But out west there is freedom.. Love is found and lost.. All in all it will always have a place in my heart. it was my coming of age book..Rebellion and redemption..

I am a college student just starting to work with props. I have found this book to be extremly helpful throughout my work process. Anyone who needs a little push in the right direction must stop and try this book out for size. I promise you will not leave this book without something to use in your future work.

I first picked up Bonnie Thurston's "To Everything a Season; A Spirituality of Time" thinking it was a book of meditations, a type of writing I find very helpful in my spiritual life. That proved not to be case. Instead, it turned out to be just as good: a seven-chapter reflection on the mystery of time, with discussions of time's history, its language, its theology, its seasons, and its place in our lives as we attempt to "make Sabbath" in a harried world.

I found this book insightful and helpful. Thurston is a professor and ordained in the Disciples of Christ, a denomination I haven't encountered much since my days at the Yale Divinity School. She's scholarly and spiritual, writes fluently, and has a genuine pastoral concern for those of us attempting "to reclaim the rhythm of creation by God for rest and re-creation." The "time exercises" at the end of the first four chapters were very useful in helping me understand how I think about and use time.

This could be sub-titled, "Artist Meets the Army/Women's Army Corps". Since the author had trained as an artist before entering the war, this book is unique from other books about WW2 and the WACs in terms of the artist's conflicts with the establishment and the excellent use of poetry and drawings. Good, often poignant scenes of the author's experiences in Georgia, Mississipi, Alabama, and Staten Island New York. Will be enjoyed by any man or woman that has served as a nurse in the armed forces. Again the poetry and sketches make this book unique among books about the WACs and WW2.