Earlier this year I purchased this book because off the internet review and read it in one day. Do not know the author and had never heard of her before, but this book made me cry and this book gave me hope. The journey Ms. Jones went through is not unlike the struggle of many other women. It was a blessing to me to read it.

I am now re-reading it as I embark on my own journey. Thank you Ms. Jones for share your journey and your success.

ConSandra Jones has written a book that every woman should read. She has a testimony to tell and she opened up her heart and soul and shared some painful moments and experiencs to let other women know that they are not alone and it's okay to talk about it. She also vividly points out that GOD is the man to whom we should put all of our faith, trust and belief in. HE IS OUR ONLY SAVIOR!!! In this book, ConSandra gives clear instructions on how to start your journey to recover your lost soul, both spiritually and physically. Through faith and God's guidance, we can make it!!!
ConSanda Jones is a living example and a very beautiful person.

ConSandra Jones gives women the opportunity to look at her past and see the lessons learned. ConSandra show us how the stress and trials in life eventually take their toll on our body. From careers to relationships, we may lose ourselves... Applying Bible verse and showing us God will in our lives, this book truly lives up to its title of allowing a woman to start "Rediscovering Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Wholeness". Thanks ConSandra!

Although Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" is the most encyclopedic book about the West and its problems with water, this book actually gets closer to the bone of what's wrong with the way we in the US live in our desert climes. The book focuses first on how the O'odham and Pima indian cultures managed to live sustainably in the Sonoran Desert with its unpredictable and rare water flows. While I doubt that many of us but the most idealistic and romantic would want to live the life of these peoples, there is a certain genius in the ways they made the land and its water work for them that we could do well to learn from. Bowden contrasts this with the civilization the European cultures came and built during the last 150 years, a civilization built on "mining" the ice-age aquifers so rapidly that they will soon be drained once and for all. Having turned the plains to a dust bowl, will we just pack up and move on as we always have in the past?

In his later books, Bowden's bitter spleen often spills uncontrollably from his pen, but his tone here is much more restrained. In "Waters," his voice is almost scholarly scholarly and tinged with sad wisdom. This is a great book, and one that deserves far more readers.

Although Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" is the most encyclopedic book about the West and its problems with water, this book actually gets closer to the bone of what's wrong with the way we in the US live in our desert climes. The book focuses first on how the O'odham and Pima indian cultures managed to live sustainably in the Sonoran Desert with its unpredictable and rare water flows. While I doubt that many of us but the most idealistic and romantic would want to live the life of these peoples, there is a certain genius in the ways they made the land and its water work for them that we could do well to learn from. Bowden contrasts this with the civilization the European cultures came and built during the last 150 years, a civilization built on "mining" the ice-age aquifers so rapidly that they will soon be drained once and for all. Having turned the plains to a dust bowl, will we just pack up and move on as we always have in the past?

In his later books, Bowden's bitter spleen often spills uncontrollably from his pen, but his tone here is much more restrained. In "Waters," his voice is almost scholarly scholarly and tinged with sad wisdom. This is a great book, and one that deserves far more readers.

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Congratulations to Nancy Martha West for so beautifully capturing the essence of Kodak's contribution to the twentieth century, and the resulting impact upon both American and world cultures. More than simply addressing Kodak advertising, this text speaks to the larger concerns of the modern human family and the legacy we leave behind.

The text is developed with the discipline of a focused scholar, and yet communicates the author's sense of discovery and wonder as she experienced the project.

West's approach to the subject of reflecting cultures through their photographic representations is both fresh and timely. Her research reveals that while these images become locked in our continuing memories of events and relationships, the images themselves are only a partial glimpse into events as they actually happened. The implications of this thesis are faithfully developed, yielding an essential read for any student of history and cultural development.

As a student of Professor West's at the University of Missouri-Columbia, I was excited to read her work after enjoying her as a teacher. With "Kodak," she has meticulously reconstructed the campaigns used by Kodak throughout the late 1800s to mid 1900s. Initially, snapshots were seen as a means of leisure. Towards the early 1900s, however, Kodak's advertising scheme shifted the emphasis towards nostalgia and preservation of memories (more specifically, familial). Kodak even went so far as to use their advertising for propaganda (see "The Death Campaign"). All of this and more is included with beautiful illustrations. The book is a fascinating read, one that will provide a true sense of Americana through the ever-changing Kodak lense.

The history of Kodak photography and Kodak's advertising, which influenced American culture and the arts, is revealed in Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia, a survey of the Kodak campaign to make photography a part of daily American life. Included are unused campaigns never published, in this fascinating survey of Kodak's ad history.

It is a book full of wisdom and asks for our courage and our commitment to our personal growth. Swami Radha provides us with an excellent bridge through which we can bridge the ancient Teachings to our western thoughts and life styles. In working with the book I have learnt about who I am and what is the purpose of my life. She requires us to be honest and requires us to empower ourselves as we meet ourselves and as we recognize the divine that is within us. It is a book that has been a key to understanding my life and my daily lessons. I highly recommend it to any one who is interested in growing into their full clear potential...

You can change your life by working with this book. I have and so have many people I know. It guides you to answer the tough questions about life: What is birth? What is death? What is the purpose of your life? How do I use my speech? It has many exercises to help each of us elevate our lives, to make the ordinary sacred. It's a book for a lifetime, one to take on a desert island. I've read it at least ten times and there's always more to learn from it.

This book is amazing, profound, magic, poetic , full of wisdom. By using specific exercises, meditations and reflections you will discover yourself and realise your potential. It definitely changed my life!!!

There are other charming books written about the jewel-by-the-sea, La Jolla, but this one adds a special touch that enhances our beautiful resort with fascinating facts from the past. Famous names such as Irving J. Gill, the architect, Ellen Browning Scripps, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Gregory Peck, and Cliff Robertson, to name a few.
The world renowned Scripps Institute of Oceanography with its pioneers, such as Roger Revelle, is one of the many outstanding features and facts of a well written record of our paradise-on-earth village.

Though not a native of La Jolla, I have visited it since 1938. I moved my residence here in 1985.

I have sent this book to family and friends out of town who have also become intrigued with this Town with the Funny Name by Max Miller.

Indeed, anyone, anywhere, interested in history and the arts will open a book filled with them.

Signed: Leigh Sherman, member of La Jolla Branch of National League of American Pen Women since 1984.

There are other charming books written about the jewel-by-the-sea, La Jolla, but this one adds a special touch that enhances our beautiful resort with fascinating facts from the past. Famous names such as Irving J. Gill, the architect, Ellen Browning Scripps, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Gregory Peck, and Cliff Robertson, to name a few.

The world renowned Scripps Institute of Oceanography with its pioneers, such as Roger Revelle, is one of the many outstanding features and facts of a well written record of our paradise-on-earth village.

Though not a native of La Jolla, I have visited it since 1938. I moved my residence here in 1985.

I have sent this book to family and friends out of town who have also become intrigued with this Town with the Funny Name.

Indeed, anyone, anywhere, interested in history and the arts will open a book filled with them.

My husband is very impressed with Patricia Daly-Lipe's book, so much so that I haven't had a chance to read it yet. He has read a number of books about our home town of La Jolla and found this one to be truly superior to the typical tourist offering. The overall quality of the book is demonstrated by the breadth of the topics covered coupled with the knowledgable glimpses of La Jolla offered by several resident authors.

La revolución granadina de 1979 1983 fue una experiencia política de inmensa importancia, tanto por los pueblos del Caribe como trabajadores y campesinos del mundo entero. Un país pequeño, con apenas 100 mil habitantes, pero con una rica lucha revolucionaria estableció un gobierno de los trabajadores y campesinos. Junto con Cuba y Nicaragua sandinista, Granada fue uno de los "tres gigantes" de aquellos años. Granada enfrentó todos los problemas del mundo actual: la dominación del imperialismo, el subdesarrollo, el racismo. Y tomó pasos gigantes en el camino para construir una nueva sociedad, basada en la solidaridad humana e el internacionalismo.

Este folleto -- realmente un libro-- publica el discurso de Maurice Bishop, el dirigente central de la revolución, ante una multitud de personas reunidas en la universidad Hunter College en Nueva York en junio de 1983; el discurso de Fidel Castro en al acto de mases conmemorando los trabajadores cubanos muertos en combate contra la invasión norteamericana de la isla en octubre de 1983; y un largo análisis de los logros y la caída de la revolución escrito por Steve Clark como introducción al libro Maurice Bishop Speaks.

Entre las cuestiones más importantes para la humanidad es la tarea de la construcción de una vanguardia revolucionaria capaz de encabezar la lucha de masas en el mundo de hoy -- y evitar lo que al fin pasó en Granada, un levantamiento contrarrevolucionario desde dentro de la misma dirigencia revolucionaria. Los hechos documentados en este folleto bien vale ser estudiado, tanto para conocer nuestra historia verdadera y para preparar mejor las luchas obreras que se avecinen.

The revolution in Grenada was the first socialist revolution in the English-speaking world, the first socialist revolution in a country of Africa descended people,and sadly the first revolution smashed by the combination of Stalinist counterrevolution and imperialist invasion. As the world in general, and the West Indies, Africa, and Black people in America are already facing conditions as bad as those of the great depression, working people will return to this battle, and seize not just the spirit and courage of this small island fighting against the imperialist monster, but of the concrete lessons, bad and good, won in their blood. This small pamphlet recounts that history, those lessons, and that spirit, not in the style of some history teacher, or in the style of sentimentalist wanting you to cry over Grenada's past. It is written so the blood and struggle of the Grenadian people can teach today's fighting workers and farmers, across the globe to win their triumphs and avoid their defeats.

Este folleto cuenta la historia de una gran revolución en una isla pequeñita; en 1979 el movimiento encabezado por Maurice Bishop derrocó el dictador de Granada, Eric Gairy, acto que también derrocó el dominio imperialismo de este país caribeño. Las nuevas políticas: la reforma agraria, la educación y el seguro social -ambos ya gratuitos-, las nuevas formas del poder popular obrero y campesino en lugar de la "democracia parlamentaria" anterior, el desarrollo de la agricultura y el turismo como industrias nacionales en beneficio de los obreros y campesinos en lugar que los superricos patrones extranjeros, todas ellas enfurecieron a los imperialistas y su gobierno en Washington, pero sobre todo los imperialistas odiaron y temieron el hecho de que Granada marchó al lado de las otras revoluciones anticapitalistas en la región: las revoluciones sandinista y cubana. Lee este folleto y aprenda porque Fidel Castro calificó a Cuba, Nicaragua y Granada como tres gigantes que alzan en el umbral del imperialismo. Esta obra también explica por un lado el golpe del estado estalinista que asesinó a Bishop y así dio paso a la invasión brutal, y por otro la complicidad de los políticos del Partido Demócrata estadounidense en esa invasión.

Apart from Paul Horgan fans, probably most people coming to this book will be doing so to learn more about the real life archbishop who inspired Willa Cather's great novel DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. And just as Cather's novel concerns the friendship and work of two major characters--Archbishop Jean Latour and his vicar Father Joseph Vaillant--so Horgan's biography necessarily tells the story not only of Juan Bautista Lamy but also Joseph Machebeuf.

Horgan's biography succeeds magnificently in two ways. First, for those who will be coming to the book from reading Cather, one will find vastly greater depth and detail than was possible in that novel. So, the book is a boon for Cather fans. Second, even if one has not read Cather, the book tells a magnificent story of a truly heroic man and his closest friend. Their story is also the story of the West as a whole, and Santa Fe in particular.

There are biographies that record the rote facts about an individual, and unfortunately most fall into this category. And the there are biographies that almost manage to bring you into contact and introduce you to someone you have never met. Lamy emerges almost as someone you know, instead of someone you merely know things about.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in either history of the American West or in Willa Cather's great novel. Although I am not myself Roman Catholic, it would probably also be enjoyed by those whose main interest is in Church History. It is a tragedy that this book is not currently in print. With so many much weaker and less interesting biographies available, it is unfortunate that many of the truly excellent ones are not.

It would be difficult if not impossible to overpraise this book. As a narrative of what the southwestern United States was like during the nineteenth century, as a triumph of research into a multitude of different sources spread out all over the United States and western Europe, and as a biography of an undeniably great man (the first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe, whose life this book tells from his departure from France around 1839 to serve as a missionary to the United States to his death in New Mexico the late 1880s), this book succeeds wonderfully. It's one of the best books I have ever read.

This outstanding book on the first Archbishop of Santa Fe - the French-born Jean Baptiste Lamy , details Lamy's tireless efforts at rebuilding the Catholic church in New Mexico from the state of shocking neglect which he found it to be in. It delineates the work Lamy did to improve both the spiritual and material lives of the people under his care. It also enumerates the many hardships Lamy endured. Evidence of the tremendous devotion, unwavering faith and sterling character of this man of God can be found throughout the book. If there is one word which can best describe Lamy, that word would be - Saint!

Author Paul Horgan won a Pulitzer prize for this book and it is not difficult to see why. It was readily apparent that Horgan had done exhaustive research from the numerous details contained in the book.

All in all, a meticulously researched book on a most remarkable individual of the American Southwest written by a diligent author.

Gentry Steele conveys the essence of the remarkable northern extension of the Great Chihuahuan Desert in his well-written text and supliments it admirably with supurb large format photographs. An excellent introduction to one of America's least explored regions.

The Big Bend is a rugged, powerful, unforgiving, and beautiful country,that exists on a scale that most of civilized man never experiences. Most casual tourists who visit Big Bend are disappointed, as I was, in their pitiful efforts at capturing the essence of the experience both in words and 35mm photographs. This is a land that does not exist in standard format; it is truly a large-format landscape that requires exceptional verbal ability and skillful large-format photography to do it justice. Gentry Steele has done just that. His love and knowledge of the Big Bend country are clearly evident in his text and, especially in his striking black and white photographs. A hearty thumbs up for this spectacular book!

This is the kind of book you return to again and again. Steele has both consumate technical skill and the eye (and heart) of an artist. The composition of each photograph is striking, but it is the play of light and shadow -- across canyon walls, over abandoned adobe buildings, and the occasional plant -- that will delight and amaze the viewer. Steele used the intense desert light as his accomplice, creating art out of light, shade, rocks, and space. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief description of what you are seeing and where the photograph was taken. Steele's love and respect for the Big Bend region is evident on every page. This isn't the kind of book to be flipped through casually. I find myself lingering over each page, savoring the image, returning over and over to particular images, seeing some new each time. I plan to give this book to friends and relatives for Christmas this year. I confess to owning two D. Gentry Steele photographic prints, including the one chosen for the cover of this book. Highly recommended!!

One of the best travel book series, with attention to detail, plus numerous color photographs and fine maps. Lots of instructions regarding practical travel matters. (Travel Books
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If these delectable guides' plentiful pix don't get you drooling to explore, you need to get your salivary glands checked. The text is also noteworthy. (...)

I recently bought this book on amazon.com. We are traveling to St. Lucia for our honeymoon and this book tells us everything fun to do and see! Wonderful color pictures!

this book has nothing to do with the dj howard stern as the previous reviews would have you believe. this is a book about the art of howard s. stern and his life events.

The controversial radio show host takes a stab at mystery writing and does it up Kinky Friedman style, with himself as the protagonist and a cast of characters that include his associates on his syndicated and televised talk forum. The mystery involves the death of Hank the angry, drunken dwarf who is found stomped to death outside a NY Peepshow.

This is by far the most detailed description of his radio show, including Gary Dellabata's dental records! I must for any fan of junior high humor, or Stuttering John fans.