This book discusses each herb by what ailment it can help. From aches and pains, insomnia, and yeast infections; this book lists remedies to over 100 problems. Each herb summary is easy to read and lists the type, dosage, other healing effects, how long it takes etc. It even gives you recipes and information on making your own remedies. There is also a neat section on pet herbal remedies. The only thing that concerned me is that there wasn't alot mention of how the herbs might interact with other herbs or prescriptions you maybe taking. Myself taking an anti-depressant, I know that it is not reccommended taking St. John's Wort. All it says is to check with your doctor as you would any drug. Overall it was a good reference book, but as I have said before never get all your information from one book.

I picked this book up at my college library. The book does a good job of exploring the history of the guitar, from its origins--the vihuela--to 18th century guitars. It also explores the history of guitar frets from the moveable guitar frets to later models where the frets are fixed, as well as the history of chords for guitar. It also explores the guitar's role in the music world and how the guitar came to be, the author claims the 15th century in the region now known as Spain. The book also explores early guitar sheet music, which showed some 3 and four beamed notes (presumably 24th notes and 32nd notes.) Basically, the book sis a good job of explaining the early history of the guitar without hanging too much on modern guitars. I recommend this book. It is a great book.

Eight articles from the experts focusing on the revolt of 1381 and related risings in late 14th century Europe. For primary documents, see R. B. Dobson's "The Peasants' Revolt of 1381". Warning: Although well written, not for the casual history reader.

An Introduction by R.H. Hilton

"The Social and Economic Background to the Rural Revolt of 1381", Christopher Dyer

"The 'Great Rumour' of 1377 and Peasant Ideology", Rosamond Faith

"The Jacquerie", Raymond Cazelles

"English Urban Society and the Revolt of 1381", A. F. Butcher

"The Risings in York, Beverly and Scarborough, 1380-1381", R. B. Dobson

"Florentine Insurrections, 1342-1385, in Comparitive Perspective", Samuel Cohn Jr

"The Revolt against the Justices", Alan Harding

"Nobles, Commons and the Great Revolt of 1381", J. A. Tuck

Solving puzzles make this book more enjoyable and a story to make this book come alive. Nice pictures as well as a small maze to keep you up at night.

This book has colorful illustrations with which one can practice Question and Answer Games easily. It is about the Strudel family on vacation. Chapters included are: Setting off,On the road,Counting Game,On the beach,Treasure hunt, Guess Who?, Weather, Body Game,Car Game,Funny Shapes, Hot work, Snapshots, Word list,Answers. There is a wordlist on ervery doublepage to give you the translations. There you'll also find little letters to help one pronounce the german word. Some of these are not correct i.e.ICH - ikh. It contains easy german songs (with notes)and games which help practice the newly learned vocabulary. It is a wonderful book for the recommended age group (9-12) if the child already has some basic knowledge of German. Through my own experience(teaching my 4 + 7 year olds) I would not recommend it for much younger children since it seems to be too complex for them.

Alice Felt Tyler's classic is the only comprehensive treatment of antebellum reform. While many more recent monographs shed new light on the topic, Tyler's lengthy work remains highly valuable for the student of the period. Her work is better at describing antebellum reform than explaining it. Correctly acknowledging the importance of evangelical religion, perfectionism, free will, and republicanism, Tyler overemphasizes the importance of the frontier (clearly influenced by Turner's thesis) and tends to promote the idea that antebellum reform was inevitable. Yet even though she fails to establish the underlying explanation for freedom's ferment, Tyler does succeed in sheer descriptive merit. Her work discusses every conceivable reform and clearly reveals connections to European reform. Her bibliography is extensive and useful to researchers. I recommend this work to any student of antebellum reform; however, readers looking for a shorter introduction to the topic may want to try Ronald Walter's American Reformers.

This book, excellently researched and well written, describes those religious and social movements that developed after the Civil War. Therein are contained lessons for today; religious and/or social "revelation" and its effects on society are well documented in this book.

In an historian's typically dispassionate manner, Ms. Tyler documents the unfolding of these religious and social movements, which not only helped shape American thinking in the late 19th century, but which find their counterparts in today's religious and political right.

Many lessons can be learned from this book, should one be willing to hear the message.

Execellent source of information for all!

Comprehensive field guide covering most aspects of the frogs of Western Australia. Tyler is a well known and much respected herpetologist who has written many books on the frogs of Australia which have become 'bibles' of frog enthusiasts. Highly recommended!

I may be a little biased because I was enrolled in one of his courses. However, this book can serve as an excellent foundation for an understanding of the swing era between 1920-1943.