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Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
Carole Lium Edelman, Carol Lynn Mandle
Elsevier/Mosby, 2005
Just awful.
I have NEVER read a book labeled as health promotion that was less about health.
This book really belongs in a philosophy of new age theory.
You will learn how to enter into relationships of ethical proportions to help with self esteem issues of transgendered ...
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The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental & Spiritual Rejuvenation
Patricia Bragg, Paul C. Bragg
Bragg Health Sciences, 2004
Excellent advice for living healthy!!
I am truly thankful for the information presented in The Miracle of Fasting. I had an ulcerated leg that was destined to be amputated from a lack of circulation. I tried everything to save it. I almost gave up the fight until I read this wonderful book. I put the ...
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Loyola Kids Book of Heroes: Stories of Catholic Heroes and Saints Throughout History
Amy Welborn
Loyola Press, 2003
Great content and tone
The writing style in this book is one in which the author has a conversation about the who's and why's of the saints with the reader. Solidly Catholic and different enough in style to make it appealing to even reluctant readers. We read a lot of saint stories, but ...
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The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity ...
Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Doubleday Business, 2005
Best read without memory or desire
Wilfred Bion, one of the great psychoanalysts of the last fifty years said that the purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire. By that he meant that when when you listen with memory you're trying to plug someone into an old agenda; when you listen ...
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50 Hikes in the Adirondacks: Short Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks Throughout the Park, Fourth Edition
Barbara McMartin
Countryman Press, 2003
One Of The Experts On Lesser Known Gems!
Barbara McMartin is one of those few resident Adirondackers that has supplied the world with great information, anecdotes and history about lesser known trails in the Adirondacks. Keeping to the less over-run trails, the reader is treated to beautiful trails to remote ...
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Spiritual Connections: How to Find Spirituality Throughout All the Relationships in Your Life
Sylvia Browne
Hay House, 2008
Great wisdom
Spiritual Connections is a book I will probably re-read about once a year to reinforce my understanding. This book has made some strange relationships I've had more comprehensible.
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The Essential Cuisines of Mexico: Revised and updated throughout, with more than 30 new recipes.
Diana Kennedy
Clarkson Potter, 2000
Encyclopaedic but practical reference
This is a very good cookbook covering the major cuisines of Mexico. It is a good cookbook to open one's eyes to the wider world of Mexican cuisine.
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Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
Leland Gregory
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2007
Light reading on a weighty topic!
I really enjoy trivia and I really enjoy history so it was nice to see them combined in a really funny collection. This is a collection of entertaining short, historical tales flavored with pieces of trivia and stupid acts through the ages. Leland Gregory has also ...
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It's Disgusting and We Ate It! True Food Facts from Around the World and Throughout History
James Solheim
Aladdin, 2001
We LOVE this book!
I first checked this book out from the library for my son when he was 3 1/2 years-old. He was transfixed as I read to him all the different types of things that people have eaten and still do eat today. Instead of being grossed out, he wanted to try them all! He loves ...
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The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
Larry Diamond
Times Books, 2008
Insightful and engaging
The author opens this extremely interesting book by asking whether it will be possible for the entire world to become democratic and asserts that the answer is yes. What follows in the book is an explanation of why he believes this is the case and what can be done to ...
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Chicken Soup for the Father & Daughter Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Love Between Dads & Daughters ...
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, ...
HCI, 2005
...precious memories, sweetest moments...
What is the understood miracle about the relationship of a daddy with his daughter or a daughter with her daddy? Jack Canfield shares many precious memories and sweetest moments with these heartwarming recollections that allude to the beautiful mystery of the ...
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The Black Arts: An Absorbing Account of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices ...
Richard Cavendish
Perigee Trade, 1983
Good Book. Don't Take is Seriously :-)
I originally purchased this book in 1972 so that I could have the title on my bookshelf as a little joke. Shortly thereafter I quit smoking and, substituting one habit for another, began to read voraciously. Cavendish was devoured in the ensuing feeding frenzy, poor ...
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May I Have This Dance?: An Invitation to Faithful Prayer Throughout the Year
Joyce Rupp
Ave Maria Press, 2007
May God's Life Dance within You
In this revised edition of Joyce Rupp's 1992 book, as in the original, monthly themes are connected to daily life and the seasons of the year. In the introduction Rupp invites us to "be more faithful to prayer, be more constant to the dance of life that God desires for ...
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Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages
Ursula King
HiddenSpring, 2001
An Incredible Introduction to Christian Mysticism and Its Origins
A few months ago I became interested in the lives of the saints, and anyone else who shares a curiosity of them finds out fairly quickly that many of the more famous ones were mystics. I was pretty much an amateur in my knowledge of the topic and asked people who knew ...
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The Persona Lifecycle : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in ...
John Pruitt, Tamara Adlin
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
One of THE HCI Resource Books for Your Shelf
I should admit my bias up front. There are those who like little short books that make one point and make it over and over. There are many popular books in our field that are like that, filled with stories that all basically make the same point and are just a couple ...
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