Heather Thomas Books

I am 14 this book is realy helpful i really like it i am in the 4-H it is just so great i recomend it to anyone. i hope you buy this book if you are just starting i hope you like it as good as i did it is a good buy

I'm fifteen and am in FFA I recently purchased my first calf. My Dad got this book for me and it has helped out from purchasing a sound heifer to shelter and feeding. The chapter on calfing is also very helpful. A great book for a first calf project.

Great book that is very real! It's a "get real book" that helps get past the excuses that keep us overweight. A great read. Anyone following the advise should lose weight. This book is not based on one diet, but on eatting well for life and not over eating.

When I read this book I was excited to learn some new tools to help me. It has helpful guidelines and tools to get you through the normal blocks of weight loss.

His track record of weight loss participants says it all!

Merna

Pocket of Pearls: A 30-day pocket workbook to start hearing a softer voice inside of you!

This is the first book I have ever gotten on CD. It is like Dr Phil is talking only to you. It is informative, different and makes you think about weight loss in a totally different mindset. It is an excellent listen.

A visit to a doctor just over two months ago revealed that I was obese, with a high body fat percentage and low muscle mass level. It was made clear to me that unless I reduced my weight from 80 kg (176 lbs) to at least 70 kg (154 lbs), I was at high risk of developing diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure or stroke. I had to reduce my weight and hence I needed a good book to guide me through the process. "The Ultimate Weight Solution" is among the best book that I got hold of.

The book provides realistic and well researched advise on how to reduce weight. The book teaches how to behave and think about food and the appropriate exercises to lose weight on a lasting basis. The book explains how people often lose control of their weight. Methodically and step-by-step, the book explains how to identify what to eat and when to eat and the right kinds of exercises that help to burn the fat and develop muscle. The book has a number of questions for you to answer and help audit yourself which I found very illuminating and useful. The comprehensive food list in the Appendix is also an excellent bonus that you can use as a quick reference guide

Well, I followed Dr Phil's instructions and now I have got into the habit of eating the right kind of foods in the right quantity consistently, I have an exercising schedule and I consistently engage in habits that avoid harming my body such as not smoking or drinking alcohol.

Thanks to the advice in this book, I am on my way to the optimum weight, and I now experience high level of health, energy, vitality and control over my life.

"Prioritize exercise in your life. It is just too powerful a fat fighter for you not to have it on your side. There is absolutely no way you can control your weight for a lifetime without it." ~ pg. 199

If you are tired of fad diets, there is a better solution. Dr. Phil promises success if you are willing to change your diet permanently and exercise regularly. First, he shows you how to break free from destructive behaviors and your reliance on willpower. Instead he explains how you can program yourself for success. This involves getting a handle on your internal dialogue, tackling emotional eating and dealing with overeating.

The section on High-Yield Nutrition is interesting. Sample meal plans show you how you should be eating. This is more than just a diet it is a program that identifies areas of your life that have been causing you to fail at weight loss. The program relies heavily on exercise and getting your eating under control. For the most part this book is encouraging and will help you to reach your weight loss goals.

If you have tried everything and still can't lose weight (you are eating right and exercising) then there is a chapter that deals with some of the reasons you may be weight loss resistant.

~The Rebecca Review

Thank you much. I started taking an accounting class & the book came just in time.

Very good text. Very clear and concise explanations. I think I may keep this one for future reference. I had to subtract one star because of the price however.

This book is not for people who don't know anything about accounting. Yes, it's a good book, but the language used is very high-level and you couldn't understand it if you weren't an accountant. I suggest this book for people who are already accountants or have accounting degrees and want to review for the CPA exam. But for new students who just want accounting for electives or whatnot, like me, it's not a good book. I didn't understand anything I read and because of this book, I have changed my major to something non-business related. Avoid classes that use this book.

This book got to me in great time. I got the book in only 3 days and it was in perfect condition.

This book is very useful as long as you sign up for the publisher's personal trainer program.

Comprehensive and informative. The central theme is act early and act patiently. Lightness of pressure and knowing when to stop a lesson turns your horse into a dependable collaborator instead of a skittish adversary, Heather Smith Thomas writes.
"The essence of training is to use less and less pressure as the horse learns to respond, until he will perform the correct response at just the slightest touch."
Track trainers and others concerned about the seemingly increasing fragility of racehorses get food for thought from Thomas's tips.
Some examples,
1) GELD A MALE WHEN HE IS A FOAL...Perhaps doing this later, something done with some frequency in the racing world, lessens racing prowess.
2) HORSES HAVE SENSITIVE EARS...Then why are some racetracks located near airports and busy roadways? Isn't this likely to impair performance? Are gambling interests being put before horse health?
3) HORSES SHOULDN'T BE RIDDEN UNTIL THEY'RE 3 YEARS OLD..."The bones and joints of a two-year-old are not mature enough to handle athletic work with the weight of a rider." Although watching juvenile thoroughbreds compete is thrilling it's likely to be causing shorter careers. The handling of 2007 Preakness winner Curlin (who didn't race as a 2-year-old) might represent a new/old paradigm for restoring soundness to the racehorse. Perhaps this also points to why so many Kentucky Derby winners are "homebred."
Harness racing newcomers get a thorough explanation of the difference between trotting and pacing. Pacing, although far more prevalent in U.S. standardbred competition, is a less natural movement for the horse (in which the lateral legs move together) and is accompanied by less support, balance and traction on wet footing. Could this state of affairs also be shortening racing careers?
Desire for breeding dollars and slow-growing purses have certainly done their part to curtail track careers. Year-round racing is also highly cupable. And, more generally, as Thomas reminds us, being a racer is not a natural condition. Racing techniques must be taught, often done in a constrained and artificial atmosphere.
"Most horses never do a racing trot," she writes, "and many don't know how to extend their trot while ridden."

My husband checked out this book from the library because he got interested in working with my horses. I thought maybe I could learn something from it, too, so I started reading it. I was not impressed. All the book had was hypothetical situations, but nothing on how to correct behavior if your horse wasn't already perfect. For example: I have a yearling who I will be breaking to ride in two years. I was interested in how they went about with the initial mounting, etc. They suggested that you have someone hold your horse, then you lean on your horse, then you get up and viola! You are ready to start. I envision my horse maybe taking a step forward. Or maybe stepping to the side. Or backing up. Or perhaps even throwing in a buck. Do they cover this? Not at all, because obviously if you're training your horse right your horse would never even think of taking a step to the right, or stepping forward, or throwing in a buck the first time you mount him. The horse would stand perfectly still the first time ever that you mounted, so these issues don't need to be addressed. Nor do they cover how you should go about it if you don't have someone to help hold your horse. The entire book is like this-essentially, it is an idealized version of how to train, taking into account that your horse does exactly what he is supposed to the first time around and is never confused by you adding something new. And if your horse IS confused the first time you try something new, then obviously you did a very poor job training him. I do not recommend it at all for anyone who is actually serious about horse training.

Great book for all levels and all abilities of riders. It DOES talk about a lot of basic things..such as SAFETY, tacking up, leading, handling, etc. However, it also addresses other things such as longeing, ground driving, trailer training, lightness and collection, lateral work, retraining the spoiled horse, and many other things without causing fear or distrust.
Great book- recommended

I've been working with foals for about 18 years. This book is well written and includes very good illustrations. It's good for new handlers and experienced handlers (reminders of different options to use with different personalities) as well. I highly recommend it!

I found this book very helpful. I imagine it would be quite helpful for the novice trainer, but even as a trainer with a little more experience I found it quite useful. At first glance it looks, perhaps, elementary, but it does a fantastic job of tying all the elements of training together so that one knows what to do and when to do it. Even the sections on picking the horse's feet and other basic skills have some trouble shooting information and ideas about how to best teach a foal. I thought it was wonderful. I definitely recommend it.

wonderful, the best cook book I own and that is saying a lot! simple, easy to follow recipes, some photos for ease of reference. I've had the book for 10 years and continue to use it as my main book, especially for guests, parties, etc. Everything tastes superb!

I love this book. The recipes are very well chosen. I have already tried about 10 of them and they turned out delicious.

The step by step photos make it extremely easy to create dishes without the stress of fearing to miss an important step.

I forgot to say that I have been raised on French Food, and the book offers both variety and an excellent selection of dishes.

The book contains a variety of recipes that call for ingredients such as snails, mussels, shrimp, kidneys, beef, chicken and veal, but the step-by-step photographs were disappointing. They didn't show techniques or processes of cooking, just, on average, three snapshots of adding chopped ingredients to the pot or arranging ingredients for a salad. This book, along with the Essential Italian cookery book, didn't walk you through the recipes step-by-step, and the selection of recipes were disappointing to me, since I was looking for lighter and modern French fare. The recipes in general contained fairly simple instructions, but they were mostly for heavy dishes and ingredients.

When I first read this novel in 1999, I never knew what a young, up-and-coming Generation, X or Y'er could do to wield the power of poetics in his work. Sean-Thomas Dougherty, whom my mentor Lorna Dee Cervantes recommended me to, is an underlooked prize for anyone looking for something different, yet meaningful in contemporary poetry. His words are performance-based tinging upon the conscioussness of street-slang, hip-hop or rap, but maintaining that elloquence of the "classical," literary tradition of form and diction in post-modern poetry. His "personal," experiences are locked in the contradiction of one who remembers things events, people, etc. merely as a dream, yet to the reader there is no gap in finding a sentimental connections between the speaker and his environment. As I know it, this gentleman is nearing the age of thirty, launches the New-Jersey Literary Journal entitled, "The Red Book Review." His writing is colorful, yet painfully "real," fans of Selby jr, Bukowski, Kerouac, as well as Quincy Troupe or just a fellow Hip-Hop fan, should take note. Dougherty provides a wonderful landscape of a youth in his New Jersey, street setting.

A fast-paced suspense (more than pure mystery) novel about the Holy Grail and the secret societies (apparently a veritable Yellow Pages worth) whose goal is either to protect or expose it.

Good fun, although its statements about the verity of the Bible, the orthodox canon, and other apocryphal works are disturbing. In fact, my distaste for this part of the book, plus its fast-food-like lack of weightiness knocks it down a peg from the "Worth my Time" level.

Makes sense to me!! I loved this book! I know it was fiction but somehow I think he speaks a bit of truth in this book! You will love this book!

Dan Brown is an illusionist. It attracted, like all good writers successful thrillers American audiences. The ingredients are familiar: Action brutal murder in the singular and plural (serial killing), incomprehension, investigation, doubt, lack of knowledge, tenacity (alone against all), happy ending. Passion thrillers (see my listmania), I know the ropes most used to give the maximum chances of a successful sale. On the "thriller", "Da Vinci" is lourdaud.

Dan Brown is a forger doubled a liar. How can one argue that the Bible (and therefore the Old and New Testament) was a work commissioned by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century? How can you write that the "Priory of Sion is a secret society founded at the end of XI century by Godfrey de Bouillon" who knows the truth about marriage with Mary Magdalene and the descendants of Christ and therefore lies founder the Church? ... then it is a supposed French association under the 1901 law declared in 1956. And how many other pearls ... like the androgyny of Mona Lisa (Mona Lisa) ... I still laugh.

Dan Brown is a man who has faith hatred of the Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular. He is a descendant - representing heresies fought with accuracy since its inception by the Church. These are called heresies the arianism, Catharism and Jansenism. They say that God is a pure spiritual being therefore could not have had a Son of a similar nature to him. But Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God. That is what the Church professes, in full transparency, everyone. The profession of faith of the Church is radically opposed to any elitist philosophy - elected on the one hand and esoteric on the other.

Dan Brown has mixed genres: the thriller, the invention sometimes committed to history, sometimes lies, and hatred skillfully distilled the Church.

I invite the reader critical read the excellent book by Jesuit Father Bernard Sesboüé which dismantles this horror: "The Da Vinci Code explained to its readers." (in French)

Ok, I have neither bought nor read this 'book', and never will, but I read the excerpt.
If English is Dan Brown's first language, then he has major problems, unless he is a 10 year old slow learner. Ok, he has made a lot of money from this piece of rubbish, but why not take a quick course in creative writing beforehand to learn the basics of style.
The Hardy Boys books are advanced literature in comparison!

Dan Brown's second novel The Da Vinci Code has become a literary phenomena, spawning countless books related to the topic, a movie, a myriad of discussions, and so much more. But let's take a look inside this book shall we? The book starts with the murder of the head curator of the museum. Ah but that is just the beginning! The curator was able to leave clues for his daughter, who is a cryptographer herself, follows these clues to France and England, through the past and the present, Through cultured religion and the unorthodox searching for the Knight's Templar and the code the world's masterpieces hold. Dan Brown is a master of suspense and The Da Vinci Codes is just one more notch in this fabled author's cap. Beautifully written and without flaws this is one book I highly recommend!!

And for those who enjoy books on ancient cultures, I'd recommend: Fates

Pretty much everything has been covered already. This book is horrible and does nothing to help encourage a woman to understand, educate herself, and feel any sense of empowerment in pregnancy or childbirth. It basically reduces the mother to a medical victim and pregnancy into nothing but constant, potential illness.

This is one of the few books I've ever tossed straight into the recycle bin. No passing this book on. It's that awful, really.

This book was a waste. First of all, they delay important information till the end of the book (weeks after 30 talk about nutrition). Then (and this is bad) they would say that your baby's eyes are developing this week and here are things that could go wrong.
How bad is that?!?!?!?

This book is useless! Buy Mayo clinic instead - there if you want to look up complications you can search them at the end of the book, plus it contains much more information - precise to point and usefull.

All in all, this book is fine. But I cannot recommend it. It is very negative and reads almost like a medical textbook, listing all of the possible things can could go wrong at every stage - without little in the way of comfort. The bulk of each chapter is pretty negative and then at the end there is an attempt at a 'cheery' summary - which, by the time you get there, you really need. Unfortunately, I have put this book down too many times with a furrowed brow - I am not going to even finish reading it. There are plenty of better books out there with the same information - written by a doctor or not!

I have read "what to expect" and the "mayo clinic guide" cover to cover as well as this book and while they are all good and informative "Your Pregnancy Week by Week" is the best in my opinion. My only problem with it is that I think the title is misleading and some people just might read the book a week at a time during their pregnancy but the book will address important information (like avoiding green tea in early pregnancy) in the 25th month when that was something that should have been mentioned in the first week!

The good thing about this book, is that it breaks everything down week by week. So you get to learn about your child's development, size, how they look, what's going on with you and then on a week by week basis. No other book seemed to tell me 'It's x weeks, your baby's x is forming right now he/she is x oz and x long approximately, and looks like This'.

On the otherhand there's somewhat random information about various medical issues just scattered around the different weeks. Like Sickle Cell disease, and it mentions this under week 22 I think but it's not like that's something that occurs just then.

On the bright side if you don't have time to read a book cover to cover, this lets you take things a little at a time so it's less overwhelming. But the best part is following the development on a weekly basis instead of on a monthly basis, which is not nearly as exciting.

I am an Italian who moved abroad, and I bought this attractive book to show Italian food to non-Italians. The pictures are very attractive, but after careful analysis I realised that none of those "artistic" dishes looks like one you would actually see in Italy. The recipes look simple, but they probably have been changed to match the British taste. My girlfriend prepared "gnocchi al pesto" for me, and the taste was completely wrong: Italians would never put lemon in the pesto! Perhaps some of the recipes are fine, but I will never trust this book again. After long search I chose for my girlfriend "Biba's Northern Italian cooking", buy that one instead! Italian food is wonderful, don't let non-Italians spoil it.

This is a cookbook every bride or bride-to-be should have if they enjoy Italian Food! The recipes are basic, the step-by-step photographs are extremely helpful and the taste of the finished dishes is authentic! If you are just beginning your cooking experience or are a seasoned veteran of the kitchen, this book is a must for your library. The recipes will want you to have a different dish each nite for the next 50 nites. For anyone who wants to be able to serve a meal with the real taste of Italy you'll find the key here. The short but informative pages on Italian ingredients and equipment/utensils is a primer everyone should know. Do yourself a favor and that of your daughter or daughter-in-law and put this in your shopping cart!

Here's a cookbook that truly delights. We have tried almost every recipe in the book and have not found a single one that is not as succulent as the beautiful illustrations suggest. Some of the meals may not be for the diet set but I can assure you that you'll lick your fingers with these delicious Italian dishes. Buon Appetito!

That reported in the media erroneously can sometimes be classified as libel. Lies repeated at cocktail parties, even by those in the media, merit the classification of slander.

Those struggling to discover what is cropping up on the political horizon need only read Ms. Coulter's excellent book.

Published in 2002, this work proves two realities. How truth never changes, and how seldom politics ever does.

Anyone wondering at the blackout of once rising star Mike Huckabee can do the math from these pages. The reader may also deduce how Huckabee, with no national coverage in the months following his victory, rarely even a mention of his name, still won 35 percent of the vote in Texas. Notably the media commented not at all.

Though Coulter's review of American politics does not predict three Democrats, one in Republican mantle, would be in the presidential race at this time, yet her book points to this outcome. In fact, the implication of her work begs the question why more pastors don't disavow congregants.


Ms. Coulter's greatest contribution in this work is her prophetic pronouncement that the Internet would become the final bastion of free speech. Good thing Gore invented it. Though not for him, of course.

TL Farley,
author,
When Now Becomes Too Late,
Distant Reaches


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I thought that I knew Miss Coulter from her television/radio appearances coupled with her columns. However, I was wrong. Her book is thoughtful and insightful. The rhetoric is far above her columns and while the bombs are there, she adds supporting data. Considering it was written in the last election cycle, it is very revealing in the Hilliary/Obama/McCain fiasco. I suspect that most of her detractors haven't read book because they focus on the minutae not the substance. It is a shame because she makes a very strong case about the bias in the MSM.

"Prevarication and denigration are the hallmarks of liberal argument. Logic is not their (liberals') métier. Blind religious faith is". This is Ann Coulter's thesis in "Slander", one of the must-read political books of this decade. It is devoted to the proposition that, due to the facts that a) liberalism is based on emotion, and b) liberals had monopolistic control of the media from about 1950-2000, liberals for a long time did not have to debate, and therefore no longer know how to debate--most of their arguments are not arguments, they are epithets.

Coulter comprehensively demonstrates just how liberal the mainstream media is. This is buttressed by the liberals' own denunciations of Fox News and talk radio--why on earth would liberals ever complain about other opinions being broadcast, unless they believed that their opinions should be the only ones broadcast? Coulter answers by stating that "liberals don't try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions". As Coulter explains in one of her other books, "Treason", "As long as liberals refuse to concede a point, it remains 'unsettled'...liberals think they can defeat the truth with loudness." (Loudness and repetition, I might add.)

This phenomenon was on display after the Democratic debate in Pennsylvania on April 16. Asking tough questions of liberals is simply not done. Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous of ABC found this out. They were excoriated for asking tough-but-fair questions that Hillary and Obama would rather not have had to answer.

If liberals are so secure that their ideas are better than conservative ideas, why not allow tough questions to be asked and allow all points of view to be heard? If everyone had access to the views of both sides, wouldn't the public simply reject conservative ideas if they were so manifestly inferior to the ideas of liberals?

This leads to the next theme of the book--liberals don't want alternative views to be made available because conservatives (and those who agree with them) are too "stupid" to see the merit of liberal ideas. Stupid, in the mind of liberals, is anyone who disagrees with them. When a conservative answers a liberal non sequitur with a cold fact or with logic, the liberal instantly denigrates the conservative as "stupid", "divisive", "extreme", "hate-filled", "insensitive", etc.

Liberals derided Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan, Quayle, and Bush 43 as stupid. They knew they could not get away with calling Nixon and Gingrich stupid, so they were labeled "evil". Someone like Bush 41, who cannot be pigeonholed in either of those categories, is usually lambasted as an out-of-touch patrician. Because he was very conservative, Barry Goldwater was even called insane in 1964. Coulter also compares SAT scores of some liberals and conservatives (and shows which ideology was on the right side of the Cold War and other policy disputes) to demonstrate just how baseless the "conservatives-are-stupid" charge is.

This book is essential reading for those just becoming politically active. It demonstrates some of the double standards inherent in our politics today, and how those double standards stifle and warp much of the political discourse on cable news channels and in other forums of our politics as well.

I've had the privilege of meeting Ann Colter, briefly, and she is so "right on". With Ann Colter, what you see is what you get. She is right in the middle of left ring writers and she knows that they stretch the truth and quite often lie. Ann does not lie...she tells it as she sees it.

Everything she writes appears to be backed up with a reference. Go to the back and see the impressive 36 pages of notes. She makes the same points repeatedly. But each time with different characters involved. It might seem like she's beating a dead horse with regard to a given point that is being made, but Ann Coulter is doing this because like a thorough lawyer she's trying to identify every last guilty liberal out there. That has to be kept in mind when you are reading otherwise the scope of the book might appear to be too narrow relative to the size of the research and writing effort involved.

If anyone tells you that the media does not have left wing/liberal bias just read one or two pages from this book and you will have proved to them how wrong they are.