Colette Books

This book had a few more suggestions than the first to come out.There are a few that were new to me and would have helped me at the beginning better if I would have known.It recommends exercise while the other book didn't.A lot of it is the same thing but you do get a lot of different ideas also.

Previous Atkins books went much more into detail the science behind how the low carb diet works. this one just gives a brief overview. The rest of the book is simply recipies and stretching excercies. The Akins books of old were much more informative. I have read all of the diet books written by Dr. Atkins and suggest to anyone interested in his diet to read one of the books he actually wrote. The 2002 edition will surfice.

I have followed low-carb diets with mixed success in the past. My weight drops steadily and sometimes quite quickly, but my tolerance for the boring meal combinations eventually wanes (Monday dinner: slab o' meat and veg; Tuesday: slab o' meat and veg; Wednesday: slab o' meat and veg...). This is not a way of eating that I could, or would want, to sustain for the long term.

I decided, however, that I could "do Atkins" for a month in order to drop 10-15 pounds quickly before a warm-weather vacation. I purchased a copy of "The All-New Atkins Advantage."

My skepticism about the diet's healthfulness tweaked up a few notches when I read the book's recommendation for a daily fiber supplement. Nature did not intend fiber to come in a capsule or wafer. Still, I was eager to lose those pounds; if most of them came off during the "Induction Phase" as the book promised, I could deal with capsulized fiber for a few weeks.

I was awakened very early on the fourth morning of this eating plan with a blazing, nausea-producing headache. The last time I'd had a headache that severe I had popped one of those over-the-counter herbal hormone supplements hawked by actress Cybill Shepherd. I suspected the diet was to blame, but I pressed on.

The morning headaches - not as severe as that first one, but still unpleasant - continued. I consulted my book. Sometimes, I learned, headaches are due to "withdrawal" from carbs. Riiiiiight.

Look, carbs are not drugs. The authors' use of substance abuse terminology in connection with foods the human body requires was annoying, if not downright deceptive. The headaches, along with the calf cramps I was also experiencing, were not "withdrawal" symptoms. They were deprivation symptoms. I was getting plenty of calories, but I was not getting food my body needs.

Still, I pressed on.

After one week of following the diet religiously, I awoke with the usual headache and got on the scale. I'd lost two pounds, much less than what the book suggested I'd lose. Hell, I can lose two pounds in a week on a balanced calorie-reducing diet and avoid the headaches and leg cramps altogether.

I went downstairs and poured myself a bowl of Grapenuts and topped it with a sprinkling of raisins. And I loved each and every one of those 62 healthy and delicious carbohydrate grams.

The low-carb diet has been evolving over the last 10-15 years as the nutritional power and availability of vegetables have increased. I can't understand a dieter like Delores Haze today. I've been on low-carb for 7 years and have almost never had a "hunk o' meat and veg" for dinner. Tonight I had a delicious stir-fry with broccoli, red and white onions, snow peas, grated carrots, large, vine-ripened tomato slices, cut-up chicken sausage and diced fresh chicken from my last evening's dinner. I cook this slowly in extra-virgin olive oil and a splash of canola oil. Absolutely no seasoning is needed. I made a lot and it's a good thing. Both my younger kids had friends over and they had seconds and thirds. "We never get food like this at home" was a typical comment. Interestingly, nobody even noticed that the meal was very low in net carbs. So, my suggestion to Delores is to put a bit of effort into your dieting and you'll be amazed at how much delicious variety you can eat.

I do agree with Delores (and others) who experience headaches a few days into the diet. However, she is incorrect to say that using addiction terminology is wrong. It is, in fact, right on. Just watch very heavy people gorging on ice cream, candy, cake, cookies, and Grape-Nuts (yes, they have a huge amount of sugar disguised as barley malt). Why do they do it? They really need to, physically and mentally. That's addiction. Like all addicts, when they gorge on their addictive substance (that first drink of alcohol, the first bite of ice cream, that big bowl of Grape-Nuts, etc.) they feel great. But we all now what happens down the line. So, get through the headaches (mine came on after three days and did not fully disappear until about ten days). That was seven years ago and I don't remember ever having another headache. I do remember effortlessly losing 65 pounds (it's still all off), controlling my blood pressure without medication, and dropping my frighteningly high fasting triglycerides (over 400) to 89. Oh and my cholesterol did nothing. It was at 155 when I started and it has been at 155 (plus or minus 10) the whole time. With my HDL at 60+, I'm not worried.

Bottom line: If you are creative and determined, the low-carb diet is a very easy one to follow and this book, with all its delicious recipes, sensible advice on exercise, and an excellent overall discussion of why low-carb works is a great place to start.

I just spent several hours reading this "all new" atkins program and I am truly impressed. The book emphasizes all the healthy reasons to do this program and holds your hand for 12 weeks. It has continual motivational tips and ideas to prevent back sliding and to achieve a long term healthy weight and lifestyle. As for a recent post who gave it 2 stars because of "bad" vegetable oils encouraged...hmmm I'm confused... when did olive oil, flax seed oil and avocado in moderation become harmful and bad? I don't think so. I highly recommend this book!

I had reviewed this book earlier after I had finished the first chapter. After working through the second chapter and going back and forth with the author of the book I have decided to sell this book on Amazon.

The reason that is book is not that great is:

1. No Errata
2. No CD that has evaluation version of the Software

It is very frustrating when you encounter an error in the book and you send an email to the author and wait for a week for the response. I realize they have a life but if the author cannot even prepare an errata for the book and post it on the publisher's website or their blog then I don't think anyone should be spending their hard-earned money on this book.

It is better to do a search on google for RAD webservices tutorial. IBM site has some tutorials with videos that you can watch that walks you through the steps of creating web services.

The instructions shown on this book will work only on RAD 6.0.1. By the way it is impossible to upgrade RAD 6.0 to RAD 6.0.1 version. I have tried network installation, local installation and galaxy installation. Nothing works. For a book like this, it is very important that the tool is provided as part of the CD.

The CD that comes along with the book contains only code examples. Who needs the code examples when the RAD updater takes two days to download the zip file required to upgrade? I used T1 line believe me.

I have suffered due to this book. I hope this review helps others to avoid misery. God bless.

I was browsing the book store and saw this book and I bought it immediately. Mainly because it is very practical and makes it very simple to learn about Web Services. I realized that I must atleast know about Web Services from the perspective of a Web Developer.

Congratulations to the author for coming out with such an excellent book. This book really has made learning about Web Services fun. I have completed only the first chapter and I feel that it is worth every penny I spent on this book.

This is refreshing because IBM redbooks are very boring with lot of theory and not enough practical examples. This book takes a different approach and does a very good job.

The first jsp page needs a try catch statement which the author did not mention. I hope there are no technical mistakes in other chapters. I will post an update to my review after I finish it.

Web Services are an extremely promising new field, and IBM has been building out its WebSphere to handle these. A big problem with Web Services is the mass of documentation and the amount of boilerplate coding you need to do, in order to even have a simple Service. A daunting obstacle to anyone wanting to learn what Web Services are about.

What this book does is show how WebSphere can handle a lot of that behind the scenes boilerplate, and lets you focus on actually building [and debugging] the guts of a Web Service. By the way, the "Rational" programs described in the book are a renaming of earlier functionality build within WebSphere. Personally, I would just lump Rational back into WebSphere.

The book has the foresight to quickly start with a very simple example of a stock quote program. The raw data comes from a Yahoo site. Your Web Service sends a query with symbols of companies, and Yahoo returns a string with the prices, and elementary parsing extracts these. The book shows how WebSphere wraps your code, so that it can now answer a query from another remote application. Naturally, the text then goes on to describe how to make that application, with its requisite proxy code.

Some of you may have programmed client-server code in C or C++, using Remote Procedure Calls. There, utility programs like rpcgen would make the necessary proxy stubs for marshalling and unmarshalling the queries and replies. You should clearly understand that Web Services have moved away from that tightly coupled mechanism, and they use XML for data transfer. But at one level, you can simply and correctly regard what WebSphere does for you in such things as making the proxy code to be a much more elaborate, but equivalent, analog of rpcgen.

Others of you will have used WebSphere, or other JSP/Servlet containers, to make those types of applications, where the container would autogenerate various source code files and compile them. So what the book describes WebSphere doing for Web Services is a small conceptual step from work you have already done with WebSphere.

The book then goes into much more detail, by building out that example Web Service. Like how to detect and cope with Web Service errors. Or test a Service. Or tie the Service to a database. (Surprise, it's DB2!) All important. But, more broadly, you get an understanding of how WebSphere acts as the Web Service container. A major help to you.

The virtue of the book is that it demystifies Web Services, and shows how WebSphere can put this within your programming scope.

The photographs by John Bigelow Taylor are wonderful, but this book has a paucity of explanatory text. I don't just like to look at pretty pictures. I want to know about the jewelry. Who made it? How was it made? Who wears it? How is it worn? Why was it worn? What is the human history behind it? I particularly want to know all this about ethnic jewelry. You won't get it here.

No people are shown wearing the jewelry, so the book is sterile. There is no cultural context. It's a lot to pay for no additional knowledge about ethnic jewelry.

This is, indeed, a very beautifully photographed book. The represented pieces are all exquisite.

Though, it's true there could have been more background information provided, giving the book a rating of one star, as the previous reviewer did, is grossly unjust - an act of spite rather than of informed criticism. Clearly, the book was never meant to be a exhaustive examination of all the ethnological aspects of each piece (though there is ample annotation); such a book would have run to 2000 pages rather than 250! So the Splendor of Ethnic Jewelry is not a doctoral thesis but rather a stroll thru a museum; in this case, the Ghysels Collection. A coffee-table book if you want, but beautiful none the less and of the highest standard.

If you have previously had no interest in ethnic jewelry per se, this book will open your eyes to the extraordinary artistry of these ornaments created by the world's non-industrial peoples. Each object in itself says much more than an accompanying treatise ever could, and I cannot imagine anyone coming away from this book without a desire to learn more.

A second copy purchased for a friend who deals in ethnic jewelry was very much appreciated.

This is a HUGE book filled with georgeous close-ups of really inspirational jewelry. A favorite of mine!

This book feels like a young adult book that doesn't quite make it. No one in my book club liked it. Hayden has some interesting ideas but she skips around--never finishing what she's started.

When Colette Died by L C Hayden

Debbie Gunther is in Las Vegas for her big break into the world of show business impersonating the Las Vegas singing star Colette who was murdered five years previously.

From the opening sentence it is clear that Debbie is being stalked and is surrounded by enemies. The fear is palpable and the reader is immediately catapulted into a world of distrust.

Smiling ambitious Jack Armstrong with the position of Casino General Manager in his sights. Her director Bill Davis who doesn't attempt to hide his animosity towards Debbie. Motherly Annie and the Casino owner, the legendary Ms Elizabeth. All have there own agenda. Beset by animosity on all sides Debbie is attracted by a reporter Dan Springer who initially seems to care, but does he?

As the murderer of Colette was caught, why is Debbie receiving threats against her life. Could this be related to her own difficult past? Who is the mysterious Boss.

Set against the glitzy background of the Las Vegas casino, this book is full of greed, family anguish and murder, and holds the reader to the end. If you relish suspense, this book is for you.

Lizzie Hayes 30 January 2000

Debbie Gunther had a dreadful childhood. When her mother died in childbirth, her father blamed her and would not take her to raise her. Debbie was raised for eight years by her grandmother, who let her know on a daily basis that she was not wanted there. So, at the age of eight, her grandmother got in touch with her father and told him to take Debbie, or she would have him brought up on abandonment charges. Debbie's father took her but he treated her badly the whole time that he had her.

After a choir teacher of Debbie's told her how much she looks like a famous Las Vegas singer named Colette, Debbie learns everything she can about Colette and becomes an impersonator for the stage. Debbie is hired at the Crystal Palace Casino--the very place that Colette was working and where she was murdered.

Debbie is apprehensive from the very beginning. She receives a note, which she tries to ignore, but the very dress that Colette is murdered in arrives for her and then roses arrive for Debbie--all yellow with one red rose in the middle, the same exact bouquet that Colette was given on stage just before she was shot. Debbie believes that the only one she can confide in is Dan Springer, a young reporter who is supposed to do a story on Debbie. Dan Springer has his own conflicts to deal with. There is a strong attraction between Dan and Debbie, but Dan is determined not to fall for Debbie. Debbie's problem is wondering if she can trust Dan to find out who wants her dead before it is too late.

This a top notch suspense story filled with a lot of fast-paced action along with more twists and turns than you have ever seen and an ending that is truly a surprise for the reader. The characters are real, and they all have their own agendas. The characters of Dan and Debbie are written with such rich details they feel like true friends to the reader. This book is set with Las Vegas as the background. L.C. Hayden has done it again. First there was "Who's Susan" and now "When Colette Died." I can hardly wait for her next book to come out.

Considered one of Colette's best novels, "Chéri" is the story of a love affair between a young man and an older woman. Fred, known affectionately as Chéri, has been the lover of Léa (a friend of his mother's) for a number of years. Chéri is a pampered and narcissistic young man and is more than willing to let Léa care for his every whim. Neither is willing to admit the depth of their feelings, but after Chéri marries a girl his age, the two find themselves awkwardly getting through their lives. Almost a year after their parting, the pair meet again and the only future possible becomes clear. "Chéri" eloquently shows the love between the pair, without shying away from the nuances of their reality (the differences in age, the tight and complex social circles). "Chéri" is #39 of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels.

Cheri is a novel about a young Frenchman whose mistress, an older woman, indulges him and instructs him in the arts of love and life until he marries. Cheri is remarkably child-like right up to the eve of his marriage and beyond. After the marriage to a suitably aged young woman, he longs for his old mistress's pampering, her familiar apartments, and the life they shared there.

I found the book a wonderful story and a rich, redolent escape from the realities of our modern world. It takes the reader back to a time just before WWI, when life moved a bit slower. The way Colette writes, slips the reader into a place easily imaginable; comfortable as one's own sofa.

I read this literary biography in just a few days, testament to its engrossing information. The book paints a parade of colorful personalities in Belle Epoche France. Colette's story is the tale of "Gigi" before and after. Her development was influenced by her talented parents: Sido, a mother with strong opinions that included freedom for her children and scorn for ritual--Catholicism, Father Christmas, and the constraints of bourgeois marriage; and Jules Colette, the extroverted and literary father who trained 8-year-old Gabri (Colette) to make speeches for him on the political stump. Her "drop of negro blood," which the authors take chapters to describe, seems overemphasized; little information is given about her paternal forbears. This volume's most sympathetic figure is Colette's first husband Willy, portrayed as mentor for Colette's literary career. Written by two French authors (no translator listed), some parts of the book are are clogged with non sequiturs, but the majority of the volume offers a lovely and pungent narrative. Colette's first year of marriage to Willy is delicately and evocatively described. Absorbing and readable, the biography nevertheless creates in the reader a yearning for a biographer who might capture Colette's inner life. Linda Donelson, author of "Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's untold story"

This is a two-volume biography, and this review covers both volumes.

I believe the authors' purpose in _Creating Colette_ is at least partly to show how Colette carefully crafted her own image, and (unlike some biographers) to describe the "real" Colette. Colette was brought up in the country, but by a very unconventional and hardly provincial mother, who had moved in intellectual circles prior to her first marriage. Colette married the celebrated journalist "Willy" and joined Paris's bohemian inner circle. Its colorful members indulged in flashy costumes; unconventional behavior; the creation of avant-garde literature, music, and art; wild parties; drink; drugs; copious sex with members of both genders; and general "decadence." Colette and Willy were deeply in love for many years, and he nurtured her as a writer--only later did they quarrel, divorce, and begin to damage each others' public images. When Colette married her second husband, the politician Henry de Jouvenal, she began to clean up her image, suppressing information about herself and asking her friends to comply. In old age, she finalized her image to that of the warm, earthy, frank Colette described by other biographers from Colette's own writings.

However, I did not finish this biography with any strong sense of Colette as a personality, but rather with an accumulation of many fragmentary and at times contradictory details. This is partly because of the sheer quantity of facts given about Colette's enormous number of acquaintances. Most of her acquaintances were colorful and the authors seem determined to provide all colorful anecdotes, whether particularly relevant to Colette or not. Though this gives some idea of the social atmosphere she moved in, particularly during her first marriage, it obscures information about Colette herself. I seldom knew what her relationship was to any of these people--which person was a lover, which a friend, which a professional associate, which a casual acquaintance. Aside from there being too much peripheral information, it is not well edited. The authors assume by causal references that the reader already has background information about all these people that I, in fact, often did not have. People are mentioned and then introduced to the reader as if for the first time several chapters later.

Although some extremely interesting facts are revealed, the authors fail to analyze them or draw conclusions. For example, they feel Colette's illness early in her marriage was syphilis because it was treated by a leading syphilis specialist with his standard "cure," hot baths. But this information is then dropped, with no indication of what effect the disease had on her many subsequent sexual partners or her health in later life. (...) Colette disliked and neglected her daughter, letting other people bring her up. Yet this, her one pregnancy, occurred soon before she married Henry de Jouvenal, which she very much wanted to do. Why did she get pregnant--perhaps to engineer the marriage? The authors fail to discuss this. The authors describe how Colette's mother, during her last year of life and ill with breast cancer, wrote frequent,...letters begging Colette to visit her--which Colette refused to do, being too absorbed in a new romance. But I gained no sense as to whether there was any reason for this other than Colette's self-centeredness. The authors describe early on how favorable reviews of Colette's books and her performances as an actress were engineered by pressuring friends to write them, even Willy writing them under one of his pen names. Yet later in the book--which becomes a paean to Colette's success and acclaim, however achieved--the authors accept reviews of her work at face value.

This could have been an excellent biography if it had managed to clearly describe and separate the different images of Colette as publicity (first the bohemian, then the Earth mother), Colette as a writer, and Colette as a person. And if it had a stronger novelistic sense--who is a main character in this story (aside from Colette) and who is not? What is the plot (as opposed to a collection of anecdotes and quotes)? Unfortunately, it does neither. But people interested in a partial debunking of Colette's oft-repeated images as an exploited young bride and later, an Earth mother will find it worth reading.

Although I only finished half of this book, I felt that for my siutation it was not appropriate. I had been trying to conceive for about 10 months when I started reading this book and about half way through decided to stop reading it because I started getting very stressed out over ALL of the things that I needed to "change"....It goes as far to say that even your clock radio could be affecting your fertility....are you kidding me?!?!?!?!? I just found it very inappropriate for someone who has been trying to get pregnant and is still in that 1 year time frame that is so often talked about. Unless you know that you have fertility issues and want to know some other options or treatments for your condition then I suggest that you do not read this book.

I found this book helpful as far as what we as a couple need to start off our new family...a must have for all trying to conceiver's :)

I was pregnant 4 days later so I didn't really need the book but if offered some good suggestions on sleep/diet/etc.

If you are looking for a book to give you information that you are too scared to ask, or never even thought about this is the book. Even my husband has picked it up and read it.

I would recommend this book for those that have been trying for more than 6 months. It gives you information in a simple to undestand way. Also, it is not a book that you have to read the entire thing through. Pick chapters out and read those only or first.

Goodluck!

I got this book and it definetly is like a refference guide, it does not go into depth and just reccomends the obvius, or describes what dif. vitamins are for, I bought at the same time TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY and it did give me a lot of information I did not know about our cycles, and now I am more knowledgable of as the name states: I FEEL IN CHARGE!!! and know what is going on in my body on a daily basis, a GREAT BOOK! GET IT!

Just because you describe a labia eighteen hundred different ways dosen't make it erotica. Also, the characters in this book have the same names as the "Phantom" characters, but it certaintly isn't them. Of course to write an erotic retelling of this story would require stretching of the characters (and there are some fine examples of this in some of the fan fiction online) but they should at least be somewhat recognizable as themselves. Not even remotely in this case. I dont have money to burn, but I tossed this in the trash when I was done reading it. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

What a sad excuse for entertainment! Just leafing through was hard to take...What liberties this writer has taken...as it was trash in my opinion, it went into the trash...complete waste of money and just so sad that someone would go to this length in trying to ruin a very special story...Doesn't this make anyone wonder where we are all heading????Good Grief!

Ok, this book started out really good, but at some point, and I am not really sure when, I found myself wondering what the heck I was reading. Sure, the character names were the same, but the story just went to a place that I have no desire to revisit. I rather thought that this would be a love story about Christine and Eric, but it turned out to be this twisted bondage story that had no relation to the real deal. Maybe I am alone in this opinion, but I just ended up feeling cheated.

Gale does a really good job with the details that she gives in this book. It is a wonderful retelling of an already big hit. I can not put this book down it is that good.

I have been a fan of POTO for a while, mainly the Andrew Lloyd Webber version. Blame it on puberty but I have always had erotic feelings toward Erik since I read/heard his story. This book tells the story like every coming of age girl dreams it. The writing is very good for this type of story. Its very tasteful and not too raunchy. I agree with the reviewer that likened it to Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series. This story is obviously fictitious, despite the introduction by the author. I do not take the ending seriously. This novel is not for the faint of heart or the prudish! As a guilty pleasure though, its a delight. Enjoy!

I have given this book four stars because women need to be focused on their finances, in any way shape or form!

This book combines thoughtful insight into the emotional, behavorial and psychological reasons many women get into deep debt and fail to plan financially for retirement. There is no doubt that both men and women get into deep debt. Dowling suggests that women are more prone to lose control of their financial well-being because of gender scripting we get from a very early age. The challenge of the book is to see through this gender scripting, decide how it may be affecting your financial decisions and then take charge of your financial life. I loved it!

Had opportunity to read this book. I saw both things helpful and also serious errors. The helpful part is towards the end of the book when Ms. Dowling tells of programs she's been in to control her spending habits. I believe this was debtors anonymous. I've seen how people can get into debt because of the combination of the seductiveness of places people shop and the strong desire to want something even though it can't be afforded. I would also criticize this book as Ms. Dowling refers to feminist bugaboos that have been debunked, particularly how females have been treated in classroom situations. This is a study by the American Association of University Women. Even this organization debunks these studies. Also, there is a tendency to blame things such as the "The Patriarchy" for women's problems. Again, this is victim-feminist propaganda. I would suggest in future writings to leave gender blaming alone. Stick to how to stay out of debt and if in it how to get out of it, even though it takes hard discipline.

Yes, there is a lot of personal information in the book and more repetition than necessary, but I also found lots to think about, and many good questions. Dowling doesn't present all the answers, but with this topic we need to find our own anyway. I think Dowling does a good job of presenting theory and research on why women have difficulty taking control of their finances. Everyone's story is different, but if you pay attention you will find research, stories and questions that should further your own exploration of issues you may have around money. I am very picky about what I read and I consider the time I spent reading this book time well spent.

I'd be better with money if I avoided buying books like this one. The author's recounting of her money trouble is interesting, but drawn out much too long. And too much time is spent praising Jerrold Mundis; I thought references to "Jerry" were cutesy and inappropriate. If you like your authors to rely on anecdotal evidence, generalize from their own experience to the universe, and write with the level of sophistication encountered in women's magazines, you'll love this book. If you want more than this, avoid it. It would have benefitted from a better editor.

What trans-negative garbage. Every page of this slim volume reeks of trans-phobia, and every third page of homophobia. If there is any honesty or accuracy here at all, then French transsexual men and women must be very different from us Americans. For a real understanding of transsexualism, skip Chiland and go directly to True Selves by Millie Brown.

A truly fantastic book!!! From the viewpoint of transsexual activists, perhaps the most politically incorrect book on the subject, but from any other view the most insightful and "tell-it-like-it-is" view of transexuality available today, perhaps ever. It does not pander to the subject, but treats it in the cold light of reality. As a transexual woman who can deal with reality, I am overjoyed that a book finally exists that dispells the mythology concerning the subject. Chiland easily deals with the most prevalent of TS statements ("I am a woman") and treats them with respect, but also with the logic that most ignore. She points to the finacial aspect of SRS as a motivation for some doctors and the need to face the question of SRS directly. Her book is unique, for it does not avoid the basic questions posed by transsexuality but rather addresses each in turn, with a logic that will force all but the zealots to think. Caregivers need to read this; transsexual patients need to read this. This book says what it real, not what is myth. Transsexuals who believe in the mythology will be irrate for it does not offer blind support(although it certainly offers compassion) and questions some of their most basic and firmly held beliefs, It questions what has become a standard medical answer in North America and elsewhere. The transsexual "lobby" has become active in the past years, attacking without mercy those who differ with their mythology. J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University has been a favoured target. As this book becomes known, it shall be attacked by those who wish us all to follow the demanded cant of "I am woman","I am man". Some may regard it as an attack akin to Janice Raymonds "Transexual Empire" of long ago. It is far from that. While Chiland questions the very foundation of transsexulity and Moneys seperation of "sex" and "gender", there is none of the questionable scholarship and feminist rhetoric to be found in these pages. This book is firmly based in experience and logic. I suspect that many American readers will react much as they did when France opposed the War in Iraq, with emotional zeal and blind adherance to their view. That is a shame, for Chiland deserves and very careful consideration by all who are or deal with transexual patients. She raises questions that demand answers not blind following of a possibly misguided solution. The truth hurts. For some, this book will hurt greatly. For those who pause and reflect rationally, it will raise issues long put to the back of the mind, uncomfortable issues that many elect to ignore. Issues that have been ignored for far too long... A major step in our understanding of this difficult subject.