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I found this book to be so helpful in raising my grandson. It has been and is a refreshing way of dealing with childhood again.

I recently purchased the book "Kid Cooperation", ended up reading it in one night and feeling completely shocked and amazed - finally found an easy to read, easy to follow parenting book that covered every problem I had and that made it seem completely possible to make the changes necessary for my family. I cannot say enough positive things about the book, it will be life changing for me and my children.

Non-judgmental and very honest style of writing. The tools in the book brought immediate results.

It's about obedience, not about cooperation. It gives tips how to make kids obey your rules. The author is against spanking and yelling, but it's OK for she to use your authority over kids to force them to obey you She mostly recommends technics of punishments and rewards, although she mentioned such things like Natural Consequences, Anger Management, Active Listening, and such. The book is full of general words and phrases. It was not what I was searching for.

This book is wonderful. I have started recommending it to all of my friends. If you can read only one book on parenting, this is the one to read! When you read it you will learn about different parenting styles, their effectiveness or lack there of and a new way to create a happy loving and peaceful family life where you can get your children to cooperate and act as they should.

I am the mother of a 3 and 7 year old. My kids go to bed easily and on time, are polite and well behaved when outside of the house, but at home is another story. Overall my kids are pretty well behaved, but at home we have to ask them/tell them things multiple times until we ending up yelling at them, are plagued by emotional outbursts and temper tantrums, back talk, whining and have a hard time enforcing some key rules. Lately I have taken to watching those nanny shows to get tips on what to do. My kids are not at all like the kids in the shows but I had found a few tips that I have applied at home.

But when I read this book it was if I had an epiphany. This book was clearly written and easy to understand. It unravelled all of the mysteries of why my kids act the way they do and what to do differently to fix it. I learned that I was using at least two ineffective parenting styles and if I just adjusted what I was doing I would be much more effective. It gave tons of useful tips and approaches to use in all situations. The parenting style is kind, effective and helps your children grow and become self reliant to boot. I think it would work for all ages and the book addressed all ages needs and how to modify accordingly.

I have already started to see the effect in my kids behavior and it has even started to improve my marriage (partially thanks to the one chapter on the parental relationship). I can't wait to see where we are in a month or two, but I know the book has profoundly changed the way I parent and I have already seen some results and can't wait to see more!

I ordered about 40 over the past year for an associate director of my company. He uses a Chapter in his monthly global meetings. They read it and discuss how they can implement it. I read it & ordered more for various other managers. The book is excellent, easy to understand, and easy to put in practice. I believe every manager and employee should read it and practice what is on the pages.

Every company has those take-them-or-leave-them dead end employees - but then there are those employees who are truly special, and who make the company run as it should. "Love 'Em Or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay" is a guide for managers to making sure they keep these star employees happy and productive, so one's company can stay happy and productive. With countless tips to keeping the cream of the crop producing for your crop, "Love 'Em Or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay" is an essential read for any manager and for community library business collections.

Well worth the purchase. In addition to sound "theory" provides very practical application. If you subscribe to the concept that BEING BRILLIANT AT THE BASICS will get you to the next level, this books is clearly for you. We bought one for all our HR Managers around the country whereby they can utilize the practical application ideas as bet fit their facility.

As a busy professional, it's easy to fall into the trap of tending to the task and not so much the relationship. This book brings me back to that important balance. Chapter six, "Family", was extremely useful and helped me understand that employees have needs that, many times, surpass their pay check. I was better able to work with an employee who had special family needs. This book is filled with practical, relevant, and usable advice on keeping employees engaged. This book is an essential read for leaders today. If you care about developing your people you will understand them better after reading LOVE 'EM or LOSE 'EM.

Unlike the hundreds of management books out there that can be rather philosophical and academic on how to create a productive work environment (with many of the concepts capable of being covered in three, not three hundred, pages), this book focuses on 26 strategies with countless practical actions under each strategy that a manager can take to make the work environment (read: "people") highly productive.

Best yet, the authors' strategies for employee engagement and subsequent retention don't cost big bucks to implement. And if you haven't figured out how much payroll dollars you lose by disengaged employees who ultimately leave, you're missing a big chance at improving your bottom line.

If there was ever a phenomenal return for money spent, it's in implementing Love 'Em or Lose 'Em's s6 strategies. But that means you have to first invest in the book! Buy it!

This book is easily the best one he ever wrote. The rhymes and rhythms are bouncy and fun, and they gently slow down as you go, so that by the time you're near the end, your heart beat has slowed and so has your breathing. It's designed to get kids ready to fall asleep, even if they start out filled with energy- but it's still got all the silly and zany imagination of all his other works. Some of my favorite of his creations are in this- the goose juice and moose juice, and several others that are hard to spell but easy to pronounce.

Hold your kid as you read this and good dreams will follow close behind!

I personally don't think there's any greater childrens' book series than Dr. Seuss, and the Sleep Book is quintessential Seuss. It is hands-down my 4-year old's favorite book (and our favorite to read with him), at bedtime or any time. We've read it hundreds of times, and he still giggles uncontrollably at Foona Lagoona Baboona, and sure enough, by the end of the book, he is indeed yawning and laying down to go to sleep effortlessly. Clever and captivating, a must-have for any family.

I've always love this book. After having a baby, it was the 1st book I purchased for her. She's loved rhymes since she was about 6weeks old and enjoys hearing Dr. Seuss.

My husband read this to our daughter and now reads it to our grandchildren, everynight! The number one bedtime book of all!!!!!

My two sons are getting older, my wife and I haven't read to our boys for a while. Just last night my 11 yr old brought The Sleep Book for me to read to him. We snuggled next to each other while I read the pages with a little exaggeration. By the time I read "Good Night", we both had tears in our eyes. My son hugged me tightly, said "Thanks Dad,I missed that book too." Not as much as I did.... Dr Seuss was brilliant, but never shone as bright as for this book.

I put that title in because one reviewer felt ripped off after buying the book only later to discover that the book is at least in part, written as a guide to get you out of a bad lsd trip. The author clearly states in the book that psychedelics are ONE way to follow a path towards enlightenment.

Of course many Buddhists and religious types would disagree. But as Golas says "Enlightenment doesn't care how you get there" or something to that effect.

I bought this book, indeed, while I was experimenting with lds in the 70's and it did indeed set me on the path towards spiritual enlightenment. I have since read many books on enlightenment and of all of them, this is the simplest and most basic, while also being "right".
(I also am a big fan of Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now".)

This is a classic and it is a shame it's out of print.

Get a used copy. Even if you have to pay $20-30, it's worth it, especially if you plan to blaze a trail down the well-traveled but full-of-surprises and pitfalls path of psychedelic exploration.

Golas wrote this book during the psychadelic hippie era with the goal of providing something helpful to read when you're "stuck in a weird place." It's a short work, and you can get through it under an hour, which is why you'll be inclined to re-read at least one more time. Golas masterfully consolidates his ideas about enlightenment, freedom, reality, resistance and love into ten power-packed chapters that will leave you wanting to read more. He asks us to consider the REAL question: "If you are a completely free and self-determined being, how did you lock yourself into a body and play games on the material plane? How did you get yourself and others to agree to this game?"

Golas explains that we are all completely equal. Every being is self-determined and chooses to experience life at a certain vibration level. We cannot change anyone else's vibration level, and we are not obligated to change anyone else's vibration level. Even more, we cannot hurt or help others without their agreement "to play the game," and likewise, no one can help or hurt us without our agreement. He reminds us there are many paths to enlightenment but he advocates taking the easiest path, the one that's available to everyone, which is love. "Go beyond reason to love -- it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you."

The recent reprint of this book has an addition of a short biography with photographs of the author. Included is a letter for readers that he wrote in his last years about how the book came to be and a few added thoughts he had towards the end of his life.

What I have learned from this book is that no resistence is the way to love people with charity; with full unconditional love. If you can look at someone for what they are, with all of their strengths and weaknesses and love them regardless of what is right or wrong, in fact, love them for what they are, for what you see wrong in them too then you have discovered what many call the Christ love and are no longer drawn to and imprisoned by what you might deny.

From reading this book it has become very clear to me that we become what we hate. The very thing that we fight against is what we become. The same with our government fighting against terrorism, it has become a federal terrorist. The terrorist fighting against unjust governments have become unjust. Self appointed protectors fighting against what they perceive as protecting the innocent have become the guilty.

It always works that way.... no resistence is the only answer, love that which you would hate and you will not become that. It appears that the universe is built to teach us compassion. Hate something enough and you are drawn to it like iron to a magnet, offering your soul to the very thing which you sought to deny and in the end becoming a perfect image of that which you tried to destroy.

The big joke is that because none of us see everything the same way many of the pretty or ugly colors that you might see upon others uniquely exist in your own mind alone because you have colored them that way. When you see injustice, cruelty, ignorance and stupidity most of what you see does not exist exactly the way you see it, sometimes far from the truth. When you fight the image upon the mirror of your mind it's the most dangerous enemy you can possibly have because the internal oscillations of hate and dislike reflecting off of the surfaces of your own judgments take on a life as your own personal phantoms capable of haunting you to the ends of your days, never vanishing until accepted and loved for what they are, for what you have created.

Fighting against another with hate is like offering your soul to the devil. You will be consumed by and become the very thing you sought to perish. In the end trading one for the other, you stand in its place. Do as you wish to diminish the problems in this world, but do it without the resistence of hate, replace it with accepting love or you will become that which you fight against.

I spent most of the 80s and 90s reading every spiritual text, Bible, Gita, Koran, etc etc I could find. This one says more with fewer words than any other holy book I know of. Golas proves that there are many routes to enlightenment and peace of mind, and his pithy ability to condense history's wisdom into less than 100 pages is truly legendary.

The end page, Even Lazier, has a few sentences that will remind you what really matters when you need it most. For instance, "What do you think it is that needs to be loved?", a perfect answer to every time you struggle with negativity in any form. The ultimate reminder is "No resistance". Once you read this book--takes an hour or two max, and is a lot of fun--you'll know how deep those two words really are.

No new age book yet has come close to the concision and relaxed optimism of the Lazy Man's Guide.

Not bad for a broke head writing in a Berkeley hotel in the late 60s.
But then, old JC was a nutty freak too, wasn't he?

Blessings and much love, Mr. Golas.
May you expand forever.

I was terribly disappointed to come across this preface-laden edition - complete with family photographs - of a little book that I had kept at my side constantly for many years. Blew a lot of my illusions. This guy really did seem to think he's someone special for writing it, whereas in fact it's so obviously channeled, and in channelled works you'd usually rather the writer remained as anonymous as possible. Thaddues Golas, the author, proceeds to treat the book almost as a kind of holy text (which it isn't) and rambles on, by way of introduction, for a number of extra redundant pages in the slightly pompous and loopy epigramic prose style which we accept as an integral part of the Guide itself, but don't therefore necessarily condone as a good or even consistent example of mainstream thinking. Golas seems to harbor that illusion, and appears really to have a guru-complex of sorts. The book itself, though, remains perfect in its way. Pity he couldn't have just left it in it's perfection, and stayed back in the wings paring his fingernails,and cashing in his royalty checks.

As a medium and author, I found The Eagle and the The Rose to be well written and enlightening. I, like Rosemary, am an "ordinary" woman, going through life with its ups and down but who also possesses the gift of "sight" into the other side. She decribes her journey with poise and respect for the difficulties in her life. Her journey led her to wonderful people who helped her open the door to her soul. Bravo! The description of the spiritualist church and congregation took these people out of the blanket and into the main stream. A great read; a great story; a lesson to all.

Anna L. Raimondi
author: Talking to the Dead in Suburbia - An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Gift

I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did. I am amazed of how an abused girl got so much courage to work through all of the hardships of her life. I am so amazed that she finds so much courage and love to help others. Her spiritual guide is so amazing. She deserves 20+ stars. I am starting to read the Proud Spirit by her.

I have read lots of books on this subject matter. So far this one is my absolute favorite. I could not put this down.

I guess there isn't anything I can say that other readers haven't already said. I absolutely loved the way Rosemary told her story. It was like she was talking to a friend. Very well done! Exceptionally written. I enjoyed it so much that I've started to read it again. Thanks, Rosemary, for bringing this book to the world. I hope I will be able to meet you personally someday!

The Eagle and the Rose: A Remarkable True Story

Absolutely loved this book. What a touching and at times heart-wrenching bibliography. I could just see Grey Eagle standing there, from the way he was described. Good reminder of how negative messages are given to children and how that affects their entire life.

Now this is the book everyone should read.I loved it and have shared it with many friends and all the same LOVE it.It is such a healing book for anyone who has lost a loved one.I recommend it greatly.Its another one of those books you just can't put down.
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From Here to Eternity
This novel has always been a favorite of mine since seeing the 1953 film.
The later Television version I thought was awfull. The book was about
the American Army before Pearl Harbour . There is obviously much more
in the book than the film, seems to cover a lot of subjects. though I
was in the British Army myself (National Service) there are probably
some similiarity. I purchased this copy to replace my old 'tatty'
paperback.

I actually loved the melody of this book; but what it is really a good read for, is it's description of the attack on pearl harbor: This book captures the nuance of that particular moment when the Japanese planes appeared over the houses of Hawaii and the actors all knew while they were in the midst of it, that nothing would be the same again. I also liked the book for its description of Pruett's alcoholism - where Jones intervenes as the narrator/author and decides not to have his character "go alcoholics anonymous", thus guaranteeing certain death for his character - talk about deus ex machina in reverse!

From Here to Eternity is James Jones' masterfully envisioned tale of soldiers and their lovers on the eve of 1941's Pearl Harbor invasion. The rest of the world is already at war, and the neutral United States has begun a peacetime draft as the prospect of war seems inevitable. Despite this impending calamity, the soldiers of Schofield Barracks go on about their daily lives as if nothing had or ever will change: they spend their days routinely and begrudgingly performing their military duties and their nights drinking and whoring, while rarely examining their existences for any greater meaning.

At the center is Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt who has just requested a transfer out of the Regimental Bugle Corps, where he had a soft existence, and into an infantry company, where he will perform "straight duty," soldiering as any other man of the ranks. He immediately incurs the wrath of his commanding officer, Captain Dana "Dynamite" Holmes, when he refuses to join the company boxing team, preferring to think of himself as retired from boxing after blinding another man in a sparring match. Holmes needs Prewitt to box if he wants to field a championship team, and his superior, Lieutenant Colonel Jake Delbert soon makes clear that such a victory would likely earn him a long sought promotion. The conflict thus established, the characters hurtle unwittingly towards America's humiliation at Pearl Harbor and their own mortal humiliations.

Even Prewitt in his self-righteous suffering is guilty of pride--there are no innocents in this book as in life. Jones draws the Army as a microcosm of society: men and women at odds with their surroundings as they search for meaning. Ultimately, all the characters efforts are in vain; even as they struggle mightily against one another, the reader knows that on December 7th their lives will all be smashed as trivial and meaningless by a calamity far greater than any of them.

This novel is truly amazing. The characters are well developed and the reader truly becomes attached to each one as they undergo their personal trials and tribulations in the days before Pearl Harbor. The work provides an excellent examination of the pre-war Army, a professional army preparing for war, inducting draftees, and operating under a proud system of tradition. The novel is full of great stories, advice, and sayings that are as relevant today as they were in 1941. Serving in Iraq while reading this novel, I was amazed at the very real connection I found with its soldiers; many things have not changed. Again, a great novel that I would recommend to anyone interested in war, the army, or the human condition.

I've read only a few war novels in my day and most of them are about, well, war. Which is interesting and all, but there's only so many ways you can depict war as horrifying and dehumanizing, and the soldiers involved as both heroic and all too human, the command structure as haphazard and detached. So I wasn't looking terribly forward to the prospect of diving into yet another massive examination of soldier life, and yet, that's not really what this is about. Jones' novel isn't so much about WWII as about sitting on the cusp of WWII, taking place in the months just before Pearl Harbor. Everyone is training for a war that may or may not happen, more or less hanging out in Hawaii, killing time in between drills with drinking or prostitutes, living the Army life as best they can. The story pivots around two characters, enlisted fellow Prewitt and staff sergeant Warden, following their separate stories as well where they intersect, and how they interact with everyone around them. Prewitt's tale is the slightly more visceral of the two, he's an excellent boxer that refuses to go out for the team, even though his superiors would very much like him to. They'd like him to so much that they'll go to nearly any lengths to break him, in order to make him fall in line and fit in, with the entire company eventually trying to wear him down. It's a rather frightening depiction at times of the military's somewhat necessary need for comformity taken to a new level, stamping down on anyone who dares to deviate. Meanwhile, Warden is attempting to hold the company together, and pursuing an affair with the wife of his superior officer. The stories of these men collide with everyone else they come into contact with, as Jones vividly relays military life on the base and in the town, detailing the trials and loves the men endure and force themselves into. It's a surprisingly angry book at times, the language coiled and sharp, etching out the duality of the longtimers who both love and hate the Army that nourishes and captures them. The salty language and somewhat brutal scenes are shocking not in how graphic they are but how frank and matter of factly they're presented. The prose achieves a strange jagged beauty in parts, as Jones dives right into the minds and emotions of the men involved. It becomes, as I said, not a book about war but about people at war. Pearl Harbor doesn't even occur until most of the book is over with. It's not the fastest paced book, the early chapters are necessary to set up everything that will come later but you are going to be about halfway through before all the setting up starts to gain momentum but after that it barely pauses. It's tragic and visceral and sort of beautiful in its own way, not because it glorifies but in the way it shows everything, the times when the system beats them down, the small moments of friendship, the way men you depend on with both look out for you and let you down, sometimes in the same moment. Surprisingly readable despite the length, it carries a fire and passion that most books can't even approach. Probably one of the best military books ever written that doesn't involve long descriptions about how a gun works.

This is a truely outstanding book by a world leading authority in his field.Any parent with an autistic child would find this book valuable especially in relation to the effect of different diets on the development of autistic children.He also covers ADHD,Asthma and Allergies

Our sons Dr. reccomended reading this book after our first visit and WOW, I could not put it down. It makes sense of autism and why it is causing so many problems in so many children. I have since bought another copy for someone and plan to buy more this is a MUST read!!!!

I was able to improve my son's asthma within a few weeks of implementing these steps, after a year of failed medical interventions. Thanks so much!

I had heard about biomedical approaches to treating autism, but I had no idea of the links with asthma, ADHD, and allergies. Suddenly, my autistic, asthmatic, allergic kid made sense. I started on the program recommended in this book and my kid changed totally. I concocted a blend of supplements and diet interventions and I saw a change within weeks. I later started with a DAN doctor to tweak my program, but this was the best 20 bucks I ever spent!

With all the five-star reviews on this book, perhaps I set my expectations too high. On the plus side, Dr. Bock's after-the-fact suggestions are undoubtedly helpful, although he handicaps any solution by common myths.

Firstly, he repeatedly attacks saturated fats (e.g., Page 178, "Similarly, it's important to avoid foods that are pro-inflammatory, such as the trans-fatty acids found in margarine and other saturated fats.") Per Julie Matthews, a renowned expert on autism nutrition, "Clinical research shows that both saturated fat and cholesterol are essential for growth in babies, especially for healthy brain development" and "[There have been] decades of incorrect nutrition information on fats fed to the public by almost all mainstream nutrition sources".

Clearly, the problem is that Dr. Bock is one of sources of disinformation. This disinformation leads inevitably to mothers on bagel and fruit fat-free diets; then, made unable to breastfeed, with the blessings of their pediatricians, they give harmful omega-6 loaded soy based formulas to their infants; and finally they ween their children to cereal and fruit juice centric diets. (Dr. Bock missed the fact that the increasing levels of gluten in today's popular wheat varieties contribute to the timing of these epidemics. And, he missed the fact that the excess omega-6 fats in soy-based formula are often harmful to the liver and thus impair digestion.)

Anyhow, the saturated fat scare that Dr. Bock repeats may be the most significant root cause of the autism epidemic. Firstly, the necessary fats are mostly absent, and secondly the grains wreck the gut, making the children particularly vulnerable to toxins that healthy guts easily chelate. (And the high blood glucose and insulin levels caused by the carbohydrate intensive diet are damaging as well).

Another missed factor is massive vitamin D deficiency from these poor sources of vitamin D (i.e., grains, fruit, and juices) coupled with the doctor supported sun scare (see the Vitamin D Council's papers on autism to understand the connection). And, the vitamin D deficiency contributes to the chelation problem, as well. While Dr. Bock gives a little attention to vitamin D, his recommended dosage is one tenth of being adequate to remedy the deficiency, per the best experts on Vitamin D.

Instead of recognizing the saturated fat scare and the sun scare as significant causes of the autism (and other immune system disorders), Dr. Bock propagates myths about mercury levels (Page 18, "Our oceans are so full of poison, especially mercury, that it is now unsafe to eat more than one can of tuna per week.") From other sources, the reality is "there's considerable evidence that the amount of mercury in fish has remained the same (or even decreased) during the past 100 years." The mercury myth, of course, has further contributed to the self-chelation problem by contributing to a widespread iodine deficiency; iodine/iodide is a critical supplement (particularly nearly absent in a low seafood diet) that goes entirely unmentioned in this book.

When the root causes of autism are so badly misunderstood and instead blamed on (exaggerated) factors we largely cannot control (e.g., ocean pollution), it dooms millions of children to suffer from these and other immune system disorders. The good this book does (providing too rare sensible advice for victims of health disinformation) is more than offset by the disinformation it actually propagates.

Read this book, perhaps, for mostly credible information on supplements and drugs, but get your nutrition advice from the few trained nutritionists that actually understand nutrition, such as Julie Matthews, author of Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children, (or perhaps doctors such as Michael R. Eades or John Briffa or Barry Groves). (Often, you may use their opinion on saturated fat as a litmus test of being enlightened.) Because of his ignorance of basics, I suggest mostly ignoring the root causes that Dr. Bock claims.

I love the message of this book, but it is sad when we look around at our world today and see so much "country" turning into city. Loved this one as a child and am reading to my son now.

We live in a very old house in the country and this book was such a cute story about just that. We enjoyed it.

Another timeless classic by this author. It's an amazing story about appreciation. Completely entertaining and like the other books in this series, the artwork is phenominal!!!

This was my favorite book when I was little and still is one of my favorite books for children. I add this book to every gift I give at baby showers. A good book with a good lesson!

This was one of my favorites as kid. Then, sadly, I forgot about it until stumbling across it in the school library. It is once again one of my favorites. Cynics might roll their eyes at this tribute to good ol' days gone by, but I personally appreciate the nostalgia and the house with its subtle face parts is adorable. You feel so bad for the cute little house! It is also an observation at the change of time. I don't know how intense that is as a theme, but I found it touching and Burton tells the tale with such heart and care.

When I got the book and saw how thick it was I panicked. I thought I might never complete it due to boredom. Not the case, I was very surprised at how much great information there was. I have learned so much and can't wait to start implementing some of it. Great job Susan and Victoria. I plan on picking up Green for Life by Victoria next. Can't wait!

Wow! What a comprehensive, intelligent, inspiring book! Has something for everyone-detail minded people, those seeking hope or encouragemnt, and those just seeking additional practical knowledge. Has ALOT of Raw food info "to chew on". Worth the money and then some!!!

I bought this book in order to learn how to eat healthy and according to higienistic way of life. I live in Italy and I couldn' t find a better book dealing these themes. I'm reading it very slowly due to my busy life but it's a pleasure every time I can access to it.

I've been a raw vegan for some time and wasn't sure I needed this book. But I decided to give it a read and I was blown away by the immense amount of information contained inside. This is truly the book that answers all your questions about raw food...even those you didn't know you had.

The amount of information in this book is amazing...from the history of raw foods, to how to get started, to how to stay raw, to the health benefits...I could go on and on. As a science major and teacher, I was most impressed by how well researched this book is. There is a wealth of studies cited and references given.

I like how the book always gives the other alternatives, as not every raw foodist follows exactly the same path. Some raw food books state the author's opinion as the only way, the TRUTH, but not this one. I am grateful for that.

I love this book...it's one that I will keep as a reference and keep consulting. And the recipes are wonderful, too!

I literally stumbled upon this gem. I was primed to purchase a couple raw food recipe books and happened to notice the numerous amounts of high-rated reviews this book received. Since purchasing-and yes, reading-Live Food Factor, I can honestly say I see why it has received such rave reviews. Though the authors recommend reading the book from start to finish, I can't help but scour through the many intriguing chapters and appendices randomly, discovering new information on nearly every page. The Live Food Factor is just as precious to the seasoned raw/ive food veteran as it would be to the raw food neophyte.

One of the many aspects of the book that I value the most is it's objectivity. Objectivity is something that seems to be few are far between in the raw food movement. With every raw author chanting the "raw is law" mantra, Schenck has the courage and confidence to present the live food diet in all of it's glory, i.e., the Raw Animal Food/Paleo Diet, The Instincto Diet, The Fruitarian Diet, and so on. She presents the pros and cons of all these diets, rather than denoucing them as sacrilegious. Essentially, I believe the Live Food Factor is a beacon of light and offers a voice of reason to a movement that has until recently been written off as quackery.

This was a really great book. Even though the subject of infidelity is a very varied as well as serious subject, this book covered all areas. What would you do if your husband brought a baby home? It's easy to say that you would throw them both out, and you may even hate the cad...but the baby? What would you do? Would you leave the baby to a man who obviously cares about no one but himself? A man who obviously has no interest in you or the child? That's the question. The writer has the gift of taking you there, and feeling every ounce of pain on the subject. The book had quite a bit of humor in it as well. What's the saying:"so sad that you have to laugh to stop from crying". A great read.

This was my first experience with the author Evelyn Palfrey and I didn't know what to expect. But I'm so glad that I read this book!! It was a great page turner, with an interesting plot and a complex romance. I loved it!

Vivian Carlson is smart, beautiful, ambitious and married to the wrong man. Her husband of nineteen years, on-the-rise Texas state representative Walter Carlson, is a serial philanderer and has come to take Vivian for granted. For years Vivian has been patient, putting her desires on hold to support her husband. The final straw comes when Walter brings home his baby by another woman and hands her off to Vivian. Having already made the decision to leave Walter, she initially views the baby in a negative light, but comes to see her as an answer to her prayers after years of being unable to conceive. Struggling to keep up with her law school schedule and the baby, she meets Marc Kline, a wonderful man who comes to care for her and her baby. Their story is full of twists and turns, and beautiful romance as well.

Palfrey does a wonderful job of telling the story in a way that lets you get to know the characters in all of their complexity. I found myself being able to relate to both Vivian and Marc so many times while reading. The budding romance between Marc and Vivian was well developed and was neither trashy nor cheesy. I finished this book within 24 hours and loved every minute. It was a wonderful read and I'll definitely be reading more by this author.

Received this book in a timely fashion, arrived as expected. A little used but nothing that would disuade me from buying again.

I was skeptical about this book at first...but the storyline pulled me in. And I must say I'm happy I was pulled in.

Kudos to the author for coming up with not only this storyline, but the strong character/heroine behind the story. I don't know if there are many women out there who could've endured "the price of passion"....

Compelling storyline...you'll be engrossed from the first chapter to the last!!!

Where do I start? Where do I begin? Well for one thing, don't be fooled by the title of this book(smile). Ms. Palfrey is an excellent writer, and excellent storyteller. I first read this book in the late 90's early 2000's, and I have to say that it's better the second time around. Ms. Palfrey's style of writing is so down to earth, it's like you can visualize what she has to say. "Walter" needed his"%&@" kicked for all that drama he put "Vivian" through, and she's a class act for just dealing with him. "Marc"....whatta man,whatta man!!! Chapter sixteen where they (Marc and Vivian) finally do the do was so spicy that I had to throw cold water on my face!!! All the other characters in the book are exceptional as well, and "Sondra" from "Three Perfect Men" was an added treat. This novel started my love for Evelyn Palfrey books.