Associations Books

Very informative and well written. Anyone who wants to know about Men's Health should read this book.

There is a recent surge of interest in the subject of Men's Health as it is well- known that on average women live longer, and have lower rates of mortality from major diseases, excepting Alzheimer's. This comprehensive guide presents in its opening sections a guide to healthy living, including a detailed covering of such topics as diet, exercise, dealing with stress, avoiding risky behavior etc. The aim is to enable the reader to understand how to improve his own life- style. The second section provides a medical guide to the 'systems of the body'.
The work is not focused on simply teaching us to try and extend life but rather how to make our lives healthier and happier.
My sense is that almost every reader will find some tip here or there which will improve in some way their health.

This is an important book and a terrific guide to all health issues in a man's life. It answered every health question I had and more - on fitness, aging, and sexuality - and since this guide is from the American Medical Association, I know I can trust the information. I'll certainly recommend this guide to all the men I know and their families.

Guidebooks don't get more resourceful or better organized than this! You'll find the latest information on such topics as: regular exercise, healthy nutrition, reducing stress, and extensive coverage on each internal system of the male body. It's a great gift for any loved male in your life!

This guide is very practical and deals with all aspects of eldercare and caring to the caregiver. I highly recommend it.

My brother and I take care of my eighty-year-old mother. She has
diabetic neuropathy and can't walk. But she's a good kid and
we take care of her. This book has helped. Although the object of the book at first seems to be to develop a care plan; it really is a book of primary skills that you need in caregiving.
The book is best because you are not overwhelmed with 465 ways
to help your loved one. This is a primary and basic skills book.
Buy this book if you are new at caregiving and don't know where to start. Because the American Medical Associarion wrote it, I imagine that it would be good for all caregivers to buy it. I just love this book. It's like a Boy Scout manual. It's user-friendly for your brain. And sometimes simplicity can do more good that needless complications and theories. Thank you and I wish you luck.

This book is a must-have for anyone responsible for realistic decision making about his/her ability to provide health care at home, as well as an excellent how-to guide for those who accept the inherent responsibilities of the caregiver. I consider it the one "best" guide of those available to meet the needs of the growing number of home caregivers.

I am an Illinois legal aid attorney and owner of Southwest Medicals, an online medical supply and equipment business. I strongly recommend this book. Very informative, full of helpful tips and resources. This book helps make a challenging situation much easier. I also recommend The Comfort of Home, An Illustrated Step by Setp Guide for Caregivers, 2nd Edition, by Maria M Meyer.

I'm really happy with the service because even though it was an international shipped, it arrived only one week later and in great conditions.

An excellent textbook from the American Psychiatric Association edited by Alan F. Schatzberg and Charles B Nemeroff, who have worked together on numerous titles such as the Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Handbook for Primary Care. Dr. Nemeroff is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, from the American College of Neuropschopharmacology published by .

For graduate students, medical students, residents or professors - anyone interested in psychopharmacology should have this book! The reference section alone is worth it's weight in gold. There is simply no comparable text that is as comprehensive and readable. The reviews of both the basic science as well as the clinical literature is a remarkable feature, and is extremely well integrated.

This is a must have book for any psychiatrist. It's a great source of information, covering almost all psychotropics.

This is the only AP Art History Review book the Art History teacher recommended. It is the best test prep book on the market and if you're taking the AP exam, you should really consider buying it. We're waiting for the AP exam results and hopefully it would prove its worth.

Students in the Atlanta area have found this book to be very helpful for preparation on the AP Art History exam. Adult friends with an interest in art history have bought the book and found that the book along with the 400 picture CD is a great resource.

These dedicated authors have produced a book that is a superior study aid and a reference for those who appreciate art history. Details regarding the classics are impressive and sample tests are well written. A must for all AP Art History students.

This book includes so much information and the tests are great because they give you a detailed description of every correct answer! I bought the book because my teacher wrote it but I'm reading it because it is a great review!

As an educator I am always looking for the best test prep materials for my students, and by far this is the best. With its easy to use format, extensive vocabulary review and strong practice test questions this is the only book you will need to feel prepared for the AP Exam.

AP Human Geography w/ CD-ROM (REA) - The Best Test Prep (The Best Test Preparation for Advance Placement)

This book has been extrememly useful in helping me to prepare for the AP exam. It is easily understandable and as a student I find it refreshing to read a review book that doesn't put me to sleep. This book is full of interesting facts related to Human Geography, and the review tests were extrememly helpful with my preparations for the real exam.

I have been sort of worried about passing the AP Human Geography test. The material is challenging and the vocab extensive, but this review book by Mr. Christian Sawyer has made me confident that i will not only pass, but get a 4 or 5. The book is easy to understand as well as interesting with good examples and fun facts. The review vocabulary quizzes, multiple choice examples, and practice FRQs help me feel confident about the layout of the exam and what to expect. I recommend this review book to all taking the exam!

I like this book better than all the others for my students...it has practice drills, rubrics, some strong practice AP questions, and succinct, complete reviews--the vocabulary is excellent.

As a high school AP student, I really like this book because it is packed full of terms and practice questions. It also has a thorough review of each unit with interesting facts and quizzes. The images are also interesting and helpful. My teacher said she recommends it. I want to get a 5. I also like the scoring guidelines for the practice FRQs. The reviews at the end of each chapter are very helpful. It is written in a way I can understand it.

Well, to be honest, I'm not sure what I expected when I checked this out from the library, but it sounded interesting, so I thought I'd take a look. The story was fairly slow-going at first. In fact, I would say that it wasn't until about 1/2-way through the book that the plot actually got 'moving' so-to-speak. That's not to say that it wasn't interesting, it just seemed like there was lots of information that wasn't really connected to the plot. There were also times where I felt that certain scenes were written just to display the authors' historical knowledge, which isn't something I find particularly appealing in novels.

Also, although touted as a historical fantasy, this book is probably about 80% historical, 15% fantasy and 5% alternate reality. Honestly, if I had known nothing about Elizabethan England when I read this I would have been completely lost and, while reading, I still felt out of the loop occasionally. There were a lot of historical names and places, and it was difficult keeping them straight in my head, especially at the beginning. I can't really recommend this book to anyone who doesn't have at least a little previous knowledge of this time period, but I can say that it would be worth it to do some research for the sole purpose or reading it.

If you don't want to read about the time period, take a look at these two movies: Elizabeth w/ Cate Blanchett and Shakespeare in Love w/ Gwyneth Paltrow. They will give you a historical basis to work off of and both will give you most, if not all, of the names you need to know.

This is the best work of historical fantasy, and one of the best works of historical fiction, which I have ever read. Although the universe (an alternate history Elizabethan England where magic works and where Sydney and Marlow survived the events which killed them in our time line) is fantasy, the approach is basic science fiction "what if", extrapolated on a magical rather than physcial technology. Rather than overlaying modern concepts of magic onto their characters and history, the authors present magic as it was understood by the various classes of Tudor England, and in so doing create a world that feels like reality and avoid the one-dimensionality common to much contemporary fantasy. All this, and a great read, too.

This is a very well-structured, well-written book set in an alternate version of Queen Elizabeth I's reign. The settings are finely drawn, the characters are engaging, and the plot is gripping. I reread this book about once a year just for the pleasure of it, and I snapped up this hardcover when it came out. If you like alternate history and fantasy, and don't mind them mixed together, read this book. If you just want to read about people living in Elizabethan England, read this book. And if you just have to have any book with Shakespeare as a character... you, too, have some reading ahead of you.

I'm the cover illustrator, and I don't always like everything I read. Often, even if I liked a story the first time, I don't like it when I have to read it about the fifth time to check on the color of someone's shirt. Or I start noticing the lapses in historical detail or logic or characterization.

This book I still read for pleasure, even after I finished the cover. I read a lot of alternate history, and this surely ranks among the best.

A relative gave me a 1st edition of this excellent book on Quality in the trucking business. However, Clowdis' quality principles apply to most any service business. well-written for the end user/reader, this is a fine book that we hope the Author will up-date soon. Excellent little book.

We are using this little book this week to train our 887 employees in HOW to give our customers great, memorable service in the very competitive trucking industry. We have more competitors than ever before and the ideas Chuck Clowdis gives in his book will differentiate use from the mediocre! Thanks for the skill and experiemce so expertly, but simply, given in this text!

Roger Enright

I saw this book used as the center-piece for a motor carrier's training effort. It was superb and turned a mediocre operation into a customer-sensitive, and PROFITABLE operation in just a few months. The book addresses actual problems trucking people encounter and shows HOW to handle these situations and deliver QUALITY, a rare commodity in the US trucking industry.

Most factual, true to life book on what it takes to give quality service in the trucking industry. Should be read by trucking execs, all levels of management, and especially drivers. I highly recommend it.

There are very few pertinent, to the point publications regarding the cons and games inmates will try to pull off on corrections officers. The veteran officer learns by trial and error, and over the course of years comes to know when a 'con' is being played on him/her. The rookie CO knows it will happen but not the lengths that an inmate will go to to work the con. As a new CO this book provided me with invaluable insight into the games that inmates will play and the cons they will try to use on a CO. I've only been in corrections a few months but have already been able to catch the prisoners trying to work me and get personal information. If I had not read this book, I may have given out too much personal info, thinking the inmates were just making conversation, or being friendly. My eyes have been opened and I'm much more careful with the info I divulge. I feel this book should be a must read for all CO's, new, veteran and those considering going into this field! It's very easy to read, does not weigh down with too much psychobabble, but is intersting and to the point. I highly recommend this book!

God bless the people who have been taken in by inmates trying to con you. I work in a prison and it is a daily part of life there. I wish I had read this book before starting. I think it does a good job of scaring you just enough to be more careful. I found myself marveling at the ingenuity behind some of the cons. If only they would put that much time, effort and thought into other things...But what is really scary is the number of people who have been taken in by them. The advice is practical and indispensible for anyone working in the corrections field. It is easy to think it won't happen to you, but it happens to many people each year. This well written and easy to read book helps you recognize the con and thus protect yourself against it. Real life examples and responses help make the teachings more concrete. It also offers a brief analysis of why inmates try to manipulate.

This book really helped me realize how NOT to be a victim of manipulation. I'm usually very trusting and want to believe in the best of people. This book helped me to remember that I am in the criminal's environment when I am there. They are not in mine.

I really enjoyed the book it is very informative into what kinds of games inmates will use on correction officers and staff to try to manipulate their way and make their time while incarcerated more pleasant. Very good book for anyone seriously considering working in corrections.

If you are a fan of "My Utmost for His Highest", you will love this book. It was written during World War 1 and it definitely goes into great depth about God and our relationship with Him during difficult times. Oswald uses the book of Job as an example of extreme trials and isolation.

This is a smaller book, broken up into short chapters which would make it an easy devotional type book.

The reading is not for the "faint-of-heart"; it contains some real wisdom and amazing depth.

This book is incisive and speaks life into the heart of a bewildered Christian who is at a loss to grasp the "higher ways" of God; a prophetic perspective on suffering that may ease the pain and add grit to the soul...

Sometimes the healing process can hurt. Job was a person like us and all of us can see a little bit of Job in us. Chambers masterfully brings out the fact that suffering IS NOT the curse of God or because we have committed wrongs. Job is shown to be moving CLOSER to God in his tribulation rather than further from God [which some modern commentaries do]--suffering, trials and problems ARE a part of human existence and better is the person who will see God ABOVE it as they must travel through it.

Baffled to Fight Better is EXACTLY what postmoderns need to lessen the anger against God when rough times come. God is NOT the author of confusion.

I think Mr. Chambers's book is exciting because unlike most people, he actually read the book of Job. He uses Job's experiences not as a springboard in to general, vague, and platitudinous ramblings about suffering in general, but he discusses Job's suffering in specific. His loyalty and love of the text is reason enough to buy this book.

The book is divided up into several small lessons which takes several chapters and provides several paragraphs of commentary and sermons about the subject matter. I love Chambers's prose. It is powerful and direct. You do not get the marshmallow emoting, and greased truism that you would find in other books. If you do not know what good doctrine tastes like, buy this book an feast.

A last piece of advice: if you loved this book, and are electrified by chamber's power, then I strongly exhort you to buy the "Complete Works of Oswald Chambers." You will love running along side this man's mind and heart.

I found this book unexpectedly in Grandma's house, and, as I've decided to start reading more, I read it. It was terrific. Leslie told exactly how he felt, and he told it well enough that I felt it too. What happened to him may as well have happened to me, reading this book. His narration took me directly into the North Woods. And, once I was there, there was no lack of a story to keep me moving along. I watched the three cubs become his family; I watched them grow up; I watched them through fun and hard times. The forest was rich with detail and poignant occasions. I am staunchly against crying, but at the end I seriously thought about considering it, and that's not something that is easy to make me do. All in all, I have to say that you really need to get your hands on this book.

In correction of the review written below, the book was made into a movie in 1974, starring Patrick Wayne. It's very hard to find, but is worth seeing. The story, both on the page on the screen, is wonderous.

Staci Layne Wilson

I have read this book for the 5th time since I was about 8 years old. I am 36 and it has never lost its' grip on me. Leslie's first hand account of communing with bears in British Columbia's remote, yet not remote enough, North Woods is truly unforgettable. How this book became out of print, and never a movie or documentary defies explanation. Leslie's descriptive language and compelling narrative is a tribute to nature writers everywhere. Readers who like Farley Mowat and Robert Redford would like this book. I plan on passing this on to my 2 year old son as my mother passed it on to me whaen old enough to comprehend. Long live the bear!

I have read this book for the 5th time since I was about 8 years old. I am 36 and it has never lost its' grip on me. Leslie's first hand account of communing with bears in British Columbia's remote, yet not remote enough, North Woods is truly unforgettable. How this book became out of print, and never a movie or documentary defies explanation. Leslie's descriptive language and compelling narrative is a tribute to nature writers everywhere. Readers who like Farley Mowat and Robert Redford would like this book. I plan on passing this on to my 2 year old son as my mother passed it on to me whaen old enough to comprehend. Long live the bear!