Brooks Books

If the recipes and color photos in "Eat Smart in Sicily" don't get you looking at possible airfares to Sicily for a gourmet eating holiday, nothing will.

This latest in the "Eat Smart" series features a photo spread of dishes incorporating fish, eggplant, saffron and beef, as well as concoctions such as a beautifully textured Eastern lamb made of marzipan.

Recipes tell how to make fried artichoke leaves, orange-flavored pork, stuffed mahi-mahi rolls, and Arab-influenced dishes including couscous with fish. Another recipe I plan to try at home is a pasta dish dressed with a pesto of pistachios, almonds and basil -- it's got to be delectable.

At minimum, "Eat Smart in Sicily" will get readers into the kitchen and trying to recreate their own taste of Sicily or visiting Italian restaurants specializing in Sicilian food as well as the more prevalent styles found in U.S. restaurants, based on the cuisines of Naples, Tuscany, Bologna and Florence.

As with others in the "Eat Smart" series, "... in Sicily" is handsomely illustrated and meticulously researched, with a history of the Mediterranean island as it relates to food, noting the contributions of Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Norman French and others.

A chapter on local foods notes the lack historically of meat proteins on the island, the Sicilian interest in wild vegetables, and the local quality of citrus fruits and passion for gelati, now nearly as popular in the United States.

Joan Peterson of Madison, Wisc., the driving force behind other "Eat Smart" guides to Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, Peru and other good-eating destinations, joined forces with Sicilian native Marcella Croce for this latest entry in the series. Let's hope that it makes its way in many suitcases and backpacks belonging to travelers headed to this world crossroads of history and food.

Joan Peterson has now authored and/or co-authored nine superbly crafted and incredible informative travel guides with a distinctive culinary orientation. The newest addition to her impressive roster of titles is "Eat Smart In Sicily: How To Decipher The Menu, Know The Market Foods & Embark On A Tasting Adventure" which she co-authored with Sicilian native, journalist and author Marcella Croce. Enhanced for the armchair browser with a section of color photography showcasing dishes, foods, and chefs, "Eat Smart In Sicily" truly lives up to its name and the sterling reputation of the entire 'Eat Smart' series. Along with an historical overview focused on the origins of Sicily's culinary diversity and a quick tour of local Sicilian foods and their variations, travelers are providing with invaluable tips for shopping in both the Sicilian open air food markets as well as their modern supermarkets. With the inclusion of resource lists, helpful phrases, a menu guide, recommended restaurants, and even a thoroughly 'user friendly' Menu Guide, "Eat Smart In Sicily" is a 'must' for anyone traveling there for either business or pleasure or both!

A wonderful book for those just beginning a raw food regime, or long-time "symbiotics" who thought they knew everything. This book does more than just give Sapotes Unique perspective on raw food. It teaches us hwo the mineral balance of foods affect our physiology and personality: our body mind. It relates the Sodium /potassium (which he identifies as with the macrobiotic yin/yang) and Calcium/Phosphorus (Alkaline/Acidic) balance of different foods to their effects on the eater. This will be particularly valuable for those who have been trying to go raw but can't beat those uncontrollable cravings: sometimes you might need minerals: THis is of particular relevance to people attempting a pure-fruit regime, who find that they are OK if they don't eat much, but if they eat more.... Highly recommended.

This book provides excellent information for the established raw fooder on how to balance out the bodies highs and lows.

It also contains loads of inspiring information to anyone interested in increasing the amount of raw food in their diet.

The chart initially is a bit confusing. Makes you think though and explains why meat is so unbalancing and fruit is the ideal food for humans at the centre of the chart.

If you want excellent health buy this book and just do it.

Love Chlorophil

A text that I required for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pre-Hospital Care, great rerference, great book.

I'm an intern in psychiatry and just finished my 6 months of psychiatry. For our call duties, interns are responsible for making dispositions on some of the sickest people in the country. In the beginning, this was quite scary for a newly minted doctor.

Even though my clinical skills improved, I really could have used this book! In a busy ER, you don't have a lot of time to review sources before making a decision. Emergency Psychiatry is a small, easy to use resource that is so well organized it only takes seconds to find the information you need. Most helpful are the chapter dealing with suicide, violence, and substance use. The reference has easy to use tables that stratify risk of suicide, provide signs and symptoms of substance abuse and withdrawal, and clear antidotes to common intoxication syndromes.

Plus, the book has DSM-IV criteria of most everything you'll see in the ER, but in a much more concise format. And the book's so small that it's easy to carry around! I think Emergency Psychiatry is perfect for any resident starting out in psych, as well as for medical students to really learn psychiatry during busy call nights. I know I'll be using it again when I get back on my psychiatry months starting in July.

Reviewed By: Angela Mink-Torres

From an illicit tryst between a security guard and a student at a home for delinquent girls to a chance meeting one night at a bar, Erotic Pleasures Collection of Erotic Short Stories by Brooks Lynn covers all of that, and more. The eight stories presented leave no stone unturned and no secret or secret pleasure buried, and leaves the reader asking for more. My personal favorite was a sensual anniversary celebration that leads to a romantic trip to Ireland and to a stay in an old castle. The characters fulfill not only the physical need but a long term dream of one of the characters. Romance and Erotica have never been such compelling partners then in this story. But if you're looking for something a little more hard core and less romantic, you'll also find it among the pages of this book.

This collection is a book that can be enjoyed alone or in the company of a special companion, and leaves this single female wishing she had someone to share it with. Fantasy is the name of the game, and the author is successfully moving towards a win. The very short format of these stories left something to be desired though in some of the offerings. Call me old fashioned, but even in my erotic pursuits I want to know a little bit more about the characters and their naughty peccadilloes. But over all, I would recommend this book, with a hearty and resounding YEEEEEESSSS!

"Erotic Pleasures" is the most delicious collection of sexual passion displayed in quite some time. Brooks Lynn mixes exhilarating fantasies with erotic secrets, writing both from a woman's, and a man's point of view.

The stories in this book will bring out the lustful feelings in both sexes. They are intriguing enough to make you want to drag your partner(s) off to the bedroom, the back seat, a fantasy castle, or even to a wooded area!

"Erotic Pleasures" will take you where you've never imagined a book could go. Delve into the arousal of the most seductive collection of original erotica ever gathered under one cover!...

Reviewed by: D'artagnion Brashere

Product arrived in excellent condition. Delivery was quick. The book was like brand new, with no markings, or bent or torn pages. I was very pleased with my purchase.

Fast shipping. perfect condition. will will do business with them again.

This is a great book for helping with the little ethical issues in the decision making process of Social Work. I got this book in a mostly timely fashion. Thank you!

This book was required reading for my Ethics class for my master's degree in social work. Of all the books, I enjoyed this one the best. It offers concise, easy-to-read chapters on a myriad of issues facing social workers in the field. These issues not only include ethical dilemmas in treating clients, but also issues involving personal ethics, agency bureaucracy, private practice, etc. Much of the information is thought-provoking and the excellent references provide further reading on those topics you are most interested in. This is one of those books you want to save after you graduate and include in your professional library.

I am always on the lookout for new authors, and I am pleased to have found Patricia Brooks. I simply could not put this book down. Highly recommended!

Patricia Brooks and her delightful heroine Molly Piper are welcome additions to the mystery fiction genre. Molly is smart, sassy, and 4' 9" tall. She's a former gymnast, a former big-city police officer, and now setting up her own business as a private investigator on rural Grace Island in Puget Sound WA. Molly's idol is Kinsey Milhone (of the Sue Grafton alphabet series) but she's inventive and daring enough to teach Kinsey a thing or two. "Falling From Grace" deals with the appearance of a serial killer on Grace Island. With the island as backdrop, and a carefully wrought cast of characters to assist her, Molly Piper snoops, sleuths, and brings all to a surprising and satisfactory conclusion. Don't be put off by the cover (a speeding tractor trailer). This is fine mystery fiction and I hope we see more of Molly and Grace Island soon!

I just bought this for my 14 month old yesterday and already we're accomplished 'what does a cow say - moo' and what does a sheep say - baa baa.' Unlike many of the other vocabulary books for babies, this one only introduces a few words and pictures at a time.

The format is very baby friendly. It's a thick board book where each page has its own tab making it easy for the babies to turn the page (my daughter's favorite activity). The first page has pictures (everything's made of clay making the pictures really cute and friendly looking) of a gate, dog, tractor, sheep and lamb, each labelled and on its own so they're easy to identify. Then, on the oposite page is everything put together, so there's a nice hillside with the farmer and his dog while the tractor tows a cart of sheep. Then there are a few other bits in the picture to continue with identification.

The book is only 10 pages long, but introduces enough images to really get a child thinking and learning. It's a fun activity a parent and child can do together, which is rare. The last page has all of the vocabulary words from the book, so you can make that into a separate game.

Overall, it's a very nice, inviting book that I think both parents and children will enjoy. Everything Usbourne publishes is brilliant and the Look and Say series is no exception.

This has been one of my son's favorites since he got it (around his first birthday) and now, at 19 months, he still comes back to it again and again. The format of the book is simple: on the lefthand side of each page are pictures of 5 farm animals and things found on a farm, and on the righthand side are those same exact things placed in a farm scene -- so the child can identify them again. Each page (there are 5) has a big sturdy tab with a picture of one of the featured items (tractor, cow, scarecrow, hen, owl) so when the book is closed you can still see those pictures. The last page reviews all 25 pictures featured in the book.

Not only is this a great book to familiarize children with things found on a farm, but the pictures are REALLY COOL. All the characters (farmers, sheep, ducks, etc) are made out of Fimo (modeling clay), photographed, and placed in front of bright-colored backgrounds (fields, ponds, trees, etc). They are also somehow laminated so that they REALLY stand out. The book is a bit larger and sturdier than most other board books and holds up well to my son's rough play.

This is a very high quality board book and I would highly recommend it for any baby/toddler who likes to name and point to pictures.

I have been teaching a finite mathematics course for several years now and have used the text by Sullivan and Mizrahi each time. At this time I am not scheduled to teach the course again, but if I do, this is the book I will use. The primary reason for the switch is the quality of the exposition. It is superior to the Sullivan and Mizrahi book in this area and the examples and section problems strongly emphasize examples that are reasonably related to real life.
The coverage is typical for courses in finite math, there are plenty of exercises at the end of the sections and answers to the odd-numbered ones are included at the end. Colors are used to highlight sections, rows in tables and to differentiate the different elements in graphs. This makes the text easy on the eyes, which is a feature that is often unappreciated. This is one of the few textbooks that deserves five stars for being better than the rest.

This book is written in a reader-friendly style. The real-life applications are excellent and feature real companies and organizations. Issues such as AIDS, housing prices, payday loans, credit cards, etc., are addressed in an interesting and engaging way. An outstanding text!

I am still amazed that Q was able to write such a readable and hillarious book about a trip that turned into a disaster. Only an author blessed with superior skills and humour could pull it off, but he did and 'in spades!' As Q's 'Old Guy' I am putting the finishing touches on a sequel to his book, Fishing With Paul Quarrington by His Old Guy. It delves further into our fishing and casting lives together since we met fifteen years ago and includes Paul's second trip to the Broadback, this time to my territory and with superb fishing.

I talked Paul into making this trip with us. We had fished and worked on his angling skills for over ten years and I felt he was ready to go affter the 'Big One'. Howeverr it was not to be. We ran into just about the worst conditions that anybody could imagine and due to circumstances were unable to go to the Deval territory, one with which I was familiar. I didn't think it was possible for anybody to construct a readable tale as a result of this venture, but Paulie not only pulled it off, but wrote his 'Old Guy' book with all the flair and humour that only a superb author could. I am just putting the finishing touches on a sequel to his wonderful account of that mis-adventure, 'Fishing With Paul Quarrington by His Old Guy'. It fills in the holes that 'Q' left out and includes his next trip with us, this time into my territory and with superb fishing.