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We all want to believe in magic. In this book we are told that it exists. So Starr and Eric have to prove to themselves, as well as to others, whether this is so. Their testing of the love potion on unlikely couples is entertaining and holds the reader's interest to the end of the book. In fact, I was disappointed that the book ended so quickly. For a good read, this book will not disappoint you.

Lucifer's Dictionary Of The American Language is not a standard reference dictionary. Rather it is a compilation of nasty insights into American society and culture, and how ordinary words have veiled "true" meanings that reflect devil-worthy selfishness. From arbitration ("a procedure enabling opponents to scream bloody murder at each other before going to trial and being inhibited by the decorum imposed in court") to yard ("A plot of dirt, grass, flowers, trees, shrubs, weeds and the like which Americans keep in front or back of their house for use as a spouse, child and dog dumping ground, and also for the convenience of the neighbors' cats"), each entry is delicious with irony, subtext, wit, and scorn for the self-absorbed. Enthusiastically recommended.

Most of us do not have the time or the inclination to mull over the appalling manner in which the English language has been massacred and we enthusiastically accept such expressions as "gonna," which according to Burton h. Wolfe's Lucifer's Dictionary of the American Language means "a word which was invented long ago by someone who lost the ability to say `going to,' and which has gained increasingly widespread approval and acceptance to the point that almost all Americans use it."

Wolfe has devoted fifteen years of his life in jotting down these words, terms and phrases that have crept into our vernacular and he has provided us with a side-splitting book that ingeniously demonstrates how these terms are used by most Americans in a language, as he mentions in his introduction, is supposed to be but is not the same as English.

Wolfe vividly employs satire to get his point across, and as he mentioned to me in our interview, by using satire his aim is to demolish standard applications to words that mean something entirely different from the way they are generally used, to provide the true meaning of them, and to add iconoclastic commentary.

There is a great deal of fascinating material in Lucifer's Dictionary of the American Language including the history of the board-game Monopoly and numerous hilarious definitions. As an example, actors according to Wolfe are anyone or everyone, but especially individuals in positions of leadership.
If you have not as yet figured out what the term government means, you may find Wolfe's description quite enlightening, as he asserts that it is a racket based on taxes that are levied to pay for itself and its head racketeers, who use the money in figuring out ways to make sure everything goes wrong so they can raise more money.

Lucifer's Dictionary of the American Language crackles with energy with its delicious quick-wittedness. Moreover, Wolfe has done an commendable job in bringing to our attention how the media, as well as the Government and American business enterprises, manipulate the public with misleading terms in order to sell us a product or convince us of the righteousness of a particular action.

Although Wolfe is a versatile author of numerous articles and books, his writing here is with a great deal of creativity and freshness where he effectively succeeds in striking just the right balance between entertainment and fact, too much and too little detail, tomfoolery and seriousness, while at the same time injecting a great deal of philosophical insight without being too sophistic or cynical.

Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures

This book has become one of the foremost referenced text for healthcare professionals on the causes of low back pain. It helps the reader to understand "Structural Findings" on x-rays/MRIs and to correlate those with "Functional Findings" of restricted flexibility and soft tissue pain.

This book is widely accepted by Doctors of Chiropractic and other physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists.

This is a MUST to have on the Bookshelf of any healthcare professional who routinely deals with the management of lower back pain.

This is one of the books in "Back Pain" that any spine care specialist should read. I personally feel fortunate to have done it. Six years ago, after finishing reading it( the 3rd edition, 1992), I was basically converted from a GYII physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Resident with little interest in taking care patients with low back pain, because of the lack of knowledge and skill, to someone who started considering a career as spine care specialist. Now, I am a fellowship trained spine interventional specialist, board certified by the American Board of Phyiscial Medicine & Rehabilitation as well as by the American Board of Pain Medicine, practicing interventional pain management and spine care at the Physicians' Pain Specialists of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. I am very thankful for this book because it helped me in moving the most important step towards becoming a spine care specialist. The authors did a superb job integrating things such as history, physical exam, spine mechanics, spine impages (X-ray, MRI, CT) together with clinical correlates. It is such an rewarding experience after reading this book to realize that I have achieved the ability to coorelate the spine image findings in X-ray, MR or CT with its spinal anatomical structures and then infer them to their specific clinical presentations. Most of the Chapters were well written, especially those on" Pathology & Pathogenesis of Low Back Pain", "The Site & Nature of the Lesion", "Lumbar Spine Imaging", "Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain", "The Three Phases & Three Joints" were extremely well written and informative. It has more lumbar spine images than any other spine care books that I have come across.

It was with great enthsusiasm and excitement that I bought the 4th Edition(1999), hoping for new thoughts and updates, especially in "Diagnositc & Therapeutic Techniques " as the previous edition was 7 years earlier. However, to my surprise, I found little change in this Chapter. I was also a little disappointed by the inferior paper quality of the 4th Edition in comparison to the 3rd Edition. Even though a few more recent referrences were added to the 4th Edition, the core contents of the two editions are about the same. Therefore, my advice to readers is: One is enough, whether it is 3rd or 4th Edition. You need at least one.

World of Art contemporary artists book series, in fact, is nothing other than a reflection of the idea or philosophy of a transversal, complex and at times even incomprehensible our cultural era, to provide innovative spatial dimensions, new temporal dynamics in book form.
Andrea Pagnes, art critic

Marlie Burton-Roche is reknowned internationally for both her political activism and her exceptional artwork, but gets undeservedly little press at home. Her art, powerful abstract weddings of what seem to be visceral biology and mettalurgy, is clearly informed by her experiences during her longstanding work for democracy and social justice in El Salvador. This book contains high quality reproductions of her art created over many years, and focusses on her oils and mixed media pieces. The art is moving and disquieting, as is the text, which describes her experiences in the struggle against the forces of repression and tyrrany.
Both the art and the text have a high intellectual and emotional charge. If Chomsky is on your bookshelf, and Cockburn in your CD player, Burton-Roche belongs on your coffee table.

Just what I was looking for,cd in great shape and in condition stated. Received order before due date.

This book and the "Simple Project" series gives you lessons, templates, samples and a CD to use with your students. The students can work independently through the step-by-step instructions and learn how to create their own power point presentations. These books are available in primary, intermediate and challenging. I have bought several to cover the different needs of my students. I even had my own daughter do several of the lessons so she could learn these skills. These are the best teacher-computer lesson guides I seen.

The text offers a gratifying, personal insight into a real human being; Maria is represented truly, and not cast in some mythical light. The case study section is superb, and reads effortlessly rather than a scientific treatise. A must read!

I just read this book cover to cover and found the case studies to be amazing proof of the power of voodoo. The personal story of Maria and the education of the loas was very interesting. I like the fact that it is said that nothing is set in stone and that if you do spells exactly as you read, then you really haven't learned anything. They are meant to be changed to adapt to you and your situation.

Thanks for this great book.!

one of the last great geographical explorations was in order to find the source of the Nile..British Victorian hero and adventurer Richard Burton took a young John Speke under his wing and attempted to find the answer to this great mystery..Burton, translator of the 'Kuma Sutra' was an adventurer through and through..wanting to experience native customs and cultures and to understand them not just use them for the purposes of the journey. The relationship between Burton and Speke is the heart and soul of this book. Their differences become more profound the deeper their adventure takes them and finally Speke leaves Burton as he goes for the glory for himself. Burton's life comes to a sad end for such a richly led life. This is an incredible book. Rich, exciting, thrilling.

A marvellous novel about the brilliant explorer and writer Richard Burton and his young protege John Hanning Speke and there ill-fated attempt to locate the source of the White Nile in the east African highlands. In the process we see the difficulties faced by Victorian explorers and you can only marvel at the bravery of the men to undertake such journeys.

We see the recriminations that erupt in London when Speke claims (rightly but without real proof) that Victoria is the source and how Burton is sidelined and eventually is lucky to find positions in the worst jobs in the foreign service. A sad end for one of the worlds greatest explorers. I can feel no sympathy for the end that Speke met with, but read it for yourself. Now a movie, but the film cannot capture a fraction of the book.

Folsom has delivered a book that is tough to put down. While flying to a conference the other day, I was reading New Deal or Raw Deal and telling my friend (who was reading another book) how great Folsom's book is and talking about some key points brought up by Dr. Folsom. I left my seat for a moment; when I returned, my friend was reading Folsom's book, and I had a hard time getting it back.

Roosevelt helped create major rifts between those who were wealthy and those who were poor and middle class. He even indicated he did that to win the election rather than pursue what was best for the country. He tried to stack the Supreme Court and used the IRS to harass his major critics.

I've had to remind myself repeatedly that this is not a fictional work and that it is about a president in the USA rather than a dictator in some distant country. For example, the New Deal's birth of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 was bizarre. "It allowed American industrialists to collaborate to set the prices of their products and even the wages and hours that went into making them. Leaders in all industries, from steel and coal to shoulder pads and dog food, were invited to sit down and write codes of fair competition that would be binding on all producers in their industry. Laborers were often allowed to organize, and anti-trust laws were suspended." (pp. 43-44) The result was that many big companies could easily take business from smaller companies because the larger companies controlled the price fixing. An example Folsom uses is Jacob Maged of Jersey City, NJ. After 22 years of running a successful small business pressing clothes, Maged's reputation was one of quality work at a reasonable cost. The NRA then demanded that he charge 40 cents to press a suit instead of 35 cents. He was sent to jail and given a $100 fine for refusing to increase his prices.

Folsom has thoroughly documented the facts in the book, including several pages of sources.

By the end of the book, it is no mystery whether Roosevelt orchestrated the New Deal or a raw deal.

This book is incredibly timely. The most disturbing part is it seems like we are headed in the same direction today.

Burton Folsom, a Professor of History at Hillsdale College, already has one classic to his credit: "Myth of the Robber Barons." Now he offers a concise, yet detailed, revision of the Leuchtenberg-Schlesinger myth that Franklin Roosevelt "saved" capitalism. In both his introduction and concluding remarks, Folsom assesses why the legend arose that Roosevelt had "brought us out of the Depression." He engages in a brief analysis of what caused the Great Depression, frequently noting that the economists have left the historians in the dust: the majority of economists today neither think that business failures caused the Great Depression, or that Roosevelt's policies did much to temper it, let alone solve the crisis.

Folsom assesses adequate blame to Herbert Hoover, though not (as is commonly portrayed) as a wild-eyed laissez-faire capitalist, but as a meddling Progressive in the mold of Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt in many ways merely continues, but greatly expands, Hoover's programs. One of the more interesting chapters deals with the NRA and its price fixing schemes. Here we had an agency of the federal government telling tailors what they could charge to hem a pair of pants! The NRA, thankfully, was brought down by a butcher who, in the process of selling chickens, allowed his customers to (imagine this!) select the chicken they wanted. The NRA goons attempted to force him to demand that they blindly take the first chicken that came within reach. In the subsequent court decision, the NRA was ruled unconstitutional. By that time, at least one businessman, who thought he couldn't charge the high prices demanded by the NRA or lose his customers, languished in jail, running his business from behind bars.

Folsom covers the better-known distortions of the New Deal---the minimum wage, Social Security, the banking regulations---but also reveals how Roosevelt used the IRS to smash political enemies, including editors whose columns he didn't care for. It's a chilling image, given talk of re-instituting the modern-day "gag rule" called the "fairness doctrine." Roosevelt used federal money as much to ensure his re-election as he did to stimulate a recovery, plastering wavering districts with cash until they arrived at the right ballot-box conclusions. Thus, as Folsom shows, the New Deal was not just an economic rebuilding program, but a political weapon designed to ensure the Democrat Party would hold power for much of the 20th century.

A good compliment to Amity Shlaes' "The Forgotten Man," Folsom sticks more to the specifics of how each piece of legislation retarded recovery. There is no question, when you finish, that Roosevelt stuck most Americans with a "raw deal" to ensure he remained in the White House for more than a decade.

This book is a must have for every Christian worker. We have gained much understanding for ministry to individuals from abused backgrounds. Being able to recognize the spirit behind a behavior and the accompanying behavior patterns and how to minister to those individuals has been invaluable to us. This book should be on every Christian's bookshelf and it should be studied and reviewed yearly. It is a valuable resource for ministry as well as for victims of past abuse. I have also been helped personally from this valuable book.

No Longer A Victim is a book that has touched many lives. When dealing with victims the world only offers solutions that deal with our physical, emotional and mental well being. This book addresses both our human nature as well as the most important aspect of our being and that is our spirit. The authors of this book minister to the needs of victims using the scriptures found in the Bible. This book has ministered to the many needs that face our ever changing world. If you are some one who has been a victim, who has had to deal with fear, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness and any form of abuse I highly recomend this book. You will never be the same again. I can attest to that.

This is a mix of Numerology and the psychology of the Enneagram. The Numerology in this book is as complete as any I have read and is in the style of Juno Jordan. The personal insights gained from this book were very helpful. Numbers are explained along with how they developed from childhood and how they function in relationships, parenthood, and more.

This is a very good book and one of the only references you will need.

This is one of the best books on Numerology I have read in the last decade. It has the insight and wisdom of the Enneagram system coupled with the style of Juno Jordan's older work on numerology. The book goes into great detail regarding the personality types and life paths. It then starts with the personal years and ends with the personal day influences.

Super book, as was her book on Tarot.