Hunter Books

This is one of the most complete and concise books written for the hunter/jumper rider. This book is excellent for the intermediate to advanced rider, but a bit complicated for the beginner rider.
Ms. White-Mullin has an impressive resume when it comes to riding and was once under the tutelage of the legendary George Morris. This training shows in her very correct approach to the sport. She gives very detailed explanations of the 18 tests that can be called in the Hunter ring; what the judge is specifically looking for, and she has detailed photos and describes common faults and means to correct them; maximizing on yor horses conformation and movement. My favorite portion of the book centers around the physics of jumping. I loved her clear and detailed explanation of it; when I first read this 7 years ago I had a riding epiphany... it gave me the theory to help put it all together.
So, for the rider who wants to take thier riding to the next level, this is a must have!

I am an upper level reining competitor who took a class in Hunter/Jumpers to broaden my knowledge and skills in the Jumper world. This book was used as a text for the class. The book begins with a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of horsemanship and leads into advanced concepts, including tips for AHSA tests and a glossary of terms. White-Mullin also addresses a rider's nervousness during competition. Excellent photography and drawings help explain to the brain what the eye is reading! I was very impressed with the level of correctness. I appreciate the confidence and understanding it has given me this discipline and aspect of riding. Excellent for any level of rider desiring to learn. I can't believe there has been no reviews published on this book. It sits on the "most used reference" shelf in mine!

Did u read "Autumns Dancing with the Leaves"?, well you should it's a master piece of an ALL emotional story based on a very difficult personal experience which also gives us ALL a lesson of humanity.

"Winters Stormy Rage" is the natural sequel. Yet again, it's written with tremendous craft and the ability of the author to bring a story into life and flood you with compassion and emotion is still very evident & startling.

Anxiously awaiting the next SEASON to arrive and for this author to be placed in the lights he deserves for pocessing such an incredible personal gift.

This beautiful continuation of the first book, has an extremely well written text that captures your attention immediately, then maintains your interest with emotional and intellectual intrigue.The vivid descriptions of characters and background within this page-turner, allows one's imagination to soar. The reader can feel he/she is truly part of the story, experiencing all the character's highs and lows. This is the kind of author all avid readers search for. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a challenging, "can't put down" read.

When the Wisconsin Garden Guide first debuted in 1975 it achieved an impressive status with home gardeners, professional landscapers and horticulturalists throughout the state. Now in an updated third edition and again available to Wisconsin's gardening enthusiasts, Jerry Minnich's exceptionally well written and superbly presented compendium is a complete and total guide to growing flowers, lawns, herbs, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Jerry covers every aspect of the gardening experience from soil evaluation, composting and mulching, to weather, insects, pets, and disease control (without having to resort to herbicides). Of special note is the informative chapter dedicated to indoor gardening. The Wisconsin Garden Guide is further enhanced with a segment on tools and sources, as well as a "gardener friendly" index. The Wisconsin Garden Guide is a core, essential, invaluable, comprehensive reference for every personal or professional Wisconsin gardening collection.

Excellent tips, easy organization, a few nice anecdotes,
and written with a positive and independent spirit.

This book should not intimidate. It provides lots of historical information in a way that is easily grasped and easily visualized.

Maxwell-Stuart's writings are clear and takes you very easily back and forth through accounts of "witchcraft" and "sabbats".

This a book for a serious student of the history of witch hunting and the societies in Europe that it affected.

If witches were supposed to look and sound like everyone else, how could they be detected, in Salem days? WITCH HUNTERS is the first history of the careers of those said to be able to identify a witch, charting the claims and backgrounds of zealots, professional folks and others who perceived evil and sought to expose it. History lecturer Maxwell-Stuart provides a lively survey which uses source material quotes to back cultural and biographical insights.

Author and accomplished hunter Berdette Zastrow addresses all aspects of hunting from a female perspective. She starts with the "need to know" basics of hunting with chapters on women's outdoor programs, firearms, ammunition and safety, hunting clothing, finding places to hunt, ethics and conservation. Drawing from personal experiences and backing her information up with facts, Zastrow explains the different types of game, the proper way to hunt that game and all the gear needed. Learn to hunt antelope, deer, wild turkeys, upland game birds and waterfowl. The book transcends gender--men will learn from this information, also. Woman's Guide to Hunting will not only educate you and help you teach others about hunting, but will inspire you to go afield as well.

Like the author, I didn't start hunting until I was an adult. I have half a shelf of books on hunting and shooting, some written by and for women, but none of them are even half as useful as this book. Unlike other experts, who often seem to have forgotten that there was ever a time when they didn't know the basics, Berdette Zastrow tells you everything you need to know to get started hunting. I can't praise this book highly enough. I wish it had been available 3 or 4 years ago when I started hunting.

I read this book 5 years ago and it changed how I felt about myself as a woman. If only I had known what Elizabeth Davis wrote when I was younger, I would have saved myself a lot of guilt and self-destruction. She made me appreciate myself by revealing how hormones affect women. It also changed how I raised my daughter. Please read this book, you deserve it!

Davis' soothing and confident tone gives us the knowledge we have been denied for so long by the medical establishment. With clarity and vision she describes hormonal changes, the stages of pregnancy, and shares her own experiences and personal theories about women's sexuality. I adored this book and re-read it at least once a month!

Perhaps the best summary of this book comes from Bertrand Russell himself who wrote an introduction to its first English edition in 1951: "Among the many books that I have read about experiences of the victims of the Soviet prisons and camps, the `World Apart' by Gustaw Herling impressed me the most and is best written. This book possesses very rarely seen power of simple and lively narrative and it is completely impossible to question anywhere his truthfulness."

In spite of this testimony from one of the greatest intellectuals of the XX Century, the book did not enjoy much positive recognition for many years. It is an example of a thing done by "a wrong guy at the wrong time in the wrong place". Czeslaw Milosz explained that condition somewhat like this: After the war Gustaw Herling was known more for his service in the Polish Army of Wladyslaw Anders considered at the time, especially in France and Italy, as Fascist and the book was clearly anti-Soviet. At the same time the prevailing mood, especially among the left-leaning intellectuals was decisively pro-Soviet. It is a well-known fact that Jean Paul Sartre was a downright aggressive pro-Stalinist even thought he was well aware of the existence of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. After all the Soviet Union was an Ally who played decisive role in the defeat of the Nazi Germany. Today things are considerably better. In her recent book "Gulag, A History", Anne Applebaum acknowledges Herling's work as one of the main bibliographical sources and quotes it extensively. Still, for the public in general it remains a rather obscure work.

The true nature of the Soviet system was not fully revealed and acknowledged until the publication of Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1963) and, more importantly, "The Gulag Archipelago" (1974). Important as these works are, however, the testimony of Herling preceded them by more than a decade and it is the first, as far as I can tell, in depth account of the reality of Soviet system.

The "World Apart" is an account of the real events that happened during Herling's "tenure" in the camps of Kargopole in the deep North of the Soviet Union. And the real were the people he wrote about. But this book is not merely an account of these unspeakable events. Herling goes much further. He offers his analysis of "what happened how and why". And he offers the portraits of people describing what can happen to a man under the conditions of extreme terror, cold, hunger and overwork. It is a warning to all those "homegrown moralists" who in the comforts of their secure existence in freedom feel in their rights to pass judgments on others regardless of circumstances they really know nothing about.

However horrific were the events described and however terrible was what happened to and with the people in the camps the overall "climate", if you will, of this book is not altogether gloomy. While not concealing what happened with the inmates in terms of their own behavior, Gustaw Herling refrains very consistently from passing judgments on them. The inmates were ordinary people and their misery, including sometimes complete moral disintegration and loss of dignity, was inflicted upon them and they were the victims. One cannot demand impossible from others and cannot expect something he had not proven capable of delivering himself.

But his judgment of the nature of the Soviet system itself is unmistakable and uncompromising. It is astonishing that even today while there is hardly any confusion as to the nature of the Nazism, there is still much ignorance, misunderstanding and under-appreciation for the evils of Communism, including it's most degraded Stalinist brand. "World Apart" by Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski fully deserves to be recognized as one of the most in-depth, original analysis of the nature of the Soviet system (and beyond) and is a genuine masterpiece of the literature of the XX Century. If there is a work that this book should be compared to it is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from the Underground".

Herling maintains a sombre note throughout the book, but he rarely judges or seeks revenge. Very similar to Primo Levi, Herling decides to portray the horror of a place where very few accounts survive in an almost detached account. He compliments matter-of-fact observation with more metaphysical psycholoically challenging idealism, a style that works well without ever confusing either the reader or the issue. Despite the overall tone, he even manages to inject some scattered humour, illustrating that the human animal is a very accepting species. As long as one has hope, almost anything can be survived. This book is perhaps one of the most valuable insights to an almost ignored horror.

If you are seeking to bring more pleasure into your life, live less stress, and generally become happier, read this book. I have read and even written many self-help books in my time, and always find value in Pearsall's work. He writes from the heart and with a great deal of solid scientific information. He is one of the best in the industry.

Dr. Pearsall's easy explanation of why our lives are so stressful urges us to take a look within to find the answers to what can bring peace, harmony, love and contentment into everyone's lives. The ideas and suggestions are so simple you wonder why it has taken so long to discover.

Included is a short test to assess your personal stress level, to define what makes you angry and why. Then Dr. Pearsall offers simple suggestions that really work. Those who have read his previous book, "The Pleasure Prescription" will rediscover the easy,polynesian philosophy of acceptance that makes the islands the true paradises they are. By looking inward we gain a better understanding of the world around us, and why such modern phenomenon as "road rage" happen so often.

It's difficult to sum up the whole concept in a few short paragraphs, but the essential message is, "lighten up" to live longer.

If you've every thought you had it in you to write your life's story, this is the book for you. Clearly written, "Writing from Within" outlines a powerful technique for anyone to "get at" important feeling, thoughts, and memories that are in the past."Write in the present tense. Write in first person. Put feelings into the story." These are some of the suggestions Bernard Selling proposes to make your writing come alive. This is a valuable book.It is highly recommended.

I own the 2d edition of this book, and it's the best book I've ever seen on the subject. It is sensitively written to guide and inspire an ordinary person in pursuit of a story, and the sories used as examples are excellent - much better than most, yet written by students. Had this book been in print when I started teaching writing, I would not have begun my own (soon to be published) book, "Writing the Stories of Your Life."
Elsa McKeithan

This is a great book. I don't know how many times I saw something new in the supermarket and I decided to try it and it was awful. I ended up throwing it all out. This book had great foods which was already tasted for me. It was a no brainer. Everything I tried from the book was great. No more wasting food. I just take along my guide with me and I have fun shopping. It has saved me a fortune and it also gave me great ideas of new foods to buy. The book is divided into food categories, so when I need something , I know exactly where to find it. I would highly recommend this book for anyone either on a diet or just trying to eat the right, healthy foods.

I just have to give kudos to the authors for doing the seemingly impossible... a guidebook to healthy foods that taste great and can be found in most supermarkets. I'm usually overwhelmed with the task of trying to eat right since I love my comfort foods, but THE YUMMY HUNTER'S GUIDE got me out of my rut and now I'm actually excited about trying out new foods. Organized almost like a Zagat's travel guide this very fun to read but still practical guide is a bargain for all of those out there trying to eat fairly healthy without resorting to a Draconian wheat grass diet.