Richardson Books

Very insightful. I saw so many similarities between what Sandy and her family experienced to others who have faced this same situation. Bulimia is a complex disease that impacts more than just your relationship with food.

I met Sandy and she gave me a copy of her book. It gave me the courage to confront my bulimia. Later it prodded me to write my own book.

This book is great, it has beautiful color photos & the whole riviting story that redefines sci-fi as we know it!

This is a terrific children's storybook that came out about the same time or shortly after the original movie was released back in the '70s. Yes, the movie was great, but so is this book. Every page has at least one full-color live-action shot from the movie. Many of the pictures nearly take up the entire page, but there is still room for Geraldine Richelson to retell the classic story in terms a child can understand. If parent's still read bedtime stories to kids, this should be one of them.

A must read for all COPD patients. So many of us are clinging to the thread of hope available only through stem cells; we read the research and follow its progress. This book makes stem cell treatments a reality not only for damaged lungs but other supposedly uncurable diseases. These women take us on their stem cell journey. They are good and accurate reporters. The prognosis on all fronts is five star rising!
Excellent. Easy to comprehend. For those needing hope, this book is a must read.

An excellent book written by two brave women that researched and received, Umbilical Cord Stem Cells for COPD anyone with COPD should read this, it will give them Hope. It is a GREAT READ

Rose

Stern is perhaps the funniest book i have ever read. it has incredible depth and, at the same time, has remained true to the humerous aspect of the story.

Bruce Jay Friedman wrote the screenplay for several movies including "Splash". His book, "Stern" is the story of a man named Stern who has forsaken New York City for a home in the suburbs with his family. Things in paradise quickly collapse when a neighbor yells a slur at Stern's wife and knocks her down. Stern is overcome with a mixture of guilt, fear, anger and dementia. His attempts to confront the neighbor (as well as his own fears) lead to an endless paranoid mind-game and Stern's eventual physical collapse. Yeah - I guess this sounds sort of sad - BUT I guarantee you this book is HILARIOUS!! As in all of Friedman's books - the world of "Stern" is seemingly normal but filled with ridiculous and comic elements. Stern's attempts to face his neighbor, to convince himself that he can "take him" are really funny. I can not recommend this book highly enough. If you have ever felt persecuted or if you are neurotic AT ALL - this is the book for you.

I spent years reading these guys research, and in this book, they have put it all together in one handy volume. The book cites a lot of studies from the academic research and does get technical. In fact, I know some physical therapists that have gotten lost reading it! Therefore, potential buyers should know that the book is mainly for people who are in the medical profession that specialize in spine problems.

As a treatment for spinal problems, spinal stabilization exercise is a solid, evidence-based treatment and quite effective. Also recommemd Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff for both laypeople and medical folk alike- strengthening the rotator cuff does for the shoulder what strengthening the multifidus does for the spine.

this book, although a little technical, shows what happens in injured lower backs and then proceeds to describe a proven strategy to heal lower backs. I was amazed at the information presented in this book... I thought I knew everything there is to know about backs, having been an athlete all my life and having been a somatic therapist & Yoga teacher for the past 20 years. Well I learned a lot more and I even applied the material to my own back with great results with very little work... I also feel a lot more confident about teaching my clients how to take care of their backs...

I found the book very enlightening, informative, very well written. You can't put it down, and every page is a "how to" that can change your life if you just try. Her life story was very touching, and dramatic in itself, only to show, again, that if she can do it, we all can. It's the only book of it's kind to be so complete in the instruction on developing any spiritual technique. It's about time there's a book like this.

A wise, wonderful soul who pulled herself out of the muck of addiction, abuse and chaos to find her light. Her book offers insight into healing, enlightenment and psychic development and is an inspirational story of her journey.
This "spiritual manual" is a great place to start for anyone awakening to their light.
~Harusami

This is a heartbreakingly encouraging book. Those are odd adjectives to place next to each other, but in this case that's where they belong: This anthology, based upon the much-missed television program of the same name, unflinchingly documents the problems blighting our urban landscapes -- crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, prostitution (and their interrelationships) -- and then introduces us to the "little people" who are making a difference in big ways, day by day and one step at a time. These are the people America needs to know about now more than ever, and their lives and efforts can serve as blueprints on the path to restoration of "social sanity" for all of us.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who cares, and would like to care more!

For three years Janet Carroll Richardson traveled the country with her television crew in search of good people doing good things in quiet ways. Her award-winning show, "Unsung Heroes," struck a chord in the hearts of viewers nationwide. "Unsung Heroes is a godsend and a powerful reminder that good peple are doing good things."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram Now there is the book - Unsung Heroes. Janet captures the unheralded deeds of everyday people in their everyday lives that make us aware of how high the human spirit can soar. The profiles in this book are facsinating as well as inspiring. Here is an unmatched portrayal of the human condition in its infinite variety: agaony, hunger, pain, kindness, love, and hope. "Unsung Heroes is a book parents should read to their children. It shines brightly as an example of what an unselfish individual is capable of doing for others." --Zig Ziglar, Nationally acclaimed author and motivational speaker. Janet Carroll Richardson introduces you to dozens of unsung heroes. They are young and old, black and white and every shade in between. But they all have this in common: courage, grit, determination, and a desire to take the wrongs of this cruel world and make them right. It makes you feel good to read Unsung Heroes.

Richardson is a top poet - a lean, mean wordsmith of precision and probity. He is also the leading writer of the modern American aphorism. The two sides of the man fructify each other. There are delights on every page. A marvelous gift for literate friends with a good sense of humor.

"Vectors is a book of subversive wonders. Stunningly precise, these brilliant aphorisms and ten-second essays show a mind assessing, reassessing, discovering, and interrogating assumptions in ways that feel diamond-sharp, at once good natured, quietly sly at times, and always very, very shrewd. . .Vectors can now be added to the short list of such works that will truly last."-Laurie Sheck

As a student of Professor Richardson for the last two years, as a student of several languages, and a French major, I can say with some experiece that this is an excellent beginning language text and workbook. The books in combination with the tapes help to accelerate a student's vocabulary aquisition and is able to teach even the trickiest nuances of the language through a series of practical scenarios. I visited Germany and Austria after only a few months with the Wie Bitte program and was able to interact with German speakers quite well. Wie Bitte provides the motivated beginning German student with a solid basic foundation in the German language.

As a student of Professor Richardson for the last two years, as a student of several languages, and a French major, I can say with some experiece that this is an excellent beginning language text and workbook. The books in combination with the tapes help to accelerate a student's vocabulary aquisition and is able to teach even the trickiest nuances of the language through a series of practical scenarios. I visited Germany and Austria after only a few months with the Wie Bitte program and was able to interact with German speakers quite well. Wie Bitte provides the motivated beginning German student with a solid basic foundation in the German language.

A beautiful and informative book. The pictures are well taken and useful for identification. The descriptions are well arranged with headers, making the information easy to compare between two species. The excellent descriptions also make it a useful study guide. The only deficiency is the lack of a key which makes it less useful as a field guide. However, for the experienced professional or amateur botanist who can often guess the family, the excellent pictures make it useful for identification.
This book should be in the library of any serious student of botany who is interested in Texas or Gulf Coast plants.

[Wildflowers and Other Plants of Texas Beaches and Islands by Alfred Richardson], Native Plant Society News, 20 (May-June 2002): 9.

As summer approaches, the lure of the Texas shoreline intensifies. It is hard to resist the seaside's arresting sunrises, whispering breezes, rustling surf, and expansive sand dunes crowned by swaying sea oats (Uniola paniculata) or seacoast bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium). In such a vast setting, however, it is easy to overlook the subtler features of the landscape, specifically the often quiet array of coastal native flowers. This more restrained floral texture of the coastal terrain of our state is the subject of Alfred Richardson's lavishly produced Wildflowers and Other Plants of the Texas Beaches and Islands.

Many who already own a Texas wildflower field guide may wonder whether they also need this particular work when identifying coastal plants. This is a reasonable question. So I compared Richardson's Wildflowers with Theodore F. Niehaus's Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers, Geyata Ajilvsgi's Wildflowers of Texas, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller's Texas Wildflowers, Delena Tull and George Oxford Miller's A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees and Shrubs of Texas, and especially James H. Everitt and D. Lynn Drawe's Trees, Shrubs and Cacti of South Texas. My comparison disclosed that there were a large number of plants included in Richardson's book that appeared in only one of these other useful volumes. For the purpose of identifying these particular plants, in other words, you would need to own (and carry) all five of these guides.

Equally persuasive concerning the value of Richardson's Wildflowers are the considerable number of plants it lists that are not found in any of the other five volumes. Exclusive to Richardson's book are, for example, the tiny pink pyramid flower (Melochia pyramidata), the blue funnels of Ojo de Víbora (Evolvulus alsinoides var. hirticaulis), the yellow-eyed fringed disks of Corpus Christi fleabane (Erigeron procumbens), the marigold-looking false dandelion (Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus), the sun-splashed branches of seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens), and the lemony disks of showy nerveray (Tetragonotheca repanda). There are other plants that could be named here as well, but even this short list suggests that native-plant enthusiasts heading for the coast would benefit immensely from owning Richardson's book.

His volume is also handsomely produced, a pleasure to peruse even at home. The close-up photographs of 275 plants are large in scale, extraordinary in detail, and rich in color. The size and lucidity of these 316 photographs will facilitate efforts to identify flora in the field. As befits a field guide, moreover, the explanatory text is presented succinctly in an outline format: plant family, scientific name, leaf description, flower profile, fruit identification, habitat summary, bloom period, and overall observation. Most of the textual entries are comprised of a single sentence or simply a few words.

Richardson's book is so attractive and rewarding that I am reluctant to express my slight caveat. The volume is arranged by floral families, and these families are associated in terms of their inter-relationships and similarities, with their respective genera presented alphabetically. Such an organization appeals to the botanist's desire for taxonomic order. But for the average person in the field, a guide with flowers grouped by color tends to be more efficient and effective in enabling the identification of a plant. However, I want to affirm that this disadvantage is very minor and in no way measurably detracts from the considerable value of Wildflowers and Other Plants of Texas Beaches and Islands. At once beautiful and useful, this field guide is the perfect "beach book" for nature enthusiasts.

William J. Scheick, a former NPSOT vice-president, is also a member of the Central Texas Horticulture Council and a frequent contributor to Texas Gardener.