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If I could make any comment at all, it would be to not be fooled by the title! Although it has recipes and food ideas, it is FAR MORE than that! I loved it! If you entertain a little... or a lot... this is a MUST!

I love this book. My favorite party so far was the bowling theme! It works great for kids or adults. The decorating ideas made our party a hit! Another great one is the Pet theme! We just got a new puppy and had to celebrate! These recipes are easy to make from ingredients you can find in any kitchen! Put this book in your collection to help make every party memorable! I highly recommend this book.

This gal really knows how to throw the best parties. Her ideas are fresh and fun. We have used this new book twice already with great results --- parties people are still talking about. Why try to think of a special way to celebrate when you've got 'this Party Lady' at your fingertips. Order the book! You'll use it.

I own a retail gift shop in North Carolina and have had great success selling the Pick-A-Party Cookbook. I sell copies of the book to customers who have returned to buy them for gifts. One lady bought a total of 4 books. She bought one for herself, went home and made up some of the recipes, then returned to buy 3 copies for her friends! These recipes can be used year-round! I feel great recommending this book to anyone. Even if they have a large cookbook collection. The decorating ideas in this book are first rate. I also recommend the book for people who throw large parties or maybe someone arranging a family reunion. Patty Sachs gives food and beverage guidelines for large groups! I've never come across that in other books. Simply put, buy the book!

This isn't so much a book about "Motherhood Late In Life" as it is about conception using donor eggs. As a 40+ woman pregnant for the first time (through traditional methods), I picked up this book after my first OB visit, thinking it would provide a good overview of some of the issues I might face. At the time, I didn't realize that the book was specifically about ART (assisted reproductive technology) and pregnancies through donated eggs; I assumed it was just about being an older mom. Nonetheless, once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down. It provides much more detail about the biology of conception than do any of the traditional pregnancy books. Juxtaposed with the detailed biology lessons are installments in the story of Sarah & Joe, an older (Sarah is 48; Joe is younger) couple that opts for donor egg use after years of more traditional fertility treaments. In telling the story of Sarah & Joe, the authors address the ethical issues of pregnancy in post-menopausal women in what struck me as a balanced, compassionate, and very thoughtul manner. In the Sarah/Joe story, they discuss the response Sarah & Joe elicit from family members, friends, Sarah's sister, Sarah's adult daughter from a previous relationship. Let's face it -- not everyone is going to be congratulatory & rushing to hold a baby shower for a 50 year old pregnant woman -- or a lesbian or single woman for that matter; nor do all folks embrace the idea of creating an embryo in a test tube rather than accepting whatever God apparently had in mind. And I think it would make a typical adult women a little put off to learn her mother (and her children's grandmother) was using a donor egg to become prenant again. Paulson & Sachs deal with the questions and challenges that women choosing egg donation (or even pregnancy later in life or under other non-traditional circumstances) may face, and their treatment is even-handed -- realistic, not pedantic or preachy, not utopian. I think this would be essential reading for anyone considering assistance in reproduction, especially egg donation. It would also be helpful for the friends and families of women who have elected to use donor eggs.

An instructive book about assisted reproduction in the postmenoupausal years, written with great compassion and respect for the couples contemplating such a decision. Paulson and Sachs are obviously attuned to all of the emotional and ethical, as well as practical issues, that enter into such a decision. As a clinical discourse on post-menopausal pregnancy issues it is first rate. As the journey of a fictious woman who must deal with all of the complexities of making such a decision it is an emotional and compelling story.

This book was written by 2 people. Parts deal with the mechanics of fertility treatment and other parts follow a 48-year-old woman's life as she decides to achieve motherhood.

The writing of the medical aspects of fertility is done in a detailed and complete manner. It is an education by itself and can be referred to often by any fertility patient with medical questions. (Note: Dr.Paulson is a University professor.)

The portrayal of the older would-be mom is very repectful. She has taken care of herself so well that she is able to run an actual marathon. Why shouldn't she be able to have a baby? A man in her position can have a baby!

This book gives men and women a way to achieve some manner of reproductive parity.

A donor egg cycle may include the medication, Lupron. Weeks of Lupron therapy puts one in a different hormonal state in which one is barely able to function. Nurses call this induced hormonal state, "going under," which includes hot flashes and debilitating headaches. Not addressed in the book are the physical symptoms that occur with supression of one's natural hormones and treatment, if any, of the physical symptoms. Although generally informative, I wonder what other critical information may have been left out.

It is a great product and i recomend it wholeheartedly. i bought one for myself and two for some friends. The book has great insight.

I just purchased this item after embracing Buddhism some time ago. The prayer flags are absolutely beautiful. The idea of the prayers being carried aloft on the wind is so wonderful. And it comes with a beautiful book to help to inspire your own prayer flags. I would highly recommend this item.

This is a beautiful package. it has a magnetic flap that keeps the book and prayer flags encased in an elegant package. The book provides great insight on prayer flags and the spirituality of the Tibetan culture. One of the flags has traditional Tibetan prayers printed on them and the other is blank allowing one to create their own blessings for the wind. I love this book/kit. It really has provided me great wisdom. The prayer flags actually are from Tibet -- and the package supports the Child Welfare Scheme which is a charitable group supporting the children of this country. I highly recommend this book for oneself or as a truly inspirational gift.

I absolutely love The Tibetan Prayer Flag Pack. My friend bought it for me for my birthday, and the wisdom within the book along with the beautiful prayer flags create such a wonderful gift for anyone. Even though I am a non-Buddhist, every page of the little book provided both information and inspiration, and I loved that I could explore my creative side with the blank prayer flags!

Everyone should buy this book - it's so great!

Aristotle's De Anima is a wonderful addition to his corpus. If you're considering buying it, you already know enough and need no further knowledge from me concerning it.

Translation: Joe Sachs is a high-quality translator of Aristotle. His versions are highly accurate and literal, free from most bias. They generally are very reliable. Sachs does not use Latin cognates in his translation, so Greek words like "energeia" are rendered "being-at-work", versus the Latin "activity". If you don't mind this, than Sachs is the man for you.

Aesthetics: Unbeatable. This edition was made for serious study and it shows. There is plenty of room in the margins for taking notes, key terms are given in each chapter for the reader to notice (some might consider this a negative point), and the text itself is beautiful, well-spaced, and easy on the eyes.

Durability: If you know Green Lion Press, you will not be surprised. This book was made for study and is a steel-wrought tome among lesser volumes. The clothbound version has glued AND sewn pages and the spread can be fully opened without breaking the spine. The paper is thick and well-suited for note-taking. I expect my soft-bound edition to last fifty years.

Size: A great size for casual reading. It fits almost anywhere you want it too - suitcase, backpack, etc.

Price: Kind of pricey for such a short book (you can get half of Aeschylus and Herodotus for $20), but not surprising given the awesome durability of the book.

If you're looking for a good De Anima translation, look no further, for Green Lion and Joe Sachs are almost perfect (if only Green Lion would publish Apostle's Aristotle!).

I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.

Soul- De Anima Latin for Greek word Psuche=Life. It is a Phenomenology of Life. Living things are Aristotle¡¦s primary interest. Renee Descartes says thinking is only aspect of soul, not life. For Descartes the soul is the mind. Aristotle classifies features of living things. A soul can¡¦t be a body, (like a corpse). Psuche=life is a living form of the body, the phenomenon of life. Capacity to live is what he means. Ergon=function or work, thus when he talks about soul it is a body¡¦s function. Thus, a corpse is a deactivated body. Dunamis=capacity, Energia= actuality, thus both words are active words and can be seen as ¡§activating capacity.¡¨ Like a builder while building a house, past potential but not actual until the house is complete.
Entelecheia=¡¨living things have their ends inside them.¡¨ A living being has an end in itself.

What is the soul? Psuche= soul is being working toward ends of a self-moving body having the capacity to live. This is another way of talking about desire (like an animal that is hungry). Desire-animals have this as we do. Orexis=desire. The phenomenology of desire is to be motivated towards something that is lacking at the time, hunger, etc. Pleasure and pain.
Desire and action there are 3 kinds of desire.

1. Appetite like hunger and sex.
2. Emotion-like love not on crude level as appetite.
3. Wish-desire of the mind, (I want a good job).

All three strive towards something that is lacking. ¡§Desire is movement of the soul.¡¨ Human life is a set of desires. Human desires are more complicated. Desires clash like dieting and appetite.

¡§All humans desire to know.¡¨ This is the first line of the Metaphysics. Knowledge examined in terms of distinction between matter and form, perception has to do with intelligible form. Perception takes in visible form of something without the matter. Like imagination, an animal and human can do this. All knowledge starts with perception thus memory. Ultimate knowledge is intelligible form from visible form but mind is also using abstractions, this is a human capacity only. Humans use language to do this. Animals have image of a cat, word ¡§cat¡¨ is an abstraction for us. True knowledge organizes language.

Seing<³being seen. Two beings, seer and seen, this is act of vision it is only one actuality and two potentialities. In effect, Aristotle is saying that the capacity to see can only be actualized by seeing something. However, he goes the other way as well; something seeable only actualizes its seeability by being seen. One actuality, two potentials, the potential to see, the potential to be seen. In the modern world since Descartes, it is spoken as two actualities, the mind, and the outside world and there is a split between the two, two actualities, the mind as a separate thing and the object as a separate thing being seen. This is the source of the classic problem of skepticism. When there is seeing obviously you have two beings, the seer and the seen, but the act of vision is one actuality. Aristotle does not have this skeptical problem because he seems to stipulate this idea of single actuality and the whole point of the capacity to know is meant to hook up with things known. The whole point of knowable things is to be known by knower¡¦s, that is what he means by one actuality, thus there is no split between the mind and the world. There is no purely inside and outside. It isn¡¦t that minds are in here and the world is out there, and we might wonder about how they hook up. The nature of things and the nature of the mind are meant to hook up. Thus, Aristotle is not a radical skeptic like Descartes or Hume. Act of seeing the desk is joint actuality of seer and seen.

Actual hearing and actual sounding occur at the same time. Berkeley¡¦s famous question¡K¡¨If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? For Berkeley, to be is to be perceived. Aristotle answers Berkeley¡¦s question that it does make a sound, but you have to have the capacity to hear, it is a joint venture. The mind and the world are not separated like for Descartes. Aristotle doesn¡¦t buy the idea that ¡§everything in my mind can be false¡¨ like the skeptics argue, Aristotle would say this is impossible. Getting things true and false are part of what the mind has to do, but the possibility that the whole mental realm could be put into question is impossible. Thus, he doesn¡¦t have to answer the question put to skeptics. ¡§If you are right that there is a radical doubt about the possibility of our knowledge hooking up with reality, why would the human situation ever come to pass in this way that it is possible that we could be totally wrong.¡¨ The skeptics answer we are not sure that we are wrong, they are saying we can¡¦t be sure that we are right. If that were the case then Aristotle can say, well is this a recipe for the human condition? One can be skeptical about this or that, but not about everything.

Aristotle moves from perception to thought. The thinking of the world and world to be thought is actualization. Nous=highest capacity of intellect for Aristotle. Mind is potential and until it thinks isn¡¦t actualization. The implication of this the world wants to be known according to Aristotle. The world also activates our desire. One actualization of two potentialities. Taking in form without matter that is what knowledge is. A knowing soul cannot be separation from the body. The mind has built in capacity to understand for Aristotle, no actual knowledge until intellect engages with objects. ¡§Actually thinking mind is the thing that it thinks. In this respect the soul is all existing things.¡¨ Soul is capacity to think the world in the passage.

I recommend Aristotle¡¦s works to anyone interested in obtaining a classical education, and those interested in philosophy. Aristotle is one of the most important philosophers and the standard that all others must be judged by.

Although the Sachs' translation and phrasing is difficult to ingest upon first glance, it is the only way to go in order to truly understand the meaning in Aristotle's work without reading the original Greek text. He captures Aristotle's subtilties in wording amazingly, while also preserving the literality and spirit of the Greek in a way that no other translator before has. The Greek vocabulary lessons preceding the chapters are extremely helpful, acquainting the unfamiliar with the fundamental words and concepts of Aristotle. He helps to make a deep and difficult treatise more manageable, although I would highly recommend using another translation to boot in any close reading of this work.

This mother and daughter team really worked! This delightful book, written by Marilyn Sachs and illustrated by her grown daughter is about major changes taking place within a family.

Dorrie, a gifted and talented 5th grader has an assignment which is to write her life story for a school assignment. Dorrie has a lot to write about! She becomes the sister of triplets (2 brothers and a sister); she moves from an apartment to a large house with a yard; her parents become foster parents of two neighborhood children who have been abused and neglected and Dorrie herself isn't quite sure what to make of these changes. The delightful illustrations are such a welcome contribution to this story.

Written as a first person narrative, this story will ring pure and clear and touch everyone who comes across it.

This is a gem that should be back in print. It is really good.

This remains a book I treasure today. This is without a doubt Marilyn Sachs' finest work.

Dorrie, a gifted 6th grader has to write her life story for a school assignment. Her story is certainly an interesting and worthwhile one because it is during that year her life changes in quantum leaps.

Dorrie's triplet siblings, Deirdre, Randolph and Raymond are born and she feels shunted aside. Her parents become foster parents to two neglected neighborhood children. The only thing I didn't like was the emotional blackmail they used on her when "consulting" with her about bringing these new children into their home.

The drawings, done by Anne Sachs are a bonus treat. The voice of Dorrie rings true; at 11 I could readily identify with Dorrie. Readers of all ages will enjoy this. I wish it was back in print. This is a classic.

I have been an admirer of the writings of Marilyn Sachs since I was a young girl. So naturally, when I had a daughter of my own, I wanted to share those reading experiences with her someday. And although she's only a year and a half old, I hope she, too, will someday appreciate the wonderful books as I did some 20 years ago.I was the age of this book's title character when I first read "Dorrie's Book." At age 11, her words resonated with me, even though my life was significantly less chaotic than hers! We are introduced to Dorrie as she prepares to write her own book for a class assignment. And we learn how her somewhat pampered life as a only child suddenly becomes upended with the arrival of triplets! Dorrie must deal with a myriad of emotions, ranging from envy to indifference to betrayal, as she tries to find some sense of order in her world. She must contend with the rigors of helping to care for three babies, as well as a move to a new home and dealing with a neighborhood "mean-faced girl." Just when Dorrie begins to feel a semblance of complacency, other events arise - some of which are obstacles, others victories.I would not dare to spoil any further surprises by releasing too much detail about the rest of this young girl's travails, but it is interesting to note that Dorrie herself has some control over the way the tale is presented, as she attempts to tidy things up in one pat ending.Anyone who is familiar with the works of Marilyn Sachs will find this book to be more raw and more introspective than most of her other writings. I feel that strategy is necessary and responsible for making "Dorrie's Book" the charmer that it is. I can truly say that I savored each page as much today as I did when I first set eyes on it long ago. As an 11-year old, I found Dorrie to be an intriguing, rather precocious girl. Today, my impression of her has changed little. Marilyn Sachs has captured all of the emotion of a unique situation and made me feel as if Dorrie and her family were real people.A lively reading adventure for young women and women young at heart!

Back in the old days, you had to go to some exotic far-east country and climb a mountain, and most likely embrace the whole of Buddism in order to get an introduction to Zen. You might expect to be there for some time, in fact, studying under a very wise teacher who speaks little or no English.

Well, if you happen not to be a Buddist, and you don't want to travel for extended periods and live in other cultures like a native, and you have a life, there is good news. It's not that complicated. I am a Christian, and I practice Zen. It isn't complex or mysterious at all, you don't have to be a Buddist, and it is completely life changing.

This book is a good, clear introduction to Zen practice (which is what Zen is really all about). It also thoroughly covers most of the outer trappings of Zen as well. These things aren't necessary to Zen practice, but they add context. The thing this book does not do is get tangled up in Buddist dogma, which is deeply complex. Instead, it sticks to Zen, which is elegant, simple, and beautiful.

There are many, many books on Zen. The mysterious ones are fun but generally useless. This one is a good read, but not in the "mysterious" category. It is useful, and I would recommend it for beginning practitioners.

If you don't plan to practice, don't buy this book. It won't make any sense to you. Get one of the mysterious Zen books, read it, enjoy it, and if it inspires you to try Zen practice, then come back and buy this book.

This is the first beginning Zen book I've seen that explains terms and esoteric concepts in easy to understand, concise, plain English. Even the classic books tend to border on the mystical, so it was a refreshing read. As I read "THe Everything Zen Book", it make other books I've read and terms I've heard instantly clearer and helped me appreciate the aspects of Zen all that much more.

For example, I'd already read a book on taking a Zen Buddhist approach to writing. That book made very little sense to me until I read "The Everything Zen Book." That's when I finally understood what the other author had been trying to say.

If you're looking for a solid introduction, there is no better book out there. I'd highly recommend reading this book before reading any others on Zen, that are Zen-related, or that apply Zen-like approaches.

(4.75 Stars)

I'm new to the Everything series books - and I'm enjoying them very much. They are pretty similar to the Dummies and Idiots books, but without that initial giggling of having the words ...for Dummies - and Idiot in the titles.

This is a great introduction to what Zen is and it has some of the best, useful and practical tips and advice on to how to practice that I've ever read.

The big focus in this book is the practice of Zen. That's not to say that all the book talks about is meditation. The Everything Zen Book pretty much covers as close to everything Zen as one book can.

I was most impressed with how The Everything Zen Book wonderfully emphasizes throughout that Zen is the Practice. No smoke and mirrors of what Zen is - just the real - as Jacky Sach's and Jessica Faust simply put:

Zen starts with seated meditation, then you take what you learn on the cushion and apply it to the rest of your life...

The negative - someone chose to have a horribly difficult to read font for the quotes that are peppered throughout the book - it ruined the initial experience of each of these fantastic quotes making them almost impossible to read. Not a deal breaker - I still highly recommend the book to those interested in Zen and those that want to further learn about hitting the cushion and start meditating...

This is a wonderful book! It has a very good sense of humor. It is slightly sad and romantic. I would recommend this book to anybody!

Dear Friend,
It's a great little book probably the only humorous book in existence that deals with childrens long term stay in a hospital.
While I'm greatly pleased to find the book listed. You have used the wrong author name. It should be Elizabeth-Ann Sachs.

EA Sachs

I must have read this book twenty times when I was little. It's a lovely story of two little girls who are in the hospital with scoliosis and are put in the same room. One is a tomboy, and the other has created an elaborate fantasy world for herself, complete with castles and magic. Of course the tomboy learns to see magic in the real world, and the dreamer learns to live a little more in the here and now; but this fairly standard story is made memorable by the vivid characterization and description. I wish it weren't out of print!

This it is the book that invited me to study Macroeconomics. It is a text that without losing the scientific rigor, appears simple and useful, simultaneously as deep and integral, without use of heavy mathematics, which normally invites students of the first courses to abandom the subject. I recommend it widely

Este es el libro que me invitó a estudiar la Macroeconomía. Es un texto que sin perder el rigor cientifico, se presenta sencillo y útil, a la vez que profundo e integral, sin el uso de elevadas matemáticas, que por lo regular invitan a abandonar el estudio a los alumnos de los primeros cursos. Lo recomiendo ampliamente

It's not a a book for some one who wants to become an expert in macroeconomics, but if you are a begginer, or if you want to have a macroeconomic book fpr further review, this is an excellent book.

Is a very interesting book, specially for people who are studing in Latin America, like me.

This book provides a well-rounded introduction to failure analysis.The book does this by introducing a failure mechanism, explaining what you look for, and how the failure may be prevented from happening.
What makes book unique is that the author does not make assumptions as to what you know.

I work with practical cases of Failure Analysis and training and I brought this book to help me in this field. I think this book is an excellent reference of information and I recommend strongly for who need guide lines and detailed information about Failure Analysis for specific industrial equipment like bears, belt drives, and another part machines.

The author usually worked as third-person contracted to investigate Failure Analysis in several industrial plants, them his vision (outdoor plant) in this book have to be considered. Day-by-day problems (maintenance problems, for example) are not necessary cover by this book as are cover uncommon problems.

Good brought choose as well.

"Practical Plant Failure Analysis: A Guide To Understanding Machinery Deterioration And Improving Equipment Reliability" provides students of mechanical engineering with an interdisciplinary approach to the concept that component failures result from a combination of factors that involve materials science, mechanics, thermodynamics, corrosion, and tribology. Author Neville W. Sachs draws upon his more than thirty years of experience and expertise to provide the reader with a practical, informative, guide to improving machinery maintenance and reliability. "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" presents practical guidance on failure mechanism, including what leads to these failures and how to avoid them, as well as featuring 'user friendly' charts to logically diagnose a failure and take the appropriate correction action. "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" offers a clear and detailed explanation of the differences between through- and case-hardened gear teeth, while its informed and informative text is enhanced with more than 300 photographs and illustrations to develop competence and confidence in visually diagnosing machinery failures. An essential reference and comprehensive instructional guide to diagnosing and dealing with machinery failure, "Practical Plant Failure Analysis" is a core addition to academic, trade school, and professional reference library collections.

I've been studying relativity for 7 years now, and specifically this work for 5. Definately will revolutionize the way physics is done in the 21st century.

anyone out there doing active research please contact me: chorn@home.com

I've been studying relativity for 7 years now, and specifically this work for 5. Definately will revolutionize the way physics is done in the 21st century.

anyone out there doing active research please contact me: chorn@home.com

Starting with a detailed comparison of the original intentions of Bohr and Einstein in their development of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, Sachs shows that the goals of General Relativity are more insightful and subsume those of Quantum Mechanics. Where General Relativity is the forest, Quantum Mechanics is the trees.

By introducing the spinor variables of General Relativity that Sachs derived in his earlier work of General Relativity and Matter, he shows that the low energy form of his General Relativistic equations in the quaternionic basis are very simply Dirac's equations with interaction. To be clear, Quantum Mechanics is nothing more than a very useful, low energy approximation for a complete but more complex treatment under General Relativity in a quaternionic basis.

Then to ring up numerous "firsts" in Physics, it can be shown that there is force symmetry in matter and antimatter and that electrical charge is quantized. Not to be outdone, the next chapter finishes with an amazing derivation of Pauli's Exclusion Principle from first principles.

The broader view of this new Physics will lead the reader into a new order in Physics that breaks with current teaching. The annihilation of particle and antiparticle is shown instead to be a strong coupling of these fermions in a stable dipole unit. The Compton Effect, Blackbody radiation and the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron find new and refreshingly simple explanations. The world is ruled only by fermions. The "delayed action at a distance"of Feynman and Wheeler is restored to currency. The "advanced" solutions take their place beside the "retarded" solutions in a single, complete space-time.

The complete derivation of the full General Relativistic equations is detailed. This is followed by proof that the symmetric tensor part is nothing less than Einstein's original theory of General Relativity and, that the antisymmetric tensor part is Maxwell's equations.

Sach's following sections on elementary particle physics in this new paradigm should send earth tremors through CERN and FERMILAB. Lifetimes and masses of a number of "elementary particles" are discussed in great detail with fascinating new perspective. The muon is demonstrated to be a doublet excited state of the electron with a prediction of its mass and lifetime in accord with experiment.