Stewart Books

"Truth is the daughter of time", a saying used by Alice Stewart, cannot come soon enough in this era.
Gayle Greene should be held in the highest esteem for the eloquent presentation of Alice Stewart's quest for truth. Her writing is crisp and unencumbered, and it hold the reader's interest into the life of this feisty, humorous, brilliant woman. Dr. Stewart, just by being of the female gender, found it hard to be taken seriously, and it was not until late in her life that she was honored for a life of accomplishment and dedication. A simple woman born to parents who were both doctors; doctors who put their patients ahead of money and power.
It was a tenet to be carried on by their daughter, Alice Stewart, who never gave up trying to educate the public about radiation proliferation. Thanks to her, thousands of babies were saved from the horrors of exposure to radiation when the medical profession listened to what she had to say about xraying during the first trimester.
Later Alice was funded to examine the effects of radiation on works who handled nuclear materials and weaponry. When her message was not what the AEC and others wanted to hear or receive, they tried to confiscate her work and cut her funding. Indeed, the funding was cut off, but she managed to secure her work and continue its research. Gayle Greene's writing abilities are able to give you the sense of Dr. Stewart's anguish and frustration.
The Woman Who Knew Too Much is a classic example of the control of information which the public direly needs, but which is buried and censored. This book, though written several years ago, is as pertinent as if it were published yesterday, and it should be read by all who are interested in the welfare of humanity. The inclusion in a science or social studies curriculum of the developing minds of students would be a well-deserved legacy for this wonderful woman who died in 2002 at the age of 96.

As Research Director of the Hanford Veterans Cancer Mortality Study I have worked closely with Dr. Alice Stewart. I have learned from her, laughed with her and admired her as the most extraordinary human being I have ever known. But, I never knew her well enough. You must read this book! It will give you a new understanding of the meaning of courage and integrity. More importantly - have your children, especially your daughters, read this book. Thank goodness Gayle Greene has written this eminently readable biography of Alice. It allows us to understand where her drive comes from and how Dr. Stewart can suffer the slings and arrows of the federal scientific pygmies who attack her work. The heart of the story, and a key to Dr. Stewart's personality, can be found in the juxtaposition of the the ending words of Chapter 13 where Professor Greene says "Alice is called in by...radiation victims, her investigations turn up cancer in excess ... the studies are handed over to official bodies...the official studies invoke the A-bomb data to discredit her finds....Time passes." `It's a long, slow business,' she (Dr. Stewart) says." Compare this with one of Dr. Stewart's favorite quotations, "truth is the daughter of time." She has waited, we will wait; but Dr. Helen Caldicott is right "her work may (I say `will') receive the recognition and thanks of the future." When one finishes reading this marvelous book one cannot help but think of George Sand saying "humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation; which is one of the most passionate forms of love." Thank the Good Lord for this stunning creature called Alice Stewart. And thank Gayle Greene for helping us to know her just a bit better.

Courage and Integrity in Science: A Precious Rarety

The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation by Gayle Greene. Dr. Stewart is a British physician and epidemiologist (born in 1906 into a large family of physicians) who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. In the 1950s, while surveying childhood mortalities in the British Isles, she finds that then quite common X-ray examinations during pregnancy doubled the risk for childhood cancer. Fueled by the wrath of radiologists, her work has been viciously derided among the medical establishment for more than two decades. In the 1970s, she finds that some workers at nuclear weapons production sites, such as Hanford, WA or Oakridge, TN are dying of radiation induced cancers, showing that presumed "safe" levels of occupational exposures put these workers at a twenty times higher risk than officially admitted. With that finding she places herself on the "enemy list" of an immensely powerful nuclear weapons establishment, including its scientific elite, and at the center of an international controversy over radiation risks. Stewart's fascinating story, a collaborative memoir told by herself and Greene with verve and humor, is one of a woman scientist's ingenuity, independence, perseverance, compassion, and integrity, a fascinating tale in the checkered history of a mostly male-dominated science. Rudi H. Nussbaum, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Science.

The book spans the lifetimes of Dr. Stewart and her parents. It offers a fascinating description of medicine in Britain in the late 19th century, the entry of women into the medical field, and the institutional resistance in the second half of the 20th century to the fact that low levels of radiation are dangerous. Given the recent announcements by the US Government concerning health risks in the nuclear arms industry, this is a timely and fascinating book. Well written and researched.

couldn't figure out another place to put this request to find a book by stine I used to have and love called, "smile in a mad dog's eye". anyone seen it?

couldn't figure out another place to put this request to find a book by stine I used to have and love called, "smile in a mad dog's eye". anyone seen it?

This collection of Richard Stine's artwork and thoughts is brimming with enthusiasm. This fervency breeds inspiration as the artwork demonstrates, as well as evokes, the same intense emotions which penetrate the reader through the text.

Few people who have encountered a dozen of so drawings and captions by Richard Stine are likely to have forgotten them, but if their acquaintance with his work has gone no further, as mine had not before serendipitously coming upon this volume, I doubt whether they will have divined the zealous urgency that informs it. For Stine is a philosopher as much as an artist -- a sort of folk philosopher who prides himself on his naiveté. He is a true romantic, whose work comes straight from the heart. The heart, indeed, figures in many of his works and is his ultimate touchstone of value -- in fact, Stone believes that the heart in each of us possesses a deep connection with the entire universe: "...our universe is one. Deep down everyone knows everything lives and breathes in the same being. The mind will protest, but never the heart. The heart always says, 'Together, we are all together.' The mind stands back and looks and thinks and says, 'This is good, that is not good.' Maybe there is a time and place for that, but the heart at its core stays even. Bad, good, different, up, down -- all exist in the mind, not the heart. And if the mind sits on the heart then it will have a nice* perspective. If not, it just chases its own tail until it's kissed by an angel, the kiss of peace, and then it will never be the same." If you find in these words some luminous glimmering of precious real truth, you'll treasure this incomparable volume.

*Note: as behooves a philosopher, Stine chooses his words most carefully, and I think he means here not the casual term of general approval but rather the sense of *nice* as "able to make fine or delicate distinctions; delicately skillful; finely discriminating." (*Webster's New World Dictionary*, 4th ed.)

Your Way Home, by Bruce and Lou Stewart, is a thoughtful, readable, practical guide to living the life you imagine for yourself. Clear explanations walk you through the principles of NLP and Feng Shui. Insightful examples, and relevant exercises, help the reader apply thses principles to achieve health, prosperity, and harmony.

I am always looking for answers to the typical questions of life. Why are we here, What's wrong with other people, and how can I get my life together? I have studied Psychology, Anthropology, and Astrology. I have looked into religion, physics and metaphysics. I followed Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Phil Donahue, Oprah, Dr. Weil, and Dr. Phil. I have read and tried NLP and Feng Shui. I can say with authority that this book is a remarkable reference.

You can do the exercises. You can apply the principles. You can change your life. Complete with index and glossary, this is a book you will return to again and again as you move through your life. Get yourself a copy and give a copy to a friend.
Reviewed by Nancy Illing, author of Sparks Ignite Imagination, a book about creativity.

Reviewed by Christina Gonzalez, LMHC, for Reader Views (1/06)

"In Finding Your Way Home: The Psychology of Place Inside and Out," the authors have created a very unique blend of psychological principles to help the reader find his or her Core self through Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) techniques, and, with Feng Shui techniques create an external environment that reflects that Core and truly create a sense of "being home" both inside and outside. This is highlighted with interested mind-body-soul techniques including reflective exercises, partner exercises, techniques from Aikido martial arts, and much more.

In reading this book, as a psychotherapist myself, at first I was taken a back by some of the foreword from Grandmaster Lin Yun and his poetry and thought "what am I getting into?" as this was obviously something far removed from my own training and experience. Each page that I read, however, led me almost voraciously to the next and then the next and the book flowed smoothly and easily. I found myself not only reading the book to review it and to see potential applications for others but also found myself stopping along the way to do most of the exercises presented in this book, underlining many passages and actually taking some notes in my own journal. Not to mention the fact that I also completely rearranged my bedroom and de-cluttered one corner of the room. I felt I could not continue reading without doing something physical in my own environment.

If concepts like NLP, Aikido and Feng Shui are foreign to you, this book does a great job of introducing how borrowing from various traditions can help to create a sense of "home" both within and without and help people release themselves from the physical and the emotional clutter that often times keeps us "stuck". This book might open a new world to some and might spark a desire for further reading about these topics. Even for those well versed in these fields, the exercises, thoughts, and quotes presented present a very innovative and integrating approach that is sure to offer some useful techniques for anyone who is open to receiving them. The book is sprinkled liberally with interesting anecdotes, thought-provoking quotes from many traditions, and a bit of the authors' own sense of humor that makes it a delightful and an interesting read.

The exercises at the end of the book in particular convey some very powerful techniques that can go a long way towards helping people become "unstuck" and are probably best done with a supportive partner. In fact, this whole book would be a great "buddy read" for two like-minded individuals to serve as support during the exercises and to discuss the exercises. While all exercises can be done easily in a journal or a notebook, the authors also have a workbook which I didn't review but would probably be a very beneficial with this process.

This book is highly recommended for anyone who is feeling "stuck" in some area of their lives and is committed to following through on the exercises, particularly if they have a supportive family member, therapist, friend, or other "buddy" to help support them through the exercises. Reading the book alone will not only change lives or environments, but the topics presented along with the exercises can substantially improve the resources, tools and even major areas of lives for the open-minded reader.

The Stewarts, authors of Your Way Home, are your guides to inner peace. They teach you how to create an "inner" sanctuary and home, whereever that may be.

What I loved about this book is that it answered my questions, and I am sure the questions of many others, about how and why to integrate Feng Shui, NLP and other methods to create peaceful existence. Lou and Bruce Stewart tell you how and why as well as provide knowledge, based on their years of experience and practice, that helps improve the manner in which you live. They artfully blend together ancient practice (Feng Shui), which I now better understand, with contemporary advances. They use principles, exercises and personal stories to valaidate our home or place can be free of negativity.

This is a unique book; it simplifies the complex and show you ways to adapt your environment so that you can continually experience inner healing and peace for your mind, body, and spirit. Buy this book and grow.

The authors combine the ancient art of Feng Shui with today's Neuro-Linquistic programming to provide a solid foundation to create this blend of Eastern philosophy and science for becoming your true self.

Maintaining a journal during your reading and study of this book will enhance the value of your experience on this exciting discovery of finding your way "home". After integrating only a few of these principles I have already experienced a newly awakened sense of confidence and creativity.

The book includes an excellent glossary, end notes, an index of exercises and an extensive general index. These helpful tools make this a valuable book for future study and reference.

The Stewart's have thoughtfully packed the book with comprehensive background information, charts, exercises, and inspiratioal stories. I found it to be captivating reading.

The behavior patterns modeled throughout this book are applicable for the beginner, the intermediate, and the advanced student of Feng Shui.

Very well done. A pleasure to read. Very interesting with many facts.
Great Book

I just got this book from Amazon thanks to Amazon's speedy delivery which I much appreciate. The book is small but heavy. It is full of great photographs of all breeds. It even has the famous 9/11 Golden Retriever dog being scaffolded from one area of the wreckage to another. I can tell already that this is going to be one of my favorite dog books!

This is a delightful, entertaining, and hugely informative book - a perfect gift for dog lovers, including one's self! Every turn of the page brings a bright surprise - lots of smiles, out-loud laughs, and a few tears. Ms. Tiegreen is a truly brilliant designer, and Ms. Miele's research is a tour de force. This book is a tribute to them, and to the animals we love so well.

It's a nice, glossy book, and it's so darn funny. It also contains some great tidbits about the history of the Red Sox. And the "10 reasons to hate the Yankees" section is phenomenal.

Great book, a must have for Red Sox fans. Who needs 10 reasons to hate the Yankees, though.

This book has it all: 101 reasons to love our fabulous Red Sox AND 10 reasons to hate the Yankees! The fact that his brother wrote a book about loving the Yankees makes it even more interesting. My favorite reason? #101. A Reason to Believe.

This book is very diffeent if you like to think out of the box. It could be explaining a lot of things going on in our histry right now, or it could be a bunch of propaganda. The guy seems to know what he is talking about. There are 13 cases of mind control experimentation in the book and I feel sorry for a lot of these people. At the end there are some healing tactics and some other interesting things from his wife. The book is different and I guess thats what I like it. Stewart knows his stuff or he has one hell of an imagination.

I just finished this book and it's a fascinating read. I've read all of Stewart's books and they are all informative, but this one was completely amazing. If you don't know of Stewart Swerdlow's story and the work that he does, please start reading his books. America and the world need to wake up to the NWO plans....this is the only way we will survive.

I've read this book thirteen times already and I'm purely fascinated to read the thirteen different case scenarios written by the very person who is the subject of the case in their own words in a forward and honest manner. Stewart Swerdlow follows each with an analysis of the events and experiences of the person and explains the specific programming pertinent to the specific mind-controlled and programmed person. The 2nd-5th parts of the book further explains programming. I recommend this book for anyone who is looking for answers in understanding their strange experiences or that of someone they love.

My nine year old daughter wrote a review of this book which we bought from you. What happened to it? Schuling@AOL.com

I've read several of Whitney Stewart's bios, and come to realize she is a highly conscientious biographer who bases her bios on iterviews with her subjects. Few biographers for children bother with interviews; most glean highlights about theis subjects' lives from secondary materials.

In contrst, Stewart interviews her subjects. She interviewed the dalai lama for this book and it shows in the quality and quantity of details she presents. For example, she mentions a heartbreaking childhood memory of the dalai lama's: When he was a child, a poor couple passed their house with a dead child. The Dalai Lama's mother offered to help them bury the child, but they were so desperately hungry that--well, you can guess what they were intending, in their desperation. Instead, the dalai lama's family fed and helped them.
That's the kind of detail a biographer doesn't come up with easily--not unless they have their subject before them, telling them their first hand story.
I am an adult reader, and feel the book, like all her bios, are appropriate for both kids and adults. Bravo!

A great biography about the Dali Lhama and Tibet. It is easy to read and very instresting. A good amount of vocabulary for 7-10 year olds. Whitney Stewart makes it much easier to understand about the Dali Lhama and what is happening in Tibet. END

This is one of the most important books I have ever read. And I have read a ton. I know everyone is at their own place on their path of learning, and the materials we find along the way sometimes speak to us, and sometimes not. But, where I am on my own path, this book ties so much together and is opening me up to so much more that I am just in bliss. I did read 'The Betty Book', the first in this group of three, for the base of their story, and would recommend others do the same. But THIS book....is amazing. I hope others find as many clues to growth and expansion in it as I am.

This is perhaps the greatest spiritual tome I've read.

This book truly captures Betty White's essence -- her work in this realm was decades ahead of its time. Written in a tone unlike many of today's egotistical and self-aggrandizing spiritual mediums, these divine messages will remind your soul of its sacred path. In the end, the profound light of love that Stewart Edward and Betty shared will bathe you. In a time when so many souls in today's world long for this reawakening, count yourself blessed and share her gift with others once it comes to you.

I like it because it gives you a message about just because you're different from everyone else, doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same about what you think. It is very funny because in the pictures you can see the eyes the nose and the mouth. It's very interesting to try to sculpt it out. I like how he also goes to a doctor and the doctor says that he is a nose so he can do whatever he wants to because he is supposed to fit in and stick out. Lucy Godinez

As an academic tutor, I heartily recommend this endearing selection to all people of all age groups.

For both young and old, the conscious (or subconscious) search to "fit in" ends when the reader accepts the comfort offered in The Adventures of a Nose.

Each of my students (and many of their family members) delight not only in the reassurance of their place in the world, but also in the incredible colored illustrations.

This treasure belongs in every household, no matter what. Ms. Viviane Schwarz (author) and Joel Stewart (illustrator) deserve much appreciation for this heart-warming book.

This clever and engaging childrenýs book balances nuance, detail, and wit into a series of clever portraits depicting the quest of a nose (one equipped with legs wearing trousers and a great sense of self-irony, no less) trying to find its place in the world. Consequently, the nose savors all sorts of experiences from a trip to the library, an excursion to the market, a turn on the stage, a stop by a restaurant, and so on till, tired of not fitting in, the nose lands on the couch of a therapist who gently suggests that the nose is never out of place for the ýwhole world fits perfectly around you. . . .ý

Each setting depicts the nose against a different backdrop, and the nose is the only constant amidst the changing scenery where, and this is the really fun part, different objects form a pair of eyes and a mouth. Hence, the nose is never really out of place even though it never quite figures this out.

The writing strikes the right cord, and Ms. Schwarz delivers uncluttered prose that conveys the yearning to fit it and how a nose might go about assessing the world (in a restaurant, the nose suggest that "this is a place for mouths"). Mr. Stewart conjures up superb and somewhat surreal illustrations layered with details that go beyond those needed to frame the nose with the ýaccidentalý features that complete the face. Those extras provide the texture that underlies the quest: discarded rail tickets, glimpses of menus, book pages. Each page is like a tapestry of sorts with lots of images held in place by, what else, the nose.

I would not recommend this book for youngsters who cannot yet read on their own, even though the book is so much fun you will want to read it with them. Rather, wait until your children are about seven so that they will be able to appreciate the rich detail, contextual puns, and ironic humor blended in this initial collaboration between a talented husband-wife team.

This is a great book for anyone interested in or appreciative of modern design and aesthetics. The book itself is beautiful, and all the color reproductions inside are sleek, clean, and inspiring. The author has the works divided by interesting categories such as "Streamlined," "Geometries," and "Penthouse," groupings that really help illuminate different design tendencies during this period. A beautiful publication!

I saw the exhibition at The Met and this book captures the objects perfectly! It also serves as a great reference to the greatest period in American industrial design: 1925 to 1940.

This is a beautifully designed and printed book based on the exhibition `American Modern' at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The 172 illustrations (142 are large color photos mostly one to a page) focus on objects rather than the wider visual aspects of streamline design such as architecture, transport, engineering. I like the idea of everyday items being used, here you can study, for instance, Lurelle Guild's 1937 Electrolux vacuum cleaner, Norman Bel Geddes' 1940 Patriot radio, Russel Wright's 1937 American Modern dinnerware or the stunning candleholders Wilbert Orme designed in 1938, there are four shown in four separate arrangements and I would really like to have a set!

Author Stewart Johnson explains, in an essay at the start of the book, how a small group of American designers, several of them emigres from Europe, abandoned the ornamentation of Art Deco in favor of simple clean lines, using new materials and manufacturing techniques. Furniture designer Paul Frankl was one of this group and he became an active promoter of the new style. He tied it all down to six characteristics
1 Simplicity.
2 Plain surfaces.
3 Unbroken lines.
4 Accentuation of structural necessity.
5 Dramatisation of the intrinsic beauty of materials.
6 Elimination of meaningless and distracting motives of the past.
Johnson adds one other point that Frankl would not have mentioned at the time: Streamlining. This was the idea that made the style American.

The back of the book has several pages of designer biographies, a useful glossary (Aluminum to Vitrolite and I now know what Monel Metal is) bibliography and index. Joe Coscia Jr, of the Metropolitan's photo studio, should be congratulated on his wonderful photography of the exhibits, they leap right off the page.

As this book only covers objects you might want to read about other areas of Streamline design, have a look at `The Machine Age in America' by Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian. I think this can be considered the standard work on the subject. Another book that I like is Martin Greif's `Depression Modern: Thirties Style in America', it has some excellent architectural (especially interior) photos that I have not seen in other books. Want to know more? Scan over my Listmania: 'Streamline' books selection.

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