Western Books

Well written book, nice to see Rich and Sue are doing well, I used to work with them at Eastman Kodak.

"200 Waterfalls in Central & Western NY" is an especially well organized and presented recreational guide to a dazzling, beautiful, sometimes unexpected but always memorable assortment of natural waterfalls in NY. Maps, directions, time and effort required to reach them, as well as distinctive features of each waterfall are listed in this handy, convenient and highly practical vacationer's guide. If you are an outdoor enthusiast and planning to travel through the central and western regions of New York State, then begin planning your excursion's daily itinerary by browsing through the pages of Rich & Sue Freeman's "200 Waterfalls in Central & Western NY."
The Midwest Book Review - Buhle's Bookshelf

200 Waterfalls In Central & Western New York is an especially well organized and presented recreational guide to a dazzling, beautiful, sometimes unexpected but always memorable assortment of natural waterfalls in the New York area. Maps, directions, time and effort required to reach them, as well as the distinctive features of each waterfall are listed in this handy, convenient and highly practical vacationer's guide. If you are an outdoor enthusiast and planning to travel through the central and western regions of New York State, then begin planning your excursion's daily itinerary by browsing through the pages of Rich and Sue Freeman's 200 Waterfalls In Central & Western New York.

Rich and Sue Freeman have come out with another must-have Finger Lakes guide book. This one, called "200 Waterfalls in Central & Western NY," is a well-done guidebook of accessible waterfalls complete with driving directions, access trails and photographs. Their descriptions include information and some historical notes. Whether a year round resident with out of town visitors or a summer resident, you will find this book a fine reference for area waterfalls. Mark this book as a good gift too.
Leona Jensen, The Observer

Well worth the money you'll pay for this book

Well worth the money you'll pay for this book

This publication has been my "Hikers Bible" for many years now. As some of you already know, there is not much information out there on this subject. Craig Martin has created a concise, easy to read list of places to the footpaths of New Mexico. Complete with maps and photos. A book I keep in my car!

This book, as the title states, lists 75 hikes that are in New Mexico. I found this book to be very useful in planning our family camping trips.

I particularly liked the fact that at the start of each hike was some information that can help me rule out or count in a hike with very little reading. For example, it will provide: distance, elevation, elevation gain, interesting points of the hike, maps that I might want to have, the difficulty, the best season to hike this trail. THe maps also are very useful.

My only comment would be that the pictures are black and white and many of them can be left out with very little loss since they don't add much to the text. (in otherwords, they are flowers, chipmunks etc.)

An excellent resource for someone who might be interested in hiking New Mexico.

What a great read. Read it in one sitting. Can't wait for the next book. Great characters and a great story. You will really love this book.

It is refreshing to read a well crafted western by an author that is obviously very familiar with the subject. Mr. Flanagan tells a gripping tale in true western form that keeps the reader entertained. I am happy to recommend this book to anyone who enjoys this genre.

A great story.
Looking forward to the next installment.

A really good read! I couldn't put it down. The characters pull you right into the story.

Any attempt to disentangle the many threads of Adorno's rather confusing opus hinge on the fact that he never exhibited any sense of actuality. He was but mere unlived potential, a wasted and fragmented soul. Academics will read and enjoy. The rest of us will be stuck with Star Trek.

It is probably harsh to say of Pensky, "The parallels are with Star Trek", since surely they lie elsewhere, near the Bay of Fundy. When the villagers arrived to tell us that the basilica's southern tip had submerged we finally got it, Adorno had an acutality, but one very different than what we previously had assumed.

This is the best book I know that treats Adorno's relationship to postmodernism (esp aesthetics). Certainly written for experts, it presupposes strong familiarity with Adorno and some of the posty folk (esp Derrida).

(Non-)structurally speaking, Pensky's commentary on Adorno is an attempt to isolate the isomorphic tensions present in later works by Adorno. The parallel here, as is the case with much of Pensky's work, is to the later episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But isn't that the point?

If you can only have one cookbook of African food in your collection, this is the one I recommend. I have had it for many years, after finding it in a library. I can't even count how many times I made the Jollof Rice recipe in this book - I've made it following the recipe explicitly, I've had chicken as the only meat, shrimp as the only meat, no meat - and it's been perfect. The recipes from Eastern Africa I know are authentic as I shared the book with a native Tanzanian while I studied Swahili, and she said that the recipes are very similar to hers. Same with a native Nigerian; in fact, she borrowed my book to make Egusi soup (Egusi is a gourd/melon whose seeds are used ground up as a thickener, which adds it's own flavor)when she misplaced her own recipe. I have made a lot of the recipes, but after the Jollof Rice, the Kuku na Nazi (koo-koo nah Nah-zee - which means Chicken in Coconut in Swahili) is my favorite recipe. I also make the Garum Masala recipe in the book. If you need a recipe for curry, there are several in the book including curry for fruit and curry for fish, and Berberé which is an Ethiopian Curry in liquid form.

The Africa News Cookbook is great. My child's school recently had a festival celebrating cultures around the world. My friend loaned me the cookbook and I shared the recipes with the other parents in the school. The recipes were fairly easy to make and the descriptions were easy to follow. We had a great time sampling food with an African influence and learned a lot in the process.
I am ordering my own copy!

If only for one recipe, Doro Wat (my spelling may be off, I loaned out my copy and have never seen it again!) Chicken Stew, it is AMAZING!!!! Don't be put off by the ingredients (lots of cayenne pepper!) And making the aromatic Berbere, and Ghee yourself is a bit time consuming, but worth the experience and effort. (You can use your old coffee grinder) I made Doro Wat chicken for a party, after having some at a food festival and prying the recipe source from the chef, and it was the most well received dish I EVER served,(to a room of critics!) and I'm a great cook! Plus there are loads of other authentic African recipes,(from various countries) a cusine that gets over-looked too often!

I've had this book for years and can truly testify that it's one of the best cook books in my collection which includes classics like the Joy of Cooking by the Rombauer mother and daughter, and Cookwise by Shirley Corriher.
"The AFrica News Cookbook" has delicious recipes, including curry chicken, fish stew, that come from all over the continent. The book illustrates the various cultural mixes that distinguish each region and country.
Plus, the recipes are easy to make.
More ingredients are available since the book was published in 1986. I can buy palm oil at my local grocery store and I live in Cleveland.
This book is worth the money, whether you're a novice (like I was when I bought it) or experienced with African cooking.

I highly recommend Age of the Soul to anyone interested in self-understanding and spiritual growth. The material is well written and easy to read. Knowledge contained therein is insightful and, in many cases, unique. Age of the Soul is a definite contribution to the emerging new Earth.

I do really commend Jason for this book and in allowing Rohan a clear channel. This work really is at a lack of words to describe in that the knowledge and truth from the book are limitless.

I urge others to buy this book because it really does stand for truth on its own. Again, I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Reading Age of the Soul was beyond the written words. Jason enabled Rohan to come through him so as to directly communicate to me beyond the physical. The truth and impact of Rohan's words touched my Soul. I felt Rohan with me in the healing meditation and the Chakra Clearing meditation which made it possible for me to communicate with my spirit guides. Rohan has a direct approach which is provocative and really makes you think about the way things are and the way the world is evolving. I especially liked his perspective on healing. This book will move you forward. Make sure you read it.

This book can take you to a whole new level of spiritual evolution. Rohan is direct and to the point! If you really want to find and live your soul's purpose, this book is for you. This book helped me to look inside myself and to be honest with my life, to really get real with who I am. My intuition has opened up, and I finally feel like I belong in this world.
The chapter on being grounded is particularly insightful. It helped me to be totally present and conscious in my everyday life.

I'm only 29, but I bought the book because I have the desire to expand my knowledge on nutrition and who better knows about the subject of nutrition than the expert - Judy Lindberg McFarland. The book is truly an excellent resource on achieving optimum health and its pack with detailed information on vitamins, minerals, herbs, antioxidants, building immunity, brain nutrients, protecting the heart, lowering blood pressure, thyroid, arthritis, men's and women's hormonal needs, menopause and preventing a variety of illnesses. Judy McFarland refers to a lot of scientific and medical studies throughout the book. At the end, the author provides you with the famous "Complete Lindberg Nutrition Program", which emphasizes on eating healthy by choosing organic, fresh and less processed foods, avoiding refined carbs, protein, taking vitamins, exercising, etc. For price of the book, you can't beat the valuable information you will gain. This is worth reading. Highly recommended!

after only a few pages, i already new that this book is a holly- book on this subject.it covers all the aspects and diseases of getting old, and scientific works from the top science- researchers around the world, together with the world's greatest natural healers are exploring in a wonderful and easy to understand way of expression.linus-pauling, michael weiner, julian-whitacker,adelle-davis, and much much more briliant healers are quatated in this book with recieps, suplements, and specific strategy. case histories are also presented in this book, and this book is for everybody who wish to:aging without growing old!stop reading recomandations,-buy this book today.

From reading the book, it is apparent that this author doesn't just have book knowledge, but has been helping people with nutrition for a long time. It is not a deep, scientific book, but I would say more of a common sense and laymans explanation of what nutritional products work and which don't. Even though its easy to understand, most of the things that I was interested in such as prostate health, did have the references to the studies that documented which herbs help, which I like instead of just anecdotal information. I passed along the book to a friend who recently had an angiogram, since there is a good chapter on heart disease and how to minimize it once you have it.

A friend at work recommended this book to me after her sister helped cure her 5-year old son of candida (when Western doctors couldn't). They were never believers in alternative health care, but seeing was believing for them. I just finished reading the book myself, and made a list of all the vitamins/minerals I would need for what ails me. I went to the health food store, where the clerk was genuinely surprised that I had all the correct items listed, along with the correct dosages. This book also gave me suggestions for other books to read, which I have just ordered. The only criticism I have is the title: it seems to have been chosen to "sell" the book. If this book had not been recommended to me, I would never have bought it based on its title. The book has so much more information about working with your body and nature to achieve good health.

What a great read!! Fabulous introduction to Alain Badiou. Clear and Concise. Well Done!!

I came to this book via Kaplan's "The Nothing that is", and was advised to read B's book on numbers - until I found it was in French! The difference here is that there is no history of zero, which B calls the void, apparently because the development of the set theory which has the void as main key term is a name which doesn't present anything. It's a discourse without, from what I could see anyway, any social or historical implication. "Nothing" is what orders multiplication but its discovery doesn't do much for civilization, esp. given all the space and attention the authro gives to Badiou's belief in dodgy Marxism. Not sure I got the idea behind the political application of set theory, since if the truth procedures are absolute and a-social how does maths relate to politics? I looked at Think Again the other Badiou tome in a bookshop and thought it better to read this one more time. Somewhere between bananas and brilliant

Unlike previous reviewer I came to Badiou with no prior knowledge or expectations apart from his claim to be a 'platonist of the multiple'. This perplexed me because if there is no transcendence of the One then the truth Badiou talks about would, philosophically, make little sense. It seems that his way round this lies with a key distinction between the procedures OF truth which include politics and truth itself. So Badiou is making a category distinction between "generic" procedures and philosophy which governs their truths, and without which these truths wouldn't be able to function. So without truth politics is just a violent set of power relations which cannot be proved true. Well, this is one way of extending the French Revolution into the 20th century! (Brings to mind the alleged remark of Lin Piao when asked what he thought of the French Revolution: "It's too early to say")
Also the psychoanalysis dimension is something I hadn't picked up before and that the author makes clear for the novice. One passage that stands out is where we read that for Lacan "language", although a social contract, "threatens the integrity of clinical practice by undermining the presentation (as the scientific proof by replication) of APPROVED psychoanalytic procedures." So in other words Lacan has started a religious sect?! Ok, so "scientific proof" takes precedence, but this passage opened up a whole new way of looking at the relationship between sceince and the question of religion for me.
Whether Badiou has started up a religious sect, or that's what he aims to do, is something I'm still not sure about. But one thing is for sure that after reading this book I'll never look at Lacan in the exact same way.
One other thing: save yourself the trouble of sending back this product as I did because "Alain Badiou: Strong Thought" doesn't exist. The book's real title is "Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction".

This is the best introduction to Badiou I've read, it's main advantage over shorter and much lengthier pieces by Gillespie and Hallward is the style and focus of Barker's argument. Barker manages to condense a huge amount of material in 189 pages, no mean feat, including an appendix and comprehensive index (a more detailed bibliography of Badiou works would have helped). One criticism would be that far too scant regard is paid to Badiou's mid-period work Theorie du sujet, especially since the parallels Barker does draw between this book and Being and the Event are disputable and under-theorised , although consistent in terms of the main thrust of the book.

Barker concentrates on two of the four so-called generic fidelity procedures that define Badiou's philosophy, science and politics. I would have preferred to read a bit more about art which is rarely given much treatment, and Badiou's own comments in this field I find rather obscure and sometimes baffling (having said this there was the appearance recently of the film essays in Infinite Thought). Barker explains the link between set theory and mathematician Cantor's ultimately doomed attempts to "solve" the continuum hypothesis and the quest for political emancipation and universal "democracy" superbly well, however he takes no account and makes little mention of the role of Sylvain Lazarus' work in leading Badiou towards a more sophisticated political stance. Whereas in Being and the Event the social multiplicities appear to rule out any role for workerist politics, in Abrege de metapolitique (1998) workers are given a more active and subjective role in deciding the course of political events.

I particularly enjoyed Barker's Mao references in the treatment of "forcing" although an equivalent mathematical formulation would have certainly helped me digest this difficult concept. But overall this book is set to become an invaluable reference guide as Badiou's major works begin to come into English. Full marks!

I bought this book several years ago because I'm a member of the Junior League of SLC, but it has some of the best recipes of any cookbook I own (>20). All of the recipes I've made from this cookbook recently have elicited "Wows" and "Yums" from my husband. We especially enjoyed the lamb chops and the pacific rim flank steak. The lemon thyme cookies are very unique and "grown-up" tasting. Old favorites include the spinach and apple salad and the cranberry glazed brie.

Always In Season: A Collection Of Recipes From The Junior League Of Salt Lake City, Utah showcases over 200 favorite seasonal recipes from Utah, as well as eight season oriented menus. Contributions from award-winning chefs are combined with scenes of gorgeous full-color Utah landscape photography to make Always In Season an excellent souvenir and cultural celebration as well as a just plain tasty cookbook. From Cache Valley Cheese Souffle; Picture Perfect Macaroons; and Great Salt Lake Caesar Salad; to Cafe Diablo Pumpkin Seed Crusted Trout; Deep Creek Ranch Fajitas; and Cranberry Eggnog Cheesecake, Always In Season will enable even the most novice kitchen cook to prepare gourmet quality dishes that enhance any truly special meal time occasion.

This recipe book is one of the best I have ever seen!

...she bought it for the Cowboy Caviar recipe alone (Cowboy Caviar is a recipe for a salsa type dish - no real caviar - just SOOOO GOOD)! Also, the Chili Blanco is TO DIE FOR! I love the way the recipes are grouped into seasons, but any of the recipes could be used any time of year. This book has everything from the recipes mentioned above to flavored butters, delicious margaritas and roasted chicken with rosemary. This is the best cookbook I have ever seen.

Literatura especial para ser leida por adolescentes,ya que el autor se expresa de una forma muy amena y con un buen sentido del humor.Sobre el tema creo que hace una buena descripcion de los conceptos que van encadenados a lograr una buena manera de vivir, con alegria y con inteligencia y sobretodo con LIBERTAD.
NO existe un codigo de etica, el cual debemos acatar, sino que la Etica, la hacemos nosotros mismos,con nuestras decisiones , con nuestras actitudes,con nuestros conocimientos y sobre todo con nuestra conciencia.

I have read hundreds of books. When people ask me which one is my favorite, I always say Amador by Fernando Savater. I do not have children, but when my nieces and nephews turn 14, I will surely give them each a copy. The most important tidbit of wisdom is clearly and compellingly explained in this concise book. Very few writers can make you a better person just by reading their book. If you can only read one more book in your life, this should be it.

En un mundo donde tienden a expanderse los espejismos que nos conducen a buscar nuestra realizacion personal o felicidad en falsos valores, es muy alentador redescubrir que la riqueza, el poder, el conocimiento o la fama, solo adquieren sentido y tienen plena justificacion si nos sirven para mejorar nuestras relaciones personales con quienes nos rodean. Es lastimoso pero frecuente ver que en demasiadas ocasiones nos arrastran a deteriorlas.

Se trata de la obra cumbre de un docto filosofo español que solo alcanzo mundial reconocimiento cuando decidio darle un regalo trascendente a su hijo adolescente, que le sirviera de guia para escoger los valores que dan real sentido a la vida, y con amor simplifico y concentro lo mejor de sus conocimientos e ideas en este breve texto de sabia y sencilla filosofia practica.

I'm on page 70 now, not quite halfway through this quick-reading little gem.

If a book doesn't grab me in the first three pages, I don't read it. I broke off reading Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon at page 680 to read this wonderful little book, which I bought and it is beautifully printed and bound. What a find! This man gently addresses his son as I would mine, but so much more clearly. He explains concepts like freedom and self-discipline, bringing in superbly appropriate quotations of the great thinkers, ancient and modern. This reminds me of the better philosophy courses I had in college. It was written so recently that he also refers to things we have in daily life such as computer games. This book is as accessible and lucid an introduction to ethics as I could hope to find. I am going to buy two more copies: one for each of my children.

Why on earth did they take it out of print so soon?