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Exceptional book with a wealth of information. If you are really serious about getting your life in balance this is the book to get. The information provided is extrememly powerful.

Good book, very helpful alot of intersting ideas and concepts. A really big eye opener.

Once I started reading Creation Health I couldn't put it down. The writing was engaging, educational and had so many practical tips and suggstions on how to live a more fulfilling life. The author uses her personal experiences to bring a reality to the material that fully connects on the emotional level. In today's fast paced life of non stop running this book has an effective way of questioning, DO WE UNDERSTAND THE REAL PRICE WE PAY FOR IT?

This book has so touched my spirit, that I have purchased it for three people I love very much. Their thank yous haven't stopped, but the benefits each have received are priceless.

If you care about living life to its fullest and have people who you wish to do the same, get this book...read it, and act on the tips.

I was drawn to this book because the concept of "creating health" is one I see far too rarely in our society today. As an executive coach, I have worked with numerous individuals from all walks of life who see their health as only a condition of their well-being rather than as a consequence of their actions. But this is where Dr. Reed steps out from behind the curtain to reveal the truth that many of us try to hide from ourselves... for better or worse, we create our health. As she states in The Creation Health Breakthrough, "C is for choice." We have a choice in the type of health we create for ourselves and if we so choose, we can follow Dr. Reed's simple and inspiring plan to create a healthful and positive future for ourselves. Unlike the more typical stern reproach you might get from your doctor about your lifestyle choices, Dr. Reed writes with humor and empathy, using stories to definitively make her case while keeping you engaged and inspired to follow the Creation Health plan. I not only intend to recommend this book to all of those I coach as a guide for finding balance and wellness in life... I intend to include The Creation Health Breakthrough as a central part of my own personal wellness library.

This book is a must read for anyone who wants to make changes so they can live a healthier, happier life. Creation Health Breakthrough (CHB) is easy to read and Dr. Monica Reed immediately pulls the reader in with her up front and very personal approach. CHB consists of eight specific life aspects that anyone can add to his/her daily routine. The approach is a step by step plan where you make your own choices. You will improve your health physically, mentally, and spiritually. Start living your best life by focusing on a health breathrough. This is a doable plan. It has changed my life.

I enjoyed reading this edition of this book. As a pathologist in practice, I occasionally buy new editions of books as a review. Much better than going to a meeting for CME. The material in this book is particularily "real world" and directly applicable to everyday practice. Highly recommended also to new pathologist or those in training.

I have bought this book at the begining of my pathology residency. Decision proved to be wise. It is concisely writen, language is plain and easy to understand. Photomicrographs are clear, subtitles are informative. But of course this book alone shall not make you master of the craft. The real value is shown, when using the book as the companion to daily practice. For novice path residents, combined with sound knowledge of general pathology it should make "pimping behind the scope" bearable.

An excellent and concise review of the common endometrial biopsy. Simply a must-have for pathology residents!

This is a concise and easy-to-understand overview of the topic. Unlike a lot of textbooks, this one can be read cover-to-cover without too much effort. Once you've read it, you're equipped to handle endometrial currettage specimens in your daily pathology practice. The only down-side is that many of the pictures are in black-and-white. But there are color photos as well. Overall, this is a wonderful book!

I ordered this book when I needed to master the diagnostic criteria for a wide ranger of endometrial pathology commonly seen in biopsies. I was amazed by how easy a read it is, as well as how informative and useful the book has been. A little pricey, but definitely worth purchasing.

This is my favorite, the attention to research and detail is without compare. The Maxwells are excellent and I'll buy any book with their names on it. Thanks for hours of great reading!

Elizabeth Lowell is brilliant at writing about atmosphere - I could almost feel the sweat pouring off my body and the claustrophobia of the tunnels. Her characters here are very likeable and you are rooting for them all the way.

The only book by Lowell that I like more than this one is Tell Me No Lies. I read it years ago and still re-read it.

When Erin inherits a diamond mine in Australia from a great-uncle she never knew, her life changes dramatically. Cole had won half of the mine from her great-uncle in a card game years before. Erin and Cole are drawn thrown together to find the mine and avoid everyone-- especially enemies-- who crawl out of the woodwork once the presence of the mine is know. Since the mine could make or break the diamond cartel, the political and economic implications could be earthshattering.

I really enjoyed this book with the action and romance that doesn't quit. She's an admirable heroine and he's the complex hero that's worth waiting for...sigh...

I read this book many years ago, it was one of the first of Ann Maxwell's (aka. Elizabeth Lowell)that I had read and it's still one of my favorites. I've read it four times. Her characters are very well drawn, the dialogue is crisp, plenty of action and it is romantic without being mushy. It is a "romance" book I think a man would enjoy. I would also recomend Ann Maxwell's "Tell Me No Lies".

This is a beautiful book which I have read and re-read with much profit and pleasure over the years. It presents topics in a very unusual order, which minimizes boring technicalities and develops intuition. Everything is very concrete and explicit, with lots of nice pictures and diagrams.

The book begins with a clear and concise treatment of deRham cohomology. If one hasn't seen differential forms before, then it might be a bit too brief and one might need to supplement it. But if one is comfortable with differential forms, then de Rham theory is a setting in which theorems such as Poincare duality can be proved with a minimum of pain. It is also very edifying to see the Poincare dual of a submanifold as a differential form. There is then a natural transition to Cech cohomology and double complexes. With this as a warmup, it is then a small additional step to spectral sequences (although the derived couple approach used here is perhaps not the most elementary possible). This machinery is then used to discuss an assortment of topics in homotopy theory and characteristic classes, which always sticks to the most important points without getting bogged down in technicalities.

It is highly unusual that the definition of singular homology only comes after the introduction of spectral sequences! This book might be best appreciated if one has some familiarity with singular homology and wants to better understand its geometric meaning.

Despite the avoidance of technicalities, the book is carefully written, although there is the occasional sign error. For example, the sign given for the Lefschetz fixed point theorem is wrong for odd-dimensional manifolds; try it for the circle and you will see. (Several other books make the same mistake.)

I'm reading this book with my advisor. So far I've read through the first
five sections. My advisor is having me read this because he wanted me
to "read a really good book" So far I have no complaints. The arguments
are extremely clear and the book itself has a very smooth structure (no pun intended).

It is a well written book. Useful for those whois learing algebric topology.

This book is almost unique among mathematics books in that it strives to ensure that you have the clearest picture possible of the topics under discussion. For example almost every text that discusses spectral sequences introduces them as a completely abstract machine that pumps out theorems in a mysterious way. But it turns out that all those maps actually have a clear meaning and Bott and Tu get right in there with clear diagrams showing exactly what those maps mean and where the generators of the various groups get mapped. It's clear enough that you can almost reach out and touch the things :-) And the same is true of all of the other constructions in the book - you always have a concrete example in mind with which to test out your understanding.

That makes this one of my all time favourite mathematics texts.

I agree with the other reviews, and only wanted to add to one of them that in regard to examples of chern classes, I believe they also use the whitney formula to derive the chern classes of a hypersurface from that of projective space, which really expands the realm of examples significantly.

This was all I needed in writing my notes on the Riemann Roch theorem for hypersurfaces in 3 and 4 space, for instance. I felt I knew little about concrete chern classes, but I was able to take the presentation in this book and use it for my purposes immediately.

When I started reading "Dwell In Love," I could not put it down. I have shared it several of my friends, who express the same feelings. The book is truly uplifting, so most of the time it's by my side.

Dwell In Love sits on my desk to access for moment to moment inspiration.
This book is a rich source of inspiration for anyone who is in dispair or finds themselves in need of hope.For those who dwell in love it serves as a mini reality vacation from the routine duties of daily life.Food for the Soul.

I found the words in this book to have the feel and sense of Jesus; very similar to the way Jesus comes across in the classic God Calling which was also a channeled work. I recommend this book to anyone whose spirituality is grounded in Jesus. The messages are universal and, at the same time, specific to life problems and situations.

A wonderful book for those who search that should not be missed.

A wonderful book for those who search that should not be missed.

Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield have their licenses suspended by the Oxford stewards for supposedly throwing a race. Hughes believes that they were framed and he sets out to clear their names and get the licenses restored. Who would want to ruin their careers? As the truth is revealed we hear a story of sexual deviation, blackmail, fixed evidence and attempted murder.

I have the listened to the BBC dramatization of Enquiry at least a dozen times and the unabridged version several additional times and it never fails to entertain me. It was the first of the Dick Francis stories I listened to or read and it is brilliant from several points of view. The development of all the characters is done so well, especially Kelly Hughes and his helper Roberta and minor characters such as the sleazy detective and the horse trainers and owners. You meet so many memorable characters as Kelly seeks to clear his name and Dexter Cranfield's as well. Kelly Hughes was the kind of hero several stories could have been done about and I wish there were more. While not all the Francis stories were written quite as well as this story, I listen to this one several times a year. I strongly recommend this book/audio to all fans of Dick Francis and the hourse racing business.

"Yesterday I lost my licence."

That's how the book begins ... and indeed Kelly Hughes, a leading jump jockey , has been indefinitely suspended from racing after being found guilty of deliberately losing a race.

He knows that someone has rigged evidence against him, and rather than sit back and wait for the ban to be lifted , he sets out to find his secret enemy.

Hughes isn't a detective, and just as he doesn't really know how to carry out an investigation, the reader can't guess at how the plot will develop. My favourite highlight is when Hughes is driving home after a dance. At first it seems to be just a 'filler' scene, but it turns into something more dramatic - and the writing here is particularly well-crafted.

The two main characters are Hughes himself , a widower, and Roberta, the snooty daughter of his employer. Near the start of the book Roberta asks him:

" "That picture .. that's your wife isn't it?"
I nodded.
"I remember her". She said. "She was always so sweet to me. She seemed to know what I was feeling. I was really awfully sorry when she was killed"
I looked at her in surprise. The people Rosalind had been sweetest to had invariably been unhappy. She had had a knack of sensing it, and giving succour without being asked. "

Unfortunately Roberta has been brought up by her father to regard jockeys as an inferior social class, and it takes a long time for the two of them to kindle any real friendship, let alone romance.

Francis is particularly good in this book with the minor characters - such as the aristocratic Bobbie, who clearly is very fond of Roberta but can't help hinting that Hughes is a better match for her, or Derek the diffident mechanic who kept most of his brains in his fingertips.

The plot doesn't flag, the tale builds to a satisfactory climax and I only wish Hughes had appeared in another of Francis' books.

This was the first Dick Francis book I have read and I must say that I am impressed! I bought it because I had nothing to read one rainy afternoon and because I am interested in horseracing. I read it in one day. The characters were real and the plot was interesting. If you look at the copy I have you will see all kinds of scribbles in it where I have marked quotes and phrases that I liked. For example, Kelly describes how he feels after his accident as "Not so much as banging the head against a brick wall as being actively attacked by a cliff". Yep, I know that feeling...Francis just said it better than I could have. Just one warning...don't pick up this book unless you can afford to spend the whole afternoon reading it.

The primary reason I continue to seek out and read Dick Francis is that he continually creates heroes that are efficacious and rational. He avoids the common pitfalls of most modern writers, and instead invents characters who pass the ultimate test: "Would I like to meet and know this person?" If you can answer "yes" to that question then there is great potential for enjoyment in the fiction centered around that character. If you answer "no" to that question, why even bother reading further?

Dick Francis' characters almost always recieve an unreserved "YES!" Read "Enquiry," it's not the best from Francis but it's still furlongs beyond the rest.

Whether you want to write your own ethical will or help others write about their values and what they want to leave behind - this book will help you. Dr Barry Baines is caring, honest and has in-depth experience which he shares with us in this book. I found myself coming back to it for a second and third time. Even when I see it just sitting there on my book shelf, it triggers more thoughts about my own life and what I will leave behind. This book gives you something to think about and to work with. It will touch you.

Easy to read and understand. Found this book very useful in discovering more information about ethical wills. Several written examples also provided.

If you are searching for a venue to create a legacy for your family that will continue for generations to come, purchase Bary Baines Ethical Wills, Second Edition to assist you in preparing this written legacy. The intriguing concept of sharing ones' values and ethics is a priceless investment not only to the writer but to everyone who will ever read the document. Baines also includes information and insight into another important document that everyone needs to write: The Living Will. This book is a valuable investment that is worth more that you will ever pay. It is well written, inspiring and when you complete it you will have a legacy to leave your heirs.

This is a great introduction to ethical wills. They sound really mysterious but it's a great concept -- writing a letter to the future -- that's a really valuable gift for a family. And it's a really useful process for the writer. It can give you a whole different perspective on how valuable your experiences are.

Ethical Wills by Barry Baines, MD breaks new ground in the ethical will movement within the US. Written for easy comprehension, this book covers the topic in excellent fashion, while providing the inspiration so essential to completing the task of putting our values in print for those we leave behind. I highly recommend this book, not only for the informational content, but for the encouragement it brings for completing the process. The section on living wills and advance directives is also very informative and useful. For those looking for a single source of information on this subject, Ethical Wills by Barry Baines is an outstanding resource.

Fangs of Kaath is quite entertaining. I wasn't sure about reading the book. But a friend insisted. Im very glad he did. This books is very good. I think anyone who reads it will like it alot.

My Friend in Utah recomended this book to me. I was kind of skeptical at first but he assured me that it was great. After only the first couple chapters I was hooked. The first 3rd of the book alone make it worth reading. what great characters! A fantastic story in every aspect. I must find more of Paul Kids books. I recommend this book to everyone. If you read it, Im sure you will love it. Probably ment for people over the age of 14 or 15.

This is the second book of Paul Kidd's that I have read. The other being A Whisper Of Wings, and I have to say that he surpasses that work with this book. This book had me caring for the charaters in the first couple of pages, something other books fail to accomplish even at the end of the tale. The story is fantastic: weaving in magic, love, war, and political intrige seamlessly. This book takes you on quite an emotional ride, and is not for the feint of heart. I really cannot say enough for this title, or for the author. Don't miss out on this book, you will miss out on a treasure.

This is truly a fantastic work. The story of two people who truly love one-another. Living in a world that does not want them, all they want is eachother. Filled with Demons, treachorous warlords, mysterious cults, scheaming kings and family fueds, this story will never leave you wanting for more action, yet never does this action over power the great emotion of the whole ordeal. It has been years since I have fallen in love with fictional characters so completly. Such great discription and real emotion. Everything feels real as you are reading it. Sandhri and Raschid, might as well been real people for all the rich detail that is placed into their characters.
Aside from a slightly rushed epilogue, Fangs maintains a great pace that is easy to read and enjoy.
I have yet to have read other books by Paul Kidd but he can rest assured that I will now.

Paul Kidd has done himself PROUD with this work of his. The characters are believeable, and the entire world is one spun to where you can find yourself falling into easily, with an ending that will most likely suprise you. Paul Kidd I still rank with the likes of Jaques, Tolkein and Lackey. Even if you're not into the idea of 'furries', at least give this book a try, you won't be sorry.

I keep buying this book and buying it - for other people. The surest sign of my affection for someone is that I lend them this book - or buy it for them.

I also read it again from time to time. It is intricate enough to reveal new secrets with each reading.

Let your fingers do the walking ... right to the order and checkout buttons! Do not miss this incredible literary feast.
Richly written; lush characters and a true twist and turn plot will keep you turning the pages all night! Kotzwinkle's work is true genius. In a word -- EXCELLENT!

-- if you cannot enjoy this book, you're already old.

Perhaps this is the story Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have penned were he apprehended at a circus performance and dispatched straight to his typewriter. Fata Morgana is a solid mystery with fantasy elements that elevate it from sleuth versus villain into an enigmatic and elusive tale tinged with Gypsy mystery, parlor games and extortionist magic.

Inspector Picard, career descending and body weight ascending, is on the trail of Ric Lazare who is bilking high-society members out of considerable cash. Ric Lazare possesses a machine that foretells the future, but this alone does not explain his hold on those in his circle of influence. Picard investigates with the intention of exposing the salon scam of a medium and his costly advice, instead, he encounters the unknown - Black Magic, Grand Bewitching, the creations of a German toy maker, and a nagging foreshadowing of events, particularly his own demise. Picard's sleuthing takes him through Nuremberg, Budapest and Old-World Paris and everything Picard discovers lays in shadows, echoes and reflections. Discovering the background and identity of Ric Lazare (and his stunning wife, Renee, who has Paris bewitched) is what keeps the reader turning the pages. Clues come from:

1.) The mysterious death a priest. 2.) A half-Paleolithic family on a one-way forest trail somewhere on the steppes of Eastern Hungary. 3.) A hashish smoking Chief of Police. (The smoke is rather strong...occasionally it renders me unconscious.) 4.) A gifted toy maker, his evil apprentice, and ultimately the toys themselves, which are "much finer than men and much worse." 5.) A library in Paris where a volume of century old letters and diary excerpts reveal the true, yet impossible, identity of Ric Lazare and his wife Renee.

Kotzwinkle adds amusing sensuality to his descriptions of Nineteenth century Paris. (1861) What other capital would throw a party for the Great Whores of the City? The description of this party and the sauced satyr, Count Cherubini, who hosts it are worth the read alone. Extravagant debauchery Old-World style.

Kotzwinkle includes several zestful scenes between Inspector Picard and the ladies - a prostitute, an enchantress, and a woman in a tavern whom he seduces by hiring a gypsy Cymbolom player to envelop her in aural foreplay. Picard is quite the ladies man and these scenes show that while he may be an old dog, the learning of new tricks isn't necessary if the old ones are masterfully performed!

... in 1861, Detective Paul Picard, of the Paris Police, is hot on the trail of Baron Mantes, who has a penchant for murdering young wmoen and leaving their decapitated bodies at the scene of the crime. Recovering from his most recent run-in with the Baron, from which Picard emerges decidedly the worse for wear, he attends a party given by a wealthy and mysterious immigrant named Ric Lazare, of dubious origins, and his fabulously beautiful wife, Renee Lazare. The party is attended by all of upper-class Paris and the draw is a fortune-telling machine which holds all the guests mesmerized. Invited into a private room which holds the famous machine, Picard finds himself hurled headlong into a web of gypsy magic, murder, seduction and mystery that leads him through Germany to Austria, the Hungarian steppes, and back to Paris, to confront his fate before the fortune telling machine. His fortune, Fata Morgana, is, like Ric and Renee Lazare, a shimmering mirage, irresistable, unknowable, and ultimately unreachable; one can only accept it as it is. Kotzwinkle has woven a magical story that holds us entranced to the very last page.

Anybody who wants to learn fencing, as well as people who are looking for ways to become a coach should have this book in their library. It gives basic training techniques as well as tactics for combat situations.
Consider this "the bible" of fencing.

As an aspiring coach, I have read through many different books on fencing and fencing instruction. Only one other book (Foil, Sabre and Epee Fencing, by Garret et. al.) approaches the breadth, detail and clarity of this remarkable work.

Szabo not only describes exercises, drills and lesson plans for the fencing instructor -- he describes *how* to teach them. His section on fencing theory, specifically the "tactical wheel" and "tactical tree," is indispensible -- it is simply not found in any other fencing book. Finally, the book is superbly illustrated: both with represenations of proper technique(and improper -- so that coaches can recognize common errors in their students) and diagrams showing the position of feet relative to the torso during footwork.

$30 may be kinda steep, but it is cheaper than taking a plane flight to Hungary for participation in a week-long fencing instruction seminar (the next best thing)

I did notice that a large portion of the book was dedicated to sabre, but then again, the author was primarily a sabre coach.

I could go on, but I think that if is suffice to say that any serious coach (i.e. hoping to have students with national results) should buy this book and commit it to memory. You won't be sorry.

The book is also available from major fencing equipment suppliers (e.g. blade)

My opinions do not reflect in anyway those of my employer, Vault Reports

My Hungarian master Laszlo Jakab, a personal friend of Laszlo Szabo, introduced this book to me as "The fencer's Bible". He continued telling me that within its pages were common faults that Masters should look for and how to fix them. Master Szabo has in his book endeavoured to put in to writing his method of teaching. It a very thorough treatment of the subject matter. Within the scope of subjects covered is immense. Ranging from the master's obligations to his pupils, techniques for building the correct fencing mussels, giving individual and group lessons (where to stand, how to give signals etc), a complete tactical system all the way down to the basics of a correct guard stance.

My master can not speak highly enough of this book and has integrated many parts of the contents in to his own method of teaching and fencing. I myself feel that even though some of the methods explained are now outdated (e.g. training without masks) the book offers great insight in to fencing at all levels and should you wish to become a good coach this is the only book you will need.

This book has quite possibly the best and most comprehensive collection of sabre drills that I've ever come across in print. Also the discussions on the mental preparedness of both the student AND the master are extremely worthwhile. If you are going to teach anyone how to fence, read and understand this book. If you are going to teach anyone to fence sabre, read, understand and constantly refer to this book!

There are faults in this book, but they are mostly of production, illustrations in the wrong place and some clumsiness in the translation.

However, the content is excellent. Each topic is considered in detail and there is a pleasing flow in development.

If you are intending to be a coach then this book is an essential adjunct to your coaching course. If you already are a coach then it offers a wealth of material to improve your coaching.