The Strang Cookbook For Cancer Prevention: A Complete Nutrition and Lifestyle Plan to Dramatically Lower Your Cancer Risk

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Evidence supporting our ability to reduce the risk of cancer keeps growing. The Strang Cookbook for Cancer Prevention offers compelling information on how to diet, exercise, and control other external factors that affect cancer risk. Authors Laura Pensiero and Susan Olivera then provide clear, specific direction on what you should do to maximize the odds in your favor. Distinguished chefs, such as Charlie Trotter and Norman Van Aken, contributed 150-plus recipes that are both tasty and healthful, while the baking and dessert sections prove that you can have your cake while reducing cancer risk, too. You'll encounter appealing dishes such as No-Fuss Broccoli Soufflé, Roasted Garlic Caesar Salad, Sautéed Spinach with Garlic, and Green Chili Stew. More elaborate dishes help you celebrate, entertain, and dine magnificently and healthfully, so you won't have to play catch-up after the party ends.

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The Strang Cancer Prevention Center, affiliated with The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, has taken a leading role in advocating a low-fat, high-fiber diet rich in nutrients that can safeguard the body from disease. Now the Center's experts have brought together the latest health information with delicious recipes from some of America's top chefs in an easy-to-use guide for anyone who wants to eat better and live longer.
•Up to 80 percent of all cancers can be prevented by the kinds of changes in diet and lifestyle outlined in this book.
•Provides the latest information on the links between cancer and nutrition, especially the role of phytochemicals.
•Features recipes from the distinguished chefs of such notable restaurants as Bouley, Lespinasse, and the Union Square Cafe, simple enough for the home cook.
•Highlights practical ways to gain the benefits from exercise, weight loss, and reduced environmental stress that can help boost cancer prevention.
•Includes dozens of tips to boost your daily intake of fruits, vegetables, and other important nutrients.
•The Strang Cancer Prevention Center is one of the leading cancer research programs in the country.

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Cancer prevention info in a clear, concise fashion........1999-07-05

I began this book with the premise that there was little more I could learn about diet and lifestyle regarding cancer. As a former cancer patient, I've read anything and everything I could get my hands on. However, I was surprised to find -- only a few pages into the book -- that there were concepts that I had either confused or distorted over the years. Concise and orderly, this book offers current theories and statistical information on many aspects of cancer prevention in a clear and understandable fashion. But the best part is (because having useful information is one thing, putting it to work is another) the recipe section which offers a wide assortment of really delicious dishes, from simple to exotic. it has actually convinced me -- a serious skeptic -- that it's possible to serve food which is not only flavorful and interesting, but healthful as well.

This book focuses on great foods that happen to be good........1999-02-14

Having read 4o% of all the recipes I was amazed at how tasty all of them were. The recipes are so favorful that you will find it hard to believe that these recipes are also healthy. I went to a bookstore and studied one recipe (for a complete dinner) made the meal and was beyond pleased with the finished product. The instructions are simple and the explanation of why certain food in certain combos are beneficial made me change my why of eating. This book is a must for anyone who just wants to enjoy a good dinner.

medically accurate and interesting; great, flavorful recipes.......1998-05-11

I received this book during the book tour distribution. As a physician I am basically skeptical about books claiming to reduce cancer rates. I was pleasantly surprised by the scientific accuracy of the text. I've since made at least 7 of the recipes, all of which are wonderful! I have found it difficult to locate cookbooks that include easy, fast recipes with low fat and reasonable flavor. Too often the recipes are easy but the ingredients are hard to find; or, the recipe is easy and the taste is bland. This great book meets all of my needs. I really didn't want to like this book, but I love it! And I learned a lot about nutrition to boot!

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In the spring of 2002, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will launch a landmark four-year traveling exhibition that will premier at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and tour to leading museums in nine major cities across the United States. The show will bring the Hall of Fame's treasures, including rare baseball images and artifacts, to every American in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the game that has defined our nation.

National Geographic is proud to offer the official companion book to this groundbreaking event. Featuring more than 30 essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans, including John Grisham, Tom Brokaw, Dave Barry, Roger Kahn, Paul Simon, George Plimpton, Penny Marshall, and others, Baseball As America will explore every rich facet of the national pastime. In examining such formative phenomena as immigration, industrialization, popular culture, and technology, it will reveal how baseball has served as both a public reflection of and a catalyst for the evolution of American culture and society. Baseball As America will also examine how the American landscape, our language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of a 19th-century game that has become inextricably intertwined with our nation¼s values and aspirations.

A handsome, hardbound volume, Baseball As America also features more than 200 original and archival photographs that bring the game to life on its pages. Perfect for every baseball fan, indeed every American, Baseball As America is a comprehensive panorama of the game America has grown up with. It will foster a new appreciation not only for the game, but also for the very character of our nation.

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A baseball book that is like taking a trip to Cooperstown.......2004-06-09

"Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game" was the companion volume the landmark traveling exhibition from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. As its thesis this book takes Jacques Barzun's declaration "Who ever wants to know the heart and mind of American had better learn baseball." Within these 320 pages you will find yourself exploring every aspect of the American pastime lavishly illustrated and even long time baseball fans will be surprised at how much they will read and see that is new to them.

After an introduction by Jules Tygiel, which features a 1860 Currier and Ives lithograph showing Lincoln and his opponents for the presidency describing their platforms in baseball terms, "Baseball as America" is divided into seven units: Our National Spirit, Ideals and Injustices, Rooting for the Team, Enterprise and Opportunity, Sharing a Common Culture, Invention and Ingenuity, and Weaving Myths. Within these pages you will find Robert K. Adair explaining the science of the curve ball invented by Candy Cummings but first explained by a 23 year old Isaac Newton and Paul Simon explaining to Joe DiMaggio his use of Joltin' Joe's name as an emblematic icon in the song "Mrs. Robinson." There is Dan Shaughnessy's "Obituary of Elizabeth Dooley" the legendary Boston Red Sox fan and Buck O'Neil explaining how the Chicago Cubs traded away future Hall of Famer Lou Brock because the team already had three black outfielders. Then there are the letters Curt Flood and Bowie Kuhn exchanged when the outfielder refused to be traded from the Cardinals to the Phillies. You might remember Flood's letter from Ken Burns' documentary "Baseball," but here we have Kuhn's response.

Of course Ernest L. Thayer's ballad of the republic "Casey at the Bat" will be found here, along with a Charles Schulz "Peanuts" cartoon of Charlie Brown praying to catch a baseball, Bob Newhart's "Nobody Will Every Play Baseball" routine, and excerpts from W.P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe." There are photographs of the famous Honus Wagner T206 1909 baseball card, Eddie Gaedel's 1/8 St. Louis Browns jersey, Shoeless Joe Jackson's shoes, Lou Gehrig on the cover of a program from the American baseball tour of Japan in 1931, "Babe Ruth Underwear," and the patent and model for F.W. Thayer's 1878 catcher's mask. Then there is the poster of the elephants playing baseball for the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Then there is the juxtaposition of words and images: Joe Raposos's lyrics to the Frank Sinatra song "There Used to Be a Ballpark" with a photograph of the demolition of the Polo Grounds. There is an excerpt from Bernard Malamud's "The Natural" with the cowbell Hilda Chester used at Ebbets Field and a photograph of Andre Dawson's final visit to Wrigley Field. A photo of Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs warming up at Yankee Stadium and Ted Williams' 1966 induction speech at the Hall of Fame where he surprised the crowd with his call to honor the stars of the Negro Leagues. A letter from Fiorello LaGuardia in 1945 about a committee formed to end segregation in baseball opposite a pair of photographs showing black kids and white kids clutching Walter Johnson board games and waiting to meet their favorite baseball star.

The back of the book includes a list of the selections from the collection broken down into baseballs (handmade ball made by Babe Ruth at school), baseball cards (1952 Topps Mickey Mantle), bats (George Brett's "pine tar" bat), books, booklets, and periodicals (comic book "Roy Campanella Baseball Hero"), broadsides, handbills, and posters (handbill urging integration of the New York Yankees), caps (Hideo Nomos no-hitter cap), cartoons ("Base Ball as Viewed by a Muffin" from 1867), communications equipment (Red Barber's first microphone), decorative art (theater lobby card for "The Jackie Robinson Story"), fan art and fine art ("Tom Seaver" by Andy Warhol), games and toys ("darktown battery" cast iron mechanical bank from 1888), gloves and mitts (Yogi Berra's mitt from Don Larsen's perfect World Series game), jerseys and uniforms (1976 Chicago White Sox Bermuda shorts), jewelry (charm bracelet made from championship jewelry given by Lou Gehrig to his wife), letters and documents (All-Star ballot filled out by Casel Stengel), medical-related items (ethyl chloride numbing spray), merchandise (Reggie Bar wrapper), miscellaneous equipment (prototype JUGS Speed Gun), programs and scorecards (program for first Colored World Series), sheet music and records (1908 Edison Wax cylinder record of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and magic lantern slide), shoes (worn by Ty Cobb), souvenirs (1961 button, "I'm for Maris--60 in '61), stadium equipment/artifacts (turnstile from the Polo Grounds), tickets and season passes (ticket to Lou Gehrig Day), and trophies and awards (Cy Young Award given to Sandy Koufax).

So you can get a very good idea of what you missed out from the traveling exhibit. Of course this is a fraction of what was on the tour and while less than half of what is included on these six pages makes its way into "Baseball as America" just looking over the list can be fun. The tour, of course, is long over, but if you have never been to Cooperstown, or if it has been a while since you have been to the Baseball Hall of Fame, then be forewarned because this book will make you want to go and visit all of the baseball treasures on display.

Excellent history of Baseball - but a tad bit dry.......2003-02-21

This book is an excellent companion piece to the Baseball as American travelling exhibit (www.....org). The pictures included (like any National Geographic piece) are first rate. The included stories are from a diverse group, from sportswriters to former players. However, that's where the book takes a bad turn. The articles are inconsistent in style and quality, and for anyone who enjoys baseball, it's painful to read. This book is required for anyone who loves the game, but I wouldn't recommend it to casual fans.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game.......2002-05-30

From the eye catching cover to the inspired essays and beautiful photographs inside, this book is a delight. All that was missing was the hot dog and beer. A great gift for fellow baseball fanatics! Go White Sox!

It's A Great Book ..........2002-04-24

Book is very nicely presented with many great illustrations, pictures, and excerpts from notable authors. Great book for the casual or diehard baseball fan. This book covers the terrific exhibit now showing at New York City's Museum of American History. Check it out. It's very worthwhile.

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Hall of Fame Baseball Cards
Bert Randolph Sugar
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486236242

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Full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards. Among the players are Hornsby, Young, McGraw, Stengel, Rickey, Gehrig, Williams, Mantle, Spahn, Robinson, Musial, Koufax, Clemente, and many more. There is no duplication of cards with Sugar's Classic Baseball Cards.

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Japanese baseball superstars: Hall of Fame & Meikyukai player profiles
Robert K Fitts
Manufacturer: Prestige Collectibles
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The Encyclopedia of Flower Arranging: Decorating With Fresh, Dried and Pressed Flowers
Rona Coleman , and Sylvia Pepper
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Pressed Flower Workstation (Workstations)
Rita Warner , Sylvia Pepper , and Brenda Jackson
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
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Beautiful To Look At & Wonderful To Peruse

A wonderful gift giving idea! Thoroughly enjoyed it...

A book unlike any other, the perfect gift this season.

This book is mainly a journal.

An exquisite book

Souvenirs de Fleurs: A Pressed Flower Keepsake Book
Louise Kollenbaum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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The murmur of bees, the scents of freshly cut grass and sunbaked earth... The tranquility of a summer afternoon is captured in this unusual, delicate journal. Souvenirs de Fleurs: A Pressed Flower Keepsake Book is a guide to the gentle craft of flower pressing, storing, and mounting. A brief history of Victorian flower pressing is included, as well as pages for pressing, glassine envelopes to showcase your treasures, and plenty of space in which to record your reminiscences. --Julie Ubben

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Beautiful To Look At & Wonderful To Peruse.......1999-09-21

This is a delightful book. As you read you come to realize even more how beautiful each & every flower is in your garden and how beautiful they can be preserved. I enjoyed Souvenirs De Fleurs so much I purchased three more and have given them to my daughter, my daughter-in-law and a good friend. It was a perfect way for me to say I love you and you are in my thoughts!

A wonderful gift giving idea! Thoroughly enjoyed it..........1998-12-21

I purchased a copy at full price and went home and enjoyed it over some hot jasmine tea. I'm so excited about the pursuit of this new hobby and am looking forward to acquiring my first flower press. I'm ordering several more from Amazon to give as gifts to my gardening friends. Thank you Louise Kollenbaum for this wonderful and enticingly creative way of introducing me to this wonderful art!

A book unlike any other, the perfect gift this season........1998-11-08

This extraordinary book/journal is a great gift for artists and everyone who loves nature. With accessible text and beautiful images, the first half of the book guides the reader through the pressing process. A journal follows with pages for writings and drawings;throughout the book are translucent sleeves for readers to include their own pressings.This is a wonderful holiday gift.

This book is mainly a journal........1998-10-18

If you are looking for a book with lots of photographs of pressed flower projects, and lots of "how to" information, this is NOT the book for you. The book begins like a novel (it's a narrative by the author about her enjoyment and experiences collecting and pressing flowers) and the ends as a journal.

An exquisite book.......1998-09-25

Review of SOUVENIRS DE FLEURS

The writer, Louise Kollenbaum, takes the reader by the hand and guides one into the garden, the meadow, down the little path to the woods, and as she leasurely walks , she gathers her flowers like her chapters, points out the beauty of a petal, the shape of a leaf, makes you notice, pauses while you gaze at one of her amazing compositions, tells you what is easy, what is hard at first, explains in simple, patient words how you do it, and reveals the secrets of the craft. While you marvel at the endless creative possibilities, wondering how your guide found the way, she tells her own story of gathering and pressing flowers in an artist's way, and shares her discoveries, failures, adventures with humour and humble wisdom. In the same leasurely pace she walks you into the history of flower pressing with its high bloom in the Victorian age and its romantic mysteries of flower symbolism which allowed lovers to exchange secret messages without words. In the writer's inviting language, it all sounds easy and enchanting at the same time, like an irresistable pleasure. In the end she hands you her book and says, "Now it's your turn." You find much more in SOUVENIRS DE FLEURS than chapters on the technique (the equipment, the gathering, pressing, storing, and the mounting of flowers) and on "Flower Projects" or creative ideas for making use of your collection. In addition, you find delicate sleeves of translucent paper to store your own pressed flowers and leaves, and you suddenly notice that the whole book comes in the shape of an album, allowing to billow with your own findings and creations. You also find a glossary of botanical terms, a list of flowers with their ancient symbolical meanings, empty pages for drawing and sketching on your botanical outings, and finally beautifully lined pages for your gathering diary, interspersed with quotes from famous gardeners like Vita Sackville-West or writers like Oscar Wilde.

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The Afterlife of Flowers

Simply Superb!

Flower Nirvana

Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers

Much More Than a Coffee Table Art Book

The Afterlife of Flowers
Janie Feldman Gross
Manufacturer: Running Press Book Publishers
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The Afterlife of Flowers.......2002-04-05

Good reference material and some philosophy about nature. Beautiful photographs show what some commonly found flowers look like when pressed. This book is includes enlarged photos, comments, and a chart with smaller photos showing each flower's common name, width and it's location in the book. 96 pages, hardcover.

Simply Superb!.......2002-01-06

This isn't a how-to book, but the gorgeous photos do serve as a valuable guide to what some commonly found flowers will look like when pressed. The book is comprised of enlarged photos and comments, ending with an id chart of smaller photos along with each flower's common name, actual width, and the page it was featured on.

If you like the look of pressed flowers, you might want to check out Laura Martin's Art and Craft of Pounding Flowers. Pounding an object's pigment onto fabric and paper creates beautiful and uniquely pressed flower like images. Very nice.

Flower Nirvana.......2001-03-09

Janie Feldman Gross takes the art of flower pressing to new dimensions. Each specimen is a work of art unto itself - the colors, textures, delicately graceful lines - coupled with Janie's poetic observations, all add up to a book that is both breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring.

Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers.......2000-01-14

For most, the term "pressed flowers" conjures the shriveled and crumbling remains of faded prom corsages. Nothing could be more strikingly different from the pressed flora you'll encounter in THE AFTERLIFE OF FLOWERS. Creator Janie Feldman Gross invites us to a world where flowers reveal their remarkable and astonishing beauty...long after bloom. She guides us through a breathtaking collection of specimens -- most grown in her own garden -- each transformed by weight and time. Bringing her artist's eye to the task, Gross combines spectacular photographic images with her own spare and carefully placed commentary. The result is a visual ballet -- flowers partnered by prose. This is a book to be enjoyed for it uniqueness, its visual aesthetic and its underlying message; if we are patient and take the time to observe the world around us, there is unexpected beauty therein.

Much More Than a Coffee Table Art Book.......1999-12-13

This book is a wonderful work of art, and a bit of philosophy about nature as well. From the colors, to the prose, to even the position of the flowers on each page, the author has brilliantly created a piece of inspiration. It is hard to imagine a better art book on the subject. Buy it for someone you love, or just buy it for yourself!

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I'm hard pressed to think of a better book
This is SO cute!!!

The Mini Pressed Flower Kit
Caroline Tiger
Manufacturer: Running Press Book Publishers
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I'm hard pressed to think of a better book.......2001-04-22

Simply put, this book by Ms. Tiger is the most expressive piece of literary non-fiction I've ever read. Huzzah, huzzah!

This is SO cute!!!.......2001-02-24

I first picked this up as a gift for my niece--now I've bought them for all the kids I know. They're perfect little presents. The press really does work, even though it is tiny. You can't go wrong with this one.

The Arco book of dried and pressed flowers

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The Arco book of dried and pressed flowers
Jane Derbyshire
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The pressed flower picture book: The art of collecting, pressing, arranging, and framing garden and wild flowers for your home

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Art of Dried and Pressed Flowers
Pamela Westland , and Paula Critchley
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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Release Date: 1988-12-12

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A Good Book For The Beginner

The Art of Pressed Flowers
Sylvia Pepper
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A Good Book For The Beginner.......2002-04-05

Information about pressing and storing flowers, pressing techniques and enhancing color, by a natural technique of "piggybacking" one or two flowers onto another, for added dimension. The emphasis is on methods of design; a good book for a beginner. Illustrated, 48 pages, hardcover.

The Book of Dried and Pressed Flowers (Creative Design Series)

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The Book of Dried and Pressed Flowers (Creative Design Series)
Sarah Waterkyn , John Lewis , and Mary Lawrence
Manufacturer: Salamander Books
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The Book of Pressed Flowers
Jill Thomas
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