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Menopause the Natural Way: The Women's Natural Health Series
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Make menopause a change for the better!
Are you entering menopause? Would you like to be prepared for it when it arrives? Whether the change of life is upon you or years away, now is the best time to find out all you can about this natural life process. The more you know, the better you can take care of yourself. And the healthier you are, the easier your menopause is likely to be.
Written by two authorities in complementary medicine and women's health issues, Menopause the Natural Way is a compassionate guide that combines mainstream and alternative medical approaches into a simple, six-step program that helps you create a healthy and empowering passage through menopause. You'll learn about:
- Using a journal as a valuable tool for managing your menopause
- Nutrition and menopause-foods and vitamins for your body's changing needs
- Using herbs to balance your body and to treat and reverse symptoms
- Pleasurable exercises proven to reduce menopause symptoms and promote health-from yoga and tai chi to aerobic and weight-bearing routines
- Managing stress known to trigger menopause symptoms
- Rebalancing your hormones through natural and medical hormone therapy
Uniquely created from a woman's perspective, Menopause the Natural Way offers you a supportive, natural, noninvasive way to manage your menopause while feeling great.
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Perimenopause the Natural Way.......2001-01-15
As a woman in the perimenopause stage, I found this book to be very helpful. The synthesis of how our hormones work together and affect us is easy to understand and informative. I have put off studying this phase of my life because I just really did not want to deal with this amazing yet potentially overwhelming change in my life. However, after reading this book I realize that I can, with a few changes, make this transition easier and my life healthier overall. I would recomend this book to anyone as a first read for the perimenopausal woman.
Perimenopause the Natural Way.......2001-01-15
As a woman in the perimenopause stage, I found this book to be very helpful. The synthesis of how our hormones work together and affect us is easy to understand and informative. I have put off studying this phase of my life because I just really did not want to deal with this amazing yet potentially overwhelming change in my life. However, after reading this book I realize that I can, with a few changes, make this transition easier and my life healthier overall. I would recomend this book to anyone as a first read for the perimenopausal woman.
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An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
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Excellent Primer of the American Revolution.......2006-02-24
I would recommend this book as the first to read when studying the war. Excellent portrayal of general events and how they happened. A very good general account of the major names of that day and how they contributed to the war. Could have used better/more detailed maps. A must read for those that study American history.
Fantastic account.......2005-01-25
Robert Leckie does an exceptional job breaking the American Revolution -- from the buildup to the actual chronology of battles -- down into a book that reads like a novel without sacrificing any vital information. It is obvious that the author has done remarkable work when the reader is anxious to pick up where he left off the day before on a heavy historical text such as this.
George Washington's War begins at the end of the French and Indian War, but picks up steam in the years leading up to the Revolution -- when the colonies began to repel the efforts of the British to tax the colonies. Leckie, with great detail, introduces the reader to the lives and culture of both the British and the Americans during that time, and succeeds in portraying the opinions and mindset present on both sides of the Atlantic. I didn't detect much bias in Leckie's writing -- just as many negatives were showcased for the Americans as were for the British. Most notably in my opinion was Leckie's description of the New England leveling principle, the idea that the democratic mentality that everyone is equal actually hindered the colonies and war effort as much as it helped.
Once the war begins, the battles of the Northeast, followed by the Southern battles, are all described in great detail and in chronological order. All the connections from one to another are outlined, and by the middle of the war, the reader has a strong grasp of the major players, their effectiveness and mentality, as well as the key themes and convictions of both the armies and their leaders.
The only drawback, as has been stated frequently, is the lack of good maps. There are about 10 maps in the entire book, and none are all that helpful. I've been able to find more effective maps on the internet -- but they should be present in the book to help the reader visualize these great battles.
All in all, it's a great read for someone looking for an in-depth account of the war, the nations involved, the generals and officers, and the soldiers. If you haven't done much reading of the Revolution since your school days, you'll be amazed to see how much more there is to this time period than what's commonly taught -- the Tea Party, Paul Revere, Washington's Delaware Crossing, etc. Set aside some time (it's close to 700 pages) and read a great account of a world-changing war.
Excellent Overview of the American Revolution!.......2004-11-27
Leckie has written an excellent account of the much overlooked American War of Independence. His writing style is interesting: full of anecdoctal notes on several historical figures, reads like a novel, and is simple without insulting your intelligence.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the character of King George, the Howe brothers, Charles Lee, Benedict Arnold, Nathaniel Greene, Daniel Morgan, Charles Cornwallis, and especially George Washington.
The major complaints I had: the maps (too few and lacked detail), lack of footnotes, and no pictures. The maps' lack of detail made it difficult sometimes to follow troop movements and more should have been developed to cover more of the battles covered in the book. Listing footnotes would have helped immensely to validate what the author said about certain people and events and to help separate his opinion from actual recorded history. Having more pictures would have also helped by adding more of a human element to the book. For example, Leckie on mentioned that Lord Rawdon and Charles Lee were two of the ugliest men in the Revolution while John Laurens and John Andre were impressive looking men who drove the ladies wild. It would have been interesting to at least see some potraits of them and form your own opinion! It also would have been nice to see some drawings of the various battles that Leckie so vividly portrayed.
I still highly recommend the book as an excellent introductory and comprehensive study of the Revolution and look forward to reading more of Leckie's titles.
Read and enjoy!
Excellent Introduction to the American Revolution!.......2004-06-01
Let me start off by saying that I have been, in the past, strictly a Civil War buff. The American Revolution has always been an alien war to me, and I have only occasionally purchased a book on that war. But I recently decided that studying the American Revolution would greatly help me expand my horizons to wars other than the War for Southern Independence. On a trip to one of my local bookstores, I picked up this book, as it looked like a very interesting narrative of the American Revolution.
First off, Mr Leckie's writing was spectacular; I found myself gliding through the pages. Leckie's descriptions of the major participants were great also. But I wish he had included some illustrations in the book of major participants, battles, etc. The book is also of perfect length for the beginning student of the war.
With the good said, the one and only fault of this book was the maps. They are very few, and those provided were lacking. The lack of maps caused me some irritation as I sought to follow the movements of the armies. But in the end, this is not a major problem, but does lower my rating of the book to four stars instead of five.
This is book is great for the beginner as well as the experienced student of the American Revolution. I highly recommend it!
George Washington's War.......2004-03-12
The detail in this account of the American Revolution is nothing short of amazing. Mr. Leckie has written an extremely readable narrative that reads like a novel, but the research he has put into it is solid. His focus is on the leaders on both sides of the conflict, rather than on the ordinary soldier, but he does make frequent reference to Joseph Plumb Martin, who, as a foot soldier, not only survived the war, but left a very detailed journal. The events are presented in chronological order and Leckie often offers his analysis of what went right and what went wrong on both sides. His depiction of the harsh enmity that existed between the Tories and the Patriots is not often portrayed elsewhere and puts a truer perspective on conditions as they really existed. His account of Benedict Arnold gives the reasons for his treason, which are also not found in general historical accounts. Anyone interested in history, and especially American history will gain from this book, and I strongly reccommend it.
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Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire (Rome, the Greek World, and the East)
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Rome the Greek World, and the East: Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
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Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.
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These volumes present a collection of primary source materials from the earliest times to the present intended for use in college courses in Western Civilization. An outstanding feature of the book is the wide variety of source materials included—readings from literary classics, letters, biographies, chronicles, diaries, philosophic and scientific writings, government records. Women’s history is emphasized throughout.
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This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects, politics and economics, philosophy and science, travel, biography and literary works, and even bureaucratic records from such disparate sources as the postal service and the judiciary. Comprehensive and cogently translated, these documents bring into sharp focus aspects of a world long neglected by Western historians.
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What early Muslims said about themselves.......2007-07-16
This old reader -- published in 1974 as volume two of a set; volume one on history and battles, is out of print -- gains in interest with each passing explosion.
Muslim apologists detest Bernard Lewis (see the review of this volume by "A reader" for confirmation). Among the traditionalists, this is understandable. But the self-described moderates and modernizers dislike him just as much, not realizing what this says about the flimsiness of their modern mask.
What Muslims of so many opinions hate about Lewis is that he applies critical historical and linguistic methods to their myths. This threatens to be as corrosive of some of those myths as the same method was of Christianity, monarchism and any number of other myths where western scholars have used it.
Of all Lewis' books, "Islam" should be the most acceptable to them, since it consists almost entirely of translations, with very little -- insufficient, in my opinion -- commentary.
Most of these ancient documents were in Arabic, with a few in Turkish and Persian and a couple in Hebrew.
Lewis comments that the remains of written records from the early centuries of Islam are comparatively scanty, and what do exist have not been systematically collected and translated, unlike the huge compendiums of Greek and Latin.
It is impossible not to be impressed by the energy invested in spreading the doctrines of Mohammad so far and wide in the early years. Or not to marvel at how, within less than two centuries, the theologians managed to shut down further discussion. Christianity, by contrast, was just beginning to fight its doctrinal battles when it was 200 years old.
Plus, the Muslims had simultaneously to devise practical rules for government, whereas Christianity eventually just took over a functioning government and bureaucracy. Thus, the section on business is one of the longest in the book.
How this was done can be traced in the first two sections on religion and on "heresy and revolt." (In strict doctrine, as Lewis notes, Islam does not allow for heresy. In practice, it does.)
The remaining sections give a glimpse into how life was lived, whether in accordance with or in disregard for religion. There is travel literature; a very interesting section on Arab racism, which would appeal to any Nazi; something about relations between the sexes (almost entirely from the man's viewpoint); slavery.
Nothing about art and little about literature. There are only a few scraps of poetry, which is a bit of a surprise, since poetry is regarded by the Arabs as their supreme art, and it was also highly respected by Turks and Persians.
The last section is perhaps the most interesting. It includes selections from Arab and Persian joke books. These amount (sometimes) to a wry commentary on the doctrines exposed in the earlier sections. Reading them is rather like studying Russian jokes in the Communist era to learn what the masses really thought.
Among the insights I found in these extracts:
Female genital mutilation was, at this period, regarded by Arabs as an odd, alien custom of the Bujjas, an African people. (The Bujjas also excised young men's nipples, a practice not adopted by Muslims.)
Avicenna, the "great" Arab philosopher so admired by Christian Europe, was a self-proclaimed ignoramus.
Ibn Batutta, the much-admired traveler, was a raving Jew-hater and proud of it.
"The Arabs . . . never had a king who could . . . control their fools."
Well measured and critical response.......2003-06-07
This is not Bernard Lewis's best work, but it still retains the unbiased, scholarly yet readable style of his previous efforts. He is unflinching - which upsets many zealots - in his analysis and lacking in apologist platitudes, but without honesty, there can be no literature.
I hope he continues to document Middle Eastern history uneffected by political and religous fundamentalism. The literature of history needs him.
Bernard Lewis is a racist, anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab writer.......2003-02-09
Bernard Lewis is a racist, anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab writer. I do not recommend any of his work. I find his work to be not accurate, and offensive.
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Cold War Culture and Society (The Cold War, Volume 5)
Lori Bogle
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This collection of reprinted articles and essays, written by scholars of history, political science, international relations, sociology, and cultural studies, brings together information on the Cold War from a wide range of international journals. It is a useful resource for students of contemporary history and society. From the extensive critical literature, the editor has chosen articles that convey the sharpest understanding of the conflict and organized them in a five-volume collection according to major historical issues of the Cold War: its origins, security policies, hot wars, espionage, and its impact on U.S. society. The Cold War collection shows how the conflict defined the international political landscape of the second half of the twentieth century, shaping the domestic and foreign policy agendas of nations and leaving no region of the world free from the conflict waged between the superpowers. But it also makes clear how the Cold War was always more than political and military decisions. From the beginning, it influenced culture, art, education, media, and society in intimate ways. Its legacy today is profound and lasting.
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Full of information, but poorly put together.......2000-04-01
This book was a requirment for my honors World History class and neither I, my class, nor my teacher enjoyed reading it. This book does have several positive factors though. It is full of information, dates, and facts. It also features very useful timelines, and excerps from important documents of whatever period is in question. But while these things are good...the bad outnumber them.
It is said that chronology is a historian's secret weapon. The biggest problem in this book is the lack of chronology. The various sections in this book (or what use to be different volumes) are all categorized by civilization and not by time. Since primarily used in a World History class, though, it is hard and downright confusing sometimes to create a mental timeline while reading. Instead there are overlapping dates and the text will hop around chronologically. While when I used this book it was mandatory, if anyone is simply looking for a reference for something, I reccomend you find another book.
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This book will appeal to instructors who focus on the social history of western civilization, rather than merely the political history. The many historical documents and statistics incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of the lifestyle of the general populace across western civilization. Volume B contains Chapters 13 through 22 of the comprehensive text.
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a good history text.......2004-02-18
Of the six history text books I've read in the past year for assorted classes, this one was written the best. It might be difficult for some first year undergraduate students, only because it uses a variety of diction that doesn't always get explained too thoroughly. The only problem I've had with this book has to do with the page gloss that reflects too much light, but that's just a personal preference. Besides the fact that it is a paperback textbook that is nearly $60, this is a decent textbook for renaissance history.
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This book will appeal to instructors who focus on the social history of western civilization, rather than merely the political history. The many historical documents and statistics incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of the lifestyle of the general populace across western civilization. Volume C contains Chapters 22 through 33 of the comprehensive text.
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Chemistry of Pigments and Fillers
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