The Letters of Robert Lowell

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Over the course of his life, Robert Lowell impressed those who knew him by his "refusal to be boring on paper" (Christopher Benfey). One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Robert Kennedy, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost.

These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers; and his engagement with politics and the antiwar movement of the 1960s.

The Letters of Robert Lowell shows us, in many cases for the first time, the private thoughts and passions of a figure unrivaled for his influence on American letters.

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What Next?.......2005-12-02

Saskia Hamilton, a New York based poet, proves her mettle as an editor with this fat collection of Robert Lowell's letters.

He wrote great letters, and this surprised me a bit, but every one of them shows an insane desire to please, to flatter, to make the recipient feel good about himself or herself; he's marvelously attentive to nuance and knows exactly how to push the right buttons of his correspondents, telling them just what they want to hear. And he's sincere, which is a plus. Over and over again I was impressed by the facility with which he was blessed, or maybe he worked it up over time, because the earliest letters aren't that great, it's not until he gets into the 1940s that the familiar Lowell manner takes over.

This volume explains so much! Mostly how it was that, with all the truly awful things Lowell did, people still loved him. If it wasn't red-baiting the director of Yaddo and forcing the board to impeach her in 1947, it was publishing all those poems about Elizabeth and Harriet against their wishes, or it was wanting to marry Jackie Kennedy or whatever. Apparently all these were episodes of a manic nature in his bipolar disorder, including the car wreck that permanently disfigured wife #1 Jean Stafford. Well, of course none of them were really his fault but still. And now this book of letters unveils his real private voicem, gently coaxing reassuring, making sense of the world, interpolating, and penetrating the consciousness of whoever he was writing to at the time. The older and the famous got one style of letter; his peers got another.

Hamilton's notes are sparse, but seem sensible. However printing over 700 of these letters is out of control. Like the Bidart-edited POEMS, the book physically becomes too big to handle, it takes two strong men just to lift it off the shelf. Why so many? Plus, one gets the feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the letters go, and that in a year's time we may have the first of many annual sequels, "More Letters by Robert Lowell." Never underestimate how many times a manic genius (with, as he boasts, unearned income and lots of free time) will reach out to others to make himself heard and understood. The word is the life.

A great poet, but a of a prig.......2005-08-27

Robert Lowell was a great poet to be sure. These letters shine a bit of light on his non-public side. He is rude to his parents, snide in fact. In the 1st 2 sections he asks for money from them again and again, though he treats them as imbeciles and abuses them through his letters and in person. He boasts about his brilliance and believes that the path he is on will lead to fame, as it does. But at what price?
It is hard to like R. Lowell as a person. I had moments when I wanted to yell at him (crazy, huh?). I believe that we should sometimes settle for art rather than the artist.

Wonderful letters from a now-distant past.......2005-08-03

This big collection of letters is remarkable in so many ways. Lowell was a tireless and prolific correspondent and never dull. He expressed love, wonder, and a surprisingly cheerful interest in mundane things and events. He wrote, for example, to Elizabeth Bishop, congratulating her (somewhat self-consciously) on her weight loss, among many other achievements. To Elizabeth Hardwick (second of his three wives) he sent tender and intimately newsy letters - often with an ache. Randall Jarrell, another friend, received a letter that began "Lying awake in bed the other night after my reading, I thought of the joy of seeing you."

Lowell would have loved email: he complains every now and then about the slowness of the mails, especially between the US and Europe. He is by turns thrilling and everyday in these letters, and often tender and loving.

Much has been made posthumously of Lowell's bipolar disorder. It's sad and sweet to read his notes to his mother. After beginning "psycho-therapy" in the late 1940's he writes to her that "I've been trying to understand my first six or seven years, and have many questions to ask you." He is uncynical and open. After her death in 1954 (also documented in letters) he had a psychotic break during which, as ever, he wrote letters.

Editor Saskia Hamilton has arranged these chronologically so you can read them as a sort of a biography. This is a terrific window on Lowell and his world.

The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters: 1927-1939

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Eminent Theologian Offers Much Theology to Ponder

The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters: 1927-1939
Hermann Sasse
Manufacturer: Concordia Publishing House
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Eminent Theologian Offers Much Theology to Ponder.......2002-07-26

This collection of Sasse's essay written between 1927-1939 are thus particularly fascinating and enlightening as the context of the Nazi regime and intro to American Christianity way heavy on the author.

Here one will discover what it truly means to confess one's faith in light of pressure and temptation. Thus, the lonely way.

Confessional words from this studied church historian and exegete and ecumenist pour forth on observation of his own ecclesiastical scene as well as ours here in the States.

The opening essay is fascinating, since it entails Sasse's initial visit to America. His comments are penetrating and analytical, e.g. "This churchliness of life has a down side to be sure: the secularization of the church. ... Tkhey have opened their doors in part to modern civilization, which has endangered the purity and depth of the faith. Here is the reason for that superficiality of American church life which repulses us Germans." "The consequence of this, along with the concurrent leveling effect of American life, is an elimination of confessional anthitheses. .... All this has created a common religious atmosphere, in which the confessional lines are blurred. Thus fighting has been replaced by cooperation, one of the great American catchwords."

Delivered in 1928, an essay on the church as body of Christ is yet another of Sasse's confessional themes, strongly confessing the Lutheran substance of sacramental presence of Christ: "The church is the body of Christ, is identical with the body of Christ, which is really present in the Lord's Supper. The participation in the body and blood of Christ present in the Lord's Supper is synonymous with membership in his body."

Instructive thoughts and admonitions which provide more than ample reflective thought of their adaptation and input to current theological issues and ponderings.

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A Large Soul.(The Letters of Robert Lowell)(Book Review) : An article from: Commonweal

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A Large Soul.(The Letters of Robert Lowell)(Book Review) : An article from: Commonweal
Daniel M. Murtaugh
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Date: September 9, 2005
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One life, one writing.(The Letters of Robert Lowell)(Book Review) : An article from: Poetry

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One life, one writing.(The Letters of Robert Lowell)(Book Review) : An article from: Poetry
Adam Kirsch
Manufacturer: Modern Poetry Association
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Title: One life, one writing.(The Letters of Robert Lowell)(Book Review)
Author: Adam Kirsch
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 186 Issue: 3 Page: 248(7)

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The Letters of Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The papal church persecutes to death and dungeons worse than death, withholds the word of God, and has corrupted the canon of scripture: Five letters, ... assertions of a Roman Catholic priest

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The papal church persecutes to death and dungeons worse than death, withholds the word of God, and has corrupted the canon of scripture: Five letters, ... assertions of a Roman Catholic priest
Robert Lowell
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Part of a letter from Robert Frost to Amy Lowell: [Photocopy]

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Part of a letter from Robert Frost to Amy Lowell: [Photocopy]
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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Loved it!

Honest, heartfelt,

I only on page 60 but this book is so good!

OUTSTANDING

great read

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Anderson Cooper
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In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper's ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother's penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper's description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It's the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper's memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there's frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him. --Erica C. Barnett

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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life.

After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him avoid having to look too closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him.

But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda -- but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth.

Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.

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Loved it!.......2007-10-09

Great book and highly recommended. I don't usually finish all books I start, but I loved this one and finished it very fast! I would recommend.

Honest, heartfelt, .......2007-09-29

Anderson Cooper has written some heartwrenching stories, his feelings
that make me feel like I am with him. Revealing his own history,
clearing some of his baggage, makes one want to look into their own.

Clean, well written reading, an excellant auto biography.

I only on page 60 but this book is so good!.......2007-09-25

Hi, I am Rachael, using mom acount (sorry useless information). Anyway awesome book I'm finished with it and I just want to read it again it is so good! He put so much emotion into it and describe the event so well that you can picture everything as you read. For some reason my favorite part of the book that I read to my mom was when about at the end when he was talking about his brother and the question "were you close". Him talking about Katrina and how it affected him, I wouldn't harely put the book down. The book was never boring to me. I love the picture in the middle of the book too. That really cool to do I love the picture of his dad, if you didn't look at that well, you would of thought it was Anderson. He look so much like him and him describing his father passing away. There wasn't a bad thing about the book in my opinion, never boring, kept your attention and kept you reading. Best autobiography ever!

OUTSTANDING .......2007-09-12

I remember watching the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina unfold on TV, I was stunned and couldn't believe it - untill I saw a correspondent on the verge of tears while trying to report what he had to witness, and finally losing it when a US senator tried to sugarcoat the tragedy just to look good on TV.
I had no idea who that reporter was but I remember cheering him on and thinking: Finally there's ONE reporter who doesn't think of his own career first but demands answers, ugly as they may be.

I admit I read a few reviews before I started writing my own one, and the two words that stick out are COMPASSION and COURAGE.
Compassion for the victims and their stories and the courage to tell it like it is and to demand honest answers, no matter who's toes you have to step on to get them.

Anderson Cooper may not realize it, but both traits are really rare these days and set him apart from most reporters - and they shine through every page of his book.
Reading about his family backround only makes him stand out more because given his family's wealth and fame he could easily have lived the meaningless, shallow life of one Paris Hilton...

Instead he chose a very difficult job, one which very few of us "normal" people would be able to stand.
(To be honest, even after reading his own words about the horrors he's experienced I have no idea how he manages keep going and to stay sane.)

After reading the book in one day (I just couldn't stop), if I had to summarize it in one word I'd say: IMPORTANT.
In the world we live in today, books like "Dispatches from the Edge" are important to remind us of what is happening beyond our own yards; and it's important to have people like Anderson Cooper out there, even if we sometimes prefer not to be confronted with the harsh reality.

great read.......2007-08-25

no nonesense story of major events in 2005 told by a sensitive reporter. Very fast and insighful read. He does write like a reporter and can sometimes sound very much like his newscast at times but it's his interactions with the people he meets and his internalization of these events that makes the book. Would highly recommend it.

Dispatches From The Edge - Memoir Of War, Disasters, And Survival

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Dispatches From The Edge - Memoir Of War, Disasters, And Survival
Anderson Cooper
Manufacturer: Harper-collins Publishers
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The essential handbook for healthcare workers.

Anatomy and physiology students require more than a passing grade, and have to retain what they learn as they pursue a career in the healthcare industry. With that in mind, this guide takes a fresh approach to the study of the human body and its functions, placing its emphasis on the connections between the body's systems as opposed to covering them each in isolation. With this book, students will actually learn anatomy and physiology rather than just memorize the facts.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Anatomy and Physiology.......2007-10-02

It was pretty informative, probably not exactly what I was looking for but it certainly helps.

Perfect companion to a traditional textbook.......2006-09-06

I don't think this book was ever made to replace your A&P text book. I'm in my second week of A&P and realized that I just couldn't fully grasp the concepts in my text book. So I bought this book to use as a companion to the text. What I personally do is read through the section in my text book, find it's equivalence in the complete idiot's guide, then connect the dots, then refer back to my text book's images for some supporting detail. This process has worked tremendously well for me! I'm giving it 4 stars because I've found a few errors in the book. Especially in the diagrams. For instance it labled cuboidal cells as squamous cells. Uhhh that's just plain wrong and misleading. So definitely read the text first and then focus the details with this lovely little thing. I love the way the author writes too. It makes me laugh out loud sometimes.

Entertaining, but not very useful.......2006-06-24

If you are looking for a book to help you out with physio, I recommend buying "The Physiology Coloring Book" (Kapit/Macey/Meisami). Lazaroff's book has several mistakes, and unlike the Coloring Book, it lacks the important details.

A Good Idea, But Needs Work..........2006-04-07

Save your money. Whether you are an interested layman looking for an intro and overview, or you are a struggling A&P student looking for a map to find your way through the forest, you will probably find this book frustrating. I have had pretty good luck with other Idiot's Guides, but not this one.
This could have been a pretty good book. With some better editing and some better graphic design it would have been alright. The concept is a good one, create an easy reading A&P guide by eliminating (or at least explaining) most of the arcane terminology and massive tables of body parts that A&P students have to memorize, reduce the body systems to simple schematics, focusing on critical cycles and relationships between systems, and present it all in a breezy, fun style.
It should have worked, but failed. I realized a few chapters in that the book is useless unless you have a college level A&P text to refer to. It simply doesn't work as a standalone book. The effect is compounded by a lot of outright editing errors and design mistakes...
The graphics are just plain pitiful. Apparently, they blew their whole art budget on the computer generated color plates which are never referred to in the text, and they are so basic and lacking in any supportive text or labeling that you have to wonder why they bothered (OK, I know why they bothered, `curb appeal', you probably can't sell an anatomy book that doesn't have some color images in it, no matter how unrelated to the text they are). The remaining graphics are stock material that I would guess the author didn't have available while writing the text. The text frequently describes structures which are not shown in the graphics, giving the text a `house that jack built' feeling to it as the author describes one thing linked to another in a long series that is impossible to follow given the supporting material in the book.
The worst sin committed by this book is `redirection hell'. Invariably, when the text and the graphics do match up the graphic is on previous or following pages. The result being that while you read about the house that jack built you have to flip back and forth. Some triangulation between the author, editor, and graphic designer could help resolve this. Further, the author constantly refers the reader to other chapters in the book for related topics. This, I assume, is the promised holistic linking of bodily systems together. Hypertext is alright for wikipedia, but very difficult to read or manage in a printed book. I ended up indexing the book with color coded sticky tabs. Finally, the author does, in fact, refer you to college level A&P texts here and there, but I recommend you get one right away and at least skim it in parallel with this book. I had to borrow an old A&P text from my wife and mark that up with sticky tabs as well. The end result is you have to flip back and forth in this text and flip back and forth between this text and another A&P textbook to make sense of the material. That's a lot of work. For all that I could have just read the old A&P text book and skipped the hard parts.

Anatomy --- of a book.......2006-03-24

The book is good for its purpose, however I think that more pictures need to be added. I am in an area of study where I know what a good chunk of the stuff in the book is, however seeing it is much more helpful.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain

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GREAT!
A great read!
Great introduction to neuroscience
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain
Arthur S. Bard , Mitchell G Bard , Arthur Bard , and Mitchell Bard
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GREAT!.......2007-10-01

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK!, IT EXPLAINS ALL DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF OUR BODY: THE BRAIN!, ALSO FOR ALL OF US WANNABE PSYCHOLOGISTS, IT'S GREAT TO KNOW WHAT THE BRAIN IS MADE OF AND HOW IT WORKS AND THEN ASSOCIATE IT WITH PSYCHOLOGY...

A great read!.......2004-03-24

A great introduction to the brain. This book is a must read before you jump in to other books on neuroscience that may go in to many confusing details. It doesn't skip any aspects, going straight in to history, anatomy, and details of the brain.

Neuroscience is called a must for philosophers, by Patricia Churchland, in her book Brain-Wise Studies in Neurophilosophy.

I would also suggest greater knowledge of neuroscience to psychologists!

As I said, a great starting point, and it's not too "Idiot's Guide" to just be a starting point either... you can end with this book and be satisfied.

Great introduction to neuroscience.......2004-03-24

If you're looking for an introduction to the brain, look no further! This book provides a brief history of neuroscience, to the anatomy of the brain, on to more intricate details. It will not leave you confused or with too many useless details.

A great read for philosophers who want to know more about the human condition, a must says Patricia Churchland(not this author) in one of her books.

A great read for psychologists who maybe need a refersher - or never learned too much about the anatomy.

Science Fair Project Savior.......2004-02-13

I found this book very helpful, especially in my case. I am currently hard at work on a Science Fair project on how musical stimuli effect a mouse's ability to sucessfully navigate and memorize a maze. I found this book very helpful because it decribed all sections of the brain in detail, but so as not to be confusing. However, I did think that this book is pretty obscure, not many people are looking to understand how their brains work and/or have a hobby dealing with neurosciences. But, as for people such as I, this book was a miracle.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals (2nd Edition)

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comprehensive & simple
A Complete and Handy Reference Guide
Extremely easy to read, informative and fun book on vitamins
A big thank you to the authors
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Nutrition

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For anyone interested in health and nutrition, this guide provides up-to-date information. It explores the functions, benefits, and risks of each essential vitamin and mineral, and gives accurate information about the hottest supplements, including antioxidants, DHEA, and melatonin. The book also points out which drugs and foods may block the body's absorption of important nutrients.

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comprehensive & simple.......2007-01-13

It was all I expected and more. Very simple to use and yet with extensive info if you are seriously interested in health.

A Complete and Handy Reference Guide.......2001-12-12

Part 1: The Vital Keys to Good Health
Part 2: The A to K of Vitamins
Part 3: Minerals: The Elements of Good Health
Part 4: Exploring Other Supplements

Appendix A: A quick reference chart for common health problems such as acne, colds and insomia
Appendix B: Resources (includes addresses and phone number of that company/organization) for Finding nutritionally oriented physicians and other health care professionals in your location, Nutrition and the elderly, Testing labs, Supplement manufacturers, Supplement infomation and regulation, Federal Regulation and Industry association & help for medical problems
Appendix C: Includes a in-depth glossary of the terms throughout the book.

This book is packed with infomation and I found this book very useful.

In its introduction, the author explains briefly on why vitamins and minerals are so important for us to stay alive. Throughout the book there are plenty of charts, including many that list good food sources for the various vitamins, minerals, and other supplements. The book also gives tips on how to get the most from your foods and supplememnts, how to avoid problems like overdoses or bad interactions with other drugs or supplements. It also includes a sidebar with a duck character letting you know what supplements don't work or what to avoid because it dosen't work.

Extremely easy to read, informative and fun book on vitamins.......2001-10-04

This book is very helpful if you are interested vitamins. I knew a decent amount before reading this book, but learned a lot more. It'll tell you what the max dosages are, the dangers of overdosing on certain ones, what each vitamin does and the myths surrounding some of the vitamins, minerals etc. Cancer runs in my family, so I'm looking to avoid that problem. I learned that soy products inhibit breast cancer. More importantly (since I don't like soy products) I found out that I can find soy tablets at the store! A lot of really good information in this book, and as I said, it's extremely easy to read. I read it within a few days

A big thank you to the authors.......2001-06-28

The book helped me to make an informed decision about what vitamin supplements to buy suitable for my personal circumstances. Took me just 4 hours of reading. I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to get too bogged down in this vitamin stuff, but just wants a quick overview of how all these vitamins can help you be more healthy.

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Nutrition.......2000-08-02

Anyone interested in learning about nutritional supplements should read this book!

It covers all of the basics about supplements, why we need them, and what benefits they can provide us with for optimum health. You'll see all of the popular vitamins, minerals, herbs and antioxidants and a whole lot more.

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Conserving Wild America may seem to be a daunting task, yet government wildlife agencies, private conservation organizations, sportsmen, and concerned individuals have accepted the challenge. Nationally-acclaimed wildlife photographer Paul T. Brown has journeyed across the continent to capture breathtaking images of some of North America's most popular wildlife. His stunning photographs reveal how such species as whitetail deer, elk, wild turkey, waterfowl, bald eagles and others have fared during the past century.

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