Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
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Hard read but

How a book infantilizes adults and swallows citizens whole

Right on the mark...

Best Book I've Read in 5 Years

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Benjamin R. Barber
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.

An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specializes today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs.

This provocative culmination of Barber's lifelong study of democracy and capitalism shows how the infantilist ethos deprives society of responsible citizens and displaces public goods with private commodities. Traditional liberal democratic society is colonized by an all-pervasive market imperative. Public space is privatized. Identity is branded. Our world, homogenized. With brilliance and depth, Barber confronts the likely consequences for our children, our liberty, and our citizenship, and shows finally how citizens can resist and transcend the civic schizophrenia with which consumerism has infected them.

Customer Reviews:

Hard read but.......2007-09-24

Benjamin R. Barber's "Consumed" is a hard book to read but a necessary one. Barber tells us how capitalism once met the "needs" of people and that it now just meets what he calls "faux" demand. It's the rise of the protestant ethics and ethos that has made capitalism thrive until today. The rise of infantilization and the dumbing of consumers has given corporations the power to control our so called "wants." Barber doesn't give us a solid solution to this (even he admits it will take a big effort) growing problem but it is a start.

How a book infantilizes adults and swallows citizens whole.......2007-09-03

It seems like there is an endless market for "Marx-lite" books by people who hate America and the West. Here is another example without a new idea in sight. Famous authors, such as Marx, Sombart, and Gaibraith, have previously rebottled this old wine. Like them, Barber hates our movies, our culture, our food, our sports, our consumer products, our free markets, and, of course, the likes of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Gates, Gilder, Wal-Mart, GM, Google, and on and on. It is depressing just going through all the parts of America he feels are misdirected and even immoral. Is this really a person who loves America?

Where are the positive examples and why this perspective? Because, as the Nobel Prize winning economist Hayek has pointed out, for socialists, "Every activity must derive its justification from conscious social purpose." Thus Barber must tear down all those activities that he feels have either no purpose or the wrong social purpose. This quote by Hayek is a succinct summary of the motivation behind the book. Toward this end, Barber quotes many attention-grabbing sources. For example, on page 51 he asks us to consider, "Karl Marx who presciently explained how `the expansion of production and of needs becomes an ingenious and always calculating subservience to inhuman, depraved, unnatural, and imaginary appetites.'" A question: Does that really describe you or your friends?

Like most socialists, he has no respect for the individual: We are all at the mercy of those terrible companies who want to sucker us into buying things we don't want or need. Hey, but Barber will be happy to decide what we need. He knows the truth -- ask him. But why is he or some other group better qualified to decide what we need?

Barber has no understanding of free markets, the emerging global economy, or even the mom and pop shop on the corner. Like many academics, who have never produced anything but papers and books, he writes with absolute confidence and with noteworthy ignorance, not because he is unintelligent but rather because his starting perspective is wrong.

This is a long tedious book: Barber seems to crank this stuff out by the ton. As he would say, this book is an immoral waste of resources that we as consumers should reject because it has no larger social value. The only thing it has going for it is a mighty ad campaign aimed at corrupting children, infantilizing adults, and swallowing citizens whole. But, then again, each of us will have to decide that.

Right on the mark..........2007-08-16

I see a number of other reviewers belittling the book because of some trivial factual error regarding sports figures or celebrities, but in my eyes those points merely underscores the point that Barber is trying to make. In the end the constant media focus on these types of people is in my eyes a mass distraction. Does it change my life one iota when a drunken celebrity does something stupid? Not at all, but the media covers it for hour on end, and people lap it up.

People defend popular culture such as Harry Potter or Shrek, but these are all pure escapism and have very little relevance to our daily lives. Reviewers of those films make tortured comparisons to try and prove relevance to daily life, but the sad fact is that many people have become conditioned to not expect more, and perhaps not even have the patience to view a more substantive work.

Other reviewers insist that they aren't manipulated and that they have free choice. To an extent that is true, but one can easily argue that many people are making poor choices because they have been so deeply conditioned by advertisers. How can you justify spending 50K$ on a car, and replacing it when it is 3 years old when an inexpensive well-made car will fulfill the basic needs of transportation and may last 5-8 years instead? How can you justify spending money on bottled water when tap water in most areas is just fine? And how can you justify accumulating tens of thousands in consumer debt just to acquire all of this stuff? There are countless such examples all over the place.

And finally, there is the paradigm that runs deeply through our society that having more money and having more material goods will somehow make you happier. The problem is that these desires can never be satisfied - there is always something more, and there is always someone else who has more. In the end all of this materialism leaves people feeling empty, and the only tonic that they know to try and fill the void is to go out and shop some more.

On the other hand, if you can reach a point where you are content with what you have, you may find that many of the things that you do have are completely superfluous and can be donated to Goodwill or sold. Get rid of enough stuff, and that McMansion will seem empty, and a more modest and affordable house may meet your needs quite nicely.

Best Book I've Read in 5 Years.......2007-07-11

This is the best book I've read in 5 years. And I usually read 30 or so a year. It is the most challenging thing I've ever read. Throughout almost every sitting with the book, I would have to walk away and just sit to let it soak in. It was extremely cutting and exposing to me. And I dare say convicting. It's helped me to realize what a hyper-consumer I am and how childish I am in my tastes and entertainment. Even how childish I am in my spending. I never thought there would be a day when I felt like I needed to grow up and be a man, but this book helped me to entertain the possibility. The basic idea of the book focuses on the infantilization (dumbing down) of our society via the means of marketing and advertising. And the hyper-consumerism capitalism that we live with today. I couldn't recommend this book more highly. But I will give one disclaimer. It's 300+ pages of really small type. What makes it worse is that the author writes it like an academic paper. For example the first chapter which is only 35 pages long has 98 footnotes. It's just a really difficult read where reading 20 pages takes you an hour. So you'll either love the book or hate it. If you're a nerd, you might dig it. If you're not a nerd, you won't.

Try something else........2007-06-19

I confess, I didn't read the whole book. A friend gave it to me, and I parked it on the shelf after reading half and skimming the rest. Jeez-Louise! I'd hate to spend a week on an expedition cruise with this guy! He'd be the first one trying to feed the animals and then monopolizing the talk at dinner till everyone wanted to jump overboard. I didn't realize corporate America had captured everyone's free-will. The evil Bill Gates and Steve Jobs must be supressed along with Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family! I suggest reading Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville. He still rings true today. You'll sleep better at night. You want an entertaining picture of rampant consumption in America today, seen through the lens of 1840's when the all-corrupting market swallowed the entire continent of North America...and yes, is still swallowing it...There's a lot to eat out there, bunky! Read Heyday by Kurt Andersen. We may not be perfect but there must be some attraction if 12 million people will risk life and limb to get here one way or another. Mr. Barber and his book would probably be better fare in Venezuala or Cuba.

The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy)

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Bit of a letdown
Mediocre addition to this series
He is of Purpose
Saved by the last half
Rises to the Occasion

The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy)
James Swallow
Manufacturer: Games Workshop
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 1844164594

Book Description

Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp. Can Garro and his men survive the depradations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time?

Customer Reviews:

Bit of a letdown.......2007-08-01

I probably would have liked this novel better if it had not been part of the Horus Heresy series. We've had three good novels leading up to it, and most readers of this series already know what's going to happen: the Eisenstein will flee through the terrors of the warp in attempt to warn the Emperor of his betrayal. The problem is that Swallow doesn't spend very long on the journey through the warp, and the horrors that he describes are predictable, not very scary, and easily dealt with. It's not a bad novel, but it's also not a very creative or exciting treatment of a famous event in the world of Warhammer 40,000.

Mediocre addition to this series.......2007-06-19

This was an enjoyable book, but I think this is more for the actual subject matter (the Horus Heresy) than the writing itself. As with all of this series, I assume the writer had a fairly tight outline to work with.

As already noted, the story follow Captain Garro from events well before where Galaxy in Flames left off through their arrival to the Sol system. Villains were uniformly 1 or 2 dimensional, a weak point of this novel. Some plot devices (Garro's sword) were so transparently telegraphed early on that his use of the sword to kill the psyker alien in the first part of the book was almost anticlimatic.

Worth reading more for the events it describes than the writing itself.

He is of Purpose.......2007-06-07

WOW...did I love this book. Yes I did. Now I have been a historical wargamer for decades, but with my young son have begun building armies for Warhammer 40K. Up until recently I had been reading Abnett's wonderful stories about Ibrahm Gaunt and the Tanith. I was on the verge of reading another of Abnett's books when I spotted Swallow's Eisenstein. After juggling which to get, I settled on this one. I have always been intrigued by the Horus Heresy stuff and this looked like a great entry into learning something about it. And I would recommend to any newbie to the hobby that this book is a great way to see how the heresy unfolds and how one Death Guard Captain finds the measure of his life's purpose as he flees with a message of betrayal back to the Emperor.

The story builds nicely and the characters really grow before your eyes. A good book often reads itself and this one definitely did. I couldn't wait to pick it up each lunch hour and in the late hours of the night. I wanted to know how Nathaniel Garro would get the warning back to Terra and would he indeed discover his purpose.

Of course the answer is YES, but the how is so worth the time in discovering. So throw on the ceramite and clean your bolter, it's time my brother Astartes to follow the trials and redemption of Honour Brother Nathaniel Garro.

The Emperor Protects.

Saved by the last half.......2007-05-31

This book was easily on its way to becoming the most disappointing of Black Library's "Horus Heresey" series, but, fortunately, is saved by the end, and is worth reading.
The first half of the book is largely disappointing because it is mostly a rehash of events we have already seen, told from another perspective, instead of picking up where "Galaxy in Flames" left off.
Garro's experiences through the first 170 pages or so are largely redundant to what we've experienced through the series' former protagonist, and really add very little aside from the small pieces involving Death Guard Primarch Mortarion and First Captain Typhon, and even these are largely undeveloped and bland.
But if you can stick it out, the latter part of the book is rewarding for the savvy 40k fan. Casual fans may be disappointed.

Rises to the Occasion.......2007-05-29

James Swallow takes up the fourth novel of the Horus Heresy series, which follows one of the pivotal historical events of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe. This novel tells the tale of Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro of the Death Guard, a minor character in the previous books, and at its core this is a tale of his personal growth and discovery, though action features heavily as well. He is cut of the same cloth as Captain Garviel of the Sons of Horus Legion and main protagonist from the first novels: able, principled, and introspective. Several Primarchs and historical characters make appearances, including: Horus, Rogal Dorn, Mortarion, Captain Typhon (Death Guard), Captain Tarvitz (Emperor's Children), Captain Sigismund (Imperial Fists), and others.

I have been a vocal critic of M. Swallow's past works for the Black Library, which have been long on purple prose and dues ex machina, and short on background knowledge and plot, so I picked up this book with no small amount of trepidation. However, I must say that this is easily his best work and is a worthy successor to the other Horus Heresy books.

The characters have depth, realistic motivations and reactions, and grow in ways that make sense. Particularly telling is Garro's development as he attempts to come to terms with the betrayal of his own Primarch and that of Horus. Without going into anything that would spoil the plot for others, let's just say that it's well done

The action scenes flow well, and convey an excellent sense of urgency. The opponents don't make stupid mistakes for the sake of the plot - a weakness in M. Swallow's prior works. His descriptions of the Primarchs, particularly Mortarion, feel slightly mundane once or twice, but typically have the proper sense of awe. The ending of the book gives a tantalizing hint of things to come without being a tease.

In short: a solid addition to the Horus Heresy series and a good read that you'll have trouble putting down.

Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)

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Reading aloud
A book for all young people.
Enchanting and Realistic
A Treasure of My Childhood I Want My Grandchild to Read
ages 4 to 8?

Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)
Arthur Ransome
Manufacturer: David R Godine
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Binding: Paperback

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The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Swallows and Amazons introduces the lovable Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat island, the able-bodied catboat Swallow, and the two intrepid Amazons, Nancy and Peggy Blackett.

Customer Reviews:

Reading aloud.......2007-01-16

The Swallows and Amazons series was one of my favorites when I was a child. The story, set in the Lake District of England where Wordsworth and other great poets grew up, is a gentle adventure tale about children camping out on an island and rigging a little sailboat. It is slower paced than children are used to today. But I think a sensitive boy or girl would find it reassuring that the children solve their own problems of navigation etc.

While it didn't bother me as a child that the language was distinctly British, as I'd been prepared by the Winnie the Pooh stories, and Wind in the Willows, I would recommend Swallows and Amazons as a bedtime story to be read aloud by an adult reader. The reader could then explain the language. A map of the UK would help too, as the story is set in the Lake District.

An adult storyteller might be interested in a biography of the series author, Arthur Ransome, who led an adventurous life - including work in the Soviet Union and marriage to a Russian woman.

A book for all young people........2007-01-05

This wonderful book was written about 75 years ago, but is still extremely popular today. It is ageless. I first read it as a nine or ten year old and have read it several times since then. The last time I read it I was in my late 50s or early 60s. Every young person should enjoy it immensely as a fictional story. But there are many moral and ethical issues that are slyly inserted into this novel. The biography of the author and how he came to write this book, which was the first in a series of 9 or 10 novels, is a fascinating story in itself.

Enchanting and Realistic.......2006-10-28

Enchanting
It's hard to explain what makes this book so charming: The writing, the way the children and their relationships with each other are shown so clearly and believably, the very real adventures they have, the sense of place....but listing those traits doesn't do the book justice. It's also really funny in places! Ransome creates a world that is clearer and lighter and more enchanting than the one most of us live in -- but he's also written a realistic book. The Lake District DOES look the way he describes it, and there could be children like the Swallows and their friends the Amazon pirates.

The books are for all ages, and I think they are also inspiring and a good influence! They make me want to have adventures -- and they encourage parents by example to let their children have them. The parents in the books are responsible, teach their children well -- and allow them to adventure on their own. They can do that because they've taught the children to have good judgment and be responsible.

Arthur Ransome's own favorite in the series was WINTER HOLIDAY, which I also loved. Once the original characters leave the series, it loses its interest (for me, anyway) -- children who enjoyed the first books will also probably like Blow Out the Moon by Libby Koponen and all the E.Nesbit books.

A Treasure of My Childhood I Want My Grandchild to Read.......2006-10-10

About 60 years ago I read as many books from this series that I could find in my local public library. I had passed through a phase of devouring the Dr. Doolittle fantasy series (so damaged by the motion pictures using that title - how could they cast tall lanky Rex Harrison in the role of a short cuddly grandfather-like figure?) Another series in which, as an American boy fascinated by warplanes during the Worl War II era - I went on to become an aerospace engineer - I was enthralled, was "A Yank in the RAF", which I don't think would translate to the 21st Century very well. But the series that made the most impact on me was Ransome's Swallow family. As with Hugh Lofting's Doolittle, the author's drawings enhanced the books.

I have not visited there yet but I plan on touring Britain's Lake District (I don't think I was cognizant of where the tales took place, except I knew the children were British. They liked to drink ginger beer; in the US we had a ginger ale drink, but not ginger beer and I was curious to have some.) I have long wanted to live somewhere that would allow me to experience the thrill of mastering the small sailing boats of the story. The closest I came was living near the Pacific in California and near the Potomac River. But the boats in those regions were larger and not terribly accessible. I did go sailing with friends and tried to sail on my own in a marina with a rented boat (a too narrow and crowded venue for a novice just learning to tack and unfamiliar with how to dump wind from the sail when being carried in the wrong direction.) I have gotten to taste ginger beer. I have also used the children's means of including coded messages in their letters in the form of dancing stick figures around the page's margin (the secret was to ignore other parts of the figures and concentrate on the positions of the arms, which were standard semaphore code.) I introduced the code to one of my daughters when we were in the "Indian Princesses" organization. (Is the name and programs of that organization offensive to American Indians? I'm sure its founders weren't sensitive to the fact that American Indians still existed.)

I will introduce this series to my precocius 6 year old grand daughter when I think she is ready.

ages 4 to 8?.......2005-12-04

A reading level of ages four to eight? I vigorously question that. Perhaps grades four to eight. The vocabulary, as is the case with many older books, is quite sophisticated. That said, this book is a treasure.

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Atrocity and passionate love merged into a city in ruins
The Irony of the Burqa
a bit contrived and depressing, but important
Good Read

The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra
Manufacturer: Anchor
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Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying of sickness and despair.
Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist. With this gesture the lives of all four protagonists move toward their destinies.
The Swallows of Kabul is a dazzling novel written with compassion and exquisite detail by one of the most lucid writers about the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim world. Yasmina Khadra brings readers into the hot, dusty streets of Kabul and offers them an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair.

Customer Reviews:

Good Book.......2007-06-24

The Swallows of Kabul is an interesting story of the entanglement of the lives of two couples in Kabul. The first three-fourths of the book follow the two husbands closely as they coincidentally run into each other but never meet (somewhat like in Ulysses). Kabul is impoverished and the story takes place during Taliban rule and after the war with the Russians. All four of the characters struggle with living in Taliban ran Kabul and the question of existence develops into a poignant theme. The last fourth of the book moves to target the wives more and here the story became very predictable and I quickly began to lose interest. Khadra does have a rather peculiar writing style (or perhaps a result of the translation) where I found myself often feeling I was reading a play rather than a novel.

Atrocity and passionate love merged into a city in ruins.......2007-05-19

It is hard to put down this book once you've started reading the first few pages. You become intimate with a drama that you know will turn into a tragedy. The descriptions of Kabul are vivid and the characters of the story palpable and human. There's neither rhyme nor reason to the destiny of people, but in Kabul, brutality and ignorance have to meet and the result in darkening the brightest souls.

The Irony of the Burqa.......2006-12-30

Khadra's novel is sensitive and stark. The heartbreak of lives broken by Taliban rule is present on every page. Good men and women turn to violence and irrationality in a culture bent on denying all human rights. However, the final irony is that the burqa both suffocates and shields. It protects a woman from sexual advances yet turns her into an object of such mystery that her female form is a cause for intense arousal. While a woman's identity is lost under the burqa, the final act of sacrifice that allows Zunaira to live is only possible because two women can trade places anonymously. The stoning and execution of burqa-clad women both dehumanizes and intensifies the agony of the bound and helpless victims. The novel is haunting.

a bit contrived and depressing, but important.......2006-12-14

This short, easily read book written in present tense is a poetic tragedy exposing a country most of us know little about. Written by a man, it is particularly sensitive to women suffering in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. The beautiful Zunaira, an intelligent lawyer, has lost her career and freedom, and her value as a human being in that culture has been reduced to nothing - except in the eyes of her doting husband, Mohsen, to whom she is the only light left in their world. The dying Mussarrat would do anything to make her undeserving husband, Atiq, happy. Western women, at the least, will be appalled at the prevailing attitude of men towards women here. The book also paints a picture of the two very different men both losing their minds as the Taliban rule twists their lives into hopeless nightmares.

Since I have not heard many personal experiences of Afghanistan's people today or under the Taliban rule, I can't tell if this book is very representative of their thoughts. The author spins a desperate mind-shattering story enlightened only in the end by the jailer's vision of paradise on earth. I found the ending to be very unrealistic and felt the most tragic figure was the jailer's wife, Mussarrat, sacrificing all she had left for her husband - who did not notice.

While I felt the storyline was a bit contrived and the depression endless, this book offers artistically descriptive prose and a rare personal look into a world we ought to know more about.

Good Read.......2006-12-05

This is a good read and outines the mood of Afganistan under the Taliban.
This story focuses on two relationsships. One of Muhsen and his wife Zunaira and the other of Atiq and his wife Mussarrat. These two couples live in the same area however, they do not know each other.
It shows how Zunaira is effected by what the Taliban has done to thier country and the effects its having on society. Zunaira is educated and pretty much a liberal minded young lady until the Taliban come along and change it all for her. She has to start to wear the Burqa and she is completely against this and feels the Burqa has taken away her identity and her presonality. She is no longer able to work and her degree in law are recognised as mere papers that mean nothing. Zunaira is against public hanging and stoning and after her husband admits to stoning a women then thier relationship begins to deteriorate significanty.

Then there is Atiq and wife musarrat. Atiq a jailer bored of his job and his ill wife. Who is not able to cook, clean or be a wife due to her illness. This effects Atiq considerably he hates the idea of going home to his wife and he starts to talk to himself while in public place due to the effect of her illness on him. He feels guily for how he feels for her and that he does not love her anymore. He feels obliged in keeping her as his wife as she nursed him while he was ill. His friends begin to see his mood swings in public places and the effect of him become mentally ill from this and see that he is depressed and that he needs to take on a new wife.

Then a young lady enters the prison sell for killing her husband. This is were all four lifes are tangled together and effects all concerned.

Completely recomended. It is serious but to the point. It is well written and has a meaning to make people realise the tenstions the taliban has caused in Afghanistan.

Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon: SGA-4 (Stargate Atlantis)

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Good stuff!

Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon: SGA-4 (Stargate Atlantis)
James Swallow
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A brutal society needs the team to harness Wraith technology.

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Good stuff!.......2007-05-29

The author achieved a nice balance between keeping true to the characters and themes of the show, and exploring an interesting (if somewhat grim) new science-fictional society. A focused, fast-moving plot that managed also to incorporate a good scene or two for each of the major characters (like Ronon's "One Man Army" assault during the Capture-the-Flag wargame sequence). And even a touch of romance for Rodney! Compares favorably to the best of other media tie-ins like Peter David's "Star Trek" novels.

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hope you are hungry

Swallow Book 3
Ashley Wood , and Various
Manufacturer: IDW Publishing
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Presenting the third edition of a deluxe magazine devoted to modern illustration and the artists that produce it. Featuring the biggest names in comic book art, as assembled by designer/creator/contributor Ashley Wood (Popbot) and amazing illustrators you need to discover! This third volume features work by Kent Williams, Ted McKeever, James Jean and many others!

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hope you are hungry.......2007-05-17

Swallow as a whole gets better and better. Less work by wood is made up by much more work from many more. Inspriring.

Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook: Over 150 Tasty and Nutritious Recipes for People Who Have Difficulty Swallowing

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This book has some great tips
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Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook: Over 150 Tasty and Nutritious Recipes for People Who Have Difficulty Swallowing
Donna L. Weihofen , JoAnne Robbins , and Paula A. Sullivan
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ASIN: 0471200743

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Delicious and nourishing recipes that are easy to eat and swallow

The simple act of eating is a challenge for millions of people whose ability to chew and swallow has been compromised by the debilitating effects of age or disease. The Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook presents a collection of more than 150 nutritious recipes that make eating enjoyable and satisfying for anyone who has difficulty chewing or swallowing. It also shares helpful tips and techniques to make eating easier for the elderly and those with such diseases as Parkinson's, AIDS, or head and neck cancers.

Donna L. Weihofen, RD, MS (Verona, WI), is a nutritionist and the author of The Cancer Survival Cookbook (0-471-34668-3) and Magic Spices (Wiley: 0-471-34683-7).
JoAnne Robbins, PhD (Madison, WI), is founder of the University of Wisconsin's clinical Swallowing Service.
Paula A. Sullivan, MS, CCC-SLP (Madison, WI), is a speech pathologist who specializes in swallowing rehabilitation.

Customer Reviews:

This book has some great tips.......2007-09-27

This book has great tips for cooking for someone with dysphagia. I highly recommend it.

A Bit Disappointed.......2003-08-25

I was looking for recipes for my father who has difficulty swallowing due to advanced Alzheimer's. While I found the explanations, introductions and tips useful, the recipes were not of much use in our own situation. I would think that this book would be good for somebody who has difficulty CHEWING. For those with Alzheimer's, however, I'm not so sure. Many of the recipes could have been found in my "normal" cookbooks. Recipes that contain any opposites (broth with solids or hard/soft foods together) really aren't much use to us at this point.

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3 1/2 stars - good book, but not what I expected
Good Girls Do Swallow
A Fantastic Read

Good Girls Do Swallow
Rachael Oakes-Ash
Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1840184809

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3 1/2 stars - good book, but not what I expected.......2006-07-18

This is a very good book about eating disorders (all kinds) but also about almost any issue that women deal with, including alcohol and drug abuse, rape, family issues, shop alcoholics and many more. Oakes-Ash is open, honest, and witty. The book actually reads more like an essay, (which can be repetitious at times) and not a typical story, which was something that I wasn't expecting. None the less, I highly recommend it for those interested in eating disorders. If you are just looking for a good novel story, then this is probably not the book for you.

Good Girls Do Swallow.......2005-03-25

Having suffered from eating disorders myself for several years (anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorder) and having read practically every book on the subject, I have to say that this is the best eating disorder book of them all. Rachael is refreshingly honest and witty in her descriptions of the madness. She writes not only about her bizarre and excessive eating habits but also about issues that any female can relate to. The loathing of one's thighs, the envy of our girlfriends and the belief that when you are thin you will have it all. I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever resented the beaming smiles of movie stars that look down on us from billboards and believed that when we are a certain size, we will have the perfect life.

A Fantastic Read.......2005-03-11

A darkly comic look at the tragic world of eating disorders. Books on this subject often tend to lean towards melodrama, but Oakes-Ash writes in a less serious, lighter way, thst helps to make the words more accesible to the reader. Any woman who reads this, whether they have an eating disorder or not, will certaintly recognize aspects of their own personality in Rachael's story. The fact that Oakes suffered anorexia, bulimia and copulsive overeating means that the story fundementally covers all basis on the eating disorder spectrum, and provides a range of varied perspectives.

The most impressive aspect of the book is the sheer frankness of the author's writing. She is refreshingly honest, telling her story in graphic detail whilst resisting the urge to 'sugar-coat' her biography in order to make herself look better. It is this openness - this baring of the soul - that makes the reader immediately warm to Rachael, a factor which helps to make her words & her underlying message seem so much more genuine than the usual crop of 'Self-help' books that are dominating the market at the moment.

The Shy Child: Helping Children Triumph over Shyness

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Excellent resource
The BEST book on Shyness
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Well explained - I really like it
An outstanding book

The Shy Child: Helping Children Triumph over Shyness
Ward K. Swallow
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0446674990

Book Description

Parents of shy children worry, and with good reason. Shyness can interfere with a childs growth, development, school performances, and social experiences. Now, in The Shy Child, an expert in the field of child psychology offers a practical, comprehensive guide that parents will find invaluable in helping their children grow into confident adults. Areas covered include: the signs of shyness in children, from infancy to adolescence, how the shy child responds physically and mentally to stress, why shy children are so vulnerable to bullies and how best to intervene, and much more.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent resource.......2003-07-17

I used this book when I was desparate to find a way to treat my child who has selective mutism. The book was extremely helpful and provided easy to implement suggestions. My son is doing very well because of this book. This is particularly important because I had such a hard time finding a therapist for him and ended up doing this myself. Thank goodness for this book with its logical approach to a frequently overwhelming problem.

The BEST book on Shyness.......2002-10-05

I did not understand the previous review of Dr. Swallow's book. It did not appear to seek to present "medical evidence of shyness," but rather attempted to present practical suggestions to parents regarding the behavior of their shy children. I found this book to be very helpful....Thanx Dr. Swallow....changed my child's life.

Not very good.......2002-04-04

This book was a disappointment. The medical and anecdotal evidence of causes of shy behavior offered was minimal and the solutions very simplistic. Don't waste your money with this book. It didn't teach me a thing.

Well explained - I really like it.......2002-04-03

I enjoy reading Dr. Swallow book, it contains great information, and the contents are explained well. Dr. Swallow should write more books, I come here today to find more books written by Dr. Swallow, but I found just this one. Well, I then want to recommend it.

An outstanding book.......2001-11-02

This is the most useful book I've read on any aspect of parenting. It is sensitively written with constructive suggestions on how to support your child at various stages of development. I'm so glad that I read this book when my son was five. It has changed how both he and I understand and respond to his shy nature. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives, No.)

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Voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies in HMS Swallow and Weymouth (Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives, No.)
John Atkins
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0714617873

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First published in 1735, this account focuses on the customs, food, languages and religions of the peoples in the islands and settlements visited. It also has remarks on the gold, ivory and slave trades.

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