Delicious recipes that really work!
Book title: The Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program : A Personalized Plan for Becoming Slim, Fit and Healthy in Your 40s, 50s, 60s and Beyond
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
The recipes offered in this book are delicious. And the advice provided is excellent. Best of it, it really works and most likely the attentive reader will be able to shed a few pounds when applying this program. The book also includes a variety of lifestyle hints, yes even philosophical anecdotes regarding stress-reduction techniques and other hazards in life. Another book that has helped me a lot, and I recommend for a healthy lifestyle, which will make you feel good about yourself as it is positive and encouraging, is Dietmar Scherf's "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression"-- also available at Amazon.
EAN: 9780452278387
Pages: 496
Publisher: Plume
Authors:
Rachael F. Heller
Richard F. Heller
Revolution and Heresy in the Central American Jungle
Book title: A Flag for Sunrise
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Another Stone masterpiece, a novel of uncomfortable ideas -- even better than Dog Soldiers. This time Stone has taken the steamy, conflicted Yanqui-in-the-tropics oeuvre ala Graham Greene, added sex, betrayal, heresy, drugs, drifters, danger and political violence and turned it into a thriller so gripping, you'll be happy Stone's fictional Central American state of Tecan doesn't exist, and hopefully never will (though it looks and feels suspiciously like Somoza-era Nicaragua). This book is peopled with a scary mix of misfits and losers: a homicidal, speed freak Coast Guard deserter, a compromised anthropologist doing the CIA's bidding, a whiskey priest, assorted Central American military thugs, and other creeps found on the extreme periphery where Stone is most at home.
EAN: 9780330370974
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Authors:
Robert Stone
Insightful
Book title: Service-Oriented Architecture : A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Very good reference for designing web services. Takes many low-level considerations into account, relating mostly to XML data formatted documents. What I also liked about this book is being able to read about web services without references to specific programming languages. It gives you a good grasp of concepts that you can take into development with you. This book should appeal to anyone wanting to get a broader perspective of the web services platform. It also has the best descriptions of service oriented integration architectures I've seen. Erl's loose writing style makes some of the more complex subjects easy to get. Thumbs up from me.
EAN: 0076092025443
Pages: 560
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Authors:
Thomas Erl
A "must-have" instructional reference
Book title: Apache Cookbook
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
The collaboration of Apache software experts Ken Coar and Rich Bowen, Covering Apache 2.0 & 1.3, Apache Cookbook is a "user friendly" guide and comprehensive reference to the most widely used web server in the world. Offering common problems and solutions; step-by-step walk-throughs; discussion problems; sample codes; worked-out solutions; instructions for tasks such as installing the server or managing a proxy server, and so much more, Apache Cookbook is a "must-have" instructional reference for anyone charged with the responsibility of setting up or maintaining an Apache based web server.
EAN: 9780596001919
Pages: 254
Publisher: O'Reilly
Authors:
Ken Coar
Rich Bowen
A Book to Savor (but is it a "guy's book?")
Book title: Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Our reading group read this book, the men liked the Western adventures, the geology, the history and the curmudgeon and his railing at the hippie era. There are veins of ironic humor and persistent poking of holes into the popular myths of how the West was won. (Was it hard work and cowboys or sharp dealing and pirates?) The women found many of the descriptions poetic, vivid and fascinating, but some were disappointed that the relationships were more flat and 1-dimensional than they might have liked. Some felt it was obviously written by a man. Perhaps its a "guys book" but I savored it. Knowing that it is based on the actual letters of a real woman (Mary Halleck Foote) adds greatly to the appreciation for the author's creativity in weaving his story around the points of fact that were established by Ms. Foote's real life. Highly recommended.
EAN: 9780140169300
Pages: 576
Publisher: Penguin Books
Authors:
Wallace Stegner
This book changed our lives!
Book title: The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Parents, don't let people tell you that you're spoiling your child by not letting them "just cry it out". THEY'RE WRONG!!! You don't have to listen to your baby's heartbreaking cries and you don't have to be a sleep-deprived martyr! This book helped us to get the most stubborn baby ever born into a reasonable nighttime routine - WITHOUT TORTURING HIM!!! He's sleeping so great day and night. He naps (3) times a day for at least an hour each time as opposed to a few 20 minute snoozers. And he's learning to go to sleep at night and stay asleep/ fall back to sleep on his own! We were waking up with him as many as 10 times/ night; now we're down to just a couple and that's just in the first few weeks. I highly recommend this book to every parent, it changed my life!
EAN: 0639785400233
Pages: 208
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Authors:
Elizabeth Pantley
William Sears
The Cove
Book title: The Cove
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
I thought the book was outstanding. After I read it, I went out and bought the Edge, Target, Impulse, the maze, False Pretenses, Eden..and all of the rest of the mysteries that I have left out...I wasn't disappointed by a single one. I can't wait for Hemlock Bay on Monday. I thought her writing was awsome, the characters were great..and the story lines for all kept me hooked...Oh, please keep writing these types of stories..
EAN: 9780515118650
Pages: 384
Publisher: Jove
Authors:
Catherine Coulter
Best books I've read since All Creatures Great & Small.
Book title: Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years)
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Audio Cassette
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Audio Cassette
The Mitford books entertain us with small town life. But more important than that, when Father Tim is driving down the road and begins to count his blessings, I put the book down and started to count mine. And you know what? I have quite a lot to be thankful for. It doesn't matter if my battery went dead this morning - the sun was shining and the crocus and forsythia were blooming all around the statue of St. Francis. What a good morning !
EAN: 9780140865974
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Authors:
Jan Karon
A haunting story that you will never forget...
Book title: The Girl in the Box
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
I first read this book when I was 13, and now, almost 20, it is one of the few stories that I still think about. I finally ordered it, and after reading it again, I am still amazed. I admit, reading it for the second time and knowing the ending did take some of the suspense out of it, but not in a bad way. I think the fact that this story has stayed with me for so many years speaks volumes alone. I have never and will never forget Jackie McGee. I am constantly running ideas through my head of what happened after the book ended. This book gets inside your head and stays there. It does things to your mind.This is probably the best young adult book ever written. It is no doubt the best I have ever read.
EAN: 9780553282610
Pages: 192
Publisher: Starfire
Authors:
Ouida Sebestyen
Learn How to Do It
Book title: Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
If you are interested in the experience of companies that implemented the BSC, read the Kaplan and Norton books. Now if you want to learn HOW TO actually DO IT then this book is for you. Instead of selling the reader on the BSC concept Paul Niven teaches the BSC step by step - just like the book title says. I particularly liked Chapter 5 - commonly used measures from each of the BSC perspectives. This is a good book to have if you are implementing or planning to implement the BSC.
EAN: 9780471078722
Pages: 334
Publisher: Wiley
Authors:
Paul R. Niven
