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Earth Sky Gods and Mortals: Developing an Ecological Spirituality
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This title features the best of Andalucía's Mediterranean coastline plus Gibraltar, the vibrant Moorish cities of Granada, Córdoba and Sevilla, the white villages of the interior and the mountain villages of the Sierra Nevada.
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good info, but not enough detail.......2007-09-09
We spent a week driving Andalucia and thought this would be a great book. The info included about the sites was interesting, but I had hoped for a lot more PRACTICAL information!! There was very little help about how to get from the main highways to the town center. The parking suggestions were very vague too. It wasn't nearly as helpful as I had hoped
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Dozens of top 10 lists - from the top 10 aspects of Moorish culture to the top 10 tapas bars in Seville and nightclubs on the Costa del Sol - provide the insider knowledge every visitor needs.
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a great summary.......2007-09-09
if you don't want to carry a heavy guide book and just want the highlights, this was a fun and helpful book
Great for what it is.......2004-07-20
Those familiar with DK's Eyewitness Travel Guides should already know what to expect from this product--amazing photography, great illustrations, and average written content. It's not that Eyewitness is a poor guide; it simply concentrates more on the visual side of the house and the less on the written than say, Rough Guide or Lonely Planet. This is not really a horrible thing; Eyewitness Guides are my first choice in preparing to go to a country because they a) get you excited about it, b) put you in the proper frame of mind to go there, and c) point out many places, attractions, and events you will want to visit while there. As I stated, the photography is breathtaking, and alone is probably worth the price of the book. Although not all-encompassing, the book's delightful format and ease of reading more than compensate for anything lacking.
The Top 10 Guide reviewed here is a smaller guide oriented towards providing-what else?-top 10 lists for the traveler venturing to Andalusia or the Costa del Sol. Just some of the lists presented are Great Beaches, Attractions for Children, Cultural Landmarks, Places to Eat, and many, many other (sometimes quirky, always entertaining lists). If you're looking for an inexpensive overview of places you'll want to visit while in this region, the Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Series is for you.
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Featuring the same portable and user-friendly format as the Insight City Guides and drawing on the best features of the original Insight Guides, the all-new Insight Regional Guide is filled with insightful writing, lavish full-colour photography and provides greater emphasis on practical information to create the most complete portable regional travel guide. .Magazine-style articles .Lively essays written by local writers on culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations of must-see-site - plus maps and floor plans .Restaurant listings at the end of each chapter ."Best of" section highlighting attractions, walks, activities for children and families, festivals and events, cafes, pubs, bars and more .Bonus pull-out Touring Map with tour suggestions and full-colour photos .Tabbed Travel Tips section for quick reference .Comfortable, rounded spine makes these volumes ideal for use on the go
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Perfectly wonderful introduction to Southern Spain.......2007-04-24
This was a great guide for a recent trip to Spain; both I and my young daughter thouroughly enjoyed looking through the photos...sometimes when I couldn't find the book, I'd look in her room and she'd have fallen asleep with it in her hands--no doubt dreaming of adventures to come! The info within is limited to Andalucia, so be aware of this if your travels take you beyond the borders of Southern Spain.
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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! In this compact guide, our writers help you plan itineraries for short and longer stays. Complete with must-see sights on and off the beaten track as well as current hotel and restaurant recommendations. And the convenient size of the guide allows you to take it along in your pocket or handbag. Take the world in your pocket next time and travel with this handy Berlitz guide.
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Thomas Cook Drive Around Guides are designed to provide you with a comprehensive but flexible reference source to guide you as you tour a country or region by car. This guide divides Andalucia into touring areas – one per chapter. Major cultural centres or cities form chapters in their own right. Each chapter provide at least a day’s worth of activities – often more.
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Andalucia and Costa Del Sol (Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guides)
Jeffrey Kennedy
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Very good guide for scenic drives and hikes.......2006-08-01
This is a good book for travellers who like drive tours, walking and hiking and like to plan their own iteneraries. We had a very difficult time finding information about hikes around Costa Del Sol. On one hike, we met a group from the Marbella Walking club and asked them where we could get detailed information about hikes in the area and directions to trail heads. They recommended the book with the sunflower and told us it was the best. I agree. The book has car tours of the area, with pictures and information about trails from those routes. The trail maps have symbols showing highlights like scenic vistas and qaurry. It gives us elevation gain, loss, distance and trail conditions (Eg. wet, rocky, steep). The book is small enough to fit easily into a backpack. The picnic settings recommended in the book are good for enjoying mountain villages and the scenic beauty of the area. The information in the book takes you off the beaten path to areas the tour guides do not mention.
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Andalucia/Costa Del Sol (GeoCenter Detail Map)
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Andalucia And the Costa Del Sol (Landscapes S.)
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Andalucia and the Costa Del Sol (Signpost Guides)
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It's okay...but a little boring.......2002-01-04
It's okay. It's one of those books where you want to read it once and then give it away. I have every single Sweet Valley Senior Year book and this has to be one of the top three boring. You know what's going to happen. A little predictable. With Evan's parents splitting up and everything, it's good at some parts but some are boring. :)
An okay buy..........2001-12-17
It was an okay book not the best but pretty good. It was mostly about Evan and how he is dealing with his parent's decision to get a divorce! Yep the happy Plummer family have hit rock bottom. But Evan refuses to let it happen he even tries to get himself in trouble to pull them together (oh well you know where Im going with this) Meanwhile Andy finds a guy who is interested in him only problem is that he hasn't came out yet and doesnt want Andy to tell anyone about it and he also shares with Andy some information on Evan's mother's whereabouts. There is also some Melissa drama. She is confused about how everyone including her friends are blowing her off lately (I think she's finally realizing the world doesnt revolve around her...shocking isnt it) Anyway Will has a pretty good reason. At his new job he is paired up with an old friend from El Carro. Who happenes to be the GIRL who had Melissa in her shadow before she graduated! Anyway Will and her... Well you know what you should see for yourself! I think you will like how EVERYTHING turns out. Becuz like I said the book was an okay read :-)
Pretty good........2001-12-17
I think this is one of the better books they've done lately..they actually put some emotion into it and that makes it pretty good..b/c you can get into it..like when Evan cries and holds Jade..that was pretty good...this is one of the better ones from lately because they actually try to focus on everyone at some point..although Liz isnt in there that much..and whats with Jade bieng jealous of Liz? AGAIN? But they've got Maria and Ken, Conner and Alanna, and Liz, and Jessica and Jeremuy..and Will and Melissa...and Erica, a new co-worker of Will's and his old high school crush, and Melissa's old arch enemy. Look forward to some good plot there..overall i give it 4 stars..b/c Liz needs a guy!!!
Tearing Me Apart.......2001-12-16
well this book was so sad, conner and alanna got into a car accident becuase alanna had been drinking wihich was obvious. everyone was ok but conner obviously broke their relationship off cuz that was way too much. also liz tried to talk to todd about megan and him b/c megan asked her to, but they ended up making out and well a little more then that. not much w/ jeremy, jess, trent, tia fiasco, just them complaining. i think this book was reallyh great everyone should read it.
Where are the Wakefields?.......2001-12-12
This book fleshes out the character of Evan and Andy, but I think Liz says maybe two lines and Jessica doesn't say much more. What's up with that? I love Evan and Andy, but lets see them work through their problems with the help of the Wakefield sisters. If you were hoping this book would tell you more about Elizabeth and her neverending love for Conner(or maybe hope that she would help Evan with his problems with some TLC) or to watch Jessica be happy w/Jeremy, then you will be sadly disappointed. You could never read this book and be totally upto date on what's going on in Sweet Valley.
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Tearing Me Apart
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The Cat Primary Visual Cortex
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Written by experts on the forefront of investigations of brain function, vision, and perception, the material presented is of an unparalleled scientific quality, and shows that analyses of enormous breadth and sophistication are required to probe the structure and function of brain regions. The articles are highly persuasive in showing what can be achieved by carrying out careful and imaginative experiments.
The Cat Primary Visual Cortex should emerge as essential reading for all those interested in cerebral cortical processing of visual signals or researching or working in any field of vision.
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Chemical Inhibitors for Corrosion Control (Special Publication, No 71)
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This digital document is an article from JCT CoatingsTech, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3687 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Improved corrosion control through nontoxic corrosion inhibitor synergies.(Technology Today)(Cover story)
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This digital document is an article from Pipeline & Gas Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2906 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: New technology effective in reducing top-of-the-line corrosion rate.(Inhibitor Dispersal Pig Tested)(T.D. Williamson Inc. develops V-Jet)
Author: Eric N. Freeman
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On 1st July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next 4.50 months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with horrendous losses to both sides.
This book, written by the world's foremost expert in the subject, describes in chilling detail everything from the grand strategy to the experience of the men on the ground. Illustrated throughout, it is a stunning and absorbing depiction of the horror that was the Somme in 1916.
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Another meidocre polemics from Sheffield.......2004-09-13
This is just a so ridculous book that if not for all the waste of lives in the battle, you will laugh at the silly, baised polemics advanced by "noted" pseudo historian Sheffiled, who like Philip Warner, manages to turn all BEF defeats and fiascos into gallant victories and coups.
Bizarre defence of the indefensible.......2004-07-05
This book is an attempt to justify the British state's role before and during the First World War. But Sheffield misreads the war's origins, methods and results. Like all too many historians of this war, he lines up supporting one imperialist power against another.
He tries to justify the war as British self-defence, but it was a war between rival pirates, whose similarities are more important than their differences, and it doesn't matter which pirate drew the knife first. The rival historians are still quarrelling with Lenin, without honestly and openly confronting his analysis of imperialism.
Sheffield describes the Somme as "if not a strategic victory, certainly a strategic success." It's fortunate that he's a military historian at King's College London, not a general! He doesn't mention the battle's casualty figures - Britain and France lost 600,000 killed, Germany 650,000 - claiming that he is not into `the grisly process of comparing casualty statistics', although he does so for the battles of Passchendaele and Amiens. He notes, only in passing, that the British and French blockade killed 243,000 German civilians in 1918.
Overall, the Allies killed 3.5 million people, the Central Powers 5 million, so by Sheffield's criterion for `strategic success', the Central Powers won the war! He tries to claim that the appalling carnage was worthwhile, because it was a war for democracy. But in reality, millions were killed just so that Britain and France's ruling classes, not Germany's, should run the Middle East.
The First World War raises the questions - how can wars be prevented? How can they be stopped? Not by voting Labour! The Labour Party opposed the war, until it started, and then backed it when it began - just as now. Only the working class could have prevented the war, or stopped it early, by seizing power from the warmongers. The Russian revolution ended the war: revolutions in other countries too would have prevented the Second World War.
This book is not the `radical new interpretation' that the publishers promise: it is the conventional, ancient case for empire and war, in modern academic guise.
Good Narrative, Polemical Conclusions.......2003-06-23
At first glance, the latest volume in Cassell's Field of Battle series - The Somme by Gary Sheffield - is a disappointment from the previous high quality in this series. Unlike the previous volumes, such as Cannae, Gettysburg and Tannenberg, The Somme is physically smaller and shorter. Furthermore, the color battle maps in the previous volumes have been supplanted with less appealing black and white maps. In terms of content, Professor Sheffield delivers a sound narrative of the Battle of the Somme from July-November 1916 (a lot to cover in only 168 pages). Yet while Sheffield is quite good in dealing with facts, his subjective opinions and conclusions are less certain. In short, Sheffield wants to build a case that the Battle of the Somme was not an "unmitigated disaster," but a qualified success, of sorts.
The Somme consists of six chapters, with 34 pages concerning the infamous first day of the campaign and three other chapters covering the follow-on battles. The author provides a detailed order of battle for the Commonwealth forces (although corps assignments are not listed), a much less detailed German order of battle (no corps listed), and nothing for the French. The bibliography and footnotes are also considerably less than other volumes in the series. The 12 black and white maps generally support the campaign narrative very well (although French attacks are only detailed on one map) but the lack of color makes it difficult to distinguish different advance lines, which differ only slightly in shading. The photographs are also good, if not particularly unique.
Professor Sheffield's hypothesis is broadly similar to Paddy Griffith's Battle Tactics of the Western Front (1994), that the British High Command had little choice but to launch protracted offensives to wear down the Germans and that these offensives, while costly, were not a mere waste of lives. While Sheffield admits that the Somme was essentially an attritional battle, rather than a breakthrough battle, he asserts that the campaign ended in an Allied success. Sheffield quotes an obscure German captain that, "the Somme was the muddy grave of the German field army," to support his claim that the British offensive successfully eroded the German army. Indeed, Sheffield goes so far as to make the silly claim that the German army was reduced to "a militia" due to heavy losses in officers and NCOs, and that the eventual German collapse in 1918 was a direct result of the pounding received on the Somme two years earlier. In the short run, Sheffield also uses the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in 1917 as "proof" that the Germans had been defeated on the Somme and that they could not withstand another such battle. However, none of these assertions really prove a German defeat or British victory on the Somme. If both sides suffered about 600,000 casualties on the Somme, it is hard to see how the much larger German Army could afford these losses less than the manpower-restricted British.
Sheffield also concurs with Paddy Griffith that the British Army learned a great deal of tactical knowledge on the Somme - albeit at high cost - that would contribute to success in 1918. Certainly the Battle of Morval and the capture of Thiepval indicated that the British had learned to use their artillery more effectively and that it was possible to seize limited objectives at modest cost in lives. However, if the British Army learned lessons on the Somme, so did the Germans, who adopted a new doctrine for "elastic defense" that would cost the Allies dearly in 1917. Thus while Sheffield explains that both sides learned valuable lessons on the Somme, he fails to demonstrate that the British gained a significant doctrinal advantage over the Germans.
There is a great deal that must be left unsaid to propose a theory that the British "won" the Battle of the Somme. Sheffield completely ignores the fact that the Germans began transferring over one million troops back from the Eastern Front in 1917 and that they were able to mount the powerful "Kaiserschlact" offensive in early 1918. There is not a word here of the "backs to the wall" period for the BEF in 1918, where the German Army was clearly not reduced to "a militia." Nor is there a word about the American contribution to victory, and even the French participation in the Somme is little covered after the first day. Finally, the author makes little effort to assess the damage done to the British Army by this four-month slugfest, other than to note the "amazing" resiliency of the British troops to fight on despite heavy losses and hardship. Sheffield even has the audacity to claim that since the British were losing inexperienced troops (the New Army) in exchange for German veterans, the casualties were not so serious for the British (whose own pre-war regulars had been destroyed in 1914).
In retrospect, it would be difficult for any sober analysis to view the Battle of the Somme as much of success and Professor Sheffield's hypothesis should be treated as polemical rather than objective. Aside from the disastrous first day of the offensive, the British lost tens of thousands of troops for insignificant objectives. In one case, the Australians suffered 23,000 casualties in a week - more than they suffered in months at Gallipoli - in the unsuccessful attempt to seize "Moo Cow Farm." Indeed, if one looks at the area carved out of the German defenses by the four month offensive, it is obvious that not a single major town, road intersection or key piece of terrain is located in this area. What Sheffield's book delivers is a good blow-by-blow account of a long campaign, but it fails to deliver a balanced assessment that this campaign drained both sides.
Good Narrative, Polemical Conclusions.......2003-06-14
At first glance, the latest volume in Cassell's Field of Battle series - The Somme by Gary Sheffield - is a disappointment from the previous high quality in this series. Unlike the previous volumes, such as Cannae, Gettysburg and Tannenberg, The Somme is physically smaller and shorter. Furthermore, the color battle maps in the previous volumes have been supplanted with less appealing black and white maps). The result is a book that is considerably shorter and less graphically appealing than the previous volumes in the series. In terms of content, Professor Sheffield delivers a sound narrative of the Battle of the Somme from July-November 1916 (a lot to cover in only 168 pages). Yet while Sheffield is quite good in dealing with facts, his subjective opinions and conclusions are less certain. In short, Sheffield wants to build a case that the Battle of the Somme was not an "unmitigated disaster," but a qualified success, of sorts.
The Somme consists of six chapters, with 34 pages concerning the infamous first day of the campaign and three other chapters covering the follow-on battles. The author provides a detailed order of battle for the Commonwealth forces (although corps assignments are not listed), a much less detailed German order of battle (no corps listed), and nothing for the French. The bibliography and footnotes are also considerably less than other volumes in the series. The 12 black and white maps generally support the campaign narrative very well (although French attacks are only detailed on one map) but the lack of color makes it difficult to distinguish different advance lines, which differ only slightly in shading. The photographs are also good, if not particularly unique.
Professor Sheffield's hypothesis is broadly similar to Paddy Griffith's Battle Tactics of the Western Front (1994), that the British High Command had little choice but to launch protracted offensives to wear down the Germans and that these offensives, while costly, were not a mere waste of lives. While Sheffield admits that the Somme was essentially an attritional battle, rather than a breakthrough battle, he asserts that the campaign ended in an Allied success. Sheffield quotes an obscure German captain (who was Captain von Hentig anyway?) that, "the Somme was the muddy grave of the German field army," to support his claim that the British offensive successfully eroded the German army. Indeed, Sheffield goes so far as to make the silly claim that the German army was reduced to "a militia" due to heavy losses in officers and NCOs, and that the eventual German collapse in 1918 was a direct result of the pounding received on the Somme two years earlier. In the short run, Sheffield also uses the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in 1917 as "proof" that the Germans had been defeated on the Somme and that they could not withstand another such battle. However, none of these assertions really prove a German defeat or British victory on the Somme. If both sides suffered about 600,000 casualties on the Somme, it is hard to see how the much larger German Army could afford these losses less than the manpower-restricted British.
Sheffield also concurs with Paddy Griffith that the British Army learned a great deal of tactical knowledge on the Somme - albeit at high cost - that would contribute to success in 1918. Certainly the Battle of Morval and the capture of Thiepval indicated that the British had learned to use their artillery more effectively and that it was possible to seize limited objectives at modest cost in lives. However, if the British Army learned lessons on the Somme, so did the Germans, who adopted a new doctrine for "elastic defense" that would cost the Allies dearly in 1917. Thus while Sheffield explains that both sides learned valuable lessons on the Somme, he fails to demonstrate that the British gained a significant doctrinal advantage over the Germans.
There is a great deal that must be left unsaid to propose a theory that the British "won" the Battle of the Somme. Sheffield completely ignores the fact that the Germans began transferring over one million troops back from the Eastern Front in 1917 and that they were able to mount the powerful "Kaiserschlact" offensive in early 1918. There is not a word here of the "backs to the wall" period for the BEF in 1918, where the German Army was clearly not reduced to "a militia." Nor is there a word about the American contribution to victory, and even the French participation in the Somme is little covered after the first day. Finally, the author makes little effort to assess the damage done to the British Army by this four-month slugfest, other than to note the "amazing" resiliency of the British troops to fight on despite heavy losses and hardship (stiff upper lip time!). Sheffield even has the audacity to claim that since the British were losing inexperienced troops (the New Army) in exchange for German veterans, the casualties were not so serious for the British (whose own pre-war regulars had been destroyed in 1914).
In retrospect, it would be difficult for any sober analysis to view the Battle of the Somme as much of success and Professor Sheffield's hypothesis should be treated as polemical rather than objective. Aside from the disastrous first day of the offensive, the British lost tens of thousands of troops for insignificant objectives. In one case, the Australians suffered 23,000 casualties in a week - more than they suffered in months at Gallipoli - in the unsuccessful attempt to seize "Moo Cow Farm." Indeed, if one looks at the area carved out of the German defenses by the four month offensive, it is obvious that not a single major town, road intersection or key piece of terrain is located in this area. What Sheffield's book delivers is a good blow-by-blow account of a long campaign, but it fails to deliver a balanced assessment that this campaign drained both sides.
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ASIN: 0792345711 |
Book Description
This volume is devoted to the investigation of general Borel models of stochastic optimal control, taking into consideration additional performance criteria which must satisfy the constraints-inequalities. This study is based on both convex programming theory as well as the Bellman principle, and provides a useful approach for multicriteria control problems. Some new original properties of strategical measure space are established, and among the other subjects that are treated are the existence and the form of optimal control strategy; Markov and homogeneous models; and linear-quadratic systems. The last chapter concentrates on application of these methods to, for example, economics, ecology, insurance and games. Audience: This book will be of interest to post-graduate students and researchers whose work involves stochastic control and its applications.
Book Description
Saralee Rosenberg's compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love.
When Shelby Lazarus returns home to Long Island in the midst of a family crisis, she is forced to face all the issues from which she originally ran away – her mother's untimely death, her father's second marriage, her sister's neuroticism, and her own life's path. When her Jewish mother cannot help but meddle in her daughters߬ives from the afterlife, it seems all that Shelby needed was a little help from above. This poignant novel, peppered with some wonderful humour, is sure to hit the heart of the women's fiction market.
Customer Reviews:
my all time favorite.......2007-05-17
what can i say? i read this book in 2 days, almost 6 months ago, and im still thinking about it. love it love it love it.
A wild and wacky story that was fun to read!.......2006-07-26
Very witty and cleverly crafted, this is a gallant first effort by the author! It's a story of a long journey on the path of reconciliation, which takes many zany (and sometimes silly) twists and turns. The reflections of the long-dead Sandy, who is trying to manipulate her family's outcome from above, is somewhat reminscent of Debbie Macomber's angels series (I make this comparison as a complement to the author). As a Long Islander, I appreciated accurate representation of this area contained in the setting and in the references to actual real-life places scattered throughout. While there were parts that were a bit unrealistic, such as the chance meeting on the Hutchinson Parkway, the surrogate storyline, and the astrology bits, all-in-all, this was a highly enjoyable story that was lots of fun to read!
Zany hopscotch between here and the "other side".......2006-07-21
This is an awesome book, by a very talented first-time author. LOVED IT, LOVED IT. The premise: that a mother's work is never done, even from the "other side". In this case, Shelby Lazarus lost her mom 30 years ago, and unbeknownst to Shelby, her mom has been "assisting her" and pulling some supernatural strings from above. SaraLee Rosenberg has such a way with words, it is delightful to read her witty first creation. Her character development is wonderful. Furthermore, she deals with many timely issues, such as DES, surrogate pregnancy, family squables, sister competition, destiny, karma and astrology. A must read for every female on the planet, regardless of age or status. So enjoyable and thought provoking. Thank you to this talanted authoress. Looking forward to reading her two latest books. And to you Ms. Rosenberg, please keep writing a book a year, so I can savor every word! Perhaps a sequel to this entitled "A Little MORE Help from Above"?
A sincere fan,
Arlene Millman
author of "Boomerang - A Miracle Trilogy"
Excellent book....heartwarming, thought-provoking and hilariously funny.......2005-07-11
I enjoyed this book more than I have any other in quite some time! The author is extremely talented and very funny! I could not put it down, but as I got close to finishing, I didn't want it to end. I loved the characters as well as the storylines. For any reviewer who "didn't get it", I have to believe that you are lacking in the sense of humor category! Some of you sound like Shelby, the one who supposedly offended you so much! Get a grip, Guys; it's a NOVEL! For those of you who are open-minded and can appreciate a great story that is well-written and quite witty, GET IT AND EBJOY IT! I sure did!
A Litte Help From Above.......2005-05-20
One Word...WOW!.. I absolutly adored this book.. The twists and turns kept me up half the night not being able to put it down. I have officially read this book about twelve times. Sad? no, not really. Read this book and you will completely understand. I have even gotten my girlfriends to read it and now they are hooked too! For a first book, Miss Rosenberg deserves a HUGE standing ovation. I would suggest this book to any female, young or old (although not under like 15)..it is a great, easy, enjoyable read that constantly throws you off. You fall in love with all the characters (even Shelby, the not so friendly one!) You get a sense of why she is the way she is. You can see how she is still grieving from the loss of her mother, and the resentment she has for her "new mom"..a.k.a her aunt. Shelby learns a lot from her coming to terms with her problems, and really shows how a pretty bad situation can tern into a blessing from God....or was it because she had a Little Help From Above?
Product Description
This booklet provides a deep and insightful spiritual research into and a true diagnosis of the basic causes of the malady, humanity is suffering from and it also provides the unfailing remedy therefor.,
this booklet will be equally inspiring, uplifting and illuminating for the environmentalist, the nature loves and the spiritual seeker. it gives glimpse into the deepest recesses of the seer soul of a multi splendorous Mystic Guide
par excellenceof our age, who heard sermons in the stones and celestial songs of harmony, unity and love in the Himalayan wilderness- in its brooks and streams, its flora ad fauna, its icy winds and in the heart of the simple folks and could concretely exprience his oneness with all creation ; Vasudevah Sarvam Iti.
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- Everybody's Somebody's Lunch (Teacher's Guide): The Role of Predator and Prey in Nature
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- Food Chains And You (Food Chains)
- FOOD, ECOLOGY AND CULTURE: Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices (Food, Ecology & Culture)
- Food Webs and Niche Space. (MPB-11) (Monographs in Population Biology)
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