2008 February | These are the RuJa Book Store staff favorite 100 books

Feb 29

Blown Away
by Herb Payson
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WONDERFUL SAILING ADVENTURE (2005-06-18)
This book is one of my favorites. If you love true adventures, and real-life drama, read this book! Herb Payson does a wonderful job in drawing the reader into his boat and taking us for a ride! You will have a mixture of dread, excitement, and anticipation as they cruise along from island to island. This book will make you want to sell everything you own and move into your own boat. But don’t let their setbacks discourage you. They have several mishaps while out at sea… But I won’t spoil the fun and tell you what happens —- This is good reading and I dare you to put the book down before you are finished!!! Happy armchair sailing!Great read for the Landlocked (2002-02-21)
I’m landlocked in Colorado, with no real desire to cruise on an ocean or even a bay, yet I really enjoyed reading this book. Herb and his wife, Nancy, were ordinary people except with perhaps even more limited funds than most Americans. Yet they impulsively decided to take to the sea. Somewhere along the way Herb started writing articles about his adventures (they almost always needed extra money because something else on the boat had broken). Eventually that led to this amusing, laugh out loud while reading it, book.
Herb displays a fine sense of humor that never comes across as mean, just amusing as he describes himself and the people he meets along the way. This is a good book for sharing with others, then tucking it away on the bookshelf for another read next year. And if any cruiser is trying to explain to a landlubber what it’s like on the water, this book would be the perfect gift to share both the bad (lost in the middle of a pitch black night surrounded by dangerous coral heads) and the glorious (a village throwing a party in honor of your visit). A charming book that is aging extremely well.Living a dream, an honest and fun look. (2001-02-06)
Both of these books (”Blown Away” and “You Can’t Blow Home Again”) are great and should be read one after the other (The second is the continuing saga). The true story of a family that sells everything to buy a boat and sail around the world. They only make it as far as the south pacific, but it makes for year after year of adventures. As a sailor myself (coastal, not blue water) I felt he did a great job of capturing the sharp contrast between the elation, exhilaration and sheer terror that can be found in sailing. Mr. Payson’s honest, care free and “oh well” attitude is something that I wish I could capture for myself. Someone who does not mind laughing at himself.

I only have one critique of the books. Mr. Payson uses nautical terms and the names of boat parts as if they are a part of everyone’s daily vocabulary. I sail a simple sloop configuration and can name every component that is applicable to our boat. But his repeated use of terms unique to multi-masted, wooden masted, bow-sprinted boats kept sending me to the nautical dictionary. Since the book does not appear to be targeted at highly experienced sailors, a little more explanation would have been nice.Hope for us all (2000-12-31)
This book is one of the best all-around, just-your-average-guy, kind of sailing story. There are many, many books about guys who have been sailing their local waters all their life. They have always owned a sailboat and have always known that some day they would take off over the horizon. That is not the kind of guy Herb Payson was.

The author and his wife just happened to decide that sailing was the answer to a life that did not seem to be giving them the joy they were seeking. Nevermind that between them they had very little sailing experience. It’s this type of spirit for adventure and desire to explore the unknown that many of us aspire to.

The book is well written and truly a joy to read. The author takes a witty and low-key approach to their sometimes eventful escapades. What this book represented most of all, however, was that you don’t have to have decades of sailing experience or incredible endurance to take to a life of cruising. It is an inspirational piece and required reading for anyone thinking of doing the same.If you love sailing, you’ll love this book. (1998-07-02)
My dad gave me this book to read during our first week-long cruise on the Chesapeake with his new 34 Catalina. Not only was this book an instant favorite of mine, it was a perfect selection while I was enjoying the sea myself. It made me want to buy a boat and cruise the world. I’m envious of his travels! It’s an endearing and hilarious read.

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Feb 29

How Did You Do It, Truett?

How Did You Do It, Truett?
by S. Truett Cathy
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great read (2008-04-09)
Wonderful book about a wonderful man and company! Very practical and understanding, anyone in business would do well to read this book!

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Feb 29

The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success

The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success
by Jeremiah Fleenor
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Accepted! (2008-03-08)
Amazing little book, short and to the point. Lots of great advice about how to generally prepare and some good tidbits about some very specific things. It got me in. Highly recommended.I like the approach. (2008-01-21)
I like the way in which this book approaches the medical school interview. It groups all the possible questions you might be asked into just a few groups that allow you to attack each question in a way that allows both you and the interviewer to stay relevant and on track. The book is relatively small - I think the author did his best to keep redundant, extraneous information out. I’m a fan of the “Big 3″ concept in this book.

This is a nice book to have, but in the end it will all depend on whether or not all your faculties are in check on interview day.

Great little book. (2007-12-30)
This seems like a great little book. It explain very strategic and practical ways to prepare (and practice) four your medical school interview. It also goes into the motivations of what the interviewers are really trying to find our throught the interview process.

I gave it a 4 because I think it would have been nice to have something on the MMI (Multiple Mini-Interview) format. Perhaps it’s too new a format and isn’t used enough (yet) to justify giving it time. But since there is a fair amount of research showing it to provide a better indicator than the traditional format, I would hope that someone would include it at some point.

Excellent book demystifying the medical school interview (2007-09-26)
This book is a quick read and does an excellent job at explaining the basics of what medical schools are looking for, how to realistically present yourself at the interview, and provide strategies for formulating your answers. Great advice on verbalizing your professional and personal portfolio in a way that helps you stand out as a candidate. This book is definitely worth your time and money.Thin Content for the price (2007-09-11)
I was surprised by the small amount of information in this publication for its price. Prospective applicants will get as much information by going to student doctor dot com and reading the interview reports of their peers.

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Feb 29

The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
by Ivan Degregori, Robin Kirk
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A must read for the history of Peru (2007-10-03)
This is a great book for the history of Peru. The chronological order is perfect. All the essays are wonderful to read. I think I learned more about Peru with this book than any other.The Peru Reader: Start Early! (2007-01-09)
What a wonderfully literate collection of writings which give the traveler (actual or armchair) both the information and flavor he needs to introduce him to this complex country. I started too close to my departure for Peru to read every word, but found myself unable to decide what to skip. What seemed a boring topic turned out to be fascinating! So, start early — the book is pretty bulky to carry on your trip.The Peru Reader: The best Peru travelers companion (2006-06-28)
I took this book to Peru on a trip to see the great archeological sites. I was blown awqy by the information I got from this book. Not only was I informed on so many topics but introduced to several brilliant Peruvian authors. The book was so strong I wept deeply over the history of the native peoples, I was amazed at the strength to survive under the most difficult political and cultural situations. The book was so well written that all the history and politics, not my usual reading, soaked in painlesssly, actually joyfully. I wish there were such a great book to take on every trip I go on, it enhanced my trip a million times over.Hefty, in-depth anthology (2004-12-19)
Perhaps this book’s overwhelming for a newcomer. But, if you have a basic knowledge of Peru already, this over 500-page collection of stories, chapters from academic books, poems, folktales, political reportage, popular journalism and interviews, and historical and anthropological coverage satisfies the need in English for a comprehensive starter for further research and reading on many topics.

Organised into chronological order, sections progress from pre-Inca, Inca, Conquest, Post-Conquest, Colonial and Republican periods into the 19c. These intersperse scholarly investigations with narratives. Then, politics, the Shining Path, the drug wars, the urban squatters turning land into new communities, activists among the feminist, evangelical, and gay communities, liberation theology and local leadership, and life among both villages and in Lima add chapters that comprise about half of the total text.

Most rewarding for me were the chronicles by the Incas after the Conquest, John Hemming’s chapter on Atahualpa and Pizarro, folktales bookending the text from early and Amazon peoples, Steve J. Stern’s analysis of post-Conquest creolisation and its discontents, Manuel Cordova’s tale of life a century ago after he was abducted by Amazon indians, and the fascinating account by Catherine J. Allen from her The Hold Life Has all about coca-leaf ritual bonding. Anyone who associates coca only with cola or crack might learn a lot from this anthropological description of how chemicals sustain fellowship, and also force gatherings to acknowledge etiquette and social class distinctions–even under the influence!

The literary offerings, poems, novel excerpts, and stories, are less intriguing, but worthwhile. I sense some of these–as with the Vargas Llosa chapter from his novel Conversations in the Cathedral–were a bit wrenched out of a more rewarding context.

I wish the past ten years, the downfall of Fujimori and the attempt by Toledo to stabilise a tottering state, could have been included in an updated edition, which could also look at the fate of Guzm�n and his Shining Path cohorts. Life in the diaspora–a million Peruvians live abroad–would also be enlightening. But, until these hypothetical additions, this is a promising book for anyone curious about Per�. As the back jacket asserts, there’s nothing like this in English–or Spanish.

Also recommended: Robin Kirk’s The Monkey’s Paw for 1980s/early 90s Peru; Gustavo Gorriti’s history, translated by Kirk, on the Shining Path, and Vargas Llosa’s memoir of running for president, Fish Out of Water; his novelisation of Guzman, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta; his mystery novel also set in this period, Death in the Andes.

This is a great book if you are intrested in Peru (1998-10-24)
This book tells about it all from all sorts of people from the conquiers to the Indeans plus the shing path and the Presedint

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Feb 29

Milady’s Standard: Cosmetology (Spanish Edition)

Milady’s Standard: Cosmetology (Spanish Edition)
by Milady
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Feb 29

iMovie 2 Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Special Effects

iMovie 2 Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Special Effects
by Erica Sadun
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Don’t expect an iMovie how to (2003-02-23)
As always, begin at the beginning. If you’re looking for an iMovie manual, there are plenty of other authors to choose from. That is NOT what this book is about. Ms Sadun has written a book that borders on heresy. How to take a free program and make a movie that does the types of things only previously available for programs costing hundreds (and thousands) of dollars. What do you need? QuickTime Pro (30 bucks), and Adobe Photoshop Elements (Less than 80 bucks if you shop carefully). Almost any effect you can think of is covered by this book. It really is that good. Granted, doing the same thing with higher end (and much more expensive) video editing software is less complicated and probably takes less time, but the point of the exercize is not always the destination, but the journey (How Zen!). Let’s face it, if you’re a video professional, you already have the latest from Avid, or Apple, or something like that. If you’re editing your son’s birthday or a friends wedding, this book is a must have!Chris Seibold MyMac.com Book Review (2002-10-24)
Say you make a fairly great movie with the worlds greatest program: iMovie. Still, you think your newly birthed video masterpiece lacks something. Perhaps it’s a unique blend or a splashy title. At the moment of export you might stop and wonder: “Should I upgrade to Final Cut Pro?” I can answer that question for you, just follow the following formula: (Money you plan to earn from this movie)+(Money you plan to earn with next 10 movies)/(cost of Final Cut Pro)=Justification. If “justification” is greater than 1, I say buy the program. If not it is far wiser, fiscally speaking, to stick with iMovie.

Does that mean you’re stuck? Have you reached the absolute limits of iMovie? Are you forever wondering in a morass of lifeless titling and yearnings for a few special effects? Heck no, if you’re willing to mess around with a couple other programs for a bit. Of course saying you’re not stuck and showing you how to unstick yourself are two different things. So, you’ll have to trust me, you’re not stuck. That tidbit should be worth a nickel. To actually get unstuck you’ll have to pony up $40.00 for iMovie 2 Solutions . With this handy offering by Erica Sadun you’ll be pleasantly surprised at just how much you can get out of iMovie if don’t mind mixing in a few other apps.

iMovie 2 Solutions is not really so much about iMovie, it’s more about extending iMovie with the careful use of a few programs. That is not to say iMovie 2 Solutions doesn’t have iMovie specific info, it does in spades (want to change the default “My Great Movie Title”? See page 4). Most of the iMovie specific tips are redundant or of little value. The value lies in combining iMovie with programs such as QuicktimePro, Adobe Photoshop Elements (nee Photoshop LE, I suspect if you have a copy of Photoshop LE most of the tricks will still work) and a few other assorted programs. It might seem strange to buy a book ostensibly about iMovie that focuses so heavily on other programs. Trust me again when I say it’s money well spent as long as you realize iMovie 2 Solutions is in no way an iMovie tutorial or reference but indispensable if you want to trick out your movies to the maximum level of Jurassic Parkness..

By now the interested reader will begin wondering: “Just what kind of stuff will this book show me how to do?” I can’t list all the tricks iMovie 2 Solutions covers (that’s a lie, I could actually list all the tricks, but this is a review not an index) but I can point out a few that seemed particularly cool to me. Ones I particularly include: the “Big Titles” trick, See through Big Title trick, Movie in Movie trick and customized QuickTime skin playback tip. and, my uber fave, use iMovie to work on a silver screen sized movie instead of the default TV sized screen (a tip worth $999 clams for those who posses nice cameras but not Final Cut Pro). The aforementioned tips just scratch the surface of iMovie 2 Solutions there is plenty more movie making goodness contained within the wraparound softcover.

So we have established the book contains useful tips and/or tricks. Hence it’s time to get down to style and presentation. After all, the world’s most clever tip isn’t worth much if it is presented in an obscure incomprehensible format. This is not a problem with iMovie 2 Solutions. The tips are presented in easy to follow steps illustrated with small thumbnail sized photos. The average number of steps seems to be about ten but range up to a still manageable twenty actions to get the desired effect. The writing is fairly comprehensible providing you know a bit about iMovie a little about Photoshop and a smidgen of QuicktimePro. If you don’t know much about those programs I strongly suggest you read the book from the very beginning, it makes the going much easier.

iMovie 2 Solutions also comes with a super nifty CD that contains every program the author asks you to use to augment iMovie and a visual tutorial of each chapter. If you’re on a 56k connection the 40-dollar price tag is worth the disc alone. If you’re a Mac user from way back the disc is reminiscent of the floppies that came with the earliest Mac Bibles. By that I mean the disc is chock full of nifty utilities and such. You can have plenty of fun with the stuff on the disc without bothering to read the book.

Summation time: This book shows you plenty of stuff you never thought you could with iMovie at a reasonable price and gives you the tools to follow through.

MacMice Rating: 5 out of 5 *Power iMovie Users MacMice Rating: 3.5 out of 5 *Average iMovie UsersStep beyond the beginner’s guides (2002-08-24)
This book covers so many useful tricks that every iMovie owner should invest in it. Owning Quicktime Pro is essential for many of the tricks - as is paint program - but it’s money well spent. Everything from picture-in-picture effects to professional-style cuts and edits are covered in extremely well illustrated step-by-step guides. Of course there are some very cheesy effects that no-one should use in anything other than an ironic style, but there are also essentials such as J and L edits, better titles, overlays.. This book can help postpone the time you need to step up to Final Cut Pro - so effectively you’re saving yourself $ Great Book! (2002-07-18)
The format of the book does an excellent job of separating the "you can do this … " stuff from "Here’s HOW to do this … " stuff; something far too few manuals handle well. After a tiny bit of off-line coaching from Sadun (who was very helpful and courteous), I had no difficulty stacking a video clip inside a clip inside another clip, and learned more about QuickTime than I’d ever known before. I found that it is not for a complete novice; the book has some hidden assumptions about the reader’s proficiency, mainly that the reader is more proficient than a rank beginner and can leap into the process. All things considered, I am more than satisfied with my purchase!Promotes other software products (2002-07-09)
I understand that this is a tips and tricks book, not a user manual, but I was disappointed by the frequent referals to other software packages like Final Cut Pro, Quicktime Pro and other products. Tell me what I can and can’t do with the product I already own!

The manual could do a much better job covering the basics.
The novice iMovie and iDVD user is faced with understanding where one product leaves off and the other begins. To an experienced user, this may be obvious, but for me, at least, it took a long time to figure out that something as simple as chapter buttons are are not available through either product. (The iMac help desk expalined this to me).

If you’re a sophisticated user, I suppose this book has some cool ideas. As a novice, I’m very disappointed.

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Feb 29

Barbecues (Company’s Coming)

Barbecues (Company’s Coming)
by Jean Pare
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If you BBQ anything, this is your book! (2003-08-13)
This is a great cookbook….we use all the recipes for meats, chicken and especially fish. The salmon recipes are divine, as is the Rajun Cajun Ribs. The potato salad and macaroni salad recipes are the only ones I ever use. Fabulous book!Outdoor cooking at it’s best! (2001-02-06)
My husband and I really enjoy this book. It has recipes for everything from steak and potatoes to marinades, fish and corn on the cob! We use our grill much more often now that we have such great ideas from this book!

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Feb 29

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
by Lewis Buzbee
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Charming (2008-03-22)
Although the act of reading can be considered a solitary act, Buzbee describes how the book lovers among us share an unspoken bond in our book ventures. From the excitement of receiving a new Scholastic booklist to the feeling of browsing through unexplored novels in a bookshop, Buzbee has captured the essence of what it is like to be in love with books. Unlike many other nonfiction books, the interesting historical tidbits were just that, interesting.Books and Bookshops (2008-03-21)
Lewis Buzbee’s celebration of the bookstore springs from his observation that 90 percent of people who buy books still leave home to do their shopping in a bookstore. These are the people who know they could more easily buy the book they are searching for by clicking their mouse around Amazon’s website, but they cannot resist the lure of a real bookstore. There is just something special about being surrounded by books and other people who, to one degree or another, feel the same as we about books. As Buzbee says, even if we do not actually speak to other shoppers, they are part of the experience of shopping for books and they can often accidentally lead us to a book we would have otherwise missed.

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is a combination memoir and book/bookstore history. Along the way, Buzbee explains the evolution of the book from rare hand-copied pages affordable only to the wealthy upper class to mass produced paperbacks that sometimes sell in the millions of copies. He does the same for the bookseller, a calling that for many feels like a vocation they were destined for from birth. Buzbee’s has been a life centered around his love for books, and the memories he shares of his days working in bookstores and as a publisher’s sales rep are the heart of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.

Not surprisingly, Buzbee’s focus is on independent bookstores rather than on the big chains which, along with Amazon, dominate the bookselling business today and he emphasizes just how difficult a business it can be for bookstores, authors and publishers alike. Avid readers often moan about the cost of new books but Buzbee provides the numbers that explain where the money goes: bookstores can receive as much as a 45 percent markdown on the cover price, the publisher gets about 35 percent of the price, the printer about 12 percent, and the author maybe 8 percent. That means that each hardcover sold puts about $2 in the author’s pockets, an amount that he or she probably shares with an agent. Keeping in mind that most books are published in numbers of less than 10,000 copies, it is easy to see that few authors will become millionaires from the proceeds of their books. And though it might appear that the bookstore’s cut is an inappropriately high percentage of the money generated, Buzbee points out that an independent bookstore with gross sales between one and two million dollars will be lucky to net more than $100,000 for the year. Bookselling is not a high margin business for anyone involved.

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is filled with stories and thoughts that will intrigue and delight book lovers, those readers who are always drawn to books about books. We are an optimistic lot when it comes to the future of books and bookstores although we do tend to get a little nervous when we read of the closings of so many independent bookstores and the supposed pending death of the publishing industry as we know it today. Buzbee has heard all the “gloom and doom” talk and he closes his book with this reminder: “It is important to remember that the death of literature, of a literary culture, is not an idea that we twenty-first centurions invented. In the nineteenth century, the invention of the bicycle was believed to mark the end of civilization; we would become leisure addicts and reading would surely cease. The same was said of radio in the 1920s and of television in the 1950s. And at later dates, rock-and-roll, premarital sex, and the jet ski would be cited as literary destroyers. Let’s not forget that critics also wailed and gnashed their teeth when parchment replaced papyrus, and when Gutenberg printed his first Bible.”

Buzbee’s writing style is a little dry at times but his little book has a lot to offer to the booklovers amongst us.

A ‘must have’ book for ALL bibliophiles! (2008-03-20)
I really enjoyed reading this book from start to finish. It’s small and manageable; not too long, not too short. Although described as a memoir, it’s not all about the author but contains snippets of information and history that all booklovers will devour. It’s quite nicely bound and is lightweight enough to carry around. All-in-all if you’re a true bibliophile, then this book is for YOU.

Lewis Buzbee tells his story as a partial memoir; the history of his interest, and then love, of books is described in some detail. He writes about his career as a bookseller (although always as an employee - he never ran his own shop) and as a publishers rep, and he writes about his love of visiting bookshops of all shapes and sizes. In-between this narrative is neatly woven a basic potted history of bookselling, from ancient times, through the Gutenberg press, and on into the production of mass market paperbacks. I was particularly fascinated to read about the scandal surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, and how the publishing of the book was taken on by one of Joyce’s friends, the proprietor of the little but exclusive Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. Copies of the book then had to find their way into England and America where it had already been censored. A fascinating account.

I have a couple of very small quibbles about Buzbee’s style. At one point early on he mentions shop-lifting a book as a teenager; he narrates this in such a way that it sounds as though this is considered acceptable practice, or at the very least is an activity which lots of people have done and can understand. This did shock me a bit and marred my enjoyment slightly. In a couple of places he does also go over a point he’s already mentioned which is a little repetitive. However, tiny quibbles aside, I found this book a delightful journey from cover to cover and will be cherishing my copy for some years to come.A confused book (2007-12-18)
This book could have easily been made into two books. One, a history of bookmaking, the other his own experiences in the book world. Unfortunately the combination doesn’t make for a great book. It just feels muddled. Also, from the intermittent descriptions of his travels in the book world it’s just not that exciting. He doesn’t describe the unusual “characters” he meets and certainly there must be some.

This isn’t to say the book isn’t worthwhile. It certainly is if only for the history of bookmaking.

I far prefer “The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter: A Rare Bookman in Search of American History”. While it may not be up to date it is a far more exciting read.For the love of books (2007-11-04)
I love reading books. I love looking at books. I love smelling books. I love learning about people. I love helping people find a book that will grab them. I love getting book recommendations. Therefore, I love working at a book store. This book is a story of a man’s love of all of the above and how he had originally thought he’d go into the business world but while in college he got a part time job at a local independent and never left the industry. It is about the lifelong relationships he built while working at the book stores he worked at and how learning and discovering new things were as important to him as they are to me. This is probably my most favorite book in the world because I can relate to it so very much. It made me laugh in parts and cry in others, I didn’t want it to end and that is why I have a stack of books about books on my floor by my bed. I’m looking for the next great book that will bring me back to that yellow lighted bookshop.

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Feb 29

Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life

Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life
by Gail Reichstein
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what i was looking for (2008-03-01)
this books is well written and provides a beautiful overview of the 5 elements and how they manifest in our world. i was looking for something that was more oriented towards the overall charater of the elements and less concerned with the technicalities of chinese medicine. i got what i was looking for.Wood becomes Water (2007-08-07)
This book is excellent for anyone starting to learn any aspect of Chinese healing or astrology. Everything is interconnected and this book expands that horizon. This should be a text book for a curriculum of any “Chinese” course. I have had no previous teachings of Chinese culture and this book explains it all without being too politicalGreat book (2006-03-09)
As a Shiatsu (3rd year)student, this book is so helpfull for me, that I am using it every day.

It explaines every Element in such a way, that you can realy understand it and use it in every day’s life.

I reccomend this book to everyone who wants to know more.What a great book! (2002-11-30)
This is the definitive book on feng shue! It is not for people who are looking for fluff - this is serious, and well thought out. It has really worked to get me to focus on the important things in life and has helped in explaining the balance that we all need to have. I am now giving this book as a gift to people I care about! Thank you, Ms. Reichstein, for writing such a wonderful book.You will be amazed ! (2001-05-04)
We all love now to take care of our own health, right ?! Few of us understand, though, the Chinese medicine, unless you read a lot of books on same subject. And then you have to "digest" the information and apply it patiently to yourself. WE ALL ARE UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS. And the ones who will borrow or buy this book will prove to be the smart ones too. Not only that I would recommend this book to all of you who want to change your life for the better (and get rid of your daily pains) but this book –among the thousands written — is an eye-opener to many other self-healing directions. Beware, at first you will say to yourself that you will need TIME and PATIENCE to go through it (which none of us HAVE anymore!), but you will feel smarter than any doctor in this world, after you assimilate the knowledge in this book. It is better than you imagined by its modest title. One of the best-kept secrets (until now !), trust me on this one. Good luck to all of you !

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Feb 29

The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended

The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended
by Ainslie MacLeod
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“The Instruction” should really be “The Revelation” (2008-04-09)
I stumbled upon “The Instruction” as I was browsing in a major bookstore and I immediately snatched it, ran home and devoured it. Perhaps the title should have been “The Revelation” because that’s what it felt to me: I was flabbergasted by such a powerful epiphany.

What ‘personality theory’ did in the psychological field, this book does in the spiritual realm. It’s the subtitle, however, that really piqued my interest, “Living the life your soul intended.” Finally, an explanation to the million doubts and questions and wondering about why am I really here on this earth. To raise kids? To work and be prosperous? To make this planet a better place? It turns out that it all depends not on who you are but on who your soul is. In the eternal battle between nature vs. nurture, environment vs. DNA, MacLeod allows us not to feel trapped in the middle and offers us a third option.

The author encourages us to tap into our personal resources and individual talents and grow, develop and overcome - sometimes even just survive but always with dignity and grace.

His gentle yet constant reminder to meditate is an invitation to read our own soul map and follow its directions as key to serenity and fulfillment.

“Being yourself is never going to feel so good”, he says with his hallmark honesty and transparency.

If you have been on a long quest to find yourself and your place among the rest of humanity, you have to read this book. It will start you on a journey you will be nothing but compelled to continue.Powerful simplicity and wisdom! (2008-03-30)
The Instruction takes a complex subject and presents it in a straight-forward and well-organized manner. It provides the reader with clarity and understanding about his/her individuality and that of others; why we are here; why we are different; what is the source of our challenges and how to overcome them; how to discover and align our soul’s purpose with the life we are leading; how to achieve greater peace and harmony with ourselves and others. I have struggled with being off my life path for many years and have achieved great insight as to why that is so and how I can change that. Ainslie Macleod is a sincere and gentle soul who’s clear intention is to help others and share this knowledge with them. His authenticity shines through and inspires his readers to explore their life and individuality with the help of these tools. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is searching for greater understanding of himself, his life purpose, and how to fulfill it.Very Disappointed (2008-03-24)
Endorsed by Oprah’s Soul Series I ordered the book - being curious about life and why we are here. I am a firm believer that I am a soul with a human experience. After reading a few chapters, especially the one devoted to soul types I was more than disappointed - just very shallow descending descriptions. I can’t feel any spirit guide in this book, seems it’s all in the others mind. This book is not worth the paper it’s printed on.Inspired (2008-03-21)
Unlike a lot of the other reviewers, this material is new to me. I found it fascinating and, as the title puts it, instructive. It’s well written, clearly organized and full of excellent direction. Like Eckart Tolle and THE SECRET, this book will be a guiding light for open hearted seekers.Valuable and easy to read (2008-03-17)
I felt the book struck a healthy balance. If you consider it as another way of looking at things without being excessively dogmatic yet not too esoteric. The point is to get you thinking about possibilites and positive connections with our spiritual side and I felt the book achieved that. It may appear simplisitic to some but the other side is that it is accesible and directs one as to how to make the necessary connections. There are many books out there that tell you how our world is ‘failing’and how we need to be more present etc but frustratingly dont tell you simplisticially how the little people can shift towards that goal and change the world around us. Good work Ainslie!

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