Cure

This is a simple and wise guide to FS cures. This book will teach you about the bagua map, the cures, the 5 elements, the symbols and your best directions.

It is a practical and easy to follow book even if you are not familiar with FS. It is a very well designed book, with great illustrations and colors. Enjoy it!

By Thei Zervaki...

John Gottman, one of the leading authorities on relationships has produced another fantastic book on this subject. In this book he explains the basic elements of "people skills". It gives us concrete ideas about what it takes and how we can develop them. He uses information from many of his own research projects to explain the concepts and processes involved to understand the ways we interact with each other. I must admit that although my relationships were not the best until recently, this book has helped me improve these relationships quite dramatically. If you'd like to read an even more comprehensive explanation on how relationships work, read "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is also an outstanding book on relationships as well as adult (and childhood) development. Two thumbs up for both books!!!

Is the road to utopia on - well - a bigger, faster road?
Dom Nozzi doesn't think so.

The Gainesville city planner taps a 16-plus-year career in urban planning to describe what he calls an American obsession with improving conditions for cars rather than people in a new book titled "Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It."

When cars come first, more public money is sunk into costly road systems. Pollution increases, traffic accidents go up and residents ultimately live farther from where they need to go. That causes them to drive more, thus the need for more roads, and so on, and so on.

"What's happened is we have become our own worst enemy. It's a vicious cycle," said Nozzi, who's worked at the city since 1986 except for a three-year stint in Boulder, Colo.

"We have essentially locked ourselves into our future."

Nonetheless, he's a realist. Nozzi's not asking people to move from their suburban homes to inner cities, or even to give up their SUVs.

Instead, he believes communities should offer a variety of lifestyle options so that residents can, if they choose, leave their cars in the driveway and walk, take a bus or bike to work. Since World War II, Nozzi argues, the development of hinterland subdivisions - also known as sprawl - has become a priority.

Some city and county codes even prohibit mixed uses - areas that combine shops, offices, and apartments or homes. Thus, government contributes to the cycle of an auto-dependent society, he says.

Governments even require a certain level of parking for shopping centers and office buildings, which play their own part in proliferating car usage, he says. "As long as there is abundant free parking, people will continue to use cars," Nozzi said.

While people may be apprehensive about separating themselves from their vehicles, he ponders in his book why millions of people each year vacation in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., European cities and other walkable towns.

Yet, these days roads are made like "racetracks," Nozzi contends. Street trees are removed so that no drivers crash into them. Corners are rounded so that turns can be made at high speed. And lanes are widened to give motorists more room.

"If you build a road for high speeds, what you will ultimately get are high speeds," Nozzi said.

He describes these high-speed roads as barriers to lifestyles. No one wants to walk or bike in an area where cars whiz by. No one wants to live there either. So up goes another cul-de-sac subdivision so everyone can be safe.

"When you make cars happier, you inevitably make everything else less possible," Nozzi said.

He's been a student - and proponent - of "new urbanist" planning for the better part of two decades, earning first a bachelor's in environmental science from the State University of New York in Plattsburgh in 1983 and two years later a master's in urban and regional planning from Florida State University.

And Nozzi lives what he preaches. His Duck Pond neighborhood home dating to 1913 is just steps from the Thomas Center, where he heads the city's long-range comprehensive planning.

Ironically, one of the builders of his home, Hartwell Kelley, who owned a sawmill, is presumed, Nozzi said, to be the first person in Gainesville to own a car.

By JANINE YOUNG SIKES
Gainesville Sun

Note: the author of this story did not rate the book,
but Amazon required a rating to post this "review."

Composed when he was a young priest,
"The Sermons of the Cure of Ars"
constitutes one of the most powerful Saints' writings
in the literature of the Church.
No one will read this book without
realizing that his own moral subterfuges
have been laid bare and that
he needs to address
the camouflaged sins and weaknesses
lying buried in his inmost heart.
St. John Vianney (1786-1859) barely
succeeded in becoming a priest, but
from the HUMBLEST parish imaginable,
he became the "Patron Saint of
Parish Priests" everywhere.
Of humble education and
assigned to a forgotten farmers' village,
he attracted the whole world to Ars (France).
He ate one meal a day,
slept only a few hours a night,
heard confessions up to 17 hours a day,
converted thousands.
His body remains incorrupt.

"Stale Food vs. Fresh Food", by Robert S. Ford, is a great companion to "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price. Both are health classics. Robert S. Ford adds an extremely important point to the original work of Price, explaining why we should eat our food fresh ground, fresh cooked or raw, and how to do it.

This is the kind of book I will read more than once, or even many times. It is a how-to for people seeking to develop their psychic abilities, or self-talk, and help their health in the process. There are other books on inner talk, power of positive thinking, programmed self-talk from psychologists, but this book is written by a psychic. It's not technical, though it will require a close read. Best of all, it's not another formula book from overeducated shrinks and MDs. It is sort of intuitive psychoneuroimmunology, even though that term wasn't mentioned to my recollection. It is like books on self-hypnosis, which teach to access the unconscious. I was very interested in this book because there have been times in life when I'm very intuitive, but it is not an on-demand thing. It is elusive. Often I don't know what will be accurate, what won't. This book offers an alternative to conventional psychology and to Kahuna lore. If I had only a few books for cancer patients, I'd want this book along with The Ph Miracle, Secret Science Behind Miracles (about Hawaiian Kahunas), probably Hulda Clark's and a book on energy medicine. A very curious book, I really like it!

This book is a terrific combination of Axelrod's interpretations and Plath's life. It does not rest only upon facts, but instead it does a beautiful job of twisting together her life, her writing and her psychological condition. If you love Plath and her writing, this is the book for you. It is intelligent and written for people who not only want to know more about the life of a very troubled and talented woman, but those who also love her poetry.

Challenging - demanding - convicting. Slow going at first as it develops theses that brings the reader face-to-face with his/her spiritual condition in relationship to what the New Testament reveals. A must read - in fact, a must re-read several times to mine the depth of the truths presented.

Donald Forsdyke, a Professor of Biochemistry at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, has written a book about the medical research enterprise that simply had to be written. Medical research is a monumentally huge and costly enterprise with the lives, or quality of life, of millions of people at stake. On the face of it, only good things are happening but behind the scenes, many knowledgeable scientists lament the idiosyncracies of research funding, peer review and conformity in research that too often discourage medical scientists and obstruct their creativity and progress. The subtitle of Dr. Forsdyke's book says it all, "How to reform the health research system", and few would honestly argue that it doesn't need reform--profound, ongoing reform. Yet, contrary to so many other enterprises, e.g. our political party systems, our research enterprise has become monolithic, self-satisfied and resistant to serious self-examination. Dr. Forsdyke has provided the kind of level-headed critique that is long overdue. He has done so with more grace and and more careful analysis than many can muster after they have endured the grievous traumas of grossly unfair reviews of their research grant applications or submitted manuscripts. A moving example of obstructionism is documented under the title, "The slaughter of the innocents: diphtheria", the cost of which is measured in thousands of childrens' lives. Dr. Forsdyke deals with the foibles of peer review and research funding that lead to such calamities, big or small, documents his material carefully, and, above all, proposes realistic alternatives to current practices. This is a particularly valuable feature of this book. I hope that even critics of Forsdyke's suggestions will be open minded enough to give them careful consideration. One way or the other, reform is urgently needed and those who so steadfastly deny this simply prove the point, for no enterprise so important, complex and expensive can surely be beyond improvement! Forsdyke's book should be compulsory reading for all who are involved in research and research funding in any way. I hope it encourages other writers to confirm and extend the many important avenues explored by Forsdyke, including his concerns about partnership with the Drug Industry. Highly recommended! I purchased 10 books to share with my graduate students and friends .

Because I grew up during a time when tuberculosis seem to have been (at least temporarily) conquered, I tended to think of it as a disease of the past, something that had slowly wasted away artists and languid ladies of society after many a year in a remote sanatorium, something almost romantic, more a relic of the nineteenth century than something that might threaten me.

However, one cannot read this extraordinary book without becoming fully imbued with the horror that is tuberculosis. Ryan shows in graphic language (and some photos that make one recoil), how the tuberculosis germ can eat away at human bodies, how it can poison and destroy lungs and internal organs, brain cells and bone, our skin, and indeed virtually every part of our body. One sees through Dr. Ryan's eyes a parasitic pathogen that "knows" its victims so well that one gets the sense that tuberculosis has been a cruel and grotesque tax on humankind since the first light of history, that tuberculosis is the price we've had to pay for learning animal husbandry, for agriculture, for civilization itself.

And then came the medical science of the twentieth century which developed antibiotics and chemotherapies that by the 1950s had tuberculosis so in retreat that many spoke of its eradication. Ryan brings the personalities that developed these cures and their struggles to life. We see them fight against not only the microbe but the nearly intractable belief held by most medical authorities that nothing could defeat the tuberculosis germ, that such efforts were doomed to failure, and anyone claiming otherwise was a charlatan and a fool. Ryan's book chronicles the story of the courageous, brilliant, and dogged people in the United States and in Europe--Gerhard Domagk, Rene Dubos, William Feldman, H. Corwin Hinshaw, Jorgen Lehmann, George W. Merck, Albert Schatz, Gylfe Vallentin, and Selman Waksman, to name a few of the most prominent--who actually developed a cure for this most horrible of diseases. It is a story of personal danger, intrigue, obsession, personality conflict and territorial spats, patent laws and priorities, money, jealousy and friendship--failure and eventual triumph set against the backdrop of two world wars.

How ironic the story is! How in direct contrast these two very human activities were: the heroic endeavor to cure disease, and the process of war--the latter a gross stupidity that served only to enhance the fertile ground of disease! As one reads one cannot help but exclaim, Oh, shame, shame on you humanity for your cruel and mindless stupidities! And hurrah for those who devoted their life to trying to understand the microbial world and its chemistry, to those who rose above the slaughter all around them and worked tirelessly to alleviate the pain and suffering of disease!

One wonders in reading this extraordinary story, how such grossly divergent behaviors by human beings can exist side by side: madness and the pursuit of knowledge. The nature of these schizophrenic bed fellows of humankind is what Ryan has really chronicled here.

But the story, after perhaps two decades of euphoria, takes a ominous turn sometime around 1978 with the incipient rise of "reactivation tuberculosis" and the "AIDS-tuberculosis syndrome" (pp. 395-396). Ryan shows that the struggle against TB, far from being over, is upon us once again with a new and terrible ferocity. He notes with alarm how the tubercular bacterium has continued to mutate against the drugs that once cured it while HIV-crippled immune systems allow the pathogen to once again run rampant through the bodies of the compromised. Already in our cities the tide against the "greatest killer of all time" has turned and the mortality rates are climbing. And in the developing nations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the disease in combination with AIDS threatens entire generations.

Ryan estimates that 1.7 billion people in the world harbor the tuberculosis germ, an astonishing number. He calls this a "global time bomb" waiting to explode. (p. 404) He quotes health officials as claiming as long ago as 1991 that Africa was "already lost."

This is a beautiful and horrifying book that chronicles one of the greatest triumphs of medical science while making all too vivid the fact that "the ageless leviathan of terror" (p. 378) is still very much with us, and is likely to continue to evade our efforts to eradicate it.