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This book is an excellent compilation of all the best advice gleaned from the author's own low carb dieting experience, as well as online resources. Ms. Richard has a witty and entertaining style of writing, which makes this book a genuine pleasure to read. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone on a low carb diet who does not have access to the Internet, or who does not have the time or patience to weed through millions of posts on Internet support boards in order to find those few pearls of wisdom that are always hiding among a proliferation of other posts.

This book includes a brief individual summary of each of the following low carb plans:
the Atkins diet
the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet
the Zone
Sugar Busters!
Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution
Protein Power
The Schwarzbein Principle
Neanderthin
Thin forGood

The Secret to Low Carb Success also provides this summary in the form of a chart, allowing you to compare all of the plans side-by-side. You can reference subjects like caffeine on another comparison chart and see what each of the individual author's opinions is on a given subject.

One of the most helpful sections of this book and will no doubt be Chapter 2, "Know What to Expect." This is where you get the real nitty-gritty -- the lowdown on how much weight you can really expect to lose on a typical low carbohydrate plan, the definition of a true stall and plateau versus the typical periods of slow or no loss that plague all of us, and a discussion of "whooshes" as well as "set points" and "natural body weights" that are difficult to move beyond. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of how muscle growth masks fat loss, and how, as we all know, "scales are for fish".

The book goes on to discuss how water retention masks fat loss. She explains it very well: since a pint is a pound the world around, the weight of the water that we drink and retain fluctuates daily.

Another very valuable section has been devoted to the subject of hidden carbs. Very few of the official diet plan books even touch upon this so-important subject. This book includes images of actual nutritional labels, and it drives this important point home very well.

The author has cleverly combined the advice of many successful dieters into one easy-to-read narrative. Bravo, Laura Richard!

I really enjoyed this book. I have been doing the Atkins diet for a while and I am thinking of switching to another low carb diet. I really appreciated that the first chapter of this book gave such good summaries of all the low carb diets that I was interested in learning about. I saved a lot of time by reading the explanations of the low carb diets in this chapter. I also liked all the tips and advice she gives in the rest of the book. I have been doing the Atkins diet for 2 months and thought I had it all figured out, but I learned so much from this book. It is going to take quite a while to do everthing she advises!

I have been low carbing for about 2 months and I was having mixed results before I read this book. The first chapter that compares all the different plans helped me select a plan that was much better for me than the one I was on originally. This book also helped me discover 2 important things that I was doing that slowed my weight loss. The combination of choosing another plan and tossing out my stallers, my weight loss sped up a great deal. Absolutely worth the $7.00 I paid for it.

"Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is one of the most unique guides available for working women. It's a great read and an even better practical resource.

In my experience, many women struggle to find a balance between their values, their femininity, and their drive to succeed in the workplace (thankfully, having read the book I know for sure it's not just me!) Deemer and Fredericks approach these issues from a unique perspective: being a woman in business is a strength, not a weakness!

Some titles geared towards working women emphasize the "male" way of doing business, as if to familiarize women with how men think when they're at work. They are great guides for anyone interested in the politics of business. "Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is somewhat different in that it explores how women can benefit from their femininity in the workplace: e.g. how women's unique communication and managerial skills can be harnessed for success. To my knowledge, "Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is special in this respect - I haven't seen any other titles that would so broadly pull together issues of women's work, their values, and their goals.

As a working woman, I found it liberating to read how I could incorporate my femininity into who I am at the work place. I would highly recommend this title for any woman who is interested in advancing her career and "staying true to herself."

Dancing on the Glass Ceiling gave me both life balance and work success. If you follow the 10 steps the authors give you--you can be a SVP at a worldwide company top in it's field and work only three days a week. I feel very lucky to jump from meetings with chairmans to the kids' car pool on a weekly basis. If you want to get what you want out of life hurry and get Dancing on the Glass Ceiling now!
Marianne Ellis, SVP DDB Worldwide
P.S. Don't cheat. Do all the lessons in the book without fail, especially the ones you don't think you need. Those will be the most important ones.

"Dancing on the Glass Ceiling" is the perfect combination of intuitive and practical advice - just like a woman! The real world examples make the information relevant to any working woman, and lend credibility to the authors' advice.
Jam-packed with great information - all of it useful - this book is well organized with easy-to-implement recommendations. This book is a terrific guide for not just your working life, but your overall life as well! After doing just one or two things the authors recommend, my life has shifted dramatically.

In these days of mass layoffs and downsizing, this is such a timely book.

I may be laid off soon, and would love to rule my own destiny career wise. This book really has helped me crystalize my thinking in helping me decide am I cut out to be my own boss and do my own thing, or better suited for the corporate world.. working for someone else and living at their "whims."

The book is written in everyday terms, so it makes it SO easy to understand.

Bravo and thank you!

This is a must read for anyone who is considering a career change or have always wondered whether they should take the leap and go out on their own. I found it easy to read, and it gave me a lot of great examples I could relate very well to.

This book provided lots of great tips and thousands of dollars worth of invaluable advice. A MUST read!

Frank Anton's story of captivity in unique among Vietnam POW tales. Most previous Vietnam POW stories have been written by Air Force or Navy pilots shot down over North Vietnam and held captive in Hanoi jail cells. Anton was captured and held in South Vietnamese and Laotion jungle prison camps for 3 years. He then made the long march north to Hanoi where he was captive for another 2 years. His experiences with other American prisoners held in jungle camps (average group of 17), many of who did not survive, is heart rendering and obsorbing. In spite of the title the book is not a political essay on the conduct of the war, or a bitter tirade about not being rescued. This is a warm story about the human suffering of a small group of US soldiers who spent a part of their life in hell. Paul J. Kratz, US Army (retired) Vietnam '66-67, & '70-71.

There is no way I can summerize what Frank Anton went through. To say it was hell would be a gross understatement. A must read not only for Frank's story but for the truth about Bobby Garwood (traitor without a doubt), and how our government knew where Frank was being held in South Vietnam for three years and did nothing about it. Frank recalls one particularly poignant moment; "The day before Thanksgiving, as Kushner cradled him (Grissett) in his arms as he had the other three (prisoners who recently died), he looked up at Doc and said, 'Tell my mom that I love her.' Then, with his dying breath, he whispered his last words, the words I will never, ever forget: 'Wake me when it's over.'" Grissett became the forth man to die in 1968. Not since reading Dieter Dengler's "Escape from Laos" have I read about such barbaric treatment. You will be brought to tears while reading this book and there are too many startling revelations to recount here. This book is priceless!

In January of 1968, helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Frank Anton was shot down in Southern Vietnam and spent 5 years in captivity. Many prominent books have been written of U.S. POW's in Hanoi's prisons but this story is a riveting look at POW's held in prison camps in Southern Vietnam which may have been worse.

Frank Anton has written a very detailed and graphic account of severly brutal conditions and treatments he and others suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. For 3 of his 5 years in confinement in the south (he spent time in 4 different camps), he weaves a harrowing tale of torture, starvation, non-existent medical treatment, disease, and barbarity suffered by prisoners. He further adds that during his confinement, he was witness to many Americans dying in the camps and also of betrayal and enemy collaboration by one of their own.

After 3 years of confinement in the south, Anton and the surviving members of his camp, in an incredible display of courage, strength, and determination, are forced to march on foot for an astonishing 6 months to one of Hanoi's prison camps known as the Plantation. For an additional 2 years, this was Anton's new home before being released from captivity in 1973.

Upon arriving home, Frank Anton was debriefed by the military and he eventually found out, to his dismay and horror, that our government know exactly where he was the entire time he was being held and that no serious attempts were considered to rescue him or his fellow soldiers.

In the last chapter of this book, which is absolutely astonishing, you will find out why no attempts were made to rescue many POW's. Additionally, you will learn the current fate of large numbers of POW's that were left behind and are currently unaccounted for in Vietnam. This information is highly disturbing and tragic and paints a very callous and unscrupulous portrait of our government with their regard to our missing servicemen.

This book is exceptionally good and comes highly recommended. As a side note, Pfc Robert Garwood (possibly the most notorious U.S. POW collaborator of the Vietnam war) is featured prominently in parts of this book. For those interested in the complete story of Robert Garwood, you would be well rewarded by reading "Conversations With The Enemy: The Story of Pfc Robert Garwood" by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer.

This was an awesome book!! There were so many dilemma's. At the end Lucas seems like he is fighting for his life. Why? You'll just have to read the book but, I can tell you this much, you won't regret reading it (unless you haven't read the other 6). Katherine Applegate did an excellent job with this series. There are so many cliff hangers. I really suggest you read this series.

I Just Love Applegate. She is the best and the Making Out series is too awesome. I can't wiat to get the newest book. But they come out monthly and my friends in England are up to like thirty something. That is so unfair! In this book I can't wait to see what happens to Zoey and Lucas And Jake and Claire. I just hope that Claire doesn't get with Lucas it just wouldn't be fair for Claire to get him AGAIN!!! I just hope that Christopher also realizes that its wrong to get revenge no matter how sweet and everything works out for Zoey's parents. The only person who has their head on their shoulders is Benjamin and I'm starting to wonder what'll happen to him. E-mail me and we can discuss the upcoming books.

This storyline takes yet another interesting turn. Ben finds and meets Laura. Lucas' dirty little secret comes out. Between Lucas and her parents transgressions, Zoey is about to snap completely. Book 8 is going to be classic

Those who forget the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them, and unfortunately the disaster of alcohol Prohibition in the 1920s occurred too long ago for most of us to remember it. Fortunately, Drug Crazy builds a bridge to that time, from whose lessons we can draw guidance today. That the Prohibition experiment (which was at least started and ended democratically, with Constitutional amendments) caused so much damage--especially crime, including the highest murder rate in US history--is a tragedy, but that we have not learned from that tragic experiment and are repeating the mistake on an even greater scale...that is indeed a crime. Drug Crazy goes on to trace the tragicomic escalation of the Drug War from its racist origins to its current heights of madness. This well-researched book is highly recommended for understanding how self-righteous and self-serving bureaucrats got us into the Drug War, and how we can get ourselves out.

Those who forget the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them, and unfortunately the disaster of alcohol Prohibition in the 1920s occurred too long ago for most of us to remember it. Fortunately, Drug Crazy builds a bridge to that time, from whose lessons we can draw guidance today. That the Prohibition experiment (which was at least started and ended democratically, with Constitutional amendments) caused so much damage-especially crime, including the highest murder rate in US history-is a tragedy, but that we have not learned from that tragic experiment and are repeating the mistake on an even greater scale...that is indeed a crime. Drug Crazy goes on to trace the tragicomic escalation of the Drug War from its racist origins to its current heights of madness. This well-researched book is highly recommended for understanding how self-righteous and self-serving bureaucrats got us into the Drug War, and how we can get ourselves out. An appendix provides a long list of activist and related organizations, with web sites.

This book should be a real eye-opener to the average citizen.

It is an easy read of only 240 pages, so even the most time-pressed will be able to get through it in a week or two of spare moments.

Mike Gray takes us through the past 90 years of the American drug war and also parallels it with the alcohol prohibition of the 1920's.

Some has expressed disdain over the author's lack of detail on a solution to the status quo. The purpose of this book appears to focus mainly on what is wrong with the current situation -- an example of what not to do. He does call for reform of drug laws and policies, and it's up to the reader to realize that the solution is not too far off from the solution of the alcohol problem during the prohibition era -- to repeal prohibition.

Buy it. Read it. Get all your friends to read it.

While you're still fired up over it... write a letter to your local congressperson expressing your feelings... well, maybe you should write the letter after you cool down a little -- but not too much.

I LOVED this book! I have been trying to find a way for years to make things happen as an artist, but everything I found in other books seemed futile. This book was an inspiration! Things I can actually do to make my career happen! Lee Silber definatly knows what he's writing about and it's not boring (How's that for new and different in a self promotion book). I actually would get excited about my carrer like I should be.

Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is an excellent source of information to get your creative juices flowing. A must read for any one that needs the starting point to launch their dreams. Silber gives great insight, examples, advice, and knowledge of what you need to get you started.

Get started now! Anything is possible!

... what I was doing. All that time I worked with some of the top creative advertising people in Memphis who shared ideas with me as we worked for some pretty big clients like Holiday Inn. Somehow, when it came to promoting myself, especially the true art that I do because I love it, the song of my soul, I wasn't selling the work that meant the most to me. I was baffled and discouraged. I mean, that is why I got into this business in the first place. I have tried reading and applying all the rules, but none seemed to be a proper fit for my brain, my heart, my world. Then I read this book. This guy understands what it is like in here. Using visual, emotional images, and humor he gets the points across in an organized, interesting way. He innoculates the reader with hope. Everytime I read another section, my mind started leaping off from his ideas into my own. I felt like I was drinking a pot of coffee ... I got excited, like he was a cheerleader excited for me personally. He covers everything. This book approaches problems in a variety of ways, so it helps open up new categories , new ways of problem-solving. Practical,fun,and a gentle, but true mirror on the ways we sabotage ourselves. This book has changed the way I think. Wish I had read it years ago.

Reading Shirley Peddy's book has truly been an engaging learning experience. By practicing the art of story telling, Shirley is able to captivate her audience and naturally become a mentor to all who read her book. Before I knew it I was deeply engrossed in the book and identifying with each character at various levels. Rachel (the Mentor in the story) focuses heavily on the importance of environment in relationship to performance among employees. After working within the same work space for a number of years and having experienced challenging times within our group, I can recognize the absolute importance of environment in relationship to performance. I wish I had been able to read her book in the beginning of my career. While reading about and experiencing what the characters were going through in my mind, I also learned important tools for starting mentoring relationships, identifying a mentoring spirit, understanding the role of a mentor, and working through problems.

The story had a happy ending for each of the characters. Although this may not always be the case in real life scenarios, I completely appreciate the focus on how effective, positive, mentoring relationships can turn about happy endings to otherwise difficult or impossible situations. I highly recommend this book to all who are interested in dealing effectively with other people as well as those who play key roles in helping others succeed.

Shirley Peddy addresses key mentoring skills, not in a sterile antiseptic way, but in real-life, 'it could happen', situations. In fact I found myself associating each mentoring challenge with a situation in my own environment. When skills are outlined and discussed, often it is the 'nitty gritty' of how would you really go about saying that to someone, that is not addressed. Not true here. You experience not only the dialogue, but also the toss and turn nights and the talks that don't end with the desired outcomes. I found this book entertaining as well as a keeper for referring back to for various mentoring issues. Peddy's work and family parallel story lines added to the picture of what mentoring is and isn't.

The title itself is very telling and helpful as a masterplan. I would recommend this book to anyone who's goal is to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

Susie =>

Mentoring is so important in the world today. Having a mentor, as this book details, helps people reach the next level in their careers. Mentoring is truly invaluable. A tough thing though is finding a mentor. Where does one look? Well now there is a place to both find a mentor and also be a mentor to share your knowledge. The site is Advance Mentoring, www.Advancementoring.com

You can search to find a mentor in any industry, or to be a mentor, or even both. Now the job of finding a mentor has gotten much easier. The site offers over a tremendous number of members from over 40 countries, so you are sure to find a mentor or a mentee. Good luck. http://www.advancementoring.com

Noah Cirincione, CEO
Advance Mentoring
http://www.advancementoring.com

I was a terminal intermediate skiier, enjoying skiing but facing the fact that at 47, after skiing for about 10 years, I'd probably never really progress. I bought this book, and a few others, and this is the one that has made the difference for me. After a short morning of trying out his ideas (he has one MAIN point in each of 3 chapters that are the real keys) I was grinning from ear to ear. After a couple of days I was at a level where I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe how *incredible* it feels to really ski well -- so this is what skiing is supposed to be like." I was hitting the runs in big swooping carves or popping short radius turns, feeling things from my skis that I had never been aware of before. Many of my friends and, yes, old ski instructors talked to me about my "amazing improvement". The book made sense, the few important points were easy to follow and implement, and I now enjoy skiing so much more than I ever did before. It worked for me.

This book was by far the best of the more than dozen books on skiing I've read. After taking a couple of ski weeks, and being a casual skier for several years, I was still a lower-level intermediate. After reading the book once in the off-season, I was able to ski better at the beginning of the season than I had at the end of the previous. After two days of working on the things in the book, I was skiing better than ever before in my life. I've read it multiple times, and each time my skiing has significanly improved. Skiing has gotten more fun, easier, and less tiring for me because of this book.

It's happened to just about any skiier. You get over the initial fear of falling, and learn how to get from the top of the hill down to the bottom. You move from the greens to the blues, and get a sense of what skiing is generally about. But you're not *great*.

This plateau is hit by skiiers of all ages and backgrounds. They know the mechanics of skiing, and they know what to do. But they marvel at those people zooming down the slopes effortlessly, as if they were dancing on the snow.

The solution is this book. I didn't even buy it on my own originally - it was given to me by a skiier friend who had read it and loved it. The book made a circuit through our skiing group and soon we all had copies of it. We then lent those out to friends, so they could learn too! This wasn't the basics - how to snowplow, how to stop. And it wasn't complicated either. It was full of great, practical, easy to understand *tips* that you could immediately apply to your own skiing.

Highly recommended!

I found this book to be the best I've read so far in regards to a sugar free diet. I had been on a no sugar diet for awhile and thought I knew everything. Boy was I surprised! Who knew there is sugar in table salt! I ended up (gladly) throwing away half of the food in my kitchen. Get the Sugar out is extremely informative even if you don't want to cut your sugar to that extreme. It's very easy to read and understand. It is chock full of great tips and recipes which are also very simple to follow and tasty too! Anne Gittleman also does a great job of offering brand names so you know what to look for when your shopping. I use this book constantly as a reference...it was the best ten bucks I ever spent!

This information is essential for a healthy lifestyle. All of your excercise and dieting is in vain if you continue to consume sugar and enriched flour! I found this book easy to follow, with great recipes. I am baking the oat granola right now. If you care about your health and psychological well being, please read this book.

There are TWO major hazards to refined sugar (cane or beet):
1. the sugar itself ROTS TEETH (and robs the body of vitamins);
2. the BONE particles that remain IN the finished product are
the NUMBER ONE cause of the various forms of cancer manifested
throughout the "civilized" world, much more so than tobacco or
pollution.
Although the fact (disputed, yes) that refined sugar rots teeth
is reason enough to obsess about ingredients (both stated and
undeclared/hidden), the more subtle and unpublicized hazard of
refined sugar, namely the CHARRED BEEF BONES which are used to
render the product pure white (by filtration through bone ash),
seems to be equally worthy of investigation and exposure (i.e.,
publicity & eradication).
Since 1981 the word has been out (avatar Sathya Sai Baba, in
transcripts of his Summer Showers discourses) that it is the
BONES IN SUGAR that is the #1 cause of cancer. I apologize
for not using proper grammar and for omitting citations for
this claim. I had much trouble to resurrect the pdf page that
gave the word-for-word precaution/disclosure about sugar's
danger vis-a-vis cancer(s). I do remember that it dates from
1981, and that it was neccessary to scroll to almost to the
end/bottom of the Acrobat page to read the few paragraphs on
the connection between sugar and cancer. Baba did offer the
simple alternative of "jaggery", which is UNrefined, and has
NO bone residue within it to cause cancer. Brown sugar isn't

suitable, being that usually that stuff is made from white
sugar with some molasses added back. Do a search via engine
for 'jaggery' and you'll come up with various links. Honey
is twice as sweet as sugar, so one could get by with half as
much in a recipe that calls for sugar, YET I'd still try to
omit same. Unless the label reads "unheated" (not raw), it's
been cooked, and the enzymes have been heated to death (or
whatever is the appropriate terminology).
I hope that by this review I have alerted some readers to an
ADDITIONAL reason to order the A L Gittleman user-friendly
guidebook on ridding one's cupboards and fridges of s-u-g-a-r.