Manipulation

Before I read this book I had never really considered the functioning of connective tissue as a "web-like" structure within which bone and muscle articulate. The authors contend, starting with embrionic anatomy and onward, that the c.t. forms a bed within which cells differentiate. From this view point of c.t. being a primary base for physical form, we are shown how all parts of the web are connected, and create "bands" that ideally are nether too tight or too loose. I didn't know much about Rolfing either, but apparently this bodywork deals specificly with c.t. Good book, great publishing company.

Hey what can I say the book is a great book . It gives you wonderfull info . Without the book I would no have gotten a 10 on my report . By the way in this report a ten was great .

Ortho Bionomy, a practical manual is a good summation of the various techniques for practicing this theraputic modality. I consider Ortho Bionomy to be a bit like Chiropractic, in that it deals with manipulating the joints. It is a great technique for massage therapists to add to thier repertoire. I would recommend taking a weekend seminar in this methodology, rather than just trying to pick it up from the book. Many techniques are such that you need to observe them first person. For therapists wishing to utilize Ortho Bionomy as part of thier practice, the book is certainly useful, even more so when combined with a seminar taught by a qualified instructor.

i am doing Ph.D. in molecular biology and this book is very useful in the cloning and genetic engineering portion. i read this book from the library. it is the bible of genetic engineering and great text book for the subject.it gives a comprehensive study with minute details and recent advances. overall worth purchasing.

Urogenital manipulation is a must have text which allows review of procedure by region. i.e. bladder, uterus & vagina, ovaries & uterine tubes. Illustrations are line drawings covering the majority of manipulations discussed. Text also covers topics on patient ethics.

I bought this book because the reviews were so favorable, but sure wish I hadn't!!! Its incredibly stupid and a waste of money. Unfortunately, its been over a month or I would return it! Unless you like making finger puppets that look like butts, DON"T BUY IT!

This book is a hoot! It offers page after page of entertainment. I found it at a bed and breakfast I stayed at on their coffee table and it gave me quite a few chuckles as I spent time trying to do the hand manipulations. Now I am going to buy the book for myself!

The Victorians were prudes? You'll never look at old engravings with an innocent mind again. Great fun!

I found this book rather 1-dimensional and not particularly inspiring. There is only 1 basic technique covered in this book, and the examples are all of the "cute, folksy, boxy" variety, for the most part worked in cotton. Examples include cute, folksy, boxy women's clothing; cute, folksy, boxy home-dec items; cute, folksy, boxy girl's clothing...I was hoping to find some more elegant examples, some different techniques, some different textures, some different fabrics used.

The information presented is exhaustive (130+ pages on 1 technique!) and well-written, with nice photos of the author's and other's work, but as an experienced sewer and machine-embroidery enthousiast I find I get the same amount of inspiration and information out of a Threads magazine article - and there have been several on the technique presented in this book.

This fun book - thanks to Wendy's terrific sense of humor - shows how to create interesting fabric creations from what you have. Enables you to totally change a fabric into something else. Great ideas for using all the exciting threads available now. Only thing lacking is more projects. Hope there's a sequel.

Loved it! This book takes quilting to a higher level, and yet the technique of thread embellishment is quite uncomplicated. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in a unique approach to quilting or adding an extra dimension to their sewing - a very special book!

The author brags that Ward, who termed the phrase "myofascial release" and helped popularized it among mainstream American Osteopaths, was one of the co-authors but he only contributes two paragraphs regarding myofascial release. The book describes different techniques for different problems but the reader should be warned: Myofascial release is both clinician and patient dependent, so the book should only be a guide of what you could possibly do. Furthermore, myofascial release involves three parts: compression, traction and twist. The author just describes stretching in her techniques. Because myofascial release is so patient and clinician dependent writing a book on this particular technique is very difficult. The author has not been able to meet the challenge.

This book is useful to help you apply the manual techniques of trigger point release. However,you will have to buy other books to have a complete guide about the practice of myofascial release. This book can help you.

This is mostly a minibio of James Cramer with a lot of attention paid on the side to CNBC and Maria Bartiromo specifically. If you're very interested in Cramer, you can just go get his actual memoir. As for me, I am interested in Wall Street and the system of disseminating and evaluating information and opinion about stocks -- the conflicts of interest, the conventions, the legal rules, the strengths and weaknesses. I don't know how you can analyze those issues without spending time on the role and motivations of key research analysts, the position of the SEC and the communication conventions between companies and journalists, hedge fund and other money managers and the SEC. Any book claiming to treat these issues and focusing on 1998-2000 would have to deal extensively by the phenomenon represented by Mary Meeker and Harry Blodgett, which this book does not. The book focuses disproportionately and without explanation on a few TV personalities without treating the overall issue. Too bad for me.

It would have been fine if the title had been accurate -- something about James Cramer. Or even "Crazy Days at CNBC."

The data does not synthesize into any larger recommendation or theme. It comes across as an accurate chronology without analysis. The writing style is correspondingly dry.

If you invest at all - stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. - you need to read this book. Howard Kurtz has the inside track on the investment bankers, mutual fund managers, and the financial press, with insight into what the real agendas are - and therefore, who you can really trust. He gives fascinating details of the celebrities in the financial reporting world, from cable news channels devoted to business reporting, to the publishing world and the movers and shakers on Wall Street - and most importantly, who's really driving the show, who the analysts are really working for, who the brokers are pressured by, and why analysts who downgrade stocks are usually fired.

The book is filled with plenty of anecdotes, details of who owns what, who works for who, who's related to or dating who, where the unusual friendships have created unexpected channels of information, and how the financial reporting business is influenced and controlled by special interests that may surprise you - but that make complete sense once Kurtz explains it all.

If you want to read "between the lines" in the financial reporters to see the truth and decipher the actual future of the market, this book is required reading to help figure out where the truth is coming from, and where the truth is not.

Not to mention - it's just plain fascinating. This book reads like a fascinating dramatic novel.

This book offered some interesting insight into how analyst news and forecasts effect the stock market. The main message I came away with is "don't believe the hype". If you are looking to bolster your confidence in your own ability to make stock picks in the face of contridictory market analysts then take the time to listen to this book. If you're not interested in an autobiogrophy of famous Wall Street gurus then skip it. You can get the same information and much more valuable insight from reading some of the Peter Lynch books.

If you're on the way to mental illness and would like a turbo-boost, then this is the book for you. If you are healthy and have a good handle on things, but would like to begin your journey to insanity, then this also is your book. Otherwise save your money, 'cause there are loads of better scifi-horror pulp out there.

I must admit, it's a catchy title, and tempting on a boring monday afternoon while waiting at the local bookstore for a friend. But that's where fun stops, and one quickly learns an answer to that very important question, "Dear God! What's Happening to Us?" - that ramblings like Grabhorn's actually get published!

Her main idea: that the reason Prozac, therapy and health management are not making you feel better is that evil spiritual beings tricked you into a pre-incarnation contract allowing them to use you for all sorts of nasty experiments. Of course, she gives you "steps" for terminating your contract, but then warns that for a small percentage of the population the steps won't work. Why? Because these people are special servants of the Light that signed up for manageable bouts of misery - the price for ensuring Light's victory. How convenient! Just imagine some poor soul trying her techniques (if we can call them that) to no avail and then believing that he is a "special servant of Light" - *KERPLUNK* right down the rabbit hole.

And guess what, she got this information from channelers and her pendulum! By definition, should not spirits be a bizillion times less trustworthy than random human strangers? Why should anybody trust a spirit or pendulum making such outlandish claims? Really Ms. Grabhorn, you should be ashamed of yourself for peddling such dangerous nonsense. Here's some advice, free of charge: stop playing with pendulums and spooks, and work on your problems.

If this book is the result of applying her techniques and earlier self-help publication, then be afraid dear reader, be very afraid, not of preincarnate hustlers, but of the brain-rot between the covers.

By the time I read the first few chapters of Dear God it occurred to me that Lynn chooses to believe in two powers. It is karmic law she writes of. If not for this book, I would not have been awakened to the Truth that lies within me. Thank you, Lynn for the warning sign your book set off inside of me that forced me to decide if I really wanted to travel that path with you. My answer was an emphatic and resounding "NO". There is but one Power. No karmic law has any power unless one chooses to give it power. I choose not to and am grateful for this book.

Read Dear GOD! a couple of nights ago night. I've previously read "Excuse Me," which is why I bought DG. My reactions early in the book was questions like "Genuine problems, but why does she have to fall into the 'absolution by external entity trap,' which is the basic control pattern enforced by religions." and "Too much Christianity residue". But giving her benefit of doubt I red on to get to know her perception of what's going on.

I'm a Healer, and I know about the shadow. When I do Healing I walk into a 3D energetic space and restore energetic structures in my clients - working closely with Animal Spirits - and I have many times encountered and dislodged invasion of vapiric shadow material, shadowy areas and barriers that needed pounding through and dissolving, and shadowy black holes where the energetic structure of my clients needs to be rebuilt. This black oozing energy is intelligent or connected to intelligence. I can feel emotions and thoughts from them sometimes, and they aggressively resist dislodging. I have some Ace allies and a knack for going outside boxes, so I've been fortunate to win my battles, but it has been close sometimes. These healing sessions facilitate the fastest and most tangible results I see. (No this is not journeying, it's different)

What I perceive about guidance from the other side is that we tend to receive information in concepts we can understand and that deliberately accessing the other side for information is a trixome undertaking. There are other limitations besides deliberate misleading that Grabhorn didn't address, but the double and triple-checking she describes should clear those confusions out too.

Point is, what she received she received in words and images she can understand and work with. There are heavy Judaeo-Christian mystical concepts used. Yuck. She's an unstructured and repetitive writer, and this time she seems to be bludgeoned backwards through her text, which doesn't help. Deleting some stars for style is definitely due. She's also working with the understanding that the rising of Earth's energies and ours will result in a Jesus-like ascension on a grand scale to what she calls "Planet Two". What Earth usually does when she needs to tackle a rampant species is tilt her axis or order a meteor-strike to initiate a cataclysm big enough to suffice. There are other perceptions too, and we'll eventually see which is the closer.

The critical point of information she conveys in this book is that about deals we've entered into with "The Others" or these shadowy things, and how these deals cuts us off from health and joy; and that we now can revoke them and sack the guardians that do not benefit us. This is what's new, and I certainly haven't seen this before. She gets her deleted stars right back for exceptional importance.

Since I stated the verses with clear intent a couple of nights ago, I've been in a major cleansing process - not comfortable, but it's working.

Our guides and helpers are restricted to what they can say or do or help us with according to these deals that are binding us - at least that's what the one I've been working with confirms. By cancelling the bindings she points to, we cut loose and can step fully into our health and power. Critically important.

I have perceived this shadowy energy as a kind of cosmic counterpoint natural to the process of human choice, as the universal mechanism for manifesting the darker energies if we choose that path; something growing out of dysfunctional patterns of thinking, emoting and relating. It has taken me years to unravel social structures and in humanity today universal misconceptions about thinking feeling and relating. What I haven't been able to account for is the tenacity of the system that bogs us down, or the magnitude of the difficulties when we wish to choose what serves ourselves and what serves Life of and on this planet - or just plain be kind with ourselves; that, and the intelligence of the black energy.

The magnitude of gross stupidity and shortsightedness in our politicians and business people - factoring in an absence of deliberate malign will in most cases. Even given that questioning as a skill has been deliberately culled - and people asking questions has generally been killed all through the so-called "rise of Civilization" hoax.

What she provides in this book is an explanation for the stickiness of the mechanisms that I perceive. On one hand it is so far fetched that it's easy to discard on whatever convenient reason. On the other hand I see the black goo at work when I heal, and I see how it almost strangles people who try to fight it. If it's all as it's supposed to be, then Earth is the Navy Seal boot-camp of the Universe - and that picture does not ring true with what I see in nature.

So, I'm buying her story until I can unravel a better explanation.

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