Row 22, Seats A & B Review

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(More customer reviews)I was a frequent traveller and every time I was on a flight, I looked forward to the Hemisphere magazine of UAL. This book has all the short stories published in that magazine and all the stories touches your heart in ways you cant imagine. I have read this book a hundred times and each time, it seems likes its the first time i'm reading it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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Take Charge of Parkinson's Disease: Dynamic Lifestyle Changes to Put YOU in the Driver's Seat (A DiaMedica Guide to Optimum Wellness) Review

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(More customer reviews)Blurb: Guidelines to Taking Charge of YOUR Parkinson's Disease
Take Charge of Parkinson's Disease: Dynamic Lifestyle Changes to Put YOU in the Driver's Seat is for everyone affected by PD--those with the disease, families, and caregivers. With its focus on a healthy lifestyle that emphasizes nutrition and exercise as a way of maintaining optimal health, the book will appeal to readers who want to emphasize wellness and healthy aging while living with Parkinson's disease.
Motivated by her husband Mike's PD, Anne Mikkelsen developed a cooking style that blends her training in traditional French cooking and love of plants with emerging science on the importance of brain-healthy fruits, vegetables, spices, and herbs. Mike, an award-winning potter and sculptor, has skillfully adapted his art to accommodate the advancing stages of PD. Together, over nearly three decades, they have overcome the obstacles of living with Parkinson's disease in a fashion that will be an inspiration to readers.
Healthy lifestyle recommendations and an extensive recipe section are interspersed with Anne's memoir of her journey with her husband as they discover how to live well with Parkinson's disease. A chapter on issues of caregiving and the challenges it presents to a relationship enhances the comprehensive coverage of living with PD.What Stephanie Thought: Half memoir and half health guide, Take Charge of Parkinson's Disease is a thoughtful, easy-to-follow book stuffed with information about Parkinson's Disease, uplifting personal stories, and many clever recipes to help you through a healthy-as-possible lifestyle. With a history of Parkinson's Disease on my father's side, I thought this book would be useful to keep on hand. Although Parkinson's Disease affects mainly middle-aged and elderly adults and is very rare in individuals less than thirty years of age, it's still important to be informed on such topics. I'm obviously too young to be concerned about Parkinson's in myself, but the book was extremely descriptive, and is one of those books I should keep for the future (for my dad, uncles, and aunts).
Parkinson's Disease has no known cure, which is why a book to facilitate a lifestyle with the disease is a godsend. I especially loved all the recipes to promote a healthy lifestyle that were included at the end of the book. Even though Mikkelsen is not a doctor, she has studied French cooking, owns restaurants, and hosts cooking shows; she clearly knows what she's doing. I am eager to start using the foods recommended and incorporating them into my diet. Like I said, I'm too young to be concerned with PD, but with these things, you can never be too early.
Stephanie Loves: "Foods Tools to Keep Stocked in Your Pantry: olive oil, lemons and limes, teas and coffee, pepper, sea salts, cucumbers, onions, rosemary, nutmeg, kidney beans, nutrient-dense legumes, black beans, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, canola oil, chickpeas, raspberries, fava beans, and edadame."
Where Stephanie Got It: LibraryThing for review.
Radical Rating: 8 hearts- Would recommend to lots of really good friends.

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Take Charge of Parkinson's Disease is for the half million North Americans with Parkinson's disease who are focused on living a healthy lifestyle that emphasizes nutrition and exercise as a way of maintaining optimal health. Anne Mikkelsen, a professional chef, includes recipes that combine the widest variety of anti-oxidant, nutrient-rich ingredients, as well as liberal doses of herbs and spices known to favorably impact the brain and potentially reduce the effects of the disease. Healthy lifestyle recommendations are interspersed with Mikkelsen's memoir of her journey with her husband as they discover how to live well with Parkinson's disease. The approach to general wellness will resonate with the generation of readers in their fifties and beyond who want to emphasize optimal wellness, healthy aging, and living with any chronic disease.

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The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (Bradford Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Churchland is a great philosopher who has made many significant contributions to the study of the mind. Unfortunately, most of those contributions lie in his papers, other books, and works co-authored with his wife, Patricia Churchland."The Engine of Reason..." is aimed for the 'popular science' crowd, and it is a wonderful introduction to vector coding and some introductory neuroscience. But it is surprisingly weak in philosophical arguments. It really reads like a light, scientific textbook, and the bulk of it consists of oversimplified explanations which rely too heavily on scientific findings that aren't thoroughly established yet. He is extremely unfair towards philosophers who aren't eliminative materialists (like Searle, Nagel, etc.), and he spends literally no time refuting their arguments. Instead he bullies the reader into believing that the above writers must hold some antiquated Cartesian view which relies too heavily on intuition. He knows he has science on his side and is rather insulting towards philosophers, making them look like idiotic armchair scientists. While unfortunately philosophers are notorious for that fault, they also ask some pretty good questions and make you think. Churchland does neither in this book.This book is a real good starter for vector coding and neuroscience. But for 'popular science' that's scientific but extremely philosophical, I haven't found anything yet that beats Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained. For a good refutation of Searle, Nagel and the rest, read their own works and don't just listen to the brief overview Churchland gives.

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A new picture of the mind is emerging, and explanations now exist forwhat has so long seemed mysterious. This real understanding of how the biologicalbrain works -- of how we work -- has generated a mood of excitement that is sharedin a half-dozen intersecting disciplines. Philosopher Paul Churchland, who is widelyknown as a gifted teacher and expository writer, explains these scientificdevelopments in a simple, authoritative, and pictorial fashion. He not only opensthe door into the ongoing research of the neurobiological and connectionistcommunities but goes further, probing the social and moral dimensions of recentexperimental results that assign consciousness to all but the very simplest forms ofanimals.In a fast-paced, entertaining narrative, replete with examples and numerousexplanatory illustrations, Churchland brings together an exceptionally broad rangeof intellectual issues. He summarizes new results from neuroscience and recent workwith artificial neural networks that together suggest a unified set of answers toquestions about how the brain actually works; how it sustains a thinking, feeling,dreaming self; and how it sustains a self-conscious person.Churchland first explainsthe science -- the powerful role of vector coding in sensory representation andpattern recognition, artificial neural networks that imitate parts of the brain,recurrent networks, neural representation of the social world, and diagnostictechnologies and therapies for the brain in trouble. He then explores thefar-reaching consequences of the current neurocomputational understanding of mindfor our philosophical convictions, and for our social, moral, legal, medical, andpersonal lives.Churchland's wry wit and skillful teaching style are evidentthroughout. He introduces the remarkable representational power of a single humanbrain, for instance, via a captivating brain/World-Trade-Tower TV screen analogy."Who can be watching this pixilated show?" Churchland queries; the answer is aprovocative "no one." And he has included a folded stereoscopic viewer, attached tothe inside back cover of the book, that readers can use to participate directly inseveral revealing experiments concerning stereo vision.A Bradford Book

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The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 Review

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(More customer reviews)"There's more to this life than we know," Norman Dubie observes in his poem, "A Grandfather's Last Lesson" (p. 103), a theme he has explored in his poetry for more than 34 years. Born in Vermont in 1945, Dubie is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He has been a poet at Arizona State University at least since the 1980s, when I was a student there, and he is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist. Although he has published twenty books of poetry since 1968, he has been curiously silent for the past decade. THE MERCY SEAT includes poems collected from seventeen of Dubie's previous books, and nearly 100 pages of new poetry. This 165-poem collection is divided into Dubie's 1967 to 1990 poetry (pp. 7-298), and his 1991 to 2001 poetry (pp. 299-398).
Dubie has been called a "poet's poet." Although he is not an easy poet, Dubie is one of our country's finest. His poetry is complex and dreamlike, painting a picture of life that is both wretched and blissful. His subjects range from Randall Jarrell (p. 18), Chekhov (p. 87), Thomas Hardy (p. 107), Coleridge (p. 148), Einstein (p. 150), Meister Eckart (p. 194), and Thomas Merton (p. 265), to a "dark cat" stalking fireflies, "sometimes falling/ On her back, sometimes her jaws working/ Very fast" (p. 17). Dubie's poetry is also rich in sensual imagery: "Later, in a dark room, both of us speckled, middle-aged, and soft/ I dragged my mouth like a snail's foot up your leg and body/ To your mouth. We both shivered" (p. 146). For anyone who appreciates poetry at the top of its form, THE MERCY SEAT should not be missed.
G. Merritt

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Chair Caning and Seat Weaving: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-16 Review

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(More customer reviews)Good beginner instructions but not all the weaves are present. Would have like more illustrations

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand: The Game as Umpires See It (Writing Baseball) Review

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(More customer reviews)Very few people know what the rigours and stresses of a pro sport official are as well as the personal setbacks and of course the professional flaws. This book has all of the above, excellently written and clearly shows what being a major sports league's messenger (since umpires just enforce the rules) is really like. Just as now, the dealings with overpaid, spoiled players, coaches and managers are well described. One of the best books I've ever read.

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Back Seat Review

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(More customer reviews)Hi Aditya,
Hope you are doing fine. I am writing to you today with just one intention in mind, and that is to let you know exactly how much your book `Backseat' means to me.
I read your book during very unfortunate circumstances and whilst I was smack in the middle of a personal crisis. Just to elaborate a bit more (without which I will not be able to convey my appreciation for Backseat) ... this was the time when my dad was in the hospital as he had suffered from a stroke and one side of his body was paralysed. Basically, he was immovable and on the bed. And, the worst effect of the stroke was that it affected his ability to swallow. It was so bad the just so he would not choke on his own saliva the doctors had made a slit in this throat which was then used to extract the accumulated saliva every 1 - 1.5 hours.
What this also meant was, that although he was under medical supervision one member of the family had to stay awake each night to ensure that the process of extracting his saliva was done correctly and on time. The consequence of that not happening was risking him choking to death.
Now, I clearly remember that night when I was leaving my house to go to the hospital. I was searching for something that would help keep me stay awake the whole night and I happened to glance upon Backseat. My wife had already read it before and recommended to me and to most of her friends.
As I started to my personal endeavour to stay awake that night, I also simultaneously began my journey into the life of the protagonist and the other characters that you have described so well. I don't want to bore you with the details of my ups and downs during that night, but do want to tell you that, during that dark night of my life, each time as I read your book, I was able to transport myself into a world perhaps less painful and much more interesting than my own.
I love your writing style for that reason, it made it so easily for me visualise and slip away into the story as it unfolded while I read your book through the night. I finished reading Backseat just as the day broke and the world was woke up. I distinctly remember feeling that I had lived a lifetime during that night.
As it happened, that was the last night I spent with my dad as he passed away the next day. So, you see your book has somehow got associated to a very painful time of my life but as a silver lining in that dark-dark night.
So, I hope you now understand the depth of my words when I say to you "Thank You Aditya, Thank you for Backseat!"
P.S.: On a better note, can't wait for your next one buddy.

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The DANCE BAR culture is one of the strongest cultural dimensions of Mumbai's past. On the 15th of August 2005 minister R.R. Patil initiated a ban on Dance Bars citing the demise of dignity as his motivation.Less than a month later, the very girls whose morals so greatly concerned Patil, were newly unemployed, and as the majority continued to be illiterate and have no professional skills, they were also unable to acquire alternative means of sustenance.Despite his initial promise of rehabilitation, Patil retracted, leaving an immigrant population of an estimated 75,000 to choose between returning to their villages and starting from scratch, or turning to prostitution. As a result, Mumbai has another social problem to contend with, that of the dance bargirl-turned-escort and prostitute. He has forced these women out from a once legal profession, into the world's oldest, illegal profession. If the dance bars did ever function as pick up joints, Patil's demolition of their physical space certainly hasn't ended the proclivity to purchase the company of women, but merely given the men involved greater power to abuse the dancers, who no longer enjoy the stringent security under which most bars functioned.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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