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The Beginning Runner's Handbook: The Proven 13-Week Walk-Run Program

54 reviews
The Sports Medicine Council British Columbia

Greystone Books, 2005

Very worthwhile book
Before I started reading this, I was a slug - never exercised and was 70 lbs. overweight. I started a weight loss program and was walking religiously, but found that I became used to the intensity so I needed something more. My daughter recommended this book as a way to "learn" running and I've been following it ever since. I've now lost 54 pounds and am about 25% through the program. My goal is ...

The New Meaning of Educational Change, Fourth Edition

5 reviews
Michael Fullan

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2007

What is New in "The New Meaning of Educational Change"?
The third edition of Fullen's book - "The New Meaning of Educational Change" came out to the readers in 2001 ten years after its second edition was published. Its contents have been greatly enriched and "`the meaning hypothesis' has become deeply confirmed." The "knowledge base" of change in this book is broadened and deepened by applying the advances of cognitive science and the chaos theory. ...

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)

46 reviews
Michael J. Mauboussin

Columbia University Press, 2007

Practical Financial Wisdom.
Practical information any ivestor should keep in mind. Potentially very helpful if one heeds to the ideas in this book. The first 75% of the book is very tight, but towards the end there is some repetition. Overall, nice read.

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

29 reviews
Donald R. Prothero

Columbia University Press, 2007

One of the best!
There are a few recent books on religion, science, skepticism, and evolution that will probably go down in history as the "great ones". In that mix I include Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World and Sam Harris's The End of Faith. Donald Prothero's book should certainly be included among such prestigious company!

Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska

8 reviews

Lone Pine Publishing, 2004

An essential tool
For anyone interested in Northwest Native Plants, this is an essential reference. Arthur Lee Jacobsen's "Wild Plants of Greater Seattle" is another useful book, although not as detailed. "Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest", by Charles Leo Hitchcock, in 7 volumes for $300.00, is much more detailed but not as handy. I have used my "Pojar" so much that I wore it out and had to get a ...

Inside Terrorism

19 reviews
Bruce Hoffman

Columbia University Press, 2006

analyzes the political tactics of terrorism
I found this book to be quite enlightening as well as facinating to read. Refusing to engage in the political rhetoric surrounding terrorism, the author, Bruce Hoffman, (an expert in counterterrorism at West Point as well as a professor at Georgetown)follows the evolution of terrorism as a means of calling world attention to forgotten or underpublicized plights of the disenfranchized in order ...

The Milepost 2008 (Milepost)

16 reviews

Morris Communications Company, 2008

The most useful tool for your travel!
A little background, we are Air Force and we recently PCSed to Elmendorf, AK. We used the milepost to plan our stops and it was a lifesaver. Everything that you could ever want to know about any route to Alaska, the scenic markers, the stops, even road conditions and pullouts, they are all in there. A must for any traveler.

Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (Civil War America)

1 review
Rod, Jr. Andrew

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

An important biography
Wade Hampton III who was born in 1818 and whose life spanned the century (he died in 1902) was an important figure in South Carolina and in the American South. He was born to near-aristocracy, his father having fought in the War of 1812 and his grandfather in the Revolution. He was a wealthy plantation owner, one of the wealthiest in his state. He was also a conservative who opposed the break ...

Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford

Columbia University Press, 2008

Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae. Both are well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions of both extinct and extant species, Wang and Tedford present a remarkably detailed and nuanced portrait of the origin and evolution of canids ...

Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on ...

21 reviews
Hervé This

Columbia University Press, 2005

For the scientist-cook
After reading the Italian translation a coupe of years ago, I was so much hoping for an English translation, and here it is; and it's brilliant! It's quite one thing to follow recipes and follow instructions, and quite another to understand at a physico-chemical level WHY you need to do things in a certain way. As a scientisty person- really, just as a curious person- you want to know what's ...

Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet

1 review
Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

Three Rivers Press, 2008

Worth a Read and a Thought
Most importantly, this book is not preachy or righteous. They make that clear in the first chapter, and I found it to be a relief. It's also written in a very relaxed style and the alternating authors in each chapter provide a deeper context. The authors provide a lot of insight into what we consume and how we consume it. Although the book doesn't strive to be life changing, I have to say it ...

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan: A Novel of Shanghai ...

1 review
Wang Anyi

Columbia University Press, 2008

Met my expectations!
The novel arrived quickly and was at a fair price and met my expectations. -- norman Michaud

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally

17 reviews
Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

Harmony, 2007

A truly inspirational read
This very personal account is a very inspiring and motivational book. While reading this, I couldn't stop telling people about the ideas, the stories and the passion of what i was reading. I checked the local farm market schedule midway through the book and am very excited to be going this week. I think some other people are missing the point. This book isn't trying to convert everyone to a ...

Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)

5 reviews
B. Alan Wallace

Columbia University Press, 2006

An Exceptional Contribution to Consciousness Studies
Unless you are involved in neuroscience, it is difficult to appreciate the magnitude of the seismic shifts that are occurring in our knowledge about the brain, and the extraordinary consequences for our understanding of what it means to be human. Or the important implications of the new brain sciences for such issues as education and legal responsibility. There is a robust and growing ...

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion)

6 reviews
B. Alan Wallace

Columbia University Press, 2007

innovation in mind research
The Dalai Lama often refers to Buddhism as "the science of the mind". This book is very interesting even important by suggesting new research projects about how the minds work. Allan Wallace has deep knowledge about the latest developments in physics and has extensive meditation experience. Buddhists consider that scientific investigations should contribute to the well being of people. ...

Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on ...

4 reviews
Hervé This

Columbia University Press, 2007

A witty guide to cooking through chemistry
The first things French chemist and gastronomist This clarifies are the terms gourmand and gourmet. A gourmand is not a glutton. A gourmand is a gourmet. A gourmet is actually a connoisseur of wine. Got that? Good. Cause it doesn't get any easier. This' eye-opening book is all about molecules and atoms in motion and what things like heat, moisture, acid and fat do to transform them into ...

The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice, Second Edition

3 reviews
Joseph P. McDonald

Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2007

Very powerful practices
Using the protocols in this volume do lead to better practice. Several years ago, I attended a series of training sessions conducted by the authors on using protocols in professional development situations and experienced the "power of protocols" first-hand. Since then, I have used them or variations in several ways that have lead to powerful insights for all involved. Most recently, in a ...

Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining: The People, Places, Food, and Drink of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and ...

8 reviews
Braiden Rex-Johnson

Wiley, 2007

A Mouth-Watering Read
I was given this book as a gift and after sitting down with a cuppa joe and browsing through it, I feel like I've had an eye-opening close encounter with the Northwest--and I live here! With our busy lives, who has time to track down the crème de la crème of cozy inns, tucked away vineyards and to-die-for bistros? Rex-Johnson has done the work for us, with a literary roadmap of the best of the ...

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

4 reviews
Jack Nisbet

Sasquatch Books, 2007

A strong portrait of a dynamic, changing landscape
This impressive survey of the Columbia River country concerns the journey of a fossil trilobite, the disappearance of condors, and other altered landscapes of the America Northwest. Author Jack Nisbet's intention in Visible Bones is to show how varied relics of the past have been altered over time: geology and changes blend with human records of change, taken from ship logs, field journals and ...

Where Are You Now?: A Novel

52 reviews
Mary Higgins Clark

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2008

Could not put this book down!
Run...don't walk....and buy this book! It was wonderful! I could not put it down until I knew what had happened to Mack! I tried to figure out "who done it"...but could not! Wow...buy it now!

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