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Jo Robinson's new book Pasture Perfect explains the far-reaching benefits of choosing meat, eggs, and dairy products from animals raised on pasture. Drawing on five years of research, Robinson explains that products from grass-fed animals are safer and more nutritious than conventional ones. What's more, the animals live low-stress, more natural lives. Chickens are free to graze on greens, scratch for insects, enjoy sun baths, and roost in comfort. Cattle, bison, dairy cows and lambs are truly contented as they graze on green pasture, breathe fresh air, and stay on the farm from birth until market.
Robinson is the first to gather all the scientific evidence proving that pastured products are safer and more nutritious. As readers will learn, meat from grass-fed animals is free of hormones, antibiotics and mad cow disease. It is also higher in Vitamin E, beta-carotene, omega-3 fatty acids, and the newly discovered cancer-fighting fat called "CLA." Eggs and dairy products from pastured poultry and dairy cows have similar benefits.
Pasture Perfect does more than explain the benefits of pastured products—it also helps you locate, store, and cook them. You will appreciate the 60 pages of recipes that are designed to bring out the tenderness and flavor of this highly nutritious, environmentally friendly food.
Accurate and carefully referenced, Pasture Perfect is the definitive book on this greenest of industries.
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Seamless Transaction.......2007-01-10
Text arrived quicker than expected in perfect condition -- transaction was effortless, seamless and completed as if "immediately." Thank you!
Super market meat??????.......2006-05-01
Jo Robinson has done the research and it is enlightening. We have come so far from the days of the family farm and we haven't a clue. I am not a vegetarian but you can bet I won't be eating supermarket meat any longer, especially chicken (including eggs). Read the book to find out why (with scientific studies) organics, even more importantly pasture raised meat products are healthier for us. It is a quick and easy read because it does not take long to uncover the truth.
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1656. Where the definitions, divisions, places, descriptions, differences, names, virtues, times of flourishing and gathering, uses, temperatures, signatures and appropriations of plants are methodically laid down. Whereunto is added, a discovery of the lesser world. Partial Contents: Physics, Philosophy, Herbs, Proper places where plants are to be found, Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Flowers, Seeds, Plants, Plants used in, and against Witchcraft, Myriad uses of plants.
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Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular CULTURE SHOCK! series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. CULTURE SHOCK! country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. CULTURE SHOCK! practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. CULTURE SHOCK! AT YOUR DOOR guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And CULTURE SHOCK! SUCCESS SECRETS guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.
Each CULTURE SHOCK! title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.
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Well worth the money!.......2005-03-25
This book was very informative. When I found out that I was going to Brazil I went out and bought about 6 different books about the country. All lot of the books showed the "touristy" side of Brazil without really informing you about what to expect. I flew through this book quickly because it was really interesting and informative. It really got me prepared for what I needed to have a nice trip while not putting me to sleep! Its worth the ten bucks!
This is an amazing book!!!!!!.......2004-05-03
I had told my new boyfriend a lot about my country, and the way Brazilian culture is. It was amazing when he came home with this book, and read some parts to me. The writer gives an incredible description of the Brazilian soul, our culture and passions, and things I never realized are part of our life. The author of "Culture Shock" probably knows more about us Brazilians than we do, probably because you see better when you see from outside.
I was so impressed by the way Volker Poelzl describes what I am, the details given in the book made me feel like I was looking at the mirror.Whenever I start learning about a new culture, I won't hesitate to buy one of his books. By seeing the wonderful job that "Brazil (Culture Shock!)" is, I have no doubts about how brilliant this guy is.
Hard to find but worth it!.......2003-10-18
I had to wait for either this book to be released or reprinted (I cant remeber what the delay was)and now I see its even hard to find on Amazon! But that being said....its worth it! I bought it before moving to Brazil...even though I did not experience any "culture shock" I did learn alot from this book!Great language phrases and help plus I loved the portuguese proverbs of type it occasionally included. Once I was speaking about the "Brazilian Miracle" and some other stuff to an American friend and my Brazilian buddy said "man, you know more about Brazils history than me"....it was just info. I picked up from this book. Great info. about contacts, visas, food and much more. If you are going to stay any time in Brazil (other than a weeks vacation...say 30 days or more) then its a must have!
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Good so far.......2007-10-03
I have not finished reading this book entirely, but what I have read is very good. It is easy to read, and from what I already know about Brazil, an accurate description so far. I also like the fact that the book definitely tells about Brazil from the perspective of an outsider that is not familiar with the culture. It will prepare travelers to not be shocked, and rather, to appreciate what they experience.
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On September 11th, America was attacked. But while we know what happened on that tragic day, many of us don't understand why it happened. In this important book, Time magazine reporter Mitch Frank clearly and concisely explains why and answers the following essential questions.
What happened on September 11th? € Who were the hijackers? € What is terrorism? € What is Islam? € Why does the Middle East matter? € Why did the terrorists target the United States? € Why did we go after Afghanistan? € Who are the Taliban? € What are the differences between Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islam? € Who is Osama bin Laden? € How has America changed since September 11th?
Written and designed on a level that sixth graders and up can easily comprehend, and filled with pictures, maps, and straightforward explanations, this is the book that will enable young people to understand both the events of 9/11 and the history leading up to it. September 11th is a part of history that Americans should both know and never forget.
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A Teacher's Perspective.......2002-08-20
As a teacher of adolescents, I often find myself unable to answer their "Why?" questions about the state of world affairs. This book gave me a deeper understanding of the history and issues underlying the events of September 11. Mr. Frank presents the information concisely and unsentimentally -- a difficult feat given the emotional import of the subject matter. I found it immensely informative and will undoubtedly refer to it during this school year as the first anniversary approaches and passes.
I'm also the mother of a two-year-old girl, and I've felt at a loss as to how to explain the attacks to her when the time comes. By the time she is of grade-school age, her social studies texts will definitely contain references to September 11. I now plan to read Mr. Frank's book with her to give her all the background information she could possibly need, and to share with her my husband's and my memories of that terrible day.
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India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between many human dramas; the love between Daphne Manner and Hari Kumar; the desperate grief an old teacher feels for an India she cannot rescue; and the cruelty of Captain Ronald Merrick, Susan Layton's future husband.
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What?? Rewrote the 2nd book?.......2003-09-26
Thats how I felt reading this book! It was like Scott wasn't happy with his second book, so he rewrote it again! At least, the first 80% of the book was rehashing history already covered in the second book.
To give him credit, he didn't go into expansive detail in areas where he did in the second book, but it was so frustrating reading of exactly the same events as the second book, except from someone else's point of view. Very exasperating in fact. And unlike the second book, he somehow lost that fantastic ability to tell the story through the characters.
This book focuses on Barbie Batchelor, a retired missionary lady who lived with the Layton's Grandmother until her death. There is nothing wrong with telling the story through Barbie, except we already know most of it from the second book and somehow, Barbie's account doesn't add much to it - although we learn more about her!
When finally the book moves on into the future, it is well and truly 80% over and just glosses over the future, almost like its stampeding through Barbie's breakdown. There are hints of what to expect in the forth book, and given the precedence set in these three books, I suspect the beginning of the 4th book is going to be rehashing in expansive detail the material glossed over at the end of the 3rd book.
Quite honestly, I think this book could have been just about completely dumped from the quartet (maybe some of the better description replacing some of the duller descriptions in the 2nd book...), and we'd have been none the wiser!
Why were we there?.......2003-01-29
"The Towers of Silence" is the third volume in Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet". Scott does little in this novel to develop the plot of the first two volumes: the rape in the Bibighar Gardens still looms ominously in the background, but is not the central issue here - rather, Scott uses this novel to refocus on events and characters who have already appeared, and to introduce some new characters. Still, Scott's intricate examination of the last days of the British Raj is as acute and convincing as it was in those earlier volumes.
The central character in "The Towers of Silence" is Barbara Batchelor, a spinster and retired superintendent of a Protestant mission school. Scott relates with great care the vicious social snobbery of the British in India, both among themselves and against the Indians. The divisions within the British in India are accentuated by the tensions caused by social change in Britain itself - the imminence of a Labour government and the questioning of automatic social superiority based upon birth and "going to the right school".
Because the British isolate themselves from the Indians, living in small cantonments, it's almost a pressure-cooker situation, small differences and social mores taking on a great importance. Could Scott have been saying that Empire accentuated these trends or highlighted them, or was he saying that given such changes, imperialism seemed all the more absurd - a society so deeply at odds with itself, so unsure of its way forward could hardly continue to claim a right to rule over another society?
It seemed to me that Barbara Batchelor was symbolic of the obsolescence of British imperial ideals, both directly and indirectly. Dirctly, because she represented an anachronistic Christian missionary type of imperialism that (as far as my reading tells me) had been waning badly since the Mutiny of 1857. But also indirectly, because she irritates the British imperialists of the 1940s - her very presence and manners highlight their own lack of an imperial raison d'être.
Of the other characters, Teddie Bingham reappears from "The Day of the Scorpion" and his (often comic) courtship of Susan Layton is retold, but in far more detail. Ronald Merrick also reappears, and through him Scott exposes the deep insecurity and bafflement caused in the Army by the discovery that Indian prisoners of war were fighting alongside the Japanese in the "Indian National Army".
A suberb addition to an excellent series of novels.
G Rodgers
The Chamber Novel.......2002-06-30
The four volumes of the Raj Quartet overlap and complement one another, while at the same time forwarding the main storyline of the slow twilight of the British ascendancy in India, always with the rape of a white girl by Indian men as the central lodestone everpresent in the background, the nightmare which is seldom mentioned but which none can drive from their minds. Events occur, are discussed, witnessed as newspaper reports, court documents, interviews, vague recollections from years later, or perceived directly by the main characters. Then the next volume will take two or three steps back into previous events, and these same events will be perceived from another angle, perhaps only as a vague report heard far away across the Indian plain, or witnessed directly by another character, or discussed in detail long after their occurrence over drinks on a verandah. This may at times seem like rehashing, indeed as one reads the four volumes one will be subjected to the account of the rape in the Bibighar Gardens many times over; but what will also become apparent is that additional details, sometimes minor variations in interpretation and sometimes crucial facts, are being added slowly to the events discussed, as though the window to the past were being progressively wiped cleaner and cleaner with successive strokes of Scott's pen. In this way he draws the picture of the last days of the Raj not in a conventional linear fashion, but recursively, and from multiple angles. One gets the clear impression of life in India during the first half of the 20th century as similar in nature: Fragmented, multifaceted, largely dependent upon perspective and experience and never perceived whole or all at once.
Book 3 is the shortest of the four volumes, and may almost be termed a "chamber novel," focusing as it does on the peripheral character of Barbie Batchelor, a retired missionary and lodger at the Laytons' ancestral home. Barbie is an instantly recognizable character: The kind of person who always lurks about the edges of society, awkward, embarrassing, barely tolerated by her peers. Book 3 covers much of the same time period as Book 2, this time from Barbie's point of view and also from that of Teddie Bingham, Susan Layton's husband. Teddie meets Ronald Merrick while on duty and more of Merrick's character and history is filled in. Book 3 then moves beyond the point at which Book 2 ended and continues Barbie's story, her eventual ouster from the Layton's home and slow descent into illness and madness.
The Jewel of the Raj Quartet.......2001-06-18
This is by far the best and most important book in Scott's Raj Quartet (though you need to have read the first two to appreciate it). The character of Barbie Batchelor makes this the masterpiece that it is. Scott's ability to create a sweeping historical, political, and philosophical panorama through the mind of such a seemingly marginal figure -- a retired missionary teacher of no great brilliance, who may be slowly losing her mind -- is a real achievement.
Someone should be haunted by it...........2001-05-06
TOWERS OF SILENCE by Paul Scott is the third book in the Raj Quartet and continues the story of the last days of British rule in India as told mostly from the perspective of English people living in India during this period. The "towers" of the title are many things including quite literally the place where the dead of a particular Indian relgious sect are laid out and their bodies exposed to carrion who devour them. Metaphorically, the towers may represent the place to which the mentally ill retreat after they witness what they believe to be the death of God.
In TOWERS at least two people appear visably "mad" -- Susan Layton and Barbie Bachelor. Others may be equally insane but these two defy established conventions and disrupt the equilibrium of those around them to the point they must be incarcerated.
Susan has been made a widow by the death of her new husband. She is pregnant at the beginning of the book and gives birth to Edward shortly after a terrible experience with another death. Afterward she suffers from postpartum depression.
Barbie is an ex-missionary--now retired--who has lived with Old Mrs. Mabel Layton for the past five years. Suddenly, Barbie finds herself without a home and with no relatives or close friends. She exhibits behavior deemed odd by the establishment. Barbie also has an uncanny way of pointing to the truth others refuse to acknowledge -- except Sarah Layton.
Once again, Sarah reacts very negatively to the obviously bizarre Ronald Merrick whom she visits in a Calcutta hospital in place of her sister who is too ill to travel. Sarah first met Ronald when he served as best man at Susan's wedding. He has since been wounded in a failed attempt to save Susan's husband who died in combat in Maylasia. Merrick provided his spin on the events at Mayapore to Sarah in DAY OF THE SCORPION. Sarah does not believe he tells the truth. In a conversation with Barbie Bachelor, Sarah exclaims regarding the Mayapore incident (first described in JEWEL IN THE CROWN but retold several times from many different perspectives), "Someone should be haunted by it." The four books of the Raj Quartet are haunted by the events in Mayapore in August 1942.
Barbie Bachelor becomes aware that Sarah has seen the Manners child in Srinigar. She feels the presence of the "unknown Indian." In the end she feels and sees too much. She writes to her friend Miss Jolley, "After many years of believing I knew what love is I now suspect I do not which means I do not know and have never known what God is either."
Philosophical, mystical, this book must be read in succession with the others in the series. You will never forget these people.
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