The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

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Globalization Has Triumphed, But Can We Save the Poor?

For most people except the world's very richest, globalization is failing—catastrophically. If we don't act, its failure will lead to a global upheaval worse than any in human history. But there's another, better path. Isaak shows how a new globalization can give the poor a powerful stake, both here and abroad. Isaak's ideas can lead toward a more stable, peaceful world, in which we can all build our futures—rich and poor alike.

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Biased, biased, biased.......2006-02-03

I had to read this book as part of a macroeconomics course.

I go to a technical school where entrepreneurship and global business are discussed in nearly all of my classes-from World Civilization and Its Source to Macroeconomics to Data Structures & Algorithms.

I've already read a few books on globalization and I have to say Isaak's work is the worst so far. His support is often non-descript and not used in appropriate locations. Indeed, it appears as if he only put in references for the pure purpose of putting in references.

There is one underlying solution that Isaak seems to imply would benefit the world community: the rich providing social aid to the poor. He ignores charities and foundations established to provide such. Instead, it seems he advocates something more similar to Marxism. Essentially, he's calling for a redistribution of wealth in an even fashion.

I cannot suggest this book to anyone wanting to learn about Globalization. Instead, purchase The Globalization Gap only if you want a laugh at what drivel will be published.

On the flip side, I enjoyed The Virtue of Prosperity. I haven't read Money Changes Everything yet, but I hear good things.

A regrettably 'Lite' treatment of an important issue.......2005-12-31

When I checked this out of my library, I was looking forward to an insightful read of a really critical topic for our time. What I found instead was a very fluffy book, long on statements, short on facts and real insights. Taking a good look at the references shows one of the problems - many of the references are from newspapers and magazines, not journals or analytical works. I can almost imagine the author sorting out a shoebox of clippings while outlining the chapters.

If you want something with some real substance to it, you'll have to look elsewhere. I don't think it's an accident that the author's picture doesn't appear on the book jacket.

An Incisive Examination of Globalization.......2004-09-26

Robert Isaak has written a well researched and an easy to understand critique of the phenomenon of globalization. He develops in a clear and persuasive style an argument that demonstrates the numerous serious faillings of this neoliberal idea .
I teach a course on Globalization and Trade to upper level college undergraduates and I intend to use this book in addition to "Globalization and its Discontents" as a corrective to the standard books that promote neoliberalism as the only tool to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. Robert Isaak looks at the evidence and concludes that nothing is further away from the truth than these unsubstantiated arguments.Actually, the quantitative studies done at the World Bank came to the same conclusion i.e. Globalization has not reduced poverty.
"The Globalization Gap" desreves to become an integral part of the must read list for anyone who is interested in this ubiquitous phenomenon of Globalization.

A new perspective on Globalization and Poverty.......2004-08-30

Isaak's book is definately worth a read. It is well written, relatively easy to understand and contains valuable insight to corporations as well as individuals.
really liked the way both sides of the court were considered and the world economy was taken as the given driving force behind the current problems and any probable solutions thereof
I recommend this book especially to those who are already interested in the topic/ good quick read!

The Globalization Gap : How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

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The Globalization Gap : How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
Robert A. Isaak
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The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind
Robert A. Isaak
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"They broke us eventually, crippled us psychologically and drove us to the brink of bankruptcy. They harassed us and our employees, tortured one of our workers, pulled a gun and threatened to kill me, slaughtered one of our oxen, roamed our fields with packs of hunting dogs, felled over 3,000 gum trees and burnt the entire farm to the ground. Our farm remains undesignated, unlisted and not required by the government for compulsory acquisition." Catherine Buckle.

""African Tears" is the story of a white farmer in Zimbabwe, living side by side with "war veterans" for 7 months. The veterans claimed the small 1,000-acre farm belonged to their ancestors. For 7 months the squatters watched and intimidated, claiming the farm field by field, "liberating" the small stock dams and then the timber plantation. The farm was claimed as a war veterans headquarters and every weekend political meetings were held in the field below the house--with hundreds in attendance.

Search your heart, revisit your past and squint into the future, into your greatest fears, your truest loves. Then understand that the emotional and psychological traumas one family has had to endure--in the face of unabashed greed, ignorance and savagery--has been pushed to its limits; their lives threatened; their farm stolen before their eyes and burned to the ground. Readers may well want to ask author Catherine Buckle, "If things are so bad in Zimbabwe, why don't they leave?" Her answer sums things up swiftly by asking, "How much longer are we going to be made to pay for the sins of our fathers, grandfathers?" She wants to know why history cannot be laid to rest. Blame for the injustices of the past has been placed squarely on the white population of Zimbabwe; she wants to know why the nation cannot accept this blame, admit that what went on 100 years ago was a disgrace, and move on. She admits openly that her patriotism is both old-fashioned and deep-set. "I love my country, I love the people here, I love being here. That's why I wrote 'African Tears.' Perhaps, because I don't want to leave. I want to belong."

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African Tears has been reprinted.......2004-06-07

Go to http://africantears.netfirms.com to get African tears and Beyond Tears - to understand what's going on in Zimbabwe, read her books or at least visit her web site.

A necessary book of lamentations of profound proportions ..........2002-10-08

As a member of the white race, I feel it is my duty to pontificate that much is to be said about our fight against tyrannical monstrosities like Mugabe, his many and various degrees notwithstanding. Such is reality. That persons of European descnedentations are superior, intellectually as well as in the careful & proper--and indeed expedient running of a nation--is now beyond any redemption of debate. Unanimous & self-explanatory as it stands the question must be asked: what is to done now. What duties shall we assignate to the many and various tired souls who stand at the brink of a once robust & thrivening nation's ruins laying bare before them? To answer such a question requires unimaginable heights of intellect, greater even than my own. Indeed, perhaps only an extra-terrestial (many of whom have vistited this little nation) would have the capacity for cognisance of the situation that has befallen Zimbabwe and its' peoples. In any case, three cheers for our beloved leader, the Honourable Ian Douglas Smith.

Insider's View of the Farm Invasions.......2002-06-25

One of the misconceptions that people who have not read this book apparently have is that the Buckle family is "reaping what it's sown" by having gotten their farm through illegitimate means (ie. colonialism). This is a very crass attitude grounded in both ignorance and racism.

In fact the Buckle family purchased their farm AFTER Zimbabwean independence with the explicit written promise from Mugabe's government that the land would not be targeted for redistribution. The real story here is how a demagogue like Mugabe, who manufactures racial hatred for his own political gain, can be so disrespectful of the very principles that he espoused to obtain power in the first place.

For those who think that the land reform issue is a simple matter of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, it may be quite a shock to learn that the only ones benefiting so far from newly acquired farmland are Mugabe's wealthy political cronies. Everyone else is on the verge of starvation due to the inevitable collapse of the economic infrastructure following the demise of the rule of law.

The rest of the world stood by and watched it happen. Perhaps someday we'll realize that it's far more humanitarian and cost-efficient to prevent famines before they occur.

Zimbabwe.......2002-05-20

Although not a professional writer and maybe because of it Cathy Buckle gives an insight to the tragedy that is befalling the normal person in Zimbabwe. Mainly due to her own direct involvment in this, is the point brought across that there is a major problem in Zimbabwe of racism. But not racism of whites on blacks as is normally always what is brought to the world's attention by the media. This is Shona racism against anyone who defies Robert Mugabe. And to those of you who apparently read this book, and reviewed it as trash and declined to leave your name, showing the courage of your convictions, I say to you can you actually read? Well done Cathy, a brillaint work done under what must have beem the most trying of circumstances.

A Disappointing Treatment of an Important Issue.......2001-10-19

I've been to Zimbabwe and am planning a return trip next year; consequently, I've been searching for anything I can find to read about the former Rhodesia. There's not a lot available, frankly, though I was looking forward to reading Catherine Buckle's book on the recent farm invasions in rural Zimbabwe (invasions that got a little bit of press over here in Japan before vanishing from the news completely). I was a bit put off by the cover, however: a lurid drawing of an enormous sickle slicing open a bloody and red-rimmed Zimbabwe floating on a background of solid black, with a quote below: 'It's not over yet.' What isn't? Buckle's book?

The cover alerted me to the dodginess of what lay inside. A more appropriate title for this book would have been 'What Happened to ME When Zimbabwean War Veterans Invaded My Farm.' Buckle's claustrophobic (and poorly edited) writing quickly irritates: there is no balance, no dialogue, no depth, no background, and precious little information. The casual reader will learn very little about Zimbabwe from this book, but will come away with a lot of knowledge about Buckle herself, including a lot of sentimental stories about the lambs and bulls on her farm. Indeed, one learns more about her animals than about the workers she claims to care so much about. Furthermore, page after page is taken up with quotes from various emails, many written by Buckle herself, though there are almost as many written by supporters, who all say essentially the same thing: It's terrible what's happening on your farm, and our hearts are with you, and my, aren't you a good writer. Emails are one thing, and books are another. Or so I thought.

To take issue with Buckle's book is not to condone what was done to her and her family (who, like everybody in this book apart from Buckle herself, appear only briefly and who lack all substance) or to detract from the obvious pain and suffering endured by them (and by millions of others in a shattered country). In fact I have nothing but the greatest sympathy for Buckle and all those like her who have suffered under Mugabe's despotism. Nor do I agree with the reviewer above, who trots out the same tired, pat charge of white racism. What has happened in Zimbabwe needs to be told. I only wish a better writer than Catherine Buckle had tackled the job.

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Title: African Tears: the Zimbabwe Land Invasions. (book review)
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26th International Cosmic Ray Conference: ICRC XXVI, Invited Rapporteur, and Highlight Papers, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 17-25 August 1999 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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26th International Cosmic Ray Conference: ICRC XXVI, Invited Rapporteur, and Highlight Papers, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 17-25 August 1999 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Euv X Ray and Gamma Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics: 7-11 August 1989 San Diego, California (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Euv X Ray and Gamma Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics: 7-11 August 1989 San Diego, California (Proceedings of S P I E)
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Euv, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VI: 12-14 July 1995 San Diego, California

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Euv, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy II: 24-26 July, 1991 San Diego, California (Proceedings of S P I E)
Oswald H. W. Siegmund , and Richard E. Rothschild
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Euv, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy V: 27-28 July 1994 San Diego, California (Proceedings of S P I E)

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Oswald H. W. Siegmund
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Although he speaks directly to our Native American population, Danny Quintana is concerned about the choices we all must make to ensure emotional and financial survival. He offers a provocative yet thoughtful blueprint for dealing with the modern world's challenges. Surviving and prospering financially and emotionally in today's complex and competitive world requires the kind of courage that Indian warriors displayed in the last century. Today's warriors-Indian and non-Indian both-must make certain choices about our environment.

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How to Climb 5.12, 2nd (How To Climb Series)

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Great book - but if you're on a budget - decide between this and the other Horst book

From physiology to phenomenal climbing

Can't Slow Down

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In the sport of rock climbing, 5.12 is a magical grade of difficulty--the rating that separates intermediate climbers from the sport's elite. Many intermediate climbers mistakenly believe that climbs of 5.12 difficulty are simply beyond their reach. This revised and updated edition of Eric Horst's best-selling instructional manual dispels that myth, and teaches average climbers how they can achieve heights previously considered the exclusive domain of the full-time climber. How to Climb 5.12 is a performance guidebook that will help climbers attain the most rapid gains in climbing ability possible. It offers streamlined tips and suggestions on such critical issues as cutting-edge strength training, mental training, and climbing strategy. How to Climb 5.12 is the perfect manual to help intermediate climbers quickly along the road to mastery.

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How to Climb 5.12, 2nd (How To Climb Series).......2007-08-23

this book gave me the understanding on how to take it to the next step. currently I climb 5.10 but I am ready for the next step and I feel this book gave it to me.

Very Good, but..........2007-08-16

I bought this and the "Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance" from the same author and I think it is a lot better than how to climb 5.12 beacause it has everything and a lot more things. I don't regret buying both, but If I knew It maybe I would just buy one of them. But both are excelent.

Great book - but if you're on a budget - decide between this and the other Horst book.......2007-08-03

This is a great book. Just a heads-up though.

The book "Training for Climbing" is an equally excellent reference - it contains much the same information as this book, only in more detail, with sections on anatomy, physiology etc. If you want to dispense with those discussions, buy this book. But I'd say buy one or the other, and save your extra money for another reference.

From physiology to phenomenal climbing.......2005-07-06

This the authoratative text for the advanced climber who wishes to boost his/her skills to the maximum potential.

Explaining the basics of medical knowledge the author lucidly shows how to apply this to climbing.

The book is rife with plenty of exercises and routines to keep even the most experienced climber busy.

By applying the principles in this book and training consistently you should see your climbing level jump by at least 4 grades within a few months ( eg - 5.10a - 5.11a ).

Be sure to mix your routines and not overtrain.

This is definitely not a book for beginner rock climbers.

Can't Slow Down.......2002-02-22

If you're getting into climbing and getting into it fast, there are about five books to get, and this is one. Eric Horst gives a solid overview about how to speed progress and avoid typical mistakes such as overtraining, a common problem that kept me in 5.9 longer than I needed. The progression from grade to grade is more a mental one than a physical one, as my weeklong slothfest followed by a near full number jump in climbing ability will attest. Buy this, Performance Rock Climbing by Dale Goddard, the Heather Sagar book, and as much John Long as you can afford, and you will move more quickly up the ladder. Or, you can lift and jog yourself to death and spend your money on fingerboards, supplements, and other dubious methods, and hang out at your current level for a few more months or years like the other groundlings. Success requires effort; efficient effort requires knowledge. Get some.

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Finally getting it right.......2006-06-20

This is the best version of the datebook yet. GONE are the Asteroids and "Chriron"...(If you need those for your astrology to "work",You need to go back and study the fundamentals)and Kudos to Llewellyn for hooking up with Jim Shawvan and giving us the opportunity periods based on Traditional Astrology and the Moons last aspect before going Void.used in conjunction with your personal transits, one can find some sweet times(rare as they may be)I could do without the Quincunx aspect in this Planner; I've yet to see the aspects manifestation in daily transit to transit action. The "Weekly Horoscopes" section is another waste.trying to predict for the masses without personal data is futile. The space could be filled with more fundamentals like how to use the guide with your own personal transits or a more in depth houses section.
Overall, Llewellyn has done a fine job of trimming the fat here and keeping it as real as possible. I use mine daily, and I have every Major Astrology program out there. I recommend this guide to my clients as a poor man's electional alternative. Good work.

The Quality of this Yearly Publication Just Dropped Severely........2006-06-04

Up until this year there was a useful calendar. I've been buying the Daily Planetary Guide for over 10 years. Over the past few years the text quality of the predictions and other astrological information has been declining. But I really bought this book for the amount of daily information on transits, ingresses, etc., it gave, and regarded the text as superfluous. After purchasing this item, I promptly returned it for the following reasons:

- They've omitted the asteroids and Chiron.

- They've omitted 3 of the aspects: The Semi-Sextile, The Semisquare, and the Sesquiauadrate.

- And they have added the Best Opportunity Periods which are visually distracting, as well as being overly vague and unhelpful.

The omissions are the biggest negatives for me as I've been accustomed to being able to look up this information at a glance. If this is not corrected in future editions I won't be buying this calendar again.

Critical Mistakes and Omissions.......2006-02-25

I religiously purchase the Llewellyn Planetary Guide every year but this year I was so disgusted that the MERCURY IN RETROGRADE information was left out in some places and wrong in the tables (back of book) that I called the publisher, wrote a complaint to the publisher, and threw the book away.

Buy the Llewellyn's 2006 POCKET PLANNER. The information there is acurate.

The Universe (to me) is a Giant, Astro-Geometric-Clock........2005-12-20

Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide (DPG) is a Helpful Tool For Clock Watching. It is the only Astrological book I buy every year and use daily.

On 12/17 I ordered this guide from Amazon (received 12/27).

In past years I've picked it up at a metaphysical storefront, incense included, treating myself on my birthday in October to a trip to the "city" with retail outlets of a size and bent to stock this type of tool for professional astrologers, though it also works nicely for the novice. Though I usually look forward to the ethereal incense and twinkling New Age music, this time my annual trek & treat didn't happen, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Amazon stocks this item. The convenience of having Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide brought by USPS to my rural mailbox made me feel like a kid waiting for a New Year's package instead of a mature woman treating herself to an outing. I admit to enjoying what feels like a game, checking the progress of my orders as they crosses the US byways to me.

I've religiously used this enormously helpful guide since 1980 when I became a consulting parapsychologist and began researching astrological cycles, though astrology is neither a religion nor a science to me. I believe something, or use it as a tool or guide until it proves itself to be off base, incorrect, or wrong.

This useful guide's recent addition of the 5 major asteroids' daily aspects being listed on each day's page has been tremendously helpful in continued research on those mythical goddess, feminine role players. If the review here is correct that these have been discontinued to allow space for additional interpretations on timing for various pursuits, I will miss the asteroid daily aspects, but am hoping they will still be included in the ephemeris at the back of the guide.

(Upon receipt of my 2006 DPG I saw that the asteroids are not included at all, but I'll assume that the majority of the users of this guide would willingly accept the trade offs. And the smaller type used for the condensed ephemeris at the back of the notebook, is in bolder type so that it's easier rather than harder to read for bifocal folks. In fact, the condensation of 2 months/pg instead of the prior 1/pg allows a quicker glance across a few months when looking for a pattern spanning more than a month.)

If this alteration (of removing references to asteroids) described is correct (it was), it would seem to follow a trend of more package interpretation (in this case of the planetary placements/aspects), and less specific, geometric, ephemeric data which each individual interprets for himself. I prefer to make my own interpretations from base data, because, in my 25 years of study I've found that some interpretive astrological texts impregnate their conclusions (supposedly drawn from actual data of planetary placements) with their personal philosophical, cultural mind-sets and prejudices.

(I apologize for being wrong in the above assessment. I hadn't meant to imply that the DPG ever gave canned or prejudiced information; I was referring in my comments here, above and below this insert, to some of the texts and CD's of popular astrology available to the general public rather that for professional use. The addition of the Opportunity Periods from Jim Shawvan appear to be a very useful and accurate, quick assessment tool, and I can guarantee that it is not "canned" and most certainly does NOT "clank"!)

To give an example of what I would call a "canned" interpretation, a popular computer program CD which gives interpretations of astrological data (this was NOT Llewellyn's DPG) warned that a natal chart with Pisces on the Mid-heaven doomed that person to a lifetime of disappointment in career endeavors, and insured a lack of any type of success in that area of life. Should this person commit suicide at the time of reading the label on that can, or wait a while, take time to enjoy spinning his wheels on skid row?

I've observed several interpretations of Pisces on the Mid-heaven, and none of these were poor fishes floundering through life. One of my uncles, in fact, had that aspect. A few years ago, he died at 80-years-old, a self-made millionaire, a man content with life who expired at home, surrounded by the warmth of his wife and family. My brother also has a Pisces Mid-heaven. He concluded his career life, after working every day at a cement plant to support his children successfully until they grew up, by supporting himself in his own business as an auto mechanic working out of a small town gas station. In my book, both those men led successful lives.

According to my natal chart (if interpreted by some of the older, negative astrological assumptions, and, again I should note that this does NOT refer to the DPG) I should have been born dead from a heart attack. I'm 58 years old, and have only had a couple heart attacks attempt to take hold of me in the last couple years. Both were halted in their tracks by a simple use of lavender, which I've explained very briefly in my reviews on essential oils. The first caught me by surprise, so it was able to establish itself enough to give the classic, undeniable symptoms of "the vice" and feeling like someone was sitting on my chest. The second one, I was ready for, and had a bottle of lavender EO in my purse. Breathing it's aroma halted the onset prior to the "heavy heart" feelings, in fact, prior to any symptoms anyone would be able to recognize other than a person as self-aware as I've trained myself to be.

My belief is that everything in life has a positive purpose, including a Pisces Mid-heaven. What I attempt to do is first isolate and identify that positive essence, then look at how humans at this infant stage of consciousness might push to pervert that essence, in order to help clients get the best out of everything in and outside of them, especially including getting the best out of their astrological Mandalas.

I no longer work with clients, however, as my career focus has been, since 1985 when I wrote my first sci fi novel, on producing and getting published in the arena of best-seller escape fiction. Escaping in fiction is one of the best remedies I've discovered for resting from, and sometimes even healing from, the perversions in life brought on by youthful, mass-conclusion-jumping by some of the hotly hostile members of a species with a long way to grow. Are we getting there? You bettcha.

Give me my asteroids!

Okay, all right. I'll get them elsewhere; the trades are worth the inconvenience to my maverick studies.

I apologize heartily for a prior statement, which I've edited out of this review, about "canned conclusions" being in the DPG!! As I'm still munching on my toes, please allow me to spit out that the statement was in reference to what I normally do when reading any canned blurbs on some of my older, mostly non-professional astrological texts and computer fill-in-the-blanks. The blurbs in the DPG have always been some of the best summaries I've read anywhere!

Referring to the foot-in-mouth, lost humor of a few paragraphs above, I'll admit to being immature (in too many senses); I retain the effervescence of that state-of-being by conscious choice, as I simultaneously choose to reserve judgment on any interpretation of any slant of statistic or empirical observation which tries to get me or anyone else to believe he's doomed, damaged, or depressed (when he's MERELY resting or taking a break from the youthful shenanigans of our species or from the catastrophic creaking and groaning of the Universe). Prozac is a landmark product, but not if it's pushed by telling a poor, temporarily grieving (or recharging) soul he'd better take it or else. Or else what? Or else he'll die from a heart attack at birth, or else if he lives he's going to become a detrimental dreg on society as he slithers through live in the gutter lanes of HIS life?

Whose thoughts are in the gutter, I ask you?

I'm clean. Chust took a shower day before yesterday. And I blow the cobwebs out of my brain every time my fingers touch the keypad. Readers are gifted with my silver-spun-cobwebs, which read like words of lace (composed by an egomaniac).

See? I make good use of everything. Waste not want not?

Holy Sh.. is, to me, Sacred Fertilizer, not that barrel of smelly, slimy excrement I just fell into over my head. I be a Scarab Beetle. Be warned to stay away until I'm finished and thoroughly showered.

I coined the term Sacred Fertilizer in 1986, in MORNING COMES, a sci fi manuscript, carrying on a series through the spirit of my fictional character, Mya Gem. Maybe it'll be published in 2006, when time has caught up with it. It's about time. Actually it is, about the Quantum Quality of Time Itself. In that series I contemplate how Time, Energy, Matter, and Consciousness relate to each other to allow physical reality to take place. Such a deal.

To me, untainted, un-canned Astrological observation is the study of the giant Time-clock which is our universe in motion. Unfortunately, some astro interps go for the throat instead seeking the Truth. I try to read negative nonfiction with a grain-of-salt, a pat-of-butter, and a tall glass of water, to ward off attacks on body and soul, and to retain the healthy function, strength, and clarity of my brain (which sometimes blinks "on") and backbone.

I'm cheering Life as we might yet come to know it!

My Mom gave me a pillow with these words printed on its face:

"Before you louse something up, thimk."

That could serve as advice to those who legislate their conclusion leaps, try to take control of Life, then choke all varieties of flavor out of it. To them I say, "Get one."

To myself I say, "Get your FOOT outta your MOUTH! And KEEP it out! Thimk before you sthpeak."

Now with my 2006 DPG in hand, I can back up my words when I say, with both feet clinging to the rungs of my stool, that Llewellyn's DPG is a steal even without asteroids. The guide still tells me what I want to know most, where our solar system's players are at any given moment, in relationship to where we (try to) live.

And this year thanks to Jim Shawvan and his 30-year-observed-and-practiced Opportunity Periods, I have an interesting, promising new tool to test for myself.

I repeat my words above: "This is the only Astrological book I buy every year and use daily."

On Earth. For the Moment.

Linda G. Shelnutt

P.S. For a glimpse at some of my research, and additional hair singing from my dragon's breath humor, feel free to visit my web site, Shenanigans of Stars, Suns, & Moons:

http://hometown.aol.com/lgshelnutt/myhomepage/club.html

For Beginners and Advanced Astrologers Alike.......2005-12-10

I love Llewellyn's Daily Planetary Guide. I've used them since 1996 when I first began studying astrology.

While they're packed with information, there's still plenty of room to write your appointments and notes on each day. Each day shows the planetary aspects, where the Moon is, and what phase it's in.

A light-hearted, easy-to-understand astrology intro is in the front, with brief explanations of planets, signs, houses, retrogrades, etc. Also in the front are general forecasts for each week. There's even a business guide (best times to sell, buy, etc.).

In the back, there's room for names, addresses, phone numbers, fax, email, bday, as well as space for notes.

The spiral binding makes them easy to open, and the size fits nicely in a purse or backpack. And that's just part of what these nifty guides have to offer.

What more can I say? I think these daily guides are a must-have for beginners as well as more advanced astrologers.

Another reviewer mentioned they don't list asteroids--I haven't received my 2006 version yet, but if this is the only thing missing, the guides are still a terrific deal.

Book Description

Cross-referenced to the PDR, the PDR Companion Guide is a time-saving, index-based clinical reference that makes safe, appropriate drug selection faster and easier than ever before. The PDR Companion Guide is an all-in-one resource that contains eight critical prescription checkpoints in one convenient, easy-to-use volume.

PDR Companion Guide includes eight indices:

>Imprint Identification Guide which enables the practitioner to quickly identify thousands of drugs by imprint alone. Information such as strength, color, form, shape, etc. is easily obtained.

>Interactions Index identifies all pharmaceuticals and supplements capable of interacting with a given medication.

>Food Interactions Cross-Reference lists drugs that may interact with a specified dietary item.

>Side Effects Index pinpoints the pharmaceuticals associated with over 3,800 distinct adverse reactions.

>Indications Index presents the full range of therapeutic options approved for a given diagnosis.

>Contraindications Index instantly alerts you to any conflicts between the patient's condition and a proposed course of drug therapy.

>International Drug Guide names the U.S. equivalents of some 14,000 foreign medications.

>Generic Availability Table shows which forms and strengths of a brand-named drug can be dispensed generically.

The PDR® Companion Guide is an indispensable compendium of interactions, side effects, contraindications, and more.

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