A book review of The Lovely Bones fromSimpson’s Paradox, just in time for the movie:
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, begins by introducing the protagonist, Susie Salmon (like the fish, she reminds us), who is dead, murdered by a neighbor who’s made smalltalk with her parents a few times. As her community searches for her [...]

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
By David D. Burns, M.D.
Harper-Collins, 1980
Often quoted and recommended, this self-help guide for depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and similar problems is easily the best I have ever read. That’s quite an achievement, coming from a greedy devourer of the self-help genre. The treatment avenue it introduces is cognitive therapy, [...]

Medusa is one of Clive Cussler’s latest novels, featuring Kurt Austin of NUMA, upon which all of Cussler’s novels base itself.
The story deals with a deadly virus originating in remote China, a virus so deadly that the entire future of mankind is at stake. A top secret US government sponsored undersea lab conducts biomedical [...]

Many of you, like myself, may frequent superstores for one stop shopping. I, personally, often shop at Wal-Mart. So I was perusing the store, I glided through the book section. Though it is a small selection, the shelves highlight the best sellers.
I was amazed at the many vampire books that are not only available [...]

This is yet one more book on gardening; however this one was put together by Ortho, an exceptionally highly regarded name in houseplants and gardening.
This one is further of an encyclopedia, full with pictures. It as well tells you which plants need a lot of light or medium to low light. In addition you can [...]

I purchased this book quite a few years ago once the beautiful picture on the cover caught my eye. It has ever since become my gardening bible, with lots of self-written notes in the margins! At the moment, I was merely beginning to garden, therefore required something that was simple to use however contained the [...]

Moss gardening, as well as Lichens, Liverworts, and extra Miniatures by George Schenk, c 1997, 261 pages
A lifetime of following mosses around the world is shared in this book packed with glossy full color pictures. It has won the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and it’s simple to see why.
This is not a [...]

If you are a beginner gardener, or a specialist, this book will be of use to you. It covers each feature of beginning your personal plants by seed or cuttings.
You will discover how to get an earlier beginning on your gardens, how to have improved, hardier, additional disease and pest resistant plants, save cash; learn [...]

This is a great book that I utilize to assist me get ideas on putting collectively plants in containers, as well as window boxes, hanging baskets, and lots of diverse big and tiny containers. I have utilized this many times to assist me put together a huge display for around my yard and garden. [...]

This is the fifth (alphabetically) of a 20 volume set guide. I offer the set as whole extremely high marks, and this specific volume offers general information regarding growing a number of different types of fruits. I have utilized this volume below some of the additional; since I regularly simply allow the wild fruits [...]