Review:I love the book everything I expected and more. I ordered a used like new copy and it still had the new book smell which I personally love.
The book also arrived before its scheduled delivery date, which I was happy about because we were very anxious to read it. Read more

Review:This is a condensed Campbell reader with insight for everyone in a philosophical mood. I think he's a go to guy for connecting dots between cultures and with some insights on life, stay on the rails and seek one's bliss. Read more

Review:As always with Jon Krakauer a wonderful book. Informative, detailed and with whatever he brings up about Mortenson well substantiated. A great story to read made overly pleasant by one of the best writers there is! Read more

Review:Ram Dass is an American spiritual teacher well-known for his bestselling 1971 book Be Here Now, as well as his personal and professional relationships with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the 1960s, his travels to India and relationship with his guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He wrote the book Still Here: Embraced Aging, Changing, and Dying after experiencing a stroke in 1997.

The book covers many topics ... Read more

Review:This was a huge disappointment. Facts were scattered about like crumbs on the floor. After positing that cooking made our food softer, therefore
easier to digest to give us quick energy, the very last chapter, then states that a study of Japanese women who ate mostly soft food (might it be a cultural cuisine was never mentioned), gained weight around their waists which could lead to mortality. Huh? No mention of Japanese men who
imbibe hi-calorie alcohol, nor bear children; the book simply... Read more

Review:I purchased this book for my 15 year old daughter but read it first. Wow this book is an important read. Despite the fact it is about women's experience I feel the topic has relevance for a much wider modern audience who are struggling with identity and manipulation in this corporate based society. I am so glad I have armed my daughter with this book and its advice Read more

Review:Overall it was worth reading. Even though the book is 16 years since publishing, it still addresses many issues that our USA culture is dealing with today. However, this book blames greed fanned by capitalism for much of our culture's problems. It's time to go deeper than blaming greed. There are other compulsions, like gluttony, that feed selfishness. But we need to know the personal causes of greed and gluttony. I have found these answers in studying the personality studies of the Enneag... Read more

Review:In the preface, Wolf states:
"A related fallacy is that The Beauty Myth objects categorically to images of glamour and beauty in mass culture. Absolutely not. If the icon of the anorexic fashion model were one flat image out of a full spectrum in which young girls could find a thousand wild and tantalizing visions of possible futures, that icon would not have the power to hurt them; fashion and beauty scenarios would be yet another source of the infinite pleasure of the intrigues of life in t... Read more

Review:I purchased this book for my 15 year old daughter but read it first. Wow this book is an important read. Despite the fact it is about women's experience I feel the topic has relevance for a much wider modern audience who are struggling with identity and manipulation in this corporate based society. I am so glad I have armed my daughter with this book and its advice Read more

Review:I ordered this book for a class, choosing the same edition as all students were expected to read. Unfortunately, what arrived was not only a completely different edition with different page numbers and commentaries, but it was a completely different translation. Read more