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In this first in the epic series, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment.
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After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the regiment by capturing the most valued prize in the French Army-a golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Napoleon himself. "A masterful blend of fiction and historical detail."-Newsday "A totally convincing picture of warfare, of hand-to-hand, sword-to-sword, bayonet-to-bayonet fighting."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
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SHARPE FOREVER.......2007-04-07
BERNARD CORNWELL HAS DONE IT AGAIN WITH THIS VERSION OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD SHARPE. WHEN YOU START TO READ ABOUT SHARPE IT IS VERY HARD TO PUT DOWN. HIGHLY RECCOMENDED.
A Great Series.......2006-08-15
This is another entry on the Sharpe series. It is fun, entertaining and very readable. Cornwell's research is as excellent as usual. He takes some licenses for the shake of the story and continuity, but this is OK. Some people are outraged by the portrait of some of the real historical characters, but historical characters are rarely depicted accurately in historical fiction, so I think this can be forgiven. Besides, usually a more serious account of these characters is given at the end of the book on the Historical Note.
Many people insist in compare this series with Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. I don't think this is fair for any of the series, they are different entities. What they have in common is that once you start you may get hooked and devour one book after another...
And in the literary world today that is a rare and marvelous thing.
The birth of the tried-and-true Richard Sharpe formula.......2006-08-15
"Sharpe's Eagle" may have been the first Richard Sharpe novel that Bernard Cornwell wrote, but the formula of this novel permeates the entire series. For fans of "you are there" historical fiction of a military bent, that is a great thing.
I came late to Cornwell's Sharpe series, after having read many of the author's other works (the Grail Quest novels, the Warlord trilogy, "Stonehenge," and "Redcoat"). So I have been able to start at the "beginning" of the Sharpe saga with "Sharpe's Tiger" and the India trilogy. Accordingly, Sharpe and his fellow Riflemen as well as many of the commanders are familiar characters by now. It's interesting how smoothly "Sharpe's Eagle" fits into the series even though it was the very first novel.
"Eagle" recounts the British army's struggles in Spain against the French and, even more so, their Spanish allies. Look for some notorious Spain-bashing as Cornwell derisively depicts its rag-tag infantry led by lazy peacocks for officers, including a real historical event where thousands of Spanish infantry are spooked by their own musket barrage! Not much subtlety, here.
Fans of Cornwell's novels will also recognize the villain of the piece, fat Colonel Simmerson and his nephew, Lieutenant Gibbons. Sharpe, our admirable hero, has done a rare thing and won his officer's rank solely by merit, largely unheard of in the British army. Instead, most officers bought promotion after a suitable period in a given rank, and Cornwell is of the opinion, his idol General Arthur Wellesley notwithstanding, that this led to dozens of craven British officers, all of whom seem to encounter Sharpe during their career.
Colonel Simmerson leads his battalion, including Sharpe, to the ultimate disgrace - losing their battlefield colors. Foisting the blame onto Sharpe, Simmerson hopes to avoid shame himself as well as to send Sharpe to a death sentence serving in the disease-infested West Indies. But Sharpe has another idea - salvage the battalion's pride by doing the impossible - stealing one of Napoleon's eagle standards from the juggernaut French infantry.
An action-packed novel, "Sharpe's Eagle" also finds time for Sharpe to have a little romance, but this element of the story is entirely secondary to the main focus, which is Cornwell's unrivaled mastery of depicting a battle scene. A mere 270-odd pages, "Sharpe's Eagle" will defy your efforts to put it down.
I highly recommend reading these books in chronological order, and this was the recommendation of the good people over at Bernard Cornwell's website as well. Get reading!
Sharp story.......2006-05-03
Napoleonic wars are not my thing but one day I picked up this book and for want of anything to do I read it.
Didn't know some British officers were promoted from the ranks during this period. Always thought they purchased their commissions.
These things got pitched aside with this delightful story.
Richard Sharpe, a man who has literally crawled up from the ranks to a commission, finds himself in a bad place with a bad superior officer and there is only one way for him to extricate himself from it.
This novel is well worth reading.
The Horatio Hornblower of the Infantry.......2006-04-09
I enjoy these military historical fictions books normally and this one was a pleasant surprise. The author does a good job of mixing the personal drama with the tactical/military aspects of the period. It was an enjoyable read without being a dry text book on Napoleonic combat.
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This remarkable book tells the painstakingly researched and documented story of the Great Seal of the United States. Beginning with the first committee on the subject in 1776 and carrying through to the latest revisions and controversies concerning the design, this volume chronicles the surprisingly complex history of the Great Seal, illuminating its many little-known intertwinings with great Americans and great events. Incorporating 92 illustrations, The Eagle and the Shield makes a wonderful gift for any historian, folklorist, or collector of Americana.
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An honored veteran of the Napolenic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas.
The year is 1820, and military hero Richard Sharpe has quietly passed the years since the Battle of Waterloo as a farmer. Suddenly, his peaceful retirement is disturbed when he and the intrepid Patrick Harper are called to the Spanish colony of Chile to find Don Blas Vivar, an old friend who has vanished without a trace—and who just happened to be the captain-general of Chile. Sharpe and Harper embark on a dangerous journey that carries them first to an unexpected interview with Napoleon, then on to Chile, a land seething with corruption and revolt. On land and at sea, Sharpe faces impossible odds, not only against finding Vivar, but against surviving in a time when tyranny rules, injustice abounds—Napoleon lurks on the horizon, itching to rekindle the world in a blaze of war.
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Spanish foes in "Devil" not up to French standards.......2007-08-24
"Sharpe's Devil" is - so far - the final book in Bernard Cornwell's epic Richard Sharpe series in chronological terms. Cornwell has famously written many of these books out of historical sequence, but for the most part the novels formed a long, slow build to a magnificent climax with "Waterloo," when Sharpe finally faces Napoleon on the battlefield. "Waterloo" worked on many levels, but primarily as the perfect final act of Sharpe's long military career.
But Cornwell is a prolific writer, so say the least, and he must have felt that Sharpe and Patrick Harper deserved an entertaining epilogue of sorts, so here we have "Sharpe's Devil." The novel kicks off in 1820, and Sharpe has settled down in Normandy, content to live a farmer's life with Lucille and their two children. But a woman from Sharpe's past comes with a small errand - can Sharpe go to Chile to track down Don Blas Vivar, her husband? Don Blas had fought with Sharpe in Spain and they were friends of sorts. Lucille reminds Sharpe that they need money for the farm, and with this somewhat unconvincing prologue, Sharpe sets off for the New World with Harper - now obese after years of sampling his own wares at his pub in Ireland.
On the way to Chile, Sharpe and Harper meet Napoleon, who charms them and gives Sharpe a token to present to an "admirer" in Chile. This of course is false, and puts Sharpe at the mercy of the corrupt Spanish authorities in Chile because the token is actually a coded message from Napoleon to a local rebel.
The point of Cornwell's story is to have Sharpe fight alongside one of the era's true mavericks, Lord Cochrane. Cochrane is a famous sailor who has hired out his services to the Chilean rebels fighting against their Spanish overlords - he is the titular devil. Cochrane may have served as Patrick O'Brian's inspiration for Lucky Jack Aubrey, as the two characters are both audacious and lucky in battle as well as being completely useless in politics. But who could resist having Cochrane, the ultimate sailor, meet Sharpe, the ultimate soldier?
Unfortunately, while the novel has several promising elements - there is no such thing as a bad Bernard Cornwell novel - it does not hit the heights of the rest of the series. Perhaps most annoyingly, the Spanish foes Cochrane and Sharpe face have a disturbing tendency to run away. At several key moments, Sharpe and Cochrane would be dead if the local soldiers could mount a decent volley and bayonet charge, but instead they run away. Indeed, some forts are abandoned seemingly before they are even fired upon.
Ultimately, the enemies Sharpe, Harper and Cochrane face in "Devil" just aren't up to snuff. While the novel raises the intriguing notion of Napoleon heading to Chile to start another campaign, this obviously did not occur. Fans of Cornwell will probably read "Devil" anyway, but the book in no way constitutes an essential part of the Sharpe legend. Feel free to stop with "Waterloo" and check out Cornwell's other series if you haven't read them already.
Weakest of the series.......2006-08-19
I've read nearly all the full-length Sharpe books, and this is definitely the weakest. The plot is desultory and predictable, the characters thinly drawn, and worst of all, Harper is reduced to comic relief. I still read it - it's still Sharpe - but it's a disappointment. If you haven't read the other books in the series, I urge you to put this off until you can't stand waiting for Cornwell to come out with his next book. Chronologically, that should be easy, since this book takes place after Sharpe's been retired for a good long time.
A Great Series.......2006-08-15
This is another entry on the Sharpe series. It is fun, entertaining and very readable. Cornwell's research is as excellent as usual. He takes some licenses for the shake of the story and continuity, but this is OK. Some people are outraged by the portrait of some of the real historical characters, but historical characters are rarely depicted accurately in historical fiction, so I think this can be forgiven. Besides, usually a more serious account of these characters is given at the end of the book on the Historical Note.
Many people insist in compare this series with Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. I don't think this is fair for any of the series, they are different entities. What they have in common is that once you start you may get hooked and devour one book after another...
And in the literary world today that is a rare and marvelous thing.
Outstanding Post-Napoleonic Wars Adventure.......2005-03-01
Six years after the end of the Napoleonic wars, ex-Rifleman Richard Sharpe toils on his French wife's farm in Normandy. Times are a little tough, so when the fabulously wealthy wife of a former Spanish comrade asks him to travel to Chile to find her missing husband, he can't refuse the gold that comes with the request. Naturally, Sharpe rounds up the now-rotund and prosperous tavern-keeper Patrick Harper before setting sail for South America. Their vessel is a Spanish one, ferrying a number of patronizing and foppish Spanish officers who are off to fight the Chilean rebels (who are led by the intriguing half-Spanish, half-Irish gentleman Bernardo O'Higgins). These Spaniards decide to take a minor detour to St. Helena to gawk at the imprisoned Napoleon, and of course Sharpe and Harper can't resist the chance to pay their own respects. The ex-emperor is by now rotting away in his dank mansion, with peeling wallpaper, a poor wine-cellar, and a large British garrison to keep him company. Treated like a curiosity in a zoo, he is disdainful of the Spaniards, but is intrigued by Sharpe and Harper, who are clearly fellow warriors. Cornwell has a lot of fun with this section, as the two old soldiers talk shop, honor each other, and Sharpe, with his customary naivite is unwittingly drawn into intrigue.
Eventually, the ship arrives in Chile, where Sharpe is told the man he is seeking, Captain-General Vivar, is actually dead. Of course, Sharpe is suspicious when a body can't be produced, and soon he and Harper have run afoul of the thoroughly evil Spanish Governor-General Bautista. Events entertainingly run their course, and soon the dynamic duo find themselves on the side of the rebels seeking to eject the Spaniards from Chile. They come under the wings of Admiral Cochrane, a Scottish Lord turned rebel seaman, and all around adventurer. Cochrane is a wildly daring and bold leader, a real life figure of such improbability that many readers will want to rush out and read one of the biographies about his exploits (The Audacious Admiral Cochrane by and The Sea Wolf by being two). Once in Cochrane's company, the action ratchets up until the climactic battle at Valdivia, where the ragtag rebel navy crushed the entrenched and more numerous Spanish defenders in an audacious action, heralding an end to Spanish rule. The rout also allows Sharpe to unravel the mystery of what befell Captain-General Vivar, and of course, exact retribution on the nasty Bautista.
This is indubitably a change of pace and setting from the regular Sharpe books, but a welcome one. As always, the military action is well described, there are evil villains, interesting supporting characters, and a heavy dose of vivid personages from history on hand. It's hard to imagine anyone making the nominally drab topic of Chilean independence come alive more vividly than Cornwell does here. There's a lot packed into this one, and Cornwell even manages to raise the specter of one of history's more interesting "what ifs" via an audacious plot. All in all, great fun.
PS. Anyone interested in St. Helena is advised to read Harry Ritchie's excellent travel book, The Last Pink Bits, which has a good section on how the island fares in modern times.
Good adventure........2002-09-01
Excellend adventure reading. I liked all Sharp stories.
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From the winner of Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Nero Wolfe Award, and a Newbery Honor Award, a baffling, lavishly illustrated new Homer Kelly extravaganza Most of the Harvard men who were killed at Gettysburg died as valiant heroes. But according to Mary Kelly's family lore, one of her ancestors was a deserter. In setting out to clear his name, Mary and her husband, the brilliant and lovable Pro-fessor Homer, uncover what may have been a very dastardly deed indeed. An intriguing blend of superbly researched fact and fiction, Jane Langton's seventeenth Homer Kelly mystery will be hailed as one of the stellar achievements of a distinguished career.
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Very little Homer and Mary in this one.......2005-10-31
This book is indeed a 'Homer Kelly' mystery (the seventeenth in the series), but Langton's serial detective has very little to do in "The Deserter." In another of her mysteries, Langton has a character refer to the 'deep well of the past.' In "The Deserter," we are IN that well, glancing occasionally upward at dimly gesticulating characters from the present. The author could very well have left Homer and Mary out of this book, and still have told an interesting story about the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath.
Normally I avoid books about the American Civil War like the plague. Even Langton's patented touches of light humor, e.g. the dance hall babe in beribboned knickers, failed to brighten up this book with its piles of sawed-off limbs, frightened young soldiers, and putrid corpses.
The plot overlay involves Mary's effort to clear the name of her great-great-grandfather, who was accused of deserting his regiment during the Battle of Gettysburg. We slip backward a hundred and fifty years and learn that Lieutenant Seth Morgan was actually killed by one of his own soldiers, who then swapped uniforms and identities with him and hightailed it for Baltimore. Seth's pregnant wife Ida searches the temporary hospitals and morgues for her husband's body and is finally told that Seth deserted.
Ida is the real heroine of this book, although she never learns the actual fate of her husband (that has to wait for Homer and Mary). She is one of Langton's typical heroines: slightly shabby and made bulky by her growing baby, but upright, determined, and very likeable. Her sixteen-year-old brother is sent to bring her back home to Massachusetts and enlists in the Union Army, instead.
Ida stumbles across her brother dying of typhoid fever in Washington D.C.'s Patent Office, which has been converted into a temporary hospital (the author admits that she knew the Patent Office was no longer used as a hospital by the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, but she was so charmed by the location that she fudged just a bit in her otherwise historically accurate account). Ida herself is about to give birth, and the man she thinks is her husband, Seth has pranced off to music hall stages unknown with his bubbly mistress.
Actually, this is one of the more cheerful passages in "The Deserter."
This will never be my favorite Langton, but it is still worth reading if you are a fan of this mystery/history author. "The Deserter" is illustrated with drawings and nineteenth-century photographs of the real places where her fictional characters played out their very serious lives. The portrait-photographs that Langton 'borrowed' for her protagonists are especially haunting--all of those young lives despoiled by a dark, desperate civil war.
A sequel to "The Deserter," called "Steeplechase" will be published by St. Martin's Press in November, 2005.
A very good historical, but not a mystery.......2005-07-24
This is a good book. But it's not really a mystery in the Homer Kelly series. Homer Kelly is an incidental character here. His wife Mary is somewhat more important. But the most part of the book takes place during the Civil War, and there's no mystery - we are told fairly quickly who murdered whom and why. The only mystery involved is Homer and Mary's finding out about it, and even that is not much of a mystery - everything is in the archives somewhere.
That said, I enjoyed the book a lot. Much of it is epistolary in style - letters written between the characters. I like that style. There are terrific photographs of the characters in the book who happen to be real people. There are some very funny moments featuring Mary's cousin-somewhat-removed (and somewhat loony), Howard Ebenezer. And at the end there is a bit of the humor aimed at the foibles of academia that often characterizes the series - but only a little bit, not enough to be annoying, as has happened in some of the other books.
In fact, much of what has gotten a little trite or grating in the series is missing from this book, *because* Homer is only incidental to it. So many people might in fact find this book better than the last few they've read in the series.
For some of the books in this series, it matters whether you've read the previous books; for this one, it doesn't. You can read this one even if you've not read any of the others, and then if you like this, you might want to try others in the series. If you particularly like the Civil War aspects of it, you might also wish to follow up with Sharyn McCrumb's "Ghost Riders" (ISBN: 0451211847).
In sum: worth reading, a good story, but don't expect as much about Cambridge and Harvard as is usual in this series.
Ida's Story.......2003-06-16
The Deserter is the best plotted Jane Langton mystery in the whole Homer Kelly series. People who normally avoid her novels because there isn't enough mystery should give Ms. Langton another chance. You'll be following the developments with interest up to the last pages of the book.
A typical Homer Kelly novel pretty much gives the mystery away in the first few pages, and the focus is on how Homer or his wife Mary will find out what really happened. They usually bumble around quite a bit, and their efforts are more amusing than brilliant. What makes most of the novels appealing is their rich intellectual development of an interesting thinker and period in time.
In The Deserter, the excellent aspects of that approach are retained while interesting new aspects are added. I was very much impressed with these changes.
In the Deserter, the reader is presented with the same mystery that Mary Kelly has: What shameful thing happened to her great great grandfather, Seth Morgan that no one in the family wants to talk about? In the course of pursuing that mystery, Ms. Langton adds a second one for Ida Morgan, Seth's pregnant wife, during the Civil War. Where and how is he? Ida reads that he's listed as missing in action at Gettysburg, and wants to find out what happened.
The story has several narrators including Homer, Mary and Ida. In addition, you'll meet and listen to the story of Private Otis Pike, a member of the Harvard Class of 1860 and fellow Hasty Pudding Club member along with Seth and several of the other officers in the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg.
The book is filled with fascinating details of how the fallen Harvard men were remembered and honored by their school, the conduct at Gettysburg for this infantry unit, how the dead and wounded were handled, and the records involving the unit. Much of the details involving Gettysburg will evoke The Red Badge of Courage for you. The details are enriched by period photographs, reproductions of period documents and quotes from famous people involved in the Civil War. In a final note, Ms. Langton tells you where all of these people and details were derived.
As a story telling device, Ida's search for Seth is marvelous and provides many interesting insights into war's aftermath.
The book will have special appeal to those whose relatives died in the Civil War as well as to Harvard people who have stared up at those stone tablets in Memorial Hall.
After you finish this outstanding book, I suggest that you take the time to find out more about one of your relatives who is no longer with us. Naturally, if you have one about whom the family tries to avoid talking, you may bump into a fascinating story. But feel free to pick someone whom the family is proud of. Undoubtedly, you'll learn something important. Good luck in the archives and scrapbooks!
fun contemporary investigation into that past.......2003-06-15
Many Harvard men died at the Battle of Gettysburg as part of the valiant 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers and in fact the university honors these heroes with a memorial hall listing them. However, not everyone behaved courageously as Mary Kelly tells her husband, Homer, a professor at the school. Her great-great grandfather Seth Morgan apparently deserted, but though her family refuses to talk about his cowardly behavior, Mary needs to know the truth about Seth.
Mary and Homer begin their investigation into her roots by visiting her sister Gwen, who lives in the ancestral home where family items have been stored for years in the attic. They learn that third cousin removed Ebenezer Flint took everything while Gwen and her husband was away. Deciding to continue their quest, Mary and Homer visit the college archives and follow that up with a trip to Gettysburg. From there they go to DC to visit Ebenezer as a story unfolds of cowardice, treachery, and murder on the eve of the pivotal Civil War battle.
Though the prime plot is the modern day inquiries into the Morgan family roots, intermingling throughout the tale is a superb subplot focusing on the key characters involving what happened to Seth. Thus, readers, once adjusted to the flashbacks, receive two delightful tales, of which either could have stand-alone. The prime protagonists, past and present, come through as genuine so that the audience receives a wonderful historical tale inside a fun contemporary investigation into that past.
Harriet Klausner
A Jane Langton mystery -- must more be said?.......2003-05-17
I don't read a great many mystery novels, although there are a few authors for whom I keep an eye open. Jane Langton is one of that small group. Her mysteries are far from any stereotype of hard-bitten private eye or police detective tales. Langton's books are quirky and literate, peopled by eccentric characters and, more often than not, deeply linked to some aspect of history. All involve Homer and Mary Kelly (both are Harvard professors, although Homer is also a former policeman) but usually the Kellys are less the center of the story than the means through which it is told. Mary Kelly, it turns out, has an ancestor who evidently did something terribly shameful during the Civil War, the details lost in family silence. Sparked by contemplation of Harvard's grand Memorial Hall, dedicated to the memory of those Harvard men who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War, the Kellys begin researching why great-great-grandfather Seth Morgan's name became shrouded in such disgrace. And it soon becomes apparent that the heart of the mystery lies at Gettysburg where Morgan's regiment, the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, made a futile, bloody attack on Confederate works near Culp's Hill on the morning of the third day of battle. The novel's narrative switches back and forth from the present, with Homer and Mary delving into libraries and records depositories and family attics, to 1863 where we see the battle through the eyes of a scapegrace soldier and then the battle's dreadful aftermath of pain and suffering as Morgan's pregnant wife searches through hospitals for her vanished husband. For those of us who are students of that Civil War battle, the fictional detectives' excursion to Gettysburg will bring nods of recognition when they make the long walk from Lee's statue across the wide fields to that low stone wall on the other side of the Emmitsburg Road, marveling at the odd beauty of lines of cannons, and later when they encounter the less than scrupulous proprietor of Bart's Battle Flag Books where not all artifacts may be quite what Bart claims they are (and where Mary is astonished that so many books could be written about the Civil War).
Jane Langton is a gifted, somewhat unconventional writer who here has created strong images of the terror of the battlefield and the horror of the hospitals. And late in the book she crafts an extraordinary interlude when Homer Kelly returns to Harvard's Memorial Hall, today doing service as the freshmen dining hall, and envisions a magical dissolution of the gulf in time separating the current generation of heedless students eating sloppy joes there from the men commemorated about them in stone and stained glass, like Strong Vincent at Little Round Top and Robert Gould Shaw of Fort Wagner and Charles Russell Lowell at Cedar Creek, torn and bleeding bodies suddenly hoisted on to the tables amidst chicken fingers and Diet Coke. It is a powerful, eloquent moment, calling upon all of us to remember and understand.
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Forget the joking stereotypes--PMS is serious business that can greatly benefit from serious treatment. Taking Back the Month is a detailed health-care guide that helps you carefully track symptoms; by following the recommendations and questionnaires, you'll discover exactly which of your aches, pains, and mood swings are attributable to PMS and which might require additional diagnostic aid. Sure, you may be irritable on some days, but are you sure those days consistently fall within the PMS time frame?
Lengthy chapters focus on treating your symptoms with simple, natural solutions. Adding protein and exercise, avoiding sugar binges and alcohol, and training yourself with relaxation techniques can bring impressive results with far fewer negative side effects than prescription medications. Still, authors Diana Taylor and Stacey Colino do thoroughly address using antidepressants, herbs, and nutritional supplements, while cautioning readers that some remedies are still being researched or require a consultation with a physician. A detailed chapter titled "Putting the Pieces Together" helps you simply use what you've learned to design the best possible program that will make your Dr. Jekyll/Ms. Hyde transformation a thing of the past. --Jill Lightner
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With this guide, written by a leading researcher in the field of PMS and a writer specializing in women's health, a woman can:
* Find patterns in her PMS symptoms
* Put together the best PMS dies for herself
* Understand the role of relaxation
* Modify her response to stress
* Explore alternative and complementary remedies, including medications, acupuncture, and herbs
Now women can create a customized remedy that is specific to their symptoms and needs. With comprehensive effective strategies, PMS relief is finally available to all women.
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Immensely helpful guide to PMS.......2005-06-24
I bought Dr. Taylor's book as soon as it came out and it's been an immensely helpful guide in helping me (along with the help of my therapist and ob/gyn) realize how powerful hormones can be - it's been a huge relief to realize that it's not "all in my head"! I found the exercises, especially the PMS tracking chart, to be very insightful. If PMS or PMDD is an issue for you and you like self-help books, I highly recommend Taking Back the Month.
excellent resource for women, clinicians, and educators.......2003-01-20
Taylor and Colino have written an excellent research-based guide to managing PMS. I have used the examples and guides found in the book to teach women in the clinical setting, and I have used it to teach nurse practitioner students about options for PMS management. I particularly like the straight forward suggestions that target healthy lifestyle choices. Women who follow the diet, exercise, and stress management guidelines that effectively manage symptoms of PMS have the added benefit of knowing they are contributing to their overall health. Thank you for this wonderful contribution to women's health.
Every woman should read this book!.......2003-01-08
I am a menopausal mother with a pubescent daughter. Both of us are free of hormonal troubles, thanks largely to the advice of this terrific book. It is so full of facts and figures, from both regular and alternative medicine. It covers every possible scenario. I can't imagine anyone that couldn't find a solution for their specific needs. This book is easy to use because each chapter relates to your specific interest, or you can read it cover to cover, which I suggest, since it has great advice on living a successful, healthful, stress free life. I particularly like how, at the end of a chapter, you're given ways to assess your condition and "to do" lists that help solve specific problems. It's written in an easy to understand conversational style. I've given it to both my sisters and many of my friends.
Taking Back the Month.......2002-12-11
Not only does Taking Back the Month dispel the mysteries and wives tales surrounding the subject of PMS, but more importantly it delivers the tools to take control, rather than to surrender control, over your body and well being.
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- Mannerheim: The Finnish Years
Sharpe's Gold (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #9)
Sharpe's Rifles (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #6)
Sharpe's Company (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #13)
Sharpe's Sword (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #14)
Sharpe's Havoc : Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809
