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Much more than merely a book about nothing, this is a concentrated guide to cultivating a sense of serenity. Simple living expert Sarah Ban Breathnach calls it a "charming prescription for harried hearts and overwrought minds" that's "filled with persuasive reminders that we do too much and live too little." From its bits of well-taken wisdom ("Learn to say, 'I don't know,'"), to tranquil seaside photos, to little lessons on how to meditate, procrastinate, even turn a bath or wine tasting into intensely spiritual experiences, The Art of Doing Nothing is bound to help even the most high-strung, PalmPilot-toting folks remember exactly how it feels to fully relax. --Erica Jorgensen
Book Description
The Art of Doing Nothing
Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself
A culture of overachievers, we make things happen--and happen fast. While rushing along, though, the days seem to get shorter and shorter. If only time would hold still, just a little bit, to let us savor life's simplest moments. . . .
The Art of Doing Nothing will help to ease these beat-the-clock jitters. The stress-reducing techniques described here require no time, no skill, no commitment. A practical guide to rest and relaxation, it ushers us into a world where "being" is more compelling than "doing."
Beautifully illustrated with Erica Lennard's photographs, The Art of Doing Nothing gives us permission to celebrate idleness in all its mesmerizing forms. Véronique Vienne's delightfully informative essays on the art of breathing, meditating, bathing, listening, waiting, and more offer useful tips on such skills as how to whistle, stay in the moment, take a nap, cure a cold, or watch the sun set over the horizon. Without further ado--and without feeling guilty--we learn to unwind, exhale, and, yes, stop and smell the roses.
Like Ira Gershwin, you will be delighted to discover that you've got plenty of nothin', and that nothin's plenty for you.
Customer Reviews:
I loved this book.......2006-12-05
This book has lots of great information in it. It really makes you start thinking about how you are living your life. Are you rushing through it? Or, are you enjoying it? Highly recommended for all.
Excellent handy guides for the time-pressed, over-achieving generation!.......2005-09-17
Instinctively, I picked up these two small but wonderful books while browsing the local bookstores during one weekend:
1. The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourtself, by Veronique Vieene;
2. The Art of Napping, by William Anthony;
Ever since I have read Jeff Davidson's Breathing Space: Living & Working @ a Confortable Space in a Sped Up Society, many years ago, I have always valued - & benefitted tremendously from - the power of time-out. In a world where the future is hurtling at breakneck speed with hurricane-force changes, all of us must learn to do some time-outs!
Donald Mitchell's earlier review sums up very much my sentiments about the first book.
As for the second book, which is also equally lighthearted & humourously illustrated, I find myself amused & entertained by the author's introduction to a napaphobic culture. In a nutshell, these are his fun stuff:
- profiles in napping (stories of legendary nappers, including JFK, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edision, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan!);
- napping strategies (noice to advanced levels);
- nap management (getting the most from your naps);
- the future of napping;
In some way, this book reinforces the chapter on 'The Art of Napping' in the first book. While the first book is beautifully illustrated by the co-author's photographs, the second book has several funny & bone-tickling cartoons.
To sum up my review, I want to say that these two books (plus, Jeff Davidson's book)are excellent handy guides for the time-pressed, over-achieving generation.
The Art of Using a Thesaurus.......2003-01-03
The author makes a pointed effort of using a tiring collection of little used eight letter words...in combination. End result: endless, rambling sentences. The content is quite dull and uninspiring. Exasperating considering I expected this piece to be a beautiful, pleasant read. To follow the author's recommendation, one must reside near a surplus of speciality and gourmet shops. For those of us in the middle to lower economic range, try a fragrant bubble bath from a local dollar store, lock yourself in the bathroom and listen to music.
The photographer is to be commended for her artistic talent. Although, as a heterosexual female, I would have much prefered a picture of a naked man floating in a pond to that of a naked woman!
The Art of Doing Nothing is worth...nothing. Not your time nor your money.
It was just so so.......2002-08-08
It's an ok book - the pictures are pretty - but I honestly haven't even been inspired to read it - it's more just for looking at
A really strange book???.......2002-06-18
I purchased this book in conjunction with "The Art of Imperfection" - and was completely disappointed with both books. This one particularly was, how shall I say, strange? I was expecting to get something out of this book and received nothing. No mind-opening statements, no inspiration, nothing. I wouldn't waste my money again.
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- Florida quirky
- Well Done
- Very Funny
- Couldn't put it down even when I reached the end....
- A fun read!
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Florida Straits
Laurence Shames
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Joey Goldman's flying south for the winter. The second-string New York wiseguy just packed up his faithful girlfriend Sandra and took off for Key West -- land of sun, surf and sleaze -- where a small-time hustler in search of a racket can score the big one. If he can find it. Enter Joey's half brother Gino. On the lam from the mob after one of the most royally screwed-up jewel heists in Florida history, Gino's a man in need of a fall guy. Which is where Joey comes in . . .
Suddenly, everyone's after Joey -- including the ruthless Miami don who wants his three million worth of uncut emeralds and who just dispatched his goons to deliver Joey a one-way ticket -- out. Now Joey's where he always wanted to be -- in the big time. All he has to do is find out where the stones are stashed. And for an unikely hero out to make a killing, this could be Paradise . . . if he lives long enough.
Customer Reviews:
Florida quirky.......2007-04-29
This is the first Shames book I have read. Pretty darn good. The characters are well developed and there is some spot on dialogue. I'll be reading more of this guys stuff. I'm really happy to have found another Florida author who really knows how to present lunatic behavior with wit.
Well Done.......2006-09-27
I like amusing South Florida mysteries and this fills the bill. The "hero" trying to get in with the local mob after moving from NYC was the high point of the book. He goes to an awful lot of trouble to save his no good half brother and his likeable bimbo later on in the story. And our hero turns out to be a pretty good guy in the end. Good mindless, entertaining reading.
Very Funny.......2004-07-22
This book is hysterical. I love the keys and everything about them and the descriptions of the keys are excellent. The humor is very appreciated.
Couldn't put it down even when I reached the end...........2003-10-20
I have never read the same book twice in one weekend. Before. Even this jaded reader was surprised at the turns of this plot. You can smell Key West, the descriptions are so keen. And he does a wonderful thing in tracing a character's emotions in elegant detail - then lets you hear how they clomp out of the character's mouth. This is the twitchiest, funniest, most deftly written book I've run across in years. Why isn't it the funniest movie? I don't know - but I feel I have already seen it. Twice!
A fun read!.......2003-09-05
This was recommended by someone in one of my bookclubs and I was not disappointed. She recommended this after going to Key West. Being from South Philadelphia, I could identify with the wise-guy lingo. But even if you are not familiar with the Sopranos like talk, you will love this. This was one of those times that I did not know the ending. It is an easy read but still keeps you turning the pages. It's got mystery, comedy, and a little romance-but more in the way of emotions. The development of the characters of Joey, Bert the Shirt with Don Giovanni, Gino and all the supporting characters of the compound are well thought out and add to the enjoyment. I would definitely recommend this book.
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Gripping stories during the age of sail from the time of Spanish navigators to the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842.
Customer Reviews:
True Florida Key Stories.......2004-11-06
The book "The Florida: True Stories of the Perilous Straits (Florida Keys)" is a great book. It is easy to read becuase if one of the stories doesn't interest you, you can go to the next story. All of the stories are interesting and are historically accurate. This is a great book if you want to know what happened in the early pioneer days of the Florida Keys
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- Boring
- A Thriller Set in the Florida Keys
- If you don't mind the inaccuracies....
- Fast moving thriller/adventure
- Give this book a pass
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Cuba Strait: A Novel
Carsten Stroud
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Carsten Stroud's heart-pounding thrillers have earned him comparisons to Elmore Leonard and Michael Connelly. Now the author of Black Water Transit returns with a scorching cocktail of lies, murder, and espionage.
Rick Broca's had more than his share of hard knocks -- which may explain why he's a retired cop at the age of thirty-three, working as a technical consultant for Hollywood producer Jake Siegel. For the last few months, that's meant taking care of Siegel's boat, Cagancho, in the Florida Keys.
But everything changes when Broca rescues a pilot from his downed seaplane during one of the Keys' notorious storms. Charles Green, injured but alive, is thankful for his good fortune, and Broca takes a liking to him. But is Green who he seems to be? Why does the faded photograph Green carries of two little girls in front of an old warship seem to haunt him? And why does he deny having had any military training, despite obvious evidence to the contrary? Questions fill Broca's head as he and Green steer Cagancho back to Miami. But when they are intercepted by a fishing boat carrying artillery, Rick knows enough to shoot now and ask questions later. So begins an insidious sequence of events that will ultimately force Rick Broca back into working for the government and force the U.S. government into an ugly confrontation with Cuba.
With its deadly maze of international espionage and political intrigue, Cuba Strait is a blistering thriller with all the trappings of a breakout bestseller.
Customer Reviews:
Boring.......2006-06-01
I'm sorry but there was just WAY too much description! This book didn't pass my 50 page rule - if the book doesn't grab in in the first 50 pages, I don't bother. I got SO lost in all that florid discription that I lost track of the plot - was there a plot? I, too, noticed errors in the Spanish and someone should tell Mr. Stroud that most sailors consider cats on boats to be bad luck.
A Thriller Set in the Florida Keys.......2005-02-05
Carsten Stroud's thriller begins with enough mystery, jeopardy, and excitement to hook the reader until the end. A man named Charles Green readies himself to pilot a small aircraft from Cuba by destroying all his belongings except for a picture of him with his family. In the midst of a storm, the plane, piloted by Green and carrying a close-mouthed passenger, goes down off the Florida Keys where Rick Broca, former State Trooper and now Hollywood consultant, spots them. In the absence of nearby Coast Guard boats, he is sent to rescue any survivors. What follows is a series of by-the-throat scenes as Broca finds himself enmeshed with a violent scheme that involves Cuban nationals, the FBI and NSA, a renegade American - with two of his friends used as pawns from a Cuban jail, all with repercussions pointing toward a war between the United States and Cuba
Much of this novel is preposterous, but you won't care because the fantasy of it is so tightly wound, scene after scene. Stroud's writing is not particularly good, but his descriptions of graphic violence will make you feel every knife twist. Rick Broca is a good no-nonsense, resourceful protagonist - the kind of man who can think on his feet even when his life is in danger. Girlfriend Zeffi is two-dimensional but somewhat fun; there's a bar scene near the end when she really comes alive. The real flaw of this thriller is the denouement, which involves several pages of explanations that make it seem as though the author planned a more complicated novel but ran out of time to develop it. Getting to those pages, however, is suspenseful fun.
If you don't mind the inaccuracies...........2004-10-05
...it's an interesting read. Good story line, good dialog, vivid place descriptions, and some humorous moments.
However, there are several technical problems, such as the behavior of tropical storms, the direction of flow in the Gulf Stream, plot inconsistencies, etc.
If you're not too analytical, you'll enjoy it. I'll probably read at least one more of his books.
Fast moving thriller/adventure.......2004-10-05
This is my third Carston Stroud novel and they seem to just get better. This is a long book but very quickly read. There is action on the sea, air and land. It is truly one of those books that you can't stop reading. The story moves along quickly and there is plent of action, violence, adventure and some really nasty bad guys. The ending is something of a surprise, even though you expect the unexpected in this type of story. The main characters are quite interesting, and I would like to see a sequel involving Rick and Zeffi. My only complaint, and it is a small one, is that some of the attempts at humor in the book fell flat and seemed incongruous. Otherwise, a fantastic read. I put Mr. Stroud in the top three of thriller writers today.
Give this book a pass.......2004-09-18
Well, not if you are into unbelievable story lines, yankee paranoia about communists, love guns and weapons of all sorts, simply live for chase scenes and big boats / cars / trucks / planes / (...); simply adore gratuitous violence, don't squirm about racism and stereotyping and believe everything is just w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l in the Good Ole USA. If you're that person though you'll probably eat this one right up.
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Florida Straits
Tom McKinnon
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While searching for the lost treasure ship La Madelena in the Florida Keys, Stephen Caffey and Tyler Caitland witness an event that propels them into a murderous scheme of deceit, greed and seduction. Caught between corrupt government officials and the wrath of a wealthy Cuban ex-patriot attempting to overthrow the Cuban Communist Party, Stephen and Tyler race against time to locate the forgotten treasure while desperately trying to escape the deadly trap closing in on them.
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Great first book.......2001-03-13
This book is well written by a first time author. He moves his characters through the story with a purpose and carries a simple but well thought out story to an effective end. I expect to see more of this writer in the near future.
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- strange book indeed
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- A very strange but satisfying read
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Unquenchable Fire
Rachel Pollack
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It's uncomfortable to be chosen for Great Things. A lot of fantasists admit that, but Pollack's Jennie Mazdan shows us just how uncomfortable it can be. This is suburban fantasy, reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's suburban SF, and the protagonist is a nice suburban middle-class person who, in a recognizable America informed with rational, non-Christian divine powers, copes with supernatural imposition on her life. Perfectly balancing the anchoring familiar mundanities against her brilliant, fascinating Living World---surly bureaucrats at the National Oneiric Registration Agency, tourists photographing the Founder's Urinal shrine in Poughkeepsie---Pollack tells Jennie and Valerie's story of transformation, acceptance and triumph. Potently stocked with archetypes, yet down-to-earth and even funny, this is great fiction and great fantasy.
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strange book indeed.......2005-09-16
not my favorite type of book, but i was compelled to finish it anyway, which i guess is a compliment. amazingly vivid and lifelike depiction of the heroine and her so different yet similar parallel world... yet with so little view of the underlying scaffolding of how it got that way. really a category of its own.
Revolutionary.......2005-08-05
This is my favorite book. One which I read over and over but whos depths, mysteries, and pleasures seem untappable. Throughout the story, the spirit world is shown to have access to the earthly realm through such diverse things as brand name logos and ice-cream vendors. By this I mean, such symbols and characters are shown as spiritual agents, so to speak, messengers of the spirit world or echoes of myths. I found in this book a living magic, it contains something in it that will change its reader. Unquenchable fire shows the reader that stories are a medium through which spirit decends into matter. That being said, after reading it I began to view a thousand supposedly mundane things, from cereal boxes to street signs with new signifigance. This story is one of power.
Pure Imagination..........2000-09-06
Jennifer Mazdan is pregnant.. except she's a virgin, and there was no man involved but an Agency who needs Jennifer to give birth to this child to save humanity from dry morals, banal religion and oppressive dogma.
Wait.. doesn't this seem familiar...?
Here, Rachel Pollack has created a Messiah story that focuses on the mother of the Messiah, and how she doesn't want to be "chosen", how she'd prefer to be left alone and be obscure, the same way everyone else in her world is - dry, homogenized, merely going through the motions of life. Jennifer rebels in every way possible, but the Agency finds ways to keep her on track... but never docile and accepting.
The book tells several stories at once, each from different times, told for different purposes - "The Place Inside", "The Meaning of a Story", "The Lives of the Founders", Valarie Mazdan's adventures (a few), and, of course, Jennifer Mazdan's saga. "The Place Inside" chills me still.
The editing is uneven to say the least, but we can't fault the author for that, but rather Tusk Press. Typos abound.
Find a copy of this book and enjoy it.
Wow. Fantasy or SF? This book is its own thing........2000-05-27
In the medium-near future, a revolution has taken place. The forces of science and rationality have lost. The newage Founders of the new reality have loosed the forces of mysticism and the world has changed. Miracles happen routinely. Government and society have restructured themselves to accomodate this new strange reality.
A suburban woman has a strange experience during a holy day. She finds that she has been made pregnant by an unknown agent. How will she cope? How will her very suburban neighborhood cope?
My husband had been trying to get me to read this book for ages. Finally he got me when I couldn't escape and began reading this aloud to me. When he stopped after the first chapter, I demanded he hand the book to me so I could finish.
This book came from nowhere for me. I don't know of anything like it. I guess this is shamanistic fantasy. It feels SF-ish, though, in that it's a consistent future world with sensible rules. Whatever it is, it's a stunner, the kind of book that leaves me incredibly excited and optimistic about the state of SF & fantasy.
A very strange but satisfying read.......1996-09-21
I don't know what it was that attracted me to this book--
perhaps it was the striking cover art of a floating figure
with a flaming mask. Perhaps (as I now think having read it)
it was something greater than random chance.
This is not a book that I would characterize as a light,
enjoyable read. It is exceedingly strange, both in form, and
in the world it describes. The world of the book is loosely
based on our own, although that world has been transformed by a
spiritual force acting through designated tellers of stories.
These stories are so apocryphal and so powerful as to have led
to a "revolution" in the very nature of the world.
The story is told as a narrative with bits of these world-
defining recitations interspersed. The main character, a
plain young woman who works servicing the shrines to
the revolution, is battered by visitations that appear contrary
to the ones sanctioned by the government. Her struggle to
understand the meaning of her experiences is mirrored by the
reader's own attempt to understand them in the context of our
own, more mundane world.
It is difficult to describe the power of this book because of
its very unusual nature. The oddity of this book persists
throughout until the very end, when this reader (for one)
experienced that moment of pure clarity and light which makes
me think back on it, even thought I read it almost a year ago
now.
Overall, for those who like speculative and unusual fiction
and who are willing to spend the time puzzling over
Unquenchable Fire's deeper meanings, I would highly recommend
this as one of the most striking books I have read in many
years.
Lastly, the protagonist becomes pregnant during the story, and
this is a central event to the narrative. I think that anyone
who is expecting (as my wife was when I read this book) or
is a new parent will get something extra from this book!
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Unquenchable black fires
Leedell W Neyland
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UNQUENCHABLE FIRE
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UNQUENCHABLE FIRE
RACHAEL POLLACK
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Unquenchable Fire
Rachel Pollack
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- Liberal Media Conjures Fear, Spreads Ignorance
- Interesting
- Warning on bad science (Alar,Love Canal,AgentOrange)
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Science Under Siege: Balancing Technology and the Environment
Michael Fumento
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In a book sure to stir controversy among liberals and conservatives alike, Fumento "proves conclusively that dioxin, video-display terminals, power lines, pesticides, and other products of modern technology are not the deadly threats to you and your family's health that you have heard, while some touted solutions to the real environmental problems such as the fuel gasohol, are grounded not in good science, but in cynical, dollar-driven politics."
"Michael Fumento's clear exposition of the way in which knowledge gained through good scientific research can be distorted and used to spread misconceptions and needless public fear should receive widespread attention."--
Frederick Seits, past President, National Academy of Sciences
Customer Reviews:
Liberal Media Conjures Fear, Spreads Ignorance.......2004-09-20
Science writer Michael Fumento stands apart from the usual crowd of careerist journalists who do not know the meaning of skepticism, science illiterates, and doomsday prophets.
One by one, Fumento takes apart all the pet causes of the fanatics: for example, food irradiation, cancer-causing chemicals, and pesticides.
A great feature of Fumento's hard work is insights he offers as a result of his hard work: the rules of scientific procedure, the basics of epidemiology for the public, and how humans perceive risk versus risks in real life.
Anyone claiming to be a science, technology or environmental reporter will ignore this book at his peril. Even a voter bombarbed by the Luddite spittle of Al Gore and Ralph Nader would be helped tremendously by this book.
Students who are unlucky enough to be at the mercy of a teacher that regurgitates propaganda from environmental groups will benefit from Fumento's investigation.
Trial lawyers desperately need this book. Alas, having them read it would be like showing a crucifix to a vampire.
Interesting.......2002-06-23
Not being a scientist Mr. Fumento basically describes himself in this book; "as not only grossly ignorant, but arrogant as well." He wrote this book well. But not being a scientific expert, I would not take his words too seriously. What it did make me do is look further into the many definitions he has for clusters, epidemiology, etc.
He does explain why and how studies and statistics with regards to the studies are done, and that I found interesting and well put.
This is not a scientific journal, but a laymans opinions. He is not a PhD, but an attorney. However, I believe there is a lot of good information in his book. You just know when you read it, you need to look much, much further.
Warning on bad science (Alar,Love Canal,AgentOrange).......1996-06-10
This book provides an excellent reference for discussions of
the misinformation spread about Alar, Love Canal, dioxin,
Agent Orange, food irradiation, electromagnetic field-induced
cancer, and gasohol. Fumento not only exposes the fertilizer
behind the alarmist campaigns, but provides valuable insight
into how epidemiology works, how to spot bad arguments, and
how to identify acceptable levels of risk in daily life.
Easy and fun to read text from a lawyer who has done his
research. Guaranteed to upset environmentalists, Viet Nam
vets, amateur epidemiologists, Archer-Daniels-Midland,
and anyone else who believes that science should bow to
political expedience.
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