World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde (No. 4) Reprint Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Christie Golden Page ID: 0743471385
About the Author
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Golden has written more than forty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world. Golden lives in Tennessee. She welcomes visitors to her website: ChristieGolden.com.
Series: WORLD OF WARCRAFTMass Market Paperback: 368 pagesPublisher: Pocket Star; Reprint edition (December 26, 2006)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0743471385ISBN-13: 978-0743471381 Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #38,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #95 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Gaming #140 in Books > Computers & Technology > Games & Strategy Guides #367 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Literature
World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde, by Christie Golden
"Rise of the Horde" is what a Warcraft book should be. The book is enjoyable, the plot is pretty solid, and the characters are spot on. In the author biography, Golden states that she is a World of Warcraft player and it shows – there are little things thrown in that any Warcraft player will appreciate.
Each chapter starts with a brief introduction from Thrall, the current chief of the new Horde. He is writing the history of the old Horde, the Horde that destroyed their own world and invaded Azeroth, the Horde that perpetuated genocide on the draenei and slaughtered the humans.
The story of the orcs starts with a noble race, living peacefully on Draenor. The orcs have coexisted with the draenei for hundreds of years, ever since the draenei arrived on Draenor fleeing from their ancient enemies. While the orcs take pleasure in hunting animals and bloodlust, they are not killers and have a culture, family groups, a belief system. But all that changes when the Burning Legion turns a key orc to their side, and he leads the orcs on a terrifying descent into madness. Only one clan stands apart, the Frostwolves; their leader Durotan watches helplessly as the orcs are corrupted by demons.
Golden depicts this tale with plenty of emotion; I felt for Durotan’s situation. How many of us have watched someone do something we know is wrong, but we can’t change their minds? Most of us have, I’m sure. "The Rise of the Horde" details just that, the rise of the horde that descended upon Azeroth, intent on taking the world for their own. The story is known, especially if one is a Warcraft player; but Golden fleshes out the story very nicely.
Out of every Warcraft book this is the place to start. It takes before Warcraft 1, 2, 3, WoW, etc. This looks like it will help explain the history of the new WoW expansion War Lords of Draenor a bit. If you’re looking for the proper order to read the Warcraft books I suggest the following:
Rise of the Horde (book) – Covers approx. a 10 year period prior to WC I.
The Last Guardian (book) – Touches on the closing days of the First War with bookends set prior to WC III.
Tides of Darkness (book) – Covers WC II in continuity.
Beyond the Dark Portal (book) – Covers WC II expansion in continuity.
Day of the Dragon (book) – Wraps up some dangling threads from WC II with Deathwing and the Red Dragonflight.
Lord of the Clans (book) – Covers a wide swath from just before WC II all the way to prior to WC III. Should be subtitled All You Wanted to Know About Thrall But Were Too Much of An Alliance Lover to Ask. J/k.
Of Blood and Honor (book) – Set just prior to WC III.
Warcraft III Battle Chest (game) – Reign of Chaos covers the origin of the Scourge and the return of the Burning Legion. The Frozen Throne covers the exile of Illidun, the rise of the Forsaken and the crowning of a new Lich King. Founding of Durotar covers the most recent conflict between Horde and humans prior to WoW.
Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (book) – Recaps material from Tides of Darkness all the way up until the end of Frozen Throne with bookends just before the WotLK cinematic.
Ashbringer (comic) – Covers the fallout from Arthas dissolving the Order of the Silver Hand and the rise of Argent Dawn and Crimson Crusade. Download World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde Reprint Edition PDF
The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread [Hardcover] Paperback – 2001
Author: Peter Reinhart (Author) Ron Manville (Photographer) ID: B004GXSP5Y
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PaperbackID: B004GXSP5Y Best Sellers Rank: #2,433,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1423 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread
I bought this book after carefully researching it, trying to decide if it would be a book I would use or a book that would sit on my shelf and collect dust. The recipes in this book look more time-consuming than those found in my other bread books, and I finally decided that, based on other reviews of this book, it was worth a shot.
Almost all of the recipes in this book require more than one day to make; the author bases a great many of his recipes on some form of starter, whether it’s a stiff dough or a liquid sourdough starter. He asserts that this style of baking brings out the most flavor in the flour. He’s right. The recipes I have tried [so far] in this book do indeed have a better and stronger flavor, in spite if the fact that the base ingredients are the same as that of other recipes in other books.
The author does more than provide a bunch of good recipes (he refers to them as "formulas"). He describes the chemistry behind the ingredients and how they react to one another when mixed. He also shows, with photographs, many different shaping methods and intermediate steps that are required in making bread dough.
The author writes the techniques and recipes in this book like a man who has a deep interest in the subject, not just a desire to crank out another cookbook. He demonstrates, through his discussion in the book, his deep understanding of the art of breadmaking. For this man, bread making is a joy and a pleasure, not just a profession. When reading this book, the reader gets pulled along into the excitement the author has for his topic, which makes the process of breadmaking even more pleasurable.
This book is not for the lazy baker. If you want to make breads that are fast and easy, look for other titles. But if you want outstanding breads, and you’re willing to work for it and be patient, then this book is a superb choice.
This is an expensive book worth every penny. Reinhart will show you how to bake bread even if you’ve never baked anything that didn’t come out of a can and if you are an experienced baker, Reinhart will strengthen your understanding of how bread is made.
His explanation of the science of how bread is mixed, baked and even tasted is definitive and clearly written. The section on shaping dough is aptly photographed and understandable. It is, by far, the clearest description of shaping dough found in the current crop of baking books.
The bulk of the book consists of recipes, more accurately, formulas, for baking various kinds of bread. I’ve tried only two of them so far and both came out excellent. And one of the things that makes this book so helpful is that if your bread doesn’t come out excellent you’ll learn why it didn’t and what to do about it.
This book amplifies Reinhart’s previous book, Crust and Crumb, and like that book the formulas will help you bake the best bread you’ve ever made. And the theory will help you to create your own signature variations.
This is a priceless book and it is also a definite classic. If you don’t bake, buy it for someone who does.
When Peter Reinhart’s previous book (Crust and Crumb) was published, I stated in my review that this was the only book any serious baker would need. You can still get by with that one, but Reinhart has outcompeted himself with The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. Until he pulls another stunt like this, Baker’s Apprentice is now the only book any serious bread baker would ever need, or anyone less serious for that sake. Like the last book, Baker’s Apprentice is overflowing with information, experience and wisdom, but this one is also tightly organized and well laid out. It is at the same time a baking tutorial, a recipe collection, a reference work, and for baking freaks like me, bedtime reading. Maybe it is a missionary tract too. The various bread types cover a repertoire worthy of any professional baker, yet one that can be accomplished by us amateurs. The photos are pretty but also inspirational and instructional, showing shaping options and procedures. Reinhart’s last book got me away from yeasted white bread and onto the path of rustic, naturally leavened bread (although he by no means forces the reader to follow that path). His chapter in this book about the Poilane-style Miche (the loaf shown on the cover) got me off the path and onto the road. Download The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread – 2001 PDF Free Download
Medical Laboratory Science Review [Print Replica] Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Robert R Harr Page ID: B00HYHB84O
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File Size: 36234 KBPrint Length: 576 pagesPublisher: F A Davis; 4 edition (October 11, 2012)Publication Date: October 11, 2012 Sold by: Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B00HYHB84OText-to-Speech: Not enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #523,191 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Medical eBooks > Allied Health Professions > Medical Technology #101 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Medical eBooks > Research #209 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Laboratory Medicine
I just purchased the fourth addition after having bought and lost the third edition. I am currently studying to take the ASCP MLS exam this month; and I really liked the previous edition. After I take the test I’ll come back on here and give a thorough book review as well as a review of the exam. I’ll be posting on all of the major book review sites and on indeed.com, in large part to give prospective ASCP exam applicants a foundation in which to build their studying. I’m doing this because I felt that information regarding ASCP MLS exam prep was sorely lacking on the internet. Although, there is an excellent website that provides nice review notes as well as other exam information. Just google "ASCP wordsology" and the site will be the first one that comes up.
I have had this book not more than 5-6 hours and my preliminary analysis is that this is a great resource, and provides excellent feedback. I used the CD resource a few hours ago to take a couple of quizzes. My goal is to better prepare for lab results associated with disease states, or vice versa. So, I hoped that the CD resources would concentrate in that area. I can tell that the quizzes are excellent. You can arrange your own quizzes by subject and difficulty level. The level 3 difficulty quizzes did not disappoint. They were heavily geared towards lab results associated with disease states; and that’s exactly what I wanted. I was initially worried that some formatting may had been changed in regards to the previous editions, but it appears that this book as has went above and beyond what the previous editions have presented. I will go in to more detail after the exam. Stay tuned, after January 17 I’ll be back!
Good luck to all of you taking the ASCP MLS exam soon!
I have been an MLT for many years, and decided to go back to school for my Bachelor’s in Medical Technology. I thought after 18 years, I knew a lot of things. Well, after purchIDg this book I realized how much I didn’t know. There is so much information in here, covering all disciplines of lab practice- from phlebotomy and specimen collection, to Micro(all of your favorite manual methods), to Genetics. The questions range from your basic lab knowledge, to obscure formulas and "old fashioned" test methods. They always say you should understand the principles of a test, not just how to press run. This is a very comprehensive and thorough study guide, and I poked in and out of it for a couple months, being a little hesitant to sit for the boards. Apparently I learned a few things studying from this book because I passed my MLS exam on the first try. I would recommend this book, as you never know what will be on the board exams, because each test is tailored to the individual taking it based on previous answers, so you never know what you will get. Best to be prepared, you can never know too much. Good read!
your teachers can’t cover everything but expect you to know it all when it come time for the tests. this book causes you to think in multiple ways and take into consideration small facts that end up being very important Download Medical Laboratory Science Review Kindle Edition Epub Download
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later MP3 CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
Author: Visit ‘s Annette Lareau Page ID: 1452654719
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“A fascinating study.” —Malcolm Gladwell
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“So where does something like practical intelligence come from?…Perhaps the best explanation we have of this process comes from the sociologist Annette Lareau, who…conducted a fascinating study of a group of third graders. You might expect that if you spent such an extended period in twelve different households, what you would gather is twelve different ideas about how to raise children…What Lareau found, however, is something much different.” —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
“Less than one in five Americans think ‘race, gender, religion or social class are very important for getting ahead in life,’ Annette Lareau tells us in her carefully researched and clearly written new book. But as she brilliantly shows, everything from looking authority figures in the eye when you shake their hands to spending long periods in a shared space and squabbling with siblings is related to social class. This is one of the most penetrating works I have read on a topic that only grows in importance as the class gap in America widens.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Time Bind and The Commercialization of Intimate Life
“This is a great book, not only because of its powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States and its insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, but also because of its frank engagement with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts. Hardly any other studies have the rich, intensive ethnographic focus on family of Unequal Childhoods.” —Diane Reay, American Journal of Sociology
“Lareau does sociology and lay readers alike an important service in her engaging book, Unequal Childhoods, by showing us exactly what kinds of knowledge, upbringing, skills, and bureaucratic savvy are involved in this idea, and how powerfully inequality in this realm perpetuates economic inequality. Through textured and intimate observation, Lareau takes us into separate worlds of pampered but overextended, middle-class families and materially stressed, but relatively relaxed, working-class and poor families to show how inequality is passed on across generations.” —Katherine Newman, Contexts
“Sociology at its best. In this major study, Lareau provides the tools to make sense of the frenzied middle-class obsession with their offspring’s extracurricular activities; the similarities between black and white professionals; and the paths on which poor and working class kids are put by their circumstances. This book will help generations of students understand that organized soccer and pick-up basketball have everything to do with the inequality of life chances.”—Michele Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
“Drawing upon remarkably detailed case studies of parents and children going about their daily lives, Lareau argues that middle-class and working-class families operate with different logics of childrearing, which both reflect and contribute to the transmission of inequality. An important and provocative book.”—Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School
“With rich storytelling and insightful detail, Lareau takes us inside the family lives of poor, middle-class, and affluent Americans and reminds us that class matters. Unequal Childhoods thoughtfully demonstrates that class differences in cultural resources, played out in the daily routines of parenting, can have a powerful impact on children’s chances for climbing the class ladder and achieving the American dream. This provocative and often disturbing book will shape debates on the U.S. class system for decades to come.”—Sharon Hays, author of Flat Broke with Children
“Drawing on intimate knowledge of kids and families studied at school and at home, Lareau examines the social changes that have turned childhood into an extended production process for many middle-class American families. Her depiction of this new world of childhood–and her comparison of the middle-class ideal of systematic cultivation to the more naturalistic approach to child development to which many working-class parents still adhere–maps a critically important dimension of American family life and raises challenging questions for parents and policy makers.”—Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
“Annette Lareau has written another classic. Her deep insights about the social stratification of family life and childrearing have profound implications for understanding inequality — and for understanding the daily struggles of everyone attempting to raise children in America. Lareau’s findings have great force because they are thoroughly grounded in compelling ethnographic evidence.”—Adam Gamoran, Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
“With the poignant details of daily life assembled in a rigorous comparative design, Annette Lareau has produced a highly ambitious ethnographic study that reveals how social class makes a difference in children’s lives. Unequal Childhoods will be read alongside Sewell and Hauser, Melvin Kohn, and Bourdieu. It is an important step forward in the study of social stratification and family life, and a valuable exemplar for comparative ethnographic work.”—Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk and Slim’s Table
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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MP3 CDPublisher: Tantor Audio; MP3 – Unabridged CD edition (November 14, 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1452654719ISBN-13: 978-1452654713 Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #191,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #149 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Children’s Studies #200 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Poverty #415 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Specific Demographics > Ethnic Studies
Most Americans see individual effort as the key to success, with fewer than one in five seeing class or race as very important in getting ahead in life. The reality is that social class is a more important determinant of a person’s success in life than it used to be due to two powerful trends: Growing economic inequality that has created a wider gulf between rich and poor, and less mobility between classes. The fact is the USA has both less social mobility and wider economic inequality than any of the other rich democracies in Canada, Australia, Japan and western Europe.
With more sluggish mobility than in the past, class has become more hereditary than it once was. The gap in spending per child is growing between rich and poor Americans, from 5 to 1 in 1972 to 9 to 1 in 2007. Just 17 percent of kids raised in the bottom fifth of the income distribution will make it to the top two-fifths by age 40.
It’s no wonder then that class differences are so powerful in shaping a child’s life experience, more important in child raising than racial differences, according to Annette Lareau, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who won awards for the first edition of this book in 2002.
Lareau’s research reveals the basic class differences in approach to raising children. Middle-class parents have their children in organized activities and engage in a process of "concerted cultivation." By contrast, working-class and poor parents don’t engage their children in concerted cultivation, instead allowing development through "natural growth."
Poor parents face economic challenges just putting food on the table and getting medical care. They lack the resources and energy to put their kids in as many organized activities. Download Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later MP3 CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged PDF Free Download
Doug Buffone: Monster of the Midway: My 50 Years with the Chicago Bears Kindle Edition
Author: Doug Buffone ID: B014C57SPS
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File Size: 13880 KBPrint Length: 272 pagesPublisher: Triumph Books (September 15, 2015)Publication Date: September 1, 2015 Sold by: Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B014C57SPSText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #612,475 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #98 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > United States > Regions > Midwest #180 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Sports & Outdoor > Football #368 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Miscellaneous > History of Sports
#55. No one had a bigger heart. A great man. A great Bear. For people in Chicago, the world is not the same without Doug Buffone. This book is a window into the life one of the most charismatic men in Chicago sports history. To his friends and family, his stories and anecdotes are legendary. And this book is oozing with it. This is one you’ll put on the coffee table or pull off the shelf leading up to opening day. RIP Big Doug…
There’s a lot I could say but in the interest of keeping it short: in all the tales and stories, you can absolutely hear Doug’s voice throughout the entire book. His voice, his persona, his being. This isn’t just a book about a football player, it’s about a man and that man was captured in crystal clear fashion. Good read. Go Bears.
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Doug was a personal friend and high school teammate who represented the values and work ethic of our coal mining community in Western PA. Enjoyed the book! Download Doug Buffone: Monster of the Midway: My 50 Years with the Chicago Bears Kindle Edition PDF
A New Dawn: Star Wars Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: John Jackson Miller ID: B00M0OQYQI
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. “The war is over. The Separatists have been defeated, and the Jedi rebellion has been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning.” (Emperor Palpatine) For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights brought peace and order to the Galactic Republic, aided by their connection to the mystical energy field known as the Force. But they were betrayed – and the entire galaxy has paid the price. It is the Age of the Empire. Now Emperor Palpatine, once Chancellor of the Republic and secretly a Sith follower of the dark side of the Force, has brought his own peace and order to the galaxy. Peace through brutal repression, and order through increIDg control of his subjects’ lives. But even as the Emperor tightens his iron grip, others have begun to question his means and motives. And still others, whose lives were destroyed by Palpatine’s machinations, lay scattered about the galaxy like unexploded bombs, waiting to go off…. The first Star Wars novel created in collaboration with the Lucasfilm Story Group, Star Wars: A New Dawn is set during the legendary “Dark Times” between Episodes III and IV and tells the story of how two of the lead characters from the animated series Star Wars Rebels first came to cross paths. Featuring a foreword by Dave Filoni.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 12 hours and 43 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Random House AudioAudible.com Release Date: September 2, 2014Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00M0OQYQI Best Sellers Rank: #64 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Science Fiction > Adventure #75 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Fiction & Literature > Action & Adventure #234 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Opera
I’m going to get one thing out of the way here. I’ve read just about every Star Wars novel that has been released since the Thrawn Trilogy in the 90′s. I’ve been captivated and emotionally invested in this expanded universe, and while it has always been “non canon”, almost everyone who read the books didn’t take it that way. You have almost 25 years of continuous story, and now, that’s all down the drain. It’s fair to say that I’ve got mixed feelings about this. I mean, Han and Leia could not get married, and they won’t have Jaina, Jacen or Anakin. The Yuuzhan Vong may not even exist, and Chewbacca is still alive!! Mara Jade?? Forget about her, gone the way of the dodo.
The aptly named A New Dawn takes place between the movie episodes III and IV. You won’t have any characters you recognize in this book minus the Emperor, and it sets up the upcoming Star Wars Rebels series on Disney XD nicely. Don’t take that to mean it’s a novel for children, it’s not. There is some truly evil stuff going on in this book, and it definitely sets it self apart from what the show is supposed to be.
John Jackson Miller really gives you a sense of how this new universe is going to be. He shows you the grip that the Empire has in the system, and how people are reacting. He sets up a rag-tag group of people in Kanan, Hera, Skelly, and Zaluna fighting against the Empire to prevent the annihilation of a world. These characters for the most part will play big roles in the upcoming series. What JJM does best is give these characters the dimensions they need that might not come across on the small screen. A look inside the motivations of each character. The book is billed as being the way that Kanan and Hera meet, but it’s very much Kanan’s book.
“Star Wars: A New Dawn” is an important entry into the Star Wars library for a few reasons. First, it is the first book in Disney’s new Star Wars canon. In other words, this book is just as much a part of the Star Wars saga as any of the movies. Second, this book introduces readers to a few of the main characters in the upcoming animated TV show “Star Wars: Rebels.”
To be perfectly honest, I had not been particularly excited about “Rebels.” I had some issues with “The Clone Wars” and the same creative team is heading “Rebels.” From what I’d seen thus far, it seemed like the beginning of the Disneyfication of Star Wars. So I was initially somewhat skeptical of this book. That said, John Jackson Miller is one of my favorite Star Wars authors, so it had that to its credit.
WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD.
I was pleasantly surprised by the main protagonist, Kanan Jarrus. In the trailers for the TV show, Kanan appeared to be just a “cowboy Jedi” (Dave Filoni’s words, not mine). However, in “A New Dawn,” Kanan comes across as a character with real depth. To some extent, he’s another “smuggler with a heart of gold,” but the novel takes that trope much further than we’ve seen in Star Wars before. Kanan is an inveterate womanizer. I am pretty sure that he’s the biggest “player” we’ve ever seen in the Star Wars galaxy. He has some great lines. Yet, it’s also clear that he’s hiding real pain as he tries to cope with the loss of the Jedi Order. JJM uses point of view in interesting ways to contrast Kanan’s self-perception – that he’s hard-edged and cynical – against the reality – that can’t help himself from helping others. I’d go so far as to say that he’s potentially the most interesting Jedi in the current Star Wars canon.
This book intrigued me for a number of reasons, the main being the introduction to the new Canon. The secondary reason was the interest in the back story to some of the characters of the new Star Wars Rebels series. I was concerned going in that because of the cartoon nature of the Rebels series (of which I enjoy watching with my children, all under the age of 10) the book would be more childish in nature, and not up to the deep stories created in the existing EU. Let me first say that if you were concerned about this, you can rest assured that this book fits in with the style of the, now non-canon, EU. There is nothing cartoon like about this book whatsoever. So if that was your concern, feel free to order this book right now.
On to the writing style – I have read quite a number of books from the Star Wars EU, however this was the first book I’ve read by John Jackson Miller. This book was very well written, and very captivating from the very beginning. It was one of those books that just keeps moving, page after page. The character development is well done, the scene descriptions are perfect, and the action leaps off of the page. I can honestly say that after reading this book I will definitely seek out more John Jackson Miller books in the future.
I don’t feel the need to really get into a summary of the story. I feel that the book description does enough to whet anyone’s appetite for a book, and I don’t like stumbling across spoilers, no matter how small when I’m reading reviews. I prefer to just dive into a book and go along for the ride from the very beginning. I will say that the story was fantastic, and did a great job giving us more insight into the personality of Hera and Kanon. Download A New Dawn: Star Wars Audible – Unabridged ridged PDF
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged
Author: Visit ‘s Norman Doidge Page ID: 1611763827
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Praise for The Brain’s Way of Healing
“Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure trove of the author’s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page.”
—V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, neurologist, neuroscientist, and author of The Tell-Tale Brain (W. W. Norton, 2011), Director, UCSD Center for Brain and Cognition
“A tour de force. In one of the most riveting books on the human brain and its mystery powers ever written, Doidge addresses the role of alternative medical therapies to reset and re-sync the dynamic patterns of ‘energy in our brain, whit the ability to restore relatively normal health to those whose fate seems hopeless. . . . These are people that traditional medicine all but abandoned as . . . untreatable. But they were rescued. . . . It’s possible to start anywhere in the book and be mesmerized.”
—Huffington Post
“An exciting overview of powerful new neuroscience theories that connect mind, body, and soul . . . In this age of distraction and unnatural environments and actions—like staring at screens all day—brain science offers all kinds of useful techniques to care for our infinitely complex selves. Norman Doidge’s work is a Michelin Guide to this hopeful new trove of knowledge and insight.”
—Boston Globe, USA
“Brilliant and highly original. Neurology used to be considered a depressing discipline with patients often displaying fascinating but essentially untreatable symptoms and disabilities. Drawing on the last three decades of research, Doidge challenges this view, using vivid portraits of patients and their physicians. The book is a treasure trove of the author’s own deep insights and a clear bright light of optimism shines through every page.”
—V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, neurologist, neuroscientist, and author of The Tell-Tale Brain; Director, UCSD Center for Brain and Cognition
“Doidge’s book is filled with compelling stories about the power of ingenious technologies and disciplined awareness methods generated by innovators who transcended their own brain challenges, and who now use them to help others make radical improvements in conditions often deemed hopeless. It points to a future of remarkable and unprecedented brain healing.”
—Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, author of The Autism Revolution
“The Brain’s way of Healing is a stunner—the sort of book you want to read several times, not because it is difficult to understand, but because it opens up so many novel and startling avenues into our potential to heal. Norman Doidge enthralls us with a rich combination of lucidly explained brain research and pioneering new (and some not so new, but not widely known) approaches to recovery. With an eloquence reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, Doidge bolsters the latest advances in brain science with a series of extraordinary case histories of people for whom all hope seemed to be lost, but who healed as a result of great personal courage, and by changing the ways their bodies and brains processed sensations and movement. This hopeful book demonstrates that a variety of sensory inputs—light, sound, electricity, vibration, movement, and thought—can awaken the brain’s attention processors, and thereby allow even the most afflicted to (re)gain ownership of their lives.
—Bessel van der Kolk MD, Medical Director, the Trauma Center, Brookline MA; Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Author of The Body keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the healing of Trauma
“The book offers real hope to individuals suffering from diverse chronic conditions. It shows in terms of graphic personal stories that we truly do not yet know the limits of what is possible in rehabilitation. The book also has a number of creative integrations of the data that will be of interest to neuroscientists.”
—Edward Taub, Ph.D., Behavioral Neuroscientist, University Professor,University of Alabama at Birmingham, Director, UAB CI Therapy Research Group and Taub Training Clinic
“Everyone who has a brain could benefit from reading Doidge’s book.”
—The Columbus Dispatch
“A vivid, robust and optimistic read . . . an essential addition to our growing understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Doidge argues quite convincingly that when the brain is damaged or incompletely formed, whether from stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD or a host of other conditions, it’s entirely possible to “rewire” the circuits by training a different part of the brain to take over the task. . . . He’s positively elegant in his crystalline explanations of brain science for a lay audience.”
—Toronto Star, Canada
“This is a book of miracles: an absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal. Fascinating . . . brings to mind Oliver Sacks.”
—Guardian
“Dazzling . . . In friendly vignettes reminiscent of Oliver Sacks’s case studies, Doidge chronicles the heroic efforts of patients with a wide variety of apparently intractable ailments, from chronic pain to multiple sclerosis. . . . Each of Doidge’s examples suggests tangible treatment ideas for patients who may have thought they were out of options. Doidge’s penchant for considering unconventional approaches to healing offers hope for all.”
—Bookpage, USA
“Beautifully written . . . inspiring . . . merging scientific information into timeless and fascinating personal stories . . . The Brain’s Way of Healing grabs onto the reader at once and compels them to keep reading. This is an important and encouraging book.”
—The Vancouver Sun, Canada
“Exhilarating science . . . In an era of ever-increIDg medicalisation of the human mind, and the medication of it, the appeal of neuroplasticity outlined by Doidge is addictive. It is inspiring, page-turning stuff.”
—Sunday Times, London
“A fascinating study on brain science that shows the way to major therapeutic discoveries.”
—Library Journal –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
NORMAN DOIDGE, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and New York Times bestselling author. He is on the research faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City and on the faculty of the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry as well. He lives in Toronto.
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In his new book, Norman Doidge describes the role of brain plasticity in healing. This paradigm is helping us recognize how improvement from symptoms of all kinds is not only possible, but explainable, as well as reproducible.
Doidge artfully draws us in with people’s stories, including the experiences of Dr. Michael Moskowitz, a chronic pain specialist who figured out a way to cure his own increIDgly debilitating chronic pain after 13 years (chapter 1). He has also successfully taught the technique to some of his patients. In chapter 2, Doidge walks with John Pepper, a World War II survivor with Parkinson’s disease who devised a program that enabled him to recover lost mobility and other functions. Pepper uses his approach not only to keep many of his symptoms at bay decades after diagnosis, he has also taught it to others with Parkinson’s, who have also improved. More amazing stories and treatment approaches follow in each chapter and the case studies highlight this new paradigm. The research starts to explain the ever-elusive, until now, "why."
In easy-to-read connecting language Doidge gives us a framework for understanding what is happening during these transformations. He, and the studies he cites throughout, take us beyond our current understanding of the brain.
The principles of brain plasticity presented by Doidge can be summarized as follows (chapter 3):
Events such as strokes, infections, head injuries, radiation, toxins and degenerative processes cause brain injury and affect our neurons. While some neurons die following such events, the new science is showing us that some neurons start to signal in irregular ways following injury, which can make the brain "noisy" and confused.
My review of "The Brain’s Way of Healing" is that of someone who experienced one of the therapies he describes, the Tomatis Method, many years before Norman Doidge’s book was published. For me, this is a practical subject, and I hope to shed some light both on this book and to address the natural skepticism that one might has who has not experienced or known someone who has benefited from the type of therapies Dr. Doidge describes.
My life is an example of neuroplasticity. I was 40 when I found out about the Tomatis Method, described in Chapter 8 of Dr. Doidge’s book. I had never graduated college. I was born with a cleft palate, had speech therapy, and was developmentally slow. I was a traumatized child based on my childhood experiences. In my early 20s, I had cancer and was treated with chemotherapy and radiation at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In my mid-30s, I married a wonderful woman from the Philippines whom I met in the States. She was a doctor, and she did not care that I was less accomplished career-wise. It was her sudden death via car accident that plunged me into a phase that I could not pull out of. I was like an old fashioned record player where the needle got stuck in a groove. I traveled to the Listening Centre in Toronto, Canada in 2003. This is the same centre that Dr. Doidge talks about in his book. After doing Tomatis, the needle lifted, I wanted to live again, and I returned to college and finished a degree program within three years after completing my initial treatment. It’s important that I share that none of this happened overnight, and mine was not a one-time, cure all treatment. I have received Tomatis sound boosts over the years.
The human brain can rewire itself. This phenomenon, known for almost a hundred years beginning with the work of Karl Lashley, is known as "plasticity" and was popularized by Norman Doidge’s earlier book, "The Brain that Changes Itself". That book was based on contributions from several mainstream neuroscientists working in the field of brain plasticity.
In his new book, "The Brain’s Way of Healing", he goes further. And much farther – to a realm that is difficult to distinguish from the realm of alternative medicine and New Age healing. The healing claims here include how an astonishing variety of ailments – Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, anxiety, concussion, autism, dyslexia, ADHD, migraine, arthritis, chronic pain, dementia, to name a few, I kid you not – can be cured by the application of "energy" such as light, sound and electrical stimulation. And they are all free of side effects.
The fact that the human body can cure itself even when medical science has given up is not new. As far back as the 1930’s, Dr. Alexis Carrel, who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering vascular suturing techniques, documented in his book "Man the Unknown", how a group of patients without any hope prayed and healed themselves. Then there is the mystery of the placebo effect, the inert pill with no medicinal value that cures various ailments. So we know that the human body heals itself, even though we have not fully understood the mechanism through which it accomplishes this. Much of the explanation for the placebo effect does not go beyond naming the phenomenon in various ways. Download The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged PDF Free Download
