Building for the Lawn and Garden: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Benchen, Gates, Planters, Swings, Feeders, Tables, and More

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Finished projects are rough and utilitarian-looking

Building for the Lawn and Garden: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Benchen, Gates, Planters, Swings, Feeders, Tables, and More
John Kelsey , and Ian J. Kirby
Manufacturer: Rodale Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0875967728

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Finished projects are rough and utilitarian-looking.......1999-05-04

If you're a beginning woodworker looking for ideas, this book will be helpful. The instructions are detailed and clear, there are ample photos illustrating the construction, and complete cutting lists are provided.

There are some projects here that give you good woodworking experience. Unfortunately, the finished products are rough-looking and utilitarian. There's nothing in here that you would be proud to show off.

Some of the projects could be cleaned up by adding some finishing techniques such as routing edges on the wood and adding more curves to your cuts. If you have an eye for design, this book will give you the technical know-how to put together outdoor furniture. But if you follow the plans step-by-step, you'll have a backyard full of furniture that looks like it was made by the local troop of Cub Scouts.

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A how-to on the ancient art of physiognomy, updated and practical. Rosetree's system of Face Reading Secrets ® is designed to open your heart, even as it provides knowledge with uncanny accuracy.

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Very informative.......2007-07-03

I ordered three face reading books to try to get as much information as I could. This book by far was the best. She adds a bunch of humor. This book is very well written and easy to read. I recommend this to all who are curious about what the face means. I am very pleased.

Useful and Insightful.......2005-12-10

After reading The Power of Face Reading, I am shocked by the response from "Almost Useless". In her book Rosetree asserts that we all have various challenges as well as styles with which we excell at, and I think Rosetree does an excellent job of expressing our different styles for work, spending money, communication, etc. with great compassion and depth. This is not a "too positive spin on every negative interpretation"; it's more a realistic way of looking at our strenghts and weaknesses.

I also firmly disagree with "Almost Useless"'s assertion that some of the interpretations are "just inaccurate." I have done many readings after reading the book, for friends and people that I've just met, and everyone remarks how surprisingly accurate they are! Rosetree also points out that the traits of our face reveal our propensity for a certain style of being. We are all human and can choose to behave in other ways as we choose. Knowing what are preferences are can help us use them with more strength, and to also gain understanding for the strengths and propensities of others. Brilliant for relationships!

In terms of "putting it all together" for doing face readings, I found this to be no problem. Like I said, I started doing readings for friends and new people I met right away. Rosetree also explicity states to set an intention to be of service, and begin with the features that strike you the most, and then notice what you notice next and go from there. This is what I've adhered to and what has made my readings so successful.

Lastly, I would be cautious with the review titled "Gems for Tabliod and Intellectuals." I might chuckle at these having not read the book. Rosetree's book provides much more depth than these quotes reveal. The book shows us that there are many ways to be in the world, and the beauty is that we can choose. I find it powerfully useful to know my style preferences at my very core.

The best of the best!.......2005-12-03

I know this book. I know this author. Rose Rosetree is a woman of the highest integrity and she is a great force. She's been on this path for many years, researching ancient studies and particularly refining the hidden traits found in faces. Each one of her books is a gift. But the wisdom contained in this one, The Power of Face Reading, showers the reader with clues and tips on discovering the very essence of, say, co-workers, first dates, celebrities, politicians -- any person with whom you might come face to face. For those with a sense of wonder and a hunger to know more, this is an easy read.

Amazing insights.......2005-12-02

I found this book, like all the ones I've read by Rose Rosetree, to be witty, insightful, and very useful. When reading this book, keep in mind that reading faces isn't just a formula, which is a point that Ms. Rosetree makes. The whole face needs to be considered, since it is a reflection of the soul as a whole. I use face reading often, and it's amazing how accurate it is. In addition to the companion book WRINKLES ARE GOD'S MAKEUP, I strongly suggest reading AURA READING THROUGH ALL YOUR SENSES. Combining aura reading with face reading is a very powerful tool and provides a far more complete picture.

Almost useless.......2005-05-02

The author tries so hard not to offend anybody, that she puts too positive spin on every possibly negative interpretation and overemphasizes what would already be considered as a positive one. Also, I found the most interpretations just inaccurate. Examples from nose chapter:
short nose - workaholic
long nose - talent for planning and strategy
straight nose - you work systematically
arched nose - creativity
...
Ok, of course you are supposed to interpret everything and put it all together, eliminating contradictions on the way, but the book falls short on instructions how to do that. There should be a chapter titled "putting it together" where the author should explain the process of face reading: what to look first? how to determine basic information about a person and go from there? Instead the book focuses on details without giving you the big picture.

The Sacred Bedroom: Creating Your Personal Sanctuary

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This book belongs in every home.
An Impractical but Beautiful Archetype
Tips on creating a personal sanctuary

The Sacred Bedroom: Creating Your Personal Sanctuary
Jon Robertson
Manufacturer: New World Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1577311434

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Every aspect of life is essentially connected to the bedroom, whether sleeping, talking, making love, praying, crying, or enjoying solitude. The Sacred Bedroom is an inspirational guide to creating a bedroom that is a refuge not only for relaxing but also for restoring health in body, mind, and spirit. The author reveals how this most private room can be used to heal hurts, enhance happiness, and reunite people with the sacred in each day. The book includes tips on how to arrange the bedroom space using feng shui for optimum energy flow; how to incorporate meditation into daily life; how to establish an altar; and how to create a private haven within the home where one can learn how to love and be loved. It also contains inspiring quotations, easy mind and body exercises, and sidebars on ancient customs and scriptural wisdom.

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This book belongs in every home........2001-12-11

The other day my brother dropped in for a visit and happened to wander into our bedroom. I went in after him to hear him exclaim, "I want my bedroom to 'feel' like this one. Why, it feels wonderful in here! What did you do to make it feel like this?" What I did was read and use Jon Robertson's "Sacred Bedroom" to help create a truly wonderful space that even my brother, who isn't easily taken in by his surroundings, noticed. Needless to say, he is receiving a copy of this book for a gift, so that now, he too, can enjoy the benefits of a good read and a transformed bedroom. Not only that, but the author will also introduce brother dear to the art of Feng Shui, dream therapy, and some other "boudoir" arts that will soothe his soul and tickle his fancy. Thank you Jon, for a great book, one that in my opinion belongs in every home.

An Impractical but Beautiful Archetype.......2001-11-04

This book brims with suggestions for transforming the bedroom into a sacred place for prayer and meditation, sleep and dreams, romance, rituals, and sacred sex. While it might take a few days or weeks to read THE SACRED BEDROOM, it could take several years to make most of the changes recommended. Just for starters, there's the physical space to be rearranged according to the principles of Feng Sui; the floor covering and bedclothes to be replaced with natural, non-toxic materials, and some sacred objects to be obtained for the creation of a bedroom altar. Robinson suggests that we make these changes gradually, as we can afford to. I started out by splurging on a compact box of tissues which enabled me to move my hand lotion from my bureau to my night table. Now I can use my bureau top for an altar. The altar is the focal point for meditation and prayer, essential activities for the maintenance of a sacred bedroom.
Robertson has created a beautiful archetype of the sacred bedroom for readers to aspire to. Some of its components are not practical for all of us, but the principles of the sacred bedroom, to be carried beyond the bedroom door into our daily interactions, can easily be integrated into our spiritual lives. These are: "The divine image within," the reminder that we and all those we meet are eternal souls made in God's image; "True Love," that helps us recognize God within ourselves and others; "Energy," being aware of the flow of energy everywhere we go, and keeping it positive; "Filtering the artificial," to protect ourselves from the influence of the media and the synthetic world; and "honoring the authentic self," the confident self who knows the permanence of the soul and its place in the universe, no matter what occurs in daily life.

Emily VanLaeys (...)

Tips on creating a personal sanctuary.......2001-07-06

Jon Robertson's Sacred Bedroom provides tips to creating a personal sanctuary for spirituality and refuge, from using atmosphere to encourage either romance or sleep to embellishing a room with candles or aromatherapy. Packed with practical applications.

Witch in the Bedroom: Proven Sensual Magic

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Interesting Book About Magic

Witch in the Bedroom: Proven Sensual Magic
Stacey Demarco
Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0738708445

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Stacey Demarco brings the "Witch's Way" into the bedroom in this delightful guide to love, sex, and fertility. Blending personal empowerment techniques, core values of Wicca, sex magic, and proven spells, she tackles affairs of the heart with Witchy flair.

Demarco begins by tracing the origins of Witchcraft and explores how Beltane, The Great Rite, and Pagan traditions and laws relate to love and romance. She demonstrates how magical rituals, such as Power Circles, can help one build self-esteem, attract a fabulous partner, and maintain an exciting relationship of any kind. There are spells and rituals for enhancing sensuality, resolving body image issues, invoking gods and goddesses as sensual consultants, finding balance in relationships, and letting go of old flames. Also included are rituals for boosting fertility and increasing chances of conception, even for those undergoing medical procedures, such as In Vitro Fertilization.

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Interesting Book About Magic.......2006-09-15

Witch in the Bedroom is an interesting book about the subject of proven sensual magic. Author Stacey Demarco blends traditional relationship advice with magic wiles.

Topics covered in this book range from how to find and attract an ideal husband or wife to overcoming first date nervousness to healing the psychic scars that can result from breaking up. This book contains all sorts of magical meditations, rituals and spells that apply to all aspects of romance and family life.

This is an excellent book on the subject and also serves as a fine introduction to what might be called the magical alternative lifestyle.

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It could be worse, maybe.
Advanced Internal Gongs for returning essence to the brizain
Advanced Internal Gongs for returning essence to the brizain

Taoist Bedroom Secrets
Master Chian Zettnersan
Manufacturer: Lotus Press
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ASIN: 0914955713

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This book is about the deep sexual wisdom of love as one of the "eight supporting pillars of Taoism." According to the traditional teaching, the "Taoist Bedroom Secrets" are the root of human happiness. They are based on the foundation of the ancient Chinese procedures of diagnosis, therapy, and treatment. This book focuses on the "jade stem" and the "jade gate," which symbolize the exchange of masculine and feminine energy. The strongly vitalizing power of the many illustrated chi exercises can be recognized in names like "Return to Springtime" or "The Heavenly Water of the Life Force." Master Chian Zettnersan has over 30 years of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). He is a member of the World Organization for Acupuncture in Peking and works as a chi-kung therapist.

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It could be worse, maybe........2006-03-28

If you have read any other text on Sexual cultivation don't even bother with this book. While there is some useful information in it some of it is strait up incorrect. I believe this book was ghost written by a third grade student in the Florida public school system. Dont waste your time or be fooled by other buyers who failed to read the book before writing a review, keep looking.

Advanced Internal Gongs for returning essence to the brizain.......2003-01-28

The information in this book is very worth the price. The Deer excersises for male & female are detailed better than I have seen before (although they could be a little more specific). The Deer excercises are like a Taoist "pre-kundalini" type warmup that are decent. I feel the energy going to my brain when I do it and the tips regarding sexual activities are very interesting. I recommend this book after one has read "TSFR: Taoist sexual fitness regiment" by Bruce Wong and "The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing" + "Tao of Health, Sex & Logevity" by Daniel Reid and "Cultivating Male Sexual Energy" + "Cultivating Female sexual energy" by Mantak Chia
The information may be too foreign for one who has not yet read similar material, but it is a gem in english and I highly recommend it.

Be Wise + Know yourself

Advanced Internal Gongs for returning essence to the brizain.......2003-01-28

Be Wise + Know yourself.

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Love this whole series

Spirit of the Bedroom (Spirit of the Home)
Jane Alexander
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Detox Plan: For Body, Mind, and Spirit

ASIN: 0823049000

Book Description

Spirit of the Bedroom offers an unlimited array of ideas for transforming the bedroom into a magical haven. Readers will find a host of ways to bring beauty and pleasure into their sleeping quarters, including aromatherapy techniques for adding atmosphere and romance, lighting ideas that settle your own mood as well as your partner's, tips for using scented candles and homemade mists for creating a sensual atmosphere, and much more.

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Love this whole series.......2007-08-05

_Spirit of the Bedroom_ introduced me to this author's series and I now have all of them. I leave them on the bedside table in our guestroom and houseguests comment on their photos and philosophy and easy-reading. I, personally, find them inspiring and make the daily task of removing clutter and "things" feel more like a positive uplift than a drudge job.
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haunting and poignant
From the mouth of one of the kids in the book.
great for teenagers and their parents
Original and Creative
Pulitzer Passover

In My Room
Adrienne Salinger
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811807967

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haunting and poignant.......2007-05-25

I checked out this book from my local library when I was a high school senior and loved it. I read it again, at age 30, and it was just as good if not better. Amazing photos and stories. So well done, it's like the best documentary you've ever seen...in book form!

From the mouth of one of the kids in the book........2001-06-20

I reread the book quite often. When the book came out I was in college so it was weird to see what I had said over 3 years before. It was also interesting to learn things about my friends that (most of the kids in the book i went to high school w/) i never knew. It made me understand them more. I knew Jono from the 6th grade on and he was one of my closest friends, but I never knew he did not know his heritage. I probably should not tell you who I am, so I will give you a hint: I went to Winston-Salem St. U. BUY THE BOOK & give it to your kids. They will see they are not alone. By the way, I am a teacher now.

great for teenagers and their parents.......1999-10-27

This book gives a variety of stories of kids their brief history of why their room is like it is.It's like being a fly on the wall.In the sometimes confusing time of being a teenager you realize you are not alone.

Original and Creative.......1999-08-28

"My Room : Teenagers in Their Bedrooms" was a very interesting book. Looking at each teen in their room, looking at the individuals themselves, I would often judge them, as most people judge others in real life. However, quite often, my judgments were wrong: a clean looking teen would turn out to be a recovering drug addict, another teen whiched looked as if he was an atheist, actually was an active church goer, and so on, and so on. The book teaches a good lesson not to judge people by the way they appear, but by their actions, and state of mind. It had some pretty cool pictures, and the book also told of what happened to each teen later in life. Good readin'. Check it out.

Pulitzer Passover.......1998-02-27

This book blends many things to form a great book from cover to cover. It is part Catcher in the Rye with pictures, part adolescent psychology text, and part high school year book...all rolled into one. This is on my VERY short list of books I reccommend. Buy this book!!!

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In the Bedroom
B.J. Kusmirek
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412036356
Release Date: 2006-06-30

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A woman escapes from her abusive husband and finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of love, lies, friendship, revenge and murder, all with a spiritual twist.

Naughty Secrets: What Your Neighbors are Really Doing Behind Their Bedroom Doors

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Naughty Secrets: What Your Neighbors are Really Doing Behind Their Bedroom Doors
Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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ASIN: 0446679356

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On her Web site and in her last book, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd printed a survey asking readers to tell her what their sex lives were like, what they fantasized about, and what they always wanted in the bedroom. Thousands of readers responded, sharing their sexy little secrets-and confiding in Joan things they had never told anyone before. Now, in NAUGHTY SECRETS, Joan presents the results of this survey and shares the fantasies that readers all across the country have (did you think you were the only woman on the block who had a thing for cowboys?), the tips and techniques they have picked up over the years, and the sensual stories and dreams that turn us all on.

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Taoist Bedroom Secrets
Chain Zettnersan
Manufacturer: New Age Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Spirit of the Bedroom
Jane Alexander
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MC3ZEE

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