by Judy Fields ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 19, 2012
A fine diet and exercise manual, enlivened by the author’s take on body-image issues.
In her second diet book, Fields (E.A.T. and Be Healthy, 1991), a longtime registered dietician and fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, offers standard weight-loss techniques, along with some of her own innovations.
Before Fields delves into the basics of planning a moderate, balanced weight-loss diet, she astutely notes that keeping weight off is often more of a struggle than losing it. It’s fitting, then, that the majority of her book focuses on helping readers train themselves to have a positive relationship with food. Fields include familiar weight-loss tips, including journaling your food intake, but her writing and expertise are at their best when she includes offbeat advice, such as how to be assertive with loved ones who don’t understand your new, healthy habits. In a genre that’s often reduced to a calories-in, calories-out mantra, she offers a welcome observation: “Weight lost or gained has no magical value by itself to make your fantasies come true or self-destruct,” she writes. “But learning how to take control of your life…can help you move on to realizing your dreams.” The book lags a bit when the author discusses the technical side of building a meal plan, presenting detailed information about nutrition content and serving sizes with little context to help readers understand how it all fits together. Fields also includes a charmingly illustrated section on exercise, although the exercises themselves—in particular, deep squats that send your knees far forward past your toes—may seem a bit antiquated. That said, although the book sometimes bogs down in details, it will likely provide some readers with the tools to make a change.
A fine diet and exercise manual, enlivened by the author’s take on body-image issues.Pub Date: Dec. 19, 2012
ISBN: 978-0963143440
Page Count: 372
Publisher: Nutrition For You
Review Posted Online: March 8, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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