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My Review for – The Menopause Makeover: The Ultimate Guide to Taking Control of Your Health and Beauty During Menopause

The Lowest Price we could find is $16.95 $8.42

Hot flashes and sleepless nights? Feeling anxious and irritable? Feel like you’re losing your mind? Frustrated with weight gain? It’s time for a makeovera menopause makeover!

Staness Jonekos knows all too well how you feel. Leading up to her wedding day at the age of forty-seven, she was sporting a not-so-sexy belly bulge, suffering from hot flashes and feeling in no mood for a honeymoon. Jonekos took drastic action and created the first-ever menopause makeover to get back into that little white dress and feel sexy again in just twelve weeks. Now she joins forces with leading menopause expert Dr. Wendy Klein to give you the relief you need, fast! Based on the latest scientific research, and designed for both pre- and post-menopausal women, The Menopause Makeover is a proven, eight-step program to help you reclaim your healthand your life.

Evaluate if hormone therapy is right for you

Beat belly bulge with The Menopause Makeover food pyramid and recipes

Tone up and trim down with The Menopause Makeover fitness formula

Boost your libido and learn to love intimacy again

Regain your vibrant, youthful glow with essential beauty tips

Manage stress and get off the mood-swing roller coaster

Stay motivated with self-assessments and tools to track your progress

Review:

I read a lot about menopause after a sudden hysterectomy a few years ago. Things may have changed since then, but most of what I found focused on the need to get drugs for it, as if menopause were an illness. There was nothing I could DO except be a victim.

After the hysterectomy, I put on 20 pounds in only a few months, and eventually took it off. My weight slid around, 8 pounds up, 8 down. I didn’t feel great, didn’t look great, nothing was quite right, but that was just the way things were going to be from now on—all downhill.

Then I came across this book. I’ve used many self-help books in the past, many did help me, and this one’s right up there with the best of them. It first led me to ask myself why I was content to feel only halfway good. Then I had to ask why I was content to stay at that borderline between high normal weight and overweight. Even after losing the extra 20, I was still more than 25 pounds over my college weight, and with my small frame, that was a lot. Not just in terms of how the extra weight made me look and made me tired all the time—I was full of inflammation, and at greater risk for heart disease and all kinds of nasty stuff. By not knowing how to care for myself, I was putting my life at risk!

So I went on the 12-week plan. No, I didn’t lose 25 pounds. But I lost 13. My face isn’t red with inflammation anymore. I sleep better. My mind is clearer. I’m not as cranky or brooding or anxious.

All the information in this book is probably available on line or in other books. But this one puts it all together and gives me an action plan, one that has really worked for me. When I stop following the recommendations, I feel rotten again. When I go back on the plan, I feel great. So I’m on my second round of the 12 weeks, and when those are done, I may do another.

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First Looks: 2012 Butterflies Mom’s Weekly Planner

The Lowest Price we could find is $19.99 $11.99

This inspired desk calendar and planner makes managing your family’s activities and appointments a snap! (Well, almost.)

• 18-month planner (July 2011December 2012, from back-to-school through the next year’s holidays)
• Each two-page spread displays your weekly ”master plan”there’s a column for each family member.
• Tabs for each month.
• Address pages
• Tear-out ”To-Do” lists
• Pretty ”Butterflies” cover design is fresh and appealing; gold foil highlights and glossy accents add an elegant touch.
• Elastic band place holder
• Engagement calendar is sized right (7-3/4” wide x 9-1/4” high) for your desk, kitchen counter, or in your tote bag
• Concealed wire-o binding lies flat for ease of use
• Removable cover band

”This is the best appointment book I have ever had.”
Peter Pauper Press customer

Review:

I’ve often and usually purchased dayplanner products and the like in the past and found, to my dismay, so many features I paid for I didn’t use. This is the perfect price and perfect for me, as a mother. I love the monthly view and the weekly view isn’t broken down by specific hours, but rather parts of the day, i.e. Morning, Afternoon, Evening. I love the To-Do lists with perforated edges I can rip out. It is made well, with a hardy construction used for the covers. The pages are of a suitable weight. It fits what I need it to do for myself and two children perfectly. I’ll be buying another next year.

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An Honest Review for ‘Cornerstone: Creating Success Through Positive Change, Concise (6th Edition)’

The Lowest Price we could find is $51.20 $27.36

The sixth edition helps students focus on practical strategies forCHANGE.Those who can master change with a positive attitudetake calculated risks and maintain an open mind will succeed.

Review:

Bought this book as a Textbook for a Critical Thinking class. It is a wonderful book but buyer beware! This is the CONCISE version which means it does not include all of the chapters! If you need this for a class at DeVry, order the other, more expensive version that does not say “CONCISE” in the title!

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Honest Review – That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life

The Lowest Price we could find is $15.95 $3.45

At last, the solution for getting disorganized boys back on track.

Missed assignments. Lack of focus and enthusiasm. Falling grades. For too many boys and their frustrated parents, these are the facts of life. But they don’t have to be.

Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered, and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics- -starting with a simple fact: Most boys needs to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and– most important–how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals.

With an accessible and no-nonsense approach, Homayoun shows how to:

Identify their son’s disorganizational style
Help him set academic and personal goals he cares about
Design and establish the right “tools of the trade”
Complete assignments without pulling all-nighters
Help him tune out social pressure and fend off anxiety
Much more than a study guide, this insightful, user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success too many boys have trouble finding–in school and in life.

Review:

As an educator for the past 7.5 years, I have seen a number of disorganized boys and their parents struggle to figure out school and how to be successful. Having successfully worked a number of years with disorganized boys, Homayoun clearly understands the individual students with whom she works. The book starts off with identifying the specific issues your child is having with school, then the proceeding chapters are framed around actual or composite students’ issues and how Homayoun deals with these students. She is refreshing, funny, and understands the technological temptations that young boys have, especially in this day and age and offers simple suggestions that work, such as having your child put away his cell phone in a “technology box” until he finishes his homework. Or structuring your work time in 30 minute segments with appropriate breaks in order to maintain a healthy work pace. She reminds us that, as adults, we too should model organization for students if we are to expect them to be organized. And that being organized at any age will maximize the time we have to do what we really want to do–be it meet up with friends, write a book, get a few more hours of sleep, or take a class in something that we’ve always been interested in. Highly recommended.

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A Review for – Moleskine 2012 18 Month Weekly Notebook Black Hard Cover Large

The Lowest Price we could find is $18.95 $16.31

The Moleskine 18 Month Weekly Notebook large with black hard cover is dated from July 2011 to December 2012. Formatted to show the week s appointments on the left and a ruled page for notes and ideas on the right, this popular planner style is perfect for students and professionals. The expandable inner pocket houses an address book of 28 lined pages with laminated alphabetical labels. You can remove and use it again in the years to come.
This Moleskine planner is thread bound and has a hard cover with rounded corners, acid free paper, a bookmark, an elastic closure and an expandable inner pocket that contains the Moleskine history.

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Review:

For those of you who are absolutely curious, the layout of the Moleskine planner is as follows:

The first page is a form for your personal data. There are reasonable lines for your name and phone number, followed by questionable lines for your vaccinations, passport, bank account number, credit card number…i.e. things you really wouldn’t want to write down in a planner. The next page immediately after (on the left-hand side) has a ruler along the edge measuring inches and centimeters. On the right-hand page is a tiny overview of the last 6 months of 2011, followed by monthly calendar pages (one month per page), another overview for 2012 and lastly its subsequent monthly calendar pages.

Immediately after the monthly pages are the appendices, in this order: 2 pages listing international holidays between 2011-2012 for 44 countries; 2 pages for writing down flight itineraries if you’re traveling; 2 pages consisting of a world map and its time zones; 2 pages listing the dialing codes, internet tld, and plate codes for 210 countries; one left-hand page of measurement conversions; and one right-hand page of international clothing sizes. Somehow it seems as though these pages would be more useful in a European context.

Following the appendices are four pages allowing you to fill in your weekly timetable. After that begins the actual planner, with a weekly appointment setup on the left-hand page and a lined page for notes on the right-hand side. The last week includes a few extra lined pages for extra notes. By the way, the weekly calendar page continues to list international holidays. For example, January 1st is a national holiday for many countries. In the January 1 block, the planner lists abbreviations for all of the countries that celebrate that day – therefore that block is a quarter full of abbreviations that you most likely don’t even care about. Some Saturday and Sunday blocks are just completely filled with country abbreviations, leaving no room whatsoever to write down appointments. It ends up taking up precious space in your weekly calendar page – and there are quite a few international holidays!

At the very end, attached to the back cover, is a pocket for the address book (which should be included). This address book is very flat and can be taken out in order to use the pocket for other objects.

The pages themselves are very thin – almost encyclopediac-thin. No matter what writing instrument you use, you will ultimately see your writing translucently on the other side of the paper. Some buyers find this extremely annoying.

The planner includes a ribbon for bookmarking your week and a rubber band attached to the back cover for keeping it shut. The cover does contain DEHP (Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate), which is a plastic softener and can also cause cancer/birth defects. But so long as you avoid licking the covers, you should be fine.

In my personal opinion, the planner is fine for my needs. I love the weekly setup plus note pages and the hard cover. The exterior design is very minimalist and chic. The fine, semi-translucent pages do not bother me. The appendices are mostly useless (really, no one uses apothecary measurements anymore), but interesting to have. Hopefully this review will be informative enough to help you decide on your purchase.

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A Video – MapMyTown — A toolkit for mapping your community

Posted From Mark Kubiak’s Ipad

Author’s Description:

Active, sustainable and healthy transport around Castlemaine is about to get a lot easier, with the release of the Plan B (La Trobe University Student Planners’ Association) Walking and Cycling Plan B, La Trobe University’s Student Planner Association, have produced the new walking and cycling maps along with a documentary film about the mapping project, and the much anticipated active transport ‘MapMyTown’ toolkit for Victorian The toolkit is available from (from 16 September 2011) This project has been made possible through the support of a Victoria Walks grant to promote walking and walkability in local neighbourhoods

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My Review for – Personal Finance

The Lowest Price we could find is $231.95 $27.91

This market-leading text offers a student-friendly, practical introduction to managing personal finances. The structured pedagogy helps students learn how to save and invest, manage student loans, file taxes, decrease credit card debt and plan for the future. Throughout the text, students receive advice from personal finance experts, and read a variety of real-life scenarios about people facing a wide range of financial challenges. Many examples, mathematical in nature, illustrate the critical importance of achieving long-term financial goals through investing. The Ninth Edition captures student interest and focuses the reader’s attention on the most important concepts.

Review:

This is a very good book on personal finance. It is laid out well and easy to understand. Unfortunately, once you get past the basics (personal budgeting, cash flow statements) and start getting into more specifics, the information contained within the book is no longer accurate. With the turmoil of both the banking and finance industries over the past few years, several parts of the book no longer contain accurate information. While I am not a fan of publishers releasing updated versions of their textbooks, this is a rare case in which a revised edition is warranted.

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First Looks: The Scholastic Teacher Plan Book Updated

The Lowest Price we could find is $12.99 $4.00

A teacher-created, deluxe planner with larger planning pages, sturdy storage pockets, and helpful resource pages, including a multi-year calendar, reproducible forms, student planning pages, national standards, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and much more!

Review:

This is a pretty nice plan book, but check the size dimensions before you purchase it! When fully opened it’s almost 4ft. long, which makes it really impractical to carry around. But if you like the size and just want to use it on your desk, the layout is simple: each page has Monday through Friday listed on the left, with eight empty blocks across the pages for each day for filling in activities. The little teaching hints on each page are a nice addition, and the front cover pocket is handy–and of course it’s spiral-bound so it lays flat. (But still wish I’d gotten a smaller one.)

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Cool Video – School Supplies Back To School Haul

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An Honest Review for ‘Your College Experience: Strategies for Success’

The Lowest Price we could find is  $70.86

Review:

I purchased this book from nomodrinks and it stated the book was in “mint” condition. When I recieved the book, it has pen throughout the book along with high-lighting. The cover is bent along with some pages. It should of stated this in the description for the book.

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