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A terrific treatment plan for a lousy problem.The head-count on lice infestations is growing each year, yet head lice have become resistant little buggers, immune to many of the traditional treatments. So how can you treat a child's head lice infestation while keeping your home, your own head, and your child's self-esteem intact? Now there's an answer for the millions of families plagued by persistent lice. Based on their award-winning, acclaimed video, Joan Sawyer and Roberta MacPhee-- otherwise known as the "Lice Ladies"-- present panicked parents with a safe, effective five-step treatment plan to end stubborn cases of head lice once and for all. In an informal, easy-to-read, and often humorous voice, the Lice Ladies offer help for families bugged by lice, including:* Bug Off! Their famous "Head Lice to Dead Lice" plan for treatment and prevention of head lice infestations* An itchy subject: the social, emotional, and legal issues associated with head lice* Lice through the ages: a history of lice and their treatments, including chemicals, oils, and folk remedies* Nitpicking: how to effectively check for, comb through, and pick out lice* Housekeeping: how to keep your home lice-free (without becoming obsessive-compulsive)* Other essential tips on what parents, kids, and schools can do to banish and prevent head lice, including a helpful resource list of doctors, organizations, public health departments, websites, and more. ... Read more

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The ONLY way to really get rid of these little nuisances
The information is presented in an entertaining while very informative way.Quit fighting the same old over-the-counter routine...get this information so you can eliminate these critters for good, and KNOW with complete confidence that it's going to work Greatly.Then you can share what you know with others who you may find, need it as well :O)

Nitpicker review
I run a professional nit removal and head lice treatment service located in Roslyn, N.Y.We have been treating people with head lice for about 2 years and we use this book as our guideline. It is a wonderful book.Thevideo is great too!

Can having lice really have a humorous side?
The authors seem to think so, and you might also after reading this. There is a lot of controversy surrounding head lice today.This book is a great reference to the variety of techniques as well as a delightfullyentertaining guide to their own chosen style of eliminating the determinedpests.The book treats the readers with respect.The straight forwardhonesty of the writers is refreshing and funny.

it works, it works, it works, and no dangerous chemicals
If you have a lice problem, go out and buy this book. If you don't want to use dangerous chemicals on your kid's heads this is simply the only solution.This book is well written, clear and it is not trying to sellyou anything. When you are overwhelmed with panic about an infestation,start reading and laugh again. Thank you for making this book. ... Read more

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For all teachers: It's your life told here, dear teacher, with all its glories, warts, joys, and heartaches. The poems of Brod Bagert, America's performance poet, chronicle the frustrations of the profession, as well as their transformation into the unexpected victories that make it all worthwhile. The cast of characters includes the second grade from hell, that hopeless, control-freak-of-a-colleague, the faculty restroom, the custodian, Rambo teacher, and even the cafeteria food. Brod speaks in the voice of the classroom teacher, and the voice rings true. Here's a perfect gift - for yourself or for a teacher you love. Illustrated by illustrator/author Kim Doner. Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Illustrated Book. ... Read more

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Other poems not-so-good
I loved the poems I read in the advertisement on amazon, but was disappointed in the other poems in the actual book.

Brod Baggart exceptionally pleasing!
I love this book. I saw Brod Baggart at a teacher conference and enjoyed his dictation of the poetry so much that I had to buy his books. This one in particular has so many light hearted, true to life poems that really hit home for teachers. Laugh outloud funny poetry!

Brod Bagert is Bang-Up
I had never read any of Brod Bagert's books. As a matter of fact I had never heard of him. I work at a high school and do not see elementary books. I read this for my literature class that I am taking for a teaching degree. He is excellent! Rainbows, Headlice, and Pea-Green Tile is great. A real joy to read.

Engaging, sometimes humorous, sometimes soulful poems
Rainbows, Head Lice, And Pea Green Tile: Poems In The Voice Of A Classroom Teacher is a unique and memorable book of engaging, sometimes humorous, sometimes soulful poems on the subject of classroom teaching. Warmly illustrated in black and white with the charcoal-style sketches of artist Kim Doner, Rainbows, Head Lice, And Pea Green Tile is an excellent, heartfelt, highly recommended read for poetry lovers of all ages, but is most especially recommended for anyone who has ever taught a class of children! Hope For The Future: Her homework is neat./Her projects are on time./When I send her with the lunch count/She returns on time./And during silent reading,/When I sit her next to terrible Tyrone,/She nods her understanding and never complains.//My wonderful little Megan--/Dependable, upright, and true./If I wanted to clone a few more like her,/What would I have to do?

Rainbows, Head Lice, and Pea-Green Tile
This is a great resource for anyone that makes presentations to classroom teachers.You can find a poem that fits most types of teachers and it is an excellent way to make teachers feel good about their profession and reflect on their own teaching practices.It is gauranteed to bring a smile to your face and make you think of a special student or experience you have had at school. ... Read more

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When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events.Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format.Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership.

To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle.Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy.His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease.In his view, infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive.From a human perspective, an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal.

This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs.Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings.Under certain conditions-failure to wash or to change clothing-lice proliferated.The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human.

Rats, Lice and History is a tour de force.It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities

Hans Zinsser (1878-1940) received his doctorate at Columbia University and also was an instructor of bacteriology at Columbia University. Throughout his career he was also a professor at Stanford University as well as Harvard University. His scientific work focused on bacteriology and immunology and he is greatly associated with Brill's disease as well as typhus. ... Read more

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Fantastic Read/ Great learning Tool
Yikes- Lice is a fantastic read for both children and adults!Author Donna Caffey wonderfully explains the lice epidemic in a well written rhyming children's book.I would personally recommend school nurses across the nation to include this book on their shelves.

Caffey should be encouraged to write more books on changeling subjects for children.

Wonderfully written
This book should be on every students schoolsupply list. When our daughter came home fromschool with lice I was as horrified as she was. This book explains these naughty little creatures at a level we all can understand. Makes for enlightening reading on such an unenlightening subject. ... Read more

Amazon.com
There are few topics more distressing thandisease, yet there are few books more darkly delightful than this timeless classic about the histories of microbial diseases, rats, and lice, and the scientists and doctors who combatted them. First published in 1934 and still in print, this book combines science, history, biography, literature, and other fields into an elegant but grim package of broad erudition and darker humor. Here are two representative passages.

...[I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man....

...[T]he natural history of the rat is tragically similar to that of man ... some of the more obvious qualities in which rats resemble men--ferocity, omnivorousness, and adaptability to all climates ... the irresponsible fecundity with which both species breed at all seasons of the year with a heedlessness of consequences, which subjects them to wholesale disaster on the inevitable, occasional failure of the food supply.... [G]radually, these two have spread across the earth, keeping pace with each other and unable to destroy each other, though continually hostile. They have wandered from East to West, driven by their physical needs, and--unlike any other species of living things--have made war upon their own kind. The gradual, relentless, progressive extermination of the black rat by the brown has no parallel in nature so close as that of the similar extermination of one race of man by another...

Customer Reviews (19)

The role of epidemics in history
A great overview of the role of infectious, particularly typhus, diseases in history.While the first couple of chapters almost put me off the book, with their discussion of the nature of biography, I'm glad I stuck with it to the second half of the book.Zinsser does a great job of explaining the difficulties in tracing the history of any infectious disease, and manages to make what could have been a highly technical discussion both readable and entertaining.Written in the 1930's, some of the information in this book is definitely dated.Specifically, modern antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals have radically changed the role of infectious diseases in our society.In addition, our understanding of viruses, genetics (including the discovery of DNA), and evolution have all advanced dramatically since the book was written.Even so, the historical analysis in this book is still enlightening and serves to highlight the often overlooked role of epidemics in history.

CONFUSING AT FIRST, BUT ULTIMATELY WORTH THE READ
There are books on plague, smallpox and even typhus; the worst of them all, according to Zinsser, who has written a funny but fascinating 'biography' of the disease.Typhus, Zinsser says, can first be traced to around the 1400's.It thrives in conditions of war and chaos and has been a scourge to mankind ever since.Only the second half of the book is completely on this disease, though.Readers taken by other microbial bad guys may find them discussed earlier.I believe most will eventually find this book worth reading.

The weakest section is certainly the first few chapters, up to about page 30.Here I must confess to not knowing what our author is talking about at all.He attempts to justify his book, and goes on to write page after page of nonsense.Whatever he is saying, I am sure the 'biography' would have been better without it.

Great 20th Century Classic
This has got to be one of the great classics of the 20th Century. Composed by one of the dedicated scientists who was instrumental in coming up with a vaccine against typhus, Dr. Zinsser provides us with a "biography of typhus fever" and at the same time an unorthodox view of human civilization, convincingly demonstrating that rats and lice have been at least as important as humans in creating history and in the spread of religion.
First published in 1935 the book's science is obviously dated, but it is Zinsser's style and genius as well as his interpretations of the relations between epidemics and the history of civilization that is important. This is a history, as Zinsser says, of the "little fellow creatures, which lurk in the dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice, and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love."

The book I've reread the most number of times
The copy of "Rats, Lice, and History" that I own was published in 1963, and this was the 33rd time it had been reissued since first appearing in 1934. I can't imagine Dr. Zinsser's grumpily discursive, masterfully written, and ultimately profound biography of typhus fever ever going completely out of print.

Stylistically the only work I can compare it to is Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Where Gibbon occasionally dipped his pen in vinegar and excoriated the Christians, Zinsser dips his pen in hydrochloric acid and savages all of the quaint human customs that have kept Typhus alive and thriving. He shows much more affectionate sympathy for the louse than he does for the General or the Politician.

In the interests of research, Zinsser carried pill boxes of lice under his socks for weeks at a time before taking "advantage of them for scientific purposes." He is not able to tear himself away from these little creatures and address the true subject of his biography, i.e. the typhus germ, until Chapter 12!

However, the journey to Chapter 12 is well worth taking because along the way, Zinsser wittily savages modern biographers, psychoanalysis, astronomers and physicists who "scamper back to God" (Biologists evidently are much less prone to being 'born again'), and of course, all of the wars that have given Typhus countless opportunities to murder lice and humans alike.

"Rats, Lice, and History" should be required reading for would-be writers for its style, would-be Generals for its lessons on how soldiers really die, and for anyone else who is interested in a passionate, eminently witty, one-of-a-kind history of medicine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

The most fun you can have reading about typhus!
First let me say that after you read this book, you should then read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, which is its logical successor.

Second: this book was written in the 1930's. This is before much of what we know about modern antibiotics was discovered - but that's one of the reasons you should read it: a reminder of just how recent modern medicine is, and how much power disease still has over us. This book is a stark reminder of how much hygiene has done to lengthen our lifespan, too - improving water supplies and eliminating rats from most households has done as much or more to extend the human lifespan as all the antibiotics we've invented.

Zinsser's list of what historical battles would have ended completely differently had not epidemic disease swept through one or another army is also chilling reading. Much of what we think of as inevitable human superiority was actually the work of bacteria, who didn't really care about our affairs. But despite the gloomy topic, as my title says, this book is the most fun you can possibly have while reading about epidemics. His humor is dry and biting - the deadpan recital of damages here, of misguided so-called scientists there... the editorial review above gives a couple such examples. The entire book is a fascinating read.

Some of the writing assumes that all readers were educated under an aristocratic university system, so that there are bits thrown in in Latin and Greek, not to mention French and other modern languages. The book can be read despite those, however. It might be tough going for high school students or even university undergrads, but would be a terrific addition to a history research paper, worth the slog for anyone willing to try it. And for those who have medicine and/or biology as an amateur interest, this is must reading. ... Read more

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RATS, LICE, AND HISTORY Being a Study in Biography, which, after Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals with the Life History of TYPHUS FEVER Also known, at various stages of its Adventurous Career, as Morbus pulicaris Cardanus, 1545 Tabardiglio y puntos DeToro, 1574 Pin fas Febris pur purea epidemica Coyttarus, 1578 Febris quam lenticulas vel puncticulas vacant Fracastorius, 1546 Morbus hungaricus La Pourpre Pipercorn Febris petechialis vcra Febris maligna pestilens Febris putrida ct ma tgna Typhus carcerorum Jayl Fever Fievre des hopitaux Pcstis bcllica Morbus castremis Famine Fever Irish Ague Typhus cxanthematicus Faulfieber Hauptkrank heit Pcstartigc Eraune Exanthematisches Nervcnfiebcr, and so forth, and so forth. By HANS ZINSSER LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER This book is dedicated in affectionate friendship to Charles Nicolle, scientist novelist, and philosopher PREFACE THESE chapters we hesitate to call so rambling a per formance a book were written at odd moments as a relaxation from studies of typhus fever in the laboratory and in the field. In following infectious diseases about the world, one ends by regarding them as biological individ uals which have lived through centuries, spanning many generations of men and having existences which, in their developments and wanderings, can be treated biograph ically. Typhus fever lends itself more than most others to such treatment because of its extraordinary parasitic cycles in the insect and animal worlds, the salient facts of which have all been elucidated within the last ten years. In no other infection does the bacteriologist find so favour able an opportunity for study of the evolution of a para sitism. Moreover, in its tragic relationship to mankind this disease is second to none not even to plague or to chol era. In the course of many years of preoccupation with in fectious diseases, which has-taken us alternately into the seats of biological warfare and into the laboratory, we have become increasingly impressed with the importance almost entirely neglected by historians and sociologists of the influence of these calamities upon the fate of nations, indeed upon the rise and fall of civilizations. viii PREFACE The chapters which deal with this phase of our subject represent little more than preliminary notes. They may serve to stimulate future historians, who possess the learn ing which we lack, to give these factors the attention which they merit and to interpolate their effects into the interpretations of the past history of mankind. In no sense can we claim to have made any original contributions to the history of medicine. We have taken information where we could find it, and have freely used the works of such profound scholars as Schnurrer, Hecker, Ozanam, Haeser, Hirsch, Murchison, and others. In consulting ancient and mediaeval texts our meagre classical learning was re-enforced by the charitable good nature of our colleagues Professors Gulick and Rand, of our friend Dr. Charles Lund, and by the enthusiastic interest of Mr. C. T. Murphy of the Harvard Classical Department. Conversation and correspondence with Professor Sigerist of Johns Hopkins, Professor Merriman of Harvard, Ma jor Hume of the United States Army, and many others have brought us invaluable aid in critical places. We owe a particular debt of gratitude to our wise and kindly friend, Professor W. Morton Wheeler, who has been generous with advice and encouragement. Since this is, in no sense, a scientific treatise, we have left out references to recent work and, in order to neglect no one, have mentioned almost no names. For our chapters and comments on matters of literary interest we make no apologies. Although we regard them as pertinent to the general scheme of our exposition, many will regard them as merely impertinent... ... Read more

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W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca, and has translated from French, Spanish, Latin and Portugese. He has published more than a dozen volumes of orignal poetry and several volumes of prose. Mr. Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Pen Translation Prize, and many other honors. He lives in Haiku, Hawaii.

W.S. Merwin's Second Four Books of Poems includes some of the most startlingly original and influential poetry of the second half of this century, a poetry that has moved, as Richard Howard has written, "from preterition to presence to prophecy."

Other books by M.S. Merwin available from Consortium:
East Window (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-091-1
The First Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-139-X
Flower & Hand (Copper Canyon Press), 1-55659-119-5 ... Read more

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very thought provoking
this book was like merwin pouring his heart and soul onto paper, evoked emotions and memories of long ago!

If looking to define the feeling haunting you, read on.
I suggest reading on, because I have a small but appropriate few sentences to write about Merwin. I first came across Merwin when I was assigned to find a poet I liked who was still living for a poetry class. That is tosay, not living for my poetry class in particular, but, a poet still alive,so my known favorites, Solomon of the Superlative Song, William Morris,Eugene Fields or Henry W. Longfellow, writers of, among other things nurseyrhymes from my chldhood, nor John Keatsfulfilled this alive requirement. As a result, I found myself looking to the song lyrics of the 60s and 70sI'd listened to growing up, my father being a pseudo-hippie, him notknowing that I was actually listening to the words. I say this because itis precisely this music which encouraged me to look into poetry.Unfortunately, my professor was not about to accept song lyrics from JethroTull or Queen, though members of the bands might still be living, which wasgood for me, or I never would have discovered Merwin. It was the first timeI opened a book of poetry andfound what I was feeling written the way Ithought. Suddenly whatever feelings merely drifting at the edges of mysubconscious which I had no real way of dealing with were right there onthe page before me as though someone had read my mind. It was not eerie, atall, either -- it was just like being an adolescent and literally feelingone's feelings being relayed by rock and roll, or any kind of music for allthe world to hear, and glad someone finally understood and was on yourside. And so you go out and buy the tape, becasue it's like hearing a goodfriend's voice, perhaps one that relieves you of tension, or helps youformulate thoughts on the order of the world and your place in things, afriend to reassure and support you. That's what these poems are like,friends that you can read again and again, and be reassured that there issomeone out there who understands you, and who can voice what you arethinking when you can't, and these revelations you can keep to yourself, ormore likely share with the world, for everyone should have such a friend.

"We were not born to survive, only to live." --Merwin
Merwin touches the universal with specifics.Merwin's book bears a simplicity lacking in much of what we do today.His word choice in these poems rarely indicates they were written in the 1970's, but the style is poignantly modern nonetheless.As subjects, Merwin takes nature, aging and friendships.He peppers these with haunting feelings of hollowness, biblical allusions, and the occasional phrase that I cannot reconcile to the poems containing it.With Merwin, though, I remains content and know that a little ambiguity at the edges will keep me returning to the poem year after year. ... Read more

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Jan Novak took his family to Prague for a year, and one of the results is this delightful book. Casting an ironic eye on the country in which he grew, Novak remembers the Iron Curtain country of his childhood and observes the farcical contradictions of post-Communist Prague. Witty, astute, erudite, and willing to share his humiliations for the sake of honesty and a good story, Novak touches on Prague lore (the Jewish golem, the clockmaker whose eyes were poked out by a jealous king), Prague history (including the Velvet Revolution martyr who didn't exist), and the Prague of 1992, where an encounter with a pickpocket on Charles Bridge marks the moment they stop being tourists and Prague becomes home. Insightful and very funny, Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks, & Poets is for anyone who's ever, or never, beento Prague.Book Description
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for nonfiction. ... Read more

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More an insider's view than a travelogue
Novak's strength lies in his ability to choose the right anecdote for his message. In a few pages about a Skoda car dealer, for example, he tells you much more about post-communist economics, Czech character, and the slippery negotiations needed as an Eastern bloc society adapts the mannerisms of the West. As a returned emigre, he's in the ideal position to contrast his decades in Chicago with his decades in a provincial town in the Czech republic. His bilingual skills allow him to be a stealth Czech--his attitude has become American, but his mother tongue lets him "spy" on how his compatriots "really" act out of earshot of tourists.

While I would have liked more on how his wife (also Czech-born) fared with him on his year in Prague, or how he worked with Milos Forman on the director's "auto"biography, this book does capture fluidly in two hundred easy-to-read pages what denser tomes and more superficial visitor's accounts labor to convey.

Two examples from the book: "In writing this book, I took heart from the fact that memory itself is a kind of an imagination." That is, Novak in short chapters within the book, and then briefer vignettes, in a mosaic fashion pieces together his impressions of his own hometown, his friends, his stay in Prague, and his encounters on a daily basis to build up undramatically the shifts in his own life and that of his homeland. Unassuming, Novak gives a personal perspective without getting wrapped up in his own self-importance.

After a failed interview with the Prague-based outpost of Reader's Digest, Novak reflects: "the Number One Print Publication in the Free World banged on the Bell of Liberty out front while peeping through the keyhole out back, and maybe what it finally boiled down to was this: in the West, people often weren't what they said they were, while in the post-Communist East, in a more forgivable and tragic way, people often weren't what they thought they were."

Novak's own humility and Everyman stance shows here, as well as his rather annoying tendency to Capitalize Important Archetypes or Stereotypes to Make a Point. He does this throughout the text to draw together many of his disparate themes, and his ablility to do this succeeds in small portions (he gives a great chapter on Prague's legendary past) but this distracts over the course of the book.

My only other caveat: this will teach you little (except for that chapter) about Prague itself; it's more a study of the current (as of 1992) Czech psyche as found mostly in Prague than a tour through the nation or an introduction to recent history or culture. Best read for those who have a grounding in the context already, and who wish to delve deeper than guidebooks or visitor's impressions. ... Read more

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Elizabeth Blum Goldstein, one of eight children, was born in Kisar, Hungary, in 1926. Her parents had a general store, orchards of fruit trees, and fields of wheat. In 1944 Elizabeth's peaceful family life was destroyed when the Nazis invaded Hungary. The family was sent for several weeks to the ghetto in Mateszalka, Hungary, and then deported to Auschwitz where Elizabeth was separated from everyone but her sister Ibolya. Eventually Elizabeth and Ibolya were in six concentration camps—Auschwitz, Poland; Plaszow, Poland; Hundsfeld, Germany; Gross-Rosen, Germany;Mauthausen, Austria; and Bergen-Belsen. Germany, where Elizabeth was liberated in 1945. Because Elizabeth was emaciated and ill, she was sent to Sweden to recover. In 1948, Mrs. Goldstein immigrated to the United States.Elizabeth Blum Goldstein was interviewed by her granddaughter, Shana Fogarty, over a number of weeks for an independent study with Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Although telling her story was painful for Mrs. Goldstein, she was determined to share her experiences so that Shana would better understand what happened to her during the Holocaust. Her inspiring story will appeal to young and old. ... Read more

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A moving account of a survivor's experience
I met the author, Shana Fogarty, at a book signing at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. After chatting with her, I bought the book for my son, who had just finished watching a production on the story of Anne Frank a few days before. I read Shana's interview with her grandmother, Elizabeth Blum Goldstein, and was very moved not just by what she experienced, but how she tried to insulate her family from the horrors of her youth and the loss of so much of her family. The matter of fact descriptions are truly harrowing. I am happy to think that she has found peace with letting her family know what she and other victims endured, and that her account is further testimony about why the world must fight man's inhumanity to man. I would caution that some aspects of the book may be too intense for young readers (my son is 11) unless really read and put in context with adult supervision. What Mrs. Goldstein endured, and the fact that she subsequently went on to to live a relatively normal family life with all this trauma in her background, is remarkable.

Survivor still shows courage
This is a story of a women who kept the terrible secret of her life in concentration camps for over 50 years.It took courage to survive and perhaps more courage to share this story with her grandaughter. As she retells her story still her concern is not for herself but for the sadness she must expose to her family.
Shana Fogarty has been able to share her grandmothers story with us in a beautiful book.
This proved to be a interesting to me and my grandchildren as well.
Thank you for this wonderful and very important book.

Excellent Read
A halocaust's survivor's story told to her granddaaughter.What a writer this author is. I applaud this excellent book. ... Read more

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Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like being able to write and speak consonants, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories. ... Read more

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Great book!
the book really takes the stigma out of a kid having lice...even the biggest nit-picker would have to admit the book has its facts down, and delivers them in an easy going manner. ... Read more

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It seemed like things couldn't get any worse after Henry tried to sell his little brother for pocket change, but this time, he really outdoes himself. He gives his class lice - on purpose! ... Read more

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got lice, get book
After a harrowing ordeal of relentless combing and spending big bucks on commercial products, i broke down and bought this book.since following the olive oil regime, my kids have been lice and nit free, while to date, my neighbor is still nitpicking and washing bedding. Good humor, good advice.Buy it, use it and urge your school nurse to read it.

Easy to readmatter of fact solution to frustrating problem
I found this book to be very helpful in outling the process foreliminating headlice.The section describing the life cycle of lice fromnit to mature, egg-producing louse was very helpful in making clear why nitpicking and reapplication of treatment is necessary.My children have hadlice 4 times and each time have been able to clear up the problem before itgot out of hand.Daily manual nit picking (not relying on nit combs) Ihave found is the only way to produce a successful result.

The onlyconcern I have with the book is the advise to leave the treatment on thehair longer than the manufacturer's recommendation of 10 minutes.Whenusing such potent chemicals, I think it is wise to follow themanufacturer's instructions carefully and not overdo.Longer is notnecessarily better and may actually be harmful.

The National Pediculosis Association pans LiceBuster book
The National Pediculosis Association critiqued this book, giving it two thumbs down.The book contradicts its own directives and authorizes the use of chemicals in ways that fly in the face of approved indications by the Food and Drug Administration. Such misuse of pesticidal productscan pose health risks to children.References are made to scientists David Taplin and Terri Meinking to falsely imply their approval of the contents of the book. The National Pediculosis Association has requested that this book be pulled from the market. It is the NPA's opinion that the misinformation imparted by this book has added to the unnecessary confusion surrounding this public health problem.The NPA has also received many complaints about the book from school nurses.

A great resource for lice-weary parents!
I have found this book to be very helpful in combating head lice. There is not a great deal of hard information out there, and that makes lice eradication so frustrating! Another thing that I like about this book is its calm, reassuring attitude: You WILL live through this, and you will conquer! A necessity for parents of school-age kids ... Read more

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Snapshots’ US Lice Treatments 2004 report provides 2003 year-end market data, with 2004 estimates and five-year forecasts. The report gives an instant overview of the US lice treatment market, and covers remedies for head lice and nits (pediculicides). Market size is based on sales through mass market channels. The data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. US Lice Treatments 2004 forms part of Snapshots’ OTC Pharmaceuticals industry coverage. ... Read more

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The article is excerpted fromGale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
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This is a valuable resource for readers who are seeking information on complementary medicine and herbal remedies. The scope of this encyclopedia is comprehensive, but not definitive. Readers should use this as a supplement,.to professional healthcare consultation. This source has been a long-awaited product for the consolidation of general alternative medicine information."
-- ARBA (2002)

Information on recommended therapies for specific disorders and diseases, medicinal uses for plants and herbs are balanced by conclusions of studies on efficacy and analysis of current levels of acceptance by traditional scientists and doctors. Biographies of pioneers in the field -- including Deepak Chopra, Edward Bach and David Palmer --appear as sidebars through the text. Included are 39 sidebars. Each volume contains a color photo insert containing images of herbs. There are more than 275 disease/condition entries, 300 herb/remedy entries, and 150 therapies. ... Read more