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From early childhood, when her eccentric mother would take her on trips along her beloved Ridgeway in a horse-drawn cart, Candida Lycett Green has retained a love of travelling at a horse's pace and casting an eye on the beauty of England through the back door. Framed by a recent 150-mile journey through Yorkshire and Northumberland, "Over the Hills and Far Away" also dips back into the journeys by horse Candida has taken at the turning points in her life. From her idyllic childhood in the bohemian Betjeman household, through a charmed youth in the Swinging Sixties, Candida tells a story made all the more poignant by her parents' deaths and her own recent fight with breast cancer. ... Read more

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Everyone has candida. It's not a problem, most of the time. But given the right conditions, this yeast-like fungus gets out of control. Experts beleive that candida overgrowth can be the root cause of such problems as allergies and food intolerances, weight problems, bloating and depression. Diets rich in sugar and yeast and the use of antibiotics have helped fuel a candida explosion. This compact guide explains the current treatments - conventional, complementary and alternative - used to keep candida in balance. ... Read more

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Informative and useful
The most informative, balanced and up-to-date literature I have seen onthis subject. ... Read more

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Candida used to be thought of simply as the cause of thrush. But now doctors recognise that yeast infections are responsible for many of the other health problems of modern living - chronic fatigue, IBS and other digestive problems, depression, skin problems and lowered resistance to infection. Shirley Trickett explains how Candida really works, how it leads to other problems and, most importantly, how to get it out of your life. ... Read more

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Women Building High-Growth Businesses

“Even in the 21st century, much of the world still systematically excludes 50 percent of the smartest people from full responsibility. Entrepreneurship rewards excellence and results, not gender, and this book is a wonderful gift to women who would like to respond to corporate America by saying, ‘Thanks, I’ll do it myself’.”

--Jim Collins, Author, Good to Great, and Co-author, Built to Last

“Savvy and inspirational, Clearing the Hurdles is an important book for women intent on growing new businesses. The team of talented authors provides information, insights, and advice that will educate, motivate, and challenge women aspiring to become successful entrepreneurs.”

--Laura Tyson, Dean, London Business School

“With women creating new businesses at a faster rate than males, it is imperative that today’s venture capitalists take an active role in mentoring and recruiting women to become venture capitalists, business owners, technologists, entrepreneurs, and government leaders. Clearing the Hurdles is not only a wake up call; it is a roadmap to start this long overdue project.”

--Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association

“Clearing the Hurdles examines all elements behind the lack of access to capital for women entrepreneurs who want to build high-growth companies. If you are a woman who has a vision for a high-potential business, this book was written for you.”

--Connie Duckworth, Kathy Elliott, Sharon Whiteley, Founders, 8Wings Enterprises, and Co-authors, The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man’s World

“Clearing the Hurdles debunks the myths and defines the barriers that entrepreneurs confront--a perfect roadmap for women embarking on the entrepreneurial journey.”

--Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Networks, and former Chair, National Women’s Business Council

Starting, funding, and growing a new venture are significant challenges for every entrepreneur. For women, the hurdles are even higher, due to widely held perceptions about them, their capabilities, and their businesses. Now, five leading experts on women entrepreneurs offer systematic solutions to the challenges, offering timely advice to women dedicated to achieving success and claiming the rewards.

Clearing the Hurdles draws on five years of original research, performed as part of the Diana Project--a major initiative that explores ways women grow businesses.

The authors identify key factors associated with funding, growth, and success: the founder’s goals, expertise, and commitment; strategic direction; team building; effective use of networks; and access to capital. Most important, they offer concrete strategies for overcoming obstacles: strategies proven in the marketplace by women entrepreneurs.

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I wish this book had been written 10 years ago!

Founder and former owner of Office Plan, Inc.
MN SBA Small Business Person of the Year (1998)

I wish this book had been written 10 years ago! Not before I started my business; but after it was up and running and I knew it had possibilities for growth. It would have saved me a lot of time as I floundered around trying to learn about financing ventures. What seems so simple to answer now (Should I look for debt or equity financing?) took ages because my knowledge base was at Square One.

I read "Hurdles" because it addresses my current passion-helping women entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses. But the book delivers so much more. It is, in fact, a compendium on both entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial financing.In order to explain their premises, the authors lay out solid information and data about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship-males and females.

Because five researchers with strong academic credentials wrote it, I prepared myself for heavy reading. I was pleasantly surprised to find an eminently readable text. This book will be accessible to every entrepreneur trying to understand the money equation and growth strategies.

But I really think this book should be required reading for everyone who teaches in business school. In my own search for knowledge and skills to grow my business, I got my MBA. I am sad to say that none of my instructors understood entrepreneurship. Some knew they didn't know; most thought new ventures are smaller versions oflarge corporations. While this book would not be a substitute for a deeper understanding, it certainly would introduce them to the real differences.

Preparing for the Jumps
Reviewer: Gwen Richtermeyer, Ph.D.
Director, BRIDG,University of Missouri-Kansas City

If having knowledge about a situation better prepares you to be successful in that encounter, then Clearing the Hurdles is a must-read for women entrepreneurs eager to grow their businesses.Knowing what lies ahead, including the stereotypical beliefs that many in the venture capital industry hold about women, is a giant step in our knowledge base about why women continue to lag behind men in creating and sustaining high-growth businesses.

Broadly speaking, the hurdles to be faced can be clustered under the umbrella of capitals - human, social, and financial.The authors identify seven specific, major hurdles which speak to the entrepreneur's desire, education, training, management and financial knowledge and skills, strategic orientation, social and funding networks and financial resources.By reflecting upon her assets as well as understanding her areas for improvement, the woman entrepreneur will be better able to counter these hurdles as they come up in capitalizing and growing the business.

Clearing the Hurdles is not a passive book, however.In addition to mapping the terrain and identifying the hurdles, the authors provide illustrative vignettes that bring realism to the issues that are often missing from research-based academic work.And, the authors don't stop there; they provide workable strategies to help women entrepreneurs think through the issue and get over the hurdle.

As a gender scholar, I was particularly interested in whether and how the book would address gender bias.While the authors do not espouse a specific gender theory to guide their explanations of why women continue to face these specific hurdles, they suggest a number of possible gender theories, including social psychological, social construction, sociobiology, and social networks.By using these illustrative theories, the authors are able to debunk some of the myths concerning women and their associated capitals.

Clearing the Hurdles has value not only for women entrepreneurs, but for angels and venture capitalists that could benefit from seeing themselves through the eyes of their clients.By acknowledging their beliefs and understanding that they are instrumental in setting the bar heights, they will see more deals and create diversity in their portfolios that benefits all.

Authors' credibility speaks volumes
Here, in one book, you will find the collective wisdom of five leading academics on the subject of women entrepreneurs and high growth businesses.
This incredibly well-researched book is the culmination of years of work on the gold standard of studies of women in business called "The Diana Project".
While women entrepreneurs have forged their own path and now account for over 50% of all new business start ups, issues still remain around perceptions and misconceptions of women in business by those who control purchasing and funding decisions.This book provides a road map for navigating these issues, while at the same time it holds a mirror up to everyone by laying out facts and case studies regarding the hurdles women face in breaking some of the last barriers to acheiving full economic parity. ... Read more

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HELP IS HERE

Bipolar disorder has recently been identified as one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions affecting children -- and it is dramatically on the rise. The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child gives parents the sound advice and expert information they need to cope with this challenging diagnosis, and shows how to provide essential care and support for a bipolar child as well as for the rest of the family. ... Read more

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Ins and Outs of "The Ups and Downs..."
A book originally loaned to us by a professor, we HAD to buy it.This book is so full of really pertinent and useful information!

A Parents Guide to Rasing a Bipolar Child.
Having a bipolar child can be one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks known to man.This book gives parents an insight into the bipolar childs mind.If you don't have experience with a bipolar child they go from one extreame to another.One extream is known as Manic or Mania which is a state of euphoria often followed by severe risk taking and spending in an extream amounty of money in a short amount of time.The other extream is known as depressive.In a depressive state you can actually suffer from insomnia.You can also find yourself with no energy, you can find that you are so drained that you are unable to move.This book gives insight into the mind of a bipolar child that any parent who has even the slightest belief they have a bipolar child.

Growing up as a bipolar child is nearly impossible for both the child and the childs parents.My mother wished she has this book when I was a child it gave her an insight to my mind.

Excellent Book
My son is Bipolar and it has been an extremely difficult journey. He is nine now and he was diagnosed 3 years ago. This book is a Godsend. I highly recommend it.

She is only 4 years old and has the world on her shoulders
Our adopted daughter is only 4 years old. She has FAS, mood disorder NOS, separation disorder and ADHD.I have learned so much from this book and I am only half way through it.I have learned ways to occupy her mind like baking cookies and playing with clay.I learned about the medications and their side effects. We would have started risperdal today but, this book prompted me to call the psychiatrist and request behavioral therapy before we start medications.The doctor agreed that this was a good idea due to her young age.This book showed me that "WE CAN DO THIS".The knowledge and understanding that I have gained from this book will last a lifetime.

A Child Psychiatrist's Review
This book is a godsend for clinicians, bipolar children, and their families. It includes every important experience, concern, quest, and resource I have ever come across in my practice full of many bipolar children and their families.
The book is written in a compassionate style and knowing vantage point that only the author-mother of a bipolar child could achieve. The brief but pointed notes from the psychiatrist at the end of each chapter provide added expertise in an artful and humble way which I think parents can really appreciate. By so placing these comments, the message is clear: we psychiatrists often learn more from our patients than they do from us. Occasionally, we have something relevant to add.
I found each chapter not only incredibly true to life, but extremely informative. Especially useful are the web sites, names of organizations and support groups, and other recources which are usually obtainable only by laboriously researching a vast number of widely varying and often unrelated sources.
To top it all off, the last chapter discusses guardianships, trusts, and other methods of financially protecting bipolar children. These issues are seldom brought up in timely fashion, if at all, by clinicians. Further, families are often totally unaware of the options, and have no guidelines for even posing the necessary questions.
Since reading this book, I have recommended it to every parent of a bipolar child who has walked into my office. For some parents, reading this book has provided a diagnostic revelation, and hope for a future which had seemed hopelessly bleak.
The seal of authenticity offered by the author-parent, as well as by the testimony of the parents who responded to her surveys is the most convincing "selling point" of this book for parents who are otherwise tired of hearing quasi-expert opinions from professionals, family, and friends.
I have also recommended this book to my colleagues, most of whom treat only adult patients. I hope after reading this book, that they will listen with a different ear to their adult patients who describe the particular trials of parenting their children. Perhaps, rather than buying and reinforcing many a parent's guilt ridden self report that their own inconsistent parenting is the identifiable problem, informed clinicians will ask the probing questions which may uncover the real issues, and bring more undiagnosed bipolar children into much needed treatment.
Many thanks for this honest, wonderfully researched, and beautifully readable book.

Anne Fenton, MD
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For those interested in the history of domestic architecture and in the past generally there could be no more enjoyable project than to travel through England in search of the supreme examples of that very English speciality, the smaller country house. That is what Candida Lycett Green has done, and the result is an idiosyncratic and occasionally provocative collection of over 80 pen portraits. These have been photographed by Christopher Simon Sykes and include gems from five architectural periods; Tudor to early Renaissance, Renaissance to Baroque, Georgian, Regency and Edwardian to the Thirties. Houses such as oak-timbered Elizabethan at The Ley in Herefordshire, measured Carolean symmetry at South Luffenham Hall in Rutland, rural baroque at Biddensden House in Wiltshire, miniature Palladian at Ebberston Hall in Yorkshire, Romantic Gothic at Midford Castle in Somerset, masculine Regency at Letheringsett in Norfolk, Arts and Crafts Movement romance and practicality at Broadleys on Lake Windermere and "International Modern" at Cherry Hill in Berkshire are each considered as "perfect" gems in the rich panoply of such vernacular architecture.Candida Lycett Green describes the setting and appearances of each house, dwelling on details and eccentricities, and observing that demotion from main residence or to farmhouse status has often been a blessing in disguise, preserving for the house its architectural integrity against the whims of fashion and "modernization". The profile is completed by the lives each house has touched, and she sketches in some of the gentlemanly occupants - cavaliers and clergymen, gamblers and gardeners - as well as the odd dowager. The more recent names include Rothschild, Jekyll, Beaton and Betjeman. Several of these houses have personal associations for the author, notably the Old Rectory at Farnborough where she spent her childhood. "The Perfect English Country House" is an informal layperson's guide to the evolution of the smaller English house - and much more besides. Houses such as these are not just examples of architectural perfection but bear eloquent testimony to the phases of English history. While Christopher Simon Sykes' photographs capture the places as they are today, the lively and informative text also illuminates the past. ... Read more

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This is a handbook which provides a background on thetherapeutic use of grapefruit seed extract and gives detailedsuggestions for usage.Grapefruit seed extract is an innovativeherbal treatment for many ailments such as Candida, food allergies andenvironmental illnesses. ... Read more

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Good overview on GSE
This book is a good overview on grapefruit seed extract. It is especially helpful if you are looking for information on candida and GSE.

I was expecting more
The book is ok as your 1st information about the subject.

An informative guide to use of a powerful product.
I have been researching GSE for years and find Dr. Sachs' contribution to humnaity's understanding of this holistic miracle to be the most impressive yet. Bravo ... Read more

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In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cndida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stphane Mallarm (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new media devoured cultural products and delivered them to an ever-growing public. Their goal was to create and oversee a new elite culture, one that elevated poetry by removing it from a direct relationship to experience. Instead, symbolist poetry was dedicated to exploring discourse itself, and its practitioners to understanding how language shapes consciousness.Cndida Smith investigates the intellectual context in which symbolists came to view artistic practice as a form of knowledge. He relates their work to psychology, especially the ideas of William James, and to language and the emergence of semantics. Through the lens of symbolism, he focuses on a variety of subjects: sexual liberation and the erotic, anarchism, utopianism, labor, and women's creative role. Paradoxically, the symbolists' reconfiguration of elite culture fit effectively into the modern commercial media. After Mallarm was rescued from obscurity, symbolism became a valuable commodity, exported by France to America and elsewhere in the market-driven turn-of-the-century world. Mallarm's Children traces not only how poets regarded their poetry and artists their art but also how the public learned to think in new ways about cultural work and to behave differently as a result. ... Read more

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Candida Crewe wonders whether there's anything 'normal' about any woman's relationship with food and weight. While she now appears enviably slim to everyone but herself, Candida has always worried, sometimes obsessed, about her weight. "Eating Myself" chronicles her life with food and argues convincingly that while the details obviously differ, the story of her everyday struggle with weight is the story of Every woman. When she realized she was bored with both herself and her 'normal' but tedious relationship with food she set about discovering that there was more to life than constantly thinking about what she ate or daren't, even though the sight of a much thinner friend cart-wheeling in just a bikini could still induce a half-hour lie-down and a non-existent lunch. "Eating Myself" is an extraordinary and personal book, but one which will touch many readers, while echoing the feelings and behaviour of many more. And still others will be deeply shocked by why it's no longer unusual to regard food as an enemy. ... Read more

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An eye opener..
Before I read this book I thought I was the only person who thought this way; the only one to size every women in a room or the only one to have funny thoughts when it comes to food.
This book made me realise that it's very common for women to compare themselves with their peers, to scrutinize their looks and the way they behave towards food.
I don't have a serious weight nor food issues, but I can see that there is a very fine line between worrying too much and just looking after yourself.I can also see how upbringing and words that may have been used to describe us in our childhood could have a catastrophic effect.It has made me think more about the words I use to describe things or people to my two daughters.I really liked this book, it's easy to read, although it is a difficult subject, and it's very easy to relate to.
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Publisher: London : ConstablePublication date: 1922Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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America has become a fast society. Fast food, fast medical fixes with antibiotics and fast paced living with little to no exercise. The result is more people with Candida and Celiac disease, expanding waistlines and Diabetes on the increase.

Eating to control these diseases has been a lifetime of blandness followed by bouts of cheating for some variety and taste. No longer. This cookbook features over 200 recipes full of taste and variety that meet those dietary needs.

Gourmet cooking is a passion of Lynette Hall. She studied America’s great cooks and developed dishes from soups to nuts with everything in between. Her diagnosis with Candida started the development of this book. These recipes fit a busy lifestyle, the diet restrictions and are easy to prepare, most in 30–40 minutes. Variety abounds from American favorites to ethnic cuisine and a section devoted to condiments. Create your own catsup, mayonnaise and more!

“Ms. Hall’s book is a giant leap forward for families who know diet is health. Lynette’s wheat free, dairy free, stevia sweetened recipes are unique and healthful for all of us, yeast infections or not. We will enjoy these recipes for years to come.”

—Dr. Conrad Maulfair, D.O.

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need more info
I really love the receipes but i dont know what i am supposed to not eat in the beginning. some statements say these are for maintainace times but i am not sure when i am in what period. i do like the book and would recommend it to those who already are getting rid of yeast problems and are "in the know" on what to do first. good easy meals and great tasting.

Great recipes for beating Candida
My alternative care physican, Dr. Maulfair (who wrote a blurb about the Lynette Hall on the back cover of this book) diagnosed me with Candida. He recommended this book to me and I am now Candida free thanks to the delicious recipes Lynette has created.I think it's wonderful that a doctor points his patients to getting to the root of a problem nutrionally. Thank you Lynette and Dr. Maulfair! ... Read more