Talks with Trees contains a collection of over thirty "interviews" with many different species of plants and trees including ancient redwoods, a Japanese maple, a garlic bulb, an onion, an apple tree, two heads of lettuce, a purple potato and many more. The author, a spirit channel for over twenty years, one day realized that if he could successfully make contact with the spirit guides of the many people for whom he provided psychic readings, he might also do the same with the spirits of plants and trees. His first "interviewee" was a potted plant sitting atop a bank counter. While waiting for the teller to return, Leslie Cabarga asked the plant, "How are you?" With the words of the plant's response forming clearly in his head, Cabarga heard, "Oh, not very well. We are trying our best to grow lushly and beautifully for everyone to appreciate but it is hard under the circumstances." As the author writes, "I looked around. Rows of fluorescent lights lined the ceiling. There was no natural illumination. The piped-in air was stagnant. I understood. The plant repeated its intention to do its best and I was struck both by its selfless resolve to fulfill its function, and the lack of resentment over its situation. This delicate little assortment of flowers was a kamikaze of love, fulfilling its obligation to its creator with every ounce of energy, and oblivion its only reward." Leslie Cabarga then decided that when he'd interviewed at least fifty plants and trees, he would group them into a book. Ultimately the contents were edited down to just over thirty interviews. Author Comments: "Although I occasionally meet with skepticism when I talk about Talks With Trees, I've been gratified and sometimes amazed by the many people I meet who 'come out of the closet' by admitting their own love of trees and nature, and of their own experiences of deep spiritual communion-and conversations-with trees. 'Oh, I always talk to trees!' they'll tell me, 'Why, there was this one tree' "But nothing amazes me much these days, except the disbelief that so many still have around the subject of spirit communication. I like to ask, 'Hasn't the thought of someone suddenly come into your mind and the next minute the phone rings and it's them? Haven't you ever dreamt an event that later came true? Haven't you ever glimpsed a ghost or heard a noise or voice that you couldn't rationally explain?" Almost everybody has had experiences of this sort at least once in their lives. And doesn't that indicate that there is more to life than the physical sciences can yet comprehend?

Talks with Trees: A Plant Psychic's Interviews with Vegetables, Flowers and Trees

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Cabarga, Leslie

Gardening & Landscape Design

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Topless Summer Love Girls has been called The MAD Magazine of relationship books. It contains a collection of seriously humorous articles, photo features, sidebar essays, and cartoons, including an hilarious satire of Playboy magazine called Danglers that parodies the salacious inanity of men s mags and porn. 
The book s unusual title refers to a 30-page photo feature of topless women on the beaches of Cannes, Ibiza, and Barcelona, with funny captions exploring voyeurism.
 Mainly, TSLG is about how to identify quality, loving women and avoid those whose reproduction fixation can become man s ruination. TSLG includes an interview with Dr. Herb Goldberg, author of The Hazards of Being Male, about emotionally healthy men and women and what makes good relationships. 
 The author quotes extensively from men s authors such as Warren Farrell, Robert Glover, and Herb Goldberg; and from relationship books, and even feminist books, to answer Freud s timeless question, "What the !#@$! do women want?" This along with 300 funny cartoons and illustrations, and 200 sexy photos is the OTHER side of TSLG: a book that helps men sidestep the pitfalls of mating to develop wonderful, honest relationships with great women. 
 Who needs this book:
 Young men entering the dating scene
 * Men wanting to become married with children
 * Men who are stuck being married with children
 * Women who truly want to understand men
 * Men who truly want to understand themselves
 In Topless Summer Love Girls you will learn:
 * Dating techniques according to "The Louse, the Lover and the Loser. 3 men discuss honest, dishonest, effective and ineffective approaches to meeting women. 
 * What motivates women sexually and how to get them into bed.
 * What men MUST know about marriage and divorce
 * How some women trick men into commitment through pregnancy
 * Why marriage is the leading cause of no-sex (and what to do about it!).
 * What types of women are most likely to remain sexual for life.
 * How feminism (despite many positive results) betrayed women by demonizing men
 * How addiction to porn may defeat the primal mating urge
 * Everything you always wanted to know about boobies.
 Male and females readers alike say: It s funny as hell! 
 "My wife and I are going through your book page by page and loving it. She laughs out loud again and again and says, 'This is f--king great, I love this.'" - Charles
 "I found my husband s copy of Topless Summer Love Girls and I was like, 'What the hell---?' and then I started laughing. Then I was reading parts of it to him aloud. Then I was looking at the charts of breast shapes and wondering which was mine. The book shouldn t be subtitled A Gentleman's Guide... it should be called 'Everybody's Guide...'" - Sandra
 "It s a book that s hard to pin down: funny as hell on the one hand, but seriously full of essential info for men. It's like all the world's secrets in a candy wrapper." - Charlotte
 "All-American fun without being sleazy. Tons of graphics, and a great sense of humor." - Geri
 "Very clever and funny, I really cracked up. Celebrated male anger instead of having to squash it." - Lisa
 This book has been many years in the making, the author says. "It began when a doctor told my mother to stop breastfeeding me, and it continued when I was going through divorce and trying to make sense of what had happened to my relationship." The result is a thoroughly well-researched treatise on what motivates men--and women--to mate! TSLG provides real answers and serious solutions in a zany, madcap, entertaining format.

Topless Summer Love Girls; A Gentleman's Guide to Women, Relationships, and Breasts

Leslie Cabarga

For typographers and designers of fonts, the software program "FontLab" has become the premiere font-creation program of our time. Highly sophisticated, FontLab operates on Windows and Mac (systems 9+ and OSX) and offers more up-to-date features--such as OpenType support, class-based metrics and kerning, as well as an impressive array of bezier drawing tools--than any other font design program. 
Learn FontLab Fast; A Simplified Guide to Creating Fonts with FontLab, TypeTool, ScanFont and AsiaFont Studio covers versions 4.6 and 5.0 of FontLab. It has been written to enable users to dramatically cut down the learning curve required to master FontLab and its sister programs, TypeTool and AsiaFont Studio. Author and designer Leslie Cabarga (who also wrote The Logo Font &amp; Lettering Bible) packed Learn FontLab Fast with illustrations, diagrams and screenshots, and cut the text to a minimum so learning to create fonts that you can load onto your own computer and/or distribute commercially becomes easy and enjoyable. 
Learn FontLab Fast explains the techniques used by five established font designers to create their own fonts. The book'll tell you everything you need to know to: begin using the program; to open existing fonts and create new ones; to scan your sketches and add them as backgrounds; to paste drawings into FontLab from Adobe Illustrator; to understanding and using the brush and pen tools to draw glyph characters; to correctly setting up parameters in the Font Info window so your fonts will perform correctly on any computer; to making Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts; to spacing, kerning and hinting fonts; to adding accented characters; to using components and anchors; to setting up font families; to making OpenType fonts with special features and organizing those features into classes. The book also features an extensive, cross-referenced "find-anything" Index. 
Whether you are a FontLab and TypeTool beginner, or an experienced user, Learn FontLab Fast covers virtually everything you need to know.

Learn FontLab Fast

Relax, Breathe, Smile; The book your body wants you to read!

Diane See

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Before John Gray and Robert Bly; before Warren Farrell, Robert Glover and Leonard Sax, there was Herb Goldberg whose classic work, "The Hazards of Being Male" was originally written as the male response to feminism s claim that oppression was for women-only. 
 In fact, this book by Herb Goldberg first became popular among female readers, who would often give the book to their male partners. Betty Friedan, the 'Mother of feminism,' who shared the stage with Dr. Goldberg in a 1979 program entitled "Men and Women; The Stresses of Transition," stated, "Every word Herb Goldberg says about the man-woman thing has been so on target that we have not had to waste any time on silly arguments." 
 According to Dr. Goldberg, "The women's liberation movement did not effect its astounding impact via self-hate, guilt or the desire to placate the male. Instead it has been energized by anger and outrage. Neither will the male change in any meaningful way until he experiences his underlying rage toward the endless, impossible binds under which he lives, the rigid definition of his role, the endless pressure to be all things to all people, and the guilt-oriented, self-denying way he has traditionally related to women, to his feelings, and to his needs." 
 Dr. Goldberg argued that men were in harness, conditioned by parents and society and often encouraged by women into such conflicting roles as aggressive businessman + compassionate husband; stressed-out breadwinner + attentive father; brave protector of family and country + sensitive male with a capacity for intimacy. Such impossible binds often crippled him both emotionally and physically and shortened his lifespan. 
 Introducing themes that have since become commonplace in discussions of masculinity, Dr. Herb Goldberg was the first to explain that... Men use women as sex objects, but women use men as success objects; Impotence is more likely an indicator of a man s emotional duress, rather than a physical malfunction; Monogamy and marriage place unnatural binds upon the male which tend to keep him in a perpetually guilty state; Women actually possess far greater flexibility than men in assertiveness, sexuality, clothing styles, career and family choices; Playing the role of 'nice guy' leads to frustration and dehumanization; Violence against men is far more prevalent than against women; The more he works to support his family, the more a man tends to become alienated from them; Because he traditionally assumed the active role, the man could be blamed as the heavy, the victimizer, and the destroyer; The restrictive conditioning of young boys leads to the suppression of their emotions; Divorce brings out a man s dependency and can be ruinous to his life. 
 Even after thirty years as an international best-seller, the brilliance of Dr. Goldberg s work remains undimmed. His insights are still relevant to men navigating the rocky road of relationships, marriage, and divorce and who are still struggling to define manhood in the post-feminist age.

The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege

Herb Goldberg

PH.D.

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