books about: oils     books:       Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes6 reviews Jennifer Mclagan Ten Speed Press, 2008 Great reading,Fun cooking I love this book and it could be my cookbook of the year. I have a library and I have been cooking long enough that I do not really need a cookbook unless it is very good. I bought the book primarily for reading about fats and why they could be good for you. However, I have made several recipes including the above mentioned roast chicken, which was fabulous. I slow baked a lamb shoulder by ...             Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia145 reviews Ahmed Rashid Yale University Press, 2001 All about religion and Mullah Omar fundamentalism ... If you want to understand Afghanistan latest history, this is a great choice. The narrative is center on the Talibans of course, how this group was invented after the end of the cold war and after fighting against the Soviets in a united front known as the Mujaheddin. It is clear to all of us that the Taliban are Islamic Fundamentalist and that its presence on Afghanistan has rendered the country ...             The Coconut Oil Miracle (Previously published as The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil)48 reviews Bruce Fife, Jon J. Kabara Avery, 2004 Very informative book Yes, there are those out there trying to get their piece of the nutrition pie and sell you some useless subpar products, but this book is not about that. It is informative on the benefits of coconut oil. By using this information, I have had good results with my "imagined ailments" (which have been caused by my lack of understanding of nutrition in the past). People have been so miss guided by ...             Essential Oils Desk Reference16 reviews Essential Science Pub, 2007 Lost Without This This book is full of scientific information on the purity of essential oils and how to tell the difference between adulterated oils and pure therapeutic grade oils. It teaches the use of Young Living essential oils as following the French model of usage being that of ingestion, topical application and inhalation. Very safe guidelines for safe usage are well detailed so that anyone can teach ...             The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Over 600 Natural, Non-Toxic and Fragrant Recipes to ...91 reviews Valerie Ann Worwood New World Library, 1991 This is a must have item. Many recipes for a variety of products using many essential oils. It offers alternatives and substitutions so as you build your oil collection you can expand your therapies.             The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future25 reviews T. Boone Pickens Crown Business, 2008 the truth behind gas prices A great book! T. Boone Pickens is a true Patriot. One who loves this country and mankind before the love of money. I enjoyed knowing more about the man and his direction for America's energy future; even though I did not agree with everything he says. For example, as the author of The Truth Behind Gas Prices, a former gas dealer and someone who has studied this industry for 12 years, I believe ...             The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power145 reviews Daniel Yergin Free Press, 1993 A Must to Read! This book was published in 1992 so it doesn't contain information beyond the Bush presidency and into the 21st Century. What it contains is the history of the use of oil as a means of energy and light. While Oil does appear in the background of many history textbooks, its history is ignored even as it gradually takes over the lives of most on the planet Earth. This book covers the period in ...             The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ...217 reviews Grove Press, 2006 prophetic -- read this excerpt I'm posting this mid-October 2008, in the midst of the global financial crisis. Here's a phophetic excerpt from The Long Emergency that was written in mid-2004: "By the time you read this, it is very likely that the housing bubble will have begun to come to grief... The economic wreckage is liable to be impressive. If house owners cannot make their mortgage payments, Fannie May and Freddie ...             Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future (Expanded and Updated 33 ...177 reviews James Wesley Rawles Xlibris Corporation, 2006 A good read I originally thought the title of this book sounded interesting, so purchased it. I am a 38-yr-old mother of three children, so do not fit the typical MO that one would assume would be reading this material. However, there are not enough words to explain just how interesting this book was. I found myself totally engaged in this novel; moreover, its characters and their incredible ...             Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, ...16 reviews The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007 A very useful book, that calls to mind grandmas of the world! I ordered this book a bit over a month ago. I received it very promptly and read it front to back the same day. I was totally amazed by the varied methods of preserving- from using root cellaring to fermenting to using salt and oils and even making jams and jellies! This book is teaching me a lot of methods that I remember my grandmother telling me and my cousins about. Up til now they were lost ...             Landscape Painting Inside and Out: Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio With Oils26 reviews Kevin D. MacPherson North Light Books, 2006 Best book on painting outside that I've ever read...period. I read Kevin's earlier book and mentioned it previously here on Amazon and yes, I thought it was great but THIS one...this one is...is...damn...words fail me. It's just simply the best book on plein-air painting I've ever read (and I must have 30 or more on this subject alone). Kevin has outdone himself with this one. He's taken all the valuable info contained in his previous book and just ...             The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil9 reviews Carol Firenze Ballantine Books, 2005 Just Wonderful-a keeper! There is so many uses for oilve oil in this book.This book will also save you money.It has replaced many products in my home.             Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy98 reviews Matthew R. Simmons Wiley, 2006 Must read (along with Boone Pickens recent book) for anyone who spends decent money on oil If you're the type of person who likes to know how things work, this book will clearly be one of the most interesting books you'll read. Before reading this book, I'd just fill up at the pump and go...never really think about how the oil got to the gas station. Most Americans take this step for granted. Next time you're on the highway though, look around, and really think about all the people ...             The Oil Protein Diet Cookbook14 reviews Johanna Budwig Apple Tree Publishing Company, 1994 Recipes for variety and relief in a daunting diet If you are determined to follow this "flax-oil and cottage-cheese (or quark-cheese)" diet, say you found out about it somewhere else, e.g., [...], you'll welcome Dr. Budwig's own little book of over 500 recipes. I took heart when I saw that I could still have plenty of interesting deserts, even "ice creams" made with the recipe(s) in the book. But there are lots of other dishes and courses to ...             Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence39 reviews Robert Bryce PublicAffairs, 2008 Gusher of Lies contains oceans of facts and great arguments What I love about Gusher of Lies is that it's highly entertaining, educational and subversive, and it will appeal to readers across the political spectrum. I think so highly of the book that I have the hope -- perhaps naive hope -- that it will open the eyes of voters who have been subjected to the campaign rhetoric of energy independence. You don't have to consider yourself on the left or the ...             The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience4 reviews Rob Hopkins Chelsea Green, 2008 One of the Most Important Handbooks of Our Time Rob Hopkins writes about the context for starting a transition town and then follows with step-by-step instructions on the action steps involved with bringing awareness and hope to communities. Transition towns spring from a grassroots initiative to do something positive and cooperative in response to the impending triple crisis of peak oil, climate change and global economic collapse. It all ...             Oil!39 reviews Upton Sinclair Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Dad Liked It I bought this for my Dad and he said he really liked it and highly reccomended it to me to borrow from him.             Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis Heart Infarction Cancer and Other Diseases (3rd Edition)21 reviews Johanna Budwig Apple Publishing, 1994 I recently started the protocol..... I have not read this book, I came to this site to order any books I can find on the Budwig protocol. My chiropractor has been ranting about this stuff for years so I finally bought some flaxoil and cottage cheese and started mixing it up and eating it each day. I don't have cancer but I figure this could help me in general. I felt no different at all. When I told my doc he said, did you buy a ...             Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats67 reviews Mary Enig, Sally Fallon Plume, 2006 Fantastic!!! I have been studying diet and nutrition for the past three years and this book by far is the ultimate best book that I have in my nutritional library. I have recommended this book to everyone!! After 3 years of chronic migrains lasting litterally from 3-15 days at a time, with a maximum 4 day repreive in between, and all attempts with many specialists failed, as well as nearly causing me to have ...             The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It8 reviews Antonia Juhasz William Morrow, 2008 Massive and Magnificent This timely tome is the best current overview of the oil industry out there, and the most ambitious examination of Big Oil since Daniel Yergin's "The Prize." I found it to be a lot more incisive than Yergin (who as an industry consultant, was reluctant to expose his clients' worst crimes, except as aberrations), since it is a more critical examination of the industry (in the tradition of the ...              search for books alternative, appreciation, aromatherapy, arthritis, catastrophes, comebacks, converging, dangerous, dependency, emergency, environment, essential, fermentation, fundamentalism, independence, infarction, ingredient, landscape, misunderstood, passionate, preserving, previously, published, reflections, resilience, surviving, techniques, traditional, transition, twenty-first books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever leave a comment home  impressum - about us