© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-aohcapablanca Recent reviews written by member aohcapablanca en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_492728127108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - You may never have heard of long-lived Ellen Gould White, nee Harmon (1827 - 1915). But she, her husband James White and former sea captain Joseph Bates together launched and guided the Seventh-Day Adventist movement in America and spread it worldwide... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492728127108 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:44:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492728127108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_492170677892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - This book's front cover introduces 30-ish Father, six-ish Sam and  20-something Mother. Daddy faces us stiffly sitting at one end of a crowded orange couch, his legs spread very wide. Mommy sits at the other end, legs also unbecomingly spread, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492170677892 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492170677892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490977595012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Were you an American alive 1964 - 1975? I was. And to all of us the war in Vietnam was for a time inescapable.In the first three years of the Nixon Presidency (1969 - 1972) Vietnam was my life. First I spent a year immersed in Vietnamese... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490977595012 Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:20:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490977595012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490439478916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - For as many years (four decades and then some) as John Harrison (1697-1776) labored over his timepieces, I have attended conferences in the USA and elsewhere. Often conference organizers offered attendees an option to visit a local clock museum. I never... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490439478916 Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:49:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490439478916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489753579140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Popularizers sometimes do no more than make the work of their betters more widely known. Their betters may be too busy doing science or medicine or original research to rethink, simplify, popularize their results down to the level of the masses. But good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489753579140 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489753579140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489351450244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - I am very happy that I selected from a list offered me for review by amazon.com's VINE program CURVES, TWISTS AND BENDS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PILATES FOR SCOLIOSIS. And that despite the fact that I do not suffer from scoliosis myself and have never taken... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489351450244 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:36:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489351450244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488996834948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - In 1826, having just published THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, 36-year old James Fenimore Cooper, his wife and children, set sail for Europe. He was newly appointed U.S. consul in Lyons, France, having turned down being Minister to Sweden because it would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488996834948 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:27:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488996834948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488292781700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - This good book with the catchy title argues that we can bring ourselves to eat the flesh of fish and animals if and only if we "numb" ourselves to any natural empathy we have for fellow living beings. " ... indeed, it is the process of learning... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488292781700 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:24:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488292781700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486299045508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - As James Fenimore Cooper wrote his way ever deeper into the second half of WYANDOTTE, his great novel of 1843, his imagination was drawn away from its numerous white and black characters. Cooper increasingly focused on its Indian hero. That brave is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486299045508 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:28:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486299045508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484937731716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Meet my newest literary find, Frances (Fran) Gaik. She has just published MANAGING DEPRESSION WITH QIGONG. I hope that another half dozen epinionators, each with special knowledge far greater than mine in one area or another, will join me in critiquing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484937731716 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:59:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484937731716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484726640260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - TALES FOR FIFTEEN is one of James Fenimore Cooper's first seven (of scores) of published books. It contains two long short stories, "Imagination" and "Heart." The author is young and desperate to find paying readers who will relieve him of inherited... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484726640260 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:36:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484726640260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484201959044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - A couple of decades ago my wife and I were led by excellent U. S. Park Service guides around Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Of Minutemen and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "shot heard round the world" we heard more than a little. And I remember how... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484201959044 Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:20:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484201959044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483862417028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - There once was a very young (a mere 200,000 years old) planet named Celestia. Spread across eight continents were inter-breeding humans, vampires, talking rocks, friendly dragons that could fly 500 miles per hour, plants that begat animals and magic,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483862417028 Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:45:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483862417028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482528104068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Wayne Franklin's 2007 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER: THE EARLY YEARS is a superior, if cherry-picked, piece of biography. It can never, I fear, make itself "popular" with general readers. But, having clearly been written only for specialists, this biography... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482528104068 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:11:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482528104068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480250596996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Paul Griner's THE GERMAN WOMAN is a well told tale of violence in Europe during the end game of two world wars.  This fascinating novel begins on the eastern marches of the dying German Reich after the November 11, 1918... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480250596996 Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:05:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480250596996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476168031876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - "When a person is negative, complaining and disagreeable, other people stay away." This utterance is typical of four or five dozen one-line moralizing zingers scattered throughout Andy Andrews's novella, THE NOTICER. The book is not bad... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476168031876 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:27:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476168031876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475751419524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - In September 2001 American magazine worker and writer Katherine Russell Rich, "Kathy," was 45 years old. Until she was six, her Christian Science parents had not allowed a doctor to treat her severe hearing disorder. It was cleared up but she had learned... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475751419524 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:58:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475751419524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472648289924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Half a century and more ago I first read LAUGHTER: AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING OF THE COMIC by Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941). I never read it again till I was invited to contribute something to an epinions.com write-off sponsored by a young woman whose pen... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472648289924 Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:17:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472648289924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472545660548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - THE REVIEW BELOW CONTAINS SPOILERS.In January 1946 30-something English writer Juliet Ashton is embarking on a tour to tout her new book, IZZY BICKERSTAFF GOES TO WAR, a compilation of wartime newspaper columns. Through fictional Izzy, Juliet... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472545660548 Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:04:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472545660548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471981723268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Hello, my name is Tai Chi Panda.  And I am here to share with you my pleasure after reading my first book on Tai Chi's cousin, Chi Kung.  Read on to find out why I hope someday to merit the name Chi Kung Bear. I begin writing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471981723268 Thu, 28 May 2009 17:44:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471981723268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471701884548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - It was unusually cold on the last day of April 1844. Eastern Massachusetts had seen no rain since January. Two friends, 26 year old Henry David Thoreau, pencil-manufacturer, and several years younger Edward Sherman Hoar, have been fishing. They pause at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471701884548 Tue, 26 May 2009 07:44:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471701884548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471402450564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - In 1995 Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti of the University of Parma discovered mirror neurons. His "womb experiences" had been in Kiev, Ukraine. His name does not appear in the 2009 book SACRED DESIRE: GROWING IN COMPASSIONATE LIVING by psychiatrists Nancy... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471402450564 Sat, 23 May 2009 12:20:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471402450564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471274458756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - William McKinley, Jr. (1843 - 1901) was 25th President of the United States of America. He died in office of gangrene and infection eight days after being shot in the stomach at close range by an assassin. Three years earlier he had freed Cuba from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471274458756 Fri, 22 May 2009 07:57:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471274458756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470625914500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) was a landsman, not a sailor. But he once made an extensive, albeit close to land, tour by ship to inspect the lighthouses of Scotland. Scott then drew on what he had learned during that voyage with friends,  as well... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470625914500 Sat, 16 May 2009 20:50:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470625914500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470375304836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author aohcapablanca - King Richard III of England died young, at 33. Born in 1452, Richard was 19 in 1471 when his brother was crowned King Edward IV. In that year, riding into London alone and incognito Richard, Duke of Gloucester, entered a church to pray. There he found a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470375304836 Thu, 14 May 2009 21:43:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470375304836?linkin_id=8003929