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Book Introverted But Willing to Discuss Soap Making

Download or read book Introverted But Willing to Discuss Soap Making written by Eric Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect customized notebook to keep notes. A funny gift to make your close ones laugh and have fun. Book details: Cover Finish: Matte Size : 6 x 9 inches Page Count: 100 pages SCROLL UP AND GET YOURS !! "

Book Introverted But Willing To Discuss Soap Making

Download or read book Introverted But Willing To Discuss Soap Making written by J M Skinner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introverted But Willing To Discuss Soap Making 8.5x11 College Ruled Composition Notebook makes a great gift idea for introverts who enjoy Soap Making!

Book Introverted But Willing to Discuss Soap Making Notebook

Download or read book Introverted But Willing to Discuss Soap Making Notebook written by Positive Party Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 120-page journal features: 120 wide-ruled lined pages 6" x 9" size - big enough for your writing and small enough to take with you smooth 55# white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or colored pencils a cover page where you can enter your name and other information a matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments, and more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Journals to Write In offers a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. These journals also make wonderful gifts, so put a smile on someone's face today!

Book Soap Making for Beginners and Top Essential Oils Recipes

Download or read book Soap Making for Beginners and Top Essential Oils Recipes written by Lindsey P and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soap Making For Beginners: A Guide to Making Natural Homemade Soaps from Scratch, Includes Recipes and Step by Step Processes for Making Soaps & Top Essential Oil Recipes: A Recipe Guide Of Natural, Non-Toxic Aromatherapy & Essential Oils for Healing Common Ailments, Beauty, Stress & AnxietySoap Making This book is perfect for those who want to make their own soap but do not know where to begin. Soap making is a fun and rewarding hobby that you can also turn into a business once you have successfully made your first batch of soap. In this book, you will get to know the different ingredients, tools and processes on how to create soap. Soon you will get to know the basic steps on how to process soap. There are mainly two basic processes, the Hot Process and Cold Process. But before moving on to these two, let's first discuss a very useful online tool that you can use in formulating the perfect soap recipes. Soap making is a fun filled activity that anyone can enjoy. The sense of accomplishment in producing something that is useful in everyday life can build one's self confidence and self esteem. You can even add a personal touch in the soaps that you will make by adding some of your favourite oils and scents. Natural soap has a greater advantage in terms of skin moisturizing than commercially manufactured soaps because of the ingredient glycerine that will be left in the soap. In commercially manufactured soaps, glycerine is filtered out of the soap and sold as a different product. Glycerine is an ingredient that is responsible for retaining water in the skin, leaving it soft and moisturized. Homemade soaps can be used as gifts to your friends and relatives during the holidays. Surely, they will appreciate the effort you put into making the soaps as well as the skin health benefits they have. These homemade soaps can be income generating as well, for you can sell your nice smelling products in stores that support selling of natural and homemade goods, or in the internet. If you have always wanted to know how to make soap, wanted to have the recipes that will eliminate those unhealthy products your using everyday on your body! Then you need to act! And act now, stop using cancerous products that harm you and your family! Top Essential Oils To make essential oils, it needs to be extracted from the plant. This can be done through expression and distillation. Expression, also referred as cold pressing, expression is method used to extract oils from citrus fruits like lime, orange, tangerine, lemon, and bergamot. In the past, expression doesn't require any sorts of tools except for a sponge. After soaking the citrus rind or zest, it will be pressed against the sponge repeatedly to absorb the oil. The sponge will then be squeezed over a container to catch the oils and allow it to separate from its juices. After a few hours, the oils will be siphoned off and bottled. A modern type of expression involves using a blender-like device that's equipped with spikes. Once the citrus zest, rind, or peel is placed into the device, it will rotate and prod and prick the citrus until the oils are released. Oil will be collected at the bottom of the device and bottled immediately.

Book Natural Milk Soapmaking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Molly Barrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Natural Milk Soapmaking written by Molly Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★Natural Milk Soapmaking with Goat, Cow & Plant-Based Milk★★ I am passionate about all things SOAP! In my newest book, I will teach you all about how to use MILK to make natural, nourishing, and healthy homemade soaps. We will also take a look at how to use milk in your skincare routine for maximum benefits. ★Milk soap can be made with any milk - cow milk, goat milk, almond milk, coconut milk★ Even if you are new to the process of soap making, I will show you how to make soap for yourself. Milk has been shown to have many direct health benefits, not just when you drink it, but applying it to your skin, too. You can add milk to your soap recipes to incorporate the milk into your homemade soap, or you can combine milk with other beneficial, natural ingredients to add to your usual skincare routine. ★Milk soap made at home offers many healthy skincare benefits★ I will teach you exactly how to make soap using milk. Some people might be intimidated by the process, but I will teach you several techniques for making soap. There's the typical hot process, cold process, and melt and pour techniques. I will share recipes utilizing all of those methods so you can choose the one you're most comfortable with. ★Don't be scared of using milk in homemade soap! I will teach you how!★ In my book, Milk Soap and Skincare at Home: Natural Soap Making with Milk, I will teach all about the soap making process and explain it in a way that even a beginner can easily understand how to make soap. If you're a soap expert but want to learn how to use milk in your homemade soap, you will learn something from this book, too. I learned so much myself, and I have been making soap for many years! Be sure to take a look at the Table of Contents in the book preview so you'll know the value of this book. You will learn all about making soap with milk, including: What is Milk Soap History of Milk in Soap Why Make Soaps with Milk A Look at the Types of Milk Cow's Milk Versus Goat's Milk Ways of Sourcing Milk Benefits of Milk Soap The Soap Making Process Supplies and Equipment You Will Need Milk and the Hot Process Soap Method Working with Lye How to Add Milk to Soap Choosing an Oil for Your Soap Choosing Coloring Using Scents Storing Milk Soaps Tips for Working with Milk Soaps Troubleshooting During the Soap Making Process 20 Unique Milk Soap Recipes Other Skin Care Products with Milk My book offers all of this and so much more! You will want to click "BUY NOW" to add this title to your collection today!

Book Soap Making Recipes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Green
  • Publisher : Charlie Creative Lab Limited Publisher
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 9781801477581
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Soap Making Recipes written by Julia Green and published by Charlie Creative Lab Limited Publisher. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know the powerful health benefits of using homemade soaps? Do you want to stop exposing your body to the chemicals present in commercialized soaps? Then keep reading... Have you ever felt "clean" but at the same time your skin felt uncomfortable, itchy and lacking moisture? It's all because of the unnatural components of the "soap" that are stripping your skin of its natural oils. Did you even take a glance at the ingredients list of what soap you're using? I'm pretty sure you have not. It's too long, filled with words you can't even understand, let alone, pronounce. It is easy to unknowingly subject your body to the harmful components of these "cleaning products" because they are readily available. These days we want everything to be fast and accessible, we barely even give it a second thought of how it might affect us, be it positively or negatively. But it's not too late to start treating you skin with the care it truly deserves! The goal of this book is simple: Teaching you all the secrets for having a shiny and soothing skin with organic soaps prepared at home. In the Soap Making Recipes book, you will learn about: The equipment you need for making your own soap The Basic Techniques and Ingredient to produce your homemade soap How to Wrap and Preserve Your Soap More than 30 recipes to start Making Your Own Soap The Cold & Hot Process Techniques Decorative Techniques (Natural Additives, Colorants & Scents) Troubleshooting and Common Mistakes in Soap Making Tips and Safety Reminders on Making Soaps at Home Soap Making as A Business Opportunity Special and Seasonal Soap Recipes And Much More! There are plenty of reasons why you should choose to make your own soaps out of organic ingredients. First of all, making your own soap enables you to take control over what you put in each bar and consequently what you apply to your skin as well as that of your family's every single day. Soap making can be either very complicated or very simple. It depends only on your approach. Like all things, all it takes is a bit of learning and patience at first. What makes soap making so attractive and amusing is that you have the freedom in selecting what goes in from the ingredients, scents and some extras - it's all about what you like! You are creating something that suits you and is also good for you! This is a step to changing your life for the better. It takes commitment to actually put soapmaking into action but believe me, your skin will thank you! Years from now you will look back and think "I'm so glad I made that change". Soap making is a fun addition to your lifestyle and that's why we are providing a guide to help you start off your life as a beginner soap maker. Answer all the questions you have now as you go through your journey page by page. If you are ready to get back into nature, then let's not wait any further! If you are ready to take the path to becoming kinder to the environment, your wallet and most importantly, yourself, then click the BUY NOW button and start your journey to a healthy skin! Change the way you live!

Book Cool Soapmaking

Download or read book Cool Soapmaking written by Anne L. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPECIAL NOTE! -- ANNE WILL PERSONALLY ANSWER ANY QUESTION OF YOURS AFTER READING THIS BOOK. ASK ON HER WEB SITE, AND YOU'LL NORMALLY HEAR BACK WITHIN HOURS! Soapmakers may love to add a variety of materials to soap, but they find that some cause more trouble than others. In the heat of the chemical reaction, an ingredient might discolor, or lose its scent, or develop a bad smell. Or it might cause problems during soapmaking, giving off noxious fumes, or making the soap harden so fast that there's no time to pour it in the mold. Help has arrived. Anne L. Watson extends the low-temp techniques from her book "Milk Soapmaking" to making soap from a variety of special ingredients, including cucumber, citrus, pine tar, beer, and wine. Soaps that have long challenged home soapmakers will now pose no problem at all. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Anne L. Watson is the first author to have introduced modern techniques of home soapmaking and lotionmaking to book readers. She has made soap under the company name Soap Tree, and before her retirement from professional life, she was a historic preservation architecture consultant. Anne and her husband, Aaron Shepard, live in Friday Harbor, Washington. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS GETTING STARTED (From High-Temp Soapmaking to Low) WHAT DO I PUT INTO IT? (The Ingredients of Cool Soapmaking) WHAT DO I USE TO MAKE IT? (Gathering the Equipment You Need) PROJECT #1: MILK SOAPS Recipe: Anne's Cool Milk Soap COOL SOAPMAKING STEP-BY-STEP (From Prep to Cleanup and Beyond) PROJECT #2: CUCUMBER SOAPS Recipe: Basic Cucumber Soap Recipe: Cucumber Yogurt Soap Recipe: Cucumber Green Clay Soap Recipe: Cucumber Apricot Soap Recipe: Cucumber Avocado Soap Sidebar: Designing Cucumber Soaps PROJECT #3: CITRUS SOAPS Recipe: Basic Citrus Soap Recipe: Orange Yogurt Soap Recipe: Citrus Honey Soap Recipe: Ruby Red Grapefruit Soap Sidebar: Designing Citrus Soaps PROJECT #4: SOAPS WITH ACCELERANTS Recipe: Sweet Bay Soap Recipe: Pine Tar Soap Sidebar: Designing Soaps with Accelerants PROJECT #5: BEER and WINE SOAPS Recipe: Basic Beer Soap Recipe: Chocolate Ale Soap Recipe: Red Wine Soap Recipe: White Wine Soap Recipe: Anne's Coconut Beer Soap Sidebar: Designing Beer and Wine Soaps WHY? WHY? WHY? (Frequently Asked Questions) WHERE TO FIND MORE

Book Step by Step Soap Making

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josephine Simon
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-03-29
  • ISBN : 9781530728855
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Step by Step Soap Making written by Josephine Simon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making your own soaps at home has never been so easy with simple Step by Step methods! Enjoy the luxury of homemade natural soaps How many times have you brought a bar of artisan or home-crafted soap to your nose and inhaled the scent and lightly traced your finger over the texture of the bar, thinking to yourself how wonderful it would be if you were only able to make soaps like that yourself at home. If you are anything like me, that exact scenario has happened, but I always backed away from soap making thinking it was just too difficult. That was until I learned just how easy and enjoyable home soap making can be. All you need to get started is a little guidance from a trusted friend, and that is exactly what you will find in this book. Soap making is an age-old craft, one that allows you creative expression and a sense of satisfaction. Within this book, the beginning soap maker will find everything that they need to start their crafting journey. From an introduction to commonly used terms to understanding and simplifying the process of creating your very own soap recipes, this book will help you along every step of the way, with clear and simple advice that isn't clouded with overly technical talk or chemistry lessons. You can now craft all of the beautiful, pure soaps that you have imagined with ease and pleasure. Inside find all the information to make soap making easy, affordable and contribute to your wellbeing and of your loved one. Organic homemade soap are the perfect gifts for friends and family. And who knows, maybe a new business! Here is what you'll get from this book: Term to know for soap making. Explanation on each style of soap making so that you can quickly determinate which one suits you best. A list of necessary materials you'll need for soap making including equipment, lye, as well as oils and fats. A list of fragrances and colorants which you can use, depending on the purpose of the soap you're making. Simple precautions for keeping your craft a safe and enjoyable experience Step by step technique to make soap using the cold processed method. Step by step technique to make soaps using the melt and pour method. 21 great recipes, including, to name just a few, the basic soap formula, Kitchen and Bath Hand Soap, the Sweet Honey Bar, the Invigorating Foot Soap, the Summer Lime Bar, the Winter Facial Bar and Herbal Shampoo Bar and for all kinds of needs. Included are also some tips on making your own soap recipes. With this book, you'll be able to master this old craft with ease thanks to the clearly explained step by step approach to soap making. It so easy and so much fun! Let's get started! Scroll back up and grab your copy today!

Book FIRST AND LAST THINGS A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE

Download or read book FIRST AND LAST THINGS A CONFESSION OF FAITH AND RULE OF LIFE written by H.G. Wells and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First and Last Things" is a political portray by using the well-known British author H.G. Wells. Wells is going deep into a number of special topics on this series of essays, asking important questions about life, human beings, and the sector. People frequently praise the writer for his work in science fiction, however in this piece, he moves far away from his memories to discover deep and uncertain thoughts. Wells appears at the character of life, evolution, morals, and what the future holds for people. He talks approximately the social results of scientific progress and thinks approximately the position that era and time play in shaping the destiny of humans. The pieces display a number of Wells's dreamy wondering and his concern approximately how development might have an effect on human beings's morals. The title of the book, "First and Last Things," indicates how large it's far: Wells is trying to figure out the maximum critical elements of human lifestyles, from how it all started out to what it could turn out to be. It's clean to spot Wells's wit, intellectual curiosity, and ahead-looking attitude in these writings. H.G. Wells is shown in "First and Last Things" to be now not handiest a superb storyteller however additionally a deep logician who writes about the complicated things human beings go through and the larger questions that have constantly interested thinkers.

Book Outgrowing the Ingrown Church

Download or read book Outgrowing the Ingrown Church written by C. John Miller and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for pacesetters -- church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves. It is a masterly mix of biblical principle, objective analysis, and personal experience.

Book You Are Your Own

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jamie Lee Finch
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-06-20
  • ISBN : 9781075246302
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book You Are Your Own written by Jamie Lee Finch and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch's "You Are Your Own" offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt those leaving the Evangelical faith and offers an approach to help them recover healthy self-worth and resilience.A socio-historical autobiographical analysis of Evangelical Christianity's religious trauma, "You Are Your Own" emerges from Finch's reconnaissance on her own life-her journals, her stories, her trauma-and offers advocacy for everyone harmed by fundamentalist faith.Jamie Lee Finch is a sexuality and embodiment coach, intuitive healer, self-conversation facilitator, sex witch, and poet. You can learn about Jamie's work at JamieLeeFinch.com

Book Go Back to Where You Came From  And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

Download or read book Go Back to Where You Came From And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American written by Wajahat Ali and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!” This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago? Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (“Become a doctor!”) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y. Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.

Book Notorious

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Jones
  • Publisher : John Jones
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Notorious written by John Jones and published by John Jones. This book was released on with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing he has psychic abilities, and that he can prove the paranormal, Curio Enchantment is convinced that fame and fortune are just over the horizon. Is he dealing with hostile forces he does not understand or cannot control? ...because ordinary members of the public start committing murder and suicide.

Book The Sense of an Ending

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julian Barnes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 0307957330
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Book Love on a Rotten Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hazel Dixon-Cooper
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-12-15
  • ISBN : 1439188718
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Love on a Rotten Day written by Hazel Dixon-Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guide to Losing -- or Finding -- Your True Soul Mate Did you know: Capricorns are cowards when it comes to public displays of affection? Aries get amorous in unusual places? Leos love to be serviced? Cosmo's Bedside Astrologer, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, reveals all this and more in this sexy, uninhibited guide to love and romance, the follow-up to her hip and hilarious Born on a Rotten Day. In Love on a Rotten Day, Dixon-Cooper walks the wild side of the zodiac, delivering the goods on which sign cheats and who's a manipulator, a bully, a brat, a nutcase, or a nympho. Lovers, would-be lovers, and ex-lovers will rejoice in advice on how to: Safely dump a Scorpio Convince a Virgo to have spontaneous sex Snag a romance-phobic Aquarius An honest and uproarious guide to losing and finding your true soul mate, Love on a Rotten Day is this century's answer to the timeless query "What's your sign?"

Book The Future Is Yours

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Frey
  • Publisher : Del Rey
  • Release : 2021-02-09
  • ISBN : 0593158229
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book The Future Is Yours written by Dan Frey and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship—and society—apart. “A fantastic page-turner and a future classic.”—Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of Paradox Bound IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO MAX ORIGINAL SERIES If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you? For Ben Boyce and Adhi Chaudry, the answer is unequivocally yes. And they’re betting everything that you’ll say yes, too. Welcome to The Future: a computer that connects to the internet one year from now, so you can see who you’ll be dating, where you’ll be working, even whether or not you’ll be alive in the year to come. By forming a startup to deliver this revolutionary technology to the world, Ben and Adhi have made their wildest, most impossible dream a reality. Once Silicon Valley outsiders, they’re now its hottest commodity. The device can predict everything perfectly—from stock market spikes and sports scores to political scandals and corporate takeovers—allowing them to chase down success and fame while staying one step ahead of the competition. But the future their device foretells is not the bright one they imagined. Ambition. Greed. Jealousy. And, perhaps, an apocalypse. The question is . . . can they stop it? Told through emails, texts, transcripts, and blog posts, this bleeding-edge tech thriller chronicles the costs of innovation and asks how far you’d go to protect the ones you love—even from themselves.

Book The Well Educated Mind  A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had  Updated and Expanded

Download or read book The Well Educated Mind A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had Updated and Expanded written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there’s no reason you can’t read and enjoy Shakespeare’s sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the “Great Books” without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?—and also between genres. In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.