Lice Books

The authors seem to think so, and you might also after reading this. There is a lot of controversy surrounding head lice today. This book is a great reference to the variety of techniques as well as a delightfully entertaining guide to their own chosen style of eliminating the determined pests. The book treats the readers with respect. The straight forward honesty of the writers is refreshing and funny.

The information is presented in an entertaining while very informative way. Quit fighting the same old over-the-counter routine...get this information so you can eliminate these critters for good, and KNOW with complete confidence that it's going to work Greatly. Then you can share what you know with others who you may find, need it as well :O)

If you have a lice problem, go out and buy this book. If you don't want to use dangerous chemicals on your kid's heads this is simply the only solution. This book is well written, clear and it is not trying to sell you anything. When you are overwhelmed with panic about an infestation, start reading and laugh again. Thank you for making this book.

I run a professional nit removal and head lice treatment service located in Roslyn, N.Y. We have been treating people with head lice for about 2 years and we use this book as our guideline. It is a wonderful book. The video is great too!

I had read "The Carrier of Ladders" in a college class in the 1980s, and recall not being particularly impressed. Clearly, I wasn't ready for Merwin's supremely focused and near-mystical artistry. I purchased this collection recently after hearing a recording of Merwin reading "The Last One" from "The Lice." What is most remarkable is his ability to express the most complex thoughts in simple language, and often, in very short pieces. By that I mean, there are probably no words in any of these poems that would not be readily understood by an intelligent ten-year-old. Merwin's sentence structure and imagery, however, are of the highest order, and merit the most careful reading to fully absorb his meaning. The overall effect is so unique and astonishing, as to be akin to magic, especially in the later books when Merwin eschews punctuation. After reading these remarkable works, I have no doubt as to Merwin's place in the canon of great poets.

this book was like merwin pouring his heart and soul onto paper, evoked emotions and memories of long ago!

Merwin touches the universal with specifics. Merwin's book bears a simplicity lacking in much of what we do today. His word choice in these poems rarely indicates they were written in the 1970's, but the style is poignantly modern nonetheless. As subjects, Merwin takes nature, aging and friendships. He peppers these with haunting feelings of hollowness, biblical allusions, and the occasional phrase that I cannot reconcile to the poems containing it. With Merwin, though, I remains content and know that a little ambiguity at the edges will keep me returning to the poem year after year.

I suggest reading on, because I have a small but appropriate few sentences to write about Merwin. I first came across Merwin when I was assigned to find a poet I liked who was still living for a poetry class. That is to say, not living for my poetry class in particular, but, a poet still alive, so my known favorites, Solomon of the Superlative Song, William Morris, Eugene Fields or Henry W. Longfellow, writers of, among other things nursey rhymes from my chldhood, nor John Keats fulfilled this alive requirement. As a result, I found myself looking to the song lyrics of the 60s and 70s I'd listened to growing up, my father being a pseudo-hippie, him not knowing that I was actually listening to the words. I say this because it is precisely this music which encouraged me to look into poetry. Unfortunately, my professor was not about to accept song lyrics from Jethro Tull or Queen, though members of the bands might still be living, which was good for me, or I never would have discovered Merwin. It was the first time I opened a book of poetry and found what I was feeling written the way I thought. Suddenly whatever feelings merely drifting at the edges of my subconscious which I had no real way of dealing with were right there on the page before me as though someone had read my mind. It was not eerie, at all, either -- it was just like being an adolescent and literally feeling one's feelings being relayed by rock and roll, or any kind of music for all the world to hear, and glad someone finally understood and was on your side. And so you go out and buy the tape, becasue it's like hearing a good friend's voice, perhaps one that relieves you of tension, or helps you formulate thoughts on the order of the world and your place in things, a friend to reassure and support you. That's what these poems are like, friends that you can read again and again, and be reassured that there is someone out there who understands you, and who can voice what you are thinking when you can't, and these revelations you can keep to yourself, or more likely share with the world, for everyone should have such a friend.

This is a story of a women who kept the terrible secret of her life in concentration camps for over 50 years. It took courage to survive and perhaps more courage to share this story with her grandaughter. As she retells her story still her concern is not for herself but for the sadness she must expose to her family.
Shana Fogarty has been able to share her grandmothers story with us in a beautiful book.
This proved to be a interesting to me and my grandchildren as well.
Thank you for this wonderful and very important book.

A halocaust's survivor's story told to her granddaaughter. What a writer this author is. I applaud this excellent book.

I met the author, Shana Fogarty, at a book signing at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. After chatting with her, I bought the book for my son, who had just finished watching a production on the story of Anne Frank a few days before. I read Shana's interview with her grandmother, Elizabeth Blum Goldstein, and was very moved not just by what she experienced, but how she tried to insulate her family from the horrors of her youth and the loss of so much of her family. The matter of fact descriptions are truly harrowing. I am happy to think that she has found peace with letting her family know what she and other victims endured, and that her account is further testimony about why the world must fight man's inhumanity to man. I would caution that some aspects of the book may be too intense for young readers (my son is 11) unless really read and put in context with adult supervision. What Mrs. Goldstein endured, and the fact that she subsequently went on to to live a relatively normal family life with all this trauma in her background, is remarkable.

This is a fantastic book- the illustrations are wonderful and it is written in a fun yet informative (not dumbed-down) style.

The beautiful illustrations and touching story which is told in first person, or should I say "first pill bug" make this a outstanding story. Great book to use in a classroom.

One would read this for its wit, alone, but the subject matter is fascinating. Dr. Zinsser wrote for the New Yorker for many years under the nom de plume of RS. This 1935 book will still be read, with pleasure, a century from now.

The copy of "Rats, Lice, and History" that I own was published in 1963, and this was the 33rd time it had been reissued since first appearing in 1934. I can't imagine Dr. Zinsser's grumpily discursive, masterfully written, and ultimately profound biography of typhus fever ever going completely out of print. Stylistically the only work I can compare it to is Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Where Gibbon occasionally dipped his pen in vinegar and excoriated the Christians, Zinsser dips his pen in hydrochloric acid and savages all of the quaint human customs that have kept Typhus alive and thriving. He shows much more affectionate sympathy for the louse than he does for the General or the Politician.

In the interests of research, Zinsser carried pill boxes of lice under his socks for weeks at a time before taking "advantage of them for scientific purposes." He is not able to tear himself away from these little creatures and address the true subject of his biography, i.e. the typhus germ, until Chapter 12!

However, the journey to Chapter 12 is well worth taking because along the way, Zinsser wittily savages modern biographers, psychoanalysis, astronomers and physicists who "scamper back to God" (Biologists evidently are much less prone to being 'born again'), and of course, all of the wars that have given Typhus countless opportunities to murder lice and humans alike.

"Rats, Lice, and History" should be required reading for would-be writers for its style, would-be Generals for its lessons on how soldiers really die, and for anyone else who is interested in a passionate, eminently witty, one-of-a-kind history of medicine.

A brilliantly poignant, and, at times devastatingly moving account of one man's struggle with that most irritating of STDs, pubic lice, this book shows that there's no reason to be ashamed if you've a dose of crabs, and that, with the right treatment, you'll be able to leave your house and start talking to potential partners about sex after a couple of years or so. There really, really isn't anything wrong with having crabs. Nothing wrong at all. Really. Nothing. Crabs are great.

This is a great book to get children involved in hands on science. The book takes you through a 10 day investigation with pillbugs. I have found that many of my students get over their fear of bugs after doing this project.

This book is one of the original She-ra Golden books with the basic "how she-ra came to be" type story. Princess Adora becomes She-ra for the first time and the premise for the Hasbro toy line and She-ra story line begins-
Great item and must have for all Masters of the Universe collectors!

Cheri Hayes draws upon her expertise as a school nurse to address the uncomfortable subject of head lice, in There's A Louse In My House with a text that is enhanced for young readers ages 3 to 9 with rhyme, humor, and sensitivity. Tom Dineen's colorful and amusing illustrations enhance the helpful tips on detecting and treating head lice. There's A Louse In My House is a "must" for family, school, public health center, and community library health reference collections for preschool and elementary medical and health books for children.

the book really takes the stigma out of a kid having lice...even the biggest nit-picker would have to admit the book has its facts down, and delivers them in an easy going manner.