The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week

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Looks Like The Best Program For Low Carbers

awsome

Very Enjoyable

SLOW GOING
The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week
Fredrick Hahn , Mary Dan Eades , and Michael R. Eades
Manufacturer: Broadway
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ASIN: 0767913868
Release Date: 2002-12-24

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Join the Slow Burn Fitness Revolution!

In The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, authors of the three-million-copy bestseller Protein Power team up with leading fitness expert Fred Hahn to revolutionize the way America gets strong, lean, and healthy. The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution lays out the accumulating body of scientific evidence that shows the spend-hours-in-the-gym approach to exercise is over. The Slow Burn exercise routine gives great results in just 30 minutes a week. With Slow Burn, you will:

*Get strong fast
*Increase bone density and ward off osteoporosis
*Improve cardiovascular health
*Enhance flexibility
*Say goodbye to lower back pain
*Increase your metabolism, and
*Make your body a powerful fat-burning machine

Slow Burn promises a leaner, fitter, stronger you with a realistic workout that lets you have a great body and a life!

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Slow Burn review.......2007-08-06

Just read this book and thought that his basic idea/theory was very interesting and revolutionary. The thought that you really can't improve your heart or lungs only your muscles is totally new to me and most interesting. I'm going to put his ideas to work.

Looks Like The Best Program For Low Carbers.......2007-07-07

I actually bought this book because I had set out to buy "The Cardio-Free Diet", by Jim Karas. I found out about Slow Burn and bought it, too, as well as the 2 Protein Power books.

I have been doing a cardio workout on a stationery bike for about 5 years. I have been spending over three hours a week, and am no longer happy with the results. It seemed no longer to be doing anything. Reading this book told me why.

The Karas approach and the Slow Burn approach are very similar. However, the diet part of Mr. Karas program is not workable for me. I have been a low carber for 6 years and have lost 86 pounds. Mr. Karas' diet approach is low-fat/low-calorie/low-protein/sort of low-carb. See a pattern there? I could never follow that program without ruining my diet efforts. Slow Burn was written by Fred Hahn, the fitness expert, and the Drs. Eades, experts on the low carbohydrate diet. For anyone who is or wants to be low carb, this is the one to buy.

Also, I haven't actually started my Slow Burn workouts yet. It took me a couple of months to read all my books. For the Slow Burn program there is not much one has to buy, but I do still need a couple of things so I haven't started yet. Reading the other comments about people's results in just a month or two has recharged me! I'm looking forward to jumping in.

awsome.......2007-06-02

where all other fitness books fall short. this one doesnt....the authors hit a home run with this..it gets to the point, explanes why, and pictures show you how. i liked the idea you can actually do this at home for little or no money..

Very Enjoyable.......2007-05-29

Very interesting book. After reading it, I felt convinced of the author's ideas, and was excited to start using their program. Wish the book had a little more heft, detail, and described more evidence that supported their case that their form of exercise was the best. Subtract the pages on how to do various exercises, that I found redundant as someone who has lifted weights frequently in the past, and you have a pretty short book. I felt it was worth it though to find out about their method. The method, by the way, was one I had heard about years and years ago. A bodybuilder named Mike Mentzer popularized what he called the "Heavy Duty" training system, which is about the same as the "Slow Burn" system. The "Super Slow" system is the same as well, really. What I wanted out of the book was evidence to convince me that this was the best method, and a little guidance, and I felt that I got that from the book, so I was happy.

SLOW GOING.......2007-04-16

The first 85 pages of this book try and sell the reader on weight training, and discourage people from running.
Another book uses the supper slow method to get amazing results the book: Bigger Muscles in 42 Days by Ellington Darden. In this book he uses the supper slow method to help the man pictured on the cover build 34 pounds of muscle in 42 days. The supper slow method woks but I am not sure that you can get everything out of the gym in just 30 min per week. When I did the Darden program 15-20 min. 6 says per week is all I could do at the gym. The Darden program had me working 4x more than this program.You can skip this book if you know that each exercise is doe for ten seconds up, and ten seconds down. Working your muscles until failure.

Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower

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Enjoy the process of exercise and eat right. Nothing complicated here, just good sound advice and reminding.
for serious runners, but there lots here for everyone...
Revelation
Running Can Be Fun for Anyone!
Change your Focus and you will Dramatically Change your Life - Your Health, your Appearance and your Mind

Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower
Stu Mittleman , and Katherine Callan
Manufacturer: Collins
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ASIN: 0062736744
Release Date: 2001-07-03

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Exercise trends come and go, and one of the ones that went in the late 1990s was the idea of exercising slowly to burn more fat. The theory was well rooted in exercise science--you burn a higher percentage of fat while exercising slowly and a higher percentage of carbohydrate as you speed up--but not very practical for most people. If you're only going to exercise for a half-hour a day, you burn a lot more calories by going fast than slow, regardless of how many of those calories come from fat.

Now Stu Mittleman, probably the foremost advocate of slow exercise, wants to reopen the argument. Slow Burn presents an entire lifestyle plan built around running slowly. He doesn't disagree with the idea that you can lose weight faster by training faster; he just thinks it's too stressful for the body to exercise that way.

Mittleman is one of the most famous long-distance runners in the world, and by long, we're talking really long: he once ran 571 miles in six days. So the program he outlines in Slow Burn shows you how to slow down and achieve more--an exercise plan that's less stressful to your body; a diet plan with less sugar and more healthy, unsaturated fats from fish and olive oil; and some tips about rethinking your everyday life to make it less stressful. (For example, he advocates the 85 percent rule: try to do everything the right way 85 percent of the time, and don't knock yourself out over the last 15 percent.) He also peppers the book with theories he's picked up from various branches of alternative medicine and nutrition--applied kinesiology, reflexology, and eating according to blood type. Mittleman's plan isn't for everyone. Certainly, if you like weight lifting or fast-paced sports like hockey and basketball, you won't find much to like here. But if you hate the pressure to always go faster, faster, faster, in life and in exercise, you'll find that Mittleman is on your side. --Lou Schuler

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Change your workout, change your life

In Slow Burn, endurance master Stu Mittleman delivers a program for creating energy and increasing endurance so you can go the distance and feel great doing it every day, week, and year.

Think Stu shares his proven formula for breaking down seemingly insurmountable goals into a series of manageable tasks.

Train Learn to understand your body's signals and refocus your training so that the movement -- not the outcome -- is the reward.

Eat Stu taeches you how to make nutritional choices that leave you energized -- not exhausted -- all day long.

You really can accomplish more -- with less effort -- than you ever imagined. All you have to do is change your focus and you'll change your life. Let Slow Burn show you how to enjoy the journey and achieve the results.

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Enjoy the process of exercise and eat right. Nothing complicated here, just good sound advice and reminding........2007-08-21

The book offers good advice on exercising, particularly on running, and nutrition. Stu places a lot emphasis on endurance training rather than speed; he also creates a model of exercise that revolves around the enjoyment of the process as the only way to develop the long-term habits of exercise.

I bought the book because I wanted to learn what Stu did to maintain such physical fitness and endurance in his 50s. The book covers his exercise and nutritional philosophy quite well, although the information is not revolutionary. Mr. Mittleman has an incredible record as an endurance athlete and in this book he teaches us his simple to follow approach for a healthy, energy-filled life. Stu Mittleman is an incredible role model and an extraordinary athlete. Enjoy!

for serious runners, but there lots here for everyone..........2007-08-04

I was browsing for a book on running because I needed a little motivation due to some bad shin splints and I was thinking of quiting running altogether. Then I came across Stu Mittlemans book. It said he runs ultra marathons of 1,000 miles in 11 days. I thought to myself that this is obviously a man that can motivate himself to run! And he probably knows a little bit about shin splints too.

I read the chapter on injuries. Stu talked about the different types of running shoes for different feet and running styles. I bought a more correct style of shoe and changed my stride to the one Stu recommends and the shin splints have not been back for at least two months.

I used to run because I liked the challenge of running hard and fast. After reading what Stu wrote about paying attention to your body and your vision, I started running at a just slightly slower pace, I can go much further, and I feel great after the runs. Before I was exhausted when I was done, now I am almost refreshed. I guess there really is something to what he says about running to burn fat as opposed to running while burning sugar.

My running times have advanced and I now run faster than I did before reading the book, but I still have more energy to keep running, so my distances have more than doubled at that pace.

Its a great book and I highly recommend it if you want to run more efficiently.

Revelation.......2007-05-21

I hated running and jogging but was looking for a good exercice regime.
In this book I found more than exercice but a life-style that increases your level of health and vitality. I run 3 to 5 times a week now and I love it!

Running Can Be Fun for Anyone!.......2006-10-12

A friend of mine got me Stu's book because he had seen him speak at an event. He passed it along to me with a grunt and said something like, "you like running, right?"

In this book, Mittleman outlines an approach to running that is actually... gulp... fun.

As I read through the chapters, I realized that Stu was talking very explicitly about what I had been doing as a runner but was never able to put it into words. My approach, just like Stu's is the long, slow, distance approach. Run because you feel like it, not because you have to--for any reason.

Stu works extensively with heart rate monitors, but that doesn't mean this book isn't accessible to runners who abhor them. I'm not a big fan of strapping myself up to a monitor at all, but still found extreme value in the book.

The main portion of the book covers how to run for fitness and training. The general idea is to train at a comfortable heart rate and if you're interested in gaining speed, you should push your heart rate up in intervals. The training techniques are effective and again the good news for non-runner-techno-geeks is that Stu explains how to read your heart rate without even taking your pulse. He talks about how to sense where you are and where you should be for the specific type of training you need.

Mittleman also covers nutrition (a low carb approach) and kinesiology for addressing certain issues physical and mental.

Funny enough as extra testimony to the book, I gave the book to an obese client of mine and she absolutely loved the philosophy of it--regardless of whether or not she's ever planning to run.

Kevin Gianni, NCSF-CPT
Author of "The Busy Person's Fitness Solution"

Change your Focus and you will Dramatically Change your Life - Your Health, your Appearance and your Mind.......2006-07-26

You really can accomplish more, with less effort, than you ever imagined. You just have to change your focus and you will change your life. It worked for me !!. Armed with a Polar Heart Rate Monitor (the old M61) I was able to drop more than 200 lbs in about eight months, and the slow burn lifestyle (think, train, eat) has helped me keep those lbs off for over six years. Not only I went fro size 44 to size 32 pants, but also obtained substantial benefits that included weight control, cardiovascular improvements, lowered blood pressure, and improved muscular-skeletal strength and flexibility, but also the myriad of mental and psychological benefits derived from being in the best shape of my life.

The author lays out a program for creating energy and increasing endurance so you will be able to go the distance and feel great doing it. And it also helps you stay committed to the program, so you can be consistent everyday.

When I first started my slow burn training I was unable to jog even for five uninterrupted minutes without gasping for air. After a few months I was able to go jogging for 90 uninterrupted minutes six days a week. Think, Train, Eat, it really works.

The book not only presents a remarkable customized training program that will help you, but it makes also a very interesting reading.

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Slow Burn
Enjoyable story, held my interest and attention
Good enough to try more
Julie Garwood never fails to tell a compelling story
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Slow Burn: A Novel
Julie Garwood
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345453840
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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Skillfully blending searing suspense, characters with grit and heart, and a dynamic plot, bestselling author Julie Garwood has written another electrifying novel of romantic suspense.

Kate MacKenna doesn’t have a bad bone in her body–or an enemy in the world. A woman who barely knew her father and has just lost her mother, Kate is a loving sister, a savvy business owner, and an unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes?

The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police detective. The second one sends her into the arms of her best friend’s brother–a Boston cop who’s a little too reckless and way too charming for comfort. But Dylan Buchanan won’t let emotion prevent him from doing his job: Someone is trying to kill Kate, and Dylan is the only one standing between her and the monster who wants her dead. For Kate to understand the danger, she must learn all about desire–desire for pleasure, desire for power, and someone’s desire to kill.

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Slow Burn.......2007-09-09

This was a great book, it kept me entertained and guessing right to the end.

Enjoyable story, held my interest and attention.......2007-03-19

This story was set in South Carolina, Savannah, and a bit in Boston. It is an action packed mystery with several possible culprits, and the suspense is held until the end. There is also a romance between the main character and her best friend's boyfriend, who also happens to be investigating in the mystery. I enjoyed the sisters, and especially the settings. I am left with a few very minor questions, but those lose ends didn't have anything to do with the main plot, just the side relationships of the characters. The characters in this book were positive and cared about doing what was right.

This is the first story I have read/listened to by Julie Garwood, and it seemed very possible that there were other books before this one that used these characters because they made many references to past experiences with each other. I would read a story by her again definately.

I have listened to a book narrated by Joyce Bean before, and again, I like her style. She differentiates the characters pretty well and uses special affects for phone conversations and things.

Good enough to try more.......2007-03-09

This is the first book I have read of Julie Garwood. I enjoyed the book enough that I plan to try out some of JG's other books. The plot was interesting. One thing I did get tired of was the way the author portrayed Kate's feelings for Dylan. I was happy to see a somewhat suprising ending. I would recommend this book to my friends. Actually one of my friends read it and loved it.

Julie Garwood never fails to tell a compelling story.......2007-02-27

Kate MacKenna has worked extremely hard to make a success of her business that she had started purely by accident when she made candles to give away as gifts. Her friends convinced her that they were marketable and her company grew from there. Just when it seems that everything should be going great, inexplicable events start happening.

Dylan Buchanan is the brother of Kate's best friend, Jordan. He also happens to be a detective in Boston. Dylan was injured in the line of duty and is currently on leave from the department. Dylan's had a crush on Kate for many years. He's never acted on it though, until now.

Unbeknownst to Kate or her sisters, a wealthy relation whom they'd never met changed his will, leaving each a very wealthy woman , but which puts them at great risk from the various money hungry relatives who are desperate to get their hands on the fortune. In Kate's world, everything is going wonderfully, her company is expanding, her sister's are both happy and well adjusted. The only exception is her sister, Kiera's attempts at `sexing Kate up' which includes wearing a Wonderbra. Little did Kate know that uncomfortable contraption would save her life! She'd worn the Wonderbra to an art showing that was being put on by a friend of hers'. When it became too uncomfortable, Kate was forced to go outside to remove it because the bathrooms were out of order. An explosion occurred and Kate was knocked unconscious. Once she is released from the hospital, Kate learns that her mother had put all her assets up as collateral before her death, one of the assets was Kate's company. When Kate had returned to college, she made her mother a partner so that she'd be able to make deposits and sign checks. The balloon payment is due within thirty days or Kate loses the company. Without her company how would she pay for her sisters' college tuition? Kate is soon given yet another reason to panic when she receives a phone call from Jordan. She'd discovered a lump in her breast and surgery was scheduled in a few days. Amidst all her worries about her sisters' tuition, her company, and their home, Kate flies to Boston from Charleston, South Carolina, to be with her friend. She'd never expected to see Dylan while she was in town, or have the one night stand she wouldn't be able to forget.

Julie Garwood has been one of my favorite authors for many years. Her books are smart, sassy, brilliantly humorous, and they always have an awesome plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat. SLOW BURN had me hooked right from the first chapter. You can easily envision the elderly relative's disdain for his self-indulgent relatives as he has someone videotape his explanation of his last will and testament to them all. It's a brilliant scene, and I absolutely loved it. The main characters are all down to earth, just the kind of people you'd want to have as friends. I was fascinated by Kate's ability to come through each crisis relatively unscathed, and was thrilled with Dylan's involvement in her life, especially after she practically ran out on him after a one night stand. Just when I thought I knew who was out to kill Kate and why, I reached the end of the book only to have to go back and reread it just because it stunned me the way it turned out. I have recently been told that Julie Garwood is the "Queen of Suspense" and I have to agree. Wonderfully done Ms. Garwood.

Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)

Slow Burn Audio CD.......2007-02-07

Very enjoyable. Listening to a book allows me to enjoy the story when I'm unable to read it. If you enjoyed the book, the audio version allows you to enter the world the story creates.

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4 1/2 stars
Excellent end
I was expecting so much more...
No chemistry for a fire
Explosive...

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Release Date: 2006-12-26

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4 1/2 stars.......2007-08-14

This is a modern romance.

Kate Mackenna inherits 80 million dollars (yikes) from her uncle and survives several attempts on her life--by dumb luck mostly. LOL

She avoids getting blown up, while leaning down in her car seat to get her dropped phone. LOL Lucky her!

Her bestfriend sends her brother, Dylan (detective from Boston on leave) to help Kate.

This was a nice book to read. Good change from "hysterical romances." Well written, two likeable characters.

Excellent end.......2007-07-15

This is my first JG's book and I'll be looking for more. The book's story is charming. You'll really know the meaning of "good friend", that no-matter what problems overwhelm you you'll help your friend. But the paramount learning in this book is that you can't judge anybody if you don't have all facts. And a fact is that you won't have any inkling of how the book'll end.

I was expecting so much more..........2007-06-06

I've been a big fan of Julie for about sixteen years now. I've read most of her novels multiple times and so it was with great anticipation that I finally sat down to read Slow Burn.

This novel turned out to be a huge disappointment for me. It felt about 50 pages too short. We are told early in the novel that Kate and Dylan knew each other in the past, yet very little is said about how they came to care so much about each other in the present. Or more accurately, why they pretend not to care about each other. I wish that Julie would have taken some time to give us some flashbacks between Kate and Dylan. I think it would have fleshed out the characters a bit more. Overall the whole thing just felt a tad incomplete to me.

Also, the main character, Kate, seems to be a complete idiot and I found myself screaming at her more often than not. *SPOILER ALERT* Kate inherits more than eighty million dollars yet refuses to use any of that money for herself despite having a huge debt that will possibly cost her her business, her house and her sister's education. She doesn't want to use the money because of the person it came from. Self sacrifice is one thing, but this goes way beyond being believable.

I've always loved Julie's strong and self reliant heroines. Most of them are great and memorable characters that I love to revisit from time to time. I don't think Kate will be one of them. She feels more like a caricature of one of those great heroines.

No chemistry for a fire.......2007-05-16

Ok, Garwood tells us over and over how much Kate desires Dylan, and Dylan is clearly concerned for Kate. However, they are repetitive characters who don't grow. Besides, Kate goes from having a one-night stand with Dylan to being rude to him. She thinks he cat's about - though she claims she "understands" he must sleep around because he is an attractive man, it doesn't reflect well on either of their characters. Especially since they are together.

Also, Kate is ridiculously, masochistically self-sacrificing, not telling her sisters that their relatives might want her dead. She seems unable to communicate and connect with anyone, burdening herself with every problem. * SPOILER ALERT * And, she wants to get back at her horrible relatives, but she won't spend any of the money she inherits from their side of the family on her mother's enormous debts. It's one thing to make a statement, another to be financially retarded. Perhaps because she overdoes the self-righteous self sacrificing, she is passive-aggressive to her relatives and to Dylan.

Explosive..........2007-03-28

Honestly, if there were as many explosions around me as there are around Kate, I would curl up in a ball and cry. That being said, Julie Garwood's story is intriguing and you have to love the spunk that Kate shows in the face of repeated attempts on her life. The chemistry between Kate and Dylan is terrific. I was lucky and read this book after the second book had been released in Hardcover. Overall, a great read!

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Slow Burn (A Madaris Family Novel)
Brenda Jackson
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Release Date: 2007-10-30

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Everything in attorney Skye Barclay’s life is fitting smoothly into place until she makes the startling discovery that she was adopted. Not only does she learn that her birth mother has died, but now Skye finds out that she has a biological brother: Vincent. Skye wants to track him down, and her parents support her. But her fiancé, Clark, refuses to accept her decision…and abruptly ends their engagement.

Skye’s search for Vincent leads her to his adoptive parents, Dr. Justin and Lorren Madaris, and, lo and behold, Slade Madaris—Vincent’s tall, dark, and sexy cousin. Slade is by far the most compelling man Skye has ever met, but she isn’t ready to get involved so soon after Clark’s rejection…not even when Slade offers her a job so she can stay in town and get to know her brother better.

Slade is a shrewd businessman, but hiring Skye is one of the riskiest moves he’s ever made. Soon their mutual attraction explodes into a steamy summer affair. When Clark shows up in town, determined to win Skye back, Slade sets out to prove that he and Skye are meant to be together. Because a Madaris man never walks away from a challenge—especially when true love is on the line…

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awesome read
Good, but doesn't quite live up to the title
Slow Burn Burns Up the Pages!!!
You'll scream in frustration
Contempory romance at it's best

Slow Burn
Heather Graham
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After the brutal slaying of her husband, Spencer Huntington demands answers for the senseless murder of the man she loves. She turns to David Delgado, her husband's former partner -- and her exlover. Soon the reluctant partnership and their loyalties are tested by the tortured secrets and desperate schemes of a killer -- and a desire for each other they cannot deny . . .

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awesome read.......2007-03-10

Slow burn is an excellent read. I have read of all of Heather Graham's bboks and once again, this is top notch. David's love for Spencer is for all time. Graham makes him come to life and he is very realistic. what you would expect of a virile Latin male. I could fall in love with him. Spencer is feisty and has gumption. although it is a bit sad, the ending makes it all worthwhile. If you're into romantic suspense, the villian is not too hard to figure out.

it's a definite must read.

Good, but doesn't quite live up to the title.......2004-06-07

I love Heather Graham books, but this wasn't my favorite. It's good, but not quite a keeper. Read if you love trying to figure out who-done-it continuously. Too sad of a plot and head spinning with the suspicious actions of everyone around the main characters for me. I felt like I was being jerked around a little bit, led this way and that. Mainly, it just wasn't passionate enough and detailed enough for me in the romance part and that's why I read these books!

Slow Burn Burns Up the Pages!!!.......2002-03-15

Wow! I haven't read a Graham book in a long time and I thought I would try out one of her contemporaries and boy was I shocked! I had only read her historicals all these years. This was excellent! The characters were so real and complex, I loved them! Especially the male lead of David Delgado. Whew, does he burn up the pages!!!

~Spencer Huntington just lost her husband, a police detective, to a brutal murder and now she is faced with the possibilty that the crime wasn't random at all. She needs help and only the trusted help of her husband's best friend and her former lover and ex-cop David Delgado. But, can she do it? She has to. She has to swallow her pride and put the past aside and get to the bottom of this heinous act.

David is from the wrong side of the tracks, being a former Cuban refugee as a child and struggling through life with nothing until his best friend Danny Huntington saved him. Danny made his friends David's too and they both fell in love with the same girl, a petite blonde rich girl named Spencer Montgomery. Ten years later, David is faced with his friend's murder and his widow, the only woman David ever loved.
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Can their long lost love hinder their efforts for the truth or spur them on to the end? A killer awaits...

Gritty and very well written. As I would expect from Ms. Graham. David is very real and deep. Spencer is no 'rich girl' to be put on a shelf. These two make a real 'slow burn' on the pages and you will wish for more! The only complaint is that the killer is a little farfetched, but all in all, the story make up for it by far! Definate hot romance to read on a hot summer night even though I read it in March, lol.

Tracy Talley~@

You'll scream in frustration.......1999-06-21

I certainly felt like doing so when the murderer was unveiled. I won't give anything away if for some reason you decide to read this book, but believe me the murderer is the one person who absolutely could not have committed the crime... at least not without more explanation from Pozzessere as to the logistics of the crime. But I went back and checked and double-checked and I'm positive that this was a case of this author's habitual sloppiness with details. Forget this book. It's not worth the frustration.

Contempory romance at it's best.......1998-08-29

David and Spencer are not your average lovers. With a long history and wonderful future, there story goes from Miami to Newport. With a killer thrown in it makes for a wondeful mystery as well! The pereferal characters are wonderful and add much to a great story. Cuddle up with this one on a winters night and before you know it, it will be spring.

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Slow Burn: A Novel (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
Julie Garwood
Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
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Release Date: 2005-08-30

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A must read

Slow Burn
Orrin DeForest , and David Chanoff
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A must read.......2004-10-11

I found this book to be exceptionally insightful for anyone who is interested in intelligence operations deaing with defeating a highly motivated and organized enemy. Having spent two tours in Iraq, there is no other book I can more strongly recommend for anyone, especially intelligence professionals, trying to obtain some very valuable "lesson's learned" in understanding the HUMINT aspects of the global war on terrorism.

Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam

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Very Useful Memoir
Crystal-clear insights into intelligence failure in Viet-Nam

Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
Orrin Deforest , and David Chanoff
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Very Useful Memoir.......2005-01-16

Orrin DeForest's brilliant and incisive memoir serves both as an instruction manual and as a dire warning for the American intelligence apparatus. While the book was published several years ago, I can think of few volumes more relevant for our troubled times. As the United States struggles with a highly complex insurgency in Iraq, while also battling a new form of international terrorist insurgency, it should look with an intense focus at our failure in Vietnam. While many will point out the numerous differences between the Vietnam war and the current situation, our current failure to combat the Iraqi insurgency shares a multitude of disturbing traits. It is the readers, and indeed, the countries misfortune to drip over unfortunate South East Asian parallels in the fight against an insurgency that appears as mysterious as it did a year ago. These mirror images are described clearly in DeForest's valuable historical perspective.

DeForest was an Air Force veteran who has served both in the Pacific campaign and in the post war occupation of Japan. During his stint in Japan, DeForest served as an police officer, performing liaison duties with the Japanese national police. Little did he know that this perfunctory service would pay appreciable dividends in a war yet to come. This was war found in Vietnam, where DeForest was sent to in 1968, as an employee of the CIA. DeForest's veteran eye saw an agency in absolute criminal disarray, far removed from legendary "successes" such as Operation Phoenix. The insurgency was alive and well, and even worse, unknown. American officials, both military and civilian, had little grasp on the organizational structure behind the Viet Cong and various other local forces within South Vietnam. The enemy was a ghost, with the United States relying almost exclusively on South Vietnamese intelligence, whose officials were either hopelessly corrupt or incompetent. Vietnamese speaking CIA agents were few, and a sense of impending doom and failure had settled in among various CIA officials in Saigon. DeForest quickly recognized what needed to be done and what he could do to help. The tale of his individual and low level efforts to restructure the CIA's efforts inside Vietnam is a story of a man not given to professional resignation in the face of hostile forces.

Within his assigned local area of responsibility, DeForest soon went about creating a system of tracking and indexing who the insurgents were and who they sought aid from. This simple card catalog type technique, ignored by the CIA before, quickly became indispensable in grasping the overall picture of the communist insurgency. On another front, DeForest created a more effective way of debriefing defectors or prisoners by using forms of respect and care that would ingratiate the communists to their captors. With a better way of procuring information and then compiling it in an organized manner, DeForest quickly began producing superior results, including battle field intel and political information concerning the makeup and distribution of the insurgency's political effort. Agency officials were wary of his radical success, primarily because they could not understand that the grand plans hatched back home in Langley were woefully inadequate. Through a mixture of official chicanery and the ignorance or tacit support of his superiors, DeForest managed to keep his intelligence center going for over 5 years, destroying large swaths of the communist infrastructure inside South Vietnam, along with the deaths of thousands of NVA soldiers. One man can do little in the face of such widespread failure however, and as history proved in Vietnam, one man cannot prop up the rotten corpse that was the Republic of South Vietnam.

DeForest's book is written in a very earthy and understandable way, as to make it rapidly accessible by all readers. While his superiors were busy with infighting and career advancement, DeForest and a few others continued to advocate a sensible response to increased Vietcong activity. At the same time, DeForest learned to respect and even love the culture of Vietnam, and used this understanding to construct an interrogation plan. He married a Vietnamese woman, and became good friends with many of his Vietnamese employees. His description of Vietnam is a tragic one, of a people betrayed by corrupt leaders and American officials who did not fully understand the battle against communist forces. Slow Burn should serve as a pertinent warning to anyone involved in the security of the United States.

Crystal-clear insights into intelligence failure in Viet-Nam.......2000-04-08

This is one of two books I regard as essential to an understanding of our intelligence failures in Viet-Nam. DeForrest was a former military enlisted man who ended up managing a great deal of the prisoner interrogation for a major Agency facility in-country. His story ties together a number of important themes, from the failure of Ivy League types to understand what they were dealing with to the inadequacies (and sometimes the superiority) of vast numbers of "contract" case officers who would normally not have been hired, to the very real value of systematically debriefing all prisoners and entering the results into a database amenable to search and retrieval, something we don't know how to do today. Across every major military operation since Viet-Nam, it has been my experience that we have no table of organization and equipment, completely inadequate numbers of trained interrogators and translators, and no commitment to the tedious but essential work of extracting knowledge from large numbers of hostile prisoners.

Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science

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Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science
Kath Weston
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415920442

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The "Gay '90s" of the 20th century have been nothing if not, well, gay. For the first time, gays and lesbians have witnessed consistent positive representation of their lives in film, on television, in literature, and in politics. Gay culture has even extended itself to the oft-impenetrable ivory tower, where academics have been conceiving a new branch of the humanities: gay and lesbian studies. As anthropologist Kath Weston notes in Long Slow Burn, the social sciences are just now catching up to the discipline and "getting hip to queer consideration." As even non-gay academics begin to examine literature, film, and the arts with an eye for queer sensibilities, Weston convincingly argues that gay and lesbian studies are here to stay.

The essays that comprise Long Slow Burn were written at various points throughout the '90s, when queer theory emerged as a viable academic discipline. A self-proclaimed "native ethnographer," Weston explores the trends in gay and lesbian migration from rural areas to big cities--particularly "Meccas" like San Francisco and New York City's Greenwich Village--and passionately searches for more creative, less elitist approaches to queer theory.

At turns thought-provoking and introspective, Long Slow Burn is certain to secure a place for gay and lesbian studies that can extend beyond the arts and sciences. --Kera Bolonik

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The last decade has seen the transformation of the study of sexuality from a marginalized effort to a fully respected discipline at many major universities. There are numerous publications devoted solely to the topic and queer theory, a force to be reckoned with, has its own celebrities. Nonetheless, queer studies is considered to be the brainchild of the humanities, with the social sciences slowly coming around to apply its principles to empirical research. Long, Slow Burn, a powerful collection of essays by Kath Weston, argues that social science has been talking about sex all along; to deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the way sexuality has been isolated from other contemporary issues. Long, Slow Burn lays out a radically different approach to the study of sexuality. Not content with its ghettoization as a contained subfield, Weston refuses to draw an artificial line around sexuality. Her essays do not attempt to make sexuality a discrete object of study. Rather, each essay "sexes up" a conventional subject, such as kinship, race or labor, proving that once you start paying attention to sexuality, you can never look at social issues in the same way again. Long, Slow Burn offers an intervention, an attempt to see sexuality as it permeates the multiple fibers of our social fabric. It demonstrates that sexuality has always been a part of the social sciences, but more importantly, is the key to their future.

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