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Where Are You Going?: A Guide to the Spiritual Journey

Published in Hardcover by UBS Publishers Distributors (1997)

Author: Swami Muktananda

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Brillant in Its Clarity

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-12-28

Swami Muktananda provides a masterful explanation of the Hindu way of life and the art of meditation as a means whereby individuals can achieve awareness or consciousness of their Godly core. What makes his explanation superior is that it is written in the language of ordinary people without all the flowering prattle and mumbo-jumbo of other Hindu theologians. It is educational, brilliant in its clarity, and inviting--a must read for people in search of inner peace (relief of stress) and greater spirituality. The review is also published on my website.

One book which will lead you through your life's journey

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-09-19

If you are looking for one book that will take you through the ups and downs of life this is it. Baba Muktananda the Master Guide will show you where EXACTLY you are going . This book has been my guide ever since I laid eyes upon it.

"WE ARE ALL GOD" is... "The True Religion"

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2003-01-14

"We are all God" is the KEY message of this book and getting ourselves to REALLY REALIZE it is the most difficult part. It is our own disbelief in ourselves being GOD that is stopping us from attaining true, ultimate BLISS and HAPPINESS. Muktananda explains to us how to get rid of our negativity and doubt. He gives us the secrets of sounds (the mantra), breathing technique (our natural mantra that we do every time we take a breath)! Just as "The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment" gives us further, detailed SECRET TECHNIQUES that will SAVE US VALUABLE TIME & ENERGY so we can attain HAPPINESS & BLISS immediately! This book was TERRIFIC, it explains the Eastern Traditions in simple, easily understood and VERY ATTAINABLE terms. It is an awsome look at how we complicate everything ourselves and gives us the solutions to make changes in our life right now!
Thank you Muktananda for revealing these sacred techiques to us!!!

good place to start for the beginner

Helpful Votes: 8 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-30

This is a great book for the beginner starting out on the path to self-realization. It is written in a style that is very easy to understand and contains some simple and yet profound truths towards enlightenment. I particularly liked the chapter on the mantra - om namah shivayah - and how the author recommends chanting it on the commute to work or when you have idle time. It's certainly been working for me and this little book is now a permanent fixture, dipped into regularly, on the bookshelf.

Buy it and do your Self a favour

Om Namah Swami Muktananda

Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-11

Back in 1996 when I was 40 years old somebody gave me a copy of this book for a Christmas present. It stopped me in my tracks. Where WAS I going? What most impressed me initially with Swami Muktananda's writing was how clearly he seemed to understand my existential quandry, as if, without even knowing me, he understood everything about my spiritual predicament, as well as having knowledge of subjects far beyond my grasp. Well, I was hooked. I now have a collection of two big boxes full of Muktananda books and Muktananda-related books. What can I say, Muktananda is one of those rare beings with the ability to impart Shakti to his readers, just with his word.

Burning Point

Published in Paperback by Alamo Square Distributors (2000-05)

Author: Dennis N. Hinkle

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changed me

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-04-23

I found this book at a rummage sale for a buck. I started reading it at the book store and couldn't stop. The language is very touching. While I read this book I stopped often. It's like you have to digest the words to hear their melody. It is really incredible when a book changes you. Changes your perspective and allows you to see through the eyes of another. It did this for me. I just finished reading it, and I want to read it again this time slower. It is one of those books that while you read it you want to tell the world go read it. it's good. maria

Life Changing

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-27

Denny Hinkle's book gave me back something that I'd lost. It was an understanding of my own journey, replete with valleys and peaks, many joys and many sorrows. Like Denny, I followed society's conventions, was married, and had a family. All the while, denying a very basic part of myself and my nature. When life's circumstances allowed me to begin to be exactly who I was, I found self-acceptance and self-love awaiting me. "Burning Point" is not easy to read. You have to stop often and look inside yourself, get in touch with your own life, and often times utter a prayer of thanks that you didn't undergo some of the family trauma that was a part of his daily existence. I raced to the end of this book and found joy...for Denny and for me. So will you. This book is written from the heart and Denny Hinkle's heart connected with my own.

A Courageous Memoir

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2000-11-08

In this courageous memoir, Dr. Hinkle weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of sensuality, longing and self-discovery. We are invited into his world by an image that is with me still: Appearing from the mist, ethereal and angelic, a blond boy on a hill, sent to teach acceptance of one's truest self. A clinical psychologist, Dr. Hinkle relates his history with riveting prose in an uncompromising, yet compassionate manner. His journey encourages the reader to discover their own unrealized selves - to challenge their own limits and bravely put one foot in front of the other. I have tremendous admiration for the life he has lived and the love he has found.

Amazing Honesty and Insight

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2000-07-30

Burning Point, a true story, is the most revealing, intimate, profoundly moving portrait of a man's life that I have ever read. The riviting conflicts of his life are presented in the first chapter, which ends in one of the many unforgettable scenes of the book, establishing the suspense that I felt throughtout Burning Point until its dramatic conclusion. The author, a psychologist, writes beautifully about the central issues of his life with amazing honesty and depth of insight. He is obviously a very talented writer. This book is a real page-turner. Best of all, the many emotions I felt helped me to learn about myself.

An interesting, honest memoir

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2000-07-24

This book is a memoir that deals with the author's decades-long struggle to understand, and come to terms with, his sexual self. The struggle is described with brutal honesty, against a background of family, the rituals of high school and college, institutions (including the US Army), political life, societal norms, contemporary history, religion, and more. Yet the writing never bogs down, and the reader finds himself impelled along with the author down a turbulent river of discovery. Hinkle recalls or recreates conversations and impressions in an absolutely convincing style. Gay people who read this book will doubtless relate to many of the incidents and emotions he details. Straight people will probably be astonished to discover that what is referred to as one's "sexual orientation" isn't necessarily all that straightforward. All readers will enjoy Hinkle's fine ability to describe his conflict without being either maudlin or self-righteous.

Burning Point is the story of a journey, that moves from the author's childhood and relations with his parents, to betrayal of an early homosexual love, with attendant regret and grief, through a "normal" period of heterosexual marriage and raising a family, and finally into the acceptance and joy of Hinkle's present life.

So this is a story with a happy ending, but it has many dark moments. Hinkle, who is a clinical psychologist, has a great facility with words. Though the situations and feelings he describes are often of the most tortuous and complicated nature, the writing is so straightforward that it is a very easy (though long) book to read. And there's not an ounce of psychobabble present!

Dark Horses & Underdogs: The Greatest Sports Upsets of All Time

Published in Hardcover by Grand Central Publishing (2005-10-27)

Author: Les Krantz

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"A Good Friend"

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2005-11-28

This book was a great read obviously best sports moment book ever. DVD included with best moments. Worth the money.

Smashing!

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 12 total.
Review Date: 2005-11-23

One fantastic sports book, one smashing sports show on the DVD. This is GREAT!

FABULOUS SPORTS BOOK

Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-29

There are 50 chapters, each about underdogs and how they triumphed. The chapters are in "ranking order," meaning the author assigned ranks to each based on a poll of sportswriters. I thought this was an interesting approach. The stories are very well written and are accompanied by fabulous photos, some of the best I've seen. I especially like the DVD. Jim Lampley is the show host and he offers a lot of insight into the games, since he was at many of them, as he relates in the program. It is a very long and huge book that will take lots of time to read. Browsing, though is fun too, since there's a variety of side information that supplements the text. I liked the whole concept a lot and plan to give the book as Christmas gifts, which should be well received, since it's not just a good book, the DVD is really wonderful, very inspirational.

As usual, for the horses...but the rest is great too.

Helpful Votes: 12 out of 12 total.
Review Date: 2005-11-17

With Funny Cide and Seabiscuit in it...you think I would miss this? The whole book is terrific, especially as a gift for the guy you can never get off the couch in front of the TV, yelling his head off for whatever: baseball teams, football teams, boxers, the Olympics, horseraces, Wimbledon. Plus there's a bonus. A DVD. How could you go wrong?

You Gotta Love These Stories

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-06

Sports-a superb book that will capture the heart of everyone who loves the underdog and the dark horse

This beautifully illustrated and oversized book depicts the 50 greatest sports upsets of all time (and includes a DVD documentary narrated by award-winning sportscaster Jim Lampley). These tales are the stuff of sports legend. This inspiring book is a celebration of the indomitable human (and on occasion animal) spirit manifested in the drama of sports competition.

I especially love the quote from Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali): `It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes deep conviction, things begin to happen.' He used to shout, `I'm the greatest! I'm the king!' As everyone knows, that's just what happened.

You will love this book for its splendid stories told so well, wonderful insights into the events, and the exceptionally fine accompanying photographs.

Essential immunology

Published in Paperback by Blackwell Mosby Book Distributors (1984)

Author: Ivan M Roitt

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Ilustrative and Pedagogic

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-04

Is a book that I use to teach inmunology to basic science students in medical school, and has great ilustrations which you can download from its site. I recommend it to students and teachers.

Very good condition

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Review Date: 2008-02-23

the book was in great condition and the delivery was very fast. the book is brand new just like they said it would be.

Roitt's Immunology is a good review

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Review Date: 2007-09-07

Nice update on immunology that includes more recent findings at the molecular/cellular level. This is a more general, broad review of the field that takes you to where immunologists are focusing their efforts today. A good example is the chapter on vaccines and vaccines in development. However, if I were someone who was needing a textbook to review medical immunology for a licensing exam, this is not the book to use. This text is more appropriate for graduate students or others engaged in research who want a more detailed overview of the field.

Essential Immunology

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-17

GREAT text! Great website. I found this book to be really helpful,gives just enough info without being too much. Excellent pictures and managible text. I recommend you get this book early on in the course, cause you'll need it. My prof took lots of pictures from it and I found it to be a better explination than other books. I used it to fill in gaps and get clearer ideas of things.

THE CHOICE OF MANY DISCERNING LEARNERS

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 12 total.
Review Date: 2002-07-18

The inclusion of all the latest abstruse developments in the field of immunology was part of a concerted effort to make this latest edition of "Roitt's Essential Immunology" standout in the crowd. It is an elaborate text whose popularity attests to its high quality.
Good enough, the traditional use of simple descriptions were retained in this new edition, while additional efforts were made in order to simplify most of the complex issues associated with immunochemistry and immunopathology. This textbook is a one-volume knowledge base whose accurate differentials are largely due to extensive facts validations.

The Happiness Code : A Complete Book on the Art of Achieving Happiness

Published in Paperback by Peacock Books (An Imprint of Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.) (2007-10-05)

Author: S. Mukhopadhyay

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Treasure of happiness

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-27

Everyone wants to be happy and see pleasure around. But how many have really achieved it? Here is the code to enter into the world of joy and delight. It is all about simple ways towards happiness. This book will give you positive ways to look at life. Short and sweet stories, simple language and excellent thoughts will immediately make you a fan of the book. Everyone can enjoy it, as the Author has made a successful effort in making a book which will address to one and all. This book is really great asset, that you can treasure forever.

A great book by a great person...

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-19

Happiness is a state of mind. It is something that is felt from within one's heart. The author has perfectly captured the nuances of this beautiful state of mind. Through his personal experiences, he has tried to illustrate the path of achieving happiness. The language used by the author is simple but riveting. Since the book is sub-divided into short chapters, it makes it real easy to go through the chapters quickly. This is a book for people of all generations. Its language, its content and its smooth flow of ideas makes it a must buy book. I strongly recommend this book to all people. Overall, I will rate it as 10/10.

A very well described tour to happiness

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-16

As the name implies, this book is all about happiness and the path to achieve it. The author has accessed his vast experience in life and come up with a jewel of a reading, only for the sake of helping other people achieve happiness. This act very well reflects the authors own happiness. This book teaches you how to stay happy even while enduring testing times. In here, you will find the true meaning of happiness. You will learn how to stay content without giving up your ambitions. You will learn to be rich, by staying modest. It has been pointed out in the most succint of words that there is a happy person within each and everyone of us. It's only a matter of getting that person out. For the subject, the author has chosen the right amount of content. It's not too long to tire you, and not too short to miss out important details. The chapters are short and precise. The content is rich. There are several famous anecdotes, short stories and wise sayings quoted to explain the point. This is not a one time reading book. You should read the book again and again, at your own pleasure and at your own pace. It will keep reminding you not to stray away from the goal of happiness. In short this book is your code to unlock the safe of happiness within you.

We have a winner

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-28

This is a very well structured book, in small chapters that are easy to digest. The author has done a good job incorporating his experiences in giving the take home message.
An absolute page turner, you cannot wait to see what comes next.

Overall A winner!!

Thought provoking

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-23

A truly thought provoking book which could change the way you evaluate your life.

I would recommend this book to anyone who's looking for a easy primer on how to stop worrying about the trivialities in life and start thinking about what really matters.

I also found it a thoughtful gift to give close friends and family. It's an easy read and explains what can be a difficult topic to most people in simple and easy language.

The author brings his analytical mind and Engineering background to focus on a non-technical conundrum and in my view does an admirable job.

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Published in Unknown Binding by Simpkin Marshall, Distributors (1948)

Author: Oswald Chambers

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Wow!

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-05-12

This book is an awesome study aid to Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Matthew Chapters 5-7. As I read through the book I had so many "WOW!" moments as I began to understand Christ's Words and teaching. It's a deep, but an enriching study. I think studying the Sermon on the Mount and committing ourselves to carrying out the teachings of Christ is what our existence is all about. It's all about Jesus Christ and in keeping it all about Him, life will be full of blessings.

Indispensible Insights into Jesus' Teaching

Helpful Votes: 16 out of 16 total.
Review Date: 2004-08-30

Among all the doctrine, parables, and lessons of the Bible, none is as difficult to walk in as The Sermon on the Mount. Jesus' teachings, captured in Matthew 5, challenge and convict all thoughtful believers.

Oswald Chambers offers radical insights into those difficult-to-live-out principles. For example:

"The Sermon on the the Mount produces despair in the heart of the natural man, and that is the very thing Jesus means it to do." p.10 and,

"[Jesus] did not come to teach us only: He came to make us what He teaches we should be." p.10

Even the most mature believer will be challenged by Chambers as he gets infinitely close to our tender spots: "Most of us are pagans in a crisis; we think and act like pagans." p.57

Oswald Chambers, best known for his no-nonsense, plain speaking about the most difficult truths in the Christian experience hits the mark time and time again in this special book.

This is real meat for the hungry soul.

Outstanding Tool For Congregations

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-20

First I would like to point out that the dark cover shown in the first photo for this product is not the one the publisher is shipping at this an on a point, highlight the ability of God in contrast to our inability, and then to challenge you directly to wholly lean on God for your strength to obey God. He emphasizes that the Holy Spirit will come through to help you obey. He's very direct without fancy illustrations. However his typical word picture or illustration usually packs a whale of a punch, driving home the point with a spiritual weightiness not found in many books. I love this guy and highly recommend this particular book. It's worth every penny. An illustration of this is how he couches the idea that you are the salt of the earth against the idea that God has not called us as some seem to believe to be the sugar of the earth. In a few sentences he demolishes what was a very popular view of how Christians should be. He then examines the effects of salt in a few situations (wound dressing for one example) to show that we must impact those around us even if it doesn't feel good for them initially.

He doesn't waste your time with long stories that feel good but don't have a lot of power in them. He packs each paragraph. There are many meaty thoughts in this book. Don't hesitate to purchase a copy if you have an extra eight bucks.

The impact of Oswald Chambers Books on Alcoholics Anonymous

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-09

I hasten to incorporate and embrace the review of Oswald Chambers's Studies in the Sermon on the Mount that, due to my own error in posting, was credited to my colleague Terry Dunford.

It was I who wrote the review and who subscribe to it, and I will not burden Amazon with a repeat of that presentation. I hope they will post it, whether crediting it to Terry Dunford or to me.

Richard G. Burns, J.D.

Alcoholics Anonymous and The Oswald Chambers Influence

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2005-10-09

I was delighted to see this particular title listed among your Owald Chambers books for sale. I have devoted 15 years to researching and writing about the Biblical roots and influences in early A.A.'s Christian Fellowship. And no one can fully grasp the story of early A.A., its cures, and its principles and practices without understanding the importance that the pioneers attached to the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5 to 7). Sadly, a number of AAs have settled for the belief that Emmet Fox's Sermon on the Mount was the cornerstone of A.A.'s sermon emphasis. No so! The fact is that both A.A. co-founders Dr. Bob and Bill W. stated that the sermon itself contained the underlying philosophy of A.A. And my title The James Club: The Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials (http://www.dickb.com/JamesClub.com) contains a verse by verse study of the three parts of the Bible AAs considered essential--the sermon, the book of James, and 1 Corinthians 13. Hence it is with the Bible itself that A.A. students of spirituality should start. Next, however, they need to know how broad was the supplementary reading. And that is where Oswald Chambers comes in. Dr. Bob and his wife stressed the importance of the sermon, and they read it in their groups and in the early meetings. But Dr. Bob also accumulated, read, studied, and circulated the background sermon books. And I found these among his library (that came into the hands of his son and daughter). I encountered Oswald Chambers's Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, E. Stanley Jones's The Christ of the Mount, Emmet Fox's The Sermon on the Mount, several books by Robert E. Speer that covered parts of the subject, a number of books by Rev. Sam Shoemaker to the same end, several titles by Harry Emerson Fosdick such as The Manhood of the Master, and a number of books by Glenn Clark. And all of these presented a broad field of interpretive writings on Jesus's sermon that enhanced the early pioneers' understanding. And if one takes Chambers's title and sets it alongside Jones's title, he will see that these two writers were, in effect, contending that the gift of the holy spirit without the sermon on the mount in practice was as inadequate as the sermon on the mount in practice without the power of the holy spirit.

I have written two titles, Dr. Bob and His Library, and The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth. Both include Chambers and his studies as favorites. And people who want to get the full depth of the early A.A. Christian believing will profit immensely by looking at this Chambers book.

As an aside, when I contacted Mrs. W. Irving Harris, widow of Rev. Sam Shoemaker's assistant minister, she provided me with a complete set of the Oswald Chambers books indicating these were part of Sam's favorite books. The set has now been donated to the Griffith Library in East Dorset, Vermont; and one can gain a good understanding of the importance of Chambers to the thinking of the New York A.A. ideas taught by Rev. Sam Shoemaker to Bill Wilson and to the Akron fellowship's focus as led by Dr. Bob.
God Bless, Richard G. Burns, J.D.
Incidentally, it would appear that Amazon has erroneously listed my colleague Terry Dunford as the writer of this review, but it is I who makes the review and recommendations.

Inch by Inch

Published in Paperback by HarperTrophy (1995-09-21)

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Another good book by Lionni

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-04

My daughter brought this home from school.

It's a cute little story about an inch worm who gets out of being eaten by offering to measure stuff for the birds. He measures tails, a bill, a neck, legs, and even a hummingbird.

It works until a nightingale asks to have his song measured. What to do?

The art work is good and my daughter did look it over.

At first she was so-so to the story as she didn't understand how the inchworm measured. I showed her with my finger and she laughed.

Others have suggested this might be a tool to introduce the concept of measurement. I can see that but my daughter already had an idea from the age old method of marking her growth height on the wall.

5 Childrens Books.

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 12 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-15

One of my favorite 5 bookes was Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni. The reason is, is that the worm in the story is very clever and thinks his way out of a sticky situation. That is what I like about authors like Leo Lionni. They can always come up with a great little story that influences so many children in such a positive way.

How measuring can save a worm!

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 16 total.
Review Date: 1999-05-14

A children's book about an inch worm who loves to measure things and then saves himself by measuring. The book was the 1961 Caldecott Honor book (i.e., the runner-up to the Medal winner) for best illustration in a book for children.

Lionni has Inched his way to Success

Helpful Votes: 19 out of 19 total.
Review Date: 2004-12-02

Once upon a time there was a cute, little, green inch worm hanging out on a piece of grass. One day, a robin came up to eat him, but the inch worm talked the robin into letting him measure the robin's tail. Being such a useful worm, the robin did not eat him, but took him to other birds so that they could have something measured by the smart inch worm. Finally, a nightingale told the worm to measure his song or he would eat the little inch worm. Using his little worm brain, the inch worm began measuring the song until he had inched away to safety.
This wonderful book, written and illustrated by Leo Lionni, won the Caldecott Honor in 1961. He has taken a little worm and made the reader fall in love with it through the worm's usefulness in measuring and his cunning ability to escape the hungry nightingale. Even though there are many different scenes, with many various shades of green on them, Lionni has illustrated the little worm in such a way that the reader can always point him out. Children would enjoy finding the worm on each page, especially at the end of the book when he is hiding from the nightingale. Also, we always see the story from an outside perspective; eye level with the grass. It is as if we are another small animal looking in on the story.
The background of each page is pretty much the same. All Lionni has illustrated on each page is the worm and the other details that are needed during that part of the story. For example, while the inch worm is measuring the legs of the heron, Lionni has only portrayed the heron with the worm inching down its leg. I think this technique is good for younger audiences because it helps children focus on the story and keeps their attention for more specific details. This also makes sense because there is a small portion of text to read on each page which means the audience does not have much time to look at the illustrations while the reader is reading to them. As for colors, Lionni has kept them realistic. For example, the flamingo is a bright pink whereas the nightingale's colors are calmer. Overall, the colors in the book make the readers feel at ease and calm. The dull greens of the grass and the open, white background keeps the reader moving along at a steady pace. It's almost as if we know that the inch worm is going to outsmart the different birds and there is no need to get over-excited.
Lionni has intertwined the illustrations and the text in a way that they are dependent on each other. Although you could get the gist of the story by either reading the text or looking at the pictures, by having the illustrations support the text, the reader gets a more detailed, visual story. However, Lionni leaves room for the imagination to add on to the story at any time.
Overall, I loved this book. Lionni has creatively illustrated this cute story, making children and adults want to read it over and over again.
If you are looking for instructional ideas, I would read this story to students in primary grades before doing a lesson on measuring. Then I would have students measure different things around the classroom including themselves. I would also use this book when talking about different types of art. I would have children do a collage or make something with decoupage. They could even re-create a scene from the book!

Inching Along!

Helpful Votes: 35 out of 35 total.
Review Date: 2000-07-10

This Caldecott Honor Book is easy listening for the early child and the young child as a new schoolyear begins. An industrious inch worm is the main character. He engages himself with measuring a variety of birds and lastly outwits the hungry nightingale using his measuring savvy.

Teacher Note: This book can be used to introduce the young child to using standard measurement tools. It can also be used for activities with creative non-traditional measurement activities. For example: Paper clips, hands, feet, craft sticks, shoes, beans, etc. This book can be a springboard to a thematic unit on measurement. It can be extended for study of birds, other nature studies, art experiences, and musical activities as well.

Manhood of humanity (International Non-Aristotelian Library)

Published in Unknown Binding by Institute of General Semantics, distributors (1950)

Author: Alfred Korzybski

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A Key Influence in the 20th Century

Helpful Votes: 10 out of 18 total.
Review Date: 2000-04-26

This work has influenced just about everyone who was anybody during the previous century.The first published work by Korzybski, emanates with enthusiasm towards humanity, hobeit somber some of the observations contained in it. It is rather simple; yet makes the reader think anew about long forgotten questions he/she might have had at one time or other. And there are some good answers in it; some of them can be seen as timeless.

Co-operative Self-Actualization Via Time-Binding.

Helpful Votes: 13 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2003-06-28

In "Manhood Of Humanity" a vision of our future begins, fired in the trenches of World War I. Here in print Korzybski begins the task of solving the problems of the world, each page radiating optimistic humanity.
The problem comes down to whether human 'nature' can change, involving an accepted definition that 'man is an animal'. Indeed our political-social institutions, etc., operate with an animalistic, ruthless tooth-and-claw "survival of the fittest" as the 'strongest'. Despite that Charles Darwin(1859) in his "survival of the fittest" meant a survival of the best adapted, not 'strongest'. Therefore Korzybski decided that a functional re-definition became necessary, in order to better differentiate the evolutionary development. Where plants have an equivalence to Chemical-binders: capacity to convert energy(for example, photosynthesis) into growth, etc. Next that animals have an equivalence to Space-binders: capacity to move to find food. While humans have an equivalence to Time-binders: capacity to improve on the accumulated abstractions of others then transmitting it for future generations. From which has developed Philosophy, Sciences, Engineering, our libraries, etc.
This led as a result to new explanations involving predictions upon old problems, ultimately having surprising consequences. For example, why do revolutions along with wars happen? Well because Science, Engineering, etc., as a time-binding process progresses geometrically, whilst our moral, social 'opinions'('prejudices'), etc., progresses arithmetically, non-empirically. For example, on many occasions people in discussion groups have protested against technological progress, yet it is not the technology that becomes the problem but their uses due to mis-evaluations. Further that our values for power(charisma as in leadership or-both exchange as in wealth), status(esteem), life-style, etc., remains based on a duplicity which involves the subjugation of the living by prostituting the time-binding knowledge created by the dead.
Instead Korzybski advocates co-operation in place of 'competition'; whilst self-improvement in place of 'greed', 'territorialism', 'capitalism', etc.
Thus Korzybski argues that humans are not by 'nature''fixed innate', but changeable through nurture; however to discover how this becomes possible, further why we 'copy animals in our nervous reactions'(the consequences)- required further research, culminating in "Science And Sanity".

The world's first scientific approach to economics and ethics

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-07-31

If you need a book to rip a new one in your economics or philosophy professor or even just to put the average schmuck on the street in their place, this is it.

In manhood of humanity, Korzybski tears all of modern economics, and every religion and system of ethics ever created to shreds simply by starting off with a new classification of life and humanity. The classification is simple and straight forward and based on an extensional approach to life and humanity rather than an intensional approach based on systems of metaphysics. You can see the foundations for what would later become general semantics (see Science and Sanity) being developed throughout this book.

It is undeniable that there would be much less poverty and pain in the world if everyone read this book. My only reservation is that Korzybski, in his conclusions, suggested that the government be the institution that helped to increase time-binding. I think that this was a little naive on his part since under his own definition of ethics, government is the one greatest evils that has ever been done to mankind, second only to religion.

We humans are Time-Binders.

Helpful Votes: 36 out of 43 total.
Review Date: 1999-09-28

In 1921, Alfred Korzybski, a mathematician and scientist, classified Life with precise and accurate operational definitions of plants, animals, and humans. He defined the plants as energy-binders, the animals as space-binders, and we humans as time-binders. Korzybski explained that:

The plants adapt to their environment through their awareness and control of energy. The animals adapt to their environment through their awareness and control of space. And we humans adapt to our environment through our awareness and control of time.

Plants are energy-binders. The power of energy-binding is transformation, growth, and organization.

Energy-binders have the ability to transform solar energy to organic chemical energy. The plant is a solar collector. It spreads its leaves and harvests the ultraviolet rays directly from the sun.

Energy-binders have the power of growth.The plant draws water and minerals from the soil organizes this energy and nutrients into growth through cell division. The growth of the energy-binder and its self-propagation through progeny are the resultant of cell division - if the cells remain together we have growth; if they split off into a separate entity we have progeny. Energy-bindings have the power of organization. Organization possible through the ability to time the release and binding of energy. Timing based on knowledge - energy knowledge.

Animals are space-binders. The power of space-binding is mobility - the ability to move about in space. This is not the simple motion of plants. This is mobility - running, jumping, leaping, swinging, swimming, creeping, stalking, crawling, diving, and flying.

The space-binder moves towards a specific and attainable goal - water, food, a mate, shelter - and in any direction. The mobility of the space-binder is not just motion, it is controlled motion. The space-binder moves in search of food. For grazing animals the quest is continuous; for predators, occasional but more strenuous. And all animals are under constant threat from natural enemies. The animal, therefore, requires sense awareness - awareness of the space in which he lives. It is imbedded in just about every thing associated with humans and yet most humans are unaware of the very power that makes them human. We humans catalogue and store our various knowings in libraries, universities, colleges, data banks, and information services. We are time-binders and the mark of human power is everywhere.

Must read for future or new parents

Helpful Votes: 8 out of 14 total.
Review Date: 1999-08-07

This book explains why we (humans) see so many things being done by our religious and political leaders that do not make sense. We are not the ones that are ignorant, just gullible.

Psychiatry, 1999-2000 Edition (Current Clinical Strategies Series)

Published in Paperback by Rittenhouse Book Distributors (1999-11-01)

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Excellent quick reference book

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2002-04-07

The psychiatry 2002, is an excellent quick review of psych. In the clinics it will give you easy to read summaries of all topics in psych and treatments. An ideal book for any med student or resident.

Psych Clerkship

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2002-02-15

Great reference for the psych clerkship. Written by same 3 authors at UCI who write the psycho-pharmacology book for CCS.

This was a great help!

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-25

This was great to review quickly right before the shelf exam, and it was a big help. I read through it and then it isn't worth reading again, so it seems overpriced.

Excellent pocket handbook for Psychiatry clerkship

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-26

This is like the washington manual for Psychiatry. It's about a centimeter thick and small so it;s easy easy to carry around. But don;t be fooled by its size. It has all the info you need to do well in psychiatry rotation.

Good quick reference

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2001-04-07

A good light handbook for quick reference on the run. Point-form and well laid out. Ideal for helping with differential diagnosis. I like the practicality & succintness of the information in it, as I can go to bigger texts if I want details. Bonus is that, if you own the handbook, you can download free a PC version, as well as a Palm, or EPOC (Psion Revo/Mako) versions. Mine is on a Revo and goes around with me when I'm on call.

Barriers Burned Away

Published in Hardcover by Native American Books Distributor (2007-12-28)

Author: Edward P. Roe

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A great first effort by America's greatest popular author.

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1999-01-15

Roe was a chaplain and war correspondent during the Civil War. After the Chicago fire, he was moved to write this stirring account of that tragedy. The conflict between the two main characters is more mezmerizing than the fire! This is an outstanding book by my favorite author.

Truly one of the best christian novels I've read

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1997-05-19

I'm a huge fan of Charles Sheldon. I read this book by E.P. Roe and was taken aback by how great it was, it rivaled Mr Sheldon's works in every way. If you enjoy reading religious novels you'll love this one

Historical-Romantic novel centered on Chicago Fire.

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1997-02-11

Barriers Burned Away was the first novel by E. P. Roe (1838-1888), who later bacame the most popular American novelist of his day. As with most of his novels, the plot is built on an actual historical event: in this case, the Chicago Fire. The book was originally published in 1873, and has remained in print for over 120 years. A movie based on the book was made in the early 1930's

America's Greatest Popular Author

Helpful Votes: 5 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 1998-01-20

Edward Payson Roe served as a chaplain and war correspondent for the Union army during the civil war. A prominent clergyman in upstate New York, he was deeply troubled by the events of the Chicago fire. Although never having actually seen the tragedy, Roe creates a moving fictional account of the events during and following the fire. The majority of the novel, however, is spent on the most fascinating portion of the book -- a tale of two brilliant but unknown artists: Dennis, a young man of faith, and Christine, the worldly daughter of a skeptic. Although one might naturally assume that the terrible fire would be the climax of the story, the true climax takes place much earlier in the book as the two main charaters draw closer and closer to the inevitable collision of their disparate upbringings. 'Barriers Burned Away' is, by no means, Roe's best novel, but for a first effort it is truly remarkable. Roe's books are like buried treasure. By all means, search for them. They have the power to change their readers' lives. - - Monte Wilson