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Buy the Katherine Woods translation onlyReview Date: 2008-07-11
a teacherReview Date: 2007-09-23
Katherine Woods - The name to rememberReview Date: 2008-03-09
(The newer translation is appallingly horrid and bland, mistaken, and frankly perplexing.)
This is really not a children's book, although older children will appreciate it.
Don't measure the value by the thickness of the book. De St. Exupery, himself a WWI pilot, writes with a great economy yet produces here the most beautiful poetry with a delightful playfulness and childlike innocence -- a fresh vision which thus sees clearly and does not obscure the profound.
Mr. Fred Rogers used to quote from de St. Exupery, whose image and illustrations once graced the 20-franc note (in the days before the euro).
There simply is no other work like this one. It is an exceptionally rare treasure, a masterpiece.
Be sure to read Katherine Woods' translation. Read it privately, when you have time to savor each word. And keep a box of tissues nearby.
The Little PrinceReview Date: 2007-09-12
The Little Prince is most needed, I think, by adults. It is easy to be caught up in, as De Saint-Exupery describes it, 'matters of consequence' and forget that it is not these matters which bring meaning to life. By pointing out the futility of professions practised endlessly and in isolation of other people, it becomes clear that the Little Prince, with his rose, is the only character with a life of consequence.
This book is beautifully written and translated by Katherine Woods. It speaks volumes through its simple tale, strange though it seems that matters such as these only become clear when they are somewhat removed from reality. Matters such as love, innocence, imagination and priorities. The Little Prince is a gentle and stirring reminder to never forget to see the boa constrictor from the hat.
Little Prince speaks to the child in meReview Date: 2007-11-11
A great book, full of beautiful illustrations, easy to read, while fun and sad at the same time.
I personally read it as if Exupery is sharing with us the conversations he has with his own inner child, in the image of the Little Prince. That is why the Little Prince would ask many questions, but rarely answer the ones he was asked. Like all our inner children he's been hidden inside and kept silent for a long long time, and now that he was given his chance, he will speak. And we better listen, for he is an integral part of our psyche, who will take us through the most unbelievable adventures.
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Great TruthsReview Date: 2008-09-07
Rubber Meets the Road ChristianityReview Date: 2008-09-06
Much easier to travel with!Review Date: 2008-07-23
Best daily devotional book written to accompany the bible.Review Date: 2008-07-17
my utmost for His HighestReview Date: 2008-06-27

An amazing book!Review Date: 2008-10-05
A favorite book of daily devotionsReview Date: 2008-08-18
I've been through it several times and never tire of it.
AwesomeReview Date: 2008-07-17
I have purchased at least 6 copies of this book in the past three months because I have friends I knew would benefit and enjoy them as I do.
Love it, Love it, Love it.....Review Date: 2008-08-15
God Calling Devotional JournalReview Date: 2008-08-08

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The Nature of Personal RealityReview Date: 2008-10-13
Point Of PowerReview Date: 2008-09-13
Given the main thrust of this book, the following are some samples of what I considered truths:
- What exists physically exists first in thought and feeling. There is no other rule.
- We are the architects of structuring our belief systems. Re-structuring our beliefs is like rearranging furniture.
- Conflicting beliefs cancel out our power thus creating the "feeling" of powerlessness.
- Inners sounds have a greater affect on the body than outer sounds.
- All things have a consciousness such as the atom and all is self aware.
- There is no division between the mental, spiritual and the physical. They are One.
- Aggression is natural and is a force of nature. The act of birth is an act of natural aggression. Do not fear your power. Violence is a result of the "feeling" of powerlessness.
-Reincarnation is a distortion. Each life is a "Point of Power" and they occur simultaneously NOT linearly. The human brain is not equipped to comprehend this fact.
- Intellect and feeling together make up your existence.
- The serpent symbolized the deepest knowledge within creaturehood. Eve symbolizes the intuitive nature; the ego is symbolized by Adam. The Tree of Knowledge bore its fruits of "good and bad". This was the first time choices were available, thus the birth of free will.
- The story of the fall with Satan as the leader represents the part of All That Is, or God, who stepped outside of Himself and became earthbound with His creatures offering free will that "previously" had not been available.
- We create our own illnesses. They are not thrust upon us. Our illnesses reflect our belief systems. Our bodies are the external representations of our minds.
- There is a lag, a lapse in time, during which beliefs cause material actualization. I have experienced this truth myself. This is the first time I have seen it clearly explained.
- Western medicine is one of the most uncivilized hypnotic devices. Doctors treat the effect and not the cause, which of course is in the mind.
- You are not what you eat, but what you think.
-Our venture thru this physical experience is the equivalent of a dream state. As we understand time, we will merge our inner comprehension with our physical self and form our world on a conscious basis.
- Parents choose their children and children choose their parents.
- Love does not demand sacrifice.
- True religion is not repressive.
- Jesus of Nazareth did indeed say "Love your neighbor as yourself" and at the time was ironic. At that time no man loved his neighbor but distrusted him. Much of his humor has been lost in the Christian dogma.
- "The meek shall inherit the Earth"......meant since you form your reality, those who think thoughts of peace will find themselves safe from war. They will be untouched by it. They will escape it and literally inherit the Earth. Once again the translation has been lost.
- God did not sacrifice his Son by allowing his Son to become physical.
- The elderly are misunderstood. The elderly are looked at as feeble, weak and at the end of their good years. This is false. In fact their consciousness has accelerated. Many switches are activated that remove barriers that allow great journeys inward while still living in the physical world. Much could be learned spiritually from them. Instead they are sent to retirement institutions regarded with pity and forgotten.
This book drives home again and again that your beliefs determine your physical, mental and spiritual environment. Specifically THE PRESENT IS THE POINT OF POWER. Your power is now. The physical self is not all of the Self but it is a part of it. It is a point of being that can change the future AND the past.
AmazingReview Date: 2008-06-23
Classic New AgeReview Date: 2007-10-25
This book can be a Life-Changing bookReview Date: 2007-10-22
For anyone who has deep questions about oneself and the circumstances of one's life, this book is an astonishing eye-opener as well as a practical workbook. Highest recommendation.

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Great book!Review Date: 2008-09-07
An outstanding library referenceReview Date: 2008-09-04
Must read for aquarium ownersReview Date: 2008-07-12
Excellent Starting PointReview Date: 2008-05-19
A good foundation.Review Date: 2008-07-06
So I bought this book, read it, and feel much better equipped for the hobby. I still refer heavily to internet sources for more granular knowledge, but at least I now have a solid, reliable source for a foundation on which to build.
This book gave me more confidence, and left me eager to learn and do more in this hobby. It is beautifully illustrated, well composed, and the author conveys his own passion of the hobby and eagerness to educate responsible marine hobbyists.

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Great SeriesReview Date: 2006-07-02
A writer who took time to be a storytellerReview Date: 2006-05-10
Simple, the writer has created a rich universe filled with various characters, society's, technologies, religions and linked them around a central theme of the battle between good and evil. He has taken his time to write the detail that is required to allow readers to contextulaise the activities in the book in relation to one another and the main plot. This is where a writer becomes a master storyteller, the attention to detail and the subtle nuances which go to make up the whole series.
The writing is graphic in relation to the sex and violence, part of the purpose in this is undoubtably to convey the true horror, and alieness of the threat to humanity.
The books are not really intended for kids, who says you can't write science fiction for adults only?
In conclusion I would recommend the whole series for the serious adult science fiction reader who is sick of skimming through a pulp science fiction novel in a night and wants to get into a more meaty read.
This is a work that now sits on my shelf at home and will be read again.
Highly recommended.
Heart-stopping suspenseReview Date: 2005-11-13
Things heat up all over the ConfederationReview Date: 2007-11-27
This is a universe in which you can really lose yourself as a reader - Hamilton has created a huge story here and telling it - as well as reading it - is not necessarily a task for the faint of heart. Nonetheless, those fond of sweeping epics, space operas and the like would definitely enjoy this series (start from the beginning, please!).
Excellent Series, But Not For EveryoneReview Date: 2005-02-25
- "The Reality Dysfunction - Part 1: Emergence,"
- "The Reality Dysfunction - Part 2: Expansion,"
- "The Neutronium Alchemist - Part 1: Consolidation,"
- "The Neutronium Alchemist - Part 2: Conflict,"
- "The Naked God - Part 1: Flight," and
- "The Naked God - Part 2: Faith."
Be warned: you CANNOT read these books individually. They are, essentially, chapters in one whopping great book. If you like the first book, then you'll have to read the other five books in order. There's no tie-up of any sort between any of the books. The publisher just broke the story up because it totals over 3,000 pages. If you pick up a book before you've read all the previous books (in order), put it down. It won't mean anything to you. Since these books are entirely dependent on each other, I'm writing this review on the series as a whole, not on the individual books.
This is one of the greatest science fiction sagas written. It ranks up there with David Brin's "Uplift Saga." It is literally a story of good vs evil and shows some of the potential (and pitfalls) of the human race. Over the years, I've read the whole series five times, and I still love it. I really only have two gripes with the book. First, and this is unavoidable in what Hamilton is doing, the evil in the series is definitely, graphically evil. This is not a book where the villain twists his mustache and laughs "nyah hah hah" as he forecloses on the orphanage or ties the heroine to the railroad tracks. The writing is fairly graphic in a lot of places. After five readings, this gets a bit wearing. My second gripe is one which somewhat limits the audience of the series (even more so than the evilness presented, and it's why I've given the series four stars instead of five): there's too much sex and the writing about it is too graphic. This is a problem with all of Hamilton's books, but it seems more prevalent in this series. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend the book for your children to read. But, as long as you're aware of that, I highly recommend the series and give it 4 stars out of five.

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The Daily BibleReview Date: 2008-09-19
I received this book in excellent condition and in a timely fashion.
Me encanto!!Review Date: 2008-08-10
Biblia CronologicaReview Date: 2008-07-19
Excellent BookReview Date: 2008-07-02
If You Ever Thought.....Review Date: 2008-05-15

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I'm only giving this 4 stars because.......Review Date: 2008-10-11
Wonderfully detailed accountReview Date: 2007-07-25
One reviewer commented that Nick appeared rather wimpy in his response to Colonel Jenkins' persecution (that is the best word for it) and this is the only aspect of the book that put me off slightly. If I'd been in Nick's place, Jenkins' life would have been much, much harder.
This book is awsomeReview Date: 2007-07-14
What would life really be like for an invisible man ?, Review Date: 2007-12-09
This is light-years better than any of the many other recent attempts to build stories on this theme, from books and TV to films, and sadly including the distinctly average Chevy Chase comedy which was actually inspired by this book.
The narrator and central character is Nick Halliwell, a 34-year old, single, securities analyst working for a New York firm, who is completely ordinary except perhaps for an overactive sex drive. As part of his campaign to seduce a beautiful New York Times journalist called Anne Epstein, Nick invites her to a demonstration by a company called MicroMagnetics of their new type of magnetic fields.
Unfortunately Anne has cartoonishly stereotypical left-wing/liberal views. She decides that the magnetic fields must be intended for nuclear fusion containment, and tips off a buch of lunatics called "Students for a Fair society" about the event. These idiots decide to stage the other sort of demonstration, which includes cutting off power to the building.
As Nick puts it later, he should have paid more attention to what the students were about to do and what effect this might have on the process which the head of the company describes.
"I knew that someone was about to shut off power to the building ... And this man was telling me that he had some loopy subatomic process roaring away, which sustained itself but whose control system used outside power. It is important to listen to exactly what people are saying ..."
Shortly afterwards Nick is in the toilet when the building is evacuated as someone realises what the students are about to do: perversely ignoring a security guard who asks if anyone is there, he remains in the building and consequently is still inside when the control system has its power cut off, and the equipment blows up, turning everything else inside the building invisible.
Nick is knocked out by the effect. He comes to his senses a few hours later, and realises that he has been turned invisible, by which time government investigators are looking at the building. He calls out to the nearest investigator, expecting them to offer help, and is astonished when the man speaks into his radio and even as he promises medical help, Nick can see that an ambulance and some paramedics are being told to leave. Then the investigators come towards the building with a net. Nick realises that they see him more as an invaluable asset than as another human being, and falling into their hands might be a very bad idea ...
The main plot of the story is about the determined efforts which the investigators, led by the horrible Colonel Jenkins, make to capture Nick, and Nick's equally determined attempts to stay out of their custody. The sub-plot is that invisibility does not affect Nick's considerable libido, and he misses female companionship more than anything else about his situation. And as if it were not difficult enough for an invisible man to find love, any attempt Nick makes to do so is almost certain to offer new opportunities for Colonel Jenkins to catch him.
The dramatic tension in the book is sometimes unbearably strong, and there are some very exciting action sequences: there are also some moments of extreme pathos and some hysterically funny or embarrassing scenes.
Contains a lot of speculation, much of it highly plausible, about how other human beings might react to an invisible person. He is still solid, still needs food, water, sleep & shelter, and has to open doors to pass through them, so he cannot avoid leaving evidence that a person is around. Some people confronted with evidence of Nick's presence assume he's a ghost, or that a burglar has been and gone, but other people who become aware of him react in much more dangerous ways.
"Memoirs of an invisible man" is one of the best novels I have ever read. As I prepare to post this I see that the number of Amazon.com reader reviews is now up to 64 and 62 including mine are five-stars, which must be almost unprecedented. But the book really is that good.
Still a great bookReview Date: 2007-12-02
ps anyone ever find out who actually was H.F Saint?

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Bringing Managing vs. Leading into FocusReview Date: 2008-09-16
manage employees. Instead, you must lead workers.
One reason for the shift from managing to leading is
the simple fact that a manager today likely does not
know the area of expertise for which the subordinate is
responsible. In addition, employees today need to be
treated as if they are volunteers, not employees. They
want more than a paycheck; they seek interesting and
rewarding work. You inspire them by leading, not commanding.
So Many Interesting ThoughtsReview Date: 2008-06-13
His discussions are fascinating and I won't steal any of his thunder other than to say that he feels traditional management techniques based on time and motion studies (Total Quality Management is the latest rendition) do not motivate the knowledge worker.
Drucker's second big point is in extreme harmony with Marcus Buckingham's work (which I suggest reading first). Drucker has a similar message as Buckingham, motivated from a completely different viewpoint.
The book also has some self-help. Do you know what your boss' learning style is? Don't you think you should have asked that on the first day? Drucker thinks so, and explains why.
Great Set Of Essays Which Will Make You ThinkReview Date: 2007-08-30
Addressing the Future IT WorkforceReview Date: 2007-05-18
I also found Drucker's message inspirational and eye-opening. It's a reminder that today's Informational Revolution has been part of an evolving cycle, which started before printing presses were invented. He emphasizes, for example, that today's Information Revolution is not led by the technology folks but by those in other fields, such as finance and accounting. I applaud this, as the key message that should be emphasized today in preparing the future IT workforce is to diversify. Excitement over technologies such as the printing presses, software, and hardware is all part of what makes the IT industry exciting--but not THE key elements for career survival. Drucker does a great job addressing that in this book. Albeit unintentional, Drucker does a great job addressing this.
"Druker thougths will live on for many decades to come".Review Date: 2006-02-10
Peter Drucker discusses the profound social and economic changes occurring today and considers how management--not government or free markets--should address these new realities in the workplace. "Management is Business Management in all kind of organizations". This book is easy to read. For most content may be wider than how we think management usually is. Druker wrote in his introduction " the advice in this book requires a reversal of what most people have thought about management for more than a century". Peter Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have change and will continue to change our basics assumptions and principles of management.

The Effective Executive Book ReviewReview Date: 2008-08-22
This is the best book on "Leadership" even after 40 yearsReview Date: 2008-07-21
If you have one shelf for books, this should be on it.Review Date: 2008-07-08
To those who are serious students of business and it's execution and are willing to do what it takes to be leaders, this is one of probably 3-5 books on the required reading list. Read through it quickly at your own peril, for amazing gems are buried mid-paragraph in the most seemingly innocuous paragraphs.
Now for the love of effectiveness, please buy, read and apply this to yourself so I don't have to do business with you sloths anymore!
Excellent book on management skillsReview Date: 2008-05-27
Long lasting advice for novice managersReview Date: 2008-05-04
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