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I LOVE books about intelligent machines, and this is one of the best! I hope to live to see the first intelligent machines like HARLIE, and if you are into this subject too, this book is a MUST-HAVE

Simply one of the best pieces of speculative fiction I've ever read. It has flaws, but it still takes the breath away, the sheer audacity of its vision. Warning, this book will make you think and could change the way you see yourself and others...

Once read, never forgotten. It's a crime it's out of print, track down a copy and see for yourself.

I looked for a long time for "When Harlie Was Two" (a title promised in the book "When Harlie Was One"). Never found it.

There was a good reason! That book was never written.

I finally found it at Worldcon 63 (Noreascon 4) in the huckster's room where I ran across the author himself at a booth selling "When Harlie Was One (Release 2.0)".

It may be out of print, but it is not unavailable. Try his home page.

http://www.gerrold.com/

I read the book maybe 25 years ago, and it is one of the few books that have always stuck in my memory. The main reason I am writing this review is that I hope the publisher will consider a reprint! As I found - reading the other reviews - that there are more people like me for whom this book was an unforgettable experience. (And of course I would like to find out if it has retained its magic over the years.)

A superb and thoughful book - the "Version 2", which is hard to find is very much better than the "original" which feels a little dated these days.

BTW The name HARLIE is an acronym which changes in the two versions of the book. In version 1 the acronym is for Human Analog Robot Life Input Equivalents. The last reviewer is dead wrong and actually gives away one of the key plot points and "jokes" of the book, so SPOILERS BELOW! You have been warned!

On Aug 10, 2005 I was diagnosed with adult ADD and dyslexia. For over 55 years I did not know what my new opportunity was inside MySELF. This is the first book I read cover to cover in many many years. I took notes, read slowly but finished the book in less than a week, and tried to comprehend what Mr. Scalese had written. I even cried a few times reading this "How to help MySELF" book. The name for my guarding angel is MySELF. So today, I can be three persons in one whole.... Me, MySELF, and I
No need for me to slow down, just Calm Down.
I saw my third eye without self-hypnosis Tish (my word to relax) will help me for the rest of my life, as I am known today.

How often is it that we search for aid to improve our situations. Too frequently time and money is wasted on the quick fix. We get too busy to seek out solutions that exist within ourselves. We exhaust our efforts and agree to give up the fight. I have found more honsety and explanation from the great works of Stephen Scalese, to increase knowledge about myself. Listening to the whisper in my heart has led me to great opportunities I may have been to preoccupied to recognize. I would also like to extend thanks to Mr. Scalese.

This book has been a life changing experience. That little voice that has spoken to all of us from time to time, that may have saved our lives or helped in important decisions, is always with us. This book allows us to tap into that inner voice, and the results are astounding.

I read Stephen's book in July and have heard more than a few "whispers" over the past few months. I was involved in TM (Transendental Meditation) back in the 70's, but got out of the habit of meditating after a couple of years. The Whisper in Your Heart brought back all the positive aspects of TM without the negatives that caused me to quit before.

By tapping into that special part of my being, my inner voice, I've found answers to several questions that had been plaguing me for some time. I've also reduced my stress level and achieved a sense of calm I hadn't felt for years.

I'd highly recommend this book to anyone. All can benefit from its simple road map to inner peace and better decision making.

This book is a precious gem that will guide you to discover your real power within. I am greatly interested in discovering and unleashing the powers of subconscious mind and applying it in real life. The changes in my life that are already happening are exciting and promising. I already was able to get rid of long lasting and terribly disturbing stomach indigestion problem (about 6+ yrs old). None of traditional or chinese doctors were able to help, until i read these books and healed myself! It took me about 1 month. Besides that many different good things started to happen in my life and it always making me wonder "are they just a coincidents or the results of wisdom i am applying from these books?". I already making plans and working on to improve my life in all other aspects. Another book, that i am refering to is: "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy. Definitely get this Murphy's book. "The Whisper in your heart" takes an interesting approach to develop intuition, unleash the hidden powers you never suspected you had and explains how to talk to your subconscious mind in more "interactive" way. "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" and "The Whisper in your heart" are nicely complement each other and are definitely classics and full of invaluable information on the subject.

THis is a great inspirational book for anyone suffering from a major life changing injury.

The best compliment I can provide is I'm buying more copies to give to friends. The book is thought provoking as well as extraordinarily uplifting.

A very honest emotional description of experiences while dealing with a cancer, a surgery, radiation, learning how to live with pain as a companion, learning how to live as a "gimp"--word used by the author, and many other superbly described experiences. Just the right touch, just the right doze. Very subtle and lithe. Joy to read.

Should be mandatory reading of all Medical Students and Residents. Disease process as seen and documentd by a patient. The physical, emotional, and spiritual swings a patient goes through during a long protracted illness.

This is a book about severe illness and recovery. It is a true story of hope and healing told without self-pity. Price writes of being faced with a diagnosis of severe cancer of the spine. "Some vital impulse spared me needing to reiterate the world's most frequent and pointless question in the face of disaster - Why? Why me? I never asked it; the only answer is of course: Why not?"

In the same candid, sometimes funny, yet always affecting words, the popular and prolific author tells of his battle with disease. First struck down in 1984, he suffered through surgery, days of agonizing pain and was eventually confined to a wheelchair, unable to function professionally or personally.

He later sought treatment with a hypnotist at Duke University's psychiatric department with beneficial results. Throughout, Price gives credit to the power of prayer, which he calls "the first strong prop beneath my own collapse."

This is not only the story of an illness and recovery, it is the saga of resolve when confronted with a frightening enemy, and it is a tale of family and friendships, the human network that supports us.

Highly recommended.

- Gail Cooke

An excellent book that gives the reader a fantastic insight into what makes Lou tick and how to succeed in both sport and life. Filled with humour it is easy to reaad and very informative.

Lou Holtz, currently the head football coach at the University of South Carolina, has written one of the best, and most enjoyable leadership books I have ever read. His game plan for success was largely told through his gridiron experiences, but this plan is about much more than just football-it is a proven, common-sense guide for succeeding in the game of life.

What makes Holtz's life and leadership insights so compelling and believable are his dynamic life experiences and his incredible list of accomplishments: parents were divorced; fiance' broke off their engagement, but they later married and remain so after 40 years; only coach to lead 4 different programs to top-20 finishes and 6 different programs to bowl games (William and Mary, N.C. State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame, South Carolina); 23 of 32 college teams he coached have received bowl bids, with 18 top-25 finishes, 8 top-10 finishes, and one undefeated national championship; 3rd winningest active coach and 7th place all-time with 243 victories; wife's heroic battle with throat cancer; fired or let go as assistant coach more than once; polled as the best motivational speaker in the country two years in a row, and his motivational video "Do Right!" is the all-time best-seller; guest speaker at most Fortune 500 companies; and was invited to the Oval Office by four different presidents.

Holtz's game plan consists of ten steps. Each step is explored in detail in its own chapter. The colorful, real-world stories and humorous anecdotes Holtz used to present the steps' lessons perfectly complemented his conversational writing style. The final chapter is considered the "end-zone" of success-where you can be if you have the courage, desire, and character to apply the lessons described within the plan's steps.

The book is jammed full of common-sense, spiritual, philosophical, and motivational life and leadership perspectives. The most memorable passages for me as a father, leader, and follower were Holtz's thoughts about discipline:

"For me, a disciplinarian is someone who requires that people understand the consequences of their decisions. You use discipline to reinforce choices. Our athletes and my children knew that if they chose to misbehave, they were also choosing to pay the consequences...In each case, I never punished anyone; the offenders chose the punishment themselves by their actions."

He illustrated his commitment to being a disciplinarian by describing the circumstances that led to him suspending his top three Arkansas players before the 1977 Orange Bowl (against Oklahoma), and to suspending two of his best players before his top-ranked Notre Dame team played the second-ranked University of Southern California in 1988:

"[They] recklessly violated our Do Right rule, which governs personal conduct...These were not bad guys; they simply made a bad decision...I didn't want the keys to our offense to miss our biggest game of the year, but when they decided to break our rules, they also decided to miss the game. Now I had to support that choice."

Holtz is a master motivator and a proven true winner in football and life. My highest recommendation for this book is best captured by Holtz himself when he wrote, "As you know, the only things that will change you from where you are today to where you want to be five years from now are the books you read and the people you meet." I hope I someday get a chance to meet Lou Holtz and thank him for his outstanding book on life and leadership.

If you are looking for pure Lou Holtz motivation, you will not be disappointed. There are no "silver bullets" here, but the book will do a good job of reinforcing some great principles for creating a successful team or organization.

I happened to notice this book one day when I took my daughter to the library. A friend of mine is a personal acquaintance of Lou's so I decided to see what 'Ol Lou is all about for myself.

This is a book of (mostly humorous) stories that makes it a fun, easy read. At the same time, each story has powerful success principles and truths embedded within.

If you want to see powerful leadership in action, this is a great book.

If you want to get more from your interactions and relationships with people in every area of your life, this is a great book.

If you find yourself doubting your abilities and potential, this is a great book.

If you want to be able to learn from someone who started out as a nobody with nothing and ended up as somebody who had something, this is a great book.

If you weren't fortunate enough to have a parent or adult-figure who taught you how to win at the game of life, then I heartily recommend this book to help fill in that void.

If you don't see yourself in the preceding statements, or, if you have read all the success books and you are looking for something brand-new that you have never heard of before, then this probably isn't the book for you.

When you read the reviews here, you'd think this guy could walk on water, but this book is long on motivation and short on application. Now, if you want something that will blow the concepts and information in this book right out of the water and, at the same time, get rid of the "Big Daddy" syndrome which this book fosters too, read SUCCESS CYBERNETICS by Uell S. Andersen - a book that's never been out of print since it first appeared in 1966! SUCCESS CYBERNETICS is available from amazon.com too, go see the reviews and get it. Forget the "Raw Raw Raw, Sis Boom Bah" approach that this one contains.

You really get a sense of what our pilots and crews went through during WWII. I really appreciate the sacrifices they made. The 3 star rating is due to my feeling that the editing could have been better. Perhaps it wasn't because Erik is Danish.

"The Young Ones"by Erik Dyreborg

The Young Ones is filled with some of the most exciting and memorable notes of escapes during WW II. The stamina and courage of these young men is almost unbelieveable. The exploitskeep you virtually on the edge of your seat throughout the entire read.

I makes you proud to know that this caliber of young men represented our nation ... So very young and heroic.

It is a well coordinated documentation of the exploits of young AMericans who risked so much and have been unable to share their experiences to any great extent.

Thanks to Erik Dyreborg for keeping their experiences alive and thus enabling others to share in an relatively unexplored area of WW II.

Sincerely,

Lois Eveland

Erik, the author, presented an opportunity to those who survived the ravages of war with a way to be a part of his compendium of experiences of the Air War of WWII. I feel that by drawing on these individual segments of history that for the most part, were not widely disseminated or documented, he has provided the public a glimpse of what is a patch quilt of the happenings of that era. Those contributing their experiences dug deep in their memories of events that most had been stifling for years to avoid reliving the pain they and their fellow crew members experienced in combat. This book reflects only the stories of the few who wished to honor comrades who couldn't or wouldn't share their role in the fatal game called war. Many have died or will soon die without describing what they found out in their first hand experiences during a terrible time in history when millions of people died, some good, some bad, in the name of patriotism or loyalty to their country's cause. A common thread throughout this book is seen in what some call Luck, and how seconds separated the losers and survivors in the Air War. I believe the primary goal of the author is to show the need for an alternative to war as a means of solving the world's problems. Another important goal is to stimulate those readers who have important contributions yet to be documented, to understand that unless they share their experiences, thery will be lost forever at their death. (See page 319 for my story).
Frank J Finklang, Lt.Col., USAF Retired

The Young Ones is a very interesting but a sobering read. These individual experiences truly make you realize the sacrifices our airmen made during WWII. Surely, in most cases, to remember and relay those harrowing days was difficult for the veteran. I feel much gratitude toward these men for their service to our country and also for having their stories recorded for history.

The impact the years in the service had on these men is evident by the details they were able to recall and describe. The recording of these experiences was made many years after WWII.

This truly is a classic collection of some very brave and courageous young Americans.

The Young Ones is not really a book. As you start to read the stories you feel almost immediately that you are having a conversation with the individuals while learning about their experiences and quickly seeing that the price of freedom comes high. This book crosses generation lines and offers inspriation to the young and old alike.

The spoken language has been put on the pages and makes reading fun, interesting and relaxing. You do not want to put the book down. The size and scope of the book really is the story of WW11 Avaition.

This book belongs in schools and libraries. Teenagers, especially should be exposed to the book and learn the lessons passed on by many brave young fliers.

This book is for anybody who wants to teach important skills to children, whether you're a grandparent, teacher or parent. I bought Lesson One: The ABC's of Life for my daughter who is raising three children but I decided to read it first. I found the book so pertinent, not just for my daughter and my grandchildren, but for me as well. The book helped me reflect on my life and to see the importance of such themes as unconditional love and passing on skills through sharing life experiences. By the way... my daughter found the book invaluable as well!

LESSON ONE:THE ABCs OF LIFE is a wonderfully readable, sensitive approach to teaching children of ALL ages how to live in a world so in need of compassion, understanding, cooperation, and mutual respect and love. Until reading this wise book I was unaware that LESSON ONE is a widely used educational adjunct created and fostered by the writer Jon Oliver. With the assistance of Michael Ryan Maestro Oliver reveals his learned life lessons on how to instill in children the ability to not only co-habit universally, but how to find happiness within themselves. Sound simplistic? Well, then you need to read this book. Some ideas we all pay lip service to are reiterated in a concise teaching technique that applies to adults equally strongly as to children. The sections are powerfully titled: The Pledge for Success, dealing with Golden Rule elements, respect for diversity, self-motivation to be the best you can be; Self Control with mega-important periods of Self-Control Time out; Self Confidence building; Responsibility for one's own actions and consequences; Cooperation. Each of these helpful categories is presented with stories from the author's experiences as well as examples that are global. The result is a stimulating book intellectually, a resource for self improvement, and a joyous addition to the lesson plans of teachers, parents, all children and all adults. The possibilities of a world changed by the incorporation of these vital lessons is a dream of joy, not only to the authors, but to all those who take the time to read and practice the teachings in this valuable book.

this book is very fundemental&brings so many great things out from start to finish. it makes you reflect on so many things&teaches so many lessons along the way.I really enjoyed this book a great deal.

this book help my hole family get along better. I think this book help so meny people if they take small amont time out of there day to read it.

writen a 13year old boy

Jon Oliver's Lesson One is a must read for not only educators and parents but for anyone looking for a concrete guide to promote human development. As a therapist his ideas of self-control, and personal responsibility are most relevant. What I like most are his suggested activities, which I have already utilized in several of my therapy groups, not only with children but adults. Sharing stories and even using television as an opportunity for important discussions are just a few of the book's practical suggestions. Lesson One is easy to understand and made even more interesting as the author describes his own "Non Lessioned "childhood. (...)

concept is okay if you are family/procreating type.it doesn't explore different lifestyles.it is okay but not extraordinary.

Wonderful story with great humor, satire and imagination about a journey through a fantastic afterlife with all the creations that ever were and ever will be.

I was curious to discover what a book about afterlife would be like in the science fiction realm. THIS book is unique! IT is a GREAT story, about a man, actually, I suppose, a soul, who is in the process of discovering himself - who he is, and what life, the universe, and all creation is all about. He finds out in a cleverly written story if his journey through afterlife - his "afterworld." It is a reality filled with bizarre ceatures from all times and places that ever were, and will be, all of whom enter this incedibly enormous universe, perhaps billions of times larger and more complex than our own, and where travel is by unque vehicles which are divinely powered, as if by magic, and cover the enormous distances involved in afterworld reality. The creatures Gary Townsend (the main character) meets are unique, enjoyable, and satirize in often comic style all man's social customs, religions, and traditions - for here, in afterlife, there are none. Often thought-provoking and humourous, the drama is always enjoyable and fascinating, as we trek through the mind of an author with an incredibly inventive bent. I recommend it highly to anyone who loves sci-fi or fantasy, or who wants an enjoyable, creative read about a place we all have some idea about when we leave here.

A scintillating look at a man's afterlife, which begins as you open the book. It traces the "afterworld" experiences of an unbeliever as he tries to sort his way through his afterlife with a variety of humans, aliens, bizarre worlds and forms of transportation, and it delves into the MANY questions everyone has about what there is after this life. It does so with occasionally tongue-in-cheek humor, and a good amount of satire in poking fun at our religions, customs, and institutions, through the eyes of the many different life forms the main character encounters. It is about this man finding a purpose, even in afterlife, in finding himself, and finding out who else there might be to share it with. This is an extraordinary and imaginative look at a usually untouched subject, and told in an engaging, informative, and poignant fashion. It is an afterworld that we all might wish to attain someday, but if not, it certainly is fun and interesting to look at this one!

I was hesitant to buy this book, since a novel on one's afterlife, or Afterworld, as the author has it, seemed like it might not be too interesting; but I'd heard about it as decent sci-fi/Fantasy, and wanted to read it. BOY, was I surprised!! It is a very clever trek through one man's afterlife, which begins on page one, and takes you through a highly imaginative super universe far bigger and infinitely more complex than the one we now know. We meet a variety of strange characters, many of whom humorously satirize people and political or religious concepts we have, stranger places, and an intersting story of this "doubting-Thomas" main character, Gary. We onder how it will work out for him - after all, he has FOREVER in this place, and all the people to meet that you would ever want to. The author endeavors to pop many cultural and religious myths with tongue-in-cheek style, while uilding a story that grabs you, because, I guess, we all hope there is something positive to look forward to in everyone's afterworld. Gary's is interesting, and he becomes a major afterlife figure in "afterworld future history" by being exactly who he is. Ultimately he finds purpose, love, friendship, and a meaningful place in the universe! Very uplifting and enjoyable.

This cookbook offers a wonderful introduction to Syrian and Lebanese cooking. Wonderful index and cross-reference help the beginner feel comfortable with the new terms and cooking ingredients. Helen Corey's book is more than just a cookbook however; she offers insight to the heritage of the foods and the traditions these regions bring to International cooking. I recommend this book to all cooks; whether they are already familiar with these foods and cooking style or are just beginning to branch out from their our family's favorites. Ms. Corey has provided a feast a great recipes and photos that will stir up an appetite in anyone.

I am a 20 year old college student. I had to write a nutrition paper for the Syrian Culture and I used Helen Corey's cookbook. I found the dishes extremely interesting and excellent tasting when made. The nutrition value for many of the food items was great for low-fat, high-protein, high-potassium, and high in other vitamins and minerals. It's an excellent choice for all cultures, religions, and ages!

Helen Corey's cookbooks are so interesting for their recipes and also for Middle Eastern history. She has lovingly captured the expertise of her Mother in the recipes and photos. Sharing the Christian Orthodox faith with her, I recommend her books not just for Orthodox Christians but for all people. Helen is a tribute to her ehtnic community and to the United States.

Helen Corey's cookbook and video, really takes one on a journey to the Holy Land. Oh, how my Mother and Father would have loved them. The cookbook, Food from Biblical Lands, and video, The Art of Syrian & Lebanese Cooking, brings back many loving memories of my Mother cooking Syrian foods. We were blessed with her until she was 91 years old, and she did most of the Syrian cooking while she was alive. I have tried to remember her different recipes, and with Helen's cookbook and video it helps bring it to life. It is as though Mother has returned to remind me what to put into each recipe. It is a precious bit of the past, here in the present. Thank you Helen for this wonderful gift. Keep up the good work.

Each recipe is explained in detail and if an ingredient is uncommon she explains where to get it and what it is. She writes the recipes so that the end result turns out wonderfully. I grew up eating this food in Canton, OH and her recipes taste just the way the old Syrians would have prepared it. I was so happy to find a cookbook so true to the old world style. There are meat recipes as well as vegetable based cuisine, desserts, and even how to make the old Syrian cheese usually served with breakfast. It is a concise, great book and I wish more people knew how to prepare meals like this.

I loved this book the most for the details of the author's life. It's rare to read a book that tells in lots of detail the ordinary parts of a life lived in extrordinary times and places---what is eaten, what jobs are held, what school is like, what family life is like. Although Vietnam during the period the author was growing up and in her 20s, the scope of this book, was a war zone, this is not really a war book, but more a book about what everyday life in a war zone is like. It's written with unusual frankness---no effort is made to make the author look better or worse than she really is. I like it that it is not ghost written---the author's own voice is used, and she tells things in her own way and order, not always immediately explaining things like the value of money or why people are addressed in the way they are. This serves to immerse you in her life.

The subplot of this book is how having an abusive childhood affects you. At times, I was not sure the author really saw herself as abused, although she certainly was. But the cultural differences keep her from reacting or speaking of this abuse in the way a Westerner might. Instead, we are allowed to see for ourselves how she expects the abuse to continue in her marriage, and how surprised she is when it does not. It's only in the epiloge that we see she is aware of this abuse, and wants to help others living with parental abuse.

Definately highly recommended!

Not too long ago, I had the wonderful experience of editing a great book, Bird of One Wing: A Vietnamese Woman's Story. Lien's book spans a 20-year period of her early life, and is lively and intensely moving. Although many of these years were excruciatingly difficult, the author overcame them with heart, intelligence, and an inexhaustible sense of humor. The characters are so vividly depicted that by the end of the book you feel they have become some of your best friends. The fact that Lien has written such a fantastic book when English is not her first language is also a testimony to her immense talent.

As an aside, shortly after I promised to edit the book I was delighted to discover that my husband and I were expecting our youngest child, Marc. Despite the raving nausea, tremendous sleepiness, and die-for-a-bagel hunger characteristic of this pregnancy, Lien's book was spellbinding, even in editing mode! It was truly the best thing I've ever had the pleasure of editing.

The vivid descriptions allow you to follow the author through both her good and bad experiences. Her outlook remains positive throughout the story despite the sacrafices she must make. This book is very realistic and entertaining at the same time. I look forward to seeing more work by this author.

This author's words flow with an honest and intimate voice that makes the reader feel like a privileged friend trusted to hear Lien `s life story from early childhood through adulthood in Vietnam and finally the short epilogue of her present life in Virginia. Often with the horrors of the struggles that engulfed her country and ours as backdrop, we learn in bare none detail how her family survived. In any setting this is a spellbinding story of a courageous woman whose honesty and humor about her own flaws and the dysfunctions of her family make you laugh, cry, and cheer her on in the end. After reading this first novel, I will look forward to reading more by this gifted voice.

I am the parent of a little girl adopted from Viet Nam. A friend let me read her copy of Bird of One Wing: A VN Woman's Story to give me an idea of what my daughter's birth family life might have been like. I couldn't put the book down. For obvious reasons, I've read many books about, or by authors from, Viet Nam, but none has touched me the way this book has. During my reading of Bird of One Wing, my daughter was able to establish contact with her birth family. I was stunned to see how accurate Kieu Lien Le's discriptions were in terms of Vietnamese people, life and customs. Her personal story helped me fill in many of the blanks in my daughter's story.

I read this remarkable book back in 4/02. Since then I have tried desperately, but unsuccessfully, to purchase my own copy. Sadly, I can't find it for sale anywhere - not even through Amazon.Com (my old standby). Bird... has haunted me so much that I'm now trying to reach the author directly. If you are fortunate enough to find a copy, DEFINATELY READ IT! If you know the author or the publisher, tell them to reprint it. If you have a copy to sell, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME!!!!!! I hope the rumors of a second book are accurate. You can bet that I will be first in line to purchase that one.

C All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies is a very informative book that introduces and clarifies many topics. I, personally, fell behind on a few topics, such as hex numbers, but that won't affect all readers. It all depends on your ability to ingest the reading. That aside, the majority of the reading is completely comprehensible and useful. I'm very pleased with my purchase and hopefully I pass my 'C' programming class in the fall with an A :P.

I have made various attempts to learn C over the last fifteen or so years, generally in the company of the C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software) by Kernighan & Ritchie.

In these attempts, I picked up enough of the language to write some REALLY simple programmes, to print ready-reckoners and the like and also to do some basic programming on microcontrollers.

However, I would never have called myself a C programmer; pointers always remained a mystery to me. Is C just too hard? No - I was just using the wrong book. Whilst K&R makes a handy reference text, Dan Gookin's book actually TEACHES, and in a light-hearted style.

I am only about one-third the way into the section about pointers but, so far, it is all making sense. Many of the concepts are already familiar, as I am a Perl programmer. If you know Perl and want to learn a "real" programming language (ie: one that is compiled), this may well be the book for you. Having said that, I feel that even non-programmers could get into C with the aid of this book, provided that they have the correct mind-set.

This book teaches all about C in a fun and easy to learn way. Great for someone that has some experience programming in either C, C++, Java, Perl, or Python. And also great if you read C For Dummies the first one that offers great introductory information on C and the idealogy of programming. Dan Gookin is one of the best authors of his time.

If you need to learn the C language, there is no better book than the "C All-In-One Desk Reference". The book is FUN to read, and gently (and effectively) takes you from the simplest of C concepts like variables, conditional statements and loops, through pointers, references, and arrays, to advanced topics like double-linked lists. The book is OK as a reference, but it EXCELS at presenting the C language to the new programmer. No other technical book in my personal library has helped me (and my career) as much as this one.

This book is invaluable as a reference for the C programming language. It doesn't matter if you know a little or a lot about the C programming language this book caters for all levels. This book features a lot of working program examples and allows the reader to easily interact with the book whilst putting any knowledge gained from the book's content into practice.