Personal Development Books

Great book... a quick read but it does dribble out. Perhaps about a chapter's worth of great stuff extended into a full length book. A good book to botrrow or even browse in a bookstore... but I bought it and I'm glad I read it.

this book is the stuff - it can't get old, it is the ministry we should all be in - pastor, member, or whatever - READ THIS BOOK!

Great information for the church - this book tells us how to be the real church and transform our communities and the world.

Not only do these ideas have the possibility of revolutionizing your church, but the author and his church are actually putting the ideas into practice. What a concept!

This book is a must read for anyone seeking to find the direction the Church needs to take. It may challenge your world of what you think chrisitanity should be, read it with an open mind and let the Spirit speak to you and show you how this looks in your life.

This book is THE book from which I learnt .Net . I worship this book for all its contents, well laid out and concepts explained in developer-to-developer terms. This is the best book I have read so far in .Net . A definite yes on this book. You dont have to think twice to buy this book.It's worth every dollar. A very good book overall.

This is much more than an okay book. It's simply the very best "programming" book on .NET. Once you've learned your .NET language of choice, which really should be C#, then you need a book like this one to explore and understand the .NET Framework. Trust me, you will not find a better one. I know, I've tried at least 6 other books of this scope. Yes, it does concentrate much more ASP.NET, so much so that I consider it also the best ASP.NET book out there. It's obviously not an advanced-level book, so you'll need to explore the subject further.

The main reason I like this book is because the writing is just so crystal clear and well organized. This author knows how to teach. Concepts flow from general to details superfluously. And the examples are so well chosen that it's a pleasure to read.

After having bought, and read or reviewed a good number of books on .NET, I feel I have a good sense as to which are the very best. The following four books are what I consider to be the creme de la creme of .NET publications:

1) C# Primer Plus, should be your first read;
2) This one, should be your second read;
3) Microsoft .NET for Programmers, read this after you've explored the framework further;
4) Programming .NET Components, the deepest clearest book on .NET I've seen by far - intermediate-advanced.

There are other excellent .NET books. I could name at least 8 others that deserve 4 to 5 stars. The above 4 deserve 5 star ratings more any other, or at least I've not found any others that use C#.

Jeff Prosise has been around the Microsoft world for a long time. If you've been around awhile, you might recognize him as the author of Programming Windows with MFC or from several of his other books. This book, as expected, is very well-written and a technically accurate book. Unfortunately, it only musters a rating of three stars because it tries to cover too much. If you want a broad overview of .NET, then this is an excellent book for you. My problem with the book is that its first three chapters on .NET fundamentals don't cover the basics as deeply as I think developers should know them. The single chapter on Windows Forms that follows next is, frankly, completely useless. The next seven chapters (Part 2 of the book) do a very decent job of covering ASP.NET. If anything, this is a badly named book. It should be called Programming Microsoft ASP.NET. Part 2 is followed by a single chapter on ADO.NET. I recommend Mike Gunderloy's book for ADO.NET. Next are single chapters on XML, multithreading, and remoting. All in all, it's a good overview and a decent ASP.NET book (you'll still need another book or two on the topic).

And this is one of them. There are classic books in every area. This book is the one for .NET. If you are an experienced developer and want to jump start with .NET, this is definitely the book for you. I love it! Thank you Jeff Prosise for your great work.

I was somewhat disappointed with this book. I felt it could have been a bit more in-depth and maybe more focused by removing the section on windows forms and concentrating purely on ASP.Net (and renaming it ASP.Net). One feature that really annoys me and is commonplace in ASP.Net books is how the author states the obvious that codebehind is a great feature and should be utilised, and nesting code in aspx pages avoided if at all possible. Then all the examples are shown as aspx pages containing nested code blocks. Arrgghh!
On the good side Jeff Prosise has a good clear writing style, his description of 'background info' is good, and the book is really well presented in choice of fonts, layout etc. Also it's good that the examples are in C# only.

Giffels has written a thoroughly enjoyable book about a ridiculous quest into home renovation. All along I hoped to get to the part about the parallel ambition of building a cohesive family, and this never came. The character of the woman he bought the house from was better developed than the character of those whose welfare the home is supposed to shelter.

I challenge the title and subtitle because the author seemed unwilling to delve into his own family's intimacy and what they surely learned as a team. It is a story of a man against himself, nature, and his house, all compelling reasons to read this well-told tale. Unfortunately, it seemed also to be a story of a man against his family while he battles a windmill, without his family's comprehension.

The premise for the book begins with the assumption that the potential arrival of a second child requires a larger house. But a mansion? Not a convincing reason. The author needed a mansion to challenge, but not for his unborn child's well-being in whose name the project is undertaken. Giffels tackles this mansion with great description, practised humor, and introspection. He seems to be very averse to having his ambition compared to "The Money Pit", but this seems to me to be the same type of tale. As a veteran homebuilder from a wreck I haven't seen the movie either, but there is a difference in providing a home for a family against difficulty and lunging into a home that would require years if not decades of financing and dedicated physical effort to sustain.

It seems to me that the marketing precedes the substance of the titles to sell the book to those of us that want more from a remodel story than the typical nuts and bolts. Giffel's advantage is that he can really write in an engaging way, and his love for his town's history is apparent, but the family life twist left me wanting. An additional complaint I have is that the restrained, though not entirely unadmirable budget indicates that the mansion will not be restored to the quality appropriate to the open budget that a mansion requires. It sounds like paint is used functionally take the place of materials more appropriate to the grandiosity of the building if the author/homebuilder hits a wall. It is a lesson that quality may suffer when there is too much space to fill. I recommend this book highly to read for entertainment, but not for the depth the tile suggests.

I wish I could praise this sincere effort by a very nice young man learning to build his family through the metaphor of remodeling an old house. Talk about a money sink. And where did the dough come from, anyway?

As a DIY myself with plenty of experience pouring footers and pulling, I understand his impulse. But the book doesn't offer any useful construction information or any juicey marital drama. The only surprise is the found money but even that dragged on until I lost interest.

Judging from the posted reviews, my opinions are wrong, wrong and wrong again. But then I don't live in Akron. Oh wait, when he glued his pants to his legs taking up a linoleum floor.. I wanted to know who does his laundry. Alas, that mystery remains unsolved.

The book was a good read. However, if you're looking for what is advertised on the cover - a story about balancing a lifelong renovation project and fatherhood, there is not much of that.

I did really enjoy the book. I have an old house, and I could certainly identify with the author. However, most of it is about David as an individual. His relationship with his wife gets a number of good anecdotes. His son gets very little time in the book, and his daughter does not appear until almost the end.

As somebody who is embarking on fatherhood while renovating, I was hoping for some real insights, but there was little of that.

Again, it was a very enjoyable read, but not exactly what was advertised.

I could not put this book down. I was even reading it while walking to the subway, to the market, etc. This is a totally new genre for me and I was sorry to see the whole story end. Somewhere on the internet are photos of the house. Amazing... what they did... Giffel is a fantastic, gifted writer and without his style and skill this book would not have been as much fun.

I picked up a copy of this book to read later this summer "when I have more time". I glanced at the first chapter and was intrigued.

I read the second chapter and was interested.

Buy the third chapter, I was hooked.

I read this in three days. Not because it is a thin book (it isn't), but because it was so interesting I couldn't put it down. I usually share or give away books after I've read them, but this one is going in my permanent collection--it's that good.

A beginners guide to multi-threading on WIN32. Experienced developers might find it useful to quickly skim through this book to see if there is anything that they didn't already know, but for the most part anyone with significant experience should find a different book.

The language used in the book is very easy to read, making life easy for newcomers to threading, but possibly woolly enough to be slightly dangerous too, in that some stuff could bits could be misinterpreted. Developing example code using incorrect practices and then slowly fixing the problems is informative, but possibly not the best way of doing things. Why not just go for the right way first and then point out the errors that could have been made? That way it is safe for people to dip into the book and use code as is, rather than having to trawl through for a correct version. Talking about using code from books - do the authors expect the reader to trust their code when they include comments like "This happens occasionally instead of end-of-file. Not sure why" ? Certainly, that means that I would code-review anything I lifted from this book very carefully. More likely, it means that I won't lift anything from this book and will use Jeffrey Richter or Richard Gerber/Andrew Binstock instead.

The book does cover a large range of Windows-related multi-threading topics - from file handling, GUI handling etc through implications for DLLs. It touches on Sockets but only very briefly, which was disappointing. Also particularly disappointing were the chapters on debugging and inter-process communications. There are too many books around that say that testing/debugging multi-threaded code is difficult without coming up with good strategies for overcoming the difficulties. Unit testing, logging and the debugger are useful, but obvious. "you must start making predictions (otherwise known as guesses)" (p268) is certainly an approach, but perhaps the time has come to use an engineering approach?

The material could do with updating, as Windows, C++ and development techniques have all moved on since this book was published. Experienced developers should look forward to Jeffrey Richter's new book, planned for end of 2007, which should be as up to date as it comes.

Despite referring to the CD-ROM the book didn't actually come with one. Instead the source had to be downloaded from the Addison Wesley web-site. Strangely, Addison Wesley do not have an errata for this book on their web-site. Normally I'm a big Addison Wesley fan, but they have done a few silly things with this book. The very first page of the preface had me concerned, when they hyphenated _beginthread to be _begin-thread. Given that this book is aimed at beginners I would be pretty sure that someone, somewhere tried typing that into their computer complete with the hyphen.

It does a very good job at describing the Win32 API for multithreading but the applications of multithreading assumed is strictly I/O related (Networking,printing,writing/reading files). The set of techniques for parallel processing on the same data is completely absent such as data organization in memory to optimize its parallel access. This is probably due to the age of the book as when it has been written, single core processor system was the norm. Parallel processing will become very important with the growing popularity of the multi core systems. Despite this weakness, this book is still my best recommendation for learning multithreaded programming on Windows since, to my knowledge, there is not yet any book tackling the subject of parallel processing on a Windows/x86 platform.

Quite useful book. But I wont recommend it. Other than file I/O and threading, it is not for advanced programmers.

From the beginning to end, it only imparts about Win95 and WinNT. None of the OS after Windows 98 are covered. So, much of information covered is obsolete.

I was looking to a complete multithreading book for Windows XP, COM threading models, writing perfect multithreaded GUI application.

I bought this book to get advanced concepts of win32 multithreading which I cant get by browsing through msdn. Although this book has covered all topics, I was expecting more like a "Concurrent Programming In Java, by Doug Lee" kind of book which has a lot of gotchas. I would recommend this book for beginners looking for examples of how to use the APIs. Advanced developers should look somewhere else.

This material is still relevent, even when using .NET. The discussion of Win32 multithreading transcends any particular development environment used with a Windows 32 bit environment.

The key idea behind this book is getting correct, reproducible results with windows multithreaded applications. Multithreaded applications are very hard to get right and even harder to properly test. The author explains the many sources of problems and how to avoid them.

In order to understand this book's code samples, you will have to understand the Win32 API and code written in Visual C++ for Windows NT. It is important to see examples of these concepts in code.

I read this book after I read Law of Attraction Handbook: Revealing the Secrets to Manifest Your Desires Instantly to Success by the same author. This book is more general, and provides concise info on NLP and positive thinking. The book major focus is Law of Attraction, and provides reasoning and origin of the law. It is great, but I enjoyed the author's second book Law of Attraction Handbook: Revealing the Secrets to Manifest Your Desires Instantly to Success more if you want to expand your knowledge on Law of Attraction.

This is your opportunity to learn the key principles to create happiness and abundance in all areas of your life. If it is Wealth, Health or anything else, then this book will show you how to form the right thoughts, resonate with the proper frequency, and align yourself with the universe.

The author talks about building the habits of thought and action that guarantee success in whatever you choose to accomplish... I also understood how to instantly recognize my life's purpose, so I can focus my energies with the power of a laser beam... I have been transformed in less than 21 days!!

Also, I recommend the new book for this author Law of Attraction handbook: Revealing the Secrets to Manifest Your Desires Instantly to Success which (in addition to this book) will give you the roadmap for personal success.

What a marvelous book! Most books speak of the Law of Attraction and focus simply on `believing you have' and thereby creating the reality you want. Aiman Al-Maimani's book, How to Attract Wealth, Health, Love, and Luck into Your Life Immediately really is a complete manual for activating the law of attraction in your life. The processes he outlines are very simple and also very complete. If you follow his instructions, you will definitely experience real changes in your life. The real key to the power of the positive thinking lies in the power of positive `doing' and Aiman Al-Maimani shows you how. This is book is a must read!

This book is nothing more than a glorified pamphlet describing the use of affirmations. Don't waste your time

Aiman elaborates on why and how the law of attraction works and how one can create vibrations on what he or she wants. This will draw in people possessing similar positive vibrations, i.e., "like attracts like."

Al-Maimani simple to follow steps walk you through the subtle ways of preventing negative vibrations from occurring by default.

I love this book! It is so simple and easy! It really helps put the Law of Attraction into action. I've kept it as a resource and have recommended it to several people that are still trying to figure out the Law of Attraction.

However, all of the material in this book is essentially worthless unless and until a reader makes and then sustains a full commitment to assume 100% responsibility for her or his life.

This book is a terrific guide to creating a successful life. If you want to learn at the feet of the master, you'll pick up this book!

I bought this book in 1974. Within a month I had started my own highly successful mail order company, which I have just sold 33 years later, having had a lot of fun. Within 18 months I was driving a Rolls Royce Corniche for which I paid cash. A big step up from the 2CV I had been driving up to that time. I cannot recommend this book too highly.

I have given away many copies of this book over the years to would-be entrepreneurs.

Get the origional copy as the information contained in the Nixon rewrite is of no benefit and in fact just confuses.

The system is simple, but you must apply it diligently. As Charles Atlas said in his bodybuilding course. "Do not just read about the exercises, do them."

Well, this will be a somewhat typical review that I give for an unusual book... But it will be some review. I first "bumped into" this book years ago in a little antique store in Lawndale, California called The Old Master Gallery, at first I thought the 'thing' was just a novelty to add to my collection of many books, and back then I really was "book crazy", still am, but I take most from the library read a couple of times, and if it is really good, I buy it... But most of the time I just read it a couple of times and that IS it. Anyhow, I recently found a new copy on Alibris for a lower price than on Amazon (about six months ago), so I decided to buy it. $11.95 versus $30.00 any day of the week? I know so. Especially a good book like this one. When I first got the $6.95 copy at The Old Master Gallery, I thought to myself, this is just a novelty to add to my longhair collection. I keep that original copy in storage like a "Holy Grail" item that it is with its great ideas with many of my books. But to me, the simplifying of many "complex" ideas is worth the $1,000.00 "cover price", but since it IS lower, I pay THAT, still knowing its real value. Understand what I am saying? I think you do. Indeed, this is a book that is worth something or everything to the genuinely ambitious and honestly profitive. Usually, I don't do long reviews, but this long review for this little book that costed the man who wrote it .50 cents to make in the 1970s is a most powerful statement. When he says, "Lazy Man's Way To Riches", Mr. Joseph Karbo wasn't joking, I didn't mean non-dillegent or dilettant. For you see it works like a labor-saving device such as a vacuum, versus picking up the trash off the floor by hand or whatever, that's how he meant "lazy man's way", not actual laziness. So, I rest my case right here.

Captain Josh Clayton

There is supposed to be a companion Web site that is not available and no contact with the author seems to be available. Very frustrating. There is a companion guide that is out of print and is offered used on different Web sites for over $1,000. It's ridiculous.

I have had a copy of this book since 1995 and it has had an amazing effect in my life. Whenever I've had problems I've cracked this book open and gotten things moving ahead again! I've given many copies away to friends and family...no wonder over 3 million copies have sold! I'm a big fan of the lazy way!

I have had a copy of this book since 1995 and it has had an amazing effect in my life. Whenever I've had problems I've cracked this book open and gotten things moving ahead again! I've given many copies away to friends and family...no wonder over 3 million copies have sold! I'm a big fan of the lazy way!

Nutshell review - An average follow on book to First, Break All the Rules. Really nothing that new or revolutionary not already covered or implied in the original work.

This book, based on the extensive research and data collected by Gallup, gives a great help for managing an operation or a team. Currently I am engaged in a hotel takeover and we will be conducting the Gallup review in a few weeks. This book helps to focus on the important factors while giving hints and examples of how to improve productivity, employee and guest satisfaction and how to create a work environment pleasant for all parties. It is structered well and easy and fst to read. Is a must for everyone in a leading position.

Basic principles, we easily overlook.
Helped me change the approach I use to involve staff in decision making.
Sensible information that can be applied to any level of leadership or management in any setting.
My coworkers have appreciated the change.

There are a few good books on supervision, and a lot of impractical but "brilliant" books on "leadership" but this is the first that I've read that I could really apply to my job. I wish the three crushing layers of bureacracy above me would read this book too. I like the empirical data and real names. That gives this book much more credibility than the average management book for me. It's also a good way to do a self-report card in my relationship with each employee. Some of them are demanding and now I think "what does she really need to do the job, and am I providing it" instead of just responding to complaints without any analysis of the underlying situation. Bottom-level / front-line staff can be very good at manipulating managers or conversely very good at making a manager so defensive that we can't reply to them. With this book in my toolkit, I can stay above the emotions of the workplace and either fix what needs to be fixed or send the employee to EAP.

My other two favorite books are Making Work Work by Morgenstern and Healing the Downsized Organization. They are also very practical.

Overall this is a great book. It's packed with good information, backed with solid research, great statistics, real examples and well written. Normally I'd give it a 5 star rating. When compared against other books in its genre, it's a great book and deserves your attention.

However, I found much of this book a rehash of the material in "First, Break All the Rules". The ideas are important enough that I went ahead and forced my way through the book. However I was definitely disappointed that the "Long-Awaited Follow-Up" as the cover advertises didn't really contain anything dramatically new that was not already covered in "First, Break All the Rules".

I just received this book which I have been meaning to buy for a while. I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't put it down. Mr. Shore did a great job not only taking us through his life's journey through autism, but also sidelining it with various observations. I am always amazed at those who ventured on the autism spectrum before the word autism was even recognized by many people. Reading books written by those with autism offer such wonderful insight and perspective. I highly recommend this book for parents who are trying to better understand their child with AS as well as those with AS who are navigating high school and/or college futures. There are some great suggestions and ideas.

I especially like how Mr. Shore talked about many of the jobs he held and why he succeeded or what he learned from his not so successful job situations. I think having a supplemental book on this subject alone would be very worthwhile...especially if it came from a variety of viewpoints. Hmmm.

Great Job!
Joanna Keating-Velasco
In His Shoes, A Short Journey Through Autism
A Is for Autism F Is for Friend: A Kid's Book for Making Friends with a Child Who Has Autism

This articulate man gives us an autobiographical view at the difficulties faced as a person with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome grows up and tries to join the working world. It is tough, and he is often misunderstood, yet he very intelligent and has a great deal to offer the world. Although he will always have his "social skills" disability, it is heartening that he is now happily married and has found a career path.

Very interesting to read first hand what it is like to live with autism.The author's accomplishments are amazing, but also his awareness of his limitations. A good book to learn more about this condition, also easy and enjoyable reading.

I recently had a young family member diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and wanted to know more about experiences and views from persons with Asperger Syndrome. I believe Stephen was able to inform the reader of what it is like to exist in a world without having the social skills we non Aspies take for granted. The book lets one know the challenges that might exist in the future for someone diagnosed with Aspergers during an early age.

I purchased this book to gain a better insight about Aspergers. Instead, it left me with many unanswered questions. The book is the equivalent to a boring, monotonous `Dear Diary' that gets stuck in one era: His college years and his interest in music. (This is understandable as the author is terrified of life outside of college, & music is all he knows.) Yet I craved more details, I wanted to know more about Mr. Shores' childhood, his parents, the stims, and the chaos...DETAILS!

It felt as if the author was trying to prove how intelligent he is, boasting of his accomplishments and how he's almost neurotypical. His failures were blamed on other people out to get him for unknown reasons. Lets say it for what it is: A man who looks kind of disheveled and a bit `odd' (Unabomber) gets a job in a financial institution, he rides his bike in, hangs out in the shadows getting dressed, doesn't socialize - and no one wants him around. It's BECAUSE HE'S WEIRD! Yet the author blames his co-workers.

I'm sorry but the reality is, the author probably can't see and understand that he IS different because he has Aspergers! I mean, most typical people can spot someone that is odd/weird/different a mile away. They avoid them not because they're being hurtful, they just can't relate to that person.

I wished he had focused in much greater detail about his feelings, emotions and behaviors when he was younger-to gain a better understanding of what shaped him into the person he is now. The book was written as if he fast-forwarded through his entire youth and got stuck on `pause' when he got to college. While this is obsessively interesting to him, it was tiring reading page after page of redundant accounts of his college days.

There is no depth to the book, it was shallowly written and there is not enough elaboration to make me understand, (or want to for that part) what makes Stephen Shore the person he is. While this may be due in part to his disorder, it left so much to be desired.

I'm sorry to anyone who takes offense to this review, as this is not my intention. I applaud Mr. Shores accomplishments and the hurtles he's overcome. He must be MUCH more dimensional than the book conveys. I wanted to know more about HIM and not what he's done in his life.

I'd suggest a better read would be one of Temple Grandin's books. I got a true feeling of who she is and an understanding of how she got there and how autism fits in. She goes into details about what she was thinking as a girl, teenager and adult. Her pranks, her temper, the metaphors and their importance..everything.

I bought this book based on reviews, and I felt it necessary to give mine.

Ms. Craddock's book is thought provoking. As an award winning portfolio manager, she brings her business background to a level where we can all relate. Never before has an author taken such an introspective approach to career development. Maggie is the Phil McGraw of career advice. This is a must read.

Ms. Craddock does a brilliant job of taking us through the often painful process of finding ourselves and then bringing the best of ourselves to the workplace. The Authentic Career is about finding and living the authentic self. It brings us back to the things we might have once been told by a well-meaning friend or a self-help lecture; it makes real and fleshes out exactly what we need to do to work through core issues of our identity and find our "true bliss" in the workplace.
What better person than Ms. Craddock to show us the way. She went from making million dollar business deals to working with mental patients to try to find her bliss and to bring the fruits of her labors to us, in a very readable,
usable form. I have benefitted greatly from reading this book!

There is a section in Ms. Craddoock's book that hits home with me. I could not understand for the life in me why co-workers sometimes took a dislike for others on the job for no apparent reason. According to this book, it turns out that individuals bring a lot of baggage from their childhood to work. One person in this book admitted to not liking their co-worker because they resembled a relative who had mistreated them in the past. Is that wild or what?

The book is four-stage self-inquiry process by Executive Coach Maggie Craddock. Ms. Craddock's exercises comprise mind, body, and spirit in interactive exercises and follow-up action items. Her book was very helpful for me with respect to a recent career change from public relations to producing executive conferences for the pharmaceutical industry. The Authentic Career process a vital compass point in the navigation of a life-long work life.

The job market is moving at lightning speed. It is now essential for young professionals to assess their skills, talents, and values before taking life-altering paths. As for seasoned workers, The Authentic Career offers a balance between effective career evaluation and proactive actions consistent with one's values and needs in a professional context. This book that avoids the trap of "analysis paralysis" and aids to forwards anyone into decisive action.

Rebeccasreads recommends THE AUTHENTIC CAREER as an elegant & deeply invested seminar on transforming the quality of both your professional & private life.

Illustrated with stories from Fortune 500 CEOs & women re-entering the workforce after having children, along with a four stage process, THE AUTHENTIC CAREER is deep reading, & certainly a worthy companion upon your professional path.

As a newbie to parenthood, I find this book enlightening and helpful on many levels. Trying to stay present and in the moment is a constant struggle, but the authors give you the gift of their experience and knowledge to help you stay engaged in the day to day joys of being a parent. Our culture is so busy being over stimulated that we are losing sight of all of god's gifts before us each day, including raising our family! Stop, breathe and enjoy your child before this day is over!

I read this book when I was 2 months pregnant with my first child. Now at 11 months old, I plan on rereading it. I'm a practicing Buddhist, so this fit with my belief. However, everyone can benefit from reading this book. People of all faiths can certainly relate. I passed it on to my sister, who is a Christian, and she had the same praise. Read it.

Worthwhile reading for time-strapped parents who want to be more present in their everday interaction with their children.

The Kabat-Zinns have written a unique book in as much as it is one of the very few that apply mindfulness to parenting. Those portions of the book, where this application is described, are very good. Afterall, Jon Kabat-Zinn has done a fair bit towards popularizing this form of meditative practice. However, the book falters when the authors advise about bringing up children and disciplinary issues. They fail to distinguish, in any practical way, between utter laissez faire and much-needed corrective action. The reader is left to his/her own devices to figure out a path that should be followed. Well, one really does not need a book to tell us that the path is unique and must be forged by each parent. The manner in which mindfulness can help in charting this path is poorly described.
Overall, I recommend this book only for a few chapters (approx. 75 pages) that are very good. The rest does nothing to improve parenting skills.

I was hoping this book would help me learn to be a calmer, more patient, and contented parent. While there were lots of examples, I felt this book was rambling and didn't really give me practical help.