Miller Books

Chances are your piano teacher uses method books. If you seek a piano teacher who really appreciates and understands music, the language of soul... If you want a teacher who patiently works with you every step of the way on the great music you're learning to play... If you're looking for a music master who can encourage you to learn your favorite piece of music by presenting thorough logical explanations in his own unique way... If you need a teacher who can make it an easier, more enjoyable experience to learn a wonderful instrument... this instructive book is definitely for you. THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK gives you the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding and step by step approach to important topics. It enables you to challenge your present or future piano teacher to take you further than you imagined yourself capable of. I can easily see this book become required reading for all piano students and anyone desiring to teach piano. Unlike others, Neil Miller has not settled for writing a standard, elementary work. I'm really pleased to finally find a book which is clearly superior in quality and value for people who want help with mastering piano music, regardless of age or level of knowledge. It is not only interesting to read, but understandable and instructive. The illustrations and layout make it easy to absorb the content of each chapter. THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK clearly deserves to be on your bookshelf and learning list.

After I retired I started practicing the piano after many years of not playing. I originally took piano lessons from a pianist who had studied with Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School.

In this book Neil Miller covers many of the things I learned from my piano teacher, especially the sections on how to practice. For example how the practice a difficult area in the music, which both Neil and my teacher called "repairing a fracture".

Many many other areas are covered in clear concise understandable terms. I won't list them all, but you can find them by looking through the book's table of contents. In addition to making a very interesting initial read through, this book frequently serves as a general reference for me.

I recommned this book to any adult who wishes to learn more about the piano and the art of music. Both Neil and my original teacher showed me that playing the piano can become a love affair. Even a spiritual journey that enriches one's life.

Chip

We bought this book for my son who was struggling with his practicing. He's 11, and it has made an incredible difference in his playing, and his desire to practice! His teacher was so impressed last week when he showed up and played each piece perfectly with feeling. Rather than struggle with the same old piece week after week, he finally got some new pieces and he loves practicing because he understands so much more now. A great book!

My wife has already reviewed this book, and I agree with everything she said. But if, like me, you're skeptical enough to think "Mr. Miller's students say he's great, but why should I buy his book?," then here are a few reasons:

First, Miller is passionate about both piano playing and teaching, so the book doesn't have any "look at me" flourishes of the kind seen in some vanity publishing projects from people who want to sell you on the Next Big Thing. The writing here is cordial and informative rather than bombastic.

Second, Miller's book is easy on the eyes, with a clean layout and effective use of graphics, sidebars, and formatting conventions.

Third, Miller never forgets that music making involves more than technique, and more than playing the right notes at the right time. Miller knows music theory inside out -- a rarity in itself -- but also knows music history enough to quote people like Duke Ellington in the proper context. Like Ellington, Miller never descends to musical snobbery, and he's not shy about borrowing good advice from different musical genres.

To put this all another way: If you were a cellist who had a chance to take a master class from Yo-Yo Ma, wouldn't you grab that chance? Miller doesn't have that kind of name recognition, but the "Tao of Piano" he's collected in this book after a lifetime of teaching benefits piano students at all levels and the people who love them.

Piano teaching matters because piano teachers matter, and piano teachers matter because even when they don't cop to it, a lot of what the good ones do comes down to what Thomas Moore (the contemporary author, not the sixteenth-century English saint with a similar name) famously called "the care of the soul." Miller knows that, and shares his insights with the rest of us. This book is nothing less than a public service.

The subtitle says it all - what you should be learning in piano
lessons. I quote that because what is contained in THE PIANO LESSONS
BOOK is not taught by most piano teachers - the teachers I had before
I found Neil Miller were woefully deficient in teaching theory,
practicing, and interpretation. When I decided to take lessons as an
adult, I knew that some things were missing in my previous lessons,
but I didn't know what. For example, my other teachers had me play
scales, but they never taught me how to generate them systematically,
see and hear how they relate to each other, and how those
relationships appear in music. I could finally memorize music - play
at the piano - just the piano and me without printed music. Another
example is understanding what practicing is all about - in his
lessons, Neil preferred to call it "working," and it was about getting
every small section of music to sound like the ideal version I could
hear in my head. Additionally, I really enjoy the history and
description of the pieces in the chapter on Analysis.

I highly recommend THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK to everyone who plays the
piano or wants to. Every section contains valuable information. For
about the price of a piano lesson you'll get the value of 100 lessons
from a true master.

I have received the item in a good condition. Else, product features were available as mentioned on website. This is for the first time I have dealt with Amazon people and I find it worth dealing in future also. Regards, Pranav Darji.

James has been rightly credited as the father of Psychology, and this was the work that launched psychology into a field of its own. When it came out some 100 years ago, The Principles was criticized as "un-systematic." James would have taken this as a compliment. It is exactly because this book is not an elaborately contrived system that it remains fresh as a morning flower. Full of details and insight, it is perhaps the most epic and insightful psychological work every produced. That said, The Principles doesn't quite stay within the bounds of psychology. As you will see from the citations (which are voluminous), James was also well read in the humanities, from abstruse philosophy to literary fiction. But then, James was living in a time when Philosophy and Psychology were not distinct disciplines. Not a problem if you enjoy philosophizing. For its breadth, scope and penetrating insights, this book might never grow stale.

This book is a beautiful classic. James is unafraid to tackle the perplexing questions about consciousness. He is also unencumbered by simplistic theoretical assumptions or restrictive definitions of science, but he holds to a high standard of clarity and steers for the truth.

This book is a brilliant catalogue of the phenomena that must be explained by the various brain and psychological sciences. While the behaviorist movement that came after James led to important advances in scientific method, in terms of objectively establishing empirical results, it also led to a massive denial of mental phenomena that cannot at present be explained purely in mechanical or behaviorial terms. Because subsequent generations have denied the phenomena, or written them off as "illusions" or "folk psychology," as is still common today, this book is a precious trove of unbiased insights about the mind.

I would thus agree with the other reviewers that this is a great book. However, while they seem to claim James for functionalism, (which is I think the dominant framework for understanding mind in contemporary cognitive science--holding that implementing certain functions such as self-representation and planning, are what makes a system conscious, no matter what it's made out of) I suggest that much of James' critique of what he calls the "mind-stuff theory" and the "associationists" is equally devastating to what is now called functionalism. For example, people still talk about patterns of brain actvity as if they had objective, ontological reality. But we can completely describe the brain at the level of molecules without reference to patterns, so the pattern is not an intrinsic, necessary way of interpreting the activity of the physical brain system. Similarly, having the idea of A and the idea of B does not imply having the idea of A+B. James makes this basic point in multiple ways in his book. It seems more or less equivalent to the point articulated in recent times by John Searle, that "any physical process you might find is computational only relative to some interpretation," ie some observer (in "The Mystery of Consciousness" p.16). When expressed in Searle's modern language, it is more clear why the distinction between real objective properties of a system and its extrinsic observer-dependent properties, is a big problem for contemporary functionalism.

In any case, I highly recommend this book to any serious student of psychology. It's not for boneing up for psych exams or grant proposals, but for patiently ruminating on and savoring.

This 1400-page work in two volumes, published in 1890, is probably the best single survey of psychology ever written.

The work is of imposing size, but James covers such a wide field, so thoroughly and so engagingly, that to my own surprise I read both volumes cover to cover, back to back. The two volumes comprise 28 chapters, including "The Functions of the Brain", "Habit", "The Stream of Thought", "Attention", "Association", "Memory", "Imagination", "The Perception of Reality", "Reasoning", and "Will"--to name just a few that I found the most fascinating.

James's reasoning is sharp and subtle, his writing clear and vigorous. The qualities of his own mind, which come through in the prose, are astonishing: he is both skeptical and open-minded, deeply versed in the existing literature, and an original and fearless thinker. He must have been a fantastic prof.

I was a little afraid that the age of the book would make it antique, with fusty 19th-century notions that have long since been disproved. Not a bit! With few exceptions, the material is as fresh and relevant today as it was in 1890. Even the material on brain physiology and function, an area where the 20th century can claim to have made some progress, was sharp, perceptive, and interesting.

The advent of Freud, Pavlov, and others in the 20th century seemed to push certain theoretical ideas about the mind to the forefront, putting other, older ideas in the shade. My prejudice was that they had made 19th-century psychology irrelevant. I was wrong. There were many able minds studying psychology long before Freud, and their findings and views are well worth knowing. Among other things, James's book is a treasure-trove of psychological thinking up to the time of his writing, including many extracts by other researchers, both those he admires and those he is critical or dismissive of.

James, of course, was not merely a psychologist; he was also a philosopher. If I had to give a single reason why I think this book is excellent, it would be that James fearlessly tackles questions lying at the boundary of what today are seen as distinct disciplines. Here you'll find penetrating, persuasive insights into the nature of reasoning, logic, and the will, as well as the origin of aesthetic and moral ideas. James is as thoroughly versed in the works and ideas of Kant, Hume, Berkeley, Locke, and Mill as he is in those of his fellow psychologists. He confronts the thinking of the greatest minds with complete confidence, using his laserlike intellect to discover their obscurities and contradictions. He is their peer.

At the same time, James is humane and folksy in his style, often making references to his own experience, domestic life, and the little experiments he often performed on himself or his students. He writes with candor, humanity, and honesty. Time and again he comes to conclusions or makes observations that cut to the core of human experience altogether.

Technically this is a textbook surveying psychology, probably for a first-year introductory course. It bears almost no resemblance to the dry, cautious tomes that usually fill that role. It is an impassioned work by a learned, deep, and original mind explaining his own conclusions on this vast and elusive topic, based on long study, experiment, and careful thought. It is one of a kind. If you're interested in the human mind, this book is for you.

Why would anyone want to read a book about psychology that was first published 113 years
ago? One answer is the rationale for reading any psychology book: that it
provides insights into psychological issues not available elsewhere. Although
many psychologists of the late 19th and early 20th century probably started their career by
reading this book, it is not appropriate today as an introduction to psychology. Too
many of James's viewpoints are antiquated, and his facts, outdated or incorrect. Neither
is it the book to read if you are looking for contemporary psychological views
or a compilation of psychological knowledge. Recent textbooks are better for these purposes.
Yet, the word most frequently used to describe James's Principles of Psychology
is probably 'monumental' and rightly so because not only is this a lengthy work (~1400pgs),
but it also is the culmination of a long line of philosophical thinking about the Soul,
Self, Mind, Matter, and related topics that began with the pre-Socratic Greeks
and continued through the 19th century, when positivist philosophers and experimentalists
began to explore psychologically relevant philosophical questions in more concrete terms,
invoking a scientific method and rejecting metaphysics. At the end of the 19th century, a
seeming riot of discussion about the meaning of life, the nature of consciousness, mind,
ego, evolution, and related subjects dominated the scientific and popular culture.

At this point in history, William James, an American trained as a physician and employed
as a Harvard professor, examines the various philosophies of the previous two millenia, picking
out those aspects relevant to psychology, comparing and sorting them to reveal their value
as unambiguous theories that might be tested by research, and reflecting on how the evidence
stacks up in their favor. He also advances his own, original conceptions on various issues.
His work is not the first to collect speculation and evidence into a coherent
psychology, and there are many previous works with "Psychology" in their titles,
but James's efforts would galvanize an American discipline of psychological science that
would eventually become a dominant intellectual force.

James defines psychology as the "Science of Mental Life" and describes the
stream of consciousness as "the ultimate fact for psychology." Out of his viewpoint,
the school of functionalism in psychology developed, where the mind is conceived as a
useful organ that evolves according to natural selection and grows according
to discoverable rules. His orientation towards physiological and behavioral data
eventually diminished the then dominant psychological
method of introspection that James himself uses so frequently with great effect.
Subsequent viewpoints in psychology, such as behaviorism, though taking part of their
inspiration from functionalism, reject James's definition of psychology, so that
by the end of the 20th century, most psychologists with an empirical orientation may
call themselves "behavioral scientists," but certainly not "mental scientists."

Reading this book can be disconcerting, perhaps because of his period style or
Victorian sensibilities, or the frequent, unglossed short quotes and phrases in German, French,
and Latin because he assumes the reader has at least these minimal language skills.
Perhaps also, it is because James is not only conversant with the giants of philosophy
and experimental technique who preceeded him, but seemingly, with virtually every
published sentence to date bearing on the subjects of concern, and in veritable fractal detail,
producing a tour de force in erudition. His is not the style of current psychology
journals and textbooks, but fortunately he does translate into English many long passages
he quotes from their original sources. Yet possibly the most disconcerting aspects
are the subjects that James raises in this book.

The new mainstream psychology after James rejects many topics as unsuitable - even for
discussion - that figure prominently in the intellectual history of philosophy
and psychology. James's view that the concept of Soul should be eliminated in
scientific works is one point on which later psychologists heartily agree, but they
also, to a large extent, throw out other concepts of central concern to James, such as
mind, emotion, will, and feeling. Rare pleas by scholars
with varying backgrounds (e.g., Ornstein, Tomkins) urge students of psychology to
revisit issues discussed by James and address the larger questions contained therein, but
such exhorations echo mostly in halls of learning emptied by Vita enhancement pressures.
Renewal of interest reappears lately for some of the suppressed topics, cast into such areas as
cognitive psychology or emotion theory, but James's idea that the mind is a core
concept remains foreign to virtually all contemporary psychologists, and much of his
emphasis seems uncomfortable from today's viewpoint.

The reluctance among psychologists to embrace such philosophical and scientific issues
concerning the mind is remarkably not shared by some physicists, mathematicians,
biologists, computer scientists, and other scientists who in recent works have implied
that psychologists may be irrelevant to elucidating such issues, if not muddle-headed,
scientific dwarfs. This twist is ironic because psychologists restrict their
vocabulary and investigations partly to ape their conception of these "hard-core" sciences.
It is not clear whether psychology will survive the choices that psychologists have
made about their subject matter, or whether psychology departments will inevitably be
diced and parsed into their appropriate slots in departments of computer science, biology,
medicine, statistics, and physics, but certainly, the end of psychology is nearer if
tomorrow's students of psychology fail to study James's Principles of Psychology.

James's work is the jumping off point for much of what forms 20th century psychology:
habit, association, attention, memory, imagination, object and space perception, etc.
His thoughts about emotion, feelings, the self, consciousness, and other topics remain important
for today's theoretical views. On the other hand, this work predates psychoanalysis
and does not include an organized account of abnormal psychology, human communication,
and other topics raised in most elementary surveys of psychology. The context in which
James puts scientific psychology is probably the most important lesson of this book.
The Dover edition is unabridged, the only form of this work that should be
considered by the serious reader.

I really like this book just for the fact that it is long term, it is not a quick fix. If you can follow this book and work on your goals daily, you will be able to manifest your hard work and desires. He gave you the keys to your success-are you passionate about your goal? Have you thought out every detail of it? It is not easy, as he explains in the book to do this, especially if you have never focused on exactly what you want to have in your life. He also describes to you his failures along with his successes to impress upon you the need to keep going until you find your purpose in life. You must read his "Actual Steps for Making Dinner", it will put you over the top!

Bob Garvey's book is a motivational book that cuts out the excuses. He makes it clear that you are on your own and "the calvary is not coming." This is not a fuzzy, feel-good kind of motivational book, but more of here is how to do it...now do it. Fast paced and crammed with questions and anecdotes designed to open up some boundaries of thought and possibilities. I like the way that Bob directs the reader to hold themselves accountable for where they are and where they want to be.

Bob Garvey writes: "Your parents lied to you....You can't be anything you want to be....But you were meant to do some specific things very, very well, perhaps better than anyone else on Earth. It's your job to find what those things are."

At 65, Col. Sanders started trying to interest restaurants in his chicken recipe. He tried 1000 times before anyone would buy. (Ten years later, of course, he sold the recipe for $15 million!) It took perseverance and guts for him not to give up. To find our real purpose and to live in it is going to take guts and passion! And here's a book to help us find what our passion is and to how to live in it.

We're involved in so many activities. We're busy. We have worries. We're unfocused. But, as Garvey says, "The human mind has an amazing capacity to block out hundreds of distractions and focus on only one thing." Just get a phone call at work that your child has been hit by a car, and all your other concerns vanish. Your one focus becomes getting to that hospital right now! Harnessing that ability to focus is the major teaching point of the book.

All of our habits operate from a place beneath our conscious awareness. We don't have to concentrate on how to walk: it's a habit we've already learned. We don't have to relearn every time we have to tie a shoelace: it's already deep down inside us. The subconscious mind is our ally--but it doggedly resists change. "Your subconscious feels that your habits are so important that it treats them like unbreakable rules." That's why it's hard to break a habit.

When we make a New Year's resolution or try to start some new habit, our subconscious mind can actually try to sabotage our efforts. Its primary job is to keep us safe. It sees change as a threat and resists new goals. "It actually codes everything in your life that is new or different as 'wrong.'" One of the strengths of this book is in showing us how to make goals which our subconscious mind will accept and work with to achieve.

If you have enough purpose and passion, you can do just about anything. If you were offered a million dollars if you hit your goals for a week, do you think you could do it? If the life of your child depended on you hitting your goals would you be motivated enough? When you really have a motivating purpose, you can do what you set out to do. "All of us can hit our goals consistently with the right motivation. The key is finding yours."

The book gives us The Vision: having passion and purpose in your work is the easiest way for long term success. It gives us The Vehicle: focused goal setting. And it gives us The Plan: finding and leveraging your strengths and passions through focused goal setting.

Garvey gives his readers the formula for success: hard work and perseverance. He reminds us what it takes to work hard and persevere: energy. And he shows us where we get that energy: by having purpose and passion. Finding purpose and taking steps each day to move in its direction takes guts. And that's what the book's all about. He writes it well...and it's worth the read.

Grab the pick glasses and get ready to transform your life!! Whether you are a corporate professional, entrepreneur, or just seeking to find your purpose in life, this easy-to-read book reveals "proven" steps by the author, Bob Garvey, on how to obtain the power to change your present circumstance. He gives you the VISION, the VEHICLE, and the PLAN to have the guts to change your life, your future, and your job. Many people talk about making changes in their lives, but do they have the guts to change?

FANTABULOUS! FANTABULOUS! FANTABULOUS! Are the words that would describe Bob Garvey's book "Purpose Takes Guts." If I had to rate this book on a scale of 1-5 it is a 10. This book will help you succeed in life. Bob has done an excellent job of explaining what it takes to turn your life around. He gives many examples on what you should do to have a better life and your work. Everyone should read this book.

This book goes a long way in explaining why there was so much written about the Wild West and why so much embellishment took place.Throughout history there has been all kinds of spins put on the people involved and what really occurred.Why would anyone expect anything different during the expansion of the West,particularly after the Civil War? In dramatic times of history,be it the Wild West,WW2,Crime in Chicago etc.people are craving for an understanding of events as well entertainment,and that is what we are given by the writers and the media.
Personally,I enjoy both the factual as well as the fictional
aspect of these times.
One character who often appears in books is Ned Buntline.He was a real person by the name of Edward Zane Carroll Judson,and this book does a pretty good job of telling us who he was and some of the things he did.Somebody must have written a book on him;it would be a good read.

This book was a welcome source of information on the Carson & Miller families whose genealogy I have been researching. Michael Wallace did an excellent job of getting his historical facts straight and offered some additional resources for my search for family history.

The easy style presented an engrossing story of a family moving through history from the 1850's to the 1930's and adjusting (not always easily) to the changing moores of society.

My father was a cousin of the Miller Bros. and told us children stories of his childhood in Oklahoma and attending the shows at the 101. My sister & I recently visited the old 101 ranch site and were sad to see that little is left. The Miller house in Winfield, Kansas is still standing in beautiful condition and is a private residence.

Michael Wallace is an excellent storyteller. The book gave life to my genealogy and made me feel in touch with the characters and the times. Anyone with an interest in western history would enjoy this story of a dynamic family who helped shape our images of the old west.

One terrific book -- a majestic recreation of the figures that helped define the old west and western entertainment.

Readers lacking a sense of irony may be dismayed to discover that the Real Wild West was only loosely hitched to reality. Spurred by the imaginations of Charles Miller and his three sons, our perception of what is the west sports the distinct brand of the 101. Take heart, though, because on the Miller Brothers' 101, the west was most certainly wild.

Possibly outlaws and certainly mavericks, the Millers rounded up some legendary talent to work their ranch and perform in their touring shows. The 101 herd of entertainers included Geronimo, Will Rogers, champion cowgirl Lucille Mulhall, Annie Oakley rival Princess Wenona, and such film legends as Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, Yakima Canutt and Hoot Gibson. Black cowboy, Bill Pickett, famed for inventing the rodeo event steer wrestling spent a long career at the 101, and Buffalo Bill Cody spent his final year with the outfit.

While tooling a longstanding image of the west with their Wild West productions, the Millers also saddled up to motion pictures, oil production and an outstanding crop and livestock operation. Their story is a rodeo itself, made all the more interesting by the hints that white hats did not cover the heads of all of the 101 cowboys and cowgirls.

When the last little doggie was wrangled on the 101, the Miller Brothers' legacy did not ride off into the sunset, but continues to stampede through the dreams of would-be cowpokes everywhere. I'm not a regular patron of movie theatres, but I cannot wait until this saga makes it to the big screen!

If you like history and the stories of the old west, buy this book. I really enjoyed it.

Remnants of Glory is so beautifully written. I read the book several months ago and the characters are still active in my thoughts. It is a compelling novel, written by a gifted story teller.

Teresa Miller has brought us an ageless story in this wonderful book. Kate Dexter's story is the story of early twentieth century womanhood in the southwest. Tough, gritty, yet full of compassion and love - a chronicle of early Oklahoma. Simply beautiful. A truly satisfying book.

As a rule, I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction because too often the history is the star of the story. This book is an exception, however. While Oklahoma at statehood and during the depression is a fascinating backdrop, Teresa Miller has kept the history in the background (where it belongs) and allows her characters to shine. Kate Dexter and her family are richly and fully drawn, with quirks, flaws, and strengths you will immediately identify with. Though their day-to-day battles are different from ours, their larger struggles remain with us: racism, betrayal, sexism, our treatment of the mentally handicapped and the aged. The details are just right, too -- you can feel the sun beating on your back as you watch Kate's mother tugging the wild asters around the veranda, and your heart aches when a careless roommate breaks Kate's watch, a last gift from her long-deceased husband. By the time you finish the 90-year journey with Kate, she will feel as familiar to you as family: someone you know, warts and all, but love anyway.

Remnants of Glory is one book you shouldn't pass up. This novel spans a huge portion of Kate Dexter's life, from age 18 to age 90. Many roadblocks are thrown in her path, but she triumphs with grace and glory. As a mother to a mentally challenged daughter, she does what most of us would do, much to the chagrin of others around her. As a wife, she deals with her marriage and it's traumas with dignity. And as a human being, she admits her weaknesses and flaws in spite of her perfect reputation. Kate lives her life throughout this novel with a mad determination. It is truly a beautiful and powerful piece of work. Teresa Miller deserves a big round of applause for this one. Those who love reading about a character from life until death, fully-formed and 3-dimensional will most likely appreciate this masterpiece.

This book is the life story, from 18 to her 90's, of Kate Dexter, a feisty, stubborn and determined woman from Oklahoma who survives personal tragedy, povery and marital infidelity, to live to old age. Kate's mother, Cora, ran a successful boarding house, despite the handicap of a totally impractical dreamer of a husband who always had grandiose, get-rich-quick schemes for making money which inevitably failed. Kate married a small town lawyer and was happy enough until their second child was born mentally retarded. The marriage rapidly deteriorated as Kate devoted herself to caring for the child at home, neglecting her husband and other child. It's a story of just how tough a woman can be when needed, just to survive life with all of its tragedies and heartbreak. The indomitable spirit of this woman made me feel rather guilty as I'm sure that I'd never have the strength to forge ahead as she did without breaking.

I lost my youngest sister suddenly 5 months ago. She left a husband and 3 children behind. I purchased this book for my brother-in-law. He was overwhelmed at the sweet simplicity of the book. I, too, really enjoyed the assurance of the book.

I was amazed at how comforting this book was to me. Very beautiful poetry and poetic phrases. I was able to see my mourning of my mother's death from a completely different view, and this brought me a sense of peace. If only I had read this book earlier, possibly I could have averted some of my pain upon her passing.

I purchased this book for a friend grieving the loss of her husband. We live across the country and I could not be with her. She said this book is the first with encouragement that she can grieve in her own way on her own schedule. The book is written from a spirit of caring and does not suggest what steps to go through when. The message that "it's in your own time and your own schedule" is precious to her.

Following the death of my son, "Seasons of Grief and Healing" was the first book I could actually read (and I mean actually read the sentences and understand and relate to their meanings). I would only read until what the book was saying stopped pretaining to me and how I was feeling. I would later pick up the book and continue to read until, again, it was beyond what I was feeling or could comprehend. I haven't quite finished the book yet...I'm just to that stage yet.

I now give this book to people I know who have lost a very important person in their life hoping that they too will be able to find some encouragements, faith, and/or hope in the words of the quotes, poems and passages within this wonderful book. Thank you Mr. Miller

C. Zillmann (Mike's wife)

I ordered this book and have ended up giving it away to dear friends. It is perfect to replace the "SYMPATHY" card which often has briefly written comfort words that don't comfort. This book has so many thoughts to let the grieving know they are not alone, and that healing can be ahead. It goes through the seasons of grief and loss. I hope someone will send me one of these book when my turn comes to hurt rather than a card and flowers. I am glad there are comforters who write and understand.

J. Keith Miller has GOT to be my favorite author, next to C.S. Lewis! He is so deep and honest. What a refreshing change to everything else you read nowadays.
If you like this book, and you have already read "The Taste of New Wine," then you need to get "Habitation Of Dragons" by Keith Miller. Very powerful!

He's back! Keith's "A Taste of New Wine" changed my life 25 years ago and then I lost track of him. After reading his latest work, "The Secret Life of the Soul", I realized how much I had missed his writing. His book on the inner struggle for control of our Soul speaks to the heart of every man and woman. I literally could not put it down until I had read every word, from cover to cover. A must read for anyone seaching for REAL meaning in life. Keith, glad you're back! RPR, Franklin, TN

J. Keith Miller's book is honest, open and to the point. His references to his life story touched my soul in a powerful way. He pulled back the curtains of the soul in this book to unmask what we hide from others. He set the record straight on how we as christians in shining amour images fall because of chinks in our lives. This book is sure to rescue your soul from emotions and hurt buried in the core of your psyche. This book explores the destruction of the self-esteem and how it impacts integrity, honesty, and candidness. I'm grateful J. Keith Miller's book is a map that drives you from taking False Roads To Manhood, as one author puts it.

I couldn't put this book down as it was relentless in answering the questions that I have been asking myself all my life. As a result of a personal crisis and even without realising it, I have been on a spiritual journey for the last two years. I only understand now that my pain was caused through the constant wrestling with my soul and after reading this book I feel more at ease letting my soul reveal itself to allow me to live a happier, more fulfilling but, above all, a spiritual life whereby I am true to myself.

I only wish I was able to shake Keith Miller's hand.

Please please get more audio books on The Search for the Soul. It makes the book come alive as the author reads. Concepts in the book take my re-reading to get, but once I hear it said, there is complete understanding. Thank you, so very much for making this available, Keith.

An excellent and illuminating read authored by a genuine genius who was lightyears ahead of his time! Look into his UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY by searching his name on the web

This is an incredible book which should be read over and over. Walter Russell was an illuminated Master who wrote from his Heart. One of the greatest artists and scientists to have walked on Mother Earth, he writes about Truth and the Infinite. The Secret of Light will illuminate You!!!

Like Russells other books, 'The Secret of Light' seeks to outline the laws that govern our universe in a language that inquiring minds are able to grasp and understand.

And like in Russells other works, he provides some of the most accurate, succint and enlightening descriptions of what the universe is and who we are.

This book is thick and dense with profound meaning.
Any reader will be amply rewarded for contemplating its meaning and message.

Read the book, put it down, pick it up and read it again.

Walter Russell accessed an extensive amount of knowledge and insights during his mystical awakening. He wrote extensively about his understandings and related scientific, philosophical, and metaphysical subjects. In this book, he talks about the nature of creation, light, life, polarity, balance, electricity, gravity, radiation, waves & vibration, and the imagination and thought projections of the Creator. These are truly some weighty topics, but Walter's text is clear and informative, even when he gets into technical topics. This book is quite enlightening and actually better than some more popular metaphysical texts. The electric universe concept is truly brilliant, and Walter Russell's understanding of creation greatly exceeded most of what scientists erroneously believe, based upon their perceptions colored by persistent illusion. The "new" physics is just catching up with Russsell's ideas.

... I am very right brained and find this book too challenging
to keep...(I flunked statistics 3 times, and barely survived
algebra). Its simply over my head. I sent it to my brother
who was a self-taught physicist and he found it quite interesting.
Being honest here. For the right person, its a very unique
book...not the usual recycled scientific information, I am told.
Walter Russell I feel "channeled" this information from the next
dimension and those who have open minds and willingness to see
things from new points of view would probably like this book.
He has a lot of diagrams. For example No. 38 shows the "four
rivers of light". Some chapter titles include: Knowledge vs.
Thinking, "Unconsciousness-Sleep and Pain", "Electrical Awareness", "Sex-Conditioned Opposites", "Light", "The Law of
Balance", "Electricity Defined"....you get the drift!

Really a very interesting read. Picked this up shortly after Ford died and it was really interesting to see his final thoughts on this most controversial period in American history. The ultimate truth may never be known, but with Ford being the last member of the Warren Commission, this beautiful volume will stand as the last comment on the subject from that committee. Proud to have it in my collection.

This book features many never-before-seen photos from the Kennedy Presidential Library as well as a new introduction from President Gerald Ford. I found this new foreword very fascinating. He went into great detail about many of the misconceptions abou the Warren Commission and was quite candid. He mentioned many names of people who are currently in high offices in the U.S. Government.
The quality of this book is amazing and it tops anything the Easton Press has ever done!

I have this book on my coffee table--it is one of my proudest possessions. Having lived through Watergate's dreadful aftermath, I am glad to see this great President's life-contributions documented in such a beautiful manner. When history handed off to him, Jerry did not drop the ball.

I straddle the fence on whether I believe the lone gunman theory that was the conclusion of the Warren Commission, but there's no equivocation about my admiration for this beautiful leatherbound, gilt-edged edition which includes a new Foreword by President Gerald Ford. Also, while I disagree with Ford's pardoning of Nixon, there's no denying the historical importance of the work he did on the Warren Commission, and it's safe to assume that his new material in this edition will represent his final public thoughts on the JFK assassination.

In September 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren handed a thick book to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House. That heavy tome was the final "Warren Commission Report" regarding the investigation into the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The seven-member Warren Commission panel (plus its staff of counsel members and legal staff), in a nearly ten-month probe into the circumstances surrounding the murder of JFK, arrived at a conclusion which has divided America ever since -- they concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, by himself, had fired all of the bullets that struck down and killed President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

A vast majority of people vehemently disagree with these WC findings. I, however, am not a member of that majority. Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed, in my opinion, the sole gunman that day in Dallas. The physical evidence (as well as the circumstantial evidence) that is currently in the official record tells me that Oswald was most certainly the murderer of America's 35th President.

And when virtually ALL of the hard, PHYSICAL evidence in a criminal case leans one way and supports one single conclusion, reaching an opposite conclusion (as most conspiracy theorists have done with respect to the evidence in the JFK case) -- i.e., that Oswald is totally INNOCENT of the two murders he was charged with on 11/22/63 (both JFK's and police officer J.D. Tippit's as well) -- defies all logic and reasoned thinking.

Like most things in life, the John Kennedy murder case can be reduced (in most areas within it) to common sense and the hard, documented physical evidence, and we all know where the latter leads -- right straight into the two guns of one Lee Harvey Oswald (his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle plus his revolver, the latter which was used to kill Officer Tippit). Plus, the "common sense" part of that equation leads directly to Lee Oswald and his weaponry as well. And "common sense" would tell anybody that Oswald is guilty.

I was thinking recently about the following quote by author-attorney-LNer Vincent Bugliosi (I think a lot about his comments, because they make so much "sense" of the "common" variety).....

"Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming that he carried out the tragic shooting all by himself. In fact, you could throw 80 percent of the evidence against him out the window and there would still be more than enough left to convince any reasonable person of his sole role in the crime." -- Vince Bugliosi

.....And then, just for the sake of illustrating the validity of the above-mentioned statement made by Mr. Bugliosi, I went about the task of tossing out certain pieces of evidence that lead toward Oswald's guilt in both the JFK and Tippit murders.....and I came to the conclusion, after stripping away several "LHO Is Guilty" items, that the following two things prove Lee Harvey Oswald guilty beyond a reasonable doubt (or at least they prove his guilt beyond all of my personal "reasonable doubt")......

1.) Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle was positively the weapon that was used to assassinate President Kennedy and wound Texas Governor John Connally. (With said weapon being found inside the building where Oswald was definitely located at 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963, when both of these men were wounded by rifle fire.)

2.) Oswald was seen carrying a bulky paper package into his place of employment at the Texas School Book Depository Building on the morning of 11/22/63, and Oswald (beyond a reasonable doubt) lied about the contents of this package to a co-worker.*

* = As an extension to #2 above --- We KNOW Oswald lied about the "curtain rods" based on the following:

A.) No "curtain rods" were found anywhere within the Book Depository after the assassination.

B.) Oswald definitely did not carry any package inside his roominghouse at 1026 N. Beckley Avenue when he arrived back home just prior to 1:00 PM on the afternoon of the assassination.

A and B above add up to the inescapable fact that: No "curtain rods" were in that paper package on 11/22/63.

Adding #1 to #2 above, all by themselves, with nothing else in evidence but those items, makes Oswald a guilty assassin.

Now, when you start adding in the wealth of ADDITIONAL physical and circumstantial evidence against Oswald -- his guilt is then proven not beyond just a "reasonable" doubt...but it's proven beyond any SPECK of a doubt.**

** = Things like: Oswald's prints on a paper bag IN THE SNIPER'S NEST; which was a paper bag that perfectly matches the type of bag that co-worker Wesley Frazier said Oswald carried into the Depository building at 8:00 AM on November 22nd. (With a nicely-incriminating "right palmprint" of Oswald's later discovered by the police in the VERY SPOT on that bag which equates PERFECTLY with the precise way Frazier said Oswald carried the bag in his right hand! That's a very important point, IMO, and is undeniably-strong physical evidence of Oswald's guilt.)

Plus there are these additional items: Eyewitness Howard Brennan's positive IDing of Oswald as a gunman in the Sniper's Nest window. .... The Tippit murder that was unquestionably committed by Oswald. .... The fingerprints of Oswald located on the rifle, plus his prints located on multiple boxes DEEP WITHIN THE SNIPER'S NEST. .... Oswald having no verifiable alibi for the precise time when President Kennedy was being gunned down on Elm Street at 12:30 PM on 11/22/63. .... Oswald dashing out of the TSBD at approximately 12:33 PM, just minutes after a U.S. President had been shot within yards of Oswald's workplace. .... And Oswald's other lies he told to the police after his arrest (apart from the obvious large lie re. the curtain rods).

But it all starts with the basic points brought out by #1 and #2 above. The evidence (and Oswald's OWN words and actions) tell a reasonable person that Lee H. Oswald was guilty as ever-lovin' sin of two murders in 1963, and there's nothing any CTer (or anybody else on the planet) can do or say to change that basic of all facts.

The conspiracists will continue to try to set Oswald free, of course, like always. But the more a reasonable person examines the evidence (and applies just a small dose of ordinary common sense to these facts in evidence), the more hollow, shallow, and inept all those pro-conspiracy arguments become.

This is one of those books that grabbed my attention from the start. Having lived in Racine, WI all my life, it was fun to be able to relate to the area as the story progressed. Mike Miller has quite a talent for character development throughout the story. I hope to see some more books from him in the future.

It took no time at all for me to know "I have to find out what's going on with this kid". I did and it was worth it all the way. This book is absorbing, often unnerving, and balanced by the author's off-beat sense of humor. Excellent real-life dialog. The ending was perfect.

I usually stick to non-fiction science or psychology books. But this book had enough interesting action to keep my attention. I would recommend this to any of my friends!

A great thriller that kept my attention. I do not read alot of books, but this one developed the characters very well and had a number of interesting turns that made the book a very easy read.

This book is a real page turner. I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. Even though it is a science fiction book it felt like it could really happen. I highly recommend this book for people who like thrillers. The characters seemed to come alive on the page.