Rich Books

This large print edition of The Science of Getting Rich will go a long way in helping those with visual impairments to finally get a glimpse of the secret behind The Secret. The Science of Getting Rich is said to be the inspiration that helped Rhonda Byrne start writing The Secret. The standard sized print version can be found here - The Science of Getting Rich

A very easy read but astounding in the information it provides. Very basic life guidelines that will modify your daily thinking.

If your goal in life is to make money, this book will help you with your inner world. If you have misconceptions about money, this will help. It is for people who are open to improving themselves for getting the best from life.

This is NOT for people who have had a privileged childhood, then had a great college education, a great top consulting or investment bank job and a very stable home life. You've probably mastered most of the concepts in the book even without knowing it.

This book is quite amazing!!!
Think constantly about becoming rich and it happens by itself. Much reviewed on the internet this version also has some Sufi words of wisdom added.
A perfect gift for a poor relative for Christmas as it makes a great stocking filler!

Entertaining from start to finish. A must have for anyone in sales of any kind, but particularly in real estate. I am not a sales person but I learned a few things that will help me in my customer service.

I laughed out loud at the circumstances and so very real life lessons! Pam and Rich have skillfully brought business principles into real-world examples.Do your business a favor and read this book!

I agree with the previous review. Rich Hendey has truly redefined the sport of sea kayaking while staying remarkably in tune with kayak novices. I once saw this guy execute a triple barrel roll in rough seas with 6 foot swells and he never lost his sunglasses! Word is that Hendey is contemplating a ride over Niagara Falls this summer (the first ever for a kayak). I don't know if that is true or not, but if there is one guy who could pull it off it is "Whammo" Hendey.

Also, Hendey will be inducted this fall into the Sea Kayaking Hall Of Fame in New Oxford, PA.

If you read just one book this year, let this be it. It's enough to make you want to quit your job, give up disco dancing for good and just paddle, baby.

Anyone who knows anything about kayaking knows that Rich Hendey is the ultimate authority on the sport. I met Rich in 1986 in Gettysburg, PA. He helped me master the treacherous waters in and around the area. This is a guy who I have spent lots of one on one time with. He used to say to me, "Housely, there is only one way to kayak -- all the way!" This attitude permeates his writings on the sport.

For those who are unaware, Rich gained a fair amount of notoriety in the 1980's as club and party DJ under the name DJ Whammo. He soon chucked that lifestyle and got back to nature. I heartily endorse this book.

The Code to Happiness
What exactly is Happiness and how do we find it?
Is there a secret code? Or a book?
Last week I picked up Secrets from The Delphi Cafe -Unlocking the
code to Happiness
not knowing what to expect.
We got this book a while ago. Suzi read it first, then it
disappeared into that mysterious place that books go. You know, that
place where you can't find anything until you're not looking for it.
Anyway, I sat down at my usual reading time, 3 AM, and began a
wonderful little journey.
In short, the hero, Socrates Smith, embarks on a spiritual and
social journey to find out if there is really a secret code to
finding happiness.
Amid his very real human trials, he is guided by a mysterious
waitress, towards an array of helpful teachers. Each teacher/guide
has a precious piece of the puzzle to share.
For me, I think the main message from authors Bob Rich and Scott
Friedman is:
"Happiness is real, But you have to want it"
Maybe you also must choose to notice it.
This book about the importance of family, friends, health, humor and
passion, is a refreshing cool swim for the spirit.
Just like the waitress in the book, Bob and Scott have given us, in
a very accessible way, some good clues, and a trail of breadcrumbs
to find our way there.
Thanks Guys!

An absolute must-Can't wait to read the next book. Check out their other books. I just finished Scott Friedman's book on family business-I found it to be very helpful. A great resource to have!

The book is a good source to start looking for the information concerning the public personalities and celebrities. It may appear as a good stuff for researching the personality world.

Jordan Mcauley has done a masterful job in presenting the most effective strategies for contacting the celebrity of your choice.

I really liked the chapters on Contacting Actors/Actresses and Talk Show
Hosts. Jordan give examples of meaningful communication vs. creepy communication with the stars. The key is to be professionally persistent (and patient) and to avoid being viewed as a stalker.

I also liked how Jordan explained the proper way to use search engines to identify mailing addresses of the stars. I thought that was really valuable.

Jordan even included the addresses of television networks, publishing houses, and professional sports teams. This makes the book really
user-friendly.

This book would also be useful for people who sit on boards of
non-profit organizations that are interested in aligning themselves with
celebrities.

I can speak from experience because I have two celebrity friends. More
people definitely need to take his advice on approaching celebrities. I
have seen people say and do the dumbest things in front of celebrities and blow it.

This book is a must read for anyone looking to contact famous people. I am glad that I have added this book to my library!

Rich Hall's book will get you rolling out of the rut on all four wheels. Hilarious daily advice.

It might seem like a joke -- but laughter heals. Rich Hall rocks.

Rich Hall is pure comic genius!! Now that it is out of print, I'm going to laminate every page of my copy. How I will resist the temptation to share this with my friends and risk not getting it back, I do not know, my friend.

Hall provides a tongue-in-cheek approach to the self-help genre by theorizing that life rides on four tires: love, career, mental-physical, and spiritual. Packed with amusing insights and helpful "tips for the day" (e.g. if you like to speed, get a license plate with the word "void" on it, so that when you get a speeding ticket...), this book is guaranteed to make you laugh 'til you cry.

There are few books that I think truly deserve recognition as being in the ranks of the immortal "best sellers", but THIS is one of the very best. If you're new to sales, if you're an old pro... this book has something for every person who picks it up. I was stunned at the simplicity of the ideas, mainly because they wield SO much power! You cannot go wrong and would do yourself a tremendous favor by ordering this book NOW!!

Joe Gandolfo is an amazing motivator in that he illustrates the things that are necessary to succeed in sales, not just smoke and mirrors. He gives real-life examples of success and how to achieve it because he's done it all himself.

Now that Silverlight 2 RTW is out and the dust can settle down, it might be a good idea to start looking at the books on Silverlight. One recently completed book, by Chad Campbell and John Stockton, is Silverlight 2 In Action.

Both Campbell and Stockton are active Tweeters that you might want to follow with your favorite Twitter client, and Stockton in particular has quite a presence on the Silverlight Forums. Overall, this is a book that will satisfy both beginners to Silverlight as well as more advanced programmers who may not necessarily need "the basics".

Silverlight 2 In Action is laid out in 12 Chapters:

1 Introducing Silverlight
2 Harmony with the web
3 Back to the basics: Layout and text
4 Handling user interaction
5 Getting down with data binding
6 Networking
7 Managing digital media
8 Getting a grip on graphics
9 Bringing it to life: Animation
10 Giving it style
11 Enhancing the experience
12 Share the light: Distribution and deployment

The first chapter gives background information and some interesting statistics. It also talks about some basics that will be helpful to beginners and even to intermediate - level programmers. Expression Blend is covered quite well here.

The second chapter covers how Silverlight interacts with the HTML DOM of the browser and how the Silverlight plug-in works. It also covers installation issues and handling events.

The third chapter covers layout and text - the concept of the Canvas, how the XAML works, how to arrange and layout content, and more. UIElement and FrameworkElement are covered. All is in great detail.

The fourth chapter covers user interaction - drag-and-drop, controls, and dialog boxes. Keyboard input and events, the mouse, and much more.

The fifth chapter covers databinding - binding syntax, data sources, binding modes, the DataContext property, customizing the display, converting values, DataGrid and subcontrols, using LINQ, and a lot more.

The sixth chapter covers networking - trust, security and browser limitations, cross-domain policy, and connecting to data sources of all types. Very detailed treatment here.

The seventh chapter convers how to manage digital media in detail.

The eighth chapter deals with graphics - drawing, images, composite geometries, brushes, gradients, you name it, they seem to have it covered here.

The ninth chapter covers animation -- storyboards, doubleAnimation, the works.

The tenth chapter covers styling - resources, project structure, bundling of resources, and more. Visual State Manager is also discussed.

The eleventh chapter deals with enhancing the user experience -- IsolatedStorage, dynamic runtime XAML treatment, BackgroundWorker, updating the UI, retrieving content on demand, and more.

Chapter twelve covers distribution and deployment of Silverlight applications: UserControls, Dependency Properties, navigation, splash screens, and more.


Silverlight 2 In Action is loaded with excellent diagrams, illustrations, code samples and XAML. It is obvious that the authors took pains to ensure that they produced quality reading content. There is also an active forum for the book, in case you want to "keep up".

I've read a number of Silverlight books to date; many suffer the scars of having been begun for earlier Silverlight versions and have had to be updated as Silverlight has changed. Silverlight 2 In Action does not suffer from this -- it is feature-complete for the Silverlight 2 RTW (release) version and I do not believe I have seen any Silverlight book yet that has this much detail on virtually all the facets of Silverlight development.

Campbell and Stockton have done an excellent job. Recommended! I'd also like to mention that I'm pretty impressed with the Manning books in general so far.

This has been a crazy summer, but since our daughter has decided not to show up on her due date (which was September 24). I finally got some time to sit down and read a pre-release of Manning's Silverlight 2 in Action. I know the two authors who wrote this, and while John and I have had beer and burgers up in Bellevue, Chad and I have yet to meet up offline. So if I have to pick on someone, it will be Chad ;)

[ Disclosure: I was given a MEAP copy of this book specifically for review purposes ]

Executive Summary: If you want to learn Silverlight 2, get this book

First, a comment on organization. I like the way Chad and John have organized this book, building up from simple to more advanced concepts. While that may be a no-brainer, many authors lose sight of what it takes to bring a person up to speed on a new technology, and often start off with a concept that is just completely foreign to them. For folks who have an understanding of Silverlight, the first chapter will be review, but that is to be expected.

I tend to prefer books that are more presentation of facts than just run-throughs of tutorials. I know many folks also like the tutorial approach as well. For me, this book is a great example of the factual approach I prefer. Lots of detail and very well organized. You can approach the chapters or the subchapters in an ad-hoc way without getting lost in the middle of a larger tutorial. Great stuff!

One thing that stood out in chapter 1 was the mention of attached properties. This is often left out, and really is, along with the whole concept of dependency properties, a core concept that isn't intuitively obvious from looking at source and markup. The first time you look at xaml, you often wonder what the heck that "Canvas.Left" is doing on those controls.

Chapter 2 gets into the theory and practice of how Silverlight sits on an html page. The book explains the two separate OMs and how they integrate to build a full solution. It also goes into detail on the instantiation/installation model and the properties for the objects/functions used. I haven't seen this level of detail in any of the other books or online resources.

One you get past all that great information in Chapter 2 (which may be something you skip past at first, but will want to return to), Chad and John get into the guts of Silverlight programming, graphics, text and layout. From there he goes into controls, input and focus.

Then in Chapter 5, the guys talk about Data Binding. Binding is another one of those essential skills any Silverlight and WPF developer needs. Sure, Binding in WPF is richer, but it is still extremely useful in Silverlight 2. The chapter explains in detail what it takes to bind something, and what the under-the-covers binding process looks like.

Including LINQ in 5.5 seemed a little odd at first, but you have to cover it somewhere, since LINQ is an important technology that Silverlight can use. We even used it back in our Silverlight 1.1 alpha application in July 2007. So, including it in a chapter on Data Binding probably wasn't a bad idea.

Chapter 6 gets into a topic near and dear to my heart : Networking and Communications. This is the main chapter that John Stockton wrote. The authors do a good job here covering all the communications mechanisms in pretty good detail. I was about to complain about the lack of WCF Duplex, but then I found it under the advanced topic - a good place for this technology. The chapter glosses over the server-side work required to make the example work. As much as I would have liked to have seen that in there, I can understand why that might take up just way too much room in the book (and the book is on Silverlight 2, not WCF)

The section on sockets was just a placeholder in the version I reviewed. If the coverage of sockets is as good as the rest of the chapter, I have no doubt the content will be good.

Chapter 7 covers media and delivery mechanisms for that media. Media has been pretty beaten to death since Silverlight 1.0, so despite the great coverage of the content here, you may think there's nothing new to learn here. However, the chapter has great detail not only on the properties, but the lifecycle and order of events. Great stuff!

Chapter 7 is also the chapter where you'll see how to work with images and Deep Zoom.

Chapter 8 goes into vector graphics and brushes, and does a great job explaining all the moving parts there. Chapter 8 is also where you'll find the information on transforms. Transforms apply across the board to most any element, so don't assume by the placement here that they are restricted to vector graphics elements.

Chapter 9 goes into animation. I won't insult you by saying this topic is scary to developers, as I think most developers looking at Silverlight will be comfortable at least understanding the basics of animation. However, good animation can be daunting, and this chapter gives you at least the foundation you can build on or use to execute on the animations the designer has provided.

If you're an animation professional, or used to professional animation tools, you may want to skip chunks of this chapter, but most folks will need this basic understanding.

Chapter 10 goes into styling. First the chapter covers the basics of styling (and source URIs and resources), and then it gets into control templates. Finally, it tackles VisualStateManager, arguably one of the most important styling and state concepts.

Chapter 11 gets into more of the goodies that Silverlight includes in the box. Smaller topics like Isolated Storage, creating Xaml at runtime, background threads, downloading content at runtime (an expansion of networking concepts) including fonts and compressed files, and Silverlight 2 Xaps, and the DLR all get sections here.

Chapter 12 covers packaging up your wonder creations as units you can distribute to others. This isn't xap deployment, but about creating things you can share. Chad also offers up a decent navigation pattern here that seems to work well. This is the chapter where you'll find preloader / splash screen information as well as hosting and streaming. Of all the chapters, this was my least favorite due to its organization. That may be because it is unfinished, or because it was simply the last chapter in the book, and Chad had to pop a lot in there without making the book 1300 pages :)

I found a few small nits in the book, but I suspect those will be corrected in the final version. Overall, my opinion is that this is a very strong Silverlight 2 book.

Do I recommend this book? Definitely. If you are new to Silverlight, this one will be great resource for you to quickly get up to speed. There's just enough Blend in there to make sure you get the basics of the tool (which is often all most developers will need) and plenty of markup to help you along the way.

Two thumbs up.

I could not put this book down. There are life experiences that will either inspire us to grow and blossom or sometimes destroy us. Maryanne's book is a beaming lighthouse in a world where for women, life's school of hard knocks can totally leave us in a fog doubting our self worth. Maryanne's personal honesty and metamporphose is truley inspiring and should be manadatory reading for so many women in our society that struggle to find a strong sense of self and healthy dose of self esteem. Any women who has had a difficult experience with love be it a father or a lover will relate to this. You will laugh and cry and totally learn. Enjoy!

This book reached out directly to my heart...I was moved
to tears, to pain, to joy, to inspiration. The book reminds
me of "Sex And The City" meets "Postcards From The Edge"
with a bit of "Conversations With God" thrown into the mix.
I was fascinated by Comaroto's riveting minute-to-minute detail
of her life's experiences...a courageous and deeply intimate memoir!!