Rich Books

This is a wonderful, well written book on how to make the necessary changes in your life to "Be Rich"! The author is well educated and confident in the material, and makes a special effort to use multiple examples to educate the reader in the power of different ways to think. This book has been an inspiration to me. I have implemented many positive changes in my life and I recommend this book to all!

Very good book, Robert Collier is a great author, he explains things clearly, I my self am an author and I see the high quality in these older authors such as Robert Collier

He does use quote from the Bible but these are used in the way they were intended as teaching tools not as preaching tools.

I recommend this to learn more of manifesting your future.

This book read like I was watching a movie. Characters that you "get" from the start, and a world you can identify with. It's as engaging as The Hobbit, and as interesting as Stephen King's first four Gunslinger books..... especially the fourth. I can't wait for the next book from Griffith. Hopefully VERY soon!

It's a shame about Ben Franklin. A printer, inventor, statesman, diplomat and patriot, he played a huge role in bringing America to birth. Yet when he is impersonated today, it is so often as a buffoon - a wit-spilling, innocuous jolly chubby comic. Ronald Clark's "Benjamin Franklin: A Biography" puts the lie to Franklin-as-comic-distraction, placing him at the center of a very serious America drama.

Clark takes us from Franklin's early days in Boston, a town that (sadly) he came to despise. A printer's apprentice for his overbearing and less talented brother James, young Franklin found liberation penning phony advice from a fictitious widow, Silence Dogood, and slipping them under the print shop door at night. The success of these bits of writing put Franklin on a path of self-reliance and innovation that lasted his entire life.

Clark follows Franklin to Philadelphia where he deftly maneuvers his way into the printing business, to his scientific endeavors. Not enough of us know that Franklin's experiments in electricity (not just his kite flying) where very serious science in the 18th century. Franklin was highly regarded for the common sense way he approached the subject. Our everyday language of electricity - that it has positive and negative aspects - is Franklin's. I was surprised to know that the facts behind the story of the kite are less certain that I imagined. If the story happened (and it has a whiff of Franklin's direct and simple methods) Franklin may have been keen to keep it quiet after realized how lucky he was to have survived the experience.

Clark details Franklin's importance to the American revolution - especially his long service as diplomat to the French, wheedling out of them the guns, uniforms and supplies the colonies desperately needed to keep fighting the British Army. Clark covers Franklin's flirtatious behavior with the noble ladies of France, but leaves it mostly up to the reader to determine whether he as just playing at seduction as was "a la mode" in elite Parisian circles, or was truly engaged in something more serious. Franklin rather paternal and often long-distance relationship with his wife Deborah is detailed via their letters.

In short, Clark gives a us a Franklin who is an American genius, springing up at a time when the nation most needed a man of his craft, seriousness, subtlety and intelligence. You will read it and forever be dissatisfied with the vacuous impersonations that have smoothed out and tamed this must unruly of intellects.

This is a great book for someone learning about computers who needs a clear, easy-to-read guide. It's a modern guide to the general topics of word processing, spreadsheets, and using the Internet.

While it doesn't teach you how to use specific programs, it gives important basic guidelines that can be applied to any word processor, spreadsheet, email program, etc.

If everyone read this book and follwed the Better Ways, the world would be a better place.

What a wonderful book! Every page brought laughter and an opportunity to share some fun, and even teachable, jokes. Also a great idea for speech or sermon openings! You'll definitely get a kick out of this book!

These crosswords remind me of the high quality I used to see at the Tuesday night club. Great! Can't wait for Volume III!

Long before America's rich were taken by the pernicious idea that wealth gained by providing a product or service people want to buy entails an obligation to "give back to society," their ideal was much closer to the description given of the Prince of Wales in the film "Chariots of Fire" -- "He is here to show us what may be done and, more importantly, what may not be."

Inspired by Gene Fowler's dictum that "money is something to be thrown off the back end of trains," Lucius Beebe's chronicle of the lives and expense accounts of American magnificoes in the pre-income tax era is a remarkable story indeed. From huge houses and boats, to jaw-droppingly extravagant parties, massive jewelry collections, and - best of all -- tremendous gestures that are sadly out of fashion, these pages chronicle an era that will never, I think, be seen again. The lushness of the era is matched by the lushness of Beebe's prose. He is an author who knew how to turn a phrase, tell a story, and have a personal voice as stylish and well turned-out as the man himself.

There are probably many people today who would see this book as a 400-page criminal indictment against the "robber barons" of an earlier era. But it's just as easily seen as a catalog of all that's been lost in the name of "equality" -- envy with a gun.

I believe the most important information for a reader unfamiliar with a book is what is written on the back cover and inside front page(s). Here is what is on this book.
[on rear cover]
"MEREDITH RICH...HAS OUTDONE HERSELF!...GLAMOROUS EXPLOITS...SEXY AND FUN...PERFECT!" - WOMAN MAGAZINE
Her name is synonymous with elegance and beauty. She is Jewel Prescott, whose internationally famous jewelry designs have placed her among the ranks of Tiffany, Cartier and Bulgari. But to her enemies, she is the ultimate bitch-goddess, whose fabulous success could be ruined in one long-awaited, vengeful move.

Jewel is savvy, sensual...and vulnerable. In turning her rough-cut dreams into shimmering reality, she has used everything: her talent, cunning, even the men who worship her--and betray her...Wyatt, the New York tycoon who invests in her career--and demands a big return on his money...Sascha, the stormy Russian emigre who fathers her children--and hides secrets of his own...Hadley, the renegade free spirit whose love for Jewel turns to hatred before it leads him back to her.

The author of Bare Essence--the runaway bestseller-turned-TV-miniseries--takes you into the glittering world of international jewelry dfesign, with a story of one woman's struggle to succeed against devastating odds.
BIJOUX
Wyatt McNeill: The father of her best friend, he took an interest in Jewel's career...and, more dangerously, in Jewel herself.
Hadley McNeill: Wyatt's son, he taught Jewel the meaning of love--beyond career, beyond success.
Sascha Robinovsky: Talented, tempestuous and romantic, the Russian designer swept her off her feet, nurtured her talent, and married her. In return, Jewel gave him her heart...until she learned the awful truth.
Edward Randolph: His sexual preferences allowed no romance between him and Jewel--just the most honest and trusted friendship. And as Jewel's best designer, he was also her greatest weakness.
Allen Prescott: With his support, Jewel shaped Bijoux International into a towering empire. But unbridled ambition--and forgotten enemies--threatened to destroy her dream-come-true...

My nine-year-old daughter wants to be a model so I'm always looking for stuff that can help her succeed. This book is fantastic! The tone is straightforward, not a lot of useless rhetoric. There's a section in here that gives you a step by step breakdown of how the modeling and acting business really works. It gives some good advice for aspiring singers too, like my twelve year old son. I also liked the interesting celebrity discussions. I purchased this book based on a friend's recommendation and I'm glad I did. It really opened my eyes!