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a wise and healing book with a great deal of basic wisdom to offer anyone who desires a deeper spiritual existance. his work is truly nourishment for the soul.

This is a tremendous resource for the history of County Limerick and all of its small towns and villages. It is an excellent reference for genealogy or for exploring the area.

Best books I've ever seen! Each page is in full color, there are hints and maps of each stage, and this book guides you step by step as you play! A MUST HAVE book!!

"The Little Fellow" is a wonderful children's book about a foal who learns humility and compassion. It was my favorite book as a child and still is today. The illustrations and story are beautiful.

This is a darling story of two foals and their experiences with humans and other horses in the herd. Rudish's drawings are some of his best. I found this book at a library years ago and would love to own it! Anyone who owns this book has a real treasure!

I have read many books on healthy aging and longevity and Dr. Bortz has written the very best! He gives the latest information on exercise, diet, rest, medication use, and dealing with a health crisis. He manages to do this in a friendly style,occasionlyy bringing in his own personal experiences along with his suggestions on getting the most out of life. I think everyone will enjoy the discussions on sex, maintaining your brain power, and the use of alternative medicine as it relates to older people. It's a worthwhile book for everyone - smart, dummie. old or young!

Frederick Buechner is now, at 80 years of age, highly respected and well known for his teachings and writings centered on the spiritual life. Brook Street Press will change that in introducing this reprint of Buechner's brilliant 1950 novel A LONG DAY'S DYING written just prior to his 'finding Christianity', and while the novel was highly acclaimed when it was first published, it has all but disappeared from his bibliography of biblically oriented works of fiction and non-fiction. This novel is simply brilliant, a reader's delight, and a hugely successful work despite the fact that it demands much from those who enter its realm.

Buechner writes in a dense, near stream of consciousness style that is reminiscent (in the finest sense) of the works of Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Michael Cunningham, and William Faulkner. Strange company, this? Well, just try to jump into Buechner in media res and see if the clues are not there. His small but indelible cast of characters includes Tristram Bone (an obese, wealthy, unlucky in love eloquent man) who lives with his German housekeeper Emma and his pet monkey Simon. He is friends with a novelist, one George Motley (a novelist who lives in his own world); Elizabeth Poor (an elegant wealthy widow who attracts men like flypaper); her young handsome Adonis son Leander and Leander's oddly intrusive friend Paul Steitler, a young professor whose attentions with all those he meets are seductive; and Maroo, Elizabeth's stalwart prickly mother who seems to have the best handle on everyone and whose journey through live offers a bastion of philosophy! The story simply unfolds the interrelationships of these odd people, weaving them into a tapestry so intricate and eloquent that the product is dazzling. Trysts, rumors of trysts, peculiar encounters and imagined relationships twist in and out of the story, all bathed in the luminous language of Buechner. 'Morning sunlight in long horizontals through the latticed blinds serenely puzzled the wide room by singling here and there disconnected shapes of brightness for predominance. One spray of a sea-green glass vaseful of lilacs caught the light and. like a wing, dipped through the shadow...' These verbal settings abound, wrapping the characters in shawls of beauty as they act out their peculiar ways of approaching friendship and affairs.

Reading Beuchner should be a slow process. Though the story is propulsive, it is thick with asides that demand attention if the lush eloquence of the language is to be appreciated. A LONG DAY'S DYING has some very important points about life to make, but it is the journey through the magnificent landscape of Beuchner's language that is the inimitable joy of reading this gratefully restored novel. Highly Recommended for serious readers. Grady Harp, May 06

He wasn't physically large, but his physical presence was never in question. His horizons were endless, but he had the drive and ambition to strive to reach them all. Max Aitken's story reads like a modern fairy tale, but the people and circumstances are real. From a Newcastle, New Brunswick childhood, during which his ability to maneuver people for his own ends was manifested early on, Max rose to become a Peer of the Realm, much to the distress of several of the other peers. At the same time he had become the most influential newspaperman in the world. All this before the age of forty!

David Adams Richards was the ideal choice to portray Max. As a novelist, his approach to Aitken's life bears an intimacy few historians possess. A native of Beaverbrook's home town, he has a fine writer's touch for bringing Max Aitken to life. The author's style is well-tuned to the personality of his subject. Aitken's career seems to have left him little time for reflection, there was always something else to accomplish.

Aitken's drive for success emerged early - he started a newspaper at 13. After a short term as an office boy in a law office, he moved to Halifax, where he came under the tutelage of John Stairs, who taught him financial matters. A somewhat shady business affair led him to leave Canada for Britain. There, he moved upward with amazing speed to earn a Knighthood in 1911. The outbreak of WWI prompted the Canadian government to put him in charge of an archive of Canadian activities in the conflict. Not a record-keeper, Max used the role to promote Canada's role in the war. Before the Armistice was signed, Max Aitken had become Lord Beaverbrook - title taken from the region near his home.

In the interwar years Aitken had his foot in two, related realms. Intelligence and propaganda were closely related in those days. But his other interest lay with the newspaper business, and his takeover of the 'Express" papers rejuvenated the chain. Among other causes it promoted was Free Trade among the members of the British Empire. As a Canadian, Max had suffered a good many snubs and sneers for being a "Colonial", but his wish for equal status really was based on economic issues. The culmination of all these activities, of course, was the appointment of newspaper baron Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, to being in charge of aircraft production shortly after the breakout of WWII. How incongruous - a publisher doing manufacturing? On reflection, the answer is dead easy. Aircraft production requires organisation and management skills. Max Aitken had demonstrated such abilities from an early age. This is a little giant of a book about a little giant of a man. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

No, I'm not Tim Paulson, there is only one "Head Coach of Coaching." I am Tim Owen "The Mastermind & Implementation Coach" and I, like so many other sincere people who have written reviews of Amazon's fine offering of books, would like to say that Tim Paulson doesn't just write about a philosophy of Loving and Growing Rich, he lives it. More than that he inspires others to do the same by his example. Additionally, he extends a belief to-others upon which they can build a foundation, until their own belief in themselves can be extended likewise. By applying the principles in Tim Paulson's book we arrive at a place where by giving to others, we truly give to ourselves.

Upon reading "Love and Grow Rich" I can't help but enthusiastically endorse it because it has "given me back to my-Self" and as I share its philosophy further it is doing the same with a lot of other people. Having gotten to know Tim well in the last year I must say he really is a "Super Hero" example of "Loving and Growing Rich." I wholeheartedly support his work and would encourage anyone to take advantage of it. We need more people like Tim, who give of themselves tirelessly to make the world a better place. I hereby vow that I will do all in my power to join Tim Paulson in "Loving and Growing Rich" helping as many others as possible to do the same. For the world needs men, and women, giving of their heart that we may all have the opportunity to truly "Love and Grow Rich."

Unlimited, Eternal and Free,

Tim Owen
"The Mastermind & Implementation Coach"
www.Squidoo.com/TimOwen
www.TheCoachingClub.info

I have been using Mac OS X since the first public beta, and have some other Unix experience. I must say, this book has taken me a long way towards applying the things I know about other Unix environments to Mac OS X. Despite my Mac OS X experience, I feel that this book has taught me a lot about the Darwin flavor of Unix. As an added bonus, the book's careful explinations have helped me to better understand the other Unix platforms I have worked with.

All and all, this was a good, if technical, book. Perfect for anybody who is interested in porting Unix software to Mac OS X, as well as the Unix admin who wants to get the most out of the new environment. However, unlike the title maintains, you don't have to be a Unix geek to get something worthwhile from the reading - though you may consider yourself one after carefully going through this book.

My only complaint is that the book leaves you wanting more information in some areas. Thankfully, it is always quick to point you to other O'Reilly titles that fill in the gaps.