The Magic of Believing

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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN!

Mystical, motivating and inspiring, The Magic of Believing is an extraordinary self-improvement program which draws on the philosophy that the energy of the subconscious mind can help individuals achieve any goal. With a step-by-step system for tapping and unleashing the powers of the mind, listeners will learn:

* How to think more clearly and effectively to attain their highest goals
* How to activate these goals and put them to work
* The powers of self-suggestion and self-affirmation -- keys to creating new ways of thinking and believing
* How to combine mental pictures with the power of the subconscious so that any goal you imagine can be realized in the real world

Written in 1948, The Magic of Believing has helped thousands attain both personal and professional goals and the appeal of its philosophy remains a powerful tool for change. Now you can turn your thoughts into real achievements too!

WHY WAIT FOR BETTER TIMES WHEN YOU CAN MAKE THEM HAPPEN NOW?

Leaders of government and industry...stars of stage and screen...giants of science and the business world agree...These clear, easy-to-follow principles changed their lives and they can change yours, too!

Formulated by a successful businessman and world traveler, this method has been used by millions for over three decades. The Magic of Believing offers the key to a world of unlimited opportunity. Now you can discover:

* How to become the person you believe yourself to be
* How to use your imagination to set your goals
* Three sure-fire steps to getting what you want
* The power of suggestion: How to use your thoughts to make things happen
* Mental picture: The art of turning thoughts into action, results and rewards
* Why and how believing makes it so

Make your job work for you. Start your own business. Increase your income. Lose weight. Add love to your life. Whatever your goal, you can make it happen through The Magic of Believing!

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The Key To Abundance In Our Life.......2007-10-21

This book is phenomenal in that it contains the key to abundance in our life. I love this book in every way the it reveals to us all the great power thats in us all.

serendipity strikes again!.......2007-08-24

Don't you just love it when you walk into a book store (or randomly look at books online) and a book just seems to jump right off of the shelf and into your arms? Well, with the Magic of Believing that is just what I needed at the time. It is short, concise and states simple things that one can do to enhance their life. I highly recommend this book.

THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING.......2007-07-04

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I EVER READ FOR MAKING YOU BELIEVE WHEN LIFE AND EVERYONE HAS TOLD YOU THIS OR THAT COULDN'T BE DONE.

Exceptional.......2007-06-11

This is a terrific book for everyone to read. In our busy world with all of the distractions and problems, this book brings you back to what is important: Believing in yourself and what you can accomplish by believing in yourself. It is an uplifting message

Worth buying.......2007-05-06

I have read this book twice and enjoy reading it. I do agree with a lot of the information offered in the book. However, I noticed that the book made reference on page 37 to Carlos Castaneda and on page 153 to Barbara Streisand. Seeing how the author passed away in 1951 he could not have known either one. It is obvious the book was edited, but why? Was it to keep up with the times? I wished they hadn't, I would liked to read the book in the original content.

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)

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Best Aliens Ever
Flawed, but entertaining
Nice title

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)
Vernor Vinge
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ASIN: 0812536355

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This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters. In the sky, hopes of rebellion against tyranny continue despite soothing lies, brutal repression, and a mental bondage that can convert people into literal tools. Down below, the engagingly sympathetic spiders have their own problems. In flashback, we see the grandiose ideals and ultimate betrayal of the merchant culture's founder, now among the human contingent and pretending to be a senile buffoon while plotting, plotting... Major revelations, ironies, and payoffs follow. A powerful story in the grandest SF tradition. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk

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After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every tow hundred and fifty years......Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.

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This is a prequel to Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo Award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep. It takes place in the same Zones of Thought universe as Fire, but some 30,000 years earlier; it also just won the Hugo.

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Pham Nuwen, sneaky old space capitalist, in an excellent novel of space
exploration. Another culture also wants to make contact with a
seemingly dead alien world, that is really just in serious hibernation,
due to the local astronomical conditions.

Both groups end up in a bad way, the other group being sort of
f*scist despots, with some very nasty sexual habits, who also use
people with amped up brains as tools, kind of like Genoshan mutant
slaves, a la the X-Men, but with their personalities and capabilities
blasted away, rather than enslaved. Unfortunately, it is this bunch
that has basic control, including control of cryogenic facilities for
lengthening their stay around the planet.

The Spiders, as they term the aliens, end up surprising them.

Running through the book are two main threads, the human one, and
the backstory and heroic adventures of The Spiders, trying to advance
their technologies despite the astronomic calamities that befall them
regularly, and freeze their planet. This does odd things to their
reproductive cycles, until a bit more mutant-creating type meddling is
done by one of their scientists.

Vinge also throws in an extremely flexible mesh networking as
computing concept, where with tiny little devices thrown around you can
build networks anywhere.

This is part of the devious dealings between the two human groups, as well, the ability to spy or not spy on each other.

Entertaining, overlong space opera.......2007-07-26

A long (606 pages), sprawling prequel to his Hugo Award-winning "A Fire Upon the Deep," this novel takes place 30,000 years earlier, therefore sharing little in the way of story.

As the ancient space-faring traders, the Qeng Ho, and a newer race of ruthless opportunists, the Emergents, converge on a peculiar, unexplored solar system, treachery nearly destroys both.

In a universe where technological societies overload and inevitably (usually violently) collapse into barbarism and chaos, the Emergents have clawed their way back to civilization. Though their technology is not the equal of the Qeng Ho's, they have an edge that allows them to defeat the trader ships - a mindrot virus, which intellectually enslaves those it doesn't kill.

With the ships of both sides crippled, the victorious Emergents and their Qeng Ho subjects must lurk for decades in orbit above Arachna, waiting for the alien population to achieve technological advancement. The aliens, called Spiders, lie dormant until their sun, the OnOff star, relights which it does for 50 years after 215 years of frozen darkness.

But Sherkaner Underhill, Spider genius, wants to break the cycle through technology and keep civilization going through the dark years. Meanwhile legendary, visionary Qeng Ho hero Pham Nuwen, embittered by his own failed dreams, lives in buffoonish obscurity, plotting to overthrow the Emergents before they can destroy the Spider race. His only co-conspirator is young, brash Ezr Vinh who is devastated by the effects of the mindrot virus on his brilliant lover Trixia who now acts as Spider translator.

The novel has plenty of twists and turns with a few diversions into Pham Nuwen's past and the evolution of his ideas on civilization and government. It could be 200 pages shorter but all in all it's fast-paced entertainment with likable characters and intriguing technological furnishings. The one bothersome question is why the Spiders are so keen to stay awake through the inhospitable dark when their life spans are no longer than human's.

Best Aliens Ever.......2007-06-28

This is a relatively older book, and previously well summarized.
The only comment I'd like to add is that the use of viewpoint to depict aliens in this book is in my opinion the best I've ever read, and I've read literally thousands of science fiction novels.
OK one more comment; it's also powerfully plotted and full of very engaging characters.
Highly recommended.
It's been long enough, Vernor, when do we get more from you?

Flawed, but entertaining.......2007-06-11

The Amazon synopsis gives you an idea of what this book is about: 2 different groups of humans mount independent expeditions to the On/Off star. One group, the Xeng Ho, are intersteller traders who, though they aren't above cheating their customers just a little bit, are basically benevolent. The other group, the Emergents, are very much malevolent in intent. While the conflict between the Xeng Ho and the Emergents is being played out in space, the native species of the only planet orbiting the On/Off star awaken from their hibernation.

Strengths:
Vinge does a good job conveying the vastness of space and the diffilculties of intersteller travel. This isn't Star Trek where a trip to another solar system lasts about as long as a trip to Disneyland. It takes decades to travel between stars and starship crews alternate between being on watch and being asleep in suspended animation in order to survive the journey.

The intrigue and conflict between the Xeng Ho and the Emergents is very well done. The villians are well written and the story is fast paced and entertaining.

The weaknesses:
The sentient species of Arachna, the Spiders. Vinge has created a sentient, completely non-human alien race, yet anthromorphosizes them to ridiculous extremes. The insectoid Spiders marry and live in nuclear families. They live in capitalistic societies and their world is divided into separate nation states that often war amongst themselves. The secular scientists are at odds with the religious fundamentalists. In short, despite their 8-legs and external skelletons, they could be your next door neighbors.

Instead of making an effort to create a truely "alien" species, Vinge has taken the easy way out and written them as "human" as possible. The Spiders have names like Sheranker Underhill, Victory Smith, and Tom Downing (yes, an alien insect named "Tom").

The book is worth reading, but is far from being a classic.

Nice title.......2007-05-28

I wish the story and the prose lived up to the hype. For my money, Alastair Reynolds remains the best scientist-turned-fiction writer. While Mr. Vinge writes better overall than Stephen Baxter, too much of the real action of this story takes place, as they say in Hollywood, 'off camera' while the main characters are either unconscious or pre-occupied with other matters.

'Conventionitis' afflicts this book as much as it does other SF novels, where too many 'scenes' are in fact little more than discussions we've already heard on SF convention panels. I'm also tired of aliens who are basically bugs. Ken MacLeod's 'Learning the World' is far more fascinating both in its depiction of future humans and its realization of a truly alien race. I appreciate that Mr. Vinge doesn't thoughtlessly crank these novels out on a yearly basis, but frankly, if someone told me he did, I wouldn't see the difference in terms of his style. There is no reason this book had to be 700+ pages. It could have been told by Larry Niven, for example, in less than 300.

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An awaited Journey!
Not What I Was Expecting...
Rare Gem
A book that teaches you to be with yourself
Vague

Focusing
Eugene T. Gendlin
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ASIN: 0553278339
Release Date: 1982-08-01

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The classic guide to a powerful
technique for personal transformation

Based on groundbreaking research conducted at the University of Chicago, the focusing technique has gained widespread popularity and scholarly acclaim. It consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body. Focusing can be done virtually anywhere, at any time, and an entire “session” can take no longer than ten minutes, but its effects can be felt immediately–in the relief of bodily tension and psychological stress, as well as in dramatic shifts in understanding and insight.

In this highly accessible guide, Dr. Eugene Gendlin, the award-winning psychologist who developed the focusing technique, explains the basic principles behind focusing and offers simple step-by-step instructions on how to utilize this powerful tool for tapping into greater self-awareness and inner wisdom. As you learn to develop your natural ability to “focus,” you’ll find yourself more in sync with both mind and body, filled with greater self-assurance, and better equipped to make the positive changes necessary to improve and enhance every aspect of your life.

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An awaited Journey!.......2007-03-21

A wonderful technique for those who have read enough books and are ready to take on the adventure of reading their own inner world.

Not What I Was Expecting..........2007-02-06

This book is certainly not what I expected. It's quite "dated"-- I got the impression that the technique described in the book was a fad in the 80s. I'll just say it did not help me learn how to actually "focus"...

Rare Gem.......2007-01-12

Gedlin should be hugely applauded for this book. "Focusing" details, simply and clearly, the steps needed to make significant, life-altering changes. The book centers on the characteristics of people who are able to make the necessary changes as opposed to those who continue on the path of therapy forever.

A book that teaches you to be with yourself.......2006-11-10

Of all the things I have read about personal/spiritual growth from various authors, this book is among my "top 10" list. Gendlin writes about a unique approach--focusing, which I found to be truly inspiring. I have also bought Ann Weiser Cornell's book about the same topic (I have yet to read that one). But I thought reading the technique from its original author was worthwhile. It is a small book and surprisingly easy to read -- considering the fact that the author is a University of Chicago professor. The first part of the book you can basically skim through. The essence of the technique is in the second half of the book. I found the real strength of the process to lie in the fact that it uses the mind and the emotions to bring about what Gendlin calls a "body shift"--the change that takes place when you can get in touch with your real self -- Gendlin calls this feeling a "felt sense". It is no simple task, but I am convinced that it works.

Vague.......2005-12-31

Here's the straight dope on this, despite all the raving. Although this claims to be a breakthrough technique that constitutes more than just meditation, it really is nothing more than an attempted resynthesis of the age old vipassna meditation. This synthesis is hopelessly vague, poorly articulated, and overly verbose without being adequqtely descriptive. I gave it two weeks and found it unexecutable.
Even mystical Buddhism is more logical by comparison. If you're the touchy feely type who is satisfied with no more than simple suggestion, then it might be woth the seven bucks, threfore, 2 stars.

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6 Stars
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Some people just don't get it
Not For Me
An annoying amalgam of random ideas and plots

A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought)
Vernor Vinge
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ASIN: 0812515285

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In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.

Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.

Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft Out of Band--heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn't mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize Out of Band if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.

Vinge's climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, A Deepness in the Sky. Both recommended. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk

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A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

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6 Stars.......2007-09-12

Vinge has written a phenomenal book. He grabs you from the first moment and doesn't let go. Throughout you never expect the next event- especially the ending. You remain completely interested in the very deeply developed characters, who never seem to fit stereotypes in the slightest. And yet this is totally science fiction. For Vinge has created a fully alternate reality- actually, three alternate realities. He doesn't just touch on them, but fully immerses the reader in the realities of god-like entities; the concept that intelligence and physics become greater and easier to access the further you go out from the Galatic Core; and the hive-pack mind of dog creatures on a planet in the Slow Zone. My mind was wrapped around Vinge's worlds, each of them, as he flitted back and forth between them. It's a great writer who can create a world and make it seem real; it takes a genius to do so with three different realities and hold them all simultaneously. Even deus ex machinas are no longer so, so convincingly has Vinge bent reality for the reader.

There was one unfortunate bit that Vinge suffered from- a common SciFi writer ailment of describing a foreign world without giving the reader anything to understand the new reality with. For a long section of the book I was confused as to what was going on, for there was no traveling observor to help me through it. Once I grasped what was going on I had to go back and read the earlier pages to understand better.

However, this book was so well written, I'd originally give it six stars. I'll deduct a star for the confusion above, and leave it at five.

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Multi-bodied wolf people and nasty alien intelligences. Strange mix,
but it seems to work well, when you throw a ship full of human
scientists in trouble from perhaps meddling where they should not have.
Not as good as a Deepness in the Sky, but interesting enough in its own
right. Hard to go wrong with Vinge, really.

Some people just don't get it.......2007-08-06

I am stunned by the negative and so-so reviews of A Fire Upon the Deep. It is quite simply the best SF in a generation, and I should know since I read them all. I have recommended this book to every single person that I know and they can't thank me enough for it. Dozens of my friends have Deep on their short list of best SF books ever. Best BOOKS ever.

Buy it. Read it. It is simply the best out there.

Not For Me.......2007-07-02

I didn't really like this book, but let me start with the good:

The ideas are intrguing, including the Zones, the Tines, the Powers, Transcendence, and others. At times, I was totally sucked into this book by a plot that, despite some reviews here, does not drag. I think some people see a 600-page book and label it 'slow' out of hand. Vinge is definitely an above-average prose technician, especially for this genre.

The bad:
I didn't like the characters, and I didn't feel they were very complex, with the possible exceptions of Woodcarver and Flenser. Some characters were downright annoying, especially Ravna. I couldn't get past the discrepancy between her obvious idiocy and the fact that all other characters defer to her as a pillar of humanity. And, though the plot moved right along, it felt very forced. There is a series of wacky little circumstances that pits the crew together in precisely the potent mix that will wrap the conclusion up in an annoyingly neat little package. And speaking of the ending, it really was just a series of 4 or 5 'happily ever afters' in a row.

I guess this book would qualify more as 'space opera,' despite the inclusion of a lot of interesting science. It's just very fairy-tale, and I don't think that makes it bad, just, as I say in the title, Not For Me. And, to be fair, I read this immediately after Robinson's Mars Trilogy, which is very gritty and realistic. Therefore, this one may have seemed even cuter than it actually is, but still, too sugary for me.

He writes well, there's lots of suspense and excitement, and there are interesting scientific concepts. Just, for me, personally, shallow characters and contrived plot. YMMV. See my listmania to get a feel for the kind of Sci-Fi I really like, before I scare you off of a book you may actually love, lots of people do.

An annoying amalgam of random ideas and plots.......2007-06-17

Joel Fritz (see below if sorted by date) must have read a different book than I did. Despite critical and reader acclaim, I found this book unreadable. After two separate reading attempts, I finished only one-fourth of the book. Vinge tossed in a random assortment of sci-fi ideas, spread the action and characters across a huge and strange universe, and attempted to tie multiple story lines together. By the one-quarter point, I was more annoyed than enthralled, especially since the characters were not appealing.

Vinge should have pared the novel down to the story of the pack-intelligence dogs and the two human children. (Where are good editors when you need them?)

The Edgar Cayce Primer: Discovering the Path to Self Transformation

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Simply astounding
A wonderful journey of Self-Transformation
ONENESS
This is it!
Excellent

The Edgar Cayce Primer: Discovering the Path to Self Transformation
Herbert Puryear
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ASIN: 055325278X
Release Date: 1985-02-01

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The Edgar Cayce story is one of the most compelling in inspirational literature. Over the course of forty years the Sleeping Prophet time and again closed his eyes, entered an altered state of consciousness, and spoke to the very heat and spirit of mankind on subjects such as health, healing, dreams, meditation, sexuality, and reincarnation. His more than 14,000 readings are preserved at the Association for Research and Enlightenment. And now, with the guidance of Edgar Cayce, we can learn how to mine our psychic strengths for happier and healthier lives. Here are the readings of The Sleeping Prophet, condensed and simplified--the wisdom to help us make the right decisions affecting all facets of our lives. Cayce speaks out on: The sources of psychic development, reincarnation, Karma and grace, dreams, meditation, prayer, personal health (including diet and exercises,) holistic healing, sexuality, spirituality, rejuvenation, religion, spiritual psychology, and much more. Cayce offers us the keys to insight, enlightenment, and total fulfillment.

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Simply astounding.......2007-01-24

While Edgar Cayce may indeed be "the sleeping prophet," Herbert Puryear is some type of angel himself in how he interprets Cayce's work. This book is so far beyond anything I've read in the spiritual/New Age realm that it needs to take its place in the pantheon of all-time great non-fiction works.

As others have noted, Puryear's tone is almost scientific, but don't fear boredom or confusion by my using that word. Each sentence is so loaded with such profound truths and wisdoms that very often, I could only read a few paragraphs before having to put it down in order to reflect on what I'd just read. Puryear is a genius, pure and simple, and it's his generosity of heart and spirit that gives the work a poignancy one finds in any great work of art. Believe me, it's that good.

This will have a permanent home on my bookshelf, and I'm sure that as I read it again and again, I'll discover buried truths I didn't see (or wasn't ready for) the first time around.

Seriously, I can't believe someone is out there who can write this well. Do yourself a favor and buy it.

A wonderful journey of Self-Transformation.......2006-09-13

Having only ever heard the name edgar cayce, and not knowing, what person it belonged to, I was intrigued to find out with this mystical name was all about.

I was led on a journey I did not expect to take. It helped open my eyes to the interconnectedness of everything.

One major thing I liked about this book, is it's not written in a way that sounds like hokey spiritual, better your life crud....IT's written in a way that is almost scientific. The constant relation to the concious, subconcious, and the superconcious, allow you to contstruct relationships in your mind about everything this book goes into.

Well written, easy to read, and a great start at understanding the metaphysical...I highly recommend for anyone who has even the slightest interest in the metaphysical or spiritual realm, but has no idea where to start. This will give you the background KNOWLEDGE-not experiance-to continue discovering all there is out there.

ONENESS.......2004-03-18

I've read many self-help books. One of my favorites was "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Steven Covey, which was great! But, "The Edgar Cayce Primer" takes the cake! Many self transformation books talk about how to deal with life situations on the physical plain, but very few books go back to the Source or the Root of all creation. This book is very repetitve on the subjects of "Oneness" and the first two most important Commandments, which I think, is a good thing because this book stresses these points showing the reader that this is the only way to self-fulfillment, coming out of living in darkness, loving yourself, spiritual strength. I could go on forever about how this book is changining and continually changes my life.

This is it!.......2003-07-26

Edgar Cayce lovers this is the book which explains alot of what Edgar wanted us to learn. Clear and concise a beautiful little book, worth its weight in metaphysical gold!

Excellent.......2001-10-14

This is an excellent book. For those interested in Edgar Cayce and for those interested in Universal MInd, God , Spirituality...etc..A Very good starting place...and a Easy read.. One of my favorite books as well...

Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of

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Morphophonemic Alterations
Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary
My 11 year old loves this dictionary but...
Jeff Foxworthy delivers big laughs
English Is No Longer The American Language: Humor At It's Best

Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
Jeff Foxworthy , Fax Bhar , and Adam Small
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ASIN: 0345493273
Release Date: 2006-09-26

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Hey, you! The one holding the book. Have you ever seen a volume like this? Well, whether you realize it or not, it’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary will teach you how to speak this unique Southern dialect fluently. Whether you’re blue-collar or hoity-toity, swimming in cash or betting your bottom dollar, a little bit country or a lot of city slicker, this practical reference to redneck words and turns of phrases will give you hours of laughs.
So expand your horizons and learn another language with this fun, instructive, and hilariously illustrated book as your guide. After all, speaking redneck is a heck of a lot easier than speaking French!

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Morphophonemic Alterations.......2007-07-30

For us rednecks this word is way too big. But I can't think of what else to call it. Jeff Foxworthy's three Redneck Dictionaries are full of "morphophonemic alterations."
On the other hand, we don't need to actually know the techincal definition to enjoy them.

Brandon Simpson, Author of Learning Foreign Languages: Everything You Need To Knowand If You Ain't Got No Grammer...

Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary.......2007-04-04

I bought this for my grandson as a Christmas gift, so I am not able to tell you much about the book. My grandson did ask for this book and was very happy to recieve it.

My 11 year old loves this dictionary but..........2007-03-25

My 11 year old son loves the redneck words and he makes them up all the time but some of the definitions are racey so I went throught it first and used white out! Worked for us! Funny material! We are definatly red necks!

Jeff Foxworthy delivers big laughs.......2007-02-08

Pure clean belly-laughing fun. Great for a party warmer or to kill an hour of bordom.

English Is No Longer The American Language: Humor At It's Best.......2007-01-19

I always knew that English was fading from the main language of the USA. Even though those who do speak English may becoming limited, each region speaks a different "version". My husband is from Kentucky. When we had foreign exchange students we would tell them that he spoke "hillbilly". If you like humor, Ron White, Larry The Cable Guy, Bill Engval, or the Blue Comedy Tour you will love this book!!! If you just like humor or the study of language, I believe you will find this book very entertaining.

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

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Globalization 2.0
Bottom Line: Unfettered Capitalism is Destructive, Need Government
Very Pleasing to Read (Even for a Proletariat like Me)

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
Jeffry A. Frieden
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A rich, revealing history of the economic and political events that have shaped our time.

International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before....Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914.

Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the twentieth century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening. It deepens our understanding of the century just past and sheds light on our current situation.

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HAPHAZARD NARRATIVE; AUTHOR HAS VERY WEAK UNDERSTANDING OF SUBJECT MATTER.......2007-06-21

Of all the many books that have come out in recent years about global capitalism, finance and economics, this is certainly the worst. The author, a professor of government at Harvard, professes to specialize in international monetary history, but is really what his tenure title says he is, a professor of International Peace. He appears to be trying to reinvent his career by tackling the subject of capitalism but thoroughly lacks understanding of the subject matter, as made evident by his book.

1. The author makes the same mistake that virtually all political science professors do when they write about capitalism: he glorifies the gold standard, he glorifies the Rothschilds and glorifies everything that had nothing to do with the emergence of twentieth century capitalism. The author is using his expertise in international relations to analyze a subject that is really never about governments, or grand alliances or fancy bankers. He thus fails to root the story in the advent of technology, or of business procedures or of the individual investor, but focuses instead of John Foster Dulles and Dean Acheson and Lord Halifax.

2. Wherever the subject matter is strong, the book still fails badly. It does so because political economy is better analyzed by Robert Gilpin and others, whose books are mandatory reading and well written and which do not pretend to sell that subject matter as a study of capitalism.

3. The book's sections are surprisingly badly arranged. Sometimes one feels the author may have a method to the madness but I doubt it after having read it. It is certainly not thematic, or designed to trigger thought or chronological.

4. The book refers to a poem only twice in the 500 pages and it is about the King of Ghana! I mean a professor at Harvard should surely know how to maintain balance in his subject matter. Is that the one poem he could find worth including?

5. Stunning is the lack of understanding of the issues. He describes Britain as fully supportive of free trade mid-19th century but fails to consider how colonialism could be a form of free trade. He describes China Turkey and India as the only failures of the early 20th century without making the same connection with colonialism.

6. Worse is his understanding of the gold standard. He never mentions that that relic was responsible for more misery than anything other than world wars. He fails to consider that since the gold standard was weakened in the Forties, there have been NO PANICS RAVAGING SOCIETY. He is a gold bug.

7. He repeats William Bryan's Cross of Gold speech twice in the narrative with no suggestion that he is even aware his haphazard narrative is repeating the same quote. He also fails to mention that William Bryan was not buried in the election of 1896 but actually came to dominate the 20th century, what with unionism, minimum wages, no gold standard, empowerment of the individual investor and every other idea that Bryan first espoused. TR's and FDR's reforms were nothing if not Bryanism.

8. Why would a book mention so much about Rothschild's and their family in the US without mentioning Jacob Schiff, or detailing JP Morgan, or RObert Lehman or Albert Gordon. I mean the author simply has no balance on the subject matter because he knows so little about it.

9. Finally, it is not clear what Jeffrey Frieden is doing at Harvard. Such poorly researched fare is common to COlumbia Business School and its Dean Glenn Hubbard, or to the Hoover Institution or some place like that. Harvard on the other hand puts out more balanced and far more thoughtful pieces.

BAD BOOK THAT MUST BE AVOIDED.

Almost tempted to give it a miss.......2007-04-23

I was almost tempted to give the book a miss after seeing the high ratings that were given by reviewers that seemed to be anti-globalizationists (what an awkward term!)

However, I came across the book at my library and gave it a chance, and I was not disappointed. It is a book that does a creditable job of summing up the ups and downs of the world economy over the past hundred years and more. And it also does a fairly good job of raising some issues and problems with the world economic system, and how the system had evolved to meet those issues and problems. On the whole, I think it's a balanced book, pointing out the critical need for free and integrated markets to raising millions in the world out of poverty, as well as some of the problems facing them.

The only reason why I gave the book a four rather than a five is that it is not an easy read, and it is best read with some thought and analysis on the reader's part. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not something for everyone.

By the way, do ignore those reviews that pretend to tell you what the author was saying in his book. I'm not sure that he's actually saying what they say he is saying.

Read the book for yourself. It's worth the time and effort.

Globalization 2.0.......2006-07-12

Jeffrey Frieden, a Harvard professor specializing in international trade and finance, has written a masterly and comprehensive history of capitalism from 1870 to the present. His history of globalization reminds us that it is not a recent develpment and that its current success is not guaranteed.

The first era of globalization (1870 to 1914) had many of the same characteristics as today's. There was an unprecedented cross-border movement of goods, capital, and labor. (Labor more so in the first era.) During these years huge amounts of capital moved overseas to America, Canada, and Argentina mainly due to the reduced costs of communication and transportation. The technologies driving this globalization were the telegraph and railroads. It was also facilitated by the fact that most currencies were convertible to gold. The investment in the Americas was also followed by a huge immigrant population. In these years, America, Canada, and Argentina had much larger immmigrant populations at the turn of the 20th century than today.

The main thing that distinguishes the present globalization from the first is what happened in between. After the Great Depression and World War II remedies were put into place to mitigate the damaging effects of these economic and social catastrophes. Social benefits such as unions, minimum wage, healthcare and pensions were established as safety nets. In the era between the two globalizations when economies were mostly national the safety nets were part of the social contract between capital and labor.

In 1980, when our current era of globalization begins, capital began to move overseas again in order to find countries with lower labor and social costs. This time, however, labor did not follow. The industrialized countries now have large middle classes with social benefits promised who are not certain about how they are going to be paid. This is causing many in the industrialized world to have second thoughts about our current phase of globalization.

Frieden has a guarded optimism about global capitalism and thinks it is still the best system for distributing wealth. Yet, his last chapter "Global Capitalism Troubled" points to some more clouds on the horizon. There seems to be a growing gap between those who control capital and those who work for a living. People understand that globalization is inevitable but they want a new set of rules to address the growing inequalities.

Frieden is a cheerleader for a more equitable capitalism that can deliver both social benefits and robust economic growth.

Bottom Line: Unfettered Capitalism is Destructive, Need Government.......2006-06-27

I read books in groups, and bought this one along with David Walsh's "Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations" which I recommend above this one is you are only buying one book. I also read and have reviewed "Global Class Wars" as well as all other books I recommend below.

Although I was less interested in the history, which is very well documented and clearly explained, and more in the lessons for the future, I found two clear bottom lines in this book that are supported by its extensive research:

1) Open societies and open democracies generate more money and more opportunity and more innovation than closed or failed societies; and

2) Keynes was right, there is an urgent vital role for government to play in addressing the social networks, including education, transportation, rules of commerce, and so on, that allow capitalism to work.

The author distinguishes between individual, cooperative, and competitive capitalism, and I found validation in this book for my concept of communal capitalism, a capitalism that is guided by government in avoiding the exportation of jobs, the importation of poverty, and the impoverishment of the middle class.

Unlike David Walsh's book, this book has more of a focus on what is moral and pragmatic, and so I recommend William Greider's "The Soul of Capitalism" as well as John Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man."

I have a very strong feeling from this book and others, that the era of "out of control" capitalism is drawing to an end. We may even see the end of the corporation as a separate legal personality in the next 12 years. The transparency of information that is available when people attach themselves leech-like to a corporation and hold it accountable (see my review of "No Logo") is creating a powerful antidote against the Enrons and Exxons and Wal-Marts of the world who bribe elites and screw over the publics on both ends. I also see Wall Street losing its ability to "explode the client" (see my review of "Liar's Poker"). A great deal of good will be done in the next quarter century, and it will come from a combination of good government and educated engaged citizens working together across all boundaries.

Very Pleasing to Read (Even for a Proletariat like Me).......2006-06-25

I read this book for a graduate-level economics course. It's not an "Econ for Dummys" book, but it really enightens the reader about the history of economics in the 20th Century. It's smart and straight-forward. The author does not interject his personal perspectives, which is nice. He just puts it out there. A definite must-read for those entering the field of economics/history.

Letters to Karen Abingdon Press (Abingdon Classics)

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Charlie Shedd was a wonderful marriage writer!
Good Advice
Lasting advice--and it worked for me
love letters
useful advice

Letters to Karen Abingdon Press (Abingdon Classics)
Charlie W. Shedd
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Karen Shedd was away at college and had recently become engaged. Looking forward to a long and happy union, she wrote to her father for advice. Dr. Shedd, a popular minister and father of five, began writing Karen a series of letters on keeping love in marriage. They were eventually published in a collection that soon became one of the most widely quoted and bestselling books of our time.

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Charlie Shedd was a wonderful marriage writer!.......2007-05-19

This is a wonderful, little book. Order it and you won't be disappointed. Easy to read and down to earth. For other books that will help your marriage greatly, click on these links: The Man of Her Dreams The Woman of His! and The Man of Her Dreams The Woman of His 2 - Livin' It and Lovin' It! (Volume 2)

Good Advice.......2005-09-27

Charles Shedd shares the wisdom he gained from a long successful marriage with his daughter, Karen, befpre her marriage. "Letters to Karen" gives advice on establishing and maintaining a healthy, Christian relationship with her future husband. This advice is not just about how to treat each other right. It deals with the doubts and fears a new wife has on the day she wakes up, realizing that she is married, and asks herself "What have I done?" There is advice for handling the trials and tribulations which every marriage goes through. I read this book before my marriage and felt that it contained the best pre-marital counselling I received. Twenty-nine years later, I purchased this book for my future daughter-in-law. I am hoping it will be as helpful to her as it was to me.

Lasting advice--and it worked for me.......2003-08-25

My grandmother gave me this book around 1966, soon after I married. It provided basic advice about marriage that I took to heart, and the advice and the marriage are still working after 37 years. I loaned my copy to someone years ago, and it never came back, but I just bought a replacement. There's another generation coming up that I need to loan this book to.

love letters.......2002-01-25

I enjoyed this book. It gives good peices of advice that just about any woman in todays society can use! I would love it if my dad were to write me letters like this. I think its a cute idea and i'm glad he turned it into a book. I really want to write letters about life to my children once i have them. I would recomend it to any young woman out there.

useful advice.......2002-01-24

this book gives great advice to those who are engaged or wish to get married. this book is about a loving father that gives useful advice to his daughter who is about to get married. this book taught me about different problems that come up when in a relationship and how to deal with them. i think that karen is very fortunate to have such a loving father that is willing to give advice along with personal situations that he found himself in. karens father has a great relationship with his daughter because he tells her whatever is on his mind. when i become a parent i will do my best to have a good relationship with my children just as karen's father was to her. i would recommend this book because people can learn alot about marraige though the letters of karen's father.

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

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The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
Jason Moss , and Jeffrey Kottler
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The Last Victim challenges the reader to understand not only the twisted psychology of serial killers who kill for pleasure but why and how a young, seemingly bright and healthy young man such as Jason Moss could create such elaborate schemes to ingratiate himself with them. Moss puts his own safety and well-being on the line time and time again, simply to gain these men's trust, to coerce from them some understanding of what makes them do the things they do. And the book gives readers the opportunity to gain this insight without providing serial killers their home addresses--not a bad deal, overall. --Lisa Higgins

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Jason Moss was a very strange boy: an overachiever, always looking for some challenge, some new way to excel. In his studies, in sports, and, for some reason that he can never explain comprehensibly, seducing serial killers into telling him their secrets. His first "project" was John Wayne Gacy. Moss sent carefully crafted letters to Gacy in which he portrayed himself as a young, naive, insecure gay man who could be easily manipulated. Gacy was suspicious and put Moss through harrowing emotional tests before surrendering his trust, but Moss came out ahead. Gacy fell head over heels for Moss, replying with graphic and disturbing letters instructing him to commit depraved acts for Gacy's vicarious thrills. Moss led him on, convincing Gacy that he was doing these things, but somehow this victory wasn't sufficient. So he extended his efforts to include other jailed killers. Although he experienced some success, amassing a disturbing collection of documents--including detailed sexual prose from Jeffrey Dahmer, disjointed ramblings from Charles Manson, and awkward, violent illustrations from "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez--his closest relationship was always with Gacy, whom he eventually visited in prison, where even the unflappable Moss learned fear. The Last Victim challenges the reader to understand not only the twisted psychology of serial killers who kill for pleasure but why and how a young, seemingly bright and healthy young man such as Jason Moss could create such elaborate schemes to ingratiate himself with them. Moss puts his own safety and well-being on the line time and time again, simply to gain these men's trust, to coerce from them some understanding of what makes them do the things they do. And the book gives readers the opportunity to gain this insight without providing serial killers their home addresses--not a bad deal, overall. --Lisa Higgins

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Mediocre - At Best.......2007-05-06

This book is certainly not the worst True Crime book I have ever read. However, it presents with some obvious problems. It is NOT a journey into the mind of serial killer as much as a journey into the mind of the author. Much of the book is about the author himself and his own thoughts. While the book is organized and understandable, the style of writing is rather juvenile and lacking in depth. That said, the prison visits Mr. Moss had with Gacy were interesting and somewhat frightening; it is difficult to believe that prison guards were willing to leave the author alone with Gacy for periods of time long enough to constitue danger for the author. However, this is what happened. The last scheduled visit with Gacy truly scared the author and he never returned.

I knew the author of this book, having met him when he applied to be a Big Brother in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a True Crime fan, I did not find his interest in serial killers disturbing or exceptional. However, it is a bit odd that he found it necessary to correspond with so many of the high profile serial killers. During a routine "home visit" to his apartment as part of the Big Brother screening and application process, Mr. Moss showed me his album of response letters from many other serial killers, includig Charles Manson and Richard Ramirez. (I enjoy True Crime, but this was a bit too close for comfort for me.) If my recollections are correct, he did serve as a good Big Brother to a little boy who needed a male mentor. He did not present as narcissistic... although the tone of his book is self aggrandizing. However, perhaps Mr. Moss was less stable than he appeared at times. Another reviewer states the author took his own life. Somehow, this does not completely surprise me.

Terrible Book!.......2007-04-21

The author apparently had alot of spare time to mess with serial killers. All poor Jeff Dahmer needed was to be loved.

Too bad John Wayne Gacy didn't make soup out of the author.

The worst of all the books on serial killers I've read.

I wanted to use no stars, but, I had to choose one :(

Simply Awful.......2006-10-24

Don't waste your time. This book is more about Jason Moss and his egomania then it is about serial killers. It did not offer any new insight or information at all.

The Last Victim Revisited.......2006-07-17

I read this book when it was originally published. I knew the author and his family quite well so my mind was probably more receptive to it being a "great" book. Alas, upon re-reading it, I realize that it is not a "great" book at all but a fairly mediocre one. It is obviously written by a "first time" author and has an almost child-like narrative form. To give credit where it is due, however, it is nonetheless, disturbing and the guy had guts. I am sad to report that the author took his own life in early June of this year. That is the reason that I decided to read this book again to see if I could find any insight into why he would do this tragic thing...I think I did.

A HUGE disapointment.......2005-09-26

This book and the person who wrote it. Ok so he crossed the line of writting and face-to-face with some of life's most horrible people. But that was about the excitment end for me. Not only does he like himself alot by doing this book the way he did, it is porely written and has nothing to do with real investigative journalism. sorry I spent money for the book and contacting him.

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A bold new vision for capitalism
How business and government can build a better world

Capitalism As If the World Matters
Jonathon Porritt
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* "Too many environmentalists see capitalism as the enemy. Porritt grapples with its reality--a system capable of delivering sustainability and enhancing wellbeing, but only if we think carefully about what form of capitalism we want. This book stimulates that thinking."
Adair Turner
* "Here’s a compelling book that should sound the trumpet for a whole new generation of engaged and optimistic young people, establishing once and for all that we still have choices--we don’t have to sleepwalk our way into the future."
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* Tackles the most pressing problem of our time--how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity, and ecological integrity

* Destined to be one of the most important business, economics, and politics books of the year

* Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is a leading influence on business and industry, the UK government's premier adviser on sustainable development, and a well-known author, broadcaster, and visionary

As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change, and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is beginning to question the very structure of the economy that has provided so much wealth and inequity across the world. In this fresh, politically charged analysis, Jonathon Porritt weighs in on the most pressing question of the 21st century – can capitalism, as the only real economic game in town, be retooled to deliver a sustainable future? Porritt argues that indeed it can and it must as he lays out the framework for a new "sustainable capitalism" that cuts across the political divide and promises a prosperous future of wealth, equity, and ecosystem integrity.

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A bold new vision for capitalism.......2007-04-04

Activist Jonathon Porritt offers the startling proposal that capitalism may provide the best solution to poverty and global environmental degradation, though his solution requires reshaping capitalism. Porritt is aware that conventional environmental activists, greens and political academics favor socialism more than capitalism. However, he takes them to task for ignoring the power and potential of such capitalist mechanisms as markets and property rights and for their naïveté in expecting voters or political leaders to embrace their dismal vision of environmental responsibility as asceticism. We find his book more suggestive than programmatic. It meanders like a river and is sometimes directionless. The author makes his passions apparent, including anti-Americanism and scathing criticism of certain forms of Christianity. Though Porritt does not offer a detailed description of his vision or the practical steps needed to realize it, he does suggest a path toward a utopian ideal; for that hope, he deserves appropriate attention.

How business and government can build a better world.......2006-04-23

Jonathan Porritt's CAPITALISM AS IF THE WORLD MATTERS provides college-level readers with a fine survey of how capitalism at its foundations may be a part of the environmental problem as a whole. Many time commercial activities themselves lend to eroding environments: it's up to both business and government to work hand in hand to build a form of capitalism and free market solutions which lend towards sustainability rather than away from it - and to consider the chapters in CAPITALISM AS IF THE WORLD MATTERS, which offers commentary and guideposts for building different capital resources.

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