I recently purchased this book and have read the whole thing already. It had some very interesting days and events. If you are into horoscopes you will love this book. It has your days already set out and you know what to expect. It is truly a joy to read! It is like having a psychic in living with you.

I have just "found" this book I bought 4 years ago and have enjoyed inmensely with it.

I have always thought of numerology as an interesting subject but whenever I tried to read anything on it I found it difficult to follow and/or hard to apply on myself.

This booklet lets you find a few important numbers for success in life in a few minutes and gives you the interpretation of what those numbers mean. When you're done, you want to have all the other 11 booklets for the other star signs so you can understand better the people around you!

Okay, if you are over the age of 3 you may find this book beneath you. But, wasn't that the intent of the author? To put together a simple but sweet book that would keep the attention, and even entertain our beginning readers? Well, he did just that! My 21-month-old boy just adores this book and wants it read to him again, and again, and again, and again! It is a great way to introduce our young ones to the wonderful world of reading. This book has my vote for baby's best friend.

This book surprised me. I am usually (rightfully so, I tend to discover) on my guard against phychological attempts at describing authors and their motivations. But I decided to take my chance on this one and was pleasantly surprised. Mainly, because the book, ultimately, is not a psychological intrusion into the inner sanctum of each writer's life examined here. It is ultimately about the absence of what Schneiderman calls "the ability to idealize love objects" in the twentieth century, as compared to the nineteenth. Thus, it is more a history of the breakdown of values (psychological and otherwise), leading to the inability of the characters in the modern novels to fall in love, than the diagnoses of a psychologist poking his nose in where it's not wanted (and liable to be cut off) as so many of these psychological forays into literature are.-The idea of this book then is that the twentieth century artist's pain caused by his alienation from an increasingly impersonal world is the fuel for his creativity, a creativity marred by an essentially escapist motivation, and Schneiderman makes a good case for this perspective.-The problem is that there are too many "ids," "egos," "superegos" and other Freudianisms that bog down the prose. Otherwise, a though-provoking read for all who take literature and beauty seriously.

Perhaps the best way to describe the reciprocal feelings of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy is to quote from their own diary entries. He said: "Nobody will ever understand me." She said: "He has never taken the trouble to understand me, and does not know me in the least." It was a marriage that reached to the highest heights, and sank to the lowest depths... over and over again in each direction. And anyone wanting to know more about it should not neglect Shirer's excellent book. By seesawing between the extensive diaries of these two "lovers" Shirer takes the reader right into the eye of the storm... one of the most amazing things about this tumultuous marriage is the extensive and meticulous documentation of the participants. And the author's collation, skillful narrative sense and endnote pages show that he was well acquainted with the extenuating circumstances of these two lives trying to live as one. The latter half of the book is to be commended for its appropriate emphasis on the disastrous influence of Chertkov, the disciple who became the usurper of Tolstoy's most profound devotion. In my opinion, this rift named Chertkov gradually became the uncrossable chasm that irreparably separated Leo and Sonya. During this time, Tolstoy's alliance with his daughter Sasha further alienated husband and wife, and Shirer covers this development with great insight. It's all here... from the peace, courtship, and high hopes of Yasnaya Polyana to the final conflict, rejection and despair of Astapovo.

Shirer knew this was to be his last book, and it was. After such a prolific and successful career (14 books and 52 years), to devote his last energies to such a work must imply that he took a special interest in the subject matter. It shows. All of the other books of his I've read have been excellent, and this one is no exception.

Nice book Easy to read and understand even if you arent a baseball fan

Mimi Mouse dreams of Chez Mouse, "a mouse house where I can be me!" Her many siblings pitch in to build her dream house, with a few modifications...

A short and sweet story of how hard work and determination can make dreams come true, made all the better with the cheery illustrations of Leo Hartas.

Mimi and her many brothers and sisters go on a picnic. Before eating, they play games, all except for the smallest one who spies a yummy treat and decides to dive right in. (Literally!) The other mice return and begin a frantic search for the littlest mouse.... A fun book with cheerful illustrations.

Mr. Wrobel's book is quite interesting as an overview/review of telecommunications and a guide on how to forge ahead. He has certainly made it fun to read, which is a plus in this industry. I was in search of a book that would tell me more about "dark fibre" and "dense wave division multiplexing" along with T1, T3, SONET and OC-x explained. Most of what I was looking for is covered in this book.

I will look forward to the next work by this author and I'm putting my bid in today for "how to achieve backup and restore via WAN communications within reasonable time frames." Many of my clients are interested in disaster recovery and remote mirroring (or storage) of data to disk and to tape alike. Today, many of the WAN infrustructures I have encoutered are inadequate given the often multi-terabyte data sets and short windows of time to accomplish a typical LAN backup or restore process. A book on this topic would be most welcome to all concerned with this long distance design approach. If one already exists, please let me know! If not, maybe we can work together on this Leo?

This is indeed a worth while read thus far (I have not read it all cover to cover yet). I am beginning to internalize SONET, ATM, OC-48 and what a bright, fast future there is in the wonderful world of networking & telecommunications!

Thank you Leo Wrobel.

-Steve

Anyone who has read Dr. Katz is familiar with his worn-out denial of the existence of any cross-cultural phenomenon that one might call mysticism. Now that science has given us brain-imaging his radically anti-comparative stance is no longer plausible. Of course those of us who practice were aware of this many years ago.

My opinion of the editor aside, the book has at least two superb articles. Ninian Smart's section is a brilliant examination of "consciousness-purification," the core of mystical practice. John Carman presents a classic paradox found in bhakti that also runs through a number of mystical traditions: "a fluid transition moving back and forth easily between dualistic theism and monistic mysticism." Hans Penner's topic, "The Mystical Illusion," gives you a good idea how foolish an author can be who does not actually practice the art.

For a definitive refutation of Katz's constructionist theory, see "The Problem of Pure Consciousness" by Robert K. C. Forman. This book is also an excellent read.

Raymond Sigrist apophaticmysticism.com