I am a very dedicated student of late Dr. Joseph Murphy Ph.D. I have about ten books from him, and all of his ideas and realizations are those which are being used in other self-help and inspiration books later on.

This book in question, is a general view on your life and cosmic laws which one can apply to his life. Reader would be better off buying the Power of Your Subconscious Mind since these books are very much alike. If you have read the Power of Your Subconscious Mind, and want to save your money -- don't buy this book. Rather buy telephysics by Dr. Joseph Murphy.

However, if you want to learn more about Dr. Murphy's techniques and life. This book is certainly worth of your time.

I have read three books from this author. About a year ago, I came across with a book "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind". Everafter I have been interested in Joseph Murphy's books. Joseph Murphy explains you some of the most amazing laws of cosmic mind power that will help you on your path to success. He has written carefully 15 chapters on some of the most profound areas of the life.

It has been my dream to move to the States, and become a police officer there. I believe that Joseph Murphy's books will help me to achieve my goals, and help others to help themselves.

I promise that this book will reveal a whole "new you" to you. However, I gave it only 4 stars as something is missing from this book. It is simple, and a reader who is looking for very advanced hints won't find many of them. This book is a good and basic resource for creating success.. but I would still recommend you to read to read The Powermind System and Power Pause.

I wish you the best success!

I purchased this book about 5 years ago. Whenever I am in a slump or not in a positive spot in my life, this is the book I pick up that always changes my thought process. This is packed with real stories of how people transformed their lives by their thoughts and visualization. It is tremendously powerful! It makes you realize how powerful your mind is. Even if you have only 5 minutes to read, you can take advantage of the stories in here. They are short and to the point! I highly recommend it!

I just received the book and I immediately turned to the index to search for NETWORK DRIVERS. Nope. Well, the introduction chapter will tell you "what we don't cover" (this important omission should of been mentioned in the online book excerpts):

The book does not cover: File Drivers, Network Drivers, Graphic Drivers and User Mode Drivers.

One would think that in this day of age of Communications, High End Speed Games, etc, that a rather large book titled "Developing Windows NT Device Drivers" would cover these important device drivers. At a minimum, its should of covered NDIS Device Drivers. It does not.

I have written some VxDs before I read this book. And the book introduced fairly well about the writing NT device drivers. And I had the confidence that I could wirte the driver right away once I read the book. But, it seems somewhat difficult for the beginners because it misses the detailed explanation for some issues. I guess the authors of the book should have spent some more pages for vitual memory and multi-processors when the book got already more than 1000 pages. Some more pages won't kill.

I love this book. Whatever grey areas were created by other books is cleared after reading this book. The verbosity kept me interested.

When people think of President Franklin Roosevelt, espionage and spies are probably not the first things that come to mind. However, during World War II, Roosevelt became very proficient at the spying game. This book delves into Roosevelt's spying. We are also introduced to some of the men who made their living as spies, including "Wild Bill" Donovan and J. Edgar Hoover. I learned a lot about FDR and spying that I didn't know before I read this book. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in WWII and the espionage aspect of the war.

What a read! This book has it all over even the most well crafted spy thriller. Intrigue, Spy rings, Spy masters, Intelligence blunders and break throughs. Nonfiction should always be this fun to read.
In "Roosevelts Secret War", we are given insight into a crucial time in American history. Mr. Persico has shown all angles of a diverse and complicated situation. The country is strongly isolationist, the Nazi regime is slowly crushing Europe under its boot heel, and Britain is tied up in skulldugery, decreasing moral and a war that is looking more bleak by the day.
This is the maelstrom FDR is thrust into. The States lag behind The U.K. in terms of intelligence capabilities and world view. Churchill informs FDR of the realities of the war, and thus the U.S. has its die cast. Mr.Persico sends us on a journey of burgeoning intelligence offices, agency squabbling, jealous department heads, code breaking, conspirices and much more.
During this ride the author debunks long bandied rumors, such as the supposed prior knowledge FDR had of the Pearl Harbor tragedy. The answer is surprisingly complicated. Hindsight offers a pretty clear view of a pending attack, yet all the intel that pointed towards that travesty was divested in so many small nuggets, bungled through many channels and ciphers, that not even a room of Nobel winners in physics could have pieced together an obvious plot.
FDR is shown as a very shrewd, intelligent and devious man. Though generally moral, he will bend rules, cast aides against one another and down right lie if the greater good will be advanced by his many prevarications. Churchill is of a similar character, and the two spark up a healthy working partnership. The book is peppered with so many gold nuggets, that a list of all its finds would be to long to list here.
Rich, complex and very well crafted, this may be the best work of Nonfiction published this year.

Joe Persico has discovered what many of us World War Two historians never knew: Franklin Delano Roosevelt PERSONALLY ran the war against Hitler and his state sponsored terrorism! Many of the details in this book I was aware of, but what I did not know was FDR's intense and intellectual direction of the war and all of its participants to include Churchill.
The only error I found here was Persico's declaration that the US breaking of the JN 25 Japanese Naval codes was never discovered. Fact is that when the German Raider Thor intercepted the Australian cargo/passenger ship the SS Nakin, the Germans captured several mail sacks with secret documents reveling the fact the we had broken the Japanese codes on 10 May 1942. The Germans did not tell the Japanese until 29 August of that year, which allowed us to win the Battle of Midway. However, the Japanese changed their codes and we did not re-break them until 5 May 1943. Because of this fact we sustained serious naval losses during the naval battles off Guadalcanal.
For those of you who are not students of intelligence matters concerning the WW-II, I suggest you buy "Encyclopedia of the Second World War" by Bryan Perrett & Ian Hogg as a reference when you are reading Persico's book! Another work I recommend is: "The Encyclopedia of Espionage" by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen (which contains a number of details of George Washington's intelligence network that won the Revolutionary War!
There has only been one other person in American history that did what FDR did: George Washington, whose statue is in the entrance of the Headquarters of the CIA. I think they might consider putting FDR's Statue there as well: AFTER ALL HE DID SAVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION. This book is a MUST READ for all Americans!

Professor Rogovin's 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror is a surprisingly optimistic work. I say suprising because its subject is the greatest political genocide in history - the intimidation, frame-up and murder of leading Bolsheviks and socialist minded workers and intellectuals. Yet it is an essentially optimistic work because Professor Rogovin is able to lay bare the driving force behind this terror. He shows that it resulted, not from "mans inhumanity to man" or as the "inevitable result of revolution". Rather it was rooted in Stalin and the Soviet bureaucracy's attempt to destroy the socialist ideals and principles which had motivated the Russian Revolution. By 1934 Stalin understood that the only way to deal with the rising tide of socialist opposition to the bureaucracy's rule, was to destroy the Bolshevik Party. Starting with the "Trial of the Sixteen", which included Zinoviev and Kamenev, Professor Rogovin dissects the trials. There are new and sickening insights. He describes Stalin's hilarity when a fellow butcher recounts Zinoviev's horror when he realises he has again been betrayed and will be shot. Stalin used the trials to intimidate all those who were hostile to the terrible consequences of the bureaucracy's mismanagement of the economy and the growth of social inequality. At the centre of the opposition to Stalin was Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition. Professor Rogovin incorporates the exposure of the Moscow Trials frame-up by Trotsky's son, Leon Sedov. This is a welcome addition. The record of the socialist opponents of Stalin's regime have usually been expunged from all accounts of the USSR's history - in order to fit the false schema "Russia equals communism". As Professor Rogovin shows, the finest representatives of the Bolshevik party, were the most intransigent opponents of the Soviet bureaucracy. Above all it is an optimistic work because it shows that the fate of the USSR was not predetermined. The potential contained in such an insight! is enormous.

The reader travels to a time and place that is as exciting and intense as the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Rogovin is our link to a part of Soviet history that was left buried for decades. I was one of about 200 who heard a lecture given by him in Lansing at the University of Michigan in 1995. He presented very complex ideas about the history of his homeland with great care and lucidity. This book provides many more details and far more insights. 1937 describes what happened to Stalin's opponents and why? During his lecture in 1995 the author exhibited an impeccable knowledge of Soviet history and contemporary events which were vaticinal. Particularly, in light of the recent stockmarket crisis in Russia and globally. This book is very graphic and therefore at times difficult to read. One is placed into the courtrooms, jail cells and homes of the persecuted and one listens to conversations as though a participant. Rogovin gives voice to those who were silenced over 60 years ago. He does what other historians fail to achieve. He makes sure we understand why this knowledge is relevent for the 20, 30, 40 or 50 year-old today! I would like to remember him as the Greek writing on the Rosetta Stone that served as modern man's link to Heiroglyphics and Ancient Egypt. His book serves as our link to what many hoped would remain a mystery to the most thoughtful. Details which were obscured in a maze of bureacratic indifference and hypocricy are made clear in "1937: Stalin's year of Terror". He has helped to light our path to the truth-- past and future. I appreciate amazon.com giving me access to historical literature of such high caliber. I look forward to his next translation due out this year.

This book is unique in many aspects. Not only is it based on the author's broad grasp of the events, but it sets out to pose and answer the question - why did Stalin exterminte virtually the entire generation that led the October Revolution in Russia?

Vadim Z. Rogovin is a well known Russian Marxist historian and the author of numerous scholarly works. On ths basis of his research Rogovin demonstrates that Stalin's purges were not simply the work of a madman, but possesed a definite political logic. Stalin set out ruthlessly to exterminate the genuine Marxists in the Soviet Union in order to consolidate his bureuacratic regime.

At the heart of Rogovin's thesis is the view that the Stalinist regime, far from being the logical continuation of the policies of the Russian Revolution, repressented a violent counterrevolution against the ideals of Lenin and Marx. This is demonstrated by the particular ferocity with which Stalin sought to crush the socialist opposition to his tyranny led by Leon Trotsky, the main target of the purge trials.

Rogovin refutes the claim that the conflict between Stalin and Trotsky was a personal contest for power. He shows that the Stalinist persecution of Trotskyism grew out of the Soviet regime's renunciation of the revolutionary traditions of Bolshevism, defended tenaciously by Trotsky and substantial numbers within the Soviet Union itself.

The vast majority of books on the purges suffer from a fundamental weakness, rooted in ideology. None treats seriously the role of Stain's main opponent, Trotsky. This flaw, based on the ideological needs of the cold war and the school of communism is dead, seriously detracts from the value of these works.

"1937: Stalin's Year of Terror" provides an answer to this school. It is an invaluable contribution to an understanding of the most tragic and fateful year in the history of the Soviet Union.

I started to hate Holden because he frustrated me so much. His constantly negative remarks about everyone, his lazyness and uncaring attitude,and his superiority all bothered me. As I read, I began to understand his character more and I liked him. As soon as it is accepted that there is a little Holden in all of us, the book is more enjoyable. It taught me many lessons about motivation, superficiality and understanding. Read it, it's very well written.

The book The Catcher in the Rye was one of the best books I have ever read, and also my favorite. As a fifteen year old myself I understood much of what Holden was going through. I got the book and didn't stop reading it untill I finished it the next night. I loved the style of writing and it kept me interested untill the very last word.

I read this book at 16 because a teacher told me I would relate to the main character. This was soon after I had been diagnosed with manic-depressive illness. I am now 21 and have read the book several times and the more I experience and live through the symptons of my illness, I see how the entire book seems to show that Holden might have been experiencing a manic episode. And it is amazing that it was written so long ago, before much was known of the illness. I adore this book because the thoughts and emotions I sometimes have that seem to be so terribly painfull and unexplainable are all stated crystal clear right there in the pages. I reccomend this book to anyone who has manic-depression, or anyone who wishes to understand such a person's emoitional obstacles. I also highly reccomend all other works by Salinger, particularly "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction".

This book contains good review material to prepare for the Network+ exam if you have experience. Those new to networking may either need more or different study material to pass due to the fact that this book contains many errors that could cost points on the exam. The accompanying CD also contains errors, some of which are also in the book. The study questions in the book come from the CD (Beachfront Quizzer). Some errors are obviously not just typos, but wrong information. Either the author or publisher dropped the ball when proofing this book. The test I took contained internet material not covered. I passed, only using this book; but I have networking experience and other certifications.

This book is very well written and easy to understand. This is the only book I used to prepare myself for the exam. The exam pointers and practice questions were very helpful. The book covers just about all material on the exam, I only encounterd one question on the exam that wasn't covered in the book. Anyone that spends the time to read this book inside and out should pass the exam. I passed with an 89%.

I passed the exam on the first try with this book. It is well written and covered the necessary topics in an easy to understand fashion. If you're new to computers and networking, I'd suggest something more for the beginner, but if you have a year or more of experience, this book is all you'll need to pass the Network+ exam.

Sean Fanning's Napster is widely regarded as the poster child for the dot-com-bubble's bust. In some ways that description is very apt. Characterizing the company as a VC-baby that never developed a business model and whose fame was based on giving away other's property would hardly be inaccurate. But All The Rave author Joeseph Menn goes far beyond the hype and failure to provide a detailed analysis and chronology of the company from pre-inception to post-collapse.

Menn, whose resume includes the LA Times and Bloomberg, takes an unbiased look at Napster and the decisions that they made. He documents the internal fighting that he proffers as the cause of the company's failure. He provides details about every Napster transaction, from the original 30/70 split between Sean Fanning and his uncle (respectively), the company's angel funding, investment by Hummer Winblad, the Bertelsmann loan, and the company's eventual bankruptcy.

The book, though, reads more like a novel than a business book. The book also incorporates afterthoughts from the company's principals about what they would have done differently in retrospect. With the exception of John Fanning (who ostensibly refused interview requests), Mann incorporates lessons learned from all of the principals both interspersed within the heart of the book and in a post-mortem chapter that serves as an epilogue.

For a company that once flew so high to have died so quickly is somewhat amazing (though not as much so today as perhaps it was five years ago). This book chronologies that trip. It is an exciting ride!

Let me start by saying that I'm very curious about the anonymous Bay Area reviews that say the book is wildly inaccurate. I'm writing a dissertation chapter on Napster (not the company, more the system), and although I didn't comparing every date and name, it seemed accurate. There are also two completely contradictory reviews by people who supposedly worked at Napster, but who knows if they did.

I feel this book is better than two other Napster books, "Sonic Boom" and "Irresistible Forces". Menn seems to have done a really good investigative job - he is a reporter after all - and includes people, perspectives, and histories that the other books don't mention at all. For instance, it turns out I've met someone who is mentioned in Menn's book but isn't in the other books. Menn interviews people who didn't invest in Napster, not just those who did. In other Napster stories, John Fanning is a father figure, and it ends there. Menn actually researches John Fanning's history, and it is ugly, complete with lawsuits and a police record. Other sources annoying tease us with hints of who Shawn Fanning's father is, and say he is a famous Boston-area musician. Menn tells us who he is - I'm from Boston, and I have never heard of the guy (Joe Rando).

Having read books, business press, law reviews, computer press, mainstream press, and other sources about Napster, I do think Menn does a very good job. Since I was not involved in Napster, I cannot say which versions, which stories, are true. Menn's work, however, gives a much richer picture of the company and the dealings within and around it than other sources I have read.

Didn't know much about the details of this sad saga till Menn brought the unknown background and drama to the public side of this quashed revolution. Shawn may have lost this round but the rebels are all over, regrouped, stronger and bigger than the jurassic of the recording industry.

Bravo Menn and may Shawn rise again.

The Destruction of Atlantis offers an unusual and thought provoking theory regarding the famous lost land. I found most of the author's evidence compelling and his arguements well reasoned, though they are not the conclusions most readers of books on the subject have come to expect. Most scholars still insist Atlantis is an allegory created solely by Plato, though they vary about what he intended with it. Joseph dissagrees, putting him in the 'believer' camp.

Since I also think it had an historical mode. I was greatfull he was not some academic out to trash it.Because I'm fascinated by the so called Bronze Age [ ca.4000-1200 B.C.] I enjoyed his attempt to set it at that era, rather than the literal dates [ ca. 9593-9420 B.C.].lt meshes with my own resaerch over the last 30 years. Still, many readers may be startled by the idea and some, already commited to another theory might not appreciate Joseph's reduction of Plato's literal dates and scale.They could be uncomfortably reminded of the theory that Atlantis was Crete or the Aegean isle of Thera, which was devastated by a massive volcanic eruption 3500-3650 years ago,despite the authors efforts to distance himself from it. Others may feel he was too critical of it, given that he dates Atlantis demise to ca.1198 B.C., only a few centuries later and also advocates a reduced scale due to accidental errors in translating the story. But, unless Plato made it all up [ as critics contend ] he could not have avoided the sort of mistakes hypothesized and doubtless alterred or added details to suit his own purposes. Ideosyncratic as it is Josephs thesis is not entirely unique, though no one has proposed exactly the same comination of date, location and scale before, much less his mechanism for the catastrophe. Those seeking a primeval super culture that gave rise to all civilization will come away dissappointed, yet Plato never described Atlantis in those terms. In his day the chronology for earlier times tended to be both confused and greatly exaggerated. For interested readers with open minds the book is a veritable treasure trove and well worth its price. I also recommend 'Alien Rapture,' by Brad Steiger which I just finished and 'Unconventional Flying Objects' by Paul Hill. Check out the reviews. I also highly recommend this book.

Frank Joseph's new book presents a well reasoned if not always flawless arguement that Plato's Atlantis existed during the Late Bronze Age in archaeological terms , being destroyed ca.1200 B.C.. His choice of dates is not entirely unique. lt was first presented by the late Jurgen Spanuth in a series of books between 1956 and 1979. several other authors such as James Baily [ 'THE GODKINGS AND THE TITANS',1973 and 'SAILING TO PARADISE',1994],J.M.ALLEN ['ATLANTIS:THE ANDES SOLUTION',1999],Eberhard Zangger [THE FLOOD FROM HEAVEN; DECIPHERING THE ATLANTIS LEGEND 1992], and Peter James [THE SUNKEN KINGDOM,1995] all accept the chronology but dissagree on the location. (actually P. James is a chronological revisionist who would reduce the date to ca.925-950 B.C.,though for the same archaeological period.) Mr. Joseph tries his best to set Atlantis where Plato appears to put it - right outside Gibraltar. Some, however, feel that he meant directly across the ocean and so in the Caribbean or the Americas. Thus, while well argued his theory will not please those who already favor another location such as the Americas or Antarctica, for example. Nor is it liable to convince anyone who thinks the story to be purely allegorical. lt is an excellent introduction to the subject for those interested but uncommited to any particular hypothesis. The proportional reduction of Plato's dates and demensions may remind some readers of the Minoan-Atlantis theory but the author is at pains to distance himself from the latter.Their ten-fold reductions had little or no ancient backing, especially where the dates are concerned. And yet the years as months solution was cited by virtually every ancient writer who dealt with Egypt, whence the tale ostensibly came.Still, many today are skeptical of the idea, particulary those that require a distantly prehitoric Atlantis. The reduction in scale is plausible but will upset literalists and 'New Agers' seeking a Paleolithic super-civilization 12,000 years ago.To Joseph's credit Plato never said nor even implied that Atlantis was the progenitor of civilization, a basic assumption of many Atlantiists. As for the issue of the scale the unit he mentions, the aroura, was a primary unit of area amongst the Egyptians but was sometimes called a stadia because that was it's circumference. The Greek stadium was a unit of length. Thus the reduction was 1/4th Plato's literal scale but it wouldve' been an easy error to make.Only if Plato made up the whole story, as the critics contend, could he have transmitted it utterly free of mistakes. Even were it basicly historical Plato might well have intentionally altered details for his own reasons. He was a philosopher not a modern jounalist! l might have prefered a bit more detail on the context the author chose but that mightve' proved too technical for most readers.Those more into psychicly obtained information like the readings of Edgar Cayce will doubtless be dissappointed here, as they won't find any flying vehicles or 'power crystals'. Others may not accept the transoceanic diffusion aspect. I appreciated the latter, however, since Mr. Joseph does edit a magazine on the subject [ANCIENT AMERICAN]. So, if your mind is open where Atlantis is concerned l highly recommend the book.l'm glad to have it in my collection.

"The Destruction of Atlantis," written by Frank Joseph, is by far the best book I have read concerning the fall of the lost city of Atlantis. The book brings uses evidence from several civilizations worldwide to futher its claims and is terribly compelling. Jospeh starts slow, first recounting the story of Atlantis as he sees it and then elaborating his details with scientific fact. This book is definantly one that is hard to put down; it coherantly brings together everything scientists know about the city and everything they are afraid to pursue in a manner that is understandable to anyone.

The book is centered around the idea that Atlantis sank to the bottom of the Atlantic during the early days of November 1198 B.C.E. after a meteor struck the ocean setting off a huge cataclysmic event. Joseph explains how the world was reaching the height of civilization when a horrific deluge ensued, knocking back humanity and destroying the Bronze Age.

This book is wonderfully written and I encourage any Atlantean fanatic OR skeptic to check it out; it is definantly worth it.

I have been looking for a long time for a good and thorough book that explains all about weather and does so in a way that is easy to read for someone who is not a scientist. I am just a weather enthusiast and want to learn more about this fascinating topic. I completely enjoyed reading this book, "WEATHER BASICS" by Balsama and Chaston. It made the science of weather "come alive". Great chapters on hurricanes, tornadoes, thundertorms, winter weather, etc. etc. Excellent pictures with the chapters as well. I learned a lot. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys weather and wants to learn more, plus have an excellent reference book on all the various weather topics.

I am arrived in America two years from Pakistan. Meteorology is a big hobby in Pakistan. Everybody talk about weather.I was leader of a club in my home of Karachi. This Balsama book is a very good book. There are not so many amateur meteorology books in Urdu .I am happy Balsama writes a book that is simply for person who has not good English.Do not be a fool for silly reviews that say Balsama book is bad. They do not know. The silly reader from Minneapolis says that Balsama is wrong that a meteorite is meteor that reaches earth's surface. Balsama is correct. I read it in my dictionary. Is my dictionary wrong reader in Minneapolis? Pictures in book are very good not bad. And what is this crazy talk of thistles and conifers. If this makes you mad buy a garden book. If you like the weather, buy the Balsama book.

Both my kids and I loved this book, "WEATHER BASICS". It was a birthday present and although I never wrote a book review before, I feel compelled to recommend this book. We all learned much about meteorology, and I especially liked all the helpful pictures and graphics in this book. I highly recommend "WEATHER BASICS" by Messrs. Balsama and Chaston. I finally got a weather book worth saving!

I love to read American history and Daniel Boorstin is one of the best. After reading this book, I had a much better understanding of the American colonial experience. I also understood to a greater degree the affects that Christianity has had on our culture. In this book, Boorstin compares three colonies. It is interesting to read the cultural differences. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the origins of our nation.

Boorstin examines the influences Old World ideas had on the New World of America. He pays close attention to how the Old World ideas were transplanted and changed in America. Boorstin demonstrates that this change was present with most every institution or idea brought from Europe to America. The Americans is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, a prestigious award for works in History. And rightly so. Boorstin's The Colonial Experience is extremely well organized, thorough, and related the history of America to me in a contemporary style. I applaud Boorstin, for he has succeeded in writing an excellent book on the history of early America that even a fledgling history student, like myself, could fully grasp without losing any detail.

Boorstin outlines the fundamentals and development of American consumerism and capitalism of the 19th Century. A great read for understanding why America was the great attraction of emigration. A good emphasis is put forth on how much American ingenuity happened by accident. This book is excellent for describing who we are, how we dressed, how we ate, and how we profited from it. Like the rest of Boorstin's works, this is a must for any student of history!