"How to Become Financially Independent" is a great way to learn some important concepts essential to wealth building. The book is filled with easy to follow examples, including the power of leveraging your money, how interest works, and the value of investing in a home or investment real estate. It's easy to read for the beginning investor and filled with inspiring quotes. Some of the tax laws details have changed, but the general financial concepts are the same. Mr. simini makes the point in chapter 3 that "most families do not pass on financial information." He's so right. This book is a great way to begin the process.

"How to Become Financially Independent" is a great way to learn some important concepts essential to wealth building. The books is filled with easy to follow examples, including the power of leveraging your money, how interest works, and the value of investing in a home or investment real estate. It's easy to read for the beginning investor and filled with inspiring quotes. Some of the tax laws details have changed, but the general financial concepts are the same. Mr. Simini makes the point in Chapter 3 that "most families do not pass on financial information." He's so right. This is a great gift for your son, daughter, or grandchild, whether he or she is still at home or on their own.

Joseph S. Coyle offers basic advice for people pondering retirement. The book outlines straightforward strategies for saving and investing, and urges investors to start early and to put as much as they can into 401(k) plans and IRAs. So much for the obvious. Coyle also offers specific and useful guidelines for buying mutual funds and allocating assets. He realistically presents issues you may face in retirement, such as the emotional difficulties involved in leaving a career and having enough money to support your lifestyle (so buy a bond instead of that snazzy watch). Some of the book's basic advice will seem redundant to sophisticated investors, but the more detailed information will intrigue even them. We at getAbstract recommend this book for anyone looking for guidance about saving and investing for retirement. [getAbstract note: The investment advice here - tax laws, stock markets, and what not - is extremely U.S.-oriented, although the lifestyle information is broadly applicable.]

Don't be fooled by the title, the author spends a lot of the book explaining the realities of retirement. That is, we're living longer in retirement and not saving enough to meet the challenge that presents. Early retirement will take a determined effort and persistent savings to achieve. Just think about it, if you retire at 55 and expect to live to 90 you are talking about 35 years of living off your investments! The book is well written and even gives some good ideas of what towns you might want to consider for retirement living. Retirement, let alone early retirement presents a challenge for everyone, this book is a good place to begin thinking about the subject.

Bringing back characters from his previous novels "Clara's Heart" and "Nightswimmer", Olshan's new novel centers on a group of people struggling to extricate themselves from the past. Will is stunned when the plane his friend Marie was supposed to be on crashes into the ocean, but when her name isn't listed as among the passengers, the fact of her boarding the plane comes into question. He reaches out to Clara, who helped him get through his brother's death years before. Will is eventually contacted by Marie's children, Peter (Will's ex-boyfriend) and Grace (who's dying of cancer), and the four adults soon come together to await news of Marie's whereabouts. Peter and Will still love each other after all these years, and they slowly reconfigure their new relationship. Each character is mired in the past, and there are numerous flashbacks exploring this, which all grow distracting and tedious as the novel progresses. The reader cannot help but care about these rambling people though, and is treated to a good story to find out how it all ends.

What can I say, but another fresh endearing look into the life of Will Kaplan and why he is such a unforgettable character. When I first heard there was another book featuring the same characters from 'Nightswimmer' and 'Clara's Heart. I went out to 3 different bookstore to find it. I was not disappointed by this haunting, and honest novel told from quite a few perspectives of current and remembered events. There are many things I could say this book is about: hope, longing, family, trust, faith, fate. But of all those things, to me, it's mainly about surviving the past. The ways that different people choose to perceive/cope with the past,and the understanding that can come from it, if we really get honest with ourselves. How there is more to just surviving the past, but having to to decide 'what do I do now?'. Although I was a bit confussed about when this story actually takes place. Was this before or after he had met and lost Chad? Also he went from being a map collector in this book, to a writer , but I don't remember Will collecting maps, as well as writing in 'Nightswimmer'. But otherwise there are no complaints, he kept me guessing almost till the end. If you have never read one of Mr.Olshan's books, take the chance to read one of his other well written novels. (Nightswimmer and 'A Warmer Season' are my favorites) He is one of the few authors I have read that, rather than wrapping the ending all up in a pretty bow, he leaves the resolution in your hands, much like life really is.

A cross between Napolean Hill and Norman Vincent Peale, with a metaphysical twist, Joseph Murphy gives us an early self help book which is loaded with the benefits of positive thinking, right affirmation and prayer. He also dabbles a bit in the metaphysical, discussing you intuitive faculties and the use of clairvoyants and mediums.

An example of this is his suggestion that you can control your dreams and dream literally instead of in a symbolic way by telling your subconscious every night "I dream literally and clearly". He also suggests that you can do the same to develope ESP. He says the "love of GOD, which means the love of our emotional attatchment to all things good, will enable you to live life gloriously".

Chapter twelve talks about opposites and that they were created "so that we might experience sensations of function and thereby enter into the joy of living and of discovering our true divinity. God becomes man for the joy of discovering himself, as there is only God". I found this chapter especially interesting, because it contains a lot of information that is stated in other ways in Neal Donald Walsh's "Conversations With God" series. This book was written long before though... in 1969. Old book... but very relevant and still being used today.

This book stresses that whatever you think about will grow... so don't discuss your aches and pains, worries, etc. It also discusses "the guiding principle" and how listening to it (your inner guidance) and following it's message will allow you to recieve all the help you need to live successfully.

In the final chapter, the book states "The future is your present thinking made manifest. Change your thoughts and you change your future". What a wonderful way to look at your thoughts and how your thoughts affect your life.

If you like reading classic, older self help books, then you will surely enjoy this book... I did!

Dr. Joseph Murphy, one of the world's most successful people, explains in this book the spiritual principles behind Richer Living. He provides you tools which will transform your life into a grander and more wonderful state.

This book includes many case studies of people who have successfully used their subconscious mind to bring forward changes in all field of their lives. You will receive answers to questions such as "how to have more money", "how to fulfill your goals with the help of God and your subconscious mind" and so on.

This book will also provide an interesting concept of dreams, and different ESP skills.

All Dr. Murphy's books have a stamp of credibility, and his some 50 books have benefitted the human kind immensely.

You are better off to understand this book if you have read his bestseller, "the power of your subconscious mind". Nevertheless, this book is a gem which should be found in your bookshelf.

A fair set of books, but dated because of breakthroughs in FPA's and remote sensing technology. All eight volumes are free for downloading from DTIC in PDF format.

Although the price of the set may seem steep, it is well worth it for any engineer working with infrared optics given the amount of time it will save. All the chapters are written by various contributing authors, but all seem fairly well written and carefully edited. The focus is on military applications of infrared optics, which is the field I work in at the US Army Research Laboratory, but those dealing with environmental remote sensing and other fields may also find it quite useful. The amount of detail about military infrared target acquisition, surveillance, and countermeasure systems is incredible and the authors are respected authorities in the military research and development community.

I used this book as a means of writing my senior thesis on the clasification of the projective unimodular groups and the Mathieu groups as being simple. Most of the proofs were well constructed and easy to follow. What this books lacks is a proof reading. Several of the proofs make no sense in the form in which they are written. Also, his notation at times becomes cluttered and not easy to follow. One can imagine how difficult notation can be in general, but when it is full of typographical errors, it can be almost impossible to wade through without the help of someone who knows the material. This book is certainly not a waste of time to read and is very good as a reference for theorems concerning finite groups, however do not put all your eggs in one basket and base your education on this one book.

This is one of the most interesting math books I've ever read- probably one of those I'd take with me on a desert island, if I ever need math books on a desert island! ;) It is a solid introduction to group theory, beginning with symmetric groups; it includes quite a lot of things about finite groups, solvable and nilpotent groups, permutation groups, free groups and combinatorial group theory (with interesting parts about the word problem), etc. Rotman's style is very pleasant to read.

havent read all of it yet; but ive read her, the authors first book which is pretty accurate; my uncle was an amazing, dynamic and brilliant innovator in many fields; not only in theatre which he dedicated his life to; but sensitive to all people; because of him homeless people are being given food now; progams he started when he was alive; my whole family have the papp blood; myself as a teacher, linguist, dancer, singer,etc; sister artist;;;this was given to us by my grandfather an immigrant from poland who loved music, yiddish theatre, was an actor, comedian,;;etc. may my uncle, Joseph Papp who has given my mother, and family, never be forgetten; looking forward to getting the book and will follow with unbiased critique

The story of Joe Papp is the story of a precious stage ofAmerican theater history -- an intensely productive period forAmerican playwrights and New York theater -- and as such, this book is satisfying. The author is a Papp fan, so it's to her credit that this reader found Papp complex and industrious, but not terribly likable or insightful about the theatrical art or craft. As a visionary, his successes are a matter of record -- though no one would want producers to emulate his thoughtless, irresponsible, "raging bull" approach to developing the artistic and financial security of an organization. Yet the man was a force of nature, and his interaction with his community -- documented here in detail -- is of genuine historical interest.

The illustrations of this over-sized children's picture book are almost overwhelming due to the detail of the fine point ink drawings. The tiny strokes that make up the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the plant leaves, and the wall decorations are unbelievable. Great care and thought was given to both the drawings and the painting. The painting of the background of the pages and of the skies contain beautiful combinations of color.

Unfortunately I don't think the writing matches the quality of the illustrations. The story itself could have been made more exciting or more lyrically descriptive.

My five year old really enjoyed this story and he asks me to read it over and over.

Award-winning children's book illustrator, Brian Wildsmith, lends his pen and water colors to the well-known and beloved story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. As would be expected from Wildsmith, these illustrations of Egyptian palaces, hieroglyphics and royalty in full regalia are a feast to behold. By comparison, Joseph's nomadic sheepherding father, Jacob, and Joseph's treacherous brothers live rather humble lives in the desert.

Unfortunately, the text of this version of the emotionally compelling biblical account is rather dry and matter-of-fact. It would be easy to call this the condensed version. So, enjoy this visually appealing book with your children, but let it be an introduction the richer version found in the Book of Genesis. Be sure to check out Wildsmith's companion volume, "Exodus."

Romping good fun and sharply satirical. Fielding has none of the puritanical prejudices of his contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson.Rather he gives a graphic, humourous and insightful glimpse of eighteenth century rural shannanigans. Both stories are to some extent a response to Richardson's goodie goodie novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, Shamela in fact so much so- mimicking then epistulatory narrative and burlesquing the characters and style of the original novel- that you'll miss most of the jokes unless you've read Richardson first. Jospeh Andrews is far more substantial and rewarding containing the full range both of Fielding's humour and social concerns. Vividly presenting the self-serving cynicism of English society his particular speciality lies in puncturing pomposity by comically abrupt opposistions between what his characters preach and practise. Detached, sarcastic and well-read Fielding somehow manages to mix slapstick with Homer, blend eupheimism with innuendo and mangle anyone that he has a grudge against. A novel of the road- if you liked this, you'll love Tom Jones.

I loved this book. The adventures of Joseph Andrews are colourful and riotous. Highly recommended! Shamela, however, is a lesser work. It is a bawdy caricature of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela". Amusing, but slight.

I, on the other hand, have never read any of the Aubrey & Maturin books, but I'm extremely interested in the Cook expeditions of which Banks played so much a part. I think it must be because I can see Banks Island right outside my window. Anyway, I must say that, after reading this book, I was prepared to believe Banks walked on water. Founder of modern botany (and modern science generally), explorer, developer of Kew and on and on. Certainly one of the giants of British naval exploration.

Alas! Cook biographers have been a little less kind to Banks. While often portrayed as a hard driving scientist, he has also been portrayed as a bit of an upper-class twit, always petulent and silly. Which is it? Probably somewhere in the middle. Read this book, but keep an open mind about the hagiography!

Having read every one -- all 18, I think -- of the wonderful Aubrey & Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, coming across O'Brian's earlier "Joseph Banks" is a special pleasure. The same wonderful O'Brian dry wit is there, the same fascinated and fascinating focus on the late 18th century, British politics and society, and the sea. O'Brian's "Banks" is an easy read, compared with many scholarly biographies. That is because, actually, it doesn't really qualify as a "scholarly" effort. It is more discursive, easy-going, unpretentious. Delightful is the word that most aptly describes O'Brian's writing in general, and that applies here. Of special interest, though, is that the character of Jack Aubrey is prefigured, very briefly, in the description of a sea-captain acquaintance of Banks's, and Stephen Maturin himself, while not found in person here, is prefigured by the career of Banks himself: explorer, biologist, botanist, collector, and man of the world. O'Brian's "Joseph Banks" is not for everyone, but is certainly for any one of the thousands of O'Brian addicts. Which makes one muse and wonder: when, oh when is "The Hundred Days" coming out in paperback so I can line it up with the other eighteen volumes?