When "The Desecration" came out, I immediately realized that it was the best book that I have read. Mark C. Perry is a great author who ranks up there with Robert Jordan, David Eddings and Raymond E. Feist. I was lucky and fortunate to get my hands on "The Dead", the second book in the series and it carried on the incredible characters , making us either love their heroics or despise their cowardliness. Who could fail to sympathize with the Morigu, or feel Mearead's pain at the death of Colin. The betrayal of Arianrood made me angry and bitter. The only thing that makes me more bitter is the lack of a conclusion or continuation to this great series. Mark C. Perry, I am begging you to continue this series or someone shed some light on your status. Are you dead, (I hope not) or are you unaware of what a great writer you are. Please, Please let us know.

MY EIGHT YEAR SEARCH IS FINALLY OVER!! The universal question of "where is Mark C. Perry and why hasn't he finished, or come out with another book?" is over! Now, if we could just get that third book, the sky would be a little bluer, sunshine a little brighter! I first read "Desecration" in '92, six years after it's release and read "The Dead" about a week later. Now everytime I go to the bookstore, I check under "P" in the Sci-Fi section just in case...like so many others. I've been doing this for eight years, ever-hopeful for a third book. Since then I have read Brooks, Eddings, Goodkind searching for the same scale of fantasy-prose and NONE compare to The Morigu books. These books are timeless and have the grand sweep of epic battles involving characters you truly love (and love to hate). Good and evil have never clashed as they do in these books, as gods and demi-gods stride the earth in contest with man, elf and dwarf against forces of exceptional evil...

Thank god!! I have been searching SF sections of bookstores for many, many years in an effort to find the next book in the series. When I read the comments that Mark was dead, a little piece of me died that day too. I was in college when I first stumbled upon the first Morigu book, and unfortunately I have often judged a book by its cover. I picked up and put back the same book probably on twenty different occassions, until finally deciding to give it a shot. Best decision I've ever made. I've since read them, and passed them on to so many people(because you can't find them anymore), that the covers are no longer attached! I also have a small army searching bookstores on a regular basis. If you are a SF/Fantasy reader, there is no book I would reccomend higher. Do yourself a favor and take the same chance I did, you won't be dissappointed! The scope and unpredictability of this series is monumental. Great character development, incredible battle scenes, completely unpredictable. I would to throw my vote in with the legions, in pleading Mark Perry to continue the work in this series. I will continue my search for years to come. Viva la Morigu!!

This little book and CD are inspirational, deeply touching and heart-warming. They will reach out to your soul, your spirit and bring out the best in you. The song is no stranger to music lovers; it captivates and is so true to life, it leaves the reader with the feeling the song must have been written just for them. The book contains some beautiful photos and a poignant message. This would make a perfect, all-occasion gift for that very special person in your life - lover, family, friend, or yourself. Be good to you and pamper yourself, you deserve it! It is a memorable treasure that can be kept and cherished for many years to come, and I do, indeed... "hope you dance."

Since the first time I heard Lee Ann Womack's song "I Hope You Dance" I wanted this to be the message I gave to my son, daughter and granddaughter. I told my husband and children that I wanted this either sung or read at my funeral for them. Then I found this book. I gave a copy to my daughter for her 23rd birthday and she was both deeply touched and excited that I gave this tribute now. Since there is a place in the front of the book to give a short special message and the bonus of the CD in the back I found this to be a perfect gift not only for my children but also to anyone who needs encouragement. I am now ordering a copy for my son.

My last child is leaving the nest after graduation this year.When I saw this book I thought it would make the perfect gift for her, as she is also a dancer.When I opened the book and started to read, I also started to cry.With every page turned I lost more tears. It said everything I felt and everything I wanted to tell my Daughter as she left home, but didn't know how to put it into words. As she read the book, she also started to cry. I know when times get tough for her, she will pick up this book and know that she is loved and also has a home to return to. This is a wonderful book to give ANY special person in your life.As we all have dreams and hopes for our children.

Secret Hiding Places for Clever kids is a book by Mark Shulman. He writes books for children and adults. This book is small so you can hide it in your cds and it looks like another cd. The writer tells you about the ways you can look arund your house and see secret hiding places. You can read about making a box with a secret bottom. You can read about passing notes to your freinds in school. You can read about how to keep your brother or your sister away from your diary or your favorite toys. You can read about making a map and keeping all your hidden stuff oganized. You can read about hiding the book in all your cds so nobody can find it. You can read about the secret hiding places.com web site that is lots of fun too. I really like the book. I think you will too. You will like reading and learning about secret hiding places. You will feel like a clever kid even if your old! I will give it five stars on Amazon.com. Thank you. Violet G.

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I just bought the book Secret Hiding Places for clever kids and I love your ideas. They are perfect for hiding all of my things from my sneaky sisters and step siblings snooping in my room when I'm not home. I have alot of fake plants in my house that no one touches and i hide things in the dense leaves and under the weird stuff on the bottom. I also took the wick of a candle out ( just to be safe) and hollowed the bottom out to make a hiding spot. The candle was tall and kind of wide. It was a cheap candle that doesn't even smell. I saved a chunk of the wax and put it back in as a plug so if you pick it out the stuff doesn't fall out. Also where can I get the new book when it comes out? I got the last one at my school book fair and I don't have another one until next year or something. Thanks!

I have to hide everything!!! Its not like I get better stuff but my sister and my brother all want it if I got it. Then I found out they were looking under my bed and in my closet and I found Secret hiding places and it s a great book! I got so many ideas from the book and I use it all the time. I learned a whole new way of keeping my privacy. Thank you Mark Shulman.

This book has different topics like On Love, friendship, family, etc. It teaches you how to build your strengh and love. This book encourged my dreams. Chicken Soup also teaches you a lot about friendship. Chicken Soup has 101 courages, hoping and laughing stories. There are different topics that teach you different things. On Love they have stories on love and loving back in return. There are Sad, happy stories helping after people who you love. Then there's friendship. Friendship is about having friends that fight with you, but after, becoming friends again. The stories also tell it doesn't matter if your friend is black or white. The real test is if they're nice to you. Family is about how you get in fights and how to respect your family. Attitude and Perspective is knowing what's right. Death and dying is when you love someone and then dies. They still love you and want to be with you. Achieving Dreams is on going towards your dream, don't stop trying. Overcoming Obstacles is when you say something like I would have gotten 100% if I didn't get those 7 wrong. When you don't want to get something wrong to get people mad if you did something wrong. On Choices is anther way of saying decisions Tough stuff is when you want to do something so bad but you can't that's tough luck.

I liked this book because it realy changed me on problems and dreams. It was really good book.

The series of Chicken Soup books has held my attention since their first publication. Perhaps this is one of the most important books in the series. The stories will also help everyone realize that life is a journey. The words will inspire you to dream, to be more positive, and to realize you are not alone.

When you purchase this book, think of it as a life enriching tool. The topics of love, friendship, family, attitude, perspective, death, dreams, obstacles, choices, tough stuff and eclectic wisdom are discussed in stories, poems and passages.

The stories are short enough so you could read one a day. There are also funny cartoons, poems and plenty of "kid" wisdom. I give this book my highest recommendation. I think even adults should read some of the stories in this book. The poem a child wrote about her father is something every parent should read.

I was also impressed with the health advice and section on making the right choices. The positive lessons you can learn from this book will last a lifetime. My favorite poem was on page 293, it truly holds the wisdom of a child. We have so much to learn from children, if we will take the time to listen.

I have read a fan of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books since Grade 8 and I must say that out of all of the series I have read, this is my favourite one. This book is great for kids. It includes stories, and poems that were written by kids FOR kids! This book is great and I love to sit in my bed sometimes at night and read stories from Dating and Relationships to Death and Divorce. Kids can face many troubles out in the world like Gangs, Drugs, AIDS, Death and many other situations. Kids have to make difficult choices sometimes. This book is good because it can really make you think. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who wants something great to read! It can make you laugh or cry. It can make you feel good about yourself. I know it will definetly make you think, it made me think!

I have lots of books on horse behavior, horse psychology, etc., but this book is better than all the rest put together. I have a young mare who is my first horse at the age of 40plus, she is quite nervous at times which doesn`t do my nerves any good either! This book has been a great help in my ways of dealing with her & we now seem to have a closer partnership. If one thing wasn`t working with her, then I`d approach the problem in a different way as Mark suggests, & we`d finally sort the conflict out. The one thing that struck me after reading this book, was how much calmer I was if she started playing up. I just had to think how Mark, or the old man, would deal with the situation & immediately became calm & resolute in my actions. My mare obviously sensed this & became calm herself. I have just read the book again & am about to order his other one. If you want to solve your horses problems then this book is a must. It is not a book saying you must do this or that, but is a book saying this may work, or because all horses are different then this other way may work, or you may have to find a solution yourself. After reading this book the solution to your problem will be easy to see. If I had to part with all my horse books apart from one, this would be the one left on the shelf

This is the first book I have read by the recent crop of "horse trainers" in which the author does NOT claim to be the inventer of his techniques OR infallible! Mark's style is easy, flows nicely, and is very readable--it's almost like he's sitting on the couch in your living room talking with you about working with problem horses. He stresses approaching problems from the horse's viewpoint, and in the process of doing so makes the trainer reassess his own techniques and approaches to horses. Excellent book, well worth the price and the time to read.

I have read all three of Mr. Rashid's books and have passed my copies around to all my riding club members. His approach, to "consider" the horse's point of view, is so simple, but so few of us practice this approach. I wish he had written this series 30 years ago - I would have not made so many mistakes. This should be a "must read" for anyone who owns a horse, or anyone who is thinking of owning a horse. Well written and uncomplicated, it reads like a story, rather than a "how-to." I found it hard to put it down and quickly ordered the other two. Definitely read this book!

I think that the author of this book deserves a very big round of applause! Since the beginning of the series, my 3 children and I (one of which is out of the suggested age group) have enjoyed reading the great adventures of Obi-wan and Qui-gon. However, no matter the excellence of the plot, all 4 of us (yes, I too am a big fan of the series) have been disappointed with the bond between Qui-gon and Obi-wan. It seems very cold, and it is very hard to explain to my children that Qui-gon doesn't hate Obi-wan even though he acts like it. Even my eldest, a 15 year old, could not understand the meaning or reason for the cold bond. While the series is reigning with supremacy, I would suggest that it be kept away from smaller children who are partial to loving parent-children bonds. They for sure will not understand. Meanwhile, my children and I will continue reading the books with hope of a brighter future for the bond between are two beloved heroes. May the force be with you!

After their adventures on the planet of Phindar, Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi again make their way to Gala. For many years the planet has been ruled by the Beju-Tallah dynasty but now the queen has decided to give an election for the new ruler. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn's mission is to observe to make sure the elections go smoothly. But everything does not seem to be all that simple. The Queen Veda is dying, her angry son is conspiring to win over the elections to maintain his rule as the throne's heir. And then of course the Queen shocks them with this news; Prince Beju is not the true heir, Elan of the hill people is! Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan must find a way to conserve peace on the planet and to find the true heir bearing the Mark of the Crown.

One of my favorites books in the entire Jedi Apprentice series! There's plenty of action and adventure, suspense and excitement. Jude Watson has certainly done an astounding job, the plot and story of the book is so unique and interesting and I couldn't put it down! I still enjoy reading the books as much as I did when they first started coming out in the summer of 1999.

This series explains a lot about how Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan first meet. Their beginning is far from simple and all smooth-sailings, which would be pretty monotonous if it was. Though the books are said for ages 9-12, like many other reviewers I agree that the Jedi Apprentice Series are for anybody. Extremely well-written, the emotions, thoughts, and feelings of the main characters are very well put down into words. I also like the different array of humans and aliens which are portrayed, both good and bad; the dying Queen Veda who still has the strengths and capabilities of a noble ruler, Elan the headstrong woman who wants nothing to do with Gala's government, Jono the palace servant who becomes friends with Obi-Wan, and many more characters.

The first Jedi Apprentice book is written by Dave Wolverton while all the rest (19 more books) are written by Jude Watson and are all very highly recommended from me. The books don't really 'end' at all, the books ends in either a cliffhanger or with a little glimpse into the future. Believe me, once you start reading them, you'll want to read the next one... then the next one... I can't wait for Jude Watson's next Star Wars series, The Jedi Quest Series with Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Jedi Master and Anakin Skywalker as the Padawan Apprentice.

Another Star Wars Series I recommend and like a lot are the Young Jedi Knights series. The stories are about Jacen and Jaina Solo (twins of Han and Leia Solo), and their friends as they journey on the road to becoming Jedi Knights. More on the teenager level of reading. For adult readings, a few selections I enjoy reading are "The Thrawn Trilogy", "Rogue Planet", "The Jedi Academy Trilogy", "The Corellian Trilogy", and "The Truce at Bakura".

After reading the first book in this series, i was hooked! i have read the mark of the crown more than 5 times, and can't wait for the next one to come out! everyone who loves star wars, and want to find out how obi-wan and Qui-gon came to be a master and apprentice should read this amazing book!

When one considers the incalculable number of words written about World War II, it is astonishing that no one has tackled the subject of Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht before now. Bryan Mark Rigg breaks this new ground in a scholarly and exhaustive manner. Impressive research (much of it eye-witness interviews), copious endnotes, and a serious style give this book the credibility demanded by readers skeptical of its premise: men of Jewish ancestry served in the German Armed Forces (including the Waffen SS) by the tens of thousands.

The book is replete with fascinating historical esoterica such as Heydrich's possible Jewish ancestry, accounts of Goring protecting high-ranking Luftwaffe Mischlinge (partial Jews), and the role many individual partial Jews played in the German war machine. It also documents in detail the sometimes bureaucratic, sometimes pragmatic way that exemptions from the Nuremburg Laws were handed out.

Throughout Hitler's Jewish Soldiers the reader is repeatedly confronted with the absurdity of Nazi racial policy, as were high-ranking Nazis themselves. By 1933 Jews had become so integrated into German society that many citizens didn't realize they had Jewish blood in their ancestral past. Nazi researchers unearthed these skeletons so effectively that many patriotic Germans and even Party members were turned into outcasts and became a target of the German government instead of having their patriotism harnessed to help an increasingly hopeless war effort. Some Nazis recognized this, leading Himmler to his famous lament "each (German) has his decent Jew". Rigg's view however, is that while many Mischlinge escaped the full weight of Nazi racial policy during the war for pragmatic reasons, they would have faced an unfortunate fate after a German victory.

Perhaps the most compelling chapter is the final one. An examination of what Mischlinge knew about the Holocaust, Rigg demonstrates that generally speaking, they didn't understand what was going on in the extermination camps. Given that some of these people had had dozens of relatives deported, in retrospect that seems astounding. However most Mischlinge were fully integrated members of secular German culture and the idea of their own society exterminating them en masse was beyond their imagination. Since one would expect Jewish Germans to know more about the holocaust than Aryan Germans, this conclusion does seem to stand in contrast to that of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.

Hitler's Jewish Soldier's is essential to fully understanding Nazi racial policy and its practical implementation. Bryan Mark Rigg has made an impressive debut and I look forward to his next work.

This book is about Hitler's perspective on race and blood and the thousands of Jewish people who actually fought for the Reich. What is strangely intriguing is that Hitler actually granted many half and quarter Jews, Aryan status merely because of their physical appearance(what Hitler considered the ideal Aryan features) and by family status! Many Jewish people or children of mixed marriages among the Germans and Jewish folk had no idea of the atrocities of Nazi Germany at the time and many were proud and honored to have fought for the Axis power. Hitler brought to the nation a false sense of pride and the Germans were kept in the dark concerning the Concentration Camps. Many were shocked after the war to find out that this tragedy went on, on their German soil! The young man who gave their lives to fight in the German army had no clue as they were fighting for their nation, that their Jewish parents were being sent to Death and Labor camps to suffer. Others who were aware of the fact that they were not pure Germans, hid their identity in the army to secure their lives and the lives of their families and they also felt if they served the Reich they would be promoted to General status and their families would not be harmed because they defended their nation against the Allies. The book is quite interesting and it's thorough in explaining to the reader the certain racial bounderies and rules at the time so the reader has a better understanding of exactly what occured and how many drastic measures were taken to ensure the purity of the German Aryan Race. This book is a requirement to anyone who enjoys reading up on Germany's role in WW2. Enjoy the book!...

"Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" by Bryan Mark Rigg, is a unique World War II history. He has had access to government archives, private records, and personal interviews that most history buffs only dream about. Indeed, one must have a thorough background in the German National Socialist years and modern military history just to begin to appreciate the level of the research that went into the book.

Apart from the unique breadth and focus of Mr. Rigg's research, his book stands out for its fresh and intriguing perspective. The author explores the various reasons why men who appear to have nothing to gain and everything to lose might find themselves in the German military. Their reasons often included elements of patriotism, considerations of personal safety by hiding in plain sight, desire for personal or career advancement, the hope that a soldier's family might benefit from his loyal service, and a sense of duty instilled by previous military training before the Nazis came to power.

The Nazi German racial laws focused more on ancestry than choice of religion. There were significant numbers of Jews, half-Jews, and quarter-Jews in the German military. Although there were few Jews of pure ancestry, there were substantial numbers of the so-called mischlinge, or people of mixed heritage. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers analyzes the actions and motivations of people who could possess one of two extremely different points of view to explain what really went on in Germany in the Nazi era.

A truly unique case history that Mr. Rigg references in his book is Bernhard Rogge. Rogge began his naval career in the Kaiser's navy, served the Reichsmarine of the post WW1 republic, then Hitler's navy to reach the rank of vice admiral, after Germany fell Rogge worked managing with a shipping company, and finally he retired in the 1960's after serving as a vice admiral in the Bundesmarine. Rogge, as a quarter Jew married to a Jew was considered a full Jew under Nazi pronouncements. In 1939, his wife and mother in law, also Jewish, killed themselves to escape the persecution. Hitler gave Rogge an exemption from the Nazi racial laws. Hitler later personally awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves to Rogge for his military accomplishments. Rogge served with humanitarian distinction in command of the auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, sinking or capturing 22 ships and remaining away from port for 655 days without any serious morale or discipline problems. Later in the war, his task group built around the Prinz Eugen supported the epic German evacuation in the Baltic Sea away from the Russian invasion in the east. Nobody will ever know how many German lives were saved. Certainly no Nazi, Rogge is just one example of a man of possessed of two heritages who is remembered for serving his country loyally and decently.

The most common analytical shortcut taken by modern historians is to write of groups of people. Since it requires the collective efforts of thousands, and perhaps millions, of people to wage a modern war, it seems quite reasonable to assume that groups of people acted in accordance with a common goal and a unanimous conviction in their ideals. Although it may make perfectly good sense to approach the history of war and politics as a study of the conflicts among races, religions, and nations, the resulting oversimplification dilutes and obscures the real lessons of history. By exploring the individual motivations of men whose backgrounds fit neatly into neither of two competing groups, Mr. Rigg actually examines the whole concept of why men participate in war.

It should be obvious that neither army in a conflict, and certainly no individual soldier, goes into battle with the intention of being remembered as the 'bad guy' in history. Unfortunately, modern writers frequently assume too many things and attribute commonly misunderstood purposes to the German soldiers, and such errors are the result of stereotyping. Many soldiers of Jewish heritage served with valor and were awarded Iron Crosses and Knights Crosses. Individual commanders often shielded Jews in their units. The political and military motivations of leaders and the men who followed them should be revealed so that future generations will actually learn from history. Mr. Rigg's book is a significant contribution to the analysis of an obscure and misunderstood issue.

Dr. F. R. Bosch an apologist, researcher, and lecturer who integrates [Biblical] faith and knowledge, is a full-time university professor in Southern California, U.S.A.

"Management Challenges for the 21st Century" is a brief and stimulating book. It addresses some insightful topics that Prof. Drucker thinks will influence and shape the future. He encourages the reader to consider "management" in a larger than "business" context - the universe of our personal, family, career, volunteerism, and corporate lives - which all need to be managed for success to occur.

He begins by discussing how our "basic assumptions" make up our reality paradigms that affect our perception of the world and the decisions we make. In spite of the important role that assumptions play in our lives, Drucker says that the assumptions are rarely analyzed, studied, challenged, and rarely even made explicit (p. 3). The implication is that we need to invest some quality time and thought about the assumptions that profoundly affect our lives. He goes on to say that "what matters most...are therefore the basic assumptions. And a change in the basic assumptions matters even more" (p. 4).

The basic or fundamental assumptions that make up our reality paradigms are very important. The examples Drucker cites throughout the book clearly convey his belief of the profound role that fundamental assumptions play in managing our lives. There is a definite cause and effect relationship between what we embrace to be true and the product of their application.

Although the Harvard Business Review says that Drucker "discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management," Prof. Drucker has said in other of his writings, as well as in this book, that the "Fundamentals do not change. But the specifics to manage them do change greatly with changes in internal and external conditions," and that "there is a need for continuity in respect to the fundamentals...because change is a constant...the foundations have to be extra strong" (Managing in Turbulent Times, p. 9; Management Challenges for the 21st Century, p. 92).

Clearly, we need to differentiate between foundation and structure, and realize that the changes being discussed mainly relate to the structure (application), and not necessarily to the fundamental presuppositions. Actually, when the fundamental assumptions change the world changes. Thus, changes of fundamental assumptions are major life-changing events - revolutions (shifts) in paradigm language. However, Drucker seems to convey the notion that the application of management principles is what is changing and not the principles themselves.

"Management Challenges for the 21st Century" is an eye opener and energizing primer to view and practice management.

MANAGEMENT CHALLEGES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY is a breakthrough work, even for Peter Drucker. Through 6 impressive essays, Professor Drucker sets the agenda for the next several decades, for every organization and individual. He begins by pointing out that the way most people think about management is all wrong, and immediately needs to be changed. He outlines the needed changes. He then picks the key strategy issues that will strongly affect all organizations for the next 50 years. Next, he points out that we live in turbulent times and that one must lead the changes that one's organization must make so they occur faster than for the competition. There is no choice for any organization, except to fail to survive. From there, he points out that we have information TECHNOLOGY, but very little information worth looking at on the devices the technology brings us. He goes on to define what must be done to create the right information. In a remarkable section, he then tells how to create knowledge worker productivity (something he has said in the past that no one knows how to do). Finally, he provides a remarkable essay on how to get the most out of yourself, for yourself. These essays were previewed in leading publications, and substantially improved from the originals. There is no repetition of his work and thinking from earlier books. This is like finding a whole new Peter Drucker. I especially loved the new examples that he included, as well as his historical references that only Peter Drucker can make. YOU ARE MAKING A BIG MISTAKE IF YOU FAIL TO BUY, READ, AND APPLY THE IMPORTANT LESSONS OF THIS BOOK. If you read only one book by Peter Drucker, read this one! I was especially pleased to see that he addressed the stalls that delay organizational progress such as the old habits reinforced by tradition, unwillingness to address the new through disbelief, poor communications at all levels (he states the rules that you must follow to be a better communicator and be more effective), needless interactions fostering mindless bureaucracy, the temptation to procrastinate (standing still in front of a truck about to run you over is a mistake you will not repeat), avoiding the unattractive key issues of your organiztion (he recommends doing the dirty jobs yourself for several weeks a year in order to understand how to improve), and failing to set high standards. As always, the book is filled with powerful questions that you can answer for yourself in order to accomplish much, much more and feel great while you do so. Read and apply the lessons of this book and you will have many more 2,000 percent solutions (achieving 20 times the usual results with the same resources or getting the same results 20 times faster).

Peter F. Drucker writes in the Introduction, "...this is not a book of 'predictions,' not a book about the 'future.' The challenges and issues discussed in it are already with us in every one of the developed countries and in most of the emerging ones (e.g., Korea or Turkey). They can already be identified, discussed, analyzed and prescribed for. Some people, someplace, are already working on them. But so far very few organizations do, and very few executives. Those who do work on these challenges today, and thus prepare themselves and their institutions for the new challenges, will be the leaders and dominate tomorrow. Those who wait until these challenges have indeed become 'hot' issues are likely to fall behind, perhaps never to recover. This book is thus a Call for Action."

In this context, in Chapter 5 of this invaluable book, Drucker focuses on knowledge worker. He says that "the most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the 'manual worker' in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of 'knowledge work' and the 'knowledge worker.' The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."

Thus, he defines six major factors determine knowledge worker productivity as follows:

1. Knowledge worker productivity demands that we ask the question: "What is the task?"

2. It demands that we impose the responsibility for their productivity on the individual knowledge workers themselves. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves. They have to have authonomy.

3. Continuing innovation has to be part of the work, the task and the responsibility of knowledge workers.

4. Knowledge work requires continuous learning on the part of the knowledge worker, but equally continuous teaching on the part of the knowledge worker.

5. Productivity of the knowledge worker is not-at least not primarily-a matter of the quantity of output. Quality is at least as important.

6. Finally, knowledge worker productivity requires that the knowledge worker is both seen and treated as an "asset" rather than a "cost." It requires that knowledge workers want to work for the organization in preference to all other opportunities.

He argues that each of these requirements-except perhaps the last one-is almost the exact opposite of what is needed to increase the productivity of the manual worker.

Highly recommended.

My sister loaned me this book when I told her that I was starting a new business and would be selling my products by network marketing. The book does a great job in answering all the common fears and downfalls that can happen to anyone in network marketing. For example, I myself don't like the dreaded word, "NO, I don't want to buy your products." It really helped me to understand that networking is a numbers game and it is nothing personal. It gives stories about people and their successes and sometimes the failures they had before they reached their goals. Basically, if you are going to make it in network marketing you need to understand the business and don't quit! Read this book and learn from the years of experience that the Yarnell's share with their readers, you will be glad you did. Don't start your networking career without reading this book first. I know that if I didn't I probably would have quit by now. Don't give up and go for it! Good Luck!!

Having been in and out of network marketing over the years - I feel that my life would have been much better had I had this book as my guide in the beginning.

I will not sign on a new distributor in my organization until after they have read this book and I've quized them about it's content and lessons. If they desire to go on then I know I got someone worth working with!

As a National Trainer for a unique service based netwrok marketing company, I find the scripts and verbage in this book invaluable. Just couldn't put it down once I started on it. Almost all conceivable objections are answered step by step. All one has to do is read and repeat. The down to earth advice and reality checks are critical to the first year novices chances of survival. Although a little long in length, the book should be a 'must read' for all those that are new to network marketing. Also questionable is the advice that one doesnt need to know the product/service as much as the opportunity. As with any other industry, there are different ways of doing business, and the yarnells are offering their own experiences. Overall a good book.

I have recently read this book and my first impression was that it was kinda...plain??? This book doesn't have much description, but the stories are ...Spectacular!!! I dont think that 13 year olds like me would benefit from this book, because it's a little...should I say...old?? Even though I enjoyed the book, the authors would lose a lot of readers by only making a Chicken Soup for the Teen's Soul and the Kid's Soul. If I could suggest one thing to the author, I would suggest to make a Preteen's Soul. Also, I would suggest to have more kids write stories instead of the stories always being by either Kimberly or Jack. It would draw more attention to the books if they didn't take kids for granted. If we don't like a book, WE'LL TELL YOU!!!!

Just like all of the other amazing Chicken Soup books, this one is full of "feel-good" stories that will make your feel all warm inside, as if you were eating a hot bowl of chicken soup. The stories in this book are focused on the tough stuff that teenages go through, and I'm sure any teenager can relate to this book in one way or another. It gives young adults inspiration, and is a wonderful collection of stories that will touch your heart and warm your soul.

This book is really an extension of "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul" except this one deals with "the really tough stuff." As a counsellor, this will be one book on my list that will be highly recommended to teens, particularly girls. It is not that the "tough stuff" mentioned here does not happen to boys but teenaged boys, generally speaking, are often more hesitant to put their thoughts in writing the way most teenaged girls will do.

Three topics are found in this book which are truly a sign of our modern times. The first is abuse, that thankfully is no longer a subject to be hidden in the closet. The second is teen depression and suicide, and the third deals with violence in schools. As a counsellor, I have seen first hand the havoc these problems can create. If you are a teen, you will realize that much of this "tough stuff" is univeral and you are not alone. It also helps if you are troubled by these issues, to discuss the topic(s) with a parent or trusted, responsible adult with whom you feel comfortable. Teens will be surprised that this is not a book which comes across as a voice of authority but, rather, one that speaks of compassionate understanding. It is highly recommended and, in my own opinion and based on feedback I have received from teens, the book is most deserving of a five-star rating.