This is an extraordinary story about optimism, hope, courage and perseverance. It is about finding out what is our 'mission' in life, about destiny and following our dreams - whenever one wishes something, the whole universe conspires to its realisation. Everything is possible as long as we really want this to happen.

At the first level, the story seems to be very simple, and as Coelho himself said it, "simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them". But it is by far a very complex story with very deep meanings.
One of the things suggested here is that people who don't dare to follow their dreams, their 'Personal Myth', will have a superficial and empty life.

It is also about being courageous to meet your destiny, to dare making your dreams come true and following the road that has been made for them, and find God while searching for their destiny and their mission on earth.

Another important issue in this book is finding your soul-mate and love - the core of existence and creation. When we are in love we try to improve ourselves: "I love you because the whole universe conspired for me to come close to you."

I think this book can be enjoyed by everybody, because we all find ourselves in Santiago, the main character of the book - we all have dreams, desires and perhaps some us dont have the necessary courage to follow our dreams - and courage is the language that helps you most in understanding the world.

I recommend this book to everybody who thinks that life is still beautiful and even to those who believe the opposite - Im sure it will make you change your minds.

L'alchimiste... a wonderful book that brings you along for a magnificient trip through the desert to find a tresor.

The treip is important and only in the end will you find what you were seeking.

Full of lessons, the story reads easily and brings the reader to a point where he/she will reevaluate the important things in his life.

A book not unlike "Le Petit Prince"

This book is incredible -- an honest and sensitive portrait of life in the changing Sonoran desert. I picked it up yesterday and haven't been able to stop looking at it since. Apart from the photography, there are two wonderful essays. In the second, "Another Country", Thomas E. Sheridan tells of falling in love with a place in a way that speaks intimately to my own experience of and passion for Mexico. But I'd better stop before I give a whole dissertation... Buy this book! You won't regret it.

Superb black and white photographs, with accompanying essays, concentrate on ordinary people. The result transcends its geographic region; this is about people who just happen to live in Sonora. Winner, Border Regional Library Association's 1998 Southwest Book Award.

Kihn and Hudak have expertly assembled a series of probing essays by theorists and practitioners alike, focusing their penetrations upon the mysteries and traductions of labeling. Although some of the inclusions are better than others (of course), there is a deft editing hand off-stage that lends coherence to the whole -- and this topic is more poignant now than ever. Kihn's essay, in particular, speaks with the sere voice of experience. Fascinating work.

Hudak and Kihn's book unites several perspectives into a coherent whole. I strongly recommend it for teachers, educators, activists and others deeply interested in educational change.

Harlow Unger's book covers a biography that is stranger than fiction, starting with LaFayette's unique marriage and continuing with his fanatical dedication to the remote American struggle for freedom; his close relationships with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and other world leaders; his exceptional military leadership; his continuing voluntary work for independence in his own country (including 13 months in a horrific prison) all the way until he died at the age of 77. Throughout the story, the mutual, unabated love between the Marquis and his very capable wife, Adrienne, provided even more dramatic episodes. Nearly every event was more amazing the the one before.
This is a detailed and eye-opening history of both the American and French revolutions and their great contrast. If the reader has trouble believing it is truly factual, he will be convinced with the frequent, verbatim letters and voluminous, documented historical references. This is absolutely a must read for anyone with an ounce of interest in western civilization.

This book swept me away with its twists of adventure, romance, and military scenes. It is definitely the best biography I've read on Lafayette with its thorough detail and gripping narrative. Lafayette's story combines French and American history, and captures the moving love story of his marriage. It has been a long time since a book transported me like this one did.

If you like cat stories you will love this book. Couple trying to make a living as flower growers in the Cornish countryside. Throughly enjoyable.

I absolutly love this story! If anyone has a copy of this book or cassette, I am willing to pay a very good price to own this story - Please respond to flynnkate@hotmail.com Thank You!

Don't be discouraged if it's a little hard to read at the beginning. After you get past those first chapters, it will get better. For me, it got so interesting I could barely put it down! It sheds lights on several things for me and the most hopeful things is the examples of how therapy doesn't have to take a long time! The examples of how language of change can quickly yield results will blow your mind away! Highly recommended!---For OCD, I also recommend Brain Lock!.

Dr. Paul Watzlawick's book of change and communication, largely based on the work of Milton H. Erickson, dives right into the theories of the left and right hemispheric patterns in humans. Then discusses the language patterns of schizophrenics. These two major themes when studied and practiced yields a result of change. Watzlawick understands both that: all people have a set of language patterns; and secondly all people are using their brain when they speak. Knowing this will able the reader to speak effectively to a schizophrenic, or just about anyone in a theraputic sense which will allow change in individuals. This book is easy to read with a lot of information with a wonderful conclusion. Highly reccomended for those working in clinical psychology or just looking to change your self.

to say the least. classic essays in the field of psychology and linguistics. a must have for the beginner and the specialist alike. highly recommended.

This collection of essays touches on all the major points of Linguistics (very briefly) and is a great introduction to the field. The different authors all have a slightly different style, but it is not jarring and does not interfere with the ability to pull information out of the text. I have read other intro to linguistics books and none have been as interesting or informative as this one. I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to take a college 'english language' or linguistics class, and to anyone interested in linguistice but deosn't know where to start.

Don't be mislead by the size of the book; this slender volume is heavy with words, dense with images. These poems by rYAN kAMSTRA evoke the poetry the Beats might have written, if Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg had lived in the even more screwed-up era of zombie-pocked skyscrapers, rapacious office machines and "dark nuclear morning" that is this, our new century. Don't look for precious rhymes or easy sentiment: kAMSTRA can be obscure; he rants; he twists the most commonplace of scenes into devastation by flesh-eating butterflies. He juxtaposes words and creates beauty--"Because gravity is in love with your shadow & the sky can't hold on to your hair..." He can be blatant--portraying a runaway humankind as pigs who "enjoy the finer things" and "shoot other pigs for hoarding," and pitting the excesses of the capitalist world against "two sparrows/a nest of weeds/& a tiny dry river." He can be wryly humorous; he can be terribly sad. But what he is NOT, is boring, neutral or easy to ignore.

Susan O'Neill, author: Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

This volume of poetry by Ryan Kamstra is at once tender/tough, political/personal, musical/cacophanous, real/fantastical. His poems teach us something about the way we see ourselves, our world, and eachother. He is a poet of the first order. Highly recommended.

Paul has defined what being a leader is all about. Read it for the insight, but live it for the true value! Step up to the plate as a leader the leads through their love relationship with Christ. The author's points are structured well and can be a tool that can be used in your ministry right out of the package! People will see the difference when you lead out of love!

This is a must-read for all leaders. The author does a great job of giving practical guidelines for leaders and explores areas of leadership that so many prefer to avoid. It is an honest look at leadership and what it means to be a true leader. I am confident that it will be as valuable to you as it has been to me. You will be glad you read this book!

As always, Halmos is an excellent expositor. The brief first chapter has been known to scare away physicists and other intelligent people who don't happen to know ring theory, but fortunately the first chapter can be skipped. The book is at the right level to be used by mathematics graduate students learning Boolean algebras and Stone spaces for the first time.

Some people draw a sharp distinction between the concepts of "Boolean space" (a totally disconnected compact Hausdorff space) and "Stone space", the difference being that a Stone space is the Stone space _of_ a Boolean algebra. A Boolean algebra's Stone space is the space of all of its 2-valued homomorphisms with the topology of pointwise convergence of nets of such homomorphisms. That every Boolean space is the Stone space of some Boolean algebra (namely, the Boolean algebra of all of its clopen subsets) is one of the important facts of "Stone's duality". Halmos never mentions the phrase "Stone space", but he proves the basic facts about "Stone's duality": that the category of Boolean algebras and Boolean homomorphisms is the opposite of the category of Boolean spaces and continuous functions.

The flaw is in Lecture 21. Much of that section is founded upon an error -- that a Boolean algebra may have various non-isomorphic completions, of which one is "minimal". A careful mathematician can reconstruct that lecture and get much that is of value, but some may be unfortunately misled.

One other thing irritates me: Halmos uses the word "non-atomic" rather than the much better term "atomless". The problem with "non-atomic" is that it may be mistaken for "not atomic", and that is a quite different thing.

This book is now out of print. I'd like to see Dover reprint it.

A very good book, going through the stuff in a very nice kind. Giving you intuitive insights, easy proofs, and written with a large sense of humor.