QUE HE ENCONTRADO CON NOMBRES PARA NIÑAS...
EN REALIDAD, TODOS VIENEN MEZCLADOS...Y ES COMO PARA EL TOTAL PARA QUE SOLO TE DEN LA MITAD...porque si lo buscas para tu nenita,en los otros libros, por lo menos la mitad es de nombres para hombrecitos...

PERFECTO !

y hasta el de mi hijo...porque puse Karla en masculino...Y luego, nació nuestra última hija..Y de ese mismo libro brotó su nombre...
Deverdad es un libro que contiene nombres MARAVILLOSOS, EXCLUSIVOS PARA LAS PRINCESITAS...excepto por los que puede uno cambiar al masculino !Asi son de bonnitos, que hasta para el varoncito se antojan
La verdad, es buenísimo y no habrá nadie en el mundo que no encuentre el nombre PERFECTO PARA SU HIJA

OBTUVIMOS EL NOMBRE DE NUESTRA ÚLTIMA HIJITA !
Lástima que no lo conocíamos cuando nacio la primera !
Si tienes una beba, NO DEJES QUE TE PASE LO MISMO Y ANTES QUE EN CUALQUIER OTRO, REVISA LOS NOMBRES DE ESTA PRECIOSIDAD !

It's so easy to bash lawyers -- everyone's got to have SOMEONE to hate, and lawyers -- like skunks -- are people you try to avoid. But they ARE a necessary evil.

So how do you deal with a situation when you are sued and frightened? How do you deal with a situation where the knot of anger in your stomach makes you want to "search and destroy" the perceived "enemy?"

Mr. Gerstl hits several nails right on the head, and the hammer he's using is TRUTH and plain old COMMON SENSE.

This is a fast, easy read, yet it contains an absolute wealth of information that a layman can't afford to be without. A SUPER book!

After the release of How To Cut Your Legal Bills In Half: A Guide to Reclaiming America's Promise -- Affordable Justice For All, I had Mr. Gerstl as a guest on my Television Program, Creative Encounters, in San Jose. Mr. Gerstl was a dynamic and most interesting guest, so much so that I actually sat down and read the book after the broadcast.

The book was -- and is -- stunning in its simplicity, its common sense, and its positive spin on what can be a veryh painful subject -- I know because I've been there.

Mr. Gerstl gives a great overview of the "system" as we know it today, the reason why lawyer bills are so high, a visit to Hell ("Anatomy of a Lawsuit") and why we must -- and how we CAN -- cure this cancer on our society. I wonder how his fellow lawyers are taking this. On the other hand, I really don't care how they're taking it -- all I know is I wish I'd had this book before I ever called a lawyer.

I, for one, happen to think the American legal system is in shambles. I have, myself, written a book condemning what all-too-often passes for "Justice" in this country. My book engages high-profile examples and "large" issues. It is for consideration by legal scholars.

Mr. Gerstl's book, on the other hand, takes on the problems that are not academic, but those we face every day -- divorce, human disputes, medical malpractice cases, auto accidents, probate and the like. While these disputes may mean less on the "world" stage, they are far more pressing and urgent for the INDIVIDUALS involved.

Gerstl's book is simple yet profound in its implications, meaningful without being pedantic, resourceful without being patronizing. As such, it is a "must read" for those at issue within (or without) the "system."

O UN GOLPE...ESTE LIBRO TE RECUERDA QUÉ BELLA ES LA VIDA Y TE DA ANIMOS PARA DISFRUTARLA !
Precioso !

ESPOSO SE LO TRANSEO EL SOCIO...Lo malo, es que él se hundio en la desesperacion por no poder ya darnos nada...
Su mama le trajo este libro y se sento con el a leerlo.. Muy pronto, mi marido agarro el libro el solo.
Te quiero decir, amiga, QUE RESURGIO Y AHORA TENEMOS UN NEGOCIO MAS GRANDE QUE EL ANTERIOR...Y SIN SOCIOS !
DE VERDAD, TIENE EL PODER DE LEVANTARTE CUANDO RECIBES UN GOLPE !
Y SABES QUE?
Las suegras pueden ser muy buena onda !

POR CAÍDO QUE ESTÉS !
Da nueva vida, nuevos animos y deja heridas limpias en las que no bace el rencor !

I play mostly classical guitar and I have found this series of books superb for sight-reading practice.

This Book plus the other volumes II and III are really a modern concept in teaching the pick style guitar, no matter if you decide to go to folk or country style of playing, Jazz or Rock.

The concept to approach the guitar as other stringed instruments like the Violin or the Cello, studying the whole fingerboard by positions and scales and keys (Tonality) is the secret to destroy the legend about "The guitar is not a reading instruments " and so on.

I studied it when I attend to Berklee, and I still use it for my private students. I recommend it truly! Thanks Mr. William "Bill" Leavitt (Up there in guitar heaven) for such a great work!!!

This book was and still is very helpfull to me. I was a decent reader before i picked it up and in a matter of 2 months or less i have made a big improvement. You should get it!

Les Misarables was the first Victor Hugo book I ever read. It imeadiately became my absolute favorite book, until I read The Hunchback. They are very different. The age of Victor Hugo when he wrote them gives each a particular flavor or feel. Dispite these differences, or rather because of them, I could never dicide which was my favorite. The man who laughs dicided this for me, for it is by far my favorite of any book I have ever read. (Though the Bible is pretty good.) The Man Who Laughs is the ultimate of all that makes Victor Hugo so good. (I have read all the novels he has written that I know of, except Legends of the Centuries, which I can't find in English). I am glad the world knows of the beauty of Les Misarables and Hunchback, but I wonder why very few people have even heard of his other masterpieces, like Toilers of the Sea or Ninety-Three. True, some of the books he wrote when he was about 18 lack some of the emotion that he obviously gained with experience, but why are not all his works celebrated as all of Shakespeares are. I honestly would rather read Victor Hugo than anything else. True his books are long, boring, and he often writes 100 or so pages on something off the subject, but every word is poetry. Nobody gets emotions deaper. The "long boringness" only enhances these emotions. Reading Victor Hugo has spoiled me for the rest of the world. Almost all other books seem lacking in emotion after having read Victor Hugo.

I first read this book ten years ago and marvelled at the powerful writing and timeless themes. This book was my first introduction to Hugo and I could not wait to read his masterpieces: "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables". Although I acknowledge that these books are wonderful, I still hold that "The Man Who Laughs" is just as good, if not better, and more emotionally gratifying than other Hugo's classics.

I first read this story in Russian and the English translation disappointed me. It was more choppy and rough than the Russian version and lacked the sofistication of the latter. However, it is still a great book nonetheless. The story is rich with complex characters that no one will soon forget. The human weakness of Gynplaine is very appropriate and his demise is almost poetic. Nobody should miss out on reading this incredible story and judge for themselves if it deserves to stay out of print when it is for sure one of the greatest novels ever written.

The only negative aspect of the book that, although it did not bother me, may bother some readers is the preacheness of Gynplaine and Ursus, albeit done very masterfully. The character of Dea is too saintly. Although she needs to be very pure for the story to work, she is virtually a saint which is unsettling and makes the reader treat her at an arm's length instead of getting her into their souls as they undoubtfully do with Gynplaine. The whole milieu is very dark and that may make some people uncomfortable. When I first read it, it took me a long time to want to re-read it although I found it to be one of the best books I have ever read.

These negative points are more than acquited by extremely well-told story with characters and situations that are unique and unforgettable. I though that this "old" story would not give me any new insight but it did. This story's major plus is my favorite character, Josianna: she is extremely complex although I got the feeling that Hugo wanted to make her more one-dementional. Still, her scene when she finds out that Gynplaine is a Lord and is going to be her husband is a brilliant testament to her wild and uncomformist nature.

I urge anyone who has not read it to read it. Even if they do not like it, they will find the experience worth-while. For those readers who love Hugo, this is a not-to-be-missed read. For those readers who do not like Hugo, this is a must.

The literary contents here deserve five stars, however, the Paper Tiger edition of this book was bound more like a $$$ paperback than a $$$hardcover. I'm gentle with books, yet the pages separated from the binding halfway through my reading.

[BEFORE YOU RATE MY REVIEW ON THIS BOOK, PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND - I DON'T NORMALLY REVIEW BOOKS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE REVIEW, I'D PREFER YOU IGNORE IT INSTEAD OF GIVING IT A NEGATIVE VOTE.]

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the rigid airship, and I have searched high and low for the perfect book on the subject. This book isn't what I'd call perfect, but to date it is the best one I have found. Read on to see what makes it such.

Another reviewer referred to this book as a "History book that reads like a poignant novel." In other words, unlike other books on rigid airship history, this is a fact-based novel. It covers everything from the birth of Count Zeppelin, creator of the rigid airship, to the dismantling of the Graf Zeppelin II, the world's final rigid airship, and everything in between. That's nearly a hundred years of airship history. The primary focus is, obviously, the Graf Zeppelin (pictured on the cover.) In this book, you'll learn all of the following:

-Why Hugo Eckener preferred the title of Dr. instead of captain.
-What really started the fire in the LZ-4.
-What really happened on Hugo Eckener's first flight as an airship captain.

-The only real advantage to using Hydrogen over Helium.
-Why there was never an airship called LZ-128.
-The fate of just about every rigid airship, including American and British ones.
-And a whole lot more.

There really isn't much more to say, except that I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in rigid airship history. My only complaint is the lack of photographs, but this is easily overcome in that this book makes learning about the history of the rigid airship more accessible than most other books of the type. If you're interested, give it a read.

I have been fascinated by the age of the rigid airships since childhood, and have read as much as I could find on their history, but I've never come across a book on the subject as well-written or as informative as this one.

The Graf Zeppelin's famous flight around the world is the jumping off-point for this story, and the author recreates it in vivid detail. You will find yourself peering out of the gondola with the other passengers as the giant silver bird floats gracefully up into the sky. You will marvel with them at the vastness of the globe below them...the endless Siberian territory, much of it probably never gazed on by human eyes before; the great expanse of the Pacific, never crossed by air before; and on across the great panorama of America.

You will relive this historic journey, but you will learn much more. You will travel back to the birth of the rigid airship, the brainchild of the "Crazy Count" Von Zeppelin; you will learn of its development, its triumphs, its failures, its key role in the First World War. You will follow the story into the Golden Age of the passenger airship, as the Graf under the command of Dr. Eckener explores one new frontier after another; you will understand how the Nazi takeover in Germany changed the nature of the Zeppelin enterprise; and you will see the steps that led to the fiery demise of the passenger airship when the Hindenberg exploded in flames over the landing field at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

If you have any sort of interest in airships, you should buy this book. It won't disappoint you!

Today with stealth fighters and bombers, Concorde supersonic airliners and jumbo-jets, few people realize that from 1928 to May 1937 German zeppelins dominated trans-Atlantic passenger air travel. In the book, Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine, Douglas Botting takes the reader back to the time of "zeppelin fever" and using the Graf Zeppelin as the narrative vehicle, tells the story of the German zeppelins and the life of Dr. Hugo Eckener.

The book opens with a account of the Graf Zeppelin's August 1929 flight from Friedrichshafen Germany to Berlin, the beginning of the Graf's 1929 round the world flight. Chapter 2 tells the story of Count Zeppelin and his invention of the rigid airship in 1900. Amazingly in 1910 zeppelins began carrying passengers on sightseeing flights over German cities. Chapter 3 narrates the zeppelin in WWI where great technical advances were made but the zeppelin had limited military utility. Virtually put out of business after WWI by the Inter-Allied Control Commission, the Zeppelin Company was revived in 1926 by supplying the LZ-126 (USS Los Angeles) to the United States as war reparations. Later funds were raised in Germany to build LZ-127, christened Graf Zeppelin on July 8, 1928.

The Graf Zeppelin was a passenger airship test-bed and Dr. Eckener wrote that the Graf ". . .was to prove that passengers could now be carried across the Atlantic Ocean by air in speed and safety, and with all the comfort and pleasure which the modern traveler demands." Botting narrates the dramatic first Atlantic crossing of the Graf in 1928.

The 1929 world flight was in reality two record flights, one originating at Lakehurst, New Jersey financed by Hearst Newspapers and the second starting at Friedrichshafen. Chapter five continues the world flight narrative noting it was not a world record that Eckener had in mind but considered it ". . .a proving flight to demonstrated the zeppelin's potential for a worldwide passenger air service." The book's account of the world flight is a fascinating well-written adventure story. The world flight of the Graf Zeppelin "provided incontroversible proof of the airship's capability as an intercontinental transport mode"; the author notes the world flight "had been brilliantly executed in both its planning and operations stages." However, the passenger zeppelin used dangerous hydrogen and was vulnerable to weather masses. The author writes "The Graf got away with it on the world flight partly because it was a first-class aircraft, but above all because of the masterly expertise of the crew."

The text notes "In the autumn of 1930, as the Graf Zeppelin was completing its first series of commercial flights to South America," the Zeppelin Company began the design of LZ-129, later named the Hindenburg. In 1931 the Graf made an Artic exploration flight to the Soviet Union meeting a Russian icebreaker above the Artic Circle. The text notes that this was the last spectacular proving flight for the Graf.

In 1931 the Graf made three scheduled advertised flights carrying passengers and mail to South America, the first scheduled transatlantic air passenger flights in history. In 1932 scheduled passenger flights to South America in the Graf Zeppelin continued and plans were initiated to establish zeppelin travel throughout the world.

The author's account of this critical period in zeppelin history is excellent. In 1933 the Graf continued transatlantic passenger flights and the Nazi came to power. The 3rd Reich helped to fund construction of the Hindenburg, but at a price. The government took over zeppelin passenger operations and moved it to Frankfurt Germany with the Zeppelin Company left solely as a manufacturer. Having criticized the Nazi, Dr. Eckener was declared a non-person and could not command the Hindenburg when it was completed. The book tells how in 1936, Eckener's dream came true as the Hindenburg made ten scheduled round trips from Germany to America, plus seven round trips to Brazil while the Graf made thirteen round trip flights to Rio. The financial results were impressive with Eckener noting that they were an "agreeable surprise."

On May 3, 1937 the Hindenburg, LZ-129, left Frankfort for Lakehurst, N.J. under the command of Captain Max Pruss, Eckener still a Nazi non-person was not on board. Three days later at 7:25 P.M. EDT, while landing at Lakehurst, the Hindenburg exploded. The account of the Hindenburg catastrophe is excellent. Most interesting are several direct quotes from on-board passengers and crew. The total number of dead totaled thirty-six-thirteen passengers out of thirty-six on board and twenty-two of the sixty-one crewmembers plus one civilian ground crew. The book states that the Hindenburg disaster marked the first passenger fatalities in commercial zeppelin operations since their beginning in 1910, zeppelins having made twenty-three hundred flights carrying more than fifty thousand passengers with a blameless safety record. After May 1937, commercial zeppelin operations ceased. However, as one of the last commanders of passenger zeppelins noted, "It was not the catastrophe of Lakehurst which destroyed the Zeppelin, it was the war." During WWII, the Zeppelin Company assembled V-2 rockets.

In less than ten years, the Graf Zeppelin had made 590 flights traveling 1,060,000 miles safely carrying 13,000 passengers; a record not exceeded by an airplane for many years. When the Hindenburg's successful passenger flights are added in, this was a remarkable accomplishment, as transatlantic airplane passenger flights didn't begin until 1939 with large flying boats making numerous enroute-refueling stops. Not until 1957, twenty years after the Hindenburg's nonstop passenger flights to North America, did scheduled direct nonstop service begin with DC-7s from New York to London.

This is a well-written history and those interested in aviation history will find it refreshing to read an account of German zeppelins where the book's primary focus is not the Hindenburg disaster.

Swimming Lessons is a great story of friendship. One of courage and determination. You cannot imagine my surprise to recognize the location of the swimming pool Marna learned to swim in. My best friend and I drove over and were delighted to find the pool as described, viewing window and all. What a kick! The characters were engaging. The relationship between Marna and her mother, Roxie, and the way it developed seemed very real to me.

I usually don't read what I'd call a "chick book"--but I found this at a library sale and gave it a go. What a surprise! I just loved this book. Having 2 authors writing the chapters was unique and really gave the story it's own vision. When you "get" the premise (and it hits you like, WHAM!) you'll laugh and love it even more. It will also teach a great lesson in "walking in another's shoes"...grab your swimsuit, lay out on a towel and enjoy!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am a former swimmer so I really enjoyed the analogies between swimming and life. The writing is terrific. Right now my copy is almost completely dog eared so i can look back on certain passages!

I recently bought this book at a science fiction convention in Tornonto, Canada. Because it was a sequel to Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124 C41+, I almost didn't read it (since I did not like the original). Boy am I glad I changed my mind! This book was really great. It was full of surprises. It's a book that I'm sure I'll read again and again!

I've always loved to read science fiction, but have often been frustrated by the lack of female protagonists. Most of the time, it is our male counterparts who are responsible for saving the world. Not only is Celeste likeable and believable, she's very definitely a new millenium kind of super hero! Hooray to the writer for letting this gal show her stuff!

When I first started to really get into this book, I was blown away! The story was, as they so deftly described it--riveting. The characters were so true-to-life, I felt like I actually knew them. And the insight was otherworldy. When I finished the book I wished that it would just keep going. So do yourself a favor.....BUY A COPY AND READ IT!!! (You'll love it.) P.S. If you're on the lookout for a great Christmas gift for the avid reader, the search ends here.

The Golem, although creatively written, was a disappointment in one area inparticular. The book kept me reading, enticing me with suspense and interesting characters but the ending was dismal. It destroyed the plot that seemed so neatly put together. I felt completely let down by the main character in the end, as I was expecting something entirely different. The Golem, although built well as a novel needs a better ending, one that would become the icing on the cake, so to speak instead of detracting from an otherwise imaginative creation.

I have recently finished reading The Golem and I must say I am very impressed with it. It took me three starts to finally read the novel, it became difficult because of it's dream like atmosfere, it's symbolism and the amount of 'information' that leaves to the interpretation of the reader. It seames to be a novel with many levels of reading, from the most superficial to more profound, where the symbols seam to point to. I found reading it not easy but very rewarding and the novel in itself unique, with an atmosphere unlike any other I have read. I truly recomend it, although it can be difficult at first.

Taking the legend of the Golem, the artificial man who was created by the use of the Kaballah magic power, a legend from the times of rabbi Low, contemporary of the emperor of Germany Rudolph II, Meyrink goes beyong this legend to envelope the reader in a complex atmosphere, the atmosphere of the Jewish quarter of Prague, sinister, sombre, gloomy, just like Kafka's novels. The novel, like all Meyrink's novels, is expressionist to the bottom, the characters are distorted, weird, sinister, or else with a sense of unreality about them, although some of them, like Charoussek the student, Hillel and his daughter Miriam, deeply moving.
As every novel by Meyrink, "The Golem" is very complex and has difficult concealed meanings, full of symbols which are related to the unconscious. It isn't by chance that Meyrink's novels found the enthusiasm of Jung. The novel, thus, can be seen as a wandering through the mind of the main character, Athanasius Pernath, a particular "saison en enfer" descending to the labyrinth of Pernath's unconscious.
However, the novel can also be interpreted from an esoterical point of view, the ancient Eastern doctrine of the Upanishads, the reincarnation, the nature of soul, life and suffering.
It also presents the theme of the "double", a recurrent theme in Literature like, for instance, in Edgar A. Poe's "William Wilson".
What is crucial is that none of Gustav Meyrink's novels can be interpreted literally, because their meanings are hidden, more concerning myth than plain reality. I don't think that "The Golem" should be seen just as a horror or a mystery novel, because it is profoundly esoterical, mystic and onirical. Its meanings are only to be found in the kind of meanings that dreams provide.

The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo is a treasure chest full of tips for creative writers. It is overflowing with the wisdom of Hugo's years as a professor and poet. The book is made up of compiled lectures and essays about poetry and writing. Placed into chapters, these teachings make the book into a type of guide for creative writers. Hugo wrote on his own experiences as a student, professor and writer. He also told how experiences in a person's life could affect that person's writing. For example, Hugo's experiences in the Second World War helped to generate many poem ideas that eventually became poems. Also, he grew up with the perspective that he was outside of society. He called these thoughts or feelings triggers. The triggers will initiate the passion needed to write the poem about the subject.
Richard Hugo taught at the University of Montana and has written 12 books total, a few of which are A Run of Jacks, Death of the Kapowsin Tavern, Selected Poems, and Making Certain It Goes On. However, these books are slightly different from The Triggering Town in that they are books of poems. The Triggering Town isn't the typical "how to" book but instead is somewhat like a guide showing the possibilities. Experienced poets and teachers will find this book delightful, and beginners will find it's help extensive.

An extraordinary book - short, refreshing, and to the point. No words are wasted. Hugo's insights, while directed at students of poetry and creative writing, apply with equal force to other kinds of writing (e.g. my field, legal writing). Highly recommended.

Richard Hugo wrote these essays as an introduction to poetry for people interested in poetry. He did a magnificent job.

This book was assigned to me in 1986, in my very first creative writing class, and its lessons and insights remain fresh. Hugo's prose, and his insights into the creative act of writing poetry are wonderful. This book helped me learn how to think about poetry, and how to read and better understand poetry.

The essays are fascinating, and entertaining as well.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with any interest in poetry.