Starting your own business without a giant wad of someone else's cash is HARD. After two years of building a small software business from the ground up...no end of the rotten economy in sight...it was a godsend to read "The Mousedriver Chronicles." What can I say? I laughed. I cried. Seriously, after coming of age in the boom economy when it seemed like businesses magically grew and were financed out of thin air, this book is a refreshingly honest look about what starting a business is really like (at least when you've got no money). I kept pointing out pages to my husband, saying, "See! They felt this way too!" It's easy to feel alone when you're starting a small businesses. This book made me feel like someone else understood.

We have the Oceans and Jungles books in this series and I want them all. My 2 year old son adores them. He finds new animals all the time and likes to hear all about them. I think the books are great because they combine the fun of a flap book with the mystery of a puzzle. They are beautiful to look at and lots of fun. I wish they'd come back in print, though I imagine they are expensive to manufacture. We think they're worth it!

Have you been researching your GGGrandfather, uncle, cousin, determained that they were in General Picketts Division, and have wondered if they were in the charge, and what may have happened to them? Wanted to find out as much information about General Picketts Division at Gettysburg as possible?..I wondered, bought the book and found my GGrandfathers name on the company roster as being present, he was not on the list of unengaged personnel, so as much as historical research can determain he participated..There are 602 pages in this book,the first 173 tells about the actual charge and the events leading up to it. The remaining pages list every man by name in each company of every Regiment present. There are also lists of those killed, wounded,known burial locations,disinterments from the battlefield,unengaged personnel,and much more..If you are looking for a book about the men in Picketts Division at Gettysburg,written by the historian at Gettysburg, I have not came accross another that comes close .....

Any saltwater fly fisherman will recieve alot of pleasure from this book. Excellant accounts of flats fishing in the keys along with wonderful photography makes this a great coffee table book that actually has substance. Once you enjoy this book, you will purchase another as a gift for a fellow angler.

Thank heaven for Beatle scholarship that this book was written. Competent journalist Hunter Davies spent a year observing the Beatles and interviewing them in their own homes during the heady, fascinating year of 1967. He emerged with a time piece: the Beatles as they were at that time, reflecting on what came before and unaware of what was yet to come. A chapter describing the writing and recording of "With a Little Help From My Friends," "Getting Better," and "Magical Mystery Tour" offers unique and especially valuable glimpses of the Beatles at work. Chapters depicting the home life and personal outlook of each Beatle are also very interesting. I must also say that for an authorised biography, this is remarkably honest. Perceptive readers will be able to detect the whole truth here, and a fine introduction written by the author years later helps fill in any gaps. Apart from being hugely entertaining, this book is a tremendous boon to historians interested in the Beatles.

I'm sure there were books about the Beatles written before this, but this book was written with the Beatles (complete with interviews). Hunter Davies includes some of his own opinions in later editions but this is about the Fab 4, their rise, and where they were in 1968 when this book originally came out (John admits to be bored with life as Yoko Ono had not yet been a household name to us and George was already sick of being a Beatle at the time). The later editions have a section about the breakup, what they did individually in the 1970's, the tragedy of John Lennon in 1980 and more recent interviews with Paul, George, and Ringo. You can trust Davies since he got the Beatles' authorization and respected their privacy (he mentions that George Harrison asked that certain things not be printed). As Davies points out, this story is about the rise and not the fall.

Because this book was the only authorized biography ever written of The Beatles and also because it was written at the time, rather than researched & compiled years later, I felt that I could believe what I was reading. It was facsinating reading comments from John before the breakup when he still enjoyed being a Beatle, rather than the cynical type of quotes from after all the animosity came into their relationships.

ALL RECIPES VERY HARD TO MAKE. TOO MANY STEPS & EXOTIC INGRIDIENTS.

This beautiful book is loaded with exciting recipes that will make you famous at your next dinner party.

The best recipe book I've ever bought. You'll be more than satisfied with this creation. If only everyone could cook like Alan Wong. Here's your chance!

Alan Wong does a great service to all of the culinary professionals out there such as myself by nearly creating a cuisine. His interpretations of hawaiian regional cuisine meld flavors together like no other....each recipe is described for the layperson and the pictures of the final products make one's mouth water. BUY-THIS-BOOK!

this book's hard to describe and define....its beguiling. Lots of people I know have read it and no-one has the same response, some are total devotees thereafter, others just don't get it. I just keep going back to it and it takes me somewhere different each time. ...

This is a fairly old book but it is just as relevant now as when it was written. I recently rediscovered it on my shelves and on re-reading it have realised that it was the turning point in my life. It is direct, sensible, open, honest, and more helpful than anything I have come across since. It enables the reader to understand themselves and their relationship with their health without feeling either guilty or powerless. It helps you see the way forward and encourages you to go for it. To my chagrin I have not found anything else by this author.

This book was first published in 1984
I've read hundreds of self help books since and none of them are in the same league as this book
It has a handle on health and well being that is just so commonsense and non-political. Even though it is clearly the most gender neutral book out there, I hear the feminazis of the Australian health authorities crucified this guy. Shame on you.
Clear, insightful and absolutely beautiful.

i think this book is too deep and meaningful.. it enters too deep into the morals and values of man....

Following the ending of "Oedipus the King," Oedipus was exiled from Thebes, blind and a beggar. We learn from "Oedipus at Colonus" that his sons, Eteocles and Polyneices engaged in a civil war for the throne of Thebes (covered in "Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus). The two brothers kill each other and Creon, brother of Jocasta, becomes king. He orders that Eteocles, who nobly defended his city, shall receive an honorable burial, but that Polyneices, for leading the Argive invaders, shall be left unburied. This leads Antigone, sister to both of the slain brothers, to have to choose between obeying the rule of the state, the dictates of familial binds, and the will of the gods. This, of course, is the matter at the heart of this classic tragedy by Sophocles.

But I have always been pleased to discover that many students, when reading "Antigone," quickly come to the conclusion that it is Creon who is the main character in the tragedy (the same way Clytemnestra is the main character in Aeschylus's "Agamemnon"). In this volume, Gita Wolf and Sirish Rao retell the story so that the title character is indeed the main character (I suspect they are borrowing more than a few ideas from Anoulih's retelling of the play in 1944 while France was occupied by the Nazis).

It is too easy to see the issues of this play, first performed in the 5th century B.C., as being reflected in a host of more contemporary concerns, where the conscience of the individual conflicts with the dictates of the state. However, it has always seemed to me that the conflict in "Antigone" is not so clear-cut as we would suppose. After all, Creon has the right to punish a traitor and to expect loyal citizens to obey. Ismene, Antigone's sister, chooses to obey, but Antigone takes a different path. The fact that the "burial" of her brother consists of the token gesture of throwing dirt upon his face, only serves to underscore the ambiguity of the situation Sophocles was developing.

The chief virtue of this retelling, in addition to the excellent illustrations by Indrapramit Roy, is that young readers will better be able to put themselves in the place of Antigone as the tragedy plays out. Consequently, this is a much more personal version of the tale than the original play by Sophocles.

Superbly illustrated by eight of Indrapramit Roy's two-color silk-screened illustrations, Sophocles' Antigone is a splendidly presented retelling of the tragic story told by the blind prophet Teiresias of a Greek princess who discovers that her brother (a rebel against the rule of their uncle Creon) has been murdered and his body left unburied. Torn between her fealty to her uncle and her familial love for her brother, as well as deference to the gods, Antigone is a story of the tragic conflicts between love and duty, honor and the law. A physically beautiful publication, Sophocles' Antigone is a welcome and much appreciated work that will totally engage the attention and appreciation of contemporary readers.

Toland's oft-cited Deistical work reads as apologetic rather than truly controversial. The actual rhetorical attacks on Christianity are found not in what Toland says, but rather what he doesn't. Toland frequently sets up strong, reason-based objections to fundamentally held religious "truths" only to excuse them with deliberately weak responses. The burden of truth carefully remains with the defenders of revelation and is never realized in this debate Toland pretends to have with himself.
Other than the occasional questioning of clerical interpretations (Toland frequently expounds a commonly held truism and after defending it philosophically on it's own "merits" he often adds at the end, as if to paralyze the Church with indecision regarding his infidelity, "if it be true.") he pretends agreement with the Church in nearly every doctrinal detail.
In this pre-pantheist dissertation, Toland's words are nearly silent with respect to a true rebellion against the established dogma of the Church, but the unwritten screams to a deafening crescendo for an immediate ascension to unrevealed reason.
With cunning and an apparently insatiable appetite for controversy, Toland does a marvelous job of appearing to walk the literary fence dividing the heathens from the faithful. But an occasional glace between the lines will leave no doubt as to where he truly stood.

An excellent book! The most wonderful fact is that it was written in the time when people were killing for religion. I am not sure how sensational this book would be if it were written in the 20-th century when people stopped assigning such great significance to religion, but for his time and place (especially Ireland!) a man had to be really brave to write something as contraversial as this.

The book focuses on the famous Toland work "Christianity Not Mysterious". Toland tried, in his opinion, to clean the Christianity of all strange elements that destroy his original purpose. Toland thank that the correct way to realize his purpose was the strictly use of reason. But Toland, at the same time, reflects a strong rationalism, if we use a common expression in philosophy of religion, that cause an enormous opposition of the stablished Church in Ireland. The book also contains another texts that complement that work. The big merit of this publication is to put in only one book some critical views, that gives unity to it. I think is higly recommended for persons that want to study seriously the English deism.

I picked this book up after listening to the rantings of the middle aged weirdo at a used bookstore in New Castle, DE. He spoke in a funny accent, but he sure had a great taste in books! The Hammer and The Cross is a great work of fiction. It is the story of a great period of history (the viking conquest) told from the viewpoint of a peasant. Good dialogue, and some nice violence to boot. Ha ha. To boot! Shef kicks people!

Prior to reading this book, the only novels by Harry Harrison I had read were the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic hero serieses. So I didn't quite know what to expect, this being neither sci-fi, nor comedy. But I was entranced from Chapter 1! Harrison's story of this alternate history involving Viking and Saxon contention for 9th century England is extremely well written. A definate page-turner. It's rare that I find a book so enthralling that I (literally) can't put it down . . . but that's exactly what this book did to me!

Starting from a point of historical truth, Shef the hero shows how one man can change history. An alternate timeline develops as the Anglo-Saxons not only halt the Viking invasion but absorb the culture and create a brave new world in England that will not fall to the Norman Invasion.

Not what you might expect from Harrison, but perfect if you like both Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Historical Fiction.

Gripping always, Harry Harrison's best work to date (yes better than the Stainless Steel Rat and on a par with Captive Universe and The Technicolour Time Machine). I read this book without rest and was still left wanting more so I had to buy the hardback sequel!