This inspiring book provides workable suggestions and practical examples on how to apply the power of thought to overcome problems and illness. The first part deals with the author's own discovery of universal law and gives examples of how others were helped. Part Two contains all the methods of harnessing universal laws and includes: - How to give a healing prayer treatment; Five different methods for setting the creative process in motion; Blueprint of parent (error) thoughts and the (corrective) master thoughts to overcome them. There are helpful summaries at the end of each chapter and at the end, a guide-list for overcoming specific problems. A very good read and a valuable reference work that should be on every healer's shelf.

My father bought this book in the 50's and it changed his life. Later, he shared it with me when I was having some problems and I liked it so much that I have never given it back. I have read it at least once a year ever since. This year my eleven year old son and I are reading it together so I am passing on this tradition to the next generation. When my father and I read it we had to change our way of thinking. If my son begins to read it now, hopefully he will always think about things the right way. Our book is so old and falling apart and I didn't realize that Frederick Bailes' book was still available and that several other books by him were also available. We are looking forward to getting some of the other books and to buying not only a new copy for us, but also some to give to friends. If you haven't read this, you should. Your life will never be the same.

This book is a godsend. The concepts within its pages have altered my life dramatically. I highly recommend it.

This book is good and interesting, Dr. Price, quite well expresses his view of how faith works. To put it simply his opinion (which differs from mine), is that once you have prayed for anything you then began to thank God for His answer that you expect to receive. That's good and apparently has worked for him. But he never refers to Elijah sending Elisha to look for a cloud several times, before the rain came, in the OT, and in the NT we are told to not only ask, seek, knock, but to keep on asking, seeking, and knocking, until we get our answer. This is a positive book and a good book and Dr. Price does use scriptures to agree with his opinion, however, I feel where the Bible is concerned we should not be tunnel visioned if more than one way of looking at something as important as prayer is shown, not once but at least twice and both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

If this book doesn't change your life for the better, nothing will.

You have to get yours,it is a must for every believer to get.It teaches the fundamentals on a bible faith and not living in foolishness and calling it faith.

Well done, Frederick Schofield! I really liked this story. It's been a while since I read a book that didn't require constant thought. I turned pages for the sheer pleasure. A thriller without disappointments raced through a gripping ending.

This book has everything you need to bring major havoc into your game. And if it's intrigue you want this one has plenty to offer. Go into a dark boardroom with the likes of Donald Trump, where Frederick Schofield adds new meaning to stacking the deck. Actually, I first spotted this book on sale at one of Trump's casinos, which I later found amusing when I discovered an entertainingly evil character in Megasino who looks so much like him. A wide assortment of faces, nifty plot, and plain fun here. A must read.

This casino marketing exec has worked in Vegas and AC. Thought I'd seen it all inside the game houses until I read Schofield's Megasino. I recognized some of the faces and was introduced to new ones, but the Donald Trump character was right on the mark. So was his exwife. Also liked the Steve Wynn double as a hero and I'd heard stories about him and Diannah Ross in the old days, so it was fun to see where life might have taken them. This book was special fun for me as an insider and one everyone should like.

No Comebacks was the first short story collection that introduced me to the dark side of society in a way that felt incredibly real. I was a teenager when I came across an audiobook (read by Frank Muller) from Recorded Books.

I was riveted to these stories of people who--more often than not--get themselves into strange predicaments and have to resort to violence or the like to get out. Often the stories end with a twist on the level of O. Henry (except more dire, of course) where we learn something new about the character(s) that Forsyth had previously held back from us.

I have yet to read any of Forsyth's novels but I keep going back to this collection time and time again, enjoying them as much as the first time (perhaps more now that I am older and can identify with them more).

I've read this book many years back and recently I read it again. "No Comebacks" is a real great book. Every story has its' own impression. Amazingly every story gives one common impression of a real fix, i.e. No Comebacks. There Are Some Days, There are No Snakes.. and of course No Comeback are really very good stories. The beauty of the book is that there are soft crimes & no violence. This is probably one of the best work of Forsyth !

I read this book a long time ago. "No Comebacks", the story with the same title is the most remembered story by me, out of all them and it is enough for a guarantee that the rest of the stories will also be good. So get your hands on the book and start off.

Fred Wackerle's book, The Right CEO, is the work of a big picture, comprehensive mind centered on a subject of practical action that stands as first priority in today's leadership vacuum in the top management of our corporations. Most books by consultants bore us into a stupor or show off with charts and graphs and arcane language that do little to show us a proven way when we want guidance in an area of supreme importance to us. And we want that in as clear and brief a form as possible without selling out to simplistic solutions. This book has authority stamped all over it. The author has competed in a treacherous arena and emerged victorious-all without bragging about it.

No current CEOs considering their successors, no boards of directors responsible for those successions, no heads of human resources seeking to be stand up catalysts for those successions, no consultant called on to conduct the searches for those successors, and no potential candidates for CEO positions should enter this arena Wackerle has written about without his threadbare book in their hands.

Many books start out strong and fizzle as they move toward their conclusion. This book starts out strong and just gets stronger, weaving early points into constantly enlarged lessons that are a rich diet for the reader hungry to learn how a CEO search can be conducted expertly. The result of such a search is to land a CEO in the job who not only is the right person at the right time at the right company, but a CEO secure-at home in her own skin. Because she's at ease with herself, other people are at ease with her.

I said the book is practical-step-by-step straightforward without big words, but it's also wise and futuristic. The important thrust of Wackerle's message is that the work of a CEO search is collaborative, where the principals in the action conduct themselves in complete candor-yet matched by trust. That's a skill worth working at and mastering!

Allan Cox is author of Straight Talk for Monday Morning

Fred Wackerle is a well known Executive Search Consultant who has delivered a product that is based on years of experience working with Boards on CEO searches and succession issues. His book is a great expose on the interworkings of the CEO hiring process, the problems that exist and continue to go on in many organizations. The book clearly outlines the search process from five different perspectives, the Board Search Committee, the CEO, the potential candidates, the CHRO and the Executive Search Consultant. Using a sample company, Fred describes the issues impacting each participant, identifies the pitfalls and the corrective action required to eliminate the problems. The author accurately describes the right way to execute a CEO search for each of the five participants and includes the steps each must follow to conclude a successful search.

There is a definite need to inform, educate and hold accountable Boards of Directors for the proper selection of a CEO. "The Right CEO" outlines a process participants should follow is must reading for all Board Members and all participants involved in the CEO selection process.

Fred Wackerle has written a book that will become the conscience for all of us involved in CEO selection. He captures the essence of what really happens...he's been there. He reveals the myths of the CEO succession process and why today it is broken. The book is must-reading for anyone who cares about the future of corporate leadership. Having successfully recruited CEO successors, Fred has come to believe that many decision-makers in the CEO search and selection process - especially board members - are in the dark about what it takes to find top executive talent.

In this amazingly frank book, Wackerle illustrates the darker side of CEO selection and board governance by characterizing the key players in the typical succession process: the head of the search committee,a board member and Harvard Business School classmate beholden to the current CEO; the chief HR executive, now torn between serving two masters; an executive search consultant with questionable values and who may not have the experience to take on an assignment of this nature and magnitude; and finally, the CEO "wannabe" who is so naive about accepting the top job that he jeopardizes his entire career. The process is rife with conflicts and complexities.

Hey everyone! Don't even bother paying ANY attention to the ...peter kline spouted in his horrendous review of The Spanish Tragedy. Shakespeare wrote Kyd's masterpiece? Give me a break! And I suppose you're also going to say that Shakespeare secretly wrote Marlowe's plays as well, right? Kudos to Mr. Richard for being a well-informed reader of the English Classics! And as for Mr. Kline, you should do some research ...

J.R. Mulryne's edition of *The Spanish Tragedy* is without a doubt the best that may at present be bought: informative, helpful, intelligent and accurate in introducing the text, presenting it, and glossing difficult words and phrases where necessary. The play is among the most exciting and artistic of its period. Kyd writes, and constructs his plot, with a level of skill comparable to that of Shakespeare, who was much influenced by *The Spanish Tragedy*, particularly in writing *Hamlet*, which is possibly yet "richer", but undoubtedly less clear and focused. Kyd shows us in an extremely sophisticated way the workings of revenge, both at an earthly and at a supernatural level. From the beginning the audience knows, in a way that the characters do not, that the supernatural world will insist on revenge. The pain of those who suffer injustice here on earth and clamour for revenge is painful to behold. Ultimately, however, in a baffling way, evildoers are punished: Hieronimo, the main character, manages to take matters into his own hands after exhausting all other possibilities, and thus ironically enacts the wishes of the higher powers. The FORM of Hieronimo's revenge is extraordinarily interesting: under the cloak of art - of a theatrical plot - he manages to kill his evil opponents quite easily. The tension between "art" and "life" is thus handled by Kyd in a very innovative fashion which still shocks modern spectators and readers. The role of language, too, is called into question: much of the play demonstrates that in real life finally action does speak louder than words, which often do not make their point or simply get ignored. Any reader who wants to get a notion of the superb quality of plays written by Shakespeare's contemporaries is certain to admire and enjoy this striking work of art. - Joost Daalder, Professor of English, Flinders University, South Australia

I reviewed this play a year ago; my purpose here is only to correct some of the astonishing misinformations given by Mr. Kline for fear that some students or others interested in Kyd might be misled.

First of all, there is no evidence that Shakespeare wrote a word of this. The play was ascribed to Kyd by Thomas Heywood in 1612, when Shakespeare was still living. The Spanish Tragedy is not mentioned in Francis Meres's list of Shakespeare's plays made in 1598; and at the very latest The Spanish Tragedy was in existence by 1592, when it was published, and performed as an old play by Henslowe. And how anyone who has read Shakespeare could possibly think the style of The Spanish Tragedy is his is beyond me; both Kyd and Shakespeare possess very distinctive styles, to neither's demerit.

The existence of the earlier version of Hamlet is not doubted. It is mentioned by Henslowe in 1594 as an old play, and alluded to by Thomas Nashe in 1589 and by Thomas Lodge in 1598 (I think). Nashe links the old Hamlet to Thomas Kyd. The fact that its text did not survive is not extraordinary; most plays in the Elizabethan period have been lost as well. The date of Shakespeare's Hamlet is almost universally accepted to be 1600 or 1601.

It is incredibly absurd to even suggest that Henry V may have been written at the same time as TST. Because of a reference to the Earl of Essex's expedition to Ireland, Henry V can be securely dated to the spring or summer of 1599. The Spanish Tragedy was at least 7 years old by then, and probably 12.

I agree that the Spanish Tragedy is worthy of frequent theatrical performance. Just don't pass it off under the mock-guise of Shakespeare.

Colonel Archibald Gracie is one of the few people who actually went down with the Titanic and lived to tell about it. First published in 1913, "Titanic" is his detailed account of the last day he spent aboard ship, the evacuation of passengers on the port side of the ship, and of his incredible survival on an overturned lifeboat after being plunged into the frigid ocean when the Titanic finally completely submerged. The first 113 pages of the book are dedicated to Colonel Gracie's firsthand account. In the remaining approximately 200 pages, Col. Gracie has compiled testimony from as many other eyewitnesses as he could find. These firsthand accounts of passengers and crew are taken from the official inquiries in the United States and Great Britain, personal correspondence and interviews with Col. Gracie, and occasionally from firsthand accounts that were published in books and magazines of the day. Taken together, they render a very detailed picture of what went on that fateful night and why more people were not saved. Colonel Gracie died 8 months after the Titanic sank, of illness possibly related to the prolonged exposure to cold that he endured the night the Titanic went down.

This is one of the most comprehensive and precise accounts of the Titanic disaster that you will find. Colonel Gracie is an engaging storyteller. I like his decision to organize the eyewitness accounts by lifeboat. The book also provides some interesting insights into the manners and social attitudes of the time.

Originally published in 1913 as The Truth About the Titanic, Titanic: A Survivor's Story was the first book by an actual Titanic survivor to appear in print. Colonel Archibald Gracie, a military historian who is treated really brutally by James Cameron in his film, was not only a brave man but an indefatigable historian of the disaster. In the months remaining to him after the sinking (Colonel Gracie died in December 1912, possibly of aftereffects from his harrowing escape), Gracie tracked down other survivors and was the first to make an attempt at putting each survivor into the boat he or she escaped from. Written with period charm, this is an important book about the disaster and will dispell any remaining images of Cameron's doofy "Archie."

Two of the most poignant survivor accounts of the Titanic sinking. Mr. Gracie, an elderly man with many social ties to others on the ship and Mr. Thayer, the 17 year old son of a prominent businessman were both first class passengers. Both nearly drowned as the Titanic plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic; but found refuge on the upside down collapsible lifeboat B. Mr. Gracie lost his best friend and Mr. Thayer lost his father. The grief each feels still calls out to us.

The style of each narrative is interesting to compare. Gracie, when describing his own experience or his impressions of the significance of the sinking, uses the flowing purple prose of the late 19th century (his style is more straightforward in his compilations of accounts of other passengers and he has even used their actual statements). Thayer, writing in 1940 about his own experience, is terser; but his reflection that the world seemed calm and his place in it assured before that night is poetic. Archibald Gracie died soon after he wrote his narrative. I'm unsure; but I believe Jack Thayer did not live long after he wrote his story. Since Mr. Thayer's account is not generally available in other sources, and Mr. Gracie was so thorough about who was in (or, in his case, on) each lifeboat, this book will be appreciated by any Titanic buff.

I read this and started the massage when my baby was about 4 months old. It is a wonderful complement to his bedtime routine and does wonders for relaxing him. I only wish I would have started sooner! The pictures were the most helpful in this beautiful book.

Written by professional obstetrician Frederick Leboyer, Loving Hands: The Traditional Art Of Baby Massage is a remarkable and heartfelt presentation of infant massage techniques that Dr. Leboyer learned from a young East Indian mother in Calcutta. Illustrated with more than seventy black-and-white photographs, Loving Hands showcases techniques for a parent's bonding with a child through the medium of touch. Highly recommended reading, especially for new parents, the text is sparse, lyrical, and presents simple, easy-to-follow instructions in this very fine and highly accessible guide.

As a new parent, i want the best for my little girl. I purchased this book and started practicing the massage on my baby when she was about one month old. She really enjoys it, it is like it reinforces the mother baby bond. It explains very clearly what to do mostly by pictures and it also has some thoughtful poems included in the book. A great choice, i highly recommend it.

I prefer Lucia in the country, though it is fun to see her get her comeuppance so regularly. Using her best social-climbing instincts and refusing to be embarrassed, Lucia sets out to conquer London and mingle with the beau monde. Soon a secret group of "Luciaphiles" springs up; the social climbers who make up its rank never tire of watching her get into and out of all kinds of trouble.

Continuing the extraordinary adventures of Lucia, Benson's delightful story is full of the gossip and social-climbing one comes to expect of Lucia. Peppino, Lucia's husband, inherits a fortune and a house in London after the death of his aunt. Lucia has been the queen of all of Riseholme for ages, with her court including her best friend Georgie, an eternal bachelor who embroiders. When she ascends to London, Riseholme is bereft and feeling slighted, but soon they plot their revenge. Unfortunately for them, Lucia conquers London's high society and overcomes all obstacles in her path to greatness. But can Lucia keep up the pace of London society? And does she plan to desert her beloved Riseholme forever? The Lucia series, beginning with "Queen Lucia", is a delicious concoction of maliciousness and snobbery that will convert any reader.

This is the ultimate book for social climbers everywhere - Lucia the Queen of the tiny town of Riseholm goes to London and takes the town by storm.

This is such a brilliant story - absolutely hilarious - full of the beauty of social sycophancy and insincerity. Everyone knowing what is going on except Lucia who is (almost always) triumphant.

When Lucia's husband's aunt dies they are left with a house in London (and when the news is received in Risehome much calculation is doneby everyone based on no real facts at all.) It is up to Lucia's sidekick, Georgie, to wheedle the news out of her about the house in London and the income.

Lucia, who has always stated how she loathes London has now (very reluctantly you understand) decided to go to London for the season. Her departure from Riseholme however has a number of effects - the first being the power vacuum in Riseholme itself, and secondly she really does end up taking London by storm. Even the most vague of acquaintances of hers are treated as close bosom friends and called by their first names and name dropped shamelessly by her everywhere. This goes on till there is a firm group of Luciaphils in London who are so astonished and appreciative of her powers as the Queen of Social climbing that they establish an informal club to help her and to admire her mastery at work.

In Riseholme life does not go on without Lucia, it goes on firmly DESPITE her - everyone is determined to make a success of their village in her absence to show how much she is not at all needed there. There is the museum to establish,and then Daisy Quantock has helped them all discover the Ouija Board and the powerful spirit Guide (Abfou). They spend a great deal of time 'weedj-ing' for signs of what to do next.

If you haven't discovered Lucia novels yet, you must - Benson writes wonderful sardonic stories full of the small, pettiness of village life and its power struggles. This is wonderful light, laugh out loud stuff.

"Wishful Thinking" is Fredrick Buechner's lexicon of some "churchy" words that need some life breathed into them. Words like "faith", "grace", and even "religion" are examined, with entries ranging from a sentence to several pages.

Buechner's unorthodox style and unique point-of-view are what carry this book. Sometimes offensive, sometimes controvesial, the entries always seem to leave you wanting to ponder the meaning for a while. I have used quotes of this book constantly for leading devotions or Bible studies; they always seem to evoke a positive response. This book is one to read and keep forever.

This book is ostensibly a dictionary of terms related to religion and faith. In reality, it's a collection of Buechner's thoughts on these issues. Some of his "definitions" are a page long, some a paragraph, some just a sentence. They all manage to capture the essence of an idea and make you look at it in sometimes startling new ways. Take, for example, his definition for Lust: "Lust is the desire for salt from someone who is dying of thirst." Or Gluttony: "A glutton is someone who raids the icebox to try to cure spiritual malnutrition."

And that's just the short form. When Buechner lets his thoughts wander, the book goes from amusing to engaging and engrossing. It's like having an amusing conversation with a delightful person, who just happens to have a lot more insight into religion than you do.

I won't say this book changed my life, though I'm tempted. It did expand my perceptions, showed me alternate ways of looking at familiar things, and restored my sense of wonder in my (Christian) faith and in the world around me.

I heartily recommend it to any "Seeker" of any faith.

Buechner's Wishful Thinking provides thought-provoking ideas for well-read scholars, but is certainly accessible to anyone who is not afraid to think critically about matters of faith. It is a great resource for teachers and group leaders who want to get people talking, and it provides a useful challenge to typical opinions when discussion has reached a stalemate.