Trust and acceptance are the most important tenets of human relations and teamwork. Most self-help books suggest ways to build trust and learn to accept others despite their faults and weaknesses. However, most require you to change, and shed some of your negativity. I know how gruesome that is! To trust another requires fully accepting the other, transcending your own tendencies to criticize, judge, and inadvertently notice others' faults. How can we really help ourselves and others change and improve? This book provides the answer.

Another gospel for building trust and acceptance is to extend and express love unconditionally! Is it easy to overlook others' faults and weaknesses in order to let our love flow to them? How can we transcend our judgments to support their endeavor unhindered? This book has paved a way for us.

In the corporate setting, where performance assessment (even 360 degree evaluation) is the norm, and 'employee development' an important goal, we often resort to 'constructive criticism' -- identify weaknesses (guised as areas for improvement) and create training and developmental plans. How well does the process work? Wouldn't the employees perform far better if we were to highlight their strengths, and give them credit for, and the freedom to exploit, their own capabilities, dreams and desires? This book confirms that notion, and has suggested a practical approach.

A 30 year corporate veteran, Dottie Gandy in her book "30 Days to a Happy Employee" has given a simple and practical, yet profound formula to overcome our interpersonal barriers, to transcend our tendencies to be critical and judgmental, in fact to build a habit of seeing goodness in others. Deliberate and sincere acknowledgement of goodness in those we deal with easily builds trust, acceptance and human rapport, as well as inspires others to perform par excellence, promotes harmony and loyalty, which in turn result in higher productivity, lower turnover, and healthy team environment.

This book has laid out a step-by-step process of acknowledgment for 30 days in order to develop the 'habit of acknowledgment'. Knowing the challenge involved and anticipating inevitable psychological barriers, the author has offered strategies to overcome any tendency to give up half way through, and complete the 30-day process. I call this 30-day acknowledgment process a magic formula for human development. If I form the habit of looking for, and acknowledging on purpose, goodness in others, the very act will breed goodness in myself. This is a proactive and constructive approach as opposed to negative-elimination approaches that require shedding a bad habit, or ignoring faults, or making an improvement, and the like.

You can apply the 30-day acknowledgment process to yourself, to your family members and friends, to your colleagues at work, to your subordinates and superiors. As you acknowledge traits of goodness in your 'subject', this reinforces their own belief in themselves, and because the spark came from a significant other, it generates trust and loyalty. And, finally, your 'habit of acknowledgment' will easily connect you with others.

I strongly recommend this book as a practical treatise on developing human relations and on letting the human potential bloom at work, at home, and in society at large.

As the President of a new technology consulting company, I am excited to have this method for enhancing and strengthening relationships through the process of acknowledgement! The information, examples, and step-by-step approach contained in this book make it required reading for anyone in corporate leadership and anyone that would like to strengthen personal relationships at work, at home, or in community service. "30 Days To A Happy Employee" will go on my bookshelf between "7 Habits" and "Who Moved My Cheese." I purchased a copy of "30 Days" for each of my customer's Presidents, and for all the partners in my company!

Many thanks to Dottie Gandy!

I picked up Ms. Gandy's book last night on my way home from work and read it from cover to cover before I ever made it to bed. Once I started, I was hooked. As a new manager for a nonprofit agency, I am concerned with starting off on the right foot. Our agency recently lost several employees and I know that morale was a factor for at least one of them. I want to do what I can to retain the employees we do have and to attract good candidates for our open positions. I believe Ms. Gandy hit the nail on the head when she identified acknowledgment as the key factor in job satisfaction. I know that is true for myself and I am sure it is for my employees, as well. In fact I accepted this position because the director, during my interview, did such a wonderful job of acknowledging my own skills. It's one thing to know something and another thing alltogether to put it into practice. While I've always known the power of acknowledgement, I've never been quite sure how to practice it on a regular basis to improve my work relationships. Ms. Gandy's book gives a simple formula for making ascknowledgment a habit. I can't wait to using it on Monday!

After 10 years as an insurance defense lawyer, I found my passion in Animal Law. I represent both animals and "owners" in the protection of animal and owners' rights. This case book is the very heart of my Animal Law Library and I use it every day. I highly recommend the case book for all human animals with interest in Animal Law. Jennifer Dietz, Esq. (...)

I have practiced animal protection law for 20 years. This book taught me things I didn't know and categorized cases that I did know in new and helpful ways. I frequently use it as a reference in my legal work and assign it to the law school classes that I teach. Every animal protection lawyer should have a copy.

"Animal Law" is a thoroughly researched, thoughtfully organized and well-written casebook on this newly-recognized but not so new area of the law. One only has to glance through the Table of Contents to realize the varied roles that animals play in our daily lives and the many contexts in which courts have considered animals. I use "Animal Law" in the seminar I teach at Georgetown; it collects the best cases for any given topic and distills important concepts from the readings through the Notes at the end of each section. I highly recommend "Animal Law" for any lawyer new to the field, as well as for attorneys who have practiced in this area of law for years.

This is an important book. It's no longer in publication, but well worth the time to find. This was Bruce Holmes first novel (I assume it's the only one he's written). 'Anvil of the Heart' is one of those rare novels that is entertaining and really ABOUT something. It was written some time ago, but delves into the idea of creating super children and people that are 'perfect' . Holmes suggests (and I believe him) that our flaws are what makes us human, and only by embracing those flaws do we realize our magnificence.

This book is about what it means to be human. Read and enjoy this one, it's well worth your time.

I read this book when I was 15 and I still love it to this day. It is very well written and has very realistic and well developed charicters. The examples of martial arts are very insperational to those who wish to take them. And I reccomend this book for every one.

This is one of my favourite books.It created my interest in the martial art Aikido and is a good tale of someone who spent their life accepting the societal norm reaching a point of self question for the first time. Very inspiring....

Christopher Bruce's encyclopaedic work is a magnificent compendium of all of the major 6th to 19th century Arthurian sources.

As a publisher of books and games based on the original Arthurian sources, I have turned to this book not as my 'Bible', but as a sort of 'Bible Concordance'. Which stories can I find Percival (or his many alternative names) occurring in?

I found this book to be worth ten, if not a hundred times its cover price in terms of compiling years of research into a single treasury of Arthurian knowledge.

I was amazed to discover how young this first time author is. He has produced a profoundly complete and thoroughly researched scholarly work that is a "must read" for any student of the Aurthurian Legends. Mr. Bruce has researched even the most obscure references and stories of Arthur and the other characters associated with the legend. Thank you for your excellent work.

Mr. Bruce has certainly done a wonderful job compiling volumes of information into one comprehensive work. It would be difficult to find a more complete reference. A must-have guide for any Arthurian-lover's library, as well as an interesting book for any reader to peruse.

Duffy creates a fictional biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Moore, & Bertrand Russell. While it sounds potentially dry, the storytelling is magnificent and leaves you feeling as though you've had some small contact with these brilliant characters. The emphasis on food is an odd characteristic, but very vivid. Dinner-table-talk plays a large role in spinning out the plot. While Duffy does not go into detail about the work of these three philosophers, there are references and remarks to fulfill any fan's expectations.

I certainly wasn't hampered in my enjoyment of this book by a lack of familiarity with (or, until now, interest in) twentieth-century philosophy. "The World as I Found It" taught me what makes a great fictional characters: such compassion and detail that I feel I know them as I know myself. Duffy's Wittgenstein, Russell, and Moore are forged from such different materials and live such different lives. But their struggles and motivations are painted in such rich detail that I intimately recognized the humanity in each of them. Great writing.

Outstanding. Given the premise-opaque Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's life adventures, I feared this would be dry as dust. Happily this is first and foremost splendid story telling. Wittgentein's career at Cambridge, his relationships with Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore, his wartime experiences in WW1 and after are rendered beautifully. Indeed his Vienna boyhood, growing up privileged yet emotionally bereft, is chillingly described. The characters are so perfectly drawn one can't help but be pulled into a wonderfully imagined world.

Also interesting is the ongoing description of the conflict of "philosophy" versus everyday living. Philosophers are human beings first and foremost and life events, circumstances and other people conspire together to thwart the life of the mind. It is interesting to read the compromises, adaptations and concessions the characters must make in order to bring their philosophies into actual daily existence. Occasionally successful, often not, the struggles depicted are so genuine and believable that one can't help but moved by their efforts, painful though they often are.

This book is a great book!! And if you enjoyed Bruce Covilles "Into the Land Of the Unicorns" (Book one) you will enjoy this book as well!!

I had such a great time reading this book. If you happen to be a fan of fantasy I beleive you will like it. I couldn't help but smile and laugh the whole time as I continued reading this wonderful book and getting lost somewhere besides reality for a few momnets. A great book should be able to take your mind completely away from reality, if only for a moment. I am aware this book was written with children in mind, but they are some of us adults who enjoy reading the childrens books too. I am looking forward to reading more of Mr. Coville's work.

I really liked this book, I kept smiling and giggling throughout the whole thing. For anyone who is a fan of childrens fantasy/sci-fi books, this is worth reading. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Coville's work.

In the early 1960s, Yoko Ono established herself as a challenging and often puzzling artist. She worked across the boundaries of media, making impossible to categorize her work in any field. A pioneer in conceptual art, video, and installation, Ono also crossed the boundaries into design with projects that took the form of advertising and designed artifacts. Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks have surveyed the forty years of Ono's career in a richly illustrated book with essays and contributions by many scholars, including Kevin Concannon, Joan Rothfuss, and Kristine Stiles. The superb documentation includes an anthology of Ono's own writings compiled by Jon Hendricks, together with an excellent chronology and bibliography. Ken Friedman. "Alexandra Munroe with Jon Hendricks: Yes Yoko Ono." Book review published in Design Research News, Volume 6, Number 5, May 2001 ISSN 1473-3862.

I was at the SFMOMA to see her YES exhibition, and exactly what I expected, I was overwhelmed with delight... Her art is whimsically amazing. Her music touches your heart and soul. Seeing all the people there that day, I was glad that Yoko is finally getting all the respect she deserves, after all these years... Also caught her live performance at the Los Angeles's Roxy almost 6 years ago just took my breath away. I truly think she's one of the true visionaries of our time.

The price of fame can be extremely high; Yoko Ono came to prominence because of her relationship to super-celebrity John Lennon. Without this association to Lennon, she'd probably be relegated to the rarified world of conceptual art and never be a household name. But the fame came at a high price; she was villified for her influence on the pop-cult Beatles and blamed for their demise. This is unfair; the Beatles would have evolved and changed without any help from Yoko Ono or Linda Eastman McCartney. And then she suffered the cruelest blow of all, to have her husband murdered by a crazed fan.

I became a fan of her art in the 60's when I read about some of her "performance" art; one favorite; she dressed herself in her best dress,gave scissors to members of an audience, sat down in a chair and encouraged them to take snips out of her dress. At first, people were shy to do so, then as one or another became bolder and snipped bits from the dress, the group became practically frenzied and she felt even worried they would go farther than just snipping a dress with the shears. A wonderful elucidation of human behavior and original; it gave new insight into ourselves and thus was truly a work of art. Other works that impressed me were photos of the bottoms of bare feet, from under a glass surface, and of course the film of buttocks, which I personally never did have a chance to see, but loved the idea of.

This book is a tremendous resource of information into Yoko Ono's varied art including her music. (No reason why a CD can't be part of a book, great idea.) This book is a fine retrospective, and I only regret that Yoko Ono will never fully take her place in modern art because of the diluting influence of pop culture on her history, and because conceptual art still has not been given the same validity as other media. (Christo perhaps is the only one to have transcended this barrier, because he sells prints of his monumentally engineered and staged concepts.)

This game sourcebook is just as you might expect by the title a very good sourcebook for the 1000 Hells. I really can't add to what has already been said, just give my support

This has to be one of the best books I've read through in the Kindred of the East expansion. The 1000 Hells is not to be played with lightly -- it's serious business for those who wish to commune with the likes of Emma-O, Mikaboshi, Tou Mu, Rangda, and a host of other Yama Kings (and Queens) that rule Yomi. It shows you how to create a Yama King/Queen, the type of hell s/he would rule, systems on how to go to hell (literally, no pun intended), the effects of most disciplines while in Yomi (both Kuei-jin and Cainite), even how to commune and bargain with the Rulers of Hell and become an akuma (both standard and the exquisitely monstrous princes of Hell versions). Coupled with the latter half of Killing Streets (where it discusses the Broken Mirror systems), and you have the makings of a very memorable, spine-chilling chronicle. Highly recommended.

Whether you are running Kndred of the East, Hengeyokai, or god forbid a Hsien chronicle, this is the best book for giving the eastern world of teeth. From the greater Akuma to the Demons of Iron and violence, this book has everything you need to bring some major havoc into your game. And if its intrigue you want this book hs plenty to offer.

Being an ASIC designer, I bought this book to improve my understanding of the architecture and techniques used in high performance design. Looking at the book alone, I have a mixed feeling: the chapters that are dedicated inner workings of a processor completely satisfied my expectations. They include an in-depth description of all the main blocks that make a high-end processor or memory system work: register renaming, instruction decoding and scheduling, cache operation etc. This is really very excellent material! On the other hand, I consider the chapters dedicated to the system perspective to be of much lower quality and not in line with the title of the book. In a bit more than 100 pages, the author describes almost all other aspects of a modern PC, including Total-Cost-of-Ownership, Windows Qualification, Ethernet principles, Internet connectivity and even VESA Local Bus standard. Obviously, it is impossible to discuss such a wide range of topics in such a limited space. This flaw is compensated by a fantastic CD-ROM that contains an overwhelming library with a selection of research papers, articles from magazines, interviews and even a VHDL and Verilog simulator! Conclusion: I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the secrets of a modern microprocessor. The removal of chapters about system aspects would have resulted in a 5 star rating.

This book is indeed an anatomy of high-performance processor design. In classic computer architecture books like Hennesey and Patterson's, it covers topics like out-of-order execution and speculative execution mechanisms, but only in abstract and algorithmic levels. This book uses an actual K6 microarchitecture as a foundation and explains these difficult concepts in RTL with pseudo code illustration. This can really help someone with purely ASIC background (knowledge of HDL) to fully understand the implementation of a RISC core with out-of-order and speculative execution capabilities

I work in Retail computer Sales, and I have been searching for a book that allowed me to not just sell the computers but also to give me the technical edge above other competitors. Well this is the book that does it. Warning however, do not buy it if you are not a Engineer or have a craving interest in computer Science. I happend to have the craving interest in computer science. The CD Rom that comes with it is facinating. It's like haveing a PhD in CS 24/7. So far he (the Author) has been my best in-direct computer Science professor.

The first impresion i had upon this book was: "why bother with something so simple". But upon reading the five chapters and the appendix i was hooked on the idea. I also played for six years Truncheons and Flagons so the fantasy setting is no strange to me, whoever when you review the possilities to play a vampire knight the ideas arise (bad pun sorry). They explain in chapter one the whole concept of chivalry in medieval Europe, but the best chapter is the second where they explain how to do it and the fifth where players get their chances at playing one. New merits and flaws (i really liked the "woman in disguise" flaw, a lot of opportunities there). They also give you a brief history of a fictional vampiric knight order for those who like ready to play NPC. Overall a good read, on the gaming side a good sourcebook with good information for both storytellers and players.

This is one great book, but you need the good players too. Think of a vampire walking under the sun and not getting aggravated damage, just lethal. A vampire with increased power and disciplines as well as being only lethally damaged by fire, not aggravated. However, it is compensated by the vampire duties and by those above them in the knighthood order. And yet, it is not only about the order of the bitter ashes, but about everything on chivalry. If you like the via equitus... this book is for you.

I am quite impressed with this book. In the tradition of Wolves of the Sea, White Wolf has really done their homework on this one. Not only does it contain much relevant information about historically existing knightly orders (such as the Knights Templar), it also contains information about how kindred manipulate and even become them. Most importantly, the Order of the Bitter Ashes is detailed. The Order has a duty to destroy infidels, protect the holy, redeem the wicked, and capture the holy relics of old for...posterity. The memebers, due to a unique embrace involving the Holy Grail, also have several new powers, among them being a limited ability to regenerate blood without feeding, and some resistance to fire and sunlight. Though they might be the most noble of the Kindred, there are still many moral dilemmas to play out with them. I get a real Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade feeling from this book. If you enjoy this sort of mood mixed with the gothic horror of Vampire: Dark Ages, this is a must have for you. My only complaint is that there is not a single mention of the one clan that most fits the knightly stereotype: the Salubri. Maybe I am just partial to the Salubri, but I think that they should not have been overlooked here. Still, the book is marvelous.