Packed with interesting facts and practical applications. Not preachy, not hippy...just right!

In Power Up Your Mind, Bill Lucas attempts to teach readers how to learn. To accomplish this goal, he sets out to provide a blueprint to the workings of the human brain through easy-to-grasp descriptions and illustrations designed to explain how the brain ingests and processes information. What's lacking is a comprehensive review of the basic theories of learning that experts have deduced from the biological structures and mental functions that Lukas describes. Nevertheless, we from getAbstract recommend this book for its theoretical insights and practical advice about learning and memory.

Advanced for it's time and still applicable today! This book is fascinating. Frankly, I am surprised that this book hasn't been reprinted. No matter who I've shown this book to, once they scan the pages, they are amazed and interested in this theory. It does work! Plants are easy proof. New Age theorists should have this book as "required reading". You wouldn't be dissapointed.

This book will show you how to resist the enemy and how through the Holy Spirit we can live a life that is pleasing to God. This book will help you deal with feelings such as; anger, failure,low self worth etc...It will teach you how to walk a Spirit-filled life.

For those of us who love modern political histories, this a very good book. It examines campaign finance in the real world, with highly detailed and researched insights into how one modern election was approached by candidates and those with money. it has some fascinating inside scoops and details that washington-insiders and those who follow politics closely will love. For example, it examines the role of gingrich and other republicans during the budget debates and government shut-down, providing details I've never heard before (and I read the Wash. Post each day and review articles and books on this subject often.

Bottom line: if you want a good look into how money really corrupts our politicians, and a glimpse into how much power the interest groups have, read this book.

This book is poorly written and badly illustrated. There are few engine diagrams and mostly photographs. It is far too short for the topic or the price. And, he can't decide if he is explaining engine design for beginners or writing history. However, if you have every other book on the suject, then there is plenty of fragmented but useful factual material in the book. If you are wanting to come up to speed on the topic, it is a waste of money.

A great book, but unfortunately it is out of stock fot several monthes. It's a pitty.

As usual, another excellent technical book by Bill Gunston. Unfortunately, it is out of stock ... hopefully it will be available again soon.

Quixtar has caught my attention (or perhaps the other way around) in the last few weeks and this new friend asked me to read this book. He had an entire library of books and tapes since he started in this business.

Unfortunately Bill Quain talked too much. He called all other distribution systems evil. He says that when you buy at discount, you "create liabilities" and these shops "create wealth", while when you "shop smarter, not cheaper", you "create assets" on your way to financial freedom -- whatever the product is.

He talked endlessly about this, I snapped out of the spell.

On the plus side, though. The book discusses tricks merchandisers use to increase sales. It also convinced me that saving my time is more valuable than saving a few dollars in discount stores. Indeed, rich people spend their time creating assets, not liabilities. They invest their time. For that lesson I give this book two stars.

This book is excellent... Bill Quain gives good information about discount stores and how they are making more and more profits while us consumers are making higher debts than ever. He teaches us about the marketing tactics that shops use to entice us to impulse buy--seventy percent of our buying is via impulse buying.

At first, I thought this book would be some good tidbits of info and then lots of fluff. Thankfully, there is more good information than fluff by a long shot. Great Book.

Excellant...I read this book within 24 hours, I could not put down, this author points out that any time you shop you ARE giving a profit to someone else, regardlesss of how much you think you are gettin a deal, stores are not put up for Your convenience, they are there for a PROFIT, AND Bll Quain points out.. there is a way for your household to benefit on money you are already spending.

The author is to be commended for writing about a an important event in our nation's history -- the formation of the Bill of Rights -- that has to date been the subject of very few book-length studies. While I liked much of the historical account, it seems to me that the treatment of James Madison's ideas was lacking in some respects.

Goldwin argues that Madison's principal purpose in proposing the Bill of Rights was political. Madison, Goldwin says, was concerned about Anti-Federalist opposition to the Constitution and the risk that the Anti-Federalists would succeed in calling a second constitutional convention that might undo all of the important structural features of the Constitution. Goldwin believes that Madison hoped to steal the Anti-Federalists' thunder by offering amendments whose substance was uncontroversial, but whose inclusion would help solidify support for the new Constitution in a public that was still nervous about the way it centralized national power.

Goldwin reinforces his argument about Madison's political motivations by suggesting that Madison regarded a Bill of Rights as being practically useless in preventing governments from encroaching on the liberties of its citizens. Instead, according to the author, Madison thought that the structural elements of the Constitution (separation of powers, bicameral legislature, etc.) afforded the best mechanism for securing rights against infringement by the majority. Goldwin goes so far as to suggest repeatedly that Madison was willing to propose a Bill of Rights precisely because he believed it would "leave the original Constitution unchanged . . . ." (p. 101; see also p. 153).

Goldwin may be right about Madison's political motivations in proposing a Bill of Rights; others have drawn similar conclusions. But the author's positive assessment of Madison's ideas about the intrinsic inefficacy of a Bill of Rights is unpersuasive. If Madison truly believed that including specific restraints on governmental power in a written constitution would do little directly to advance the cause of freedom, and that the Constitution as originally written would serve those ends well, in my view he was fundamentally mistaken. It is certainly true that the will of the majority would be frustrated less often if we had no Bill of Rights, or if the Judiciary had no power to enforce its provisions. But it is precisely for that reason that the freedoms set forth in the Bill of Rights would have been less secure if they had never been made a part of the Constitution.

In light of the widely held contemporary view that the Bill of Rights is an essential (even if sometimes misused) restraint on governmental power, this book would have been better if, instead of uncritically praising Madison's contrary view, Goldwin had subjected it to searching analysis. Madison's view of the role of the judiciary in enforcing the Bill of Rights, a subject not even broached in this book, would in my view be central to such an analysis. Raoul Berger pointed out in an article written several years ago that during the debates over the ratification of the original Constitution in Virginia, Madison joined John Marshall (who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) in maintaining that the Judiciary had this power. And in his speech to the First Congress proposing a Bill of Rights, Madison (echoing Jefferson's sentiments in a letter written to him from France) asserted that "independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights." Madison's support for some form of judicial review is also evidenced in statements he made in the Philadelphia Convention and in The Federalist Nos. 39 and 44. Since Madison believed that the courts would have a large responsibility for enforcing the Bill of Rights, then a question which needs to be addressed is why he nevertheless regarded the amendments as a mere "parchment barrier." And what makes the other, structural elements of the Constitution which Madison looked to as the main protector of our liberties (e.g., separation of powers, limitation of Congress to enumerated powers) anything more than "parchment barriers" themselves? Finally, it would have been useful to consider not only what Madison thought immediately before and after the formation of the Constitution, but also the extent to which his views may have changed as he observed the Constitution in operation over the course of his long political career.

I also think that Goldwin's insistence that both the Federalists (including Madison) and the Anti-Federalists believed that the Amendments "changed nothing in the Constitution" (p. 177) is misleading. This characterization not only distorts the views of both groups and obscures their important philosophic differences, but also trivializes the subtantive import of the Bill of Rights. How can it be said, for example, that the privilege against self-incrimination set forth in the Fifth Amendment "changed nothing," when in its absence Congress would have been able to compel the defendant to testify in a federal criminal proceeding?

Here is a true story dressed in determination and teeming with perseverance. It is also a story about partnership. Bill Wild and Bill Bright (the last names alone portray a spirit that symbolizes their experiences) agreed as teenagers to team up toward capturing an American dream. Inspired -- perhaps driven -- by the advice from another Bill (Uncle Bill, who lived in New Jersey -- hence the title is not "Three Bills from Boston"), who suggested "let it be known that you want to succeed . . . and keep at it," these two young men, from the East Coast to the West Coast, through a Depression, a war, and the aftermath, converted their commitment to a common goal (to be electrical engineers) into a realization of their mutual dream: to add to the world something a little better than the world already had. This is a story about luck, skill, hard work, ingenuity, opportunity, the value of a good education, and, ultimately, success. The story of Bill Wild and Bill Bright (a story told by Bill Bright) chronicles not a rags to riches nor a claim to fame; it chronicles hard-won and very satisfying success.

I was expecting a lot more. This book was should have been called Mac OS for dummies. This is not a book for Power users at all; it is geared for beginners. There are a few areas that are a bit much for a new Mac user but this is hardly a book for Power users.

I placed my order for this book on Amazon in April 1999! Over one year later, it finally arrived on my doorstep. I just finished the EXCELLENT Lingo and Director in a Nutshell books and was looking for the same level of analysis for my preferred OS. I didn't get it. Yes, this is a fine book for beginners, but anyone who has used a Mac for over a year will find little to add to what they have learned through day to day use. As a Mac user, I am not crazy about the choice of a chimp on the book's cover. Is the implication that even a chimp can use the MacOS? It actually comes across as saying the Mac is "not as highly evolved as other OSs" and "Only a monkey would use this product." Let's hope O'Reilly has an excellent OS X book in the pipe to make up for this one.

I found this book to have full coverage of the Mac OS and many utilities. The book goes into many aspects of the system providing the friendly full featured Mac OS. This book is intended to give some technical knowledge to the reader, and it does it well. The only thing that I find it lacked was more meaty system level details, but I still think that it was a good overall look. Very good book about a great OS!