M.J. Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy know how to promote. They were sick of people cornering them in public and e-mail about how to "do it", so they wrote a book about it. All you need to know about publishing, promoting, where to target and who to contact is included in this useful book. Tips and advice are offered by over twenty e and print authors. The main thing to remember is that you will probabally work harder on the promoting piece than the actually writing of your actual book. The experts all got to where they are by working on these tips, using their time and effort, and not giving up. The thought alone depresses me, but there is a wealth of info found in How to Publish and Promote Online.

The authors put together a collection of their own essays and of essays of other folks who have self-published on line, using publish on demand, or done a traditional off line self-published book. This book has lots of information, and includes numerous citations to other books, and, particularly helpfully, internet URLs where new information and answers to frequently asked questions can be gleaned.

The emphasis here is on how to achieve some commercial success for your book, including good advice on inexpensive and free ways to promote your work on line. This is not a "get rich publishing books" throwaway. This is a solid effort at an overview of how to really publish your own material with commercial success.

I found the work imperfect in two ways. My own mode of self-publishing--using inexpensive specialty chapbooks sold in on line auctions, is not covered. In addition, the work is more geared to the commercial author than to the author of poetry or specialty fiction who just wants to break even and be read. Still, this is a good book. It offers interesting info, like pamphleteer Paulette Ensign's story of figuring out how to make money in 16 page booklets. It's nice to hear this sort of thing expressed in real world terms, rather than in "how I made a million" copy.

Dan Poynter's book on self-publishing once set the standard for traditional self-publishing guides, and its updated version is still a good work on the basics of dealing with printers, etc. But this book offers the reader a good bunch of good ideas, and I recommend it.

I received this book two days ago and was shocked to see how much information it contains. The book contains a detailed Table of Contents as well as a detailed Index. The body of the book is filled with websites to help you promote your book and information on the different formats in which you can publish. It also is filled with inspiring stories of famous people who either started out self-publishing or ended up self-publishing. I'm an author and website designer currently constructing WeddingReflection.com and this book will help me in both venues!

I found Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century to be an enlightening, well-researched, comprehensive and even entertaining book.

It is an excellent introduction to the entire accelerated learning system of learning which the authors seem to have applied from cradle to grave! Although the subject matter ranges from early learning to corporate training, from the value of music to language-learning, there is plenty of "meat" for would-be learners of any age or interest.

It is not a book for intellectual snobs but for people seriously interested in improving their personal ability to learn anything faster and easier.

I'm not sure where Boo-Hiss Mithras got his information. I've READ the book and it is outstanding. It is extremely helpful in teaching you to learn faster. Further I've taken PhotoReading and when I went back to the university after 30 years I graduated with highest honors, directly attributible to PhotoReading, if that is snake oil, it is certainly effective. Also, I repeated the photoreading class, repeating the class is always FREE once you're a graduate. Members of the class included the Director of an 80 million dollar fund, the president of a corporation that came from Australia for the sole purpose of taking the course and a man who came from Holland, also with the sole purpose of taking the course. I think that is an indication of the quality of the results anyone can expect of taking the photoreading "snake oil" course. Also thanks to this book, photoreading, and the fact that I am willing to follow through with ordering other things from a proven source, I expect I will be fluent in spanish is a very short time. I found this book well written, enormously helpful and useful in too many ways to mention. I approve of being provided with information that I might want to follow up on, such as language courses and other things. If I don't want them I can always ignore them. If I want them an have to go looking it's takes time that I can use better elsewhere.

This is a clearly-written, easy-to-read book that is full of useful information. It provides numerous techniques that readers can apply to any learning situation.

Some of it does, of necessity, review what may be old ground for some readers who have prevously encountered accelerated learning. And, of course, the authors do promote the fact that in-depth study of particular topics will require progressing to an in-depth home study course. Surprise, surprise. One would be naive to expect anything else.

But nevertheless there is an immense amount of useful information throughout this entire book. It's an inexpensive investment and well worth anyone's time.

I was first intrigued by the topic of illicit but loyal love but after reading the book I became more interested in the strength of the author who was able to pursue a career even as she maintained her secret relationship with a public figure until he left the Church and as she faced the rejection of her parents and some family members. These two burdens alone could have felled an average woman today but she was also coming of age in an era of turbulent social mores which placed greater strains on her life and yet she persevered. This is a worthwhile read for those who are interested in immigrant assimilation issues, feminism, New York urban development, and Italian American issues. I enjoyed the first half of the book the most because it evoked such a passion for life but the last half of the book honestly detailed their relationship thus saving it from being just another storybook romance.

Under the Rose by Flavia Alaya

Let me start by saying that I've known the author for many years. When I received a copy of this book I was curious. Within a few seconds I was plunged deep into her Italian immigrant family, so strongly depicted that you almost smell tomato and garlic sauce steaming from the pages. I had thought I knew them. Now I understand that I didn't even begin to know my own family, and I barely knew my friend.

She has remembered for us with unremitting honesty one womanlife impelled by the dynamics only possible in late 20th century America, emerging from the Roman Catholic traditions of Europe into the political upheavals of the 60s. She tells us what happened to her and how she felt about it, avoiding the pitfalls of psychological interpretation, self-pity and justification. This is how it was for her, driven by inner passion, perhaps not yet fully understood, into a impossible relationship nurtured by both defiance and high ideals, balancing a challenging public career, a hidden family life, and political action around her irresistible love. I knew she was always very busy; but of her indomitable strength and courage I had only inkling. While we were all wondering about managing a career and a family, she was taking on whole dimensions of additional stresses. I think it should be classed as a survival manual for those who demand everything life can possibly offer.

I laughed and I cried and I understood things about my own mother as the author discovered hers; I was stirred to question dozens of my own accepted assumptions. The book has moved and astonished me. I didn't know my friend could write like this.

-J.L.

Inge Jens has done a masterful job with the material she was given. A careful read notes the many gaps -- it's not that Hans and Sophie Scholl did not write anything during the gaps, it is more a matter that Dr. Jens was not allowed access to everything in the Scholl archives.

The book is worthwhile for the tiny glimpse it provides into the reality of the Scholl world, though the Aicher-Scholl censorship fairly obscures the remaining members of the White Rose.

Most of all, the book is worth reading because of Inge Jens' excellent research. Her footnotes provide information you won't find elsewhere.

My first impression about this book was really not so good: small, not so sharp photomicrograpy made me not so happy.
The reading of this book is, on the other hand, much more interesting: many new things, the most recent references, accurate descriptions.
I really hated the chapter about cavitary effusion while I loved the chapter about CNF and CNS cytology.

Don't be duped by the mind-candy, girly look of this book's cover! Attitudes of Gratitude deserves to be taken seriously by anyone who's serious about the practice of love. It's absolutely impossible to read this book without reflecting on all that you have received from your relationships and from your life experience. This powerful and potent feature makes the book worth buying and reading.

MaryJane Ryan also reminds us that gratitude is a simple and effective tool for quickly undoing the false judgments we hold against self and others. This is because gratitude and resentment are mutually exclusive, and each one cancels the other one out. Because gratitude enables you to swiftly change your mind, it's a kind of magic fairy dust that turns you into the person you most want to be. Gratitude is easy. It's fast. And anyone can do it. Try it for yourself and see. (The Spiritual Reviewer)

I AM DENTIST AND I AM VERY INTEREST ABOUT THE PERIODONTICS PROBLEMS.I CONSIDER THAT BOOK USEFULL FOR THE SPECIALIST,AND THE CD-ROM IS AN INTERESTING THING.

This is a well illustrated book that can be used for creating classroom handouts. Written for teachers, but aimed at elementary students, it explains the steps taken to create a science fair project, from the planning stages, through research and doing the experiment, to logging the observations. Older students can get valuable information from this book as well, if they aren't put off by it's definite grade school format.

This poster graphically represents the distribution of income in the U.S. by occupational category, race/ethnicity, and (gendered) household structure. The general shape of the income distribution and the location of the color-coded symbols across this distribution give readers a visual, intuitive understanding of the extent of income inequality in the U.S. A brief yet informative booklet accompanies the poster, with 23 pages of understandable text and additional charts and tables that highlight some of the more detailed complexities of income and wealth inequality.

This poster/booklet set is helpful for orienting students in general to reading and interpreting graphs, tables, and simple descriptive statistics applied to a specific topic. It is especially ideal for use as the center of small-group activities and group learning exercises to engage students in the area of social inequality, whether in an Intro Sociology or Social Stratification class.

In terms of weaknesses/shortcomings, the poster and its symbols seem confusing and sometimes overwhelming to students at first; however, with 15-minutes of explanation and orientation, they quickly become interested in the depth of information embedded within the poster. I would have appreciated more specific, concrete suggestions for group activities and application in the classroom. Also, the poster/booklet are based on 1990 data that need to be updated soon, although the general shape of the distribution should not have changed much.

This is certainly not my favourite book by B. Traven, and critics have often described it as "inconsistent." That said, it is still probably one of the best attacks I've ever read on corporate American culture.

It's about a U.S. oil company that's quickly expanding its drilling rights in Mexico, but is stopped short when it cannot purchase a key piece of land from a small Indian community. The rest of the novel details how the oil company tries to claim this land for itself, first by legal means and then through violence and corruption.

Thematically, this novel parallels Traven's short story "Assembly Line" -- in both narratives there is a clash of cultures between the technocratic Americans and traditional campesinos. And in both narratives, capitalism is depicted as force that promises great wealth for everyone, but at a great expense -- total dehumanization and the loss of traditional knowledge, values and customs.

Traven's sympathies are with the Mexican Indians, of course. But by no means does he portray the oil executives as "flat" or two-dimensional characters. One of the great strengths of this book, in fact, is that it shows how a wealthy oil president finds himself trapped in a cycle of overspending -- overconsumption -- and is therefore forced to pursue bigger business ventures, all in attempt to stave of insecurity and personal financial ruin.

The few inconsistencies in this novel -- which are minor and have to do with Traven's poor use of American slang -- do not detract from "The White Rose." His attacks on big business are incisive to say the least, and his description of rural Mexican life is vivid, realistic and flawless.