It was James Van Praagh who personally recommended that I read WE DON'T DIE, and that this book was a primer for him when his mediumship was in the developing stages. I am grateful for the referral, for investigators of the mediumship phenomenon may discover, as I did, that George Anderson was initially reluctant to demonstrate and go public with his talents. Overcoming an abusive upbringing in which his sixth sense was mistakenly perceived as mental illness, George Anderson boldly transcended his fears and insecurities, and Martin skillfully describes Anderson's rise from skittish radio talk show guest to masterful bereavement counselor and evidential superstar medium.

While I struggle to understand why many mediums charge large sums of money for private consultations, Anderson's credibility is bolstered by the fact that he is currently volunteering to participate the most comprehensive mediumship study to date headed by Dr. Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona.

WE DON'T DIE offers hope and encouragement to those suffering from bereavement as well as vital information for readers who want the facts about the survival of human consciousness after physical death.

If you are a doubting Thomas, read this book. After facing a difficult cancer diagnosis, I found this book a tremendous comfort. It confirmed my notions that death is not a final end. I am a discerning reader and a book reviewer for a large paper, and I am convinced that George is a gifted medium and the REAL DEAL. I liked this particular book because it was written by a journalist who watches George Anderson evolve. This book is guaranteed to help you make that transition, the one we all must make one day, without fear. (Question: why are the big three psychics in U.S.A--James Van Praagh, John Edward and George Anderson all from the New York area?)

I have read two of George Anderson's books now. The first being OUR CHILDREN FOREVER. I have just finished WE DON'T DIE. The premise is the same in both books. After reading them it only confirms my strong belief that there is an afterlife. I am not religious and have little belief in God but I know our engergy lives on. George Anderson is a gifted Medium. He has used his spiritual powers well. I enjoyed both books but WE DON'T DIE was a bit dull in parts where the authors go on & on with tales of people trying to debunk Mr. Andersons gift. I found myself skimming thru parts. However, It's a fact filled book worth anyones time to learn of life after death.

I don't know if this is the same Don Martin who wrote for Mad Magazine for years, but you can expect the same kind of humor. This book is just what it claims to be- A witty, opinionated "guide" to California Wine Country. The great treasure of this book is that it is written by a couple who obviously love the wine country, and have spent years exploring it. It is also openly, but unabashedly from their own perspective. We're using it to plan our honeymoon- Look for a follow-up review sometime after October 1999!

Two trips in two years....brought this book both times. The maps are simple but helpful in planning daytrips. Liked the sense of humor throughout. Recommended, only hope it is revised soon....

I bought this book in 1997 when my husband and I went to Napa/Sonoma for our honeymoon. We are headed back to CA for our 4th winery visit since and I almost panicked when I couldn't locate this book. I don't know how I'd tour without it. Ours too is falling apart

After the first few poems, I thought I'd made a mistake and should have borrowed another book from a friend who had pushed this one on me. You can tell that the first few poems were written by a teenager, and I was at the point where I was just going to put it down and watch tv instead. But then I read "Where Once There Was a Cage" and I found myself going from my cranky mood to just having a complete tearburst, and then I was hooked. I realized that the poems before that WERE written by a teenager, and that is the POINT of the book. It takes you from that awquard stage of adolescense and moves you forward, as if you were developing (not aging, so developing is the only word I have)from the perspective of the writer. Like, these are his thoughts and emotions from the most personal perspective that you can get in a book, as if you had the driver's seat in his heart and mind. And the book brings you places that I as a woman don't think men go to often enough, or at least I don't see it often enouth, but that's my issue!

There was some stuff that I thought he experimented with that didn't quite work for me. There are two poems that he frames into shapes, one of a dollar sign and one of a skull. I thought the dollar sign one was very funny, but it was gimmicky. The skull one was too bitter, but I guess that's an emotion too. The "Ode to a Rag Doll" poem was very touching, and for my whole life I wish someone had written a poem like "Forbidden" for me. And there are a couple of others in there like that, really good love poems. The two haiku poems were really good; one was very amusing and the other I just adored because my mom was Japanese and she loved eastern poetry and she would have liked that one alot. Theres probably more than 80 poems, so I can't review them all, and I'm not even mentioning my favorites (except for the Cage and the Forbidden poems).

The closing was very fitting. Someone else wrote that now she wanted to know what happens to the man next, and I hope I don't have to wait more than a decade to find out, either.

To summarize, I gave this book four stars because I think five star books should be classics or staples on everyones booksehelfs. But I am very glad that I read past the first couple of poems because it was so worth it, and it took me on a ride that I was in no way expecting. It was very emotional and fun. Each poem made me think about my experience through life, and like my life I didn't know what the next poem was going to be about, or how my life would turn. I related to it FAR more than I thought I would relate to a book of poetry written by a man. It wasn't an artsy-phartsy collection of poetry, it was just very open, honest, and I have to say really brave for the man to let you in the way he did.

I have read the book twice, and my advice is to pick up a copy and do the same. Bring kleenex and let a friend borrow it.

Fran

Read it. Loved it. Bought it. So that sounds backwards, but sue me, it's America. :)

I found so much of myself in this book, I thought it was about me. Sadness, happiness, rage, I related. I borrowed it from a friend at work, and it was really funny because the poems that she thought were going to me my favorites were really good guesses, but not my favorites. Poems like "Forbidden", "Saturday After Work" and "Antihero" hit me like a ton of bricks, but the ones I liked the best were the ones like "Day 11,736", "Regret", "Pretzel" and "Collusion" (oo, and "The Forgotten Words of God" too, very existential) were my favorites because they were a little more abstract and mysterious but still descript enough to draw conclusions by.

Anyway, I need to say also that although the title makes you think that the book is all about relationships, that might be a little deceiving. Some relationships are parent/child or other family relationships, some are about relationships with friends, pets, nature and experiences. There are a few poems that are just about fun. All of them put together are like reading a person's life as they grow up.

Anyway, pretty cool, and I think that this kind of writing should be looked at by high schools and colleges as a project for there students. I highly recommend the book because it's kind of like a movie that you can go back to and feel comfortable from watching it. I hope that made sense.

At first, I thought that "While Searching for Love and Self" was going to be some kind of "Sex in the City" style diary, denoting the author's experiences in dating. When I received my copy, I was surprised to open it up and discover that it's actually a poetic depiction of important moments in a man's life as he enters adulthood (I suppose the subtitle, "A Journal in Prose and Verse, 1986-2003" should have given me a clue). I was hardly disappointed! I read through it at a leisurely pace in two days. Then I read it again, from introduction to the back cover. I had at least a half-dozen epiphanies each time I read it. It didn't matter that I am not a man; the book centers on his (the author's) experiences, yes, but its themes are universal. It focuses on relationships, not only romantic, but also with family, relationships with friends, community, with pets (a poem that made we weep until my tear ducts were sore), and a rag doll he had as a little boy (which made me cry even though my tear ducts were sore).

The poetry is not complicated. It is easy to read and enjoyable, vivid, and what made it fascinating to me was that in reading it from cover to cover, you saw this man evolve from a seventeen year old to a mature adult. I have kept journals since I was 13, and reading this book made me wish that I had kept mine in poetic form too, or even better, made me think about taking my writings and converting them into poetry so I can relive my life in my words as I have relived his as an observer.

I highly recommend "While Searching for Love and Self" not only because I enjoyed it and will certainly enjoy it again, (and find more layers in it each time), I also recommend it because everyone will find forgotten memories and emotions in it. It's impossible not to.

A concise overview on clicks and mortar principles is provided by the book. Despite the condensed nature of its content, many illustrative examples are given throughout the chapters. It serves well as a great introduction for readers who are planning to establish a clicks and mortar program.

I was very pleased with the quality of writing that went into this book. It provides a wealth of information in the clicks & mortar field space; not just the Internet paradigm, but as a business building methodology. I was very pleased.

Lindstrom draws on speeches he's given in worldwide and textbook basics to craft an informative and refreshing marketing text. Highlighting the primary tools and techniques used by marketing professionals, he encourages companies to think about the true value of a clicks and mortar approach. Since it's cheaper to retain an existing customer than to acquire a new one, companies should use all of the resources at their disposal - including marketing - in building long-term clicks and mortar relationships. Beyond the customer-value sermon, Lindstrom offers a systemic review of clicks and mortar concepts that have been very useful for me and which I can heartily recommend to beginners, who quickly will find their copies of this book glowing with highlighter yellow, as well as marketing veterans, who will enjoy and learn from the book's fresh take on familiar topics.

Refactoring is another must have book for any OO developer. As with other books like the Gang of Four "Design Patterns", Mr. Fowler has compiled, structured, and systematize a set of common practices that any OO developer does in his/her day-to-day work.

Refactoring consist roughly in reshaping and evolving your code without changing its interfaces in order to improve its internal structure and functionality as well as other attributes. Every developer knows that is very difficult to hit the bull's eye at the first attempt and the code once written must be changed a number of times to accomodate new functionality or requirements or to allow the reuse.

Mr. Fowler starts explaining what refactoring is using a pretty well documented and complete example, next he describes when, why, how, and where you must refactor your code and how to locate those pieces of your code that are suitable for refactoring and how to test those changes. Finally, the bulk of the book is devoted to a catalog that identifies and classifies the different refactorings.

The book id full of code examples in Java, easy to read and right into target. From my point of view is a good investment for any developer.

I would have to give 2 thumbs up to Martin Fowler's book on Refactoring. He has addressed so many common refactorings in such a simple and elegant way that many will benefit from his work (as well as the others that helped write this book).

Martin's writing style is very relaxed and sincere. He's entertaining and doesn't complicate things as you can easily find what you need. You can tell he simply wants to make programming teams' lives easier and he has accomplished tenfold. He's not going to tell you that your an innately bad programmer or that he is a better one - he truely captivates that quality code is important and refactoring is that one big step that each organization and programmer must take to improve the quality of code.

Some of the patterns that he identifies are very common - but for completeness' sake, he includes them. Others are very insightful such as Introducing Null objects, which I've used 5 times in a single application now since I've read this book.

This is also an excellent book to accompany Design Patterns, as many of these refactorings will help you achieve design patterns in your code - it's like working them in your code in a different, systematic way.

All in all, this is a fantastic contribution to improving code and developing quality programmers in the software development industry. I would recommend this to any software professional and especially university students (where quality code is not touched on at all). It's the will of the programmer to improve their code and this is one of those books to read if you want to do that. If you want to just be an average programmer, a following in your organization and not take responsibility - then don't read this book. If you want to truely be effective in your job or entrapreneural projects, add this book to your bookshelf and read it, use it and live it.

I spent seven years in the Smalltalk environment figuring (parts) of this stuff out for myself. You don't have to - buy Martin's book and shave at least a few years off the learning curve. Refactoring is an indispensable part of software development. Like it or not, whatever you write today will be "wrong" sometime in the future. You need to have techniques for transitioning to the "right" stuff. Refactoring provides you with a wealth of small tools that can make the transition easier.

Not only that, having confidence that you can refactor your code later (supported by relentless testing) actually relieves some of the pressure you feel when you write the code the first time. Get it working, then get it right. Don't panic. Don't sweat. Enjoy your work like you did when you started (remember?). Let Refactoring guide the way.

A practical guide for any OO developer, no matter what language you are working in, though you need enough familiarity with Java to read the examples.

This Book was really wonderful. I never thought that it would touch my heart as it did. The author wrote this book from his head and didn't leave anything out. All the struggles slaves went through made me upset but I am glad to say, "thank God it wasn't me."

I've always been taught that slavery in America was a very bad thing. Like everybody, I saw Roots on TV and was very moved. So I was pretty surprised when many years later reading this book moved me again. It was very well written. But is was also very disturbing because it tells it like it really was, when in colonial days the colonists were taking black people from Africa and bringing them here by force. There are a lot of interesting and again disturbing statistics in the book about the numbers of slaves involved in the slave trade and so forth. The book doesn't cover the Civil War and all that, though. So you'll have to get that stuff from a different book.

This is a guide to 21 road trips in California and 4 in Nevada. I've now taken a number of the backroads described in this book. There are some excellent suggestions for getting away from the interstates and finding the true character of these two states. The Martin's have a folksy style that I enjoyed. They didn't include much info about the scenery in between but mainly rundowns of the main cities along the way and places to eat and sleep. They really keep to the basics here. For example the section on "The Silver Trail" from Las Vegas to Virginia city is only 14 pages for a trip covering 443 miles. This book is a good starting point to get ideas for road excursions, but if you're going to spend any length of time on one of these trips I'd recommend getting further material before setting out.

I never thought a book could have so much information about how to get around to different places. The authors know what they are talking. They have researched all information that is in the book and now I can travel and see that I have been missing. Thank you for a great book.

I'm glad I bought this book. The layout and binding are attractive, and it is interesting how well the Lewis style comes across in Moynihan's translation. Nevertheless, I would rank _Latin Letters_ relatively low in importance among Lewis's books, somewhere below _Letters to an American Lady_. The letters are not terribly "meaty", and most of the substantial comments in the letters were also made by Lewis elsewhere. The book is only a little over a hundred pages, and taking into account the fact that roughly half those pages are taken up by the original Latin and that the remaining half has a generous amount of white space, there's really not a whole lot there.

In this book you can find a real cuantity of ecumenism, an a exceptional exaple to our world about it. This letters between an Anglican (Lewis) and a Catholic (Fr. Calabria), are full of the real God and love.

I, extremly recomend this Book!

This review speaks only for the book's format and NOT for the accuracy of its information.
Good Points
·Complete for the title area. If it's west of Highway 1, it's included.
·Clear narrative. Text gives mileposts and includes highlights and cautions
·Rating scheme with best season for the trail. The scenic quality is numerically rated and trail difficulty factors are provided to include seasonal changes in the trail. Provides Pt. Reyes microclimate info by season that may lead to choosing one trail over another given the month or local weather
·3-D trail maps. NOT topo maps, but some may find that these maps are easier to read
·"Best Trails" summary. Assists the hiker with limited time in the area for making trail selection based on eight criteria
·Naturalist section. Almost half the book has black-and-white plant and animal identifier illustrations and other naturalist info
Weak Points
·Currency of info. Publishing date is 1997. Trail conditions have changed.

·Lack of precise topo info. So, what do you need? Easy-to-read 3-D slanted terrain maps or overhead topo maps with elevation lines and numbers?
·No GPS waypoint info. Many of us now have handheld GPS receivers and want waypoints for trailheads, trail intersections, and scenic points as a minimum requirement
Summary: With the exception of lacking topo and GPS info, this book would be the only resource one would need for Pt. Reyes.

This is probably the best all-around guide to the Point Reyes National Seashore for any outdoor enthusiast. It features wonderful in-depth trail maps and descriptions for 37 hikes in the area, arranged by trailhead. In addition to very specific trail descriptions and maps, detailed information is presented on the difficulty, terrain type, and seasonal recommendations for each trail described.

But there's more! The book is packed with information about the history, geology, flora and fauna of the area, including black-and-white illustrations. Sections on exploring tidepools, precautions and general area information make this a very complete guide that would be very helpful to any visitor to the area. It's small enough to take along on your travels, but don't let that fool you - this guide covers just about everything you'd need.

Well that was disapointing! From the blurb and front cover I expected a great story about Mal fighting all odds and outwitting her sexist English teacher, but instead she hardly did ANYTHING! Plus Mallory acted in this gross girlie way all through the book! I am SO glad she leaves the BSC soon after. Pity Dawn couldn't return and take her place! Take my advice, DON'T buy it unless you are a hardened Mallory fan. Best buy a different Mallory book instead!

Bravo, Mallory! I love how when she realized Mr. Cobb was focusing his attention on the boys and virtually ignoring the girls, she did something about it and her BSC friends stood by her all the way! Yes, women and girls have come a long way, but society needs to go further and eradicate subtle sexism that still permeates our society. The girls from the Fabulous Five series need to take some hints from the BSC. Thanks to the BSC, girls today and tomorrow will have greater opportunities than ever!

This book was really good. It shows how Mallory stood up for her rights. She was very brave to talk to Mr. Cobb. READ THIS BOOK !!!!!!