This collection of people and their life transforming experiences is simply excellent! Each chapter, which summarizes the experience of a different individual, is just the right length (not too long, not too short, and very well written).

My favorites here are the very interesting stories of Byron Katie, Valerie Vener, and Peace Pilgrim.

Of course I was honored that Dan and Doug asked me if they could tell about my near-death awakening in Copper Canyon (which is told in detail in my book, PRIMAL AWARENESS). But the honor relates, not to having my story included, but in being a part of Dan Millman's wonderful sharing of the joy that surrounds us all. Dan walks his talk and the stories he has selected reflect his deep passion for all that is magical.

While the idea of a collection of inspiring stories may sound like "Chicken Soup For The Soul", the similarites end there. One of the best things about this book is the way it mixes stories of mundane people with those of the famous, the current with the historical, to point out that this kind of grace could happen to ANYONE. While "Divine Interventions"' sparse, bare bones, almost journalistic style is HIGHLY unusual for this type of book, it lets the reader to decide for himself what to believe. And since it doesn't discuss the "Peaceful Warrior" books, it is a great jumping on point for anyone who's never read a Dan Millman book.

For fans of Dan's other works, however, this book does, as he's said, "fill a hole" in his teachings. Despite his practical approach to spirituality and how to use it day-to-day living, Dan makes it clear when he speaks that he believes that sometimes Divine Spirit touches us with grace far beyond what we may have "earned" by our lifestyle and practices. Now, if you've never seen him speak, you can read about his aspect of his beliefs. I highly recommend this book to anyone, believer or not. You can't help but be moved by it.

As a long time activist, I was heartened to read this book (Strongly reccomended by various literary reviews).

In high school, I was one of the few Heterosexuals who would openly agitate for GLBT equality. I really think my friends and I could have used this book as an inspirational tool.

Although I still can occasionally get discouraged with the rather slow pace of GLBT equality, this book reminded me that my friends could have lived in a much more hostile climate, and that I and my parents and straight friends are not the only ones concerned about injustice perpetuated in the name of "family values"

I was also impressed with how many of the people I knew from conversation and/or newspaper headlines. If there was any proof that GLBT issues are becomming mainstreamed into society, this was definently it. Contributors include some of the headliners in the past 10 years from safe schools, to marriage and scouting.

What prevented the book from being redundant was the fact that each of the stories were presented in (at least for me) unprecedented depth. I really got a good sense of what these people were feeling from outrage to defiance and justice.

Varying in sex, race, age and geographical background, each contributor has an important goal. Even North Carolina, home to the infamous Jesse Helms, is not imumne from diversity organizing. Simmilarly, neither is an avowedly "liberal" Texas private school when one teacher realizes even that place contains homophobia.

Knowing news outlets (including the sympatheic ones) have to use soundbites and abreviated stories because of space contraints, I really appreciated the hollistic portrayal of each of the individuals. I really got a good sense of how much they had to endure (and still do in some cases) to remind the world that it really is not us vs. them.

I just got done reading this book, and cannot adequately praise the depth and scope of the essays. Some of the contributors are already infamous, others are starting out, but they are connected by an unyielding spirit of equality and justice.

The seriousness of the message is lightned up by antecedotes. While this is uncessary for seasoned activists, it is a practical method to draw potential allies in. GLBT rights remains a controversial subject despite progress and the open minded majority need to break the ice and show newcomers that it is not "their" problem alone.

Although I am a seasoned activist who had already read on gay and lesbian studies, I appreciated that there was a professional anthology for people like me. This book is a direct rebuttal to the Christian Reich that support for GLBT rights is incompatable with heterosexuality.

Each of the speakers is clear headed, articulate and compassionate. Because the above traits have been used by discriminatory forces, it was refreshing to see them applied in a sensible context.

At a time when equality and social justice are at a premium in Hawaii, this book gives me a much needed boost. I wish I would have thought to send a copy to each Hawaii Supreme Court Judge before they choose on the side of hatred and injustice. Being a pollyanna, I keep thinking that such narrow mindedness is just a lack of information. Thank you Dan for reminding us of hope for tomorrow.

This book gives you a vivid picture of how Dan (the author) raise the Golden Eagle and how their relationship grow, also it gives you many information on Eagles. It's quite touching, too. More than that, this book disprove the myth that eagles raised by man could not fly free.

This book was given to me as a gift. I was not prepared for the story and the very eloquent talents of the author. I felt seduced. At many times, I felt as though I was part of the story, part of the group, traveling throughout Turkey, Cyprus, and Amsterdam. I took the book on vacation with me and when I got home, I immediately went to Amazon.com to see what else Hofstadter has written. Wonderful book!

This book is honestly the best book I have ever read. I love the French version of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil because I love the French language. I suggest one reads this book in French or English. You could read this book in pig latin and it would still be the best, most interesting book ever composed. John Berendt truly captures the spirit of Savannah. You never know what will happen next in this book. From a spicy, beautiful drag queen to a living-dead dog, this book is a page turner I suggest everyone reads.

Dan Beachy-Quick debut offers up an emotionally-charged kind of lyricism. No simple difficulty for the sake of itself, of theory, or (worse) of Language, these poems challenge the reader because of the emotional gravity they radiate. Tough and languid, haunting and familiar, if these contradictions ever found a home to inhabit together, it's here in these lovely poems.

This is a fascinating book on the migration of people from the Midwestern Dustbowl during the Great Depression and what happened to them once they got to California. It is extremely well written. It makes reading the newspaper in California much more interesting because many of these people have gone on to shape current events

Betty Broderick spent many years supporting her husband while he attended law school. When she finally had the perfect life after her husband became successful, she continued to aide Dan by hosting his many business parties, taking care of the kids on her own because Dan was TOO busy to attend their sporting events. Yes, Betty was a little immature for her age but she never stopped giving her love and support to the family including Dan. Dan was obviously having a mid life crisis when he purchased a fancy open topped car and started having an affair with a young co-worker. When he finally 'dumped' Betty, some deep counseling was obviously needed and who knows, she may not have ended up being a murderer. This book is very well written, very interesting and fact filled. I feel both Dan and Betty were to blame for the events of their lives. No, Dan didn't ask to be shot but then, Betty didn't asked to be dumped and pushed to the side like an old chair after it's served it's purpose and is no longer needed. I fully recommend this exceptional book.

After seeing the tv movies, watching the court tv trial, this book proved to be refreshing. The D.A. Carrie Wells seemed to have a personal dislike for Betty and thus the tv movies seemed to be based more on Ms. Wells opionion than on fact.Betty was raked over the coals in divorce court where all odds were stacked against her because of who her husband was.While Bella Stumbo showed the desent of Betty's mind, she showed how she was pushed and pushed.This was a woman who worked first to put him through medical school, then law school, and when he finally made it he wanted to get rid of the devoted wife. He was a unfair man by any standards. Linda comes across as petty and spiteful.It was hard to feel any compassion for either her or Dan. What kind of person keeps another woman's china just for spite. Not only did Linda have no morals. she had no compassion. Carrie Wells wants everyone to believe that the four Broderick children loved Linda, if you believed the movie, but it was evident that they disliked her for her petty ways against there mother. No matter what Betty was their Mom and by almost everyone a real good one. If Dan had just given her a fair settlement this probably would not have happened. Betty could have taken her money and wished the two selfish people luck. This is one case where clemency should be granted. Dan and Linda weren't happy just to take the money and the kids, they had to humiliate her too.Was what she did extreme? Of course it was.But my sympathy is with Betty and her children, not Dan and Linda.

I became very interested in this case as soon as I heard about it (I was 24 at the time and this book taught me a few lessons, such as if you get married, make sure you are self-sufficient and do not have to rely on your husbands money, so that if he starts acting crazy like Dan, pack your bags, grab your money and wish him a pleasant life with his new wife)! I have read all of the books about this case and none of the others come even close to being as good as author Stumbo's book. The other books read as if someone simply read newspaper articles on the case and threw some fluff into them. What I like about Stumbo's account is that is was very non-partisan; the ugly sides of both Betty and Dan were shown; it presented the facts and let the reader decide. Stumbo also delves into the mind of Betty; so much so that I sometimes had the shivers because Betty's thoughts/feelings seemed so real(she was interviewed by Stumbo). I bought this book when it first came out and reread it so many times that my paperback fell apart, but I was able to locate a used hardcover. This and Jerry Bledsoe's "Bitter Blood" and are the two best crime novels out there!

I agree with much that has been written by other reviewers at Amazon and do not want to rehearse those points here. Yes, much evidence that pointed to Simpson's guilt never made it into the courtroom and never reached the jurors. Judge Ito's rulings, prosecutorial misconduct, and LAPD's ineptitude all played a role. And yes, Simpson participated in the murders beyond any doubt.

Yet jurors entertained reasonable doubts precisely because of some of Vannatter's testimony and mishandling of evidence. This puzzle points to some paradoxes at the heart of this book.

Vannatter claimed that when the four detectives -- the usual complement for notifying a man who is not longer next of kin that his ex is dead -- invaded Simpson's estate, Simpson was not a suspect. This is paradox one. If Simpson were not a suspect by the time the four got to his place, then the four were incompetent detectives. If Simpson was a suspect, then the four precipitated a search as illegal as the one they conducted after Vannatter lied to get a search warrant. So which is it? Liar or incompetent?

In addition, Vannatter drove about LA with Simpson's blood for no good reason that he even he can conjure. You do not have to be Jackie Chiles or Johnnie Cochran to find that inexplicable road trip to be explicable in a way that helps Simpson. The second paradox to be highlighted, then, is that Vannatter dismissed himself!

In sum, this book poses a third paradox. If the reader is credulous enough to believe these Keystone Kops, the reader is credulous enough to believe Simpson's lawyers. Hmmmmmmmmm!

While there is lots of self-serving, cover-our-ass, if-anybody screwed-up-it-wasn't-us stuff in this book, it is still a must read for anyone interested in the trial of the century. Learn how big a hurry Marcia Clark was to get the case only to ignore some of the most telling evidence. No doubt Clark's book will lay the blame at someone elses perverbial briefcase...I will never know. This is the last of the genre for me. Read it for the cops view and American Tragedy for the Defense angle...then read something worthwhile.

This book isn't hard to stomach because of bad writing style or anything in that vein. It is hard to stomach because it describes, in detail, all the extremely incriminating evidence WHICH POINTED TO NO ONE BUT SIMPSON that was found by the detectives in this case and the Los Angeles Police Department which, inexplicably, was not raised by the prosecutors EVEN ONCE during the trial. This book proves Simpson's guilt beyond ALL doubt, showing that had ALL this evidence been displayed before the jury in the criminal joke (it's an insult to courtrooms and the hallways of justice throughout this world to call it a trial) then Simpson would have undoubtedly been convicted. But most of all, "Evidence Dismissed," like Vincent Bugliosi's "Outrage" proves once and for all that the TRUE blame for the loss of this case can be laid at the feet of the prosecution.

The city of San Francisco and, to a lesser extent, the nation were throttled in November 1978 when a former city supervisor named Dan White opened fire and killed Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk. Author Mike Weiss' book is one of the few that ticks down the seconds to the double killing and, though no one knew it at the time, to a social uprising that left much of the city in ruin. That Harvey Milk was the city's first openly gay official sparked a fury in the city's dense homosexual population and ignited speculation that White's motive, in part, was his acknowledged anti-gay position. For many, that two men were gunned down for such a hallow reason was perhaps only a small part of the complete story, and Weiss' book mercifully does not blame White's crime solely on homophobia. Instead, we get a picture of a professionally and financially desperate man whose act may have been largely to avenge his not being reinstated to his job after he resigned. San Franciscans literally exploded, however, when what they perceived as an open-and-shut case of murder warranting a death sentence was deemed by a jury to be voluntary manslaughter, and the protests in the city's streets came to be known as the "White Night Riots" with property damages in the millions. For all practical purposes, the city's nightmare ended with White's suicide after his parole from prison after just six years. This nuts-and-bolts synopsis is greatly detailed by Weiss' vivid reconstruction of the personalities and politics that were on a collision course, and his work emerges as an informative commentary on a major event in the city's rich history. Additionally, while there have been some books written about both Moscone and Milk, few (if any) have been done about their killer. To some extent, Weiss manages to give us an in-depth character study of White and which few other writers have even attempted, much less achieved. In sum, this book has murder, sex, politics and family, their ultimate collision that eventually cost three lives is all the more tragic because it really happened.