When individuals accept the way that people have always done things, they develop rigidity of mind. This way of thinking is safe and comfortable, but it does not allow unique abilities to blossom. In Think Differently, Drew examines this static way of thinking and ways that individuals can free themselves from a rigid mind. He offers tools to help readers develop individual talents and to see themselves and others in a different, more successful light. As Drew states, "If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got." With this idea as a starting point, he sets out on a path to show how re-engineering thinking--a journey from the familiar to the unknown--can open new doors and help readers discover who they really are and who they are capable of becoming. Drew compares the programming of a computer, with its operating system and software, to the programming of the human brain. While parents program their children when they are in the womb, through birth, and often up to age twenty-one, most well-meaning parents do not have the knowledge needed to pass on the human interaction and behavioral skills their children will require in the twenty-first century and beyond. Adding to this difficulty is the fact that unlike computers--which we can frequently upgrade with new software, faster chips and more memory--our "brain ware" generally stays the same: It is slow and based on a centuries-old design, a problem that is not going to disappear. Though technology has revised the way that people live, individuals have not adapted their personal lives, which are still patterned after that of their parents. As Drew says, "We remain trapped. Trapped in a cage. Trapped in a cage that we either produced, promoted or allowed to be constructed around ourselves." Drew takes readers from old think to new ways of thinking, opening their minds by using divergent thinking to improve personal awareness. He begins the adventure by introducing the concept of re-engineering, asking the fundamental questions: Why do we do what we do? Why do we do it the way we do? He shows how individuals can overcome the blame game and self-defeating behaviors. He leads the reader through the process of personal change, with the goal being to discover who the individual really is by examining what the self, both public and private, knows--and what the self does not know. He offers a set of tools and techniques that drive change, the most powerful of which is combining commitment with action. Drew emphasizes, "We must, if we are to change, break the rules under which we currently operate." Think Differently is well annotated and easy to follow. Drew successfully adapts and applies computer and business concepts to personal improvement. Although he is clear with his concepts, the concrete examples he provides of changes his clients have made and how these changes affected their lives are not fully developed. Still, readers will be able to apply the pearls of wisdom offered here to their everyday life, which will allow their uniqueness to blossom.

I thought this book was pretty good. I liked how the author used the characters and how the story went from the starting to middle and end. I really liked her word choice she used her words pretty well writing the book. And I like Nancy Drew which is the main character in the story I liked what she did in the story all the way through. And I rated this book a four out of five and I advise people to read this book.

Bess is excited. TV Rock, a music video network is broadcasting a never before seen tape of her favorite rock star's last concert. Jesse Slade had disappeared three years earlier with his manager on the night of the concert. How could a musician with two Grammys, a gold and a platinum album, suddenly disappear without a trace as he was nearing the climax of his career?
While Nancy, Bess and George watch the concert on TVR, Nancy catches a glimpse of a shadowy object falling off a nearby cliff.
Convinced that Jesse was murdered, Bess calls TVR and gets Nancy on the case. Soon the girls are jetting out to L.A. to look into an unsolved Hollywood mystery.
Going undercover as a veejay at TVR isn't as easy as Nancy thought it would be. Her boss, Renee, seems to be sabotaging Nancy's work at TVR.
Nancy interviews Jesse's old friends and coworkers to see if she can glean any tidbits to help her unravel the mystery. Come to find out, Renee was Jesse's girlfriend, and she was secretly seeing a member of Jesse's band before he disapppeared. Nancy also runs into a Slade memorabilia collector who knows too much.
S.J.

Hyland does a first-class job of articulating a middle ground between the philosophic business-as-usual dichotomies, especially with regard to the question of the relation between eros, logos and phusis in Plato's dialogues. He calls this middle ground the 'interrogative stance', the 'stance of wonder' and, most suggestively, 'responsive openness'. Hyland argues that Socrates avoids both the 'stance of mastery' and the 'stance of submission' with a very detailed and persuasive account of his interrogation of Charmides and Critias, therein articulating a 'mode of being' that is appropriate to human finitude. Hyland draws a few parallels to Heidegger which are quite instructive.

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 review concerns the original 1937 edition as well as the edited revised 1972 edition. Nancy, Bess, George and Mr. Drew are staying at Deer Mountain Hotel/Lodge because Mr. Drew is working on a case concerning jewel thieves. He asks Nancy's help to look for a woman suspected of being a member of the gang and who is supposed to be in the vicinity of the hotel. The only clue to her identity is that she carries an expensive jewel case with the picture of a child in it (really now, like people are going to notice her jewel case and that it has a child's picture, but not be able to give even the slightest bit of a physical description of the woman, like her hair color????). Nancy also hears a story about a haunted bridge in the woods near the hotel and she enters a golf tournament. Zzzzzzzzz. This has to be one of the most inappropriately titled books in the series. There is a "haunted" bridge, but Nancy discovers the truth behind it on page 42 (in the original edition)! The book isn't 1/4 over at that point. What does the bridge really have to do with the rest of the mystery? The whole golf tournament part is rather boring and unsuspenseful. I'm not giving away some big secret by telling you that Nancy wins. Nancy always wins or is the best at everything she does. Frankly, I find it rather annoying. Just once I'd like to see Nancy be just alright at doing something or have Bess or George be better than her at something. The book isn't a complete waste of time, the mystery concerning the jewel thieves isn't that bad and kept me somewhat interested. This wasn't one of my favorites, but it was worth reading; although, anyone who reads it expecting a story about ghosts is going to be let down.

This story is about an 18-year old gorl, Nancy Drew, who finds herself in a mystery on a haunted bridge. She is qualifying to play in the golf tournament when a boy named Ned tells her about the bridge being haunted with a ghost guarding it. Her father tells her about a jewel thief that they are trying to locate. A man named Barty is suspected by nancy because of his various handwriting styles. Then she finds a Margaret Judson who she thinks is the jewel thief. Miss Drew finds many clues... I thought this book was very fun and enjoying. It was the first Nancy Drew book that I've ever read. I like to read mystery and suspense stories where you suspect one person and it turns out he was innocent all the time and it was someone else all along. I have read "The Boxcar Children" books before and also enjoyed them because of the mystery. My least favorite part is how in real life suspects are usually smart enough to escape, but in the two Nancy Drew books I've read, the culprit is never wise to get away from the officer. However, Nancy Drew always completes a mystery fairly making sure the right person is punished. When I first started it, I couldn't put it down.
My favorite part of the story was when Nancy's two best friends - Bess and George... They called the police and were proud of themselves for what they did... Overall, I enjoyed reading "The Haunted Bridge" and suggest for you to read it also. When you do, I hope you find it was good as I did.

I thought this was a very good book. The book was about Nancy Drew, finding a lost treasure in a river! My favorite character was Nancy Drew because she is VERY brave and also she is very smart. My favorite part of the book was when they found a bridge "The Haunted Bridge" I would encourage anyone to read this book if you are into mystery stories.

This is the most misleading title ever. The book promises to help you resore your intimacy. For someone suffering from depression and looking for a way to fix their diminished sexual desire, this book is a cruel joke with nothing more to say than "Talk to your doctor about it".

You can save yourself a lot of time and money if you already know the basics about depression and its effects on your life. This book offers absolutely no solutions, just platitudes!

I would have given it zero stars, but Amazon didn't give me that option.

This book was easy to read and helped me understand more about the side effects of medication and the impact depression can have on relationships. I liked reading the questions/answers that were provided but I wish there were more tips on how to maintain my relationship through my depression. I would recommend this to someone who wants more of an overview/clinical view on depression. For those of you who want tips on how to strengthen your relationship, look elsewhere...

This book is a godsend. I am struggling with a husband who is depressed and this is the first book I found that addressed the problems of intimacy when a spouse is depressed. The panel of experts gave thoughtful and helpful answers. Most of all, it was hopeful and reassuring to know that I am not alone.

This book is fun to look at. Dozens of photos, large and small, pay tribute to the most popular series characters in English-language fiction. As a child I used to stand in front of rows of these books in bookstores, poring over the covers, for hours at a time. The covers have a talismanic quality this book neatly captures. Interior line drawings (including the "frontispiece" illustrations in each book) also appear throughout this large-format book. Unfortunately none of the Drew/Hardy pictures are labelled, so unless you know the originals you can't pair them to the book. The potted history of the Stratemeyer syndicate is clearly if breezily presented, with excerpts from letters indicating the tensions behind the scenes between publishers and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who assumed control of the empire after her father died in 1930, just as the Drew series was about to start (three years after the Hardy series had taken off). The authors document almost nothing, though, so you can't easily use the book for research purposes. Still, these authors condescend to the series characters far less than most academic writers have -- it's nice to read complimentary things about the power of the books on kids who have literally read them to pieces over the decades. The main problem with this book is that it goes far afield to encompass a general social history of the last century. We get inset mini-essays on adolescence, "model dads" (from FDR to MLK), juvenile delinquents, "Seventeen" magazine, the influence of TV, etc. The inset coverage is superficial, reading like canned newsmagazine features. Anyone who picks up the book to read about Drew/Hardy is unlikely to care about this material. Fortunately, there is still plenty about Drew/Hardy, with generous quotes from both the original books and updated rewrites of the Grosset and Dunlap series. The authors treat each series as one long book, looking for trends in plots and characterizations -- Nancy is "locked in closets, attics, gymnasiums, cisterns, caves, and submarines," they note. They're also good on the media and pop culture variations of the characters, from Disney TV adaptations to board games. The paperback watering-down of the characters in the 1980s gets softer treatment than it deserves, since this book's publisher (Simon and Schuster) owns the Stratemeyer Syndicate now and published them. The book is worth seeing, as long as readers knowit lacks full focus on Drew/Hardy, and often doesn't reveal its sources.

GREAT info for the Nancy Drew lover. This would get 5 stars for the inclusion of photos from the books alone. The writing could have been more detailed and written a bit better. I DID like that the authors included information from the period during which the NDs were written -- the '30s through today -- and how teens were changing over the years. Nancy Drew changed and grew along with today's teens, although die-hard fans wish the syndicate hadn't changed a WORD.

I was a little disappointed with the reading of the book, but had just finished "The Nancy Drew Scrapbook" which is AWESOME, so that might be why I was expecting more from this book. I LOVED all the photos, tho, lots of nostalgia!

This beautifully packaged, colourful, but thin paperback unearths the long history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's greatest heroes, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Blown-up covers from both series liven up the book, triggering memories of adrenaline surging through the veins of teenagers everywhere.

The material on how the books changed over the years -- especially the evolution of racial stereotypes of "Negroes," Jews, and Italians -- is truly fascinating. I never realized that the books I read in the seventies had been homogenized by a factory of authors. I now want to read the original books, if I can find them (eBay here I come!).

I could do without most of the overlong and annoying sidebars. Again and again they fill us in on how teens have changed over the last century, but seldom are the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew even mentioned in them!

I give this book an "A" for the terrific images and accurate and enlightening history, but overall, marred by some poor editorial decisions, the book deserves a "B." Still, this is required reading for those interested in pop culture and the literature of our youth. Now I'm off to solve the Secret of the Caves . . .

This is a highly revealing book about Senator John McCain, one of the most fascinating figures to hit the political scene in many moons. Those who followed his unsuccessful but energizing presidential campaign will be delighted to see the more complete and complex figure who emerges in these pages. He is shown as a serious strategic thinker who keeps his eye on the ball to achieve a long term legislative goal. While describing McCain the book also gives a lot of insight into the process which led to the passage of the campaign finance overhaul. It's a great read for anyone interested in McCain, Washington politics, the campaign finance system in this country or all of the above.

John McCain is not only important, he is chronically interesting as well, whether running a campaign or plotting legislative strategy. Elizabeth Drew ably captures the many fascinating facets of this compelling figure. You can't understand what's happening in Washington without understanding McCain. And you can't really understand McCain without reading Drew's compelling book.

I never thought that I would write a review of a book on campaign finance reform and call it a "page turner," but this one is just GREAT....It keep me enthralled all the way to the end, which is more than I can say about other books on similar subjects.

Despite what many think, living inside "the beltway" does not necessarily equate to an knowledge of the inner-workings of Congress. In fact, although I read the news coverage of the protracted campaign-finance reform battle, I didn't have a clear understanding of the difficulties behind-the-scenes.

What I enjoyed most about Elizabeth Drew's latest book--Citizen McCain--is that it delves into all of the inner workings: the wrangling and deal-making that accompany Congressional legislation. Ms. Drew is able to explain it in plain English--and it's fascinating.

I definitely recommend this book.

Fetherson delivers the history of the chunnel from the earliest days of wishful thinking to its completion. He covers both the engineering and the politics of this great project. I was fascinated by the engineering but depressed by the politics. Unfortunately, there were so many people mentioned in the book that I could not remember all of them which greatly detracted from my ability to understand all the machinations.

When great men set out to do great things few people ever understand the logistical or financial wranglings that have to occur for that great thing to ever exist. What I like about this book is that it delves into the herculean task (engineering and sheer muscle power) involved in digging under the channel as well as the political and financial tasks that were no less daunting. We need to understand that part of history as well. While often less "interesting" than the battle, the logistical efforts involved behind the scenes of any great engagement are often the least understood but truly the most important.

I like this book I give it a 5 star rating because i like this book alot to I think you will like thes book becase I liked it and I like alot of books