In every informative and impressive page, McMullen and Miller illustrate the value of mentor relationships. Historical pairs arouse curiosity, interest, and the desire to share the beautiful truths of mentoring's importance with family, friends, colleagues, and community. This inspiring storytelling is penned with strong writing, keen understanding, and timely significance.

Who knew such famous people had help from others to acomplish their goals? I've been giving it to all of my friends for their birthdays.

After reading several versions of the Bhagavad Gita, I found this one to be the most accessible -- especially listening to it on an audio cassette. I sensed that I really understood the message as the original author intended for the first time. Needleman is a masterful reader, and this contributes to the enjoyment and teaching of this work. I find the wisdom presented here to have had a profound effect on my learning as a human being seeking my spiritual self.

Very well read by Mr. Needleman. I'm listening to it now for the second time. Barbara Stoler-Miller's translation works for me: she translated everything. People's names were not changed, but there are no untranslated Indian words to puzzle the listener. The Dover Publications book, e.g., has some Indian words left untranslated so I sometimes don't know what is being "said". That's why I put down the Dover book and got this tape and am very happy with it. The Bhagavad Gita is very interesting and very thoughtful. I've been interested ever since I saw the Mahabarata (spelling?) presented on PBS. The Bhagavad Gita is a part of that larger story.

This is book contains the best bird photographs I have seen. The photographer has some of the most unusual shots of birds. The pictures capture the birds in there normal activities. The text was well written especially keeping the order by seasons. Great job I hope to see more books by these authors.

A remarkable clear and concise description of Southern coastal birds by seasons of the year. This unique classification will allow even the novice to identify and enjoy migratory birds. Fontenot and Miller's work will enable the entire community of bird watchers to share appreciation of this National treasure. Two species that come to mind are the common blue bird and the rare sand hill crane which we enjoy in the Northern Summer.

The photography is a tour de Force in the Audubon tradition and the bird and habitat description could have only been done by a seasoned birder with years of on site experience. As a bonus Birds of the Gulf Coast is a coffee table quality book. epa

I first found out about the Cards of Illumination from a radio broadcast! The two authors were interviewed and explained how the sytem works clearly and simply. It was fun. The calls into the show were hilarious, because all the callers were really "pegged"! Everyone who called in was amazed, including me! Your birthdate corresponds to a card in a regular deck of cards. I was flabbergasted at how accurately I was described. Anyway, I recommend the book! It is a lot of fun, and easy to use. You can look up your friends as well as romantic interests to check for compatibility. The authors explain the system clearly and it is easy to follow and understand.

This book deals with your birthdate and the correlation to a deck of playing cards. I was amazed at how accurate they pegged me. I was so fascinated at how without knowing me, this book could give me so many insightful looks into the positive and negative (unfortunately) traits of my personality and others. This is a MUST for every coffee table in America. You really need to get a look at the information in this book!

As a transgendered person, I found this book to be a big help in my search for my gender identity. I applaud Rachel Miller for writing such a book and making people like me realize we are not alone. The advice she gives is just what I need to help get me through my ordeal, and if I could only meet her, I would give her a big hug.

Having read this book (prior to publication) and again after, I can honestly say this is one of the finest books on self discovery that I have ever read. If you are trying to dfiscover where in this broad spectrum of gender and sex you fit into, this book will help you find yourself. This is a relatively quick and easy read, however, to truly accomplish your goals, I suggest to all that they read it at least 3 times prior to doing any of the excersizes. Then go back again in 3 months and 6 months and do them again. You will be amazed at what you will learn about yourself.

I recommend this book to all of my clients and anyone else who is searching for identity....

Mary Ellen Miller and the late Linda Schele put this book together in 1986. The field of Mayan studies is a fast-moving arena, and Mayanists already know a lot more now than they did when this book came out, but in my opinion this book is still the place to start if you want to begin learning about the Maya.

For one thing, the photography of the artwork is fantastic - the book is worth acquiring for that alone. Secondly, the commentary is by the greatest names in the field, including an introduction by Michael Coe. Thirdly, the book never strays from academic discipline, unlike a great deal of New Agey-type material written about the Maya. In fact, the book studiously avoids making any observations that cannot be substantiated - perhaps a reaction in the field of Mayan studies against the sometimes too pat assumptions that Eric Thompson made when he dominated the subject. Fourthly, it covers all the major cultural features of the Maya, providing abundant commentary on each piece of art portrayed. Last but not least, it tackles the thorny subject of Maya iconography. This is a field about which we already know a great deal more about now than we knew in 1986, but in fact if the book were written today there is probably very little that would actually be changed.

The book was printed in Japan, for some reason. No harm in that - the Japanese have a tradition, and a reputation, of producing quality bindings and excellent photographic reproductions, both of which are evident in this edition and which add to the quality of the book. I can't recommend it too highly to anyone interested in the Maya.

The Blood of Kings by Linda Schele and MAry Ellen Miller was written on the occasion of the Kimbell Art Mesuem's exhibition of Maya Art in 1986. The hope was to draw attention to the rich legacy of Maya art along with a book that would give texture to these artistic recordings of the singificant ritual events in the lives of the Maya. What better way, since art has been our keyhole to understanding the magnificance of there thought, language, science and culture? Schele and Miller do an incredble job of focusing on these artifacts to bring us inside the current understanding of what th experts perceive the maya ritual and life to be about-- including the deciperment of the syllables of the maya language.

The book begins with a history of the road to understanding the Maya culture, complete with its meadering and diversions. This "age" delights in knowing that the Maya are filled with blood, both their own in bloodletting and those of captives that they sacrifice, unlike previous interpretations of a more peaceful existence. Blood, the ooze of life, was offered to eh gods in hopres that they would continue to give their ooze of sap, rain and other life-sustaining things. The book is based on 8 sections of art and interpretation: person, accession rites, courtly life, bloodletting, captives, the ballgame, and death, and the kingship of the Maya Cosmos. Of note as weel is the colors on p.158 where one can get an interpration of what the colors might have been in the Classic period.

In this book Coe prefaces the book commenting on the profound understandng that the world of the Maya is filled with notions of death. But the myth of the Mayas is that the hero twins went to the underworld and by trickery defeated death and those rose to take their place in the Mayan night sky. Perhaps these indiscernible Maya have continued to trick us as well in our attempts to traverse the road of their culture-- and their greatest preoccupation, enscribed on their ceramics and reliefs ---is not death, but life, in all its oozing forms.

This book was an amazing compendium of the private writings of many Americans across a huge span of time. Reading each entry is delicious work: first you have to get the name, the year, an understanding of who the writer was and what the subject was. Then in your mind you go to that day and try to question things like where was the writer, were the expressions clear and true, how would this sound if this passage was actually being spoken directly to me, what did the writer look like... A wonderous packet of questions arose in my mind as I read each entry, and I tried to stretch my mind to find the truth. This is the best kind of writing, I think, for there are so many questions to ponder about it. Did the writer intend for his/her comments to be read? One never really knows, but I am grateful to the Millers for having this book published because I love to ask questions. Thank you!

This book is a collage of American diaries woven together to create an American diary. It's a work of great power.in the way each daily entry, with several different diariests, catches a sense of living in America at different times. Anyone who has kept a diary will appreciate it.

When going from whole grain wheat flour to white flour we lose from 60 to 80% of 12 out of 13 nutrients present at good, or excellent level in Whole Wheat. I loved this cookbook because all the recipes were for whole flours, and never white refined carbohydrates.

In this book you learn how to make a sour dough starter, and how to maintain it. You also learn about natural rise bread which is made without any yeast at all.

I highly recommend this book; unfortunately, I could not find another copy to buy. It seems to be out of print.

Fabulous whole wheat receipes that produce light fluffy bread. Good advice on dough handling procedures. Suggestions for tofu use. All in all a terrific cookbook!

But that is one of the reasons you should buy this book if you want to learn web design tricks that will annoy the heck out of anyone visiting your site. If you're the kind of person that loves to pull naughty tricks on web visitors, you will love this book. Or if you just want to know some cool stuff to try just for the heck of it, you will love this book. While some of this tricks have no value other than to annoy, it's nice to know about them if you do any kind of web design. And for the ones that do have some value, it's nice to know of some new tricks to try (as long as they're not overdone). I'm always looking for the latest "tricks" and when I got this book, I thought it would be more of a "guide to what not to do with a web site." Instead, the author seems to take great pleasure out of pointing out "evil tricks" to try.

Among them? Bothersome Backgrounds, like flashing backgrounds or a scrolling background. Nasty looking text that fades in or out, or changes colors constantly. Links that go nowhere or adding sounds to them. Crazy cursors that change shape or disappear entirely. Popups or windows that fill up a whole screen. Or even ways to "force" visitors to fill out a form within a specified time or to block underage visitors if you have an adult-oriented site (actually that one might come in handy for some!).

At times hilarious and a quick read, this book is enjoyable especially if you have a perverse desire to learn what the annoying things you really shouldn't do with a web site, but have the desire to do anyway.

This is a great book! It will tell you exactly what to do to make the most annoying website on the net! It can make you make unstopable pop-ups, changing backgrounds, forcing readers to scroll over to read a sentence, blast annoying music in the background, make visitors view a slide-show before entering your page, and that's just for beginners! Not only does this book tell you how to be annoying, it has some nice things to help your site, like making sure visitors read the terms of service before entering, and so on. After each section, it tells you how to use the scripts to Not be annoying, so you don't always have to annoy the people.
Any way, this is a great book for people who LOVE to create off-the-wall webpages!

From complicated terms such as "IPO's" to how to borrow from your family, this book takes you through the steps. The chapter on using networking to locate capital was really interesting, with little tips like marking the cards you get with the date and a note. My only complaint is that the book needs internet addresses. But the information in the back of the book listing resources is invaluable.

Starting a small business has been very difficult for me. Finding the answers I need to my questions has been a challenge. This book provided me specific, step-by-step information about how to obtain the money I needed for my business. Surprisingly, money was available for me, but without this book, I would never have found it. If you want money for your business, read this one-of-a-kind book.