Napolean Hill talks about attitude, outlook and how they influence a person's destiny. He's right and communicates this message to anyone who will listen. This book also has updated material more relevant to our time. If anyone is serious about changing their circumstance then this book is a good place to start.

This is a wonderful book. What you are supposed to do is read a chapter a week. I had to plow right through the whole thing.

What Mr. Hill teaches, among other things is that you have to decide Exactly what you want, make a plan and go for it. He teaches about 40 other things too, but that is the main point.

Mr. Hill uses excellent examples from personal experience how to accomplish great things.

I'm sure you will love this book if you love success/self help type books.

If you want success in any aspect of your life, you must read this timeless classic by Napolean Hill. He walks you through a 52 week roadmap to success.

Not really knowing what this was, I bought it off the shelf at a bookstore just before my wedding, almost four years ago. We had a great time filling out the booklets, and our friends and family had fun completing their questionairres. The book is sealed and put away for now... however, one questionaire did not make it in time... and on our third anniversary we caved... and opened it. We had a great time reading what my Mother-In-Law thought of us then, and how well she predicted where we might be headed (all good of course). We've since given both this and the graduate's predictionary for gifts on a few occassions. A great buy!

I received this as an engagement gift and found it to be my
favorite. I plan for me & my soon-to-be husband to fill this
out on our honeymoon. This is also a great way for friends and
family to join in on the fun.

This book was so much fun. Inside the hard-bound package there are two soft cover books. One for you and one for your partner. Inside these books are lists of questions about what you envision your lives together to be like in the future. The questionnaire asks about everthing from kids to old age. Also included in the package are mini-surveys for you to give to the people in your lives that know and love you. The idea is that in 10, 20 and/or 30 years you both look at your own predictions and share your thoughts. Very well put together package and well worth the money.

Ms. Cohen's book fills a niche- there aren't many clearly written books available that include experiential exercises for parents struggling with this difficult issue. Raise Your Child's Social IQ provides parents with practical tools and provides a means for them to partner with their children. Thank you!

As a Grandparent of eight grandchildren, I have read Cathi Cohen's book with great interest and have recommended it to the parents of our grandchildren. It is a simple building block approach to acquiring social skills and self confidence in children who are struggling to be accepted and do not know why they they are meeting with failure. It is extremely beneficial to the parents who may be challenged in trying to help their youngsters meet with success. I only wish I had it available when I needed it.

Raise Your Child's Social IQ is a "must have in your back pocket" therapeutic cookbook for working with children presenting with social skill deficits. We use it regularly in our pediatric group psychological practice. You will find the book to be well-organized and logical in its presentation. Importantly, its easy for parents to understand and use along with your child's clinician in developing targeted treatment goals and implementing them in the child's daily life. Our typical approach is for the parents to use one of our copies for their work with the child at home. Together, clinician and parent(s) make a formiable therapeutic team. If you have or treat children with social skill problems and you don't have this book you have missed the boat on an excellent resource.

Well, me and my wife have been using this method for about 10 months. We have sessions about twice a week. My wife is on her 94th session. So, does it work? YES!! My wife has seen many symptoms improve. Depression and headaches are the two symptoms that have improved dramatically. Her ability to stand up for herself has also improved dramatically. I should mention that my wife cries easily. She cried within five minutes of the first session. Keep in mind this therapy takes commitment and time, but it is worth it.

On the down side, I have been unable to cry and have given up on this method. I tried following the book for about six months. Could not cry once. What this means is that *some* people's ability to cry is severely damaged, and this therapy will be extremely difficult for people like me. But I hope others (like my wife) will benefit from it.

However, even failure can lead to a cure. I began looking for an alternate therapy to get me kick started. I discovered a new therapy called "Redirecting Self Therapy". Can't provide a link here, but it is bringing many years of suffering to a rapid end.

Also, this book lists all the great discoveries (in psychology) made in the last few decades. It is an excellent primer on regressive therapies in general. If I had to recommned only one book on psychology, this is it.

Excellent way to cure many ills, cry. More men should just do just that. Only some, even now, "hold back a tear". I used to. This alone only holds in the pain and unclear feelings--balderdash on that.
LIVE with the difficult moment, CRY, HEAL. It works for me every day.
As for the author's writing style, I, could say it works well enough. He speaks from the heart while espousing heartfelt emotions. That would make anyone wordy, an honest author included. This the point here, isn't it?
I love this man for his strength and his sharing. Thank you Mr. Thomas A. Stone, sir.

If you want to know more about the importance of feeling pain and crying as a means of healing your neuroses, this is a rare book to read. I found valuable practical information on how to help myself and others to cry. In addition to the book by Jean Jenson: Reclaiming yourself, it helped me in my healing process.

My husband and I are very interested in ancient cultures and especially stone circles; this book told us where they were, what to expect to see, and how to get there (which wasn't always very easy!) We were able to pick an area of England with a heavy concentration of good quality circles based on his descriptions and pictures, and with book in hand, see many of the ones we chose. Mr. Burl is kind enough to mention when the going is tough, and he was always right. The only thing that could make this book any more invaluable as a field guide would be inclusion of Surveyor's Maps of the areas...but those can be purchased easily in the countries in question. (Color photos would've been nice, too!) Highly recommended for real trip-planning, or just for inspiration!

I recently returned from a vacation over in Ireland/Scotland/Wales where for 4 weeks I and 2 of my friends researched and visited stone circles throughout the Isles. Aubrey Burl definitely has written an essential resource you should pick up if you have the intentions of going to see them. He touches on a great number of "out of the way" stone circles not widely known in areas and gives precise directions on how to get to them. It is almost like a treasure hunt, you never knwo what is around the corner in Aubrey's book! A definite must get for the stone circle enthusiast. Don't even think about putting this book down. Get a map, get this book, and go hunting for these great spiritual centers.

This very informative guidebook will bring to life your understanding of what otherwise might appear to be some big rocks in a field. I recently viewed a very important megalithic site, Stanton Drew, without this book. Even though I am somewhat well-read in this area, the site really was uninterpretable on its own. When I read the commentary in this book, my experience of the site changed and I was able to peer back through the millenia to see the site as the builders would have. This book is indispensible.

There are lots of characters to loathe and love in this one. Derek, Holly Elliot's stepfather was a real brute. Being in the army, Derek was able to prevent Holly's father from leaving Vietnam. If Derek had been in the Marine Corps, he would never have pulled this off. A Marine would not have left a dead or wounded man behind to die, no matter how close the enemy was!

Jason Cole was every girl's dream man, one of the few KS heros with no flaws. His quick intelligence allowed him to see the real Holly within moments of meeting her. Both were beautiful, smart, and in love. But, Holly had a lot of gall getting angry at Jason when if not for him, she might never have known her father's fate! She was darn lucky he cared enough to get involved! He went through his own emotional battle over this, too!

Raven was a wonderful girl who deserved much happiness. Nicholas was fine, handsome, and totally in love with her. But towards the end, there was a scene where he was furious with Raven and spoke pretty ugly to her, then upon realizing his mistake, he's back 'in love' with her. His lack of trust in her wasn't even an issue. I wouldn't have dismissed the incident so easily.

Lawrence and Caroline were also a fine couple, but KS turned Lawrence into another one of her overly sensitive, sappy, soft men, like Rafe in STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT. What a mush he was!

I just finished this book yesterday and it was one of those that you can't put down. Raven is a wealthy and succesful entertainment lawyer who has searched for love and never came out ahead. Holly is a romance author who is hiding from reality. Nick is a single dad that is trying to protect his family and heart. Jason is a actor/director/producer who has bought the rights to one of Holly's books. Holly doesn't want him to change it even though he has a right to. They are all connected enough to maintain in the same story but it is like reading 2 or 3 different stories within one book. You would think it would be somewhat confusing trying to keep track of who is connected to who and how but in this book it flows so smoothly that you don't even really think about it. This book is a romance without all the explicit love scenes but it isn't just a romance it's about the characters finding themselves and helping each other.

This was the first Katherine Stone novel that I read and it is one of the most moving and beautiful romance novels I have ever encountered. The two primary characters, Raven and Lauren/Holly, are among my favorites in fiction. Both are seriously wounded spiritually but are amazing survivors who never give up on the hope or dream of love. Their stories are emotionally gripping, and for readers who love to go though the maelstrom of emotions, this is a terrific choice. I highly recommend it. I have read almost all of Kathernine Stone's other novels, but this is the best and most satisfying.

There are really two types of people who will read a history of Japan: serious students and casual readers who wish to be reasonably well informed. In either case, this should be the first book one reads. Henshall is an authority on Japanese language and culture, so right off it is a credible text. For the casual reader, the language is fairly prosaic and easily digestible. While it deals a wonderful overview, with no dearth of specific information and credited sources, it does not (wisely) attempt to exhaust the subject. There is even chapter-by-chapter timeline and summary, though for the casual reader the timeline may be difficult to keep in one's mind; students have the advantage of being reinforced by other resources. I strongly recommend, as you read, writing out the timeline in a notebook and reinforcing the many names the same way. However, there is nothing particularly new here (except for drawing upon several sources in anthropology and archaeology which might previously not have been used in the same secondary source), so if you have a semester of Japanese history you can safely skip this book. The reason it gets only 4 stars in this review is simply because I believe that no 'generalized' reader can be THE book to have no matter its quality -- it is the one disadvantage of this type of book. However, I cannot recommend it more highly.

Textbooks are no fun; that has always been the case. It is a lot more fun to learn something when you aren't thrown at a bunch of names and dates and expected to understand everything from those facts. Kenneth G. Henshall's A History of Japan doesn't seem like much of a textbook and perhaps it wasn't meant to be one. The only textbook like element that pushes the textbook like quality is the index in the back, but how can you not have an index in a history book?
The first really good quality of this book is the length. It may seem impossible to complete an insightful history of a nation in two hundred pages, but Henshall manages too. He knows exactly what to talk about, and has a very good idea of what would be interesting to the reader. He touches on all important facts, dates, and events but does so in a much better narrative method than a typical textbook would. The whole work is written like a good story book as opposed to something that is supposed to force learning. When reading it, the reader doesn't feel like he's being spoon-fed bits of information to swallow. Henshall manages to convey all the information necessary without sacrificing reading quality. This interesting technique allows you to be able to zoom through chapters and sections and yet be able to retain information that you have read. The only minor downfall of his technique is that sometimes the reader manages to get through a topic so fast that he or she need to go back and look at it again to understand what they have read.
Another great aspect of this book is detail. Henshall brings in a ton of interesting facts and tidbits of uncommonly known information. This plays on the reader's curiosity and encourages him to continue reading on. Henshall is great at throwing in information that isn't in typical textbooks and maybe thought of as excessive by other authors. It's these extras that allow the reader to gain a broader insight into the topic and feel as if they are part of the action. Descriptively Henshall is very clever as well. He is a good narrator and builds up scenes that allow the reader to visualize that which is being discussed. Henshall never goes too far, when describing something gruesome or shocking he never steps over the interest boundary and into the territories of disgust.
A third good characteristic of this work is the inclusion of events outside Japan. The author manages to tie in events going on around the world into those in Japan. If Japan is ever affected by something outside of its borders, Henshall makes sure to explain why. Henshall also makes sure to note when something done by the Japanese affects the rest of the world. The time related references are great as well. If something is significant enough, Henshall will make sure to state why this came about or how this will affect the future. He manages to convey all this without confusing and losing the reader.
Seemingly, the best quality of this book is that Henshall isn't an American. Perhaps his audience outside of the United States would take this fact for granted, but it is greatly appreciated. When reading something written by a non-American, the reader is offered a completely different perspective. There are things mentioned that an American author might hesitate to say. It is great to feel as if one is looking at Japan from somewhere other than the United States. It is also very enjoyable to read commentaries on American actions from a third party stand point. This whole take is very refreshing.
Overall, this book may not be for everyone. Every person learns differently, some need information deposited directly into their heads, while others absorb it. This book isn't very direct about anything it presents. While all the facts are there, they aren't highlighted in gold and are in need of notice. If the reader is one who can notice facts and absorb them well, then this text is perfect; if the reader is someone who needs a more direct approach when being educated, then they may need to pass on this work and seek something more conventional.

This book is a superb introduction into a country that has been misrepresented and misunderstood for a long time (though not so much in the modern day). It gives a concise and interesting overview of Japanese history to the modern day, and does so while providing enough information to give the reader a solid grasp of the subject matter. From here, the reader can easily move onto specific areas of interest, because they will likely know some of the major events/people associated with that time period. Or if they are not particularly interested with Japanese history, they will walk away with a rudimentary understanding of this amazing country's history.
Further, I did not detect any significant bias on the part of the author, though I am not an expert in the subject matter, so my opinion is an amateur one.
Highly reccommended.

Using this book and a good map of Ireland, I found and explored the two possible sights of the tomb of Jeremiah. I had a great time in the effort.

macfaith

This book is very educational. I am not a student of the Bible, but I really love the history and the theories that are written about this time period.

An excellent and insightful work. Capt's invaluable work on the history of the British Monarchy and its connection to King David and the Biblical Tribe of Judah is not only fascinating but probes one's mind and forces people to reconsider what they've been traditionally taught from scripture. I would recommend this wonderful work to any serious Bible student. As a good compliment to reading this book, one should read II Samuel chapter 7 and Psalms chapter 89 (and view how those scriptures are fulfilled in today's Monarchial Throne). It's amazing!!

This book has clearly stood the test of time. It is now in its 11th edition. My professor uses the 9th edition, and most of our class has a later copy. The author provides step by step help for novice financiers who want to learn mortgages, internal rates of return, and net present value calculations.
I would offer a word of warning to people who consider buying older versions in order to save money. I have the 8th edition. The concepts have not changed (although the assumed interest rates certainly have!). However, the chapters have since been rearranged and the questions in the back of the book are different. If you are using this book for a class you may need to at least have access to a newer version.

Excellent book. Easy to follow, yet explores some complex topics.

This book is extremely insightful into the world of real estate. After having used it for two real estate classes at the MBA level, I decided to keep it for future reference, figuring most real estate books wouldn't come near this text. The problem sets at the end of each chapter are also very useful in giving the potential investor a good foundation in how real estate finances work. Overall, I highly recommend this book to the novice or experienced real estate investor.

This is one of the best books out of the hundreds I've read on astronomy, earth science and biology. This is the rare book that weaves together these disciplines. If you read one book on how our planet got to where it is, and where it's going, this is the one.

Dr. Drury has produced a much needed lay-person's exposition of Earth science - Bravo! To paraphrase his words, this book provides the complete story which is sketched out in several contemporary works dealing with life sciences and origins.
On the down-side, the reader is forced to read the authors' (short but frequent) political commentary peppered throughout the work. Marx, Engels, Lenin and other economic/political writers are quoted throughout. In most cases, the quotes are forced and read as though they were inserted in spite of the otherwise wonderful text.

For years I have been interested in geology and the evolution of life, but have rarely found any general book aimed at the non-specialist. Stepping Stones breaks completely from the single-topic approach and takes on probably the broadest scope of any book I have read - the entire evolution of our home planet, the life upon it and our own emergence from a history of quiet change interspersed with unimaginably violent events over almost 5 billion years. It links geology through physics, chemistry and biology to astronomical factors. Forget the Whole Earth Cookbook; Stepping Stones tells our story. Like all good reads, it contains a sting in the tail and blends fact, theory, speculation and some wry humour. I can't say that it is an easy read, but truly found it hard to put down. What I particularly like about it is the way that the author has divided the text into more than 20 chapters, each of which is almost self-contained and possible to read in an evening. I don't know how he did it, but the huge amount of content links together wonderfully. My favourite passage - where he jokingly links our irritating cough reflex to the survivors of a volcanic holocaust 25 million years ago when the atmosphere was thick with noxious fumes, and 90 percent of all life perished. Every living thing today descends from those survivors, and I laughed to think we may owe our being to the plague of concert halls. What I learned most - how humans evolved through a repeated sequence of huge climate and environmental shifts, which helped hone our ancestors survival skills, and generally how evolution is as much a product of outlandish chance as it is of slow change governed by genes pitted against surroundings. If I were younger, I would enroll for a geology course, and would feel confident that I could master any specialist detail thrown at me, now that I have grasped the fullest possible context from Stepping Stones!