Anyone who is interested in learning about Astrology and needs a good starting point should read this book. I wish that this book was around when I first began to study Astrology.

"The Only Way to Learn Astrology" is a good book to begin with because it explains and defines all of the terms. It also gives enough information for someone to begin interpreting a Natal Chart.

The down side is that it is for beginners with a strong interest. If you are not really into it, you probably will be wasting your money. If you are serious, you might find that you need some other books that are more detailed for interpretation after studying this book.

Eventually, most astrologers begin reading books that focus on individual planets, trends, perspectives, ect. This book is a part of a series but, even so, there are more advanced books for people who have already invested some time in their search.

This is a great place to begin!

This book was highly recommended to me by a professional astrologer in the 80s when I first started studying astrology. I still refer to this book, and I'm glad to see that it's still available because I still recommend it to friends. The entire series is good, but this first installment is priceless. This first book helps you learn the language and the basic mechanics of astrology, and it is organized for easy reference. By the time you finish reading this book, you should be able to read a chart. Then you'll be ready to start a lifelong journey to continuously improve the art of practicing astrology!

I picked up my copy at a used bookstore for a couple of dollars. I was put off by the seemingly arrogant title and did not expect to get much out of it. After reading through it, I was so impressed that I eventually brought the entire series. It thoroughly covers all of the basics of interpretation, with easy to understand explanations. When clients ask for a book to further research their charts, I always refer March and McEvers. In fact, I use mine all the time and I have the best and most advanced books. Buy this book, you cannot go wrong if you are interested in learning the basics of astrology.

As a product of the Marion, Bainbridge and Decatur environment in the 1950's and 60's I thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing with Freddie Feddeck ( my neighbor) about growing up in the Bronx. Although a few years younger, (I was in Jimmy Feddeck's graduating class from O.L.M.) I found his book a walk down memory lane. My only regret after reading his delightful account was that I was not mentioned!! I am amazed at the clarity of his memory for so many childhood events both at O.L.M. and Fordham prep. Anyone living in the Fordham Road area during the 50's or 60's will be delighted to see their childhood through the eyes of Fred Feddeck! Almost as much fun as ordering the "Kitchen Sink" at Jahn's on Kingsbridge Rd.!!

As a product of the Bronx although just a few years behind the author, I found this book to be an extremely accurate reflection on our social structure and values. Thanks to the author for mentioning some friends, schools and establishments we all remember fondly. Thanks also for reminding us of the values we still cherish and wish for our children. You grow and spread your wings but you truly never leave the Bronx, Thank God!

Great and relaxing reading!

I to am an OLM alumni class of 1958. I rember Fred Feddeck from school and Marion Avenue, I lived on Marion and 188th Street. Reading Fred's book has brought back so many fond memories of the of the Bronx in those days. I rember Father O'Leary and the nuns, stick ball, curb ball the ball games behind PS85. I recognize many of the names mentioned in the book. What a great book it really brings back memories of the innocent days at OLM and the simple games we played. Congratulations on a wonderful book, hope Fred has another in the works.

Most businesses in the world today are owned by families, but only a small percentage of these companies will survive and grow into major corporations. The unique challenges posed by family ownership can undermine even the best-performing small business, as issues of control and succession permeate the generations. In Generation to Generation, the authors apply the simple premise that managing a family-owned business to a large extent means managing the family itself. To that end, they provide a rich compendium of research and strategic suggestions for those charged with making a family business work, including the consultants who guide them. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book for these applicable measures and methods, which will help the performance of both business and family.

The authors effectively present a theoretical, as well as practical model of family business dynamics, incorporating the complexities of development over time. This book is a must-read to gain a deep understanding of families in business from the key perspectives of familiy, business, and ownership. Their use of case examples effectively illustrate the practical application and relevance of theory. To sum it up, it's steak AND sizzle!

I think this is one of the best books available on family businesses! I found it insightful and informative. I think anyone interested in the subject should read this book. I strongly disagree with the review that describes this book as "too theoretical." I found it immensly practical.

I read this perhaps 17 years ago. I remember that my copy became quite ragged through rereading before I gave it to a friend who equally enjoyed it. I'd like to think it's still being circulated amongst friends.

Others have summarized the plot. I'll just reiterate that this book is a great way to spend a few hours if you're a sci-fi or fantasy fan.

Paul Edwin Zimmer, Bradley's brother, was initially an uncredited co-author. The lack of recognition wasn't Bradley's idea, and Zimmer was credited from the first on their sequel, _The Survivors_. The protagonist, Dane Marsh, is a lone wolf heroic type Zimmer wrote very well, along the lines of his character Roger Hogg in "The Hand of Tyr" (see _Greyhaven_). Marsh is a romantic born between romantic ages; he wants adventures, but in the late twentieth century, the world's fresh out. Every place has been explored, and somebody else has already been first to do anything worth doing. He saves his envy for whoever'll be first to hike around the Moon on foot, though, and gets on with his life - sailing around the world alone, even though it's been done.

At that point, a flying saucer kidnaps him right off his boat, and he learns that there may be a few more adventures left, after all. :)

The proto-feline Mekhar are notorious for their slave-raids, having refused Unity membership several times rather than repudiate the practice. Slaves being luxury goods, it pays to avoid damaging the merchandise, and even to install translator disks in their captives - although the Mekhar leave Dane's fellow prisoners to explain the situation. (Interestingly enough, proto-simians - humanlike beings - far from being lords of creation, are looked down upon, being perpetually "in season" and thus slaves of their sexual appetites. Superiority lies elsewhere: the proto-felines invented interstellar travel, and the proto-saurians generally look down on *everybody*. Aratak, the follower of the Divine Egg who befriends Dane, is an exception to this last.)

Dane's the only prisoner from Earth; the others figure somebody's being chewed out for grabbing a boat carrying less than a dozen people. Rianna's archeological team, for example, lost their gamble that the Mekhar wouldn't hit the otherwise deserted satellite they were working on.

Until Dane's arrival, nobody tried to escape more than once; not only are all the odds on the guards' side, but severe injuries may be a death sentence. Most of the prisoners have a fatalistic attitude that Dane violently disagrees with; he alone, for instance, interferes with the decision of the only captive from Spica IV, the empath Dallith, to refuse food and let herself die. (Oddly enough, while Aratak, the giant proto-saurian philosopher, remains silent, the vibrant Rianna protests Dane's interference, for reasons he comes to understand only much later.) Dane is the one who, spotting a security hole, masterminds an escape attempt - only to learn that it was just what the Mekhar were waiting for.

The final part of the Mekhar's standard operating procedure is to skim off the ringleaders in their escape-attempt test on each raid, and to sell them to the species known as the Hunters of the Red Moon for the role of Sacred Prey. The Hunters' only interest in life is to hunt the Most Dangerous Game: intelligent quarry, who can give them a challenge. Every batch of Sacred Prey is given some weeks to prepare on the Hunters' World before being taken to the Red Moon, and must survive there only until the next eclipse. They're even given a choice of weapons, short of firearms, but even that's disquieting; the Armory doubles as a huge trophy collection of the weapons of particularly excellent Prey. (In a really *cool* scene, Dane recognizes one weapon as the most perfect Mataguchi he's ever seen - something a samurai would *never* have left behind.)

The story revolves around Dane, as protagonist, and his fellow survivors Rianna, Dallith, and Aratak, with one startling addition: Cliff-Climber, a Mekhar guard who screwed up badly during the escape attempt, and took this option as an honorable alternative to suicide. While he knows more about the Hunters than any of the others, his proto-feline people take the proverb "curiosity killed the cat" very much to heart, and even though - he *says* - one of his own kinsmen survived a Hunt, he knows little about their destination. Dane and his companions have little more than the Hunters' word that successful quarry will be rewarded and allowed to leave. They don't even know what the Hunters look like; until the Hunt itself, the Sacred Prey only interact with robot caretakers, leading to a *lot* of theories among the Prey.

This is a mystery as well as an adventure story; only the last third covers the Hunt proper, the rest being split evenly between the slaveship and the Prey's prep time. Dane and the others must try to figure out the Hunters, knowing that the odds are against them. At the feast celebrating the end of the previous Hunt and the beginning of theirs, they learn that 47 Hunters faced 74 Prey. Nineteen Hunters perished.

*One* Sacred Prey survived.

I read this book about 10 years ago and went searching for it so I could read it again. Too bad it's out of print. This book is very entertaining. It's a worthwhile read. I couldn't put it down.

Superb. My first try at Balzac and I'll definitely be reading more. He makes you want to reach into the book and strangle those two horrible daughters.

This was my first Balzac novel and it definitely got me hooked on the Comedie Humaine!

I thought that this was a superb novel, containing an intriguing plot, rounded characters, along with an examination of thought-provoking issues.

Despite the title, "Old Goriot" is really the story of the law student Rastignac's attempts to make it in Parisian society. Rastignac is living at a run-down boarding house, the inhabitants of which include Old Goriot. There's a mystery surrounding Goriot and his connection with a couple of young women. The key phase of the novel, however, is when Rastignac comes under the influence of the cynical Vautrin.

There are echoes of other works in the novel - Old Goriot could be seen as a Lear-like figure, Vautrin as a kind of Mephistopheles. The main theme, however, is the ruinous effect of the pursuit of money and position for their own sakes: other more decent and human values are sacrificed on the altar of personal gain. Vautrin tempts Rastignac with a means of advancing his place in society, a method totally founded upon an amoral view of the world.

At the end of the novel, it's up to the reader to decide which of the characters was right all along. Was it Vautrin?

After reading this book, I thought I would feel more prepared to go out into the world and make something of myself. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. Although I believe that Marion Luna Brem had several good points to make, I think that most of her "helpful hints" are things that most people already know about themselves. I wouldn't consider this book to be useless, just a little long and drawn out. She sets up the same situation over and over again, using different women who triumph in different situations. I appreciate her drawing attention to some of the attributes of women which most of us do not take advantage of, and those which we need to channel. I am definitely impressed with how hard she worked to get to where she is and I recognize she had a lot of courage. If I had been turned down as many times as she was, I'm sure I would've quit before finding an open door. Her story definitely lives up to the message she conveys, and it is good to know that she has written a book based on her own experiences and knowledge based on actual facts.

In a "man's world" women must step up and work hard in order to thrive. Women must use their innate strengths to guide them and should never yield into their weaknesses. The number of women in the business world has greatly increased in the last twenty years and women will continue to be successful if they are resilient, are passionate, nurturing, can use their creativity and intuition, but most of all they must value themselves first.

This is a typical "rags-to-riches" story, about a woman who had no job, and was on the verge of completely giving up, when a moment of awakening pushed her forward towards success. Marion Luna Brem provides guidelines almost, for women to follow in order to succeed and be the best in the business world. Brem, a cancer survivor, inserts snippets of her incredible story of how she made it to the top, to show that ANYONE can achieve "financial independence, professional freedom, and personal joy."
The Seven Greatest Truths about Successful Women details "truths" that are bluntly obvious, however, stating the obvious often clarifies and reinforces certain things that we already may or may not know and understand.

In Marion Luna Brem's The Seven Greatest Truths About Successful Women, the reader is given an inside look into the struggles of women in the work force. Through the use of personal experience and anecdote of herself and other women, Brem is able to apply the gifts given to women to the real world. From her journey, the reader is able to understand the ways in which women must apply themselves in order to succeed. I thought the book was very well written and conveyed a very important message. It emphasized certain characteristics of women that not many people focus on. Even though many of the attributes mentioned are obvious, the book does a good job of explaining how to utilize them. The fact that Brem relies on her personal experience is also very touching. Overall, the book was a good read and gave good advice.

The Darkover series is an excellent blend of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Plus, Bradley describes action scenes with a flair that even men could appreciate, while never sacrificing the sensitivity and feeling that marks female writing. You get a good buy with this one.

This is the first Darkover novel I read, and it made me hungry for more. Darkover and the Terran Empire in their diplomatic maneuverings. Free Amazons--a guild of women who renounce men's domination over women, the Comyn--the noble caste with psi powers, an intricate society with traces of the supernatural and feudal systems in place.

The novel starts with a daring rescue of a kidnapped, enchained, and very pregnant Comyn Lady from the barbaric Dry Towns chief who has kept her his prisoner/wife for over a decade. We meet the Free Amazons, the women who are hired as mercenaries to handle the rescue, as well as the Comyn Lady who hired them to rescue her imprisoned cousin and her young daughter.

The story returns to the Free Amazons and the Comyn Lady years later when a Terran woman needs their help to save one of her own. Their stories are linked in a series of adventures that establish Darkover as an irresistable world.

This book tells us about a society guided by women who do not accept the social rules in Darkover. This is the story about Jaelle and how she leave the dry town (where womwn are property of theirs husband and use chains around her arms)and became a renunciant. It's also the story of Magdalen Lorne and how, pretending been a renunciant she has became one in fact - Margali 'n Ysabeth. This two women cross each other life and after that theirs lives would be different forever. This book introduce us to these two caracthers that would re-appeared in Thendara House and City of Sorcery.

It seems to me that the authors' objective here was to cram in the 1001 examples in as few pages as possible. Yes, it is all there, but for me there are way too few examples and not nearly enough explanation.

I have found that the books that provide little quizzes where I get to apply what I just learned, then find the correct answers in the book, help me to learn much faster, much easier, and in a much more enjoyable way.

Perhaps if you are a teacher and already know 80% of these pitfalls, you will appreciate having all this information, neatly organized for a quick review. But if you are a student like me, you will probably find this pretty boring and very, very difficult to remember.

I would recommend to you "The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice" by Gordon and Stillman or "Advanced Spanish Grammar" by Prado if you want comprehensive workbooks on grammar pitfalls. Both are loaded with examples and exercises you can do.

If you want to improve your Spanish and don't need one book that covers it all, I'd highly recommend both workbooks by Dorothy Richmond, "Spanish Verb Tenses" and "Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions." These both are interesting, fun, and presented with so many examples and practice exercises that you can really learn the material and REMEMBER it! I can't begin to say enough good things about these two workbooks.

I have a zillion Spanish language books. This was the one that filled in all the gaps in my Spanish language education. I highly recommend it!

This book is extremely helpful, because it points out the right and wrong way to do things and gives you many rules to follow.

For some reason, all the MZB books I choose end up having the same plot: there's some dark underground sacrificial alter where dark forces are summoned & it's cramping the style of our heroines. Nevertheless I didn't mind as much this time because the main character's struggle with alcoholism and indulgent self-hatred was so brilliantly drawn. In fact, all of the characters and the way they related when they met were totally captivating. But like I've said before--oh no, not that whole lame devil worship plot again! This book would have deserved five stars had the supernatural possession happened more originally.

Bradley is undeniably one of the great craftspeople of fantastic settings; and her strong female characters are always a refereshing change from the status quo.

I would not, however, consider Gravelight to be one of her more stellar achievements. Although the story line is engrossing, the characters are just a little too stereotypical and the theology/magic system a tad too clichéd. The ending, likewise, is somewhat predictable and pat.

Were it most other author, this book would have received 3 stars. Nevertheless, the Bradley touches (particularly the emphasisi on the female characters) are sufficient to make this a respectable read for anyone who enjoys the genre. As always, Bradley manages to make you want to read to the end; even if you are pretty what that will be.

When I met Wycherly Musgrave, Winter's brother, in WITCHLIGHT, he seemed like just one more thoroughly unlikeable member of a unlikeable and dysfunctional family. In GRAVELIGHT I learned that he's probably the only other member of the family who's worthwhile. Unlike his sister's adventure of the mind, we don't have to wait three-quarters of the book to find out what he's running from. Yes, he has good reason for hating himself. It was interesting to find out what happened to the Musgraves. Too bad that Wycherly is the only other sibling to break away. Will he find the truth and shall it set him free? GRAVELIGHT starts out with a chapter that sets us up for what is to come. Quentin Blackburn certainly misjudged the will of his lover, Athanais Dellon. Unfortunately, Attie didn't succeed in wiping out his evil influence. Unlike the first two books, this one changes viewpoint from character to character before tying everything together. This enabled the author to accomplish more than she could have by sticking with any one character. I enjoyed learning about Athanais and present-day Melusine ("Sinah") Dellon's self-serving ancestress and the origin of the Dark Brooding Evil Menace in Morton's Fork [great name!]. I enjoyed seeing Truth Jourdemayne and Dylan Palmer again, although the reversal of their believer-skeptic roles made me worry that they wouldn't be together by the end. I think Ms. Bradley chose wisely in the manner in which she resolved the problem. However I didn't understand why there should be any trouble between Truth and another character in GHOSTLIGHT who makes an appearance here and I still don't. Little nugget of information: according to one of the many catalogs that clutter up my mailbox, those little bricks of Fels-Naptha that Truth wonders about in chapter five are heavy-duty laundry soap. Just as I found the climax of GRAVELIGHT more powerful and satisfying than that of its predecessors, I think this book has the most powerful and evocative cover. With the other two, I don't think it would matter much if the paperback cover doesn't include the entire wraparound design of the hardcover's dustjacket, but in this case it would. I love the glimpse of the ruined sanatorium with the light streaming through and around it!

This is the first book I've read by this author and it won't be the last. Marian Edwards brings to life two wonderful characters. She doesn't pull any punches about how life could be harsh in 1067 in Wales but still she shows that love can conquer all.

This story actually begins in modern day with Regan, a handicapped woman and Drew her polital opponent die tragically in a plane crash. They die before thier time so they are put into the first two bodies that become available. that of Bronwyn, a beautiful Welsh rebel who has just murdered her new Norman husband Christophe. Christophe makes Bronwyn drink the same poisen and they both die only to be made whole again by the souls of Drew and Regan. Both remeber their former lives but don't realize who the other really is. They now must adjust to this harsh life and find what happiness they can. Everytime they seem to be getting closer to love something always drives them apart.

I was on the edge of my seat with this book wondering what was going to happen next. There is some humor and a lot of tenderness in this book. I enjoyed the secondary characters for they made the story whole. I can't wait to read the sequel. Heaven's Return.

Bronwyn of Lllangandfan is about to be married to the enemy, the Norman Lord Christophe Montgomery. Her father and brother convinces her to go through the ceremony, and after, to put poison in the wedding wine. They will provide her will an antedote to drink before hand. So terrified of this Norman and frightened by her abusive father and brother, she makes a mistake in the dosages and ends up killing the Norman as well as herself.

Regan Carmicheal and Drew Daniels, are political opponets. But that doesn't stop them from remaining friends. On a flight to the next campaign stop, they both think to themselves that they are attracted to each other, respect each other, but have never found the time to really explore anything past their friendship. Suddenly their plane drops and crashes. Drew is able to get to his free, but Regan is held secure by her seat belt. No matter what they do, they cannot free her as the flames begins to engulf the plane. Regan pleads with Drew to leave her, thinking she would die at least know he lived on. Drew, regretting all their missed past chances, stays with her. He is not going to let this valiant woman die alone.

After the plane explodes, Regan later awakes to find she is in strange place and dressed in a strange medieval costume. Worse, she is wife to a man who thinks she tried to poison him. What Regan does not know is as the life force of Bronwyn and Christophe blinked out, the Fates so touched by Regan's and Drew's self sacrifice, took pity on them and gave them another chance at finding love - as Bronwyn and Christopher!!!!

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After reading Heaven Sent , I could hardly wait for Heavens Reward. Both books kept me reading until the late hours of the night after work. I was not disappointed and I have sense read more books by Marian Edwards. All I can say is Marian keep it up.