This book transformed my entire life, from fear and drama to love and joy. The freedom it granted me was the very thing that saved my life and spiritual quest. It gets right to the truth of any matter based on Metaphysics and Christianity. It opened my mind to the endless love and posibilities on this spiritual journey. Taking verses and concepts presented by Jesus and putting them into practical and real understandings. Emmet Fox has a wonderful way of looking at the scriptures with an open mindedness of symbolism rather than harsh and concreate literalism. It is a conglomeration of "treatments" for the mind and soul. Each chapter dealing separately with different human challenges. The most wonderful meditations and prayers are offered at the end of the book, providing a wonderful guide to scientific prayer. This is a book I have purchsed so many times I quit counting. I can not keep the beautiful gifts of enlightened truth revealed, to myself, I always end up giving it away. I have recomended my local book store to keep at least 3 in stock always. My significant other and I have begun a group of spiritual studies and this book is the next up to be read and discussed in detail.

Power Through Constructive Thinking offers a thoughtful interpretation of biblical passages for Christians and non-Christians alike. Written in an easy-to-understand style, Emmet Fox seeks neither to convert nor convince, only to help the reader deal with day to day problems and to deepen their own spirituality. I felt neither coerced nor dictated to, rather like I had been given tools with which to lead my life; I use this book as the basis for daily meditations. The strongest recommendation I can make is that I carried this book in my purse for several years, re-reading passages- and secondly that both Christian and non-Christian friends have read and been moved by this book.

This book changed my life. Through the wisdom of the author, I was able to change my entire attitude about life. Emmet Fox explains how we can replace fear with faith. He also explains the true meaning of faith and how we can use it to let go of negative thoughts and actions. He explains how we create the circumstances of our lives by our thoughts. This book freed me from the "victim" mode I was in and taught me to live in peace and harmony. As a result, I have expericed many miracles in my life. I thank God every day for Emment Fox and his teachings.

This is in-your-face Christianity. Fox precedes and
inspires "The Power of Positive Thinking" and Alcoholics
Anonymous. It is uplifting, informative, and challenging.
And it tells me I am what I think.

Emmett Fox is full of God's wisdom. This devotional styled book gave me peace in daily small doses.

This is not a book that says whatever you want to believe is true. It is about real spirituality. I would also recommend the Book An Encounter With A Prophet for real spiritual solutions.

I love all Emmet Fox' books and will recommend them to anyone who is serious about living spiritually and growing every day! What is special about this book is the little essays that it's made of, one on each page. They are simple, direct and funny.....some of them are great stories. They can be read independantly, which makes this book a wonderful one to carry around, for a quick reminder anywhere. Enjoy :o)

Find and Use YOur Inner Power is a series of short essays on the effect of a person's thoughts on the conditions and experiences of his (her) life.

Each short essay brings an enlightening observation about the nature of life, which will change the reader's perspective about his situation.

To fully understand the premises that Dr. Fox discusses in this book, a reader would do better to start with THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE MASTER KEY TO LIFE, or POWER THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING. This will acquaint the reader with the unique belief system Dr. Fox promulgates.

Reader: If you have nagging questions about the Bible and the reasons things are the way they are in life, you will find this and other Emmet Fox books to be very helpful in working out your own personal puzzle.

This book, like Dr. Fox's other works, are the bases for the works of Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and Dale Carnegie.

If you read and follow the beliefs in this book, you will experience a change in your outer conditions, as Dr. Fox promises.

All of Mr. Foxes' books open up new views that will, if practised carry one to new spiritual insights. For spiritual guidence and growth truly worth more than the cost.

This is a firm favourite of both my Godsons! The pictures are colourful & eye catching and keep them entertained. After we have read it together they always want to play a part of one of the animals!! Would recommend it!

There are many children's books on the market today and as a parent, I am always on the lookout for something special, a book that grabs the imagination of my son and delights him in a magical way. This book, and Ms. Gomez' illustrations in particular, create a wonderful world of colors and creatures that my son has responded to in the most wonderful way. Through the Heart of the Jungle has become a instant favorite and one that I enjoy reading to him time after time. Do yourself and your child the greatest favor and add this book to your collection. You will both delight in the experience.

I bought this book for my seven year old son, but I think I enjoy reading it and looking at the pictures just as much as he does. The artwork is wonderful and the words have a great rhythm that almost turns the pages for you. If you want a book that your children will love right now and a book that they will hold on to, to read to their own children some day, then this is a must have!

Absolutely fabulous book - and so is the sequel 'Fire On The hill'. This is the first book on Emmett and his abortive rising that gives Anne Devlin her proper place, and shows her bravery and love for Emmett for what it was. Read this and know what a great historical novel should be, and as a great introduction to many of ireland's greatest heroes. This should be on everyone's list if you are at all interested in ireland's history

"Tread Softly on my Dreams" is the best novel about Ireland that I've read--and I've read many. (Of course Morgan Llywelyn's novels are outstanding, but this even beats them.) Like another reviewer, I came to this book accidentally. What a find! The writing is good, the story is wonderful and parts of the book just shine. Robert Emmet's plea from the dock during his trial brings a lump to the throat of all of us with Irish blood. There's a great mixture of fact and fiction. This is one of those books that inspires you to go to non-fiction to find out what really happened. In my opinion that should be the goal of all historical fiction writers. If you like historical fiction and especially if you are in love with Ireland like I am, you must read this book.

This is probably the best book I have ever read. It has all the history of the story with a very personal human touch. I have never been so emotionally moved while reading a book, especially at the ending.

This is a comprehensive volume of the bamboos native to the Americas (only one of which is native to the United States). Anyone fascinated with the giant bamboos (as well as others) of Central and South America will love this beautifully illustrated and well written book. For anyone who is already a bamboo lover, this book is a must-have. An instant classic, books on bamboo just don't get any better than this. Highly recommended.

An excellent resource for American Bamboos. There is not much out in the market on these often forgotten plants. There are loads of color pictures that make the book invaluable. East-to-read text with plenty of location maps so you know where the plants are found. Anyone interested in bamboos must get this resource!

there is not much information out there on bamboos and this book fills the gap. It's a must buy for the biologist in the grass world. Lots of excellent pictures of the plants and good text to go with it. Well written.

I found this book at a crossroads in my life. This was the first book that I read by Emmet Fox, it began a transfiguration in my life likened to no other. This book deals with specifics in consciousness and practical, real ways to address anxieties and problems each of us face in our daily lives. I can't recommend it enough; it changed my entire outlook on life.

This is good for daily reflections. If you like Emmet Fox you will love C.A. Lewis' An Encounter With A Prophet.

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It is meant to be read one essay per day. I have seen the principles described in the book enacted in my life and have been transformed by understanding and applying Fox's view of prayer.

This book despite it's somewhat horrific subject matter has a beauty so deep and profound it restores my faith in interest in Black and White image making. Beautifully printed it is a book that any budding black and white landscape photographer should own.

This is a cheap book considering the printing quality, the fact that it is hardbound and due to the number of plates. What's new here is the fact that the pictures are aerial photographs. The artist was creative with the aerial image and here and there we see that he has made some really beautiful images - pages 10, 12, 21, 35, 37, 41, 47, 49, 55, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91. Some images remind me of the early work by the Spanish painter and sculptor Tapies. It goes to prove that the sensitive eye can and will find ambiguity almost everywhere. Then there's also a group of images, which resemble moonscapes.

It is a lovely book but one which has hardly anything to do with ecological concepts or ideological attempts to make a living off other people's work (curators, critics, etc).

Highly recommended especially if you are like - you hold Weston, Imogen Cunnigan, and Caponigro at the highest level of photographic art (and seriously dislike "conceptual art" made by the inch at expensive universities and colleges).

Interesting also to note that great artists are NOT mainstream and don't have master's degrees ...

Like a great deal of aerial photography (Bradford Washburn's naturalistic mountain work immediately comes to mind in this connection), Emmet Gowin's meticulously detailed portfolio depicting man's ambition writ large upon the surface of our planet can often be 'read' as much as abstract art as documentary record. As art, this series of images of a wounded planet is so deceptively compelling it is easy to become lost in the sensuousness of the aesthetic moment Gowin repeatedly creates and forget that the subject matter being systematically explored is intrinsically disturbing and of concern. Indeed, the experience of finding so much beauty in landscapes of man-made desolation and ruin is unnerving. Yet it is undeniable that from a distance the patterns on the Earth made by irrigation pivots, toxic chemical ponds, missile burial trenches, mining pits, and numerous other manifestations of human 'development' without limits are endlessly unique and dramatic. Paradoxically, it is precisely this nexus of visually stimulating, geometrically intricate imagery generated in the context of wanton exploitation and destruction of the land that sustains the narrative and aesthetic power of Changing The Earth. One is absorbed in the beauty of the photography just long enough to catch sight and become painfully aware of the pervasive, intensely consequential, problem that demands attention and thought. Thus lessons for the future abound in the pages of this volume! One day our way of taking the Earth for granted by first depleting its resources for immediate gain and then dumping what is no longer wanted or useful wherever is convenient, will be seen as the opulent conceit and obscene luxury that it surely is. Until that day, studies like Changing The Earth bare witness to our collective folly, greed and irresponsibility.

For the most part I would agree with what other reviewers have said here. This is an excellent book on the SF earthquake and fire in almost all respects. The photos and drawings are probably the best one can find anywhere and the work is well researched. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in the subject.

The reason I gave the book four stars instead of five is that it is written very mechanically. The authors spend much of the book telling us about the fate of individual buildings and so fail to tell the story of the disaster fully. At times it reads like an engineering report on San Francisco buildings. But this is a small flaw that should not deter anyone from getting the book.

This NOT just another of those earthquake books!
Everyone devoted to the serious study of earthquakes or the mitigation of their hazard--geophysicists, seismologists, civil and structural engineers, architects, disaster relief workers, fire personnel, police, building officials and so on, all must have this book for their professional libraries. Yet they might overlook it for years, as I did, and I'm in that group. We might pass it by because it is so brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated, but there aren't any graphs or partial differential equations or whatever.
Interestingly, it is published by Cameron and Co., whose "Over London" etc. books have those astounding aerial photos. Well, I thought the new photos in this book must be by Cameron, they're so good. No, they're by Richard Hansen, Gladys Hansen's son, who also researched the old photos, and is a top-notch professional photographer, obviously.
So this is a top quality coffee-table book. But it is much, much more. It's the result of Hansen's many years of meticulous research and awesome scholarship on the subject, still going on, tracking the growing number of casualties (currently over 4000). It is an expose' of disgusting corruption, of arson and military looting. It describes the shaking, maps the areas of bad ground, the route of the fires, describes the misery of the refugees, and, finally, almost when one can stand no more bad stuff, true gut-level heroism. All is told in restrained, elegant prose, somehow making the catastrophe more profound. It is also the testament of a great San Francisco Fire Chief, terse, professional, of quietly distressing implications and of immense value to planners. It is a treasure, a classic. BUY IT!

This fine work incorporates not only a large number of historical and present day photographs but a thoughtful narrative as well. Excellent descriptions of the cowardice and heroism displayed during the earthquake and subsequent fire. Most importantly, the book examines the errors repeated during the rebuilding of San Francisco and the potential for danger in the next earthquake.

I planned a trip to Ireland for my Mother, 4 sisters and Myself.
I started with "Ireland for Dummies" then read "Frommer's Ireland 2001" and crossed referenced with "Ireland from $60 a Day". I learned more from these books in 2 weeks than in all of my years as a Travel Agent and Airline staff!! Their detailed in-sight and straight-forward advice was right on target. They give prices,times, phones numbers and payment information. They tell you where to go, what to do and who to talk to. I loved their list of on-line addressess for information. Only two things were wrong with my copy. They quoted every price in Irish pounds that were useless after February 2002. I realize that they had to go to print before this change and were unable to adapt in time. The other was lack of detailed mapping. A free map was included inside "Ireland 2001" but only had some of the streets shown for Dublin. I know these will be corrected in future printings. I would recommend these Frommer's books to anyone!! They are written in plain English, yet don't talk down to you(even the "Dummies" book. It was quite humorous)

My family used Frommer's Ireland 12th Ed. extensively before, during ,and after our trip to Ireland in July of 2002. The first two chapters Best of..., and Planning your Trip... were worth the purchase price alone. All of the Best of tips we followed were excellent choices.
The large fold out map that was included served very well during our driving tour of Ireland. Using the county and town maps that were included in the local sections kept us right on track. Distances are deceptive however. It takes longer to get anywhere you go than it would appear from reading the map. The Irish road system is not built for speed ( nor comfort for that matter) so plan accordingly. It takes a long time to drive across the country, or from county to county. More could have been made of this issue in the guide. Our biggest mistake was trying to do too much.
The up to date information on Dublin was very helpful, as were the frequent tips throughout the guide on ways to avoid the summer crowds. I used the web addresses that were included for lodging and found them very helpful for checking availability and booking our rooms quickly. Don't go without it!

My wife and I traveled around Ireland for two weeks this summer, and Frommer's Ireland was an amazingly helpful tool.

Realizing this would probably be the last time we'd be traveling abroad for a while, we decided to mix it up a bit --"inexpensive" to "moderate" accommodations and restaurants in most places, with a few dabbles in the "expensive" (and even one "very expensive") splurges along the way. Across the board, the recommendations in this book were outstanding. What to see and do, where to stay, where to eat and shop.....all were presented in a very down-to-Earth way. The eye for small detail and nuances throughout the book made us feel we were getting advice from a local expert who REALLY knows her stuff.

I can't say enough about how helpful this guide was to us -- it really made our trip a memorable one. The fold-out map got us around most of the country with no trouble....once a nice gentleman in a petrol station showed me how to get my rental car into reverse.

All in all, a terrific book.