My name is Erin Lorenz and I am 12 years old. I started reading the Hardy Boys books when I was 11. The Number File is a great book; it keeps you biting your nails and wondering, especially when the guy says that Frank is dead.All in all, its a good book.

this book should be read by all teenagers considering I think this a "suck you in" kind of book considering one minute you're reading about one thing and the next minute you're reading about another!!I definetly suggest that any teenager that likes mysteries to go get this book

One HECK of a Casefiles stories. The action never stops, and the Assassins are as evil as ever in the final book of the Ring of Evil mini-series. One side-point: most casefiles covers dont show EXACTLY wut happens in the story. Oh well, who cares? EXCELLENT BOOK, if i could rate more than 5 stars i would:^)!

Can Frank and Joe bring down the Assassins? They've been trying to since the beginning of the Hardy Boys Casefiles series, and now they might be able to do it. That's why this book is so good.

[....]readers should known or probably infer from the esteemed SUNY press W.E.T. series that Deveney cites ALL sources, resultant of some 150 pages of extensive notes which are a worthy and entertaining/informative read in themselves! Also, P.B.R.'s Occult philosophy and practical systems/methodologies are explored in a highly scholarly yet equally accessible manner, and as an appendix are given in their entirety two of PBR's most essential Sexual Magic works, for which I have appropriated the title of this review. Though a scholarly work, as well as an historical one, it is throughout biographically focused on an 19th century Exemplary Mage's Life and Work!

Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875)was one of the first well-known Afro-American Novelists (if not THE FIRST), of whom Frederick Douglas was an admirer, and one of the most famous as well as sincere mediums of the Spiritualist movement, famous for his speeches of whom President Johnson was a fan, and a KEY figure in bridging the gap between that nec-romantic movement flowering dangerously into the European/American Occult Revival of the mid-late 19th century. He grew up an orphan in a murderous section of NYC; had almost no schooling, (yet became a recognized genius by sheer will/determination and self-discipline) who lived in the "(spiritually) Burnt-out" district of upstate NY where he added the abbr. "DR." to his title and sold his Glyphae Battah (Magic Mirrors)and Hashish, love & healing philtres:'snake-oil' basically, and married a part Native-American Indian Woman and tried to raise a family in dire poverty. And this is just the beginning to his life! He was very influential in getting Black soldiers into the US military in the last years of the Civil War(& getting them paid like any good-willing American!)...also, Blavatsky gleaned much from him, I think her writings concerning Randolph evidences, if only his living example of an highly artistic and Original one-man Occult campaign via Randolph's numerous Rosicrucian brotherhoods which The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor would later appropriate nearly ALL of Randolphs ideas to immense practical benefit (see Godwins and Deveneys co-efforts in releasing many key documents in relation to this group), while the Theosophists waged war against that very practicality deeming it black magic basically...later the Surrealists' devoured Randolph's magical works which were circulated widely through the Russian-born Parisian Surrealist Maria de Naglowska efforts...How does a man like this, who entertained at the court of Napoleon and who counted President Lincoln as an acquaintance as well as knew most every influential Occultist/Abolitionist/reformer/Free Love Politician / Spiritualist of his day (Bulwer-Lytton, Hargrave Jennings, Laurence Oliphaunt, Andrew Jackson Davis,et al. ad infinitum)how does such a figure disappear from history? as if suspiciously erased? The question is as tragic as Randolph's life, for it is a pained life full of much suffering, bore throughout with nobility if despairingness at his predicament. He is a beautiful writer--one must allow him that at least---whose sexual magic works serve as a poignant appendix to Deveney's excellent and thorough 600-plus page biography of a life that serves as an intimate magnifying-glass to probe into the goings-ons of an era filled to overflowing with myriad colorful characters and the energy and excitement of endless rounds of ingenious scientific discoveries and religious aspirations/explorations which as the Poet Osip Mandelstam said "if ever there was a golden age surely it was the 19th century!" Wherever you may be John Patrick Deveney, I thank you a thousand times over while reading this and thank you still for giving us this touching biography which served as a means to truly know what it must have been like to have lived in Randolph's day, during an age of 'Romanticism' and later,'Symbolism' in Art, while an Occult revival raged, made up of a noble search for self-knowledge and universal Uptopianist solutions to universal ills, and art finally becoming a RELIGION itself!...Western Esoteric studies should take as an example Deveney's biographical tome, and know the history of the world is in the lives of men and women more than anyplace else, as Jules Michelet pointed out a hundred years ago...I would suggest to anyone interested in gaining a first hand insight into an era & a subject finally lent proper credence to be studied seriously as it should be respected even if despised by "religious realists"...to read this book full of a life lived with such style & grace. Randolph's motto was: "T-R-Y !"...which is what I would say to others here interested in reading a rare work of an even rarer life that hopefully will become part of the American Artistic and Cultural iconography and more widely known literary canon because of Deveney's immense efforts and achievements herein! Bravo Deveney!
---readers should known or probably infer from the esteemed SUNY press W.E.T. series that Deveney cites ALL sources, resultant of some 150 pages of extensive notes which are a worthy and entertaining/informative read in themselves! Also, P.B.R.'s Occult philosophy and practical systems;/methodologies are explored in a highly scholarly yet equally accessible manner; though a scholarly work, as well as an historical one, it is throughout focused on an 19th century Exemplary Mage's Life and Work!

We read this book in our homeschool history class. It's great for colonial unit study. Even mom learned a few new things about Ben Franklin! How cool is that!

These picture book biographies are great for lower elementary students. Big colorful pictures and packed with information. Great for colonial unit study.

Along with Seth's material, Bartholomew's wonderful insights echo memories of things all of us know. The gist is that somehow humanity has chosen to forget what and how we are, while we were busying ourselves in our dreamworld.

The Bartholomew books provide an easy access to materials, nowadays also found elsewhere. What makes these books so outstanding though is their caring simplicity, ease of terms and words. I have found the Bartholomew guidance wonderfully complementing what I have already learned through Seth and others.

There are really no teachers, we are all students learning from each other. No-one takes precedence, but each and everyone communicates in a different voice. That not only makes each of us here on earth individual and different, it also unifies our living, common heritage in aware consciousness.

All the Bartholomew books are life-changing texts. The message is basically the same as the Emmanuel series, albeit somewhat more complex. All in all, a satisfying read that I have given as a gift many, many times and recommended to friends and clients alike. Try this series if your mind and spirit need to expand a bit.

Mr. Mee is a fantastic writer. As another reviewer remarked, Mr. Mee definitely brings history to life. The meetings described in this book make for great, enticing reading material for junior high school on up.

Mr. Mee is an excellent writer and truely brings history to life. I recommend this book to anybody that wants more than "light reading", has an interest in human-kind and is not a real history buff.

World War II is still turning up troves of fresh material, and here is a good example. This journal covering the European campaign from D-Day to the surrender of Germany is not only fresh but a pleasure to read. Pogue was one of the outstanding historians of World War II, author of the definitive biography of George Marshall and of The Supreme Command, an account of Eisenhower's leadership.

Raw diaries contain stretches of boring material, and this is no exception ('Topete and I went to Aywaille to see 1st Division people. The 16th Regiment had moved up near Aachen to go into the line. Then went to 1st Division (rear)...'). Fortunately, Pogue later set out to flesh out his entries into a publishable memoir, a task ninety percent accomplished at his death in 1996.

A Sorbonne graduate in history, Pogue was teaching college in Kentucky when drafted after Pearl Harbor. With its usual acumen, the army made him a clerk where his PhD skills were employed in 'calling the roll of recruits when there was an unusual number of foreign names....' It was early 1944 when he finally transferred to Washington to join the Army Ground Forces historical section. Readers may be surprised to learn that the U.S. army in WWII employed historians in all major commands. For their benefit, units in the field were ordered to render periodic after-action reports and preserve important documents. While the object was to learn battle lessons, the result was a flood of priceless historical material that is still being mined. This required historians to follow on the heels of combat units, interviewing participants as the fighting proceeded.

Pogue flew to England in the spring of 1944, where he spent two months experiencing the privation, attractions, and confusion of England on the eve of D-Day. Sailing in an LST to Omaha Beach, sleeping in the back of a truck piled with K-rations, (beds were reserved for infantry) he watched his units embark on D-Day plus one. Landing soon after, he spent the remainder of the war following the troops. Although rarely in as much danger as the infantry, he was almost as uncomfortable. Intermixed with gossip, combat anecdotes, and cameraderie are the author's frustrating struggle to keep clean and dry. Readers will learn how long he went between baths, laundry, and changes of shirt.

His miseries were interrupted by an idyllic two month in newly liberated Paris. Fluent in French and popular with former professors at the Sorbonne, he gives an entertaining picture of a city recovering from four years of oppression and poverty. Every Frenchman he visits records his opinion on the future of France, and the author adds his own. Mostly they're wrong, overestimating the communists and suspecting De Gaulle was a lightweight. In November 1944 he returned to the front to resume recording his struggle for personal hygiene while covering the army's bloody attack on the Huertgen forest followed quickly by the German Ardennes offensive, the crossing of the Rhine, and victory.

Interviewing soldiers is fun but only a small first step in writing history, Pogue explains early in the book. Battlefield testimony must be taken with a grain of salt. Soldiers paid no attention to the clock and rarely knew their location ('...we went a couple miles to a turn in the road at a little town...'). All fire directed at them was 'heavy.' Asked about support on their flanks or rear, soldiers invariably considered it inadequate. 'The average infantryman was...certain that everyone else had quit the war except his platoon.' These insights occur regularly throughout the book and place it among the dozen or so best individual memoirs of the war. One paragraph summing up a bull session among soldiers should be committed to memory by every schoolchild. 'Too many people expect the war to settle everything... The winning of a war merely means that we avoided the disaster attendant on losing it. It does not mean that we have peace...'
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Forrest C. Pogue was the first historian of D-Day and documented "up-close and personal" the most gristly and significant clashes of World War II including Omaha Beach, the Huertgen Forest, Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge. He kept his notes and interviews in a series of battered journals, hoping one day to publish his own wartime observations. Many years later, Franklin D. Anderson (Forrest Pogue's nephew by marriage) transcribed those journal entries as Pogue's War: Diaries Of A WWII Combat Historian and in doing so, has made a unique and welcome contribution to the growing library of World War II eye-witness literature. As a combat historian, Pogue lived with the infantrymen and interviewed them only days after they had engaged in life-and-death battles with the enemy. The result was one of the most vivid "windows-in-time" perspectives available to World War II buffs and students of 20th Century American military history.

This is a great little book I recommend it to anyone. No matter if your a CEO or a burger flipper you will find it useful reading for ones self. I'm a 25 years old going on 12, over paid, spoiled web designer that chooses not to spend to much time in today's many stream "reality" world of thinking. I love this book it full of stuff written and spoken by people past and present that have be there done that, and figured out. Buy it! read it again and again and remember "Don't take life to seriously no one get out alive anyway"

I originally bought this book for my father for Christmas, but after previewing it, I fell in love with it. Unlike many quote books I have surveyed, each quote provokes contemplation. Though small in size, I found its enlightened ideas much more valuable than other larger quote books filled with idle chatter. This is a great addition to any personal development library.

This is a well written, concise and practical book that can serve as a valuable resource for members of any group, including the family unit. It inspired me and gives me hope that there is a way for people to learn how to come together in groups and solve our problems in a principled, creative process that works for the higher good of all concerned.

Frank Dukes, Marina Piscolish, and John Stephens have successfully collaborated on a book that takes a frank and honest look at what facilitators do in groups and how to do it better. The book is remarkably readable and has instant applicability not only to those of us in the business of mediation; the city administrator and elected official will also find the book extremely useful. I recommend it to my colleagues in the planning profession as a refreshing and rewarding approach to handling large group processes.

A fun little book of quotes, questions, stories, and illustrations. Inspires you to renew yourself.

I have always been a fan of the 7 Habits, and this is a wonderful way to share its principles in a lighter format.

This book has wonderful, inspiring advice and is fun to read and share with others. I can't wait for the whole series to be available!