While the book covers Universal Intelligence, telepathic communications, energy symbols, and a myriad of new age subjects, it fails to go into any of them in any depth, and lacks support for things the author says is "dangerous", or even to give asny reason why the author thinks so, such as Astral Projection, or astral travel. while it is mentioned as being "dangerous", the author gives no real reason why this is so (well, they do babble about going outside spiritual boundries, etc. in a few paragraphs that are simply babble, but make no sense in reality), listing it under "Practices of Illusion" and totally disregards the fact that astral travel has been done for certuries by a number of religions in Africa, Asia, India, Native Americans and others - all who reguard it as a normal part of life... none have had the effects the authors claim it to have.

The authors state in a chapter called "Practices of Illusion" things that are 'unnatural to the Spirit.'

The author goes on and on about "universal thinking", yet then talks of dividing the spirit world and our world... saying basically that in the cross-over from one world to another, the 'immortals' basically don't get it... also that there are self-induced false images and deception, and so on. in spiritual experiences... ghosts unable to release themselves & exorcism sending ghosts back to the darkness (NOT- they are, in reality sent to the light)

Although this book tries to use scientific words to describe something that cannot be tested in such a way, and seems to miss many, many points, it does touch on a lot of areas... but those areas seem to be misunderstood. I doubt either author has sat through an exorcism, ever talked to anyone who does astral projection or dream work on a regular basis. Nor do I believe they have a clue about the Universal Mind (the authors state it is created at the time of one's physical birth??? I think not!)

Anyhow, lots of buzz words, lots of big words, very verbose, very little real content.... a disappointment in metaphysical books.

This is the little novel that could and should be on the best seller list. It left me with feelings of wonderment and hoping that things could turn out like that. When I put the book down after reading it I couldn't help the smile that came over my face. Could that really happen.......?

I have tremendous respect for family tradition, heirlooms, and history, and I really wanted to like this book, but I just found it too confusing. I'm not convinced that the cumulative text approach was the best way to go here, and with the unexplained pictorial flash-forwards in between the descriptions of each generation's connection to the wooden bird, well... I just began to get a headache. I can only imagine how a child would react to this book...

This book has long contemporary descriptions of the garments as shown in reproductions of a fashion plates. It is easily 95% little girls dresses with a few womens items interspersed. It seems to be intended as a help to people dressing dolls as a full size doll pattern is included. No other patterns are given or pictured I did not find it much help as I am working with reproducing fullsize women's clothing of the period and found only a handfull of them. Not for costumers.

I am a Titanic buff and read everything I can find about it, then I saw this book and once I was done I realized the horrible truth. I was tricked into reading a romance novel! This "book" was originally titled Icefall, but was changed in order to jump on the Titanic bandwagon. rs. O'Cork wants us to beleive that Bruce Ishmay was gay and that Captain Smith was too busy making out with a divorcee to go on the ship. The ending is a travesty and the main characters are atrocious, there are actually twins named Smoke and Swan. If any body gets a copy of this book just throw in the bottom of a lake, it'll serve it's purpose better there than in your hands

This book, in a word, sucked. She paints Captain Smith as being a man who couldn't think about anything but sex, Bruce Ismay as being homosexual (maybe he was but I don't want to know about it!!!) and why on earth did she name those two girls SWAN and SMOKE!!??

I just couldn't get past that...

I've learned in reading this book that there's a line not to be crossed when fictionalizing heroes. There's nothing I've seen or read about Captain E.J. Smith to support the sexually preoccupied "interior life" the author proposes for him, or that he'd externalize it by cheating on his wife. I don't see the man being a rule breaker at all. I picture him a genuine gentleman, rather conservative, and deeply attached to his wife and daughter. I COULD see E.J. meeting someone aboard whom he became close to during his final voyage -- only to learn at the awful end to his surprise that he cares alot more for this lady than he'd ever thought possible -- but I DON'T see him actually cheating.

This is a strange book, running several plotlines with characters all involved in romantic entanglements of one sort or another. For example, there are two upper-class young ladies, twins named Smoke and Swan (is it my imagination, or does anyone else picture hookers with names like that?) who both fall in love with the same man -- a ficticious, very young third violinist from TITANIC's band. At one point, this young man is actually down in the band's bunk room "in amours" with one of the girls (which one escapes me at the moment)and he does eventually get caught out and fired -- cutting him loose from performing with the Magnificent Eight during their Immortal Last Gig so he can play out his preoccupation with Smoke/Swan. (which ever.)

I think what turned me off about the book in the main was the lack of genuine emotional connection. This struck me as far more a "lust" story than a "love" story, and I guess I don't see TITANIC as a forum for that sort of thing. I think it would have played out much better aboard a totally fictional ship with a totally fictional crew. (names similar, but different.) To be fair, the writing style is engaging, but the interpretations of the historical characters continually jarred me. I recommend this book to all those out there who are thinking about writing fiction about TITANIC's real passengers and crew: it's a good example of what NOT to do -- at least if you want to be taken seriously!

Not enough anything. Promised submission, but did not deliver. I recommend you look elseware. Rather dull.

Churchill wrote in 'The History of the English Speaking People' that Gladstone's contemporaries thought that he had no judgement, and that the Conservative Disreali government achieved more in five years than the Liberals (of whom Gladstone was prominant) did in nearly fifty. Churchill was being polite - Gladstone was a pious, pretentious windbag and a collosal hipercrite. He doesn't deserve to have two volumes in this detail writen about him - he never did anything to justify this amount of effort. Even Gladstone's wife said that he was a bore.

Gladstone comes across much like a Kennedy - a mediocrity carried aloft by the wealth of a ratbag father, convinced of his own importance, full of the teachings of the Lord and none of His spirit, only attractive when seen from a distance. His father made a fortune from slave plantations in the West Indies, and Gladstone did little to improve on daddy's efforts. He defended slavery in Parliament while writing pompous sermons about the responsibilities of the church. A mean, miserable specimen who never earnt a penny through his own efforts, he inherited and spent a fortune but went into a lather of shock and horror when discovering that his butler had been pilfering and selling partly used candles from his household. Gladstone never improved on these efforts, but then, considering his papal like view of his own infallibility, he never felt the need to.

Gladstone's younger sister took to dosing herself with opium and wiping her backside with religous tracts. Both behaviours are perfectly understandable for anybody who had to live with a specimen like Gladstone. I think the sister is far more deserving of a biography than the brother.

The table of contents looked good, so I ordered this book in the hope it could be used as an inexpensive introductory text for freshman courses on applied ethics. Big disappointment: The prose is trite and awkward, and the discussion barely gets into any of the interesting philosophical arguments that I want to discuss with my students.

As an example of the abysmal quality of the discussion, consider the author's criticism of consequentialism: "The major problem of this theory is that the theory itself provides no standard by which one would measure one outcome against another. That is, while being sensitive to the circumstances, consequentialism has no basis for evaluating one outcome against another" (p. 22).

If you're looking for a textbook on bioethics, try Beauchamp and Childress's Principles or the relevant sections of a decent applied ethics textbook, such as J. Olen and V. Barry, Applying Ethics, or B. MacKinnon, Ethics. Another good choice is J. Teichman, Social Ethics. As to anthologies of readings, try Beauchamp and Walters's Contemporary Issues or Kuhse and Singer's Bioethics.

It is quite easy to see that this book was created with only one purpose in mind and that is to take people's money! 3/4 of the websites listed in the book are completely useless, they are either totally outdated or simply give you error messages; there are only about 50 names of people in the entire book and they mostly relate to CEO's and not HR managers; The information indicating how to prepare a job hunting campaing extends to only about 5 pages of completely general and useless information that can be found in any other job hunting book. To make the story short, do not waist your money purchasing this book, it is useless!!!