I received this book several years ago and can say it literally changed my life. It gives great advice on how to deal with habitual pessimism and the free-floating anxiety that often accompanies it. I use the techniques in the book and they really do work. My copy is dog-eared and tattered from lots of use!! Thank you Martin Seligman!!!!!!!!

I cannot recommend the audio version. I got it several years after buying the book, thinking it would be a nice refresher. It was so badly done I was amazed. The abridged version of the book is read in a very boring style and LOTS of minutes are wasted in a detailed explanation of how to do a written self-test. I remember thinking "I can just read the instructions, why are they reading all the instructions out loud?" Horrible.

So definitely BUY the book and benefit from it, but SKIP the tape version.

I found the research done for the book the be stepping stones in learning why I had lost all enjoyment in life. Several Items mentioned did not register as affecting my outlook. Several days after reading them and thinking back over the comments I realized how they fit into the distorted picture I had of my life. This book caused me to look back over my life and see events for what they were, as opposed to personal attacks by some evil score keeper in the great beyond.

This is a rare book that combines social awareness, literary ambition, precious moments, friendship & love. I really loved this book in that you have to read between the lines. Relationship between Jaque & Jenny is so subtle & well written. Furthermore characters in this book are so, so alive.

I found this book and its sequel, Summer 1914, a most moving and informative experience. If you haven't read thses books you should.

Great book about Lester Dent. I started reading the Doc Savage stories when I was a kid, and I still read them 30 years later. Fun to learn about my favorite author

Fans of Doc Savage will love this book, which is about the author of the Doc Savage pulp magazine stories. It was fun to read about Lester Dent -- his Doc tales have been my favorites for years, and I felt like I got to know him a bit from reading this book

I received this book as a gift from my husband the year I was going to visit my grandmother in Ireland. It was terrific!! Not only was it informative, but it actually made you feel as though I visited all of the places listed in the book. I have since re-read it and also just came back from my second trip in less than 10 months.

Just want to let the reader from Boston know, you have to go and visit Ireland. You will never forget it and you will always want to go "home" again and again.

Well, I've never been to Ireland, and now I'll never have to go! I just finished reading Let's Go: Ireland 1998 from cover to cover and it was fantastic. I never read so many restaurant reviews, hotel reviews, and pub reviews in my life. My favorite section was Practical Information where you can find out who to call in Dublin when you trip and fall or lose your luggage. I may not need that info right now, but who knows? If I ever go to Co. Cork, and furthermore lose my luggage, I may not know what to do but boy will I wish I was in Dublin. Even though the information in this book shines, it is the writing that makes this edition a classic in the annals of travel writing. I think it was the editing. The researchers did a good job, but I could tell that most of the value added to the book from the previous year came from the keen eyes and golden pens of these two fabulous editors. For instance, circumambulate! Who else would be able to work that word into a budget travel guide. Five stars!

This is a cute story about Big Bear and Little Bear. As they are heading home from a walk in the snow, Little Bear becomes concerned that he has heard "plodders", "drippers" and "ploppers". Big Bear points out the source of these noises, and eases Little Bear's mind. This book is cute, funny, comforting, and an easy read. It is a good bedtime length (not too long) book. I think Martin Waddell is a fantastic children's book writer, and I highly recommend this book for children up to 8 or 9.

My two year old really loves this book! We snuggle up to read this and my two yr old, holds tighter and tighter as the book progresses. The content is exciting, the illustrations are great-what more is needed? Great story!

I could not think of a better title. The book is filled with discourses, I would have loved more but...Many spiritual healings of the heart and the mind can be found.

The book leaves you with one conclusion. You need a Shaykh to follow the path to Allah, you need a madthab to follow Sharia, and you can't use a book for either.

Wonderful!

This is one of the best books I have read about Sufism. The letters was from a master to advice his disciples concerning the sufi path. It is informative and helpful to all who are intrested to step into the spirtual path.

Al-Arabi Ad-Darqawi was follower of the Shadhili order which was founded by the great Shaykh Abu'l Hasan ash-Shadhili.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested to know about the practical way of Sufi path.

The translation is excellent and the authour shows true insight on the subject.

This book gives an excellent overview of the problems and solutions to level-of-detail rendering. Few books in the computer graphics field are this well written.

A few things to note:

- Though there's plenty of material on simplification of polygonal meshes, there doesn't seem to be much on volume (tetrahedral) simplification. My impression is that volume simplification is kind of hairy, though, and might require its own textbook.

- If you wish to do your own level of detail rendering, you may end up reading the papers referred to in the book. Most of those papers are available online (try google).

- The terrain chapter is great, and even deals with real-world issues (geospatial file formats, terrain data on the web, what a geoid is, etc) in addition to an overview of different approaches to terrain simplification.

If you're doing level-of-detail stuff, it is basically your duty to buy this book. I only wish I'd bought it eariler.

This is clearly one of the most outstanding Level-of-Detail-for-3D-Graphics-algorithm-survey books currently in print. However I find Luebke, et al.'s choice of a subtitle puzzling. Clearly it should be "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Theory and Application", rather than "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application and Theory". If Luebke, et. al. wanted to emphasize the applied nature of their work, it would've been more appropriate to title it "Level of Detail for 3D Graphics: Application, then Theory, and finally some more Application".

Frankly this oversight ruined the whole experience for me.

Bishop Seymour, a humble son of slaves, is one of the people most mightly used by God in Christian history. Larry Martin tells his story with skill and with passion. This book is powerful. From Azusa the Pentecostal revival, led by Bishop Seymour has spread to 500 million people.

What were Seymour's secrets. Humility, passion, holiness, love for people across racial lines.

Larry Martin begins with Seymour's birth and childhood and vividly protrays his treatment as a black person. Yet Seymour rose beyond racial cruelty and hate--and embraced and spread the unconditional love of God. See for yourself. You've got to read this book.

Having read through this manuscript when in its formative stages, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is researching the Pentecostal Movement or the Azusa Street Revival of Los Angeles that began in the spring of 1906. It is also a good sourcebook for those interested in Black History as William Seymour figures prominently among African-Americans of the 20th Century. Larry Martin has done an excellent job in ferreting out little known facts about William J. Seymour, the leader of the Azusa Street Revival. He has also uncovered information regarding Seymour's family and his early life in Louisiana and other places he traveled before arriving in Los Angeles in 1906. Some of the background information he gives regarding everyday life in Southern Louisiana and in Los Angeles near the turn of the century are essential to the understanding of William J. Seymour and the role he played in the Black Community and in the beginnings of the Pentecostal movement. Having contacted a number of different religious and local archives, looking through old newspapers, census records, city directories, and the like, Dr. Martin has a clear understanding of who William J. Seymour was. This is the most complete biography of William J. Seymour which has been written to date. When combined with his reflections and documentation of the famed Azusa Street Revival, this makes an excellent backdrop for understanding the Pentecostal movement and current revivalism around the globe.

Curly Martin's experience in life coaching speaks for itself. Her new book is a very positive & personal handbook containing the whole approach to life coaching.

Divided into two sections, with each chapter summerised you are firstly guided into becoming a successful life coach, and then more advanced coaching skills such as Rapport skills, Matters of State and Spiral Coaching are contained in the second section.
It is clear, consise and totally communicates the authors belief that "life coaching is a holistic process that has the power to balance and harmonise life."

Ideal as a technical reference tool, it also contains analogies, anecdotes and real life cases to enable you to progress and become effective .
A must have for the serious life coach.

The problem with many people that take NLP courses is that they have difficulty later on to figure out how to apply what they learned. This author has put her emotional intelligence into practice, by writing a book which contains what an NLP practitioner would need to start as life coach (or why a life coach would want to follow NLP). Probably the author would be the first to acknowledge there is more to life coaching than NLP. Not only does the book describe what the applications are of various NLP models in the life coaching context (in terms of communication skills, rapport skills, etc), it also describes what life coaching is, how to set up a practice, what rules of conduct are for a life coach, etc. And the book includes the index and the biography, which I consider essential.

It's clear that a 200-page book doesn't give all the answers, as it is clear that just reading a book won't make you a life coach. But this book certainly is a good step on the way. If you want to apply certain sections of the book in more detail, I recommend that you buy other books the author makes reference to, such as Shelle Rose Charvet's "Words that Change Minds", if you want to coach meta-programs or "Spiral Dynamics" by Don Beck a Chris Cowan if you want to use the spiral coaching model.

Given that metaprograms and spiral dynamics are building blocks used in jobEQ.com's Work attitude and Motivation and Value Systems Questionnaires, readers that know me won't be surprised that I think the author made an excellent choice of models by focusing on these models...

Final conclusion: a necessary resource if you want to be a good life coach!

Patrick E.C. Merlevede - co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"

The words are fun to read aloud, and the pictures are darling. I don't mind reading this book over and over and over again.

Granny Whiteoak remembers the good old days when she was a big football star, the trophies, the awards, and all the press coverage. Now, sitting up in bed, she hears on TV that her team is in big trouble. She jumps up, grabs her cane, and dives into the television set, landing on the football field, ready to play. Not to worry, Granny's here to save the day..... Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson have written a rip roarin', high spirited picture book that will have little sports fans cheering, as Granny runs onto the field in her bedroom slippers, and takes charge of the game. Their joyous, rhyming, energetic text is just perfect for reading aloud, and complemented by Michael Chesworth's charming and amusing illustrations. Youngsters 3-7 will enjoy the hilarious details and marvelous facial expressions in each picture. Be ready to laugh and cheer, each and every time you open this book as Granny scores one for the home team. Little Granny Quarterback is a winner!