This book brings out strong emotion. "Return of the Native" demonstrates how some of the people in today's world enter into relationships only for their personal benefit. It brings on the desire to read more of the book. As a student in school, we are studying the book. The book, along with the movie, tends to draw the attention of those who watch it, bringing on true interest. I would really recommend this book.

There is something here to cover every situation - I read my copy on a full train and some of the entries caused me to laugh out loud! As my Russian is a bit shaky, I just wish that some of the literal translations were there - the English equivalents are often very approximate. To be used sparingly.

Very good value, in a sturdy cover.

This is a good book if you are looking to prepare yourself for the SAT I, i really recomend it, because i helped me a lot to get a better score in my SAT I.

Ok - this study guide totally rocks, especially when you dont want to read the actual book. Provides character analysis and summaries to make your life a little easier. Buy it, dudes!

This book review was very helpful as a substitute for reading the book Sophocles. I was required to read the book but very pushed for time so this worked great for me! would really reccomend it!

it is pretty good book for youngsters I think it's really good it has some things that you might have not ever heard before.But now it's outdated somewhat because it doesn't tell when the stars are in in 2002 or 2003. But really anything else on it's great. the other problem is that it doesn't show ou not much things on earth as jupiter or any other planet on in the glossary. It has customary measurement and metric if you want to know.

This book really opened my mind about Buddhism. I loved the vivid imageries in the book and how Siddhartha went through all those different stages to get a deeper meaning for life.

In "The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path," Robert Barron argues for a Christianity rooted in spiritual praxis, not abstraction. Barron believes that Christian spirituality - traditionally expressed in movement, practice, and apprenticeship - has been worn thin by accommodation to modernity and become a faint echo of secular culture or a privatized set of convictions. He regards the deculturalization of Christianity as beginning in the subjectivity, rationalism, and suspiciousness of Cartesian philosophy. This cultural mindset was in turn taken up by Christian apologists like Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Rahner who reduced Christianity to something best understood as interior, subjective experience.

The antidote to this development, Barron believes, is a return to spiritual practices that celebrate the playful, embodied, patient, and irreducibly complex working of the mind. According to Barron, we must "plow, climb, will, act, decide, push our way" to insight. To embrace Christianity as a world and a form of life, Barron delineates three paths of spiritual practice. The first involves "finding the center" and is achieved by prayer, pilgrimage, use of religious articles, and fasting. The second, "knowing you're a sinner," is walked by means of confession, truth-telling, and forgiveness. The third, "realizing that life is not about you," is discovered through discernment, works of mercy, nonviolence, and liturgy.

An especially attractive feature of this book is Barron's use of literature to exemplify and expand on his three paths. The selections are aptly chosen, with Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" used for the chapter on "finding the center," Dante's "Purgatorio" for "knowing you're a sinner," and Flannery O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away" for "realizing that life is not about you."

Barron's analyses are generally well-done but there were several lapses. I question how one could write a detailed and extended explication of "Brideshead Revisited" without once mentioning there was a character called Lady Julia Flyte? Less serious perhaps, but something that has always bothered me about "The Violent Bear It Away," is the lack of emphasis on the drowning death of the young Bishop. By focussing only on Bishop's baptism by young Tarwater, Barron joins the author and other critics who don't delve into the subject of Tarwater's moral accountability for his death.

One final observation that I feel compelled to make. In his otherwise brilliant treatment of "attachment" as addiction, Barron makes several disparaging remarks about "a culture that puts a premium on good feelings and attempts to deny and medicate depression." Only someone who has never experienced or observed the depredations of clinical depression could make a such an insensitive comment about the medications that allow otherwise ravaged persons to live productive and godly lives.

If you know nothing about environmental management, this book can be a good partial introduction for you.

The author, Mr. Yoxon, argues that "effective environmental management makes business sense" because of commercial and business pressures to be environmentally effective. He notes that "this practical book has been written for managers who want to cut through the green rhetoric and get to the heart of practial environmental management action that will make sense for their business." The book goes on to focus on what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. As such, the book is fine as far as it goes.

You will get good information on how to do an environmental review of how you are performing now in terms of management processes, ways to identify your best targets of focus, and establish an on-going process in this area: (1) take stock of your situation (2) make business sense out of what you learn (3) make sound environmental management your policy (4) communicate how you are doing and what needs to be done (5) create measurement and reporting systems (6) train for success and (7) put environmental management into your mainstream with specific, measureable, achievable and realistic goals and efforts.

The thrust of the argument is that environmental management can open the doors to new business opportunities. These are described as often falling in the areas of reducing costs, creating greater preference for the products your company makes or services it provides, being more productive, and avoiding expensive law suits and governmental regulation.

I agree with all that, as far as it goes. What the book misses is the opportunity to work with the communities you impact to create better solutions that are mutually beneficial. That's the way that environmental decisions are being made now in the United States and many other jurisdictions. The parties get together and find good solutions. That is often the biggest opportunity of all, and the book doesn't talk about that. I graded the book down one star for that omission.

Increasing environmental sensitivity is an irresistible force. Like all such forces, you would do well to adopt a permanent policy that puts you at a competitive advantage by acting ahead of others to seize important gains. The book also did not address that subject. If you want to know more about that area, you may want to look at our new book, The Irresistible Force Enterprise, that addresses how to use irresistible forces to best advantage, regardless of their direction.

There is a self-check scoring test that you can use to self-assess your current effectiveness that will be helpful to you. That test is worth more than the cost of the book.

Enjoy higher profits, cleaner air, and purer water!

The first impression is the price of this book. I got it simply because it didn't cost me a great deal. However, under the cover... I found great reading and pages of useful ideas. Easy and enjoyable reading. Each chapter is comprehensive in the subject matter, well organised and may great sense on its own, Hoever, the chapters also flowed well together in the end, with a common goal -- better team management/building. I have been in the profession for about 2 years now, and I can really appreciate the examples and suggestions in the book. It is a great book as a general read for those who is interested in the field, and a handy reminder-book to have for those who need a breath of fresh air now and then.