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unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters 49 reviews
David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons
Baker Books, 2007
Just a thought
The previous reviews and the book express a theme very common in the New Testament. The description of the understanding of "christian" sounds an awful lot like the biblical description of the Pharisees.
Both Jesus and Paul were condemned by the religious people of their day for "not being Jewish enough" (by the understanding of the Jewish culture of their day). I would think that the ...
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Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song 151 reviews
Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books, 2006
Best educational bird book!
My 3 year old grandson loves this book. He now knows 95% of the birds by sight and a lot by their songs. He is constantly looking for birds where ever he goes now. Also bought backyard birdsongs and will buy the next one for the western US soon.
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness21 reviews
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, 2008
A Triumph for Behavioral Economics
Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago School of Business, is one of the founders of modern behavioral economics, along with economists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Cass Sunstein is a legal scholar and political science professor at the University of Chicago, and has been at the forefront of applying the results of experimental economics to social problems, especially in ...
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Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side23 reviews
James Van Praagh
HarperOne, 2008
Ghosts Among Us
I have read all of James Van Praagh's books and this is by far the best one yet. It is very insightful and gives a lot of information about spirits, as well as techniques and exercises to use to ward against negative and unwanted energy.
I give it 5 stars.
Margaret Batson
Illinois
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For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men207 reviews
Shaunti Feldhahn
Multnomah Books, 2004
A MUST for All Relationships
This is a "wow" book! For once, as a man, I felt understood. Women will say, "Men! They just don't get it". But, there's a lot about men that women don't get. This book will enlighten all women in a way that men often times find difficult to explain. This book will give women a very good understanding of how men tick and why they act the way they do. Armed with this information and acting upon ...
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The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition)798 reviews
William Sears, Martha Sears, ...
Little, Brown and Company, 2003
I love this book!
The Sears have done an amazing job with this book. It's well organized, easy to read and FULL of important information.
They have shared their invaluable knowledge and experiences gained from their personal and professional lives. After raising eight children they present many different approaches to everyday tasks and focus on how to make those tasks bonding experiences.
I think the book ...
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Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values50 reviews
Keith Olbermann
Random House, 2007
Do we need Keith?
Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise And Triumph of the One-drop Rule
YES! I haven't seen anything like Keith since British MP George Galloway gave Congress the tongue-lashing it so desperately needed. He knows how to combine important political commentary with entertainment and preach beyond the choir.
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Debt Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About 39 reviews
Kevin Trudeau
Equity Press, 2008
The book that helps you out of debt
Although I knew a lot about what he is saying in the book it would help someone who doesn't know anything about their credit reports and how to help yourself get out of debt.
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It297 reviews
Michael E. Gerber
HarperCollins, 1995
Excellent Book!
This book should be required reading if you're a small business owner. If you've ever wondered why you're working so hard and not getting ahead, Michael Gerber will show you why. This is the book to read about to learn how to systematize your business.
The main thesis of the book is that you should spend more time working on your business than in your business. Michael teaches you to build ...
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!2139 reviews
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Business Plus, 2000
Fantastic Book
This book is amazing. I would recommend this to any at any age. I read this in High School and it changed my life. I now own a successful startup company and it is all thanks to the rich dad series for inspiring me to NOT GET A JOB! I recently bought this for my 13 year old brother in law as well. It is not a HOW TO but rather a THINK ABOUT how to!
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Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...129 reviews
Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Touchstone, 1995
Mr Barrett
I have two nephews with ADD/ADHD and possibly more undiagnosed relatives which made me curious that maybe I had ADD/ADHD. I read this book and I really related to a lot of the stories and it gave me hope that there could be help for me. I wasn't really a problem student, just got in trouble often and had problems reading but I excelled at math and science (although teachers said I was an ...
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What's Love Got to Do With It: Talking With Your Kids About Sex3 reviews
John T. Chirban
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Helpful, down-to-earth advice on talking about sex
Dr. Chirban's What's Love Got to Do With It? is a great guide to talking with your kids about sex. I know that for many parents this is a difficult issue, and in this book Dr. Chirban provides warm encouragement and practical ways to open up a continuing dialogue with your kids. While it's important to start sex ed early, it's never too late.
I particularly like that Dr. Chirban stresses ...
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality ...149 reviews
Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger
New Harbinger Publications, 1998
Must Read
For those who share the challenges of life that I do, this book is a MUST READ. Well organized, and written in a sensitive but "hit-home" approach, you'll find this book to be the key to getting back on track. For those who aren't avid readers, like myself, you'll also find this book to be an easy read, bringing so much understanding to light... you'll have a hard time putting it down.
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The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the ...53 reviews
John Perkins
Plume, 2008
Time to Take the Red Pill....!
Funny how all the deniers and thos who rate this author's books as "impossible" or "a fabrication" do so, I am willing to bet, from the comfort of having never left their own zip code. How can it be, if their scred "free market" and the government are forces of "freedom and justice"???
As a fomer officer of the Guatemalan Army, charged at one time with guarding those "advisers" and "experts" ...
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The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed (Ultimate Kauai Guidebook)409 reviews
Andrew Doughty
Wizard Publications Inc., 2006
the ultimate kauai guidebook
What a great book. It was very helpful in organizing our trip. We used it everyday.
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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ...14 reviews
Iain Murray
Regnery Publishing, 2008
Excellent Work
Mr. Murray has written a very interesting and informative book on how dogmatic environmentalists have often actually worsened environmental problems or human living conditions or both. Mr. Murray demonstrates that a main part of the problem of the environmentalist dogma is the hostility to property rights. He demonstrates how this rejection of property rights led to the fires of debris on the ...
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Read All About It!22 reviews
Laura Bush, Jenna Bush
HarperCollins, 2008
Motivational Book
The students in my classes were motivated by Read All About It. I used it to encourage them to read and see what they could discover.
Kathy Jones
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The Shadow of the Wind502 reviews
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
All time masterpiece.
A long time ago ago Barcelona that you wish you have lived in and breathed in its ancient magical dust and fairytails. The Shadow of the Wind has all the dark fantasy, mystery, human oriented elements you need for a masterpiece of a book that the book itself seems hunted to me. A library with hidden books that were kept from everyone, a copy of Julian Carax one and only novel about the devil ...
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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved ...6 reviews
Fay Vincent
Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Real Old School
I am very excited to discover this book of living oral history about a great era in the evolution of baseball, a time when there was exceptional talent on the field, and still a level of craftsmanship and relative purity to the sport. I just wanted to comment on the review that compares this book to The Boys of Summer as a classic benchmark of baseball writing. I would not dispute that ...
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You Can Observe A Lot By Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life
Yogi Berra
Wiley, 2008
"The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really means What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless ...
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