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Head First C# (Brain-Friendly Guides)

37 reviews
Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

C# Review
A couple of other reviews on this book confirm what I have discovered in the few chapters I have had time to read, and that is this an excellent book. I have about seven languages under my belt, but this is my first dive into C#, and as a result of this book, I am coming up to speed on this language very quickly. I thank the authors for going out of their way to make the learning curve ...

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

12 reviews
Daniel J. Siegel

W. W. Norton, 2007

Hands down the best book on this topic.....
I've always been a fan of this author, he is a scholar, excellent writer and based on his writing a wise individual. What makes this book especially good from my perspective is the balancing of subjective information from the world's wisdom traditions and his own interior experience with their physical correlates i.e. rigorous science without reducing either to the other. This is extremely ...

Sink Reflections

340 reviews
Marla Cilley

Bantam, 2002

like this one !!
This is for procrastinators like me. If you're full of excuses and want to stay that way, don't buy this book :-)

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

88 reviews
Tom Brokaw

Random House, 2007

Ignore the negative reviews - this is as even as you can get
I'm guessing that the negative comments came from people who are only happy when a book totally trashes everything liberal and glorifies everything conservative. That's not what this book is about, but it is about as even handed as one could attempt. As opposed to what some of the reviewers claim, it is not Tom Brokaw's opinion of the 60's, it is interviews with those that were active ...

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

141 reviews
Marianne Williamson

Harper Paperbacks, 1996

Life Changing For Me
For many years, I have been looking for a way out of my personal hell which has included depression, self subotage, painful thoughts and self loathing. I have tried among many other things, willpower, counseling, religion etc. This book has done it for me. I am a brand new person after reading it.

Reflections of a Wine Merchant

3 reviews
Neal I. Rosenthal

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Thud
If there was ever any doubt about the matter we now know that the skill set needed to discover wines of real character and the one that results in great prose are entirely distinct. Though I was looking forward to this book, from the outset I was sorely disappointed. The author spends much of the first several chapters settling scores with individuals who have disappointed him in the past. ...

Alexander Hamilton

234 reviews
Ron Chernow

Penguin Press, 2004

A splendid rendition of Hamilton's life, accomplishments, and tribulations.
My interest in Hamilton originated when first seeing his portrait on the front of the ten dollar bill made an indelible impression on me as a young child. As Chernow describes in his book, Hamilton's portraits generally exude confidence, self-assurance, as well as omniscience, and these were the qualities that triggered my curiosity in this founding father. Reading Chernow's biography, I find ...

In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership

39 reviews
Henri J. Nouwen

Crossroad/Faith & Formation, 1993

extraordinary, challenging, very useful
Henri J. M. Nouwen has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard, he is the author of several books, and a priest. I have found In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership, a very fruitful reading and a practical, challenging book. In its pages beat several values like human sensibility, sincerity, humbleness, and biblical influence. I could declare the book's theme ...

The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
Laurie Notaro

Villard, 2008

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition

29 reviews
Benedict Anderson

Verso, 2006

One of the seminal works on the evolution of national consciousness
Anderson's masterful work about the development of national consciousness should be read and treasured by anyone interested in modern politics, political theory, or societal development. Bringing together an impressive array of international and polyglot sources, it is one of the few books that gives a global account of the phenomenon of nationalism and modern nation-building while disabusing ...

The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through: Changing School Supervisory Practice One Teacher at a Time

3 reviews
Carolyn J. Downey, Betty E. Steffy, ...

Corwin Press, 2004

Three Minute Classroom Walk-Through
An effective guide for pinpointing effective classroom instruction. This book also outlines specific strategies for engaging teachers in reflective dialogue that could enhance classroom instruction. A must read for administrators.

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

64 reviews
Sherwin B. Nuland

Vintage, 1995

How We Live
Nuland's "How We Die" is, ostensibly, about death and the means by which the great majority of us will take our exit; toward this end, Nuland excels. Nuland also manages, however, to subtly position death's predecessor -- life -- front and center by concluding that "The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi is ars vivendi. ...

Pandora's Daughter

46 reviews
Iris Johansen

St. Martin's Press, 2007

Great new characters!
Great new characters. I would love to see Megan and Grady together again, maybe throw in the reality of having a family.

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

18 reviews
Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

...good read
sits on my desk as a reference when I encounter something I cannot remember or just need to brush up on!

The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections

36 reviews
Neil Gaiman

Vertigo, 1994

One of the best in the series!
To me, this is one of the best volumes in the series. It's a collection of eight separate stories of varying lengths, almost all with an historical connection. (To more or less real people, that is.) And there's no frame story for a change. "Three Septembers and a January" is a lovely piece about Emperor Norton, the deluded mascot of San Francisco for several decades in the 19th century, while ...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

42 reviews
Tim Wise

Soft Skull Press, 2007

It will change your life
I present the face of white privilege, I am white and I am a male and I come from a family with money. I am also gay and a person living with AIDS and in both cases I've known stigma and discrimination. I didn't grow up in a family where racism was acceptable. Reading White Like Me:Reflections on Racism from a Privileged Son makes every thing I grew up with more apparent in this modern world. ...

Jesus: 90 Days With the One and Only (Personal Reflections)

6 reviews
Beth Moore

B&H Books, 2007

What a reflection book!
I bought this book without knowing who Beth Moore is, and I am so glad I did. I've just started to become more strong in the Word and was looking for something to help me continue to move along and study on top of reading the Bible. This is a wonderful reflection book, with thought provoking questions, reflections and prayers. It made me stop and think about what I was reading and what I was ...

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

50 reviews
C.G. Jung

Vintage, 1989

Intensity-his mind was flooded with profound ideas
This book is sublime, a GEM. In his subjective view of the world -"with half closed eyes and somewhat closed ears, to see and hear the form and voice of being" he arrived at an inspiring insight about life: supreme meaning of being can consist only in the fact that is,not that it is not or is no longer; nature, the mystery of love, the psyche, life, human beings, a state of lively contemplation ...

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

6 reviews
Tony Judt

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Very Good
This is a collection of essays from the historian most famous for " Postwar" a history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Judt's earlier book was very good and explained the establishment of the European welfare state as a reaction to the Second World War. Politicians of both sides wanted to ensure that the underlying causes which led to Fascism and Communism never arose in their countries so ...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

12 reviews
Walter Benjamin

Schocken, 1969

Just a quick note
I have nothing to add to the reviews below except to note for scholarly interest that the essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' included in this collection is not Benjamin's final version. (Neither is this title a good translation of the German: 'Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit'. Zohn's translation in the selected writings is better: 'The ...

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