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To listen to its proponents, network (or multilevel) marketing is the greatest thing since sliced bread: top performers earn $1 million a month, reside in alluring places like Aspen and Kauai, and still find quality time to happily raise children and lovingly cement spousal relationships. Contending that those who fail to make it that far are ill prepared for the initial challenges they face, Mark Yarnell and Rene Reid Yarnell--married network marketers who are among the industry's leaders, as well as members of a University of Illinois faculty that teaches the only college-certified course on the subject in the U.S.--have written Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams! to convey both advice and inspiration to newcomers. Peppered with personal anecdotes that bring their recommendations to life, the two offer logical strategies for overcoming rookie obstacles and kick starting a career. Individual chapters explore issues such as battling rejection, avoiding depression, handling prospects, supervising recruits, and managing time. Each concludes with a comprehensive summary, but save it for later reference and don't skip the preceding narrative, or you risk missing the book's considerable motivational component. --Howard Rothman
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How to Keep the Dream Alive!
Network marketing is one of the fastest-growing career opportunities in the United States. Millions of people just like you have abandoned dead-end jobs for the chance to achieve the dream of growing their own businesses. What many of them find, however, is that the first year in network marketing is often the most challenging—and, for some, the most discouraging.
Here, Mark Yarnell and Rene Reid Yarnell, two of the industry's most respected and successful professionals, offer you strategies on how to overcome those first-year obstacles and position yourself for lifelong success. The Yarnells provide you with a wealth of savvy advice on everything you need to know to succeed in network marketing, such as proven systems for recruiting, training, growing and supporting your downline, and much more.
In an easy, step-by-step approach, you will learn how to:
·Deal with rejection
·Recruit and train
·Avoid overmanaging your downline
·Remain focused
·Stay enthusiastic
·Avoid unrealistic expectations
·Conduct those in-home meetings
·Ease out of another profession
You owe it to yourself to read this inspiring book!
"This will be the Bible of Network Marketing."
— Doug Wead, former special assistant to the president, the Bush Administration
Customer Reviews:
must have to make a good decision.......2007-10-14
This book gives you the down-low on what to expect in network marketing without making you feel like you don't even want to try. It is very informative and gives lots of real-life examples which ring true to my experiences with network marketing. It is a good balance of realism and optimism; all done with honesty and integrity. Any new network marketer, and even some experienced ones who are struggling, should read this book.
Great Book.......2007-09-20
This book is really great for someone entering Network Marketing . . Easy to read . .
Same old stuff, different cover............2007-09-16
There are many books like this out there with the methods are out of date. Most successful network marketers build their fortune on the backs of others. There are some new twists on old approaches, the problem with most network marketing, MLM, multilevel marketing methods is the company's business model drives the behavior in the field and turns people into pushy, aggressive sales people, which causes huge failure in the industry.
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A great way to get going.......2007-08-16
This book is very clearly written, and gives you the right steps, and thoughts on how to get throught the rough part and then get to the GREAT Success! Anyone who is starting to work in MLM should start with this book!
A tremendous help to my continued journey with MLM .......2007-08-10
I really enjoyed it and learned so much useful information while reading this amazing book. I only wish that I bought this book 18 months ago when I started with this wonderful MLM company I belong to. The insights of this industry are fully explained in this book along with stories that people in their organization have lived and learned through. Not only is the information useful and ready to be applied to your business but the inspiring stories are true examples that this industry works for those who work it. I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is starting out in a MLM company and for anyone who is a veteran in MLM. I have recommended this book to my organization and everyone loves this book, too.
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Scholastic Books and Taggies, Inc. have joined together to create this finely crafted soft cover book entitled "My First Taggies® Book: Sweet Dreams". A soft fleece cover and beautifully embroidered interior spreads offer a unique opportunity for learning while snuggling! Featuring our Taggie tags that kids love to play with! This is already one of the UK's most popular soft books and it even washes clean! Measures 15cm square.
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Modeled after the popular Taggies baby blankets, My First Taggies Book is a soft fleece picture book with eight different looped ribbon tags to rub and pull and chew. The content of the book is very simple: three two-page spreads featuring a plush kitty, bunny, and puppy, along with accompanying rhymes. "Sweet dreams, little kitty,/ Rock-a-bye and nighty night." The point here is not the plot line, but the delightfully cuddly feel of the book and the interactive tags. Designed to be tactile and visually stimulating, each tag has a different print or texture, much like the satin edges of blankets or clothing labels that so intrigue babies and toddlers. A gentle and safe way to introduce the very youngest "readers" to the world of books. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter
Customer Reviews:
NIce book........2007-10-12
I thought this would be a great book but was disapointed. The tags don't have any texture on them so my sone doesn't really care about it.
Baby Loves Taggies Book.......2006-11-10
My six-month-old loves her Taggies Book. (She received it when she was four months old.) Now, she likes to hold it and rub the tags. It is perfect size to lay across her lap while she is in her car seat. Very nice.
My son loves those little tags.......2006-11-04
When my son first got the book, he was absolutely fascinated with the tags. He also loves to feel the velvety pictures. And it's also one of the first books I began reading to him.
Perfect for bedtime.......2005-08-25
This is a wonderful book that my nine-month-old has enjoyed since we received it as a gift when he was 2 months old. I don't understand the other reviews that say "it isn't much of a story". "Sweet Dreams", as the title implies, is a bedtime book. And it is perfect for that. Short, simple, engaging but not exciting, it is oh-so-soft and very comforting. My son loves it. He touches each animal ("kitty", "bunny", & "puppy") as we read, and I even stroke his face with the book once at the end as a final soother. It is the second of the two books we read at bedtime, the first being Baby Animals, which is a more active "Tough & Feel" book, but a good transition from active to night-night. I highly recommend Sweet Dreams for anyone looking for a comforting quiet book for bedtime reading with their baby. At nine-months, he seems far from outgrowing it; we will enjoy this book for some time to come.
An update at 13 months: still a wonderful way to go to bed. He can be teething or excited or anything other than sleepy. But when we start this book, he settles right down and gets snuggly and sleepy. After all, kitty, bunny and puppy are asleep in their beds, so it must be a good idea!
A perfect gift for your newest adopted family member.......2005-04-04
I think this is a perfect gift for any baby shower or new addition to your family. Especially for those who are adopting a child International like we did. We wheren't sure how much stimulation our daughter received in her Social Welfare Institute in China and so we brought this colorful book along. The book is a soft flannel and each tag is has a different color and texture and what child doesn't like tags of any sort. If you find this book in the book store or sometimes in a gift shop you can choose the colored tags and textures, for each one is different.
As a reading book, this is not and I am not really sure that's what this book was intended to be. I think this book is for stimulation of your babies sences. Can't say enough about this book and the taggie blanket, you just can't go wrong bringing to a baby shower on as one of the items packed in your already full bag on your way to be united with your daughters and or sons!
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This tremendous trio of Margaret Wise Brown's tried-and-true board books is virtually guaranteed to delight babies and toddlers. The Runaway Bunny, illustrated by Clement Hurd, is a comforting testimony to a parent's unconditional love and protection: "'If you run away,' said his mother, 'I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.'" Goodnight Moon walks a child through a hypnotically soothing bedtime ritual of naming familiar objects in a room (and finding the little mouse that keeps popping up); and the melodic Big Red Barn, with illustrations by Felicia Bond, is a colorful foray into farm life: "By the big red barn / In the great green field, / There was a pink pig / Who was learning to squeal." In the end, the barnyard animals are all asleep, and if you're lucky, your favorite toddlers will be, too. A wonderful first-book collection.
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Margaret Wise Brown's beloved bedtime classics have lulled generations of children to sleep with their soothing sounds. Now, for the first time, these three classics are shrinkwrapped together in a beautifully designed gift package. The gift set includes Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, with pictures by Clement Hurd, along with Big Red Barn, illustrated by Felicia Bond.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful collection of books for little ones..........2006-07-22
I like the fact that this is made for baby's so they can gnaw on it and it won't get completely destroyed! The stories are wonderful and it entertains my little one. She enjoys the pictures and love helping with flipping of the pages. Though the thick pages are hard to flip at times. Otherwise, just a nice set of books to start with your baby and read to until they're ready for "bigger" books. :)
Wonderful books!.......2006-02-08
My son loves these books! He especially likes Good Night Moon and Big Red Barn. The Runaway Bunny is such a cute story but still too long for him. This set would make a great set for anybody expecting a baby.
They don't call them classics for nothing.......2003-06-26
These three are terrific! I wanted to buy lots of classics for my baby and I was given this one. I could not have made a better choice myself. This is a great edition to my child's library.
Wonderful - Just Wonderful.......2003-02-12
These books are wonderful. I started reading them to my sons as soon as they were born. My oldest is 3 and he can "read" Goodnight Moon to me. He looks forward to finding the little bunny before his mommy does in The Runaway Bunny and knows when to make the animal sounds before I turn the page in the Big Red Barn.
This collection is a must for all kids. You won't regret buying them for the years of enjoyment that follows!
Love the trio!.......2002-10-29
Big Red Barn is a BIG HIT in my house and my daughter is only 6 months old! This is followed by Goodnight Moon. She's a little too young for The Runaway Bunny. The illustrations aren't as colorful or fun as the other two, but I know when she gets older it will also be a favorite. Definitely recommend this trio for parents!
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This is a captivating "rags to riches" story, as a young boy discovers during the Depression that hard work and sheer perseverance are the keys to living his dreams.
First A Dream is filled with practical, easy-to-understand, no-nonsense business lessons that the entrepreneur can apply to his or her own life -- describing the qualities an effective leader must possess, the key methods to inspiring team members, and the development of culture and values that are critical to the success of a small business as well as a multibillion dollar conglomerate.
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Good read for business people and entrepreneurs.......2007-06-24
I got the reference to this book from one of Warren Buffett's letters to the shareholders. Warren Buffett got a copy of this book from the interns at his company, and he got interested with the company and management, then bought Clayton Homes.
This book is Jim Clayton's life story from being a sharecropper's son to banker, philanthropist. First few chapters about his childhood and school are boring, and you might get interested starting from his used car dealer business. And then all the chapters about his life as an entrepreneur, evolution of this cars and home businesses. The story ends with Clayton Homes being bought by Berkshire Hathaway and his banking acquisitions and philanthropic activities. This book is good read for anyone with business mind or entrepreneurship qualities.
OK.......2007-01-18
I was inspired to buy this book after hearing Jim Clayton speak at a conference to Mobile Home Investors. I was encouraged by his talk of integrity in the workplace with employees and customers. However, in the book I was saddened by the fact that he was divorced TWICE because of both his wives being neglected. He explained in the book that if a Clayton Home customer had a problem they would do whatever it takes to make them a happy customer. I guess that does not apply to his personal life. I realize that he could have omitted the divorce details from his book and to his credit he did not say anything negative about his ex-wives except that the divorces were expensive.
I give this book 3 stars because I believe a business owner could learn alot from Jim Clayton but we all need to make sure our wives and children are held in higher esteem than our careers.
inspiring.......2007-01-05
This was a good book for anyone to read. A true story of the "American Dream."
Jim Clayton is a Winner and he Tells you how to be One in this Book.......2006-01-02
First a Dream, by Jim Clayton
Any book that would make Warren Buffett spend billions to buy a company after reading it needs to be read ASAP. As soon as I heard that Warren bought Clayton Homes after reading about how Jim Clayton built and ran the company I bought and read the book without delay. I have a long list of books that both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger mentioned and recommend on my blog: www.bloglines.com/blog/KevinKingston
This book made a huge impression on me, in fact I ordered it for several friends and business associates to read. It really gives you the insight and motivation to build and grow a company. There are many parts of the book that I made copies of and keep in my scrap book, such as Jim's mission statement and his company's growth history. Jim Clayton is refreshingly honest about his business successes as well as his blunders. He openly talks about bankruptcies and investigations which many would have avoided.
As with many of the books I have reviewed both on Amazon and on my blog you read about and experience what it take to be a winner in business, what kind of attitude you need and how optimism plays such an important part in any business success. One might think that fate and fortune were just waiting for Clayton to come along and take them by the hand, but you can see from this book the tremendous drive, motivation, will to succeed, optimism and foresight that went into his increasable career. If you really contemplate what it take to shake off a bankruptcy after giving a business everything you have and get right back in the game and do it all over again, it's very encouraging for anyone that has had a few tough times in business.
By Kevin Kingston, author of: A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate
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Just the Inspiration You Need.......2003-04-15
Jim Clayton's story is an inspiration to us all. My good friend and mentor gave me this book, which proves that hard work pays off. Many lessons can be learned from Clayton who, like other great men, worked hard, worked smart, and overcame hardships to become a success in his business and in life. Clayton's story is the quintessential `American Dream' chronicle that follows a man from his humble beginnings on a cotton farm to becoming one of the most successful businessmen in America. I recommend this book to anyone who is striving to make a dream a reality--Clayton's story is just the inspiration you need.
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Rich with unforgettable characters and history, intricately plotted and utterly absorbing, City of Dreams is a stirring saga of early Manhattan and the beginnings of medical science told by a master storyteller.
In 1661, Lucas Turner and his sister, Sally, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam.
Lucas, a barber surgeon, and Sally, an apothecary, are both gifted healers and bound to each other by blood and necessity. Yet as their new lives unfold, lust, betrayal, and murder will make them deadly enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, both make choices that will burden their descendants -- dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters -- with a legacy of secrets and retribution. That heritage sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and ultimately, patriot against Tory.
In a city where slaves are burned alive on Wall Street, where James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams walk The Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and where one of the greatest hospitals in the world is born in former shipwrights' workshops by the East River, the fortunes of the two families are inextricably entwined. Their pride and ambition, their loves and hates, and their willingness to live by their own rules will shape the future of medicine, and the becoming of the dream that is New York.
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City of Dream, Beverly Swerling.......2007-08-23
Fantastic Historic read. The story takes unexpected turns through several generations. Characters jump off the page and stayed with me for a long time. Ms. Swerling has a great gift to put you into that space and time.
4 1/2 Stars -- Very Hard To Put Down!.......2007-04-18
Beverly Swerling's City Of Dreams is a sweeping epic of (primarily) two families starting from Manhattan's beginnings as a Dutch colony in the 1660's through the American Revolution, when New York became a new nation's city of dreams. Swerling provides the right blend of interesting historical facts about Nieuw Amsterdam/New York and the early days of medicine, mystery, excitement, sex, a well-developed plot, and a array of fictional and real characters to make City Of Dreams a book that is difficult to put down. Her strong writing ability made me feel that I stepped back over 300 years in time and was right there with the characters experiencing life during a fascinating time in our history. I highly recommend The City Of Dreams if you are a fan of historical fiction. I'm looking forward to reading Swerling's two other books, Shadowbrook and City Of Glory.
Another one in the minority here.......2007-02-10
I am sorry, as much as I love historical fiction, and as much as I LOVED Shadowbrook, I could not get into this book. While I appreciate the amount of research the author did into medical history of this time and treatment of slaves, the gore factor is WAY OVER THE TOP. Page after page after page, compounded with unappealing characters who even if one started to care, disappeared into another generation.
I gave up after 200 pages. I give the author kudos for the well done research and keeping with known facts, but as stated before, the gore factor is way over what I can stomach for 600 pages. If you are not sure if this is for you, I suggest you check it our from your local libary. Then, if you absolutely love it, buy it. JMHO.
Outstanding read!.......2006-11-01
I could not put this wonderful work of historical fiction down! Two thumbs up! The author did a fantastic job of weaving this tale and these wonderful characters together. One of the things I like about the book is that I don't always like the attributes of the character, nor do I like what they do or how they act or feel...but I care about what happens to them and can't stop wanting to know more. What a wonderful read....I am on a quest to find more by this talented author.
loved it !!!!.......2006-10-20
wow this author is so good! i could not put this book down. the perfect book. has love, lust, anger, betrayal and it makes you feel as if you were in the actual story!
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When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school’s white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: "dream not of other worlds."
In her often lyrical memoir, Diehl reveals how, in the intimacy of the classroom, her students reached out to her, a young white northerner, and shared their fears, anxieties, and personal beliefs. Repeatedly surprised and challenged by her students, Diehl questions her long-standing middle-class assumptions and confronts her own prejudices. In doing so, she eloquently reflects on what the students taught her about the hurt of bigotry and the humiliation of poverty as well as dignity, courage, and resiliency.
Set in the waning days of the Jim Crow South, Dream Not of Other Worlds chronicles an important moment in American history. Diehl examines the history of black education in the South and narrates the dramatic struggle to integrate Virginia's public schools. Meeting with some of her former students and colleagues and visiting the school where she once taught, she considers what has--and has not--changed after more than thirty years of integrated schooling. This provocative book raises many issues that are of urgent concern today: the continuing social consequences of segregated schools, the role of public education in American society, and the challenges of educating minority and poor children.
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In Your First Novel, novelist Laura Whitcomb and seasoned literary agent Ann Rittenberg team up to provide you with the skills you need to write your dream novel and the savvy business know-how to get it published. In this all-in-one resource, you'll discover essential novel-writing techniques, such as:
· How to best structure your research so that you can save time later · How to card your story before you start writing · What to consider when developing your cast of characters · How to adapt classic story structures to fit your own ideas
… and insider information on what it takes to get published, including:
· What agents do at those three-hour power lunches—and how it affects you · What makes an agent instantly reject a manuscript · How to correctly translate submission guidelines · What happens if you get multiple offers—or no offers at all
Plus, learn about the publishing process from the firsthand accounts of such noted authors as Dennis Lehane, Kathryn Harrison, Jim Fusilli, Kathleen George, and others!
Customer Reviews:
Great Step-by-step Ideas for Writing.......2007-10-09
This book is a great way for those who are struggling to even get started writing their first novels to sit down and map out the process. It is a step-by-step guide that helps give you ideas and resources about how to go about writing a novel. Be prepared to want to buy some of the recommended books the authors discuss!
Nothing new, but that's ok.......2007-09-30
Since I really only read the beginning half--about the writing--and not the second half--about the publishing--I will only review what I've read. The first half of this book--Part I: Writing Your Novel--is decent. Rittenberg has good, solid pointers and gives step-by-step instructions for writing that novel. I found a lot of what she said to be helpful, and at the same time, it was nothing I haven't come across before in other books of similar content. Whether you're quite the organized writer, or more the organic type who lets things ebb and flow, Rittenberg has tips and techniques to get you started or keep you going: "Carding Your Story" anyone? She takes you start to finish on that novel, even explaining why it's good practice to "put the manuscript aside for a few days (a few weeks is better) to give yourself more perspective" (pg.121). Full of practical advice, "Recommended Reading," and some creative ways to plow through what may be blocks for some, "your first Novel" is worth a read, not to mention, a try.
Finally, some information on lengthy works.......2007-07-11
I've read so many books about writing that I can't even name them all. I can't even remember them all. I spent four years in college studying writing and English. I learned how to write almost everything. The one thing that no one ever talks about is writing a full length work of fiction. I was unbelievably happy to find something that talks about the special needs of the fiction novel writer. It was almost as though the authors knew me and had heard my questions.
I did also find the information on publishing very useful, but the most wonderful parts were about writing a novel.
Thank you ladies, for giving me some truly useful information.
Highly Recommend.......2007-05-14
This is an outstanding read for writers desiring to know more about their craft and what it takes to get a novel published.
Honest.......2007-01-06
Honestly, I am the co-author's husband. I will say, however, that I know how much work she put into this, how much fun it is to read and how much her clients rely on the kind of advice and support she gives to authors in this book. I can't imagine that a prospective novelist would not benefit a great deal from the specific, thoughtful and practical advice that Ann and Laura provide here in Your First Novel.
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- Superb
- Good if you like the Berenstain Bears
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- Bad Dreams Begone...With Help from the Bear Family!
- Simple, Soft, Explanation of Nightmares for Young Children
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The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream (First Time Books(R))
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After watching a scary movie, both Brother and Sister Bear are troubled by nightmares until Mama and Papa explain what causes bad dreams.
Customer Reviews:
Superb.......2007-07-25
This book shows that bad dreams may be scary but there is a reason behind them.
Good if you like the Berenstain Bears.......2007-01-26
I was looking for a book about bad dreams, and since the kids like the BB, this seemed like a lock. And in general, it is good, but it takes FOREVER to get to the actual bad dream part! The majority of the book is setting up all the things the cubs did all day which then precipitated the bad dreams. Then only about 4 pages are spent dealing with the actual dream. So that was a bit disappointing, but it is still entertaining and you can certainly use it as a jumping-off point to discuss bad dreams. (It is based on a TV episode that we've seen since.)
Wonderful!.......2005-12-15
The world lost a real gem of a writer when Stan Berenstain passed on November 29. Together, Berenstain and his wife, Jan, and eventually their two sons, created books featuring lovable but flawed characters who tackle just about every real issue that faces families.
All kids will experience their first nightmare at some point, hopefully later than sooner. This book is a great way to open up a dialogue with a kid who has had a nightmare. Like all of the Berenstain Bears books, it's not intended to provide a child with coping skills, but rather to help open up a line of conversation wherein the parent can help the child directly. It's simply a fable, an outline, a conversation starter. And it's a wonderful one.
Bad Dreams Begone...With Help from the Bear Family!.......2005-10-05
I loved this book, because it is a wonderful "bad dream banisher" for children of any age. Brother and Sister Bear are so much like normal, you-and-me kids that any child will understand where they're coming from. This book has helped all of the children in my family deal with nightmares...Definately a must-have for any Bear Family fans!
Simple, Soft, Explanation of Nightmares for Young Children.......2003-10-24
Both "Brother" and "Sister" Bear have bad dreams after they play with some toy monsters, and "Brother" sees a movie about them. "Mama Bear" and "Papa Bear" comfort them when they each have bad dreams that night:
"But it was so real!" she said, calming down a bit.
"That's how it is with dreams," he [Papa] said. "It's as if they're really happening, but they're not-they're just in your mind."
After Sister explains the dream, Mama explains that the mind keeps thinking during sleep, but in a nonsensical way, and that a dream "takes all the things you were thinking or were nervous about during the day and puts them together all jumbled like a mixed-up jigsaw puzzle." Mama validates that the dream is scary but also points out how it was interesting.
This may or may not help a child experiencing his/her first nightmares. It's might be useful as an initial explanation, but it doesn't (nor does it intend to) offer much more insight or coping strategies than those mentioned above. As usual, the drawings are fairly bland and unimaginative, but will be familiar to the Berenstain Bear fan.
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- An unexpected gem
- A unique philosophical examination of the human condition!
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- Very interesting but..
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If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it.
Book Description
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An imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time, this novel takes us through the young patent clerk's many dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time.
Customer Reviews:
An unexpected gem.......2007-08-27
One of my very favorite books, read in a single night at Christmas. It's that sort of book - small enough to read all at once, but broken into little vignettes one could treasure night after night. Each vignette, loosely bound together with a wraparound plot featuring Albert Einstein, depicts a different reality from our own, where time functions differently. In one, time runs backward; in another, time is a literal location you can walk toward or away from. Another reality holds people without long-term memory, and everyone's past is written down in books. How similar or alien these worlds are to our own lie mostly in the mind of the reader...and that's half the beauty of it. The prose is simple and tight, but the ideas are absolutely breathtaking. If you want a nice quiet read on a summer's day, or a near-Christmas night, I couldn't recommend this enough.
A unique philosophical examination of the human condition!.......2007-06-29
At first blush, for the briefest of moments, one might be excused for thinking that "Einstein's Dreams" was science fiction or perhaps even physics! But, in fact, Alan Lightman has treated us to an enchanting metaphysical flight of fancy loosely based on that most counterintuitive of ideas that Einstein shared with the world in his General Theory of Relativity - the idea that time is an integral part of the structure of the universe but that it is flexible, ever-changing and dependent on the frame of reference of the observer.
"Einstein's Dreams" is a collage of short, lucid essays that Lightman puts forward as the nocturnal dreamscapes in which a sensitive Einstein might have wandered as his intense genius created his famous theories. Worlds in which time stands still, runs backward, runs at varying speeds dependent on your location, passes in a circular ever-repeating pattern, or runs in a discontinuous pattern of starts and stops, for example, are the setting for a metaphorical examination of humanity's responses to these changing notions of time.
Lightman's elegant narrative prose, near poetry in its simple style and elegance, explores the human condition and demonstrates that such notions as love and hate, motivation or despair, joy or despondency and creativity are implicity dependent on our unstated understanding of the passage of time.
"Einstein's Dreams" is a short read that will occupy littler more than an hour or two to complete but it is thought-provoking, fascinating and quite compelling despite its appealing brevity and simplicity.
Paul Weiss
Simple, yet entertaining........2007-05-20
First if all, these stories are NOT written by Einstein himself. They are a series of (very) short stories written as if by the great scientist himself, based on his actual writings and memoirs. They are actually written by the author, Alan Lightman.
Some of the stories are very though-provoking and fun, while others are extremely boring. Although, luckily, the slow ones are over with quickly, because none of the stories is longer than a few pages (roughly).
I got through this entire book in about 30 minutes. I would suggest it for a coffee table or bathroom... or, if you're a writer and want to be led in new directions, his book, while simple, is definitely unique!
Very interesting but.........2007-05-11
This brief novel should have a true 5 stars rating if you look only at its content.
The series of dreams Lightman imagine could have haunted Einstein's night during the last rush toward the formulation of Special Relativity are very interesting and suggestive: a true, extensive review of worlds ruled out by different conceptions of time.
I must say that here and there I have been quite bored by Lightman's style. A most recurrent stylistic module throughout the book is to line up many very synthetic icons (e.g.: "A boy is playing with his ball. A woman stands by the balcony looking at the sky. An old man is walking down the street", and so on). I know it is a peculiar feature of the American narrative style, which has been mimicked by some (so-called "neorealists") Italian writers, nevertheless I found it a bit annoying.
Well, I am Italian, so my mother tongue is one of Latin's children and inherited Latin's complex morphology and syntax: so we are used to long, complex phrases which allows a good writer to achieve a fluent style.
On the other hand, an eloquent writer like Henry Rider Haggard sometimes produces long, complex phrases, which are quite difficult to understand: phrases at the edge of English language's expressive possibilities. So I like best a "medium" style, when I read in English, an "aurea mediocritas" without any extremisms.
But Lightman is really a good, refined writer. I must say that Lightman's style has often a great lightness (nomina sunt consequentia rerum), the terseness of a crystal. And sometimes, unexpectedly, with one sudden wing beat, Lightman's writing reaches the highest poetry. These are the magical moments of the novel, often at the end of the chapters - or I should say at the end of the dreams.
I would like to add a last note, a historical flaw I found (see page 77). Lightman says that Einstein has something like "a vision of galaxies". In 1905 almost no scientists (much less astronomers) knew of galaxies: they talked of "nebulae" and the most renowned theory for those objects was that of the protostars. In 1755 Kant expressed his own belief and reasoning on this subject, talking of "island universes" similar to the Milky Way, but his opinion was not so influential.
The Great Debate between Harlow Shapley (protostar theory) and Heber Curtis (island universes) dates to 1920; only in 1923 Hubble proved that the strange nebulae were true galaxies.
Lightman's dreams not necessarily Einstein's.......2007-03-17
Imaginative but also silly and annoying at times.
The title is designed to cash in on the famous Einstein name.
The best parts were when Einstein was ''directly'' alluded to.
Book Description
As Arthur plans his first-ever sleepover party to be held outside in his tent, nothing, not even reports of a spaceship sighting, can dampen the young aardvarks enthusiasm. But when Arthur, Brain, and Buster see an eerie light, they wonder if the rumors of aliens are true.
Customer Reviews:
Another great Arthur adventure.......2007-04-14
Arthur is a great series of books for English Language Learners and younger children (K-3rd grade). They really enjoy the stories and each one has an important lesson to be learned. This one is no exception.
A Party of Junk Food.......2006-10-26
I read "Arthur's First Sleepover." In the story Arthur was having a sleepover in a tent. D.W. thought there was an alien. Arthur was trying to find a flashlight. Buster and Brian came in the door. In the tent they they had junk food. And I want to say it is funny.
This Book Is Way Cool.......2006-08-05
Taking the Arthur series a step farther and upping it to this format was a great idea. These books are terrific.
arthur's first sleepover: an arthur adventure.......2005-09-08
Great book!! my just turned 2 yr old daughter loves all the arthur & d.w. book series...got this one in board book format which is easier to keep from tearing. very easy to read and she sits through the whole story!!
It's funny and cute.......2004-01-13
My boys love the pictures ~~ and I enjoyed reading the story about Arthur's first sleepovers and his little sister's concern about aliens. After a trick goes bad, Arthur returns the favor to his little sister. And it's just cute.
It's a great book for beginners. If you're a mom of toddlers, this book is just cute to read ~~ it's not repetitive nor boring. It's a fun book.
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