A thinking mans classic....
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If you know this work you know it needs no review by a simple person like myself.  Its simply known to those who know as a classic thinkers book.  Great copy for the low price, no regrets...
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Who hasn't heard of the classic book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill? Is it a book about positive thinking or is it a book about wealth building? The answer: Both! After sixty plus years, this book is still selling millions of copies worldwide and for good reason.

I first read this famous book over twenty years ago. In all honestly, I can say Think and Grow Rich changed by life for the better. The concept that my mind could control my ability to make or not make money was an entirely new realization for me. This book, more than any of my formal education, gave me the training and direction I needed to become more successful and self-satisfied personally, professionally and financially.

Napoleon Hill was an intellectual pioneer in the wealth building movement. His research and study for this book is probably one of the most read, quoted and imitated on the subjects of success and wealth. Around the world, this classic has sold over 15 million copies.  One caveat: It was published in the 1920-30's by a man who wrote it primarily for men - it can be sexist. BUT it's the over-all message that makes it a time-proven classic.

Andrew Carnegie commissioned Napoleon Hill to research and discover why some people succeeded despite all odds to become successful millionaires while others, and sometimes with even greater opportunities, could barely make ends meet. Hill interviewed the greatest entrepreneurial leaders of his time - Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison and more. Napoleon Hill devoted years to studying, understanding, interrupting and writing about success.

Hill determined that the truly successful men he interviewed shared certain mental qualities in common. These common qualities became the thirteen steps of Think and Grow Rich. Hill believed that by understanding and applying these thirteen steps, you could live a full, meaningful and wealthy life.

Napoleon Hill discovered that the human mind is our greatest wealth-building ally. Most people, he concluded, were "afraid" of poverty. They literally were programming their mind to be and stay poor. Hill concluded that most of us focus energy on not being poor instead of becoming wealthy. Becoming wealthy is an entirely different mind-set than not being poor. We waste valuable time and energy on avoiding poverty instead of accumulating wealth.

Hill spends the majority of the book explaining the power of the human mind. What you think about and focus on most often, becomes your reality. Becoming and staying wealthy, Hill explains, is as much mental as it is about physically making money. This may sound straightforward today, but back in the 1920's and 1930's it was revolutionary.

Hill concluded: When you combine reasoning skills with imagination, an unwavering belief and then take positive consistent action - wealth can be yours! Basically, "wealth consciousness" is achieved by making the conscious decision to become wealthy. With belief, positive thought and consistent positive action, you're allowing yourself to become wealthy faster.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is the classic read for developing an unstoppable mind-set for successful wealth building. I've personally read and/or listened to this book many times.

Wealth is more than accumulating money; it's a conscious and subconscious mind-set and lifestyle. Wealth is about having the money to enjoy living life. Wealth is an energy that flows in and out of your life. It's our responsibility to tap into this energy and create and maintain an abundant and wealthy life.

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One of the world's great masters of propaganda... and political will.  A great founding father... One of the best titles of all time... that also has script worthy of the title.
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Great story ... a little short ... makes you think what would you do in his place ...
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For many years I have heard a BMW is a thinking mans motorcycle and that may be true since it
is preferred by more professionals ( Doctors, lawyers, etc.)
Following that thought process this very good book could be called a " Thinking person's mystery novel ".

The beauty of the book is in the final pages and the sound, logical solution to correct many previous felonies.
If you enjoy a story describing a multitude of bad decisions yet finding a happy ending this will be for you.
I highly recommend it, fits my reading interests like a custom made suit.

Billy
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What else can you write that hasn't already been written about this classic.  Want some mental images to spring up with your reading?  This is a good one.....
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The Road Less Traveled is a classic that explores personal discipline, love, growth and religion.  It is inward looking, insightful, sound and practical in many cases.  There are some areas that are controversial, and this can detract from the material a little.  But, each person must choose his or her own path...as the book points out.

Scott Peck does an  excellent job of presenting this material on self-reflection, analysis and addressing personal growth in a positive manner.  Although the book was released three decades ago, it remains useful today.

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This is a classic book that I've had on my "to read" list for a long time. I don't usually read novels in this genre (romance). But this book offers more than romance... it is also a murder mystery. I understand Alfred Hitchcock made this into a movie many years ago but I did not see it. Therefore, i was unaware of the story's plot and how it unfolds. du Maurier does a fine job with this as "mystery".. I especially liked how the protagonist/ narrarator (the second Mrs. DeWinter) is revealed, first as a timid & self-effacing woman who over time finds her stride as the second Mrs. DeWinter and as the mistress of Manderley, the country estate of her husband Maxim deWinter. du Maurier's choice not to give the second Mrs. DeWinter a first name is an intriguing aspect of the story... and underscores the feelings of worthlessness experienced by the second Mrs. deWinter. A main source for these feelings is the perception that the first Mrs. deWinter (Rebecca) excelled in many things (famous beauty, devoted wife & perfect hostess) that the second Mrs. deWinter could not live up to. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Rebecca was not, indeed, as perceived, I gave this 4 stars ... I do like it. But I can't say I loved it. (And there are many other fictions that I have indeed loved.)
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It doesn't really seem possible, since most of us use our brains everyday, that there should be a problem in the thinking department of our minds. But this book shows us quite effectively that we need to exercise our minds just as we do our bodies. And just as with physical exercise, we can jog the right way or the way that wrecks our knees; so with thinking: We can think the right way, or the way that leads to the downfall of humanity.

Thinking means connecting things, says Chesterton. And Chesterton helps us connect things. And Ahlquist helps us read Chesterton effectively to connect things. Often, people are timid about Chesterton, because he has a large vocabulary or because he has a vast knowledge of history. Ahlquist takes all that fear away, and assures you that you could, indeed, read and enjoy Chesterton. And learn to think.

Ahlquist has quite a few great one-liners of his own:

* "[Chesterton's critics] excel in what Chesterton calls the art of missing the point." (See the "Legend in his own mind" review by Peter Fuchs, above, for an example of this.)

* "And so we have the irony of a three-hundred-pound writer who has fallen through the cracks."

* "If we fill our day with thankfulness, we will eliminate most of the anger and frustration and distraction we contribute to the world's overall confusion."

* "Every word has the sense of being an incantation, a magic word."

* "The Gospels portray [Jesus] as a poet and a prophet, but most frequently as an exorcist."

* "If we all thought more about purgatory, we could solve our environmental problems."

* "The modern version of tolerance is the idea that it does not matter what you believe as long as you do not really believe it."

* "It is impossible to believe nothing. It is impossible to have no dogmas whatsoever."

* "We need a new American Revolution."

* "G.K. Chesterton would have made an outstanding lawyer."

* "Distributism is capitalism without the abuse."

* "Science can be just as easily disregarded as it can be invoked because it has no moral authority."

* "Dickens preserved the past. Chesterton preserved Dickens. And now there are a happy few who are working to preserve Chesterton."

* "Evolution...is still faced with the problem of producing rabbits out of an empty hat..."

* "'Everything' is the subject that Chesterton always writes about."
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Kick-ass movie with an amazing take on the neural potential of the human brain. It may not be wholly accurate with such. However, it does make one really think. And if you can make an American viewer think for even a moment then you've got yourself a winner!!
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While I wouldn't exactly call Ender's Game the Greatest Sci-Fi Ever Written (I'm gonna go with The Lensmen Series on that one) it's definitely a classic. So a little more in-depth thoughtful commentary through some philosophical essays is definitely in order. Will you enjoy this particular book of commentaries? Well...

Like a book of essays on Shakespeare, or Star Wars, or Comic Books, or whatever, everyone is going to like different parts for different reasons. And naturally people are going to think that some of the author's arguments are just plain wrong. I don't think that's a valid reason to give the book a low rating though.

Whenever you read a book of essays, I think you need to approach it like reading an English book in school. You aren't reading to decide that you like it, or even agree, but just to learn something, and gain new perspectives.

As such, this book will definitely accomplish that goal. It will makes you think about Ender's Game in new ways if you give it a chance. I would recommend to people who like Ender's Game and like Philosophy, but not for people who like their own views challenged or prefer not to think outside the box or learn new concepts (non-academics need not apply). For people like me who enjoy reading essays about the meaning of life as viewed through Star Wars and Shakespeare, this makes another nice addition to the essay collection.
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A classic, if you haven't seen it by now do your self a favor and pick up a copy today.
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Unlike Chesterton, I am not Christian, much less Catholic. I identify with Montaigne or Thoreau and appreciate Twain. Yet, I have never read so much logical, wise and witty argument in a small book, with the exception of the great Dane Piet Hein's grooks (short poems very popular in English translation around 1970). Like Twain putting down the Judeo-Christianity of the Bible, or Wilde on the vogue for things Japanese, Chesterton the conservative will thrill all readers who enjoy carefully crafted tracts, carrying wild trains of thought all the way to the end of the line.

Each Essay takes on novelists, poets, philosophers, clergy and so-forth, mostly well-known in his day, introducing some of their work and what they stand for. If Loren Eiseley once re-introduced the symbolic essay to English in the 60's as Annie Dillard once opined in Best American Essays, Chesterton's essays each center on an idea he associates with each person. Three names I recall off-hand are Kipling, Shaw and Wells. The idea associated with Kipling is that he embodies the globe-trotter (what we called a jet-setter in the 60's) as opposed to the farmer who stays put. The world traveler thinking to enlarge his vision, becomes jaded and mentally blinkered as the world "shrinks" due to the greater speed of travel, while the humble man who never goes out the gate imagines a boundless world and enjoys a blessed life of enchantment. As I paraphrase the argument, it sounds trite, but it, and many others in the book are phrased so well, one can read the essays many times without sharing the fate of the traveler.

Please note, my five stars are for the book itself. I think the paperback's cover makes it look like a cheap Christian tract rather than the masterpiece of a subtle man of faith which provides food for thought as fresh today as on the day Chesterton wrote it. I include quotes from Heretics in half a dozen of my books in English and think he may seem less dated than I will in a hundred more years!
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this is a great movie for people that love an intelligent and well thought plot. It will make you think. At the same time, you will surely enjoy the movie purely for its entertainment value. Buy this movie while you can!
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Ostrom manages to turn the typical (American) view of what "being a man" is on its head (no pun intended).  He places a mirror to these notions, forcing us to reexamine what it means to be a man.  Don't let the premise scare you away.
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Thinking and faith:

De Bono, Rhodes scholar, founder of the International Creative Forum, originator of the concept of "lateral thinking," was my logical choice for books about thinking. Since I was brought up in Alexandria where salvation is by Grace through knowledge, thinking was never stood in the way of faith. Some of the greatest Church thinkers; Origen, Athanasius, and Cyril utilized their faculty in defending Orthodoxy, after developing Saccha's Christianity compatable Neo-Platonism.

Renewing the Mind:

Jim Sire describes Intellectual Life As a Christian Calling, while John Cobb, Jr. challenging all Christians to think, in obedience of Christ. And while Cobb asks Christians to reclaim their gift of thinking, and redeem thinking about God from theologians, Williams defines the life of the mind as a Christian perspective.

In a A Review of The Life of the Mind, Learning to Think Like a Christian is the reviewer T. Moore's qualifying subtitle, he underlines with John Stott that, 'Your Mind Matters', reminds us that, 'disciplined development of the mind must be an important part of every Christian's spiritual life.'

Thinking, life of the Mind:

Dr. Clifford Williams, a veteran professor of philosophy, at Trinity College offers an examination of the life of the mind, as a Christian perspective, in seven chapters that constitute his brief, but informing book. Christians who develop their mind's life observe, think, and engage in dialogue. They are interested in the exploration of mundane knowledge (science and philosophy) and spiritual knowledge that enhances their faith.

Williams believes that people of faith has to be thinkers, and sets in a concise and systematic way the case for his theme.  While it is normal to think, developing and utilizing our mental faculties, consistently and coherency, is a matter of discipline, very much like the desert fathers toil with the Noia (thought).  While Williams argues that thinking is sought for its own merits, he argues that our minds will try their ways around issues until they can achieve solutions, and acquiring good thinking habits will motivate thinking processes and make them enjoyable. He cites the Scriptures to support his argument, of not wasting what the Lord intended in His intelligent design. He claims that knowledge on its own merits is a way of loving God (John 17:3).  The more earnestly we know Him, the deeper will be our love for Him, since, in the biblical sense knowledge is love. Hosea gives the consequences of rejecting thinking, and lack of knowledge;

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,

because you have rejected knowledge,

I reject you from being a priest to me. (Hos 4:6)

Enhancing Thinking:

It is evident that the author uses a mind technique, of enhancing focused reading and leaves memorable headings:

Making Beliefs coherent, Discovering Meaning, Sensing the Divine,

Loving God with our Minds, Finding Reasons for Believing, Discovering the need for Faith, Taming the Fat relentless Ego, The Incompatibility of Faith & Inquisitiveness/ Imaginativeness, The Incompatibility of Thought and Devotion, The marginalization of Christianity, The Crowd and the Community, The Hermit and the Explorer.
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An insightful movie for all to watch.  If I didn't know there is a God Who has an eternal life in store for me...the movie's idea would make sense.  The problem is that mankind is trying to accomplish what only God will do -- and NOT by upgrading our bodies in the sense of Transcendent Man.

Nevertheless, I respect Ray Kurzweil. He believes that human and artificial intelligence will synthesize at some point in the future, blurring the line between man and machine, a transformation he terms "The Singularity."  Personally, I see a lot of flaws with this idea although I understand why Ray believes in it.  One flaw is that we must acknowledge that only a few will be able to pursue this dream: it's one more way to separate the wealthy elite from the middle and lower classes.  After all, who could afford to do anything that is being proposed but the elite?  And it will never change the heart of man which is "deceitfully wicked."

We have a choice to seek the God of the Bible OR to deny Him.  It's everyone's choice, just as it is a choice to  choose to be an Atheist OR not..

Still, I recommend to Christians especially to watch this documentary to understand what is presently going on in the world.  These sorts of things are never discussed in churches.  And if you mention it, people look at you like you have 2 heads.  We need more watchmen on the wall to educate most "church Christians" and to explain how and why it differs from what God has intended for those who believe in Jesus.  We also need to wake up to the way in which the world is headed.  It's NOT sci-fi; it's science NON-fiction.  The world is headed for a one-world government and this plays right into that plan

I can only give this film 4 stars because it does not promote my beliefs; however, it rates 5 stars to me because it makes for a good eye-opener and teaching tool.