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As a marriage and family therapist it is wonderful to finally have a reference for clients that will show them why they continue to fall into patterns of fighting and disappearing with each other. It unites us all in our need to be safely attached to our mates. It shows how any couple with the desire to live together with harmony and love can understand and improve their marriage. Thank you, Dr. Johnson, Sue. You are as great in print as you are in person. I could actually visualize and hear you as I read. Thanks, and keep it coming.

if you never buy another self help book in your life make it this one . Having bought thousands as my amazon account can confirm this is "smply the best"

The Audio book does a great job of summarizing the South Beach Diet, and is a great start (especially for those who are challenged for time and reading the full book is too much).

the CD explains the diet and the philosophy behind the diet. A must read for anyone wanting to be proactive about their weight.

This is the only way to start a diet.....on the road. Since I'm on the road most of the time, I haven't the time to read, hence,no time to concentrate on dieting! I no longer have THAT excuse. Go ahead and try it this method....it works. Oh, by the way, I've lost 9 pounds!

This book is definitely enjoyable because Chelsea is so funny, likeable, and a decent writer. The book is in the category "memoir/humor" but I really think that even though it wasn't meant to be, it could be a psychology text too. It's nice that she takes her situation lightly, but she really is psychologically damaged (not saying most people aren't). Her perspective seems a little wack, like it's so normal to her to drink THAT much and have THAT much promiscuous, virtually anonymous sex. To read the book, you would think strangers just walk up to each other, say hello and go have sex. Promiscuity makes me pretty uneasy, and so I took one star off the book for her taking it so lightly.

On this amazon page, a review from Publishers Weekly reads, "Opening with a cute story from when she was seven...." I think the reviewer is missing the point completely. The story was not cute AT ALL. I don't know what purpose Chelsea had in mind when choosing the story (probably just the sex connection), but it reveals much more. It is a glimpse into the larger framework of the really bad parenting (common in our culture) that created the promiscuous alcoholic adult. Hardly a cute story, more of a violent, very psychologically revealing story.

I think Chelsea may be missing the point too, by spinning her wheels searching for a need to be fulfilled over and over, when it is impossible. But hey, she is funny as hell. and she seemed to come around at the end!

not great... I actually liked her newer book better (are you there vodka.. its me Chelsea).. After reading that book first, I was thinking this one had to be even more raunchy... but it wasn't what I expected. It wasn't bad... I enjoy the way she writes. I just was let down after reading the other book first.

I absolutely loved this book!!! Its an easy and extremely funny read!! Some of her stories kept me laughing for days!!!So if your looking for a good laugh I would definetely reccommend this book!!!

I like to watch Chelsea's show, and she has a wry sense of humor; however, the way she conducted herself as a young woman is both frightening and sad. The thought of two underage women constantly drunk and inviting Godess knows whom into their beds, including criminals and absolute undesirables, wreaks of low self esteem, lack of self respect and no boundaries. I have to wonder if young women know they are putting themselves in danger when they get drunk and go home with strangers?? Not to mention diseases???? This lifestyle is not healthy. Think before you leap or read! I don't recommend this book to young women, who may be influenced to behave in unhealthy ways.

I read "Are you there Vodka, It's Me Chelsea?" and loved it so much that I immediately ordered "My Horizontal Life". Chelsea has a brilliant way of telling stories that makes you fell like you are out having a drink with a close friend. Not one to pass on to my grandma but definitely all of my girlfriends!

interesting story with a full cast of voices. Pullman takes a long time to finish up the narrative, but it's probably necessary. no bad music in this volume, but the poetry at the beginning of each chapter is hard to get when read quickly out loud. it adds nothing to this audio version. that part would make more sense in print.

I confess I truly liked this trilogy. I enjoyed the story and would recommend it to those people who liked books such as the Harry Potter series.

The three books together were compulsive reading with a tinge of sadness that it's now over, and the adventure has come to an end.

Having said that I do have a gripe and that is to do with the ending. I just don't buy the idea that Lyra & Will would simply walk away with the ending that we are presented. These kids were given some hefty challenges, faced some nasty characters and came out trumps. And then we get the ending we did. No sorry, to ask 12 & 13 year olds to calmly swallow, what I would call a cold, callous adult logic, didn't wash for me. If they were so wholly in love, then it would take mths, years if at all, for them to come to a conclusion that definitive. Most I think, in the absence of any other solution, would take the 10 years as a life time to enjoy and relish (and who knows what you can think of in 10 years). But still I'm not the author and I have the feeling the ending was conceived long before the last chapters were ever crafted.

I would agree with some as to the title of the 3rd book. The amber spy glass has little impact on the story. When compared to the 1st two books their titles were significant objects within the books themselves (on a scale of 1 to 10 they would be 10s). The amber spy glass as an object that impacts the story would rate at best as a 3 or 4.

But as I said I did enjoy the 3 books immensely, so if you are looking for a void to fill, I would recommend this trilogy. However if you are looking for a feel good, rosie `happy ever after' type ending, you in for a shock. The romantics may even require a tissue or two.

As a conclusion, I was interested to see that they didn't put the end of book one in the first film. Why I can only speculate. I'm now interested in seeing how they conclude the last film, and how true to the book they will remain.

Smitten: A Long Time Ago...in a Far Away Land... I finished the Amber Spyglass. With the first book, Golden Compass I was hooked. The action, adventure, and twists of the Golden Compass and then the Subtle Knife put me anxiously into the final book, The Amber Spyglass.
I loved the characters Lyra, Will, the witches, the bears, the Egyptians, the angels, the ghosts, the harpies, even Lyra's parents.
This book was filled with the same action as its predecessors. What a ride. I love the intrigue. I never knew or even suspected what would happen next.
This trilogy is a fantastic read. I don't recommend it for the under middle school. Some may think it challenges religion and Christian churches, but I thought it showed realistic choices we make. It shows how something good can really be bad. It shows we make our choices and then we assume responsibility for those choices.
Some may dislike the ending, but I thought it a perfect ending. Will and Lyra chose a path of understanding. The two youths sacrificed their love for the greater good. It showed two unselfish youths.
All I can say is read the trilogy. It is equal or in my belief, better than Harry Potter.

I was enraptured, I practically drove around just for an excuse to keep listening. The theme of Lyra & Will's love is so beautiful, and so heartbreaking. And I was deeply touched by Pullman's portrayal of death -- it happened that I was listening to this as my dad was dying, so I'm sure that lent poignancy to my experience.

By the end of the story I was crying, even sobbing - could make for dangerous driving!

My kids & wife & I listened to the first 2 books together and I continued to this one myself. I'd read the books, but found the audiobooks to be far more compelling -- the story came alive, and the detail of the writing was so vivid (I guess I did a lot of "skimming" when i read the printed book). Amazing cast, excellent acting, and the production is so well done - usually I find audiobooks with a "cast" to be slow, this flowed.

I wish there was more!

This series was SO bad! I can't believe I managed to force my way through it. The Golden Compass was a decent enough movie, but this is one of the rare cases where the movie is better than the book.

First, the plot is extremely confusing. He keeps opening up random worlds, and going into detail about Dust (which in itself makes no sense), and throwing random foreign sounding words into the mix just to convince us that he's dealing with something not of our world. A lot of them are even italicized!

Second, the overall anti-religious message is very poorly thought out and crushed into the storyline: "Organized religion is bad." It's not new, and it's not even done well.

Third, the writing is downright horrible. Most writers tend to get better as they write more, Pullman seems to have snuck past his editor and submitted something that he wrote during a week awake on crystal meth.

Don't buy this book. Don't buy this series. I'd suggest that you spend a few weeks hitting yourself in the head with a hammer and consider yourself having made a better choice!!!

Gary Paulsen "paints with words" as he writes a descriptive story about a fifteen year old boy contending with his parent's divorce. This book is rivoting. The reader wants to read on as a young boy learns through discovery about how to survive in the Canadian wildernes. I read this book to my students and they were lined up in the library to check out Gary Paulsen books. Gary Paulsen writes passionately with no holes barred, which is what makes the story believable, exciting and compelling.

Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness trying to survive. This book is very easy to read. It is a very good book for anyone who likes survival or nature books. I recommend it for ages 10-12. I like it because it is very neat how Brian uses his hatchet. If you like Hatchet you might also like Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, or The Cay.

Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who goes on a plane to visit his dad.On the way there the pilot gets a heart attack,so eventually the plane falls.The plane falls in the wilderness in the bottom of the lake.Luckily Brian survives.Brian is alone in the wilderness with no friends,family,or people.Will he be rescued?Find out in the wonderful story Hatchet.

This book is a really good book.It's not just any book, it's Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. Gary reel's you in with his word techniques, thought of life and more things to get you to read this bbok. In Hatchet, Brian a 13 year old boy survives a plane crash. But he nneds to get through the tough winds, the hard measures and shelter. Each day,night any time you read this you can't wait to read more!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):

Do you like adventure books? If you do you should definiatly read this book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Hatchet has a little bit of comedy, some cliffhangers, and a bunch of adventure. Brian Robeson is on a plane to go visit his father in Canada. On the way his pilot has a heart attack and unfortunatly dies. Brian doesn't know how to fly a plane which means it crashes. Brian is stuck in the wilderness with only the hatchet his mother had given him earlier that day. Will Brian find shelter? Will Brian find food? Will Brian survive? Read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen to find out!

I enjoyed this book tremendously. I love the whole Womens Murder Club series, books and the TV show based on it. I am definitely a fan of ALL of James Patterson's books. And I am very glad that new 'bestsellers' come out often.
FOREVER A FAN

The Woman's Murder Club is made up of Detective Lindsay Boxer, Assistant D.A. Yuki Castellano, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn and Reporter Cindy Thomas, so when these girls sink their teeth into a crime in San Francisco, Criminal lookout.

In this outing popular and well liked Michael Campion, son of the past Governor of California has been kidnapped. We learn fairly soon that hooker Junie Moon was present when Michael was killed, but did she do it?

Meanwhile some guys named Pidge and Hawk are burning down the houses of the wealthy, while the wealthy are still in them, and that'll get the attention of the SFPD real quick, crispy rich people.

So there you have the crimes the gals are going to dig into when you dig into this fast paced book (and the pace is made even faster by Mr. Patterson's short chapters: 376 pagers cut up into a whopping 125 chapters. You can do the math, they're short.) I read the book in one sitting, just couldn't put it down.

I like that the chapters are short and well written. There is always the twists and turns that keep you interested in the book.

I have become a huge Patterson after reading the 5th Horseman, lapsed on the 6th Target and found my way back for 7th Heaven. I just love the play on numbers. This is the 7th novel in his Women's Murder Club series and the book starts off in as far a place from heaven as possible with victims found bound and gagged and burned. Yet the mystery doesn't begin there as Patterson reveals to us who the culprits are. The mystery begins in a two-plot fold. The SFPD are tracking down the culprits of a recent arson and the assistant DA and member of the Woman's Murder Club with a young harlot suspected in the disappearance of Mike Campion. But the DA is having relationship problems and is on the brink of self-destruction while the SFPD aren't having much luck either. Being new to Patterson it's difficult for me to comment on his past works, but I doubt the King of the Mystery Thriller would put his name on anything but the best. I'd also like to recommend the highly anticipated novel by Georgiou Tino: The Fates Fates (Amazon exclusive)

I am a big Patterson fan, and liked the first couple of books in this series. But more and more it seems like a cheap Romance novel and not a mystery. I find the plots more contrived and not as interesting. This will be the last in this series that I purchase, I find the things I don't like being emphasized more and more, at the cost of having a good mystery.

As a corporate director of human resources, it is a good day when I find a book that can actually be put to good use in our managerial training. This is one of those books. In fact, it is one of the rare books that weeks and months after using, I still find that managers refer to "cheese" when dealing with change management problems and solutions.

While change certainly means different things to different people, the basic underlying theme is the same. The world as we know it will cease to exist and how will you respond.

I find that the really good management books will usually use a story or parable in getting the point across. This is far superior to dry, straight away lecture. The stories make visual connections and these stick with adults. I highly recommend this book for anyone in management. Whether first line supervisor or CEO.

Michael L. Gooch, SPHR, Author of Wingtips with Spurs

I was required to read this book for a college class. One of my classmates and I were skeptical of how this book could be of any help, since it is not the scientific literature we're used to reading. I was pleasantly surprised. The simplicity of the story allows the reader to easily apply the information to his/her-self and quickly realize some possible bad habits.

I will surely be able to apply the lessons in this small book to my professional career as a personal trainer and co-owner of L.E.A.N. Wellness Center in Mesa, AZ. (www.getleanstaylean.com)

The book opens: a group of high school graduates get together to discuss problems of changes in their lives, and one tells a story that helped his company. It is a children's story about two mice and two "little people" who live in a maze and have to adapt when the cheese in the maze gets moved to a new location. The mice look for new cheese immediately, but the little people over-analyze the situation ("his complicated brain with its huge belief system took hold") until one decides to leave to look for new cheese. His attitude starts to improve, he finds new cheese, and he writes notes on the maze wall for the little person who stays behind. These notes are called The Writing On The Wall and tell the person who stayed behind what he's learned. The book closes with the graduates discussing how the story relates to their own lives.

This is a terrible little book that I am embarrassed to say was assigned reading in a college course. There are a constellation of belief systems that revolve around the relationship of valuelessness, lack of personal investment, spontaneity, and happiness. These include systems like Buddhism, Jean-Jacques-Rousseauianism, materialist nihilism... Who Moved My Cheese? falls in this constellation. The message of the book is that the only thing in life is following "the cheese," and you'll be happier if you don't get invested in wherever you're currently getting "the cheese," so you can immediately go to where "the cheese" is without looking back.

Of course, we know of another tradition of change, represented by Lot's wife, the Exodus, the diaspora, etc. But that tradition tells us something very different about change, suggests differentiating important from unimportant, and that there are times it is necessary to resist instead of "embracing change."

Nietzsche tells us that Judaism is a "slave religion," but the truth is that "the cheese" philosophy is the true slave religion. It's no mistake that this story takes place in a maze, and the heroes are mice. The message is that life is just a giant maze, we're all no different from mice, and the sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. This is a book for people who don't believe in self-determination and are just cogs in a giant business machine.

At the end of the book, one of the high school graduates says that his family-owned chain of mom and pop stores should have been sold off so that he could build a giant supermarket department store to compete with the new "mega-store" in town. He rejects the idea that there might have been something worth saving, not to mention the possibility of saving it through ingenuity. His conclusion is to just see which way the wind is blowing and follow along.

Another of the high school graduates says that her son was a star swimming champion but that after the family moved for her husband's work, he learned to enjoy skiing instead and now lives happily in Colorado. But if you want to know what the "embracing change" and "enjoying new cheese" philosophy has done to families, you should read Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before.

The phrase The Writing On The Wall comes from the story of King Belshazzar, who took sacred cups from the Temple in Jerusalem and used them to drink in honor of the gods of gold and silver. A ghostly hand appeared in front of him and wrote on the wall "mene, mene, tekel, parshin," meaning that Belshazzar's kingdom would come to an end. That night, Belshazzar was killed.

The author, Spencer Johnson, seems to think that The Writing On The Wall means we should all just go along with whatever life brings, but there are really two other meanings to the story. First, would Belshazzar have been killed if his people had decided not to believe the writing on the wall? Second, there some things in life more important than gold, silver, or cheese. To this book I say "TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting."

I was disappointed with this product. The "kit" consists of the book and a CD. I was familar with the book, so that was no surprise. But I expected some type of video or annimation on the CD. Instead, it was mainly just a screen saver and some type of game that was not very interesting.

Who Moved My Cheese is a classic that uses a story without the burden of extra detail to force you to put your own life into the situation, and learn from it. It's true that this method isn't for everyone, but the book is popular for a reason: it helps people.

Who Moved My Cheese has that special something that most fables lack. It makes you think. The only other fable I've seen accomplish this in the last decade is Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results.

This book would have been a good article in a magazine but not a book. Mostly it is about SEAL training and the background of the author( heavily ghost written). Not to take anything away from the accounts of the men, but this just isn't substance for a book.

This is a great book that's destined to become a classic. Marcus Luttrell's first person account of his experience in Afghanistan is riveting and thrilling. You won't be able to put it down. A real bonus is his willingness to explain the impact of liberal hand-wringing and incessant criticism of military personnel serving their country in dangerous places. It's not at all surprising to see reviews by liberals posing as military personnel just to attack Marcus Luttrell's experiences and viewpoints. Posing is, I suppose, what they do best. Buy the book, you will NOT be disappointed.

This was a great book. I could hardly put it down. I hope more people will read this book and know what our solders are up against in this war on terrorism. Marcus and his men are real heroes.

Reading the negative reviews and then reading the book I have to wonder if these negative reviewers and I read the same book. I think the guy is allowed his opinions after what he went through. Not to mention his opinions are just common sense. Also I love the reviews that say no spec ops soldier would ever kill an innocent civilian. I remember that during the first Gulf war a Green Beret team was sent to check out a MSR and they had the same choice to make. They also didn't kill the goat herders and almost died. So in the future if it comes between our boys coming home or the goat herder, unsheath your steel and go to work. Real Americans want to see our brave warriors come home alive.

This is the most worthwhile book. A story that every person should be familiar with. So don't let the liberals who hate the military and their country turn you off too a fine read.

This book should be required reading for ALL politicans and reporters.
I had to read this in complete privacy and solitude.
I read each word at least 5 times to make sure I honored the hero's the author is telling about, including himself.
I knew I could never become a SEAL so I chose another path, but I was fortunate to have served with a number of them.outside their community and this author is actually quite modest in his appraisal of them and their deeds.
For any military personnel or former military personnel I can only say one thing, BUY AND READ IT , you will cry and swell with pride all at the same time.
Thank You Sir for your service and writing this book.

I love the Dark Hunter books and I have to say that this is probably my favorite. It's like all the rest were building to this and it didn't disappoint for me. Sherrilyn Kenyon did it right.

I actually liked the whole thing, even the beginning. What was even better was that she actually warned people before they started reading that it wasn't the typical funny, sarcastic Ash for the first half of the book. I have to respect an author of a series who does that. If you are going out of the norm and you have a loyal following, you should warn people so if they don't want to read it they don't have to, but at least they aren't going to be surprised. There have been all too many authors who take advantage of their loyal base of readers and just go in a totally opposite direction. This wasn't the case with Acheron.

It all fell in line with what we know (or didn't know) about Ash. It may not have been pleasant, but it explained a lot.

I loved this book. I loved the length too. It's too bad her publisher/editor don't let her go longer on the other books.

For those whom love their tortured heroes, it doesn't get much better then Acheron. For the first 400 pages my heart, hurt, ached for the horrible things that was done to him. If you like a book that makes you feel, if you like a hero that makes you want to pull him off the pages and comfort him. Wow this book is for you..

Without giving away anything. Ms Kenyon goes into a lot of detail of not just telling, (which is the case for a lot of tortured heroes.) but she actually shows us what was done to him. Let me tell you everything horrible that could be done to Ash was done to him, shown and driven home in this book. If such things offend you, then you are probably better off reading a less tame book.

That said, the sad thing is this is dealing with a harsh brutal times when slavery and treating people like cattle was common place. In that regard, I too will go along with all the reviews as well as Ms. Kenyon that the details of Ash life was much needed. Even though it was some 400 pages into the book before the actual romance started to happen, I honestly didn't miss it to that point. Ash life while horrible, was engaging and hard to pull yourself away.

I really grew to hate Artemis in this book. I had a on and off love for Ash's sister. She meant well bless her but sometimes you wanted to scream at her to leave him alone, she was only making things worse for him. Then when she died, I felt really bad because aside from his true mother, she was the only one in the world that loved him and tried to do right by him.

This book while 700 pages is a short read. It grips you so hard to keep turning the pages that before you know it, its nearly over.

I think I would have liked this book to be 800 pages and devote a little more time to the love story. I mean Ash went 11 thousand years and suddenly fell in love fairly quick. I would have liked to see a little more time in developing the romance, but other then that minor complaint, it is THE best of the dark hunter books. I didn't think she'd top Zarek's story, but even his horrid life seems tamed compared to what Ash went through.

All and all, a great story.

A must read. For complete understanding, you need to read the entire Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Its a great stand alone book.

It feels like an forever that I waited for this book. 11,000 years!
So glad I heald on though. LOVED IT for real. It explains so much of everything about him. I've been in serious love with Ash since the begining and I was not disapointed. I hated what he went through but he would not be the God he is if it were not for all that. Smack Down on the Bi**h Goddess, YES!!! Go mommy! Best DH book in a long time!!!

Who hasn't loved Acheron from the very beginning and wondered what is going on with him? In this book, Kenyon answers all of our Acheron questions and then some. This book could have easily been published as two separate books (she divides it into Books) the first telling of Acheron's past and the second being the funny, sexy, Dark-Hunter romp we're used to. After having read Acheron's past, it's a wonder how he was able to become the compassionate, selfless, and kind-hearted Dark Hunter we readers have loved throughout the series.

I had kept up and read the 3 Dream-Hunter books that were supposed to come before this novel and I did not understand the real connection they had to the Dark-Hunter series (other than the fact some Dark-Hunters show up occasionally) until the second part of this book. So, to those who have skimped on reading the Dream-Hunter series... don't. At least read the first Dream-Hunter book because it is VERY important in understanding everything in the second part of this book.

I'm not into spoilers or anything like that so I'm just going to stop here. All in all, this book is by far my favorite Dark-Hunter book to date. It has a seriousness that we only had glimpses of in previous books (not for the faint of heart) and then returns to what we have come to expect from the Dark-Hunter series. Great book. Read it. I read it in less than two days because I could not put it down.

This book is a fantastic primer on cell biology and what's being discovered today about quantum physics and how it relates in a macro way to the cell. what was both daunting AND respectable about the book is the amount of technical education given on cell biology, chemistry, energy, etc. I found myself skimming over some, but I wanted to honor the mans' work as much as possible, and I realized that I could say "no" to the dumbing down of society by slowing down and ingesting the information.

The book gives an entirely new slant to how our state of mind as well as subconscious programming gives rise to changes in cell and body chemistry. In fact, this is probably the most complete information I've seen on how the subconscious works in relation to the conscious, as well as the REASON that the first four years of a child's life are the most important. Very sobering, a must read for anyone wishing to lead a more conscious life.

I don't think this book is worthwhile to the public. The author borders on the edge of intelligent design and creates unbased analogies in his book about how things just work out.

I can't think of examples because I honeslty tossed this book in the trash and am just writing a review because for some reason Amazon has this book as one its recommendations for me.

Often, personal stories of discovery in books on physics/healing/cosmology, etc, tend to be tedious and self-indulgent. Not so with Bruce Lipton's work, "The Biology of Belief". Not only are his descriptions and analogies for his discoveries and insights into cell biology and consciusness clear and concise, but one finds oneself swept along through the book by Lipton's own great enthusiasm for his subject.

This is a ground-breaking book based on ground-breaking, risk-taking science. I congratulate Lipton on a wonderful work that is intellectually stimulating, enjoyable, and thought-provoking. Lipton is bringing biology into the new spiritual era of quantum theory, and placing the power for our own healing of life and body squarely onto ourselves. A must-read!

Lipton's book turns our understanding of the world inside out: it is not the DNA inside the cells that controls them, but the interaction of the outer cell membrane receptors with their environment. Starting from what is known and accepted, the author extrapolates to what transcends accepted science. Along the way he presents to the reader a thorough description of cell biology. It is all quite remarkable, but will you dare follow where he leads? How the mind affects the body's health? The effect that mother's emotions have over the development of the fetus? How some hydrocephalic children have high IQs although they lack most of their physical brain?

And then there is the matter of matter. The author points out that everything in the universe consists of atoms, and atoms are made out of [electrons and quarks] invisible energy not tangible matter. And since all energy in the universe should be describable by one mathematical expression, everything is inter-related, everything communicates with everything else. One could follow many paths from here, but Lipton concentrates on how our personal beliefs affect our physical cells: how many of these beliefs, formed from as early as our fetus days, lie hidden in our unconscious only to surface unexpectedly and affect our cells in completely mysterious ways.

The author saves most of his personal conclusions for the epilogue: a discussion of our conscious selves, our personal relationship with everything else in our environment (which he calls the Divine), and mankind's next step up the evolution ladder. He concludes that "The survival of the Most Loving is the only ethic that will ensure not only a healthy personal life but also a healthy planet." He thus joins the considerable number of scientists who have discovered that the effect of love exceeds the boundaries of religion and should be treated as a real and potent power in the universe.

(The writer is the author of The Way of the Butterfly: A Scientific Speculation on God and the Hereafterand of "Christianity Without Fairy Tales: When Science And Religion Merge.")

I have referenced this book to so many people I cannot count. When I encounter people who do not understand the actual biology and physics of the "attraction principles", I send them to Lipton who does a superb job. He is able to clearly describe what a non-scientist can understand, while using scientific backbone to support his views. I am glad this one is on my shelf.