The Dehumanization of Art and Other Writings on Art and Culture

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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Writings on Art and Culture
Ortega Y Gasset
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The Dehumanization of Art, and Other Writings on Art and Culture (Doubleday anchor book, A72)
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Writings on Art and Culture

Manufacturer: Anchor Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000H7G78K

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The leather motorcycle jacket is so much more than a coat; it's a mentality. Beginning in the early twentieth century, airplanes, automobiles, and motorcycles redefined freedom, idealized speed, and captured the hearts of men and women alike. The leather jackets developed to protect pilots, racers, and motorists from the elements came to symbolize a romantic sense of rugged adventure. In particular, motorcycle jackets maintained this ideal for decades to come. The first of its kind, this beautiful book traces the evolution of the motorcycle jacket over the past century. Hundreds of jackets and accessories from dozens of leather companies past and present are featured in over 1,000 rich color photos--with careful attention to details, original catalog pages, and full pricing information. Surrounding the jackets is a fascinating array of historical photos that capture the motorcycle culture and will make any enthusiast swoon.

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Never-ending Fun.......2007-02-18

I have been a faithful FoxTrot reader for years. Roger, Andy and their kids Peter, Paige and Jason are always good for a reality check with a large dose of laughter. I've got two girls and let me tell you, I see a lot of my kids in Paige with, I believe, even a healthy dose of Jason thrown in. And they have Peter's bottomless stomach. Of course, they're faithful FoxTrot readers too. I used to read the strip to them, explain what was going on, but now they get it just fine and we three all laugh together. Then my girls try and explain the strip to their dad, who pretends he doesn't get it.

The FoxTrot folks are a great family, one we sort of got used to checking up on every day, so we took the news that Mr. Amend was going to cease daily distribution of his wonderfully funny people and turn his strip to Sunday only, with a bit of sadness. Still, we have these terrific FoxTrot books to keep us going with our FoxTrot fix. Mr. Amend is to be commended for his great gift to our culture and his great gift to so many lives. I truly believe a laugh a day, helps keep the blues away and the FoxTrot gang are always good for a laugh. Heck there are a lot of laughs in the FoxTrot books. I know, I have them all and I am, along with my girls and my hubby dear, eagerly awaiting the next one.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, we don't have an iguana, but my girls do have a pet gecko and, you guessed it, his name is Quincy.

Enormously FoxTrot. Foxtrot, All Great! .......2007-01-20

I've been a Foxtrot reader for a long time and personally I think there is something suspiciously wrong with people who don't find Bill Amend's characters funny as all get out. If you want a good laugh, check out Bill in your local newspaper, or better yet, get one of the Foxtrot books. They are all great, really, they are.

Like many of Mr. Amend's fans I'm a bit disappointed he's switching his strip to Sunday-only, but fortunately I can still read him daily in the Foxtrot books. Get them one and all and you can keep right on a laughing.

Great!.......2005-09-25

If there's one cartoon comic book you should get, it's "Enormously Foxtrot." Entertaining, witty, and comical, it's the perfect reading during your spare time. Jason continues to play tricks on his sister, Paige continues to physically torment Jason, and Peter is just a regular teenager who has an appetite of a vacuum cleaner. Meanwhile, the parents try to deal with them and their own lives and still be a happy family. This gigantic collection is enjoyable and would help you pass those long hours at home.

I cant get enough of it!.......2005-05-01

Yet another amazing foxtrot anthology, The best word to describe it is just plain funny, this is a good long book, so the humor goes on and on.

Foxtrot humor at its best.......2004-09-22

FoxTrot follows a family of five through their bizzare everyday lives. Roger, the father, is a mid-level office worker, and his wife Andy is a successful columnist. Peter, the oldest child, is a high school senoir with a passion for sports but without the skill. Paige, the middle child, enjoys shopping but hates schoolwork. Jason, the youngest child, enjoys schoolwork and harrassing his sister.

Bill Amend had been writing Foxtrot for about four years when he drew the comic strips in this collection, so at this point he had refined his humor without needing to reuse any older storylines. Most of the comic strips play up the sibling rivalry between Peter, Paige, and Jason very well. The book also features a number of comic strips that feature Peter's girlfriend Denise, who is not featured as much in more recent strips, and it also includes a large number of references to pop culture. The longer storylines in the book include two vacations by the Fox family: one to an amusement park, and one to the hot desert in the summer. Amend also drew several new panels for the center of the book that show Paige's dreams about her idealized French lover Pierre. The book still occasionally tocuhes on serious subjects, too, such as when Peter experiments with chewing tobacco.

Overall, this is classical Foxtrot humor. Foxtrot fans should definitely buy this book, but even casual readers of Foxtrot comic strips will find something to enjoy in this book.

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ENORMOUSLY FOXTROT A FOXTROT TREASURY
Bill Amend
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Yes they did...and still do!

Great Stories of Great Humor

Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Comedy

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What better way to recognize and honor America's funniest moments and greatest laugh artists than an insightful, anecdote-laden multimedia presentation that allows readers and viewers to fully experience the sharpest comedians throughout broadcast and film history. That's exactly what Made You Laugh! offers, as author Joe Garner applies his magic touch to one of America's most treasured forms of entertainment.Joe's insightful text, original videotaped interviews, and choicest clips from radio, comedy variety shows, sitcoms, stand-up routines, and classic films instantly remind readers of some of the most fun-filled times of their lives. It shows why they love to laugh-and why a great joke is a thing of lasting beauty, at least until the next side-splitter comes along. The book is divided into three main sections: "The Funniest Moments from Radio and Television," "The Funniest Stand-up Moments," and "The Funniest Movie Moments." Chapters throughout give readers a hearty chuckle while providing rare behind-the-scenes glimpses into favorite entertainers and their work, complete with firsthand memories from the comedians, writers, and producers who were there. The accompanying DVD, hosted by a major comedy talent, includes the actual audio/film clips of the particular memorable moment along with original videotaped and archival interviews. It all adds up to one seriously successful look at the world of laughs!

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Yes they did...and still do!.......2004-12-22

This volume does indeed provide many of "the funniest moments in radio, television, stand-up, and movie comedy." (Obviously, no single volume could provide all of them.) Credit Garner with the quality and scope of the selections; also with the insightful commentaries which accompany an abundance of illustrations. The DVD included, indifferently co-hosted by Carl and Rob Reiner, contains mostly fragments of comedy routines.

The book's material is cleverly organized within three Parts which focus on radio and television, stand-up, and movies, respectively. Garner inserts within each Part what he calls Sidebars. For example "Kings of Late Night"; "The Catskills, Casinos, and the Rise of Stand-Up"; and "Preston Sturges: Master of the Screwball Comedy." Each reader will have her or his own favorite sections, presumably determined by their favorite comedians. For me, it was a special treat to share Garner's thoughts about the historical significance of certain entertainers and directors in terms of their contributions to the creation and subsequent development of a unique art form. For example, listed in alphabetical order, Fred Allen, Roseanne Barr, Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, Charles Chaplin, Bill Cosby, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the Marx Brothers, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Hal Roach, Will Rogers, Jerry Seinfeld, Mack Sennett, and Billy Wilder.

I also wish to praise Garner for not "getting in the way." He avoids doing so by providing a wealth of excerpts from material as it was originally performed. His focus (and ours) is always on the given subject. Among the best excerpts are the Lou Grant (Ed Asner) interview of Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and "Classic Romantic Comedy Repartee: Love and Lust, Wit and Wisdom" excerpts from dialogue in classics such as She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Thin Man (1934), and Pillow Talk (1959).

My only regret is that no index is provided. Otherwise, this is a brilliantly produced volume which, especially in combination with the DVD, preserves for generations to come so many of the funniest moments in radio, television, stand-up, and movies which would otherwise not be accessible from a single source. Thank you!

Great Stories of Great Humor.......2004-12-02

The sub-title says a lot. This is a collection of stories about comedy through the years. The list is too long to repeat here, but if it was funny: on stage, on radio, on television or in the movies, it's probably here.

It's written that you don't need to sit down and go from beginning to end. You flip through and you find Richard Pryor, or Bill Murray, or here's the story of the Smothers Brothers TV show getting cancelled because of political sensitivities, immediately to be followed by Laugh In.

To top it off, there's a CD, worth the price of the book by itself there's a DVD. On it, Carl and Rob Reiner present a compilation of clips from Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Lewis to Jim Carrey.

This is a very good, very entertaining book. This is not a funny book. It's a book about being funny. What it does is make you remember those movies, those shows that MADE YOU LAUGH.

Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Radio, Television, Stand-up, and Movie Comedy

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Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Radio, Television, Stand-up, and Movie Comedy
Joe Garner
Manufacturer: Andrews & McMeel
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQIQNO

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Another 13 walking tours, illustrated as before with movie stills and photographs of the actual sites. Chuck Katz ends his book with a walking tour of Lower Manhattan and Ground Zero which he calls "America's heart."

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A unique text providing information on the background, selection and fundamental performance techniques for 17 accessory instruments including wood block, claves, antique cymbals. temple blocks, cabasa, castanets and more. It also provides skill development exercises that cover the essential techniques for each instrument and, includes a list of selected literature from the band and orchestra repertoire. Each musical exercise includes a description of the technique being taught as well as a clear, instructional diagram.

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endgame knowledge in a nuttshell

Too Much Clutter to be "Just the Facts" - not for beginners

Thank you, Lev and Nikolay, for CHESS has truly NEEDED this!

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Well above average ...

Just the Facts!: Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume (Comprehensive Chess Course Series, the)
Lev Alburt , Nikolay Krogius , and Nikolai Krogius
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
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Nothing more clearly separates chess master from chess wannabe than winning endgame play. Accurate opening play can be satisfying, and combinations in the middlegame are exciting. But for most chess players, victory is the real finish line. And the endgame is the last lap of the race. Depending on whether or not you command the necessary endgame knowledge, you can spoil hours of planning, or you can enjoy the victory you've spent the whole game earning. You can even pull yourself out of the steely jaws of a "certain" defeat! The best news is that you don't need to memorize thousands of positions, but only a few carefully selected ones. Combine these with the clear and concise explanations in Just the Facts! and you have the "magic key to chess mastery." Just the Facts! boils down all essential endgame knowledge into one volume you can use to win games for the rest of your life. (Unlike opening variations, endgame knowledge is immutable.) The principles of the endgame are very different from those in the opening and middlegame some rules even reverse themselves! Just the Facts! gives you the ideas and the ability to recognize when to apply them. Just the Facts! is the seventh and final volume of the best-selling Comprehensive Chess Course, the series that brings English readers the once strictly guarded and time-tested Soviet training methods, the key to the 50-year Russian dominance of the chess world. The Comprehensive Chess Course can take you from beginner to master.

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endgame knowledge in a nuttshell.......2005-07-30

I've been playing for about 10 years now, but after my studies no longer at a club (just occasionally for about 5 years).
A year ago I picked up club-chess again. And I wanted to climb the elo-ladder as quickly as possible. So the question was how to make forward progress??? (rating 1483 elo at the time).
The answer was pretty simple: I lacked some basic skills and the few books I bought so far (in a very distant past) were completely useless (eg. Batsford chess openings)!
It was clear that I had to learn to understand chess, in stead of merely calculating moves.
"Just the facts" was the first book of Alburt I purchased. It's concise and to the point: it clearly states what is and what is not important. For a married working man with little time, a nice bonus.
Some critics say that the analysis is sometimes incorrect. Personally, I don't care! The book explains how to treat a certain type of endgame (and therein Alburt is not wrong); so what if Fritz or whatever program doesn't agree with a certain move. Let's face it : all our games are incorrect at some point, and will be for a long time.
I didn't like the ads in the (back of the) book. These books are also quite expensive if you compare with the series of Seirawan for instance. A final drawback is that is not so much fun to read like Silman, Nunn or other chess writers (who really write a story as well).
But overall speaking: great book! great series! Clear cut advice for players who don't want to lose (on) time.
To give you an idea, i read the whole series by now and I'm beating players of +1800 elo at my club.
Filip Hellemans.

Too Much Clutter to be "Just the Facts" - not for beginners.......2003-09-01

An earlier reviewer stated that the book's design and layout is distracting and that the colored diagrams are confusing. I completely agree. . . Mr. Alburt, with all due respect, has written a very confusing book, because all those "facts" and nothing but just those "facts" are buried under all the styling! In his forward "Note to the Reader" he explains that the blue diagrams illustrate "the most important positions and ideas". Well, I'm sure they are important, because he's a grandmaster and I'm not, so he ought to know, but my complaint is that he doesn't explain why these are "important positions and ideas". He just breaks them out for you to notice them, along with all the other flash and pizzazz!

What about those special "analysis" diagrams that are presented to us in standard gray diagram form, but are labeled "analysis" in blue type. Because the author does not, are we the readers supposed to analyze these? Then there's all the other "blueness": the blue-boxed footnotes and headers on many of the pages. . . the occasional blue, full-page explanation of topics such as "Most Winnable Endgames" on Page 41, or "Fortress Building" on Page 235. . .the exercises in each chapter, presented in standard gray diagrams but labled "Exercise" in blue. . .the various blue cartoon drawings of chess pieces scattered throughout the book, and so on. It appears as though the author (and maybe the editors) decided initially to select the color of blue to highlight the important ideas, but then allowed their chosen color to get out of hand and become "prostituted" with overuse, to the point where the eyes get confused over just what's important and what's not.

Quite frankly, Mr. Alburt wouldn't have to break all these diagrams out into color if he had followed the format of Bruce Pandolfini, in the latter's book, "Pandolfini's Endgame Course", because Mr. Pandolfini's book is the one that presents "just the facts", not Mr. Alburt. In Bruce's book, there's one important position on each page, with a concise explanation of exactly what to do and why to do it. . . each idea and line of moves is all on one page. Variations of these ideas are on the subsequent pages that follow; again, with the slightly-different-idea and its corresponding slightly-different-starting position all on one page. In fact, Bruce Pandolfini's book is the one that should be entitled "Just the Facts", not Lev Alburt's book. A better title for Lev's book would have been, "A Wonderful, Meandering Stroll Along the Road to Endgame Understanding", with maybe a subtitle such as "Stopping Along the Way to Appreciate Various and Sundry Assides", such as all the biographies of famous endgame masters, and all the other trivia contained in this book, which only serve to help clutter the mind of the average amateur trying to comprehend "just the facts."

No, "Pandolfini Endgame Course" is the one you want to get for basic endgame understanding. A wonderful Lev Alburt book to purchase would be his "Pocket Training Book", containing those 300 positions you need to master. I highly recommend this book, which goes over the importance of pattern recognition as it's related to tactics. As a matter of fact, it's worth noting that in the introduction of this "Pocket Training Book, Mr. Alburt himself explains that you don't need to know hundreds of endgame positions to be a strong player . . . you only need to know about a dozen or so to be a strong tournament player, and about 50 or so to play at master strength! And all 50 are included in this pocket book. Just make sure that you disregard the cover of the sexy grandmaster himself posing with his fashion model/chess student.

So there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth: you don't need "Just the Facts" after all! You don't need a 400 page volume of facts buried under clutter and wrapped up in trivia that you the readers have to sort out! Get yourself the following: Pandolfini's Endgame Course... and Lev's Pocket Training Book, for not much more than that, brand new, also here on Amazon.

Thank you, Lev and Nikolay, for CHESS has truly NEEDED this!.......2001-08-03

First of all, if things haven't changed that much by the time Amazon.com releases my review, and if this paucity of reviewers is any indicator of chesslovers interested in studying the endgame, I find it rather alarming that there are only FIVE reviews of this book!! With that said, and since I have carefully studied this book at TWO different periods in the past 365 days (May-August, 2000 [3 months] and January-March, 2001 [2 months]) I feel it necessary to present to Amazon.com my review of "Just The Facts". In the time before May, 2000, I spent at least two and half years straight studying the middlegame. My skill and knowledge increased, but not as much as when I studied this book!! Endgame knowledge is very necessary!!! What made it so easy for me to become eager to read this book was that I saw one phrase in the description on the back of the book: "endgame knowledge is IMMUTABLE." It's unchangeable!! That means that for all the volatility of the opening (which is where the majority of chessplayers direct their study attention) and the middlegame, [if and] when that chess game you're playing reaches the endgame, a great amount of guesswork concerning what plan and moves should be made has been eliminated (due to the immutability of the endgame principles). The key is that you have to know the principles. Once that word "immutable" sinks in, that should tell you that you don't have to go searching for any other endgame books to read to try to further enhance and improve your endgame skill; the way you tend to do when you study the middlegame and the openings. I really enjoyed studying through this book and I'll probably do it again at some time in the next three years. Going over this book again and again doesn't at all mean that it's difficult. This book is very easy and very enjoyable to study through. It is even attractive to the eye. You should keep a notebook on the endgame patterns and their page numbers while studying this book. You should also keep notes on the endgame material classifications (such as a "rook-and-knight-versus-rook-and-bishop" endgame) and their page numbers. My only complaint (and I'll admit it is trifling) is that there's no page number reference to the "blue bullets" (Alburt calls them "breakouts") of endgame tips; once you've read the whole book, it would be helpful to "review-at-a-glance" these tidbits of information just to help keep these tips fresh in your memory. (so I've taped my own page reference to the back inside cover of my book!) I have great confidence that using the knowledge of THIS endgame book (the "end-all" of all other endgame books) will increase your chess rating by a massive percentage. The only other thing I can think of to enhance your endgame play after reading this book is to see such APPLICATIONS of these principles in master games such as in "Extreme Chess" (Alekhine and Euwe-1935 and 1937 and Fischer and Spassky-1972)and in Pal Benko's "Endgame Lab" which appears in the monthly magazine, "Chess Life". ...And of course actually playing chess over the board over and over again, notating your whole game so you can review it (whether you win or lose).

Good enough.......2001-05-12

Let's get one thing straght about this series by Alburt et al: it's not stellar in any way and certainly contains no scintillating discovery of a new method. There is one thing which does shine through these books: the hype is unsurpassed! The authors cannot contain themselves long enough in the pages before splashing someone's biography complete with their availability for lessons, their rates, their 'phone numbers and what they had for dinner last night! (just keeeedink!;-). People, I already BOUGHT the book, I don't require commercials while reading it. This was a disconcerting aspect of reading it.

On the other hand, it does contain the necessary material for the student to play the endgame at a reasonably high level of understanding. The layout is good and color is used to good effect to highlight important points. It would have received a fourth start but I don't think it's worth the price they're asking. A better book at a better price for beginners would be Silman's Endgame book, check it out.

Well above average ..........2000-10-02

for contemporary chess books. The content is of high quality and clearly presented. There are some problems with the design and layout, though, which suggest the triumph of enthusiasm over thought -- some "sidebar" diagrams are confusingly placed,the shaded tint blocks are too heavy, and the garish "colored" diagrams are merely distracting. The bio of the 70-year-old Krogius is accompanied by what seems to be his high school class picture, and to include a page on publisher Al Lawrence along with grandmasters Alburt, Krogius, and sevaral world champions, is quite inappropriate. Nevertheless, a good instructional work at a price no higher than is usual these days.

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Generous Wisdom

Inspirational, motivational, but not exactly the tools you need

A different approach to self-improvement. Lacks the Rah-Rah-Rah!

Good Read

Farsightedness - well worth the price of the book.

The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life
Robert K. Cooper
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Some 10-to-90-percent splits are good, like giving one-tenth of what you make to those less fortunate or putting 10 percent of it into a smart saving plan. Others are bad, like being a miserly 10-percent tipper or using only that tiny portion of the capabilities of your powerful computer software. Worst of all is the fact that most of us use only 10 percent of our intelligence and creativity potential, leaving vast quantities of what we're capable lying dormant, unused and untapped. It's this ratio that Robert Cooper hopes to help reverse with The Other 90%, his inspirational guide to waking the sleeping giant within each of us.

Cooper groups his observations and advice under four keystones: trust, energy, farsightedness, and nerve. In a diagram at the beginning, he illustrates each of these keystones with insights quoted from an unusual mixture of literary and political figures, setting the tone for a book that mixes tales of the famous with those of the unknown and moments of ordinary life with the eureka moments of exceptional triumphs. He promotes trust in its broadest sense, such as incorporating and blending all three streams of intelligence (brain, heart, and gut) into decision making, and trusting oneself enough to escape the trap of comparison. He shares simple suggestions for cultivating calm energy, so as to be quick and effective without rushing, and encourages readers to learn the difference between the trivia in life that counts (and drains us of precious energy) and that which doesn't. Being farsighted, for Cooper, is essentially learning to align more of your actions--and ultimately your life--with your biggest dreams. And nerve is the art of developing a thick skin and making adversity your ally on the road to achieving those hopes and ambitions.

The Other 90% suffers a bit from the problem of many inspirational books, being so densely packed with anecdotes that the good advice is sometimes lost in a blur of well-intentioned examples. Indeed, some of Cooper's most profound comments leap out of the least elaborate stories, such as the memory of his grandfather gazing at Sirius, one of the brightest but most distant stars, and explaining that he did this "because it draws my gaze the farthest away from where I'm standing right now." But Cooper's enthusiasm is timely; the accepted notion that we only use one-tenth of our capabilities was revised a few years ago by studies indicating we only use one ten-thousandth. So there's room for all kinds of improvement. --S. Ketchum

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For centuries, it has been assumed that there are vast limits to human capacity. Now, although a host of scientific discoveries prove this wrong, a mindset of limits persists, blocking us from our greatest possibilities and leaving us feeling bombarded by stress, change, and uncertainty. No matter how hard we work, no matter how much we give, we're still not getting what we hoped for. There is another way.

Dr. Robert Cooper, a neuroscience pioneer and leadership advisor, urges us to take a radically different view of human capacity. We are mostly unused potential, he says, employing less than 10 percent of our brilliance or hidden talents. In easy-to-follow steps, he explains how to develop and apply the art and science of your hidden capacity.

The art is the motivation and inspiration coming from the wonderful stories that are the heart of The Other 90%. Dr. Cooper draws on his wide-ranging insights and experiences to show how it's possible to make a difference in yourself and others.

However, inspiration without a way to turn vision into reality is an empty vessel. Combining art with science, Dr. Cooper provides extraordinary help in the form of specific, little-known practical ways to use the latest research in neuroscience, performance psychology, and work physiology for excelling in a pressure-filled world. He shows you how to:

* Increase energy at work -- and have more energy for personal and family life.

* Activate the brain's "alertness switches" to defeat pressure and stress.

* Use not only the brain in your head but the ones in your heart and gut.

* Motivate exceptional ingenuity and performance in yourself and others.

The most exciting breakthroughs will not come from advances in technology but from a deeper realization of what it means to be most human and alive. Many of the choices that can dramatically change our lives are simple and practical -- yet few people know what these choices are or how to apply them in work and life. The Other 90% is your guide to new territory and new challenges.

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Generous Wisdom.......2007-05-05

I found this book very captivating. The author of this book did a very good job capturing the very essence of his youth. This book did not lack at all with ideas. It leads you to do a lot of soul searching. It also leads you to question your self and to examine more closely certain aspects in your life and in the life of others.

However, I must say that the enormous amount of interaction between the author and his grandfather passing down wisdom each and every moment will age you a bit as you read on.

The author does not lack at all in the diciplines of philosophy. The book also leads you to interact with it. You will be influenced to take some serious notes that will lead you to other studies and soul searching explorations. You will definitely find some new and interesting things to test and take in internally in your life and in the life of others.

Inspirational, motivational, but not exactly the tools you need.......2006-12-30

I think of this book as gas for my inner combustion engine. It's fuel, it turns the ignition key, but until something else starts to push the pedal to the floor, the car only idles forward. And, as we all know, you don't idle forward very fast.

My recommendation would be to read this book to inspire you to make a change. It will make you think hard about your life to this point, and what you're going to think about your life when you're coming to the end of it. Then use other, more practical books to achieve the kind of change you want. I recommend "How to Be, Do, or Have Anything" by Boldt (which is much more practical than the title lets on), "Overachievement" by Eliot and "Getting Things Done" by Allen.

This book is also good for dipping into from time to time for a little burst of energy. If you want to wring every last drop of life out of your time on earth, I recommend you put this one on your bookshelf.

A different approach to self-improvement. Lacks the Rah-Rah-Rah!.......2006-01-31

I find the title a little misleading. If we, as humans use only 10% (I think a lot less), then this book definitely doesn't hold the other 90% between its covers (maybe another 1-2%). I'm not trying to dis this book. I found it very entertaining and if I apply some of its wisdom, will improve my life immensely. The author uses examples from his youth in which he spent with his grandfathers, both full of wisdom. He is a man, proud of his heritage. I found this book heartwarming and sincere. As I've said, a lot can be learned from its pages. It's not the kind of book that makes it hard to sleep after reading--thinking, 'maybe I really can become a super-hero, rich, famous, bullet-proof and able to leap buildings'. Perhaps that's not what a motivational book should do, though I do like to feel a little stirring. Over all, I found this to be a wonderful book, and did feel a little wiser upon finishing it. The author is obviously a very intelligent individual with many accomplishments. I recommend it.

Good Read.......2005-11-19

I find this book a good read, although it has some points which are not easy to comprehend personally.

I would still recommend to others.

Farsightedness - well worth the price of the book........2005-05-03

Several years ago I attended one of Robert Cooper's seminars and for the next six, very emotional, hours Dr. Cooper inspired me to wake the sleeping giant within. The Other 90%, was immediately placed on my must read list. Cooper's title and premise is based on his grandfather's adage that asserts "we use only about 10% of our potential in the course of a lifetime."

Dr. Cooper shares numerous inspiring stories, and practical new tools for taking your life to the next level. Cooper's theorem in reaching the other 90% is built around Four Keystones:

1) Trust
2) Energy
3) Farsightedness
4) Nerve

- Trust is centered on building and maintaining exceptional relationships. This keystone provides one with a support system designed to maintain high levels of thought, energy and emotional stability, all essential foundational attributes.

- The energy keystone is pointed toward "increasing your calm effectiveness under pressure." Practical exercises and pauses ensure that our minds, hearts, and guts are working in concert.

- Farsightedness is the keystone I believe to be of utmost importance to business leaders everywhere. Einstein asserted, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Well, if this is true, then farsightedness, or having the ability (imagination) to dream of great things, is what we should all strive for.

- The fourth and final keystone: nerve. Let's face it, this emotional attribute holds many great individuals at bay. Nerve or the ability to muster courage at a moment's notice is one of the great barriers to greatness. Do you have dreams, ambitions, desires that you've failed to act upon? Why?

In closing, once you've finished reading THE OTHER 90%, you will have a better idea of the tools needed to tap into your untapped potential. If nothing else, read the section on Farsightedness; it is well worth the price of the book.

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Michael Davis - Editor, Byvation

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