Reiki: The Legacy of Dr. Usui (Shangri-La (Twin Lakes, Wis.).)

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A great deal has been written and said to date about the history of Reiki and its founder. The author has come across documents that quote Mikao Usui's original words. In a number of essays, he discusses topics related to Reiki and the viewpoints of an independent Reiki teacher. Questions that his students asked and he answered throw light upon Usui's very personal view of the teachings. Materials meant as the basis for his student's studies round off the entire work. A family tree of the Reiki successors is also included.

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Good Sorce Information.......2007-10-19

I give this to my first level Reiki Students to help take away the mystery of how Reiki got started in the United States and it's source.

Reiki - Dr. Usui.......2006-02-23

This is an excellent book. I highly recommend it for my students and for other Reiki Practitioners.

Opinion from a Reiki Master.......2000-10-08

I have studied Reiki and am a Reiki Master. I give this book to all of my Reiki students because it explains Reiki so simply and well. I especially like that it is informative without giving the impression that only the author's opinion of Reiki is important, and also that it sites Reiki's founder, Dr. Mikao Usui. It is clearly a tool to help one further one's understanding of Reiki.

Reiki - The Legacy of Dr. Usui.......2000-09-29

Thank you Frank Arjava Petter for being daring and brave to bring the 'real' version of Dr. Usui's Reiki to the west. I had from the beginning a little difficulty to accept everything which was said about the 'grand-masters' and their likes. And in the past very little facts were given about Dr. Usui and mainly in a kind of fairy story tale. Now I can accept Reiki as I believe Reiki should be: free from major money making and available for all people who truly wish to heal themselves, others and the world. God and Reiki bless us all. B. Müller, Reiki Master, South Africa

Very informative.......1999-09-13

I learned the real history and idea of Reik

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Golf, anyone? Karsten's Way tells the story of an ingenious man who took a long shot to improve his game and the game of millions of golfers around the world. His goal: to help golfers play their best and enjoy the game.Read the dramatic life story of Karsten Solheim, inventor of the PING golf club - the club that revolutionized the game of golf. Solheim's rise from shoemaker to world-recognized golf club designer and manufacturer is one of American industry's greatest success stories.Understand how Karsten Solheim's faith in God propelled him toward success. His passion for quality and belief in himself and his ideas became the hallmarks of his success and that of his business, the Karsten Manufacturing Company. An inspiring read for anyone with ambitious dreams and a love for the exciting game of golf.

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Wondering how the business aspects of the game have evolved?.......2001-07-04

Tracy Sumner's Karsten's Way is the fascinating biography of Karsten Solheim who was a visionary pioneer in the design of golf clubs, the founder of PING, and for whom The Solheim Cup was named. Karsten's influence and ideas were to profoundly influence both golf and the golf equipment business. If you've ever held a golf club in your hands, or wondered how the business aspects of the game have evolved, this Karsten's Way will prove to be as inspiring as it is informative.

Hear the PING??.......2001-02-17

A good book to read when you feel like things aren't going your way....there's a reason why things happen in people's lives (i.e. GOD)...after i read the book i now know why i felt PING golf equipment is the best...never sacrifice what you believe in

I sincerely commend this book........2000-10-14

Friendship and respect are two of the most precious assets in a man's life. Karsten Solheim enjoyed both in large measures throughout the golf world. We shared a very special relationship, owed to my now having played Ping clubs for 20 years. I sincerely commend this book, "Karsten's Way," for it is above all, the story of a far-sighted pioneer, and an essential record of how he revolutionized golf with his exceptional passions.

where is the golf club maker?.......2000-09-26

If you are looking for a sermon on religion you have come to right place , but if you are looking for a great insight to the mind and workings of the greatest inovator in clubmaking ever....look somewhere else. this book is about 10% golf and 90% religious praise for this beloved man. Don't get me wrong I respect his devout beliefs but that could have been summed up in about 3 pages not 150. I never fealt that I got any info on how he came up with his great club Ideas, the ping website has better information.

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Karstens Way Audio Cassette
Peter Oosterhuis
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Karsten's Way
Tracy Summer
Manufacturer: Northfield
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Thousand Ways of Solid/Liquid Separation : How can we handle this?: Selection criteria and required technology in the future

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Thousand Ways of Solid/Liquid Separation : How can we handle this?: Selection criteria and required technology in the future
Karsten C Keller
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Celebrity: The Advocate Interviews (Advocate Celebrity Interviews)

Manufacturer: Advocate Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1555837220

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Featuring the uncensored words of 15 controversial, ground-breaking celebrities who drop their masks and empty their hearts to Advocate Editor in Chief, Judy Wieder, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One is unmatched in providing readers with the kind of compelling revelations and insights that no traditional biography can provide. Taken from the pages of The Advocate with beautiful new photographs and bonus, never-before published updates and accounts of all the dishy behind-the-scene dramas that went into getting the interviews, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One will be a classic addition to any gay or straight person's library. Rediscover the early struggles of Melissa Etheridge, Mark Wahlberg, Chastity Bono, and Gore Vidal. Learn from George Michael's own account of being a closeted pop teen star what it was like fall in love with a man for the first time. Read Liza Minnelli's shocking narrative as she describes what it was like to discover that the man she married, the man her mother Judy Garland introduced her to, was gay. Marvel as the great French diva Catherine Deneuve confesses what it was like to become a lesbian icon after making love to Susan Sarandon in The Hunger. Whether the stars are gay or straight, Ellen DeGeneres, Bruce Springsteen, Rob Halford, Liz Smith, Steve Kmetko, Sting, Tony Kushner, Emma Thompson, Larry Kramer, and Diana Ross all have outrageous, amazing, uncanny stories to tell. And, in a longstanding tradition of trust and adventure, they've told them to The Advocate.

Judy Wieder is editor-in-chief of The Advocate, the nation's oldest and most widely read gay and lesbian magazine. Prior to working at The Advocate, she was an associate editor at Creem magazine and one of the founding editors of Genre.

STAR POWER: An Interview

Why it Matters When Celebrities Talk About Gay Issues.
A Conversation with The Advocate's Editor In Chief, Judy Wieder.

For over 30 years, The Advocate has been the voice of record for the gay and lesbian political and social movement. Within its pages, readers encounter, often for the first time in th

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Deeper and deeper: back in her wilder days, the world's most famous woman gave The Advocate one filthy interview. Today, both the star and the magazine ... (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Don Shewey
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000WF6AQQ
Release Date: 2007-09-25

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on August 14, 2007. The length of the article is 580 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Deeper and deeper: back in her wilder days, the world's most famous woman gave The Advocate one filthy interview. Today, both the star and the magazine have grown up.(Interview)
Author: Don Shewey
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 14, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 990 Page: 72(1)

Article Type: Interview

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All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.

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Taming the Old West.......2006-12-03

Gentle Tamers is a wonderful study of the role of women in molding the American West during the expansion during the 19th century. The book is divided, by chapter, into studies of various aspects of life that were affected by women, everything from politics to theater to education. This book adds to the mosaic of the westward expansion - a mosaic with so many pieces that sometimes complement and sometimes contradict. It is very readable and pulls heavily from diaries kept by women during this period.

Unfortunately, the book has its weak points, many of which reflect the writers of the journals. The Native American community is painted with broad brush strokes, often in an overly negative way. Also, there is absolutely no mention of the role of African American or Mexican women as a part of this migration. Both groups were represented during the period and should have been included in the writing. This omission may be because these women were less likely to keep written records, but some mention should have been included. Also, the chapter structure tends to obliterate any sense of time, with pre-Civil War and post-Civil War migrations treated almost as one. It would have been interesting to learn about the differences between these periods.

Overall though, in spite of these problems, Gentle Tamers has much to recommend it.

Very nice anecdotes and stories-- 1950s Dee Brown book........2005-05-12

Dee Brown is a novelist and historian best known for his masterpiece Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Although Gentle Tamers is an entertaining read, the difference in tone and style between 1958 and 1970 is remarkable. People who came to this book expecting something similar to Bury My Heart will be probably be disappointed. This is a much lighter work, and dated in a way that Bury My Heart is not. It is still a remarkably researched and well-written work, so the fact that it is different should not dissuade you from reading it.

Brown looks at the different categories of women western pioneers and works out his thesis that while the men settled the western US states, it was the women who civilized it. His different chapters include: hardships of the journey; women captured by Native Americans; women of easy virtue; performers; rebels; schoolteachers; and homesteading housewives. He provides ample stories and pictures to accompany the different categories.

I enjoyed reading Gentle Tamers although I did not find what I was looking for (more information about Narcissa Whitman). The stories are lively and entertaining. It reads quickly, and Brown is a very smooth and skilled writer.

There are several wince-worthy moments in the very 1950s language around Native Americans and women (very surprising given that the vocabulary was totally gone by the time he published Bury My Heart). For a serious treatment of issues of women in the West, I would look elsewhere. This book is clearly more focused on well-researched and light anecdote.

Would be a terrific gift for someone interested in stories of the West-- a nice halfway point between a historical treatment and a novel.

Our gritty female ancestors were amazing!.......1999-07-05

I started reading this little gem while researching material for an historical fiction novel and soon discovered that I couldn't get enough of their stories. Before reading this book, I was guilty of looking back at our history never imagining the grit and humor our ancestors possessed. A great read.

The Gentle Tamers (Women of the old wild west)

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The Gentle Tamers (Women of the old wild west)

Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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ASIN: B000E5R57M

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All aspects of western feminine life, which includes a great deal about the western male.

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The Gentle Tamers Women of the Old Wild West
Brown Dee
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Gentle Tamers Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
Manufacturer: UNIV OF NE + PRESS
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The Gentle Tamers, Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
Manufacturer: New York: Bantam Books, 1974
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O3Q26Y

The Gentle Tamers: Women of Hte Old Wild West

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The Gentle Tamers: Women of Hte Old Wild West

Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Paperback
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THE GENTLE TAMERS: WOMEN OF THE OLD WILD WEST

Manufacturer: Univ. of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Paperback
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The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0553103164

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The Gentle Tamers Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
Manufacturer: Lincoln: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 1972
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Binding: Hardcover
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It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond's recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to follow the Internet revolution. But it would be more unfortunate to overlook the implications and long-term benefits of his fastidious description of open-source software development considering the growing dependence businesses and economies have on emerging computer technologies.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar takes its title from an essay Raymond read at the 1997 Linux Kongress. The essay documents Raymond's acquisition, re-creation, and numerous revisions of an e-mail utility known as fetchmail. Raymond engagingly narrates the fetchmail development process while elaborating on the ongoing bazaar development method he uses with the help of volunteer programmers. The essay smartly spares the reader from the technical morass that could easily detract from the text's goal of demonstrating the efficacy of the open-source, or bazaar, method in creating robust, usable software.

Once Raymond has established the components and players necessary for an optimally running open-source model, he sets out to counter the conventional wisdom of private, closed-source software development. Like superbly written code, the author's arguments systematically anticipate their rebuttals. For programmers who "worry that the transition to open source will abolish or devalue their jobs," Raymond adeptly and factually counters that "most developer's salaries don't depend on software sale value." Raymond's uncanny ability to convince is as unrestrained as his capacity for extrapolating upon the promise of open-source development.

In addition to outlining the open-source methodology and its benefits, Raymond also sets out to salvage the hacker moniker from the nefarious connotations typically associated with it in his essay, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" (not surprisingly, he is also the compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary). Recasting hackerdom in a more positive light may be a heroic undertaking in itself, but considering the Herculean efforts and perfectionist motivations of Raymond and his fellow open-source developers, that light will shine brightly. --Ryan Kuykendall

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Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel. The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them." The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.

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A great start point to everyone who wants to understand the open source world.......2007-01-03

I think it's quite hard to find a book (and also an author) with deep knowledge and clear information related to Open Source software as this one. The logic presented here is useful not only for aspirant hackers but also for everyone interesting in the fascinating Open Source revolution.

Amazing!!!.......2006-07-14

I'm enjoying this book very, very much!!!
I makes you want to adere to an Open Source project. :)

ESR Helps the Intermediate Software Developer Understand His Environment.......2006-02-04

This is my second experience with ESR's books, and I've been very pleased with both of them. Looking at software development from his "anthropologist" perspective, has proven extremely helpful in better understanding my experiences in the industry, and especially in seeing things about people and processes that I didn't realize were there until he'd pointed them out. I don't think this would have made much sense to me if I was new to the software development environment, but now that I've been in it for several years and experienced different people and different groups with their own different processes, ESR's conceptual insights have helped me evaluate my own way of working and thinking. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's been in software development for at least three years... I think your own experience is very important to have behind you when reading ESR's books. This kind of reading led me to the Fred Brook classic "The Mythical Man-Month", which I think is still full of applicable insights (a whopping 30 years after it was first published).

For those who question why open source makes sense.......2006-01-29

Eric Raymond presents a coherent and well-supported case that explains why open source makes commercial sense. Putting aside the "religious" fervor of some of his arguments, the logic on why the open source movement can spawn successful businesses is irrefutable. Read it and you will understand why traditional (proprietary) software business models have become a dying breed. I would rate the book a "5" but for some parts where the text becomes somewhat convoluted and repetitive. Overall, a must-read for anyone involved in software development.

A classic with much to offer, but flawed........2005-12-30

Eric Raymond is widely regarded as the anthropologist of the hacker community. This is Eric Raymond's revised classic with some new material. It is the first comprehensive commentary on the sociology of the Open Source community, and recommended reading for anyone doing business in software development, or running a business that depends on software and the Internet.

Like many of Eric Raymond's colleagues and fellow Geeks, he is clearly a brilliant individual, carried forward by focused effort and imagination. And like many talented people, he is an autodidact; self taught bar some courses in philosophy and mathematics. This is not a criticism. Raymond's career, publications and contribution show amply the intellectual qualities he possesses. However, his lack of training in social, economic and cultural science shows. And, as an insider (he is one of the original tribe of hackers) he is not the best person to make a disinterested commentary on the hacker community.

Great hackers, he tells us, are humble people. A more critical observer would have analyzed the comparative payoffs of styles showing why a loud mouth style - while it might work for some performers or show oriented careers - doesn't pay in this community. This is generally true of communities in which peers are well able to judge the quality of each other's contributions. Faking it doesn't payoff, and looking like you might need to fake it is counter productive. Insofar as the behaviour of chief hackers is humble, we learn more about the social economy of hackerdom than about distinctive individual personalities.

Despite many insights, Eric Raymond is wrong in his principal analysis. Why, he asks, do talented people spend years of unpaid work on projects that benefit others for no pecuniary reward? He characterizes hackers as members of a gift giving community, and attributes too much of the hacker motivation to altruism and idealism.

The central problem is not "why do hackers work for no pay?" Rather, why do people work for money? Or, more fundamentally, why do people work? I take it that readers will agree that we can roughly divide our motives into physiological drives (hunger, thirst, need for shelter, sex) and the "higher" needs (self fulfilment and meaning). After satisfying the needs for food, shelter and companionship why do we continue to work at all? If it is to get status, to get power, to feel good about ourselves and similar, then money beyond basic needs is unnecessary. Onassis once remarked "Without women, all the money in the world is worthless." Some of us work to become wealthy, and we trade that wealth for status, power, respect and admiration, and perhaps we use our wealth to get women, sex and occasionally love. If this is what these motives are for, then even the higher needs are secondary to sex; or, as evolutionary psychologists tell us, are all about reproduction.

Money is a means. If I can earn status, power and respect directly, why waste time with money? Of course, money is fungible. That means it can be traded easily for a great many things; a big house and a luxury car, perhaps. But possessing these is merely another way of obtaining status, power, respect, admiration and sex, if not love.

Why am I writing this review? By my own dispassionate analysis, I am advertising my capacity to say sensible things and I am making a reputation; this is an asset in the social and commercial market place. Amazon might like me for doing this, but they would be mistaken to think that I write reviews out of altruism directed at Amazon; at least not defined in any metaphysical or moral sense. Sociobiologists denote some social instincts "altruism" but these are operational definitions of instincts as Machiavellian as any scheming tactician can be said to possess; in that sense I may be an altruist. Hackers too, for their work is not unlike my book reviews. Hackers trade in an economy that differs not one jot from the money economy, and Eric Raymond, in so far as he supposes it to be a fundamentally different kind of economy, is mistaken.

Likewise the account of hacker commitment to lofty ideals are not any more credible - but also not any less credible - than the mission statements and codes of ethics written by CEOs of major corporations. Among hackers are people as likely to steal code as are others to donate code; to write viruses as to write Fetch Mail. An anarchic disrespect for some of our more widely accepted conventions for protecting property rights is a characteristic of hacker mentality; not one that we should admire. Of course, honourable idealists are found among hackers; Eric Raymond is clearly one of them. Take, for example, the Open Source Initiative that is largely his work. What an outstanding contribution that is! Clearly he is passionate about his beliefs and ideals. But honourable idealists are found among entrepreneurs too, also successful ones, and even among politicians. Let us not delude ourselves about what it is the really motivates us and our fellow travellers.

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