The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

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"The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide is to learn to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it." --from the Introduction

In this honest and uplifting book, bestselling author Marianne Williamson delves deeply into the powerful role of change in our lives today. Far from being something to fear and avoid, she says, every change -- even the most difficult and painful -- gives us an opportunity to receive the miraculous gift of personal transformation. The only real failure in life, she observes, is the failure to grow from what we go through. We will find real growth when we reorient ourselves using an eternal compass of spiritual principles, which alone can guide us on this path to wholeness.

By fixing our eyes on the things that don't change, Williamson leads us across ten key bridges of transformation:

From Forgetting Who We Are to Remembering Who We Are
From Negative Thinking to Positive Love
From Anxiety to Atonement
From Asking God to Change the World to Praying That He Change Us
From Living in the Past and Future to Living in the Present
From Focus on Guilt to Focus on Innocence
From Separation to Relationship
From Spiritual Death to Rebirth
From Your Plan to God's Plan
From Who We Were to Who We Are Becoming

These ten simple but profound changes empower us to see life's transitions as opportunities for growth and rebirth, providing not only keys for shaping our lives today, but also hope for transforming our world into a place of greater love and peace.

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""The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide is to learn to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it."" --from the Introduction

By fixing our eyes on the things that don't change, Williamson leads us across ten key bridges of transformation:

From Forgetting Who We Are to Remembering Who We Are
From Negative Thinking to Positive Love
From Anxiety to Atonement
From Asking God to Change the World to Praying That He Change Us
From Living in the Past and Future to Living in the Present
From Focus on Guilt to Focus on Innocence
From Separation to Relationship
From Spiritual Death to Rebirth
From Your Plan to God's Plan
From Who We Were to Who We Are Becoming

Customer Reviews:

The Gift of Change.......2007-08-19

This book is uplifting, life changing and makes you laugh at yourself because Marianne seems to hit that unexposed nerve lying just beneath the surface. No matter who you are, you will find something in this book that will change your life. I highly recommend it! Review written by the author of Bruised But Still Strong

Practical, life transforming information.......2007-04-23

Marianne has a unique perspective on life. The human experience unfolds into new and intriguing realms with each turn of the page. Her view of God illuminates an entity that seeks to help the transformation from ordinary, mundane existance into a soul-fulfilling adventure as unique and different as the individual. My life is not the same after having read this book!

The Gift of Change.......2007-03-08

I loved the book because of the uplifting, loving approach Marianne Williamson gives to her writing. Her philosophies span all faiths and zezo in on what unites us as people. We decide how events impact us - that is her message!

The Gift of Change.......2007-02-07

This book challenges your mind, opens your heart, and opens door of possibilities!! Marianne is right on!! I am very impressed by her insight and conviction. Can't wait to get into my bed and see possibilities unfold in front of my eyes!
Jamile Palizban

Good, but not great.......2007-01-12

I love Marianne Williamson and this book is well written. However, it really did not offer a lot of new information or guidance.

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Prabhat Patnaik's starting point is the fundamental question of how we can explain the resilience and durability of capitalist economies - after all, the writings of most of the giants among economists have been permeated by a sense of the transitoriness of capitalism. His argument is that the existence of a periphery of less developed countries provides a buffer that allows (relatively) crisis-free and non-inflationary growth in the capitalist core. The analysis unifies two fields that are normally separate: models of growth and stabilization policy in advanced economies and the economics of open developing economies. Consequently, Patnaik embraces both a thorough analysis of modern fiscal, monetary, and inflation policy in advanced capitalist economies and the constraints that systematically hinder development in less developed countries. Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism uses macroeconomic principles to solve problems currently addressed with microeconomic tools, establishing macroeconomics as a framework for analysing phenomena as wide-ranging as migration, imperialist systems, technological change, and labour markets. In the tradition of Keynes, Harrod and Domar, Marx, and Kalecki, it offers an alternative path to the choice-theoretic models that have appeared to be the only modern analytical path.

Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism

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Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism
Prabhat Patnaik
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Musicology: The Key Concepts provides a handy reference guide for students of contemporary musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms including:

· Aesthetics
· Canon
· Composition
· Deconstruction
· Epistemology
· Gender
· Historicism
· Mimesis
· Pastoral
· Transculturation.

Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is an essential resource for all students of music.

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Marshall Fishwick acknowledges that the impression of popular culture as being full of fads and follies which change every season, sometimes month-by-month, is superficially true, but basically and historically incorrect. The essential features of "the people," and the ways in which their basic needs are met, have changed little over the centuries. Fishwick's analysis highlights stasis and shows that most contemporary expressions of popular culture are extensions of traditional forms, values, and formulas.

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Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.

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Learn how to efficiently develop applications with the premier integrated development environment for the .NET Framework. The majority of developers using .NET will use Visual Studio regardless of their programming language choice. This book also covers many of the tools available within VS.NET such as Crystal Reports, Application Test Center, automation and macro development. Visual Studio .NET is the first Microsoft programming tool to provide a consistent look-and-feel across Visual Basic, Visual C++, C#, and ASP. Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created. Couple that with the.NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, and the developer has everything he or she needs to get up to speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files. The author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give the reader the most comprehensive title on learning and implementing Visual Studio .NET. Jason Beres is a .NET Architect and .NET Evangelist for Computer Ways, Inc, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner located in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Before devoting his existence to .NET, Jason taught Visual Basic and Windows DNA at a Microsoft CTEC. He helped initiate the Florida .NET Users Group to evangelize .NET. Finally, he founded the Non-Profit Ways community that enables developers to write .NET applications for non-profit charities that would otherwise not be able to afford the technology.

Customer Reviews:

full of errors, theory is pretty good though.......2006-08-20

Although to me some of the errors were obvious but for a beginner they might not be that obvious and you could get stuck with an error screen for hours and hours thinking YOU are wrong and the book is right, before finally discovering you need to adjust cause the book is just wrong.

they add four menu items for example, while in the image you see it are five. then in the code they work with five so you have to make the fifth one yourself and discover its name etc. Also they tell you to rename the buttons but in their code you can't follow anymore cause they didnt rename their own buttons.

This was just in chapter 1, the third day, which is the first real code writing lesson.

I can't understand why someone would give this book a five star rating. It's very confusing for a beginner with all the errors. But if you have a decent basis and you can easily discover the errors it might still be ok, but not highly recommended.

The difference between knowing, and being able to teach ..........2006-04-04

This might be the book for you, if:

- you need a crash course in VS.Net,
- you're pretty well-versed in Visual Basic 6.0
- you're pretty good at filtering out irrelevant praise for the product
- you are willing to skim through examples, getting the jist of things without actually trying to make them work
- you can't find a more carefully-written crash-course book covering the same ground

Then again, if you're that good to begin with, you can probably learn VS.Net without a crash-course book.

Cannot recommend this book.......2006-02-20

Unfortunately, the code examples in this book are fraught with careless errors. What's the point of picking up a book to learn VS .Net if the code examples don't work? Moreover, the author's claim (p.3) of a website featuring code samples, fixes, and other helpful materials to supplement the book is simply untrue. That website (http://www.vbasp.net) exists, but has nothing uploaded. I wasted many hours trying to get code examples to work before learning through Amazon.com Reviews that others have had the same problem. How disappointing.

Waste of money.......2005-08-31

As other reviewers have pointed out, this book has a lot of mistakes in it. How sloppy does an author/publisher have to be to put out a beginner's book where many of the examples don't work? It's a lot easier and more effective to learn this material by using the documentation that comes with Visual Studio.

Regrettably, it sucks........2004-12-21

I did not read the reviews before I bought this book on a friend's recommendation. I made a big mistake. The critics are right on target. This book needs major editing before it will be an aid to anyone. And while I've marked mine up and cannot therefore recover my $30, maybe I can save you yours.

Maybe if sales of this book die as a result of the reviews these publishers will think twice before rushing out so flawed a product. They should truly be embarrassed.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition)

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Chapman is the exception to the rule for 21 days books!
Useless book.
The Bad Reviews are CONFUSED
If you know nothing about VC++
Update of the old book

Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 21 Days (2nd Edition)
Davis Chapman
Manufacturer: Sams
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ASIN: 0672321971

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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 21 Days, 2nd Edition is a time-saving guide walking you through Visual C++ tools and wizards for building applications and places VC++ in the context of the new Visual Studio.NET environment. This book emphasizes using Visual C++ tools and wizards to generate code. Code examples are augmented with C++ language sidebars: Readers who need a refresher on the language or want to go further "under the hood" will have a context, while those who don't can easily skip that coverage. The revision includes more information throughout on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), how Windows applications work, and how MFC abstracts the Windows functionality to simplify building applications. Chapters on managed code, ATL functionality, and interacting with VB and C# components will help users begin to master the new .NET aspects of Visual C++.

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Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++.NET in 21 Days, 2nd Edition is a time- saving guide walking you through Visual C++ tools and wizards for building applications and places VC++ in the context of the new Visual Studio.NET environment. This book emphasizes using Visual C++ tools and wizards to generate code. Code examples are augmented with C++ language sidebars: Readers who need a refresher on the language or want to go further ""under the hood"" will have a context, while those who don't can easily skip that coverage. The revision includes more information throughout on Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), how Windows applications work, and how MFC abstracts the Windows functionality to simplify building applications. Chapters on managed code, ATL functionality, and interacting with VB and C# components will help users begin to master the new .NET aspects of Visual C++.

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Chapman is the exception to the rule for 21 days books!.......2005-02-07

The author David Chapman is the exception to the rule for "Sams Teach Yourself in 21 days" books, which are usually poorly written. But Chapman is an exceptionally good writer.

I agree with all the positive reviews for this book. Chapman gives you a series of exercises and you learn by doing them.

True, this book is not the only book you will need in C++.NET, but it is a good start.

Another excellent book for Visual C++, that is not "managed C++" (.NET) but traditionaal Visual C++ (no garbage collection) is "Intro to MFC Programming with Visual C++" by Richard M. Jones. A bit dated? Hardly.

Buy these two books and you'll be well on your way to understanding what the "wizards" do in Visual C++.

Useless book........2004-01-07

Starting as a C and C++ pro, I was looking after a book to apply my knowledge to Windows using Visual C++. I came from other systems (unix...).

Target : get all basics in order to shorten by beginner stage.

For about a year, from a beginner to independant developper status, almost anything I was looking for in this book happened to be fruitless. Everytime the MSDN Help online from VC++ was much more helptful.

Let me give a simple example :
- you want to display a button with a bitmap. Nothing from the Index. You go to "Adding controls to your application" - none. "Bitmaps..." : nope.
VC++ help : you go to the index, "bitmaps" a few lines below "button" and... you got it.

The Bad Reviews are CONFUSED.......2003-08-25

Those reviews of this Sam's book that complain that it is a rehash, too basic, etc. are misguided. They must not have payed close attention to the scope and purpose of this book! I came to Visual C++ knowing ZERO about C++ or GUI (I thought it was spelled "gooey") or much else about programming. Yet, with this book I managed to create a useful, functional windows program in a few weeks that is now being utilized by a busy doctor's office. THIS BOOK IS FOR BEGINNERS, NOT HIGHLY EXPERIENCED PROGRAMMERS. Honestly, having looked into other books on the subject I have no idea how I'd have been able to learn what I did as quickly as I did if not for the Sam's book. Granted, it doesn't cover everything, but no book can. It covers more than enough of the basics to get up and running in a surprising amount of time. BEGINNERS: BUY THIS BOOK!

If you know nothing about VC++.......2002-08-20

I am just a college student and have no experience on Windows program before, but I only know C++. If you are just like me, starting VC with this book will make your life much easier. If you are a professional, use something more advance. This is book is just for beginner with C++ background. If you don't know about C++, don't use it because it won't teach you C++ on this book.

Update of the old book.......2002-01-16

It was a rather frustrating book since it was just an update of the previous generation book for VC++ 6.0. It seems that SAMS wanted to be the first to sell in order to sell. This is rather bad for the company since it will lose many of its potential customers in the future. The only chapters worth reading, well at least a little bit, are chapters 19 and 21 and nothing more.

Sams Teach Yourself Object-Oriented Programming with VB.NET in 21 Days

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not as good but it contains some good stuff
Where's the 2nd Edition?
huge improvements needed...
Help - I'm confused
Not for beginners

Sams Teach Yourself Object-Oriented Programming with VB.NET in 21 Days
Richard J. Simon , Leslie Koorhan , and Ken Cox
Manufacturer: Sams
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This book is focused on ""getting the concepts"" as well as teaching how to apply OOP concepts in the new version of Visual Basic. The reader is not expected to have any mastery of a given OOP language. In fact, the stress of having to learn the syntax of an OOP language, without first having a strong conceptual foundation about the OOP paradigm, often prevents the programmer from doing effective Object Oriented Programming at the language level. However, a beginner's knowledge of the Visual Basic language is a definite plus.

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not as good but it contains some good stuff.......2004-03-06

hello! you can purchase this book for 2 bucks from amazon used. This book is a little bit obsolete and the first time i started programming vb.net I threw it away thinking that was really bad. Yes, you get really confused on the first chapters as a beginner in vb.net when typing stuff that doesnt work.(the truth is that it was written for a vb.net beta version and some things changed.) Now, after I;ve become familiar with vb.net, i find this book pretty good in clarifying some parts that other books dont explain properly.

If you disregard some examples for databases and just look around the book you will have something to gain. I dont recommend this book to beginners but, I do recommend it to more advanced or intermediate vb.net developpers. Its level is not that hard, it contains easy examples and I think this book would be a waste of time for vb.net experts since they will already be familiar with the contents of this book.

Where's the 2nd Edition?.......2003-01-10

This book is not well written, it looks like the book was based on a Beta Version of Visual Studio .NET, and was never validated against the final release version of VB.NET.

I like creating the programming examples from the book, I find that helps me to learn the product better and faster, however, I could not get the programs to work correctly when entered from the book.

I stopped reading the book after the first chapter, because the information is incorrect.

huge improvements needed..........2002-12-19

this book attempts to teach the reader how to develop VB.net applications using object-oriented methodologies.
While it tries in meeting this objective, it falls short in a few areas.
First, the codes in the book seem to be different from what you get, even when you follow the authors' guidelines religiously. Some lines of code just appear almost from nowhere; some of those that are accounted for are mysteriously rearranged in the book.
The authors' coding styles are neither here nor there. They do not seem to be within easy grasp of the VB.net newby or at the league of the blackbelt category.
Secondly, there are several omissions and inadequate explanations in the text. The authors obviously know their jobs. But they have difficulty imparting that knowledge to their readers. 21 chapters in a book of 360 pages mean each chapter, including the code snippets and screenshots, occupy less than 18 pages. Not that I am a fan of fluff, but I believe that adequate explanations would require many more pages.
Thirdly, a few explanations are simply wrong. E.g. you don't save files with .visual basic extension, but with .vb; neither do you write:

Me.TextBox.AcceptReturn = True
Me.TextBox.MultiLine = True
.......

But you write:

With Me.TextBox
.AcceptReturn = True
.MultiLine = True
.......
End With

I gave it three stars because it gives the reader a bird's eye-view of what OOP looks like in VB.net. But that's how far this book can go. If you really want to learn OOP in better details, you will need to use additional resources--either one that is geared to the newbies, or one that is aimed at the gurus out there. This hermaphrodite of a book defies easy placement.

Help - I'm confused.......2002-06-21

After spending heaps of time sudyinh the UML - finally a book that brings OOP - UML and VB.NET together. I was wrong. After 1 chapter where the code doesn't match the examples in the book and where saving visual basic id actually .vb I am thouroughly lost and confused.

Not for beginners.......2002-04-25

This book claims to be for newbees to VB. All I can say is there isn't much ground work to build on. On page 10 it says "save the file as "SimpleMsg.visual basic" which is wrong but it took me a while to find out why the IDE wasn't formatting my text. In the first code for a form, two different variables are given the same name. Now maybe thats really a good idea but I found it pretty confusing. This book feels like it was written by someone who had forgotten what its like to be starting fresh with VB.

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