1. ISBN13: 9780684856094
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Annoyed

My parents bought this book last year for me as a christmas present. It was a nice idea but i am capable of be coming sucessful without the help from a book. At first glance this book turns off teens all together. It looks like the awful pants someone in their 50's would wear. The font is not eye catching and all together it reminds me of a book i would have to read in health class that told me to plan for the future and create goals . not that those are bad ideas . i myself being sixteen just didnt want to even go near this book .

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Great Read!

My 16-year-old stepson was assigned this reading for his academic/social coaching blocks in school. It's an excellent read; life skills for everyone!

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Abridged audio version is WAY TOO abridged

I selected the CD abridged version of this book after loving the book and wanting my son to get the content. The points were not developed or illustrated enough to have the content be memorable.

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Worth Reading

The book was very interesting to read and kept my attention through the whole book. Many of the ideas presented here I have used and if you seriously try to follow its suggestions then your life could be drastically improved.

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The 7 Habitis of Highly Effective Teens

A while back I worked for a school for struggling teens, and this was recommended reading for the students and I decided to pick it up to see what it was all about and loved the way the material was presented. At that time my daughter was about four and was irrelevant to her so after reading it for my job I just put the title back on the shelf and just remembered the title when my daughter became fourteen. I re-read this book and decided to give it to my daughter before the struggling began and boy am I glad I did. The format is great for her and she devoured the book. She seems more confident and sure of her self as Sean Covey uncovers the secret of way teens deal with today's issues in their lives. It is a fun to read book for teenager to read and uses language that is appropriate for them. It is starting to open line of communications between the two of us and that feels great.

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1. ISBN13: 9780743250900
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Are you eager to make a change but unsure what's next?

Organizing works when you know where you're going but don't know how to get there. But sometimes organizing isn't enough. When you're eager to make a change in your life, but you are unsure of your new destination, you need to SHED.

Expert organizer and New York Times bestselling author Julie Morgenstern has developed the four-step SHED plan to help you get unstuck from the defunct, obsolete objects and obligations preventing you from living a richer, more meaningful life. SHED picks up where other organizing processes leave off -- helping you purge the physical and behavioral clutter holding you back so you can finally create real change in your life.

But it's not just about throwing things away! The SHED process is more about what comes before and after you heave the clutter, so that the changes you make really stick in the long term. Learn how to:

Separate the treasures -- What is truly worth hanging on to?

Heave the trash -- What's weighing you down?

Embrace your identity -- Who are you without all your stuff?

Drive yourself forward -- Which direction connects to your genuine self?

Whether you're facing a move, a promotion, an empty nest, a marriage, divorce or retirement, When Organizing Isn't Enough provides a practical, transformative plan for positively managing change in every aspect of your life.

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Just finished my stuff SHED and am moving on to bad habits

I've been recommending this book to friends, colleagues, and my family... it's not exactly rocket science, but it helped me think about my stuff in a new way. She goes through a process to help you clean out and get rid of physical stuff, schedule clutter and outdated habits. And that resulted in 140 pounds of stuff to the dump yesterday and about that much to the Salvation Army this morning.

More importantly, there is nothing left in my house that makes me wince when I see it-- "I should really take guitar lessons again so that I can use that birthday present from 10 years ago..." or "Now which of these lace doilies did grandma love? If only I knew then I'd know which to keep in her memory..."-- you get the idea. And now I have space in my guest room closet, not to mention in my OWN closet, for the first time in years!

My calendar was already pretty much under control, so now I'm moving on to my bad habits for my next SHED. That's the toughest area for me, but with the house and schedule so clean, what else do I have to worry about?!?

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Life Coach in a Book!

This book has an amazing effect! I went through the book with a commitment to use the best of Julia Morgenstern's wisdom, and I made amazing changes in my life.

The best of all her works, this book is brilliant, wise, and full of examples of her clients who have worked through their confusion about how to organize. The big picture she offers is how to name the "chapter" of your life that you are moving from, and to name the new chapter of what you want now. She offers three portals of entry into your organization challenges: calendar control, clearing what does not not add to your new chapter, and improving habits of thought. Now you have a reliable measure of what will help you to get where you are going. Text and workbook, this is a great companion for a life change journey. A confidence builder and a practical how to guide, "When Organizing Isn't Enough" is innovative, deep, and effective.

She also has a great time management system that she sells through Franklin Covey and her own website.

This book is a winner and can make a winner out of you! I highly recommend it! Spiritual (inner) and practical (outer)growth are the benefits that await!

Rev. Dr. Mary Rudy

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Thought Provoking

Although this book discusses "how" to organize your home the real gem is it's approach to changing your attitude about "stuff". Basic organization can be achieved through simple cleaning and storage techniques but to thoroughly organize a home it must be free of items that have no need or use. It is imperative that we "shed" the items that take up our time and energy for storage, cleaning, etc. so that we can reclaim that time for doing things we want to do. This is an excellent book to overcome the current popular attitude of "more is more" and to realize that "less is more" is truly what we need to enjoy life. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

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Great concept~!

Timely shipping and the product is in great shape. So far I'm really enjoying the book and can see employing the ideas and suggestions the author is presenting. I would recommend this book.

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Very insightful and practical

This book gets to the root of how to de-clutter your life in three areas: stuff, time, and habits. Julie ties it all together very clearly with real life examples and step-by-step methods to examine what is right for you. She helps you understand what is/has been holding you back from moving forward. I have gone back to this book many times for ideas and reminders. Well worth the time to read. She's writes in a straight-forward manner which makes it easy to read.

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Larry Crane has been showing people from all walks of life how to achieve their fullest potential for over 30 years. Thousands of people have experienced success in every area of their life far beyond what they could have imagined by doing what Larry has shown them.

Larry Crane's Release Technique is simple and provable. It changes lives.

Larry is a renowned expert on success and love. The two go hand in hand. He shows you how to be successful and have abundance of everything by Loving Yourself.

For over 30 years Larry has been showing people what love really is, where to get love, and how to have love once you know where it is. For Larry, it's all about results. "It's not what you say, it's what you do," are words Larry often repeats. "Talking about love, talking about what love is, talking about how to be loving is not the answer," says Larry. "Actually doing it is the answer. Doing it, not talking about it."

This book shows you how to do it, how to Love Yourself and reap the rewards, financial, health, relationships, whatever your heart desires. You can have it all when you know how to Love Yourself. As Larry frequently says, "There are no impossible's." This book de-mystifies true love. This book is a manual of love from a man who has dedicated his life to showing people what love is, how to be living and how that translates to success in every area of your life.

"...a highly effective tool for attracting what you want out of life." Joe Vitae

"...a tool to make your life, your career, and your relationships better...and better." Tom Hopkins

"An enriching and enlightening experience. It provided new energy, spontaneity and fresh insights." Louis Ormont, Ph.D.

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very repetitive and worse, it's not helpful

This book is about "Christian love" -- love for all people/things equally. It's really closer to "acceptance". Which honestly is a good and valuable concept to apply in life, but this book does not treat the topic well. Instead it simply repeats a few catchphrases (such as "love yourself" or "don't beat yourself up") over and over.

The book purports to teach you HOW TO practice love, for instance HOW TO approve of yourself, but actually it only tells you: "Could you give yourself some approval? Could you give yourself some more approval? Could you give yourself even more approval? And even more?" (Literal quote.) This is not instructive. It's not helpful.

Also, the book is very repetitive. The aforementioned quote is an example of the kind of repetition this book subjects its reader to. For another example, in the section purportedly explaining how to let go of negative feelings, the same page is repeated WORD FOR WORD nearly ten times - once for each negative feeling! (Guilt, Anger, Pain, etc.)

This book is uninformative, unhelpful, and frustratingly repetitive.

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Repetetive but necessary

If you can handle this book being very repetitive (I'm sure there's good reason for it) it can really bring great value to your life. Mr Crane is an expert on releasing toxic emotions, programs and energies and in this book he shows us how to get rid of what's blocking us and access what he claims to be the supreme power in the world - love. The book is practical and you will be on your way to a more loving life within half an hour of reading, so in my opinion it's woth giving a try.

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Don't Use the Text-to-Speech on this Book

I was listening to this book with the text-to-speech feature while driving, and because of all that repetition, I thought it had become stuck like a skipping record. I had to turn it off about a third of the way through. However, there are some very sound ideas here and I will attempt to get through it to the end, this time by reading, not listening.

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review from a cynic

To summarize all 180 pages:

1. Be positive
2. Don't be negative
3. Love yourself

I will now bask in your positive thoughts since I saved you hours of reading inane drivel. :)

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Really? Really? I can let it go. I can let it go.

I guess I can kind of see where someone with low self-esteem would get something out of this book. I am only about a third of the way through it and wondering if I should continue. From what I've read in the reviews, I may just stop reading now. I keep waiting for substance and I'm not seeing any. Just repetitions of "love yourself" and "positive thinking". I'm just positive I'm glad I didn't pay anything for it.

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1. ISBN13: 9780689834349
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Wonderful Book

This has been one of my son's favorite book since he was about 7 months old (he's now 12m). He just loves the page where the Hippos have their party and "go berserk." Now he rushes me through the first few pages until he gets to the party page, focus on all the hippos having a party, and then shut the book. He also likes to look at it on his own. The book is small enough and light weight enough for him to sit and "read" it himself. I imagine it will grow with my son as he gets older and he starts to learn counting. For now the cute story and fun pictures capture his attention.

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Our absolute favorite book!

I have read this book about....5000 times - and it's still fun! It was the absolute favorite of my three boys who are now young adults. The art is cute, the concepts engaging and the poetry memorable. Our kids just about held their breath when we were about to reach the "All the hippos go berserk!" page! Then we all went crazy and shook the book all over and jumped around. Fun! That was repeated several times a day for lots of years. Made lots of good times and memories!

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great book

this is a really cute book and I like the hard cardboard book. So that the little one and turn the pages to.

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Lots of fun!

We love the Sandra Boynton books for our son. It's a refreshing treat to have books with fun pictures and neat rhyming schemes to appeal to him, but interesting twists in story lines to make then interesting to read over and over. The hippos are really cute!

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Loved by all generations

We had this book for our kids and it was read until it fell apart. Dad particularly liked to do his berserk voice when ALL THE HIPPOS GO BERSERK!

I'm buying it now for my grandson's first Christmas.

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1. ISBN13: 9780446698856
2. Condition: NEW
3. Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Editorial Review :

There are plenty of books about coping with adversity. But isn't until now, with WHO SURVIVES, that we discover the human factors that determine survival. It's a combination instruction book and security blanket that blends compelling true stories with cutting-edge science to deliver some of the most important lessons we'll ever need to learn.

The book will:
--list the most important traits necessary for survival (e.g., adaptability, tenacity, faith)
--identify the 5 types of survivors
--debunk myths (like only the strong survive), explore the frontiers of survival science (How much strain and punishment can a human body endure?), and introduce readers to counterintuitive thinking (Ever heard of posttraumatic growth?)
--provide a Survivors Tool Kit, including an online test that measures one's Survivor's Quotient

Each one of us eventually joins the club of millions who face life's inescapable tribulations and tragedies. WHO SURVIVES is the companion we need to prepare us for and guide us through the worst.

Customer Review :

The Survivors Club

THE SURVIVORS CLUB BY BEN SHERWOOD is a nonfiction. It gives some insight into how to survive some of life's most challenging events. It is an interesting book if you enjoy this type of reading.It is a book on human behavior. As for this reader is was okay. 3.5 This book was received for review.





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Review written for and published on www.luxuryreading.com

Biking in Foothill Ranch, California, Anne Hjelle is attacked by a mountain lion. She survives the attack. JAT Flight 364 explodes in the air over Czechoslovakia. The only survivor is Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, who plummets 6 miles to the ground and lives. Brian Udell is forced to eject from his plane going faster than Mach 1 at sea level. The impact breaks both his legs and severely dislocates one shoulder, rendering that arm useless. Despite having only one working limb, Udell manages to inflate a raft, climb aboard, and wait to be rescued. In the Gulf of Mexico, Tim Sears falls off of the cruise ship Celebration wearing nothing more than his boxer shorts, a t-shirt, and a sweatshirt. Without any floatation devices and without anyone coming to his rescue (the ship's crew never knew he was missing), Sears literally swims for his life over a course of 17 hours where he is finally rescued by a Maltese ship.

What all these people have in common is that they are all survivors of situations that would normally be fatal to the average person. Ben Sherwood, journalist and author, sets out to discover why some people live where others would perish in his book The Survivors Club. Sherwood takes the reader on a tour of the remarkable and the astounding while all along collecting research into the sciences of extreme first aid, faith and prayer, fear, will power, adversity, and luck. He includes countless tales of survival and death defying feats as well as advice from rescue workers and scientists who investigate the various forms of death.

The Survivors Club is more than just a study in the art of survival; it is also a reference manual. Sherwood invites the reader to take a quiz that will provide him/her with a "survivor profile." This individual profile identifies the test taker's "survivor type" (fighter, believer, connector, thinker, or realist) and details the top three survivor tools in the test taker's arsenal. The reader is then invited to join an online community of survivors where members can share their stories and "build a private support group of friends and family."

Ben Sherwood's The Survivors Club is a must read for those who desire a long life and wish to be prepared for all eventualities in life.


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Too Much Religion

This book had promise, and has some interesting stories and statistics. But by half way through, every survival story was turning into mystical powers, and God, and Faith. In these stories, it is never questioned why God saved a military pilot, but let the navigator die. Why did God save a particular person in an airline crash or nightclub fire, but he couldn't be bothered to save the rest (let alone prevent the disaster in the first place)? I guess they were evil, or it was "His Plan". Yawn.

If you don't mind being preached at, or if your faith is so flimsy that it needs to be bolstered by a mass marketed book, then this is a good read. If you are sick of these stories, don't bother.

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Great Read

Now I'm prepared to survive with the secrets that will save not only my life but those that I love. A must to have on anyone's bookshelf that believes times will need us to act and act decisively!!!!

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Didn't learn much about survival

After seeing the great reviews here, I was excited to dig into the book. I am about 1/3 way through and I'm finding it difficult to continue. Perhaps my expectation were off course. I was expecting a book to give insight into survival skills in different situations. All I got were stories of people who had a desire to live but it was very skimpy on tactical advise. So far the most I got out of this book is where to sit in a plane to perhaps survive a crash. I hope the rest of the book gets better... if so, I will update my review

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