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These are challenging times for America, and painful times for Americans. It's been years since the public mood has been so dour, the sense of hope for our future so restrained. And yet...this is America. At our core we are a resilient and optimistic nation.
Organized in 8 sections-Community, Children, Citizenship, Values, Charity, Environment, Everyday Living, and The World-this powerful motivational book contains more than 120 simple actions every American can take to make our country a better place, including:
__Simple solutions such as recycling, voting, and volunteering
__Promoting U.S. businesses by buying locally grown produce and supporting community merchants
__Returning to old-fashioned values-politeness, respect, tolerance, and optimism
Small enough to fit in your pocket, this is the perfect motivational gift book to get America on track once again.
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Love the book...love the ideas and website suggestions!.......2006-10-27
This book has such simple ideas - some I'd thought about -- many I didn't. Clever, fast, enjoyable read, with so many useful websites I'd never heard of but can definately use! Great ideas for families, too! Highly recommended!!
Just What We Needed!.......2006-10-25
Thanks to Zimmerman for this great and handy guide to helping our country while we help ourselves. This book is a great resource and a great inspiration.
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Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind. Profound and deeply resonant,
Making Things Better explores the quandaries of aging, longing, and self-discovery with transfixing precision and spellbinding acuity.
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Nothin' never happens here.......2007-01-26
All the stars I give this book are based on the excellent writing, not the riveting plot. There is no plot. Maybe it's the mood I'm in these days. At another time and in another place, I might find Julius interesting. I kept dozing off while reading. Then, when I'd pick the book up again, I couldn't find my place because because every page seemed the same. Julius is forever shrouded in greyness and inaction. I was relieved that two other reviewers (who also like Brookner) felt the same, so I don't have to feel totally shallow.
Can One Recapture a Life?.......2006-02-28
This book is an immensely insightful character study of seventyish Julius Herz, now living alone in London after outliving his parents and brother, all of whom were forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime. Julius' life has been one of duty, obedience, and propriety, his happiness and fulfillment secondary to aiding his family. His exile status is really a metaphor for his minimalist life.
Now, Julius' days consist of just staying busy: visiting little shops and museums, walking twice a day, sitting in parks, etc with only the briefest of personal interactions and then returning to his small flat located above a retail store. But a new renter in a downstairs room, a perky young financial advisor, upsets this mundane life. He begins to seriously question the validity of assumptions that he has made his entire life, and ponders whether he can recapture some of what has been lost. In addition, his German cousin Fanny, who has nonchalantly ignored his infatuation throughout the years, has contacted him with entreaties for help. Should he take a chance on trying to restore their unrequited relationship, or is this utter fantasy?
The book is a sobering look at aging and thoughts on paths taken versus what might have been. The author in her usual precise, exemplary language provides an amazingly sensitive examination of matters that undoubtedly go through the minds of many as they grow older. The answers are not simple.
"Do I dare to eat a peach?".......2005-04-22
While reading Anita Brookner's "Making Things Better," the notion of T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," kept vying for attention. Especially the line, "Do I dare to eat a peach?" The main character, Julius Herz, 73 and retired is Prufrock, the man who decides to forgo the peach. The novel's third person point of view narrative deftly portrays Herz, especially his plagued inner life. But often the reader is also privy to Herz's mental state through inner dialog, the occasional conversation with other characters and letters Herz pens.
"Making Things Better" is one long lamentation and how things could have been better say this happened or this did not happen. The pages are slow to turn at times since most of the action takes place within Herz's mental life. His obsessions include a failed marriage with Josie, his declining health, an ill brother, Freddy, and Fanny Bauer, the woman he truly wanted to marry, but got away due to his timidness. Brookner's authentic sentences capture the sadness of a man who realizes he did not truly live life, but skipped around its corners.
But wait, there is hope on the horizon, hence the title of the book, "Making Things Better," a phrase often repeated by Herz. He is seeking redemption; this is the impetus of the book that keeps one reading to see if he finally dares to eat a peach?
Bohdan Kot
A WORK WORTH READING .......2004-10-10
This was my first expierence reading Ms Brookner. I doubt seriously if it will be my last. I enjoyed this book, depressing as it was. Ms. Brokner's syntax is wonderful. Her insight into her characters is qutie remarkable. I work with the aged, talk with them on a daily basis. I find it remarkable that the author was able to approach her subject with such clarity and authority. I found the authors ability to take the mundane and transform it into the profound, quite surprising and rewarding. I would recommend this work to anyone interest in themselves or simply interested in verg good writing! Be warned though, this is not a "happy book" per se. In may ways, it is reality, and as we all know, reality is not always the nicest thing to ponder.
making things boring.......2003-10-24
Brookner's newest book is so boring I could not slog to the end. The main character, a dull man who thinks too much about nothing and is a total bore, the plot is silly, and the ending O'Henery ish (cute and tricky). I am a Brookner fan and have read all of her books and was so looking forward to the new Brookner...what a disappointment
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Making Good Things Happen: Negotiating for A Better Life
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Making things better by making them worse
Allen Fay
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Auditing Your Educational Strategic Plan: Making a Good Thing Better
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Assess the efficiency of your school's strategic plan. This practical guidebook identifies the basic characteristics of successful planning. It shows you how to compare your processes and results with basic criteria so you can modify, add, or discontinue various practices to improve your results. Here you'll find the tools you need to follow your strategic plan. If you're serious about reaching your school's goals, this book was written just for you. You'll learn how to: * Set up an integrated framework * Avoid common mistakes * Set up a scoring table * Begin the audit * Review your results
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Making Things Better - Universal Energy
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Recorded seminars on the center for Skillful Means module: Making Things Better. Human beings have the capacity for growth; each one of us has the power to alleviate unnecessary suffering, improve one s attitude at work and follow patterns of success. How well do we know our potential and what knowledge do we need in order to give work meaning and to get satisfying results?
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Making Things Better Through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ - Study Guide
Making Things Better through the transforming power of Jesus Christ Study Guide "We might be struggling with sicknesses and with diseases. We might be in conflict with our brothers and our sisters but all is not lost.
Our children might have become involved in different things that do not pertain to righteousness. We might have some heartaches and pains but all is not lost. Our hope is in Jesus and when we see Him, He will make all things well. Job says, "If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come" (Job 14:14). Making Things Better, page 18 1. Describe a situation that you have experienced that made you feel like all was lost?
2. How were you able to overcome the negative thoughts and continue to trust in God?
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oxmask is the continuation of the tale started in Wolfskin, a story of the clash between the warlike Norsemen and the mysterious and magical people who lived at the top of the world in the land that became Scotland. Young Eyvind wanted to become a great Viking warrior-a Wolfskin-and carry honor out in the name of his god, Thor. He and his kin traveled to a magical land across the sea, a windswept and barren place, but one filled with unexpected beauty and hidden treasure. Eyvind and his people settle and he finds a soulmate in young Nessa, seer and princess. But someone has come along to this new land who is not what he seems. Eyvind's heartfriend Somerled had his own agenda . . . and his machinations nearly destroyed all that the two peoples had built. Truth and honor triumphed and though a terrible price was paid, peace has settled upon the land. A new generation is coming to adulthood: Norse and Orkney folk together. But the past is a thing that may be shunned but not forgotten. And when the terrible secret surrounding one young man's paternity comes to light, it sets in motion a chain of events that could send the best and brightest of the land on a journey to discover the truth. And that truth could destroy whatever joy these people have ever known.
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Courage.......2007-05-10
Unlike the first book of this series, This book was alot more to my liking. It was truley an amazing experience.
(4.5 stars) In terms of the story it's great-but not my favorite of her books.......2006-09-27
"Foxmask" is the last of the duology that Juliet Marillier wrote concerning the mixing of the roaming Saxon warriors and a race of island people known only as the folk. The first book "Wolfskin" was about a warrior named Eyvind who found out that telling the truth and being faithful to the ideal of truth was more important than blind faith in those you trusted. In that book Eyvind ended up with a young priestess of the folk named Nessa, and in the end cast out his blood brother Somerled, who had turned the islands into a blood bath of war between the two races, to the sea to meet his fate.
But Somerled left something behind-a child growing in the belly of his brother's widow, who had loved him, but had known that he was selfish and somewhat evil. This child grew up to be called Thorvald. Around his 18th birthday his mother gives him a letter Somerled wrote to her upon his exile to the seas, and Thorvald, feeling cursed by the horrible acts his father committed, heads out on a boat to find him, thinking he may have found far off islands to live on.
But with him on the boat sneaks Creidhe, Eyvind and Nessa's daughter who has loved Thorvald forever, though she knows he isn't perfect. The two, along with Sam (who owns the boat) land upon strange islands, which are devoid of children, and all the men take place in a yearly hunt to find a child who is the only salvation they could ever have from the forces ruining their lives. But this child id protected by a valiant keeper. Thorvald thinks his father is the ruthless leader of the island people, but he can't be sure, and while he works to impress the man who may be his sire Creidhe is about to find out exactly what is the truth in the strange world she stumbled into...
This isn't my favorite of Marillier's books, but in terms of technical storytelling it may be her best work yet. The writing is haunting, the suspense is well played out, and the ending is something you would never see coming. I enjoyed this, and it made me want to read more of the author's works.
Four point five stars.
Great Book.......2006-01-11
Thorvald, at the age of 18 years, has just been told about his true parentage. He immediately sets on a mission to find his father, with the help of his friend, Sam, an experienced sailor. What Thorvald doesn't expect is that his other friend, Creidhe, stows away on the boat and isn't found until it's too late to turn back. So the three journey together where they come across the Long Knife People. After hearing their story, Thorvald and Sam decide to stay on and help. Thorvald also believes that Asgrim, the leader of the Long Knife People is his father, so he decides to become a great warrior to make him proud. What he doesn't realize until too late is that Asgrim had other plans for Creidhe and when those plans go awry, she is thought to be dead. Instead, Cheidhe is on the Isle of Clouds, the exact place where the Long Knife People fight year after year to find Foxmask, the seer of their enemy. Thorvald makes it his mission to train the men to become true warriors and return Foxmask to his rightful place. On his journey, Thorvald learns about power, hope, sorrow, love and the importance of family.
Not being an avid fan of fantasy, I was a bit apprehensive when I first got this book, it being over 500 pages. After getting through the beginning, I couldn't put the book down. Thorvald's journey is fascinating. Juliet Marillier has a way of describing characters and places. With all the twists and turns in the novel, it was hard to predict what would happen next. I went from loving a character to hating them. This was the first book I've read by Juliet Marillier, but now I can't wait to read the rest. I'd recommend Foxmask to fantasy readers and nonreaders alike. I thought that this book was amazing and I can't wait to read more by Marillier.
Not up to Marillier's usual standard.......2005-12-04
I've been an avid Marillier fan since I first picked up her book Daughter of the Forest, and I loved Wolfskin, the first of this series.
That saying, Foxmask was kind of a disappointment.
Marillier has always had strong female characters, but in this book, it almost seems formulalic. Girl A, beloved by her family, has some connection to the earth/old magic via healing/telepathy/spinning, is forced by extraordinary circumstances to choose a life unlike the one that she thought she'd have and marry Boy C, while Boy B (Stalking Horse Boy) is left in the dust.
It's the same scenario in each of her novels, and although Marillier depicts each one beautifully in a way that any lesser novelist would simply make repetitive, sadly, Foxmask isn't exactly the best example of it. I found the heroine to be slighly annoying and vapid, lacking a lot of the strength that Marillier's previous heroines had. It's still wonderfully written, and fans of the Light Isles series should still enjoy it. However- definitely not in the 'reread' category as were her beginning two novels and Wolfskin.
A good read for a long flight.......2005-08-15
I picked up Foxmask in an airport in Brussels about half an hour before my flight home. I had never heard of Juliet Marillier or her Wolfskin series, so I had no idea what I was about to read.
The story of Foxmask is simple enough. It is set in the Light Isles (aka the Orkney Islands, just northeast of Scotland) and the pseudo-fantasy "Lost Isles" in about the 9th or 10th century. We are introduced to the charming, young and beautiful Creidhe, who possesses an exceptional talent for weaving. Throughout the story, she works on a seemingly endless piece called "the journey," which is like a picture-story book of her whole life. As she encounters new adventures, she adds them to her weaving, never knowing if it is the Gods who command her to weave, or if what she weaves can change the future.
Creidhe, about 17 when the story begins, has been a lifelong friend of Thorvald, a few years her senior. He has hair like fire and a temper to match, and has never quite appreciated Creidhe's constant companionship. When we meet him, he is immature and petulant, much like a 9th century teenager who is coming of age and has yet to find his purpose.
When Thorvald's mother hands him a note written by his father before he was born, he finds the purpose he has long sought. Thorvald goes into a rage when he reads the letter, since it reveals his father was not the honorable person he thought, but a murderer who had been exiled long ago by Creidhe's father. Thorvald, sensing a chance to change his destiny, goes out in search of his long-lost father, who was exiled to the Lost Isles before he learned of his son's birth.
Creidhe, partially out of a sense of responsibility and partially for love, decides to go with Thorvald, and stows away on his boat as it makes it perilous journey northward. It is in these intimate moments of danger that Marillier's writing is at its best: she describes the vomit, the cramped quarters, and the constant strain on Thorvald and his companion (Sam) as they fight the raging seas in the "Sea Dove."
The Sea Dove eventually makes a desperate landfall on a mysterious island, which the lost travelers later discover is the Isle of Storms, home to the Long Knife people. Thorvald and Sam are separated from Creidhe, and Thorvald finds his calling leading a dispirited group of Long Knife men in preparation for "the Hunt," a mysterious annual journey to the neighboring Isle of Clouds. To restore peace to their people and prevent their newborn children from being snatched away by some awful sorcery, the Long Knife people must journey to the Isle of Clouds, search for Foxmask (a powerful seer who can take on animal attributes), and return him to his people, the Unspoken.
Throughout all of this, Thorvald comes to learn he is a natural leader and whips the men into shape, and Criedhe journeys to the Isle of Clouds and ends up in the care of a strange but capable man, who feels she is a goddess that has washed up on his shores.
What I like about Marillier's story is how none of her characters (with the exception of the unimaginative bad guy Asgrim) are static; they change dramatically and believably, and by the final page they have all learned valuable lessons. The lessons learned are not moral, but personal: Thorvald learns who his father is, and that he's not such a bad guy after all. Criedhe is forced to grow out of her sheltered naivete and is transformed from a lovesick little girl to a woman wise in the ways of the world. Even the minor characters, like Sam, become battle hardened. There is even an unexpected love story and a deviation from the norm: the guy does not, in fact, get the girl at the end. At least, not the guy I expected.
Yet despite these character evolutions, so carefully and deliberately wrought, Marillier's overall style failed to capture my imagination. Her language was typically uninspiring and the dialogue predictable, though often enough her descriptions of feelings and expressions were well written. However, when I reached the last word, I could not help asking, "So what? What's the point?" When it was all said and done, it seemed like little more than a love story, painfully delayed though eventually brought to a happy conclusion. I, for one, want a book that will make me think on greater things.
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You just have to read them all!.......2004-09-01
If you have read the other two, you must read this one! Charles has lived an extraordinary life, and these books are certainly a testament to that. Not only was his life extraordinary, but he is brilliant! Read his theory in the back of this book, and it will blow you away! You just have to read them all, what else can I say??
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Important Reading.......2004-07-16
I have met the author, and looked into his eyes as he talked to me about this book. I feel it is important reading, for any of us open-minded enough to realize that we cannot possibly be the only life in all of this vast universe. There is a simple thread of truth that runs through his story, trusting each other is what will save us all from each other...humans and aliens alike. I, for one, felt his eyes were not lying. This book truly touched me. To survive in the universe, we will have to trust other beings, as well as ourselves.
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Interesting and worth a look.......2007-04-03
I agree with many of the critiques, but this is still a rather competently written albeit no frills account of one man's experience.
The author manages to tell his story in a mostly economical way, without any of the treacly new age blather that usually bogs down books of this ilk. (Although the chest thumping does get in the way sometimes.)
I would recommend it. If nothing else, it demonstrates the possible connection between the Alien phenomena and the military.
I also think this would make a great movie...
Delightfully Weird.......2006-06-18
Although some of the less-than-gushing Amazon reviews of Millennial Hospitality kept me dancing around a purchase for months, discretion finally surrendered to rabid curiousity. I'm happy to report that my investment was well-rewarded. Mr. Hall is no T.E Lawrence, and that's a good thing. His writing style is refreshingly naive. Seek elsewhere for High Art, this is a fictionalized, grunt's-eye-view of an exceptionally bizarre footnote to military history. The reader is forced to experience it solely through the emotions of the story's rather vulnerable main character. Yes, Charlie "Baker" seems to need to thump his chest with great frequency but, last time I checked, that's what soldiers do. The fact that the trilogy is said to be autobiographical only adds to it's Twilight Zone strangeness. If you crave the kind of dusty exotica usually unearthed at flea markets and in the musty corners of antique bookshops, look no further than Charles James Hall's Millennial Hospitality.
Beware: Save your money.......2005-12-30
I consider myself a UFO enthusiast. I believe our government is keeping very important info regarding UFO's and aliens from us. I heard a friend tell me about the 'Tall Whites' out in the desert, and did some online research, thats how I came across this book.
While reading this book it occured to me that this was NOT some story of a true event that happened 40 yrs ago on a AFB, it is the story of a very lonely man on a desolate base far out in the desert. A man that had a LOT of time to daydream and imagine strange occurances. The story of 'Range Four Harry' preceeded Airman Hall's arrival to Nellis AFB, and once planted, his mind and imagination took over.
How many times does he say how intelligent he is? That he is smarter than all the other humans? That everyone likes him and can't do enough for him because he has saved everyones life?? A man desperate for acceptance and this story 'validates' him.
I am sure he NEVER intended to publish this work of fiction, until his wife ran into his 'hobby' of making himself feel good and important.(she kept running into him typing away on a computer, he always shut it off when she came in, saying he was 'just relaxing').
I wish I had read the review by Julian's Daughter before buying, as it would have saved me $80, as I bought all 3 'Millennial' books. Instead of it being a 'true story' and charging $30, it should be a novel and sell for $6.95.
Very enjoyable.......2005-12-14
I really enjoyed all three volumes - they were page turners for me. I was also amused how many times the author described how the tall whites told him he was the 'bravest' and 'most intelligent' human because it reminded me of how we praise our own 'pets' (such as saying "good dog" etc.).
I would not be all that surprised if his experiences turned out to be true, because after all, truth is stranger than fiction.
Approach with Caution--and Several Pounds of Salt.......2005-09-26
No question Charles Hall has an amazing story to tell--but seems determined to put us to sleep telling it. His self-described "classical, dramatic, poetic" Great Novel is, alas, anything but. The man is no stylist, BUT his prose is workmanlike, obsessively detailed, appallingly repetitive, piles on the adjectives with a shovel to be CERTAIN we get every nuance, cannonizes its narrator, The Author, at astonishng length--the whole epic is true; CH believes every word, every comma, dash and semicolon, but CH is no stylist.
Oh, he is sincere. He believes down to his bonemarrow everything he saw, smelled, tasted, felt, was told by the Great Whites, every pain, every terror, every word they said to him, every last thing they showed him--true, all true, even if all he saw might have been some kind of elaborate disinformation planted in him and nurtured by God only knows what kind of CIA or blackops mind-control, pain induction, hypnosis, carrot-and-stick-whatever-it-takes MK-Ultra-type techniques. He knows EXACTLY what he saw, felt, suffered, experienced, he KNOWS it might all be some kind of well-worked-up stage show, he KNOWS he might be being used and he just plain does not care.
Why should he? He is a Great Novelist, he is already a Great Artist who has produced a Great Novel and if you are one of the special, amazing, select, extraordinary few who can appreciate his brilliance, great--but if not, he absolutely, positively does not care. So his Great Novel is one arrogant roar from a literary lion whose bushel of oats was laced with LSD. Sadly, the Great Novelist isn't even a lion cub, but a fretful kitten, his roar little more than an aggrieved hiss at anyone incapable of appreciating his brilliance which will be, I suspect, most readers.
The poor man just isn't much of a writer, but I am convinced he desperately wants to be one with every cell of his tormented body. Maybe a good creative writing class--if he could restrain himself from breaking the jaw of the first unwary classmate to utter a negative opinion. (But then, CH knows Great Novelists don't do jail time...remember poor Jean Genet?)
If there were such a thing as negative stars, CH would get a minus one for REALLY awful writing. Unless you need an insomnia cure, I'd suggest skipping this one.
But, beyond the shadow of a doubt, this book has genuine research value for the UFO community. I am personally convinced CH did indeed see Tall Whites out there at Nellis AFB. I suspect what he actually saw was some kind of heavily manufactured sound-and-light show with S&M touches, and the Tall White was most likely a CIA operative on stilts in costume and makeup using a Darth-Vader-esque external larynx electonic gizmo out in the forest--or the hologram projection of same in a shielded bunker on some offlimits area of the base. This is a valuable collection of data. Pity the book is so badly written. But to be fair, the man deserves credit for getting it--ALL of it--down on paper. So 1 star for courage and clarity and a truly important collection of UFO data.
I am simply not sure if there are Tall Whites--God knows, Charlie and many others who served at Nellis believe they've seen them, talked with them, been scared half out of their minds by them. Hall deserves credit--big credit--for breaking his silence. I just wish he would apply some of his critical thinking to the logical holes in his story and learn to write. For everyone's sake!
Mr. Hall, I was most sincere in suggesting a creative writing class. You're obviously a highly intelligent and logical man. If you could accept the notion you are a really BAD writer, I am certain you could learn to be a GOOD one--OK, maybe the not the next Tolstoy, but as a good, critical, logical writer, you could make your book a vastly more powerful research document and help solve the mysteries. I would love to know if Tall Whites are aliens, hybrids, or humans in makeup--and if it's all a hoax, who's doing it to all of us, and why. Isn't that what you want to find out too?
So--for those with a serious interest in all UFO matters, this is probably a must have. For the general reader, I think you'll be disappointed. Hence--if the software would permit it-- 0 stars.
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New Cells, New Bodies, New Life by Virginia Essene, SEE Publ.......2000-09-29
I think that it is a very thorough book on various topics, such as immortality, why we chose to descend here on the physical plane, getting in touch with our higher selves and so forth. It is a book which in a very practical and concise way describes to the reader how he or she can gain access to his divinity within and materialize it in his or her life.
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