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While I appreciate the contribution the Stones have made re our inner personalities, this book could have been one paragraph: "When you want to write your resistance will think of millions of other things you should be doing. Don't do any of them."
That said, one idea that was worth the cost of the book for me was: if you never want to write a book, set out to write the most special book in history.
You might want to buy this book just so you can try to figure out why the heck the Stones put all those poor quality, meaningless photos in there! Am I missing something?
Two stars instead of one because of excellent work in the past.

Eric Winter
Melbourne, Australia

Very cute book on doing versus being, how to be okay with either! Hal and Sidra are always cutting edge on everything!

This book on tape, read by Al Roker himself is a mixed bag. There are laugh out loud moments and sweet moments, but generally speaking the book has too many filler moments, WAY too much information about his second wife's attempts to get pregnant and sometimes is sickeningly sentimental. The last half of the book saves the first half from being a total disaster.

By now, I've probably read this book three or four times. Although the beginning was a bit boring, a couple of chapters in I got really into it. All of it was told with a bit of a funny tint. You can tell he loves his kids through it!

I expected something really funny and light. Instead, I learned WAY too much about the birth of one of Al Roker's children. I walked away thinking that I had learned a lot more about what a wonderful person Al Roker is......but the title led me to believe that I would have something funny to listen to over and over again.

Frankly, I am disappointed. I thought this book would be humor filled. I guess I was hoping for another like "Bill Cosby: Himself". This was not to be.

All the other reviews are excellent, but I cannot recommend this one. Where he tried to be funny about his wife and things they went through, I thought instead he was being utterly RUDE toward and about his wife. He even criticizes his wife when he asked her to look over and critique his manuscript and she left her opinion for him. Why ask her opinion if he is just going to throw her suggestions back into her face?

I do not recommend this book to anyone and that is a rare thing for me to do.

Simply stated, this is the worst book I have ever read. In fact, I have to admit that this is the first book I can remember not being able to finish. It's just that bad. By the time I abandoned "Don't make me stop this car", approximately a third of the way through the book, the baby hadn't even been born yet. Instead, Roker spends over 100 pages walking the reader through every painful, minute detail of he and his wife's efforts to get pregnant, including a miscarriage and the step-by-step details of her artificial insemination. Anybody with kids will care less, because they'll have already gone through it themselves. Anybody without kids will care less, because there's just nothing interesting to read about. Have I mentioned how bad this book is???? As I write this, used copies of "Don't make me stop this car" are available on Amazon starting at...

This is another book I wish I had flipped through before purchasing. There are MANY paths to a green card, they are complicated and subtle and only a couple of them will apply to a given individual. This book tries to cover them all in 350 odd pages, about a THIRD of which are photocopies of INS forms. This implies, of course, that depth of treatment is very light. If you have a question of any sophistication, you won't find the answer here. In my case I had a set of questions about the EAD (employment authorization document) and what exactly it permits, and was greeted by ONE paragraph which didn't even describe what it really is. On the important decision of Adjustment Of Status vs. Consular Processing I got no intelligent help. It leaned towards the AOS route without even mentioning that this could take you *3 years* to get through. (BTW, I found much more information on these topics online.)

I can't figure out who this book is for. If it's for someone with an immigration attorney wanting an overview of the process, then I don't get why it has so many photocopied forms. If it's for do-it-yourselfers, the shallow treatment will at best give you a false sense of security that you know what's going on. If it's for an immigration professional, then the coverage of all cases might be nice, but again the shallowness will make it nearly useless. I do know that if you're taking an employment-based route to immigration, this book will be of little help.

I bought this book because of a great experience with another Nolo press book. This one has been almost useless to me.

This is another book I wish I had flipped through before purchasing. There are MANY paths to a green card, they are complicated and subtle and only a couple of them will apply to a given individual. This book tries to cover them all in 350 odd pages, about a THIRD of which are photocopies of INS forms. This implies, of course, that depth of treatment is very light. If you have a question of any sophistication, you won't find the answer here. In my case I had a set of questions about the EAD (employment authorization document) and what exactly it permits, and was greeted by ONE paragraph which didn't even describe what it really is. On the important decision of Adjustment Of Status vs. Consular Processing I got no intelligent help. It leaned towards the AOS route without even mentioning that this could take you *3 years* to get through. (BTW, I found much more information on these topics online.)

I can't figure out who this book is for. If it's for someone with an immigration attorney wanting an overview of the process, then I don't get why it has so many photocopied forms. If it's for do-it-yourselfers, the shallow treatment will at best give you a false sense of security that you know what's going on. If it's for an immigration professional, then the coverage of all cases might be nice, but again the shallowness will make it nearly useless. I do know that if you're taking an employment-based route to immigration, this book will be of little help.

I bought this book because of a great experience with another Nolo press book. This one has been almost useless to me.

i wish going to usa to be with my brother hosam

I am lawyer from Brazil, and wanted to get real information about the green card application process (without having to go through the dry explanation in the INS website) and was completely disapointed and upset when I received this book. It does not cover anything in depth, and wastes a lot of time talking about temporary visas, fiance visas (I thougt it was supposed to explain about greencards!), special greencards for amerasians (which is not a very common situation)...
As for what I was really interested in, which was the green card application process for work-related reasons, there is a small, incomplete paragraph and a suggestion that I find an attorney!!!!
Waste of money, useless -- if you want to get a green card, either find another book, check the INS website, or hire a lawyer, this book will not help at all.

I believe this book may be of interest to many readers.
First of all, it explains how visitors from abroad can legally prolong their stay in the USA. It's possible to apply for an extension of one's visitor's status without leaving the USA. And this book guides well through this procedure.
Secondly, those who are interested in applying for a green card, should find the most suitable category if they want to succeed. The book describes qualifications and outlines the application process for each of them.
Many people don't know that they may be inadmissible for one or another reason even if they otherwise meet all the green card applicant requirements. Someone already in the US, and still may not be allowed to proceed if he or she falls into one of the inadmissible categories - as a violator of immigration rules in the past or for health reasons, for example. Some people find this out only after passing a medical exam. But you may want to learn about the regulations in advance. The book covers this issue in detail, including who and how can apply for a waiver of inadmissibility.
Another sensitive chapter is on cancellation of deportation. How and in what cases this may be done...
Also, you'll find some important information on how and who is eligible to claim status as a refugee or political asylee.
In all, I think the book is pretty informative and filled with practical advice. It's also easy to read and understand.

I'm a big fan of NPR and their human-interest and animal-related stories. While I enjoyed some of the stories included on this CD, I was disappointed that there were not more of the funny, uplifting ones.

The item is as advertised, but I was expecting somthing else. I donated it to the library.

I love animal stories but unfortunately there were only a couple in here worth the time to listen to.

The "NPR Driveway Moments All About Animals" is really enjoyable. It is insightful and engaging. It made me remember all the wonderful animals I enjoyed as a child growing up on a farm. Thanks NPR!

I expected much more from a book with "Audubon Birds" in the title. The designs are simple and the poses of the birds seem unnatural. I would not recommended this book to an experienced cross-stitcher. It might perhaps be of use to a novice cross-stitcher.

I received this as a gift and loved it.There were plenty of designs to get started on but it was hard to figure out which one to do first.I suggest this book Highly for anyone who likes Birds and who needs a great book.

I did not receive this book. I was notified via e-mail from the seller
that they actually did not have it in stock.
I don't know whether to re-order or not.

This is a book of short stories that takes a humorous look at aging. Author Karen O'Connor, a senior herself, shares the lighter side of maturing. I found myself laughing out loud! I am going to share this book at a senior's group where I minister in my town.

This is one of the worst works of scholarship I have ever read. The book consists mostly of plot summaries, badly written ones at that. Jones needs to re-read (read?) The Elements of Style.

As for the theory--whew! It's awful. Jones attempts to provide a Freudian reading, which would be fine if he'd bothered to understand Freud first. But he didn't. In the Works Cited, he lists only a couple works by Freud, and I believe that's because that's all he read.

Jones shows no understanding of Freud. He seems to argue that Kerouac read about Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex and then consciously tried to organize his novels around that theory. Of course that's ridiculous, but Jones seems to have no clue that the complex operates unconsciously. It's absurd to argue that Kerouac chose to apply it.

It's transparent that Jones doesn't believe the very Freudian theories he (superficially) presents. Generally, he avoids referring to psychoanalysis at all, focusing instead on plot summary and occasionally popping in to point out hostility to a father figure, etc. The theory is NEVER discussed in depth, just referred to in an offhand fashion.

Jones often claims that Kerouac's novels were modelled on the works of other writers, but he offers no support for these claims. He seems to believe that pointing out parallels constitutes evidence.

This writer is in over his depth.

This book is among the first to finally piece together a coherent path in Kerouac studies. Jones's book thoroughly delves into Kerouac's Proustian-like epic approach to the Duluoz legend. It is so refreshing to emerge with fresh ideas apropos Kerouac's technique verses the over zealous biographers and cultural blow-hards who pipe in regularly on the Beats. Much of Kerouac's real life had little to do with Beat ethos, and much more with that of the writer. What the author provides is much more than a run-down of the authobiographical mystique that Kerouac injected into his work, but moreso, the complexity of a narrative that turned American literature on its end. This book deserves much more attention and suffices itself as the most import and vital accomplishment in Kerouac studies to date. It will far outlive much of what has been written about one of America''s most misunderstood novelists.

The ideas presented are not particularly novel or practical. They provide only slight amusement, and for real gotcha moments, they are pale and relatively insignificant. Not one of the passive-agressive paybacks could be recalled by this reader after having read all the stories. My question from the front cover review by USA Today, what did it find that was so "screamingly funny"?

This book simply put is about people who just plainly get fed up with the non-sense most of us ignore. It is full of short stories in just about every catagory of annoyance you can imagine. Read the short story of the woman who was appauled at dog owners who wouldn't pick up after their dogs in the neighorhood park; she decided to put little flags in every pile of poo, and the local park ended up looking like a monument to the fourth of July. Meet the man who got so tired of pushy salesman that he kept his old expired credit card, told the pushy salesman to go away three times, and finally pretended to be interested in buying thousands of dollars worth of mechandise only to give him an expired credit card. In the end he walked out of the store hours later without purchasing a single item. These are only two of the stories, and probably the two least entertaining stories in the entire book. My wife has an affinity for picking up little books such as these. I consider such an item mandatory bathroom reading.

Its always interesting to me when I see a well researched book on corporations being attacked by people who haven't bothered to actually READ it. The little book of corporate lies is one of those books that points out the myriad of lies told by corporations in an attempt to increase their profits.

Lies told by corporations have included everything from "toxic waste and poison is good for you" to "we really do have your best interest at heart when we cut your wages and benifits. After all, its important for ceo's to make 500 times the average salary...even though the company is going in the tank."

I highly recommend that everyone read this book and realize that it is a no nonsense non partisan look at the cold reality of corporations.

He who speaks in forked tongues gets forked

As a Research & Development Engineer who has been in this field for 10 years, I decided to buy this book. As it turns out, there is very little in this book that is of practical use if you a)- want to design transformers; b)- optimize the product to reduce cost. Don't buy it.

(Zhu Fang, Dr. & P.Eng., Ontario, Canada)

If the transformer's principles have been explained in more words in Blume "Transformer Engineering", in more simple physical equations in Karsai "Large Power Transformers", they are explained in a systematic physical and mathematic methods in this book. In such way, faults currents, mechanical streses, load losses and high voltage insulation are formularized.