books about: techniques     books:       Midnights with the Mystic: A Little Guide to Freedom and Bliss355 reviews Cheryl Simone, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Hampton Roads Pub Co, 2008 Feeling lost? This is a familiar soft glow that will guide you .. I resound with Cheryl, as if she were an alternate parallel spirit to mine. It feels like I have been searching my entire life to the answers that seem just out of reach. This reminds me of 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. This book breathes new life into that perennial classic. An analogy is 'Autobiography' was like a mouth-watering fancy cupcake that was sitting on a table out of my reach, 'Mystics' ...             How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling110 reviews Frank Bettger Fireside, 1986 One of the most significant books of all It's taken me over 40 years to have even heard of this marvelous treatise on salesmanship. I just can't believe it!! It is a classic that can only be summed up in the forward to the book by Dale Carnegie, "The most helpful and inspiring book on salesmanship that I have ever read." It is must reading for ANYONE in or contemplating a career in sales. Moreover, it is simply a very sensible method of ...             The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers113 reviews Scott Kelby New Riders Press, 2006 Photoshop Elements 5 I have Adobe Elements 5 on my computer but try as I might, I have barely been able to do the simplest things using the tutorial. After reading all the reviews I could find on books for the program, I settled on this book by Scott Kelby. As soon as I opened the book up, I immediately tried doing the one thing I struggled with, and like magic, every step took me where I wanted to go. If I can ...             Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life108 reviews Thich Nhat Hanh Bantam, 1992 a great guide to living a life of peace and joy Of the many books of Buddhist philosophy I have read, this is the best one. Not bogged down in dogma or the minutia of it, but just a clear and simple path to having peace in your life. simple steps you can use every day that let you realize the beauty that is all around.             The Animator's Survival Kit124 reviews Richard Williams Faber & Faber, 2002 Expanded edition!, magnificent.. I am very grateful for the infinite knowledge that gives us the mentor Richard Williams for completing its publication. Thanks ...             Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible108 reviews Jorge Cervantes Van Patten Publishing, 2006 Growing made easy. Great book! Full of colour pictures with precise instruction.Information is easy to find thanks to the colour coding. Growing advice is relevant and informative. Thoroughly recommend this "bible"             Second Sight102 reviews Judith Orloff Warner Books, 1997 So inspiring, so helpful I really love this book. I'm not even 1/2 way through and yet I think it is one of the best books I've ever read on Psychic ability. It is really written as a biography and that is what is so helpful. You can see how Judith discovered all sorts of techniques and came to have the beliefs that she did/does. I am reading her book Positive Energy at the same time but stopped because I found that ...             The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening ...120 reviews Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000 Best Vegetable Book I've Ever Seen! I bought this book for my husband for Father's day and boy does he love it. The layout, the information, and the pictures make this book an easy read with tons of information. I can't say enough good things about this book, and our garden is proof! Worth every penny paid!             Forensic Art and Illustration107 reviews CRC, 2000 An essential text Review Forensic Art by Karen Taylor Forensic Art and Illustration by Karen Taylor has brought together a wealth of resources in a single text. Drawing on her own extensive experience, together with the techniques, research and insights of some of the most revered names in forensic art and anthropology, Taylor's work provides a comprehensive foundation for the field of forensic art. She ...             Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home120 reviews Nando Parrado, Vince Rause Three Rivers Press, 2007 Through the lenses of maturity I have always been haunted by this story, mainly because my father, a longtime aviator, told me what happened right at the time the world was shocked by the news they were alive. And now, more than 35 years after, Nando Parrado has the fantastic idea of writing his own book, whose biggest merit is exactly the naturally acquired maturity of the author. He escapes from the easy calling of ...             Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (3rd Edition)85 reviews Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer New Riders Press, 2006 Best Book Out There On Retouching If you don't like Scott Kelby's Court Jester writing style, get this book. It's written professionally in easy to read phrases. I own both Kelby's and Eastman's book on this topic, and both cover similar things, but sometimes Kelby's results are more to my liking and sometimes Eastman's are. They cover different things too. Excellent book.             Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams85 reviews Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister NY: Dorset House Publishing, 1987 Classic and still fantastic This book is one of the books I still recommend to people who are managing software development teams. The ideas in this book are about many of the topics that "agile" teams speak about now, and there are some key ideas that make sense for any team of professionals who have to work together. I still use memorable phrases from this book such as "brain time vs. body time", and "bring back the ...             Information Technology Control and Audit94 reviews Frederick Gallegos, Daniel P. Manson, ... Auerbach Publications, 1999 Essential Reading for Security Professionals Absolutely one of the top books on my reading list. A great source of information. This is an excellent book for use in the work place or in the classroom!!! Don't pass it up if you are in or are thinking of getting into the IT Security field.             Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts into Sales82 reviews Bob Burg Mcgraw-Hill, 1993 Networking Your Way to Sales Success Whether you're a door to door salesman, work in the marketing department of a Fortune 500 company, or are an entrepreneur trying to launch a new enterprise; Bob Burg's "Endless Referrals" will deliver the goods for you, as promised. This is the most comprehensive and easy to read manual on the art of selling that I've ever come across; and I've read hundreds. Take the time to digest the ...             Discovering Statistics Using SPSS for Windows: Advanced Techniques for Beginners (Introducing Statistical ...86 reviews Andy Field Sage Publications Ltd, 2000 Look no further--this book has it all! Most stats and SPSS books are incomplete and/or difficult to understand, as if the authors are the keepers of this mysterious knowledge, and it can only be shared in the classroom. This book, however, has everything. The FULL explanation of every type of analysis, what all of the terms mean, step-by-step instructions in SPSS RE: how to run the analysis, with pictures of the windows in SPSS, ...             Photoshop Masking & Compositing83 reviews Katrin Eismann New Riders Press, 2004 Photoshop Essential Although written for Photoshop CS, "Photoshop Masking & Compositing" can easily be applied to CS3. Eismann's experience as a teacher enables her to present complex material in an easy to follow style. The magic of Photoshop jumps off the pages. If you can sit down at a computer and follow step by step instructions in a book, you will wonder how you ever lived without this book.             The Gashlycrumb Tinies94 reviews Edward Gorey Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 Because of American Idol (and Siobhan Magnus) While I was down in my man cave I happened to come across a show called "American Idol". I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with this show, but apparently it consists of four middle aged adults picking on young kids who can carry a tune in the middle of a Ford and/or Coca-Cola commercial. In any event, I was engaged in a lead pressing event - squats - so I couldn't change the channel to ...             The 2000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success91 reviews Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, ... AMACOM, 1999 My 2000 Percent Solution - A Whole New Life I first read "The 2000 Percent Solution" as part of a course for a Rushmore University doctoral program. It sparked in me the desire and determination to get more "bang for the buck" from my efforts, and provided a clear 8-step guide for doing so. The guide to creating 2000 Percent solutions essentially helps you to see differently, and acknowledge the reality of your personal and ...             Expert Oracle, Signature Edition Programming Techniques and Solutions for Oracle 7.3 through 8.1.7 (Expert ...78 reviews Thomas Kyte Apress, 2005 Best $12 I ever spent!!! I bought this book on cheap clearance after the original publisher went out of business -- the best $12 I ever invested. Remembering even 10% of this book makes you better than 90% of Oracle developers, modelers and architects. Mr. Kyte's real world experience and reliance on solid examples instead of folklore makes this light-years ahead of any other Oracle book; it's the only Oracle book I ...             Anthony Bourdain's "Les Halles" Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking82 reviews Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004 I would eat the pictures if I could! When I have a serious piece of meat or an ingredient I want to show off and still manage to cook it so I can eat dinner, I reach for Les Halles cookbook by none other than Anthony Bourdain. I don't eat meat too often, I know he does and writes about it a lot, but when I do I like to treat it with respect and use it to its full potential, when I finally do indulge in it, I can think of a few other ...              search for books compositing, discovering, exponential, gardening, gashlycrumb, high-yield, horticulture, illustration, information, introducing, marijuana, midnights, mindfulness, one-on-one, organization, peopleware, photographers, photoshop, productive, programming, referrals, restoration, retouching, solutions, statistical, statistics, strategies, techniques, technology, vegetable books:    randomly chosen A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine's Biggest Mistake home  impressum - about us