Pharmacotherapy
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Pharmacotherapy
Joseph T. DiPiro , Robert L. Talbert , Gary C. Yee , Gary R. Matzke , Barbara G. Wells , and L. Michael Posey
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
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ASIN: 0071416137

Book Description

The gold standard text for the therapeutics course mandatory in pharmacy schools. Now in its sixth edition, this classic text continues its long-standing tradition of offering unparalleled guidance in the development of pharmaceutical care plans. The book provides a unique process of thinking about pharmacotherapy the process which uses evidence-based approaches to the drug treatment of diseases.

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brand new book in a fast amount of time.......2007-09-12

The book was brand new and at a great price. It arrived promptly in perfect packaging.

1 out of 5 stars eBook restricted use disappointing.......2007-08-28

Each copy of the book comes with a eBook download code that allows the book owner to download an electronic copy of the book. The eBook version of the book is a special pdf file that can only be viewed on the computer that downloaded the eBook. The pdf file may be copied to another computer but the file will not be viewable on the other computer due to digital rights management features built into the file. Also, there is a 10 page/day print limit on the file. So if you want to avoid carrying the 3 inch thick book around, you had better download the eBook version to a laptop.

5 out of 5 stars Good read for those in therapeutics.......2007-02-26

Helps make material taught in class solid. Also has nutrtitional information, and OTC drug information in interacting diseases.

5 out of 5 stars Comments.......2007-01-07

One of the most useful and logical texts on pharmacotherapy available. Explaining the disease process then introducing the drugs gives the reader a structure with which to approach the details of drug therapy and allows extension into structurally-similar drugs that may not be covered.

5 out of 5 stars Handy reference.......2006-08-08

I didn't have this book during my P3 (3rd year of PharmD school) year; we used the text by Kradjan that had a patient-based format. DePiro's more traditional format makes it easier to find info quickly. The downloadable format of this text (which comes with the book) makes it even faster to find info. A downside would be books like these are out-of-date as soon as they're published, but I've been using the DePiro just fine for my P4 clerkships and plan to use Kradjan's as a doorstop. (I'm not really a kid)
Pharmacotherapy Handbook
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • pharmacotherapy handbook
  • Like Cliffnotes for DiPiro
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  • Outstanding
  • The Bible of Pharmacy
Pharmacotherapy Handbook
Barbara G. Wells , Joseph T. DiPiro , Terry L. Schwinghammer , and Cindy Hamilton
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
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ASIN: 0071433228

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The second edition of the Pharmacotherapy Handbook provides readers with a portable, readable guide that is integral to any clinical setting. Bold-face type highlights drug names when they first appear and in all closing information. The book's bulleted format helps readers find the information they need immediately. This updated book was designed as a companion text for the fourth edition Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, by DiPiro et al.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars pharmacotherapy handbook.......2007-03-08

gives a detail summary of the book... a must have for all pharmacy students.

5 out of 5 stars Like Cliffnotes for DiPiro.......2007-01-10

I have used the Pharmacotherapy Handbook as a substitute for the large 3,000+ page DiPiro textbook required for my College of Pharmacy. Now I am able to read the required readings in a few hours, rather than a few days, and I still feel that I am getting the same core information. The best analogy I could think of, is that it is like CliffNotes for the DiPiro Textbook. Good book.

5 out of 5 stars Physician assistant student.......2006-06-25

This is a great book. I love how it isn't just about the drugs, but gives background on the diagnosis that you are treating. I think it is layed out well, and find it very useful. I notice a lot of pharm students are reviewing this but I think it is good for practitioner's as well. However, don't think this will fit in your labcoat pocket, it could but it is sorta heavy.

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding.......2006-04-11

I used this as a study guide for my PTCE. If you do so begin studying at least 5 months earlier than planned to truely understand and absorb what you will learn here in addition to your other study guides.

5 out of 5 stars The Bible of Pharmacy.......2006-04-11

This book has all what is needed to do well on the Pharmacist licensure examinations. Gives complete details of drug therapy, clinical findings and much more. You cannot go wrong ever with this book. I was very happy with my purchase.
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    The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old
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    The Happiest Toddler on the Block: The New Way to Stop the Daily Battle of Wills and Raise a Secure and Well-Behaved One- to Four-Year-Old
    Harvey Md Karp , and Paula Spencer
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    Toddlers can drive you bonkers…so adorable and fun one minute…so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of “nos” and “don’ts” into “yeses” and hugs…if you know how to speak your toddler’s language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but as pintsize…cavemen.

    Having noticed that the usual techniques often failed to calm crying toddlers, Dr. Karp
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    • The “Versatile Villager” (36 to 48 months): Loves to tell stories, sing songs and dance, while trying hard to behave.

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    Once you’ve mastered “toddler-ese,” you will be ready to apply behavioral techniques specific to each stage of your child’s development, such as teaching patience and calm, doing time-outs (and time-ins), praise through “gossiping,” and many other strategies. Then all the major challenges of the toddler years — including separation anxiety, sibling rivalry, toilet training, night fears, sleep problems, picky eating, biting and hitting, medicine taking — can be handled in a way that will make your toddler feel understood. The result: fewer tantrums, less yelling, and, best of all, more happy, loving time for you and your child.


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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Love it.......2007-09-11

    I bought this book because Dr. Karp's book The Happest baby on the Block saved my sanity. His advise really works, and helped me feel as if I had some control, and ways to cope with an unpredictable child. Even if only half of his advise works for your child it is worth it. Good luck.

    1 out of 5 stars Terrible book.......2007-09-06

    Here is the book, in summary:

    Your child acts like a caveman and pretty much is a cave man in every way. You act like a cave man too so that he understands you and he is happy.

    Read the above paragraph 500 times. The end.

    4 out of 5 stars Good But Not Great!.......2007-09-02

    I was expecting the amazing tips and tricks that Happiest Baby on the Block offered. I liked it but it wasn't as good as his previous book.

    2 out of 5 stars not the baby book..........2007-08-09

    I loved Karp's baby book! Could not have made it through the first few months w/out it. Do NOT like this one though. I recommend 123 Magic 2-12yr old.

    5 out of 5 stars Very helpful with my 2-year old! .......2007-07-12

    Dr. Karp provided specific examples with direct guidance about how to respond to challenging behavior. I tried the "fast food" response and it worked. I would skip to Chapters 8 & 9 if I didn't have enough time to read the entire book. These chapters were the most helpful.
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    Paul Krugman , and Robin Wells
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    1 out of 5 stars Probably great, but excerpt from larger book.......2006-11-20

    This is probably a very, very good book. However, it turns out that this is simply one-half of the authors' book "Economics" and, currently, the complete book seems to sell for about the same price as this one piece of it! So, be economical -- buy "Economics" instead.
    The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
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    • The Mindful Brain
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    The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
    Daniel J. Siegel
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    An exploration of the nature of our mind, from the inside out, by a leading neurobiologist.

    Over the last twenty years, there has been growing attention in the Western world to mindfulness—paying attention to life in the present moment. Here, Daniel J. Siegel investigates the phenomenon of mindfulness as it impacts our daily lives, offering readers insight into personal relationships, emotional behavior, parenting, and work.

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    3 out of 5 stars Interesting.......2007-08-09

    This is an interesting book. I bought it because I live in Los Angeles, and there is a Mindful Awareness program at UCLA. I wanted to see what that program was all about before I joined it. [...]
    which is the mindful awareness research center site (MARC)at UCLA. There you can download some mindful awareness meditations. They are pretty good in helping you get into a state of greater mindful awareness.

    5 out of 5 stars Could be a life changing book.......2007-07-04

    This book outlines the steps one can take to develop a self observer. It is the self observer within us that allows us to become architects of our destinies. Backed up with current research on how emotional trauma or experience lays down pathways in our brains that, once identified, can be re routed if need be.

    4 out of 5 stars The Mindful Brain.......2007-06-14

    I found the content of this book fascinating and important (5 stars) but the writing ponderous and redundant (2 stars), for the most part. It is an ambitious attempt to synthesize and interpret scientific research and the author's personal experience in an emerging field that is fraught with speculation. Perhaps because of this, the author appears to have cobbled together every study potentially relating brain function and mindfulness, weaving back and forth to make every possible connection, rather than following a few salient lines of thinking and explicating them clearly. Difficult as it was to digest some of the material (I am a practiced reader of science but had to read too many sentences too many times), I benefited personally and immediately from several of the concepts presented such as streams of awareness, parenting styles ("secure attachment"), approach mindset and mindful education, and I look forward to further research in this field. I had imagined the brain research to be further along than it is and expected more about research on meditation, so I was a tad disappointed, but this is not the author's fault. In spite of the poor presentation, there was some delightful new learning for me and I am glad to have read this.

    5 out of 5 stars AN ENGAGING READ.......2007-06-01

    It's not often that a book engages me the way this one has. I have a deep curiousity about neuroscience and human potential and this book is answering a lot of my questions. I'm only half way through so I don't feel I can give it a full review at this time. However, if the second half is a well-written as the first, it truly deserves more than five stars. Pamela D. Blair, Author The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond

    5 out of 5 stars The Foundations for a Sea Change in Psychological Health and Personal Development.......2007-05-29

    A favorite book of mine is Ellen Langer's "Mindfulness." Happily still in print though it is nearly twenty years old. With it, Ellen, an eminent academic at Harvard introduced the psychological community to something that lies at the core of many religious, spiritual and contemplative practices.

    This marvelous book by the co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Center is a next step. To give you a flavor of the book, let me quote from the Preface,

    "Welcome to a journey into the heart of our lives. Being mindfully aware, attending to the richness of our here-and-now experiences, creates scientifically recognized enhancements in out physiology, our mental functions, and our inter-personal relationships. Being fully present in out awareness opens our lives to new possibilities of well-being.

    Almost all cultures have practices that help people develop awareness of the moment. Each of the major religions of the world utilizes some method to enable individuals to focus their attention, from meditation to prayer, yoga to t'ai chi."

    For Daniel Siegel, being "mindful: means being aware, of being conscientious, with kindness and care." He uses a helpful acronym: COAL, for curiosity, openness, acceptance and love.

    As Daniel points out, we are in desperate need of finding a new way of being, not just in ourselves, but in our relationships, schools and in society as a whole. Professionals constantly see the terrible consequences for people who feel social isolation, dislocation and alienation. Yet until the advent of the Positive Psychology movement, academic psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry had all focused almost exclusively on the sick mind. To this day, most people working in these fields have been taught little if anything about mental health, ad even fewer are engaged in practices that can keep them healthy and resilient. It is no coincidence that people working in psychology and psychiatry have some of the highest burnout rates of any of the major professions.

    The burgeoning evidence of the extraordinary plasticity of the human brain also has another side to it: if we are not mindful, if we are in unhealthy relationships, and if we are without any kind of inspiration or moral compass, our brains get wired in ways that they should not. And the earlier in life that it happens, the more difficult it is to unravel later. This is the reason why abuse in childhood can have effects that last decades.

    This book is an attempt to redress the balance. The book is divided into four sections, fourteen chapters and three appendices:
    PART I MIND, BRAIN, AND AWARENESS
    1. A Mindful Awareness
    2. Brain Basics
    PART II IMMERSION IN DIRECT EXPERIENCE
    3. A Week of Silence
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    PART III FACETS OF THE MINDFUL BRAIN
    5. Subjectivity and Science
    6. Harnessing the Hub: Attention and the Wheel of Awareness
    7. Jettisoning Judgments: Dissolving Top-Down Constraints
    8. Internal Attunement: Mirror Neurons, Resonance, and Attention to Intention
    9. Reflective Coherence: Neural Integration and Middle Prefrontal Function
    10. Flexibility of Feeling: Affective Style and an Approach Mindset
    11. Reflective Thinking: Imagery and the Cognitive Style of Mindful Learning
    PART IV REFLECTIONS ON THE MINDFUL BRAIN
    12. Educating the Mind: The Fourth ``R'' and the Wisdom of Reflection
    13. Reflection in Clinical Practice: Being Present and Cultivating the Hub
    14. The Mindful Brain in Psychotherapy: Promoting Neural Integration

    Afterword: Reflections on Reflection
    Appendix I Reflection and Mindfulness Resources
    Appendix II Glossary and Terms
    Appendix III Neural Notes

    The book is well referenced and there is a good index.

    As you will see from the chapter headings, the book is rooted in neuroscience and reviews the empirical evidence that our minds can not only control our brains, but also grow and develop them. Healthy experiences can help us cultivate our brains, our minds and our sense of well-being. What he has done in this book is to provide a theoretical foundation for the neuropsychology and consequences of mindfulness. As a neuroscientist, I thought that his models made extremely good sense. He writes well, and I do not think that what he has to say would be difficult for anyone with a high school education.

    Why is this important? Because it shows that there are ways of maintaining and perhaps restoring mental health without medications or other external interventions. Of course there are times when medicines can be the only option, and literally life saving. But they are not always necessary. This brain-based approach is also very helpful for people who re already engaged in meditation, prayer or other forms of mindfulness training. It can be very helpful to know something about what is going on inside your head, without having to rely on experience alone.

    Daniel shows that mindfulness is something that can easily be taught and learned, and that the consequences of using the techniques can be extraordinary, not only for ourselves, but also for our families and friends.

    Though not, strictly speaking, a "how to" book on achieving mindfulness, there are ample descriptions of the keys that we need to attain it. He also provides details of some organizations that offer mindfulness training.

    Very highly recommended.
    The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
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    Sherwin B. Nuland
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    In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a humanist’s understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life’s journey.

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    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars verbage and vocabulary.......2007-08-31

    The verbage and vocabulary in this book is a bit, "highbrow" and not easy to read some words that I must look up meanings to, thus loosing the flow of what I was reading.
    Otherwise, it has been helpful. Haven't read it completely through yet. Seems that I need to take a little bit of it at a time and try to assimilate what has been said, to my aging life.

    1 out of 5 stars A little disappointing.......2007-08-10

    Some of this is useful.. I perhaps was negatively prejudiced by his choice of surgeon Debakey as someone to hold up as a positive example. I think it would be hard to be like him in many ways. I needed a bit more about people who were not facing terrible things in their lives.

    3 out of 5 stars Could Be Shorter.......2007-07-24

    The first chapters are excellent and then it went down hill for me. Less credible or valuable in insight towards the last of the book.

    3 out of 5 stars Useful.......2007-07-16

    As academic material, several chapters in this well written book are extremely useful as well as illuminating. However it is irregular in its interest and questionable in its physician to patient involvement.
    The author's reputation preceeds this work.

    5 out of 5 stars Great gift !.......2007-07-03

    This book hit so many of my current topics - aging self, aging parents - all articulated and explored by the author but leaving room for personal rumination. I bought another half dozen copies and have begun sharing them with family and close friends.
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      The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
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      The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
      Hale Dwoskin
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      Foreword by Jack Canfield: I have been hearing wonderful things about the Sedona Method® from clients and friends for about 20 years. Recently, I finally took the course with my wife and my 12-year-old son. I've been amazed at the simplicity of the Method and the powerful impact it has had on my life. Through my work with Chicken Soup for the Soul and through Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders above the rest for the ease of its use, its profound impact and the speed it produces results. The Sedona Method is a vastly accelerated way of letting go of feelings like anger, frustration, jealousy, anxiety, stress and fear as well as many other problems—even physical pain—with which almost everybody struggles at one time or another.

      One of the wonderful byproducts of taking the seminar is that I have become friends with Hale Dwoskin. He is one of the calmest, clearest, most joy-filled people I have ever met, living proof that the Sedona Method works wonders. I am ecstatic about our friendship. During the seminar, I found myself constantly in awe of Hale's brilliant teaching style. I experienced one breakthrough after another. As a result, I've already referred many family members, friends, and business associates to the Sedona Method seminars, and I've also had the entire staff at Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises learn the Method through the audio programs that Hale put together.

      Now I am thoroughly delighted to be able to recommend The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace, and Well-being. Reading this book is the equivalent of taking the Sedona Method Basic Course and several Advanced Courses rolled together. Filled with practical techniques and enlightening true stories, Hale clearly and generously explains everything we need to know to master the releasing process and to continue using the Method day by day, moment by moment in real life situations, such as having more fulfilling and harmonious relationships, building financial security, developing satisfying careers, breaking nasty habits, losing weight, and enjoying good health. He reveals the Sedona Method's powerful secret for manifesting what you want in your life, while showing you how to be at ease and comfortable with what you already have. The Method also enables you how to have greater ease, enjoyment and peace of mind with all that you experience on a daily basis.

      So I highly encourage you to read The Sedona Method with an open mind and heart. Please allow the simplicity of its message and the power of this process to open you to all the wonders that life has to offer. It is one of those rare things in today's world that delivers more than it promises... way more. I urge you to pay close attention to Hale's message in this book. If you do, it will change your life.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Thanks for new window in my life.......2007-09-23

      There's so much to say about this book, but I keep coming back to one thought: This book helped me learn to get my life back.

      The sections on fear, guilt, addiction, trauma were so powerful for me that I would have driven to California and picked this book up from Jeff Bezos himself, had I known what was in store.

      Most times you read a book thinking, "Ok, fix me." This approach is simple and effective and the best part, it was different than any self-help -- no shoulds/should-nots, just simple advice and simple practices to help you fix yourself in a way that allows you to be as you are during the entire process -- a welcome change.

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      5 out of 5 stars Let go of your past!.......2007-09-21

      Whereas The Secret and/or The Law of Attraction are now and the future, manifestation and the power of positive thinking, The Sedona Method is now and the past. It explains how to let go of whatever internal thoughts you may have that may be keeping you down, emotionally, professionally - any way. Letting go of it, and being freed. Truly liberating and recommended for everyone! Great replacement for therapy and it costs a LOT less!

      5 out of 5 stars Release Anger and Fear.......2007-09-08

      In this book are several methods for accessing the origins of our fears and releasing them for good. I've been using their suggestions and I find that I'm relieved of emotions I've carried with me all my life.

      1 out of 5 stars Completly Incomprehensible.......2007-08-07

      Without question, this is the single worst book in the self-help genre I've ever seen. Completely incomprehensible, irritating and frustrating. While many books of this type don't really deliver on their promises, this is the only one I've ever read that will make you feel WORSE! Dwoskin repeats over and over and over that "releasing" (which he never really explains how to do) is "simple" and "natural" and "easy" and you'll get results "immediately". So, of course when there are no results you start to think that you're some kind of sociopathic freak because you don't "get it". If you're depressed, this book will make you suicidal; if you're angry, it'll make you homicidal. And please do NOT waste the $200 on the CD's just to listen to this guy read the book to you. You'll wind up throwing the whole mess in the dumpster and wishing you had your money back.

      5 out of 5 stars Best approach to stress relief available.......2007-07-20

      This was the first book I have ever read with real life techniques to apply to your daily living and get rid of stress. Not just go to the gym, take a break from work etc. He takes stress and deals with it in such a logical way - I have been able to put the stress in a basket and close the lid since I read this book. I still get situations where I can do better but it is a learning curve and I gave this book to my daughter's teenage friend who is already 3/4 way through it and it is a huge help for her. It is practical and helps you create situations and deal with them one by one. Once you learn the technique it will just take a bit of time to perfect it but you HAVE to start...
      The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well
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      The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well

      The Science of Getting Rich

      THIS book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward. It is for those who have, so far, found neither the time, the means, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, but who want results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without going into all the processes by which those conclusions were reached. It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith, just as he would take statements concerning a law of electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi or an Edison; and, taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich; for the science herein applied is an exact science, and failure is impossible. For the benefit, however, of those who wish to investigate philosophical theories and so secure a logical basis for faith, I will here cite certain authorities. The monistic theory of the universe the theory that One is All, and that All is One; That one Substance manifests itself as the seeming many elements of the material world -is of Hindu origin, and has been gradually winning its way into the thought of the western world for two hundred years. It is the foundation of all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson. The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations of this is advised to read Hegel and Emerson for himself. In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so that all might understand. The plan of action laid down therein was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy; it has been thoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment; it works. If you wish to know how the conclusions were arrived at, read the writings of the authors mentioned above; and if you wish to reap the fruits of their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly as it tells you to do.

      The Science of Being Great

      "... in Mr. Wattles' book, "THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT", you will get methods, plans, carefully outlined instruction, for the highest self-development and training for efficient living."

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      If you are well this book will tell you how to keep so. If you are seeking better health this book is for you. _

      Each book builds upon the previous one to construct a complete, simple, practical, easy-to-understand, step-by-step system for getting rich, being healthy, and becoming successful.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Life changing book.......2007-09-01

      I have been involved in studying material of the general type contained in this book since the mid 1960's, and I've read a lot.Of them all this is absolutely the greatest book because it spells things out clearly and tells you exactly what to do to get t6he results you want in your life. I am recommending it to everyone and buying copies for loved ones. Buy the book and work with it. It could easily be the best purchase you ever make.

      5 out of 5 stars The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles.......2007-08-09

      I purchased this book because it was the source material for The Secret. I wasn't disappointed with the material. I highly recommend this read for people who want to know more about the law of attraction.

      5 out of 5 stars buy this by all means!!! :).......2007-06-27

      read this one very fully with an open mind. getting rich, great and well is easy and needed by all. this is a must have!!!

      5 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!.......2007-05-22

      This book is perfect! It's for everyone. Wattles was extremely smart! I am so glad that I own this book. It has so much in it about how to get the most out of life! It's about how to make the healthiest, richest, and greatest life for yourself! It's a must-own.

      4 out of 5 stars Science of Getting Rich, Great & Well.......2007-05-16

      This trio of books - really more like long essays is a quick read. It is very interesting to see the beginnings of the current "Secret" craze in this early 1900's work. Some of the examples are antiquated due to the period during which it was written, but the basic tenets are very much in line with current abundance and prosperity works I have read. Editors notes help to explain some of the prevalent thinking at the time the books were written.

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