Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons
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Among the best I've ever read

Magnificent Historical Fiction

Awesome Book

Very good

can't put it down

Here Be Dragons
Sharon Kay Penman
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345382846
Release Date: 1993-05-11

Book Description

"A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic."
THE SAN DIEGO UNION
Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king's beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's bitter enemy, Joanna slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband who dreams of uniting Wales. But as John's attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna must decide to which of these powerful men she owes her loyalty and love.
A sweeping novel of power and passion, loyalty and lives, this is the book that began the trilogy that includes FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING.

Customer Reviews:

Among the best I've ever read.......2007-06-15

I finished reading this book two weeks and I can't stop thinking about the characters! I can't wait to get the next book in the series! There were alot of characters through generations, but they were well developed and I really never found myself getting lost. I didn't want to put the book down while I was reading it, and towards the end, I found myself crying! Then I did have to put the book down!

Magnificent Historical Fiction.......2007-05-03

In this magnificent historical novel, Penman chronicles the trials and tribulations of 12th century England. At the heart of the story is Joanna, the [...] daughter of John, King of England. Theirs is a tempestuous relationship. She was the product of his thoughtless dalliance with a highborn girl whose family cast her out after discovering her pregnancy. Joanna's mother concealed her existence from King John because her shame and pride would not allow her to turn to the man who ruined her. But upon her mother's death, Joanna is brought to court to be raised as a royal child with all the privileges and responsibilities that status entails. When John needs Joanna as a political prize, she is married off at fourteen to a Welsh prince named Llewelyn. Even his enemies called him Llewelyn the Great. At fourteen he began a civil war. Before he was thirty he held all of Northern Wales. He is consumed by a vision of a united Wales, a country that could stand against the might of the English if only they could stop fighting among themselves. For Llewelyn, the marriage secures him the English king's goodwill. For Joanna, the marriage will please the father she adores. Neither of them realizes that it will be the love of a lifetime. Penman has a deft touch with character development, plot and action. Her consummate research infuses the story with details that bring medieval England to life. Even her battle scenes resound with authenticity and excitement. The result is a magnificent blend of romance, action and drama. Superb!

Awesome Book.......2007-04-09

The story of Joanna, favorite daughter of King John, granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitane, and her marriage to the Welsh Prince Llelwyn. Set in England and Wales, I am looking forward to seeing Wales myself after this read. Excellent read. I don't want to give anything away.

Very good.......2007-04-04

When I was in school (back in the dark ages) I didn't like history; just a bunch of names and dates to memorize just long enough to pass a test. Now I enjoy historical novels like this; I have a good idea of what Wales was like in 1100-1200 and will remember it; too bad there's no test. It would have been great to read history like this in school. There are two problems-one is that there is so much history to cover and only so much time,it would take forever. The other is that there is a limited supply of authors researching and writing different periods--pity, it would be especially helpful to learn American history this way
to counteract the lily white image taught in schools today.
I will read more by SKP.

can't put it down.......2007-01-11

I chose this book based on the reviews from other readers. I want to thank everyone that wrote a good review for this book. I love historical fiction and LOVED this read. I read a lot of varied authors, Penman was a new one for me. I will be looking for her other books.

The story and characters are engaging. I enjoy that the books spans lifetimes and it well rounded.

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Spiritual Feast
Illuminating Inspiration
Alan is the best!
Dragon Tears and Dreams
Dragons live

The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alan Cohen
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0449908402
Release Date: 1993-08-03

Book Description

"Very positive and in tune with our needs today."
LEO BUSCAGLIA
Alan Cohen's story is an inspiration. From his roots as an Orthodox Jew, he took a mind-expanding tour of the teachings of Jesus, Ram Dass, Zen, Jung, the Esalen Institute, and Einstein, to name a few. In this extraordinary collection of lyrical, challenging essays, Cohen synthesizes what he has learned from these masters, and shares his journey with all of us. He discusses overcoming limitations, creating fulfilling relationships, tuning into the flow of life, transformation, finding a personal path, and the greatest gift of all, love. Read it straight through, or essay by essay, for daily meditations on the mysteries of God, love, and the spiritual path.

Customer Reviews:

Spiritual Feast.......2007-05-12

The book is easy to read, can be taken in short bites or read in large chunks, but all of the chapters affirm life, love and the beauty of the human experience. I read this book at my father's hospital bedside for ten days, and it made the long days bearable. It's a book I'll keep on my "daily" shelf to read over and over again.

Illuminating Inspiration.......2006-09-16

He writes as if he is in touch with Spirit the whole time-- It takes you on a journey gently!!

Alan is the best!.......2006-03-10

I picked up one of Alan's books on clearance last year and have been hooked on his wonderful outlook, sense of humor and writing style. Everything I read by him gives a boost to my spiritual center and I feel I'm communing with a soul mate. This book speaks in everyday language about very powerful universal messages. I would recommend it to anyone of any age.

Dragon Tears and Dreams .......2004-10-05

Adversity is our dear friend. It is the driving force that pushes us out of our comfortable nest and forces us to learn to fly on our own. We can really welcome adversity as a gift. Without it our growth is very slow. With it, we are transformed from fledglings into masters. Every great person has a history of adversity. No one has ever made a contribution to humanity without first undergoing a certain amount of trials. ~Alan Cohen

Through Alan Cohen's books I've learned a lot about myself and quite a bit about life itself in all its highs and lows. Alan seems to encourage me to look at life as more of a challenge. He sees humor and lessons in situations that would cause others to sink into a deep depression. He has a secret way of looking at life that he reveals in his caring way and wise contemplations.

At the start of this book he lists dynamic ideas to open your heart and mind and then he delves into an almost autobiographical essay. If you are interested in how Alan started his journey, then this particular book will reveal his initial interests, his yearning for a connection with the Divine and how he sought out various books and teachers to guide him in his spiritual quest.

This book is divided into two sections: The Journey and The Homecoming. Alan talks about how he visited a Zen monastery, became interested in Ram Dass and Jesus' teachings and worked in a Seven-Eleven type store. He finally meets a spiritual teacher named Hilda who has a profound effect on his life.

Through stories, meditations and inspired insight he weaves a book to heal your soul and comfort you in times when you need a shoulder to cry on. You can draw strength from this book or make it a place of comfort and support. Some of the essay chapters include:

Enough is Enough
If Not Now, When?
Health, Wholeness, and Holiness
Seasons
The Key to the Future
Transforming Relationships
The Power of Appreciation
Courage
Golden Opportunities
Undoing Unworthiness
The Law of Attraction

There is an intimacy in Alan's books that mingles with humor and spiritual healing. It seems that when I'm feeling sad, Alan's books either make me laugh or help me to release my negative emotions in tears. So, either way, the reading of The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore helped me fight off a few angry invisible dragons. There are nice dragons too, I think. Those are the dragons that love to fly across the October moon and enjoy seeing their shadow floating across lakes.

After reading this book, you may want to watch the Dare to be Yourself video or look for additional books. When I read Alan's books, I seem to wake up the next day high on life itself. There is an energy in his books that makes me want to write!

~TheRebeccaReview.com

Dragons live.......2003-01-04

This book is one I will keep as it speaks of his search through different religious paths and what he learned on his journey. There are essays and daily meditations included.

Here, There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, the)

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Very imaginative and enjoyable
Amazing!!!
Ouch here be badness.
I even enjoyed this
Here, There Be Dragons

Here, There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, the)
James A. Owen
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1416912274

Book Description

The Imaginarium Geographica

"What is it?" John asked.

The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow.

"It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose."

An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.

Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.

An extraordinary journey of myth, magic, and mystery, Here, There Be Dragons introduces James A. Owen as a formidable new talent.

Customer Reviews:

Very imaginative and enjoyable.......2007-08-12

Do not ask about this book in Tolkien or Lewis related forums. People tend to be mean when they do not think their idols are being portrayed correctly. But in this case, their unbased crtics should not deter you from reading this book.

With a really imaginative premise, three keepers of the atlas of fantasy lands, this book proves to be quite enjoyable. If you like the fantasy genre, and literature in general, you'll find many interesting nods to many people and events in history. And if you're not all that keen or versed in the subject, you'll find that it's good quality fantasy.

A must read! I can't wait for The Search of the Red Dragon, second book in the series.

Amazing!!!.......2007-08-05

I am 10 years old and i LOVED this book!

But it is not comparable Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, or Eragon.
It is a totally diffrent kind of fantasy.

I do noy know how people can say it is a childish book.It has a very good plot and scheme.

I would recomend this book to anyone!!!

Ouch here be badness........2007-07-17

Read this to my kid and found it poorly structured. It is constructed as if from lego. Block-like. It is no wonder it has been picked up by Hollywood as it is completely predictable and lacks any surprises whatsoever. Also if the "hand of God" plot device has ever been overused it be here. The characterisations are poor at best, add to this that it smacks of fandom and you have a very poor effort indeed. My child was bored so I got out The Hobbit instead. The master will always beat the fan. It will probably make a better film that a book, at least there will be special effects, at it stands there is nothing special about this book.

I even enjoyed this.......2007-05-30

I bought this book to read to my daughter and I got involved in the book. It's something I think older kids and young teens would like. The drawings in the book are great and I loved how the story combined real life and fantasy together. If your a big fantasy reader I would not suggest it because it is predictable, but someone looking for a quick read or who isn't too picky would really get some enjoyment from it.

Here, There Be Dragons.......2007-04-19

I really LOVED this book. It is about three unlikely men who are carried off to help a world they have never heard of but is all too real. They get confused and befuddled at times but they stick together (mostly). At some points the author states things a little vaguely but overall it was good. If you're looking for a good fantasy that's not too long you should try this one.

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Here There Be Magic
DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC
Here there be dragons aplenty
Great Book

Here There Be Dragons
Jane Yolen
Manufacturer: Harcourt Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0152017054

Book Description

In Here There Be Dragons, dragons appear in every guise--ghastly, ghoulish, gentle, gargantuan--always endowed with the author’s ingenious touches. Each piece is introduced with the fascinating, and often revealing, story of its making and is illustrated with the intricate, moody pencil drawings of David Wilgus.

Customer Reviews:

Here There Be Magic.......2004-08-21

Yolen is one of my favorite authors, and I find it hard not to gush while describing her work. Hence, the complete and utter lack of other Yolen reviews in my repertoire (gushers can be tiresome, after all). Here There Be Dragons is one of a series of three books (the other two being Here There Be Unicorns and Here There Be Witches). In it Yolen has collected some of her best stories and poems regarding dragons, both real and imagined, good and bad, friendly and frightful. Brief but fascinating blurbs offer insight into Yolen's inspirations and the thought processes that went on as she created each tale.
David Wilgus illustrates all three books in the series, showcasing a wit, insight, and creative genius that perfectly complements Yolens own literary style. (One of the best examples of Wilgus's work is right on the cover -- look at the eye). I hope to see more of his work.
My only regret is that the collection is so short. Yolen's works are so clearly and neatly structured, and so original and accessible, and yet so very deep and complex, that I wish the stories will go on and on and on, and I am often startled and a little shocked when I reach the end of one of her books, and the story does not continue unfolding beyond the covers (unlike the shining silver road in one of her tales, which continues unwinding as long as the hero or heroine stays on it).
Here There Be Dragons is no different.

DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC.......2004-04-22

Jane Yolen's great creative gifts come to the fore in this enchanting volume, which is a marvelous companion to "Here There Be Unicorns."

Both of these collections of stories and poems are superbly illustrated by duotone pencil drawings by David Wilgus. His detailed pictures are true compliments to what are destined to become classics in children's literature.

Here there be dragons aplenty.......2002-06-28

Jane Yolen produces more great poetry and fiction in "Here There Be Dragons," part of her short story series focusing on ghosts, angels, witches, dragons, and so forth.

It starts off with "Why Dragons?", a poem about St. George, and proceeds to the highly original "Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale," a story from the point of view of the dragons rather than the humans. There are two evocative little drabbles (stories under a hundred words), the saddening "Dragon Woke and Stretched" and the spellbinding "Sorry the Old Man Said." "Cockfight" is what later became the Pit Dragon trilogy, a story about a young boy on a poor planet which has dragons fighting for money. "Dragon Night" is a sweet little poem, a sort of dragon lullaby. "Dragonfield" is a slightly less interesting story about an unheroic young man and a healer's daughter (and a dragon, of course).

"The King's Dragon" is the story of a member of the King's Dragoons, who has a slight problem when people keep hearing "dragoon" as "dragon." "Into the Wood" is pretty, if a little hard to understand. "Dragon's Boy," which later became a short children's novel, tells the story of the adolescent King Arthur and how he learned wisdom from a "dragon." "The Making of Dragons" is a thoroughly entertaining poem about how to construct a dragon. "One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox, and the Dragon King" is the story of three boys called One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox (I think their father had a screw loose), in a story partly influenced by Chinese legends. The collection ends with the wistful "Here There Be Dragons," a poem which harkens back to old maps with those words on them.

As in all of these books, Yolen includes comments and insights to the beginning of each story and poem, what caused her to write them and how they were influenced. David Wilgus's pencil drawings are realistic and soft-edged, very nice to look at and very appropriate to the contents.

A nice little collection for the dragon fanciers, much better than most story collections. Fans of Yolen's "Dragon's Boy" and "Pit Dragon" trilogy will undoubtedly enjoy this.

Great Book.......2000-04-06

This is an interesting collection of short stories and peotry by Jane Yolen, who has done a lot of her work about dragons. I love the poems about St. George, types of dragons, and Here There Be Dragons (which the title comes from). The pencil drawings by the illustrator are excellent. The short stories are good, but not really masterpeices. Overall, this is a great book, as are the unicorn, witch, and angel books in this series.

Here There Be Dragons (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 28)

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Quite good.
Light Entertainment
STNG #28 Here There Be Dragons - A superb novel!
ST-TNG: Here There Be Dragons
Decent Trek

Here There Be Dragons (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 28)
John Peel
Manufacturer: Star Trek
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0671865714

Book Description

When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.

Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks.

Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the Starship Enterprise™.

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When Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise investigate a human-inhabited planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they discover a world lifted right out of the Earth's Middle Ages. Embroiled in intrigue and murder, the away team faces destruction at the hands of dragon-hunters.

Customer Reviews:

Quite good........2004-12-14

This is a story that does quite a good job of including most of the elements that go into making Star Trek: The Next Generation interesting: good action, interesting ideas, excellent characterizations. It's not a particularly deep novel, even by the standard of Star Trek novels, but as a good, fast-paced story, it is excellent. It would have made a good episode.

Light Entertainment.......2004-01-16

This book is written in a B-grade movie style. The characters are depicted in exaggerated fashion. The author never goes over the top in his depictions, but Worf comes rather close. The way it is done is still quite entertaining. The general writing is good. The descriptions are quite vivid and the combat scenes detailed and clear. The setting is epic: Enterprise goes inside of a stellar cloud, a feat made possible by Preserver technology. The action, in contrast, is swords and sorcery style. Riker and Troi investigate a medieval town and accompanying castle, while Picard and Data face off against a dragon. Then the Preserver element comes in for the sorcery section. It's definitely an unusual style of story, but interesting and fun reading.

STNG #28 Here There Be Dragons - A superb novel!.......2003-10-10

Being as nearly as much a fan of fantasy fiction as I am of Star Trek fiction, I found the premise of this novel to be quite an interesting and appealing one. "Here There Be Dragons" is the first of only three Star Trek titles for author John Peel which is too bad in a way as I found all three of them to be quite well written stories. It would be nice to see this author make another visit to the genre.

This author has a great writing style that is very fluidic and the story is very fast paced, full of action, intrigue and adventure. This story also possesses something that many Star Trek novels either never attempt to do or attempt and fall flat on which is carrying more than a couple subplots into an extraordinary and surprising conclusion.

The cover art for this novel is a bit better than the standard fare; two of the main characters and a medieval castle with "dragons" flying over it.

The premise:

The Enterprise is investigating an interstellar cluster and suddenly receives news that a planet with a human colony on it is inside the cluster. Here is where the Preservers come into play considering at this point that humans hadn't made it "this" far into deep space and when these humans came to this planet they did not possess the technology to penetrate the tachyon field of the interstellar cluster.

What is more shocking than the human presence here on this extraordinary planet is that the humans are living is a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of medieval times, dragons included. Captain Picard and crew soon learn that interstellar trophy hunters have been raiding this planet as well. Soon after beaming down to the planet, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro become embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder and are taken prisoner. They must escape their captors and stop these interstellar hunters before they use their ancient weapon to destroy the Enterprise.

What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best written and intriguing numbered Star Trek titles to date. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of the genre! {ssintrepid}

ST-TNG: Here There Be Dragons.......2003-06-22

Star Trek - The Next Generations: Here There Be Dragons written by John Peel is a well-written action-adventure novel written about a Preserver developing world that is hidden inside a tachyon cloud, where the only access is through a tunnel generated by Preserver technology, that is being exploited by a group of interplanetary trophy hunters. The events in this story take place before the sixth-season episode "Rascals."

This planet is right out of Earth's 13th-century Germany where they believe in the force of arms, ritual combat, honor, and glory. And because of the Prime Directive, now, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have to set things right. This book takes you on an adventurous read where Captain Picard, Data, Ro and a member of a security detail beam to the surface of the planet and investigate. Of course things do NOT go as planned and this adds to the mystery and intrigue of the story. After a while, William Riker and Deanna Troi also beam down to the planet's surface where they follow-up leads as to the whereabouts of the smugglers.

The book goes back and forth between two main storylines with the addmixture of some minor storylines until you get all the main characters involved into the story proper. When reading this book you'll tend to think ahead of the story, but be careful the Enterprise and her crew experience some major roadblocks and impediments along the way making this story a complete adventure.

There is only one fight seen with the indiginous dragon species on the planet involving Captain Picard and it is well-written. These beasties are huge, eighteen feet tall and sixty feet long, with long talons equiped with claws that can cut prey in half with one pass and... if that isn't enough these dragon-lizards have armored hide with large sharp saw-edged teeth.

The story has an ending that has a few surprises and the reader will be engrosed in the story till the ending. All in all, the story is a solid 5 stars and this book is a keeper that you'll want to read again at a later time.

Decent Trek.......2002-07-08

Here There Be Dragons is, like most good Trek novels, a quick and painless read with some memorable moments. The plot is in some ways reminiscent of A Call to Darkness, with Enterprise crewmembers enslaved in a medieval setting. There's simply not much more to say about the book than that . . . .

Here Be Dragons: The Psychological Problem, Cause & Cure

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Want to be honest with yourself? The book will show you how
How to slay dragons

Here Be Dragons: The Psychological Problem, Cause & Cure
Manuel J Smith
Manufacturer: A Train Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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If you liked When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, you will love Here Be Dragons, with the skills in "Guilty" applied to all sorts of problems each of us face in life.

Dr. Smith's first book, When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, is an acclaimed national and world bestseller with over five million copies printed in fifteen languages. In creating techniques used in "Guilty" to teach people to assertively respond to threatening critique of their wants by others who emotionally manipulate them, Dr. Smith developed the best known, simple and systematic methods for dealing behaviorally with abstract anxiety concerns, such as guilt, self-worth and self-respect, which also form the fundamental emotional crux of the problems people bring into traditional talk psychotherapy. This is analogous to finding out that aspirin. developed to ease toothaches, can also be used to treat coronary disease.

From his years of experience observing and evaluating patients in the field, having problems ranging from the mildest to the most severe and violent disorders, then involuntarily hospitalizing people when necessary, as well as treating psychological problems in the psychotherapy office suite, Dr. Smith clarifies and simplifies the traditional viewpoint by which psychological difficulties people undergo are looked at. Besides the physical, organic, and psychotic disorders, which are rarely seen in the practice of traditional talk psychotherapy, the vast majority of problems people bring into the psychotherapy office can be seen and succesfully treated as an unresolved abstract anxiety-phobic response in disguise involving self-worth, self-respect and guilt. They are basically unresolved emotional psychological problems associated with significant changes in five psychological stages of life; parent-child maturation, school-career, courting-relationship, sociosexual-marriage, aging-loss.

Within this framework, Dr. Smith defines the five steps in the development of the psychological problem for use in both understanding the etiology of the problem as well as its diagnosis. Then he uses the analogy of the Here Be Dragons coping model - the Medieval warning of an unknown but perceived anxiety threat - as a simple learning device to understand and recognize the basic automatic, primitive, and childish coping reactions inherited from our animal ancestors, i.e., "Remove The Dragon" or "Remove Yourself From The Dragon" which can turn a fixable problem of living into a chronic psychological one. This maladaptive coping is compared to the more psychologically adult coping responses of "Defang The Dragon" and "Learning To Live With Dragons," or being able to cope with all the negatives and unknown anxieties life inflicts upon us. Either in the self-help mode or in traditional talk psychotherapy, the methods in Here Be Dragons The Psychological Problem, Cause And Cure are designed to help the person with the problem resolve it, as well as prevent others from occurring through poor coping with life's presentations to us of an inexorable series of "Dragons" threatening our self-worth and self-respect.

Customer Reviews:

Want to be honest with yourself? The book will show you how.......2003-08-22

Dr. Smith builds on his classic WHEN I SAY NO I FEEL GUILTY, using the assertive techniques with special emphasis on FOGGING (agreeing with the truth, odds or principle of what your critics say) and NEGATIVE INQUIRY -- inquiring about the criticism to either get to the point of what is really the problem, or exhausting the critic.

He gives an extremely helpful look at the phenomenon called "psychological problem," and shows how it develops. He then gives a system that anyone can use to work through problems.

It has helped me to face up to my nagging "inner critic" -- that nasty little voice in my imagination that loves to tell me about what a loser I am and how I'll never succeed. In fact, I've found it helpful to actually write down the inner critic's accusation and write my assertive responses to them!

It might help to read WHEN I SAY NO I FEEL GUILTY first, but the book can also stand on its own.

How to slay dragons.......2003-07-15

Manuel J. Smith has come out with a new and much needed book on assertiveness. Assertiveness means nothing more than making desions based on your own understanding of the facts. Doing this, as Smith explains involves using higher brain functions.

When we are made to feel guilty or shameful or angry in someway, a reflex gets triggered and we adopt a flight/fright response involving the more primitive brain. So, says Smith, if we are assertive we need to find a way to employ higher brain functions. As Smith explains it, the answer to assertiveness come in the form of another reflex which, when triggered, automatically sets higher brain functions
into motion.

In earlier works, Smith provided his readers with practical "assertive responses" which are easily memorized and serve to trigger the reflex which employs higher brain functions. The problem, however, was getting people to use these responses. In his new book, Smith addresses the idea of "self-talk". Here Smith teaches you how to apply "assertive responses" to negative or crooked self-talk, to trigger the higher brain reflex, and enable more assertive living.

Fans of CBT will say that Smith is just "training" the subconscious. However, Smith makes the case that his approach to self-talk works much quicker than CBT ever could.

There a weakness with this book. The book is partly self-help and partly a professional address to fellow psychologist about Smith own brand of behaviorism.
Thus, the narrative voice seems to amble from an informal address to a professional one. Also, since I am not a professional, I could have done without the latter part.
(Since he dealt with professional matters, I wish he would have examined the idea of the "freeze" response as being something other than flight/fright and having to do with the engagement of the "social instinct" or "smart vagus")

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"Experts in many diverse disciplines have come together to form a new science: astrobiology," report astronomer David Koerner and biologist-writer Simon LeVay.

It is a fundamentally new enterprise, a focus of intense excitement and energy, and a recipient of huge government resources. This science has just one ambition: To understand Life in its universal context and, in doing so, to understand ourselves.

Koerner and LeVay have no particular thesis to advance about astrobiology and extraterrestrial life, no axe to grind: they have talked to everybody from Stephen Jay Gould and Robert Weinberg to the (human) denizens of Area 51. Their evenhanded overview moves from the origin of life on Earth to the search for life in our solar system to the search for planets around other stars to SETI, UFO-logy, and the anthropic principle. Since each of these topics can easily take up a whole book (or a shelf-full), theirs is something of a roller-skate tour, but one that misses no major issues. Balanced between the Copernican "principle of mediocrity" and the rare earth hypothesis of Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, Here Be Dragons is an accessible, engaging guide to a deeply stirring question: "Is there anybody out there?" --Mary Ellen Curtin

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The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the centre of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard. In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colourful account of the search for life beyond Earth. The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the greatest remaining question facing humankind: Are we alone? From their 'safe haven of scepticism' the authors venture into the 'rough seas of speculation', where theory and evidence run the gamut from hard science to hocus pocus. Arguing that the universe is spectacularly suited for the evolution of living creatures, Koerner and LeVay give us ringside seats at the great debates of Big Science. The contentious arguments about what really happens in evolution, the acrimonious UFO controversy, and the debate over intelligence versus artificial intelligence shed new light on the wildly divergent claims about the universe and life's place in it. The authors argue that while no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life yet exists, habitats and chemical building blocks for life abound in the universe. A wealth of new astonomical techniques and space missions may provide this evidence early in the next century. Lucidly written and scientifically rigorous, Here Be Dragons presents everything we know thus far about the emergence of intelligent life here on Earth, and perhaps, beyond.

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The dragons cannot be slain...yet.......2006-07-12

I have been looking for something along this line for some time - a summation of the current thinking in the scientific world on the subject of extraterrestrial life. The authors approach the problem two ways. First is a description of the various sciences involved, then an examination of conflicting viewpoints by leading scientists.

As the authors state, when one speaks of Extraterrestrial Life the underlying meaning is INTELLIGENT life - not microbes, bacteria or even insects. But since all current life evolved from microbes the authors correcly examine the most basic issues - what is life and how did it arise on Earth? They then asked if Earth's example was unique or common. Along the way we discover new schools of thought challenging traditional views of evolution, organic matter in space, carbon-based life and the wonder of water. In a more philosophical vein, the authors tackle subjectivity in science, the deeper meaning of quantum theory and finally, our own future. The discussions on the factors that made life necessary on Earth (large moon, large outer planets, right distance from the right kind of star, etc) are not new but were integrated with the rest of the story.

The one disappointment - and perhaps this is not the province of this book - was lack of discussion on consciousness. When we speak of intelligence, consciousness is implied. Yes, it would be nice to find a planet rich with microbes, better yet animal life. But unless true intelligence existed, our quest would not be considered complete. I have serious doubts about SETI (due to the increasingly rapid changes of our own techology)and even the existence of intelligent life elsewhere because of the uniqueness of conciousness which is not a result of "getting smarter" but something much more profound, something...human. A wonderful, sobering text.

A well-written introduction and overview.......2004-01-11

Like several other books on extraterrestrial life and intelligence, this one surveys habitats and requirements for life, the nature of evolution, the evolution of the solar system and the search for life there, searching for life beyond our solar system, the modern scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence, possible exotic forms of life including machine intelligence, the Anthropic Principle, and UFOs. Here Be Dragons stands out from the others because it is interestingly written, with numerous well-chosen quotes from scientists. The book includes a few color plates and black and white illustrations.

Koerner and LeVay conclude that the search will be rewarded, and soon. One wishes that they had offered more speculations about what would happen after contact.

What Is Life?.......2001-10-30

The book presents, chapter after chapter, the points of view of differents scientists (and a few pseudo-scientists) on the subject of life: its nature, definition, origin, rules, etc. The underlying subject is extraterrestrial life, but, in order to discuss it properly, the text does not focus on SETI only, for example, but asks renowed biologists, mathematicians, roboticists and Artificial Life experts what their work about life is all about.

You end up with a very well written text, that gives some speech-time to everyone, including (regrettably, IMHO) creationnists and ufologists.

Funny thing: in the end, you probably still won't know what life is!

Only time will tell (or maybe it won't)........2001-05-31

Perhaps extraterrestrial life is common, as the authors suggest. Perhaps it's rare, as Ward and Brownlee suggest in "Rare Earth". Both books are worth reading if you find the debate interesting. But who is right? If "Rare Earth" is, we'll never know because we'll just keep looking for something that isn't there. If "Dragons" is right, it may be centuries or millenia before we make contact with extraterrestrial species. (And bear in mind the argument that has been made by several writers before: If there are intelligent species in the galaxy, many of them would be tens or hundreds of thousands of years more advanced than we. Presumably, then, some of them would have found us by now. Yet all of them choose to remain hidden -- why? Just another question without an answer).

Personally, I think Fermi got it right........2001-05-24

This book's been on my shopping list for a while, so I was delighted to find it while strolling through a small bookstore in downtown Astoria. I put it in my shopping bag, along with "The Search for Life on Mars," (Malcolm Walker, Perseus Books, 1999). This is the sort of book that almost anyone with an interest in science and/or astronomy will enjoy. It's easy reading, and doesn't really require any prerequisite knowledge.

The book isn't about dragons. It's about the scientific search for extraterrestrial life. The title's taken from a phrase used by old cartographers to indicate unexplored regions of the earth. The play on words, obviously, is that the search for extraterrestrial life takes us into uncharted territory.

"Here be dragons" is a little like "Rare earth," (Ward, Brownlee, Copernicus press, 2000) with a different slant, and a different opinion held by the authors. While Ward and Brownlee are of the opinion that intelligent life is extremely rare in the universe, Koerner and LeVay tend toward the opinion that "...the resulting pressures [of evolution] may commonly foster a trend toward complexification and the ability to react and learn." In line with the hopes of SETI, Koerner and LeVay are of the opinion that "intelligence and technology is common in the galaxy." They find the Fermi Paradox (if intelligence were common in the galaxy, where are the extraterrestrials) "poorly conceived," though they admit their views may be grounded in faith as much as in reason.

The book's flow is both logical and predictable. It begins by describing the theories of the origin of life on earth, including hyperthermophiles and life at the extreme, near mid-ocean vents and hot springs. There's a brief review of Stanley Miller's experiment in the 50's, and how he synthesized many important organic compounds by simulating what he thought, at the time, was a realistic approximation of earth's early atmosphere. But our understanding of the early atmosphere has changed since then, and it looks like the experiment Miller performed doesn't match atmospheric conditions, as we understand them today. This has led scientists to look at other possibilities for the origin of life. For example, organic compounds have been found in space, so there is some speculation that the initial ingredients for life might have been extraterrestrial. Also, recent evidence suggests that our earliest common ancestors were hyperthermophiles, so deep-sea vents may be where life first arose.

Recent discoveries of the extreme conditions in which life exists on earth has led to new speculation about its possible existence on other planets. Mars, for example, might harbor life today, deep under ground (as it is found on earth). During a warmer and wetter past, Mars might even have supported life on its surface.

Throughout the book, the authors act as scientific investigative reporters. They use the book to teach, but also to give a representative view of what different scientists and researchers in various fields are doing. Ordinarily, I'd prefer to see authors be a little more forceful in presenting an idea or opinion, and then working to defend it. But the situation with Koerner and LeVay is different. Exobiology, unlike other branches of science, is one in which the principal subject of research has not been shown to exist. The field is so new that speculation and widely divergent opinions abound. In view of this state of flux, I think it's particularly valuable for their book to sample the broader spectrum of ideas.

After describing the conditions under which life arose on earth, and how it might exist on other planets, the authors proceed to describe the direction of evolution. The point of this discussion is whether evolution has any tendency toward greater levels of complexity, and specifically whether it drives toward the evolution of beings intelligent enough to build a radio transmitter. They sample the opinions of three scientists: Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, and Stuart Kauffman. While these scientists share common ground, they also draw different conclusions and place emphasis in different ways. Personally, I think Stephen Jay Gould comes closest to the truth. It seems obvious to me that the chances of finding intelligence on other planets (where "intelligence" means being able to design and build a system that can communicate with earth) is about as likely as finding a woodpecker (an example used in the book) or an elephant. Humans - in spite of the inflated opinion we have of ourselves - are not the end product of evolution. Our species represents a single point in a morphological phase space of nearly infinite expanse. While I suspect there are strange attractors in this space, it seems less than obvious to me that intelligence (of the sort possessed by humans) is so close to one of these strange attractors as to ensure its evolution during the lifetime of a given planet.

The authors have a pretty interesting chapter on SETI, as well as one about science and the religion of UFOs. They end the book with some exotic extrapolations and speculation of life on other planets, complete with philosophical discussions about cosmology, the anthropic principle, many worlds, multiple universes, and a whole bunch of other subjects that are as easily tossed about by novices and experts, alike.

The book is sparsely illustrated, with an ample index and extensive list of additional reading material. It's well written, easy to read, and entertaining. It's pure speculation (of course) about what we shall find of extraterrestrial life. The real scientific value is in its descriptions of the origin of life on earth, aspects of evolution, and the way it sets the mind to wondering.

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
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I never felt so Canadian...

Interesting to read

Peter C. Newman is truly a great Canadian !

Peter C. Newman is truly a great Canadian !

A book that will infuriate some and delight many Canadians

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
Peter C. Newman
Manufacturer: Douglas Gibson Books
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Release Date: 2005-09-13

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The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.

Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape from France in 1940; as a refugee on an Ontario farm; as an outsider on a scholarship at Upper Canada College; as a Financial Post journalist, then an author whose Renegade in Power made Canadian politics dramatic and disrespectfully exciting for the first time; as the man who revealed the secrets of the rulers of the Canadian business world in The Canadian Establishment, and other huge business success stories, including The Establishment Man, on Conrad Black; or the millionaire who turned his back on business books and tackled Canadian history (Company of Adventurers and other triumphs), in a career where his work has dominated the bestseller lists in politics, business, history, and current affairs.

In the midst of all this were his years at the Toronto Star and Maclean’s where, as editor, he took the magazine weekly – a huge accomplishment. He is still a legend there, where his columns continue to run.

He knew and wrote about every prime minister from Louis St. Laurent to Paul Martin and every prominent Canadian – hero or villain – in between. Yet his most interesting character is – Peter C. Newman. Incredibly, this central figure known to millions of Canadians sees himself as a perennial outsider. In personal terms, the rich little Czech boy whose nannies never stayed talks frankly about his marriages and the women he has known before his ultimate marriage to his beloved Alvy. His enthusiasms – from jazz to the Canadian Navy, not to mention his adventures on his beloved sailboat – make for a rich portrait of an astonishingcharacter, one who never stops being controversial.

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I never felt so Canadian..........2006-07-13

What better way to exprience a nationthan through the lives of it's people. This ultra-connected Canadian and incredibly entertaining writer tells stories that can't be forgotten. A must-read!

Interesting to read.......2005-03-11

Peter Newman is probably Canada's best-known journalist, an editor of MacClean's Magazine and the Toronto Star, and the author of many books about the Canadian establishment. In this autobiography, he tells us how he came to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1939 as an eleven-year old, and worked his way steadily upward. He has plenty of interesting stories to tell about prominent people in the Canadian establishment that he has personally known in his lifetime, people like Pierre Trudeau and Conrad Black. He is an excellent writer, and I found the book interesting to read.

Peter C. Newman is truly a great Canadian !.......2005-01-10

Peter C. Newman is truly a very remarkable and great Canadian. He is by far the greatest non-fiction writer in Canadian history. Newman is a very remarkable and extraordinary person -- I admire the man !

'Here be Dragons' by Peter C. Newman is without a doubt a very very excellent book -- and that is why it is a Canadian best seller. Mr. Newman has led a very outstanding life and his memoirs speak volumes about the greatness of this man.

As a Canadian I am proud I got a copy of this great book by a great man for Christmas. Peter C. Newman's life life story is one to
admire and at the end of the day I recommend this book because
Mr. Newman is truly a great Canadian !

Peter C. Newman is truly a great Canadian !.......2005-01-10

'Here be Dragons' by Peter C. Newman is without a doubt a very very excellent book -- and that is why it is a Canadian best seller. Mr. Newman has led a very outstanding life and his memoirs speak volumes about the greatness of this man.

As a Canadian I am proud I got a copy of this great book by a great man for Christmas. Peter C. Newman's life life story is one to
admire and at the end of the day I recommend this book because
Mr. Newman is truly a great Canadian !

A book that will infuriate some and delight many Canadians.......2004-12-23

Biographies are usually dull, because they implicitly brag about the achievements of the rich and powerful and famous and glamorous rather than dealing with a topic that's really important and interesting -- ME !

This book is an exception to the rule.

It's a fascinating story of a once super-privileged Jewish boy whose family escaped pre-war Czechoslovakia because a Roman Catholic priest gave them certificates to slip past the Holocaust. Being Catholics enabled his family to emigrate to Canada, where he became the leading political analyst in newspapers, magazines and books. Like many immigrants, he is more Canadian than most people born in the country; the result is a book written with humour, kindness and a sense of shattering disappointment and disillusion.

Political journalism is a slash-and-burn war in the US, anchored by the pure hatred of right-wing zealots such as Rush Limbaugh and his ilk; or the pompous twits who debate whether dissent to erudite liberal wisdom ranks above or below the grunts of orangutans. In Canada, journalism proves "the emperor has no clothes" by laughing at the foibles, faults, fears and follies of politicians. Newman is a 'Mack the Knife' artist, he doesn't use the blunt force trauma of a California Terminator. Newman wielded the best scalpel in Canadian journalism for decades, and he did so with such skill that his victims never felt obliged to drop him from their Christmas card list. In this book, he provides the delicious details of how it was done,.

But it's much more.

Think of Newman as an intelligent Garrison Keillor, who talks for 20-minutes every week about the inanities of ordinary folks in Lake Woebegone. Newman tells even better stories about the motivations of the rich and powerful leaders of America's largest trading partner (the single largest source of foreign oil, for example). Newman's harshest criticism is of his own shortcomings, not the faults of the unworthy villains writhing on the point of his pen. But he also portrays the absolute perfidy of some Canadian politicians, the devils who make any US president look saintly by comparison. It's the approach many wish they could have used against newman 40 years ago.

A few years ago, Newman visited the Theresienstadt concentration camp where most of his relatives died. He also saw10 names the same as his -- Peta Neumann -- ranging in age from 10 months to 10 years. This is what he escaped in a series of events that would put the film world to shame. But this is not another Holocaust book; it is a story of a life that soared to greatness when nourished by the freedom of Canada. Instead of the "scorched earth" journalism of the US which I favoured, he used humour to puncture the hubris of the high and haughty. In the US, humour is often acerbic. Newman embodies the definition by Stephen Leacock, "the essence of humour is human kindliness", but he accompanies it all with his penetrating analysis of Canadian politics.

To understand the soul of Canada today, this is the prime guidebook.

It's written by a man who knows how to love; a combination of pure exhilaration and crushing despair that creates true passion. Instead of the polls and poltroons of modern politics, Newman's focus is on the feelings and meanings of public service. I've known him since the 1970s, and we've been in the like sport for decades, though I've never worked with or for him (he does quote me briefly in the book). Based on my career, I can honestly say this is the book of a master craftsman gifted with a rare insight, sensitivity and acumen.

It's liable to infuriate many Canadians, who tend to be very sensitive about having their political idols described as emperors without clothes. For that reason, it's probably the best book about Canada written within the last 50 years. Newman reflects the finest principle of honest journalism, "Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable".

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Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary
Ariane Delacampagne , and Christian Delacampagne
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Sphinxes, hydras, chimeras, dragons, unicorns, griffins, sirens, and centaurs--fantastic animals can be found in works from Greek vases to paintings by Bosch, Goya, and Picasso, from folk art to comic strips, advertising, and Hollywood movies. Here Be Dragons is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the marvelous menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. Ariane and Christian Delacampagne take us on a visually and intellectually riveting journey through five thousand years of art, examining the symbolic meanings of such creatures and what they say about the unconscious life of the human mind.

In the Middle Ages, "bestiary" referred to an edifying poem, in Latin or French verse, in which the moral characteristics of real or imaginary animals were highlighted. With the passing of time, this once-flourishing genre disappeared. We have ceased to equate animals that can be observed with those we only dream of, but neither science nor mass culture has managed to chase away imaginary beasts. Such creatures continue to haunt us, just as they haunted our ancestors.

In the first book to explore this subject with such cross-cultural and chronological range, the Delacampagnes identify five basic structures (unicorn, human-headed animal, animal-headed human, winged quadruped, and dragon) whose stories they relate from prehistory to the present day. They also provide fascinating sociological and psychoanalytical insight into the processes through which artists have created these astonishing animals and how they have been transmitted from culture to culture.

Contrary to what people once believed, the fantastic exists only in the mind. And yet, as Here Be Dragons shows us, it is one of the mind's most sophisticated, mysterious, and inspiring creations.

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SHARON KAY PENMAN
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HERE BE DRAGONS//FIRST NOVEL IN THE RICH AND EXCITING TRILOGY OF THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES - SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR//A FASCINATING PORTRAIT OF THE CONTROVERSIAL KING RICHARD III A MONARCH BETRAYED IN LIFE BY HIS ALLIES FALLS IN SHADOW//PENMAN MANAGES TO ILLUMINATE THE ALIEN SHADOWLAND OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND POPULATE IT WITH VITAL CHARACTERS WHOSE POLITIES AND PASSIONS ARE AS VIVID AS OUR OWN RECKONING//FULL OF BRAWLING AND PLOTTING MURDER AND REVENGE AND BETRAYAL...

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