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This 6-book boxed set of interactive, children's classics include: Race Forever * Escape * Lost on the Amazon * Prisoner of the Ant People * Trouble on Planet Earth * War With the Evil Power Master
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Choose Your Own Adventure.......2007-09-10
These books are fantastic - I have fond memories of them from my childhood. As a school teacher, they are a wonderful read aloud. I let the children vote everytime there is a choice. They think they're great!
Great reading for people of all ages.......2007-09-03
We have read Choose Your Own Adventure 1-6, and our 7 year old son, my husband & I were glued to every book. The books are well written, interesting & intriguing. Not too scary but gripping. We highly reccomend these books to everyone. They can be read & reread, a real plus.
NOT the original books.......2007-04-20
My children have been enjoying some of my old Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 80's, so when I saw this rerelease of several classic books for such a reasonable price, I bought it for them. Well, apparently R.A. Montgomery wasn't able to get the rights on the original illustrations, so he had a bunch of freelance designers from Thailand draw replacement pictures for each of them, and they are AWFUL. Not just 'different,' but shockingly, unignorably BAD -- they look like cartoons drawn carelessly by teenagers, with no sense of proportion, anatomy, lighting, or anything else. The drawings in "Mystery of the Maya" are not bad but most of the others are so terrible they render the books unreadable. Leaving them unillustrated would have been better than this. Find used copies of the originals (most of which are for sale cheap on Amazon) or just pick something else to read.
Paths Too Short.......2007-03-30
You make one or two choices and the book is over. They should only have a few endings and make each path longer.
My 9-year-old LOVES these.......2007-01-10
We bought these books for our son because we remembered how much we loved them at his age. They are much quicker reads than I remember, but he loves them, so they get 5 stars. One book takes him less than 45 minutes to get through. He hasn't gotten to the stage where he goes back and makes different choices yet, but I'm sure he'll become even more fond of them then.
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When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history - as told by former insider Eric Jackson - is an engrossing study of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. The entrepreneurs that Thiel and Levchin recruited to overhaul world currency markets first had to face some of the greatest trials ever thrown at a Silicon Valley company before they could make internet history.
Business guru Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence," called the hardcover edition of The PayPal Wars "a real page turner" that featured what he called "the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed." This new paperback edition features updated material and even more insights on the state of internet commerce.
Customer Reviews:
From the frontlines of startups.......2007-05-05
Eric Jackson's Paypal Wars reads like a novel and offers an insightful look into the early days of Confinity. Brought in as an early impromptu marketing employee, he stuck with company until its final sale to eBay. As part of this process, he describes the early struggles of the company, the continuous fight against Billpoint, the enormous problem of fraud, and even some corporate politics.
PayPal is an interesting company even if just for the fact that it survived the dot com crash. But they also managed to raise hundreds of millions in venture capital, fought off eBay on their on turf, and managed to go through an IPO and several mergers. As you can tell, the storyline is exciting, and Eric Jackson does a great job of documenting it in this book. For a technology entrepreneur, this should prove to be a captivating read.
The successful rise of the company against overwhelming odds........2007-03-12
THE PAYPAL WARS appeared as a limited-release hardcover in 2004 and received acclaim as one of the best business books of the decade: its wider release as a trade paperback with new, expanded material included is a 'must' not just for libraries strong in business, but for those with healthy computer sections - thus it's reviewed here, so computer holdings don't miss it. It recreates the launch of an online payment service in 1999 which was the first to allow money transfers via the Internet - and it covers the successful rise of the company against overwhelming odds. Of particular note here is the first-person insights into how companies create and hone successful business strategies and compete in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
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A good read as told by an insider.......2007-02-10
The PayPal Wars provides a good narrative of life inside a silicon valley startup. The story starts from the humble beginnings of yet another dot-com that garnered traction via viral marketing. However, the difference was in this company's nimbleness in maneuvering around its obstacles. The author discusses the company's various competitive responses without boring the reader with too much detail. The reader gets a good appreciation of the importance of timing in the rapidly changing Internet space.
Overall a brisk and informative read.
A great story about the early days of online transactions.......2007-02-06
The story of Paypal's struggle for World Domination is well told by their former marketing director who joined the company Conformity in its early days. He is a strong supporter of the Paypal Brand and an arch enemy of all things Ebay whose attempts to throw "roadblocks" at the company would almost cause disaster on numerous occasions. This book is very well done with top analysis on the business functions of Paypal. It considers Paypal's inability to get profitable and the problems inherent in its business model to ways that it prepared its consumer base to enjoy the benefits of having a flexible pay service. The internet and computer industry is filled with wonderful business stories and Paypal's is truly near the top. For those who want real business analysis and an understanding of how Silicon Valley works this book cannot be topped.
sadly lacking in technical depth.......2007-01-14
Roughly an average book in the genre "histories of successful startups told by insiders"; I would rate it higher if it had more technical depth, but unfortunately the author's viewpoint is entirely focused on the marketing side of things. The quality of the writing is uneven, and the book's organization is not ideal; in particular, the prose is far too "breathless" -- every single event of any significance (and quite a few that prove to mean zilch) is played up as super-important, making it quite hard to ascertain what really DID matter, and what did not.
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This 4-book boxed set includes the following titles from the storied Choose Your Own Adventure Series: *Lost on the Amazon *Prisoner of the Ant People *Trouble on Planet Earth *War with the Evil Power Master
Customer Reviews:
Good Choice for kids!.......2007-09-29
After this box set its only individual books. I'm not sure why there are
no boxes for books 13+, but books 9-12 are here and ready to take their
young readers as far as the furthest corners of the galaxy! What makes
this collection so great is the choices it gives kids. Like the two
previous, all the books have fun art and good writing, but it's the
choices that sell this series. Set a stack in front of a kid and stand
back! Just make sure you don't tell them they are really learning. Bad
news though, like I said, its individual books from here on out.
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Title: Battling the government, the Mafia, and the rest of planet earth.(The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth)(Book Review)
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Of all the Eastern scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita is the most widely known and best loved in the West. In this eye-opening translation and commentary, Yogananda unveils for the first time the deeper meaning hidden within its symbology.
Customer Reviews:
God Talks with Arjuna.......2007-10-05
I am a big fan of Paramahansa Yogananda, but quite frankly I was a little disappointed by this book. Instead of commenting directly about the verses from Bhagavad Gita there is an artificial link being made to Paramhansa's other teachings. Don't get me wrong his teachings are great but don't try to force them into Gita interpretations. If you really want to understand Bhagavd Gita, I would recommend 'Holy Gita' by Swamy Chinmayananda.
Recieved in good time and book was in good condition........2007-01-10
Recieved in good time and book was in good condition.
The Guru of Truth.......2007-01-01
I have read four or five interpretations of the Gita. This one is the most "alive" for me. When I am "in" it, my life changes. Just reading it, slowly, digesting it piece by pieces, takes me into the Mystic and out of my Karma. Yogananda's translation and interpretation of the Gita is the most clear, efficient and engaging that I have ever read.
Very Good but is it Good enough, two things lacking.......2006-01-07
The self realization fellowship's translation of the Bhagawad Gita is oriented towards Kriya Yoga, since the interpretation primarily is based on Patanjali's yoga sutras. The SRF still use orthodox hindu philosophy. In the sarvadarshana Samgraha of Madhavacharya, the Patanjali and allied systems this text refers to fall under the Ashtika or extremely orthodox vedantic premise; albeit they are probably one of the more recent developments of the system.
The SRF also try using scientific know-how about the human physiology, kep concepts of psychology and also the mystical/esoteric functionings of the body as elucidated in yogic scripture. As such each verse of the Gita has profound eludication ranging from various different sources.
The depth and uncompromising clarity of the book has made it one of the most popular renditions of the Gita. It is far more developed in thought than the works of Radhakrishna and various other translators.
But like Radhrakrishna's rendition it does dont give variant readings to a verse, suggesting that the explanation given is the only one to a specific stanza. This is a good thing for those who just want to understand the Gita as is, and later try to apply that very message in day to day living as well as holistically in thier prayers and spiritual practices.
The one think it lacks is backing up its interpretation with Upanishads and Veda. Gita is classified under the term Smriti (Tradition or Custom) and is out ranked by Shruti (That which is heard; direct revelations from the Divine). The reason for the Gita's placement is as a result of its compilation as opposed to the question whether Krishna did get the revelation (Which, irrefutably he did).
The Upanishads are the highest elucidation on the raw revelations (i.e. Vedas) of Hindu scripture. It is revelation that expounds on previous revelation and therefore concisely summarizes key components of Vedic and Divine thought.
I would have liked to seen more of the Upanishads than Patanjali, but this is my opinion. Disregarding the aforementioned notion this Gita is probably one of the Best I have come across.
I suggest also looking at works of Lahiri Mahashaya, "Spiritual Gita", The Geeta Vahini of Sathya Sai Baba, Gita Bhasya of Adi Shankara and the Upanishads themselves. If you dont have the time then this book has most of it, but the above mentioned texts will only increase a person's appreciation of the Gita from saints and personages who possess the experience and innate know-how of and about the Gita.
God Talks with Arjuna.......2005-11-27
God Talks with Arjuna is the product of a higher intelligence that mankind aspires to attain. I have been studying the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda for nearly four decades, and have translated several of his books into Arabic. In God Talks with Arjuna one is amazed at the depth and breadth of Yogananda's wisdom and fathomless realization. He challenges the human mind to stretch itself to infinite reaches of cosmic knowledge, and leads serious hopefuls to intuitive discoveries within the depth of the human spirit. Those who read his works out of sheer curiosity may or may not find the nuggets of wisdom in the folds of his thoughts; while those who have the slightest receptivity and desire for higher truths will never fail to discover Yogananda's immortal gems of divine realization. God Talks with Arjuna is a bright luminary in Paramahansa Yogananda's inexhaustible divine library. I have gained much from this monumental work and hope to be able to translate it someday into Arabic. Any one who reads this great book with an open mind will find at the end that he/she has gained something worthwhile and truly lasting.
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