Doyle, Richard

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Highly Recommended!
Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS
Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS
New growth for old companies

How to Grow When Markets Don't
Adrian Slywotzky , Richard Wise , and Karl Weber
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Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased. In HOW TO GROW WHEN MARKETS DON'T, AdrianSlywotzky andRichardWise examine this problem and offer real solutions, including how to fully map customers' higher- order needs and ways to get investors to change their thinking. They also offer methods to enhance existing asset bases through acquisitions, partnerships, and licensing, and suggest that companies learn not to depend on the CEO to solve the growth crisis. Creating sustained growth in company value has never been an easy task-in fact, it's getting more and more difficult in today's economic climate-and HOW TO GROW WHEN MARKETS DON'T addresses the need for solid and sensible advice.

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A typical business book with a couple of good ideas and recommendations.......2007-04-23

Mr Slywotzky is a business consultant, who has written some books related to value creation and growth. In this case he gives alternative growth recipies.

According to the author after a certain time companies reach a limit of growth since they have exhausted all the obviuos moves: expand geographically, innovate products and make acquisitions. The solution is creating new offerings along the value chain of the existing customer base (the idea up to here not very innovative). To do so companies should concentrate in what Mr Slywotzky calls the hidden assets which is probably the best idea of the book. Hidden assets are not related to the accounting term but to things that a company does or owns during its normal business activity. An example are customer relationships that can be leveraged to create new growth if there are other companies that are interested in your existing customer base. The cooking list of hidden assets is quite comprehensive, you have to put some life in it. Later examples follow of companies using these concepts to create new growth are among others: GM, Air Liquide or John Deere.

The second part of the book deals with the hidden liabilities (all those things that impede growth) which sound more familiar, and how to implement new ideas in an existing organisation, probably the main reason for innovation failure. The author exposes some ideas on how a possible structure in the company might look like and showing the key role of the middle manager in implementation or a monday morning laundry list to make start easy.

As many business books it relies strongly in the personal experience of the author. Not the best, but the ideas of hidden assets and the how-to part have some value. Whether you think it might be workable in your organization is another issue.

Highly Recommended!.......2005-09-13

Leaders of established companies are now finding it harder to earn additional revenue. Authors Adrian Slywotzky and Richard Wise say managers must realize that the old reliable revenue sources - brand extensions, mergers, international growth - just aren't panaceas any more. The answer, they say, is "demand innovation." That means proactively making business more efficient for your suppliers upstream and your customers downstream. The authors bolster their argument with detailed, relevant case studies involving the likes of Cardinal Health, GM's OnStar, Virgin, Johnson Controls and many more. The case studies mostly manage to avoid the breathy, laudatory treatment that is virtually de rigueur when consultants write about their corporate subjects. The authors' "invisible balance sheet" concept is useful. They also provide seven immediate steps companies can take to improve earnings, even if they can't create fresh revenue streams. Because this book offers practical applications, as well as theoretical strategic insights, we recommends it to managers in established companies.

Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS.......2005-04-05

I've read three of Adrian Slywotzky's books during the last twelve months and I'm deeply inspired by his bright ideas on the art of profitability. This book focuses on how to profit via growth.

The key chapters are those that lay out the concepts behind "hidden assets" (that can be exploited to create value in new markets) and "demand innovation" (how to explore new ways to solve unmet customer needs via external analysis).

This is the universe of HIDDEN ASSETS that may be leveraged in a growth strategy:
1) Traditional Intellectual assets (intellectual property, competency/skills, and brand).
2) Customer relationships (reach/many, interaction/deep or frequent contact, insight/knowledge, authority/reputation).
3) Strategic real estate (unique value chain position, competitive market position, portal/gateway).
4) Networks (third-party relationships/partners, installed base/post-sale owners, user community, and deal flow/preferential access to potential transactions/M&As).
5) Information (market window/superior insight, technical know-how, software and systems, by-product information).

I found many of the case stories very inspiring, although the well-explained out-of-the-box story of "Cardinal Health" stood out as the most exciting.

The book draws on Slywotzky's previous books. It pursues the eternal theme ... that the path to profitability lies in truly understanding your current and future customers.

Being a business development manager, I search for relevant tools to apply the growth ideas to my own business. The cases in the book are very good and on the website for this book - demandinnovation.com -, you'll find the core ideas in a graphical form as well as an excellent 32-page companion workbook on "Getting Started".

I also highly recommend Slywotzky's "Profit Zone" (1997/2002) and "Art of Profitability" (2002). Note that these books present the same 23 profit models, first as a standard business strategy book, then as an easy-to-read novel.

If you're interested in other strategy books on Growth, let me draw your attention to "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Kim & Mauborgne (2005), "Profitable Growth" by Charan (2004), and "Beyond the Core" by Zook (2004).

Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business

Grow by leveraging your HIDDEN ASSETS.......2005-04-05

I've read three of Adrian Slywotzky's books during the last twelve months and I'm deeply inspired by his bright ideas on the art of profitability. This book focuses on how to profit via growth.

The key chapters are those that lay out the concepts behind "hidden assets" (that can be exploited to create value in new markets) and "demand innovation" (how to explore new ways to solve customer problems via external analysis).

This is the universe of HIDDEN ASSETS that may be leveraged in a growth strategy:
1) Traditional Intellectual assets (intellectual property, competency/skills, and brand).
2) Customer relationships (reach/many, interaction/deep or frequent contact, insight/knowledge, authority/reputation).
3) Strategic real estate (unique value chain position, competitive market position, portal/gateway).
4) Networks (third-party relationships/partners, installed base/post-sale owners, user community, and deal flow/preferential access to potential transactions/M&As).
5) Information (market window, technical know-how, software and systems, by-product information).

I found many of the case stories very inspiring, although the well-explained out-of-the-box story of "Cardinal Health" stood out as the most exciting.

The book draws on Slywotzky's previous books. It pursues the eternal theme ... that the path to profitability lies in truly understanding your current and future customers.

Being a business development manager, I search for relevant tools to apply the growth ideas to my own business. The cases in the book are very good and on the website for this book - demandinnovation.com -, you'll find the core ideas in a graphical form as well as an excellent 32-page companion workbook on "Getting Started".

I also highly recommend Slywotzky's "Profit Zone" (1997/2002) and "Art of Profitability" (2002). Note that these books present the same 23 profit models, first as a standard business strategy book, then as an easy-to-read novel.

If you're interested in other strategy books on Growth, let me draw your attention to "Blue Ocean Strategy" by Kim & Mauborgne (2005), "Profitable Growth" by Charan (2004), and "Beyond the Core" by Zook (2004).

Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business

New growth for old companies.......2003-10-10

Slywotzky and Wise could have titled their new book, New Growth for Old Companies: A Comprehensive Compendium. If you've read their many previous papers and articles, you'll find the contents of this book familiar but will probably be delighted to find all those ideas and more gathered informatively in one place. The authors' audience consists of companies in mature industries struggling to grow - and to grow in a sustainable manner.

Inspired by examples such as General Motors, Clarke American, and Cardinal Health, Slywotzky and Wise mix their own thoughts with others floating around the world of business ideas to come up with a strategy they call "demand innovation". I agree that typical product innovation, while retaining value, is far from the final word in achieving growth. The authors' demand-centric approach instead focuses on the customer's context in using a product or service, and satisfying that with the company's intangible wealth - customer contacts, business models, technical expertise, human capital.

If you are like most customers, you have no trouble finding any number of innovative products. Your wish-list of new stuff is probably making your bank balance very nervous. Yet the experience of finding, buying, using, getting support, and other issues that surround the product itself can create enormous frustration. Slywotzky and Wise do us the favor (as businesses and customers) of bringing together a set of opportunities to grow by helping customers reduce complexity and by helping businesses make better decisions and reach their market faster - often a newly uncovered or created market. Some of the methods for companies are ensuring operational excellence, treating growth as a systematic discipline, developing lots of small ideas and a few big ones, mandating growth at the operating level, securing high-level support for growth initiatives, and building your capabilities through acquisitions and alliances.

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Victorian artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883) is famous for his charming illustrations of elves, fairies, and gnomes. For this coloring book, Marty Noble has skillfully adapted 29 of the English's artist's most delightful watercolors created for his book with Andrew Lang, The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland.

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great coloring book.......2007-03-27

gorgeous illustrations for the kids to color. fun too. weird descriptions of the actions in the pictures - they don't always seem to match

Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse

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Clerical Abuse
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Sex, Preists and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse, by Doyle, TP, Sipe, AWR

Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse
Thomas P. Doyle , A.W. Richard Sipe , and Patrick Wall
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Sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by Catholic clergy burst onto the American scene in 1984. Revelations about such abuse since then have confirmed that this tragedy is not limited to the U.S. Catholic Church, nor is it a new phenomenon that grew out of so-called secularizing trends of the late twentieth century. The Doyle-Sipe-Wall report clearly demonstrates a deep-seated problem that spans the Church's history. This collection of documents from official and unofficial sources begins its survey in 60 CE and concludes with the contemporary scandal. It reveals an institution that has tried to come to grips with this devastating internal problem from its earliest years. At times circumspect and at other times open and direct, Church leaders tried a variety of means to rein in the various violations of clerical celibacy. The sexual abuse crisis is not isolated from the questions of the celibate practice of all Catholic clergy and the moral questions that involve marriage and all human sexual behaviors. These are the main, yet unspoken, reasons why sexual abuse has been such an inflammatory and dangerous issue for the hierarchy. The Church abuse scandal of the contemporary era, rather than seen as a new challenge, is actually the catalyst for a complex process that is forcing the official Church to redefine its ideology of sexuality, its responsibility to its members and its role in society. The three distinguished authors have served as experts and consultants in over 1,000 cases of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy, and have collectively spent over 70 years of official service within the church.

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A very informative book. .......2007-01-06

In my opinion this is a valuable book, especially for Catholics who are very perplexed as to how the sexual abuse scandal happened. Both the history and recent events in this area are covered and explained very well. However, the book comes across as one in which independent writings of the three authors were lumped together with very little coordination or joint editing. In particular, Chapter 4: " The Doyle-Mouton-Peterson Manual ..." should, in my opinion, have been an appendix, and is a distraction in the body of the book. Also, there is significant repetition in the first and latter sections.
Nevertheless, I think this is an important book which should be read by all American Catholics.

Clerical Abuse.......2006-12-07

If this review seems harsh, it's because the lives of kids are at stake and the problem is NOT being addressed openly by the Catholic Church.

When I read a non-fiction book and come across a fact that startles me, I put a dot in the margin next to the sentence and, at the back of the book, list the page number. This helps me research and/or discuss matters of import while preserving their context.

Here are a few of the items I marked of Father Doyle's (et al) objective history of clerical celibacy and child abuse in the Catholic Church:

4- Solicitation in the confessional

21- Pope Leo IX decided to exclude "only those who had offended repeatedly and over a long period of time."

28 - Pope Benedict commanded that no two monks were to sleep in the same bed.

44 - Pope Benedict XIV condemned the practice of priests granting absolution to the very persons with whom they had engaged in solicitation.

60 - The John Jay College Survey review commissioned by the bishops found the 5,450 complaints of clerical sexual abuse included sixteen U.S. bishops.

To determine for yourself if this is a NEW problem, read pages 5,6,7,11,13,17,20,21,22,26,30,33,35,36,37,40,44,46,52,68,104,
170,211,214,215,223,225,226 and 235.

Oh, on page 258, we learn the Los Angeles dioceses uses the same PR firm earlier hired by Enron and Charles Keating.

A must read.......2006-09-23

This book is a must read for all catholics. Thanks to Tom Doyle, Richard Sipe and Patrick Wall for having the courage "to do the right thing" and reveal what the catholic church wants to ignore and keep "secret" - power, control and abuse.

Anne, member
FOSIL

A Superb Book.......2006-08-16

This book is a most useful one - to say the least - for those of us, within the Church, grieved by these scandals and the utterly appalling manner in which they have been/are being handled. This excellent book should be required reading for bishops and priests everywhere.

Sadly, it would appear that there is not much enthusiasm among many clergy for being educated about the nature and extent of the evil that has devastated so many lives. That in itself is a terrible indictment of many in the institutional Church.

There are many false shepherds and - in Jesus' words - "hired hands", who DO NOT CARE about those wounded and torn by "wolves within the fold". They have sympathy for - and affinity with - their "brother priests" who are, in fact, sexual predators; and no love or compassion for their victims whose lives are so deeply scarred.

Sex, Preists and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse, by Doyle, TP, Sipe, AWR .......2006-08-14

I found this book a fascinating and courageous examination of the clergy sex abuse issue.The historical perspective shed much needed light on contemporary atttitudes of Church authorities to the problem. The insights into the nature of the spiritual damage done to survivors are particularly welcome and valuable.

However the book was seriously flawed in several respects.There was significant amount of discussion about the widespread lack of observance of the mandatory celibacy rule for clergy, but the connection between breaches of celibacy and sex abuse was assumed rather than convincingly argued. Yet clergy sex abuse is perpetrated by clergy, including married clergy, in other religions and religous denominations which do not make clergy celibacy mandatory. The authors also failed to take cognisance of the fundamental nature of sex abuse as acts of violence and not merely as breaches of chastity or celibacy.

However, in spite of these lacunae,the book makes an important contribution to the literature about the issue.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Crime)

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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Magisterial.......2006-08-19

Poor Richard Lancelyn Green! I knew his name through the scandal headlines that surrounded his death two years back, a suicide which he tried to stage as a murder, hoping or so it seems to cast a sinister light on the family of Conan Doyle and their auction of period Holmes memorabilia at Christie's which he, RLG, thought should have been disposed of elsewhere. And laboring in the shadow of his far better known father Roger Lancelyn Green, it can't have been easy. In any case it's great that at least one of his anthologies, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, will keep his name alive in a positive way.

I don't understand why he changed the names of stories while presenting them here. Why bother retitling Adrian Conan Doyle's story "The Red Widow"? Is his own title, "The Adventure of Ainsworth Castle," any more thrilling? Surely it's misleading to present the famous story by Arthur Whittaker, "The Case Of The Man Who Was Wanted" under a title like "The Adventure of the Sheffield Banker." Please! Whittaker's tale isn't very good, but it has the historic distinction of having been mistaken for an actual Sherlock Holmes story (for it was found among Conan Doyle's papers) and published under the Master's name by misguided scholars in 1948. SC Roberts also has his title changed. I guess Lancelyn Green wanted them all to be called "The Adventure of . . ." and felt no compunction about renaming these old chestnuts where they didn't fit the bill. A small point, but one perhaps illustrative of the sometimes magisterial nature of the man's character.

Otherwise you couldn't ask for a more interesting smapling of Holmes pastiche. The Stuart Palmer story is good, and an unexpected choice considering that its companion, "The Remarkable Worm" is far better known. "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant," formerly known as plain "Holmes in Scotland," is a splendid reconstruction of one of the cases mysteriously alluded to by Watson in one of the canonical tales. Maybe I'm the only fan in the world who's not blown away by D O Smith, and I'll try reading more of Smith's work to catch the vibe, but I was less than overwhelmed by reading the tedious "Adventure of the Purple Hand," which seems padded out to twice its optimum length. However, many fans whose opinions I respect swear by Smith and I'll read some more before I put that baby to bed. Take it all and all, a fine anthology and a nice way to remember poor old Richard Lancelyn Green.

The Best of the Holmes Pastiche Collections.......2001-04-25

Richard Lancelyn Green has examined nearly a century's worth of Holmesian pastiches and collected some of the very best in this book. Stories date from 1920 through the 1980's.

Many pastiches try to parody or reinvent the originals, but theses stories affectionately recapture the flavor and tone of the canon.

A good collection........2000-08-12

In this volume Richard Lancelyn Green has assembled some of the best of the noncanonical Holmes short stories as of 1986. I personally think _The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes_ by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr is a slightly better collection overall, but this one comes close.

Adrian Conan Doyle is represented here as well, the adventure of "Arnsworth Castle" being simply a republication of "The Red Widow" from _Exploits_. (I disagree with the reviewer who thought the story was a "complete failure," but I also disagree with anthologist Green that it is the strongest of the younger Doyle's Holmes pastiches.)

The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly Denis O. Smith's "The Purple Hand." This is the first of Smith's Holmes tales (of which another -- "The Silver Buckle" -- appears in _The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures_); in general they are among the best pastiches in the short-story genre. (Smith has published them in three volumes under the title _The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes_.)

Other high points include "The Tired Captain" and "The Green Empress," based on two unrecorded cases mentioned by Watson in the first paragraph of "The Naval Treaty." The latter of the two cases requires a brief explanation.

"The Green Empress" is the new title of the tale mentioned in a review below under the name "The Second Stain." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of course, wrote a story of that title as well, but the version he published does not seem to match the description in "The Naval Treaty." There is also a reference to the "affair of the second stain" in the opening paragraph of "The Yellow Face" (which the Bantam/Doubleday version for some reason emends so that it refers instead to the "adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"). Some Sherlockians claim this remark refers to yet a third case, though I do not happen to know the foundation of this claim. At any rate there would thus appear to have been at least two and perhaps three Holmes cases catalogued by Watson under the same name.

F.P. Cellie's tale fills in the details of the one mentioned in "The Naval Treaty." In 1967 it won a contest in South Africa under its original title of "The Second Stain," and its title has been altered for publication in the present volume. End of explanation.

Another highlight: this volume is the only one currently in print -- so far as I know -- in which Vincent Starrett's classic "The Unique _Hamlet_" is collected. In my own view this pastiche is somewhat overrated (being among other things ludicrously easy to solve), but at any rate it's a good one to have; at least it was one of the first, having been privately published in 1920.

And another point which may be of interest to Amazon shoppers: the larger and more recent collection _The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures_, edited by Michael Ashley (and with a foreword by Green), does not include _any_ overlap with the present volume. Owners of one may therefore feel safe in purchasing the other.

huge fun - highly recommended.......1999-04-27

I've just finished this and am amazed by how much I enjoyed it - I'd bought it expecting to hate it but not so. It's very patchy but no more so than Conan Doyle's original stories, and the only really terrible bit is one effort by his son Adrian which is a complete failure, although a very involved thing about Scotland (which left me wondering, why couldn't he have just put the brooch in his pocket? - you'll know what I mean when you've read it) tries the patience rather. Best are the 'Purple Hand' and 'Second Stain' stories, both of which the man himself would have been very proud of, but all are honourable additions to the mythos, hugely enjoyable and very sensitive to the much-loved originals.

Better than most of the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.......1999-04-12

This book compiles what is pretty much the cream of Sherlockian pastiche since the art form began. I really enjoyed this collection, although many of the stories appear in other anthologies. I'd happily ditch "Mazarin Stone" or "Three Gables" from the Canon and replace them with a couple of these. (But why does Amazon refer to the anthologist as a "photographer"? Let alone ACD!)

Rich Dad's Success Stories: Real Life Success Stories from Real Life People Who Followed the Rich Dad Lessons

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Rich Dad Poor Dad in real life
To those giving negative commments about the Kiyosaki's Book..
This book offers great lessons!
He's just trying to help...
Some inspirational ideas, but dangerously misleading.

Rich Dad's Success Stories: Real Life Success Stories from Real Life People Who Followed the Rich Dad Lessons
Robert T. Kiyosaki , and Sharon L. Lechter
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This extraordinary collection of over two dozen business success stories reveals firsthand how personal financial freedom can be generated by applying the principles from the #1 New York Times bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad.Thousands of readers have gone on to greater wealth by applying the Rich Dad philosophy since the series debuted in 1997. Now, over two dozen people from diverse economic backgrounds reveal the successful strategies they used to get out of the "rat race," including couples in their twenties, people who've lost their jobs, retirees, and budding entrepreneurs. Some were living paycheck-to-paycheck before starting to buy small rental properties; others climbed out of bankruptcy by slowly investing in small, local businesses; and a 13-year-old bought his first rental property after playing the Rich Dad board game, Cashflow 101. Now they share their stories to help others achieve their financial success.

Customer Reviews:

Rich Dad Poor Dad in real life.......2006-11-08

This book did a great job giving me actual examples from everyday people on how they started changing from an employee to an investor. It tells how people took the leap and started created cash flow in theie life from a different source than a job, whether it was a rental property, laundry mat or car wash, it was great to see what was possible. I highly recommend reading the entire Rich Dad series if you are interested in thinking like the rich.The education I have received is priceless.

To those giving negative commments about the Kiyosaki's Book.........2006-08-03

I've read some of the negative comments coming from those who purchased the Rich Dad books or audio cd's. I think many of them come from no real basis at all. To the one person who commented that it is hard to find a bank that will give you 95% LTV; many if not most banks are in fact doing that. I Got one from GMAC for a property I purchased last year. In fact I purchased several with 100% financing in the last couple years; so they are out there my friend if you look for them. For starters get into a good R.E investment club, and if they are worth they're weight they will point you in the right direction. They aren't expensive, at about 250 to 500/yr average (Don't fall for the scams that will take you for thousands of dollars..), and they generally do a good job of getting you real information you need to take the next step.

For the person who blasted the RD Success Stories, but then went on to say that after reading R.D.P.D he bought 110 properties; well, I guess Kiyosaki's book did help after all now didn't it....

Guys bottom line, Take the books or audio cds for what they are worth, for inspiration and motivation, but your going to have to really get out there and put the work into it which means becoming more "financially literate.." which will help ensure your financial R.E goals. R.D. is just the start. Follow up on other educational material that gives you more nuts and bolts of investing. And of course, I cannot stress this enough, if you not involved in a "GOOD" R.E. Investment Club, then get up and find one in your area and start going regularly. Thats your next starting point on your way to making good R.E. Investments...

Sorry for being longwinded but sometimes it takes detailed words to get the message across.

Good luck, God Bless

This book offers great lessons!.......2005-05-12

I've heard about a bunch of RICH DAD books by Robert T. Kiyosaki, but to date, had never read any of them . . . so when I saw the cassette version of RICH DAD'S SUCCESS
STORIES by Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, I started listening to it with some degree of interest.

Billed as "real life success stories from real life people who followed the rich dad lessons," I enjoyed hearing how a diverse range of folks took the lessons they learned and made
money from them . . . one key seems to be that if you made up your mind what to do, carry it out right away (just don't sit on it and do nothing).

It got me thinking that if you can replace salary with passive income, that's certainly one thing to consider--seriously . . . for example, borrow money to buy assets . . . in other words, take out a mortgage on a house you want to rent out and have somebody else, the renter, buy it back.

Another idea I loved: Take advice from rich people, not salespeople!

There were many other noteworthy tidbits; among them:
To keep watch on your investments, make sure you tour your properties every 3-4 months. Meet with the property managers. See what needs to be done, walk through all vacancies, review work that has to be done, and any other concerns involving the building.

Use a team of advisers to provide you with the information you need to make decisions and to act upon them.

Success equals 1 part knowledge or lessons learned, 1 part information or lessons learned by others and shared, and risk.

He's just trying to help..........2004-11-10

In spite of the negative comments, I would say this book is better
than other "Getting Rich" or "Great Personality" books.

About Kiyosaki himself, even if his stories are fake, I would say
he has proven himself as the greatest Salesman ever. I went to
one of his Seminar... there were hundreds of people showed up...

During that Seminar, he even said that at one time he went broke.
But the reason he got "Wealthy" not because of writing this book
but he met a friend that were in the Real Estate business and
his story started from there. Well, I would agree with him.
It's not WHAT you know but WHO you know...

Also he listed 4 factors that are important if you wanna get "Wealthy": One is Attitude, second is Financial Education (not PhD education), three is to have a business, and lastly is having a Friend that is more successful than you.

They guy is very inspiring indeed...

Some inspirational ideas, but dangerously misleading. .......2004-09-20

The very first chapter talks about folks starting to invest in real estate. Of course they bought all their investment properties using other peoples money (mortgages), which is fine. The only question for Mr. Kiyosaki: Which bank is giving a conventional mortgage for the investment property at 95 % LTV, meaning putting only 5% down? As far as I know 5% downpayment or less is available for PRIMARY residence ONLY. You can not have 2 primary residencies. The Bank can see in your credit report how many mortgages you have. When applying for the new mortgage bank requires to explain all other mortgages in the credit report. You definetely can not buy all 5 properties - with 5 % down. It is very inaccurate and misleading. Minimum downpayment for the investment property is 20%, not every bank will do it, a lot of them will ask for 25-30% downpayment for investment properties. Go to your local bank and check it out. So Mr. Kiyosaki is not telling the truth? Are those stories REAL? Seems like he is getting rich on writing very controversial books using the success of the first couple of them but not really investing in real estate.

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (Science and Cultural Theory)

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For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their componentsânuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so onâbut over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this turn toward âgrowing explanationsâ from the bottom up. The essays show how this strategyâbased on a widespread appreciation for complexity even in apparently simple processes and on the capacity of computers to simulate such complexityâhas played out in a broad array of sciences. They describe how scientists are reordering knowledge to emphasize growth, change, and contingency and, in so doing, are revealing even phenomena long considered elementaryâlike particles and genesâas emergent properties of dynamic processes. <BR><BR>Written by leading historians and philosophers of science, these essays examine the range of subjects, people, and goals involved in changing the character of scientific analysis over the last several decades. They highlight the alternatives that fields as diverse as string theory, fuzzy logic, artificial life, and immunology bring to the forms of explanation that have traditionally defined scientific modernity. A number of the essays deal with the mathematical and physical sciences, addressing concerns with hybridity and the materials of the everyday world. Other essays focus on the life sciences, where questions such as âWhat is life?â and âWhat is an organism?â are undergoing radical re-evaluation. Together these essays mark the contours of an ongoing revolution in scientific explanation. <BR><BR>Contributors. David Aubin, Amy Dahan Dalmedico, Richard Doyle, Claus Emmeche, Peter Galison, Stefan Helmreich, Ann Johnson, Evelyn Fox Keller, Ilana LÃ¶wy, Claude Rosental, Alfred Tauber

A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody): With 61 Full-Color Illustrations

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Andrew Lang , and Richard Doyle
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Charming illustrations enhance the narrative of a much-loved classic that tells the story of Prince Comical and his search for the diminutive princess without a name. Elves, fairies, dwarfs and other denizens of fairyland will prove irresistible to anyone enchanted by the fantasy world of sprites and other little people.

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A SUPERB PAIRING OF ART AND POETRY

Fairyland in Art and Poetry

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Poetry to delight anyone who still believes in magic."When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."-J. M. Barrie, Scottish, 1860-1937, from Peter PanThe art of Englishman Richard Doyle offers lush glimpses into the world of the wee folk. Doyle's fairies troop through meadows, twirl in the moonlight, and enlist birds and bugs in games and mischief. His whimsical illustrations, chosen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, are paired with poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stevie Smith, and Langston Hughes, among others.Fairy sweethearts among the roses illustrate Wilder's "The Fairies in the Sunshine," elf babies in a snail race match Robert Graves's "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child," and a fairy queen carried by butterflies reimagines Shakespeare's popular "Queen Mab" soliloquy. A magical treasury that will enchant readers of all ages.

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Lovely Art, Lovely Poetry.......2006-12-25

The fairy art in this is unique and exquisite. Each image goes very well with the sweetly written poetry along side it. Wonderful to read to a child or yourself to lift you spirits!

A SUPERB PAIRING OF ART AND POETRY.......2002-03-13

British artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883), the son of a portrait painter and caricaturist, may be best remembered by some as the creator of the cover design for Punch, which was used for over a century. He also illustrated a number of children's books and created beguiling paintings of fairies, the wee folk. It is the latter that is used to illustrate this lovely keepsake volume.

Doyle's paintings are imaginative and incandescent, luminous illustrations of fairies astride snails, perched on a beetle or relaxing on a verdant hillock. Each illustration perfectly accompanies a poem, such as a tiny one sipping from a cowslip's bell in Shakespeare's "Ariel's Song" or fairies engaged in a tug-of-war with a grasshopper in "An Explanation of the Grasshopper" by Vachel Lindsay.

Other poets represented include John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, and Langton Hughes.

The pairing of art and poetry is superb, thoughtfully conceived and executed. This slim volume deserves a place in everyone's library.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League', `The Blue Carbuncle', and `The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia'. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.

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Classic mystery stories.......2007-03-10

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were hugely popular in their day. Readers would sometimes line up outside the offices of the Strand magazine, which originally published these stories, eager to get their hands on the latest adventure. Doyle is a master at constructing a mystery. I've read the novels "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of Four" and find that the short story is a more suitable form for Doyle's formula. In the novels, Holmes and Watson disappear for long stretches while the narrative flashes back to the events surrounding the mystery in question. In these stories, the famous duo are never gone for long, if at all. I also enjoyed the humor in these tales, which I had not expected when I began reading.

Thoroughly enjoyable.......2005-11-22

You can see why this detective model has been copied so many times: these short stories are the hour episodes of today's ubiquitous crime shows. Doyle manages a wonderful balance between intellectually entertaining crime solving, character development of Holmes and Watson, action, and turnover of each tale's novel guests and events.

... whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.......2005-10-20

In college I went through a phase where I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Once I got started reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, I didn't want to stop. It was sad when I read the last story.

Now years later it was fun to read them again. I enjoy the Sherlock Holmes short stories more than one of the novels. For me one of the most enjoyable parts of a Sherlock Holmes story is reading about what happened, and then reading how Sherlock Holmes solved the problem. A collection of short stories provides this experience many times.

This collection has many classics. It has the famous line "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet.)

It is also interesting to see what life was like in England 100 years ago. They had the underground, but use carriages, there was lots of travel by train, and life in general was a bit rougher than today.

If you haven't read any Sherlock Holmes stories, this is a good place to start.

THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!.......2005-07-10

This is the GREATEST BOOK EVER!!!! If you watch Star Trek - after reading all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, you will see why the character "Data" was so mesmerized by Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are ingenious - you will see how clever this detective is when he unravels the mysteries - Try as I might - I could never come up with the anwer to the riddles proposed in each of the stories - IT WAS A COMPLETE PAGE TURNER - I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN - each night I went to sleep reluctantly because I did not want to stop reading, but I was so tired! MAKE READING THIS ONE OF YOUR LIFE GOALS - IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO MISS IT. This is definately the BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.
ENJOY - I ENVY YOUR FRESH EXPERIENCE WITH IT :-)

Perfect Stories! Perfect Adventures!.......2005-01-05

For those who love mystery stories this combined anthology of all of Sherlock Holmes Adventures and short stories is a desert island book for sure. Conan Doyle was THE author who developed the mystery genre as we know it today! His works are pure classics and each one is a masterpiece. Individual reviews could be done on all of the short stories and each of the novelettes, but it is so much nicer to have the works all in one reference volume. Conan Doyle has reached that enviable position where most authors want to be - his hero has been immortalized and there is probably no one in any of the literate countries that has not heard of Sherlock Holmes. Not too bad for an author that started these stories in penny newsprint editions! I could go on and on and write highlights from each of the stories, but that would spoil your fun when you delve in and begin to read or reread them again.

Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living (Theory Out of Bounds, V. 24)

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Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living (Theory Out of Bounds, V. 24)
Richard Doyle
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The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between science and speculation, fraught with the possibility of technological and perhaps even evolutionary transformations, is the territory Richard Doyle explores in Wetwares. In a manner at once sober and playful, Doyle maps potentials for human transformation by new ecologies of information in the early twenty-first century.

Wetwares ranges over recent research in artificial life, cloning, cryonics, computer science, organ transplantation, and alien abduction. Moving between actual technical practices, serious speculative technology, and science fiction, Doyle shows us emerging scientific paradigms where "life" becomes more a matter of information than of inner vitality-in short, becomes "wetwares" for DNA and computer networks. Viewing technologies of immortality-from cryonics to artificial life-as disciplines for welcoming a thoroughly other future, a future of neither capital, god, human, nor organism, the book offers tools for an evolutionary, transhuman mutation in the utterly unpredictable decades to come.

Richard Doyle is associate professor of rhetoric and science studies in the Department of English at Penn State University. He is the author of On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (1997).

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