Book Description
Though many have written about Diana, Princess of Wales, few have known her as intimately as Simone Simmons, the woman who became Diana's close friend and confidante following her painful separation and divorce.
A beautiful tribute to the remarkable woman behind the image, here is Diana as we have never seen her before--the secret forays she took, often hiding in plain sight in various disguises, to Hampstead Heath and the jazz clubs of Soho; her deepest feelings about Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, and the royal family; the shocking truth about Diana's one true love and how losing him led her into the arms of playboy millionaire Dodi Fayed. Full of penetrating insight and startling new revelations, Diana: The Secret Years brings the People's Princess vividly to life for the people who love her--and who continue to celebrate her enduring memory and lasting legacy.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating, insightful and under-rated.......2004-06-07
What an under rated book this is. I've just finished reading it, after Paul Burrell's book in which he speaks so well of Miss Simmons' friendship with Princess Diana. Although I'd heard of the book, but not Ms. Simmons, I took Burrell's mention of her as a recommendation.
I was surprised that some of the so-called "new" revelations in our newspapers and on our TV, were first written about in this book which was published in 1998.
I found this a genuine and very warm account of a close personal friendship between the author and the Princess. I'm just sorry I never read this earlier.
load of bunkum.......2004-01-11
This is the biggest load of trash I have ever read. A complete fabrication by the author IMO. I'm just glad Diana is not around to read this utter rubbish.
Very Interesting Reading.......2003-04-17
I own practically every book ever written about Diana, Princess of Wales, but I think this has to be the most interesting account ever written. I loved it - it's very well-written, very insightful into her personality, and contains information I had never known before. It truly does explore "the secret years" of Diana's life in the 1990s. As a healer and close friend of Diana's, Simone Simmons had access to knowledge and personal details of Diana's life. But rather than seeing this account as a betrayal, I see it rather as a healer's insight into a unique personality. Much of what is written here is a healer's psychoanalysis of Diana's mind. I continue to be a great fan of Princess Diana's and am thrilled to have come across this book. You won't be able to put it down!
The Private Diana.......2002-03-04
I had vowed never to read, much less buy, another book about Diana, but I read the excerpts and decided I wanted to read more.
The author tells us about the problems Diana had in her everyday life in a matter-of-fact way. She is not overly sympathetic, but relates what happened. Unfortunately she was one of the friends/helpers Diana had turned away from by the time of her death and Ms. Simmons describes why. I think if the accident hadn't happened they'd have made up by now.
This book doesn't praise or bash a very sad and mixed-up young woman. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Diana.
From Trash to Tuth.......2001-08-09
When I first heard about this book I thought what a load of rubbish, but since it has been written, far too many people have come forward and confirmed everything that Ms. Simmons had been the first to write about. Leading world figures and close friends of Diana have spoken out in TV interviews and other books about the Princess, which now gives this book total credibility and shows it to be 100% truthful. All the facts about Diana's private life have been revealed here and it's very sad that so few people appreciated this book when it was first written.
The fact is that this book is the story of a friendship between two women who shared many emotional experiences, helped each other and grew together - despite obvious class differences. The way in which Ms. Simmons remembers Diana is very touching indeed. She was obviously a true friend whom I believe Diana did ask to write a book and "tell it like it is".
Average customer rating:
|
New Year's Revolution (The Secret World of Alex Mack, No. 22)
Diana G. Gallagher
Manufacturer: Aladdin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Action & Adventure
| Literature
| Children's Books
| Subjects
| Books
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
| Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror
| Literature
| Children's Books
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Ages 9-12
| Children's Books
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science Fiction
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0671015559 |
Customer Reviews:
very well written.......1999-03-08
this book was very good but if it was a little more discriptive i would of gave it five stars
Average customer rating:
|
The Primal Screen
John Brosnan
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Movies
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
History & Criticism
| Science Fiction
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Subjects
| Books
Performing Arts
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
| Dance
| General
| Reference
| Theater
General
| Foreign Languages
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0356202224 |
Average customer rating:
|
Franz Liszt: The Man and the Musican
Ronald Taylor
Manufacturer: Universe Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Liszt, Franz
| Composers
| Classical
| Musical Genres
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Music
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0876634900 |
Book Description
BradyGames' Way of the Samurai 2 Official Strategy Guide includes a comprehensive walkthrough for each possible story path in the game. Detailed area maps pinpoint enemy and item locations. Expert fighting techniques. Tips for collecting all swords and items in the game. Game secrets and more revealed!
This product is available for sale worldwide, excluding Japan and Asia.
Customer Reviews:
Mildly helpful.......2004-07-23
I would rate this one of the worst strategy guides ever. The guide says it details a walkthrough to each ending, full job descriptions, moves and attributes of every weapon, and a list of all items as well as area maps. First I want to say that my problem is not so much what is in this guide as what is not. Starting with the endings, yes it has detailed walkthroughs to 11 endings. However there are 14 endings, so not all endings in the game have walkthroughs in this guide. The "full job descriptions" are not full at all. There are at least 10 missions I have found that are not listed. Also, information that you would want about the missions, such as locations to look for items, are left out of the guide. It basically tells you to figure it out for yourself (I thought that is why I bought the guide). The moves and attributes of every weapon are listed mostly, however I have found at least one sword that is not listed in this list (and this belongs to a main character). Also one very key attribute is not listed, the stance of the sword. This guide gives very bad advice for fighting in this game as well as some information that is just plain wrong. It seemed to me that they started to try and make a good guide but just decided to do one of the most half a$$ed jobs I have ever seen. I could expound more about the flaws in this guide but I think you get the point. I get better info from gamefaqs.com. Oh yeah, there is an item list that has every item, however it has some information that is false about some of the items and the item headings are wrong for many Items (one of those things you notice after playing it a few times).
Book Description
More people have used the Internet to participate in an online group than to read news or even to buy something. Online social networks have enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years, and every major Internet portal now offers some kind of social networking or "blogging" tool to its users. But these tools are not just recreational - they are rapidly becoming essential tools for business. They are part of a "social software" toolkit that includes blogs, relationship capital management software, advanced contact managers, virtual communities, web conferencing, instant messaging, and much more. The Virtual Handshake gives you the tools to take advantage of these new technologies to become dramatically more successful in business. Filled with clear, real-life examples, The Virtual Handshake shows you how to: * sign new customers, meet new business partners, and find your dream job * create a powerful professional presence online * attract business in online networks * meet more relevant senior people * start and promote your own blog * master the email deluge * analyze and value your social network * use web conferencing and discussion forums to build strong relationships * manage your contact database * ensure privacy and safety online The Virtual Handshake is the first book ever written about how to become extraordinarily successful by using these new online tools. Buying the book gives you a free pass to an extremely thorough and continually-updated resource site, TheVirtualHandshake.com.
Customer Reviews:
Be yourself, act responsibly, and remember you are the same person both online and offline.......2007-03-18
The world is changing and so is business. The Internet, and various "Web 2.0" technologies, for lack of a better (or even good) name, are rapidly becoming an integral part of business and life.
The Virtual Handshake doesn't attempt to get you entirely up to date -- that's impossible, but up to speed -- that's far more valuable.
If you don't have any trusted colleagues you've never met in person or maybe not even talked to over the phone, you need this book. Even if you've spent a quarter of a century online like I have, you need this book. I learned a lot, and still refer to this book often. (If your secretary reads your email to you and you dictate answers, I suggest you retire or read this book ASAP.- You need help catching up).
After reading The Virtual Handshake, and I strongly suggest you do, you'll understand the basics, importance, and success guidelines of social software. You'll be up to speed in perhaps the most critical area of business change in our lifetime. The CURRENT wave of the Internet, and probably more important than the original commercialization and popularization of the Internet.
Hey, what's more interesting, the Big Bang Theory or How Life Came About?? This is the "How Life Came About" part and you'll learn about things like virtual communities and social networking, but far more importantly,- you'll know what to do. Actual steps you should take --- and plenty of case studies to help you understand their importance. Guidelines to harness the power of these new whateveryoucallthem.
Hint: be yourself, act responsibly, and remember you are the same person both online and offline and don't forget it!
There is a lot of valuable information in this book. Plan to read it, enjoy it, and then study it. And plan on concrete benefits.
No Value Added.......2006-12-15
It's a rehash of common sense. Do not waste your time reading this book.
A must for recruiters.......2006-08-25
This inspiring book is a must for all recruiters who understand the leverage power of online sourcing and networking.
Primer for virtual networking.......2006-08-19
As its subtitle suggests, The Virtual Handshake is all about interfacing with business and social contacts through the worldwide web. In my field (recruiting), the lines between business and social contacts blur since everyone I encounter might need either a new job or project, might know someone who does, or might be in a position to hire. Networking is not just about pressing flesh and passing business cards at a luncheon these days. There is a rapidly growing area of opportunity to meet people and make deals on the internet. However, please note that The Virtual Handshake does not merely expound the virtues of the internet or report results of deals closed and marriages made, the authors also make the technologies easy to understand and provide practical advice on how to use what's out there. Published in 2005, the book provides current information on various virtual options and their uses. The authors cover topic such as social software and services online; virtual clubs and associations; tips on managing the deluge of email; basics on blogging; effective use of email blasts without being perceived as a spammer; netiquette; privacy protection; and, of course, real-life examples of the use of the virtual medium. Easy to read and very useful, The Virtual Handshake is a primer for those of us who haven't been hip to the virtual world that's out there. It made me wonder if I've been living under a rock! The good news is it's not too late to learn, and this book will definitely help. I was so inspired by this book that I boldly went out there into the virtual world and set up my own blogsite!
Virtual Handshake-.......2006-07-04
This book delivers everything it promises. It is interesting from beginning to end and is obviously written by someone who is inspiring, articulate and experienced. It gives really good advice abot how to handle and manage one's growing familiarity with Internet capabilities and offers several good references for aspiring networkers. It even explains how to write a good resume.
Customer Reviews:
Great Memoir.......2000-09-24
This is a highly entertaining, funny, and tightly written memoir. Anyone interested in ghostwriting should read this book. Taylor Branch does a wonderful job with structure, with each chapter reading like a thematic essay, rather than a chronological depiction of events. I couldn't put the book down.
Russell is a wily and stubborn yet unconventionally thoughtful persona. Russell was an avid student and his opinions, while unorthodox, make a lot of sense, and thus are very humorous. His qualms with the idolization of sports stars, for example, manifest in funny anecdotes about fans seeking autographs and Red Auerbach trying to retire his jersey. And though Russell tries to depict his life in unromatntic terms - the final scene is of him giving up his clim of Mt Ranier - his story is inspirational. The path he takes from rural, segregated Louisiana - where his peers believe in ghosts - to media superstar is dramatic.
My favorite section in the book is the part where Russell describes Sam Jones's ability to take over a game, but Jones's refusal to do it very often. Jones didn't want the responsibility, he says, which confuses his teammates. The juxtaposition of Jones's great abilities to his listless and uncooperative sides was captivating. This is by far the best sports memoirs, and one of the best memoirs period, I've ever read.
an excellent inside of a perfect basketball game.......1999-05-07
Bill Russell takes you way inside to experience what playing in the NBA is all about when it works to the best it's able. A super fine book. I am glad it surfaced again in my archives. You really get the FEEL about playing a perfect game, especially as a TEAM.
Every athelete should read it, it's a great book about life........1998-11-23
This book is about life and the determination it takes to make it. It's funny yet it made me cry. It takes a boy from humble beginings to being on top of the world.
A book about life, its pleasures and pains. A great read.......1997-05-20
Bill Russell writes as he played; with controversy and excellence. As an N.B.A. All-Star and 11-time world champion, he knows about life and transfers this knowledge to the pages of his book.
This is a book about life's victories and defeats and how to deal with them.
Russell is entertaining, candid and controversial. He says what he thinks and has a great philosophy of life.
This book was written in 1979, but is even more important today, as we are besieged with athletes with big salaries and even bigger egos.
This book reveals a social as well as athletic history. If you can find a copy, it is well worth the reading.
Average customer rating:
|
Finland In The Second World War: Between Germany and Russia
Olli Vehvilainen
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Finland
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Germany
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Scandinavia
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| World War II
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Russia
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Ideologies
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
| Communism & Socialism
| Radical Thought
ASIN: 0333801490 |
Book Description
This book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them. In the Winter War of 1939-40, Finland successfully fought off a Soviet invasion. Then, with no one to turn to but Germany, it became the only democratic state in the Axis powers. Ultimately, it succeeded in extricating itself from the war and, despite the shadow of Russia looming over it, averted a communist takeover.
Customer Reviews:
Betrayed.......2002-10-18
As one who has both read Newman's book and as one who served in Vietnam myself, (1970) I can only say I feel a deep sense of betrayal by my own Government, that I have served so well in two wars in a military capacity and as a Civil Servant in a civilian capacity. The document's that Newman publishes in his book were classified "Top Secret" at the time of Kennedy's Assassination. Thanks to the "Freedom of Information" act, that is no longer the case and we can now see the behind the scenes moves that led the US deeper and deeper into Vietnam. We can also see Kennedy's efforts to reverse course before it became too late.
My grandmother who is now dead and millions of other Americans never saw JFK's NSAM - 263 classified Top Secret. Nor did I. That NSAM was quietly shelved by Lyndon Johnson two days after Kennedy's Assassination and his own NSAM implimented. NSAM - 273 freezing everyone in place. Today, thanks to Newman's book we can now see who was the real culprit responsible for America's slide into Vietnam. And it certainly wasn't that awful Roman Catholic President (in the eyes of anti-Kennedy bigots) in the White House, John F. Kennedy.
Instead the REAL culprit was Lyndon Baines Johnson and THAT is how History will eventually record it. Hats off to John M. Newman for bringing these Document's into public view for future generations to "learn" from. That is IF, people are now willing to learn.
William P. Urban
Sgt US Army
PO2 US Navy
The Question was: Who Was in Charge?.......2000-04-10
A book called Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky introduced me to the importance of this book. While the United States had suffered a number of defeats in countries in which we had chosen not to fight (China being gigantic compared to France), most of the people involved in maintaining American policy on Vietnam had accepted the idea that a way could be found to win in Vietnam. John M. Newman considered the importance of that idea "like going to church" for the people whose actions would be based entirely on the strength of such convictions. My father (who was not mentioned in the book being reviewed) was a minister who had been ordained during World War II, possibly a good excuse for not actually fighting in that war, but not good enough to convince me that God would always give us perpetual peace out of the goodness of His heart for having saved the world from the domination of anyone who actually wanted to rule here. Chomsky's book was based on the premise that American policy was the desire to win in Vietnam, an aim which Kennedy couldn't have deserted until this country had extracted the last full measure of devotion from everyone concerned. In the present, it should be much easier to admit the tendency to waffle, as all things have been twisted into a psychotic multiplicity in which our deepest desires take part in the constant attack on the facts. As much as those like Chomsky, who believe that Americans should maintain a certain level of belief in policy, might differ, I am inclined to think that some real dirt can be dug up on this issue, and this book shows what the official record looks like when its secrecy has been stripped away.
Average customer rating:
- Third World resources feed First World consumption and waste
|
Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests
William W. Bevis
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Climate Changes
| Climatology
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Forests & Forestry
| Natural Resources
| Nature & Ecology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Rain Forests
| Nature & Ecology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Living on the Land
| Ecology
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
| Architecture
| Hunting & Fishing
General
| Conservation
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Forests
| Conservation
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Reference
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Deforestation
| Forestry
| Agricultural Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Southeast Asia
| Asia
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Similar Items:
-
Savages
-
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
-
The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses
-
Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
-
The Last Panda
ASIN: 0295974168 |
Customer Reviews:
Third World resources feed First World consumption and waste.......1996-11-11
This is a story written in diary format by the author
who after a year as an exchange professor at Tokyo University
spent part of the next year living with native activists
fighting the resistance to Japanese logging, and Japanese timber
camp managers, on Borneo,the third largest island on earth which lies
just north of the Indonesian archipelago in the South China Sea.
This is a poignant travel narrative as well as a serious environmental
study of the exploitation of third world resources.
The true irony of the story of Borneo's rapdily disappearing
rainforest, and the local corruption and greed which siphon off
most of the profits, while native rights and land uses are
obliterated, (sounds like America in the early 19th century!)
is that most of the timber shipped to Japan
is used to feed Japan's wholesale adoption of American habits:
buy it, use it, throw it away, buy another! Much of the wood is
being used to make cheap furniture
and plywood forms for concrete that are thrown away after several uses.
Unlike America's own trees on vast land masses,Japan has little
to support such habits. This is really another story which is symptomatic
of first world countries exploitation of third world resources - and the
hypocrisy of the United States' condemnation of such practices.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of Contemporary Asia, published by Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1902 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests. (book reviews)
Author: Herb Thompson
Publication:
Journal of Contemporary Asia (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
Volume: v27
Issue: n1
Page: p121(5)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests.
Author: Rodolphe De Koninck
Publication:
Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: v69
Issue: n2
Page: p292(3)
Article Type: Book Review
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Books:
- Disertaciones, Tomo III
- Don Juan Theme: An Annotated Bibliography
- Earl Spencer: Saint or Sinner (Isis Large Print Nonfiction)
- Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters
- England in the Reign of Edward III (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
- Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
- Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led
- Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
- Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist (The Quest Library)
- God Save the Queen?: Monarchy and the Truth About the Windsors
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Adult Years: Mastering the Art of Self-Renewal
- The Athlete's Ball
- Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem
- Santa Comes to Little House
- Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
- National Electrical Code 2005 Handbook
- Stressed or Depressed: A Practical and Inspirational Guide for Parents of Hurting Teens
- Living with Earthquakes in California: A Survivor's Guide
- Otto Kahn: Art, Money, and Modern Time
- Annual Review of Phytopathology: 1993
Diana: Closely Guarded Secret (Diana Princess of Wales)
Diana---The Last Word
The Way We Were: Remembering Diana
Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led
Portraits of a Princess: Travels with Diana
