You can find several second hand books Websites online where you can buy second hand books in a very cheap price. Buying second hand books is a great way to save money especially in this credit crunch. By second hand books it doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t get readable or usable books, it will be as readable as the new book with the same content.

Especially for students buying education books for higher level courses can cost a fortune and I have been through it, so buying second hand educational books can save students a lot of money. You can get many other books not just educational books such as cook books if you are interested in cooking. If you love reading then you can find many romance books , non fiction and non fiction books to your collection.

So take a step forward towards saving money in this economy and purchase second hand books. Make sure you do some research on the Internet to find second hand but quality books. Always a concern if you are buying on the Internet you might not be able to see the book but you surely can read the description and the status of the book, which is the same as going to any vendor and purchasing a second hand book.

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What is Franklin Electornic Bible?

In today’s technologically advanced world, more and more people are also slowly getting digital in their spiritual lives by using a Franklin Electronic Bible.

Judging from how technology was being incorporated into every part of our lives, it was only a matter of time when it became a part of our spiritual lives as well.

There are many digital bibles available in the market today and the Franklin Electronic Bible is just one of them. These bibles are especially geared towards young adults that love the convenience of technology, but at the same time want to get in touch with their faith.

Franklin, the company, has been in this business for quite some time; creating digital learning materials like handheld devices, media cards and softwares for a very long time.

They not only create digital versions of the Bible, but they also provide clients with various learning tools, specifically dictionaries, encyclopedias and other education materials.

The handheld devices made by the company are available and used throughout the world and they aid all kinds of people in learning things every day.

The company is currently targeting Asia, specifically Japan. Their most recent release includes a pocket dictionary that allows people to check English words for their meaning.

These are very handy tools for learning and more gadgets will be developed according to the company, to accommodate this ever growing market.

As you can see, there is a big market for digital machines since each day more people are using them over traditional means. Hence, it is not surprising to see people sporting digital bibles instead of the actual book.

Different Versions of Franklin Electonic bibles

If you are thinking of getting a Franklin Electronic Bible, then you have got some serious thinking to do.

The reason for that is because there are plenty of kinds that you need to choose from, almost as many versions as you would have in traditional Bibles.

Here are some that you can check out.

Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV-570)

This electronic bible offers a complete version of the Old and New Testament set in your favorite old English version text.

You are no longer required to remember your favorite verses since looking for them is quite easy and simple with the instant search function. This digital bible contains an organizer capable of storing up to 100 entries.

Holy Bible, King James & New International Versions (BIB-1450)

If you prefer to compare your Bible Scripture and make sure that you are getting the meaning correctly, then this electronic bible is perfect for you.

It has both the full text of the New International Version and the King James Version of the Bible. You can also add more electronic books in this device so that you can have easy access to it.

There are also other helpful features like a clock and calculator.

Santa Biblia Reina-Valera Versión 1960™ (SPB-470)

You will find that the Spanish language is the fourth most used in the world. So if you are thinking of getting a Spanish Bible, then pick this one. It has the full text of the Bible in Spanish.

So why not get into the digital age without compromising your faith, get a Franklin electronic Bible and get in touch with your spirituality wherever you might go.

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A few days ago the sun was shining and lovely as it was, unfortunately this made our house show up all the layers of dust that had accumulated over the winter months. Because of this I decided that in my house spring had arrived early and it was definitely time to start the cleaning.

The day began with me full of plans to give the house a good old clean from top to bottom. The kitchen was first on the list and that took longer than anticipated, so already I was flagging. However I persevered and next on the list was clearing out the Utility room. This is one of the rooms where in our house we seem to shove everything and then just shut the door on it all. I hadn’t been working long when I stumbled across a load of Cheap Books that my mum had given to me. This set me off on a lovely trip down memory lane and that was the end of my cleaning for the day.

My mum was what you would call a book addict and was always at her best when she was reading. She didn’t really mind what she read it could be anything ranging from Fiction Books, romance books and she even owned a few Cook Books. I’m not sure why she had the cook books, because she never really seemed to be adventurous with her cooking. Perhaps she just enjoyed looking at all the pictures!

It was funny but I can remember a holiday we went on to Lanzarote. In my cases I had packed all the usual holiday necessities, sun tan lotion, swimming costumes and beach towels. I was flabbergasted because when mum unpacked her case it was full up with loads of books. Without a lie I think she had nearly a dozen with her. We were only booked for a 2 week holiday, so I thought it was a bit excessive. Saying all that though, she definitely had the last laugh as whilst she was sunbathing and enjoying reading her books, she got the most fantastic suntan.

Well my spring cleaning didn’t really go as well as I had hoped, but you know what it’s like sometimes you get sidetracked and I must admit when there is cleaning involved, any excuse to stop is always welcome.

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Creativity

• The Creative Habit – Learn it and use it for life

One Sentence Summary:

Creativity is learned, nourished and maintained; for inspiration to flow through us and spring forth from the mind, you must prepare, have rituals that invoke it, to know our creative DNA – what we are made for, use our memory and connect disparate things with each other, organize work documents so that we always know where to find them, know how to scratch the surface of things to extract the essential, use the accidents and incidents that that appear in our life, have an idea-base which serves as a backbone for our creation, use our talents wisely, recognize roadblocks and the moments that overtake us, know how to fail, and pace ourselves over the long term – to the very end.

Strong Points:

• Good book, in which the pleasant format judiciously adds value to the contents.
• Packed with ideas, tricks and ways to develop and maintain creativity.
• Full of practical exercises and practially inexhaustible.
• Twyla Tharp tells us about numerous relevant personal experiences

Weak Points:

• A bit too much emphasis on purely artistic creativity.
• Some passages are not believable showing a certain lack of scientific knowledge in the author.
• Book is a bit too packed and crowded at times.

My score :

• The Path of Least Resistance – Learn to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

One Sentence Summary: Our freedom in life, like our freedom of movement in a building, is partly defined by its structure, thus to be able to create our life, and move towards our ideal, it is better to change its structure rather than change our behavior within the same framework, this book teaches us to do so by showing how we can create a structure in our life, which draws us inexorably, and almost effortlessly, along the path of least resistance- and pushes us to create what we really want for ourselves.

Strong Points:

• Complete method, rich and profound
• Concrete use of a system to change our lives
• Many passages that stand out for their intelligence and the impact they cause
• A dense book which will only be completely understood after several readings

Weak Points:

• Very dense
• Lots of jargon
• Lots of repetition
• Complex

My rating:

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Boost Your Productivity

• Getting Things Done – The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

One-Sentence Summary: To be efficient, your mind must be crystal clear, like spring water; to get to that point you need to get rid of all the parasitic thoughts that permanently distract you, which you can accomplish by putting  everything that you want to, or must do into an external automated system, thus relieving your brain of the need to think – which it does badly, without directed prioritization and without consciously choosing the right moment.

Strong Points:

• Complete and coherent method
• Presented in a simple manner
• Intelligent and how-to friendly

Weak Points:

• In spite of the levels of altitude defined by the author, this method will not make you more intelligent or more conscious of what you really want: you could become more efficient at something that you hate doing.

My rating:

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• The Unwritten Laws of Business

One Sentence Summary: To succeed in your career, you must understand and apply many unwritten rules with respect to the work, the chain of command, colleagues, project management, the organizational structure, what managers expect from their subordinates, character, personality, and personal development; sometimes these laws seem obvious but even so, those presented in this book are regularly forgotten.

My score :

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• The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

One Sentence Summary: An executive – one who makes decisions that affect your business – must be effective, that is, he must do what it takes; this book teaches us to do that, by teaching us to learn how to watch our time and to organize it, to ask ourselves about what we contribute rather than what is owed to us, to nurture the energy in ourselves and in others by focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses, concentrating on priorities by trimming the past and having the courage – rather than the intelligence – to determine what they are, making effective decisions based on 5 basic principles, and to understand that every choice has alternatives.

Strong Points:

• Concise and relevant
  
• Many practical applications proposed, mostly in the form of relevant questions to ask
  
• For any person exercising responsibility in the workplace – an executive in the broad sense
  
• A solid foundation on which to build efficiency
  
• Can be read as a summary of the fundamental principles of efficiency

Weak Points:

• The examples may seem a bit out of date
  
• Water has passed under the bridge since then, and many books have appeared to deepen the concepts covered by the author

My rating:

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• Cut To The Chase

One Sentence Summary: Our time is the most precious thing we have; to look after it, it is important to know how to get straight to the point by understanding a number of rules; this book presents 100 of them.

Strong Points:

• Short and concise
• Lots of excellent rules, most of them good 
• Lots of pictures, with a sense of humor and a penchant for poetry.

Weak Points:

• Does not deal with the subject in depth 
• Lots of sports imagery and notably football, which might put some readers off – or not

My rating:

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• Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

One Sentence Summary : Many people are as unprepared for the onslaught of information in this new era as illiterates would be in a library, even the younger generation, as familiar as they are with computers, are not so with the massive amounts of information that come their way; this book teaches us to manage it via various diverse methods, tools, tips and software.

Strong Points:

• Overall approach original and intelligent
• Contents relatively timeless (by comparison to the average information technology book) 
• Numerous ideas and interesting methods, even for expert digital information users
• Revolutionary for everyone who is not an expert in digital information

Weak Points:

• Anti-Microsoft and pro-Apple absolutely not in an objective way 
• Doesn’t talk about certain technologies like file indexing and voice recognition
• Methods that make a digital information professional like myself raise his eyebrows; there are certain points on which I absolutely disagree with the author; I will write an article about this soon

My rating : (if you are not an experienced digital user)

(if you are a seasoned expert with your own methods)

Add half a star if you have a Mac and another half star if you are anti-Microsoft.

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• The Simplicity Survival Handbook – 1

One Sentence Summary: In life there is theory and practice, and there are things that “usually” work a certain way, that in actual practice work differently; discover how things really work in the professional world by exploring these 32 Ways To Do Less and Accomplish More and have a more productive and calmer life.

Strong Points:

• Amazing format, with numerous humorous and helpful drawings
• Designed not to be read in its entirety: choose the parts that interest you the most
• Detailed and intelligent content
• How-tos in the form of bulleted lists that are easy to understand
• Substantiated with probes, surveys and scientific studies

Weak Points:

• Above all designed for people who work in large corporations

My rating:

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Projects Management

• Results Without Authority

One Sentence Summary: Today in large organizations, it is rare that the project lead has supervisory power over all the people on his project team. He must, however, maintain enthusiasm, motivation and results from people without being able to use the power of his position and powers of coercion; this book teaches us numerous techniques to do so.

Strong  Points:

• Detailed
• Good internal organization
• The author is experienced which comes through in every paragraph.
• Focused on large corporations

Weak Points:

• Heavy format, dry and irritating
• Sometimes a bit too theoretical and conceptual
• Very focused on large corporations
• Not translated into French

Translated by http://www.DeansResource.com

My rating: (if you lead projects in a large corporation)

(if you lead projects in another sector)

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• Making Things Happen

One Sentence Summary : Project management is a complicated art which requires you to master a number of things such as planning, understanding what needs to be done, writing a good overall vision statement, understanding where ideas come from, understanding what to do with ideas, writing good specifications, understanding how to make good decisions, communication and interpersonal relationships, what to do when things go badly, understanding why leadership is built on trust, making things happen, managing the strategy in the middle and at the end of the project, or understanding questions of power and politics; this book describes in detail each of these components and gives us numerous methods and tricks for mastering them.

Strong points:

• Very thorough
• Sprinkled with humorous phrases which lighten it up
• The author has obviously mastered his subject down to the tips of his fingernails
• Geared towards the software industry, but contains advice and methods applicable to the management of any project in a large organization.

Weak Points:

• Very, very heavy
• A little too geared towards the software industry
• A little too geared towards large organizations

My rating: (if you are called to lead projects in large organizations – add a star if your company is in the software industry)

(if you are called to lead projects in another field)

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Conclusion, and My Best-Of

Well, I hope that this summary will help you to find what is helpful for you in this category of the Personal MBA . Here are my  my three favorite books:

1. The Path of Least Resistance : I think about the content of this book without stopping. Yet it’s one of the most difficult to read ofthe entire category, but it is a gold mine full of nuggets. Change the structure rather than solve problems, it’s so brilliant, genius, so universal …

2. Getting Things Done – The Art of Stress-Free Productivity : I have applied only part of GTD (see GTD, Implementation – 1) but I already see many benefits in implementing this method: a clean desk, a clearer mind, tasks made more efficiently, and even better sleep. I can not imagine what I will win when I will have fully implemented it .

3. The Simplicity Survival Handbook : This book is a model of practicality, because of its funny and practical format, and the fact that it is designed so that anyone must only choose, read and apply what is directly relevant to you. And its content is simply awesome.

If you must only retain three books, that would be those in my opinion .

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Whether it’s for Christmas, birthday, a special event or just for pleasure, a book is an original and exciting gift with the potential to completely change the life of the person you give it to. Few things can boast such possibility and at such modest cost. But it is difficult to find that rare pearl in the maze of bookstores and libraries, so I am offering you a selection of mind-blowing, rare and demanding books, all of which transformed the way I look at the world. Look for the one that will best suit the person you love or appreciate – or the one that is likely to get them to give up their bad habits .

Here is a list of each of the books, the critiques and my notes are lower down on the page:

• For learning to read books in another language

1 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

• Well being and happiness

2 – Being Genuine: Stop being nice and be real! by Thomas d’Ansembourg

• Entrepreneurism, work and success

3 – Living The 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More by Richard Koch

4 – The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris

• Finances et Money

5 – The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley et William D. Danko (1998)

• Health

6 – Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman

7 – Anticancer by Doctor David Servan-Schreiber

• Seduction

8 – The Game by Neil Strauss

• For learning to read books in another language

1 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997, 224 pages)

This is the book that made me start reading books in English, although my old high school grades were frankly not brilliant and it seemed like a huge obstacle to overcome. And yet I knew that this ability would open doors for me to thousands of books of excellent quality that have never been translated – a new culture was opening its doors to me. So I bought the first volume of the Harry Potter series, in English, and it arrived like a letter in the mail: This book is short, uses simple vocabulary and tells an engaging story. It gave me the confidence to continue, so I can now read the much more complex books of my Personal MBA Challenge, without any problem

The Harry Potter series is actually excellent for this because it grows in thickness and complexity of vocabulary, and in intrigue, throughout the volumes, which makes it a great way to tackle difficulty gradually.

Yes, but you already knew how to speak English, you say, and you would not be wrong . But that’s the idea: you can use the many translations of Harry Potter that were made to get started reading the book in a particular language. And if you get stuck on a passage go back to your original edition

Strong Points:

• Simple and clear
• Engaging story
• An excellent introduction to start reading in a foreign langage

Weak Points:

• Somewhat childish

My Rating:

Read more reviews about Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on Amazon.

• Well being and happiness

2 – Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real by Thomas d’Ansembourg (2004, 256 pages)

Thomas Ansembourg is a former lawyer who has spent ten or so years in an association that deals with troubled youth. After being around them, he changed dramatically; he understood that violence is born out of frustration over basic needs and he is trained in non violent communication.

He explains in this book that if we are nice, and say yes too often in order to please others, we gradually cut out our real needs, and that the frustration that builds up might one day explode, hurting someone much more than if we had told them no sometimes, thus causing a mean reaction in us.

He traces this behavior that influences us in a reasonably significant, and more or less unconscious way to our childhood, then presents the various disadvantages of this approach and what it would do for us if we were more in tune with ourselves, by explaining to us in a way that is completely simple, passionate and meaningful. It is a book that is both easy to read, and has a richness that merits reading several times, giving you more with each reading to get more in tune with yourself, be happy and more yourself.

Strong Points:

• Motivating, enthusiastic
• Simple and easy to read
• At some point or another you will get wrapped up in what the author is saying
• It is profound enough to read (or listen to) over and over

Weak Points:

• Quite honestly, I didn’t find any, and that’s rare

My Rating:

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• Entrepreneurism, work and success

3 – Living The 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More by Richard Koch (2007, 200 pages)

This book is a version of The 80/20 Principle oriented towards the public at large, and it is a marvel of simplicity, clarity and practicality.

The author shows us how to use Pareto’s very universal Law, which states that 80% of results are generated by 20% of cases on a daily basis, to improve our lives in all areas. 20% of a company’s customers make up 80% of its sales (that’s the case with mine), 20% of countries in the world share 80% of the wealth, in these same countries, 20% of people share 80% of the wealth, 80% of our work is done in 20% of the time we are allotted, 80% of our worries comes from 20% of our relationships (clients, friends, acquaintances, etc), 20% of our relationships bring us 80% of the love we need, etc.

Without this book, I would not be in the middle of learning to devote myself to the essentials, and understanding what are the important tasks and what are not, who are the important people and who are not, what really matters to me, what are the tasks that take 80% of my time and don’t count for anything or very little, etc.

The author provides ideas, concrete examples and tables to complete as support for reflection so that we can use this principle to its fullest in our work, our finances, our relationships, so that we can finally experience the joy of living life to the full.

Strong Points:

• Concrete and goes straight to the point
• Pleasant and varied format
• Numerous exercises offered to find out what you wish for and how to apply the 20/80 rule.

Weak Points:

• A little dry
• Not as meaninful as The 4-Hour Workweek (but it is a great companion)

My Rating:

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4 – The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris (2007, 300 pages)

These individuals have wealth just as we would say “we have a fever,” and it is a fever that comes over us - Sénèque

This book made me open eyes to so many things that it would be impossible to list them all here. It made me realize that efficiency is not performance, that working 10 hours a day is not necessarily more productive than working 6 hours a day, that it is better to manage tasks in batches, to remove interruptions, to restrict information and practice selective ignorance. He taught me to devote myself to the basics, made me really understand the meaning of Pareto’s 20/80 law (it is therefore an excellent companion to the previous book because it shows how to use it in practice) and gave me a more detailed model to create an automated business that almost runs itself.

Because of this book, I get that many people drown working to ruffle the air and fill a void. I really get up to what point rules can be bent, twisted and recreated.

Whether you want to give it to an entrepreneur, an overworked executive, a laborer, a student or anyone else, everyone will be able to draw from it interesting ideas for his own life, see and find the desire and the inspiration to change completely!

My Rating:

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• Finances and Money: To manage your finances and invest to increase your wealth

5 – The Millionnaire Next Door, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko (1998)

For 20 years, the authors studied rich people, which means people with over one million dollars, in the United States, to try to understand their habits and behaviors, and to what extent these behaviors might be related to their wealth.

The surprise was huge: the rich are not those who live in exclusive neighborhoods, drive sports cars, and have jobs considered at the top of the social ladder. At least not necessarily: the proportion of financially independent people (who could quit their job for a long time with no problem) and wealth is lower in this group than in others: people who spend much less than they earn.

In a veritable sociological study of the subject, they dissected the average millionaire and showed that he lives more than anywhere, in a middle class neighborhood, drives an “ordinary” car, for which he negotiated the best price, sticks to a budget, invests intelligently, limits unnecessary spending as much as possible, uses all the tax breaks that he can, owns his own home, and belongs to a social class that that has no need of living ostentatiously in order to be considered successful.

Millionaires live frugally and well below their means. This allows them to invest a substantial percentage of their earnings (between 20 and 40%) which ultimately with the magic of compound interest, allows them to amass a colossal fortune.

This book made me understand that wealth is not necessarily tied to high incomes, that every little expense today could have an exorbitant cost 20 years later, and that everyone who acts intelligently could save enough to become financially independent as quickly as possible.

For example, between a nurse who began working at age 20, and a doctor who starts at 26, you might think it would be the doctor who some day might have more disposable capital than the nurse. That is no doubt true in most cases, but not necessarily. If the nurse works 6 more years than the doctor, during which time she benefits by saving and starts to invest, she will have less need to spend her money on useless gadgets and ostentatious things like a large house or a big, polluting car to show how successful she is, and will be able to achieve financial autonomy sooner.

Quick Calculation: Let’s say that the nurse earns an average of €2,000 / month for 20 years, that she saves 20% of her earnings (€ 400) every month and invests it at 10%: At the end of 20 years, when she is 40, she will have a sum of € 303,347 which will bring her about € 2,500 / month in interest. She can retire at 40 and still keep a comfortable sum.

The doctor begins working at 26. Let’s say he earns € 6,000 a month on average until he is 40, and he saves 10% of his earnings every month (€ 600) and invests it at 10%. By age 40, he will have a sum of € 218,000 which will bring him about €1,800 in monthly interest. The doctor has an important way of life (big cars purchases on credit, beautiful house, with a mortgage, numerous gadgets like a large screen TV) and he cannot retire and live off his pension. It will take him a lot more years before he can retire.

You must read this book intelligently. Dying with a pile of gold is just as stupid as dying with 2 villas and 5 luxury vehicles if you have not realized your dreams. Money is a means, not an end, and you must also enjoy life. But the basic message to take away, I think, is to focus on the essential: what good is it having a flat panel TV, a great vehicle, and lots of gadgets if you are not happy? Everything we buy ends up owning us rather than the other way around, better save your money for things that are more useful, more interesting, for things that we really want, like traveling for example, or working less.

One piece of advice worth keeping: begin to save as much as possible. With the magic of compound interest, this money will become a small fortune in about 20 years. I wish I had known this when I was 18. Today I would have had an enormous sum of money to invest.

My Rating:

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• Health: For someone who is not interested enough in health or for someone who is!

6 – Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman (2005, 525 pages)

This book was the first to radically change my life. I read it at the end of 2006, and I took almost 4 months to finish it and integrate it pretty much completely.

Starting with the premise that 1) western medicine is primarily a curative medicine that heals you after the onset of symptoms but does not teach you to prevent disease and 2) that doctors, with all their skills and experience, when all is said and done, spend only 15 minutes with you in consultation, the authors show that only you can effectively take charge of your health for the long term.

Without this book, I would still be eating anything, and especially fatty, sweet and salty foods such as pizzas, and ready-made meals smothered in sauce, I would not be eating fruit and fresh vegetables, or exercising, and I would still be thinking that you worry about your health when you get old and you begin to have problems. All behaviors that increase dramatically the likelihood of being affected by a disease endemic to western civilization in the twentieth century: diabetes, obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, terrible diseases but which can be largely prevented by two simple things simple: a healthy diet (fruit and fresh vegetables, not too much sugar, not oo much salt, not too many bad fats) and exercise.

The book explains the underlying mechanisms of many of these diseases and the means that exist to prevent them. On the agenda: food and water, carbohydrates and the glycemic index of foods, fats and proteins, digestion, ideal weight and obesity, the problem with sugar, insulin and diabetes, genomics, inflammation, methylation, toxins and detoxification, the prevention of heart disease, cancer and its detection, the brain, the hormones for youth and aging, active supplements, physical activity and finally, stress.

Reading this book will be good for you to understand your body and the impact of your lifestyle on your long-term health. In addition, Ray Kurzweil is an inventor of genius, an American millionaire, and also an acknowledged futurist who punctuates the book with passages of science fiction to delight fans

Strong Points:

• Detailed and very complete
• Readable
• Exciting (in any case it really drew me in)
• Punctuated with paragraphs of fantastic and exciting futurism
• Starting point for a real awakening for people who have never thought about all this before (myself included)

Weak Points:

• Some controversial passages (particularly on the importance of the alkalinity of water)
• The underlying theme of the book (use the best current medical knowledge to extend your life until science enables us to save  more than one year of life expectancy every year- eliminating old age and death) may put off some readers
• Quite long

My Rating:

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7 – Anticancer, by Doctor David Servan-Schreiber (2007, 360 pages)

David Servan-Schreiber is a physician, psychiatrist and neurologist who tells us in this book about his ordeal when it was discovered, by chance, that he was suffering from a brain tumor. This news hit at the height of his glory when he was a promising 30 year old researcher in Pittsburgh in the United States, and he had to face up to the consequences of his new condition, personally and professionally – his relationships with his medical colleagues were not very easy.

In this work, which complements the first nicely, and is very readable, he takes us by the hand and explains how, in addition to conventional therapy, he decided to take charge and completely change his lifestyle, which did not include exercise and healthy food. He takes this opportunity to tell us that doctors and researchers are so taken by their work – healing the sick – they do not have time to learn about the research taking place on how prevent cancer and other diseases. Here again we find the pitfall of modern western medicine, which is content to solve problems once they have occurred, rather than teach us to prevent them. Chinese medicine – certainly far less developed than our sophisticated health system – at least has the value of a preventative approach: if the patient of a competent doctor who practices in this way becomes ill, it is because the doctor has failed. This is a radically different approach which is sadly lacking in ours.

In the end, nothing really new in this book – essentially we should eat well, exercise, be relaxed and thrive in order to have a healthy life – but David Servan-Schreiber tells us in no uncertain terms, with the emotion of his own personal experience, and a first hand point of view, of the general ideas of western medicine, in which he points out precisely – and in a pleasant way – the deficiencies. For a person who has never thought about these questions and eats anything without doing any exercise, this book is a revelation – and could mean the difference between health and sickness in the long run.

Strong Points:

• Very simple and easy to read
• The doctors point of view of the medical world and its limitations
• A first hand testimony of someone who overcame cancer – twice, and is in remission
• Interesting stories of people who were cured against all odds
• As with the first book, this one could be the starting point for a real awakening in people who have never thought about all this before (myself included)

Weak Points:

• A little bit deja vue
• A lot less content than Live Long Enough to Life Forever

My Rating:

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• Seduction: For a man who is shy around women

8 – The Game by Neil Strauss (2004, 547 pages)

Neil Strauss is a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times and in this book he tells how he discovered a secret community of Seducers that transformed him from a clumsy geek into a charismatic and self-confident man, with multiple conquests. This real and autobiographical story of initiation is accompanied by journeys, ups and downs, and scintillating anecdotes about the birth and growth of the American seduction community.

The book is very engaging, it reads like a novel, and will hit most men – and women – who don’t know about the seduction community –like a sledgehammer. It unveils an approach to social interaction and seduction that may seem completely alien to most people. Your first impression, which sinks in later, will either be profound rejection or profound revelation. The Game rarely leaves you indifferent. If you want to help a buddy who is feeling a bit lonely and who has a string of emotional failures and periods of being alone, give him this book. It could really change his life, and help him gain confidence in himself and finally succeed with women.

Strong Points:

• It reads like a novel
• Tells of a path to initiation that is real and passionate
• Could be the starting point for a complete renewal in matters of social and seduction success

Weak Points:

• It’s a pocket-book, which is disturbing and could lead to a violent knee-jerk reaction.
• Not sufficient to engage in this new world of seduction. Tell your friend to follow through with Fast Seduction if he doesn’t do his own research on Google .
• A novel more than a method. Again, it is a matter of an element of motivation and not enough to transform you into a seducer.

My Rating:

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