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Kindle 2: Amazon's New Electronic Book

If you are anything like me, you like high tech stuff, you are very connected to the internet, and you love to read all that great online content and resources. But you also like to be able to physically carry your book around that you are reading. And, you also want to have a huge library available at your fingertips. Oh and you also want news resources to be instantly available to you and access to your favorite blogs all done without wires.

Well, your time has come, your ship has come in, and you have hit the jackpot. Let me introduce you to Amazon’s new Kindle 2 electronic reading device. It is the pinnacle of electronic reading devices or electronic books. It is not some tiny thing that no one over 25 can read because the font is so small to enable it to have more than three words to the line… This thing is the perfect size to feel like a real book… Not too big like a college Biology text book and not matchbook size, but just right at 10.2 oz.

The screen is clear and bright and easy to read just like you would expect a book to be.

The text to speech functionality allows you to have Kindle read to you while you are driving or in a boring meeting.

You can email important documents to your Kindle so you can peruse them at your leisure.

Can you image, free wireless access to Wiki everywhere.

With 230,000 titles available for download you know have then entire library in your hand!!!

This is the reader you have been looking for… The must have item for this spring and for summer at the beach.

Find out more here.

The Best Digital Photography Book

If you are looking for that perfect resource for figuring out how to use that spiffy new Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, you have come to the right place…

Scott Kelby in his book The Digital Photography Book covers it all in his expert teaching style that will get you up and running capturing images in no time that look totally professional. His style is not heavy theory, but instead his style is much more down to earth with great step by step examples… Whether you want to shot family events, sports photography, flowers, landscapes, weddings architecture, cityscapes and night life, Scott shows you how to do it.

This book has become known as “The Resource” to use for beginners, intermediate and advanced shooters. They all can learn from Scott. Every page will show you “another pro setting, another pro tool, another pro trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints.” His Shooting wildlife section was the most helpful for me.

If you are going to be getting any book to learn how to use you camera, this is the difinitive one to get!!!

       

  Other Books By Scott Kelby

Best HDR Book - Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography

If you have been trying to learn all the ins and outs of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography but so far have not been able to pull it all together. If you have been reading all the on-line tutorials and they have not gotten you to the point were you can produce an image that you are happy with.

Well you have come to the right place!!! 

Ferrell McCollough, in his book,   Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography has made HDR photography accessible to the masses.  His gifted style of writing and his ability to make technical issues understandable has helped to make HDR dare I say easy.

I know, I do not want to give away all the HDR secrets so that my work will just start to look like everyone else's work, but thinking like that is just plain selfish and that is not my way.  I would rather get all the mysteries revealed and have more people producing incredible art using this photographic technique than to keep this technique veiled in secrets and fogginess and keep people frustrated.

In this world information is indeed power, and with this book you will be a much more powerful artist.

Get this book and become the expert you are dreaming of becoming.

                                   

To learn more about what HDR is or to find discounts on software GO Here..

Here is an example of what HDR can do for your images!!!   Just scroll through some of my HDR work. 

Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student

This is a must read book.  I heard an intervew with the author on Dennis Prager today 1/2/07.  This is a great example of truth that you will not hear at the university or on regular television.

Book Description
How the PC agenda on college campuses is endangering millions of students

Radical social agendas have taken over campus health and counseling, and it’s making students sick. Dr Anonymous should know: she’s treated over 2000 students at a prestigious university, and seen first hand how the anything-goes, women-are-just like- men, “safer-sex” agenda harms our sons and daughters. After years of hesitation, she’s speaking up.

In Unprotected you will learn:
* About an Ivy League university’s health website that okays risky behaviors including S&M, “swinging”, and bestiality

* How campus health centers hound students to stop smoking, eat right, get enough sleep, and wear sunscreen, but tacitly approve of promiscuity, and whitewash the consequences of sexually transmitted infections

* How HIV education is distorted, causing hysteria among students who are at no risk for infection

* How campus counselors focus on sexual orientation, abuse, molestation, cigarettes and caffeine, but neglect to ask students about abortion

* How ideology-driven health services lead young women to believe they are just like men – and to pay a high price for it.

* How, despite strong evidence of significant health benefits of church attendance and faith in God, psychology remains anti-religion -- an irrational, out-dated prejudice Dr Anonymous calls “theophobia”

Parents, educators, and health providers are all disturbed and mystified by the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections on our college campuses, as well as the rampant depression, suicidal behavior, eating disorders, and cutting. Dr Anonymous has seen it all. The solution, she contends, is not Zoloft or condoms. Instead, she urges her colleagues to stop feeding students platitudes about diet and exercise and misinformation about “protection”. What campus counselors and health providers must do, she argues, is tell uncomfortable, politically-incorrect truths, especially to young patients in their most vulnerable and confusing moments.

About the Author
ANONYMOUS, M.D. is a psychiatrist at the counseling center of a major American university. A campus atmosphere of intolerance forces her to conceal her identity.

Note: The author is now know.  She is Dr. Mariam Grossman, M.D. Psychiatrist, UCLA

On the show today, they were talking about the terrible consequences of the "Friends with benefits" type of relationship especially on girls.

No normal way to get "health" information on campus is often very sick like this one from Columbia University Go Ask Alice .  Wow is the world turned upside down.

Book Review: Sex and Love

My friend Lyndon Perry posted a very well thought out and insightful book review on "Sex and Love."

This is not a "how to" manual. 

It is a "how to think" analysis of human sexuality and whether or not we will develop loving, intimate relationships in order to live healthy, integrated lives. It is not a handbook on what to do in the bedroom, rather it is a resource on what makes the bedroom experience fulfilling. It is not, however, for the casual reader.

Read entire review here: Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships.

Destroying the Icons of Radical Feminism

This morning Bill Bennett had Kate O’Beirne of National Review Online on his show mostly discussing the Sam Alito Supreme Court Judicial Court confirmation hearings that are getting under way.

O’Beirne recently wrote a piece  that outlines her dream speech that she would have a Republican senator give regarding the myth that people like Senator Dianne Feinstein actually represent all women when it comes to the issue of abortion and other “womens” issues.

She goes on to argue…

A 2003 poll by the Center for the Advancement of Women, headed by Faye Wattleton, an ally of Senator Feinstein's from her days as the celebrated president of Planned Parenthood, found that 51 percent of women would only allow abortion in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother. Another 17 percent of women wanted to see abortions more widely available than that, but with more restrictions. So, that survey found 68 percent of women disagreeing with Senator Feinstein's position on abortion.

During the same show Bill and Kate were discussing her new book Women Who Make The World Worse

One review at Amazon.com says

As a woman, Kate O’Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with. In her long-awaited first book, she takes on America’s leading feminists—including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. She confronts them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.

This is a must read book to defend against the lies and distortions of the ultra left.

Buy it now!

Disinformation: Richard Miniter

Did you know that Weapons of Mass Destruction Have Been Found in IRAQ?

Disinformation :  22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror....

• 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium

• 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents

• 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)

• Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas

• Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and "conventional" sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency

This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and coalition forces have found NO weapons of mass destruction.

The question is: WHY do they believe this lie?

The Left’s Hypocritical Anti-Hypocrite Team

Jonah Goldberg is discussing the hypocrisy of the anti-hypocrite Jihadist crowd.  He mentions the new book Do As I Say (Not As I Do) by Peter Schweizer.

Always Ask, "is It Meaningful?"

The other day I picked up the book by Dennis Prager “Happiness is a Serious Problem” for a little light reading.  I ran across a paragraph that got my attention.

To be a good person, it is always necessary to ask before doing something, "Is it right?" To be physically fit, it is necessary to ask before eating something, "Is it healthful?" To be a happy person, it is necessary to ask before acting, "Is it meaningful?" The problem, course, is that the good action, the healthful food, and the meaningful behavior are rarely the most enticing of our choices-which only proves, once again, that the greatest battle for happiness is with our own nature.

To live a life that is happy, we must take a look at everything we do and determine if it is meaningful.  This does not mean that we can not have enjoyment and do some things that are frivolous; it means that the main things that we spend out time on must be meaningful to us and probably also to the world.

This is important to me and probably to most men.  You see, most men with families have the responsibly to financially provide for their families.  That often times means that they take jobs that pay the most money, not which provide any meaning for them.  I know this from experience, and to some degree it is killing me. 

So, how do you order you life so that you do the things that are of meaning?  That is the quest that lies before me.

Happiness Is a Serious Problem Author: Dennis Prager; Buy New or Used

Beyond the Shadow Lands: Book Review

   

*disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publishers through Mind and Media in exchange for my services as a reviewer.

Wayne Martindale has a passion for the works of C.S Lewis like some people have a passion for fine wine or cigars or classical music.  His passion is so evident in the way he explains Lewis’ masterful work, it mad me hunger for reading more of Lewis.

This particular book is focused on Lewis’ understanding and writings of heaven and hell.  Martindale’s knowledge of Lewis is so extensive it is like all of the thoughts that he expresses in the book flow totally naturally for him. He was quoting books from Lewis of which I was not at all familiar.  And he was pulling details from these books like he had read them several hundred times.  It seemed he had to do no research at all, and the thoughts were just flowing directly from his mind.

The books basically flows in a format of destroying many of the misinterpretations that people have about heaven and hell and then he uses Lewis’ mythological style to paint a new and fresh picture of heaven and hell that almost anyone could understand. 

The final result of this book for me was to hunger for heaven more than I have hungered for heaven before in my life.  This book is a fantastic took for getting back into the masterful works of Lewis and gleaning new insights that my previous reading of some of the works had not originally provided for me.  It has also opened the door to many more works of Lewis that are now on my reading list. 

If Martindale intended to wet my appetite for more of Lewis and more of the things of God then his mission was accomplished.  Well done!