Making Waves: Irving Dardik and His Superwave Principle

Book Description

he biography of a medical maverick who is challenging scientific convention with his astounding approach to achieving and maintaining health Dr. Irving Dardik's radical notions about how all matter moves in interconnected waves has drawn deep skepticism from physicists, and his early attempts to put his theory into practice in the field of health care got him banned from practicing medicine in the 1990s. But now, after a decade's worth of rigorous research that seems to support Dardik's SuperWave theory, scientists at such esteemed institutions as MIT, Harvard, and Stanford Research International are signing on with Dardik's team to probe the possibilities. For example, Dardik's unique approach to physical exercise, based on his Principle, has achieved some remarkable successes in reversing symptoms of chronic disease.

Customer Reviews:

nice story, no details re: how to do it.......2007-09-30

I really liked the book, on a literary level. It was well written, engaging, and thought provoking. However, it really fails, and fails badly at giving the how to's. I'd love to try the protocol the Dradik has developed and the book describes, but there just isn't enough detail about how to institute it. i feel like I was shown a menu and then told I couldn't ordewr the food. From what I undersatnd, Dardi charges $5,ooo a month to enroll in his program! That leaves out most of the planet. So much for sharing usable information.

Just because..........2007-06-23

The only reason I decided to buy this book was because of the "John Doe" and "jubjub" below, who both use the term viral marketers to describe some honest people reviewing the book, and then pretending to feel bad about wasting fifteen bucks to the author's grubby capitalist pockets; I'm sure they haven't even held the book in their hands. They mentioned no details about the book they didn't like, why they didn't like it, and gave it the lowest score possible. Get a life.

Dan Winter already has an incredible amount of information online at his Golden Mean site for free. I was fascinated by the incredible life-like symmetries in the graphs and charts, even though he has a ton of crazy ideas... which seem to make sense under this universal paradigm. Can't wait to read the book.

Promising approach to health, an intriguing view of life.......2007-05-17

Dardik's work is, IMO, profound and still in its infancy. He offers a model of how both life and the physical world 'work'. Most immediately and as a doctor, Dardik focused initially on how our Western life-style works against human performance, and produces chronic disease -- and what may be done to reverse this by strengthening the body's natural ability to create health.

Lewin's book is an excellent introduction for both lay people and subject experts. Lewin describes well the important first practical applications in health and physics of Dardik's concept of SuperWaves. It is clear that applications will continue to be discovered as others in other fields, such as politics, sociology and psychology, consider the implications of Superwaves.

Lewin's book is a handy entry into this model of how both life and the physical world work, and a good launching point for people who find traditional models inadequate.

At the same time, Lewin's book offers a fascinating look into the world of creative people who tackle areas in which a prevailing wisdom is (too) well-entrenched. It is a world of joyous intellectual breakthroughs and of numbing institutional defeats, of lasting friendships and loyal support and of belligerent personal attacks.

This world requires perseverance, sacrifice, enduring curiosity and open-mindedness, and as with all the great pioneers of history, it is fortunate that Dardik has these aplenty, and that the benefits of his insights are thus entering into our lives.

Lewin's book is a great help in furthering this tendentious, difficult, important and rewarding process.

Lawrence de Bivort

Shame on you Lewin!.......2006-07-12

Corrupting the integrity of the amazon review system with viral marketers is a distasteful annoyance but it pales in comparison to preying on the hopes of the ill.

I love books that are on the fringe of science--they are often thought-provoking and entertaining even if they report on findings that are ultimately flawed. However, seeing how the grandiose claims of this book ultimately led to the defrauding of the elderly and chronically sick makes me ashamed that a fraction of the money I paid for this book went into the pocket of the author.

Author's response.......2006-06-15

In his/her short "review," "jubjub" makes the extremely serious accusation that either I, as author, or Irving Dardik, as the subject of the book, must have "paid" some of the reviewers, because of their positive comments. ("Jubjub" uses the derogatory term "infomercial language.") While I refrain from stooping to respond to such a base claim, I would ask why "jubjub" would seek to hide behind a mask of anonymity while making such a claim about me in such a public arena? Does she/he not have the decency or courage to simply identify themselves? What does she/he have to hide, if anything? (In entering this "review," I was asked to select a rating; as author, I simply entered its current rating, not wishing to skew the rate either way.)

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Run from this tidal wave....
Excellent Book! A great family saga read!
Making Waves is a fun read!
Making Waves
typical small town stuff!

MAKING WAVES
Cassandra King
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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ASIN: 0786887931

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n a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business. Her husband, Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not only with his disability but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's new shop, Making Waves, that causes ripples throughout the small southern community. In a sequence of events-sometimes funny, sometimes tragic-the lives of Donnette, Tim, and others in their small circle of family and friends are unavoidably affected. Once the waves of change surge through Zion County, the lives of its people are forever altered.

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Run from this tidal wave...........2007-03-08

Nicely written details about small town Alabama. The author's end notes say that she tried to write about the special bonds of friendship between males. Instead, she ended up overshadowing that story with the story of two vile, scheming, and manipulative small-town women doing whatever it took to get their way; the touching, developing, story of Tim and Taylor was kicked aside. The sudden and inexplicable "ending" didn't really resolve anything...I was left feeling cheated out of resolution.

I've heard nice things about Ms. King's writing. This was my first exposure to her work and will try another of her books. Maybe I just start with the wrong one?

Excellent Book! A great family saga read! .......2006-07-26

I enjoyed this book very well.

Donette Sullivan, the main character in the book is just starting her business as a hairdresser in a home she and her husband inherited from her aunt. The book begins with Auntie Maudie's death. She was the town's schoolteacher, and everyone was grieving terribly over her death. Donnette was asked to do her hair and make-up for the funeral, and very reluctantly after Mary Frances Clark talks her into it, she does thinking it will help her business grow.

Donette's husband Tim, is crippled from a serious accident caused by Taylor. He was formerly an artist and football player until this happened. When they have Aunt Maudie's funeral, Taylor is coming into Alabama-and since the whole town hates his guts-no one wants him there. But he is coming for his Aunt Della, who is becoming much older and decrepit, and needs her nephew there. She raised the boy, as Charlotte, his mother was only a whore who wanted nothing to do with her own son. Taylor wants only to help his aunt, as the Clark family wants only to put her in a nursing hime so that Sonny, (Taylor's brother), and snobby wife Ellis can take over and have Aunt Della's house for themselves, and Ellis wants Glenda her sister to take over there as well.

There is a great big family fight over this matter and as Aunt Della seems to grow weaker, the problems try to work themselves out which isn't easy-and may not. Especially when no one is willing to forgive Taylor for the past and what has happened to Tim because of it.

Making Waves is a fun read!.......2006-07-15

I really enjoyed the author's style of writing from each character's viewpoint. The style reminds me of Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees." It held me in its grip until the very end, which was the only disappointing part. I wish the author would have spent more time developing the ending. It all happened too abruptly. I thought this story could have gone on much longer. I'd love to see her write a sequel.

Making Waves.......2006-07-05

I felt as if I were reading a book for teens - the plot was thin and continued to hold one theme as the central "mystery" or glue to hold the story together. It was tiresome and even the ending was a disappointment. The author wrote in southern cliche's which failed to bring humor to a tiresome, drug out subject.
Unlike the author's book Sunday Wife - it seemed to fail in it's delivery.

typical small town stuff!.......2006-06-20

I liked the book. I found it to be similar to many small town issues. Small town stuff is really shallow but too many, it's real. I found some of the characters, Ellis her hubby and families to be fillers in the story. Cassandra King writes the story as the present and throughout the story you learn of the past through her characters and that just makes you want to read more! I hated to put the book down!

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Brave, humble addition to the history of Greenpeace

MAKING WAVES
Jim Bohlen
Manufacturer: Black Rose Books
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ASIN: 1551641666

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Table of Contents

PART I: MAKING OF A RADICAL
Early Influences
A Turning Point
In a Family Way
Radicalization
Leaving the USA
Greenpeace is Conceived

PART II: CONFRONTING THE BOMB
Preparations
Assessing the Crew
The Crossing
An Epiphany
Getting Busted
Decisions. Decisions
Heroes
The Bomb Goes Off

PART III: GREENPEACE IS BEAUTIFUL
An Expanding Vision
Back to the Land
Green Movement Roots
Survival on the Farm

PART IV: GREEN ACTION
Real Politique
The Greens Organize
Greenpeace Calls
The Cruise Catcher
You Can't Sink a Rainbow
Green Power

PART V: AS IF SURVIVAL MATTERS
Watersheds
Towards a Global Green Constitution
UNCED
Reflections

APPENDIX: Technical Analysis and Risks of Nuclear Testing on Amchitka

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Brave, humble addition to the history of Greenpeace.......2001-01-11

With a few thousand dollars scraped together through a charity Joni Mitchell and James Taylor concert, a raggle taggle collection of hippies and peace activists charter a leaky fishing boat and set off to stop a nuclear bomb.

This is a very personal account of one of Greenpeace's founders: the story of his flight from weapons work, his move to Canada to shield his son from the Vietnam war, his providing a safe house for other peace protestors in Vancouver, and his lifelong committment to peace, alternative energy, and stepping lightly on the earth.

And the famous journey of the first Greenpeace vessel.

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tells the story well.......2007-01-14

What is impressive is how the author has told a story about wavelets, at a level that correctly communicates the mathematical essence. Where specifically the impressive achievement is that that level is for a first year undergrad. The maths discussed involves Fourier series [of course!], definite integrals, and simple matrix manipulations.

En route, she explains the Fast Fourier Transform. She credits Gauss as the original inventor, but does not mention Cooley and Tukey who independently rediscovered it, when computers were available to actually make the method practical. There's a hilarious little aside, when she does some approximations and credits this to "minor" administrative overhead. Where the humour is that universities typically charge 40% overhead on government grants! Must remember that.

Excellent Introduction to Wavelets.......2007-01-03

This is an excellent introduction to wavelets and also the Fourier Transform. The first part of the book is readily accessible to almost anyone who has a passing knowledge of high school math. The second half will mostly be useful to the more mathematically sophisticated. It is an ideal kick start for any one who has the requisite knowledge and is motivated to learn more about the applications and theory behind wavelets.

It is not likely that this book will satisfy all your needs if you intend to master this subject but if you are just getting started, I would start here.

Good effort, but no.......2006-10-07

The author of this book states in the preface that her goal is to make wavelet theory accessible to the layman, without bombarding them with "paralyzing" "funny symbols or hieroglyphics" they haven't learned yet. I thought this was a wonderful idea, as I am a layman who never made it past high school geometry with an interest in learning all about the successor to the ubiquitous FFT used in engineering. Unfortunately, while she does manage to avoid using excessive amounts of "hieroglyphics" in the first part of the book, she makes up for it by throwing around a lot of mathematical terms which are never defined for the reader, so the net result in terms of comprehension is ultimately the same as if she had used the formulae, if not worse. Ms. Hubbard will dedicate three pages worth of text to an anecdotal retelling of some conversation that took place between two researchers in front of a Xerox machine, and then suddenly throw in one line at the end of all this nonsense about integrals and coefficients, as though the preceding story somehow prepared the reader for these terms well enough to divine their meaning from one terse little sentence devoid of any contextual clues. It may be presumptuous of me, but I don't think these words mean any more than the much maligned "hieroglyphics" would to the average layman this book is meant to be read by.

On top of that, the diagrams and illustrations are horrible, looking like something that came out of a dot-matrix printer in the late 70s, and ultimately illustrating nothing.

The world desperately needs a book that actually does what this one claims to. "Who is Fourier?" certainly managed to pull it off well enough for the Fourier Transform despite being translated from Japanese, so I'm certain it's possible even if Ms. Hubbard happened to fail miserably at her task.

Good for start.......2002-11-12

I was very happy reading this book. If you are familiar with the Fourier transform and don't know anything about wavelets, this is a book for you.

Actually, the book has got two parts. In the first part you can learn basic things about Fourier transform (about its usage but also about its limits), what we need wavelets for and what the wavelets are. It is explained in very simple language without any formulas. The second part contains basic formulas related to the topics in the first part. I find that the link between these two parts is very good. Also, the author gives physical explanation whenever it's possible.

If you are a specialist in the wavelets area, you probably know all these things but if you are new (like me!) you will find that this book is quite useful.

It can be done!.......2002-08-18

I am a math professor,-- and I often wondered if it wouldn't be possible to get some essential math ideas accross to almost anyone, --and with fewer equations. Ideas can be burried in symbolism;-- not always! But it does happen. Many of my colleagues tell me that if it were possible, then it would be done. The author of this lovely little book didn't take math courses (she says!). Professional mathematicians would most likely agree with me that she (the author) did in fact communicate the essential ideas behind wavelets (and did it well!);- and so she must have understood them!! Perhaps, anyone who really wants to, can penetrate a specialized math discipline;-- I would guess. Perhaps it is not even hard!? At least this book proves that it is not impossible to communicate
the beauty of math;--and its uses. Take a look at the book, and judge for yourself!
It is fun too!

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Making Waves Makes a Good Read
Great Reading
HAIR YE! HAIR YE! A WINNER!
A New Southern Voice
Found it mimicked 1 million other "southern" stories.

Making Waves in Zion
Cassandra King , and Sandra King Ray
Manufacturer: Black Belt Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1881320278

Customer Reviews:

Making Waves Makes a Good Read.......2002-01-26

Bought this book last week on a recommendation, read it from cover to cover in 1 evening!! What a fascinating story...makes me feel as if I had grown up in the Deep South. Looking forward to the next one.

Sincerely

Stanley Cohen

Great Reading.......2001-08-10

Sandra King has done a wonderful job writing about the typical small town in the south. If you grew up in the south or know anything about the small towns in Alabama you will truly enjoy this story as it takes the reader back in time to the way things were several generations ago in rural Alabama. It is a delightful story and I anxiously await her next book.

HAIR YE! HAIR YE! A WINNER!.......2000-03-11

I search the shelves of bookstores looking for somthing entertaining, informative and well written. Sandra Conroy - yes, she's Pat's wife - is a huge talent whose day in the sun is about to dawn! I loved her book - and I bought 10 copies for friends. In a word, it's simply wonderful.

A New Southern Voice.......2000-01-27

I picked up Making Waves in Zion when I was home with the flu, and by the time I reached page 100, I forgot that I was sick! Set in the small Alabama town of Zion, this clever book features 4 different first person narratives, all in a unique southern dialect, and each of the narrators represents a different aspect of modern rural culture. As someone who was raised in a small town, I could identify the characters as my old neighbors and friends. The language and imagery was mesmerizing, and the characters practically breathed with their own motivations and desires. Plus, the book is stocked with outrageous scenes that were truly funny. I look forward to reading future works by Ms. Ray, since I recognize in her the potential to recapture the southern voices that fade with every passing year.

Found it mimicked 1 million other "southern" stories........1999-10-30

Must the South remain so blatantly the victim? This is another juvinile "blame the world for our woes" tale. Writing was okay but not worthy of more than a B- in a Freshman Eng Lit 101 class.

Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women

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Excellent Read!!!
~*~ a thick chunk of asian heritage ~*~

Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women

Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807059137

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Hailing by lineage or immigration from Asian posts such as Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, and India, the contributors to Making More Waves are as well known as Lisa See (On Gold Mountain) and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Mistress of Spices ), and as new to print as 16-year-old poet Juno Parrenas. The story "Summer of My Korean Soldier" and the essay "Hambun-Hambun" neatly mirror one another, and illustrate an experience shared by all of these writers: the sense of being an outsider. In polished or jagged prose, the authors recount their lives and dig into feminist issues such as violence against women in war and peacetime, sexuality, and the nexus of race, class, and gender. They deftly explore how being Asian in America shapes such concerns and casts up others.

Book Description

Asian-American women writers of all ages explore a complex range of identities through poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, most of which have never been published. The contributors take on little explored topics and expand the limits of ethnic-based identity, resisting stereotypes and breaking silences. Candid and memorable, their essays, stories, and poetry change popular assumptions and engage readers. This inclusive new collection, by the editors of Making Waves, gathers a diverse range of poems, essays, and fiction by Asian-American women, established writers and new voices alike. "Making More Waves is a continuum, a celebration and acknowledgment of our unique artistic visions, our differences, our often painful histories and complex experiences. . . . An empowering collection." -from the Foreword by Jessica Hagedorn Contributors include: Marilyn Chin Chitra Divakaruni Yen Le Espiritu Kimiko Hahn Nora Okja Cobb Keller Elaine Kim Carolyn Lei-lanilau Maria G. Lee Lisa Lowe Chandra Talpade Mohanty Dana Y. Takagi Renee Tajima-Pena Trinh T. Minh-ha Mitsuye Yamada Helen Zia

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Excellent Read!!!.......2002-04-19

I bought a copy of "Making Waves" by the same authors. It was a powerful book, to say the least. I really admired the honesty by all of the Asian American ladies that contributed to the book.
This book, which is the follow-up, is also a powerful book, too. You see, even though I'm a Caucasian male, I'm a Christian and an ordained minister. Most of the ministry and worship I do is with Asian Americans(most of the are college age and young adult). Since I didn't grow up Asian, this book and its predecessor were a valuable resource to me.
After seeing this book, I'm more sympathetic to the struggles that Asian Americans go through, and especially the females. Too often Hollywood and the Far Eastern Movie companies have portrayed Asian Females as the sultry and sexy "Gesha Girl" stereotype. This book lets the ladies speak and takes the reader into their hearts and minds. It lets the reader know what they've actually been through, what they struggle with(and still do), and what they do to surivive. I'm glad they've shared what they did. I think it's long overdue that their voices were heard.
I would reccommend this book to anyone doing ministry to Asian American females as I do or to any male dating or married to an Asian American female. Praise God for Elaine Kim and the Asian Women United!

~*~ a thick chunk of asian heritage ~*~.......1999-11-28

i suppose you expect a formal review of some sort, but i'm just writing something freshly thought out:

i LOVE this book! it's pretty rare to discover asian american works of writing published in today's world. It iincludes stories, essays, poems, photography, and pictures of artwork done as well.

Anyone who is interested in heritage, asian american literature, or just would like a good collection of writing to read, i highly reccomend this book.

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Excellent Erotica Book

Liquid Dreams so hot it boils

Dolphin's Playground

Making Waves
Jaci Burton , and Cathryn Fox
Manufacturer: Ellora's Cave
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ASIN: 1419952625

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Dolphin's Playground By Jaci Burton Dr. Jasmine "Jaz" Quinlan's life's work is to care for marine mammals at the California Bay Aquarium. What she'd rather do is spend her life in the ocean with the creatures she loves, preferring their company to any human's. When a dozen dolphins beach themselves, she takes them into her care, bound and determined to save them. Triton, guardian of the dolphins and a member of Oceana, an undersea civilization, wants nothing to do with land humansespecially females. But he's forced to work with Jaz to help his sick dolphins. The moment Jaz meets Triton, he lights a fire within her that no ocean can douse. His passion and love for sea life is an equal match for hers, and when she finds out who he is and where he lives, her wildest dreams become a reality. Despite his preconceived notions, Triton finds himself falling for Jaz's passion and caring nature. She loves the sea as much as he does, awakening desires he has to fight to keep buried When two different worlds separate Jaz and Triton, love must find a way to unite them. Liquid Dreams By Cathryn Fox Ranek, protector of the underwater Bandara kingdom, has spent endless decades searching for his lost soulmate. He finally finds Katrina, a woman torn from his life centuries ago only to be reborn on land, half-human, half-Bandara. With time running out, Ranek enters her dreams and makes wild, erotic love to her, penetrating her subconscious with the life and love they once shared in their kingdom beneath the sea. He must bring Katrina's mind around slowly, taking care not to irreparably damage the human part of her. For if he does she will die, and as her lifelong soulmate, he will die along with her. Katrina must decide if the man of her dreams is just that. Is he simply a dream? Or is he the man of her past, her present and possibly her future

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Erotica Book.......2006-08-16

This is truly an amazing well written erotic romance book. Cathryn Fox chose wonderful characters for her book. From the beginning to the end this book grabs you. This book will have you wanting to know what happens next. You would not want to put the book down.

Katrina has these dreams about a sea god name Ranek in her dreams Ranek makes wild, erotic love to her. The love scenes in this book are hot and steamy. When reading this book you will need a bucket of ice by you to cool you off.

Now Katrina has to decide if Ranek is just a man of her dreams or is he from her past, present, or future. This is the first book I have read by Cathryn Fox and I am looking forward to reading more books by her. I loved this book and I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves Erotic Romance with some really hot love scenes.

Liquid Dreams so hot it boils.......2006-06-22

Katrina's days are fraught with wedding plans to a man she doesn't love. Her nights are haunted by highly-charged erotic dreams of a man she's never met. Is it any wonder she seeks relief with a therapist?

There is no cure for Katrina's disturbing dreams. No cure for her torment except to remember the creature she'd once been. Her nightly encounters are not dreams. Her true soul mate is the ruler of an undersea kingdom. If she cannot recall her true Bandaran form and rejoin with Lord Ranek, the consequences for both of them will be tragic.

Liquid Dreams simmers with erotic heat. Cathryn Fox entwines the lovers' highly-charged encounters with each story development, every arousing dream of Katrina's sea god divulging more answers to her search for truth. It's life-or-death stakes for Katrina and Ms. Fox keeps readers at the same level, sifting through Katrina's memories with the clock ticking ominously. A sinister member of their ancient love triangle threatens to destroy Katrina's tenuous hold on happiness, weaving a current of dread throughout the story.

Cathryn Fox creates an intoxicating world where love reaches through the restraints of space and time. I look forward to the next offering from this beguiling new voice in erotic fiction.

Dolphin's Playground.......2006-06-20

Dr. Jasmine "Jaz" Quinlan loves the sea and everything in it, and it's her life's work to care for the marine creatures of the deep. When a pod of dolphins beach themselves because of a mysterious bacterial infection, Jaz then makes it her objective to find out the problem as well as the solution. Jaz feels real physical pain when she sees a dolphin die and she doesn't want to lose anymore. When she is introduced to Dr. Trey Sanders, Jaz sees him as a spoiled rich boy from old money that's only going to get in her way of helping the dolphins.

Dee
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When Triton finds out that yet another pod of dolphins are getting sick, his brother Ronan--better known as Neptune, guardian of all things in the ocean--informs him that he needs to go to the surface to find out what is going on. Disguising himself as a land dweller named Dr. Trey Sanders, Triton sets out to see if Jaz really knows what she is doing, and if she has the skill necessary to care for the dolphins. Triton/Trey finds more than he thought he would with Jaz, so much so, that it scares him and he acts strangely towards her; confusing both of them in the process.

Dolphin's Playground is an excellent story. I felt kind of sorry for Jaz, because she's trapped on land and dealing with people, when she'd love to do nothing more than to jump into the water and disappear. Her dedication to helping the dolphins is the only thing that surpasses her love of the water.

When Jaz and Trey first meet, the intensity from Jaz's instant and fierce attraction leapt from the pages. I knew then, that something big was going to happen between the both of them and I couldn't wait until it did!! Trey is so sexy, I'm more than willing to move and live in the water for him! I'd even take his prickly brother Ronan. Maybe Mrs. Burton, you will give Ronan a story?

Trey's bias against humans confuses him when he's instantly attracted to Jaz, but he fights it. I found myself getting upset at points with his bullheadedness, and then I felt sympathy because I understood that his past hurts are what clouded his feelings and judgment toward Jaz. When Jaz and Trey finally get together their joining is so intense that it curled my toes and I was left speechless...well speechless after I let out a shout of `Oh Yeah!'

There are many good points I could share about Dolphins Playground, but if I say them, then it loses its spice and surprise. Go out and get a copy now and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!

Making Waves: Bold Exposes from Talk Radio's Number One Nighttime Host

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The Truth About Vince Foster Cover-up Exclusive.
Another Reagan makes a difference
Great commentary on America's Ways
A gripping book about the events shaping our times

Making Waves: Bold Exposes from Talk Radio's Number One Nighttime Host
Michael Reagan , and Jim Denney
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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In Making Waves, Reagan is at his hard-hitting best as he brings his well-researched commentary to the issues and challenges facing our country. Making Waves is part primer on what conservatives believe, part wake-up call, and part family album. And it's completely Mike Reagan--colorful, compelling, and unapologetic.

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The Truth About Vince Foster Cover-up Exclusive........2005-12-24

Feeling let down by the print and broadcast press, millions have turned to talk radio as an alternative source of information. Mike Reagan, who 'made waves' for many years, starting in 1982 from San Diego and still at it in 1996, tells why he thinks newspaper circulation is on the decline, then and now. He also gives his take on network television news as being distorted, incomplete and heavily filtered.

On 'The Michael Reagan Talk Show,' he claims to give 'accurate information' because he used 'reliable sources and knowledgeable' contacts. He read up to eight newspapers each day and followed through, doing his homework, before he brought an issue 'on the air'! He says, "there is a price to pay for bucking the liberal elite in this country. I get the information nobody else gets." He calls the press "cowardly, ignorant, biased, lazy and panderers."

There was a time, he asserts in this 'bold expose,' when investigative reporters used to go undercover to get the truth. "How much courage and journalistic integrity does it take to rewrite press releases...then pass it off as [hard] news story?" The press fails to check for factual information and verification. Sometimes they print 'rumors' as facts. My local daily paper left out a whole decade, things important in my life, when promoting the renovation of a movie theater into a concert/symphony venue for the rich folks. When I contacted the publisher, I was told they'd do a follow-up, but no "correction" as apparently an ommission of that magnitude doesn't matter. No follow-up was ever done! I went so far as trying to get the local theater management to make a disclaimer, but they were the source who sent the incomplete, factually incorrect articles to the paper, and didn't even get a reply. They put what they wanted in the paper, as they would not admit to defrauding the public. Most newspaper articles are written on a third-grade level in quite simple vocabulary; they don't care about digging for the truth to have real, complete stories which make sense. They don't care who they hurt by ommissions. It's the bigwigs they pander to and willingly distort the whole picture.

He re-names 'The Washington Post,' which was lionized in the movie, 'All the Presidents Men,' as 'The Washington Pravada since it publishes propaganda instead of impartial news, slanting the facts. "The much-vaunted people's "right to know" -- not by the government but by the press itself" burying important stories on page 27D. Some facts or happenings, the press doesn't think newsworthy. Thus, censorship, bias, arrogance, disdain for the readers' intelligence, and a slap on the face. As I noted in Knoxville, the reporters (some of them) are "lacking in professional curiosity these days."

Being the son of former President Ronald Reagan, he tells it like it is. But, I was surprized with this statement, "The American press has been cowed into silent submission by the political establishment." No, talk radio is not all "hate" radio, but I do hate sports talk, especially "Fox with an attitude" which is plain vulgar. It displaced my music four years ago on 1040 but now, to my delight, Music Of Your Life replaced the filth spewing from that 'fast talk.' On WHO, 1040 in Des Moines, they still air the nighttime talk shows as does WNOX here.

Michael Reagan has written THE CITY ON THE HILL, ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, CORPORATE AMERICA (2003) and edited REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF GOD and INSIDE THE MIND OF GOD: IMAGES AND WORDS OF INNER SPACE, written by Sharon Begley.

Another Reagan makes a difference.......2005-02-08

Mike Reagan's book is as timely in 2005 as it was when it was written in 1996. From the One World Government to the Clinton friends death list to our inability to defend ourselves in the event of a nuclear war, it's all there. This book can be read a chapter at a time, in no particular sequence because each chapter has a seperate message. It is a must for all people, you can differ with Mike's views, but let's have a national discussion about the important issues rather than the leftists trying to stop everything that isn't run by the government.

Great commentary on America's Ways.......1999-05-01

One of my friend's dads gave me this book to read and it was fantastic. Mike has great opinions on all subject that has to do with current issues. Liberals won't like this book but I think they should read it to get a great argument to their ideas. Mike writes as if he's right there talking to you. It's a good book explaining a lot of "conservative" ideas in detail. Easy reading and full of insight. It didn't get my 5 stars because Mike tends to use a lot of numbers and figures when proving his points. I know people say the numbers don't lie, but I just think people can use numbers to their advantage to easily.

A gripping book about the events shaping our times.......1997-10-04

Although Mike gives us a glimpse into the events which shaped his life, most readers will probably be more interested in the events that shape their lives, and Mr. Reagan has plenty to say about that. Most political and social liberals will probably not enjoy this book, but it should be must reading for everyone interested in the socio-political scene. Mike compiles info on a number of important subjects that seldom get this thorough a treatment, and that is what makes the book spellbinding, relevant, and overdue. Don't even think about not reading this one!

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Interesting but not compelling
A beautiful intellectual journey
Witty and intelligent random musings
An excellent essay collection by the great Peruvian writer

Making Waves
Mario Vargas Llosa
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Spanish | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 0374200386

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Mario Vargas Llosa's lively mind alights in all kinds of places, both expected and unexpected: at the 1982 World Cup in Spain; on the Cuban revolution; in Berlin, where the son he meets at the airport has become a Rastafarian. But winding through this engaging collection is an exploration of something closer to the Peruvian novelist's (and one-time presidential contender's) core: his thoughts on the politics of literature and the literature of politics. In the United States, novelists aren't thought of in terms of their contribution to the national good; For Llosa, as for many Latin American writers, these acts most public (politics) and private (the writing of literature) are inextricably linked. "A writer," he says, "has no better way of serving his country than by writing with as much discipline and honesty as he can.... If he writes better in his country, he must stay there; if he writes better in exile, he must leave." And for those who think fiction is divorced from real life, think again: "A nation," writes Llosa, "is a political fiction imposed on a social and geographic reality almost always by force, for the benefit of a political minority."

Book Description

Spanning thirty years of writing, these essays trace the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and show the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path, and the presidency of Alberto Fujimoro; brilliant engagements with such towering figures of twentieth-century literature as Joyce, Faulkner, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Bellows; considerations on the dog cemetery where Rin-Tin-Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system, which made Vargas Llosa's son into a Rastafarian. This collection reminds us "that literature is fire, that it means nonconformity and rebellion. . . [that it] is a form of permanent insurrection." Making Waves superbly exemplifies Vargas Llosa's artistic credo.

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Interesting but not compelling .......2006-05-07

Mario Vargas LLosa is Peru's most well- known novelist and a writer of international reputation. Editor and translator John King brings together a rich sample of his non- fictional work. Much of the writing has to do with Politics and Literature, but there are also personal explorations as in his long essay on the period in which his younger son became a Rastafarian. There are also essays on film (Bunel ) on art(Botero)Many of the essays have to do with writers Sartre, Faulkner, Camus , Dos Passos, who Llosa feels in some way close to. He also in this work writes an illuminating essay on Isiah Berlin in which he shows how Berlin makes Ideas the main character of his essays, and how in a brilliant technical fashion Berlin by seeing these ideas from all points-of- view manages nonetheless to convey his own liberal political perspective.
In the political realm there is a scathing essay on the myth of Che Guevera, an essay which faults him for the brand of revolutionary socialist violence which went nowhere- but nonetheless shows admiration for Che's having lived by the principles he preached.
LLosa writes of himself as one consumed by reading and writing, one who is on fire for Literature. And in his peripatetic and rich career in Madrid, Paris, London, and Lima LLosa has created a body of work of which this volume in so clearly enunciating his literary and political credo, must have an honorable place.
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A beautiful intellectual journey.......2001-11-03

I gained a new respect for Vargas Llosa after reading this book. I admit that I've often had trouble finishing his novels, like "The Green House" and the "The War of the End of the World." But this collection of essays is very lucid and insightful. A true joy to read.

The topics vary, and cover everything from the "bad" films of Luis Bunuel to the fading legacy of Che Guevara. In fact, there seems to be an even split here between literary and political themes. I loved, for example, reading a Latin American perspective on the works of David Mamet.

I also enjoyed "Nicaragua at a Crossroads." His description of the capital city is amusing, heartbreaking and gives you a sense that the people of Managua live in a truly surreal world. No writer of magic realism could ever imagine a stranger form of urban chaos than the one depicted in this essay.

"Making Waves" is a brilliant collection -- one that ranks with Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyperreality" or Octavio Paz's "Labyrinth of Solitude."

Witty and intelligent random musings.......2001-08-15

Mario Vargas Llosa is often overshadowed by the more famous Spanish writers such as Garcia Marquez and Fuentes. However, he deserves his place among them and may perhaps be better. "Making Waves" displays the writer's usual quick wit and sarcasm as he muses over everything from Peru's Shining Path to Hemingway to Rastafari to Che. It's a collection of essays spanning many decades, and often they are merely his take on a particular social, political, or literary trend. The book makes for enjoyable reading in bits and pieces. A highly intelligent work!

An excellent essay collection by the great Peruvian writer.......2001-04-29

"Making Waves," by Mario Vargas Llosa, brings together more than 40 essays by this great writer from Peru. The book has been edited by John King, who also translated these essays into English. Vargas writes about politics, literature, popular culture, the writer's vocation, and other topics. His moods vary greatly throughout the book: outraged, annoyed, sentimental, exasperated, and enthralled.

The book is filled with fascinating insights and memories. It is fascinating, for example, to read how Vargas Llosa's first novel was burned and denounced. He frequently attacks Cuban leader Fidel Castro. One of the best selections, "The Story of a Massacre," tells of the tragic slaying of a group of journalists; this piece takes us into the worlds of the Shining Path guerrillas and the Iquichano Indians.

Another excellent selection is "My Son the Rastafarian," about his son's conversion to the Rastafarian religion while staying at an English school. Many of Vargas Llosa's essays explore the lives and work of other writers: William Faulkner, Doris Lessing, Julio Cortazar, Ernest Hemingway, and others. And there are a few weird surprises, like his essay on Lorena Bobbitt, the woman who cut off her husband's penis.

Book Description

When Chelsea's Irish boyfriend Connor is threatened with deportation, she offers her hand in marriage. But just as she's ready to walk down the aisle, someone from Connor's past shows up-with an unwelcome surprise. Will their future together be over before it's begun?

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Best, Bester, Bestest.......2002-07-30

When Connor's old girlfriend from Ireland shows up at the wedding supposedly with Connor's baby, it certainly is a shocker. But the shocker of the that subject is when Molly takes off without the baby and leaves Connor and his housemates to deal with hthe little tike.

Sweet.......2002-03-31

This was the third book of the series "Making Waves" these books are excellent and leave you hanging til you buy the next one. This book concentrates on Connor and Chelsea getting married. Also it goes more in depth about Grace and her alcoholism, there is hope for her! Justin's father comes back to see him and the outcome is surprising... You'll just have to read it and find out!

jenna...girl from PA who reads these books in one day..........2001-07-26

SWEET: this one was about when connor and chelsea fall for each other and they think their gonna get married...i still think thgen first one was the best tho, as u go thuy them they kinda get more depressing...the next book is weirder tho, with connie,...connor (supposed) child from long lost ex girlfriend, molly...i always read books and think their good,.,..,but these books have soo many charactes in it...itrs hard to keep track, its like a mini soap opera...ill be sad when the series ends..i think it should go on and on like Sweet Valley High books...those used to be my fave but ive transported my book feeling to these books...if u get this book first...get the whole series and youll understand it better!!

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