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I discovered Zig when I was 24 and wanted to make big changes in my life. This book has helped me drastically over the last four years and I'm forever grateful.

What I like best about the book:

1. Stresses personal responsibility and losing the victim mentality.
2. Points out that your thoughts are responsible for your present situation.
3. Shows you why habits can make or break you.
4. Intensely explores goal setting.
5. Has lots of personal stories on success and failure.
6. Explains why time management is important.
7. Covers why laziness is detrimental to your future.

What I didn't care for:

Zig claims that homosexuality is a "bad habit" that can be overcome. As he's a conservative Southern Christian and over 80 years old, his viewpoint is quite common amongst people of his generation. Being from the South myself, I'm not too shocked by his opinion.

Putting personal opinions aside, I really like this book. The advice works and has helped me live a more enriched life. I usually re-read the book once a year. I recommend you read it too, even if some of his personal views might rub you the wrong way.

This book is without doubt, an amazing classic! I first read this book just out of my teenage years. It developed my thinking in a way that has served me in many areas of my life for over 20 years now (o.k., well, almost 30 :). Zig Ziglar gave me my life creed through this book. That is, 'To get everything you want in life, help enough other people get what they want.' Every person on the planet should read this book. Every serious student of personal development should read it at least once a year.

Michael Murphy
Author of Powerful Attitudes

Served as my handbook for motivation for quite a while now. It is good to have a copy in your personal library.

This is an inspirational and informative book on how you can achieve remarkable success, wealth, confidence, peace and joy in your life by adopting the right attitude, positive self-image, setting challenging but achievable goals, adopting a productive work ethic, establishing good loving relationships with others, among other things. By the use of numerous and enlightening stories, Zig Ziglar shows the reader the way to the top and how we can improve our careers, our relationships and our destiny.

This insightful book explains how you can build a strong belief, confidence and how to get into the action habit in an easy to follow and understand format which makes the book useful to a wide readership. The book pragmatically examines why many people achieve mediocrity or are failures and what it takes to be a winner in a big way.

This is a self-help book, a how-to book on how you can get anything you want in life. I treat reading the book as a process of continuous learning about my personal vision, goals, self-image, human relations and desires both at work and in my family. I use it as my guide for dealing with people and in integrating the different responsibilities in my life, encompassing my professional, family and personal responsibilities.

I found the book inspiring, stimulating, thought provoking and very interesting. I refer to the book often to energize my spirit and to keep me thinking positively and avoiding being bogged down by trivialities.

I have to admit that I didn't initially like Zig Ziglar. He came across like a used car salesman, untill I really listened to his message.

Zig is funny, entertaining, motivating and when need be deadly serious. See You At The Top has been a best seller since 1975. I recently re-read this great book and felt recharged! Zig is awesome. While a lot of what he says is not new, it's worth getting a jolt once in awhile and to recharge your batteries. I recommend reading this book at least once per year.

I had only been on my pump for 2 weeks when I read this book. It showed me many things I would need to make this pump work best for me. I don't think we can EVER learn enough about ourselves, or diabetes. Since I have to live with it, this book enabled me to equip myself with the knowledge needed to get the most benefits out of being on this insulin pump.
Do yourself a favor and read this book.

We got this book in late March, 2001, shortly after our then-6 year old son who has Type 1 diabetes started pumping insulin. This reference explains so well how short-acting insulin is used in the body, how to calculate for it during exercise, how to make adjustments to the basal rates....it save our pump trainer many late night calls. It was a lifesaver in helping us get through the insulin pump learning curve faster. Only thing it doesn't handle in-depth enough is "surprise" infusion set changeouts & sensitivity to Humalog. This book helped us understand how to take better care of our son.

What in informative book! It covers just about every aspect of pumping you can think of, and instead of spelling it out in solely medical jargon it let you know the true story.
I am hoping that my son will be 'pumping' soon and have read this book so I know where we are going and what to expect. We already carb count to manage his Diabetes and are feeling really hopeful.
I would recommend this book to anyone thinking about a pump, anyone who has a pump already and doesn't own copy of this book and to close relations of the 'pumper' to enhance their knowledge.

On the advice of my PA, I read the book before going on the pump in October 2001 (22 years after my diagnosis with Type I diabetes). The book is written extremely well and provides clear and concise coverage of the almost every aspect of pump therapy. The authors highlight considerations to make before going on the pump, as well as circumstances you will encounter after beginning pump therapy. The book offers explanations and calculations to figure total daily dosages and advice on how to change dosages for exercise, patterns of high and low bg's, etc. The material included in the book is really valuable when you begin working with your doctor, PA, etc, to help you know what questions to ask. I felt like I had more confidence and knowledge in the transition to pump therapy. "Pumping Insulin" helped me to better manage the pump and my diabetes as soon as I walked into the doctor's office for my initial pump appointment. And for those that have already started pumping, the book's a great reference tool to have on hand.

As a young Internist, this book proved to be essential in my understanding of diabetes. Searching through my more commonly used references to include Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Textbooks I was unable to find a concise summary of the information and recommendations necessary to manage my patients with pumps. The 500 rule and the 1800 rule were just vague concepts found in obscure management articles and discussions with other providers. I did not have the benefit of a certified pump trainer or diabetic nurse educator. But with this reference as a guide I was able to develop a management plan. In 3 short months I dropped my patient from a HgBA1C of 9.4 to 6.3. Where there were previous highs in the 400's there are just now slight deviations from desired values. This reference and the bolus wizard on the Medtronic pump is all that one needs to demystify the management. And of course you and your patient needs to be motivated and dedicated.

FOUND THE BOOK TO BE VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE. AUTHOR PRESENTS BOTH THE PROS AND CONS OF AN INSULIN PUMP AND SHARES HER PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. A MUST FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING, OR NOT SURE OF, GETTING AN INSULIN PUMP.

The insulin pump demystified,I really enjoyed reading this book as it gave so much information in a very simple way. The tips offered were easy to follow and such common sense. I been on the pump for four months the this book has been a wonderful friend passing on all that I need to know. I have perused other books on pumping but I found the to be to technical and to difficult to read.

I have been type 1 for 20 years and on a pump for 36 days now! This book was very informative. I could relate to much of the material since I have been diabetic for so long. Since going on a pump, I could relate easily to her pump related advice.
A excellant read for anyone new to a pump or considering it. Just because I have been diabetic for 20 years insures me of nothing. Pump therapy is very different compared to anything else. Informative books such as this one are essential to improving and educating each one of us.
I strongly recommend this book.

this is a brilliant book that really opened my eyes to the insulin pump and the benefits it can bring. Before reading this book i was terrified about the pump and now i am nearly a year pumping. Well worth a read for any one with type 1 diabetes

I've been a Type 1 (IDDM) diabetic for over 15 years. I was lucky in the sense that I didn't get it until college, so I didn't have to deal with it as a child. However, diabetes at any age is tough. The insulin dependent kind in particular is tough because no amount of exercise or weight loss is going to reverse it. However, there is one thing that can come close, insulin pump therapy.

I'm now in my late 30s and my diabetes was getting much more difficult to control. I decided to seriously consider pump therapy. I knew a bit about it but not much. This book has made me an insulin pumping pro and helped me put any fears I had into perspective.

I bought this book because I wanted to hear about pumping from another diabetic who was using an insulin pump. Gabrielle Kaplan-Meyer does a great job of making pumping easy to understand and gives someone considering pumping clear facts. There are many issues to consider and having a clear guide helps tremendously.

Kaplan-Mayer gives you the facts in stories. The stories come from her own life or from interviews with other insulin pumping diabetics. Those help you relate and gives you what you need to make a good decision. At the end of each chapter she has a checklist highlighting important things to remember. That makes it easy to take in and easy to refer back to, if needed.

I even took the book to the hospital with me when checked in to get my new pump. It came in handy during my first few days and when I had some worries, I could quickly refer back to it for information. I've even loaned to a friend so he can learn more about what I have to deal with.

I would highly recommend this book to any diabetic considering pumping.

Fantastic book for a nursing and/or pumping mom! Would be a great "inspirational" gift for a new mommy, too! (Provided you know she's planning to nurse -- a bottle mom probably wouldn't be as appreciative.)

This is a fun little book that also teaches you a few simple things about breast-feeding.

If These Boobs Could Talk is a perfect baby shower gift for my pregnant girlfriend. I can't wait to see the look on her face when gets a load of this hilarious book. It's a fabulous way to ease the stress of new mommies and keep them smiling. Every new mom needs something funny to read during those long nights with new baby and this will do the trick!

Very funny book will keep you chuckling page by page. I got this book as a gift for a new mom and have since stocked up. It's the perfect blend of entertaining humor and "I've been there" camaraderie. When you are in the trenches of parenthood, it's nice to know you're not alone!

This book was great! Just the right amount of humor mixed with a touch of true advice.

This book was a great follow-up to the first volume. It really covers A-Z when it comes to problems in the bedroom. Since I've read this and the other edition, my wife and I have had a lot more fun! Thanks!

Grab both of these books, if your husband or yourself has any problems in the bedroom. These books cover it all: erectile problems, impotence, premature ejaculation, low self esteem, bedroom anxiety, you name it. I am a marriage counselor, and I find myself constantly recommending these books. As we all know, most marriage problems can be quickly solved by more intimacy in the bedroom, and these books definetely help with that!

This book was a great sequal to the first volume. I tried both of these, and saw immediate results, when nothing else would work for me. Sure, you could probably spend hundreds of dollars and find something else that works- but why bother when you know that this works? I would recommend this to everyone!

I don't care what anyone may say, this really works! Following the techniques in this book really works, and it works fast! I thought since I noticed some improvement with the first book that I would give this one a try, and I was not dissapointed. If you have any sexual insecurities or anything like that, give these two books a try. It may save your marriage, I know that it saved mine!

This second volume takes off right where the first book leaves off. This series has tremendously helped my love life, and I can tell the difference! Although I've never had a problem with my penis size, I used to have a problem with enjoying an orgasm. I used to always be worried about premature ejaculation, and I'd get to where I didn't really enjoy sex at all. This book has helped tremendously. Thanks!

This fantastic debut novel was recently reviewed in Lavender (Minnesota's GLBT Magazine) and my friends are still talking about it! Set in 1980's Texas, the story weaves together elements of self-discovery and acceptance, relationships and friendships, happiness and tragedy in a very relatable and personal way. I was engrossed right from the first chapter and genuinely grew to care about the vivid characters that are at once funny and sad. It's kind of like Robert Rodi, Augusten Burroughs and Scott Heim all rolled in to one great book.

This is a wonderful fast read. The characters grab your attention and make you want to continue reading. It takes you through a range of emotions from laughing to crying. I hope another book is in the works because I want to find out what happens to the cast in their "circumstances".

If asked to describe this novel in one word, I would simply say, "charming". It is a very quick read with characters that are both identifiable and yet unique. Their exploits run the gamut from hilarious "laugh out loud" situations to touching moments of extreme tenderness and heartfelt revelations of sadness and personal growth.

I saw the cover of this book and got excited, thinking I was in for some Robert Rodi. Then, after the introduction of some zany characters, I decided I was going to experience some Joe Keenan. Suddenly, the steamy sexual passages had me gearing-up for some Jacqueline Suzann, though the humorous and sardonic treatment had me thinking of Augusten Burroughs. By the end of the book, however, I knew it was written by a unique writer with a style all his own and a fresh voice...one I hope to experience more of.

A fantastic tale of self discovery. The author has brilliantly created characters and "circumstances" that anyone can relate to. We laugh, we cry, we learn, and ultimately we are changed by the experience. I am anxiously awaiting more works from this author.

Great Read! If you enjoy shoot em up, rough and tumble guy type books...buy this one!

Put on your flax jacket and get ready to rumble. Rod Thompson takes readers on an unrelentingly wild ride through crack houses, shoot-outs and sizzling bedroom scenes in his riveting thriller "Copperhead Road". Set in the deep South, the book follows the lives of two renegade cousins who decide that ordinary life is no match for the fast-paced world of drug-dealing and its promises of easy money and forbidden danger.

First-time novelist Thompson says his work was strongly influenced by his meetings with noir-author James Ellroy. Indeed, Thompson displays much of the same talent for writing blunt and gritty prose. But it is during the tense and action-charged scenes of the book when human nature is laid bare that Thompson is at his best. Imagine infusing the stylistically rich novel "Rich Man, Poor Man" with the pulsating energy of Steven Segal's movie "Exit Wounds" and you'll have a good idea of how this brisk novel reads.

With his quick and lean narrative style, Thompson deftly draws the reader into a sordid world of crime, drugs and bone-crunching violence.

Copperhead Road cuts a wide swath across the South and into California and South America as it follows the lives of protagonists Cleveland Delancey and Jack Pettimore, young men who move effortlessly and guiltlessly between civilized society and lawlessness.

Delancey is a strapping man with an appetite for expensive clothes and racy women. His skill as a street fighter and boxer comes in handy when his older cousin, Pettimore, recruits him out of college for a job that promises a lot of money and even more danger. Pettimore, reserved but calculating, comes for a family whoe past in bootlegging is nearly shrouded by its present-day business ventures. While waiting to take over his father's vast farm holdings, he decides to fire-up a side-job brokering drugs.

As the story unfolds, we watch as the young men attempt to walk a tightrope between crime and legitimate entrepreneurial endeavors. But danger quickly becomes their lifeblood, sending Delancey and Pettimore into a downward spiral from which they seem helpless to pull out.

Copperhead Road begins at the mideway point in Delancey and Pettimore's lives. They have long since closed the door on their punishing past and are now involved in legitimate businesses in Tennessee and California. But the killng of Pettimore's son by drug dealers throws them back into the world they thought they'd left behind for good. Only this time, their motivation is retribution as they set out to avenge the death of a son and nephew.

Readers will not soon forget Thompson's stark prose nor the gritty, stripped-down characters he has created. And they may be curious to learn more about the author when they flip to the book's back cover and read that he, like Delancy, was raised in a military Southern family and has more than a passing knowledge of boxing and firearms.

In the end, this white-knuckle thriller that makes you sit up straight in your seat will leave readers screaming for a sequel!

Very fast read, a real page-turner. Will make a great movie and the sequel (if and when it's written) could be better than this novel. As a woman, this would not necessarily be a book I'd have picked up, I'm grateful someone suggested this read. Men will love this novel! The story gets you to the point where you can't wait to read on and see where this adventure takes you. The author, Rod Thompson,takes an edgy approach to a story that is very intelligently written. I would compare Mr. Thompson's style of writing to that of James Ellroy. Once you are in the middle of this adventure, you'll find the book exceptional.

Rod Thompson may live in California, but the South gave him this first story to tell - and he tells very well. If you're looking for sublety or a leisurely pace, then I suggest you look elsewhere. But if you are drawn to and enjoy head on prose that walks straight through a story, pulling no punches, then you have to read this one. Mr. Thompson's ear for the language of today's world is as on target as a triple X rapper and there's no apology for reality. The story is told with sentences as crisp as a solid jab and stays on target from start to finish. Getting between the Pettimore and Delancey family and their search for closure and satisfaction is a bad idea for anyone; and, there are a lot of would-be problems who get solved the old fashioned way. As each moment is detailed the reader becomes more and more anxious to learn what happens next and to whom. This book is very hard to put down and at the end I felt like I had gone 15 rounds with Dempsey. The sum of the parts results in a very solid story line that would translate very well to the screen. After meeting and speaking with Mr. Thompson one also has to suspect that there is more than a little of Cleve Delancy in Rod Thompson as their shared passions for family and action are obvious. Copperhead Road is an excellent first effort and this reviewer is ready for the next.

This is a great book because is has great photos - and good writing by an author who sees the pop value of service stations and like. There is a good historic overview of the early days, and lots of facts that make for fun reading. This book is not just for collectors of gas station stuff. This is a good read for anyone who use to pay 35 cents a gallon for gas.

This is one of two books written by Margolies which I have just re-read. (The other is Ticket to Paradise.) Regrettably, copies of both are now difficult to obtain but well-worth the effort. Each focuses on what may seem to be a highly specialized subject. In fact, both offer a wealth of information and commentary concerning a basic component within the development of U.S. culture. This volume focuses on the "glory days of the gas station." At least some readers of this review recall traveling across the country decades ago and pulling over where they could fill up their vehicle's gas tank. For many summers, I drove from Chicago to Los Angeles along Route 66 and stopped at several of the locations featured in this book. I have forgotten when but, at some point, the filling station became a service station. Upon arrival, an eager stranger appeared to fill up the tank, check the oil and tire pressure, wash the windows, and encourage me to purchase a canvas bag filled with water in the event the summer heat depleted the water in the radiator. One attendant who resembled Gabby Hayes noted that I might also need extra water "if this thing of yours breaks down in the middle of nowhere."

Margolies organizes his material within five chapters: Pump and Circumstance (signage); Pioneer Days (road maps); Golden Age: 1920-1940 (Pop Architecture, Aircraft, Razzmatazz: Kid Stuff, Believe it or Not!, Razzmatazz: That's Entertainment!, and Deco Moderne); "Going, Going...: 1940-1965 (Razzmatazz: Postwar Frolics, Porcelain Enamel, restrooms, and Razzmatazz: The Best of the Best; and Back to the Future: 1965-1990. The book is filled with superb illustrations (the best of which being archival photographs) and the text is based on a wealth of primary sources. Chapter 3 was especially interesting to me because it examines (with some of the best graphics in the book) various gas station architectures which include the Gulf Lighthouse Service Station (Miami Beach, FL), windmill-shaped buildings (Saint Cloud, MN), shell-shaped Shell gas stations (Winston-Salem, NC), the B-17 "Bomber Gas Station" (the plane installed above the pumps in Milwaukee, WI), "Bob's Airmail Service Station" built around a 32-passenger Fokker plane (Los Angeles, CA), and a zepplin-shaped building grounded beside the Pennzoil pumps (near Pittsburgh, PA). Photographs of most of these facilities are included, accompanied by brief but informative commentaries.

I highly recommend this book (as well as Ticket to Paradise) to those who share my interest in icons such as the gas station. Its evolution has been inextricably involved in the cultural history of the United States.

This handsome book arouses my nostalgia for the good old days of motoring both visually and educationally. Besides tracing the evolution of gas-station architecture, gas pumps themselves, and petrol merchandising, the book displays top-quality photo reproduction. This is especially to be appreciated for the way it shows the details in the older pictures, which were made in the days of slow, fine-grain films. And the book's generous page size helps the photos stand out, too. There's a good bibliography to further stoke the nostalgia.

Margolies has done his homework. In addition to a good written history of the "filling station," he has come up with photos and postcards depicting all aspects of delivering gasoline to your hungry tank. Following are just a few:

A station shaped like a red and white teapot, complete with pouring spout, in Zillah, Washington, built in 1922.

A 50 foot high tepee shaped gas station from Lawrence, Kansas, built in 1930

A station with a roof shaped like a red cowboy hat with a 50 foot wide brim, and restrooms in a structure shaped like a pair of cowboy boots, in Seattle, Washington, built just after World War II.

A station utilizing an actual B-17 Bomber overhanging the gas pumps from Milwaukie (sic), Oregon, again built just after World War II.

A flying saucer service station from Ashtabula, Ohio, built in 1966.

There are lighthouses, windmills, giant soda bottles, icebergs, and a myriad of other shapes and styles including art-deco, ceramic tile, cape cod, and just plain wooden sheds and concrete blocks.

The book includes a written history of filling stations from tanks atop horse-drawn carts to today's stations. Every kind of pump from hand cranked to coin operated to visible level to today's 24 hour automated pump are displayed and discussed. There are men's and women's uniforms, and there are advertising slogans, signs, very artistic give-away road maps, and even a discussion of the evolution of "the clean restroom" as an advertising feature.

We live in the era of the automobile, and PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE is, in addition to being brainfood for the nostalgia buff in all of us, a history of that still unfolding era.

This is the kind of coffee table book that any over 30 guest in your home will be drawn to and, pointing at some illustration, say, "Hey, I remember those."

Each of these stories is dark and despairing, yet when finished, ultimately hopeful if one can only fully absorb the inherently cautionary nature of these tales. Every one of these stories is worthy of inclusion in a "best of" anthology of some sort. The stories are so fantastical, yet free of the many tropes we have become accustomed to in post-apocalypse settings. And I don't think this can be classified as fantasy either. Even hopelessness can be beautiful. This is good stuff.

I am not normally a fan of short fiction but I really love this book. Mr. Bacigalupi manages, in just a few pages, to create an engaging and intriguing story with a bit of spine tingling as an added bonus. His wonderfully acute social commentary and willingness to explore the margins of human behavior gives his work a level of integrity rarely matched in the world of fiction or non-fiction. These stories have stuck with me for weeks after reading them, providing a rich insight and perspective into many aspects of life. I look forward to the next collection.

I first read a short story by Paolo Bacigalupi in High Country News. It was "The Tamarisk Hunter" about a man named Lolo who removes the weed trees from a water hungry Southwest and who has a darker secret. It was well written and very plausible to those who know the tamarisk (or saltcedar, as it is also called) and the water problems of the southwestern border states. I then found this collection titled "Pump Six and Other Stories" in the local library.

These are dark stories of a Dalai Lama in a datacube, a modified human, a world of scavengers, a cultural conflict, genetically engineered life forms, population crises, life in a future Thailand, murder and a polluted world, as well as the tamarisk hunter. To a large degree these are cautionary tales - tales of what might be, if we take no action or take the wrong action. The biggest fear is that they will happen despite anything we can do and the author does not relieve us of this fear. Finally, these are finely crafted stories of the very near and far futures of human existence and they will leave you very uneasy. For all that, they are well worth the reading.

Paolo Bacigalupi writes gritty, dystopian SF, but if that's all he did there wouldn't be much reason to buy this book. What puts him over the top is the way he combines seriously beautiful and excellent writing with really great ideas. In other words, he sugar coats the bitter pill so well, he makes a meal out of it.

It's the "how to" manual for getting your sugars in control,even with the curveballs of exercise and highly variable diets... New edition... will have sections on pregnancy, and children pumping, as well as humalog. (This version is based on regular insulin).

The book is amazingly frank and candid about how to control your disease with a pump YOURSELF. There is a lot of information you never will hear from your diabetes educators, because (1) they don't know it or (2) they are afraid of letting the patient take too much control.

The ultimate truth is that a patient can never obtain excellent results with a pump (or any other routine) unless s/he has all information available and is empowered to use it. This book makes that possible.

The only negative is it needs updating for Humalog insulin. This shouldn't be a huge undertaking and I would encourage the authors to do it. (I'll buy the book again if they will!)

This is an excellent reference for all pump users. It should be given to all new pumpers! Many questions are answered that my pump trainer neglected. It is a bit technical, and takes quite some time to read through. It seems to have one big flaw: it needs to be updated to include information on Humalog (lispro) insulin and Soft-serter infusion set info.

and have been pumping (mostly) since '86. yes, physicians like myself can experience insulin dependent diabetes like anyone else. my diabetologist tells me of new advances in techniques and glucose control since "pumping" published in '94. the book is dated due to new knowledge and experiences from educators, researchers and "pumpers". yet, this book continues the best information in print to help those interested in pumping. i strongly recomend this book and look forward (hopefully) to it's sequel fairly soon. still, it is a great help.