Beyonce takes 6 Grammys, makes history

By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press Writer David Bauder

It's a tribute to the Grammys' success at becoming more a musical spectacle than an awards show that on the night she made history, Beyonce was just another face in the crowd.

Pop's reigning diva earned six Grammys on Sunday, more than any woman on a single night of the 52-year-old awards show. Her anthem "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" was song of the year. But she didn't come onstage to accept that — her collaborators said she was prepping for a performance — and four of her other awards came during the non-televised pre-show.

The Grammys' four biggest awards were split four ways: 20-year-old country chanteuse Taylor Swift won album of the year; family rockers Kings of Leon won record of the year for "Use Somebody"; and the Zac Brown Band was named best new artist.

The Grammys in recent years have tried to emphasize the music more than the awards, particularly by pairing younger performers with veterans. This year, producers nailed it, with a double album's worth of memorable performances.

Among the best were the Black Eyed Peas, who sang "I Gotta Feeling" with a stage filled with what looked like dancing tomatoes and robots. Lady Gaga was predictably over the top, singing "Poker Face" and getting tossed into a bucket of fire before emerging singed and combining forces with an equally dirtied and bemused Elton John.

Green Day turned its "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" into a soaring beauty by joining the cast of a new musical based on its "American Idiot" album. Opera singer Andrea Bocelli held his own with a powerful, and heart-breaking rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," done for the benefit of Haitian earthquake victims.

An acrobatic Pink turned her "Glitter in the Air" into a Cirque de Soleil-like performance, hanging suspended over the audience as she sang. "That was amazing," an impressed Keith Urban said after she was done.

Memorable pairings included the white-haired, white-bearded and white-hatted Leon Russell joining the Zac Brown Band; Maxwell and Robert Flack singing a silky-smooth "Where is the Love"; and Stevie Nicks, looking like a protective mom, joining Swift on her "You Belong With Me" and Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon."

An arresting performance of "Forever" and "Drop the World" with rappers Lil' Wayne, Drake and Eminem was rendered virtually incomprehensible by craters of silence inserted by CBS censors. And the 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson proved overrated, with Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Smokey Robinson and Carrie Underwood looking like they'd joined a production number from "American Idol."

Swift, who won four Grammys, was the night's most visible winner. She beamed during her duet with Nicks, and seemed thrilled in her two acceptance speeches — while staying poised enough to thank her record company for letting her write her own songs, and express pride at bringing the album of the year prize to Nashville.

"This is for my dad," she said. "Thank you for all the times you said I could do whatever I wanted to do."

Beyonce was low-key during her one time onstage to accept her sixth trophy of he night, for best female pop vocal on the ballad "Halo." She offered thanks to her fans for their support.

Stagecraft was smooth; Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott, hit in the head by a falling curtain, calmly brushed it aside without missing a note.

Host Stephen Colbert followed the new model of awards show hosts: coming out in the beginning for a handful of jokes then disappearing — except to accept a Grammy of his own, for his surrealistic Christmas musical.

He bemoaned the absence of Susan Boyle from Grammy night.

"You may be the coolest people in the world," Colbert said, a barely amused Jay-Z looking on, "but this year your industry was saved by a 48-year-old Scottish cat lady in sensible shoes."

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On the Net:

http://www.grammys.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_en_mu/us_grammys

US veteran returns art album taken from Hitler's villa

From BBC.CO.UK

US veteran returns art album taken from Hitler's villa

In 1945, in the heat of war, a young John Pistone helped himself to a book. Now he is giving it back.

To be fair, Mr Pistone, a private in George Patton's army, never thought of his act as theft. He just needed proof he was there.

"I thought who the hell's going to believe I was in Berchtesgaden?" he said. "I'm going to need some proof."

US soldiers quickly stripped Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden of souvenirs
As the Americans raced across southern Germany in the spring of 1945, Mr Pistone recalled, the soldiers were intent on capturing as many German soldiers as possible. And finding Hitler.

"They were giving up like mad by that time, but we were looking for Hitler. Because they said he was still alive," he said.

And so the young John Pistone found himself walking through the gates of the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps.

"We had a feeling like we just missed Hitler," Mr Pistone remembered. "It seemed like... someone had just left in a hurry."

The place had already been stripped bare by other American souvenir hunters, but in a cabinet Mr Pistone found a large photo album, full of immaculate black and white reproductions of paintings.

The 'Hitler Book'

He had no idea what it was, but he thought it looked interesting and would do nicely as a memento. For the next few months, until he made it back home to Ohio, he lugged the volume around.

"That damn thing was heavy! But I was determined to get it home," he remembered.

GIs enjoy the view on a spring morning at Berchtesgaden in 1945
For decades, the album sat on John Pistone's shelf, brought out only to show family and friends. His children called it "the Hitler book".

But it was not until Mr Pistone decided to install a washer and drier in an upstairs bedroom that the book came to the attention of a local history buff who, in turn, contacted Robert Edsel, author and president of the Monuments Men Foundation.

The Monuments Men were a group of some 345 men and women from 13 countries who scoured Europe during and after WWII, looking for artistic and cultural items stolen by the Nazis.

When he heard about the album, Mr Edsel figured he knew what it was, but he flew from Texas to Cleveland to make sure.

"When I first saw it, there was little doubt in my mind about it being authentic," Mr Edsel said. "But the question was, as always, where did it come from?"

Examination confirmed Mr Edsel's initial hunch that the book was one of 31 albums that formed a catalogue featuring art selected by Hitler for inclusion in a huge National Socialist museum of art, planned for the Austrian city of Linz.

The museum, had it ever been built, would have included looted masterworks from across the continent, but Mr Pistone's album, Number 13, mostly consists of reproductions of little-known German and Austrian 19th Century paintings.

Decision time

A triptych by Hans Makart, The Plague in Florence, was a gift from Hitler's Italian ally, Benito Mussolini.

When Hitler's initial efforts to acquire the work from an Italian banking family in Florence were rebuffed, Mussolini confiscated their entire villa and gave the paintings to Hitler, who apparently reciprocated by sending the Duce a bust of himself.

Mr Pistone gave the book to Germany's ambassador, at the State Department
Another work - Frederick the Great Travelling, by Adolf Menzel - was one of Hitler's favourites and used to hang above his desk.

John Pistone was reluctant to part with the "Hitler Book", having held on to it for so long, even though Makart and Menzel meant nothing to him.

But when he read Mr Edsel's book about the Monuments Men, he decided that the time had finally come to part with the souvenir from Germany.

"I talked to my wife and I said 'I think we're going to put the book in his hands,'" Mr Pistone said.

"I feel very, very good about it, now that I know that it's important to people other than myself and my family."

At a ceremony at the State Department in Washington last week, Mr Pistone handed the album over to the German ambassador.

After a brief appearance at the National World War Museum in New Orleans, the album will be sent to Berlin, to join 19 of the original 31 volumes. The hunt goes on for the remaining 11.

And for John Pistone, there's a feeling that he has done the right thing.

"Life has been so good to me," he said. "I've been married 60 years. Five children. Ten grandchildren... And when you leave this world, it's not how much money you leave. It's setting an example. I hope this sets an example. For my children."

Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8486092.stm

Apple introduces the iPad

By: Adam Balkin

Steve Jobs took the stage, putting the rumor mill to rest and unveiling Apple's "latest creation." It's called the iPad and it's the newest wireless device from the maker of the popular iPhone and iPod. Our Adam Balkin has more.

UNITED STATES -- "Is there room for something in the middle? Something between a laptop and a Smartphone? We think there is. Today we'd like to introduce you to the iPad," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

And with that, Jobs made official the worst kept secret in the tech world over the last several months, the much anticipated Apple tablet computer we now know is called the iPad. Starting at $500 it's half an inch thick, a pound and a half in weight and about the size of a legal pad. It essentially looks and acts like a giant iPod Touch. In fact, it can run almost all Touch and iPhone apps right out of the box, can get online via a WiFi wireless internet hotspot and some will have 3G data access via AT&T. And taking a direct swipe at Amazon's Kindle, it has access to a new iBooks store which will try to do for books what iTunes does for music and movies.

"It has to be better at browsing the web, doing email, sharing pictures, watching videos, enjoying music, playing games and reading books," Jobs said.

But, and you can probably blame this on the huge build up or unrealistic expectations, some in the tech world are already saying this is not the big wow product they were necessarily hoping for that would fill that space PC makers have been trying to fill for years, that space right in between Smartphones and laptop computers.

"It's basically just a big iPod Touch. There's basically nothing that differentiates it from an iPod Touch other than its size. It basically met everyone's expectations, maybe a little bit less, without bringing anything super new or exciting, so I think people are a little disappointed," said Adam Frucci of Gizmodo.com.

As for some other key specs people were eager to hear about, Apple says the iPad will have a ten-hour battery life, comes with between 16 to 64 GB of storage, depending on the model. Again, they'll start at about $500 and run as high as just over $800. As for the final need to know piece of info, when it'll be available, about two months from now.

For more information, visit http://www.apple.com/ipad.

Source: http://news10now.com/cny-news-1013-content/top_stories/494427/apple-introduces-the-ipad

Want to Convince? Use Abstract Rather Than Concrete Language

When consumers talk to each other about products, they generally respond more favorably to abstract language than concrete descriptions, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "In a series of experiments, we explored when and why consumers use abstract language in word-of-mouth messages, and how these differences in language use affect the receiver," write authors Gaby A. C. Schellekens, Peeter W. J. Verlegh, and Ale Smidts (Erasmus University, The Netherlands).

In the course of their studies, the authors found that consumers who described a positive experience with a product (like a smooth shave with a new razor) used more abstract language when they had a positive opinion about the brand before they tried the product. "When consumers were told that the product was a brand they did not like, they used more concrete language to describe a positive experience. Thus, consumers use different ways of describing the exact same experience, depending on whether they use a liked or disliked brand," the authors write.

For a disliked brand, favorable experiences are seen as exceptions, and concrete language helps consumers to frame the experience as a one-time event, the authors explain.

On the receiver end, the studies showed that consumers responded differently to abstract and concrete language. "In our study of receivers, we gave consumers a description of a positive product experience, and asked them to estimate the sender's opinion about the products," the authors write. "We found that perceived opinion of the sender was more positive when the description was cast in more abstract terms." For descriptions of negative experiences, the perceived opinion of the sender was more negative when the description used abstract language.

"Our finding that abstract messages have a stronger impact on buying intentions can be translated straightforwardly into the recommendation to use abstract language if you try to convince someone of the (positive or negative) consequences of buying a product, or of following your advice," the authors conclude.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119121427.htm
Story Source: Adapted from materials provided by University of Chicago Press Journals, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

Journal Reference:
1.Gaby A. C. Schellekens, Peeter W. J. Verlegh, and Ale Smidts. Language Abstraction in Word of Mouth. Journal of Consumer Research, August 2010

Business Angel

Interview: Daniela Barone Soares

She gives away lots of - other people's - money to charities, but they have to meet tough business targets and prove they can rise to the challenge.
By Patrick Butler Daniela Barone Soares had spent a decade working as a private equity banker when she began to reassess her career goals. Her initial plan had been to amass a fortune and give it all away to charity. But life, she realised, was too short. "It came to a moment where I was thinking 'enough is enough', and that I wanted to do something now." She took a huge pay cut to join the charity sector - "When I went to Save the Children, what I earned in salary was less than I paid in tax in my last year at Boston Capital" - but now, she says, she's living her values.

In April, Barone Soares found herself on an Independent on Sunday "Happy List" for the way her work in philanthropy helps to make the UK a "better and happier place to live". "I don't know if happier is the right word," she says, cautiously. But Barone Soares is not a philanthropist in the traditional sense. She certainly gives away (other people's) money to good causes, but she does it in a way that owes more to the hard-headed principles of business investment than the more paternalistic values of conventional grant-making.

Barone Soares is chief executive of Impetus, set up in 2003 by the venture capitalist Stephen Dawson. It is still relatively small - it marshals resources in cash and kind of £10m, with plans to increase this to £30m by 2012; it has just six full-time and three pro-bono employees; and it is partners with a highly select band of 11 charities. But already its presence is being felt. Two of the five charities chosen from 90 applicants in March by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to share in £27m of funding for disadvantaged children were Impetus partners - the disability advocacy Speaking Up, and the conflict resolution youth organisation Leap.

Impetus works as a kind of charitable private equity fund: it raises cash from individual and corporate donors, and uses this to lever in co-investment from charitable foundations and pro-bono expertise from business institutions. This resource is invested in a small portfolio of partner charities and social enterprises. The object is not to make a profit but to ensure donor money is spent in a way that maximises "social return", by injecting capital and management knowhow into often underperforming organisations it believes has the potential to be high performers.

Any charity working in the broad field of human welfare can apply, but only a handful make the cut. For every 30 charities that Impetus holds exploratory meetings with, just one ends up as a partner. Potential partners are subject to a full market analysis. Who are their competitors? How do they compare with their peers? Costs are analysed, beneficiaries are interviewed, and the quality of senior management and trustees is assessed. "It has to be a charity that is ambitious for a much greater social impact," Barone Soares says.

But surely all charities seek greater social impact? Barone Soares is unconvinced. There's an element of "risk aversion" in the sector, she says. "Sometimes, when they come to us with what they call an ambitious plan, it is not really ambitious at all. It's like: 'We've been growing 2% a year, we want to grow 3% a year.' Well, that is not that ambitious. We say: 'What you could do is this.' And they say: 'Woah, too ambitious. We don't want to go there.'"

Anyone seeing the trust as an easy source of short-term project funding is quickly disabused. Under the terms of the deal, unrestricted money is on offer, but to get it charities have to meet tough development targets over three to four years, and that will normally entail disruption, critical self-examination, and uncomfortable decisions. Not all senior staff or trustees, for example, are likely to be considered to be up to the task ahead. "We say to charities: 'This is not [the kind of charitable] funding where we ask you for a little progress report in a year from now," Barone Soares says. "We are going to be walking that journey with you and helping you achieve more than you would achieve on your own.'"

Some in the voluntary sector will bridle at a model in which the funder takes such a hands-on approach. Barone Soares is unapologetic. "Even though charities may have a good business model to tackle the root causes of social problems, they probably don't have the management and business skills to take it to the next level and make that impact much greater." The point of the partnership, she says, is not to change what the charity does, but how it does it. "That's not what we do. We buy into their plan. We challenge it, of course, but we buy into what they are doing and we help them focus on what is their core, because usually they are not focused."

Dependence on grants

The results so far appear to speak for themselves. Speaking Up has been transformed in four years from a small Cambridge-based charity running a single project into a £2.5m provider overseeing 27 projects. Average annual income growth has been 53%. It has increased its earned income and reduced its dependence on grants. There's been a sixfold increase in [people] using the charity's services, and the number of people helped in one-to-one advocacy work has grown 30-fold.

Organisational growth alone is not the point, Barone Soares says, and measuring a charity's performance is never solely a numbers game. A successful charity, she insists, is one that can demonstrate it makes a real difference to beneficiaries' lives. "As [the charities] grow, the thing we pay attention to is: are they becoming lighter touch, touching more people but in less depth? Or are they managing to keep the depth of impact while they grow?"

There have been no failures so far, but Barone Soares accepts that at some point one of its investments will begin to struggle. It may be, she says, that the charity has been hit by tough, unforeseen market conditions, and simply needs more cash - which they would supply. Or "it might be they are underperforming and we say, 'My goodness, they haven't done what they said they were going to do', and we suspend payment until they do it. And we have done that. That really focuses people. But we haven't hit a situation where we felt [we needed to make] an early exit. That would have to be a quite drastic situation.

"We don't have unlimited resources, which means if we are putting resources into a charity which is not impactful it means we are not allocating them to someone who might. If I'm brutal about it, some charities do deserve to go under because they are just incompetent, and they don't use resources efficiently and are not necessarily adding a lot of value."

The ultimate aim, she says, is to effect a kind of rationalisation in some sub-sectors of Britain's vast charity market to ensure the best-performing charities survive and prosper. That will be uncomfortable for many in the charity world. But Barone Soares's focus is on the beneficiary. "I don't believe all the number of charities that exist are all efficient and deserve to be there."

Curriculum Vitae
Age 37.

Born Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Lives London.

Status Single.

Education Unicamp, Brazil, economics degree; Harvard Business School, MBA.

Career 2006-present: CEO, Impetus; 2004-06: head of institutional support, Save the Children; 2003: independent environmental consulting; 1997-2002: Bancboston Capital (private equity); 1995-97: Harvard; 1996: Goldman Sachs, New York, investment banking; 1992-95: Citibank, Brazil, commercial banking.

Interests Raja yoga meditation; poetry (published one book); scuba diving.

Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jul/09/voluntarysector

No Pain, No Gain!

Mastering A Skill Makes Us Stressed In The Moment, Happy Long Term


No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests.

"No pain, no gain is the rule when it comes to gaining happiness from increasing our competence at something," said Ryan Howell, assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University. "People often give up their goals because they are stressful, but we found that there is benefit at the end of the day from learning to do something well. And what's striking is that you don't have to reach your goal to see the benefits to your happiness and well-being."

Contrary to previous research, the study found that people who engage in behaviors that increase competency, for example at work, school or the gym, experience decreased happiness in the moment, lower levels of enjoyment and higher levels of momentary stress. Despite the negative effects felt on an hourly basis, participants reported that these same activities made them feel happy and satisfied when they looked back on their day as a whole. This surprising find suggests that in the process of becoming proficient at something, individuals may need to endure temporary stress to reap the happiness benefits associated with increased competency.

The study examined whether people who spend time on activities that fulfill certain psychological needs, believed to be necessary for growth and well-being, experience greater happiness. In addition to the need to be competent, the study focused on the need to feel connected to others and to be autonomous or self-directed, and it examined how fulfilling these three needs affects a person's happiness moment by moment within a day.

For two days, participants reported how they spent each hour, the enjoyment and stress experienced in that hour, and whether the activity met their need for competency, connectedness to others or autonomy. A second group of participants completed a similar survey, but reported on the day as a whole.

While behaviors that increase competency were associated with decreased happiness in the moment, people who spent time on activities that met the need for autonomy or feeling connected to others experienced increased happiness both an hourly and daily basis. The greatest increase in momentary happiness was experienced by participants who engaged in something that met their need for autonomy -- any behavior that a person feels they have chosen, rather than ought to do, and that helps them further their interests and goals.

The authors suggest that shifting the balance of needs met in a day could help people find ways to cope with short term stress in the workplace. "Our results suggest that you can decrease the momentary stress associated with improving your skill or ability by ensuring you are also meeting the need for autonomy and connectedness, for example performing the activity alongside other people or making sure it is something you have chosen to do and is true to who you are," Howell said.

Relating these momentary gains in happiness to people's long term life satisfaction, the study found that those who are already satisfied with their life in the long term stand to gain most from the momentary happiness that is derived from feeling connected to others and a sense of autonomy.

"Like a wine connoisseur whose experience means they can appreciate a fine wine more than a novice, people who are already satisfied with their life may have learned how to glean the satisfaction of these needs from their daily activities," Howell said.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com
Journal Reference: 1.Howell et al. Momentary Happiness: The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 2009

Richard Bach Quotes

- The gull sees farthest who flies highest.

- For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

- Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
Fernão Capelo Gaivota

- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory

- Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

- Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.

- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

(The following presentation is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

This article is about the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Richard David Bach (b. June 23, 1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the 1972 best-selling novel, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and the movie based on the book. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context. He has pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17.

Life and work
Richard Bach attended Long Beach State College in 1955. He has authored numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970), Illusions (1977), One (1989), and Out of My Mind (1999). Most of his books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy.

He served in the Air Force Reserve as a pilot, and afterwards worked a variety of jobs. He later became a barnstormer. Most of his books involve flight in some way, from the early stories which are straightforwardly about flying aircraft to his later works in which he used flight as a philosophical metaphor.

In 1972, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was published by Macmillan Publishers after the manuscript was turned down by several other publishers. The book, which included unique photos of seagulls in flight, became a number one best-seller on both the fiction and non-fiction lists. The book contained fewer than 10,000 words, yet it broke all hardcover sales records since Gone With the Wind. It sold more than 1,000,000 copies in 1972 alone. The surprise success of the book was widely reported in the media in the early 1970s.

In 1973, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a story about a seagull who flew for the sake of flying rather than merely to catch food, was turned into a movie produced by Paramount Pictures Corporation. The movie included a soundtrack by Neil Diamond.

Bach's book, Illusions, published in 1977, is now in the movie-production phase (2006). It is being directed by French filmmaker Yann Samuell. For more information, visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421271/.

Bach has retained a dedicated fan base throughout the years. During the 1990s, Bach appeared online at Compuserve, where he answered e-mails personally. The website has since disappeared.

Bach had six children with his first wife, Bette. They divorced in 1970.

His second wife was actress Leslie Parrish, whom he met during the shooting of the movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull in 1973. They married in 1981 and his book, The Bridge Across Forever, is based on their courtship. They divorced and he has since remarried. He currently resides on the San Juan Islands in Washington State.


Philosophy
Bach espouses a consistent philosophy in his books: Our true nature is not bound by space or time, we are expressions of the Is, we are not truly born nor truly die, and we enter this world of Seems and Appearances for fun, learning, to share experiences with those we care for, to explore - and most of all to learn how to love and love again.

Divorce
Of his divorce, Richard Bach wrote:

"Leslie and I are no longer married. Soul mates, to me, don't define themselves by legal marriage. There's a learning connection that exists between those two souls. Leslie and I had that for the longest time, and then a couple of years ago, she had this startling realization. She said, 'Richard, we have different goals!' I was yearning for my little adventures and looking forward to writing more books. Leslie has worked all her life long, and she wanted peace, she wanted to slow the pace, not complicate it, not speed it up. Not money, not family, no other men or other women, separated us. We wanted different futures. She was right for her. I was right for me. Finally it came time for us to make a choice. We could save the marriage and smother each other: 'You can't be who you want to be.' Or we could separate and save the love and respect that we had for each other. We decided the marriage was the less important. And now we're living separate lives.
"I believe that Leslie and I were led to find each other, led through the years we lived together, and led to part. There's so much to learn! When a marriage comes to an end, we're free to call it a failure. We're also free to call it a graduation. We didn't say, 'I guess we weren't led to each other, I guess we're not soul mates after all.' Our graduation was part of the experience we chose before we were born, to learn how to let each other go." [5]

Books
Bach, Richard, "Stranger to the Ground" (1963) Dell reprint (1990), ISBN 0-440-20658-8
Bach, Richard, "Biplane" (1966) Dell Reprint (1990), ISBN 0-440-20657-X
Bach, Richard, "Nothing by Chance" (1969) Dell Reprint 1990, ISBN 0-440-20656-1
Bach, Richard "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1970) Macmillan, ISBN 0-380-01286-3
Bach, Richard, "A Gift of Wings" (1974) Dell Reissue (1989), ISBN 0-440-20432-1
Bach, Richard, "There's No Such Place As Far Away" (1976) Delta (1998), ISBN 0-385-31927-4
Bach, Richard, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" (1977, ISBN 0-385-28501-9
Bach, Richard, "The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story" (1984) Dell Reissue (1989), ISBN 0-440-10826-8
Bach, Richard, "One" (1988) Dell Reissue 1989, ISBN 0-440-20562-X
Bach, Richard, "Running from Safety" (1995) Delta, ISBN 0-385-31528-7
Bach, Richard, "Out of My Mind" (2000) Delta, ISBN 0-385-33490-7
Bach, Richard, "The Ferret Chronicles":
"Air Ferrets Aloft" (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2753-0
"Rescue Ferrets at Sea" (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2750-6
"Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse" (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2754-9
"Rancher Ferrets on the Range" (2003) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2755-7
"The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed" (2003) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2756-5
"Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles" (2005) Hampton Roads Publishing Company, ISBN 1-57174-457-6
Bach, Richard, "Flying: The Aviation Trilogy" (2003) Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-4747-7
Bach, Richard, "Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul" (2004), ISBN 1-57174-421-5

Notes and References
^ 20th-Century American Bestsellers, Accessed September 09, 2006
^ Walters, Raymond, Jr., New York Times Book Review, July 23, 1972, 43
^ The Christian Science Monitor (archive August 10, 2000) Accessed September 09, 2006
^ Bach, Jonathan, "Above the Clouds: A Reunion of Father and Son," (1993) ISBN 0-688-11760-0
^ Richard Bach: A Fan Site Accessed Sept. 11, 2006