Distribution Books

In his book, The The New Dollars and Dreams, Frank Levy provides a comprehensive and rigorous history of the distribution of income and wealth in the United States, focusing in detail on post WWII development. The book is readable without sacrificing depth, with appeal to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences alike.

Conservative readers and/or those with a neo-classical economic philosophy of life may find some of the author's assumptions, conclusions, and prescriptions for change off-putting. But it is not an ideological polemic. It presents an enormous amount of data and information along with its judgments, allowing the reader to contest the author's opinions.

Highlights of the book include: the gini coefficient measure of wealth and income inequality, the important distinctions between wealth and income, trends in both wealth and income inequality, how education and the service economy have interacted to affect the distribution of income (but not wealth), and the importance of the distinctions between among the experiences of African American men and women's, as well as African American and white women.

Immensely useful and enjoyable--a rare combination.

This book starts where field guides leave off. If you're interested in learning about an animal's habitat, behavior, and distribution in the New Enland region, then this book is indispensible. A great study tool for the wildlife enthusiast who wants to go beyond the condensed text of picture field guides. Note: this book assumes that you are familiar with the animals' physical appearance, so if you're not, you'll need a good regional field guide as companion book.

This book tells just about everything there is to know on beach hunting, surf hunting, ocean hunting, etc. It gives tips and information on how it should be done and were to look. I have been treasure hunting ever since I read this book. I reccomend this book to anybody who wants to get into treasure hunting or lust wants to learn more on the subject.

Finally, someone who is not afraid to stand up against the charismatic movement. Oakland presents an excellent case as to the dangers of the Charismatic movement and how their roots lead to Catholicism. He even shows how this movement can be traced back over 2000 yrs ago, from a pagan goddess. I recommend this book to anyone.

If T. S. Eliot had been abused as a child, his literary voice may have been like that of Smith. NIGHT TRAIN is brutal, beautiful, vulnerable and hopeful while not being maudlin in the slightest.

this cd is absolutly awesome from the first track to the last, Jello talks and makes very valid points never gets dull. just buy it you won't be let down

Nobody Said It Would Be Easy is a great book. It really took me by surprise. From the cover and the title I presumed that it would be a sort of cheesy adventure book. It proved me wrong.
The book is about a boy called Lance. He and his father live on a ranch in Canada. A while earlier, Lance cut his hand really bad when he tried to intervene in a knife fight to save his friend. Now, several months later, the cast can finally come off. But something happens that Lance wasn't counting on. He can't use his hand.
As Lance struggles to accept the fact that he'll probably never be able to use his hand again, other side plots come in. The tension mounts throughout the book, building to a very rewarding climax.
This book is great! A true page turner.

Pett's work on nonparametric statistics is, without doubt, the best book available on nonparametric statistics. I have always been a champion of Siegel's classic. But Pett has an easy way of introducing each statistical procedure, explaining the mechanisms behind the procedure, clarifying the utilisation of the test, linking nicely with SPSS (albeit now a rather outdated version) and - best of all - gives guidelines for reporting the results. Pett's writing style is very accessible and precise - how nice to find a social worker who knows about statistics! Even novice researchers will find this book understandable. Check out her other work on factor analysis for a similarly outstanding work.

I've read Kirsten Dierking's two collections of poetry, first, One Red Eye, and now,Northern Oracle and am stunned with her brilliance with language. I thought she started out strong in One Red Eye, but I can see how her creating poems inspired by the awful experience of rape she survived as a college student would unsettle some readers. Her latest collection is sure to find a broader audience, as it's more general reflections on the human condition. In Northern Oracle, Dierking reflects on life's transitions, and makes connections between people, animals, and nature, that simply moved me. I hope Ms. Dierking continues to publish her work, I feel like she provides a voice for my generation. Plus, the book is simply beautiful.

The "The Nuclear Energy Option" is one of the best books I have read on a technical subject. Cohen is a master at analyzing complex subjects and expressing them in a way that most people can understand.

The book addresses the biases that have led the US to an energy policy that favors high-cost and environmentally dangerous methods to generate power (coal, and yes, alternative energy such as solar cells) and that discourages low-cost, environmentally safe methods such as nuclear.

If you still think that nuclear power is dangerous, then do yourself a favor and read the book. The fear that the public has about nuclear power generation and waste disposal is not supported by the facts. Our TV and print media have done a disservice in the poor and biased reporting that have strongly influenced our public policy as well as our perceptions.

Cohen gives us a common "measuring stick" to compare alternative methods of power generation in terms of cost and safety to the public and the environment.