Julie Brown Books

My husband and I are business people but have never opened a coffee shop....the book was great!

A great book for basic understanding of what it takes to start and run a successful coffee business.

I agree with most of the other reviewers. If I were opening a coffee cart or kiosk I'd find this book educational. As it is, it lacks details but does give good basic information. You can start here but "Become a coffee house owner" is far more detailed, with business plans, budgets, specific list of items needed (down to the grease trap), contacts, employees, probably health requirements etc. I did gain some knowledge from this book, but it won't be a point of referral in the future.

Let's imagine you are thinking about buying that espresso stand down beside the street corner near your home. "Hmmm....wonder if that is a goldmine waiting to be mined?"

If so, this book is an adequate first step in your research. It touches a wide range of topics with a scientific, by-the-numbers approach. Therein lies the fault.

You see, entrepreneurship is not a science. It is an art. So, too, is service and great coffee!

By all means, buy of read ESPRESSO! STARTING & RUNNING YOUR OWN SPECIALTY COFFEE BUSINESS first. The ESPRESSO BARTENDERS GUIDE TO ESPRESSO BARTENDING has to be the next book on your journey to making a living brewing great coffee.

Before you buy that espresso stand, though, get hold of RETAIL MANAGEMENT by Ron Hasty and learn why the location of that stand may, or may not, be in a good location for your target market! Bill Anderson.

This should be the title "Thinking about running a Coffee Business" I gave this 3 stars because it is very easy to read, straight to the point, does point out some warning signs.

If your already in the business then, forget it.

I would not recommend this book to anybody.

I found the stories to be much too in depth for a small child with a vivid imagination - especially the story about "Abraham and His Family." The wording is not complicated, but I thought that the stories were a little over exaggerated in some areas and a little to explicit for a three year old.

The illustrations are beautiful, but do not compensate for the poor storytelling. I feel that there are much better products out there such as the Alice in Bibleland series.

This book of Bible stories aimed at the very young is nicely illustrated and fairly well-written. However, it is far too short to be a "Bible" of choice for educating toddlers or those beginning to read. The choice of some of the stories included is questionable, particularly since context is lost. The Gospel stories included are especially inadequate, failing to do justice to the ministry and life of Jesus. Kids could certainly grasp more if given the opportunity to do so.

Looking over similar products on the market, it is quite difficult to find one that satisfies all the necessaries: theological accuracy, wording, sense of style, beautiful illustrations, and completeness. This book could have been a contender, but its lacks in that final requirement only make it good, rather than great.

My son was given this book on his 2nd birthday and has loved the stories and pictures. The Bible stories are vivid and the beautiful illustrations help keep his attention. I have used this book in my Sunday School class with children up to 6 years old. All of the children enjoyed it.

This book is good about listing the objectives and showing you exactly where to find the answers for the multiple choice questions. For example: What is the purpose of a job cost sheet? The book highlights the area where the answer is. Easy huh? Well, what about the actual accounting problems? The detailed problems at the end of each chapter have NO SOLUTIONS to them, and you can't buy a solutions guide unless you are an instructor! I'm not an accounting wizard, so I have to actually practice before it sticks in my brain... imagine that. I guess they expect everyone to see the problems and read about the problems and automatically get it. They work out a "Demonstration Problem" for you, but that only applies to some of the problems at the end of each chapter.

Jerry really knows how to help people learn accounting. Learning accounting is about practising but not reading. Reading helps but it won't solve problems. The one thing I really appreciate about this book is Jerry uses real life accounting practice within companies from different industries to illustrate every single chapter, within which all the accounting theories and principals naturally flow. You can see all the kinds of accounting problems with actual number and data being solved with the application of relevant accounting theories,principals and methods. You know how real things are done. I have read many accounting books, among which loads of books lack exercises for me to practice after I read certain chapter. But buying Jerry's book, you get two books, one for reading, and one for exams. Nearly half of the book is Exam Questions, which emulate my real exams quite well. I can't believe an accounting without good exercise questions is an book. If you seriously want to pass exams and know how the real accounting is done,this is the book for you!

I bought this book for a Managerial accounting class. I found that chapters to be well written and the example easy to follow. Enron gets used a lot. What I didn't like was that problems in the back of the book are not as clear as they could be. Most of the time, I plug in the wrong formula. So that part could have been clearer. The answers are all on a CD, that access a website for the answers. So if you like me and still have dial-up, you may have a problem there too. However I am still pulling a B in the class, so I'm getting something.

This book is about how a new girl came to school, and another girl taught her how to not be a geek anymore. It turned out that that girl turned out to win the State Spelling Bee.

In A Landscape of Events, consisting of 13 essays written between 1984 and 1996, French thinker Paul Virilio examines the effects of modern technology on our societies and psyches. The exercise is frequently both enlightening and bleak. Consider, for instance, this passage: "...in giving more depth to the present `instant,' these new electromagnetic technologies will ruin us and literally kill us; television's so-called real instant only ever being that of the sudden disappearance of our immediate consciousness." Among the effects of these "new electromagnetic technologies" - essentially our digital "communication" tools - on humans, Virilio sees the atomization of cities, of communities of all sorts, with each person diverted into his or her own consumer-entertainment-lifestyle dreamworld. Here Heraclitus is kind enough to step onto Virilio's stage and elucidate matters with this remark: "The world is one and common to those who are awake, but everybody who is asleep turns away to his own."

On the debit side, Virilio's nimble prose style can often be too fast for its own good, with quick jumps à la Baudrillard that sometimes seem to leave thought behind. And when it comes to politics Virilio exhibits an unconcern bordering on naivete - looking, for instance, at impacts of the Gulf War and never venturing any thoughts about the curious situation in which a single country, the United States, arrogates to itself the right to decide for the world who will be bombed and who will be spared, who will live and who will die.

I learned about Mudman by seeing Denver progeny filling the streets one afternoon. Denver Mudmen perhaps were more joyful than Kim Jones, but he is the more challenging original. This book provides a good summary of his story and his unique work. The photos adequately chronicle the events and exhibits but generally speaking are not of exceptional quality.

Many research studies have attempted to describe the variety of psychosocial disorders associated with diabetes. Now at near epidemic proportions worldwide, this text advances our knowledge further about a poorly understood complication of diabetes in a hard cover. This book is a definite buy for the Diabetes Team member passionate about collaborative care for their patients with diabetes. I am certain there will be further editions of this resource text.

The colored photos are in the back of the book, where the same photos in black and white are sprinkled throughout the text making it a bit aggreviating to go back and forth throughout the book. Otherwise, I think it is a great summary of the information needed for wound care.

A minor-league fantasy anthology, if you like. The class of this book is Michelle West's longish novella 'The Colours of Augustine', the rest is pretty average, barring Kevin MacLean's final dream guardian tale.

There's nothing to indicate that this was specifically supposed to be a kid's book, but it is possible I suppose, from the simple content.

Summoned To Destiny : Tangled Pages - M. T. O'Shaughnessy
Summoned To Destiny : Stormsong - Ed Greenwood
Summoned To Destiny : Riverbend - Ruth Stuart
Summoned To Destiny : The Colors of Augustine - Michelle West
Summoned To Destiny : White Shadow - Marie Brennan
Summoned To Destiny : Offering of Trust - Jana Paniccia
Summoned To Destiny : A Prayer of Salt and Sand - Karina Sumner-Smith
Summoned To Destiny : When Dragons Dream - Kevin G. Maclean

You are a Magi, dumbarse.

2.5 out of 5


Gaurant with you then. "Know this: none of us eat the flesh of novices or anyone else. Even with sauce."

3 out of 5


Some bards have a gift. Not this one.

2 out of 5


True painting time.

4 out of 5


Contradiction choice.

3 out of 5


If this redback was on your toilet seat it would be much worse than your chooks turning into emus, being a dragon and all.

3.5 out of 5


Not quite drowned.

2.5 out of 5


Eleanor, no Stealer of Souls.

3.5 out of 5




2.5 out of 5

This book has some good designs, but not what I was expecting. I am looking to build a new deck (my first), and want ideas... This book had some fancy ideas, but not too many practical ideas... So if you are looking at a book like this, you are most likely going to pay someone else to do the job... There is nothing wrong with that though.... ;)