Bernard Hill Books

My 3 1/2 year old daughter enjoys everything about bugs, turtles, frogs, etc. so this is a great book for her. Nice color pictures with good explanation of the life cycle of a frog. Only disappointment was I expected the "library binding" I purchased to be hardcover (like at the library!), but it was just a paperback. A hardcover would have been better as it opens flat and lasts much longer.

The see how they grow series is yet another quality series put out by Dorling Kindersley (aka DK). Purchase them all if you can! Inspite of what the Horn Book review says, I found the presentation to be attractive and appropriate for younger children. The last two pages are a pictorial summary of how the frog grew from egg to tadpole to one year-old frog.

This book may either be the work of an unsung hero, a completely derranged lunatic or a very original designer who takes scientific and historical facts and custom-makes them at his own convenience. He tries to convince using circus-like hypnotic techniques, like constant repetition of the same facts, guilt trips, and a constant between the line reminder to the reader that says: If you don't believe this, you're really stupid. I'd say the book is good to read anytime you need a reality check on humanity's mental state. It's always good to know exactly how messed up your neighboor's head could be

"The Hollow Earth", Raymond Bernard - the classic and fully distributed - published first in the 1960's - is in every geology section of your neighborhood or university library. Does God have a great sense of humor or what? If you want to have a great introduction to the Hollow Earth that hits the high spots of this controversial subject - read this book.

I had the fortunate experiences of taking a research methods course with the author using the first edition of this text during my masters work, and reviewing portions of the new second edition before publication. Dr. Whitley's text is well written and includes detailed descriptions of topics often under-developed or ignored by other authors (e.g. the social responsibilities of researchers). At all times he keeps the (often difficult) material readable and accessible to students who approach the book with varying levels of previous training, using actual published research as examples instead of the fictional studies often employed by authors. Nothing is overlooked or left to chance. By keeping the text relatively light on statistics, he has allowed even students with statistics anxiety a chance to learn what they need to know to be effective research psychologists. Copies of both editions of this text remain in my personal library and are regularly consulted when I am faced with a question in designing research projects. I am always sure of finding the correct answers.

For first year graduates in Psychology this is one of the most readable texts currently on the market. As a first year Master's student, I found the text helpful in applying theory to practice. Filled with practical examples, simplicity and a minimum of statistics, this text is a must for statistic phobic graduates. The text also serves as a handy reference guide, and doubles as an invaluable tool in thesis preparation.

It's taking me a long time to read this because I become so angry that I have to put the boook down. This well-documented collection of mistakes at the highest financial levels, and the following "spin", demonstrates that the bigger the job, the more likelihood of error, and the greatest likelihood is that the person in charge maintains arrogant ignorance and shovels it out to the unsuspecting public.

In fall 1999, six months before tech stocks went into free-fall, the bestselling book "The Internet Bubble" was published. In it, the authors described how the financial foodchain of entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, and public stock speculator created the tech bubble. The authors also did the math to show how grossly over-valued Internet companies were.

For most of this rampant speculation, Alan Greenspan was enabling the process by expanding the money supply and cutting interest rates. The authors of "Greenspan's Bubbles" document, in Greenspan's own words, why they think the Chairman was doing this. Greenspan's utterances--especially those behind the closed doors of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) that the authors were able to access up until 2001--prove, the authors say, that it was because Greenspan drank the "new economy" Kool-Aid and thus didn't think there was a bubble.

Other critics feel that Greenspan's statements, both private and public, were merely a cover to try to maintain the legitimacy of the Fed as long as possible....

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Readers will have to decide which theory they find most feasible.

Shocking!! Great facts supporting the book. Truly shocking to see how irresponsible Greenspan acted in cuting rates when there was no evidence to support these cuts. From this book you can understand how Greenspan's ego created long term troubles for the US economy which could have resulted in shorter recessions. He even encourages fellow Americans to seek adjustable rate mortages (p. 155). Unbeleivable!!!

This book is hardly cozy, bedtime reading, but its short length (194 pgs.)
makes it fast reading. Author Fleckenstein takes the former Fed Chairman's public pronouncements over the course of the 1980s into the 2000s, and contrasts them with the Chairman's statements during Fed deliberations from the same period, the transcrips of which have recently
been releassed. In my opinion the result shows that Greenspan's reckless policies are directly responsible for the recently-popped lending and housing bubbles that we'll all end up paying for via monetary inflation.

Reading this book (among others) makes me want to move to Switzerland where I can be out of reach of results of inflationary Congressional action about to take place to bail out builders, borrowers and bankers.

Quick and easy read, I knocked it out in one night. I could not put it down once I got started. The book only furthers my opinion that it is time for the abolishment of the Federal Reserve. It is time to put Mr. Greenspan on trial for the crimes he has committed against American Citizens.

This is not only contemporary, but comprhensive. An excellent text that covers the range of history that leads to today's form of advertising, showing what has worked in the past, the present, and through the ages.

The text has excellent explanations of specific campaigns. Examples such as the rise of Mountain Dew, and how it became the strong brand today from the original drink mixer for moonshine is but one such example.

The text covers workflow and patterns that are unique to ad creation and leads the reader through the process through detailed copy, real world examples, and finished products.

Perhaps one of the suprising chapters is the production techniques. Too many come out of school with what they think are the goods on good advertising, but missing the boat on production and the inhereint limitations and production efforts involved. While not a how-to, the text certainly explains the processes.

The text goes into great length about how different forms of media use advertising. Radio is to Billboards as print is to televison, so the various sub types, buying patterns, influences and importance of each is well covered.

Overall a great resource for the classroom as well as some catch up reading for those confined to one form of media when branching out. This should be in every agency's library.

It took long time to get the book, but I got the book finally

It would be nice if the glossary on the CD-ROM went along with the book - makes learning confusing. It would also be nice if ther was a uniform code of terms that went along with my other marketing classes. I had to ask my teacher what we were going by - the book or the CD-ROM terms - teacher says to forget the CD-ROM - also, I bought it used so I didn't recieve the card with details on how to get into the website.

It is a great book, and the service to receive it was excellent. It arrived when when it was suppose to and in great condition!!

Great reference for marketing communications from advertising to sales promotion for new comers to the field. Good resource for small businesses as well. Outstanding examples throughout the text. Very readable, but could be more concise.

Although small, this book packs everything you need to know about how to be healthy. When I read the part about the slant board I promptly laid in that position for a few minutes and felt like a weight had been lifted off me. His health laws are right on and if everyone followed these laws, they'd enjoy supreme health.

I have read many books on nutrition, and have been through some restrictive programs in my day, but this book is WAY beyond restrictive. I became dizzy with all the information and the do's and the don'ts, and the how's and the why's. This book is supposed to be a "daily regimen for healthy living", yet it outlines a time-consuming schedule of not only how and what to eat, but he also tells the reader that they need to "brush" their skin daily, what kind of clothes to wear, how and when to take a shower, and drink "Veal Joint Broth" -- it's almost maddening to read the book and even more maddening to think of my life lived in such intensity and restriction! When I got to the "suggested" menus, I finally knew that this "regimen" was not for me. Except for fresh fruits and vegetables, almost all menu items can only be found in a high-end health food store, so if you shop at a regular food chain store like me, or depend on a realistic food budget (don't we all?) -- then this book isn't for you either! If you drink "Dandelion Coffee", eat "Baked Carrot Loaf" or "Muesli with Goat's Milk", then this book is for you. Dr. Jensen gives the same sound advice as others do (e.g. eat fresh fruits and veggies, exercise, drink plenty of water and get good rest, etc.), but it is his sound advice taken to the extreme. How can we balance work, kids, home, church, friends, social life -- and then have the time, or energy, to live by his extremely structured regimen? This may have helped many, or only just a few, but I sure wish I had seen this kind of review before I bought this book.

One of the best books I read about Nutrition. Buy it and you'll not be sorry. :-)

I have read most of Bernard Jensen's books and reviewed dozens of other health books over several years. This book as most of the other Jensen books all have some things that the others do not. It may be in the elaboration of the information, the subject itself or the manner of explaining some aspect of nutrition or the body, but all the information serves to reinforce. I am well pleased with this book in particular as it addressed 'slant board' use, missing nutrients in the foods commonly eaten, when to eat what types of whole foods. The four and a half pages on the lymph drainage system is worth the price of the book all by itself.

Dr. Jensen lived to be an old guy with excellent health who unlike many of todays health 'professional's' practiced what he preached and had a large crowd of healed folks thanks to his knowledge and wisdom acquired over decades of practice at his 'health ranch'. As the owner of Dr. Jensens books I re read them often as I continue to find additional morsels I had forgotten or overlooked before. What a delight having a Jensen library.

Enjoy your new read !

George Bernard Shaw is supposedly the opposite of Shakespeare, who was too pessimistic, being described as a 'serious optimist.' In Shaw's play "Man and Superman" creative evolution is the topic in serious dramatic terms, performed in 1903. He is the precursor of what is now called "creative intelligent design" as described in the book OF PANDAS AND PEOPLE (1993). While he had problems with the biological randomness of Darwin, he pretty much eliminated God from the equation of how human life began.

The God-incorporated alternative to Darwinism now being proposed by who else but the President of the United States of America, Shaw felt that the life force is transmitted by rare men of genius who were selected by nature to carry on the work of building up an intellectual consciousness. In "Man and Superman" the Don Juan was an asexual but in a way religious and felt that life could be improved and that meant getting rid of 'imprisoning conventions.'

The intelligent design is a hot topic now among theologians, educators and scientists who want this concept taught in the schools along with Darwin (leaving out the Biblical account). Shaw left out completedly the thought of God having anything to do whatsoever with the human existence; it was just a 'what-if' story idea which extremely religious people believe to be the truth.

Shaw's "Devil's Disciple" was his first commercial success with Richard Mansfield as the matinee idol starring in the play set during the American Revoluiton. His earlier "Man and Superman" was placed on a restricted list by the libraries so it could not infect young minds with its unorthodox view of God and matrimony. His play about prostitution, so prevalent in the century he was so prolific with his works, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," played to a sold out audience with up to 3,000 people turned away at the door. This popular sensation was closed down by the police and the entire cast faced charges of 'disorderly conduct.'

Every star wanted to be Henry Higgins in "Pygmalion" played by Peter O'Toole and Leslie Howard. Rex Harrison played the part in the movie, "My Fair Lady." Lynn Fontanne and Wendy Hiller, along with Mrs. Partick Campbell on whom the play was based, wanted to play Eliza Doolittle.

He wrote to Mrs. Campbell "I can't be sympathetic; these things simply make me furious," when her son was killed in 1918 by the Germans as the war was ended. He wrote articulate letters throughout his life to many people, "some subjects that language cannot accommodate."

He had his place in our world and prophesied what was to come on Broadway, the British stage, and the controversial world of science and biology. He was the forerunner to beat all!

In only one hundred pages Chesterton encapsulates the influences on and works of George Bernard Shaw, and he is on top form. I should say up front for those that want the Drive-Thru version, go direct to chapters 2 and 6 (35 pages total) for a sound grasp of the man, the playwright, and the later works; and double back to chapter 5 (20 pages) for the earlier works. The last chapter explains how Shaw lost his faith in humanism through reading Plato [tis se philei, o Sokrates;], and fell back in disarray to Nietzsche for backup.

What makes this biography so incisive? Firstly the fact that Chesterton and Shaw were old friends and debating partners. Second, that they were both literary gents of sharply contrasting style, and consequently struck generous bright sparks off one another. Under this stimulus the normally verbose Chesterton style is reigned in, which is a relief to those who have ever been frustrated by it. (It should go without saying that he is worth persevering with, but I took about five reads of 'Orthodoxy' to really get it. His fiction is much more concise - odd but true.)

Since Chesterton and Shaw so vehemently disagreed with each other on many topics, one would expect this quick text to be filled with antagonism. Instead, it is a delightful explanation of Shaw's background, biography and beliefs, told in a gentle, light-hearted manner. Chesterton shows a great respect for his adversary, while making clear his own views through quite a few of the one-sentence quotables for which he is well known.

This text was required reading in an Internet marketing class I took. As an about-to-graduate business major, I felt the book often strayed off it's subject matter (e-commerce) and too often went into excrutiating detail about how businesses operate. Although I did not read every chapter, the sections I did read were repetitive and confusing to follow. For example, the concept of "catalog content management" is defined and discussed at least three times in one chapter. To say this book is thorough is an understatement. There are many sections that could have been deleted with no loss of meaning to the subject matter. The book is probably OK for beginning business majors who have yet to take lots of business classes. However, for those who are more familiar with business, you will probably find yourself skimming over this text looking for the information you want. If you're looking for a general overview of e-commerce, this is not the book for you. If you want more detail than you thought existed . . . well, I'm selling my copy in the used book section of this site :)

I used this book in my ecommerce class and the materials provided is very informative and easy to follow.

The facetiously titled "How to Become a Musical Critic" does not actually have any instructional purpose; it is a collection of Shaw's music criticism from the 1870s to 1950. As such this book presents a fascinating glimpse into musical and performance culture over that incredibly long span of years. It also provides an interesting perspective on a little-known aspect of Shaw's literary output: his music writing, which served as his entry point into journalism.

The introduction to my edition, written by Dan H. Laurence, explains that Shaw's skill as a critic was based on an "extraordinary musical knowledge," the result of "exposure to music almost from infancy." This mastery of the technical aspects of music is manifestly apparent throughout the book, as is Shaw's trademark wit and contrarianism.

The book ranges too widely over too many topics -- ranging from composers, to conductors, vocalists, trends in instrument technology, and beyond -- to suggest any theme or prevailing argument in Shaw's criticism, but a few highlights can be noted. First is his advocacy of the music of Mozart, who had died just a century ago, and whose music was largely unplayed in Britain, when Shaw was writing in the 1890s. Second is his adamant praise for Edward Elgar after World War One, when his music had fallen out of fashion. Shaw writes in 1920: "If I were king, or Minister of Fine Arts, I would give Elgar an annuity of five thousand dollars a year on condition that he produce a symphony every 18 months." Unfortunately this proposal was never enacted.

This is a very well documented history of the story of John Manjiro the first Japanese to live in United States and Captain Whitfield who rescued him from an island in the Pacific and was his mentor. The story is fasinating! This 14 year old fisherman who was illiterate in Japanese learned English and navigation in Fairhaven Mass. in the 1840's and traveled around the world twice before returning to Japan when he was 24 where he was the prime source of information about the western world for the Japanese authorities. The book is well documented and well written, but does give a little to much detail about the modern connections between Fairhaven and Japan. Still a fasinating true story.