James Wright Books

I have a heavy interest in health, nutrition, and food allergy, but I had never read anything quite like this. The information in this book is timely, fascinating, and important. I've known gluten is dangerous, but now I understand why.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book to anyone.

The writer comes across in the first chapter or two as a man with a mission and he is really pushing his point, and a lot of the rest of it is really dumbed down for the average joe to be able to comprehend, but that's okay, too. There's a lot of good stuff in here. If you're one of the many walking (or lying) around with gluten sensitivity and the resulting health problems, the information contained herein can be of great help, if only in educating those around us.

I wish I had read this book years ago... Actually, I accidentally discovered that I was gluten-sensitive a few years before this book was published. I embarked on a low-carb diet -- but not all at once. I was keeping a very detailed food diary, and cutting down/out selected items gradually. Three days after I eliminated the last of the grains, my arthritis (which had forced me to stop playing my violin in public for 5 years!) completely disappeared. In the eight years that I have been avoiding gluten, the pain has not returned.

Prior to that, I went to several doctors, who placed me on drugs that didn't help, or gave me advice that was worthless -- one suggested that I see a shrink, because he couldn't find any reason for my pain, and therefore, he assumed that my pain was imaginary!

Going gluten-free was like stopping hitting myself on the head with a hammer. One other side-effect of my low-carb diet: I lost 100 lbs.

I hope that this book can finally lay to rest the myth that grains are good for you.

The book is a real shocker. Seems our government is more interested in profit for the food industry rather than tell us the truth about what wheat products and gluten does to us and our health. Its obvious the medical profession and the drug companies would rather not have us know the real truth. We must remember that doctors and drug companies like to treat the symptoms rather than the causes because there is no money in the cause portion. After the book I put myself on a wheat free diet and within 3 weeks I was able to come off the purple pill after being on it for 2 years because of acid reflux. I was paying over $[...] per month for 30 tabs-----No more. You got to read it.

I bought this book as per my cousin's suggestion because Braly's theory sounded interesting. I absolutely agree with the Foreword when it says: It's undeniable that whole grains are good nutrition for some of us. The problem is that the author spends the next 180 or so pages talking himself out of it. There is NO DOUBT that celiac disease and gluten sensitivity are real and can be life-threatening--this book is for such sufferers. But to suggest, over and over again, that the huddled masses should go gluten-free, even though asymptomatic, is sliding down a slippery slope. Don't jump on the bandwagon without being fully informed.

This book clarifies what children really need to know. It gives testing tools and methods of intervention. It helped me to be more specific and set individual goals for the children in my class. I think it is a great resource.

Early Numeracy: Assessment for Teaching and Intervention is based on research about and work in the Math Recovery program. Since most American teachers will not have had training in Math Recovery, many will find this book difficult to use. It is worth the time one spends, however, because the book is filled with performance assessment tasks that can be used to help teachers uncover gaps in young children's early number sense. While the small font size and technical jargon are somewhat tedious, the book is well written and informative. I would recommend this book to teachers already somewhat familiar with children's number sense development who wish to further their learning.

Overall this isn't very well written. Mr. Wright's editors could have done a better job in bringing the level of writing to a more appropriate adult tone. As Speaker Wright freely admits his recall of these events is faulty at times, but again the editors could have done a better job in making sure the historic background that Wright discusses is accurate. One of the glaring errors comes in the pages devoted to the Doolittle Raid of 1942. Supposedly they took off from the North Sea and "made their getaway to a predetermined landing strip in China."

The best parts of the book are when Mr. Wright abandons world outlooks and sticks to his facts; missions, training and the experiences he had, and those of his bomb group. To be commended is the praise and warmth that Mr. Wright genuinely feels for the Australians and their efforts at being mates, hosts and allies. That's where the interesting and compelling reading is found. Again the end of the book becomes a diluted ode to the fight for democracy, the Four Freedoms and the beginning of Mr. Wright's political career.

A surprising numbre of fighters in what has become known as the Greatest Generation went on to careers in politics. Bob Dole, obvious of course because of the injury to his hand, Jack Kennedy, Nixon, and Eisenhower, and probably many more.

I had not known that Jim Wright, long time representative from Texas and eventually Speaker of the House had served combat tour with the Army Air Force. This story wasn't written until some fifty eight years after the fact. And it's written as an answer to his grandchrildren's 'What Did You Do in the War, Grandpa,' even if they hadn't asked the question.

His is a fairly standard tale of fairly standard people engaged in something so big that from the lower levels of the Army they could only glimpse a tiny bit. As he says, they weren't the Greatest Generation, not extraordinary people, just fairly malleable yound folks, products of our times and of our parents guidance. Hitler thought these young men decadent, indolent and soft. They weren't that either.

There are few surprises to the story. Young man, Pearl Harbor, hasty marriage, and a long B-24 flight to the war in the South Pacific. But then there is:

Lt. Hal Grace, bombardier, shot down, beheaded by the Japanese.
Lt. David Lippencott, pilot, show down, beheaded by the Japanese.
Lt. Edward Skuzinski, navigator, disabled in crash, left by the Japanese to perish inside plane as the tide came in.
Lt. Harold S. Mulhollen, pilot, killed in action.

I'm writing this on the anniversary of Hiroshima, tell me again we shouldn't have dropped that bomb.

While, for many decades, simulation has been the most commonly used technique available for risk analysis of a variety of complex systems, its meaningful popularity, outside engineering and the sciences, has only started to build. James Wright's book provides a comprehensive guide to the application of the Monte Carlo simulation tool as a means of uniquely quantifying the risk associated with any technical investment project. Even though Wright's book specifically addresses the most complex case of evaluating "technical projects" the process is readily applicable to evaluate high-tech and other investment projects.

In Part I, Wright's innovative method of presenting technical due diligence, with its step-by-step approach to building a complex system, contains several practical examples. It is an excellent introduction to the use of Monte Carlo simulation to a broader audience with common interests in venture capital. In Part II, he covers different commonly used discrete and continuous random variables with relevant examples. In this part, Wright's extensive reviews of triangular and angular random distributions, and their applications in analyzing risk for technical projects, provide a helpful approach to simplify the application of the Monte Carlo simulation in other areas. Several user-friendly computer files in an accompanying CD offer opportunities to quickly simulate different systems.

Monte Carlo Risk Analysis and Due Diligence of New Business Ventures is an excellent reference for MBA programs with a concentration in finance, entrepreneurship, and technology management.

As a VC (Venture Capitalist), I am always seeking better methods to analyze investment opportunities. Jim Wright's book takes that analysis to the next level. Monte Carlo simulation techniques have repeatedly proven their value in addressing some of the world's most complex problems. Unfortunately, the technique is inherently very compute intensive, until now placing its use beyond the reach of most business analysis. A combination of Moore's law, and Wright's very clever unsymmetrical Gaussangular DistributionsTM, now permit ordinary PC/spreadsheet users to employ this very powerful tool.

Wright has distilled his many years of field experience into an easily followed, step-by-step, approach to providing very insightful statistical evaluations of complex technical projects. Implementation is facilitated by ready-to-use software and support included on a CD with the book. Monte Carlo Risk Analysis is not only suitable for the most complex problems; it can very usefully be applied to most any business analysis. Within the context of VC investments in speculative, new technologies, Wright's book provides a very potent approach to identifying and quantifying the metrics for success. I highly recommend Wright's book to anybody analyzing business ventures.

James Purdy, the Ohio-born novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright, has written many powerful, strange, disturbing, funny and unforgettable works, and "Cabot Wright Begins" is one of his best. I was introduced to it in an American Literature course when I was a college student in the early 1970s. Its savagely funny and biting critique of American business and sexual mores stunned me. I have read the novel several times, as well as almost all Purdy's fiction. There's something wonderfully disorienting about his style and worldview. He's also hard to categorize --- regionalist? fantasist? realist? gay?-- and therefore to market, the result being that far too readers know of this unique writer. "Cabot Wright Begins" is a great place to start for any reader who wants to encounter James Purdy, a weird, wise and wonderful writer whose work makes much American fiction look like pabulum.

This book is a must have for all African American literature classes!

What a pleasant book. If you are interested to own a book of La Fontaine's Fables with a little extra, don't hesitate and go buy this book! The book itself is beautiful: it comes in a box and the colours are vivid (excellent quality of printing). You will be surprised at every page: the fables are all written in various styles (for example, the lines will be "bouncing" if the fable is about a rabbit, etc.). The paintings are all very colorful and will make you smile for sure. The only thing that is quite sad is that only 43 of the 100 lithographs illustrating the Fables have apparently been found and printed in that book. But despite that comment, it is worth the buy just the same. A beautiful and original gift for anyone who loves animals, litterature and art!

This has just the sort of thing nurses need to write care plans. The information is clear and succinct. However, volume 2 is needed, and unavailable. It is frustrating!

Parks for Texas is a fascinating account of the creation of the Texas state park system. Steely deftly weaves political, architectural, environmental, and social history into a rich and compelling text. His examination of the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas during the depression is meticulous, and is brilliantly placed within the anxious social climate of rural Texas. If you are interested in parks, architecture, political history or just want to know more about how we have changed our view of landscape in the 20th century, this book is a must read. Certainly, if you relish things Texana, this is an absolute necessity for your library. Steely has produced an educated, insightful work, that will no doubt become a classic text on the revoultionary works of FDR's New Deal. Enjoy.

This is a fantastic resource and has lots of ideas for ensuring children receive a sound understanding of Number.