Bailey Books

This was a very fun, easy read. So much of an easy read, that I finished it in one day!

Mathilda Haycastle is the books heroine, and any woman, no matter where they come from or live, can relate to her personal life that is revealed in the books pages.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone; it definitely keeps you guessing until the very end!

the book was in good condition, and i received in within a reasonable amount of time

I used this Civil War simulations book with my own linguistically and ethnically diverse fifth grade class as well as with a group I was substituting for in the same Title I school. In both instances, this unit was a huge hit. The students were motivated and engaged the entire time and came away with a much deeper understanding of the American Civil War Era.
The book is easy to follow (thus the title) and requires little prep time. However, as with any teaching materials, I would recommend pre-reading the day's simulations so you know what to expect.

"The Economics of Financial Markets" is an excellent introduction to the field of finance for undergraduates. It guides the reader step by step through important issues in finance while saving difficult mathematical proofs in the appendix. The view presented in this book is quite balance. It even has a short chapter on empirical test of CAPM and APT which is usually not found in other books with similar titles. Althought the chapters on option markets and Black-Scholes is not as detail as other books on financial engineering, it is indeed a good thing because it gives the reader a bird eye's view without unnecessary details. After reading this book, the reader can go on to more advanced text like Merton without too much difficulties. The only drawback is that it doesn't have any excerise, but this is not a problem for me.

Most people find pleasure in being part of the wildness of a natural environment. There is a diversity and complexity that fascinates and inspires awe. Yet, what makes up the uniqueness of a particular environment has been debated for a long time. Most often when looking at nature we try to see the parts as stable entities rather than the dynamics of whole system.

In this book, Dr. Bailey has taken a Geographers prospective of looking at the whole and then showing how the parts fit together. His solution of this world scale jigsaw puzzle has produced an unmatched insight into ecosystem structure and function. He explains how regional ecosystem boundaries are a function of climate properties that provide the energy to sustain life. At a different scale, other inputs from geology, soil, watershed, and physiography temper the mix of life forms that form an ecosystem.

Throughout this book the emphasis is on spatial relationships among the components that make up ecosystems. However these are not static systems because, at all scales, spatial units of ecosystems and their processes also interact to provide life sustaining natural services.

This is one science book that is easy to read because Dr. Bailey took a great deal of care to explain his reasoning using familiar terms. There is an excellent glossary to explain concepts contained in those words that are not so familiar. Numerous pictures and illustrations clearly present the many ecosystem concepts covered in this book. Finally, a map inside the back cover illustrates the Ecoregions of the Continents.

This book is a great way to pass the time and learn about the history of the Jersey Shore. John Bailey Lloyd loaded his book with details and great pictures of the early days of Long Beach Island. It's an easy read and truly a relaxing book.

This book is a lot of fun to read. What could be more campy than a guide to being a good teenager from the fifties, updated for the sixties? Here are some great pieces of advice.

1. After eating at a restaurant, don't leave a bible tract as a tip. You can leave it, but leave money, too.
2. At a wedding reception, when making small talk, say something pleasant but not very important.
3. When you talk into the phone, don't put your nose over it and breath.


Here are the titles of the chapters:

1. When You Eat Out
2. Tipping: The Wide-open Hand
3. Dates: Noun and Verb, Male and Female
4. Ride in Style
5. A Date for Church
6. It Takes a Gift
7. Seasoned with Salt
8. Sound Effects
9. Introductions
10. Telephone Tactics
11. Write it Right
12. The Way You Look
13. Guestwork
14. Travelog
15. Three a Day
16. Paying-Guest-iquette
17. No Jehus Wanted (no that's not a typo!)
18. The Church Wedding
19. Trial by Hire.

This antique publication is beautifully bound and still in the original box without any sign of usage.

Don Rittner and Ronald A. Bailey, Ph.D.'s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY provides high school to college studentswith a basic yet detailed coverage which provides essays, definitions, examples and discussions surrounding some of the most basic chemistry ideas. This has over two hundred cross-referenced entries, four essays, and discussions applying chemistry science to daily life.

Let me say at the outset that Epicurus is hard to understand because we have only fragments of his work.

Epicurus is important to people living in the third millenium because he realized, as most of us do, that traditional religion is not very believable.

In his time the Hellenistic and Roman world was about to fall into a morass of Eastern religions, spiritualism, and superstition familiar to third millenium people living amid Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, Wicca, and New Age.

Epicurus has two huge virtues that make him worth reading even now.

He is ferociously smart for one. Some of his insights about physical phenomena millenia before the invention of real scientific instruments are astonishing.

The other is that he is unrelentingly honest and rigorous. His premise is that we only know what we can find out from our senses and our reason. This is immensely liberating from all the causistry, tradition, authority, and sentiment of both culture and counter-culture.

To the ultimate rationalization for religion, "Well, it is a comfort for the simple." he responds, "Truth and honesty are better than comfort." He dismissed death as nothing, and proved his point by showing legendary courage in facing his own.