Barry Books

As a direct mailer, web and print catalog company, we are always seeking out benchmarks in our industry to compare if our company is operational sound. This book covers all those questions and gives you good information on how to do it better. I give this book 5 stars for tackling such a comprehensive amount of information in a concise and understandable format.

My company provides outsourced fulfillment services to the ecommerce industry and we have used this book as a resource in our warehouse continous improvement program. I recommend this title to anyone looking for a high content and detailed fulfillment operations guide.

John Lindberg - President
EFULFILLMENT SERVICE INC

www.efulfillmentservice.com

I love this pamphlet. It describes in beautiful language, from the author's soul, what it means to make decisions at an unprogrammed meeting's business meeting.

The way we members of the Religious Society of Friends reach decisions is one of the most important contributions we have made to the establishment of the "Peaceable Kindom" here on earth.

Of course, Friends don't always acheive the process we yearn for and even agree to follow. We are human beings, after all. Yet, we have aspirations that Barry Morely has explained better than anyone else I have ever heard or read.

Some Friends feel that loving the Quaker Meeting for Business is one of the signs that you should be a member! :) Barry can tell you why!

I agree with the previous reviewer that this is well worth reading. After all, the most important "invention" that we Friends actually have created and agree to us to help us be Seekers after the Truth together, is our process, process and more process.

This is perhaps the most worthwhile pamphlet in all of Quaker Literature. It should be required reading by all new seekers.
... It describes a Quaker
'sacrament' (if you will), and the real meaning involved when a meeting seeks 'the sense of the meeting'. It is beautiful.

This book is a great place to start, or if you already have that is okay, in warmwater fly-fishing. The information is very helpful. A must for the angler who can't go to the trout stream every weekend and a local lake is much closer.

This book is a very good discertation on fly fishing for species other than trout. It covers warm water species, bass bluegill/sunfish, perch and crappie as well as other cool water species, like walleye and pike, and even includes catfish. The author covers each species in a seperate chapter. Covering items such as prefered habitat, spawning, water temperature, fishing methods, and fly recommendations. If you like to fly fish, but trout aren't readily available in your area, this book could give you some insight into fish you might not have considered as fly rod fish.

It's a great book,definitely.Interesting and easy to understand,it's the best for a starter-a scientest to be.On the other hand,it's not lacking depth at all.What makes it more informative is that it provides lots of clinical studies where you have a real feeling of human cancer.

I am a student at the University of MN and I am taking the Biology of Cancer course from Dr. McKinnell. I have enjoyed this book very much and find that the information provided gives me an understanding that has helped me realize how deadly cancer is and how I can live my life to prevent it. I recommend it highly.

I found this book very useful when researching information on diseases and their arthropod vectors. With a chapter covering each of the disease vector groups it was easy to access the information. Sometimes I required additional information than was included within the chapter, but the references listed at the end of each chapter proved helpful.
This book also covers a range of related topics which I haven't needed as yet, e.g. physiology, control, and special methodologies for rearing, but which look interesting.

As a PhD student in vector borne infectious diseases, I have found this book incredibly helpful. The text is interesting, timely, and easy to read. It is one of the most comprehensive, insightful reference texts out today. If you are a student interested in infectious disease, entomology, parasitology, or medicine, this book is a "must have."

This is a Christmas gift so I haven't read it yet. However, the book is brand new and in excellent shape. My son loves this series so I expect he will be happy with this gift.

i bought this book for my boys - age 8. they love all the peter books and they loved this one as well. great adventure and fun!

I am amazed that BTWLB is out of print! It has been the most successful program I've ever been on! It's easy and productive...or should that be reductive? One of the best parts is how it addresses the psychology behind weight loss. Buy this, read it, follow it, and watch the pounds melt away. Phenomenal!

A few months ago, I hosted Dr. Barry Simon, co-author of "Break The Weight Loss Barrier" in my Power-Surge.com Web site and community on America Online. Simon's book is one of the most straightforward, readable, understandable books on the subject of weight loss and the myriad ways in which we sabotage ourselves from getting in shape.

One of the audience said, "I found Dr. Simon's philosophy to be very motivating as I know I need to get off my "duff," quit making excuses for myself, and get some exercise!"

I agree. His suggestions regarding "inner conversations" we have with ourselves was very enlightening -- the ways in which we sabotage ourselves again and again in order to avoid succeeding. We all have emotional baggage we carry around and try to adjust in whatever way we can.

If you're interested not simply in losing weight, getting back into shape, but understanding the many roadblocks you create in order to avoid doing so, you'll benefit greatly from Dr. Barry Simon and Dr. Jim Meschino's "Break The Weight Loss Barrier." In fact, I utilized their suggestions and recently shed 20 pounds of unwanted weight -- with no excuses thanks to this excellent book!

This book is the rarest of combinations: a thoroughly-researched scholarly masterpiece cum edge-of-the-seat political non-fiction thriller. It describes how the tribes (Peoples) of the North American Arctic deployed a variety of tactics, posturing, negotiating, and bargaining their way into reclaiming the rights for their ancient lands from a reluctant and truculent State.

This permafrost parable tackles literally all the burning geostrategic and political issues of the day: terrorism, secession, sovereignty, neo-tribalism, supranational structures, the race to secure mineral resources and shipping lanes, property rights, genocide, you name it.

Whether the lessons of this long-drawn conflict are applicable elsewhere is another matter. The tribes had as their interlocutor the largely benign and law-abiding government of Canada. I am pretty sure that they would have elicited an entirely different response from Saddam Hussein, the Myanmar junta, or even the Israeli government. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"

"Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic" by Barry Zellen is a fascinating and densely researched history of the very top of our world, and its original inhabitants. It chronicles the long struggle by the Inuit of Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic to regain control over their homeland after the European conquest of the Americas.

For anyone who has been to Alaska or northern Canada, or has flown over the polar region and wondered what human drama has unfolded in the icy and forbidding Arctic landscape below, this unique historical text is for you. As well, if you're fascinated by the often overlooked role played by Native Americans in the making of modern history, you will find Zellen's history an important contribution to our understanding of what some might think of as a forgotten history of the Americas.

Zellen's book is introduced by two well known northerners, former Mayor Dick Hill, the first mayor of the Arctic's first modern town, Inuvik, as well, Inuvialuit land claims negotiator Edwin Kolausok, who contributes some insights from the Aboriginal perspective that help to provide context for the reader, to better understand the history that Zellen recounts.

And what detail! Of the book's 450 page length, some 150 pages is a remarkably detailed footnote section with literally hundreds of works cited. It is obvious the author spent many years immersed in the historical literature as well as wading through heaps of policy documents, land claims treaties, and other historical documents. While this much footnoting might ordinarily suggest the book is intended only for scholars and experts in Arctic studies, in fact this book reads surprisingly lightly, so while the footnotes will aid future generations of scholars, they do not impede the reading experience of novices.

The author lived and worked up in the Northwest Territories of Canada for many years, and this brings to his history of the Arctic an authenticity that is often lacking in accounts written by explorers, and temporary visitors to the Arctic who are not there long enough to probe beneath the surface and to comprehend the intricacies of cause and effect.

But he does not seem to impose his world view on his telling of the history. In fact, as a journalist in the Arctic Zellen was known to be a critic of the land claims process, and the risks and temptations of corruption created by the large cash settlements paid to, and the limited managerial experiences of, the Natives of the North.

But Zellen's history, written some ten years after he lived up in the Arctic, forgives the early mistakes made during the land claims implementations in Alaska and Canada, and provides some historical context and understanding of those cases of corruption that were reported on by the press. Rather than to criticize, he helps us to understand, and explains how the land claims process has been a vital and important learning experience for the original peoples of North, providing a crash-course in capitalism, modernization and the fundamentals of management in a single generation and with no prior experience. This reflects a maturing of the author as he made the journey from journalist during the 1990s to historian today.

The new, modern skills required to negotiate and implement land claims treaties in the Arctic, never before taught to the original peoples of the North, were learned by Natives in real-time, on the job, sometimes through `trial-by-fire.' Some critics of the land claims process such as Judge Thomas Berger, one of the world's best known land claims critics who chaired the famous Berger Inquiry, suggest the land claims experiment was in fact designed to fail.

But the Natives of the North proved a quick study, learning how to manage billions of dollars in a remarkably short time. They made even a flawed model work through sheer determination and ingenuity. Before land claims were settled the Arctic was largely cut off from the world of modern capitalism, knowing only poverty with conditions resembling the worst of the third world in many villages. In a single generation, the Natives of the North had to go from a pre-capitalist society to modern capitalism; land claims was their one shot at modernization and they took it. And it was a wild ride, fraught with risks, but one they boldly embarked on.

As Zellen describes it, it was through this land claims experience that the Inuit re-learned how to govern themselves, in a modern way, with board meetings, shareholder votes, investment analysis, economic development activity, and the cultivation of a new style of modern manager for their newly created Native corporations. This experience proved a vital bridge between their proud ancient ways and the new, modern world. And it made it possible for the Inuit aspire for more: the return of self-government to their homeland -- of the Inuit, by the Inuit and for the Inuit.

It is a fascinating story, and being familiar with Zellen's earlier work covering the Arctic as a journalist, I was pleased to see that time has mellowed him, and that he now appreciates the way land claims helped to modernize the North and prepare its people for the future.

I recommend this book in the highest of terms. It tells a unique and fascinating history, full of drama, in a land so many of us think of as barren and empty.

As Zellen's 450 pages of detail attest to, the Arctic is not at all empty but instead is full of energy, full of politics, full of passion for change, for justice and for a balance between two worlds -- the old, traditional world and our new modern one.

It's a story many will enjoy learning about, and one that might inspire some insight in other parts of the world where similar issues continue to fester unresolved, from the Middle East where ancient hatreds have prevented a modern reconciliation, and even in the high Himalaya, where the modern economic giant China is currently facing off against the proud, traditional Tibetans. In so many places, modern and ancient collide in an orgy of destruction and violence.

But in the Arctic, the Inuit have found a different way to resolve their differences with the modern world, and to craft a bargain that preserves old while embracing new. It wasn't an easy journey, but it was a successful one that offers our world much hope.

Pat Brans
Grenoble, France

As a student looking to become a high school guidance counselor, I found this to be one of the best texts from both a practical and educational point of view.

It focuses on the real issue of counseling, how to meet the needs of the client. Each explanation is backed by popular theories, yet the focus remains solution based.

The key to the book is how to be a catalyst in change utilizing the client's perspective of the problem. The authors have done a wonderful job of explaining the school practitioner's role as a catalyst, or an instrument of change.

Too often, I believe counselors try to fit the client into a preconceived box of neurosis. In fact, this book counters that train of thought and shows the reader how to address the client's problem as a unique opportunity to enable the client to find his/her own solution.

I highly recommend this book to students, practicing counselors, parents and teachers.

If you work with children and adolescents and also wish to apply solution-focused thinking to the school context you must read this book. Each page offers highly practical and clear to understand ideas. Incredibly, I would say that it appeals equally to the novice and experienced solution-focused worker. Excellent indeed. Furthermore, John Murphy's workshop presentation, based on the content of the book, is an unmissable experience, worth attending.

This is one of the few books that gives you some sort of detailed information about the British paratroopers in WWII. Like some other books the book explaines how the units were raised and which operations they were involved in. But this book goes a little bit further. It explains in detail also the weapons they are using, the uniforms and badges worn and the order of batlle during the several operations. Each subject is supported by numerous photographs maps and drawings. In the range of small compact books on the subject of the British Airborne Troops during WWII, this book is the absolute best.

This is one of the few books that gives you some sort of detailed information about the British paratroopers in WWII. Like some other books the book explaines how the units were raised and which operations they were involved in. But this book goes a little bit further. It explains in detail also the weapons they are using, the uniforms and badges worn and the order of batlle during the several operations. Each subject is supported by numerous photographs maps and drawings. In the range of small compact books on the subject of the British Airborne Troops during WWII, this book is the absolute best.