Bennett Books

This book has been hanging around my house for years. No one knows where it came from, but I have read it several times. It is the second in a series, and although I've never read (or even *seen* the first book) I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Bennett filled me in on the past, without stopping the flow of the present. Her characters were believable and lovable. The alien characters of Gi and Screech were just alien enough. They weren't the lovable furry teddybear types they may have appeared to be, but neither were they wolves in sheeps clothing.The plot is interesting and followable. Although it's nothing earth-shattering, its a great read, if you can find it. classic fantasy, minus the hulking numbskulls with swords. :-)

I have read "Where the Ni-lach", "Shadowsinger", "Over the Draakstheeth", and "Search for a Lost Brother". At the end of the last novel Dhal's and Pocco's son along with Screech disappeared I really need to know if they are ever found. This is a wonderful series that I have enjoyed reading ever since I was a teenager. Finding the last two book was a joy I actually hugged the bookseller. Ms. Bennett please writh the next installment to this series. It is a wonderful collection. Keep up the wonderful writing.

I have read every one of Ms. Bennett's books and find her to be better than every other author in the fantasy realm except one. She knows how to capture the reader and keep them wanting more. These novels are easy to read and very exciting. I reccomend this author to any reader interested in fantasy books.

This is a book I go back to again and again. The info is concise and also contains interesting articles from experts.

I really like this book, although some of the pictures could be better as far as showing more angles are concerned. It basically describes many of the different kinds of sharks, with information about where they are located, typical size, and different habits of each. It has pictures for all the sharks that it describes, even the obscure ones. I had never seen a picture of a goblin shark (although it is dead) until I got this book! I recommend this book to anyone interested in sharks. While it isn't perfect, it is better than most I've seen, and is a nice book to have in your collection.

Over 120 species of sharks and rays are illustrated in this concise guide, which adds essays on their history, biology and ecology. From cover to cover, Sharks is a photopacked presentation that will prove to be a very specific reference, and any library seeking one good comprehensive shark book will find it a welcome addition.

This book is an excellant book for anyone who does geneology.Not have i only read the book,i own an autographed copy of it from the author herself. All i can say is thank you Katie.You have done much in my research of my family.You prove there is no color/language/or any other limits on mankind if we dont let them.If you read this i would really like to hear from you again. Joe Cheshier... Your friend from Ogden,Utah HINT:Your best friend worked with my brother in Cleavland,Ohio

I read this book in a single afternoon. I didn't think the book would be entertaining but was pleasantly surprised when I found myself at the end. I want to do this for my children. Ms. Bennett's family must be extreamly proud of her.

SOAKING THE YULE LOG IS NOT ONLY READING FILLED WITH FASCINATING LAYERS OF HISTORY, IT ALSO EMBRACES THE VERY CORE OF EVERY FAMILY'S TRIUMPHS, FEARS AND DREAMS. KATIE BROWN BENNETT DELIVERS A MOVING STORY OF HER ANCESTORS' THRIVING WILL TO NOT ONLY SURVIVE, BUT TO LIVE FULLY DURING TIMES OF SLAVERY, WAR, STRUGGLE AND FREEDOM. THE VERY ESSENCE OF HER TEXT IS ONE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCEPTANCE, NOT BLAME AND DENIAL. THIS STORY FOCUSES ON THE TRIUMPHS, THE COURAGE, THE DETERMINATION, THE FAITH. AND MOST IMPORTANT, IT GLORIFIES THE EXPERIENCES CREATED BY HER ANCESTORS INSTEAD OF THOSE EXPERIENCES CREATED AGAINST HER PEOPLE. HOW REFRESHING TO EXPLORE THE POSITIVE DRIVE OF A FAMILY FOR ITS DREAMS AND RIGHTS IN A PERIOD OF TIME SO REHASHED FOR ITS OPPRESSION. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS WELL DOCUMENTED GIFT OF STORY. IT IS EDUCATIONAL, BALANCED AND FLAVORED WITH CHARACTER.

This is to inform readers that as of today, Dec. 11 2004, copies through amazon are only available through third-party sellers, and not directly through Amazon. The prices listed are over two-hundred, which is ridiculous, considering that new books are available on other bookseller websites for a little over one hundred dollars, and from oxford science, in UK, for about 60 pounds.

I write this in order to help prevent anyone from being ripped off by the above, in their attempt to pick up this classic.

This volume is a collection of three of R A Fisher (RAF)'s most important books. The importance of these books cannot be overstated as two of them have gone through many editions.
I'm sure most libraries should hold multiple copies of most books by R.A.F, an important figure in modern statistics. Should one buy this book? Of course IF the price is right. This rule should apply to most historically important books. Today's value of this book is mostly historical. There are certainly many original ideas in these books. But equally so are many of RAF's papers which are freely available, which one should read again and again.(...) So even if I rated RAF's works very highly, I agree with one of the reviewers' that, one should be careful in investing our very limited resources to get our most needed books. A general rule: priority should be given to newer books and the books that you will most need in the future.

After pioneering a theory of mathematical statistics with his important works in the 1920s he published Statistical Methods for Research Workers to teach the method of maximum likelihood, significance testing and distribution theory. The Design of Experiments was the first book on experimental design. Fisher developed the principles of randomization and the analysis of variance. As a geneticist good scientific experimentation was important to him. He explains the principles beautifully through the lady tasting tea example. See also the wonderful book by Salsburg with that title. It gives a wonderful account of experimental design and Fisher's contributions to it. The third book is of lesser importance in my opinion and is a treatise about Fisher's philosophy about statistical inference and the scientific method.

I have my own copy of Design of Experiments and I believe these books are still in print individually. But it seems to me to be valuable to have them bound together in a single volume.

This book takes you away into a whole new world. But on close examination, you realise that it is your world.

Great fun to read in the sun.

I'm thrilled to see the 'emerging voices' series on Amazon. Wonderful!.

This book is one of the powerful, poignant books I have ever read about wars (and I've read a great deal). It tackles the deeper issues of violence -- how does the soul feel when confronted with violence, mindless violence, on a daily basis? how do people react? what happens to one's sensitivity? one's ability for honest laughter? one's interactions with others?

Hoda Barakat delves into those issues - and does so courageously and poetically. She also presents them through the eyes of a homosexual man. Quite powerful!.

Highly recommended - to Lebanese, to Arabs, and to all people interested in examining the effects of war and violence on every-day people.

- Rania (a Lebanese-American)

What a brave author, tackling two controversial subjects in one single masterfully-written novel. Did I read it, dream it or live it?

I couldn't put this book down, as it perfectly describes the breakup experienced by close friend of mine, and closely describes my own recent experience. I agree completely with Mr. Hoag, who says that the Kirkus reviewer was wide of the mark.
The Kirkus reviewer's failure to understand the book actually supports Bennett's point, and underscores the difficulty she and other women encountered in finding empathetic friends and therapists. Those who haven't seen the behavior chronicled in the book will surely have difficulty believing it.
If you have been through (or are going through) sudden rejection in a marriage that seemed happy, this book:
- Lets you know you are not at all alone
- Guides you in understanding the emotional mechanics that may have led your spouse to discard you
I see that there is now a book in print by Madeline Bennett, titled "Sudden Endings: Why Husbands, Wives, and Lovers Walk Out on Long, Loving Relationships". If this is the same book, I'd like own it, but if it is extensively updated to include husband abandonment, I'll stick with the original.

I do not have personal experience of wife rejection, but as a student of marriage, I found this book fascinating and true to what I know of marriage and relationships. There is a wealth of research in the form of in-depth interviews, a very good way to research a topic. The author is herself calling for more clinical study on the subject, her book is a wonderful beginning, and may be the only resource a woman in this situation can find at this time. This book is WELL WORTH her time, and will surely give her strength to feel less alone and less likely to take the rejection personally (if that were possible) because it gives some glimmer of understanding to why such an unthinkable thing could happen.

The "Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 1991" review of this book couldn't be more wide of the mark. It questions the credibility of the author precisely for having direct personal experience of her subject. The reviewer is incredulous, one can only speculate, through inexperience.

The central premise of Sudden Endings is, "It takes two to make a marriage work... But it only takes one to break it up." Bennett backs up this premise convincingly in the face of entrenched and widespread cultural beliefs that, in every case, it takes two to end a marriage -- that if your spouse abandoned your long and happy marriage you *must* somehow have been at equal fault -- a notion as harmful as it is untrue.

If you were happily married for 10 or more years and your spouse suddenly abandoned your marriage, find a copy of this book.

Of all Cherie Benett's sunset books, this is the best one. If you are familiar with her books and know the characters like you know your own friends, this book is awsome. I'm 18 and I still read it and Ihave my favorite parts highlighted. I love this book!

How would you feel about being overweight? Or if you get teased repeatedly by your boyfriends-ex? Erin is a back - up singer for the Flirt's. Diana DeWitt's is a very rude girl. She picks on Erin a lot because she's overweight. But Erin doesn't let being overweight bother her.

Carrie, Sam, and Emma are friends who work on a project with Erin's father. Erin's father is a nose .A nose is someone who makes or invents all different brands of perfumes and gets to test them before they are put on the market. Erin's father enjoys his job.

If you would like to find out more about Erin and the gang pick up the book "Sunset Sensation" by Cherrie Bennett. I'll guarantee you will enjoy this book.

How would you feel about being overweight?Or if you get teased repeadtly by your boyfrieands-ex? Erin is a back - up singer for the Flirt's.Diana DeWitt's is a very rude girl. She picks on Erin alot because she's overweight.But Erin doesn't let being overweight bother her. Carrie,Sam, and Emma are friends who work on a project with Erin's father.Erin's father is a nose.A nose is someone who makes or invents all different brands of perfumes and gets to test them before they are put on the market.Erin's father enjoys his job. If you would like to find out more about Erin and the gang pick up the book Sunset Sensation by Cherrie Bennett.I'll guarantee you will enjoy this book.

"A Trader's Money Management System: How to Ensure Profit and Avoid the Risk of Ruin"...is an example of "how to do as i say, not as you are likely to do". While it appears clear that much effort is exercised at accomplishing a "system", this "system" does not address the uncontrollable variables inherent in the human condition. As most know already, systems will in time fail and no person is prepared to ensure profit and to suggest that the information contained in this text could do such is blatantly misleading. The book was written to sell itself, not to competently educate the trader.

With all due respect to TraderHR, I do not consider this a "great book" for experienced traders. The author treats almost all his main points in a very superficial way. If you really want to get an indepth understanding of such important subjects as trader psychology, position sizing, entry and exit strategies, etc., one needs to read and digest the books by Mark Douglas, Van Tharp, and Dr. Alexander Elder.

I found that in several places Mr. McDowell was greatly at odds with the legendary traders interviewed in Jack Schwager's various Market Wizard books. For example, Mr. McDowell recommends throughout the book that beginning traders should limit their risk on individual trades to no more than 2% of their trading capital. Virtually every professional (and successful) trader in Schwager's books says that, except in very exceptional cases, 2% is way too much to risk on a trade and that it should be more like half that at most.

I also found it very annoying that Mr. McDowell saw fit to put in the following "Important Note" virtually every time he mentioned the 2% rule: "For some advanced traders, it is beneficial to risk more than 2% of their trading account." First of all, based on Mr. Schwager's interviews, no advanced trader would ever go above 2%, and secondly, I personally don't think any advanced trader would ever bother reading Mr. McDowell's book in the first place. It's way too elementary.

I do give this book two stars rather than one because it does contain some ideas that I have never run across before in my study of trading: For example, the Risk of Ruin concept plus the optimal percentage formula to determine the amount of equity capital to be risked on any one trade. That said, Mr. McDowell does not give you any useful Risk of Ruin table but only refers the reader to another author's book where the minimum capital at risk is 10% per trade, way way too much for the table to be useful.

The section on profit and loss recordkeeping would be useful for the beginning trader but certainly not for the experienced or professional trader. An experienced trader not only could easily duplicate the various forms in Excel but could also vastly enhance it for his (her) own purposes.

Bottom line, if you are somewhere beyond a rank beginner in trading, save your money and take a pass on this book.

Thank you to John T. Morris for buying "A Trader's Money Management System" book and for reading it. And, though his review was less than glowing, I appreciate his comments here on Amazon.com because it opens up a valuable dialogue for traders about "effective" money management.

In response to his comments, let's just say I'm the first to admire the work of Douglas, Elder and Tharp -- and encourage anyone not familiar with their work to study them. My concern for Morris is that he makes no mention of Nauzer Balsara or Ralph Vince -- arguably the two greatest mathematicians in the field of trading. These men are mentioned in my book because their timeless concepts (both wrote books over 15 years ago) are the basis for truly "effective" money management.

With that said, many will agree that Balsara and Vince, while they are pure genius, can be at times difficult to comprehend for the new trader -- and even for some very seasoned traders. What "A Trader's Money Management System" does for the reader, is to make some of these complex concepts -- like using the risk-of-ruin tables and optimal f formulas -- easy to understand and instantly implement.

Apparently my simplicity in the book has worked since Morris says in his review that "...I do give this book two stars rather than one because it does contain some ideas that I have never run across before in my study of trading: The Risk of Ruin concept plus optimal percentage formula to determine the amount of equity capital to be risked on any one trade...".

If he has gained that insight from the book, then he is one step closer to developing more "effective" money management. The next big step for him would be to realize that there is no "magic percent" to risk on each trade. The 2% figure is purely an example and a frame of reference for the reader and that is why there is an "Important Note" stated when ever the 2% figure is mentioned. The important note directs the reader to Chapter 9 so that they can use the risk of ruin tables and optimal f formulas to calculate the exact amount that should be risked on each trade.

When Morris states that "...except in very exceptional cases, 2% is way too much to risk on a trade and that it should be more like half at most..." he is not basing his analysis on any mathematical probabilities. Instead, it's more of a hunch, since he's taking numbers out of a hat from interviews in the Market Wizards book. He doesn't know what the pay off ratios or win ratios for the traders interviewed were.

By looking at page number 79 in "A Trader's Money Management System" you'll see that my recommendation for a trader producing a win ratio of 35% (meaning you are winning only 35% of your trades) and a payoff ratio of 2 to 1 (meaning for every dollar you lose you earn 2 dollars) -- they should be risking only 1% . Where as on the same page of the book you'll see that if you have a win ratio of 50% and a payoff ratio of 3 to 1 you would in fact be able to risk 10%.

Why can one trader risk only 1% and another risk as much as 10%? It is simple, from a mathematical probability, their historical performance warrants -- less risk -- OR -- more risk -- depending on how well they trade.

I've been working with traders for over ten years and have to say that my passion is trading and education. Hopefully this response to John T. Morris will give other traders, if not Morris himself, some insight into effective ways to structure their risk -- depending on what their current trading results are telling them through their win ratio and payoff ratio.

Money management is at the heart of trading. Your goal is to take a small loss while riding winners for multiple point profits. However, to achieve just that might be easy since you might not know if you risk too much of your capital or risk too little whichever the case. McDowell presents you a sound system that can keep you in the black.

Few books are written on the subject of money management but I feel it's only second to using your mind properly to trade. Most new traders focus on the trading system but that's far less important than the other two items I mentioned.

The author does an excellent job of explaining what for most distracted traders is considered a "boring" topic.

Other great books on money management are by Van Tharp and Elder.

"My father was a mass murderer"--so begins another collaborative series between wife and husband team, Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld. The narrator is Chelsea Jenning, an 18-year-old Tennessean chosen for a summer intern job in New York City at Trash, one of the nation's sleaziest, hip new talk shows. Chelsea and two other female interns--Karma Kushner and Alyssa "Lisha" Bishop (an old best friend of Chelsea's from grade school)--are put in a great loft, just across the hall from three other great-looking guy interns: Nick Shaw (the guy Chelsea falls for, even though Jazz Stewart, the hostess of Trash, deems him her boy toy), Alan Van Kleef, and Sky Addison. (Note: Everybody in this book looks/sounds like some celebrity: Chelsea looks like Alicia Silverstone; Karma sounds like Fran Drescher; Lisha looks like Demi Moore; Sky looks like Keanu Reeves, etc.--hence nobody is ugly, which gives this book/series a rather superficial feel.)

Once on the job, Chelsea barely uses her brain or talent and has serious doubts about staying, especially when her past is threatened to be revealed on national TV: of her father going mental one day and shooting a restaurant full of people, then trying to kill her and her mother.

The title of this book/series does give a hint of what to expect, e.g., a hostess that almost bares it all on live TV, talk show topics like "Transvestite Teen Girls versus Real Teen Girls--who's sexier?" So, it's basically a tamer version of the Jerry Springer show for teens. The writing will appeal to young teens; it's humorous, light, and fluffy with some romance and drama thrown in for good measure. Certainly recommended to Cherie Bennett fans.

I just wanted to tell you that I love Trash! My name is Melissa and I started reading Trash about 3 months ago, and I love the books! One thing--I hate the way you end them not knowing whats going to happen cause then I have to wait till the next book comes out to find out!! That drives me crazy! -Melissa-

Trash is sort of like a soap opera but cooler, because there is definitely a plot! I love it!

i loved prognosis heartbreak. this book gave me a inside look at what being a doctor might be like. it is nararrated by it's two main characters tristan and zoey. it is funny and dosen't seem like a plot on a soap opera. it's like having tristan and zoey just talk to you. plus if you want to be a doctor or nurse, all the info is real, so maybe now you know a little more about medicine. you want to order them all at once!

This is a really good book. It is one of the best in the series. But does anyone know when or if the sixth book comes out since it sort of leaves you hanging. I can't wait for the next book to come out! So i can find what happens to everybody.

This book along with the other four University Hospital Books are so good. I am 16 but I think anyone probably 14-18 would enjoy reading this. Its pretty much just the drama of five teens who just graduated from highschool and their friendships, relationships, etc. while in a SCRUBS program at Fable Harbor Hospital. They all want to be doctors and the chapters are narrated by Zoey and Tristan, the two main characters. Read "University Hospital" first. THis is the fifth book in the series.