Bernard Books

I think this is wonderful book. It helps to more easily let you understand with big pictures to show what everything is. Also it has wonderful descriptions and design. It is also very updated.

Bailyn's brief book offers an insightful introduction into the patterns and reasons behind the movements of people within the European nations that contributed to the peopling of Britain's American colonies. This book was actually derived from a series of lectures that the author evidently planned as laying the groundwork for further, more comprehensive studies concerning this topic.

Although brief, this book will whet your appetite for wanting to learn more about the peopling of the British colonies in America. The author examines the movements of people within countries like England and Scotland and others to show how these influenced the transatlantic voyages that would lead many to America.

The author touches on who some of these people were, what their status in society was, and the reasons behind their emigrations. With a strong nod toward the social history movement, Bailyn effectively uses such lesser known individuals to examine this topic. Whether they were indentured servants, wealthy land speculators, and so forth, these were the types of people who gave shape and meaning to the process of populating the British colonies in America. Bailyn's use of statistics is also very effective, if merely to give the reader an idea of the magnitude of these emigrations and the kind of impact it had on the countries they left behind. I found it fascinating to consider that there were some in Great Britain who were considering legislation to deal with this emigration predicament.

Bailyn examines what some of the king's representatives would have found in these American colonies if they had been instructed to study the peoples inhabiting the distinct regions as Bailyn discussed; i.e. New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Carolinas and the other Southern regions. They would have seen what groups of immigrants settled where, what impact slavery had on the development of the areas in which it existed and so forth. In other words, what the decisive comparisons and differences were among these settlers and their way of life.

There are many topics of interest touched upon, if only too briefly, in this fascinating little book. Bailyn displays a true historian's eye for looking behind the surface.

Jordan Rubin is on a mission to transform the health of Americans one life at a time, and today that mission starts with you.

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--- from book's dustjacket

What a fabulous book! While this is designed to be the text of a course teaching the aspects of personal finance from the Time Value of Money to Choosing a Career through rational thinking about consumer purchase and retirement. It is organized very well with very clear writing and many helpful illustrations, tables, and resources.

The book guides the student to many online resources in order to develop skills that will be needed to research the nearly infinite variety of decisions and choices we all need to make in life. Being informed about the problem we face will provide us a basis for making better decisions.

One of the methods the book uses to illustrate the effects of financial decisions on real human life is the fictional Steele family. The family faces various issues, makes imperfect decisions, and the student gets to ponder what should have been done and what they could do to improve their current situation. It is a nice device that adds a practical side to the lessons on topics such as mortgages, saving for children's education, and insurance.

While this is most likely to be used in college courses, I wish it could be taught to young people as soon as they are somewhat serious about the decisions they will be making to form their lives. Ideally, high schools could offer an elective class for those serious students who want to get a head start in mastering the financial issues that will have such a powerful effect on their future security.

This is really a terrific book and can be read by individuals without a course or instructor. Obviously, an instructor will help and aid the student's understanding, but this is such an important topic that I encourage everyone who is interested in understanding the financial side of their life to read and work through this book.

I find this book by Bernard Marr a masterpiece for any one interested in the field of intellectual capital. Marr systematically and thoroughly walks the reader through the broad spectrum of constructs that form part of this multi-disciplinary research field (economics, strategy, accounting, human resources, information technology, etc.). The target audience of this book is anybody interested in the field of intellectual capital, from readers relatively novel in the field, to researchers. Marr has done a terrific job in putting together this book with contributions from top experts in intellectual capital, bridging the gap between the academic and the practitioner's worlds. I enjoyed the book in its entirety, but I found the last chapter particularly enlightening, in that Marr offers an interdisciplinary overview of the evolution of intellectual capital. The chapter is the first published document I have come across that attempts to create a holistic understanding of the subject, bringing together the different perspectives. I am hopeful that this book will further enhance awareness across many related disciplines, and therefore open doors for future research cross-fertilization and collaboration. As an executive, I also highly recommend this book to anyone interested in furthering his or her thinking in a field that is critical to every business.

3. Gibbon's Decline and Fall....
2. King James Bible
1. Pharmeceutical Process Validation-Chapter 1

This book is part of a great trilogie. The story is base on the idea that humanity is back in some kind of middle age era after a big disaster that kill a lot of the people and reshape the earth. The universe the author has created is fantastic, fill with great tribes and complex caracters. The author, trough is characters, philosophy a little bit on humanity's great achievments and errors. So, either you go for the good plot or the ambiance, this story is great. A must read for everybody who enjoy Lords of the ring.

I am not going to argue points as the author can do that for him self. I will say, many people surpassingly arrive at the same conclusions independently of this work. The few negative reviews are because of a disagreements not that this book is negative in any way. Even with all of today's scientific discoveries the truth in his extrapolations still hold up. However I would listen to "Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History." Just before reading Book 2, chapter 2, section 3 "THE TREE OF LIFE".
This is a five star book no matter what side of the argument you are on. Listen to Teilhard de Chardin's words coming from Oskar Werner as Fr. David Telemond in "Shoes of the Fisherman" (1968).

This is a detailed description of Ackerman's views about dermatology, dermatopathology and surgical pathology. Like so many Ackerman's works, it is also a work of art, sometimes with the impressive detail, color and light of stained glass in a medieval church.

"Piaf, emportée par la foule"

This a simply spectacular book which literally covers Edith Piaf's life and career from beginning to end. It is filled with an enormous amount of articles and reviews written about her throughout her career, and on each page, there is an itinerary of what she did in each day of each year. There are the most magnificent photographs, all in black and white, and many of her friends such as Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich make their own appearances either in letters and writings which they gave to Piaf, or in photographs with her.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is one of my favorite books about Piaf, and it has been published with great love by a group of people who knew Piaf, and who wanted to share their memories of her. Her legend lives on, admirably recorded in this book.