Bernstein Books

I have read many literature articles over the years and this I must say ranks as the best ever. Mr. Dave "Killer" Hanson has written a very poignant story about his life and a movie that is the best sports movie to date. The violent battles and off ice shenanigans are extraordinarily told by the man who did them and a movie deal about this book is certainly forthcoming. I can truthfully say buy this book and you won't be disappointed. Dave you are a "Killer!"

I just finished reading 'so many ways to sleep badly' and it was a real treat... I felt so involved and touched be the narrator's voice and experience. this was a new writing style for me to experience- it is very stream of consciousness and i am used to more traditional, linear development. but i ended up enjoying this approach because i felt like it said so much more. i enjoyed reading how the narrator navigates intimacy in their life, and who suffers from horrible sleep, but still manages to face life with a beautiful approach.

Socialist Darwinism is about the enormous influence Darwinism had on socialism and communism, especially in Germany, which helps us to understand the influence of Darwin on Nazi rule (a topic not directly covered in this work). The book was originally Weikart's doctorial dissertation completed at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and as part of his Fulbright Fellowship, and later revised. Weikart's excellent work relies heavily on primary sources (most of the references are in German) and is well documented. He shows that Darwinism was applied to both government and social policy, although both the right and the left (socialists) managed to interpret Darwinism to support their ideals (page 126). Weikart also includes an excellent detailed discussion of Marx's and Engels' views of Darwin, correcting some of the common distortions about this part of history (page 15-82). This is probably the most valuable part of the book. As a whole, this very readable work makes a valuable contribution to the history of Darwinism and the impact of Darwin's ideas on science and society. The book also shows the various interpretations of Darwinism that existed historically and the resistance to various aspects of his ideas by scientists and others.

Great book, great advice. I highly recomend it!

Whereas 'Short term futures trading' by the same author is geared towards discretionary traders, this book offers plenty of ideas for mechanical traders. However, even the discretionary traders can also benefit from this book if he/she know what elements to fuse into their trading.

Broken Film: Poems

D'Apres Tout: poems by Jean Follain translated by Heather McHugh is quite simply a desert island book for anyone who wants to know why literary minimalism has a purpose. Follain would probably be shocked to be linked with minimalists, but he likewise never sat well with the surrealists. Most minimalism succeeds or founders on an immediate but limited path of associative analogy, but the best minimalism opens outward into a depth that bespeaks of poetic compression at its peak of perfection. Follain creates entire social systems, worlds, and dramas in 10 to 20 lines. Comparisons might be drawn, in English, to Thomas Hardy or Phillip Larkin but these fall short of Follain's genius for making the inanimate and non-human realms become present as things to be reckoned with. Hardy and Larkin show us how people interact with such things, but Follain makes things present in an ontological sense that I have never experienced in any other poet's poetry.
I have read other translations of Follain (I read no French) but
McHugh's translation of this book is the only one that I have creased, treasured, and come back to time and time again over almost 30 years.

I hope that Princeton or another publisher will re-issue this absolutely essential book so that more poets could see what it can be like to be humble, chaste, and brilliant.

Having read and thoroughly enjoying Bernstein's earlier biography of Thomas Jefferson, I decided to give THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE REVOLUTION OF IDEAS, a look. Like his earlier work, this is a wonderful introduction to Jefferson, however this book is geared towards the school age reader.

Much of the text is identical to the earlier biography. The most significant difference is the addition of dozens of illustrations, from portraits of Jefferson's friends, family, and foes, and political cartoons.

My single knock on Bernstein's book is the same knock I had on his previous work. Bernstein adamantly portrays Jefferson as a "strict separationist", which in and of itself is accurate. However he fails to recognize that what constituted a "strict separationist" 200 years ago is much different than the definition given in today's climate of political correctness gone awry. Bernstein seems genuinely perplexed that Jefferson "sent Christian missionaries to establish schools in western territories to educate Native Americans - and convert them to Christianity." As with extremists today, Bernstein fails to understand that Jefferson's actions did not violate the First Amendment in that "Congress made no law respecting the establishment of religion."

I could spend all day writing about how mixed up people are about what the First Amendment means and how it was intended by our framers, but that strays from the subject at hand. All in all, this is a great introduction for school children and should capture their interest and perhaps, lead them into more indepth study of one of our greatest leaders.

Monty Rainey
www.juntosociety.com

I've been an occasional Tinderbox user for a number of years, never quite getting into the program but kept thinking it was sufficiently useful to keep paying renewals. Some parts of this book are a bit like a "Missing Manual" for Tinderbox, especially when it comes to exporting to HTML. My enthusiasm for the software has risen dramatically from reading The Tinderbox Way but it's not just an effect of seeing some features explained in more detail.

Woven adroitly into the explanations of how to use the program are discussions of the background, starting from hypertext experimenters predating the Web.

I could personally justify the purchase just for the explanation of the history, including the failure, of "strongly-typed links"!

Buy this book if you are serious about getting more out of Tinderbox.

Buy this book if you are interested in hypertext, linking ideas or different ways of annotating thinking, even if you don't own a Mac (Tinderbox is currently Mac-only, a Windows version is "forthcoming") or don't intend to run Tinderbox, but you might just find the software purchase following :-)

Buy this book if you're a software developer interested in reading about a program developed with sound theoretical basis for its features and a discussion of the trade-offs in putting a lot of power in the user's hands.

I recently read Dreaming in Code and am saddened by the realisation that much of the chaotic history and design of the Chandler project might have been very different had they been able to read The Tinderbox Way before they started, or hired Mark Bernstein to consult.

The international Futures market can be extremely volatile. This leads to people making obscene amounts of money. It is unwise to step into this arena without understanding the dimensions of the game. This is even more important if you use a broker so you won't be taken advantage of. This book is 324 pages. Chapter titles include:
"An Unorthodox History of Futures Trading"
"Futures Trading in the Twenty-first Century"
"What's to Be Gained?"
"Major Exchanges of the World"
"How the Different Markets Are Traded"
"Futures Trading in Europe and the Americas" WITH INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS ON
"UK, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia, Russian Fed. South America, Canada, U.S.A."
"Futures Trading in Asia"
"Fundamental Analysis of the Intenational Futures Market: Supply and Demand, Market Reports, Seasonality, Cyclic Price Changes, Secular Trends, Other Forces and Factors Affecting Commodity Prices, Price Analysis"
AND THIS IS ONLY UP TO PAGE 79
Some additional chapters include: "Preservation of Capital", Mastering Pschological Aspects of Commodity Trading", "Day Trading International Markets" AND MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE. There are over 12 other chapters full of valuable information.

Collaboratively written by Ron Bernstein, David Binns, Marshal Hyman, and deftly edited by Martin Staubus, Transitioning Ownership in the Private Company: The ESOP Solution examines leveraged employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) as a means of allowing employees to purchase and own a corporate divestiture or a production plant or facility chosen for closing by the parent company. Examining the tax benefits, empowerment benefits for employees, usefulness, and facilitation of ESOPs, Transitioning Ownership In The Private Company is a carefully researched, superbly presented, and thoroughly "user friendly" information guide and reference. Simply put, Transitioning Ownership In The Private Company is a "must-read" for anyone involved in or considering an ESOP solution in acquiring a private company, plant, or facility.