Bernstein Books

When David Bernstein decides to change his name to Ali Baba, weird and unusual things start to happen! He finds a robber's treasure in his apartment's basement, and much more! I say this book is wonderful, but sort of disappointing when Ali Baba finds out about the treasure. I think the point of this book is: Having a good imagination gives you adventures, not your name.

David changed his name to Ali Baba. When he did this he tried to turn ordinary things into big adventures. I thought it was a good book because it was silly. I think Johanna wrote this to teach the lesson that changing your name will not make you have adventures.

David changed his name to Ali Baba. He thought that an exciting name would give him exciting adventures. So he got into big trouble. I liked this story because Ali Baba has a big imagination. I learned that if you have an exciting name you still won't have an exciting life.

I've not purchased the book yet, but this 3 book review
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This book is nothing more than the Pub 17 available for free by downloading from the IRS web site. It does have some nice notes but the US Gov't should demand that Ernst & Young pay royalties to them...that's us taxpayers. No wonder the Big Five is now the Big Four and if this is what is out there perhaps soon to be the Big Three. E&Y has shown us a very poor example of business ethics.

I have used the Ernst & Young Tax Guides since 1997 and have found them quite valuable. There is a lot of good information that helps you find unknown deductions.

The book cost $17.00, but should easily save you hundreds if not thousands in various tax savings.

A distillation of a journal published a couple decades ago, this enjoyable collection offers brief essays from a number of writers. Each piece presents a distinct, if sometimes quirky, entry way into the world of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry. Prepare to have your mind warped. Prepare to laugh, and prepare to confront some dense, but rewarding prose.

Bernstein is one of the great poets in the world today and this is a brilliant insight into the poetics of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "school". If you have any serious interest in poetry and poetics, you should read this book.

If you like to see the English language --- the Queen's English, that is to say --- subjected to the most vicious of butcherings and prententious, pedantic doodeling, than I think this books will be right up your alley. I, however, prefer such masters of Her Majesty's language as Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak, Hobi Baba, ann Michael Hardt. Not.

Teachers, Synagogue programers, and anyone interested in what the Torah has to say about our planet will love this collection of stories, activities and lessons about our relationship with Creation.

I highly recommend this book, it will add a little spice to any Jewish program or home.

There aren't many books that give you the tools to address modern issues in a traditional framework.

This book was a great help for my Hebrew school class and challenged me to think of environmental issues in a Jewish manner.

This book was useless. I tried to use it to teach my son about Judiasm but the book is just full of opinions. I disagreed with everything in it!

I found this book to be supremacist hate literature. This is my opinion and I think viewers are entitled to see this review. I am normally critical of Israel and her policies that violate human rights and try to be objective and fair, but this book is purely the race card. I made a mistake in purchasing it. Thank you.

Who would've thought that an insightful read into the diabolitcal schematics of Zionist Israel would be an instrument of value in understanding world events such as those brought about on Yon Kippur, 2008, could have been written nearly 25 years BEFORE the event? Killed by the Mossad, this author chronologically shows the genesis and developments that the U.S. media prevented us, the population from seeing, 50+ years ago. The Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about, has come about. Basically, the U.S. has funded it (Israel) and has supported it (Banks) since 1948. Only Eisenhower had the brass to speak of it in his day. Jimmy Carter has spoken of it since, and was roundly shut-out by Israel and Bush's "New Order." This is not some BS anti-semitic propaganda, nor was it when it was written but now has become, sadly, very sadly, facts of life on planet Earth in 2008! Beware of the Zionists running and RUINING the U.S. Read this and understand where they're coming from. SHOCKING!

Jack Bernstein's candid and concise expose of a Jewish American's disillusionment with a nation he thought was founded to better serve the interests of the world's oldest monotheistic faith is a very relevant and necessary book for our times. Bernstein's personal account of his experiences in Eretz Israel is a chilling reminder that self-righteous political demagogues can corrupt any society and use the guise of religion to promote disharmony and intolerance towards their fellow human beings. This book serves as a valuable educational tool that enables us to look beyond mainstream media reporting of the events occuring in a land that is consistently portrayed as the "only democracy" in the Middle East. After reading this insightful text, one may begin to question commonly presented facts of a country that has a special attachment to the United States, both spiritually and commercially.

Although the book was edited in 1995, many of the topics are very relevant to today's investor.

Managing Risk, valuation, investment strategy are among the pertinent topics that you can learn alot from.

It is however, complex and you do need to understand the basics of economics and finance to fully take advantage of the concepts and topics discussed.

As an undergraduate, I studied political science; as a graduate student, I studied history (among other things) - however, few if any of my classes ever dealt with the actual mechanics of business, despite dealing with business in a more general sense (as it would fit in the context of history and politics). I decided that it was important to learn some of the basic concepts of business administration, and the Portable MBA series by John Wiley & Sons publishers fit the bill.

This book on investment covers topics such as investment strategy, setting objectives, valuation, risk, evaluating performance, corporate governance, and the general process of investing. The introduction looks at many of the myths of investing - author Peter Bernstein highlights many of the clichés of Wall Street, such as 'nothing ventured, nothing gained', 'buy low, sell high', and 'don't put all your eggs in one basket', in order to look at the truth or false aspects behind each one. He also states, 'If you're so smart, how come you're not rich? The answer is disarmingly simple: The essence of investment theory is that being smart is not a sufficient condition for being rich.'

This book fills in some of the gaps, but it is not a get-rich-quick guide by any means. It presents investing as an ongoing process - investment is dynamic, and pulls in many different strands and elements; investment is not 'collecting things' like stock and bonds, and the authors work to minimize the importance of artificial barriers such as foreign vs. domestic investing, which in a global economy means less than it used to.

The authors who contributed to this volume have both academic and professional experience, and tend to do a good job at explaining things in terms that the non-professional can understanding. Anyone with a basic undergraduate background should find this volume accessible. Because investing deals with numbers, there is a fair amount of math in some of the sections. An understanding of graphs, charts, and simple equations will be useful.

This is not really a how-to guide for investing; for one thing, such guides generally need to be updated more frequently. However, as a guide to general understanding of the system of investment and finance in the modern Western economic system, this is a good survey and reference.

When I first found this book (from the library, fortunately), I was very eager to read it. I've done a lot of investing on my own and have always wanted to learn about more sophisticated methods. This looked like a perfect read: A compendium of original essays by distinguished academics and investors in the field. While the first few chapters made sense, I found that the book became increasingly complex. This is surprising, since I have a background in statistics, investing, and have a reasonable proficiency in mathematics. The authors rarely strayed from heavily academic prose, laden with undefined financial terms (only one chapter has a glossary). The book doesn't flow at all -- it doesn't progress from simple to advanced topics. I would have rather read a book by one author.

That doesn't make this a bad book. I imagine that these authors have made some profound insights in this tome, but my definition of a good book isn't one that has genius locked up behind dense language. Until the Portable MBA series comes out with a primer, I'll be searching for books that provide richer and more thorough explanations of their subjects.

Great book for Linux newbies (Ah-hem! - I guess that's ME!) but seems to have enough info for anyone getting up and running with the "K" desktop environment, as well as plenty of tips for the more sopisticated "K" user as well. Mr. Powell's work is such a joy to read, and his sense of humor makes this "getting adquainted" '(ad)venture' with the KDE gui so much more palpable ... a far cry from most modern so-called "introductory" (read: novice) computer manuals....this one has the info without being overly-simplistic.... 5 stars.

If you are new to the K Desktop Environment for Unix, this book is an invaluable reference for learning your way around the desktop, customizing the way things look and using the applications that come with it. It also encourages you to get down and dirty with Linux, giving instructions on where to find the latest distributions and cool applications and how to compile and use them. Mr. Powell writes with a dry and sometimes cynical wit, which makes for enjoyable reading.

This book relates to a thoroughly outdated version of KDE, 1.1. Version 2 is a different world in many respects. Be sure that you're using an archaic version of KDE before you spend money on this book. Otherwise the book might have some kind of historical value I guess. Advice to the author: it's very easy to overuse the word "breathtakingly" when you're writing about software.

I don't imagine that Cliff Notes are supposed guide students in the literary niceties of the works in question. There is nothing wrong with that: they are purchased by students as handy summaries of a book's contents.

Even within the constraints of Cliff Notes, Andrew Bernstein could have done something to help students appreciate the literary sophistication of Ayn Rand's ANTHEM. These notes are little more than a summary (with, I concede, a few useful observations) of the book and a soap box for Bernstein to tell us how great Rand and Objectivism is, even when it isn't appropriate.

Bernstein is associated with the Ayn Rand Institute (which advocates Leonard Peikoff's orthodox brand of Objectivism), which is fine with me, but he shouldn't use this book to propagandize for Rand and Objectivism. For example, when he says that Rand "helped form an institute to teach her philosophy" in 1958, was it so hard to mention that it was the Nathaniel Branden Institute?

Before Bernstein pontificates, he should at least learn what he is talking about. John Scopes wasn't jailed for teaching evolution and, according to most scholars, Bruno wasn't burned at the stake for teaching heliocentrism.

I have read Anthem many times and I was pleasantly surprised by this cliffsnotes summary and analysis of the book. It includes a short biography of Ayn Rand but the bulk of the book is spent on a detailed going over of Ayn Rand's plot, theme, and characters. It is fascinating to read an intelligent analysis of the characters I love. The gems of the book are the three critical essays; The Meaning and Importance of "I", The Role of Free Will in Anthem, and the Regression of a Future Collectivist Society into a Second Dark Age.

This book is written by an Objectivist author and is definately worth buying.

For a book which takes three hours or less to read, and ideas which are common pop-philosphy, Cliff's Notes for "Anthem" is a little over-kill. The essays are more difficult than the original book. The entire concept of having Cliffnotes for a book like "Anthem" is antithetical to one of the points Rand is trying to make, to think and assess for one's self.

Her thesis comes to a simple idea: it is up to the individual to think for the individual. "Anthem" is just an allegory to present the idea.

I recommend this, but barely. It can help the reader unwilling to read Rand's short book, or unable to process her basic tenets.

Anthony Trendl

Yes, a lot of pages in this book and plenty of tables.
As title says--The state of working America-- and I am part of it I expect to see reflections of real life and this part is missing.
All the authors talk is wages,wages and more wages.
What is real life? Real life is prices,what is available, crime considerations, where to live etc.
Authors take family as main entity which is far from reality; reality is 51% of american households are single not family and this is the trend.
Mobility is second consideration as working people have to move to survive. Yes, my income define where I live and how crime affect my decisions and my income define what I eat and where and my income define why I am single. And, yes, we have 47 millions americans without health insurance and about 5 millions homeless which are part of working America. But this is not reflected in book.
The main question of this type of book should be--why nothing changes and how to change.

This book is exactly what I wanted. I'm a part-time journalist writing for a small town newspaper and I like numbers. Nothing is better than a percentage or a statistic to support your story. This book has them all and an explanation to support their accuracy or inaccuracy. It is a great tool. It is a must for anyone who wants to know "The State of Working America" - which I do.

If you can wade your way through the statistics, this book is enlightening and edifying, often sad. The commentary and interpretation help clarify the wealth of information. It graphically illustrates that nothing has changed after all these years of hope and promises for change: the rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer, poverty is endemic to our tired, unimaginative economic system, etc., etc., etc.

This book caused me to re-read Kevin Phillips' book "The Politics of Rich and Poor," published in 1990. It provides statistical and anecdotal evidence of the negative effects of Reagan-omics on our social system, much as Bush-enomics has. I even went farther back and re-read Michael Harrington's "The Other America," the seminal, monumental book of its time in 1962 about poverty in America.

These books along with so many others make you ask, as we've asked so many times, "When will it ever change?" I guess making people aware of the problem, although it's readily apparent in everyday life, is the place to start. These books, representing 45 years of rhetoric, make you agonizingly aware that things have gone nowhere but down. So, read all of them.

A friend of mine told me about this book when he mentioned my unit (22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit) and our time in Afghanistan was mentioned. Solid, easy-to-follow story about the evolution and employment of the Apache.

I really liked the artwork, and hoping they'll follow with other titles on the Blackhawk and Chinook.

As an AH-64 pilot who has participated of OIF I was to say the least intrigued when I first heard of this title.

The book includes information that will be of interest to those who enjoy tales of military aviation and includes photos and drawings of unit marking that are otherwise unavailable. The marking are notably incomplete, showing only one company within a battalion and leaving the others out.

It's interesting to note that several members of my unit who are quoted in the book, profess to have never met the author...and he (the author) fails to footnote or otherwise indicate how he came up with these statements.

It's a good start, but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of a great subject that begs to be covered fully.