Burton Books

This book had me shaking my head with all the true to life coincidences and stories. DUTY! is a must read for cops who love reading about cops. I would also recommend this story to wives and family members of cops. Reading this novel will make you laugh (out loud), cry and think. As law enforcement professional for nearly 10 years, I can relate to just about every page written by Alan Burton. DUTY, HONOR and INTEGRITY is what all good cops are made of. "DUTY! A Cop's Story" exposes cops to who they really are, HUMAN.

I have been a law enforcement professional for nearly 10 years and this novel is full of stories that could have only been written by a cop. The story follows a young deputy through out his career and into the stresses of the job. Many pages in this book had me laughing (out loud) and shaking my head when I recalled similar incidents.

I would recommend this novel to cops who love reading about cops and to family members of cops. DUTY! A Cop's Story exposes who cops really are...they're human.

I met Roland Cheek a few weeks ago at the WWA (Western Writers Association) convention in Spokane, Washington. I write gardening books but I've just written several westerns myself and recently joined the WWA.
Roland Cheek, the author of Echoes of Vengeance, was assigned to be my "mentor" for the conference. He is a salty, interesting, unconventional man, a man's man, a strong, tough looking guy, a man who has been a big game hunting and fishing guide and cowboy his entire life. Roland strikes you as 100% authentic...which he is.
I just finished reading Echoes of Vengeance, which is the first one of a series of six related western novels, all following the same character, young Jethro Spring. Spring is a half-breed; his mother was a Blackfoot Indian, his father a trapper. Jethro is wanted by the law for killing the man who killed his parents. The story follows him from one state to another, from one coast to another mostly in the early 1870's. The book starts out with a bang, the action is clear, clean, always believable, and it moves along with the pace and power of a runaway freight train.
In this marvelous book, not only is there plenty of great action, boxing, bar fights, shootings, killing, but Cheek explores a great many social problems of this time and place, and does so without ever being preachy. The characters are different, always interesting, and completely real...and importantly too, we the readers come to care deeply about the characters.
This is a tough story, not all apple pie by any means, but an honest one. Adults who read it will darn sure like it, but I'd bet that a great many young adults would also be crazy about it. I feel lucky to have met Roland Cheek and even luckier to have read one of his novels. I plan to read all the rest of them, too, for sure. I've always loved Louie L'Amour's books, but honest, Roland Cheek writes every bit as well, and, well, check it out. You've got a real treat ahead of you...I'd bet my hat on it.

Echoes Of Vengeance by Roland Cheek is a tautly written novel of Jethro Spring, a young man who must suffer the consequences of dealing with the murderer of his parents. He's forced to travel through the Northern Rockies wilds and the Cherokee Strip, among other locales of natural beauty and splendor. Bounty hunters pursue him through Texas, until he must reach a final reckoning in this varied, flavorful and solidly written western saga.

From Alexander Cochrane, the Englishman who called for and implemented standardized, periodical, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), this classic 1972 text laid the foundation for the worldwide task of the Cochrane Collaboration: "preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care". "Evidence-based medicine" (EBM) in todays's jargon. This updated edition has a couple of new essays that detail how such higher scientific standards for clinical medicine, detailed here and in the journals and centers of evidence based medicine this work directly inspired, together with the health consumers movement, have empowered healthcare consumers and providers alike.

Effectiveness and efficiency is simply the necessity for clinicians (and demanding healthcare consumers!) to learn to efficiently formulate an answerable clinical question and to research the latest peer-reviewed medical literature for an applicable answer by evaluating the BEST available evidence for its validity, reliability, and relevance for the specific individual concerned. Finding a "Cochrane review" is the "gold standard."

A recently published book/CD ROM package that depends on Cochrane's pioneering work is the authoritative adaptation of the highly popular Journal of the American Medical Association's 25-part series [1992-2000], edited by Dr. Gordon Guyatt, the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature: Essentials of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice.

Another, equally good, fruit from Cochrane is the excellent and popular text/CD package, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM by David L. Sackett, Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Rosenberg.

Cochrane and his posthumous collaborators will change the way you think of medicine and the demands you make on it. While medicine has always been pragmatic by necessity, now, at last, medical research is practical for all non-trivial clinical questions.

Not for doctors only: this is good, clear analytical thinking that anyone can understand and apply. Even doctors. For dedicated, highly motivated healthcare consumers, these latter two applied guides to EBM sure beat surfing the Internet randomly without a roadmap to quality healthcare information.

Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency remains the compass.

This book is to be reissued in March 1999 in Britain and published by Nuffield Trust with additional material of importance since the book was first published in 1972.

This book is an excellent resource for both the seasoned HR/Benefits manager or new-comer to the field of employee benefits. It is a comprehensive yet readable reference guide which covers everything from basic employee benefits, to general benefits planning and administration, to retirement planning and programs.

Although the book is structured like a text book (it has chapter objectives listed, along with study questions) it is very easy to read and understand. The authors provide many tables and charts which illustrate the more complex subject areas.

As an HR Manager, I highly recommend this book as a reference tool for all companies that wish to maximize their employee benefit programs. The wealth of information and practical material contained in this book is invaluable to any sized organization.

I've recently re-entered the employee benefits field after a number of years away and felt I needed a reference guide to help me identify new laws and regulations as well as coverage changes. This book is a fabulous resource. It covers benefits A to Z. Each topic I have come across in my day-to-day work is discussed in this book. This book is perfect for people in their first benefits position and well as the veteran benefits professional. When the 7th Edition comes out, I'll definitely buy it.

Professor Watson has done us all a great service by identifying and restating the fundamental argument of this scripture in his "Essential
Lotus: Selections from the Lotus Sutra" (2002), based on his earlier
complete translation, "The Lotus Sutra" (1993). This sacred text may
be "one of the most important and influential of the sutras or sacred
scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism" (xvii), but, truth be told, it is also
"a rather prolix and loosely structured text, with some chapters that are
repetitious or of minor doctrinal importance." (vii). Watson is one of
our great translators and the perfect editor to clarify its message.

Although the Lotus Sutra often refers to its program as the One Vehicle or Great Vehicle which supersedes "expedient means" (the earlier teachings which the Buddha adjusted to the needs and level of understanding of his listeners), One Vehicle claims to be the BEST--
but not the only -- means of attaining Buddhahood, which all living
beings have the potential to achieve (viii). Transcending "expedient
means" may be the goal of the Lotus teaching, but we come gradually to realize it while living in a religious world of "expedient means." This is an important concept. The early, second chapter of the Lotus Sutra takes the name "Expedient Means," the first chapter fully included in the "Essential Lotus." Most of the sutra's Seven Parables refer to this notion in one way or another. Here is to be found the rationale for religious inclusivism -- the accommodation of the religious beliefs and practices of others.

Predictably, many today are interested in what the Lotus Sutra has to
say about the status of women? In his Preface to "Essential Lotus,"
Professor Watson describes the famous anecdote concerning the
"daughter of the dragon king Sagara who, though only a child of eight,
has attained the highest level of enliightenment. Earlier Buddhism had
generally denied that women could attain Buddhahood, at least while
in female form . . . The Lotus Sutra firmly rejects such assertions. We are to understand that all beings without exception, good or evil,
female or male, are equally capable of becoming Buddhas." (ix; 85-87).

"Essential Lotus" includes an informative preface and introduction,
and a good glossary and index. Even if you already the have a complete translation of the Lotus Sutra, you will find this to be a most useful addition to your library.

Burton Watson has translated the entire Lotus Sutra, and here presents a selection of what he considers to be the core chapters of the long, episodic and uneven collection. The Lotus Sutra is one of the most influential early Mahayana texts, and so shaped Buddhism in all of East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam). It has attracted more scholarly commentary over the centuries than any other sutra, and further, its imagery and stories have profoundly influenced East Asian culture in a way similar to the way the stories of the Bible permeate Western culture.

THE ESSENTIAL LOTUS provides an essential service to the scholar of religion, or of literature, or of culture, or the practicing Buddhist who wants to go to the core of this important text without the painstaking effort of wandering through its every winding and inessential byway. According to Watson there are 3 main lessons of the Lotus Sutra:

1) There is One Vehicle, the Greater Vehicle (Mahayana), for all -- other teachings are superseded, they were but expedient means.

2) Enlightenment (Buddhahood) is for everyone, not just a select few.

3) The manifestation of the historic Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was simply the most recent -- the Buddha his lived innumerable lives, and taught the Dharma to innumerable sentient beings, leading to the Enlightenment of innumerable sentient beings. The Buddha is within, and we can call on him for assistance.

When outlined in this way it is much easier to see the main points, points which were Mahayana innovations in their day and challenged the earlier Theravada tradition, than if a reader was to try to extract them independently. For the practicing Buddhist, there are many better Mahayana sources than the Lotus Sutra, though, even this superb edited version. (My apologies to those Buddists who believe that simply chanting the name of the Lotus Sutra will bring enlightenment.) I recommend Watson's ESSENTIAL LOTUS mainly to the scholar of religion and to the student of comparative world literature for its parables and vivid imagery.

See my BHUDDA-DHARMA list for more.

What an incredible family! This book is not a biography, nor is it a book about running a business. It is a look at the life of an extraordinary man, John Tigrett, and his business and personal dealings with people from Glenn Miller to Winston Churchill, from Jimmy Hoffa to Fred Smith It is a success story filled with everything you would want in a novel. It is filled with stories of passionate lovers, great tragedies, and incredible successes. He was raised in a small town in Tennessee yet John played a part in changing the world in so many ways.

If we could view the world without John's influence over the past 50 years, how different would it be? From the leaders of World War II to the business world of the 1990's, from the toys we played with as a child to the skyline of Memphis, TN, John played a role in each of these.

However, this book is not about John only. It is about his family, his friends, and the many people he met along the way.
He speaks with such pride about his mother who struggled to raise her son after his father left. He talks about his uncle and aunt who helped his mother. The same uncle that changed the way the South traveled through the development of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad. He speaks about his children; two of whom died tragically and much too young. He writes with great pride about his son Issac and the hospital he build in India with the proceeds from the sale of the Hard Rock Cafe's. And his passion for his two wives and his youngest son Kerr let's you know that he was truly a blessed man....What a wonderfil life!

How did a toy maker from a town in West Tennessee become an international financier and the colleague of some of the world's most wealthy and powerful men? Read this fascinating book and find out! The stories of John Burton Tigrett's many friends are the stories of modern history: Churchill, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Armand Hammer, Sir James Goldsmith, J. Paul Getty, Bunker Hunt, Brezhnev, Ross Perot, Ronald Reagan, Federal Express, the Hard Rock Cafe, and many more! This collection of vignettes and tales could also be sub-titled "A Life Well Spent." The reader sees not only well crafted word pictures of the many interesting people that Mr. Tigrett has known over the years, but also a picture of the author himself, as someone that YOU would wish to count among your friends. He appears as the type of man that you could call from a jail in some banana republic, knowing that he would move heaven and earth to get you out speedily! The! author of this most interesting book is the father of Isaac Tigrett, who founded the Hard Rock Cafes and House of Blues Restaurants. This reviewer knew the author when he (the reviewer) was a child, and was a friend of the author's late son, Hewitt. If you are interested in seeing the very human side of some of the movers and shakers of the post- World War II twentieth century, read this book!

This is a wonderfull faery book for all ages! This great book tells of the various types of faeries that live in India, Arabia, Alaska, Polynesia, Asia, Great Britain, North America, Europe, Africa, and Centrel and South America. It also talks about different recipes and crafts you can make for certain faeries, like suger frosted flowers and a faery fan. This great book also talks about how to throw a indoor or outdoor faery party, and how to attract them to your garden. I reccomend this book to anyone who loves and believes in faeries, and wishes to learn more about them. I do not reccomend this book to those who do not have a open mind.

The Fae Girl

This is a wonderful overview of fairies from all over the world including Africa, Arabia,and Asia among others. Included are fairy games and foods they love. Well written, and the illustrations are lovely- a treat for fairy lovers of all ages.

excellent book for those who like to know more about Somalia

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Great photos showing a fox kit growing up starting as a newborn. Follow them when they are two weeks old, a month old, six weeks, two months and 12 weeks old. Informative story line for preschoolers. This series keeps the attention of little ones and you know they are learning something both as they look at the pictures and hear the story.

I recommend the other books in this series as well. Dorling Kindersley books original publisher of the series, now published by Scholastic, have wonderful details. Each page has a row of small sketches on the top and bottom of the page that show the fox at play at that particular stage, as well as a little photo of a fox on the spine.

Great photos showing a fox kit growing up starting as a newborn. Follow them when they are two weeks old, a month old, six weeks, two months and 12 weeks old. Informative story line for preschoolers. This series keeps the attention of little ones and you know they are learning something both as they look at the pictures and hear the story.

I recommend the other books in this series as well. Dorling Kindersley books original publisher of the series, now published by Scholastic, have wonderful details. Each page has a row of small sketches on the top and bottom of the page that show the fox at play at that particular stage, as well as a little photo of a fox on the spine.

This Is my favorite book! Girls, Talk about isuies and show you cool crafts. In this book one of my fav chapters is the yoga chapter, where you learn a few bacis yoga moves. READ IT!

I am also an author in this book. My name is Emmarie and I wrote the second chapter, "Gaining Confidence, Taking Charge, and Forgetting Fear". My chapter is about how to become a more independent and confident person, and how not to fall prey to peer pressure. I have read Girls Know Best and Girls Know Best 2 also, and they are great books. Instead of having an adult write about what they THINK we are having to go through, this book is written by other girls from a large variety of places who are going through the same things as us. I really enjoyed helping to write this book, and I can't wait till it officially hits the shelves. I hope that everyone will check it out!