Edwards Books

This great how-to book covers the entire sales process. It is a valuable tool for all sales people, both new and experienced. It was published in 1996. Really, nothing much has changed in sales since then.

This outstanding book spells out all the critical areas of knowledge and skill needed to sell successfully. If it is possible to learn to be a top salesperson from a book, this would be the book. Sales is a tough game and this book can help smooth out the rough spots. The specifics on opening, closing, and handling objections and problems are especially helpful. Great for all types of sales and salespeople.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "The Salesperson's Stress Management Guide" docwifford@msn.com

The book is full of tips and techniques from opening the call, to handling that difficult customer, to staying in touch with those that didn't even buy from you!. It is so well organized, it makes finding what you want extremely easy. At first, I figured it was just another how-to-sell book, but after both novice and veteran salespeople told me about it, I had to see for myself. Now, I keep it in my attache and refer to it often.

A wonderful book, filled with wonderful stories.

The only story I didn't like was 'Helen's Awakening'. I added to the story on my computer, not wanting the story to end like it did.

But the rest of the stories were so good. I agree with another reviewer. 'Young Si' was the best story.

Enjoy!

If you love Anne of Greengables and the rest of LM Montgomery's book, you'll love this one too. It's a great book for when you're curled up in your bed and it's cold out. Get it.

You'd laugh if you could see my current copy of this book - completely dogeared, about 2" larger than it should b/c it's gotten wet reading it in the bathtub. :) I pull it out and re-read it whenever I need a quick escape. My favorite story is "Young Si" an absolutely delightful romance. Just for this story alone, the book is worth it. Another wonderful short story offering my LM Montgomery.

This is a great book for children and adults -- a timeless, magical house of exquisite animals that opens up a whole other world of possibilities for children to imagine. The images are really evocative, so even very small children will enjoy this book. Early readers can read along with ease. Adults will catch all the subtleties. I can't believe what a deal this beautiful hardcover book is! I'm buying it for all the children on my shopping list and for all my hard-to-shop-for friends.

How can something so visually exquisite be hilariously funny too? This thing is a treat! And beautiful enough to double as a coffee table book.

My nieces and nephew loved it, my nephew spending hours drawing 'alphabeast' animals after we read the book.
Thank you Alphabeasts!

I received this book as a gift and thought it would be just another alphabet book with the same old A is for Acorn-style drawings, but I couldn't have been more wrong. This book is filled with BEAUTIFUL, exquisitely detailed illustrations, many of which you wouldn't mind having blown up and framed.

"C is for Cat, who reflects on itself" shows a siamese cat gazing into a mirror at the tiger staring back at him. "E is for elephant, on the right track" shows a circus elephant playing with a toy train. "B is for bat, slurping ice cream" depicts a bat, carrying an upside-down hammer, flying up to a delicious sundae - many of the pages have this intensely original and dreamlike quality.

The day my 2 year old son first read this book, we read it 12+ times, and he still asks for it before naps and at bedtime. When he gets older I am sure the illustrations will serve as inspirations for his own art.

You will love this book!!

Exccellent book, oth for lawyer and economists,

Katra

A first time global review of corporate law explaining everything. I loved it

I do agree with the former reviewer. This is a great book if you do want a comparative perspective of corporate law. It is concentrating on how different legal systems have solved the same problems with minority shareholders, agnecy costs etc. with examples from Japan to US to Europe. We are using it as required reading on two different law school courses.

I have been one of Kurt Edward Fishback's students for the past year and have been looking forward to the publication of this book. It is truly an extraordinary and prodiqious work and should be of interest to everyone. It makes artists accessable to the public. Lonnie

This book is both very beautiful and informative. Kurt's images allow you to really see the artist and the surroundings that help them create their work. Kurt looks at both their outer body and their inner soul.

I highly recommend this book for any person who loves both Art and Photography

I met Kurt about 5 years ago. He was teaching a class at The Workshops in Rockport, Maine. I was immediately impressed with Kurt's work and his uncanny ability to capture the essence of his subject at the defining moment. Kurt's vision is timeless, and this work demonstrates his ability to make powerful images with only Tri-X and available light. This is an excellent book for the serious amateur photographer who wants to refine his own photographic vision. You won't be disappointed.

This book covers the overlooked area of African Gold. It shows how Africa contributed to The World's gold culture and How Ashanti Goldfields LTd. is continuing that legacy.

This book is incredible! It offers a rich history of the area in west Africa made famous not only for its gold, but for the millions of people sold off into slavery throughout the dark years of new world colonization in the post-Columbus era. The photos are breathtaking, and the text full of wonderful imagery and stories... I would recommend this book to anyone with a love of African history and an eye for beauty! It makes an amazing coffee table book and a wonderful gift.

This book is incredible! It offers a rich history of the area in west Africa made famous not only for its gold, but for the millions of people sold off into slavery throughout the dark years of new world colonization in the post-Columbus era. The photos are breathtaking, and the text full of wonderful imagery and stories... I would recommend this book to anyone with a love of African history and an eye for beauty! It makes an amazing coffee table book and a wonderful gift.

What an excellent resource! My husband and I enjoyed reading Ask the Professor as much as our 2 older children. It's direct, detailed, witty, and discusses many topics most of us wouldn't think of in preparing our children for college. And how valuable that it comes from a professor's point of view--like picking the professor's brain for the most important advice he has to offer! A fabulous tool for parents as well as college bound students. This book should be required reading for every rising senior and their parents. We're looking forward to reading more in this series to come!!

I thoroughly enjoyed the book myself, and as a mother of an upcoming senior in high school I appreciated the book. The authors have laid out in an entertaining way important aspects of college. Most of us that went to college relate to what the authors are saying but may not think to share all of these topics with our college kids. The authors also share from a professor's viewpoint, and who couldn't use the benefit of knowing what the professor may be thinking? Much of the information given even applies to students in high school. I also liked the fact that the book is written in short essay form so a chapter can be read quickly. The book is definitely an easy and quick read but also a great read!

Just purchased this book last week. It is a well written book that is written in snippet form such that you can read a nugget then put it down...but it is hard to. Holder and Edwards provide a lighter side to a view at college life while providing some very deep insights.

If you have trouble getting your high school senior to read anything beyond the required reading list, this book might be the difference as it is witty while providing some deep truths to apply to college life.

The only downside to this book's depth is that, unless you have been to college, you will not appreciate how true some of the subject matter is...

You will be glad you purchased this book...

I found this book by chance on my last trip to NY.

I am an argentinian living in Buenos Aires, and I love my city. I think the book shows it in a wonderful way, through the text and pictures, which I found really beautiful.

It's good value for money too.

This pictorial review of Buenos Aires is a stunning display of photos of the city, its homes and its people. Coupled with a descriptive narrative, the photographs, all in color, trace the history of the city and describe modern day Buenos Aires. It is awesome to see the turn of the century architecture of the various buildings and at the same time to be allowed into the private homes of the city's residents. As an American visitor to Bs.As., I found that this book allowed me to see areas that otherwise would be unavailable to view. In later chapters of the book, the writer and photographer take the reader to the city's suburbs and then on to the world famous Argentine estancias (ranches).I would recommend this book to those who have traveled to the city who now wish to be reminded of its beauty as well as to the Argentines who may now live outside the country yet long for a reminder of what awaits their return. For those who have yet to visit Bs. As., this book is a fine substitute.

As an argentinian expatriate, this book is a wonderful reminder of my beloved Buenos Aires. But if you were not born in Argentina, you will not find only a turistic guide, a political essay or a historical vision of the city, but all that and more.

The description of the society is really accurate, and it is made with the objective point of view of a foreigner. And the research about the History of the city is precise as well. As an architect, I find the photographs excellent, and they show the reality and the contrasts of this wonderful city.

So, if you are planning a trip to Buenos Aires or just want to know more about the city, this book will give you an excellent vision of what you will find there.

The product of a lifetime of dedicated scholarship, this is Rothbard's magnum opus.

Volume one is a breathtaking journey through time, analyzing how culture, religion, and politics have impacted upon economic thought.

Volume two contains the most devastating refutation and trenchant analysis of Karl Marx and his destructive, apocalyptic theory of Communism."

I borrowed this work from my local university library and read it through TWICE! I am now about to order this new affordable set published by the Mises Institute so that I can not only read it through again but have as a constant source of reference. A brilliant work!

This work is a tour de force of economic thought, spanning a thousand pages and nearly two millennia.

The books thesis rests on Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts of scientific intellectuals in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." In these two volumes, Rothbard grinds his axe against what he would refer to as the "Whig theory of history" or the idea that history of ideas is always a progression forward.

In light of this thesis, Rothbard carefully works in progression from ancient Greek thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophobe to the late 19th century works of J.S. Mill, Marx, Bastiat and Pareto. What is truly amazing is amount of time in Volume I he devotes to smaller unknown scholastics (who revived much of the work of Aristotle after finding preserved by the Arabs) overlooked by works like Lionel Robbins lectures on Economic thought and much of Hayek's contributions, which were dominated by the Scottish Enlightenment. Insomuch, Rothbard credits - like Schumpeter did - many lesser individuals which prefigured Smith, like Turgot, Cantillon and the French tradition; or the School of Salamanca and the Scholastic's who debunked the idea of a just price - based in a theoretical corpus of Natural Law (like Rothbard himself).

There are some who have taken the whole book out of context by reading only his treatment of Adam Smith - mostly because this is the most controversial section. Without context, Rothbard chapter on Smith seems to be harsh for those who consider him a great defender of liberty and lassie faire. Yet, to me, he sufficiently backs his libertarian case against Smith - as those who have actually looked into the Wealth of Nations can attest (the contradiction in Book 1 and 5 is most apparent in his description of the division of labor on one hand and alienation on the other). In fact, he continues Joseph Schumpeter's famous assessment of `das AdamSmith' problem (Schumpeter argues that Smith, in the Wealth of Nations is just carrying on a physiocrat position in `Economic Doctrine and Method'); which has plagued economic thought by misplacing an emphasis on one man as the intellectual godfather while belittling outstanding prefigures like Turgot and Cantillon, the Scholastics and post-figures such as Senior, Bastiat and Say.

It is not that Rothbard means to tear Smith's whole doctrine asunder. Rothbard admits freely that Smith was important up to a point, yet was bereft in his defense of liberty. Hence Smith doesn't measure up to his `hardcore' liberal French counterparts - for instance Turgot or Say. Rothbard illustrates this in the American tradition by quoting Thomas Jefferson as having admiration and preference for De Tracy and J.S. Say instead of Adam Smith.

A mild warning - although the book is an exhilarating history of ideas, some of the finer points may be difficult or perhaps too technical for a layman. Rothbard has particular detailed points on theoretical economic issues. (Which makes me question the familiar charge about Rothbard retreating from Economics during the 1970's - as this book was written in the 1980's) He spends some space analyzing the differences in the theory of price (between Mill, Ricardo, Smith and the French School), interest and other lengthy sections (roughly 3 chapters of the second book) on monetary theory.

In light of the 20th century textbook analysis dominated by the neo-classical tradition in the micro sphere and Keynesianism in the macro sphere, Rothbard seeks to carve out and correct misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the classics and its development into the strains of these modern ideas - evaluating them by his own Austrian standard (see Rothbard's Man, Economy and State and Human Action by L. von Mises). Yet, Rothbard is not intentionally setting up historical economists as straw men, but to show that they were pioneers - some with clearer insight than others. In effect, he shows that some economics has gotten better while other have gotten worse.

Although this book is aimed at understanding economics, these two volumes also show the depth of Rothbard as an intellectual, religious and political historian as well. Again, this work ought to be disquieting to those scholars who continually discounted Rothbard. It is this painstaking argumentation which feeds directly into his thesis and makes the work sparkle; providing relevance to the questions which still persist today and will be here tomorrow.

This is a thoroughly engrossing book. It gives a candid and very moving portrayal of the full range of emotions associated with the in vitro experience. The book tugs at your heart as it passes from hope to despair and back to hope again as the couple begins each new IVF cycle. It also makes you laugh as it describes events in the couple's life that go beyond the in vitro process, taking you from the author's early dating fiascos in southern California to the couple's often bumbling attempts at adjusting to life as expatriates in Japan. The book flows easily from the in vitro experience to life experience. Its mixture of humor and heartbreak draws you in from the very first page.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was not written by a clinical
psychologist or a medical doctor. As a result, the book did not contain
any in-depth psychobabble and was not a detailed medical account of each procedure. There was much emotion in easy to understand (and amusing) language that I could relate to having gone thru in vitro fertilization myself. Additionally, there was medical info that was sufficient to be informative but not boring. Overall, a great book. I have passed it along to my friend (who is not dealing with infertility) just because I think he will find it entertaining and to give him an idea of what I have been dealing with.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story from beginning to end! It was a real account of the author's struggles with infertility. I could relate in so many ways. It was hard for me to put this book down. I loved all the "unromanticized" details of their story. After finishing the book, I was left with hope and a true picture of what the world of infertility is all about! Even if you're not dealing with infertility, I would strongly recommend this book! You will be encouraged!

This book has a little of everything; humor, romance and a fairy tale ending. As someone who also had difficulties having children, I found this book very informative and inspiring. The author did an incredible job telling his story and sharing his most intimate feelings. By the end of this book, I felt as though the author was a good friend of mine and someone that I have known for years. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone. Definitely a good read!

This book was very funny and informative. It was well written and easy to read. Once I got started I couldn't put it down. It puts a humorous spin on the struggles related to finding the perfect mate, infertility and life in general. I would highly recommend this one!