Marshall Books

I don't think you have to be extraordinarily "yankee doodle dandy" to enjoy these shows. I am a fan of radio shows and I think this is one of the best dramatic series. I am also a Herbert Marshall fan. The stories are intelligent and plausible. The plots are surprisingly similar to actual events occurring today. Unlike the reviewer before me I did not detect any "McCarthy-ism" in the text.

As someone who grew up with a love for America instilled in me, I have found this collection to be most wonderful. It is serious in nature with subtle humor that is blended wonderfully.

Anti-communism sentiment is readily apparent and the occasional philosophical statements by the star, Ken Thurston, are welcome breaths of fresh air. Any American with patriotism in their blood will love this collection of 6, 90 minute tapes.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested for both in depth and in breadth analysis for better understanding of the Reagan administration.This will give you a detailed insight,relating significance of the said regime.This is an excellent book one shouldn't miss!

This is a great book if you are interested in the policies of the Reagan administration and the effects of the decision making made by Reagan. The interviews and documents are extremely useful in detailing the feeling of the era. If you are a student of either history or poly sci, this is a very good source for research on the government and the activities of the 1980's.

My copy was destroyed by flood damage, so I had to have a new set. Mine as over 25 years old, but I still use it frequently.

Excellent 25 set volume of color poster illustrations, maps, and B&W photos in subject order. Cavendish attempts to present an unbiased perspective from SS, Russions, Americans, etc. He begins with the end of WWI and the developments that led to WWII, and continues to focus on different aspects in each volumn. Many color posters are pictured, graphic maps, illustrations of different weapon vehicles - tanks, airplanes, submarines, uniforms, and much more.

As an English tutor for elementary school students from the Marshall Islands now residing in a rural US community, I hoped that this collection would provide insight into the cultural background of the kids. My plan was to preview it and then pass it around to the the classroom teachers of my students, encouraging them to use it to foster cultural appreciation. I initially requested that our ELL program purchase the book and was told that funds were lacking but that I could try to get the school library to buy it. I didn't feel like wading through the red tape and decided to order a copy myself. I was right - it is a great collection and gives an insight into Marshallese culture that I haven't been able to find anyplace else. But I'm awfully glad that I didn't ask the elementary school library to pay for it, because it could never be placed on the shelf. Most of the stories deal with very adult themes and are not appropriate for use in an elementary school setting. Also, the illustrations represent women with bare breasts, roughly drawn but definitely there and certainly an accurate depiction for these authentic legends. I don't even want to think about the commotion this would cause in a 5th-grade classroom. Still, I personally really enjoyed reading both the biographical backgrounds of the storytellers as well as the legends themselves, and there are several stories that we will be able to use as "read-alouds," or that possibly can be paperclipped in such a way that I can have a student read w/out being distracted by the illustrations. Really a great book for anybody who desires to learn more about the culture of the Marshall Islands!

Compiled and edited by Daniel A. Klin II (Director of Drama Education with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth) , and enhanced with black-and-white illustrations by Nashton T. Nahson, Marshall Islands Legends And Stories is an entertaining and richly presented collection of oral folklore featuring 50 stories recorded from 18 storytellers on 8 Marshall islands and atolls. Magic, mischief, quarrels, heroism, traditional Marshallese customs and culture, and much more fill this most engaging read, which enhanced with profiles of storytellers, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide. Also available in a hardcover edition (1573061417, [$$$]), Marshall Islands Legends And Stories is a valued contribution to Pacific Island Folklore & Mythology reference collections and reading lists.

An excellent book that covers all the financial bases for personal finances. Great for anyone, from college to retired, single or married. This single book cuts through all the confusion and gives clear, to the point advice on selecting stocks, building IRAs, taxes, insurance, health care, etc.

My only concern is that the book was written in 1996 and some of the information could be dated. Still, it is good solid fundemental advice. Anyone following the guidelines and sticks to them will achieve the financial independence they are looking for.

Absolute route to money power.

I like the way this book is designed to go straight to your immediate interests.

Shows you how to eliminate fifty percent of your business and personal worries.

This is definitely a prescription for curing emotional upsets as in financial worries.!

This book is dedicated to all of you guys out there who think they do not need it.!

It is rare to get an insiders view of an important policy decision written with this much thoroughness and clarity. The Marshall plan is one of the most important things America has ever done in world affairs, and the prototype and foundation of the transformation of international relations that America is presently leading. This is its best account. We should not confuse Allan Dulles with his brother.

It is rare to get an insider's view of an important policy decision written with this much thoroughness and clarity. The Marshall plan is one of the most important things America has ever done in world affairs, and the prototype and foundation of the transformation of international relations that America is presently leading. This is its best account. The authors of the Marshal plan were democratic visionaries solidly grounded in pragmatic realities. Allan Dulles speaks for them. (Do not confuse Allan with his brother).

If you're into economics, find it a little disappointing, and would like a more-philosophical (while still firmly mathematical and rigorous) take on the discipline, this book is for you.

In two earlier, exceedingly hefty and fascinating books -- Sunk Costs and Market Structure and Technology and Market Structure -- Sutton has put forth a particular, humble vision of economic modeling. Most economic models involve specifying a set of parameters quite precisely, very carefully laying out how actors (that is, people or companies or whatnot) will behave, then solving for their behavior in "equilibrium." That equilibrium can evolve over time, so another class of economic model -- those based on evolutionary game theory maybe being the most famous -- carefully lays out the rules by which people change over time. The models might include some process of learning, for instance.

Sometimes this precision works -- matches up with the data -- and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't match up, quite often it's because our models are missing important variables. Models need to be simple in order to be usable, though, so we can't very well add in every conceivable variable that might affect an economic outcome.

Sutton's response is refreshing, and is unique at least among the bits of economics that I've read: abandon altogether the search for One True Model. Instead, pick a few axioms that any credible model must satisfy, then use those axioms to derive a class of models in which the truth is likely to lie. Specifically, his models of industrial organization rest on two principles:

* Viability: In equilibrium, every company in a particular industry will be making nonnegative profits.
* Stability: No new company could enter and make a certain profit.

The latter condition is essentially an arbitrage principle: don't assume that all economic actors are rational; only assume that if there were an obvious opportunity, someone would eventually take it. An equilibrium industry configuration is then one in which both viability and stability are satisfied. (I found a paper of Sutton's entitled "One Smart Agent" that bears on this subject and may be interesting to some of my readers.)

Sutton's approach here is really elegant, really simple, and promises to be really productive. Being an eminently fair man, his next step is to ask under what conditions the classic economic approach -- one model to rule them all -- is likely to bear fruit, and under what conditions his class-of-models approach will work better. In the process of answering this, he sketches some really beautiful game theory on the design of auctions, specifically auctions of petroleum-bearing lands. I can't do any better than Sutton in laying out the theory here, so I'll just point you to page 47. The upshot is that in the case of an auction, we know very precisely how participants will behave, because we know exactly what the rules of the auction are. Sutton's own field of industrial organization is much less well-formed, hence much more usefully treated with a class-of-models approach. (Full disclosure: I never finished Technology and Market Structure or Sunk Costs and Market Structure; that mostly had nothing to do with their mathematical content -- which is substantial -- and had more to do with my available time.)

His writing is dense but not difficult; one just needs to read a bit more slowly than usual. Without ever having met the man, I can only imagine that he's a fun, amiable, brilliant sort. On the way to telling us what sort of workable models he thinks we have any right to expect in economics, he sketches the history of modeling tides in physics -- fascinatingly enough to make me want to rush out and read the appropriate citations. This is where Marshall's Tendencies gets started, in fact: it seeks to understand why modeling aggregated human behavior might be a much different task than modeling aggregated water waves.

Sutton traipses from waves to game theory to industrial organization, all with enough rigor to satisfy the most demanding reader but with enough of a light touch to never bore you. All this in just over 100 pages. Bravo to Professor Sutton.

The students who enter the field of economics, or any other social science disciplines that employ mathematical models in explaining the world around us, may start being suspicious about the explanation power of these models at some point. How could the messy and complex issues be reduced to ONE simple model?

Sutton's book is a very nice piece of work that would help resolve tthis puzzle. Start with the STANDARD PARADIGM commonly used in modeling complex issues in social sciences, particularly in economics, Sutton pins down the limitations of these paradigm in a very easy understanding yet profound way. The next chapter starts some models that work, from a game theoretical perspective. Chapter 3, however, emphasizes the difficulties of constructing a complete model. Finally, the last chapter provides a vivid example of Sutton's argument regarding the pitfalls of modeling and its application in real life.

This nice little book is by far the best I have read in terms of explaining why social sciences are so messy, even with the introduction of nice, elegant mathematical models. It is hard to find "black-and-write" answers in social science, indeed. However, bearing in mind the importance and limitation of using mathematical models would help social scientists face the and frustration in a constructive way.

This is a tremendous book, filled with seemingly hundreds of examples on how to talk with your partner. The Shearers tackle everything from how to talk (or not!) during sex to useful guidelines in chosing a divorce attorney. I especially liked the section on anger and communicating before things fall apart into yelling and accusations. I've even tried out a few things on my husband, and they really work! If your goal is to have a more intimate and rewarding relationship, this book is a gold mine!

This is THE BEST relationship book ever. I have read too many that just preach and don't apply to me. The Shearers take you step by step through understanding how relationships work, then show how communication is essential to overcoming problems and finding happiness. This is about making whatever kind of relationship you have, even the best, something that will grow for the rest of your lives. I wish I had read this a long time ago, but it is never too late to become, like they say, your own relationship expert. A MUST READ

"Not only am I a Catholic," McLuhan candidly reveals conversationally, but the worst kind--a convert!" Everyone who knew that tidbit of information about the guru of media probably couldn't help wondering if it made a difference, and if so, how. As this book reveals, it did--at least to McLuhan. In that context, he was not only experimenting in the realm of media, and exploring its effects, but was also in the swirl of events surrounding Vatican II. While his books chronicled the former interest and passion, culminating in the photo-montage collaborations with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village, almost nothing came to light of the latter involvement. Until now, that is. Included in this volume are four interviews and numerous letters on all things Catholic and all things media, written at a time when the former was in a time of turbulent upturn, and the latter only beginning to be explored. The most interesting essays concern the interaction of the two: the now common complaint that no one in the Church seems to have any understanding of "electric media," and that some of the modernizing efforts of Vatican II were, in fact, rendering it more, not less, out of step with the times. Priests and nuns were abandoning collars and habits, he noted, just when young people were donning costumes and dressing up.

As a convert, McLuhan in some ways held surprisingly traditional Catholic views, and in candid letters he concisely and engagingly explains why. The first essay examines his debt to G.K. Chesterton, a writer who now, fifty years later, is being rediscovered. Some of the ideas in these essays are quizzical, and you can't help pondering them, such as the idea in a piece called "Liturgy and Media," that North Americans go outside to be alone, and inside for society, but that in Europe, it's the other way around. This book is filled with those sorts of little insights that you find yourself wondering about and debating. There are a couple essays I would have left out--they either seem too far from the topic or too "top shelf" to engage casual readers. Even so, this is one of the most readable and understandable of McLuhan's books. Even decades after he wrote, his ideas jump out of the page and his insights seem crisp and fresh. His solutions too, seem fresh and original, even if untried. For all his relevance in the 'sixties, his ideas may only now be coming into their own, and there may have never been a better time to discover McLuhan.

This collection of McLuhan's interviews, lectures and essays relating to religion in the age of electronic communication is as essential to today's readers as they were when written. 1954's 'Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters' is simply stunning. McLuhan's religious understanding of the world should not be forgotten when considering the prophetic outlook of his other works.

Compelling, honest and challenging. I read it in one sitting. Don't miss this fabulous story!!

I bought this book at 11:00 a.m. and was finished by 8:30 p.m. the same evening. Such an easy read and so truthful and full of love, laughter and tears. Catherine Marshall wrote honestly about her life and her constant struggle with her relationship with God. Her honesty was touching. One of the best books I've read in a long time.