Morrison Books

This book is very helpful to me. I'm in graduate school and have began to write my research proposal and this book has helped me a lot.

A very unoriginal, simplistic book, written by an academic who perhaps never spent time with real clients. Yegidis imagines seminars and reading can substitute for direct experience with real people with problems. The author does not mention any personal experience doing social work. She only observes others who do the work. Life in a university is very isolated. She'd be surprised at what happens to social workers in the field.

Also much knowledge in "social work" is mostly pseudo-science. Yegidis should read F.A. Hayek's "The Counter Revolution in Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason" (1979). It explains the subtle flaws and bias in her ideas. (Hayek won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974). He'd call Yegidis' work "scientism" which is a false subjective method.

Social Work theory is NOT in the avant-garde of research methods. It is very atavistic and backward. Social work ideology combines a hodgepodge of theories from other fields. This makes it inclusive but incoherent. Nothing great has come out of social work research in the last 100 years. All the innovators are in psychology or communications.

I was expecting a top-notch review of all those root beer collectibles and advertisements out there. The writing was of poor quality, and the root beer tasted like crap. This book definitely does not meet my requirements for books about root beer advertising. It was disappointing, I really needed some information about A&W collectibles too.

Root Beer Advertising and Collectibles is a vital book for any serious collector of root beer items or advertising. Its valuable information and priceguide is essential to anyone wishing to know the history of root beer and its advertising. The photo collection is incredible, second to none that I have ever seen before. This book is a must have for any serious collector. I have yet to find any other books in its class or even like it for that matter.

The photos are clear and sharp, colorful and informative. The layout is nice easy to find by sections of the different types of items. It is well worth the money and I would highly recommend it to all collectors of root beer.

The best thing of all about it is that it does not focus on the major brands of boring yesteryear. It covers hundreds of different brands mostly unknown to many consumers. Knowing of over 1000 different brands of root beer, it is nice that the author didn't spend all of his time covering boring brands such as A&W, Hires, Barq's and the like. This is an excellent book.

The business book is as ubiquitous an item as a laptop computer in airplanes. In every flight that I've ever been on in the US, there are legions of rent-an-MBAs, wearing grey Hickey-Freeman suits and Cole-Haan wingtips, sipping a beer and grimacing as they try to ingest the latest idea from Tom Peters. They've learned about searching for excellence, the discipline of market leaders, constructing a virtual corporation and being part of a learning organization. They've been folded, spindled, mutilated and re-engineered. They have ridden the third wave and preached the fifth discipline. They have read the machinations of Machiavelli, the homilies of Dale Carnegie and the leadership secrets of Attila the Hun. They know that if they meet the Buddha on the road, they should kill him; that if it ain't broken, they should break it; that the future is always shocking and that you always swim with sharks. It was therefore with some cynicism that I picked up a new business book off the shelf at Keplers this weekend. Even the title put me off. "The Second Curve - Managing the Velocity of Change," by an Ian Morrison, who bore the grandiose title of President of the Institute of the Future. But I had some familiarity and liking for the writing of Paul Saffo, who works at the same institute. And my stack of books at home was getting quite short. So I took a twenty-five dollar bet. I am glad I did. "The Second Curve" kept me engrossed through the afternoon and the night, and I stayed up till two finishing it, something I do increasingly rarely nowadays. Mr. Morrison is that rarest of birds, an original thinker. More importantly, he is not an armchair theorist. Almost all his writing is bolstered by real-world anecdotes and experience from twenty years of being called upon as a consultant. In tone, it is reminiscent of "The Art of the Long View", another book that I highly recommend. The author's principal thesis is that technology is causing a sea change in almost every facet of our lives. The first curve is the one that people are used to and which still shows a reasonable pace of growth. Think, for instance, of the full-service brokerage services offered by a place like Merill-Lynch. The second curve is the one that understands that, in essence, such a company does nothing more than transactions and brokering information. Both of these can be automated and done much cheaper via the Internet. Enter Lombard OnLine. All transactions for twenty bucks! Unlimited company reports for free! After all, the only things you're consuming is a few extra cycles of cpu and a few extra kilobaud of bandwidth. Financial institutions still think of themselves as their physical presence - brick and mortar and oak veneer. But they are really nothing more than a conduit for electric impulses; credit A's account here, debit B's account there, feed the earnings report to a browser, download a mortgage calculation applet. As users get more aware of how they can access information themselves and manage their own financial affairs, paying huge percentages as fees is going to seem quaint. Dean-Witter and Smith-Barney have no idea how badly they are going to be hurt. To the authors credit, he strongly advises against expecting the change to happen tomorrow. A line that appears in many places in the book is that we always overestimate the change that will occur in one year and underestimate the change that will occur in ten. So a key chapter in the book is devoted to transition strategy from the first curve to the second. How do you gauge when a supposed second curve is in fact a mirage (the Newton, picture telephones, personal helicopters)? How do you surf a first curve to its entirety (the plain old telephone, video rentals, mainframes)? When does it pay to bet the farm on a new paradigm (there, I used that word)? When is it too risky to? There are some common-sense ideas here. One, that technology makes it possible to do most things faster, better and cheaper. Think of the fax machine and electronic mail replacing the US mail and memos. Two, that the new consumer expects exceptional service as a birthright. He or she wants to be able to order a pair of jeans from L.L Bean at midnight or to choose from six kinds of crackers at Safeway. Three, that the new consumer is not necessarily Caucasian or Japanese. In the next fifteen years, there will be 122 million middle-class households (incomes greater than $25K per year) springing up in South Asia, China, and Latin America. In addition, there are many provocative theses. One is that any industry that trafficks in information (insurance, publishing, recorded music) is going to get decimated if it does not adapt to the second curve. You can no longer live off your history as an authority figure. Gangsta rap artists will not automatically go to Time-Warner because of its history in the information business. Doctors can no longer expostulate that their long training makes them worth two hundred dollars an hour. The HMO down the street will just take that doctor off its database and cut his or her business by three-quarters. Medicine is not that lucrative a profession any more. The second is that the real power in a value chain is no longer with the manufacturer of a product but with the retailer. Wal-Mart can dictate the selling price of a toy much more than Mattel can. All it has to do is threaten to withhold shelf-space for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In like vein, CompUSA decides which is a bestselling CD-ROM much more than Broderbund does, by the way it spends its advertising and display dollars. It is going to become increasingly important to own your channel or have very strong partnerships with it. And remember that with the Internet, the eighteen-year old in the garage can still bypass all established channels and go straight to the consumer. Id Software provides a sterling lesson in this in the way it sold "Doom". I judge a book by how many of its ideas resonate in my head when I drive to work the next morning. By this unscientific metric, "The Second Curve" is a very worthwhile read.

Sort of like a combination of "In Search of Excellence" and in search of flatulence -- companies that win and companies that lay an egg. All this 1-2-3 wave business can make you seasick. Basically it would make a good set of business school cases. But the cases don't really fit into an overarching framework that has the explanatory power Morrison pretends

But I can't say such kind words about this book about the authors Mother. I tried twice to get into this book and both times I failed.

This is a memoir of the author's mother, told in clear, direct prose, embellished by letters found in a bundle after his mother's death. It is a love story from the Fifties, complete with romantic music, prejudice (against the Irish, Jews, Catholics and just about anybody not English) and social mores now abandoned (women are nurses, not doctors, you wear hat and gloves to church and there is NO premarital sex).
That Kim O'Shea breaks with all of these traditions is a testimony to her will power. But the price she pays and the continual battle she wages for independence is heartbreaking.
This is a lovely portrayal of a kind, determined woman and the World War II world she lived in. A nice book for feminists, historians and just about everybody.

A whole bunch of stuff in here, perhaps enough to make it a little disjointed at times. It was ok, but that was about it.

A young man is to have a marriage arranged for him, but a superhuman wants his bride to be as well, so she has to decide.

Throw in secret cities, demons, gods, all that sort of stuff to cause some chaos, as well.

As usual, Morrison throws a half a dozen ideas at you once. The main contrast is between the central character's suburban concerns as a young Pakistani living in Bradford about to meet his bride (it's an arranged marriage), and his blundering upon an ancient Hindu city below his uncle's shop. He and his fiance stumble around, unleash a pack of evil gods, and... you can guess the rest. These cultural elements are unusual in mainstream comics, and Morrison handles them with wit and humour, especially Ali's romantic frustrations at falling for a girl who has caught the eye of one of the Gods, and trying to get her to notice him while the world is falling apart. The details of the cosmic conflict, though, are confusing and underdeveloped. Morrison and illustrator, Philip Bond, could have used a couple more issues to explain the nature of the gods and their conflict. Bond appropriately takes Jack Kirby as a starting point for his artwork, and it's generally very good. Overall then, too lightweight, but charming and definitely worth a look.

Danny Morrison is a former Irish nationalist terrorist and publicity director for the IRA front group Sinn Fein (ourselves alone). He now fancies himself as a writer and this is the sorry result. I tried reading this book but just could not get past the man's narrow and violent perspective. It's very depressing to enter his world.

A gripping story about the emotional reality of the political conflict in the North of Ireland. Morrison has been intimately involved in the struggle and paints the story with intelligence, detail, and understanding. Highly recommended!

Yeah, this book is about farming and a farmers life and how he wanted to spend the rest of his years. No its not by the singer Jim Morrison of the Doors, and the guy is not insane, the writer of this book. Good read if you are passionate about farm life, if not, then pretty boring read. I wouldnt buy this book twice, if you know what I mean.

Good history and background on the breed, but it would have been helpful to have more specific information. For example the need to deter heavy barking is mentioned, but no suggestions are offered on how to do this. This breed also tends to be sensitive, with highly honed training instincts, so information on what training techniques work best would be useful.

this book is outdated. Material is good for its day, and should be read for the history, but not for current trends or prices.

First of all the good news... this book is a great introduction of what to expect with the Oral Board Exam. Lots of info.
As someone who used this book and failed the oral boards here is the bad news...The author writes that if one failed the boards this is due to having violated some basic rule of the practice of medicine or some principle of conduct between human beings...This is not true at all! Competency in real life and "comptenecy" with the ABPN are 2 unrelated items. Basically the examiners have a preset about 10 hurdles for you to navigate sussesfully in order to receive their passing grade. The problem is that these hurdles are purposefully hidden from you while you are trying your best. YOU have to remember to metion all ten or fail. That the examiners hide the hurdles from you behind a stone face while you are anxiously trying to show your best attributes makes this artificial situation even worse.
Another falsehood...The statement that the ABPN has no set percentage of candidates who must fail the exam. In order to exist as an entity on financial grounds alone it MUST fail a good percentage to remain in business with its exhorbitant fees. Of note, the examiners are placed in pairs. This in effect sets up tension BETWEEN THE TWO EXAMINERS. Neither of the 2 wants to appear too lenient with a condidate in front of the other and thus the incentive is to be brutal with candidates. I would have appreciated a book which was more honest in relation to the above. In a sense, the author by towing the party line has become a part of the corrupt process,(candidates of 1994 and afterwards face recertification while those from before don't), which really is irrelevant with regard to good clinical care.