Sachs Books

It would, perhaps, be unfair to say there is no value in the book for those who are interested in Eichmann. However, Sachs' book in a very inferior source, in part because it is poorly researched, and sometimes the author seems to have a poor grasp of the meaning of her research materials.

The author's comments in the editorial section above, which completely mischaracterize the arguments made by Hannah Arendt in her book on the Eichmann trial and which also suggest that Sachs holds the ridiculous belief that Arendt had something to do with crafting the arguments used by the Defendants in the Nuremberg trials, should give any potential reader pause.

Although this book is written for the adolescent student, do not let its brevity fool you. Ms. Sachs went to the heart of the matter of the life of Adolf Eichmann, his association with the Nazi Party, and the stamp he placed on history in connection with the unnecessary slaughter of European Jews in the 1930s-1940s. The weight of this book leans towards Eichmann's simple nature, yet shows how ironically this simple man played an important role in a complex scheme of death. My highest commendations for this work in these days of plurality and remembrance.

This is an excellent, easy-to-read booklet that we recommend to all new supervisors in our company. It highlights charts, facts, checklists, guidelines which makes it easy to refer to after completing it. Good examples are given for situations and exercises for the reader to complete as well. We are ordering extra copies for the high demand for this book.

This book has some good ideas regarding performance review, but is more general than necessary. Could use better examples. About a third of the book is "filler", apparently an attempt to hit 100 pages.

Alice's teacher gave her a "C" for her book report on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a story Alice thoroughly disliked. The teacher believes Alice has misjudged the story and offers her an opportunity to reread the book and submit another report. While she is rereading Pride and Prejudice, magical shifts occur in Alice's relationships with her family and friends. Alice is a strong protagonist -- intelligent, observant and refreshingly assertive. What I really like about Alice is that her self-reflection is so brutally honest. Alice does not hedge.

Though I have a grandson the same age as Alice (thus telling my own age), I never felt frustrated by the youth and inexperience of the young characters in this story. The pacing of the plotlines held my interest in the story and I was a little sorry when the book ended, as I liked the young people and the few adults in this story.

This author must have ADD. I kept turning pages back because she doesn't finish one thought before she starts another. My head was spinning trying to keep up.
Basically the whole book is about how great Pride and Prejudice is. So instead of wasting your time reading this one, read Pride and Pejudice. Trust me, don't read this book

Alice, the middle child in a family of 5, understands what it's like to be forgotten. When reading Pride and Prejudice, she immediately connects with Mary, the forgotten sister and bases her opinion of the novel on her character's impact on the story. When she receives a C on her book report, she is given the chance to reread the novel and write a new report for a better grade. As she reads Pride and Prejudice again, she sees things in a different light. First, she begins by trying to rewrite the story by changing Mary's personality. Then, her life begins to change. She gets her first boyfriend, she learns about true friendship, and her relationship with her parents and siblings change. Slowly, she learns about her purpose in life, as well as the importance of leaving Mary's character the way she is.

I thought that First Impressions was a cute book. It was clever how the author incorporated Pride and Prejudice into this story. I have not read Pride and Prejudice before, and reading this made me want to read the classic. I would recommend this for younger teens, as the main character is younger, but anyone can relate to Alice's problems. This is definitely a book that should not be overlooked.

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After 9-year-old Fran Ellen's mother was found to be suffering from depression and neglecting her children, she and her four siblings were put in foster homes. Now, it's several years later, and Mama has recovered enough to reclaim her children.

They don't have much money, and it's hard on the children, who have become used to living without Mama. But four-year-old Flora was just a baby, and she thinks of her foster family as her true family, not these strangers whom she's just supposed to love.

Fran Ellen, who loved Flora like her own baby, is desperate to help her adapt. But sometimes, in order to help someone, you have to be willing to let her go.

If you enjoy this book, check out the prequel, "The Bears' House."

This is the sequel to The Bear's House. The Bear's House ended very abruptly and we didn't learn what became of Fran Ellen and her family. Well years later I was in highschool when this sequel came out. I was so excited. Fran Ellen's family flew apart and she and her siblings were distributed among various foster homes. Her father had walked out on them which had started the whole problem. We never learn what happened to him. But Fran Ellen's mother goes crazy and has to go to the hospital. In this book Fran Ellen and her siblings and mother are reunited and begin to reconstruct their broken lives. Fran Ellen's poor beloved doll house was in shambles, however. There were a lot of sad parts. Fran Ellen did a lot of self parenting in The Bear's House (I cannot imagine not having a sane mother to come home to!) and she was a mother to her baby sister Flora, whom she loved best in the world. Flora was sent to a different foster family and so the bond between the two sisters is broken, and Flora doesn't even remember her sister Fran Ellen. SAD! Instead Flora becomes very attatched to her foster folks so she goes to live with them. Poor Fran Ellen is torn up inside! These two books are the perfect example of how devistating it is to live in a broken home without a father and in poverty. It is really very tragic. However there are some humorous parts and a lot of positive changes occour in Fran Ellen's relationships with her mother, and other siblings. All in all, this family rises up and stands tall despite the father's absence...

As a successful, self-taught business owner and entreprenuer for over 20 years, I have read them all and this simple book, that can be read in a matter of hours, has some of the finest insights around. It's easy. It's simple. Author Sachs gives examples of what to ask, what not to ask, and the way to word the question to get the best answer. I have owned this book for five years and continually refer to it for a refresher, give it my managers to read before they interview and recommend it to friends. You can spend a lot more money, but I have yet to find a nuts and bolts book that's any better.

There are many more comprehensive books available, this book wasn't even useful as a "quick brushup" or as an initial primer because it was so generic. Also, too much time is spent on really minor things - one sentance would have sufficed rather than several pages on how a messy office versus a clean office makes a different impression on the interviewee. Fleshing out how to ask useful and incisive interview questions and how to identify warning flags would have been much more useful.

I've been very impressed with "Hiring the Best: A Manager's Guide to Effective Interviewing", and both newbie as well as experienced interviewers in my team have greatly benefited from it.

The author of this book is my own sister, she has viciously attacked our deceased father in search of fortune and fame. The devil lurks deep within her and always has. Please do not buy it or believe a word of it. Cathy you are sick sick sick!

This book made me laugh, and cry. I couldn't bring myself to put it down!! I highly recommend it to all readers.

There's no such thing as too much men's studies: this privileged group needs to see itself and not think of itself as universal or de-sexed. Also, men's studies fulfills the most when it covers the intersectionality of masculinity and other areas. Books have been produced about older men, black men, bisexual men, rich men, poor men, and finally this book publishes work on rural men. Like much men's studies, the contributors are both male and female.

Though this book includes photographs of men of color and non-Christian men, not one article spoke of rural men of color. There are articles that speak of racist, and religiously intolerant rural men, but that did not suffice in terms of diversity. Because many men of color and immigrant men work on farms, this is a sore absence.

I applaud the editors for including articles about the UK, New Zealand, Sweden, and the US. However, this book only mentions rural men in industrialized countries. What about the countless rural men in developing nations? The status of the US is intriguing here. Only a few chapters cover this nation and they are placed somewhere in the middle of the book. Did the contributors need to cover Americans in order to get published or did they want to prove that the US is just one country of many that has rural men?

R. Connell is the godfather of men's studies. Having him contribute a chapter somewhat blesses the text. Cornel West once did that in the book about Black men in academia. Now that I think of it, Patti LaBelle blessed the young songstresses who remade "Lady Marmalade." Still, I didn't think Connell's entry was strong. It just proved that he can write on history, rather than just sociology.

I wasn't wowed by this book, but I truly appreciate its addition to the genre.

This book was issued in North America with the title _Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science_.

This may be a good compendium about the subject, but step lightly. I got this book hoping to learn about some qigong/yoga-like exercises known as "the 5 tibetans" and they are indeed featured. The book is well put together.

I noticed one section before the above exercises mentioning "Tibetan Tai Chi" - and there is no such thing. It's like saying "Australian Bluegrass". I visited the web site of the person he refers to as his source on this subject and the lineage is nonsense. Master Liu Song sudied at shaolin and has learned some sort of art with roots in Tibet, but it is not tai chi chuan, which is a very specific chinese martial art that came together in Chen village and which was not even named "tai chi chuan" until Yang Lu Chan popularized it the 19th century. Sachs compounds the confusion by mistranslating "chi" in the phrase tai chi chuan.

With such offhand attributions in print, I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the book.

Sachs' proposals, for transforming the socialist economy of Poland from a socialist,centrally planned,state economy to a market,capitalist economy ,centered on making the changes as swiftly as possible through instant deregulation,privatization,and destruction of basic public goods provision by the Polish government.These recommendations(Sachs' claims in this book that his policies were working is a perfect example of the arrogance and ignorance of economists ,in general)were nothing short of disasterous.These policies were doomed to fail from the start because the necessary institutions required for such a transformation did not exist in Poland and would have required many years to have been created from scratch .Sachs' proposals directly conflict with the policy analysis put forth by Adam Smith.It is clear that Sachs was grossly ignorant of the centuries old wisdom of Smith.Smith's policy recommendations were very clear and easy to follow.Any attempt to remove government trade restictions and open up the economy for foreign imports must be done slowly and carefully after substantial warnings and preparations.Otherwise,large numbers of workers will lose their jobs and many manufacturers will go bankrupt as their large fixed capital costs will not allow them to compete with the flood of much cheaper foreign imports.It's all written down on pp.434-438 of the Modern Library (Cannan)edition of Smith's Wealth of Nations(1776).The fact is that Smith knew more than the economists at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund know today.What these economists " know " is how to manipulate artificially constructed,stochastic models ,based on the assumption that all markets are normally distributed,that have no more empirical evidence to support them, in terms of basic goodness of fit tests,than do the equant points,epicycles, and deferents(or eccentrics) of Ptolomaic astronomy.They are completely a priori ,armchair creations that are empirically empty.

Nevertheless,it is worth buying in order to study the bankrupt nature of " modern " economics and compare it to the wisdom of Adam Smith.Sachs,as well as all economists, would do well to read Smith in the future instead of removing his books from graduate reading lists on the grounds that he has nothing to contribute to "modern" economics because there is no mathematical exposition in the book.