books about: cycle

books about: cycle

books:

Cycle

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet

Elaine Gloria Gottschall

Kirkton Press, 1994

It worked immediately!
My 18 year old son was diagnosed with UC in May and I was told it was lifelong and incurable and he would be on medicine forever. That's when I fired the Dr. and found this amazing book. I am NO cook! We kept a journal of what he ate, bm's, cramps etc. and I have a ...

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis

William Bonner, Addison Wiggin

Wiley, 2006

Who was surprised?
I just finished the book in time to turn on the news that my bank, WaMu, has been seized and sold in one motion. Now the boys in Washington are telling us that they were caught by surprise and have to craft a solution that needs to be passed in days if not hours. ...

Rethinking the Great Depression (American Ways Series)

Gene Smiley

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

new look at country's worst crisis
Based on new theories, Smiley has re-examined and re-assessed the forces that led to and prolonged the Great Depression. In clear non-technical prose, he shows what happened and why. This short book (163 pages plus sources and index) is divided into five chapters. ...

The Fourth Turning

William Strauss, Neil Howe

Broadway, 1997

A macro for our time
This startlingly apt volume offers the best explanation I have encountered of how generations create history and history creates generations in a kind of chicken and egg dance through the centuries. It has always seemed a puzzle to me that definable generations exist, ...

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

Mohamed El-Erian

McGraw-Hill, 2008

A Must Buy Book For The Chaos Ahead..
This new world order of financial chaos scares me to death. It is certainly not about me personally but rather my family and what I will leave behind for them. I bought Mohamed El-Erian's book around the same time I bought Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming ...

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden

George Levenson

Tricycle Press, 2002

Buy this book!
I bought this book for my 2yr old and he loves it! My 4yr old loves it too. It does a great job teaching kids the cycle of life. The photos are wonderful and the story is simple enough to keep little ones interested, yet gives a great explanation about the circle of ...

The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and ...

Todd Downs

Rodale Books, 2005

Bike Repair
Excellent book! The best we have seen on the market! Highly recommend it to anyone.

The Return of Depression Economics

Paul R. Krugman

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Terrific, wide-ranging introduction to macroeconomics
Pre-George Bush Paul Krugman is a different beast from post-George Bush Paul Krugman, though you can see a different side of The Conscience of a Liberal in The Return of Depression Economics. Conscience of a Liberal is, among many other things, admirable for the ...

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)

Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

Wiley, 2005

Manias, Panics, and Crashes
I gave this book to my grandson who is majoring at UCSD in economics. He has not had any course yet covering the history of financial crashes, etc. and finds it fascinating to compare past times with the present economic slowdown. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History ...

America's Great Depression

Murray N. Rothbard

Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2000

Truer today than it was 40 years ago
We all understand that particular industries and markets may go through hard times at one point or another. But what causes an entire economy to flourish, only to contract at a later date? What causes the entire economy to misread the economic signs? What causes the ...

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School--How Parents and Teachers Can Help ...

Barbara Coloroso

Collins Living, 2004

An excellent treatment of a timeless topic.
This book is very useful in dealing with the bully in the school. This is truly a life and death issue. It's application however goes beyond the the schools.It is always applies to the work place,business,the church,the internet, the funeral arrangement conference, ...

The Demise of the Dollar...: And Why It's Even Better for Your Investments (Agora Series)

Addison Wiggin

Wiley, 2008

Clear & Engaging
I found this book to be a page-turner and a quick read -- just one weekend. This book is exactly what I wanted. Some reviews complain the book is too deep or not deep enough. That it has too much or too little investment advice. I'd say it's just right. The ...

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Spectra, 2004

perfect
This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

Read the first? Don't give up yet!
So you've read the first, and you can't help noticing that many people quit on the Baroque trilogy at that point. Should you keep going? I guess it depends. This is a trilogy that is after enormous ideas. Where a straight history would focus on finance or economics ...

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

Epic History Made Readable
This three-volume, 9-book set is, believe it or not, a *prequel* to his previous massive effort, Cryptonomicon. In the Baroque Cycle we find the ancestors of no less than NINE characters of that modern day tale of cryptography. But the Baroque trilogy covers much ...