books about: cycles

books about: cycles

books:

Cycles

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden

George Levenson

Tricycle Press, 2002

great book for kids of various ages
this book is informative,uses real pictures and is a great book for families with various ages in children ,very educational.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber

Wiley, 2005

Timely and yet enduring
As I write this review, we are waiting to see if the Fed's somewhat drastic cut in the federal funds rate will stop the slide into recession. Bank of America is acquiring Countrywide mortgage lenders. UAE has bought an $7.5 billion worth of junk bonds from Citigroup ...

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 ...

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition

William Bridges

Da Capo Press, 2004

Foundational Book for All Change Implementation Professionals
This book was the first book that I read on emotional change and transition (almost 20 years ago). I have recommended this book to hundreds of people because I have experienced the impact that understanding how to cope with change and transition can have on an ...

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 ...

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. ...

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

a must for Stephenson fans
Excellent. This continuation of the Baroque Cycle Saga is even more enthralling than Quicksilver. Stephenson maintains his storytelling style of exquisite detail, interspersed with quirky, ribald humor and intellectual subtleties. Expanding the domain of action ...

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, ...

Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles

Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, ...

Vertigo, 2003

The plot thickens and the fun continues
The first book in Brian K. Vaughan's Y: THE LAST MAN set up the premise: all the males in the world of every species have died except for loser named Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand. In the chaos that follows American society is oppressed by totalitarian ...

Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

Marianne Williamson

Riverhead Trade, 1995

The Message of We Are Not Separate...
This book is my bible. I take it everywhere, and I buy it as gifts for my friends, searching for healing, whether through tough relationships, illness, bad fortune, etc. This "non-religious" based prayer book can be understood by all. There is no religious ...