books about: edge

books about: edge

books:

Edge

Mary Engelbreit's On the Edge: 2009 Wall Calendar

Mary Engelbreit

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008

Yearly treat
The art of Mary Engelbreit is always a treat and this year's calendar is no exception.

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

James Gustave Speth

Yale University Press, 2008

Essential Reading for Essential Action
The Bridge at the End of the World A highly readable, fact-filled, and convincing exposition of how market-profit-growth based corporate economy is destroying the eco-system on which it depends and what must and can be done to change it. There's little time before the ...

Icarus at the Edge of Time

Brian Greene

Knopf, 2008

Excellent story!
This is an excellent rework of the ancient story of Icarus and Daedalus. There is very little science in this; but after introducing them to the old tale, mixing in some Einstein and special relativity, then reading about the new Icarus, my 7th grade science class was ...

The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage

Eric R. Braverman

Sterling, 2005

Get Ur Brain Balanced-- and get to where you wanna be!!
I can't believe there aren't more rave reviews here. I had to jump up and down when I realized that 10 years of discomfort, allergies, forgetfulness, and other annoying symptoms had a chance to finally be resolved. Of course, one cannot make any medical claims. ...

Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge)

John F. Carter

McGraw-Hill, 2005

Read first, read often!
New to day trading? Read this first and read it often. Plain english with plenty of examples to make clear sense of the trading methods described. I have purchased no less than six books on the subjects of trading, options, investing etc. in the past year, all of them ...

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff

W. W. Norton & Company, 1993

Great introduction to game theory applied to business strategy
I read Thinking Strategically many years ago, when I was trying to develop an understanding of Strategy applied into a daily business environment. The strength of this book is that it is providing a gentle introduction to a field that is quite complex. If will probably ...

The Edge of Desire (Bastion Club Novel)

Stephanie Laurens

Avon, 2008

Love this series!
I'm a big fan of the Bastion Club series. This is a great story in that the heroine is very strong. Even with all the alpha males in these stories, she is able to keep them in line. I was also excited to get part of the mystery of Dalzeil solved. Now we await the ...

The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets

Jeff Augen

FT Press, 2008

Super Book About Trading Volitility With Options
Rare find, this book is well written and nicely organized. I now have a far greater insight on how to profit in my option trading using volitility as an additional method. I read one review that mentioned that this book is not the Holy Grail, I agree and neither is any ...

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

Ted Sorensen

Harper, 2008

Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech
Ted Sorensen's 2008 Convention Speech Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 03:20 PM "In my more than 50 years of national conventions, this is one of the most important. Our 8 year national nightmare of mendacity, mediocrity and economic misery--with millions of Americans ...

Dark Needs at Night's Edge (The Immortals After Dark, Book 4)

Kresley Cole

Pocket, 2008

Absolutely loved it! Best of the series so far to me...
I thought Wicked Deeds was my favorite...until I read Dark Needs at Night's Edge. I absolutely loved this book! It is the first time in the 4 books of this series that I read really late one night and finished it the next day. The others took me several days - ...

The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life

Jeff Olson

Momentum Media, 2005

Amazing book , changed my LIFE !
This book changed my life , now I read almost everyday few pages of great books. "Successful People Do What Unsuccessful People Are Not Willing to DO !" ---(Quote from the Book) Thank you Naman

The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
Roy Underhill, Eleanor Underhill

The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, "The Woodwright's Shop," has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture. Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of The ...

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers

Puma Press, 2001

Grand Read about the Grand Canyon
I admit it. I cannot put down a good book about stupid people making bad decisions in a spectacular, and spectacularly dangerous, place. There are a lot of short stories in here about how things went really, really bad for people who were unprepared, stupid, didn't ...

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

Vintage, 2003

Full with the colors of the 1920's flamboyance
This, my second exposure to Maugham's work (the first being `The Moon and Sixpence'), has been once again quite satisfactory and I may even add - delightful. True, one loses oneself in the beginning, amidst the overwhelming introduction of what seems meaningless ...

The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that ...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Touchstone, 2008

Autoimmune disease, environment and medicine all in one place
I am, admittedly, a fan of the book because it tells a powerful story of a neighborhood activism in Buffalo, NY, and I was involved in that story in a small way. But the story of folks with undiagnosed autoimmune disease, how this poor, minority community had the ...