I purchased this book because I am a horsewoman AND because I had heard that some of the principals of the book were applicable to modifying behavior in other animals - including the human kind. I work with delinquent juveniles and thought it would be fun to read this book and see if it would actually work on both species I'll have to let you know later if they work on kids- not enough data yet There are some good lessons in the book, it's a simple book to read and easy to reread, non-technical for the most part, and full of just good common sense. Worth the price of purchase easily!

This book is one I'd consider a 'must read' before deciding to commit to the responsibility of being a horse-owner. It's not like buying a car or a jet-ski. The horse owner must commit to spending quality time to develop not only basic riding skills but rapport with the animal. This book definitely helped me decide I'm not ever going to own a horse. Which saddens me, but ultimately it's better to know before making the mistake than afterwards.

This book is great when it addresses the authors areas of expertise & personal experience. Where it breaks down is when it gets off into things the author hasn't experienced directly. As an example, he talks about hierarchy among predators and prey, exhorting the reader to develop a horse-like understanding of the world & his/her place within it.

In essence, Irwin seems to say that the tendency towards predator-like competition among humans is what makes the world a bad place. Guess he's never observed or read about packs of dogs or wolves, prides of lions, etc. Relationships among predators are not about live-or-die. The only life-or-death struggle in nature is between predator and prey, not within species. Perhaps he should have suggested that people stop treating one another like prey and that would have been more valid.

When a challenge arises in the pack, as in the herd, the solution is decided upon with minimum of bloodshed and damage to challenger and challenged. As in the herd, the constant pattern of leadership and challenge helps each individual find a place and function within the group. So, I found that comparison to be ill-informed & awkward.

This book does go off into some hippy-dippy touchy-feely moments, but overall it seems to emphasize the hard work one must put in to being a competent horse-person, both with the horse and within oneself. If you aren't willing to do the work and put in the time, you definitely shouldn't inflict yourself on a horse.

I loved this book. I normally don't like these "fluff" kind of books when it comes to horse training but I really gleamed a lot from this one. I loved how Irwin was open to explore why horses really do behave the way they do and their power in affecting us at all levels. There is a little bit of bragging but for the most part simply humble explorations of the horse/human bond. I would suggest Tao of Equus in addition to this because THAT book was simply profound and informative. Do not listen to the reviews about it being anti-male. I am a female but can't stand feminist chauvanism so believe me when I tell you it's fair. She also delves into positive male psychology towards the end. A great complement to this book!

Although Kaplan has some excellent strategies for certain questions, it did not have much on delegation, priority questions. These subjects are the majority of the NCLEX now. I took my NCLEX 3 weeks ago & did not pass. I feel the content in Kaplan needs to be geared toward DELEGATION!

This book did not have much nursing content, but did a very good job of explaining test taking strategies thoroughly and with many examples so that the strategies became second nature. The CD-ROM was a good tool too to gain experience taking a computerized nursing exam.

I just recently took the NCLEX and passed. I would highly recommend the Kaplan NCLEX RN 1999-2000 to anyone getting ready to take the NCLEX. It has great test-taking hints also!!

I read this book as a young girl because my Uncle is a friend of the authors. I am now 30 years old. I chose to reread this as an adult because it touched me so deeply when I was young. I was equally, if not more, touched the second time around. I recommend this for young people and hope that they take away as much from the book as I have.

"The Lilith Summer," a novel by Hadley Irwin, was a wonderful book filled with valuable lessons, metaphors and similes. It is a book filled with joy, sadness, surprise, and anger. The book is about a developing and loving friendship between a young girl and an older woman, and how they learn lessons and valuable information from each other. It also explains love, how people leave, and what you must do to deal with it. This book taught me a lot about life and love and I thouroughly enjoyed it, and this book will be read by generations to come.

"The Lilith Summer" is a great book if you understand it. There is a lot of figurative language in it. It teaches important lessons in life.

I just loved the way each chapter started with a scenario from the history archives of actual firms that narrated a story which was directly linked to the contents of the chapter. Out of all the books that i read for my MBA, this book has been one of the better Management books, which i enjoyed reading. The ideas, theories and concepts in the book felt like eating a salad for lunch. It was light, easy to digest and healthy

Great overview of economics. Good for managers who want to know how to read economic forces, react to them, and how to use them.

Besides being a well organized and example-packed textbook, I found Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture to be a compact MBA refresher course -- and a useful reference for day-to-day problems. Thinking about business organizations as rational individuals responding to incentives and new information simply fits the facts. The three basic elements developed in this book allow managers to translate this logical thinking into operational decisions: allocating decision rights, measuring performance, and compensating individuals and groups. The power of this approach in analyzing common management problems equips the reader with a rich set of tools for identifying and solving them.

Now, this book is really good in explaining accounting concepts. My instructor used this book in teaching. The online notes provided to instructor is really good. I missed several lectures because of my illness, so I had to do some catch up by reading this book myself. The exercises provided in the book increase my analytical thinking. I was able to answer my exam paper with flying colours because of this book. The drawback for this book is only there's not much graphics or pictures to make reading easy.

not a big fan of accounting, but i must admit, this is a really good textbook. anytime i got lost in my classes or lecture, this book explains things in a very clear and organized way to help you better understand. the problems are long but extremely helpful in getting a handle on the methods. the real world examples they use in the text also adds to whatever concept you're learning. i couldn't imagine a better managerial accounting book at the moment. so 5 stars. yup. i'm so glad i'm done with this course...

This book is great for Cost / Managerial Accountants as well as new comers to the field of cost accounting. I read this book as part of MBA curriculum and loved every bit, even though I do not have an accounting background.

This book is excellent in that it shows you how your childhood can lock you in self-defeating behaviors. The charts are repetitive and the book is not well-organized. But the book is not at all dry as some reviewers here mentioned.

The major flaw in this book is actually in the second part of its title "and what you can do about it". The author offers no other actual solution than therapy. So the title is misleading and the book misses the major reason for it: the solution.
Yes, there are ways to solve these issues on your own and it can be explained in a book.
Harder cases can dealt with in a therapy, but most people could have got a major help from this book otherwise!

Most authors write 5 books on self-help that all say the same thing but with different titles.

This guy has written 1 book which I think is excellent. It is written quite dry, tends to repeat a lot of the same materials, could be better organized, and is a very difficult read. But let that not take away from the book's information. It is an extremely informative book that discusses you as an adult now and how incidents that occurred in your childhood made you turn out the way you are.

I consider myself a highly educated individual, and I must say that this book is an excellent resource. But don't expect it to be an easy read; I've had the book for 5 years and still haven't finished it.

Hopefully some day I will but it doesn't matter, because I plan on using it the rest of my life. I strongly suggest you give this book a look.

Now I know why I do those things. I had always suspected those influences, but wasn't sure - not wanting to blame everything on my family. Thank you for a very enlightening and to the point read.

Somewhat,had a hard time reading and understanding it,but think what is going on today with DNA,what is it geomom???????,being able to clone life, with ginsburgh story,i say they did not have to breed with what he say were humans, i say they were a species of there own,similer to species here on earth, by god i think he is on to something here. there should be more study into this..and we are near to space travel, it could bbbeee! thonk about it....

I read this book at the suggestion of a good friend. That was 20+ years ago, and I am still captivated by it's suggestions. I would love to read it again, but alas, it is out of print, and my friend has given it away long ago. If anyone has one or knows where I might pick up a copy, please email me at lrywin@earthlink.net. -Lori

Either a whimsical and entertaining fantasy, or a serious and realistic attempt to reconcile science and religion, FIRST, MAN. THEN. ADAM! puts forth the daring idea that Adam and Eve were members of an advanced species from far off outer space who crash-landed their spaceship, effectively stranding themselves, here on a very primative earth occupied by early Homo Sapiens.

Skilled in genetic science, they were able to breed with these early peoples, to produce a long-lived (900 years!), durable and intelligent species from which present mankind is descended!

Dr. Ginsburgh, a Physicist, maintains that the Biblical Genesis story is a true though transformed history of this and following events (with the spaceship as the Garden of Eden and the ship's central computer as the Tree of Knowledge, for example). The shorter lifetimes and growing subsceptibility to disease of each suceeding generation of these early space/earth men and women is stated to be due to continual dilution of the space people's genetic heritage by interbreeding with native earth people.

A large number of occurrances described in Genesis are shown to be consistant with this space origin theory. The description of the origin of the universe given in Genesis, can, according to Dr. Ginsburgh, by giving modern interpretations to some of the terms used in the description, be shown to be entirely consistant with the current Big Bang Theory!

Altogether, this is a stimulating and challenging attempt to reconcile religion and science, and can be read as a serious theoretical proposal, or if this is too hard to accept, as, at least, a very entertaining speculation. Unfortunately, the book is not easy to find...

Given to me as a gift, I don't know how many times I chucked it across the room out of sheer frustration. First of all, look at the title! I don't care what dictionary you use, but when I look up "encyclopaedia" in mine it's defined as "information on all branches of knowledge or of one subject."

Apparently Mr. Stambler does not think, using just three of the most glaring examples, that Pat Boone, Brenda Lee, and Johnny Mathis - who were popular enough to chalk up 160 charted pop hit singles between them, rate entries even as "pop" artists!!

Instead, what we do get are multiple pages on the likes of Richard Hell, Ian Dury, and Psychedelic Furs!

I can't believe the omissions mentioned above were oversights, so I have to put them down to personal bias on the part of Stambler. He and his friends at Rolling Stone are cut from the same cloth as those at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame who continue to ignore a Connie Francis while opening their doors wide to the likes of Frank Zappa, Parliament/Funkadelic and The Velvet Underground.

Had his book title included the caveat "according to the personal opinions of Irwin Stambler" I'd have no cause for complaint. As it is, Abraham Lincoln said it best in reference to a book: "People who like this sort of thing will find the sort of thing they like."

You really can't go wrong with this Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul. It's pretty standard stuff if you know about your favorite groups. But if you want to know something about a rock group or person whom you know very little about this is a nice book to have. I always seem to be thumbing through it. Words are a good thing.

This is a wonderful book that provides all the information you may need to sate your curiosity about a particular aspect of a band like "Where are they from?", When did this album come out?", "Was she once in this other band?". I've been referring to an earlier edition of this rock encyclopedia by Stamler for 20 years! I felt it was time to get the newer edition for more information and it's great too.

Given the spectacular corporate finance shenanigans of Enron, Worldcom, American Tissue, and others, it is inconceivable this book doesn't cover off-balance sheet products in the detail they deserve.

Corporate finance tools such as total return swaps aren't covered. These are disguised financing used as hedge funds and corporations for leverage. When corporations use their own equity as collateral, they create a toxic convertible. For more on this and other off-balance sheet products including an explanation of off-shore bankruptcy remote corporations, read "Credit Derivatives" (Second Edition) by Tavakoli.

I bought this book as a recommended supplemental text for a course in Corporate Finance in the MBA program at the U of Michigan Business School. I can say I am very glad that I bought and am reading this book. There is a great deal of information here so I hate to say that I have already read it.

But I can recommend it to you strongly by praising it for these reasons:

1) It puts practical flesh on the financial model bones you learned in your first course on finance. There are very good discussions of the basic and well-known fundamental theories and models, but the authors also share with us what tends to happen in the real world. And isn't that what each of us need to add to our theoretical thinking?

2) Each chapter has effective summarizing Key Concepts and Key Terms with plenty of problems to work through and a list of References and Additional Readings that enable the reader to dive deeper into the topic of the chapter just read.

3) The book is helpfully organized into six Parts that provide the framework for the discussion. Parts 1-3 are a review of "Financial Markets and Instruments", "Valuing Financial Assets", and "Valuing Real Assets". This foundation gives the student a good grounding in order to see how these principles are used in the work of managing the capital structure of a corporation. Parts 4-6 discuss the "Corporate Financial Structure", "Incentives, Information and Corporate Control", and "Risk Management". These last three sections are the real meat of the book and where a great deal of its value to the business student lies.

4) Each of the Parts has an effective and brief introduction that sets the tone for what is to be studied. Even better, at the end of each the six Parts there are two very helpful summary sections: "Practical Insights" and "Executive Perspective".

This is a specialized topic. But it is an important topic. This is a very good book that can help a serious student get grounded in some very important principals necessary to managing the financial issues facing every corporation. I recommend it.

The most valuable part of this book is in its ability to integrate financial decision making with strategy. This is rare especially for a book this good.

Another valuable point is that its approach of balancing theories and practicality. If student finds it a little confusing or non-conclusive on many issues, it is precisely so in reality.

A book this good is more than a gift.

I thought this book was a good starter book on selling your home by owner, but I still have some questions so I'm going to check into a few more books.

Selling by owner can seem intimidating. And many real estate professionals would have us think that it shouldn't be attempted. But with the kind of step-by-step advice provided in this book, you'll wonder why more people don't sell by owner. You'll save thousands. This is one of only two Top Rated Books on the DirectByOwner.com web site! If you're thinking fsbo, do yourself a favor and buy this book!

I really didn't have a clue as to what was involved until I read this book. I gives me a real life explanation of what I have to do to get the job done.

It also shows me why I should get a professional to write and fill out the documents, something that other books only skim over. I'm darn glad I read this book first!