With all this talk lately about the condition the economy is in, I thought I'd do myself some good and actually read up a little bit on what the economy is actually all about - I'm in my 30's and it's been some years since those highschool economics classes.

I actually picked this up at my local library - but I liked it so much it's now on my Wish List.
The author takes a subject that's frankly not very exciting or clear to most, and puts it in words almost anyone can understand and states examples of how different concepts would work.

In this book I learned about such things as:

-The laws of Supply and Demand
-Different types of business organizations and what monopolies, oligopolies, and anti-trust laws are all about
-Labor unions and their effect on the workforce, and why some trades tend to make so much more than others due again to supply and demand
-What the gross domestic product is and how fiscal policies effect the economy
-Where the money for unemployment checks comes from and how the government determins what the unemployment rates are
-What causes inflation and why it's not necessarily a bad thing
-How the Federal Reserve System works and what banks do with my money after I make a deposit
-How internation trade effects the economy, and why buying foreign goods is actually good for the economy

Although this book doesn't cover everything there is to know about economics, it certainly is a great book for "US Economics in a Nutshell," and I feel I have a much better understanding of how the economy works now.

DEMYSTIFYING ECONONOMICS takes a complex subject and makes it possible for both beginning students and older adults who have forgotten a lot from school days, to understand the basics of economics. The author has over 28 years of teaching experience and it shows. He is a writer who cares about students and the public, not just other economists. The careful reader will learn about the basic problem of economics, that is scarcity. Nations and citizens must choose because we have unlimited wants and limited resources. Readers will learn: the varied ways in which business firms are organized, labor economics, government policies designed to keep from boom and bust excesses, money and banking and international trade etc. The book also tells the story of how our national debt zoomed from 290.5 billion in 1960 to 5 trillion,711.4 billion (est) in 2000. This book belongs in libraries, as a companion text in schools and colleges and in the personal libraries of citizens who wish to make informed choices.

The book examines counseling comprehensively and the approach is very interesting and challenging. The theory is philosophically based. It is difficult to apply in counseling process but every counseling and clinical psychologist should read this book.

This book examines the philosophical and psychological bases of counseling. The approach is very complicated and comprehensive. The most sophisticated and challenging book on the counseling.

It's brief, rich, flavory, cheery, and mind alerting.

Stewart Lee Allen takes you along a wonderful trip around the world. In light and easy prose, you get all the information you want on the history of coffee and coffeecentric theories gathered from real serious research. But he takes away the seriousness and the graveness and actually makes you smile all the way.

Believe it or not while I was reading this book I was completely transfered into another world,into another time.Thanks to the writers talent I was enjoying being there and learn the story of coffee and so many others things.I have tried my best to read this book as slowly as I could but that was impossible as I have finished it just in one day.God,it was such a pleasant read and that was amazing because I found it hard to believe that there is a non-fiction book to be finished just in a few hours. Reading this book is magic - Having this book in your bookshelf is having an expensive souvenir and you must know that if this book weights 200 grams is worth 200 billion dollars! Because it is a story of something that is part of the life and that's of course COFFEE that we use three or more times a day. Isn't it a shame to drink Coffee and not knowing its history???

The book povides suggestions and solutions for today's classrooms. It is also a good book to use as a quick reference for those disciplinary topics you may need. Very good!

Curwin and Mendler do an exceptional job breaking down classroom management in an easy to read and codified form. The book provides valuable insight into problems and solutions in today's classrooms and also functions well as a quick reference for those topics you may need "on the fly"

My son enjoyed reading the story and the math component as well. It is easy enough for a beginning reader, and yet it can keep their attention as well.

This beautifully illustrated easy reader makes counting coins fun and simple! Illustrations of coins on selected pages make it the perfect teaching tool at home or in the classroom! Random House has another outstanding Step into Reading title! A great ending too!

This really helps getting through the "pitfalls" in my own life. Wish I had this kind of book available to me years ago ... it would have turned my life around for the better for all concerned in my family and church relations.

If you let the author's life experiences flow into your spirit, they can give you a clear insight into how to survive in spite of all the tragedies that happen (or might happen) in your lifetime. This book gave me examples of real life and maybe a pathway through which to navigate and 'keep-on-trucking' to resolve my own inner issues of staying alive for as long as God has planned for me. It opened my eyes to see that I'm not the only one with a bunch of baggage that needs to be lost at the airport.

Even through all the 'problems' living gives us, there are the fun things it life too. The title made me wonder what the book would be about ... now there's music in my life that was never there before; breath and "Don't Let the Song Go Out Of Your Life" has changed my thinking about now and how to live my future. The author helped me examine circumstances I didn't realize were issues and now make sense. Keep an open mind and let the spirit flow when you read this book. You'll be surprised how just 'looking' through the eyes of another human's experiences can change your life.

Being a fellow writer myself, I appreciate this young and handsome euntrapenuer's efforts to capture the realism and truth of it. Not only that, his writing proves his vast knowledge and obvious studies of it. When someone knows the subject they're writing about.. as Mr. Conrad does.. it just makes the book that much interesting for the reader. I love reading books with this content, and I'm sure most of you people do to. So buy it people.. I have four.

This book is the best ever written. So buy it so my dad....i mean Allen can get some money and can move out of the street. He justs needs some money

I have been a student of dreams for many years, but Dream Messages really inspired me to get more out of my dreams. While the writing got a bit awkward at times--with each author speaking in the 3rd person, the examples they shared shed new light on this ancient art of understanding dreams. Since incorporating some of their suggestions, I have gone back to my dream journal to decipher some dreams that seems too obscure before. One gem that is particularly helpful is to ask for a specific dream--so simple! Working with this technique reminds me that heaven and earth really ARE connected, and that I can consciously cooperate with the guidance I am being given. Well done, ladies!
Lorraine Seeley Buell--Author of Shipmates

This is the first dream book I have read that I could actually understand! Plus, it is helpful with all the exercises. I love the real life stories and couldn't put the book down once I decided to read it! I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in improving their lives and in their dreams!

From Diane in Indianapolis

I am a foster parent and I take in children with disabilities. Not all have liked church, not all have liked school, but all of them have loved this book. The message hits home. Also, one child took it to school for show and tell to get her point across as to what it's like being different. She finished her presentation, and the teacher sent a note home thanking us for this book. She now has one in here class room

Earl the Emu is a great book for average and special kids because it teaches youngsters how to value others. The boy in the story, Jason, has a brace on his leg. While people with disabilities in stories are not as rare as they used to be, it still is not something we see regularly in a children's book. I think this gives kids with physical limitations and disabilities a story character they can identify with. Plus, the pictures of Earl the Emu with hurt feelings because Jason's farm animal friends make fun him are really easy for kids to grasp and so should make them think twice before making fun of others. Earl's wanting to be liked and not being accepted really touched my heart. So, this book gives parents a great opportunity to stress why we should be kind and fair to others. I am using the book to teach my neice and nephews about diversity.

No one knew that the British government way back when was really so strained for new ideas. Their colonies were prosperous, pillage was rampant, but they were so bored on the homefront that they started writing fetishistic stories about navels. That's right, as odd as it sounds, this is one of those missing-from-history-books episodes in a glorious tradition. (A superlative collection of these belly button stories is available from Random House.)

My 8th Great Grandfather was a Palatine. This book taught me more about my family history than I could ever find elsewhere. The book is a well written history book which as an interested party, I couldn't put down. If you are related to Palatines, I think you need this book !