As the owner of two privately held corporations, and with a strong interest in estate planning, I found this to be the best and most comprehensive guide that I have encountered. It's much more in-depth than the many over-simplified popular guides to financial planning, and yet it's still accessible to the layman. Few people will read it cover to cover, but selective browsing reveals some excellent strategies and untangles a number of complex ideas. The writing is clear and accessible. I'll take a copy to my next meeting with my attorney. One small critique: I could have benefitted from some more graphic presentations of the information.

The very best within the field. A very usefull tool

This book is a rare commodity in the area of Real-Time systems. While there are several books on programming in general and object oriented methods in specific for real-time and embedded developers, few approach the subject from timing prodictability point of view.

In several ways, this book has first appeared way ahead of its time. When the processing capacity itself was not available, several embedded developers were more concerned about optimizing their applications for that elusive 'speed' than being worried about building fully predictable systems using proven design methodologies geared towards guaranteeing timing predictability, which inheretly introduce certain inefficiencies in common perception. Therefore, these techniques were deemed to be applicable to only those exotic world of 'hard-real time' systems such as defense, nuclear and not to mere mortals.

With modern processors becoming more and more powerful and devices being targeted to mass markets (e.g! ., set-top boxes, personal communication devices, home automation etc) the market is ready to demand (and of course, get) timing predictability out of embedded devices. Developers therefore need standard books like this and standard software tools (e.g., TimeWiz) to meet this shifting paradigm.

The methods described in this book can be looked at a precursor to a set of "structured methods" for designing real-time systems, based upon temporal modeling (as opposed to object modelling).

In The Prayer Driven Church, Ray Fulenwider produces an outstanding piece on how consistent prayer effects the productivity of the church. Not only is his work focused on the importance of praying for people in the church, ministries of the church, and the leadership of the church, but Mr. Fulenwider teaches and illustrates practical ways to act upon our prayers. The Prayer Driven Church provides tremendous ideas that will enhance prayer, evangelism, education, preaching, shepherding, fellowship, and service. This book is a must read for every church member, because it will inspire thinking and dreaming. In addition, church leaders should pour over every page using Mr. Fulenwider's suggestions to involve all members in ministry, enhance their own ministries, reach out in the community, and seek God in prayer.

Being a "stat freak" from a long-time interest in various sports, especially baseball and track & field, I very much enjoyed this book. Of special interest to me was the chapter on determining slowdown rates in the marathon as well as in shorter running distances. Professor Fair takes marathon age records beginning at age 35 -- the age when we are supposedly "over the hill" -- on up to age 84 and comes up with some interesting statistics. The slowdown rates at shorter distances vary a little, indicating speed deteriorates a little faster than endurance, at least in the middle years.

The findings relative to running times may very well apply to other activities. Author Fair concludes that societies may have been too pessimistic about losses from aging for individuals who stay healthy and fit.

Other chapters deal with presidential elections, extramarital affairs, wine quality, college grades, interest rates, and inflation. What do they have in common? As Fair explains, they can all be explained and analyzed using the tools of social science and statistics.

Pregnenolone is the "mother of all hormones," the precursor to DHEA and many others. Sahelian discusses the history of pregnenolone research, safety aspects, how it affects the brain and its possible therapeutic applications in a variety of physical and mental dis-ease states. Very thorough but easy to understand. Discusses side effects, dosages and how the hormone interacts with nutrients and medicines. His description of his own pregnenolone experience is very interesting. Very helpful glossary and references. A fascinating read for those interested in the latest research on well-being, nutrients, and anti-ageing.

Let me tell ya! What do you get when you combine Whittington, Pany, and Auditing? It's just a boatload of accounting fun!!! These guys know how to put together a book on auditing. This thing is a real page turner. Damn! Attestation really rocks but Assurance Services will just blow your mind. Even if your're not an accountant, this is a great read. I understand the 13th edition is already a red hot item, so grab a copy today before they're all sold out. This is the one book you'll definitely want to have with you if you're traveling and you have room in your back pack for just one book. Read it, then read it again and again. Seriously, you can't put this thing down. It's THAT good! You'll be talking about it with your friends and family for years to come. Can't wait for someone to turn this puppy into an offering for the big screen. That would be sweeeet!!!

This book presents and explains both Micro and Macro Theory in a very friendly way. It explains step by step the functions of the micro and macro theory and describes the fuctions of the instituions and organizations involve in the economy as a whole. It gives historical background, which many students look for in order to understand how? why? who? the study of economics. Besides it explains really well the economic terminology introduce as you read the book. Finally the book presents current event cases through the chapters which are related it to the ideas presented in the reading.

This was almost my first foray into process theology, and it was very rewarding. Several key aspects of Whitehead's thought dropped into place for me while reading it (such as the notion of a person as a sequence of occasions, which I finally grasped as NOT being the destruction of personhood). I was especially impressed by the way in which the difficulties and incoherencies of traditional theism were overcome, and yet the central concerns of Christian faith articulated in a way that made them even more forceful for me than they had been before. But process thought, I am beginning to see, has very deep ramifications; it is so different from the philosophical undergirdings of traditional theism that one has to meditate long and deeply to see all the implications, especially in practical, "concrete" spiritual life. But I am cerainly eager to read more developed writings of the two authors of this book.

Ray Billington, a pioneer in the study of nativism, helped to bring the study of nativism into the mainstream in the 1930s. As a student of American social and intellectual history at Harvard under Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., he began to study the social significance of Know-Nothingism, and in 1933 finished his doctoral dissertation on the origins of American Nativism. His dissertation eventually became The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860 in 1938. Like his contemporaries, he focused heavily on nativism as an anti-Catholic movement. That Billington began his work with Know-Nothingism helps to explain why he focuses on anti-Catholicism almost to the exclusion of other manifestations of nativism. He also acknowledges the influence of Schlesinger throughout the process, which further helps to explain the scope and direction of Billington's work. Schlesinger believed anti-Catholicism to be one of the most persistent themes in American History, and his declaration seems to have strongly influenced his student. Billington's equation of nativism and anti-Catholicism does not, however, detract from his work. In 1996, historian of nativism Dale T. Knobel wrote that, "although dated, Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade, is still the place for a student of the nativist movement to begin." Billington presents a thorough and detailed description of anti-Catholic movements in the first half on the nineteenth century, at times touching on anti-foreign manifestations of Know-Nothingism, but only as peripheral to his anti-Catholic focus. Billington treats nativism as an Anglo-American cultural inheritance and often as the practice of and the mob, but he nevertheless provides a careful description and at analysis of the important events, organizations and individuals.

Billington argues for two causes of the eruption of nativism into national politics in the early 1840s, first "a hatred of Catholicism bred by the forces of organized No-Popery," and second "a fear of the immigrant, not only as a Catholic, but as a menace to the economic, political, and social structure." He also traces the development of anti-Catholic sentiment into organized movements and sees their propagandizing through sermons, lectures, periodicals and tracts as influential in bringing the issue into the political realm.

Thus, while Billington deals well with nativism as an issue of national policy, he is less effective in dealing with the underlying causes of nativism. For instance he sees propagandizing as influential in swaying public opinion toward the nativist cause, but fails to explain either why certain Americans decided to spread such propaganda, or why the American people were so receptive to it. So too, he argued that the Know-Nothings faced ridicule for their principles inimical to the founding principles of the nation, but Billington fails to explain why Americans who might at one time have ascribed to Know-Nothingism suddenly found its principles untenable.

Even so Billington's careful narrative history of the antebellum anti-Catholic movement is unsurpassed. Moreover, the book is beautifully written and an excellent read. Anyone with even a passing interest in nativism and the history of American anti-Catholicism will thoroughly enjoy this book