A fifteen minute read of various quotations by Warren Buffett. It ends with a brief summary of his technique. Build a focussed portfolio of shares in businesses you understand. These businesses are growing. Buy when they are selling at attractive prices only. Hold them while they continue growing. Allow compounding and earnings reinvestment to work for you.

This is a great little book that encapsulates the life and investment career of the most widely written about investor in history, Warren Buffett. It is a collection of Warren's wit, wisdom, humor and charm spanning his very successful career as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The book is a collection of quotations covering everything from hiring people to his final goal: "What I want people to say when they pass my casket is, Boy was he old!" This little book is inspiring, funny and gives insights into what made Warren so successful. The author, Siimon Reynold, ends the book with a basic interpretation of Buffett's rules of investing. I call this book the "Vest-Pocket" Warren Buffett. It is an easy read that you'll refer to over and over.

I've read numerous books about Buffett. What i really like about this book is it's brevity.
The author has assembled Warren's most poignant, pithy and brilliant quotes in one short , sharp book.
I learnt more about Buffett's philosophies from the this little gem than from any other book on the subject.
Frankly, it's a pity most other busineess books aren't this succinct.An outstanding read.

If you are looking for an honest, intelligent account of the Three Strikes law, its origins, and its impacts, this is NOT the book to read.

The murder of Kimber Reynolds was a tragic, sad, horrendous event, and my heart goes out to Mike Reynolds. I can see how he would want to start a crusade to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.

I am a policy analyst who has done a great deal of reearch on Three Strikes. There are various potential benefits of the Three Strikes law, but the impacts on the budget and the corrections system will probably be vast. These costs and effects are never discussed in this book. The details of the law are glossed over.

The book is a pathetic attempt to turn a sad story into heavy-handed propaganda for a controversial law and its proponents. It's like an overly long campaign leaflet, launching harsh attacks on the law's opponents and making the law's proponents out to be heroes.

Easily one of the worst books I have ever read. If there were any way to give it less than one star, I certainly would.

This book is an embarrassment. Badly written, badly conceived. A sad, incomplete, and partial account of the tragic slippage from personal grief to the collective tragedy of a policy that does nothing but aggravate the problem it is supposed to solve. Relies on emotion, not on argument. Pitiful.

Until Mike became motivated by the loss of his daughter, California's prisons were a short stopover for violent criminals on their way to their next victim. Poor grammar aside, the book vividly portrays California's legislature being run by an immensely strong liberal cadre of men dedicated not to the public who elected them but to a political philosphy out of step with common sense and the one man who ran the assembly at that time, Willy Brown.

Not only was Kimber sensely sacrificed but also Polly Klaas. Polly was kidnapped from her home during a pajama party then raped and killed by a repeat felon just out of prison. This took place just as the initiative was being circulated for signatures. The event so moved the hearts and souls of the citizens of California that the politicians resisting the prison reform effort either got out of the way or joined the ranks of those supporting it.

The Three Strikes law has accomplished what it set out to do: Take dangerous repeat offenders off the street! Not only is crime down over 46% here in the state (2000 stats) but not one single prison has been built. In fact, prison population is down.

The only senseless thing is why did so many have to suffer and die and why did it take so long to bring about this common sense reform?

New Yorkers take note!

Apparently the authors don't know the strength of the word bible. If this book is a bible, then I hope that I'll never find it in the drawer of a hotel bed-side table. Absurd information about nutrition. Someone should tell the people from Gold's to start from the beginning instead of writing books for their, already huge, friends. If you're a beginner, don't join the gold's religion; find another bible that's realist.

The "Gold's Gym Nutrition Bible", while comprehensive in its approach to bodybuilding nutrition, is nonetheless vague and outdated. Most of the nutrition advice offered is basic, beginner-intermediate level, and very little scientific research is quoted to support its claims. A good point of departure for anyone seeking an introduction to bodybuilding nutrition, but not detailed enough to make a useful compliment to training and diet. Most of the information between the covers of GGNB can be found on the newly mandated food package nutrition labels -for FREE

great great great book , if u want to increase and bulk up it is the the most powerful book u'll find on the market BUT ONLY if you are a bgginer like me or really want a huge gains with fair muscle and then going on a cut up cycle great for big arms protien intake to me (;:::

i dont think that this book is worth the mone

This is by far the most comprehensive book on bodybuilding that I read and possibly even more so than Arnold's "Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding". The exercises are grueling, no doubt. But you better be hardcore if you are reading this book. Very good chapter on nutrition. Many books forget that this is a key to getting huge. The part it talks about different types of bodybuilders, it does not give enough information on determining if one is a slow-gainer. This type will have to train slowly and work up. Otherwise, excellent book on this topic.

I bought this book when I first started training some 8 years ago. The book is well written with tons of pictures. This book doesn't follow the Weider or Robert Kennedy cut and paste type book format. This book is well written and inspirational, right on target with advice, and about the size of a dictionary. Forget about trying to look like the people shown in this book, however, unless you use chemicals (which I don't). Instead read it for the sound advice.

Squat,Eat,Sleep,GROW. Keep goals realistic and enjoy your training. You'll never regret it.

I found this book a waste of time and money. It does not cover how to setup a Family Limited Partnership. It goes on to tell short stories about people/situations that have used Family Limited partnerships.

I had been looking for information on Family Limited Partnerships. This book was very helpful. I found it answered alot of my questions about family limeted partnerships.

This is an excellent introduction to the benefits of starting a family limited partnership. The book also discusses potential pitfalls that can occur if an FLP is not set up correctly. It is well written and easy to read. The appendix includes a list of lawyers who can provide local expertise in major cities across the US. I have recommended the book to friends.

There is little to be found in this setting that the average gamer couldn't put together on his day-off. That said, most of the classes, locales, and legend echo previously released work by other writers. Reynolds doesn't even attempt to hide this fact, and the enitre work comes off as yet another lukewarm offereing for the Forgotten Realms.

If you are a hardcore Forgotten Realms fan, you will probably enjoy this book. Others would be well advised to spend their dollars elsewhere. The supposed new spells advertised on the cover are not entirely new at all; one has been around for fifteen years. Plus, the new feats and prestige classes cater only for the FR afficionado, not for anyone else.

For a more thorough review of this book, check out the review I posted on my Yahoo groups site: "sanantoniodandd." My one complaint about this book is that it does not quite have enough crammed between its pages. The artwork and design are spectacular and, as the title of this review indicates, The Unapproachable East contains enough intriguing campaign information to make most DMs and players agree that it is a far superior adventuring locale than, say, the overplayed and ultimately boring Dalelands and Cormyr. The bad guys are tough: just the way I like them, and, unlike the remainder of Faerun, in this isolated portion of the Realms, you are not likely to have one of the Chosen pop up at the last moment to save the day.

Overall, this is an essential component of any Forgotten Realms library.

Bernie and his friends are doing some investigative work to determine what the big building is that is being built in the town nearby. At the same time his sister is told that she must jump from an airplane using a parachute that she made at the Bassledorf Parachute Factory. His poor sister, Delores; she is finally in love and now she must jump from an airplane. Bernie, his brother, and his friends are suspicious and are determined to get to the bottom of things and find out who is to blame for this unfair task that has been forced upon his sister.

Bernie and his friends are doing some investigative work to determine what the big building is that is being built in the town nearby. At the same time his sister is told that she must jump from an airplane using a parchute that she made at the Bassledorf Parachute Factory. His poor sister, Delores, she is finally in love and now she must jump from an airplane. Bernie, his brother, and his friends are suspicious and are determined to get to the bottom of things and find out who is to blame for this unfair task that has been forced upon his sister.

I have borwed this boring book from my shools library. When I reached to the first chapter,it was so boring I almost fell asleep! Other books by her like Boys Start the War is 1000000 times better.Even if you think my reivew is not helpful, please dont buy this book!Bye a better one such as Harry Potter!PLEASE! PS The cover is the most grooest cover I ever seen PH books.If I can,I want to rate this book zero stars!

My husband read this book to our 6 year old son who LOVED every single detail about this story! This story revolves around the question: Is the legendary Peg Leg's treasure buried somewhere on Bessledorf Hill? In Naylor's typical humorous, engaging style, the lead character, Bernie, attempts to solve the mystery, and his colorful family characters add sparkle to the story. If I explain the story too much it will spoil it for others, so I will say that at times our whole family was rolling with laughter at the antics, and the mystery part of the story kept everyone guessing until the very end. This is really a great book!

This info is available elsewhere and there's no value add by the author.

This is the one book you want your pension officer to read before he decides what to do with your retirement money. Last year hedge funds did radically better than market indexes and mutual funds. More and more pension plans, insurance companies and other institutions are putting money into these non-traditional investment pools. Hedge funds differ from other types of investment in various ways, but as their name suggests, their main promise is to "hedge" against market risk. The right kind of fund is not correlated with markets, so that when for example the Dow and Nasdaq head south, your hedge investment does not go down with them. How and whether managers achieve this is no simple matter. "Each fund is different," one of the authors in this comprehensive guide writes (p.95). Virginia Parker, the editor of the book, is just the right person to unpack the complex ideas of risk and its management. A recognized authority in the development of specialized performance benchmarks, she tailors and manages portfolios for institutional clients. As a manager of hedge fund managers, she knows the industry inside out. Parker has put together a stellar group of authors. These experienced investors, fund managers, consultants, bankers and brokers present distinct perspectives on the industry. As Parker and Randolf Warsager write in the useful introduction, "This is not a theoretical volume-most of the authors are practitioners..." The book is not easy to get through, however. It is dense with information that requires close attention. Some readers may find it more useful as a reference for specific topics rather than a cover-to-cover read. But if you're willing to put in the effort, there are rewarding insights in every one of the 24 chapters. Here is an example from Parker. In 1998, the year of the Long Term Capital Management debacle, some investors wanted to withdraw their money from certain managers. These managers had invested in Russian bonds, yet "knew little about sovereign risk, Russian politics and Russian counterparties." (p.82) But recognizing the danger did not help the investors. Because of terms they had previously accepted, they were forced to wait several months for redemption of their capital. By that time, "most of the hedge fund assets were gone." This is the sort of thing that gave hedge funds a bad name and led to their being branded as very risky investments. Parker details an approach, using a trading manager, that helps select the right terms and agreement for an investor, reducing the danger of such situations. The other authors also provide practical pointers. As one of them, Tanya Styblo Beder, explains, "What must be avoided are risks that are taken without proper compensation, risks that are left unmanaged, or risks that are too large in relation to the capital." (p.155) The bottom line: For many investors, avoiding hedge funds is at least as risky as investing in them. In these markets, proper hedging can preserve your nest egg. But read the book first. Or make sure your pension officer does.

Chidem Kurdas New York City

"Multimedia Training" is an excellent book for CBT and the techniques of making the training as effective and fun as possible. The examples are good but use Macromedia's Authorware 3 with the files using Authorware 2 formats. The current version of the program is 4. The files do not open, the features of the program do not work and with the changes make to create version 4 make the notation obsolete and confusing. Again the training ideas are great but the delivery system has to be updated. Since the heart of Computer Based Training is handling change, this book fails in its own backyard.

I found this book an excellent introduction to the development of TBL methods and software. The authors obviously know what they are writing about. My only complaint is that none of the lessons included as examples on the accompanying disk work as the book suggests. Specifically, the *.apw files which are supposed to open "when double-clicked in file manager" come up with a "feature not activated" comment. This is a pity. It would have been useful to see the working version of the example(s) before doing the lesson