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Handicap and Loving It
Published in Paperback by 1stBooks Library (July, 2001)
Author: Eddie Burley
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Great Reading
I was deeply moved with the emotions and compassion demonstrated thru these writings. I was constantly entertained with the variety of styles the author creatively used to relay a message, and last but not least, the humor left me in histeria Great read.

NEVER A DULL MOMENT
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN BOOKS I'VE READ IN A WHILE. THIS BOOK IS PACKED WITH ENTERTAINMENT. DEFINITELY WORTHWHILE.

Managing Assertively
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (May, 1995)
Authors: Madelyn Burley-Allen and Allen Madelyn Burley
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"Managing Assertively" by Madelyn Burley-Allen
Managing Assertively is an excellent teaching quide for improving your people skills. It gives defination to the different types of supervisory styles that exist. The book uses exercises to teach an eight step building block plan for managing assertively. This plan can be used daily to improve your supervisory skills. A great book to build confidence and self awareness.

Getting To Know All About You
A super self-teaching guide for managers (and others) who want to develop assertiveness skills! This isn't just a book of theories. There are practical exercises and lots of self-assessment tools. It's worth adding to your reference shelf and sharing with others.

Wondering why you're having trouble getting through to someone? Need to turn a personality clash into a more productive relationship? While this book doesn't promise to cure all your woe's, it offers techniques that are simple to apply and they work! It helped me identify the events, thought processes and attitudes that influence the results I get when interacting with others. You'll be surprised at what you learn about yourself. These easy to adopt behaviors can improve your relationships with others. Try it and see.

Wycliffe and the Redhead
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (November, 1998)
Author: W. J. Burley
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Burley deserves to be read.
What a pity it is that most of Burley's books are already out of print when so many of the unbelievable female private eye series and those stupid cat mysteries are thriving. The Wycliffe stories are among the very best detective novels, ranking right up there with Georges Simenon's Maigret series. In fact, Wycliffe is very much like an English Maigret, a detective who builds his cases not so much upon factual evidence as upon his ability to feel the atmosphere of the crimes and the characters of the victims and the suspects. To call his novels "procedural" is not truly accurate, although there is plenty of good solid criminal investigation involved, with a very interesting cast of assistants. But the emphasis is always upon the very realistic characters, involved in real human activities. The reader becomes as engrossed in the lives of these people as Wycliffe is as he quietly soaks in the ambience of the Cornish villages, where most of the stories take place, and bit by bit learns the secrets that lie behind the motivations of the characters. If you have never read a Wycliffe novel, and if you love good writing, especially in the detective genre, give yourself a special treat and try this book.

Wycliffe remains fresh in his 21st police procedural

George Barker was sent to prison for manslaughter, predominately based on the testimony of antique bookstore owner Simon Meager. After being held behind bars for six years, George is released, but almost immediately commits suicide. Morwenna, George's daughter, blames Simon over the misfortune that struck her family, starting with the incarceration of her father. Shockingly, Morwenna asks George for a job and even more stunning he gives her one.

However, not to long after that, Morwenna vanishes. Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe looks for the missing woman, who turns up dead, an apparent murder victim. Wycliffe begins an investigation by looking into the deceased's past, which he hopes will provide clues to the identity of the killer before anyone else is murdered.

WYCLIFFE AND THE REDHEADS is the twenty-first entry in what is one of the best British police procedural series on the market today and for the past two decades. Wycliffe remains a thoughtful fresh character, who feels like a member of the family. The secondary cast adds a Cornish flavor to a tasty who-done-it that is cleverly described by the great W.J. BURLEY.

Selfable (TM) : Take Control of Your Life
Published in Paperback by Self Discovery Associates (August, 2000)
Author: Barbara Burley
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Selfable
"I learned that if I want a life of success and personal and professional achievement, the focus needed to start with myself. This book offers the key!"

Wycliffe and the Winsor Blues
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Bantam Books (01 October, 1997)
Author: W. J. Burley
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Wycliffe quietly unwinds mystery in a classic Burley.
If you love British detective mysteries, and haven't read a W. J. Burley yet, order this today! This was the first of his books I read, and after years of being a Christie addict, I found it a pure delight to encounter a new unique detective, a solid plot, a clever solution (based on Wycliffe's spotting a wrong use of Winsor Blue paint on a canvas), and above all, a truly gifted writer. Burley can sum up a character in two or three beautifully crafted lines. It's a delight to wander the streets of Cornwall with Wycliffe, who is known for taking walks to figure out a case. Needless to say, his walks lead him into many interesting situations. Wycliffe is happily married, yet still a bit of a loner. Ruthless in his search for justice, but quiet as a mouse. (People often mistake him for a professor or a minister.) It's a shame Burley is out of print in the U.S. Recently, a friend of mine bought up his entire series of Wycliffe mysteries while on a trip to Cornwall. We read through them all, and still wanted more. This is definitely one of his best.

Listening: The Forgotten Skill
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (March, 1983)
Author: Madelyn Burley-Allen
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A Good Guide
An easy to understand and implement guide to the art of listening. Some great advice and I recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their listening skills.

Excellent reference and guide
This book is written mainly for the business audience, but all the principles are applicable to every situation. The author is very good at explaining scenarios and solutions. Other authors spend the bulk of their time explaining why we need to listen, but Burley-Allen spends the bulk of her time explaining how to listen. That alone places this book on a more productive plane than most books on this topic. You'll be impressed with how things change in your inter-personal communication at work and at home with the adoption of even a few principles from this book.

What good is listening, if it's not effective?
With this exciting new Millenieum upon us, most all of us have had classes, lectures, and read books on expressing ourselves more effectively, public speaking and the list goes on. The problem now is "No One is Listening." Madelyn Burley-Allen's book Listening the Forgotten Skill is the perfect tool for helping us get back to the true meaning of listening. What good is all of this teaching, until you are taught how to listen. With this book you are taught how to communicate effectively and listen effectively as well. This is an excellent book for improving your lifestyle through listening.

Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics
Published in Paperback by Addison-Wesley Pub Co (March, 1993)
Authors: Glyn James and David Burley
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A must have for the young engineering student.
Logical !!!

Concise !!!

Excellent concept delivery and use of practical scenarios.

A must have for the young Engineering student !!!

concise, very engineering, full answers
It is really a great book because...

1. Concise

Before reading this book, I thought advanced mathematics was a topic which was impossible to learn by self-study. However, after I read the book a few pages, I became confidence in self studing it as I could successfully did the examples as well as the exercises by my own.

The book uses examples + detail explanations to teach many concepts. If there is any subtlety, the book must explain for you. Besides teaching the maths. concept, it also suggests how to handle the maths. equations in a more clever ways.

2. very engineering

Many examples are the real engineering problems. Also, each chapters have at least one section for 'Engineering Application' which includes the topic about chemical processing, heat transfer, wave propagation, capacitor microphone, AC circuits analysis,... You never ask 'why I need to learn it?' because the entire book continuously shows you the application of each mathematical tools immediately after you learnt it. I feel very 'realistic' when I read the book because the book extends the mathematics beyond a paper!

3. Full answers

Each chapter has about 30 to 60 exercises (NOT include examples) which have FULL ANSWERS! (except for the questions of proof) From very simple, to test your understanding, to very complicated one, to test you skill on solving REAL problems, are also included. The exercieses makes me well in understanding the concepts, and also the fluency in handling mathematics.

I think it is not the best maths. book in the world. However it really makes me stop to find the best maths. book in the world~!

I Like it soo much
It's really a nice BOOK I want to get it ... Please give me more information about the price and the delivery to Bulgaria. I really nead this book, PLEASE ,reply to me as fast as possible , cause the lectures are running. thank you !

The Rag Nymph
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Bantam Books (November, 1992)
Authors: Catherine Cookson and W.J. Burley
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A little girl grows up
This book takes place in England in the eighteen-fifties and sixties. It is about a well brought up little girl named Millie whose father "died" and whose mother was forced into prostitution. One day a rag seller Raggie Aggie was on her way home when the mother pushed the waif towards her and ran, being followed, presumabley, by the police, or polis. She reluctantly takes the aggravatingly polite little girl to her home, a use to be farm house, now surrounded by slums. A stunted young man, Ben, who she took in when he was very small lives in the back. Ben takes a liking to Millie and convinces Aggie to keep her until her mother gets out of jail. But unfortunetly a pimp pays her bail and she is taken to the brothel where she proceeds to hang herself. Aggie adopts the girl, grumbling the entire time about it. But both Aggie and Ben fear for little Millies safety after the pimp who took her mother takes an interest in the girl. So the girl is sheltered and she grows up and longs to find hapiness and the truth. She finds the truth and she doesn't like it.

A great story with likable characters and a surprising plot. It was made into a very good mini series on the romance channel, which sparked my interest. Eli@

Viewing Olmsted : Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
Published in Paperback by Canadian Ctr for Architecture (March, 1997)
Author: Phyllis Lambert
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An insightful contemporary visual survey of Olmsted's parks
Ultimately, Viewing Olmsted is a savvy and thought-provoking, yet diminutive picture book. The collaboration of three brilliant photographers under the sponsorship of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, it guides the reader down three highly personal, present day tours of legendary parks designed by Olmsted, the patron saint of American landscape architecture. Happily, though, its readers are left to intellectually fend for themselves as to meanings or implications of Frederick Olmsted's work, genius, and lasting influence as the man who designed such famous spaces as Central Park. Academics and artists will appreciate the fresh visual perspectives offered on the man's legacy, the sometimes soothing, sometimes haunting nature-by-design retreats for the urban soul. Those with more than a passing interest in the ways in which man interacts with his 'natural' surroundings will appreciate vistas evocative of place rather than time. To the authors' credit, the book raises more questions than it answers, and is of a scale to fit neatly into a travel case. Far from definitive, the book is, nevertheless, a must have for architects, landscape architects, photographers, and Olmsted aficionados.

Walter Burley Griffin in America
Published in Paperback by Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) (February, 2001)
Authors: Mati Maldre, Paul Kruty, Mati Malore, and Walter Burley Griffin
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classic prairie school reading
This book is well researched, well designed and well executed. The photographs are entirely in B&W and are beautifully reproduced here. Walter Burley Griffin and his most talented wife Marion Mahony are still fighting their way out of the shadows of Frank Lloyd's Wright's "presence"..however this book greatly enhances our knowledge of the legacy the Griffin's built here. Bottom line, Walter and Marion were a powerful architectural team and Illinois/Iowa both house an unbelievable collection of their prairie school gems. I would highly reccommend this book as a starting point for anyone interested in exposing themselves to the Griffins are their influence on Frank Lloyd Wright and the prairie school. FYI the first 1/3 of the book is text and the rest photographs.....I just wish the book was bigger and longer.

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