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With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. ... Read more

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Ingenious ways to measure probability
"Against the Gods; The remarkable story of risk," is a world-class history of ingenious ways to measure probability.Author Peter L. Bernstein approaches the subject of risk/uncertainty with patience and unfolds a stirring tale of how civilization dicovered ways to improve the understanding of probability.
Enjoyable
It has interesting parts. Good for those looking for a recreational reading rather than a good manual for beginners. On this count, I recommend Barboianu's "Understanding and Calculating the Odds".

A good non-mathematical introduction to economic risk
For people who are interested in the economic side of risk (mainly stock), rather than the probabilities and risks of every day things.
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Great Book, Great Movie!
I read the book earlier this year and just saw the movie tonight!What a great story!What is special is the unique way Evelyn approached life... Sad to see people think she should have thrown out her husband or worse... Then that would have been a Lifetime Network movie - she endured and played the hand she was dealt and was rewarded through raising amazing children and a husband who did his best in the end to support her too... It was tough times pre-credit card days and I'm surprised how few remember that...
Great Book Made Into a Good Movie
Terri Ryan's loving memoir of her mother made a good movie, but an even better book.Evelyn Ryan marries young to a man she finds out is an alcoholic.He drinks every night, is prone to violent outbursts and squanders his paycheck on booze. Living in the 1950's, and a practicing Catholic, there was no support for divorce or birth control.She struggles almost alone to raise her 10 children with very little financial help from her husband and a small amount from her sister-in-law.Her positive attitude and courage were astounding.She saved her family over and over again through her talent for entering the word contests that were very popular at the time.Already living in poverty, she pulled the family out from the brink of disaster over and over again.To her credit, her children all graduated from high school and most even from college.
An interesting memoir of an uncommon life...
As a housewife raising 10 children during the '50s and '60's, Ryan's mother's sole outlet for creativity was contests. Throughout those decades, America was apparently a proliferation of companies, getting people to buy their products by offering prizes for whoever could come up with the next line in a new jingle, or most accurately name a new product line.
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Female Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened tojazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: "To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high."The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the "Muses" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and Read more

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Should not be missed
Any interested in the history of the beat era must have WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION: THE WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSES AT THE HEART OF A REVOLUTION. Much has been written on famous beat men but comparatively little on the women who also made their mark during the time: long overdue but better late than never is an exploration of the histories of these women, from Barbara Guest and Diane DiPrima to Jan Kerouac and Anne Waldman. A literary and social history which should not be missed.
Women Writers Rule!
Yes, there were women writing as well, and doing all the other cool stuff at the time. Many of them are still writing or continued to write long after their affair with the "beat" generation. This book is a great introduction to these writers. It's very informative, has just enough of the good gossip and lots of really great writing.

Beautiful!
For a group that is now remembered as a progressive voice in the ultra-conformist wilderness of the 1950s, the Beats were a surprisingly chauvinistic bunch of guys, all too ordinary for their time.That unfortunate fact helps explain the relative obscurity of most of the women who ran with, influenced and, in some cases, loved them.(You probably know that William S. Burroughs accidentally murdered his common-law wife while playing William Tell, but do you know her name?)This wonderful volume goes a long way towards correcting that oversight.Featuring previously unpublished letters, rare pictures and - best of all - a generous sampling of creative works, it's a near-perfect survey of the Beats' female contemporaries, lovers and even a few of their precursors.Read more

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Fresh from her well-received life of Queen Elizabeth II, the Englishhistorian and biographer Sarah Bradford turns her hand to America's own answerto royalty, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Painstakingly detailed, impressivelyfair, the result is the most definitive account yet of a woman who captured theimagination of the American public like no First Lady before or after her.Bradford seems to have interviewed almost everyone who had ever been intimatewith Onassis, including George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, Joan Kennedy, and even afew ex-lovers. Most notably of all, Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill speaks withunexpected frankness about the mixture of rivalry and affection that markedtheir relationship since childhood. Jackie-lovers, take note: this is nohagiography, and its subject certainly comes off as no saint. As gracious asthis American icon could be, she also had moments of coldness and even greed,including a particularly shocking moment by the bedside of Ari Onassis's dyingson. Yet, in the end, non-airbrushed anecdotes like these only serve to makethis most private of public figures even more fascinating. Jackie was, asBradford writes, "a complex woman of many facets, concealed insecurities andintricate defense mechanisms, a strong urge toward the limelight contrastingwith a desire for privacy and concealment.... Behind the mask of beauty and famelay a shrewd mind, a ruthless judgment of people, antennae finely turned to anysign of pretentiousness or pomposity, and a wry, even raunchy sense of humor."The figure who emerges from subsequent pages is as compelling as the heroine ofany novel, and it is to Bradford's credit that she doesn't seem to have fallencompletely under her subject's spell. Her approach is sympathetic, but neverfawning; candid, but never sensationalistic. For those who are curious not aboutJackie's glamour but about its source, Read more

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American Royalty
Jackie Kennedy was the closest thing that America ever got to home-grown royalty. Her birth and upbringing in New York City, refinement, etiquette, and Olympian cool ... Jackie radiated a deep mystery that remains. She was iconic in her need for privacy and protectiveness of it. A woman of another era who remains enigmatic and unique in her persona ... an American icon who seems both American yet not typical of the United States. A sophisticate, debutant of the year, equestrienne, well-manner, posh Park Avenue social doyenne who intrigued the world until she died in 1994. Fluent in several language, a writer of poetry, political wife, patron of the arts, native New Yorker, and poised like any Queen in Europe. She wasn't perfect but she was Jackie. America may never see another quite like her.

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My comments concern the narrator of the audio cd who felt that she had to change her voice inflection when she read quotes of various people.She talked in a soft wispery tone when quoting Jackie, however, she continued to use that same voice for any of the females quoted.She then attempted a deeper tone for the male voices.Due to all the voice shifting it was disruptive and the reading did not flow.Since it was a narrative and not a play it would have been more pleasing to the ear if the narrator did the entire reading in her natural voice.

Jacqueline not Jackie
It was fantastic to be able to grasp a better understanding of the stoic, graceful beauty that was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It was great to see the different facets of her personality from political darling to yacht hopping party girl. Her desire to control and veneer everything that happened in her life was inspiring. Couldn't put it down, was consistantly interesting throughout. ... Read more

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The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
Great buy....just as described....quick delivery!!!

Not some of Twain's good stuff
I love Mark Twain. I hate Christianity. Even Twain can't make me withstand it.
A Wonderful Wedding Gift !!!
This is the 19th century's version of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus".Delightfully funny, irreverent and very tasteful, "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" is a succinctly written description of the vast differences in world views between men and women.
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Animal Magic Lives.
In this fourth edition you will have everything you are use to in a James Herriot book. Eccentric pet owners, nutty business partners, fun loving animals, and the author who reveals his heartfelt love and admiration for the animals he cares so deeply for. Only the souless few won't be touched by these humorous stories of animal and human interactions. Mr. Herriot shows just how much better the world is because of the animals who inhabit our daily lives.

I adored these charming stories...
LOVED it. I've seen his books all over- bookstores, libraries, friends' houses, and yet I always resisted reading him. Why? I'm not sure. I didn't care for the cover (), and I usually REALLY hate stories about animals. A few years back, I read of a homeschooling family reading his work out loud, and when I came upon this book at a yard sale, I stuffed it in my sack to buy- I had an idea of my son and me reading it outloud in the distant future. I picked it up the other night because I was bored, needed something to read, and felt that I 'should' read this. After about two or three chapters, I was hooked. His stories are simple but charming, detailing the daily life of a country veterinarian. He was able to make me visualize riding along as his passenger as he drove from farm to farm, treating cows, pigs, sheep and domesticated pets. So many of his stories have funny endings. I really truly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the first one, "All Things Bright And Beautiful."

A feel-good classic!
This is the fourth in a series written by a Scottish veterinarian who takes a job in Yorkshire, England, working under Siegfried Farnon. James Herriot, Farnon and his brother Tristan work on all sorts of animals from parakeets to draft horses.
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Dean Smith wrote a very good book that shows his character.
26 Jun 2005
Dean Smith could probably run for president
The book "A Coach's Life" written by Dean Smith, is a life story of one the best coaches to have ever stepped on the hardwood.This book starts off talking about Dean's childhood.He tells stories of himself as an athlete, playing football, baseball and basketball.
Dean Smith
Dean Smith is now known as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time.I choose to read this memoir because I have a love for sports.Also, I have a deep passion for college sports because of the atmosphere at every college game I go to.Dean Smith coached one of my favorite colleges in the nation The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Okay for what it is, but disappointing nevertheless
Strobel does a good job of presenting the case for Christ. By interviewing various scholars ("expert witnesses"), he builds that case in the same way he would build a legal case to take to court. He anticipates each objection, each piece of countering evidence, that the opposing side might introduce, and he deals with these one by one. So far, so good.
Hate to lodge dissent
I hate to be a naysayer but as a former agnostic myself I had heard so much good about this book I was anxious to get my hands on a copy. Perhaps it was the buildup that raised my expectations too high. It is not bad for a book of its kind but nothing different from those who have gone before him down this road of apologetics.Many have disagreed with me on this but I do not think it would work well on the serious agnostic or atheist. Many, I think, would consider it an insult to their intelligence. So from the perspective of this Christian reviewer, you might want to look elsewhere for a book to share with friends. This one is helpful as a faith-booster but not a very good faith-inducer in my opinion; fair but no silver bullet of apologetics.

Good for new Christians and athiests
If you believe in God but have doubts that Jesus existed, this is a good book for you.If you don't believe in God this is a good book for you....if you go into it with an open mind.If you are dead set that God doesn't exist and don't want to find out other wise then don't read this book.I like this book because it gives many different scholar's views on various subjects.
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boring
i got into the 7th chapter of this book and i did'nt find it the least bit interesting what so ever.so i put it down,maybe it would have gotten better but as far as i got i was board out of my mind.

A Depressing but Important read
A very intriguing look at mental illness.A very sad story, that is about the death of one family that leads to the creation of another.

A Book That Stays With You
Not many stories, real or imagined, grip a reader like Julie Salamon's "Facing The Wind." I knew where the story would end - or so I thought. The murder is revealed on the book jacket, but the tale really lies in whether or not Bob achieves forgiveness and repentance. Does he deserve the second life he finds with his wife, clearly a damaged soul herself? What responsibility is shared by the doctors who released Bob and failed to monitor his intake of psychotropic drugs? How can we, The Moral Reader, react when a man who murders his family, including a helpless, disabled boy, declares he cannot feel remorse since he was mentally disturbed when the act was committed but at the same time declare his love for the dead?Read more

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Biased
I read Flags of Our Fathers and enjoyed it more than Flyboys.Bradley has a writing style that is difficult at times as has personal biases come through very clearly.As one other reviewer has written, I found it very odd that he often referred to MG Curtis LeMay as "Curtis."As someone writing about military history, Bradley should have more respect for the uniform and should not call a two star general by his first name like he is talking about one of his golfing buddies.This was very distracting.I also found the first couple of chapters of his history lesson very tedious and unfocused - so much so that I nearly quit reading the book.The latter chapters pick up the pace and are insightful.Bradley also devotes too much time attempting to demonize the American firebombing tactics.Thankfully Bradley's bias and negativity toward the Navy and Army is not as pronounced in Flyboys as in FOOF.This bias is especially odd considering his father was a Navy Corpsman.

Desire to moralize reaches too far
I assume that the author is attempting to show that war creates an environment in which morally degenerate acts become much more likely, if not all but inevitable, on all sides of the conflict.In doing so, however, the author very frequently stretches the blanket of history too far, as when he suggests that the Japanese would have remained forever content to be isolated on their home islands if the American fleet had not paid an uninvited visit to Tokyo Bay in 1853-54 and taught the Japanese the foreign policy advantages of a strong navy.While most historians would agree that the U.S. Navy's visit served the royal court with a wake-up call regarding the existence of a world beyond Japan, that is not the same thing as assuming that without this visit no other internal or external events over the next 70 years would have spurred the Japanese to look beyond their shores and trade an isolationist philosophy for an imperial one.
Fascinating!
I found this to be a fascinating account of the war in the Pacific, and I was impressed with the fact that the author imparts a deep appreciation for America and the sacrifices our soldiers made but can still step back and look objectively at the mistakes on both sides.Does examining our own faults release the other side from responsibility for their crimes, as some other reviewers seem to feel?I don't believe so; I think it's healthy for us to examine our history so we don't make the same mistakes again.It's too bad that some people lump any critique of our own actions into the "pop-revisionist history" category.
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As commander of the Continental army, George Washington united the American colonies, defeated the British army, and became the world's most famous man. But how much doAmericans really know about their first president? Today, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph J. Ellis says in this crackling biography, Americans see their first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only as "an icon--distant, cold, intimidating." In truth, Washington was a deeply emotional man, but one who prized and practiced self-control (an attribute reinforced during his years on the battlefield).Read more

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Not bad for boilerplate.
This is the kind of authorship I was raised on - an eastern intellectual writes a scholarly work, published by a major New York publishing house, which adds a new and slightly different perspective on a historical figure. It's a worthwhile read but limited necessarily, by the nature of it's origin.
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Not the Whole Bible!
The description for this item is a bit deceptive.It IS NOT the whole Bible, it is only the NAB version of the New Testament.I was a bit disappointed as I already have the New Testament on audio.
I'm really enjoying this narration!
This is a wonderful narration of the New Testament.I listen to it in my car on the way to and from work, and I really look forward to hearing it.The narrator is not unctious or overbearing, but very expressive and interesting, and extremely easy to understand.And of course, you can't gowrong with the material!The numbering of each Bible chaper is noted, soit would be possible to follow along reading your own Bible.I just wishthe St. Joseph people would come out with a narration of The Old Testament! This is well worth the money. ... Read more

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Still Me by Christopher Reeve
I thought the book was very well written. It was very easy to read. It showed a lot about the courageous Reeve family and what they had to live through on a daily basis and what contributions they made to persons with disabilities.

He made me belive that a man could fly.....
Well there are now two stories that go with the life and work of Christopher Reeve.There was the story of his life.Of how everything changed after his accident in 1995 and how he reached deep inside himself to find a deep human inner strength to go on.With love of his wife Dana, and his children.And with friends like actor Robin Williams and Superman Director Richard Donner, Chris continued to work and always kept speaking on behalf of spinal Cord Research. By doing all that and writing books like this, his work and his legacy have become a sign of hope to millions all around the world that also live with spinal cord injury and the hope that one day, it can be effectively treated and cured.That's what one part of this book is about, The other half of this book is also about that one role he will forever be known as.In 1978, a young unknown actor played the part of a superhero in a movie that is now a large part of American Mythology.His performance and his honesty in the role made me belive that a man can fly, and as long as Superman remains a part of American Mythology, the story of the man who played him will also be remembered.It's a tribute to both the man who played him and the character in the comics pages that Chris Reeve always remained most proud of in the many roles that he played as an actor.

Life changing book
I absolutely loved this book!I have loved Christopher Reeve since I was a small child.This book made me feel like he was writing to me personally, sharing the intimate details of his life.It made me feel close to my life-long hero and is probably the best book I have ever read.The way he described his love for his wife helped me open up my heart and let myself fall in love again.I recommend this book to anyone who's admired Mr. Reeve or is in need of inspiration. ... Read more

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Make Rapport a Priority
Though I read this book in 1995, after reading Colin Powell's "My American Journey," and Storming Norman's memoir, it was nice to pick it up again, eleven years later.
Open memoir
Baker's memoir is open and honest.He has put together an excellent narrative analysis of the foreign policy of the Bush administration.In years to come the usefulness of this book will probably decline as more scholarly work appears, but Baker's story continues to be charming and detailed.

Politics of Diplomacy:Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992
Soon after becoming secretary of state, George P. Shultz noted that � unless you do something about it, in the job of secretary of state you will spend 100 percent of your time on the Middle East. � �Every Secretary of State becomes a Middle East expert very rapidly, whether he wants to or not,� he also stated.. These observations remain valid today, when Warren Christopher has virtually become Secretary of State for the Middle East.Baker had a similar experience.Page one of his memoirs tells of Saddam Husayn�s invasion of Kuwait, the single most dangerous moment of Baker�s three-years-plus as secretary of state.Of the book�s thirty-four chapters, fully fifteen concentrate on the Middle East, primarily the Kuwait war and the Arab-Israeli peace process.Read more

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MCENTIRE EXAGGERATES A LOT!!
There are two sides to every story and Tom Carter, the ghostwriter and co-author of this "Norman Rockwellish" biography attempts to help McEntire glorify her position in the annals of country music.There is a lot that leaves to be desired in this book.The truth is greatly exaggerated and I just remember the one hot summer when Reba left her fans standing in the hot sun at fan fair and they began stomping and tearing her pictures to bits!!

THERE'S VERY LITTLE TO BELIEVE IN THIS BOOK!
I lost all respect for McEntire when she abandoned her country roots to record what she says "sells".Bah!Then this book came out and she attempts to glorify herself even further!!Her descriptions of what she went through the night she lost her band in a plane crash are sensationalized.No doubt she suffered horrors, anyone would have.But then less than a week later she went on the Academy Awards show to promote herself singing "I'm Checking Out" a song that was nominated from the movie "Postcards From the Edge".I remember that night and while I'm convinced she was grieving over her loss, she was still out to get her name before the public, something she loves to do!!It was in very, very bad taste for her to do this.Then all the malarky about her relationship with her ex-husband and her current husband??Come on, how stupid does she think we are???I'll never forget that fan fair year when she left her fans high and dry in the hot, humidity and they tore her pictures to a pulp and stomped on them.With good cause.Yet she goes on to say in this book that she couldn't sign autographs because she couldn't put herself or her precious entourage through the rigors!Well hello!!Then, she has the audacity to say that to quote her "I also think more of my fans than that.I know they were tired".Hah!!If she knew they were tired she would have had someone inform them that she would not be signing autographs before the lines started forming!!I agree with the previous reviewer who says she's a phony.Her own sister had a falling out with her and she even trashes her in the book!Message:Don't mess with this redhead and don't ever get on her bad side.The woman is nuts!!

ANYTHING BY TOM CARTER IS SENSATIONALIZED!!
Reba McEntire is an egotist!!Everything she has done has always been about her and how she can get her name publicized. Tom Carter sensationalizes all of McEntire's idealisms and quirks.In a word, McEntire is a phony through and through.I found very little in this autobiography that edified or inspired.As a matter of fact, there were a few things in there that McEntire should admit the truth on....particularly the fact that she was messing around with Narvel Blackstock long before she ever divorced Charlie Battles. ... Read more

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This tender book about male friendship will probably surprise those readers who know Stephen Ambrose best for his histories of World War II and biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in 1936, Ambrose acknowledges in the introduction to his memoir that men of his generation do not speak or write easily about their feelings. Yet male bonding is a strong theme in all of his work, as selections from previous writings on Lewis and Clark, Richard Nixon, Crazy Horse, and General Custer that are included in Read more

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Different for Ambrose
Ambrose normally gives much detail to popular history when he writes, but this book was a very different approach. Some historic details were given, most of which can be found in his other books. The thing that was different about this one was the brief glimpse of Ambrose's personal life. We heard much of his relationships with other men. These are manly relationships, the kind we all need. It dealt with his two brothers and how they were close as well as some of his best friends through life. The most inspirational was the chapter that told of his relationship to his father. I wasn't deeply moved or anything, but I did appreciate the personal side of Ambrose. You will enjoy this written picture of proper male bonding.
Such Friendships!
"Comrades" is Stephen Ambrose's reflection on male friendships. He explores relationships among people he has known or whose biographies he has written.