The challenging idea to find a common point from where to unify a science as pluralistic in style, method, theory and subject as ecology, is taken up by the authors in a strikingly consistent way. The introduction of the notion of scale as a framework to re-order a vast amount of existing theories renders many new and provoking aspects to the scientists view on his or her own subject. Nevertheless, the authors never directly address implicit philosophical models of construction and re-construction they apply and hence fail to see there own work in a broader horizont. Instead, a certain reluctance to get to close to "esoteric argumentation" keeps them from any more theoretical justification that I charge as obligatory when a notion as strong as >scale< is introduced newly at a point as central and crucial as in this book. Focusing on >scale< not only implies focussing on a totally new frame, it implies drawing all questions related with quality/quantity interface problems finally into discussion.

As a Canadian I find that this book is an excellant example of what can be achieved through exploring our multi-culturalism. The children's artwork, coupled with the text make this book very informative to others so they can understand a little about other cultures, and see the differences and similarities. What I find to be an added bonus is that the text is written both in English, and the writers native language! An excellent read for children mostly, but still enjoyable to adults.

The book is very helpful in producing activities and worksheets for children. Many great and creative ideas have stemmed from here. I highly reccommend this book for teachers when helping students learn to write.

Multiple streams of Internet Income by Robert Allen is an excellent book for those considering starting a web based business or those interested in learning more about the world wide web and how businesses are marketing to them. The world wide web is truly transforming the global economy despite what the stock market might be stating. I would highly recommend this book for those not familiar with formal marketing strategy or those seeking to learn more about the Internet and various business opportunities available. Some excellent marketing books / concepts quoted include the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Influence, Permission Marketing and Viral marketing 'buzz marketing or word of mouth.'

The new economy is knowledge based and based on expansive communication networks that grow in importance as related groups / interested parties meet each other and conduct business. Mr. Allen clearly understands this and I give him kudos for pursuing such an endeavor.

Here are the pros and cons of the books.....a personal opinion:

Pros:

1. The book is very broad and talks about sales, marketing and advertising, which is rare in such books

2. The book provides Allen's example via his business.

3. The book was well written

4. Many excellent marketing books are quoted.

Cons

1. This book is a sales pitch. Mr. Allen clearly has 'sales copy' experience which makes the book interesting but definitely somewhat misleading. He knows what he is doing and he has a VERY successful marketing / product track record. As a result, he is very successful in his Internet trials / examples. He has customers that already know about him, have purchased his products for the last 20 years and others that are interested. He doesn't mention this in the book enough and marketing costs are a HUGE variable cost to businesses. This will likely result in readers being too optimistic about their ability to generate wealth on the web.

2. The book was written by several co-authors. It seems as though Allen, in a rush to get the book out, heavily relied on so called 'experts' within various parts of Internet Marketing.

3. He plugs various people's products that are not that good. I have perused many of these products and it is hit and miss. Some are good and some are not so good.

My final thoughts on the book are this: Read it. It is worth the time for beginners. For those seeking a wide exposure to marketing/advertising/sales in an Internet world it is well worth it. There are some pitfalls though that I can't overemphasize.

Any business, irregardless of distribution channel, is a lot of work. Internet businesses require hard work, lots of sweat, lots of perseverance, lots of testing, lots of learning and, for those interested, they can be very fulfilling opportunities. If you are trying to make major money or simply pursue a hobby online via a personal website this book is worth reading.

Most of my reviews are in business / economics and I encourage people to read them, whether here on Amazon or at my personal website. If you are interested in economic history book I would encourage everyone to read The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner since it is more international in scope and deals with the lives and times of the most famous economists in history. If you are interested in economic development / evolution of U.S. property history I would encourage you to read Hernando DeSoto's Mystery of Capital but note his lack of focus on corruption in certain countries. A great general business book is by the management guru Peter Drucker entitled "The Essential Drucker."

I followed most of the instructions in Robert Allen's book, and am making money on the internet as a result of it. This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to
1) Generate an idea.
2) Create an internet business based on the idea.
3) Market the idea to make money.

The example Robert Allen gives of making money in 24 hours is not very reasonable for most people, for anyone really. However, I was able to generate income in 8 days from my web site's launch and it hasn't stopped!

I've read several books before starting my internet business, cybermasons.com, and this was by far the best. You can't go wrong with this book. The proof is in the sales!

Allen's previous books have earned for him a reputation for creative thinking about how to increase personal net worth. I think this is his best book thus far. Throughout 16 thought-provoking and informative chapters, he carefully explains how "ordinary people [can] make extraordinary money online." He cites Jay Abraham's "timeless principles of marketing": increase the number of customers, increase the amount of the order, and increase the frequency of support. Given these three, Allen asks his reader to consider "Three Important Questions":

1. Who is your target audience?

2. What do they want?

3. How can you motivate this audience to act now?

The Internet makes it possible for almost anyone to generate substantial income IF these three questions are correctly answered and then a creative and aggressive marketing program is implemented, driven by strategies which are guided and informed by Abraham's "timeless principles." Throughout the book, Allen identifies and then examines a multiple of "streams" to consider. He asserts that marketing success online has three "bedrock principles":

1. Find a school of hungry fish.

2. Discover the bait they're biting on.

3. Supercharge your bait with a powerful USP (i.e. Ultimate advantage, Sensational offer, and Powerful promise).

Metaphorically, Allen really does help his reader to select among the various "streams", locate the "hungry fish", decide which "bait" to use, and then maximize its appeal. In practical terms, in a single volume, Allen provides about as much information and as much advice as almost any individual could possibly need to generate income online. It remains for each reader to combine appropriate information with appropriate advice, formulate her or his own game plan, and then GET TO WORK.

What gives this book even greater potential value is that all of the same information and advice can also be helpful to small-to-midsize companies about to become involved (or which are already involved) in e-business. Those who share my high regard for this book are then urged to check out The E-Commerce Question-and-Answer Book and FutureConsumer.com.

Can't review because my third party order was never received. It's been over a month! I ordered a total of 4 books (3 were third party orders). I received all of them in a matter of days and was very pleased with the conditions of the books and the quality of the packaging the books were shipped in. However the
seller still has the same book up for sell! After reading some of the reviews and finding out that several others have not received their orders I'm wondering if we ordered from the same seller. I gave this book a rating of one star simply because I couldn't enter anything less plus you can't rate what you can't read! I'm sure the book is excellent and would love to read it and give it a proper review.

This is an excellent introduction to writings by Black men. A must-have for people of African descent. The writings consist of pictures, short stories, poems and novel excerpts; some writers included are Sterling Brown, Howard Thurman, Countee Cullen, Haki Madhubuti, Ishmael Reed, James Baldwin, Robert Hayden, Richard Wright, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois and many others

I first read this book as a required reading for my English class in college. I kept this book throughout the years as it reflected on the African-American man (and sometimes woman). The stories discuss history, our beginnings, love and heartache, the issue of race, death and life as we know it. I recommened this book to everyone who wants to understand themselves through the various stories, fiction and non fiction. The book is so simple to follow, you don't have to read the whole book, you can pick and chose stories to read.

While it is true that Creating Wealth was written back in 1986, the advice is timeless.

Interest rates and costs of mortgages may be different but people still want wealth; discounted mortgages abound and tax liens still are a powerful strategy.

The nothing down scripts are still effective. I used them in 1988 and I am still using them now.

Now if you want a book that is sorely out of date, read Making the Most of Your Money by Jane Bryant Quinn. Now that book was outdated before it showed up on the book shelves!

The excellent book by Robert G. Allen was originally released back in 1986, but the advice is timeless.

Although many have attempted to copy Mr. Allen, most are mere imitations. His material remains fresh, strategies are workable and his writing style is entertaining and informative.

This book had been revised and updated. I also recommend Multiple Streams of Income, Nothing Down for the 90's (still works in the new millenium) and The One Minute Millionaire.

Creating Wealth is a classic and a must read for anyone who wants to create real wealth.

After having personally read over thirty books on the subject of real estate investment, I've found Robert Allen's book stands out from the rest. It is one of only a few books avialable today that actually teaches a step-by-step approach to investing. It leaves the general theories to the other authors and instead, gets down to the nitty-gritty of starting down the path to financial independence. The author doesn't self-promote his own elaborate collection of materials and seminars as so many others do, which I greatly appreciate.

As someone who is just starting to look into this fascinating subject, I can confidently tell you; don't waste your time elsewhere, buy this book, you won't be dissapointed.

Robert G. Allen's third book written in 1987 chronicles the challenge of taking 3 people of out a St. Louis unemployment line and teaching them about real estate. 'The Challenge' is for the 3 students to have $5,000 cash in 90 days. This is a true story that will have many parallels to the fiction story written by Allen 15 years later in 'The One Minute Millionaire.' This book is inspirational and motivational rather than an instruction book on real estate. This book by itself would not provide a person with enough information to go forward and this book doe not even share all the instructions that are given to the 3 unemployed students.

The book is easy to read and understand, and the inside dust jacket claims that it reads like a novel. This may be true, but if you are looking for a recipe or a cook book, you will be disappointed. 'The Challenge' is more of the story of how 3 people without cooking knowledge could become short order cooks. But if you wanted a book telling you HOW to be a real estate chef, this book is not for you. On the plus side these are real people with real stories, sometimes sad, sometimes happy and they started with literally nothing and succeeded with the teaching of Robert Allen and the mentoring and coaching of others assembled for this project. At the end of the book one of the students is said to have controlled 'over several million in real estate.' I would have liked to see more follow on, and even an update to the present. Apparently 'The Challenge' itself took place in the summer of 1984 and for me I would like to see where Steve and Mary Boneberger, Karen and Philip Moore, and Nora Jean Boles are today with respect to their real estate investments. The real story is about them and it's a compelling story at that, but it is not a real estate instructional book. I enjoyed reading their story, but I would have liked to see what instruction they were given, more details of the deals they did and a more detailed follow up on their successes after 'The Challenge' and for that and the age of the book I would rate it as 2.5 stars.

A truly exciting, rewarding and essential reading for anyone interested in real estate investments! Great book!

This is an accessible introduction to George Mason, a Revolutionary Virginian of lesser fame. The book is very short and the print rather large, making this an easy read. Robert Rutland dwells mostly on Mason's public life, only hinting at his private life. Like Jefferson, Mason was a slaveholder who abhorred slavery (he wished the Constitutional Convention had abolished it), but Rutland leaves this paradox unexplored. For those of a scholarly bent, the book lacks footnotes. Mason was the moving force behind Virginia's Declaration of Rights, and, for that reason alone, is quite significant. Any person wishing to learn more about him will find this book a good place to start.

In an era when Americans seem to be quickly losing touch with their own history, one of the greatest crimes of all is that the name of George Mason has faded into almost complete obscurity (if there weren't a university named after him in Virginia, how much worse would it be?).

In his foreword to this brief book, Dumas Malone, the biographer of Jefferson, notes what a shame this is: 'More than any other single American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, whom in some sense he anticipated, George Mason may be regarded as the herald of this new era [of declarations of rights]; and in our own age, when the rights of individual human beings are being challenged by totalitarianism around the world, men can still find inspiration in his noble words.'

Biographies of Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (which inspired, among other things, the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) are woefully few. Rutland's short book is a fine and easily digestible introduction to the man, his times, and his impact upon history. The value of that is hard to overstate.

The content of Hogg/Craig - even though it is structured chapter-wise - is not too structured in the chapters. Some relevant content is presented in examples, so a reader skipping examples might not get all of the relevant content which is very poor. I didn't like this one too much...

This is kind of an odd statistics book. Most books at this intermediate level are devoted almost solely to the subject of "mathematical statistics", in other words: estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, etc. Yet for some reason the first half of the book is devoted entirely to elementary probability theory, which should be a prerequisite for reading this book (see Hoel's probability book for a much better treatment of that subject).

As far as its coverage of statistics, the discussion of estimation is excellent, and the material on sufficient statistics is the best I've seen. I would agree with other reviewers, however, that the examples could be better. On some topics the explanations are not very well motivated, making it very dry at times. And there is basically no coverage of regression theory. An argument could be made that linear regression belongs in a more basic course, but there could've at least been some coverage of regression beyond the couple pages on nonlinear regression you get here.

This was the book used in the class I took, and I felt it was great in spots but could've been a lot better overall. It's not bad for what it does cover, but looking back I wish it could've covered more statistics material. It tries to be a probability+statistics two-in-one book, when really the two subjects deserve their own (more fully covered) book.

Hogg and Craig is one of my favorite texts. It is an intermediate text in mathematical statistics similar to Mood, Graybill and Boes. I took qualifying exams in mathematics for my Masters Degree in math at the University of Maryland in the early 1970s. One of the exams I took was in statistics. I had little formal training in statistics at the time. Hogg and Craig was the recommended text for the statistics exam. So I bought it and studied out of it on my own. It was very clear with excellent coverage of methods for deriving distributions for random variables and transformations of random variables. I passed my exams and got my highest grades on the statistics exam even though I had more training in abstract algebra. Hogg and Craig really helped. It has been revised since then to maintain currency with statistical developments but it still has maintained its clarity and usefulness.

Better not to spend your money on this one. If you really want it try your local library for free.

Some of the book is enjoyable and insightful. However, much of it seems to merely argue semantics. Makes some good points, but is mostly lacking in substance.

"In many ways the concept of hypnosis is analogous to some other mysteries that have confused and confounded scientists in the past--such as phlogiston, the ether wind, and 'N-rays.'" Those are not hypnotism's only analogies. Decades after the Condon Report established that UFOs are misidentified mundane phenomena, the media encourage the ignoranti to believe that humanoid aliens are abducting human beings. A decade after James Randi's Project Alpha, the masses continue to believe in paranormal phenomena. And a decade after Robert Baker proved that "the phenomenon called 'hypnosis' does not exist, has never existed in the past, and will not exist in the future," the masses,whose only source of information is the vast wasteland, continue to believe that 'hypnosis' is more real than demon possession or witchcraft.
Baker shows that "all of what we call 'hypnotic behavior' can be accounted for by a number of much simpler sorts of psychological processes that are well understood.... When normal human beings close their eyes, go into a sleep-like trance state, and do strange and unusual things ... the volunteers are merely complying with the hypnotist's requests, and ... nothing other than suggestion and their own imagination is responsible for their behavior.... As for the claimed therapeutic effectiveness of hypnosis and the many seemingly miraculous cures and events apparently due to the effects of hypnosis, in reality, these are due to a number of external factors such as suggestion and conditioning interacting with internal psychological variables such as relaxation and imagination." And on the kind of hypnotic brainwashing popularized by the novel and movie, "The Manchurian Candidate," Baker reports, "Fortunately, the scenario described in the novel could never happen. Years of experimentation by the CIA has shown this sort of programming simply does not work and never will."
On the fallacy that hypnotism can improve memory, Baker explains that a technique of relaxation and an instruction to "think back" can indeed enable an individual to remember unforgotten experiences in slightly greater detail. What it cannot do is guarantee that the added details are accurate: "At the moment we cannot tell whether a subject is telling the truth or is 'confabulating,' i.e., providing pseudomemories."
In the chapter, "The Uses and Misuses of hypnosis," Baker debunks age regression by showing that equally convincing "memories" can be elicited by telling the subject he is traveling into the future. He explains how the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction hoax was created by a hypnotist prompting the subjects to concoct the kind of tale the hypnotist wanted to hear--and then persuading them that the confabulation was a genuine memory. "This is, of course, one of the worst if not the worst misuse of so-called hypnosis."
Asked to explain claims of mysterious powers supposedly acquired under hypnosis, Baker answered, "Because some unscrupulous or naive people like to deceive and impress others and make them believe things that aren't true. Salesmen do it all the time in order to sell us things."
So the next time someone tells you that hypnotism is a panacea for all ills, or conversely a diabolical power, ask yourself: Would you buy a used car from that person?