This is an excellent economic development book for the undergraduate and masters level audience. The focus of this book as compared to other development books (i.e. Todaro) is that it emphasizes the importance of economic growth rather than equity issues. I find this approach refreshing. Van den Berg uses historical and current case studies to bring the theory out of the book and into the real world. Overall, Economic Growth and Development is an informative and stimulating read for professors, students, and anyone else who is interested in understanding why some countries are developed while others are still developing. Five stars!

what an excellent book (for me) !

The author wants to justify realism, which says the world really exists out there, regardless of what we think. But even our perception is "processed" by conceptualization and belief. There is no way to get outside our subjectivity to see what is really there. The postmodernists are generally anti-realist: they say the world is mainly a construction of our beliefs--there's no reality separate from the human mind. Farrell dissects them with respect: Fichte Kant, Hegel, Davidson, Rorty, Wiggins, Putnam, and others with postmodernist leanings. It's like taking a crash course in modern philosophy. One's fundamental assumptions about reality are questioned again and again. I got dizzy and lost my bearings several times, which is my idea of a good read. The author's project doesn't finally work, in my opinion, because "a little bit of realism" is like "a little bit pregnant." Most exciting book I've read in a year. 5 Stars, but only if you love philosophy.

its reeally good. i like it. i yoozed it to learn to speek

I have had this book now for over 10 years and I find that it has almost every type of technical analytical technique avilable to the investor. Each technique is explained well with many "inside" tips on it's use. Even though it was written a while ago, it remains up to date except for only the most recent indicators. A must for your shelf. This book was a companion to the Suprtrader's Almanac, and deals with stocks and futures trading.

Frank Grady was a personal friend of my fathers. Maybe because I grew up knowing him, the story made more of an impression on me than it would have normally. But whatever it is, it was a moving story about the resiliency of the human spirit. It is also about the humor, obstinacy and stubbornness; which contributes to that resiliency. Mr. Grady and others like him were true heros. It was an honor to have known him and it is an honor to know more about him through his book.

This book is written in the language, style, and tone of Jonathan Swift. It offers outrageously macabre solutions to social problems that might find favor with the Spanish Inquisition or Nazi party. Carkan Moil's irony is both blistering and shocking. It is presented in the form of letters and essays from a man in a locked nursing facility for the care of patients with Alzheimer's disease. He claims to be falsely convicted of the disease because of his discovery of Psychick Stillicide, which allows his mind to merge with other patients' minds. From them he gets all his brutal epiphanies to solve all of America's problems. This book is not for the faint of heart but it is full of original insight into the problems the world faces today.

There are a number of books available on the "geometric" view of physics (Classical Mathematical Physics, by Thirring, The Geometry of Physics, by Frankel, and Foundations of Mechanics, by Abraham & Marsden). The size, level of sophistication and extensive background assumed by these books can be very intimidating. On the other hand, the subject "looks" beautiful, and the benefits of using geometric intuition are desirable to many people.

Singer's book stands class of its own in these respects. All the basics of the geometrical "machinery" are there, in a book that is only 224 pages in length. Chapter one starts with a standard derivation of the equations of the "two-body planetary motion" problem; subsequent chapters proceed to introduce the necessary modern geometrical and mathematical concepts (differential geometry). The final chapter then revisits the "planetary motion" problem using the modern concepts previously introduced. Excellent!

There are some misprints, but the author has a Web page of errata. The book has numerous exercises, with many solutions included. I find myself rereading parts of this book over and over.

Reader be warned; the concepts are new, and it does take work to internalize them. However, this is the most accessible book on the subject available, and also one of the most affordable. The author references many other books, for the reader who wants to go further in the mastery of this subject (one excellent book which is not mentioned, however, is "Differential Forms: A Complement to Vector Calculus", by Weintraub). Enjoy!

Is there more to interpreting reality than just the perceptions of your five senses? Is there indeed a "cosmic trickster" who decides to send you signals with irregular patterns about your own life?
In this fascinating book it is a reevaluation of older principles (the ancient Greek belief about lower and higher destiny for one) connected with modern psychology (C.Jung primarily) that leads to a mesmerising study of the phenomenon of synchronicities: events that we today tend to describe as "incredible coincidences" or dejavues without actually realising that there could be a meaning, a "code", which can reveal to us either things about to happen or can function as warnings about the future, or even, "messages" about ourselves and what we can do to alter the "higher destiny" which is the part of fate we actually can manipulate.

In the hi-tech, fast paced and materialistic modern world all this may sound like another book for "weirdos", but it can't be dismissed as others in its genre exactly because synchronicities are something mostly everyone notices at one point of life or another, and the more aware you are about them the more apparent they become.
Being a natural sceptic the first time i picked up this book i abandoned it after only being 1/3 into it becuase i felt it wasn't compatible with my own personal system of beliefs and understanding. It was only after i started noticing some startling synchronicities myself that i read it (through this time) again , only to realise that there's way more to synchronicities than, well, meets not only the eye but any of our senses.
I tend to think that the "truth" (whatever that may be) is not only something one can "learn" but it's also something one can feel and i consider both processes equally important.

The author divides synchronicities into 17 categories and studies them providing in the process numerous truly incredible examples about them. At certain parts of the book it's the examples themselves that steal the show and you may find yourself recognising situations that are in one way or the other familiar to you but you hadn't paid attention when they happened. Attention is of primary importance as you will find out if you go ahead and read it. Frank Joseph attempts to find what most of us would call a "rational explanation" about synchronicities. He's never dogmatic (to his credit) about his own thoughts and his book reads like a conversation with the reader making it one definite "cantputdowner".
In the end what he proposes is essentialy that the reader examines this his/herself and explain it in his/her terms. It doesnt actually matter how one decides to explain synchronicities he muses, what matters is that there is a different dimension of reality present for everyone waiting to be explored, discovered and deciphered.
Put this book in your bag of valuable tools.

This book was originally banned in Ireland by the English. They thought the main character, The Tailor, was "sex-obsessed" and his wife, Anastasia, or Ansty, a "moron".

This is really funny to me because I caught no such traits whatsoever in these two characters! This book can easily be read in one sitting, it is so enjoyable!