This book offers many fascinating insights into the mechanics and psychology of investing. At the heart of the book is a paradox: you can make money out of your own ignorance and that ignorance can even protect you from investment mistakes and manias. Particularly interesting is Melton's system of protecting against your own and most advisors' ignorance by using his world equity market asset allocation model. He strongly advises against overweighting your investments in your home market, the one usually favored by home country financial advisors. According to Melton professionals and amateurs are basically ignorant in predicting market movements and who can argue with this given the shocks of the last three years? Spending too much time analyzing world markets doesn't necessarily make one a more successful investor. Overweighting any one market in your portfolio is dangerous. After arguing that equities are the best long-term investment, Melton claims that keeping to a disciplined regional (North America/Europe/Asia/Emerging Markets)asset allocation ratio and a disciplined country allocation ratio within these regions actually lowers the overall risk of a portfolio and disciplines investors not to overweight positions in their portfolios. Melton provides historical examples of the diversity from year to year of single country and regional stock market returns.
Does Melton's method work? Well, it has done for me. I set up a small mutual fund portfolio based on the Melton Model using about 15 country funds (Melton would recommend about 25 but my finances didn't stretch that far). The returns have been good in areas I would never have considered before reading this book (Australia, for example)and in areas we are now often being told to steer clear of (the U.S.A., for example). Left to my own devices I would have probably avoided investing in those countries but because of Melton's disciplined asset allocation approach I resisted short term psychological caveats and the market analysis of the business community and went ahead having faith in Melton's paradoxical view that you can exploit your own ignorance to invest successfully while at the same time avoiding the madness of crowds (and the investment community), by investing in a disciplined manner.
I intend to remain a disciplined investor and this book has set me on the right path.

The text is clearly written and logically organized. The author uses a straight forward approach which he appropriately mingles with humor. Drawings throughout the text add levity. The annotated table of contents is truly beneficial.

Dr. Fauteck has thoughtfully created a practical guide for individuals who are attempting to adapt to life once they have been released from prison. He offers advice spanning the topics from family, friends, loved ones and those who offer an ex-convict assistance in staying out of trouble, to those who assist the ex-convict in maintaining criminal ways.

Dr. Fauteck points out the traps of blaming others for difficulties and firmly advocates personal responsibility. The author guides the reader toward personal growth. If the reader is able to integrate the advice given in these chapters into his/her life, the reader will find himself/herself on the road to success.

I higly recommend this book for those who are incarcerated, prison officials, counselors, mental health professionals, social workers and educators. I predict that if individuals released from prison are able to integrate the guidelines outlined in Dr. Fauteck's, Going Straight into their lives, recidivism rates will diminish considerably.

People in my industry (golf) finally have a "Bible" to refer to when it comes to professional irrigation systems. Laid out in a basic, yet thorough format this book has it all, from good photos to useful charts and glossary. Anyone even considering installing a new system should have this book at their side. I wish I had it when our system was designed and "thrown in the ground" by a purported expert.

This book has become one of my favorite golf books ever. It's for anyone who loves the game and it's lore. Some of these stories are hilarious, others are like a good mystery. Finally a classic golf book without a bit of instruction.

GOOD BOYS is an exceptional novel by Paul Reidinger. The focus of the book is on three college boys who are best friends, and follows their life until 10 years later, when they recross each other's paths, as they deal with the happenings in their life.

Meet Chris. He is a man who is gay, only his friends Drew and Michael don't know that he is. He loves Drew, but can't act upon his feelings. He moves to California. He meets Wade, who is his first time. As well he becomes involved with David, another college chum. When he is invited to a party by David, he meets Carl, an older man who he falls in love with. Carl brings him everything he needs from life, a dialogue of intimacy which is beginning to make sense. Chris' life is thrown into a whirlwind when he learns that Carl is dying of AIDS, and then ultimately dies. In the end he stays friends with Wade and David, they've all slept together but still manage to have a friendship like no other.

Meet Drew. He is a lawyer who believes he has everything in life. He fell in love with Dana, who he thought was quite similar but was actually quite different. They butted heads over issues like marriage, commitment, and more. She left him, and he never quite got over it. He struggles with a private solitude not even he fully understands. He is dealing with his brother Geoff's sexuality, later realizing he may have these desires as well. The irony of the situation presents itself when he has a sexual encounter with Wade, the same man that Chris had his first gay sexual encounter with. The irony lying in that fact, and that Chris secretly desired Drew.

Meet Michael. His parents want him to become a doctor, and he receives his PhD. In college he meets Meredith, who he falls madly in love with. They get married, and have a son. The son in question though, Michael believes is a result of her affair with his ex roomate Joe. Years before he had an affair with Dana, Drew's girlfriend, and he can't quite shake her out of his head. He feels unsatisfied by his career, and is uncertain of his ability as a father or a husband.

This novel resonates with honesty, and quite a bit of irony. In the end they are all still friends, sure there are secrets of their betrayals, but they are still as close as they were in college. GOOD BOYS is a portrait of three young men coming to terms with how the past has shaped who they are, and a future that we can all recognize.

This book is the most informative resource for any one in clinical research. I recommend it for Investigators, clinical nurse coordinators, administrators and anyone else who deals with sponsor drug companies, IRB's and Human Subjects. I found this book to be full of every detail I needed to become a responsible and ethical clinical research nurse. It has helped me coordinate my staffs activities and resources by providing guidelines that are understandable and easily followed. With this book your research team is on the path to success!

Barbara Paul is one of the great "unknowns" in the mystery field. Although her amazing, witty, funny, suspenseful, brilliantly crafted (enough adjectives?) novels have been keeping fans enthralled for years, she has never been accorded the due that is her... er... uh... due! GKS is as good a place as any to start. It really doesn't matter, in a way, because wherever you start, you're going to want, nay NEED, to read 'em all! As for titles, good as this is, wait 'til you meet "Liars, and Tyrants, and People Who Turn Blue"!

This memoir of adoption is more than an autobiography: A Good Likeness tells of an adult who only comes to terms with his past when his own child is born. His journey to find his own biological parents touches on social and psychological issues alike.

It is very interesing book on the Art of Sex. It's interesting because of it illustrations, but if you want to learn the techniques of sex you should take another book. The old mother of my girlfriend who always didn't allow her dauther to have a sex was in amazement and it changed all our relations.

If you want to see the best illustrated book about sex take this one. It is excellent.

This book provides a fascinating photographic chronicle of the construction of a replica of the ship that brought settlers to Jamestowne, Virgina. Seeing how the ship was constructed gives the reader profound respect for the original shipbuilders, the modern shipbuilders preserving ancient techniques, and those hardy souls who made the voyage to the New World. This book should be reissued!