"The Advertising Agency Business" was an extremly insightful and logical read. The author focus on the basics of the industry but elaborates very well with examples. This book is a must read if you own, managage or operate an ad agency. I wish I had read this book before I started my agency!

I am in my 3rd of starting an advertising agency, and this book was just what I needed. Some of the things I learned will help be grow my agency business in the future.

I've been in the advertising field for nearly 20 years, and it was a pleasure to find this solid, useful book. It's clearly written, straightforward, and approaches the subject in a direct way. Anyone considering their own agency should read this book cover-to-cover, and then do the math, well before they go out on their own.

I read this book first about 40 years ago. Yardley published it after SecState Stimson withdrew funds with the famous "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." It revealed, the details of breaking Japanese ciphers while they were still in use and caused a political furor. It led to legislation against revealing state secrets, and the book itself was prohibited from re-publication by Act of Congress, apparently now expired.

Yardley was an egotist, and never hesitated to take first person credit for work actually performed by subordinates, according to people who knew him. In any case, it makes a great read!

Our American government? Diplomacy? Non-fiction? 20th century era to 1931? I thoroughly enjoyed the read. Very informative (for me). When you get to the end, you may smile at this question: Do you (can you) really believe the part about gentlemen not reading other people's mail? :-) The sort of book I'd say to thoughtful friends, "If you don't enjoy this one, I'll give you your money back". The sort of book that makes you wish you could have met the author...

Anyone interested in the inner workings of ANY cryptoanalyst needs to read this book. Told in the first person Yardley reveals the amazing amount of genius and hard work cryptography required before the days of calculators and computers. It really is a great read.

I purchased this book in anticipation of a trip to Hawaii, wanting to learn more about the cultural roots. This presentation was exceptionally beautiful (amazing paintings), simple in its presentation, and left the reader feeling a part of it all. I highly recommend this book.

If you have a desire to glimpse the glorious past that was Hawai'i, then this is your ticket. Ancient Hawai'i is both broad and deep without being overwhelming. The book is lavishly illustrated, which helps stimulate the imagination, and the text is very well written. It is easy to see that this was a labor of love.

My favorite section in the book was titled Reciprocity, in which the author distilled the ingenious economic system of Hawai'i to less than two pages, and still managed to convey the complex social trait of the Hawaiian culture, uku.

It is with this sense of uku that I wish to say mahalo to Herb Kane for his gift of pictures and words, and also pass his gift onto you, the next reader.

There is simply no one alive who could do what Herb Kane has done for the understanding of precontact Hawaii. We should all be grateful that such an accomplished artist also possesses considerable research skills and the ability to display them. One gets all three in this splendid paean to Kane's ancestors.

ANCIENT HAWAII is a beautiful and understandable look at Hawaii before the arrival of Captain Cook. One would have to travel the world to see this collection of Herb Kane's paintings and drawings, and spend hundreds of hours in the library to get this sort of understanding and feeling for the precontact Hawaiian world.

Herb Kane is the real thing. The book is for everyone.

Something must have _happened_ to Francis Herbert Bradley.

He seems to have been something of a curmudgeon; at least, he was extremely reclusive and had a reputation for shooting cats. But at some point in his life he must have come to some sort of deep mystical realization.

Otherwise he couldn't have written this book, which reads like a Western version of Shankara. This is philosophy in the grand old style, and it's one of the high points of British idealism.

Bradley's argument doesn't always hold up in its precise details. He doesn't, for example, think that "relations" are real because (he says) they lead to an infinite regress. But Royce replied to this pretty adequately in an appendix to _The World and the Individual_. He also states firmly (and I think correctly) that there's no conceiving reality apart from experience and there's no duality in experience between subject and object. But support for this claim isn't exactly forthcoming. (Timothy L.S. Sprigge does a much better job with it in _The Vindication of Absolute Idealism_.)

But the essential structure of his argument is sound and could be carried through again with a different set of examples (the standard logical paradoxes, say): the world of our ordinary experience turns out upon inspection to be contradictory, so it can't be fully and finally real; what _is_ fully and finally real is a nondual Absolute in which all those apparent contradictions are resolved through that very nonduality.

Well, Bradley puts it better than that, of course, and his prose style is very pleasant to read. This work is also excerpted in James W. Allard and Guy Stock's collection of Bradley's _Writings on Logic and Metaphysics_, so if you want to read a shorter version, check that volume out.

Anyway, the point is, don't ever let anybody tell you there isn't any nondualistic wisdom here in the West. In a different time and place, Bradley would have been revered as a guru -- a prospect that in all likelihood would have made him cringe, so it's probably just as well. But he's clearly trying to articulate a vision here, and few writers have tackled "rational mysticism" with such philosophical flair.

I doubt that Shankara would have shot cats. Fortunately the similarities run deeper than that.

This book is indeed extremely important for analytic, continental, and mystic philosophers alike. Bradley's positive view, the Absolute, is proposed here as the _only way out_ of those messy analytic debates regarding topics such as appearance vs. reality, plurality, quality, and causation. Bradley's starting point: what is absurd (logically impossible) cannot exist.

I'm reviewing a book which is currently out of print. "Why bother?", one might ask. Well, Bradley's work is one of the clearest explanations of ideas which are central to our 20th century fascination with alternate religions. This is not to say that Bradley was exactly a mystic -- his belief system went beyond mysticism. Yet his emphasis on understanding the limits of our mental life finds strong parallels in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, as well as Western 'New Age' approaches. Strangely, he wrote in the 19th century. Modern academic philosophers find his work not particularly important. Yet the average reader can gain quite a lot from reading Bradley, his writing style is clear and lucid, and after finishing the book, interested readers may find their world taking on a slightly different cast. It is disappointing to find that Appearance and Reality is out of print, because it stands, especially today, as a text which explicates basic philosophical issues in a way which remains relevant. Brian Whitaker

Professor Herbert Braun has authored a monumental book. The author leaves few stones unturned...as a result the research is absolutely profound. "Jorge Eliécer Gaitán" is a legendary Colombian populist who unfortunately is assasinated before he can fulfill his political ambitions. To this end, Braun carefully documents the fact that had he not been killed, Gaitán would have certainly won the 1950 presidential elections in Colombia.

Braun tells the complete story of Gaitán...the politician who boasted that he was not a man...he was a village. The author painstakingly demonstrates the enormous importance Gaitán played among the poor. Moreover, Braun also does an excellent job of showing how Gaitán filled a gigantic void in Colombian politics. Unfortunately, the assasination of Gaitán triggered the conflict that haunts Colombia to this day. In my professional opinion, this is an spectacular book and must be read by everyone with a special competence in Colombian - American affairs.

Bert Ruiz

This book concisely details the impact of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan on 20th Century Colombian politics. This work begins with an account of Gaitan's days as a student and his early professional life as a lawyer. Gaitan came from a middle-middle class background and rose through the ranks of the Liberal party to eventually become its Presidential candidate in the late 1940s. Gaitan's political outlook was left-of-center and he was a champion of the lower and middle classes. Because Gaitan was the people's candidate, he was not especially liked by the Colombian oligarchy. Gaitan was assasinated in 1948 and to this day it is not officially known who the intellectual authors of that crime were. However, the people felt their candidate had been murdered by the oligarchy and this led to a brutal 10-year civil war that claimed over 200,000 lives. This is a must-read book to understand the root causes of Colombian political violence.

This book provides the reader with a precise insight on the evolution of Colombia's restrictive political system. In other words, the author shows the way in which this country's ruling elite have been successful in excluding the masses from major political decisions. This situation has been an influential cause for the fall of such popular figures as Jorge Eliecer Gaitan.

This is the best and the most classical fluid mechanics book that i have read. Read it through carefully and you will get much from it. Reading it from time to time can give you many new knowledge every time.

An excellent resource. A tough act to follow for any other author of BLT books.

This book is as much as a classic as BSL's "Transport Phenomena" (the bible) - it surely is a "holy" book to me!

If you love oprea or cats, or both. You must have this book. IT is just too much FUN to read this. Test your knowledge of opera by just naming the opera without reading the text. It is not hard becasuse Ms. Herbert captures the essence of each opera. Give this as a gift to your opera/cat loving friend, you will be a HERO. Mr. Meadowcane's text is witty, however, "Egenue Onegin" is not a tenor.

If you love oprea or cat, or both, you must have this book. IT is just too much FUN to read this. Test your knowledge of opera by just naming the opera without reading the text. It is not hard because Ms. Herbert captures the essence of each opera. Give this as a gift to your opera/cat loving friend, you will be a HERO. Mr. Meadowcane's text is witty, however, "Eugene Onegin" is not a tenor.

Susan Herbert's books are creative and enjoyable and this is no exception. Her attention to detail, artistry and sense of humor all contribute to a masterful piece of work.

If you read this book, you will become INTELLIGENT!! You're understanding of being will set you free.. Know the truth and the truth shall set you free..And if you are brain dead, you definately need to read this book..

AFTER READING THIS BOOK, AND YOU STILL BELIEVE IN THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE, YOU MUST REALLY BE BRAIN DEAD,

Mary Baker Eddy in1866 began a process of discovery which resulted in the understanding of Being (rather than a religion) known as Christian Science. By 1875 she had analyzed and written about her discovery in a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" which has sold to date somewhere near 9,000,000 copies , and which has resulted in millions of documented physical healings and renewed lives. The Science of Being is as far from "faith healing" as is possible and frees mankind by explaining the "withinness" of God (good) and the unreality of what we call "evil". Herbert Eustace was a healer and teacher for more than thirty years, having been taught himself directly by Mrs Eddy's student Edward Kimball around the turn of the century. To me, Mr. Eustace' teaching genius lies mainly in his direct, non-anecdotal style which explains simply what Mrs. Eddy puposely couched in deeply spiritual writing and beautiful high-blown prose of her day. Most importantly he clearly, and concisely educates his reader in the understanding of the "suppositional mind" or the seeming appearance of evil, the mastery of which is most important in demonstrating the nothingness of matter and the allness of God

Generally, I'm fairly hard to please. That being said, I love
this book without reservation. I've recommended it to and
foisted it on friends for years now. Many of them react much
the way I do: there isn't anyone else like Frank O'Connor.

The stories are lyrical, sharply and humorously observed, and
told with elegance in an easy but precise idiomatic diction.
O'Connor always gave his work the test of being read aloud,
and this care for the sound and cadence of his prose shows
on every page.

Finally, there is O'Connor's feeling for people. Reading the
stories, one gets the impression that he was an intelligent
but fundamentally kindly, generous man. Even when a character
in the stories does something that seems objectionable, he
never loses sight of that character's humanity.

Any selection of one's "favorite" stories will be personal.
To an interested reader, I would say, "Read them all." To
friends who ask, I add that they should start with
"Guests of the Nation" and "First Confession." These
aren't his "best" stories, but I've always liked them
both, they are typical of his best, and one must start
somewhere.

When I've given 5 stars to a book, I've often had to argue
with myself as to whether it deserved it. Not for this one.

There are very few stories that can make you just want to sit for a while after you've finished them. You're not sure if you're happy or sad: they just fill your body and you need to sit for a while because you know something special has just gone through you. Maybe they have a way of looking at the world that's just somehow more right than anything you've come across before. Chekhov's "The Bishop" is a story that does that for me, and Salinger's "For Esme, With Love and Squalor." A couple of others.

It's not that they make you happy, exactly, but they give you a sense that life is a more worthwhile thing than you might have felt before, stranger and more full. Frank O'Connor has more stories that give me that feeling than any other writer I've read in English - The Drunkard, My Oedipal Complex, The Mad Luceys, The Ugly Duckling, Don Juan's Temptation. He gave me the same feeling I got when I read Tolstoy and Chekhov for the first time: this guy is onto something: he knows the secret, and if I just read closely enough I'll figure it out too. Well, no luck yet - but each time I read one of O'Connor's stories I feel like everything around me is both more sensible and more mysterious than it used to seem, which is possibly all the answer any book is going to give.

The tradition of the Irish story teller has been reborn in this century in her marvelous short story writers. None was finer than Corkman, Frank O'Connor. All of O'Connor's classic stories are here. O'Connor truly captures Irish life in the early part of this century. The wit and humor that are legendary among Corkmen is present throughout this book. This is one of my favorite books ever. I have given it as a gift too many times to count. Every person that I gave it to came back raving about it!

I loved this book so much I believe that every home should have its own copy. The facts and the insights Mr. Nass presents in his review of these wills are amazing!

I can't wait for him to publish another volume to come out so I can add it to my collection.

I recently gave several of these books as father's day gifts and had wonderful responses. The book created quite a few heated discussions about philosophies of inheritance,charity, greed and personal expression after death. The book was entertaining to read while at the same time educational in exposing the simple errors many famous people have made in creating faulty wills.

There is nothing quite like a will to reveal someone's true feelings. It was surprising to read how the rich and famous disposed of their property and used their wills to settle old scores and reward friends and relatives. Makes wonderful summer reading