I would reccomend this book to anyone. Even a person that has no interest in business can learn something from this book. It has real world advice and examples of how to succeed in business(and life.)

I really enjoyed this book a lot. I am planning to start my own business and feel more confident after reading this book. It is funny, full of wisdom and makes you feel like you can overcome anything

Without question this is a wonderful book that addresses many of our personal, human problems, including how to deal and cope with them. This book is not just about sleep but about living a meaningful life. If you want a quick fix or magic bullet for sleep difficulties, look elsewhere. But if you want to examine your heart, mind, and even your soul, then you will find, like I did by following the suggestions given in the book, that "Live Well, Sleep Well" is an excellent guide to a sense of peace and tranquility. It's not entirely about the number of hours we sleep, but the quality of our sleep.

Live Well is a highly informative book and very "user friendly." It's not only about getting quality sleep, but about the quality of life, and how balanced living improves our lives. It's well worth your time and attention.

Contemporary urban life is hallmarked by chronic and habitually insufficient and inadequate sleep for millions of people. In Live Well, Sleep Well: The Holistic Way To A Good Night's Sleep, Dan Campbell addresses this epidemic health problem by surveying modern sleep research in conjunction with the information on sleep in the Edgar Cayce readings. Campbell reveals why we need sleep, what happens when sleep suffers, and how to improve sleep through a blend of modern medicine and the spiritual/health advice to be found in the Cayce readings. Practical, in-depth, meaningful, insightful, and "user friendly", Live Well, Sleep Well is very highly recommended reading for the non-specialist general reader seeking to directly address a need for an improved and more refreshing sleep.

George Bernard Shaw was called, with good reason, the "English Nietzsche". Though Nietzsche was an aristocrat and Shaw a socialist, both cherished the dream of the superman and looked forward to the day when he would be realised. Both, however, were characterised by their mordant wit and intellectual cynicism, in which "Man and Superman" abounds. Shaw manages to compress a number of disparate themes into a relatively taut dramatic format, even throwing in a scene in which Don Juan, the Devil and a gang of anarchist brigands make an appearance. The central event of the plot involves the wealthy Tanner, a member of the "Idle Rich Class" making himself subservient to the Life Force and seeking the perfect woman to marry, who would guarantee him a very special offspring, his ideal, the superman himself. Though Shaw was not known to have read the works of Bergson at that time, nor to have been conversant with his vitalist doctrine of the Life Force, his use of the Life Force motif and the philosophical underpinnings of the play attest to a pure Bergsonism. The most delightful part, however, is the "Revolutionist's Handbook" at the end, which contains Shaw's most scandalous anti-Establishment jibes. For instance, "Do not do unto others as you would them do unto you. They might not have the same taste."

In this title, G.B. Shaw outdoes himself. Not only does he manage to turn up with a Don Juan play in our modern day and age, which is full of cynicism, and doesn't give in to 'medieval' codes of behaviour, but he even manages to turn around the table. Here, the hunter becomes the hunted, forced to flee from his pursued/pursuer. Shaw includes in this play an ingenious conversation between the original 15th century characters, which not only explains about Don Juan's philosophy, but shines a new light upon our own lives, here and today.

The writings of Bernard Shaw in this particulat play, invites to you use your mind to understand life and philosphy. It has such great insight into many aspects of human nature and at the same time is exteremely funny and really takes you into it's pages. The writing has impecable style and this is truly a classic play.

If, like me, you have a problem stomaching most contemporary fiction because it's too sentimental, too generic, too workshopped, too pretentious, too serious, too commercial, too safe, too lacking in irony, too navel-gazingly autobiographical, and worst of all, just too darned wordy -- then you'll love "The Meaning of Lunch." It is a totally and refreshingly original collection of short stories, written by a modern master of the short short. Or are they stories? Maybe they're prose poems? Maybe they're fables? Maybe they're scripture excerpts from a post-modern-toasties McBible? Deadpan, walking a tightrope between the valleys of Comedy and Nightmare, Absurdity and Realism, this book is essentially a mystery, a collection of exquisite miniatures that leaves the mystery of the universe intact.

The Meaning Of Lunch is an imposing anthology of short stories by Dan Leone documenting his undeniable literary talents. The stories include No-Count Man; Chemicals; Swimmer; Team; You Have Chosen Cake; The Story of Breakfast; Life of the Party; Floyd was Something; Horsey's Story; The Moth; Waiting for the Landlord; Teacher; The Firemen; Soberman; Weatherman; Responsibleman; Communications, Wounds and Diseases; Job; Fish Stories; The Magic Bike; Wedding Night; Laundromatman; The Weather; Middleman; Clarence and Cindy; She Said, "What Thing?'; Do You Get Enough Meat?; The Bone; Tennis and Trains; Wife; Mother; Chicken; Outside; A Big Enough Breakfast; Drowner; and the title piece, The Meaning of Lunch.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys well-written, innovative fiction. If I had to chose one word to describe the stories in this collection, it would be 'quirky'. Leone's style is straightforward and engaging, and the stories are funny, yet profound. I believe that no fan of short fiction will be disappointed by this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

PS The author also writes a restaurant review column called 'Cheap Eats' for the SF Bay Guardian.

I first read this book 20 years ago and was awed by the importance of the distribution of grain to the world, and particularly to one-party dictators. Anyone who understands political power knows that a small number of soldiers can control a much larger populace of people i.e. the German SS figured one storm trooper for roughly every 1000 plus people. However, when those people are all hungry at the same time it becomes another matter entirely, as in more difficult.

This book shows how a few big companies control the distribution of grain throughout the world. In so doing they are not prone to accept "aging receivables" from dictators, tin-pot or otherwise. Every political leader must understand the importance of grain or face a coup. Of course, one can find those who have lasted longer than others, but only at the cost of so weakening their state that it ultimately crumbles from internal implosion.

Read this book to understand history and more importantly the origen of our food supply and how it reaches our table.

An excellent work detailing how only a handful of families have controlled the worlds grain trade for centuries. A great piece for families that till the soil, but one that is even more important to the people who live in the city; and have no idea of the power and control that these families wield. Reading this book will show you how these families control the cheap food policies as well as the commodities markets and other products world wide.

I am a captain on Mississippi River towboats. I have pushed millions of tons of grain down the Mississippi River for years. But I never really understood the gobal impact of the world's grain company's until I read this book.

Now I understand the real power behind families such as Cargil and ADM's Andreas.

My musical background inspired me to pick up the book, and the suspenseful plot kept me from putting it down. Music City Confidential showed me a side of country music that I didn't know existed. Dan Tyler has truly proven that he is as talented a novelist as he is a songwriter!

A story of suspense presented with the music business as its background. The characters are colorful and could easily represent well known characters in the music industry. If you're interested in suspense, humor, and irony, this is a must read. The surprise ending is really a surprise!

Dan Tyler has written the quintessential book about music city in the 90's. Instantly engaging and cleverly written, "Music City Confidential" is a must for lovers of Nash Trash.

To me "introduction" books are always an interesting venture. Some
are great experiences, and others are nightmares. Overall this book
was a pretty good experience, although there was a major bump in the
road (and a couple of minor ones). In the chapter summary below I will
go into a little more detail on the positive and negative points.

Chapter Summary:

Chapter 1: Overview of Object Oriented Programming
This chapter starts with a very brief overview of the history of OOP.

Brief is good. It also has brief definitions of OOP characteristics;
Objects, Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance, and
Aggregation. It ends with a blurb about the history of VB.

Chapter 2: Designing OOP Solutions: Identifying the Class Structure &
Chapter 3: Designing OOP Solutions: Modeling the Object Interaction
These chapters go into UML and things like Use Cases, Class Diagrams,
Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, and Activity diagrams. This
seemed exciting to me because I never really get into anything like
this on the job, and I wanted to know a little more about it. Well,
while interesting this ended up being a bump in the road for me.

The Author says to either do the exercises with a UML Modeler you can
download from the net, or creating the diagram by hand. I wanted
to try the tool he used in the examples so I downloaded it. At this
point just let me say that you should be prepared to spend a lot of
time figuring out the tool if you decide to try it. It is not easy.
The directions for doing the exercises don't quite flow with actually
using the tool either. The author does state that it is pretty tricky
to use, but I really feel that the directions for these exercises
should have been better. I managed to get through some of the examples
in chapters 2 and 3 after a couple of hours.

Chapter 4: Designing OOP Solutions: A Case Study
This chapter talks about the process by which one would design an OOP
solution with a case study. The Author goes into good detail about the
actual steps needed, and does a good job explaining the methodology by
which this is accomplished. He also gives some good advice on how to
avoid some of the more common pitfalls of designing an OOP solution.

Chapter 5: Introducing VB .NET
This chapter gives an overview of VB.Net as well as the .Net
Framework. After the overview it gives you a hands on tour of the
Visual Studio .Net IDE. Of course, you will need to have the IDE to do
the tour. This tour shows you many of the screens, option settings,
and menus of Visual Studio .Net. The second exercise shows you the
debugging features of VS .Net. At his point you will need files that
you can download from the Apress web site. I may have missed it, but I
never saw any mention that downloading files was needed for the
exercises. It certainly was not at the beginning of this exercise, and I
think their should be some kind of direction about it present.

Chapter 6: Creating Classes
This chapter is all about classes. How to restrict them, access to
them, creating methods, overloading methods, using constructors to
name some topics. This chapter too has exercises you complete with VS
.Net. They all seemed to work fine for me, and were very easy to
follow.

Chapter 7: Creating Class Hierarchies &
Chapter 8: Implementing Object Collaboration
These chapters discuss things like inheritance, polymorphism,
interfaces, delegation, error handling, shared properties and methods
to new a few. These two chapters also have multiple hands-on
activities so you can continue to learn how to operate VS .Net as well
as learn more concepts of OOP. These activities are well documented,
and I had no problems completing them all without incident.

Chapter 9: OSO Application Revisited: Implementing the Business Logic
This chapter helps bring together all the ideas you were introduced to
in chapter 4. From there it goes into data access by talking about
stored procedures, ADO.net, sqlclient namespace, and many other
details. In order to do the examples you will have to have SQL Server.

Chapter 10: Developing Windows Applications
This is a fun chapter that talks about windows forms, event handlers,
dialog boxes and different types of bound controls. This chapter is
full of hands on activities that are well done.

Chapter 11: Developing Web Applications
This long chapter deals with web forms, server controls, server
control inheritance, server-side event processing, ASP.net, state, and
many other things. It is all about designing an application for the
web. The activities are easy to follow, and work.

Chapter 12: Wrapping Up and Reviewing
A quick summation of what the book covers and some tips on where to
focus next.

Appendix A: Fundamental Programming Concepts
This appendix is basically a primer for beginning programmers.

Appendix B: Exception Handling in VB .NET
A quick 4-page explanation of how exceptions are handled in VB.Net

After finishing this book I had a hard time deciding what grade to
give it. I ended up giving it a 7 out of 10. The many problems I had
with the UML activities using the UML modeler were just too painful
and frustrating to give it higher than a 7.

I will admit that the rest of the book was great and would be very
useful to a beginner trying to become more familiar with VB.Net and
VS.net. The VS.net activities were flawless, and gave good hands-on
experience that beginners would love. The UML material was actually
good as well, but the problems with the modeling tool activities
really influenced my final judging of the book.

In summation, this book is without doubt a beginner's book. Do not buy
this if you already basically familiar with VS .net or UML. If you are a
beginner and do the UML activities with pen and paper I believe it will
be a great learning experience.

This book is very well written. The material is organized well and the information is presented in easily digestable pieces.
The book gives a nice overall background of OOP then shows how to implment it (on a very basic level) in VB.NET.

I highly recommend this book for VB programmers who have never incorporated OOP in their programs.

If you are new to Object-Oriented Programming this is a great introduction the OOP features of VB.NET. Concepts are clearly explained and there is no assumption that you know the jargon used in OOP. A good first book for .NETer newbies who found VB6 classes too complicated or too clumsy to use.

My boys love this book (and the video). Leans toword Arminianism and pre-millennialism, but otherwise complete sound. Christian world view was never this fun and simple!

This book takes each letter of the alphabet and applies it to the story of creation. The book is divided into a young-child's section and also contains a section for older children. This is a great book that makes learning fun. It ties together creation and the alphabet, a plus for learning children!

This book teaches creationism over evolution as well as teaching the letters of the alphabet and rhyming skills. Each page has a huge picture for the little ones so they won't get bored. There are questions and answers as well as exercises to teach adults and children how to defend their faith. You can also color in the pages at the end of the book. This book is a great teaching tool and a must have for your home library!!!

This book covers everything you ever wanted to know(and probably a lot you didn't)about Jazz theory in a mere 50 pages. Intervals, chord structure, modes, substitutions, pentatonic and blues scales, polychords, 5-part harmony: it's all in there. This book is not meant to be a text on improvisation or arranging but merely a reference book. And on that front it succeeds. If Regis called and your friend needed to know how a 13th chord was constructed, you could probably look it up before your 30 seconds ran out. But is it interesting, good, or fun reading? Will it inspire you to pick up your instrument and practice? I don't think so.

I give the book four stars because it does what it sets out to do. It's arranged in an orderly fashion, the chapters cover one thing at a time before moving on, there are quizzes at the end of each chapter to make sure you are getting it. But... I bought the book hoping it would inspire me to delve into some areas I'm weak on and I just can't see it doing that. Plus, it seems a common misconception that all you have to do is learn everything in this book or others like it and you will be the next Charlie Parker. Wrong! Jazz is and always was an imitative art. The theory is used to explain the art but the art didn't come out of the theory. Many of the innovators of jazz did not know half of what's in this book. They learned by listening, assimilating and building upon what came before them. I know 5 times as much about the theory of jazz than my father, yet he can improvise beautiful solos and I run up and down scales.

If you need this book as a reference, fine... plop your money down. I bet it stays on your shelf unless you really need it. But, if you want to improvise , go instead and buy Milt Jackson's CD "Opus De Jazz." You'll learn more from the first song than you can from this or any other book. Plus you'll enjoy it a whole lot more.

The Jazz Language is, quite simply, a theory resource for the jazz improvisor and writer. The book effectively functions as an index of chord change nomenclature & corresponding chords and scales, running the gambit from basic chords and modes to polychords, pentatonic chords and scales, to synthetic chords and scales.

The Jazz Language is to the jazz improvisor and writer as the dictionary is to the novelist: one would not allege that Steinbeck learned to write or was inspired to write by a thorough reading of Noah Webster.

But as a jazz theory text, The Jazz Language is as complete a resource as will be found for the modern jazz musician.

First of all, who's Dun Hurley ? Its Dan Haerle, an incredible Jazz educator.

Up until recently, this was the GREATEST and practically only Jazz Theory book of its type. Concise... written in plain and simple English. Overwhelmed by that college music theory course..? this book was the tool to get you through. Its still just as great, though Mark Levine now has his flashy (and much bulkier) Jazz Theory Book.

What still makes this book stand out is the fact that it covers all the basics, upfront and in plain English. It doesn't delve into stylistics and performance like Mark Levine's book, but will give you a bird's a view of "Jazz Improv and Music Theory 101". If you need a crash course, this book still reigns supreme, and even alongside The Jazz Theory Book, I'd have to say, its a great starting point, and a must have for teachers.

Other recomended readings would be Jimmy Amadea's Harmonic Foundations for Jazz and Pop Music and definitely those Aebersold tapes and play-a-longs !

Dan Fesperman puts a great twist on the standard police procedural by setting "Lie in the Dark" amid the shady urban chaos of a grim, war-weary Sarajevo.

The hero Vlado Petric has the absurd position of being a homicide investigator in a city where death and lawlessness have become the norm. While investigating the killing of a high-ranking official, he struggles against warlord-like black marketeers, renegade generals, ethnic prejudices and the overall dysfunction of his besieged city. It's a fascinating setting for a mystery, and Fesperman uses it well to spin an intrguing tale.

On the downside, the plot is a little too linear, but Fesperman more than makes up for this with a great lead character and evocative prose. And aside from the mystery, we get a worm's-eye, human view of the confusing Bosnian Civil War, which Fesperman covered as a correspondent for the Baltimore Sun.

"Lie in the Dark" is as grim and bleak as noir gets, so any fan of the genre will be sure to enjoy it. Hopefully Fesperman will use this setting again for his next novel.

To the friends of Vlado Petric, his job as homicide detective in Sarajevo during the recent civil war was that "of a plumber fixing leaky toilets in the middle of a flood, an auto mechanic patching tires while the engine burned to a cinder." Wait until the end of the war, they said. All the suspects will be dead by then. Vlado would agree with them, but in his inner mind he knew differently. His job was his last link to the life he knew before the war, before his wife and young daughter became refugees living illegally in Berlin. For now, he moves through the long days, marking the shifting tide of the war by counting the graves being dug in the soccer field below his apartment window and tackling the occasional murder that was not caused by a sniper.

Petric's assignment to investigate the death of a high police official is meant as proof to the local U.N. officials that the city is still functioning. The well-marked trail -- that the official was on the take and was killed when he demanded too much money -- was meant to lead to a quick report and possibly the arrest of some unfortunate. But they didn't reckon on Sarajevo's last honest detective. Petric's investigation leads him deep into the black market economy where cigarettes function as currency, gasoline is sold in glass liter bottles and where men are not above putting the hurt on police officers asking too many questions.

"Lie in the Dark" is a strong mystery debut by Baltimore Sun journalist Dan Fesperman that rediscovers the morally shaky worlds of Graham Greene and John le Carre on the bomb-shattered streets of Sarajevo. Fesperman covered the war and writes about life in Sarajevo with the confidence and knowledge of a native. But he does more than report on what he saw. "Lie" is a beautifully written, sad elegy to a city in agony, and Petric emerges from the pages as a whole man, with his strong curiosity, an aching need for his family, and imbued with the very real fear that one misstep, either on Sniper Alley or while questioning a witness, could lead to an unmarked grave on a soccer field.

A brilliant entry in the "Detective at work while war rages around him" subgenre, this book takes place in war-torn Sarajevo of the mid-1990s. Investigator Petric has managed to avoid being drafted into the Bosnian army due to his job as a police detective. However, since the war started, he's had few interesting cases, as a branch of the interior ministry has expropriated much of his domain. When he is handed a highly sensitive case, all clues lead to an easy conclusion, one that he suspects he is supposed to deliver. As his inquires progresses, the haunting nature of daily life in a city under siege is brought into sharp relief, as is the power of the various gangs controlling commerce, and the corruption of what nominal authorities there are--including the U.N. Fesperman manages to convey a sense of the multiethnic complexities of the city and conflict without becoming too preachy (although an exchange 267-268 comes across as a stilted high-school debate, rather than an actual conversation), as well as the personal depression of individuals. While at times Inspector Petric seems awfully naive and forthcoming in his information, and the ending relies on a somewhat unlikely trick, this is a very satisfying crime novel in a unique setting. Another book with the same setting and premise--somewhat less skillfully executed--is John Fullerton's "The Monkey House."