books about: cycles

books about: cycles

books:

Cycles

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles

Harvest Books, 2002

A powerful and moving piece!
~I had to read OEDIPUS REX for my pre-IB sophomore English class, feeling not too happy with another dull, lengthy Greek play (we had to read THE ODYSSEY last year, and it got really redundant). But Sophocles' play...wow, it's totally different! The characters are so ...

A Rulebook for Arguments

Anthony Weston

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2000

Makes a terrible doorstop, so you may as well read it...
Everyone needs critical thinking. But who wants to learn it? Most books drone on and on about this or that rule with esoteric Latin terms seeping from every page. In such cases, critical thinking would suggest astute readers close the book and convert it to a doorstop. ...

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis

William Bonner, Addison Wiggin

Wiley, 2006

The shock value of this true book makes it a gripper and an epic classic
THE EMPIRE BUSTING BUBBLES; Empire of Debt by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin Page 48; in 1989, "American democratic imperialism triumphed unmistakably against its adversary-the Evil Empire. The Good Empire was the last one standing; God had shined its light on us and ...

Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles

Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, ...

Vertigo, 2003

The plot thickens and the fun continues
The first book in Brian K. Vaughan's Y: THE LAST MAN set up the premise: all the males in the world of every species have died except for loser named Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand. In the chaos that follows American society is oppressed by totalitarian ...

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition

William Bridges

Da Capo Press, 2004

Bridging a unfathomable Gap in our life from work to retirement
It is now almost fifteen years since I entered into the challenging world of retirement. In no time at all, I found myself emulating the comment of another retiree to the effect that he was busier in retirement than he ever had been! At one of my retirement dinner ...

The Expanded Family Life Cycle: Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives (An Allyn & Bacon Classics ...

Betty Carter, Monica McGoldrick

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

Decent textbook hindered by political biases
This textbook is a decent summary of the various family life cycle issues. However, the authors' obvious political biases and leanings interfere with a balanced perspective and with the content of the book. Several people in my master's level class found the book to ...

The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and ...

Todd Downs

Rodale Books, 2005

bicycle repair manual
This is an excellent guide to bicycle repair and maintenance, even for the novice and not-so mechanically inclined. Have fun and save valuable dollars in the process.

When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change

Mohamed El-Erian

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Excellent 5- to 10-year Outlook
It's hard to imagine someone having more cred's than Mohamed El-Erian or having a better understanding of trends in the global economy, and as articulate. For those reasons alone, it's hard for investors, large or small, to justify NOT spending a little with with Mr. ...

Experiencing the Lifespan

Janet Belsky

Worth Publishers, 2006

A wonderful, informative journey through the lifespan!
The last century has witnessed a phenomenal change in the human lifespan. In 1900, in the industrialized West, the average person's life expectancy was not quite 50 years, while in the year 2006 it stood at a record high of 77.6. Thus, in one singular century a full ...

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet

Elaine Gloria Gottschall

Kirkton Press, 1994

From no digestion to a normal life
I bought this book because I was no longer digesting food normally. Nearly everything I ate was passing through unchanged, and I was very concerned that I would be unable to work, enjoy going out for a normal life, not to mention what may happen to my health if I ...

Normal Family Processes, Third Edition: Growing Diversity and Complexity

The Guilford Press, 2002

Since its original publication two decades ago, this widely adopted text has been acclaimed as a milestone in the clinical literature. Surveying the vast diversity of family forms, life challenges, and value systems in our rapidly changing society, the volume has helped redefine the boundaries of "normal family life" for generations of students ...

Nutrition Through the Life Cycle

Judith E. Brown, Janet Isaacs, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2007

No complaints
I just wish the book was a little more up to date and interesting (not the fault of seller)

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Guide to Motorcycling Excellence: Skills, Knowledge, and Strategies for ...

Motorcycle Safety Foundation

Whitehorse Press, 2005

One of the best books for those interested in riding a motorcycle.
Let me start off by saying that this book does not bypass taking the MSF (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) riding class in anyway for a budding motorcycle rider. If you want to ride a motorcycle then the MSF course is a must period. The MSF class teaches you so much while ...

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

Epic History Made Readable
This three-volume, 9-book set is, believe it or not, a *prequel* to his previous massive effort, Cryptonomicon. In the Baroque Cycle we find the ancestors of no less than NINE characters of that modern day tale of cryptography. But the Baroque trilogy covers much ...

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

Neal Stephenson, 2004

Read the first? Don't give up yet!
So you've read the first, and you can't help noticing that many people quit on the Baroque trilogy at that point. Should you keep going? I guess it depends. This is a trilogy that is after enormous ideas. Where a straight history would focus on finance or economics ...