books about: terms

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On Talking Terms With Dogs: Calming Signals

Turid Rugaas

Dogwise Publishing, 2005

Fantasically great
I cannot believe how much this book helps me communicate with my reactive dog. I have a small library of dog books and by far this little book outshines them all. I also foster dogs and this helps me get acquainted with all the different breeds and the author is ...

The Complete Guide to Investing in Short Term Trading: How to Earn High Rates of Returns Safely

Alan Northcott

Atlantic Publishing Company (FL), 2008

Day Trading Made Easy
The Complete Guide to Investing In Short Term Trading by Alan Northcott is a great tool for the novice and seasoned trader alike. It gives real life examples of how traders have won big, lost their shirt and everything in between. The author is much like a personal ...

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and ...

Kate L. Turabian

University Of Chicago Press, 1996

She Sets Her Own Standard
You can set your own standard and demand respect when you follow this style of writing. It will make you shine at any university.

Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ...

Alex Wilmerding

Aspatore Books, 2006

Short, concise & useful
This short text is concise, easily read and a most useful tool. If you need to understand term sheets, the short time it will take to read and digest this volume will be well invested. Term Sheets & Valuations is also an excellent source of reference. It gives an ...

Black's Law Dictionary (Pocket), 3rd Edition

Thomson West, 2006

Every law student needs one
This has been the best investment I've made since I started law school. It makes my life so much easier when it comes to reading homework assignments. Every law student should have one.

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001

Brilliant
Does an excellent job of recounting the events and the people involved in the rise and fall of the hedge fund. The length of the novel is short enough to make it possible to read it in one go, the pace is fast enough, with none of the detours that authors are sometimes ...

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for ...

T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II

Benbella Books, 2006

IGNORE NEGATIVE REVIEWERS - THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BOOK
This book has two themes: Food choices can create a healthier body, and there's a bunch of folks that have vested interest in keeping us from knowing this truth. It is evident that man has survived by being a scavenger, but this study suggests that some diets are ...

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Rolf Potts

Villard Books, 2002

Motivational, Informative, and Insightful
After travelling through South America for seven weeks I was inspired to plan a larger-scale open ended world trip. I read this book a couple of years ago as I was working to save up the necessary travel funds and I have read many other travel books like it. Now a ...

Understanding Health Policy (Lange)

Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach

McGraw-Hill Medical, 2004

Outstanding overview of healthcare system in USA
This is probably the best single text I have read on healthcare policy issues in the USA. The books addresses every relevant aspect of our system. Unlike other excellent books, such as Dr. Arnold Relman's book, A Second Opinion, which analyzes the system, then makes ...

Term Limits

Vince Flynn

Pocket Star, 1999

Top Notch
Great Book, Vince Flynn is the king of the political thriller, then in his other books once Mitch Rapp is introduced, all great Great Great reads, I highly recommend them, I have read all nine of his books

The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

Ross C. Murfin, Supryia M. Ray

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006

comprehensive and lucid
This glossary is one of the best I have seen, combining both exhaustive and detailed enteries as well as a wide range of coverage. Literary periods from Old English to the Postmodern are discussed in detail - the article on postmodernism is almost six pages. Critical ...

Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew

Elissa K. Meyrich

St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

Sew inspired
I bought this book for my daughter and she has taken to sewing extremely fast. She's so proud of what she makes. Her enthusiasm for sewing now is almost too much for me to keep up with. This book was was easy for her to understand and the illustrations were very clear. ...

Interviewing for Solutions

Peter De Jong, Insoo Kim Berg

Brooks Cole, 2007

great introduction to SF
In the year 2000, this book was my first acquaintance with the solution focused approach to helping people. I had heard from a collegue (who is also a management coach) about solution focused working and, although I thought it sounded promising, I remained a bit ...

Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return

Mary Ellen Geist

Springboard Press, 2008

From the heart
Mary Ellen leaves her successful radio broadcast journalism career to earn the real Pulitzer Prize of life with this frank account of helping her mother deal with her father's Alzheimer's disease. Becoming a caretaker is challenging more than one can imagine, ...

The Language Of Yoga: Complete A to Y guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants

Nicolai Bachman

Sounds True, 2005

Truly a "must" for non-Indian yoga teachers
I can't believe I have never reviewed this before! I've been a yoga teacher for - oh yikes, way too long to admit to but until I listened to the CDs that come with this book, I had been pronouncing things incorrectly. I guess my teachers learned the wrong ...