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Very helpful tool.......2007-05-09
This book will help you a lot in your dissertation as show you how to go thru all steps need it to finish and succeed in your dissertation
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The Good Supervisor engages readers in dialogue and active reflection on the strategies of effective supervision of PhDs, postgraduate and undergraduate research. Accessibly written, it encourages supervisors to reflect on and enhance their research supervision practice with a diversity of students on a variety of research projects: Postgraduate and undergraduate levels, international and distance students; practice and professional research; research leading to creative process and products/creations; the PhD by publication; supervising your colleagues; interpersonal skills; managing diversity in learning styles, gender, age and culture. The book is also useful for students undertaking research. There is special focus on research skills development.and on supporting students through and beyond the examination process.
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Researching and Writing a Dissertation: for Business Students
Colin Fisher
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A must have!.......2006-08-28
Don't be mislead by the 'business students' part of the title: anyone writing a dissertation or thesis will benefit from this book.
The book is based on the following six-phase model:
Phase 1: Choosing a topic and designing the project
Phase 2: Writing a critial literature review
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Phase 4: Collecting and analysing research material
Phase 5: Interpreting research material and drawing conclusions
Phase 6: Framing arguments and writing up
Of all of the books that I've purchased to help me with my masters' thesis in computing, this is the one that I refer to most often. In my opinion this book would also make a good text for a masters' level research methods course.
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The Financial System under Stress: An Architecture for the New World Economy, 1
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The international system is largely governed by institutions established by the Bretton Woods Committee in 1945.
The Financial System Under Stress puts forth an agenda for a new system of international economic institutions to fit the changes in international relations. Marc Uzan, Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, includes an analysis of the role of the Bretton Woods institutions and their relations with the newly created World Trade Organization as well as a discussion of the search for world economic governance.
LContributers: Marc Uzan, Harold James, Jurgen(place an umlot over the u) von Hagen, Reimut Jochimsen, Ronald I. McKinnon, David D. Hale, Paul De Grauwe, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Zhiyuan Cui, Chris Stals, Jorge Braga de Macedo and Herve Carre )place an accent grave over the final e in both names)
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The New Architecture of the International Monetary System (Open Economies Review)
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Two years ago, the Guido Carli Association, in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Italia, charged a group of distinguished economists to examine the problems created by the unsatisfactory functioning of the International Monetary System. The two resulting conferences were sponsored by the Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (CESIFIN) and the Permanent Advisory Committee on the Euro and the Dollar (PACE&D). Their research had a two-fold aim. The first was an examination of the basic function of the International Monetary System with a special focus on the role the Euro would and should have. The second was the preparation of a list of recommendations on how to resolve the problems, financial problems in particular, affecting the entire world community. Last year, the group focused on efforts taking place in diverse financial institutions and universities to construct what has been called the `New International Financial Architecture'. This group considered the legal problems arising from European and international integration and, more generally, from the new architecture of the International Monetary System. This book, The New Architecture of the International Monetary System, is the final result of their efforts. It will be an invaluable resource for academics, professionals, and students alike.
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Are you burning brightly-or burning out-in your spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional life? Do you find yourself being torn between work and family? Between what you have to do and what you want to do? In Burn Brightly Without Burning Out, Richard K. Biggs examines twenty delicate contrasts we all face and urges readers to gradually improve the balance between work and the other aspects of life. Filled with examples and exercises, each brief chapter reveals timeless truths, offers practical application tips, and issues a call to action."I love the big message of this small book," writes John Maxwell in the foreword. "Whether you're struggling to find work/life balance, or seeking to better the quality of life you now enjoy, Richard can help."
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Leadership Text/.......2003-10-08
Dick Biggs' book has something for all of us, from leaders in our military, to industry, and our society. Every parent should have this book because it lays out what is important in life, read relationships, and how to achieve same. We are the leaders of our children, and Dick makes very stronge leadership points. This book is divided into twenty contrasts of life, twenty short chapters loaded with idea, thoughts, and recomendations that we need to study and commit upon. The first chapter, Image and Integrity, is the perfect start. Without integrity we don't amount to much, but too many of us today are only concerned with image. In this chapter, "grit" is found in the word integrity. This book is small, 5 X 7.5 inches, and the chapters are 4 to six pages that makes for handy reading. Read a chapter with your morning coffee, while waiting for the rest of the members to arrive at a meeting, and at other times when you have ten minutes for good thoughs about where you are going. Most importantly, if you take this work seriously, you can determine who you really are and how others know you. We all need to think about Richard Biggs' words, they will help us and our society. This is a great gift for those people you love.
Totally Life Changing.......2003-07-02
A friend chose this book and left it at my house. I ran out of books for the moment and picked it up thinking it was another one of those...
How absolutely overwhelmed I was at my age (73) to learn so much in so few pages. Much of what he has said to help guide people to a fuller, richer life, I had already learned and applied, but none of us have ever reached the point we can't learn or see something a bit differently.
My life changed drastically when health dictated this master workaholic was ordered to shut down her thriving business overnight or else...For 2 years I have been under recontruction to learn to be at peace in every situation. I can see, however, how to start over again now that my health is back and the doors are slowly opening to be useful again to myself and the Lord but this time I am going to keep this book right along with my Bible so I will put into practice the principles Richard K. Biggs has put forth. For whatever years I have left I intend to do it right and be a blessing to all I meet because of these excellent guidelines.
A BOOK FOR LIFE.......2003-04-15
They say in five years, you will become the average of the books you have read and the people you have associated with. For two-and-a-half years, I've had the privelege of associating with Dick Biggs as a professional speaker--and now I've been able to read his book. Both have become indispensible resources for me.
Dick is respected among professional speakers for being a man who walks his talk. Reading his latest book, BURN BRIGHTLY WITHOUT BURNING OUT, is almost as good as knowing the man--it will provide very practical assistance if you want to achieve great things in your professional life while building balance into your personal life.
Are you a reader? Then you'll really enjoy this book. Are you working on developing the reading habit? Then this book will get you hooked. If Amazon allowed a SIX-star review, this one would get SEVEN!
"Burning Brightly without Burning Out".......2003-02-26
"Burning Brightly without Burning Out" is a breath of fresh air to those pressed by the demands of life. Besides being easy to read, the content is straightforward and potent. With so many voices calling for our attention, it's wonderful to have some basic principles by which to evaluate our commitments. Bigg's solid foundation gives his life direction and purpose. Instead of trying to do it "all" half-heartedly, Biggs has discovered the secret of doing a few priorities well. Thanks for the lessons well-learned!
Awesome!.......2003-02-25
Outstanding book that'll nurture your heart and nourish your mind. A must read! It's an awesome book, and I highly recommend it.
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Don't let the urgent matters of work sap your energy for the few important matters of a lifetime. Develop a keen sense of urgency to free up more time to plan and act upon the important matters that shape the rest of your life.
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Over 140 delicious recipes shown in 400 glorious color photogrpahs, including step-by-step illustrated instructions for guaranteed success in preparation and cooking.
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As a direct result of economic globalization and computerized trading, today's professional stock, bond, and futures traders face a career-making--or breaking--challenge: to track and immediately comprehend the bewildering place of market, volume, and price changes, then some how profit from this unexpected volatility. In Smarter Trading distinguished author and trader Perry Kaufman helps harried financial pros cope with financial market uncertainty by creating a ``robust'' trading model that adapts quickly to market changes and yields stronger, more predictable results. And he shows them how to make sense of the current barrage of sophisticated, hi-tech trading technologies--neural networks, fuzzy logic, expert systems, chaos, and fractals, to name a few--and align these weapons with their own trading strategies.
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Good but not great.......2007-01-28
This book had some good information, but it was clear that it was written by a rocket scientist. The book had a lot of great information, but it was not an easy read, nor did it flow well. At times, it appeared the author would contradict himself... but I'm still not sure. I'm glad I read the book, but it will not help me in my trading.
OK but no cigar.......2005-12-23
I bought this book from Amazon in 1998 so I probably bought it on the basis of the only review at the time (which gave it 5 stars). It has remained idle on my shelf from the day it arrived until last week when I found reason to have a closer look into it. I was not particulary impressed. The book seems more dated than merely 10 years.
Another review mentions the " sections on "neural networks", "fuzzy logic", and "expert systems" are basically filler material and of not much practical use". I agree. I also believe that there is more filler material than that. There is, for example, a Fortran program proudly trotted out which allegedly creates a "shock-adjusted price series". I doubt that many readers would be interested in that. Also, inexplicably, the spreadsheet formulas are from Lotus and Quattro (none for Excel).
I got the impression that Perry wanted to write a book to impress others with his nerdiness, but when it came to really gritty detail (like what he might have found that actually provided an edge) either he was holding something back or he simply didn't know. All the formulas and technobabble in the world are to little avail if we ultimately cant find grip where the rubber hits the road. I haven't been able to find anything in the disjointed discussions on market noise and stoploss that I can actually apply to a practical end.
If the main value in the book is about risk management I think the material in any of Ralph Vince's books (from where Kaufman sources some of his best material) would be more insightful.
I'm sorry I couldn't be more generous, Perry.
Stop Loss vs Risk.......2003-08-18
The person who said that Kaufman does not believe in stop losses is quite INCORRECT. The whole purpose of this book is to weigh a stop loss against a possible incorrectly placed volatile sale.
If anyone trades with a regular basis they know the horror of being 'stopped out' because of volatile price swings. Kaufman helps by correclty analyzing the benefits of stops vs losses showing how mechanized systems for stops have their own pitfalls.
Kaufman's whole treatise on RISK is really worth the price of the book. Understanding risk and it's effect on your psychology is an important and very valuable treatise. Kaufman does a very good job on the subject. Also of benefit, is the Adaptive Moving Average algorithm. While this is also part of Metastock
having the formula is invaluable for those of us who want to modify it.
The weakest part is the computerized system analysis at the end is old and rather simplistic; I would not recommend it. Some of the ideas are interesting but Pardo's book is much much better.
Computerized System Development.......2002-03-13
This was a good read on trading methodology and system development. The best concept is that of the "unable" trade, which is where your system gives a buy signal but you can not get your order filled. This is a double edged sword in that you would get filled on trades where a buy was signaled, but the trade results in a loss and not on trades that would have been highly profitable. The end result is hypothetical returns that are higher than they should be. Probably why so many successful paper systems fail when applied.
Now, aside from the trading methodology which is well written, there is a lot and I mean a lot of Programming Language in the text. I don't want to take away from the concepts which were great, but if you are not planning on writing a computerized trading program you may want to search elsewhere. On the other hand, if you are working on a "Black Box" trading system, I would highly recommend this text.
Kaufman dislikes stop loss?.......2001-08-25
Kaufman is one of my favorite author. But in this book he seems to have an idea that stop loss is not a good thing! I really cannot agree with him. Except this point the book is quite good. But the other book by the same author contains similar contents. I would perfer the later.
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Understand Shares in a Day
Ian Bruce
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Understand Shares in a Day
Ian Bruce
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This enlightening guide, now in an expanded and updated edition, shows inexperienced investors how the share market really works. With concise explanations, it covers: the types of shares available; why share prices fluctuate; how to read the financial pages; how to buy and sell shares; how to select a broker; how to build a portfolio; how risk can be spread; how technical analysis is used to predict share movements; how to value shares; and much more.
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Future of the Ibc Market
Brian Dixon
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The mind set that net worth is based on wealth is corrected........1999-08-23
There has been a lot of damage from the view that wealth equalssuccess. There are much better measures of success like what kind ofmarks we leave on people and the environment because of our existence. Our positive imprint is a much greater measure of success than money. This book shows a way to derail corruption that grows from greed and the view of wealth as success.
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Taxing Wages
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Taxing Wages 2001-2002
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This annual publication specifies family benefits paid as cash transfers. Amounts of taxes and benefits are detailed program by program, for eight household types which differ by income level and household composition. Results reported include the marginal and effective tax burden for one- and two-earner families, and total labour costs of employers. This year's issue includes a Special feature entitled "Part-time Work and Taxing Wages
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Overview
-1. Introduction
-2. Review of Results for 2006
Special Feature: The Tax Treatment of Minimum Wages
-1. Introduction
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-3. After-Tax Values of Minimum Wages
-4. Minimum Labour Costs
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Part 1. International Comparisons
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Part II. Tax Burden Trends, 2000-2006
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Part III. Country Details, 2006 (Descriptions of the tax systems of each country)
Part IV. Methodology and Limitations
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--2. Calculation of Gross Wage Earnings
--3. Estimating Gross Wage Earnings in 2006
--4. Coverage of Taxes and Benefits
--5. Taxpayer Characteristics
--6. Calculation of Personal Income Taxes
--7. State and Local Income Taxes
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--12. Payable Tax Credits
--13. The Calculation of Marginal Tax Rates
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A Note on the Tax Equations
Annex A. Tax Levels and Tax Structures, 1990-2004
Annex B. Source of Earnings Data
Annex C. Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power Parities
Annex C. Historical Series under the Old Definition of Average Worker, 1979-2004
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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Courts have spoken: are your expense reimbursement plans in good shape?(Taxing Issues)
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Taxing Wages
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- A Sorrowful Life
- JQA was his own worst enemy.
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Paul C. Nagel
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A Sorrowful Life.......2004-04-12
Paul Nagel lists as his subtitle "A Public Life, A Private Life." He has done a masterful job of giving us a picture of our sixth president of the US. So why only four stars? - it was depressing. And maybe that is not the fault of the author if John Quincy Adams' personal life was as neurotic as Nagel portrays. It is hard to believe that someone with such a poor self image could rise so high. When I finished the book I was relieved to be done with it - not because of the author's superb research and writing - but because of the portrayal of a waste of a man's life who could have done so much.
JQA was his own worst enemy........2001-11-24
His father was disliked, disagreeable & opinionated. According to Paul Nagel, JQA was all this & more. He was deeply neurotic. Yet he is the most eminent man of his time. He could never live up to to the expectations he had set for himself. It is doubtful he knew himself what they were. Mr. Nagel chronicles his life as a student, scholar, legislator, ambassador, Secretary of State & President. Listing President of the United States last is apt since it is by far the least of his accomplishments. Actually it was an abject failure. His youth was spent in Europe as a scholar, student & interpreter for the Russian royal court. This made him highly unsuited to do anything respectable once he returned to America. He became an attorney & hated it. He turned to politics & found he was good at it. Although it would be political suicide to admit it then or even to day, the happiest days of his life appeared to be spent in Europe, speaking French. First, as a teenager in Holland and later as Ambassador to Britain with his English wife, Louisa.
Nagle version of Abigail Adams is quite different from McCollough's version in his book. Whereas she was a loving, selfless, indespensible wife to John Adams, she appears to be a meddling, insensitive, cruel & guilt inducing mother & mother-in-law. We know so much about JQA because, just like his father, he kept a 50 year diary of his life, leaving more information on his life & times than the next eight presidents combined. Highly recommended reading or listening.
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Searching Sand Crabs in the Dark: A Journey Inward
Terry Douglas
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A New Yorker by birth, Terry has gathered forty years of international experience in both the private sector and government where he resided in Poland, India, Lebanon, Berlin, Saudi Arabia, and most recently Afghanistan. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, East and West Europe, and East and South Asia on assignment.
His poetry reflects an inner journey that is anchored in centering prayer - a prayer of silence and meditation. He counts among his guides Meister Eckhardt, John Main, Bede Griffiths, Jalaluddin Rumi, and Thomas Merton. His many years residing abroad fueled his curiosity as he explored Buddhist, Sufi, Shamanic, and Zen spirituality.
Terry has balanced his wide-ranging career with the responsibilities of raising five children. He is currently responsible for a grandson, Chris, whom he adopted and lives with him. He regularly visits his five grown children and ten grandchildren located along the East Coast. For pleasure, Terry can be seen cavorting with dolphins from his ocean kayak launched from his Sandbridge, Virginia home.
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Searching In The Dark
Michael V. Williams
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Soular Eclipse: Searching for Light in Dark Times
P. J. Hermanson
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Are we really alone? A couple is out of work and in despair. Gradually they realize God is sending help through a band of misfit angels from the Heavenly Happy Hour Bar: Larry Libido, who holds their marriage together; Attila the Honey, who sprinkles sleep dust on them; Flit, who takes ADD meds; Rookie, who saves them from a rattlesnake, and Transit, the Angel of Death. As the couple searches for light and dark times, they discover that life is a drama played out on two stages: on Earth where we fight fear, and the invisible realm of Heaven where angels battle on our behalf. This wacky, touching story will bend your mind as you bounce between two worlds…and find light for your life. Includes ideas to throw a Soular Eclipse party and discuss the book.
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Right in time for the Grateful Dead's 40th anniversary, eccentric bass player extraordinaire Phil Lesh has delivered fans a most welcome gift: his autobiography. There are many books out there about the Dead told from the perspective of roadies, journalists, third party observers, and fans. However, with the exceptions of Jerry Garcia's ramblings in Garcia: A Signpost to New Space and Conversations With the Dead, Lesh's Searching for the Sound is the first time a founding member of America's favorite band tells their own story of what it was like inside the Grateful Dead. And what a wonderful, strange tale it is.
Phil Lesh, considered the most academic of the group due to his avant-garde classical composition training, literate mind, and passion for the arts, decided to write his story himself. Written without the crutch of a ghostwriter, Searching for the Sound might be considered disjointed in places, but overall it comes across as conversational, intimate, informative, and candid (particularly regarding topics of drug use and death). If you are familiar with the band and their extended family, their history, the sixties' musical milestones and influences and all the band's famous tales (the Garcia/ Lesh "silent" confrontation, being busted on Bourbon Street, the Wall of Sound), you may be a little disgruntled there is not much new here in the way of content. However, what is "new" and totally satisfying is Phil's warm, optimistic perspective on the many events that helped shape his life. As described by Lesh, his life's journey, much like the Dead's music, is "a [series] of recurring themes, transpositions, repetitions, unexpected developments, all converging to define form that is not necessarily apparent until it's ending has come and gone." For the many fans who enjoyed the fruits of his life pursuit of sonic explorations, Searching for the Sound is a welcome addition to their Dead library. --Rob Bracco
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Right in time for the Grateful Dead's 40th anniversary, eccentric bass player extraordinaire Phil Lesh has delivered fans a most welcome gift: his autobiography. There are many books out there about the Dead told from the perspective of roadies, journalists, third party observers, and fans.However, with the exceptions of Jerry Garcia's ramblings in Garcia: A Signpost to New Space and Conversations With the Dead, Lesh's Searching for the Sound is the first time a founding member of America's favorite band tells their own story of what it was like inside the Grateful Dead. And what a wonderful, strange tale it is. Phil Lesh, considered the most academic of the group due to his avant-garde classical composition training, literate mind, and passion for the arts, decided to write his story himself. Written without the crutch of a ghostwriter, Searching for the Sound might be considered disjointed in places, but overall it comes across as conversational, intimate, informative, and candid (particularly regarding topics of drug use and death). If you are familiar with the band and their extended family, their history, the sixties' musical milestones and influences and all the band's famous tales (the Garcia/ Lesh "silent" confrontation, being busted on Bourbon Street, the Wall of Sound), you may be a little disgruntled there is not much new here in the way of content. However, what is "new" and totally satisfying is Phil's warm, optimistic perspective on the many events that helped shape his life. As described by Lesh, his life's journey, much like the Dead's music, is "a [series] of recurring themes, transpositions, repetitions, unexpected developments, all converging to define form that is not necessarily apparent until it's ending has come and gone." For the many fans who enjoyed the fruits of his life pursuit of sonic explorations,Searching for the Sound isa welcome addition to their Dead library. --Rob Bracco
Customer Reviews:
Moonlight Rain.......2007-05-31
I FINALLY finished this book. It took two or three false starts (i.e., read up to page fifty and stop; wait a month or two, read up to page 50 and stop) but 6 days in the hospital (nothing life threatening) gave me ample time to finish the book. Fascinating- yes. Filled with interesting facts- yes. Reads more a history text book than the autobiography of a rock star- yes. I kept referring to a dictionary ever time (frequently) Phil used a word that I had never heard before. One cool thing is Phil refers to composers (Stockhausen, Berio, etc.) that most Deadheads would enjoy. (BTW, I've been hip to Stockhausen for several years. If you think the Grateful Dead invented "Space", you are wrong.) The same goes for references to books he has read. Basically, it's a slow read but very interesting. What I want to know is with all of the LSD he took, how he was able to remember tiny details from 1966?
Bass-ically where its at!.......2007-05-14
As a bassist myself, I relate to Lesh's writing and train of thought. He documents being a part of Grateful Dead as more of an ironic string of occurances than a drugged out trip. His book is incredibly personal while he discusses such moments as learning an instrument overnight, attending classical concerts while on tour, loosing friends, and finding the inner peace in chaos. He is funny, sad, and everything in between. Although some of the technical parts get a bit too detailed for those unfamiliar with sound technology, one can understand how dedicated he was to his craft aside from the music and lyrics. I liked how Lesh pointed no fingers, rather pushed towards the positives in everyone. I would recommend reading this book with Rock Scully's Living With the Dead because they follow the same format and share similar situations. Lesh's however comes across more intimately humorous. I strong urge readers to dig into this book!
Interesting and Illuminating.......2007-03-26
I've never been to a Dead concert, but once had a roommate in college who'd recorded about 100 of them, which he constantly played, so I've certainly heard my share of Live Dead. Everyone w/ a passing knowledge of the Dead knows that their best stuff was live, not studio. Just an observation that has nothing to do with the Lesh book. It's an interesting read and Lesh is an interesting character. Especially funny was how he got out of the army:
Army Doctor: "read the bottom line on the eye chart" Lesh: "I can't see anything" Army Doctor: "You can't see the bottom line of the chart?" Lesh: "What chart?" Army Doctor: "The chart on the wall" Lesh: "What wall?" Lesh certainly is thoughtful and observant. A good journey through the history of the Dead and sometimes quite moving.
Good 'Ol G.D........2007-01-21
My brother got this book signed by Phil himself. Another biography of the Grateful Dead. Written by One of the band members. It's good. Phils good. Check it out.
Searching for a Ghost Writer.......2006-11-23
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Not by the writing. In fact, some of the prose is quite unnerving, such as "if Mickey had been born Native American, his name would have been `Pushing the Envelope.'" Although he did remember the concept of foreshadowing from High School English, and he makes of point of highlighting all of the ominous signs of the chaos to come. But overall I was surprised, because, unlike many musicians' autobiographies I've read (for example, Miles Davis), Phil Lesh does not come off as a brittle narcissist. He does not use this opportunity as a format for squabbling, for giving his side of the story. He actually comes off as a thoughtful, sincere guy, and someone willing to take the time to reflect on the past.
I was interested to hear his take on the disintegration of the Grateful Dead in the eighties and nineties. His take on it was not unlike my own. He takes some ownership for his role, admitting that the Grateful Dead had become too large of an organization, too much of a money-maker with too many dependents. The band had to keep up an outrageous tour schedule, despite the obvious decline in the quality of the music and the painfully obvious deterioration of Jerry Garcia.
He makes a note-worthy observation about the parallel process between the band and the audience. At first, it was a bunch of guys with different musical backgrounds, but all with open minds, all in the right place at the right time, who used drugs to expand the individual consciousness of each member as well as the group consciousness in step with the counter-cultural revolution happening around them. They pushed boundaries but they also communicated with each other through the music, with novel sounds erupting organically from their collective experiments. But the drugs that fueled their creativity would also eventually isolate each of them from each other and from themselves. As alcoholism and heroin addiction destroyed the sense of community within the band, the dead head scene would suffer as well. By the end, prior to Jerry's death, you had a band on stage pretending they were playing together, pretending to play with even a fraction of their potential. And as an audience, we pretended too. Or at least those of us who still believed we were there for the music pretended, and the frat boys just came for the party. And they continued to sell out stadiums, while shows were marred by police stings, gate crashers, riots, tear gas, and death threats.
When I was catching shows, late eighties early nineties, you would hear two different kinds of fans as you filed out of one of their 2 in 3 mediocre shows. The Pollyanna-heads would be glowing, talking about how Jerry lifted his arm at one point, or almost rocked his shoulders with the beat, "Yeah, he was really into it tonight." The more jaded heads would just be complaining, complaining about the lackluster set-list, complaining the Jerry continued to tune himself down in the mix, that he was quitting on solos, that Bobby was trying to steal the show again. Both types annoyed me. I like to tell people that I quit going to shows because I realized that the fans who supported the Dead were enablers, burying our heads in the sand. But in reality, that's a post-hoc, grandiose explanation. I quit going because I was paying $35 for tickets a mile away from the stage, to see dishearteningly bad performances, while the drunken frat boys all around me didn't even know enough to get quiet during those increasingly rare moments of musical transcendence. The breakdown was complete, and for both band and audience, going to show meant little more than participating in a ritual.
Phil spends the most time on the early years. That's a good thing. That's the most interesting part. When they were actually hippies, living like hippies, and things were just starting to happen. Woodstock and Altamont are recounted not just as events but as contrasting symbols of everything that was good about the hippie scene and everything that was wrong about it. Ultimately it is a commentary on human nature, the capacity to love and experience ecstasy versus the tendency to retreat into hostility and hatred.
Like I said, Phil owns his role in it all, admits to mistakes, and doesn't spend a lot of time defending himself or trying to bolster his reputation. The only part where it felt like he had a little bit of a self-serving agenda was when he talked about the different directions he wanted to push the band, more experimentation with exotic time signatures for example. But even then, he talks about it in terms of lessons learned. He realizes he misread the mood of the band, they were content to play their songs and didn't want Phil as martinet. I think Phil is giving an honest account here. If you listen to the post-Dead music coming from all the living members of the Dead, it is Phil and Friends who continue to be the most exploratory. Though not the most charismatic of a stage presence, he may have been the biggest "believer" of the bunch, the most devout in his quest for the divine through the psychedelic. Along those lines, it's also interesting hearing Phil weave in and out of magical thinking. He's often grounded and very down-to-Earth, but moments later can go off on a tangent about any kind of mystical spirituality that he can tie in to the moment.
It's worth a read. Not great writing but good enough, readable, and will certainly be of interest to any fan of the band. The book ends with the recent history, the fall-out from Jerry's death, some of the ugly fighting over who owns the rights to what, and ultimately Phil's hepatitis and liver transplant. He really does end up sounding like a likeable guy, the grinning musical little brother of Jerry, the classically-trained marching band nerd, and the survivor who gets a second chance at the gift of being a father.
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Title: Soul searching in San Jose. (attempts by the San Jose Mercury News to bring closure to the controversy generated by the "Dark Alliance" series in August, 1996)
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Date: July 1, 1997
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: v36
Issue: n2
Page: p38(6)
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