County Business Patterns United States, 1999 (County Business Patterns United States)

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The growth of national economic regulation and the process of globalisation increasingly expose international transactions to an array of regulations from different jurisdictions. These developments often contribute to widespread international contractual failures when parties claim the incompatibility of their contractual obligations with regulatory laws.

International disputes of such a nature inevitably involve both public and private law and raise questions about jurisdiction, applicable contract law, economic regulations and their legitimate international application. The author challenges conventional means of dispute resolution and argues for an interdisciplinary approach whereby disciplines such as international economic law, conflict of laws, contract law and economic regulations are functionally united to resolve international and multifaceted regulatory disputes. He identifies the normative foundation of contract law as an important determinant in this process, contending that contract law is essentially neutral and underpinned by the concept of corrective justice, while economic regulations are mainly prompted by distributive justice.

Applying this corrective/distributive justice dichotomy to international contracts, the author critically assesses major conflict of laws approaches such as `proper law', `the Rome Convention' and `governmental interest analysis', which could disregard either public interest or private rights. The author, taking these theories into account, proposes an alternative two-dimensional interest analysis approach. He tests the viability of this approach with reference to arbitral awards and court decisions in various jurisdictions and concludes that it uniquely fits into the structure of international commercial arbitration. In adopting this approach arbitrators would take into account both corrective and distributive justice, and to the extent that corrective justice prevails, would be able to avert a total failure of the contract.

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this is one of the best books in this title.......2001-10-23

international contracts is very wide context which this book concenterate on one of its important branches so i hope it will be usefull for every law related person

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Leading Consciously addresses the issues of motivation, decision-making, communication, time management, effective learning, work psychology, organizational development, and self-mastery. The author weaves together the insights of some of the most remarkable leaders of the world whose lives embody great truths about leadership and self-transformation, masters such as M. K. Gandhi, Edmund Hillary, Mother Teresa, and Albert Einstein.

Debashis Chatterjee is an international management thinker, Fulbright scholar, corporate philosopher, mystic, and writer. He is a member of the faculty in Behavioral Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, India. An immensely popular speaker on the themes of spirituality and modern management, Chatterjee organizes frequent leadership retreats for diverse audiences of executives, doctors, scientists, political leaders, and social service workers in India and around the world.

· A unique synthesis of the sciences of the West and classical wisdom of the East
· Connects corporate leadership and consciousness
· Places 'self-mastery' into management language and the business arena

Customer Reviews:

Painful .......2007-06-16

The book is best summarized as mysticism and a butchery of philosophical, scientific, and business thought. If you like Deepak Chopra style quasi-eastern religious self-help books then this book is for you! Personally, I think don't think it will help you in your job or your life.

Thoughtful and Inspiring.......2005-07-27

This is an a deep source book that invites us to look inwardly and to continue our pilgrimage of discovery towards self-mastery in the context of leadership.
Some items to consider are:
1) Masterful Seeing
2) Conscious Journey
3) The Opening Heart
4) Nature as Teacher
5) Embracing Human Values

Leading Consciously.......2003-11-27

If you run an organization that can improve anywhere, you need this book. It all begins with the leadership and with the ideas expressed and applied in this book you can take your organization to the next step. Insightful, cutting edge, a wealth of information for today's CEO and dept. mgrs too!!

A FASCINATING LEADERSHIP BOOK.......2000-11-18

What a joy to read this book. LEADING CONSCOUSLY reads like poetry rather than the analytical mess that most leadership books turn out to be. My favorite Chapter of this book is called, Natute's Manuscript. This work is very original both in content and in style. A must read for readers who are fed up of all-American leadership books.

ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY OF INNER SPACE OF LEADERSHIP.......1999-10-04

This is a must read book. The author gives us a radically different interpretation of leadership than what I have encountered so far. After the conquest of outer space we now have to move to the inner spaces of mind and consciousness. This book invites us to this wonderful voyage of self-discovery. Will Debashis Chatterjee be the Deepak Chopra of business. Only time can tell. THE PIONEER

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The Gina Ford Baby and Toddler Cook Book
Gina Ford
Manufacturer: Vermilion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0091906342

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Just so many better choices out there!.......2006-08-15

All I can say is that, if you want real nutritional advice look elsewhere!

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Gina Ford Baby and Toddler Cook Book
Gina Ford
Manufacturer: Vermilion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OH06YY

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Strategic Futures Trading: Contemporary Trading Systems to Maximize Profits
Jake Bernstein
Manufacturer: Dearborn Trade Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Compleat Day Trader II (Compleat Day Trader)

ASIN: 0793102901

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Following the runaway success of The Money Book, author, financial advisor, and newly minted spokesperson for the younger set seeking security, Kevin Cork is back with another must-read effort. The Investment Book is an informative and irreverent look at the world of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and investing. Like The Money Book, The Investment Book is geared toward investors under the age of 40men and women just starting their careers, families and investment portfolios. In-depth knowledge of foreign markets, RRSP options and eco-funds is not required. Nor is $40,000 of disposable income. In his trademark witty style, Cork walks the reader through the process of setting up and then maintaining an investment portfolio. Beginning with an overview of various investment options, Cork goes on to explain downto-earth strategies for combining these options into a personalized portfolio that will directly serve the readers diverse (and possibly frivolous!) needs and goals. For readers using advisors to put their portfolios together, The Investment Book provides the information needed to ask the right questions and reasonably judge the answers. For those just beginning their financial journey, or for more experienced investors looking for a fresh approach, The Investment Book is bound to offer a good return.

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Wow !! A Simple yet Witty Look at Investing.......2005-01-28

If you have any questions about getting to retirement wealthy in Canada this book is for you. Cork takes you through every possible investment avenue you could think of, well there are a few others but for the sake of legality we won't mention them,and he breaks them down so even the most none investment literate person can follow. His sense of humour throughout doesn't allow the topic to get stale or dry. I read this whole book once through in 4 hours and have read it many times more. I now have a solid portfolio starting and I only have this book and Kevin Cork to thank.

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Making Mergers Work: The Strategic Importance of People
Perrin, Foster & Crosby, Inc. Towers
Manufacturer: Society For Human Resource Management
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Making Mergers Work: A Guide to Managing Mergers and Acquisitions

The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level (JOSSEY-BASS BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SERIES)

After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success, Revised Edition

Achieving Post-Merger Success: A Stakeholder's Guide to Cultural Due Diligence, Assessment, and Integration

The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance

ASIN: 1586440411

Book Description

Presenting the results of a Towers Perrin worldwide survey of more than 400 human resource executives, this book reveals the challenges that companies face during the merger and acquisition process. It concludes that the most common reason mergers fail is people-related issues. A case is made that strategic people management is as crucial to a successful merger or acquisition as a sound strategy or fair valuation. Tips are provided on how best to handle clashes of culture, management disagreements about the future of the new company, loss of productivity, loss of key talent, and managing change. An argument is made that human resources executives should be included in decision making throughout the merger process, not just after the fact.

The partnership between SHRM Foundation and Towers Perrin that produced the M&A survey is proud to introduce you to the newly published book, Making Mergers Work: The Strategic Importance of People. The book combines the results of the survey and Towers Perrin's vast experience in the field of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures and similar deals. And, like the survey, it focuses on the current and ideal roles of human resource professionals in those corporate transformations.

Making Mergers Work goes beyond the information and opinions gleaned from our sample of HR executives and offers prescriptions for solving the problems cited in the survey.

There are chapters on every aspect of mergers and acquisitions including:
- An overview of M&A trends
- The M&A life cycle model
- The pre-deal stage
- Due diligence
- Integration planning
- HR technology issues
- Implementation issues
- Transforming the HR organization
- M&A in the new millennium

In addition, we offer appendices on change management, communication and measurement, globalization, executive compensation, total rewards, employee benefit plans and sales and marketing (within an M&A context).

In every chapter and appendix, we take an in-depth approach. One of my colleagues described Making Mergers Work as "a textbook for an MBA in M&A." There is, of course, no such degree, but—like those graduate level courses—this book offers a variety of carefully researched case studies. We provide real-world examples, showing what was done right and what wasn't.

We also offer practical advice for HR professionals in every stage of M&A's. And—perhaps even more important—we suggest ways in which those professionals can convince top management of the vital significance of human resource issues in M&A's and the advantages of providing a place at the table for HR executives, right from the start of every deal.

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In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin. Threading through the book is the story of two men struggling to find a common voice. Neither Wolf nor Dog takes readers to the heart of the Native American experience. As the story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently on the difference between land and property, the power of silence, and the selling of sacred ceremonies. This edition features a new introduction by the author. “This is a sobering, humbling, cleansing, loving book, one that every American should read.” — Yoga Journal

Customer Reviews:

Neither Wolf Nor Dog.......2007-09-15

I can't really add anything more that hasn't already been said here. I just wanted to note that I too think this is a truly beautiful and very important book. I will carry it's message with me always.

Keepers of the Fire.......2007-08-11

There are many books by do-gooders claiming to advance the wisdom and worldliness of Native American elders, but such books tend to glamorize the mythical past and/or simplify belief systems through the eyes of an amazed know-it-all white person. Another side-effect of the American media's obsession with Native American history is that it ignores the people's modern travails while focusing on how noble and pure everything was before the white man arrived. In this generally outstanding book, Kent Nerburn tries to avoid these weaknesses of white-generated coverage of Indians, and is mostly (though not always) successful.

This book is based on Nerburn's very rocky and uncomfortable friendship with an old Lakota man named Dan, who has led a long life of hardship on the reservation while striving to preserve his tribe's culture and customs. Refreshingly, Dan and Nerburn quickly dispense with historical myths and focus on where Indians stand in the present, with modern social problems combined with a need to understand a history far more painful and destructive than even the most sympathetic White Americans could imagine. Nerburn cannot always avoid sappy cultural ruminations and Dan is not always a likable person - but this all works to the book's advantage because both are revealed as complex humans with realistic strengths and weaknesses. The text occasionally gets uncomfortable as Dan delivers hard-hitting soliloquies on the continuing differences in the worldviews of the two peoples, but his opinions on matters of history and culture can be highly illuminating, as are Nerburn's struggles to understand without becoming the type of exploitative writer that he loathes. In the end, this is an extremely thought-provoking book and is essential for anyone interested in the culture of Native Americans - yesterday and today. [~doomsdayer520~]

Amazing Book!.......2007-05-15

I am in the process of reading this book for the third time, and it still catches and holds me like very few other books can. If you are a reader interested in obtaining a dramatic and unadulterated view of America through the eyes of those who lived here prior to the European invasion, this book will give that to you. If you want a viewpoint beyond the white-written history books, in which battles won by Indians are "massacres" and battles won by whites are "victories," this is the book for you. After all, this was a country in which people and societies existed before Christopher Columbus showed up. I will warn you to be prepared; you will never view "American" history in the same manner again!

A must read for America's Moral Compass.......2007-01-04

A fantastic, insight into a reality we share with native americans - Our country and lands, democracy, religion expanded just behind our destruction and sanctioned genocide of the American Indian. A gripping reminder that 150 years, in the collective memory of a people,is but a blink of an eye and that this struggle that most White Americans relegate to old hisotry is still well alive for Native Americans. This history,our own history, if held to contemporary american moral compass would be the cause of great outrage. As I read I found my patriotism humbled by they hyprocracy of our own history. And yet, the message of the book also faces the reality of the past and looks to a better future both for Native and White Americans. Simply a great read and great insight.

Awesome Read.......2006-11-21

This book was very deep and realistic. Few books have I read twice - this was one of them. I applaud the author - Nerburn. Reading this book was a gift. Thank you for taking on this project.

Book Description

Inside the Minds: Managing for Profit Centers is an indispensable guide for company leaders in any industry looking to expand their business and grow their profits. Featuring Presidents and CEOs representing some of the nation's fastest growing private companies, this book provides targeted, specific advice from a wide range of leading executives. Authors raise critical points about how to identify a company's main profit centers and strategically build upon these strongholdings. Each chapter articulates key and fundamental strategies for growing profits in both strong, as well as unstable economies, and offers advice on the finer points of business - from leveraging key technologies to effective risk management, touching upon everything in between. This title is a must-read for executives across all industries in search for practical, strategic plans for increasing profits and sustaining long-term business growth.

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To prevent the diversion of precursor chemicals for use in the illicit manufacture of drugs, governments must have adequate legislation in line with the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances as well as effective working mechanisms and procedures for information feedback between the authorities involved in the control of precursor chemicals. The International Narcotics Control Board in its report for 2003 examines actions taken recently and highlights both successful results shortcomings that have been identified. The report focuses on major international operations launched with the assistance of the Board. It is divided into four parts, which include: treaty adherence and reporting by governments; prevention of diversion; overview and analysis of illicit traffic; and the annexes.

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From the ratification of the Constitution to the outbreak of the Civil War, few persons played a greater role in American history than Daniel Webster. He was a spokesman of New England commercial interests in the War of 1812, approving the threat of state interposition by the Hartford Convention; later an apostle of the industrial system and advocate of protective tariffs; a brilliant expositor of the Constitution as an instrument for national economic growth and strong central government; the architect of a foreign policy that brought permanent peace between the United States and England; the Great Compromiser who, as much as any other public man, tried to reconcile the clashing interests of North and South.

Despite his importance Webster has never been the subject of a full-scale, scholarly biography. Maurice C. Baxter's One and Inseparable traces the interrelated evolution of the public career and the private life of this imposing and controversial Yankee. He portrays Webster as an unswerving patriot, an advocate of nationality, and a champion of peace and the Union--but also reveals him as a self-promoting politician who varied his positions to suit the interests of his constituents and was sometimes insensitive to the great moral issues of his day. This devoted family man, enterprising if not altogether successful farmer, and genial companion could he egotistical, immoderate in his drinking habits, and careless about personal finances. Reading Baxter's lucid, moving biography it is possible to understand why Ralph Waldo Emerson so detested Daniel Webster but also called him "the competest man" produced by America, adding: "Nature had not in our days, or not since Napoleon, cut out such a masterpiece."

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Great abstruse authors,: Who they were and are,
Frank Noah
Manufacturer: The Christopher Publishing House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00087C7D8

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This book shows how the book "Acts and Monuments, or Book of Martyrs," by John Foxe, made possible most of the great works of genius which followed it, which themselves were written and composed by a very few people operating under various pseudonyms. Contents: William Shakespeare, Henry Wriothesley, Robert Devereux, William Herbert, Ben Jonson, Mary Stuart, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Hall Caine, Edgar Allen Poe, Samuel L. Clemens, Shakespeare's grave and monument; Shakespeare's wall monument.

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Examining relations between state authority and elite business representation in the Middle East, Pete Moore considers the examples of Kuwait and Jordan. He examines why organized business in Kuwait has been able to coordinate policy reform with state officials, while their Jordanian counterparts have generally failed, despite similar fiscal crises. Moore concludes that unleashing the private sector alone is insufficient to change current political and economic arrangements when established political infrastructures remain in place.

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"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!" And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street & Smith Shadow novels.

Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death.

In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 283 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger.

Customer Reviews:

Much more than I expected........2007-03-10

Possibly because of the format I thought that this book was going to be like many of the pulpateer biographies out there with a lot of rehashed stories and not much of anything else. But his one was realy entertaining. No scholarly disertation by a fanboy trying to make us think he is a professor and yet contains all the relevant facts about a writer whose life is as mysterious as his characters.

Essential for Shadow fans and pulp affictionados.......2006-02-03

This book is great for Shadow fans, so grab this one before it goes out of print(as most other Shadow related books are)! There is plenty here for the seasoned Shadow fan, and the newcomer too. Pulp covers are reproduced in black and white, as are the various photographs of Walter Gibson. The biography is written in a clear,easy to read style, and is very informative.

The Shadow Knows!.......2004-12-21

Walter B. Gibson is a very overlooked cultural influence in America, arguably even to this day. His Shadow character captured the imagination of a generation, and even spawned a movie (with a too watered-down plot) in the early 1990's. So much Shadow lore is available out there - comics, radio shows, and novels - but many overlook the profound effect of Mr. Gibson, who is entitled to a cult following similar to that of HP Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard. I give this book 4 stars because of the price - it should be about 15 dollars cheaper.

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The Living Shadow
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Pyramid Publications, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0515034789

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The Eyes of the Shadow
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000FKAOO2

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Super Reader.......2007-08-26

Not as good as the first, as a little slow in the middle, however, the start is interesting, sinister bad, guy, death trap, and the Shadow fights an ape-man at the end, on a ledge. An interesting SF note is that The Shadow uses television, in 1931, so watch some of his assistants, to improve on his 'portable wireless set'.

We also get to see him in his Lamont Cranston identity and see that it is pretty definitely him.

THE LIVING SHADOW - The Shadow Series (1) (i) One

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THE LIVING SHADOW - The Shadow Series (1) (i) One
Maxwell (pen name used by Walter B. Gibson) Grant
Manufacturer: Street and Smith
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GW01LK

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Shadow-- Go Mad!
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Belmont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GJF7VM

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The Night of the Shadow
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Belmont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GJJVGY

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Cry Shadow!
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Belmont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J5J0AW

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The Shadow Strikes
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Belmont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000EYDL7Q

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The Shadow's Shadow
Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.) Grant
Manufacturer: Pyramid Publications, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0515042781

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The Eyes of the Shadow
Walter B. as Grant, Maxwell Gibson
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GLI83E

Book Description

"EB"a boy, a family, a neighborhood and a lost civilization. Bert Kemp's third person memoir of a feisty Irish Catholic kid growing up in Brooklyn, NY in the '40s and '50s is an engaging, humorous tale of a magical time and a mystical place told in meticulous detail.

Customer Reviews:

Growing Up Anywhere.......2003-10-18

Growing up in Brooklyn certainly has it's own cachet, but I, a female, growing up in Massachusetts at the same time as E B, found so much that was familiar. The book is a wonderful treatise on growing up anywhere, but E B and his friends are so special that I didn't want to finish reading it. It was a splendid "read".

Should be required reading in all sociology courses........1999-03-05

Gave a great deal of insight into the development of friendships and lifetime committments. "Bobby saves Jerry" and they remain friends for a lifetime. Just beautiful---Would love to see a sequel to this book. Interested in knowing the stories of the characters as they matured, including their successes, joys, heartaches and disappointments.

We need more good reading like this!.......1999-02-12

I grew up in a small town, but I married a boy from Brooklyn who went to St. Vincent Ferrer. For 40+ years I have heard the stories of that life and those times, and it was a thrill to have it all documented is such a charming and factual manner. Bert Kemp put on paper what my husband has told me through the years.

I thought the book was grgrgrgreat.......1999-01-08

The book really took me back I grew up in East Flatbush in Bklyn in the 50's. It was a little before my time but I did remember alot of the places he talked about. I recommend this book to anyone it is fast reading,enjoyable and you just feel like your part of EB's many friends. I just emaied a few of my old friends an am passing the book on to one of them and telling the rest to go out an get a copy you won't be sorry. I wish there were more books like this out there I tell my children all the time about how great it was to grow up the 50's.

I was charmed by this wonderful tale of a lost time........1999-01-08

EB exceeded all of my expectations, and I am a very discriminating reader. It's a charming memoir of a very special time, and of a group of kids that everyone can see a part of themselves in. The backdrop of Flatbush, Brooklyn of the 40s and 50s adds a wonderful, nostalgic touch. How great to read something touching and good in today's times of turmoil and questionable ethics. I recommend it whole-heartedly.

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