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This book is very insightful in providing complete health maintenance from head to toe. The excercises described in this book are low-impact, and can be easily performed by people of all ages. It is amazing how these simple, gentle movements can have such profound effects on one's health. It is an absolute certainty that those who dilligently practice these Chi-Kung exercises, as instructed by Master Bond, will experience more energy, as well as a cessation in bodily ailments. This book is also very comprehensive in nature as it incorporates aspects of "feng-shui", "yin/yang" and dietary information. Master Bond is a teacher in the truest sense as his goal is to educate and empower people to help themselves. I highly recommend that as a supplement to this book, people intersted in Chi-Kung and its amazing health benefits take part in Master Bond's FREE classes held weekly at Kapiolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaii. The knowledge that Master Bond posseses is truly a gift.

The big secret is that there is no secret at all. We were all born endowed with the power to utilize the life forces (CHI) of the universe. Unfortunately, our western upbringing has not taught us how to tap this power -- how to help ourselves.
By contrast, Chinese tradition -- thousands of years in the making -- teaches us moderns that developing the CHI in yourself and maintaining a wholistic, balanced life mitigates the ravages of daily living.
16 simple exercises lead us in that direction. Master Bond is the real thing, and if one faithfully follows these chi kung (Chi development) movements, it will lead to better health, energy, and well-being.
His diet section is not to be ignored. This valuable summary of how to eat is probably the best overall dietary plan around. There are no calorie, carbohydrate, fat, or cholestoral counts to manage; special food packages or supplements to buy; gadgets to fool with; nor costly programs to enter. It is just a natural, sensible approach to eating to achieve balance. And balance is the foundation for allowing your body to heal itself and to fight off illness.
Even the modern west recognizes diet and exercise as the pillars of health and longevity. This univeral truth is expressed in this book. Having paricipated in Chi (Ki- Japanese) arts for several years, I am of the opinion that Master Bond unfolds genuine ancient traditions of the east in this very nice, simple, readable book, easily adaptable to westerners of all ages and all walks of life.

I do chi kung every morning for 35 minutes. It makes me stronger. I'm 88 years old. Chi kung is very good for me. Master Bond taught me to be stronger.

This excellent book is highly commended to anyone who is truly serious about investing. Peter Hupalo is a consultant and frequent columnist on money and entrepreneurship matters. With clear and convincing data to support him, Mr. Hupalo debunks many of the myths Wall Street pushes on the investing public. Author demonstrates the futility of trying to "beat the market", whether through stock picking and market timing or by following mutual funds that have shown high levels of performance in the past. After he makes a convincing case for trying to meet, rather than beat the market. Thus, Mr. Hupalo advocates investing in a diversified basket of mutual funds. The chapter on investing during retirement is particularly insightful.

Whether or not one ultimately agrees with Mr. Hupalo's point of view, "Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds" is a book, which deserves attention. Anyone wishing to base his/her investment decisions on solid methodology needs to read this book. You will have a much clearer understanding of markets, and your investment decisions will be firmly rooted in proven soil.

I highly recommend this book for everyone.

Alexander Petrochenkov

Only available in paperback, no fancy artwork on the cover, no glowing reviews by a big time newspaper publisher, no forward by a prestigious luminary, even the editing is second rate. In a word, this is a rough book.

However, when it comes to content, this book is loaded as the author does not include a lot of fluff or selfish stories about himself. However, the author is obviously very well read, because he includes numerous references to plently of other investing books. Some may conclude it's a value investing book, but growth investing is covered as well.

So, what this book presents is a careful and comprehensive distillation of just about everything commonly available on the subject of investing. Also included are numerous clever stories which illustrate important investment truths and strategies and a recognition that a lot of what the mass media presents is almost worthless for somebody wishing to become an investor.

Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds is a straightforward primer to the basics of conservative financial investment specifically written for the novice investor seeking to establish a profitable portfolio. From evaluating risks and ratios to diversifying to improve one's margin of safety, just about everything a beginning investor must know is included. For anyone considering putting their money to work for them, Becoming An Investor is urgently recommended, essential reading for participants in today's volatile stock and bond markets in order to help them to make the most of their risk-calculated investment activities.

This book is somewhat of an "inspirational" work on the financial operations of Wall Street. It may not carry any exciting technique but contains a great deal of valuable commonsense information which is so often ignored by the agerage investor and which could save them thousands of dollars in losses.

Some insight is given on how to study a 'sector' carefully then narrow down to a specific company that my serve as the best investment potential. Mr. Wyckoff gives his views from both as a trader and as a broker and investment advisor. You will also learn the procedure of how he turned an odd-lot campaign into a fortune, thus providing hope for small traders and investors.

Much of the advice and caution given has not changed after so many years has passed. For instance, he said that you cannot get real good advice to buy because newsletter writers are usually ripped-off by some person subscribing and giving it free to their friends etc. Sure enough all of this still continues till this day. This is certainly a great book for stock and bond traders.

Virtually everything written after Livermore and Wyckoff are variations on themes developed by these two men. Wyckoff was among the first to explain the accumulation-distribution cycle (which makes stock and market timing possible) and to develop the use of "surrogates", self-made indexes which consist of a handful of leading stocks in a group (such as semiconductors), which warn the investor of impending moves, and which enable the investor to filter out all the noise of broadcasters, publishers, newsletters, message boards, and chat rooms.

Understand Wyckoff and you'll understand the engine that drives stocks and markets rather than be distracted by the genuine imitation wood trim and the smell of the leather seats.

Dr. Bond has created a new genre within the discipline of African American Religous studies. Any serious scholar should include this title in their library.

Brian Bond (a protege of Sir Michael Howard and retired professor of military history in the War Studies Department of King's College, London) has written an essential contribution to the historiography of the First World War. The war has produced entire libraries of literature, plays, films and memoirs and Bond argues that these have come to dominate the study of the subject rather more than any serious investigation of the conduct of the fighting and the thinking that went behind the organisation of the opposing armies. It is only relatively recently that any serious study has been made of the fighting methods that were introduced (hyperbolic odes to the exploits of German stormtroopers notwithstanding), the levels of training and equipment and the serious thought processes that lay behind them.

Bond addresses several areas including;

- Whether the common perception that the Great War was an unnecessary and foolish war is correct.
- The impact of personal memoirs and especially the impact of the war poets on the historiography of the war.
- The extent to which the war became a totem of the left in the 1960s and the extent to which this has coloured the study of the subject.

Bond also addresses the ludicrously distorted image of the war that is posessed by the average "man on the street", a view which often bears next to no relation to reality. He deconstructs a number of areas which often combine to constitute the average person's knowledge of the war - Blackadder, Oh! What a Lovely War, the changing war in which history is studied in schools, opinion articles by ill informed tabloid newspapers and finds most of them dangerously distorting (and worryingly persistent) if we seek to realise any sort of balanced understanding of the conflict. He points to the fact that the war has become emotionalised like almost no other and tries to come to an explanation of why this is. He takes on much of the received wisdom and the results will no doubt infuriate many people who are incapable of moving outside the ridiculously emotionalised box in which the war is normally viewed. Above all, he tries to move the debate out of the field of social history and sociology where many of the best known works on the war have languished and into the field of serious military history and war studies, where it belongs. Sadly, it may well be that existing views are so heavily entrenched that the game isn't worth the candle.

This is a very important book and one which should be read by everybody with an interest in the First World War.

This book is excellent for a guide to letting go of hurt and anger and being able to live a meaningful life. David and Grace make a great writing team as they combine experience, christianity and skill into making the process of forgiveness logical and simple. The many examples they used made it a page turner for me. I definitely recommend this for it's readability, scholarship, and practicality.

Or What Happens to Love? What can wrench apart a seemingly destined union? Why do so many marriages fail? What can we learn from the experiences of others about our own marriages? What questions would you ask of your divorced friends to find out why they think their marriages ended.

Dr. Bond put out a Divorce Questionnaire & women in droves told their stories which she presents without comment.

In my eInterview Dr. Bond answers a number of my questions which came up as I read each woman's story. This is not an easy book to read - the voices of the women vibrate from the pages in a rainbow of emotions - fury, sorrow - wry appraisal - wise hindsight - petulance & glee!

I was praying Dr. Bond would give us some Conclusions & she does, both statistical & thoughtful with Appendixes in which she reprints the Divorce Questionnaire that started it all - it was an eyeopener to answer those questions myself!

Not for the faint-hearted or for men - they'll get so wounded & angry! It's not to hurt the men that these women spoke - rather it is to heal their own wounds!

Anyone who knows me understands that I seldom read non-fiction. The few non-fiction books I accept for my book review site are reviewed by my other reviewers. However, the title of this one was so unexpected that I found myself giving it a second glance, then a third, and a fourth. Curiosity being a weakness of mine, I opened it. I only wanted to convince myself that, to me, it would be boring. This would put an end to all my curiosities and I could get someone else to review it. Instead, I found myself reading the first page and never putting the book down except to grab a soda.

Dr. Alma Halbert Bond seems to share my weakness. She wanted to know why one out of every two marriages ended with divorce. Did the divorced women love their husbands when they married them? Did they marry because they were "a couple" and family or friends expected them to? Did society press them into it? Did they marry someone like their parents for security instead of love? Was there a connection between an unhappy childhood and a failed marriage? Dr. Bond interviewed 71 divorced women for answers!

The book is broken down to several categories and each have sub-categories. Dr. Bond covers:

The Physical Abusers, The Verbal Abusers, The Withholders, The Need For Space, The Unfaithful, The Abandoned Ones, The Homosexuals, Married For The Wrong Reasons, The Narcissists, He Changed After We Married, The Control Freaks, and The Good Marriage.

All her findings are within these pages! Using her experience of 30 years in psychoanalytic practice, Dr. Bond created a book that people (men or women) should read if they have been divorced, considering divorce, having problems in their marriage, or about to marry!

I proudly submit this book to my viewers and consider it to be highly recommended reading!

A wonderful book that showcases women's points of views of what happened to their marriages. Great conclusions. Dr. Bond does a great job of having each woman have her input and have their answers to her lengthy questionnaire shown. Highly recommended.

Book is great for those who want to know how bond trading really works, especially for those just starting out. Good for both salespeople and traders. However, the book is a decade old and has little on ETS and other recent developments. It also has many, many errors which are irritating, thus the 4/5. I should hope that these points are addressed in a second edition. It is otherwise well-written.

Ms.Ray focuses on providing a clear conceptual framework for understanding fixed income concepts. The approach is highly intuitive and reader-friendly. A must for anyone trying to get to grips with the concepts of duration, BPV, vols, forwards, etc....

The Bond Market, by Christina Ray was one of the first books I read about fixed income securities that really explained how trading really is in the real world. I am happy to find another copy on ADC. This was used as a text in a class in Grad. school and I lost the book. Highly recommended.

I picked up this novel after reading a charming but uncomplicated romantic-comedy novel by the same author. However, this particular book has significant depth and authenticity; my previous experience with this author gave no clue that she could write a book such as this one.

While the author may have meant for this novel to be funny, it is, in my opinion, more of a straight fiction book. The story concerns a highly dysfunctional North Carolina family of three illegitimate adult daughters, their bohemian parents, a live-in-boyfriend/ former fiance/ object of teenage desire all wound up in one dubiously deserving man, an uncle with political aspirations -- and his late wife, who was murdered while the girls were still in the teens, and whose murder the trio unfortunately witnessed.

As is usual in any fiction book, a problem arises... in this book, about five problems arise concurrently. First, the bohemian parents, while never married, have separated, necessitating the liqidation of their antiques business. Eldest Daughter is dodging the angry wife of her latest conquest. Youngest Daughter is dodging the rather psychotic aforementioned live-in boyfriend. The sisters are askance at a resurgence of interest in their late aunt's murder. And Middle Daughter, the "good child," is cajoled into help liquidate the antiques store, assisting a rather attractive and engaging appraiser hired by her mother.

In a masterful and clever way, the stories converge for an ending that's satisfying as it leaves positively no loose ends. I can't imagine the work and effort that went into this novel.

Now, I took off two stars because IN SPITE of everything, I had next to no affinity for these characters. Mostly, I wanted to spank them, or I wished that someone would stand up and say, "Hey, grownups don't act like this" and walk out. The Middle Daughter is wishy washy, the oldest and youngest are harpies, the parents are infantile, and the peripheral characters are pure stock. The only one who's vaguely interesting on his own is the engaging antiques appraiser... he'd be a good candidate to walk out. Instead, throughout the story he's vaguely amused.

I think this a book downright EXCELLENT for plot and mediocre for character... depending on your tastes, this could be a sure bet for you.

I had thoroughly enjoyed OUR HUSBAND, Stephanie Bond's earlier book, so I expected to like I THINK I LOVE YOU. Yet I more than liked it, I was awed by it.

The story was far more detailed than one expects a genre romance to be. Ms. Bond lets the reader know right from the beginning that she was inspired by the Nancy Drew mysteries of our collective youths, and I THINK I LOVE YOU is very much a Nancy Drew book for the modern woman.

The tension among the three sisters who are the focus of this novel is altogether plausible, and its history is well-explained. The separate plots concerning each of the three sisters also are compelling, and the backstory of small town Southern life is extremely interesting. I was awed by Ms. Bond's imagination and I cannot wait to read the sequel that the final pages of this novel promise already is in the works.

A real treat to read. The phrase "a hoot" comes to mind. "I Think I Love You" was my first Stephanie Bond read, but it most certainly won't be my last.

This wonderful slice of life transported me to 1940s New York as seen through the eyes of a new and ferociously talented young actor. It tells the story of Rudy Bond, one of the original players in Tennessee Williams' hit Streetcar Named Desire, at the threshhold of fame as he gets his first role on Broadway. Bond cleverly weaves enough of his past with the tension of a new play opening to give the reader a very true sense of both the New York that was and the Bond that was. In addition, his down-to-earth interaction with the rest of the cast -- Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Karl Mauldin, and Kim Hunter among them -- gives a very real sense of them as people. Bond's in-the-moment perceptions take the reader right back to those moments. A really fun ride!

Hard to put down story of a highly talented actor struggling to find work in NYC in the 1940's. This fascinating and at times heartbreaking memoir gives a rare behind the scenes view of the overwhelmingly difficult life actors have trying to succeed in this profession. We are treated to what it was like studying and working with some of the greatest actors, directors and producers in the history of stage. A must read for anyone even remotely interested in theatre, film, or even movie stars. Couldn't put it down! Bravo Mr. Bond, may you (posthumously)like so many other struggling, talented actors, finally get the recognition that is long overdue.