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Before reading this book, I'd suggest reading Crocodile on the Sandbank, the first book in the series. Then you'll know how the marriage of archeologist Radcliffe Emerson and adventure traveler Amelia Peabody came about. They are equally opinionated, clever, unconventional and courageous. They bicker constantly - and are mad about each other.

In this book Emerson and Amelia are taking over an excavation launched by Lord Baskerville in the Valley of the Kings. When Lord Baskerville dies suddenly and for no apparent reason, his beautiful widow hires Emerson. Amelia accompanies him.

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This was my first J. D. Robb book. I know, it hardly seems that I could have actively read books in the Noughties and totally missed Ms Robb's offerings-- but I did. (I also admit I have managed to avoid reading any books by her alter ego, Nora Roberts.) But still I like sf and I like police procedurals so I gave this one a try when I found it in a thrift shop.

The book starts with a pretty horrific event, a home invasion and the slaughter of a family. The only person who escapes is the young daughter who had woke up and gone to the kitchen for a snack-- an "orange fizzy" whatever that is. She witnesses the murder of their housekeeper, calls for the police then goes up to her parents' bedroom to hide and wait for the cops.

Given the horrific events and the description of the scene found by the police, this book seems remarkably detached. I don't mind Dallas' professional detachment. It's impossible to deal with the messy bits without professional detachment, it's just that bad things happen and there is no real menace. More time is spent on Dallas' past as an abused child, than the killers.

The book is undemanding, goes down smooth, and Probably pleases her fans. Had I paid full price for it though, I would be feeling a little cheated at this point.

As a side note I was kind of struck by the possibility of product placement since there was a scene involving the search for a Pepsi. Also, the orange fizzy thing was odd because I grew up in the age of Fizzies-- tablets with fruit flavoring that fizzed when dropped in water. Apparently after a long absence, they are back again.
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Dallas is a firm believer is justice. Roarke, her husband, feels that justice may often be served by those outside of the judicial process. He may be influencing Dallas. She uses his considerable talent and expertise in socially unacceptable skills to help her solve this mystery. I do like the loyalty that Dallas shows to her staff and the resultant loyalty that is returned. The emotional interplay is the key to success in this series.

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The first part of the book does a good job of describing the housing policies that were a weakness in developing a strong economy. The usual culprits of government sponsored enterprises (GSE's) are listed as causes of the recession. It misses, however, international forces and private sector mismanagement in the pursuit of profits that also caused the recession. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act no doubt contributed to the housing bubble. What is ignored is the 2 trillion dollars of Chinese foreign investment that hand strung any effort to raise interest rates during the making of the housing bubble. Also ignored are the rating agency's poor risk evaluations in the pursuit of profit by turning BBB- ratings into AAA ratings.

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According to this book, current economic growth and recessions are caused by the central bank's action in the economy. In the chapter on "How Government Causes the Boom-Bust Business Cycle", Wood's describes the low interest rate period in this century's first decade as the work of the federal reserve, ignoring any international influences. The federal reserve's objective is to maximize growth while managing inflation. This chapter ignores the fact that there was little inflationary pressure during this period so the fed should not have raised interest rates. Raising interest rates would undermine confidence and could have caused a recession.

The next chapter of the book examines how government made the Great Depression worse instead of mitigating it. I have no argument about the policies of FDR that prolonged the Depression. Fortunately the world has a central banker in the US who is familiar with this subject and has acted on the lessons learnt from this period in history. Bernanke has supported credit markets so consumer confidence can continue at levels that will mitigate the economic damage that unregulated financial markets have created.

Wood's takes the reader into the history of money in his next chapter and discusses government manipulation of money and the negative consequences. He doesn't discuss the positive consequences learnt from history. Part of this discussion examines inflation and the theory of cost-push inflation. The criticism is that if gasoline increases in price then people will have less to spend on other goods and therefore there is offsetting deflation in other goods due to higher prices for necessity goods. There are two problems with this. 1) Petroleum is used in so many other goods that their price would also increase and 2) Workers will demand higher wages to meet higher costs of goods and this will cause prices to increase while fixed income citizens will have their incomes eroded.

In conclusion I think this book is a vehicle for a "point of view" rather than an unbiased explanation of the causes of the recession. If you hold a libertarian view on how society should be organized then you will like this book. If you are looking for a balanced view on what caused the recession, educate yourself on some basic economics or read the Big Short.

Mark.
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This is one of a character book series, featuring an in the future homicide detective hardened by abuse as a child and her resolution of that problem who meets an Irish street/gangster turned legitimate and extremely wealthy [but retaining all his former skills and associations]. He romances her, breaks through her defenses, and together they form a love couple, crime-stopping team amongst the likes of The Thin Man duo, McMillan & Wife, "Bones" and Booth, and Castle and Beckett. Throughout the series, J.D. Robb [companion pen name of Nora Roberts] briefly revisits the nightmare past of Cpt. Eve Dallas soothed with a Roarke who is there to hold and comfort her; then her comfort for him when he finds family out of his own nightmares. The supporting characters are delightfully developed and, seemingly unexpectantly, Dallas, with Roarke's support, also finds a family.

My recommendation concerning this J.D. Robb [Nora Roberts] ".... in Death" book series is not to start here with this book, but to visit Ms. Roberts website, [...], click on the J.D. Robb book list, and start reading the series in chronological order. This is not necessary at all, but I think it is preferable. Ms. Robb [Roberts] has a gift of being able to not only compose characters with depth and imprinted with personalities, strength and foibles that intrigue and envelop a reader which are consistent throughout the series, but also to create sound, convincing story plots and feasible police technique [and squad interworking] as well.

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I am a little sad that I can't give Still Life more than 2 stars. It was recommended to me and it's not a pleasant task to trash someone's suggestion, but what can I do, this book was just a barely OK read for me.

Still Life is a traditional ("cozy") mystery set in a Canadian village Three Pines. One Sunday morning a body of 76-year old Jane Neal - a long-time resident of the village - is found. At first, it appears that Jane was killed in a hunting accident, but later we find out that quite a few seemingly ordinary and upstanding villagers have some secrets to hide and maybe reasons to murder the old lady.

On a positive side, I enjoyed learning a little about Quebec. I personally never knew that there was a tension between Quebec and the rest of Canada and also a lot of friction between francophones and anglophones. Archery/hunting details were interesting as well.

As for the rest, the book didn't live up to my expectations. Poor characterization simply killed the story for me. The characters were drawn in a strange way and their back stories introduced awkwardly. I couldn't understand their motivations and actions. Too often they acted immaturely (Yvette Nichol) or weirdly hysterical (Carol Marrow, Yolanda). Dialog was very stilted at times too, often I had no idea what people were talking about and why they found certain things funny.

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Vox Day is not buying the current prognostications on the part of many that the United States has hit bottom economically and that we are in a nascent recovery. In "The Return of the Great Depression", he forecasts that, unfortunately, we are in for a contraction somewhat worse than the one our forebears endured eighty years ago.

Day tells the story of how we arrived at our present pass, examining the subprime mortgage crisis and the role of artificially low interest rates and relaxed lending standards in that crisis. He also casts doubt on some of the economic statistics the government releases and offers his reasons for doubting them.

The book delivers a great primer on the differences between Keynesianism, the Chicago School (monetarism), and the Austrian School, and describes how each school views the role of the money/credit supply in an economy.

One of the fundamental tenets of Austrian economics is the view that the severity of an economic contraction is correlated to the volume of malinvestments in the economy prior to the crash. President Obama responded to the recent downturn by injecting massive amounts of useless spending into the economy. He appears to desire to become the American version of Pierre Elliott Trudeau--introduce massive amounts of new spending and government programs and hope that taxes, including both income taxes and a GST or VAT, are eventually raised to pay for them. This massive spending of 2009 and 2010 (on top of Bush's more modest stimulus in 2008) will lead to much higher levels of malinvestment in an economy that already had very high levels of malinvestment in 2008 due to the subprime mortgage crisis.

This leads Day to his conclusion that we are headed for a second Great Depression. He outlines six different scenarios, from very optimistic to very pessimistic, of where the economy is headed and ranks the likelihood of each scenario. He of course thinks that a depression is most likely and explains his reasons for predicting deflation instead of predicting inflation as some Austrian economists are. Day even predicts where the Dow Jones Industrial Average will bottom out in 2012 or 2013.

I am sympathetic to many aspects of Austrian economics, but I fervently hope that Vox Day's prediction is wrong. However, if many of today's Keynesians and monetarists are incorrect about their predictions of recovery, we cannot say that we were not warned that Great Depression II was at the door.Get more detail about The Return of the Great Depression.

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Some chapters in this book didn't really reach out and grab me, because they better apply to women starting out in their careers. I found a chapter that not only reached out and grabbed me, but it shouted at me! I suspect that most women will find something worthwhile in this book, even if not every chapter applies. I found a technique that I hope will help me avoid one of my problematic habits.

In addition to my problem section, which I will not share here, , I particularly enjoyed the chapter on making your own luck. "The core lesson in engaging is taking charge and making things happen for yourself." That's an improvement over what seems to be the trend, especially since the internet, message boards, etc., where everyone plays the victim. "This is what was done to me" and "How dare you tell me I should take responsibility for myself when these people have mistreated me." The author tells us we have to recognize what we want and then take steps to get it. You have to take a few risks, and before you do, you need to "know what you know and what you don't know."

There are stories and excellent quotes throughout the book from leaders, women and men, to illustrate the points the author is making.

Adapting To The New Realities is a section I would like to recommend along with the Stepping up to Lead. "You can manage a lot of people, but to lead you have to inspire, not intimidate. Have passion and compassion." Then I was delighted with the section on "Energy in Your Toolkit" where an example was given of treating your energy as an asset that you invest and grow. The information on how to "Minimize the Drains" on your energy is right on target. Having boundaries. What an interesting idea! OUCH! The comment also got me about a Pavlovian reaction to your phone ringing and fragmenting your time through ongoing e-mailing, texting, and phonecalls causing you to lose concentration and lose control of your schedule. I DO allow others to highjack my time on things that may be far less important. Urgent is not important. Kicking the "always-On" habit. Can you do that? It sounds wonderful to me.

I'm going to have to spend more time on that chapter.

Then I'm going to devote a little more time to the chapter on "Recovery Time" I think.

Now where is that highlighter.

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"What Would Google Do?" is a very compelling read. Although internet technology is moving ahead at such a breath-taking pace, and updates are literally by the hour, Jeff Jarvis brings the cogent message home: with anything, for your sake and society's, ask yourself "what would Google do?" Jarvis could revise this edition almost weekly to keep us all up to date and aware of the fast-paced changes afoot in marketing, news, and commerce today. And, that's precisely his message, Jarvis' blog does that (electronically)!

Google has been innovative not only in replacing physical libraries in our quest for information, but exemplary in providing such invaluable services based on the brilliant platform of "free." Google has become extraordinarily prosperous via their advertising vehicle and yet it didn't start that way. Jarvis also includes Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon.com, he helps explain what is happening in our society with regards to immediacy and community. Sharing serves and sells.

Great read. Get it. Embrace it. It's where we're all going.Get more detail about What Would Google Do?.

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This is an outstanding audio book. I have been listening every day while commuting to and from work. I recommend everyone to listen to this great work. This will help you to discover your leadership qualities and will be helpful in taking important decisions to live a more fulfilling and happy life.Get more detail about True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series).

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"The Hiding Place," by Corie Ten Boom, is the true account of a courageous family who risked their very lives hiding Jews and others in need during the Nazi occupation. Corie was a spinster who, along with her sister, Betsy, found herself swept up in a struggle against evil as she worked with many other faithful individuals to preserve lives. Not only does this true story recount daring undercover operations and secret rooms, it also illustrates how even a pot of coffee, cream puffs, and a kind prayer can make a difference. Even if sacrifices must be made, God uses Satan's schemes against him, and courageous warriors who rely upon Christ's strength can vanquish the foe.

Focus On the Family has dramatized this compelling story in a vibrant and unforgettable fashion. All the actors/actresses do exceptional jobs, particularly the actor portraying Corie's wise, devout father. I'd definitely recommend this magnificent drama to anyone who loves listening to true accounts of God's sovereignty and divine protection: "For I am convinced that neither heights nor depths, neither angels or demons, ... nor anything can separate us from the love of Christ" (Romans 8), "The Lord is my fortress and my Rock, a very present help in times of trouble" (Psalms 46).

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The first 95% of this book represents one of the best summaries of leading intellectual thought concerning the efficiency (or rationality) of financial markets. My guess is that if you have an interest in the concept of market efficiency, you will enjoy this well-researched summary. Author Justin Fox covers a lot of ground and does a good job at it. However, it's my opinion that for some lay readers, this isn't going to seem like a page-turner.

The list of economists, statisticians, investors, etc. covered in this book reads like a who's who of the important figures in the history of investment theory. Importantly, the reader gets to see the intellectual connections (and in some cases the interpersonal connections) between the likes of Louis Bachelier, Henri Poincare, Irving Fisher, Roger Babson, John Maynard Keynes, John Burr Williams, Alfred Cowles, Paul Samuelson, Harry Markowitz, Franco Modiglianni, Merton Miller, Gene Fama, Michael Jensen, Richard Thaler, Robert Schiller, Ed Thorpe and others well known in the field of financial market theory.

While "modern" portfolio theory (MPT), which dates back to the 1950s and 60s, became increasingly accepted through perhaps the late 1970s (thanks in good part to the pioneering efforts of some of the economists mentioned above), in more recent times behavioral finance--which looks more at what people actually do, as opposed to what a rational person would do--has held increasing sway. Before the efforts of the behavioral scientists, MPT seemed very much to be accepted science. However, markets can become rational only through sufficient interactions of rational (even though imperfect) participants. Real world experiences like a 22% drop in stock prices in just one day (in October 1987) without major economic news, combined with a relatively quick bounce back within a year--or the NASDAQ index soaring above 5,000 in 2000 with companies that amounted to little more than a business plan acquiring large market capitalizations--suggest somewhat of a lack of rationality. This book does a good job covering topics like these and the economists who addressed them, and that's the 95% of the book I truly enjoyed.

This brings me to the end of the book. The book's title suggests a debunking of the myth of a rational market; but despite covering evidence of market irrationality (which has been discussed and successfully exploited by the likes of Warren Buffett for years), Justin Fox doesn't finish the job. He doesn't go in for the kill. Rather, he seems to let modern portfolio theory off with what feels like a draw. Although I would heartily recommend this book for its rich history of the concept of rational markets, in the end I was disappointed.
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Hawken and Lovins do an excellent job of summarizing (circa 1996, but still quite applicable), how focusing on whole systems, utilizing the benefits of natural processes, and removing waste can promote economic development while IMPROVING the natural environment. Instead of the typical extractive, exploitative processes used by industry, companies can learn from nature, leverage the 4 billion year investment in evolution, and make great strides towards improvements.

I particularly enjoyed the sections on eliminating Muda, or waste, from our processes - as these are a primary place where humankind throws away time, money, and valuable resources. There are, of course, a lot of other books out there on waste and lean thinking, so this is a good starting point.

In all, Hawken and Lovins give a great overview of many of the aspects of green industry, without sounding preachy, overly liberal, or anti-capitalism. In their world, capitalism benefits greatly from considering the impact it has on the earth and the systems therein - and that's the kind of world I want to live in.Get more detail about Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.