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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

73 reviews
Theodore Dalrymple

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

`You know funny people.'
Dr Dalrymple's essays draw on his experience as a psychiatrist treating patients in a busy general hospital in a British slum and in a prison. The public policy issues he raises are not unique to Britain, nor are the characteristics of the underclass he portrays so vividly. This particular set of essays was written before 2001, and while they touch on the consequences of a number of different ...

The Bottoms

84 reviews
Joe R. Lansdale

Mysterious Press, 2001

An extraordinary novel
This is an exceptionally good novel, the type of novel that transcends genre fiction. This isn't just a great crime fiction novel - this is a great novel - period. Comparisons to Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird are inevitable. (Some reviewers may even complain The Bottoms is a `rip off' of the classic novel). Both novels are set in the South during the dirty ...

The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental ...

10 reviews
Andrew W. Savitz

Jossey-Bass, 2006

If You Want To Get Fluent Fast, Read This Book
This book is for interested general consumption rather than a technical practitioners' text book and as such is more than successful in teaching the basics of the triple bottom line. I'm not quite sure why some of the Amazon reviewers seem so testy about this, as the majority of American business management (mid-baby boom and above) never encountered much if anything about corporate ...

Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book)

25 reviews
Janet Stevens

Harcourt Children's Books, 1995

Clever... Witty... Humorous... Must Have for Teachers
Stevens, J. (1995). Tops and bottoms. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Synopsis: When Hare loses everything he owns to a risky bet with a persistent tortoise, his family's lives are in danger of starvation. While Hare's family is in danger of starving, his neighbor, Bear, lies around lazily as his richly fertile farm fields lay untouched. Being a sly trickster, Hare devises a plan ...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

42 reviews
Paul Collier

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Excellent Book Should Be Read By Everyone Concerned with Poverty
Collier is a serious scholar in the world of development and here he has written a very important book. Here is the basic argument - while it sucks to be poor in countries like India, India is heading for relative prosperity. Where is really, really sucks to be poor is in a number of countries, concentrated in Africa where there is little hope of breaking out of a cycle of severe poverty. Collier ...

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

25 reviews
Jennifer Armstrong

Crown Books for Young Readers, 2000

A gripping tale
If you ever think your job is hard, or you feel like complaining about the traffic or the weather or that your Internet connection is slow, just stop. Stop and consider the ordeal and misery suffered by the 28 men on Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Antartic expedition. Nothing will seem so bad then. The Shackleton expedition is probably the greatest survival story ever. After their ship became ...

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing ...

61 reviews
CK Prahalad

Wharton School Publishing, 2006

Great book for any serious business person
This is a great book for anyone serious about expanding their business, or starting their own business. It gives a real look at the world's poor. Every stereotype is wrong.

Clinical Laboratory Science Review: A Bottom Line Approach

2 reviews
Patsy Jarreau

Not Avail, 2005

The Best Review Book
This book is, in my opinion, the best review book in preparation for the BOR certification exams in clinical laboratory science/ medical technology. It contains all of the essential information in outline form and humorous drawings to help you remember certain concepts. It's very entertaining to read. There's even problems at the end of each chapter too! Another good review book is Hubbard's ...

Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism

6 reviews
Derrick Bell

Basic Books, 1993

Bell makes it known, racism will always exist. Sad isn't it
After reading this book, Professor Bell became one of the main reasons I chose to attend NYU School of Law. Bell poignantly tells the story of an oppressed race through allegory that at once is entertaining and educational. Two stories in particular made such an impact that I still feel it a full 5 years after reading the book. The first, Afrolantica, focused on the accomplishments that African ...

Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education

13 reviews
David L. Kirp

Harvard University Press, 2004

Excellent analysis on higher education
This is an excellent analysis of the current state of affairs in higher education. The book includes 14 chapters including the conclusion. Each chapter can be read independently, as they follow the famed Harvard case study method. Each chapter describes a unique issue impacting higher education. Some of these interesting issues include: a) the advent and so far failing of online higher ...

Bottom Line's Super Healing Unlimited
Bottom Line

Bottom Line Books, 2006

HEALTH & HEALING TIPS FROM SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST EXPERTS!

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (The August Wilson Century Cycle)

6 reviews
August Wilson

Theatre Communications Group, 2008

An understanding of blues and history!
Recognized as a great American playwright with numerous awards, August Wilson has brilliantly chronicled the black experience through decades. Depicting the 1920s, he wrote "Ma Rainey" in 1982. The scene for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", takes place in a recording studio in 1927 where two white music executives are making a record with blues singer, Ma Rainey and a group of musicians. ...

Bottom Line's Best-ever Home Secrets
Joan Wilen Lydia Wilen

Boardroom, Inc, 2007

This book is adapted from Bottom Line's Household Magic-2,022 Money-Saving, Time-Saving, Make-It-Last Solutions and Surprising New Uses for Everyday Products by Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen

From Baldrige to the Bottom Line: A Road Map for Organizational Change and Improvement

4 reviews
David W. Hutton

ASQ Quality Press, 2000

From Baldrige to the Bottom Line
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Process has grown in 12 years to be one of the most positive and influential prgrams to come out of Washington D.C. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a measure of performance of the publicly traded Baldrige Award winners that compares these companies' stock price appreciation with the S&P 500 Index. In the most recent ...

Bottom Line's Super Healing Unlimited, 2007

1,739 Remarkable Secrets from the World's Greatest Health Experts

At the Bottom of the River

9 reviews
Jamaica Kincaid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

A Genius Mind
At the Bottom of the River is a lovely rendition of a writer's mind, leisure, vision, appeal, hope, awareness and understanding. This project surpasses what the common reader readies for in the telling of a good story. Each sentence in this work is a story. I will write it again: Each sentence is a story with perfect images, "The branches were dead; a fly hung dead on the branches, its ...

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses

1 review
Larry Cuban

Harvard University Press, 2007

A must--timely, lively!
Larry Cuban is always timely, but amidst today's hype this is a well-informed, careful and much needed antidote to a lot of what gets said about schooling. It speaks to a wide audience--I hope teachers and school folks read it, and parents, and also the people who write the news we all read. Deborah Meier

Bottom Line's Health Breakthrough 2008

1 review

Boardroom Inc, 2007

Best Health book ever!
This book is guaranteed to help any one in any situation! It has so much information that it would be a waste not to read! I usually don't leave reviews, but this book is amazing!

A Dollar Short: The Bottom Dollar Girls Go Hollywood (Bottom Dollar Girls)

11 reviews
Karin Gillespie

Simon & Schuster, 2006

I love the bottom dollar girls!
Who wouldn't love these books? Full of hilarious moments, you will read it one sitting. We have two sisters who haven't had the best relationship. When Chiffon wins a trip to Hollywood, she has purchased a new Kmart outfit, all ready to go. At the last minute, her youngest has a fever, and so she tells her husband to go ahead. Her husband Lonnie hasn't always treated her right, cheating on her ...

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