Well, I'm not sure what the fine reader from Oxnard, CA, or wherever that was was talking about, but this book is the tale of Charlie Adams from WSBT TV in South Bend as he wanders about the desolate landscape of Northern Indiana as Willy Nelson would put it "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places", i.e, Meterology offices of WSBT (Schram and Mecklenburg..), local high schools, and occasionally a local unnamed bar of ill repute. This is Charles Kurault on a county sized level, with all of the same conquests. At one point, which is very touching, Charlie is begged by a homeless Scott Baio for a job. What is Scott doing the next week, on a Friday night, nonetheless? He's coaching a local football team and teaching Home Ec during the week! What a guy!!! Charlie Adams also uses his helicopter, unsucessfully to get women after one of them is decaptiated after hopping out of the plane just after becoming a member of the "Friday Night High Club" (read the book to find out more). Such sad and telling stories fill up the book as we get a sordid look into the soap-opera like scenes of WSBT and the gang warfare between local television stations. Such is the man, Charlie Adams, and his times. Now.

This book was I think the best book he has writin in his career. There was so much detail that when I was done reading I thought I Had known Mr. Adams for year. If your A fan of his works this is something you must add to your set.

Lewis is to be commended for his valiant attempt at constructing a biography about one of the 20th century's most invisible design talents. Truex had a minor influence on a certain coterie of designers and products that never reached very far beyond 57th and Fifth. His circle was rich, cultured and insular, therefore preventing him from gaining a kind of commercial notoriety that some of his peers were able to. Yet we still reap the fruits of his efforts to this day, with some of most lovely flatware,china and objets Tiffany's has to offer. What is most curious about Truex as a subject, is that perhaps he should have been a chapter in another book. He just wasn't that compelling (except for his fastidious neatness and controlled eating habits). Not to minimize the amount of work it must have been for Lewis to assemble all of this vaguely interesting material. I just wanted to know a little bit more about his personal life. Just a tiny bit more gossip might have been like a dash of paprika!

Lewis has obviously unearthed a treasure trove of very important material in the form of Truex' scrapbooks bringing to light an amazing tapestry of relationships bridging the worlds of fashion, product design, interior design, design education, and various cultural elites. It's refreshing to read a biography that is illustrated with the subject's own snapshots, original works, and previously published material that has been long unavailable. Parsons School of Design itself celebrated a centennial not long ago giving Truex no more than a few lines in its retelling of its story--the author has filled in a gaping hole in American design history for Parsons as well as Tiffany and Co.

Contrary to another reader review, I am relieved not to be subjected to the "spice" that is strewn over so many other biographies. Lewis gives us as much personal information as is appropriate to the subject. This will be a requisite acquisition for many libraries, circulating and otherwise, I think.

Many of the drawings of the creatures look like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. Speculation on what life on this planet will look like in the far future is kind of interesting, but many of the drawings looked silly to me...and the names -- "sharkopath?" ... "squibbon?"

Also what do Dougal Dixon and John Adams have to do with this book? I could not find them credited anywhere in the text or the verso page?

I bought this book after reading The Future is Wild.
This book is much the same, but adapted to younger tatses. It also expains that although they may look "silly" as the reviewer below remarked, but are proven body designs that would supposably accually work, or somethin or another. Please do not listen to the adjacent and dissilusioned reviewer. Althogh, you would probably appreciate the book better if you read the other first.

This book describes in detail the "why"s behind Akron's crooked streets and abandoned canals. A complete overview of the growth of this industrial midwest city from before its founding up to 1996.

I was enthralled with this book. It brings together geography, history, and the people of Akron. I truly enjoyed it!

This Book Is Helpful Becouse it shhows you how to win every battle. which is kind of bad becous than youdont have to think. Thats the bad part the good part is it it shows you how to do almost every super move. All and all this is a fairly good product.

This book is cool! I'm glad I got it becuse I have hard times beating it sometimes but not anymore. Save up your allowances and buy this book.

Superb photography of a supreme sport,a class book

This is a completely different look at the contemporary Christian marriage.
It's worth reading.

This is a helpful book for throwing some light on a vast subject, namely symbolism in the Bible.Some people accept the Bible literally, others dismiss it because they can only see the literal side.Fohr makes some very cogent interpretations of symbolism in Genesis and Exodus.He covers topics such as Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel,the Ark and the Tower,Abraham and Isaac, and others.He reads the Bible in terms of universal religious symbolism,though filtered through the lens of Eastern philosophy. Fohr is influenced by the writings of Rene Gueon and Frithjof Schuon in particular.Although I do not subscribe to Fohr's philosophical stance, I find that he does expand my awareness of Bible symbolism, and gives much food for thought.It is a very good book to get you beyond Bible literalism.

It was great reading a book that finally addressed the cause of economics and capitalism. Economics is very fascinaing to me, and it interesting to see it applicable for the 18th century as well.

Adam Smith wrote the book the same year our great nation was established. The book was very intriguing and genuinely full of good, useful economics principles.

All in all, the book deserves a B+. I give it a strong B and not an A, only because of the wordage used. At times it was even above my intellect.

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As known, Adam Smith, a british economist and philosopher, is the father of economic theory. So, it is an indispensable collection for economists and economics' lovers. The author, John Cunningham Wood, from Edith Cowan University, writes about the life of this leading economist (as the author says) and the books are focused on the critical assessments of Smith. This collection is pleaseant to read (besides its 2176 pages) and I'm certain that people won't regret to acquire it.