This book is THE worst "poetry" book I have ever read. What a serious disappointment! This book lacks any depth and is not, at all, what I would call poetry. I thought I would branch out and read (buy) something new - awful mistake buying this, even reading this. I think I will stick to the classics, until I can regain the strength to waste my money on something new. If I could give this book zero stars I would have. Buyers Beware!!

This author reveals the heart and soul of his ethnic experience with grace and wisdom. Although, I am of a different ethnic background, he invited me in to share the experience through his eyes and heart. A magnificent achievement for anyone seeking to understand the diversity of the U. S. population from the perspective of a significant segment of our population.

This book is one of the finest simple book about WW II. Everything is neatly packed and introduced. The author divides this book into several chapter, indeed, a very smart division that makes easier to read and understand. This book is definitely for the beginners, as an introduction for they who do not know about WW II. For readers who claim themselves as WW II experts or intermediates, buying this book means wasting money for the they must have known all the information in it. That this book is lack of details is acceptable, for we can not envelope the whole war in 300 pages, can we ?

This book is more like a manual to keep handy when reading about, or watching any film concerning World War II. It serves as refresher for those more familiar with details and the intricacies of the war. I find it is a very fast read and conveys with skillful simplicity the overall picture, timeframe, and key events of the war. For instance, I found this book lying around undisturbed for the past five or so years, since I graduated with a degree in History. It was the perfect book to swallow just before going to see the latest Hollywood take on th war in "Saving Private Ryan". Although, I will agree, if details on any particular subject of the war is what you are seeking you are bound to be disappointed. I would reccommend this book as a satisfying appeteizer before digesting any monumental interest in World War II. A perfect refresher!

This book has good tricks for kids however some of the directions were hard to understand. Overall there were many great tricks and this is a must have book for any magician.

Basically a survey of classical writings on Africa, this book has been superceded by later, more comprehensive works, but is worth a look as one of the founding works of the study of African history and culture. Nice index too.

In this book, he quotes people as saying "I'm disappointed." To him, that is anger. And it is! However, if you want to get along with society and not get demoted in your job, you have to say those things. If you say "I'm angry" as I have in the past, you will be told you have a bad attitude and that can lead to being "written up" and eventually fired. Life is such that you HAVE to be politically correct.

Being an avid reader of books on WW II, and a WWII reenactor, I thought I would try this book to learn about what the western allies were doing while the Russians were finnishing off Germany. What you get when you read the book is this British historians continuous list of complaints about the allied commanders, and how they created the enire cold war by starting this battle. While this may be true, he does it such a way it detracts from the history, and blows minor issues out of proportion.

Very little combat action is covered, and the author spends most of his time pointing out actions that are well known, but finding a way to criticize them 50 years after the fact. Almost every allied commander is portrayed in a bad light just for the sake of doing so, while the German commaders are painted as being great guys fighting the good fight against all odds. I reenact WWII in a German unit, most of the history I seek is from the German perspective, but I can not even justify the level of bias in this book. The book was passed around by the members ouf my reenactment unit, with all saying the same thing. "It read well, but was short on action, and I had the overwhelming feeling that the author had a political point to make". You will learn a little from this book, but I have to believe there are others that will teach you more. It reads easily, but it belongs in the geopolitical "what if" class, not history.

The author, a noted labor expert, after three decades of union decline contends that most workers essentially have no need to be represented by unions in today's economy. He maintains that most workers "demand" an "individual representation system." But these claims can been seen as contradicting worker experiences.

US workers were finally able to overcome the array of political and economic forces stacked against them with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. Unions thereby interjected themselves into the governance of workplaces and forced the substitution of work rules and formal grievance procedures in place of capricious and unilateral employee relations, and in the process gained a measure of industrial justice for employees.

Now, according to Troy, workers don't need those protections. Curiously, the validity and effectiveness of Troy's individual labor relations system is based on the benign and/or self-correcting nature of markets which is a standard argument of laissez-faire capitalists. However, correctly functioning markets require participants who are relatively equal, certainly not subject to coercion like needing a regular paycheck, and can readily obtain adequate information about market workings and opportunities. That requirement is hardly met in US labor markets.

In addition, the rationality and newly found goodwill of managers are supposed to assure workers of fair dealings. Yet the huge consulting industry that guides management efforts in avoiding unionization at nearly all costs goes unmentioned by Troy. Due process in this new world of workplace harmony is the old paternalistic "open door" policy. Here the wise manager aids the employee in solving his personal "problems." This procedure is decidedly not an example of sharing workplace governance. Neutral arbitration is rejected as an unnecessary interference regardless of any enhanced justice possibilities.

Troy seems assured that a firm's investment in employees precludes unfair treatment. He neglects to indicate how wide is the stratum of employees whose value is so great as to be extended that protection. One suspects the coverage would be very narrow.

It should be noted, as the author does not, that the preamble to the Wagner Act states that individual employees are at a decided disadvantage in dealing with employers and in fact do not have actual freedom of contract. In addition a primary argument for the Wagner Act was its redistributive effects in maintaining strong economic demand. To Troy any such redistribution is unsound, whereas a distribution that rewards CEOs at rates hundreds of times greater than for workers is unquestioned as natural.

Troy's contention that workers overwhelming demand individual representation is not consistent with other contemporary literature. A recently published book, "What Workers Want," indicates that a majority of workers want actual representation in dealing with management. While they do not like the adversarialism of union-management dealings, they do not trust management to willingly surrender power in the workplace.

Professor Troy's book accurately notes that all is not well with unions. Beyond the severe decline, many unions exhibit one or more characteristics that are disturbing to workers such as distant and impenetrable bureaucracy, corruption, excessive dues and fees, ineffectiveness, etc. But, however imperfectly, unions have facilitated the voice of workers.

Professor Troy seems to accept the argument that competitiveness in markets supercedes other economic considerations such as workplace fair dealing. But there is nothing sacrosanct about the way markets favor the powerful. The NAFTA and the WTO are mechanisms that alter market balance in favor of investors and corporations. Unions are institutions that attempt to balance power relationships in workplaces as well as various markets.

It is a nineteenth century idea that laissez-faire capitalism is an optimum arrangement. America found out the hard way in the Great Depression just how dubious that idea is. Professor Troy does not make the case for substituting a rather nebulously conceived individual representation system for the collective representation of worker interests. His arguments simply fail to understand the empowerment that unions can bring to workers. Perhaps this book can be read as a reminder as to the fragility of worker rights.

This book has many illustrations and situations so that ESL students can be useful for the lesson in "classroom." BUT, If you want to study English sentences & grammer by yourself,you had better use other textbook,because this book doesn't have answers of the questions in it!

Briefly, Depuydt's work makes a solid contribution to the study and clarification of some elements within Late Egyptian and Coptic verbal structures. He does occasionally refer to other languages in a comparative sense. Though somewhat theoretical, Depuydt insists that the concepts of "conjunction", "contiguity" and "contingency" are valid within these verbal systems. His work herein validates this. This work adds insights into the RELATIONSHIPS that exist within the verbs in numerous passages. He cites numerous texts, some Biblical (gospels only) and has sufficent indexes. One notable flaw is the failure to use Coptic fonts for the Coptic words, he does use Hieroglyphic fonts, with fine transliteration. Additionally he does not provide a transliteration table for his use of the transliterated Coptic words, such a table would greatly prevent any confusions. Physically, the text is well laid out and is finely printed. The binding is a cheap glue injection, not sewn, thus the book does not lie open -- which it should do for the high price of eighty dollars. Useful primarily for specialists and interested linguists who want to examine internal Egyptian language relationships. Mr. Gary S. Dykes (Sept. 1999)

Well, the culmination of a project, anyway. The whole gang (Danny Dunn, Irene Miller, Joe Pearson, Prof. Euclid Bullfinch, Dr. A. J. Grimes) accompany another scientist to England, where he has secured time on a radio telescope, to listen for interplanetary radio signals. They have the usual mishaps, but Danny comes through in the end when a message comes in, and figures out how to decipher it. What does it say? That, you'll have to find out for yourself.