I admit I was intrigued by the title and thought that maybe it would be worth reading. The truth is that none of the boring little sayings in this book hit home. I think that maybe I am too young, or not "swishy" enough for this little book. I see it more for the gay-scarf-wearing-pasty-white crowd that wears polyester pants and lives with mother well into their sixties. So if you are a much older gay man who decorates with doilys and enjoys wine from a milk carton then this book is for you, for the rest...don't bother!!!

I cried and cried and cried when I read this book. It really touched me. A must read for all of us.

Enright in his novel portrays his Egyptian characters as type characters lacking essential individuality; they carry certain race typicality. They hold no status higher than that of maimed beggars, slavish servants, stupid servants, wild savages, swindling peddlers, ruthless murderers, ugly prostitutes as if there were all the people one is likely to encounter in Enright's Egypt. He calls them primitives, beasts, barbarians, and even satanic creatures. Moreover, Academic Year contains the negative stereotypes that embody all the vices traditionally associated with the oriental female: stupidity, ignorance, materialism, sensuality, and emotional detachment to the extent of claiming that prostitution in Egypt tells one about the position of women in Egypt. In addition, all through the novel Enright is fond of comparing the 'primitive' Egypt to the 'civilized' England. Such a comparative method is but a disguised racial prejudice.

Enright implicitly criticizes the Egyptian stupid nationalism which gives them the right to rule their own country without any British claiming that they are lacking or even devoid of ' strength of character, independence, governing capacity, discipline, self control and even sense of responsibility.

The 'bloody' riots that take place in Egypt are a point of interest for Enright to describe although he did not mention the real motives behind such demonstrations. Violence seems in his opinion, to give vent to their suppressed, perverted feelings and innate ruthlessness as if they enjoy disasters and blood.

Meanwhile, he ridicules the educational system in Egypt embodied in the feverish rituals of the final examinations, the force of oral examinations, the process of duplicating and marking the papers. He contents that such a 'great' literature as the English literature should be taught to a race whose literature is next to nothing, and alludes to the great part which England has performed in the work of 'enlightening modern Egypt'- a legacy of the common occidental mission to the orient.

His hostility to the Islam and the Muslims is very clear in the novel. He paints a picture which shows how Muslims are incapable of telling the truth or even of seeing it; they are fanatic and fatalistic, they are swayed by passions, instincts and unreflecting hatred of Christians and Jews. His hostility is clear from the titles of each chapter which are lines of verse from the holy Quran using them in an ironic way or as an ironic commentary on the content of each chapter.

Enright's tone has the vein of the high-handed attitude of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European orientalism. His selection of incidents, language in narration, omission of certain details suggest attitudes and assumptions stemming from the cleverly-concealed prejudice and help to dramatize a contrast in the perceived characteristics of the race. He deliberately omits the good aspects of the Egyptian society. He fashions a technique allowing the reader only a single-faceted response towards the Egyptians. He leaves no space for the reader to comment but is commenting all through the novel. Though the novel is narrated in the third person singular, his voice is very clear in the novel.

Being a member in the Movement, Enright uses many of the aesthetics of the Movement in his novels. His attitude to the political realities of modern Egypt seems typical of the Movement, an attitude of disgust that one lives in barbarous bloody times. It is an anti-romantic novel depicting reality as it is. His disbelief in allusion and myth represents a important current of feeling within the Movement. His treatment of Egypt is concerned not with metaphysical absolutes or mythical assumptions but with hard-bitten realities and human relations. The Movement's ideology is reflected in Enright's debunking familiarizing treatment of nature; he condemns any appearance of nature-worship. The language he uses for describing landscape is extremely conventional. However, towards the middle of the novel he gets enchanted with the seascape embodied in the Mediterranean Sea.

Toynbee recalls 24 of his acquaintances, among them the great, like T. E. Lawrence; the infamous like Adolf Hitler; intellectual luminaries like the Tawneys and the Webbs; esteemed colleagues like Sir Lewis Namier; and even two relatives he recalled with affection. With the exception of Adolf Hitler, Toynbee is always sympathetic and warm towards his subjects. Each reader will find his favourite portrait and amusing anecdotes. A book for admirers of Toynbee and collectors of his books.

This book provides a good overview of the murders of Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and his daughter. Jock Yablonski ran against the United Mine Workers of America leadership and was killed in retaliation. The book does a decent job of explaining who the various people are and how they connect.

Unfortunately, parts of the book are a bit dated. There are some racial characterizations which will make the modern reader cringe, and the author's practice of always describing the appearance of an individual the first time he appears in the story gets a bit tiresome.

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.

This is a competent text on the subject of product development. Having read several books on the subject, this one didn't seem on par with the others. Recommend 'Developing Products in Half the Time" as a better use of the readers time. Both books have similar content with 'half the time' having a better tool kit.

This is a sometimes fascinating study of the personality that helped create one of our country's leading industrial dynamos, the DuPont Company.

Alfred I, the subject of this book, was the "working" cousin among the three (A.I., Pierre, and T. Coleman) who audaciously bought control of the company from their uncles at the turn of the Twentieth Century. A.I. ran the operations that made DuPont gunpowder the powder of choice for the country. T.C. ran the executive offices while Pierre was the financial brains of the operation. Together they took a reasonably prosperous family gunpowder company and built it into one of the behemoths of industrial America. They were a resounding success.

This book provides and interesting portrait of the entreprenurial spark it took to make that transformation. A.I. and his cousins were outstanding businessmen. Wall also writes of A.I.'s difficult relationship with his family and Wilmington society (often one and the same), his scandelous marriage, the construction of his fortress home (with a broken glass topped wall that legend holds A.I. had constructed to keep his family out) that is now the DuPont Children's Hospital.

I found the book less interesting when it followed A.I. out of the DuPont company to Florida where he established wealth anew, including the St. Jones Paper company. The writing was dry and pedantic in parts, but overall an interesting story of a fascinating business leader.

I have read this book for a class, and was particularly unimpressed with the positions on civil rights (Chapter 11). Although the focus of this chapter(as with other chapters) was never how the authors personally felt about various issues and policy areas, reading this chapter alone would not tell you that. Ironically in a chapter about discrimination and stereotypes, there are plenty of generalizations.

Even though the authors grasped the idea of African American equality, they remark that "The creation of a more favorable public perception of efforts to alter the status of women is perhaps impede by the fact that the National Organization for Women (NOW) is regarded by many as being outside the American mainstream and dominated by extremists"(371)The authors then try and backpeddle by assuring readers that "In general, most major women's organizations do not take a negative stance against men"(372)The idea that the two verbatim quotes can actually be included in a professional allegedly netural work is beoynd disbelief.

Furthermore, the subsection on Disability is prefaced as victims. It fails to acknowllege that each of these subgroups (like women and African Americans) also had a role in their own respective struggles.

Key legislation and court cases concerning disabled children's right to a free appropriate public education is omitted, and the authors snidely reference "claims of learning disabilities"(378) Considering that the authors are teaching at public institutions, one must wonder what planet they have been living on for the past 20 years.

Gone completely is a discussion of the Asian American and Chicano rights movement. Native Americans and GLBT rights are squeezed in as an afterthought, which is particularly ironic given the current very visible presence of that movement.

I sympathize deeply with any student who has to read this textbook and urge you to do further research when you get to Chapter 10. I urge professors and faculty (if they have not do so already) to look for another book. While my public policy class turned out fairly well in spite of this book, others shouldn't have to repeat the same path if possible.

This is a book has been around for some years now. Though it is an old book it is a good starting point for students that are lost. It has a brief explanation about each system witch is always good. Drugs are explained in a narrative form. This can be not so good for those who do not like to read in this form. It is extensive and drugs are explained one by one.The latter is one of the best features of this book. The conclusion is that this book needs an update but for the content it is a good choice but missing in the high yield content that some students are always looking for.

I bought this book to do some research for my own writing. While the historical information is interesting and accurate (as far as I know), the writing is awful. This book is absolutely teeming with typos and misused words. Unless "belligerant" has become a word while I wasn't looking, I don't think the book was even spellchecked! The grammar errors are constant enough that they really detracted from my enjoyment of the book. But the topic is pretty specialized, and this is the only book I've found that deals with it exclusively, so it's worth checking out if you need to know about this particular battle or about the politics and culture of Chesapeake Bay around the time of the War of 1812 (about which there are plenty of good details). I just hope the folks at the Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company have since hired a proofreader!