This book has got to be the worst book I've ever read. My 10 year old brother writes better stories at school and my mom tends to burn anything he writes. Take my advice....Stay away from this book!

when will it be in stock?

Please DO NOT post this e-mail. It is not a review- It is a request for assistance from Amazon.com... ------------------------------------------- To whom it may concern: I work for a financial firm and deal with both consumer loans as well as real estate loans (equity lending secured by a deed of trust). I am being given a chance to become involved in aquisitions of portfolios of loans from mortgage bankers (to be purchased, following a due diligence spread and review, by my company). I am currently intensively studying 'Fabozzi's' book, "Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Securities Markets" by Harvard Business School Press. This book is a bit above me--a little bit too much, in fact. My question is this: Can you send me information on books with related subjects, which might be a bit more elementary? I need to learn this field if I'm to effectively deal with experts in the field. I've thought of writing Fabozzi directly and asking for his advice. Perhaps, short of that, however, maybe you can help? Subjects: Mortgages and the secondary markets- Securitization- FNMA, FHLMC, GNMA (agency investors), private investors and conduits- Types and structures of securities and valuation of MBS's- **Process of Due Diligence in spreading and the valuation of both individual and packaged loans and/or securities collateralized by loans-** ANY books in the field that might assist me in moving in the right direction. I'm looking for books written in theory as well as realistic practical advice, preferably for a student rather then for the expert. Please keep this in mind as I'm very new to this field. I need simpler books with which to move up. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Ron Foltz R_S_Foltz@msn.com -If the books are those that I need, I will gladly purchase them from you.

this book was not enjoyable, and i dont recommend it

I wasn't a big fan of this book, too little detail and not enough background for me.

If you can look past the poor design and layout, the careless editing and abysmal proofreading, and the overall cheap quality of the book (including fuzzy and irrelevant photos), there is at least a little food for thought here. For a critic who is normally so concise and clear in his theatre reviews, Marowitz proves to be a rambling and unfocused sort in a longer forum. He has some interesting ideas, but they tend to get lost in the muddled and inconsistent style. Probably a must-buy for the diehard theatre enthusiast who wants to stay informed, but a much better overall treatment of the topic can be found in Richard Hornby's "The End of Acting".

found this collection of fotos so boring I actually returned the book for a refund. Perhaps inclusion of color fotos would have helped, but considering the gay subject matter, the images came across as flat and extremely uninteresting.

There are a lot of people who still believe that Queen Victoria's grandson ("Eddy," the Duke of Clarence) was Jack the Ripper. They may have read about that theory in this book. However, much of the "support" this book presents for the theory is hand-waving. There are huge discrepancies -- for example, "Eddy" wasn't in town for most of the murders.

I read this book in high school for a history book report project. I think one reason I got a good grade on the report was because I pointed out that the author tended to ignore or brush aside facts that didn't fit his theory. By the way, I thought of giving this book two stars because it read quickly and because it was the first Ripper book I read. However, the facts were so misused that I cannot do so. If this had been published as a novel, I would have rated it much higher because it was so interesting. As nonfiction, it doesn't work.

If you read this Ripper book and don't read any of the better books, you are depriving yourself. There are much better resources out there. At the very least, visit the casebook dot org site. The realistic Ripper theories aren't as interesting as theories like this one, but at least they make sense.

This 256-page book comprises 96 pages of tips in large, poorly-laid-out type; nearly 30 pages of a keystroke poster chopped into useless bits; and 125 pages describing XTensions for use with Quark. The last section is available free and up-to-date from The XChange. For $27.95, you might expect a floppy disk or at least some organization and coherency, but in the introduction to the book the editor says quite frankly that any attempt for logical organization of the tips was abandoned.

For real tips with focus, design, and editing, try QuarkXPress Tips and Tricks (ISBN 1566091373), which includes a CD-ROM for Macintosh at only $34.95; or for a solid grounding in QuarkXPress menus and basic tips and features, buy QuarkXPress for Dummies (ISBN 1568842171)or QuarkXPress for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart (ISBN 155091284).

Whatever you do, avoid this facade of a book with a copyright of a 1996, but which states clearly the tips come from 1990 to 1994

I was actually in Mr. Kahl's Econ class. If not for the fact that I had to buy this book, I would have definitely skipped it. The concept of a workbook like this is to make the student want to participate, but instead, it made me bored to tears. The fifth section, in which you have to create a budget (Budget Blasters), was a good section, but it was the ONLY good section. I hope professors do not go to this book with the intent of having a good supplement to their own coursework, because it's definitely not worth it.