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For America's cup enthusiasts, this is a fun book to read. It goes into the epic loss to Australia and how the cup was won back. The subject matter is very technical. However, it is still worth reading just to know about the behind-the-scenes action in the years before the 1983 and 1987 America's cup. If you don't know much about technical sailing terms(like me), you will miss out on a lot of excitement of the races. One also gets the impression that Dennis Connor colors history to show himself as the good guy. It seems from the book that everyone else was the bad guy !

On page 374, next to last paragraph, I read that "space limitations" meant there was no room for Microsoft Fax information. I would have read any number of additional pages for this information. I would gladly have done without "Speak Like A Geek"!!!! I needed the Fax information. Glad Tolstoy wasn't limited on the number of pages his book could contain!!!!!!!

Since this book contains contributions from a number of auhtors, the quality varies. Most of them, dealing with the nationalist development and politics in individual East Central European countries, are informative as they provide some essential historical data. The best of these is Martyn Rady's excellent review and analysis of nationalism as a tool for consolidating power in Ceausescu's Romania. Also very interesting is the piece by Raymond Pearson which deals with the role of war in developing nationalist sentiments, particularly in its violent role in changing demographic and geopolitical realities. On the other hand, the contribution by John Lampe on Yugoslavia is somewhat superficial and actually contains several factual errors; Rebecca Ann Haynes' article on Hungarian nationalism also similarly seems to lack focus and depth. Thus, although this book provides some much-needed updated analysis of an important topic, nationalism, for a troubled region, it cannot be the sole, or even principal, source on this subject matter for this area.

Overall, this text is not bad, although several instructional areas are out-dated material, ie: marking "shell casings, "bullets", on the face,etc. Also, todays training does not include marking handguns on every piece that can be removed, ie: frame, cylinder, barrel, grips, etc.

It is important when reviewing a work by de Man (or anyone) to separate his character from the work itself....De Man remains an important theorist, but personally I do not care for his early work as much as for work like _Allegories of Reading_.

Such an easy book to read, and perhaps one of the most interesting sociological theorist I have come to read about. Colourful analogies, simple yet broad use of language makes it not just easy to read, but enjoyable too.

So many books I have looked at before read like 17th Century literature or are just plain boring, yet Marcuse has triumped in this book. I am not especially a critic, nor am I a superior accademic. I am but a simple student trying to get the grades, but I just want reach out to any students who wish to do any piece of work associated with sociological theory.... Choose Marcuse!!

Paul is one of the famous personalities in the world of finance. Any person who has not heard of him has got no right to be in the field of finance. For most of the Fortune 500 corporation in US, about 70-80% of revenues is coming from abroad(read foreign currency). By reading this book one gets a real perspective on the latest things happening in the field of foreign currency.

Not a bad book for the individual starting out scoping out Internet/Intranet and E-business architectures. It fails to give good insight into sizing up systems, scalabilities of various platforms which are an intregal part of EJB and DNS architecture considerations.

I do recommend it for the beginner but not for the seasoned veteran.

Interesting, isn't it, that in a book of photographs, it is the text which comes across more interesting and well considered? Paul Padgette writes a wonderful, lengthy introduction, especially fine for someone, like me, who knows nothing about Van Vechten: dance critic, novelist and photographer.

Padgette selected the 200 photographs in the book from the 5,000 left to the Dance Collection at Lincoln Center. If, as we are told, Van Vechten was "amazingly creative," it will have to be proved in a volume which reproduces his photographs more carefully. Van Vechten, evidentally, chose to remain an amateur photographer, although he got most of the famous stars to sit for him: from Martha Graham to Alecia Markova, from a nine year old Balinese dancer to Josephine Baker, but....(and it is a large "but") the photographs have been reproduced so poorly that they, indeed, look amateurish, poorly lit, grainy.

I own two of Van Vechten's photographs. One is of a scene from the ballet, "Afternoon of a Faun" and the second is of a very young, very handsome Marlon Brando. They look anything but amateurish.