I was drawn to this book (Last Edition) because I read Utah and Montana in the series of Compass American Guides and loved those two. However, this one came out to be a big disappointment. It is not as well researched and written as others and borders on to be shallow and tasteless. By the way, how much did that international financier pay to have his picture taken in his so-called "palatial" home in the book? I just cannot see the connection between a man in his swimming short and the great state of Colorado. It did a disservice to publisher's reputation to include this title in the Compass series. I wish I could get back my hard-earned money I spent buying this book.

If you are looking for a good travel guide you should choose another book. In these book you will find a lot of background information about Colorado (history,...). I miss information that every traveler is expecting to find in a guide like this. For example where and for how much you can sleep. Where to eat. What interesting places to see? How can you travel around? At the end of the book there is a list of restaurants and accommodations. It is so short that resembles yellow pages.

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I picked up this book and was very disappointed--even more disappointed than after watching Death to Smoochy. It lacked all of the wit and satirical insight that Stewart usually brings with both his writing and delivery. Granted, his performance in the movies that he has been in have somewhat failed to bring forth his dynamic humor, but this book failed beyond that of even his movies. Unfortunately, the ending never delivered the cynical turnaround/punchline that I thought he spent most of the book setting up. Honestly, I can't really even enjoy his show any more. Stay away, this book is bad news.

This book, although amusing in sound, lacks the depth and intricacy that normally shows the extremely involved beliefs of both Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.

This book attempts to explain the democratization of America by means of a Freudian psychological analysis of Andrew Jackson. The author undertakes this task because of his belief that Jackson was such a forceful personality that he became the model for an entire age of Americans. Rogin links Jackson's entire personality, his desire to remove the Indians, and his war on the Second U. S. Bank to a rage born of the dominance of his early years by women. It is entirely Freudian, and entirely naive. If you seek actual historical knowledge, look elsewhere. If you seek psychobabble in its purest, most nonsensical form, this is the book for you.

Rogin's book is an amalgamation of biography, history, and psychohistory. As biography, the book discusses the young Andrew Jackson, the trauma he underwent by being a posthumous child, and the death of his mother on the American frontier when he was fourteen. The book then explores Jackson's violent early manhood and his following career as a successful land speculator and local polititican. The book proceeds to examine Jackson's role in the War of 1812 and, most importantly in the Creek and Seminole Indian Wars. It follows this discussion with a treatment of Indian affairs during Jackson's Presidency as well as with a broader, though shorter discussion, of the nature of Jacksonian democracy and of Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States.

There is some good information and thought in the book. When the book focuses on telling the story of Jackson and his activities, it is good reading and, in the main, does not present an appealing picture of the United States's or Jackson's treatment of the Southeast Indians. Jackson's Indian Wars and subsequent removal policy come in for strong criticism. Rogin has interesting things to say about the conflicted character of American attitudes to the Indians and how these attitudes were both reflected and created by Jackson. It is also interesting to approach Jacksonian democracy from the perspective of Indian affairs. Rogovin's book was among the first to focus on Jackson's Indian policy in an attempt to understand Jacksonian America. Rogovin's judgments both on Jackson and more broadly, on the growth of democracy and industrialization in the United States, seem to me overly harsh.

The book is seriously marred by its attempts at psychohistory. There is a lot of second and third hand reliance on works by Freud, Erickson, Melanie Klien and other founders of psychoanalysis and a lengthy, unconvincing, attempt to apply Rogin's understanding of psychoanalysis to Jackson and to the American experience. It didn't work for me, to say the least. The book's overreliance on questionable psychohistory does lead me to be skeptical about much of the argument and conclusion of the book. The book is good at relating the literature of the day to Jacksonian America with some insightful comments about the work of Herman Melville. (Rogovin has also written a book about Melville).

There is something here worth knowing and saying about Jackson. Our Indian policy was indeed tragic and exacted a great human toll. The book though doesn't appreciate the difficult pressures in foreign and domestic affairs facing a young America. It is overly angry with the United States and too dependent on questionable psychologizing. The book shouldn' be anybody's sole source of information about Jacksonian America or Indian policy.

I found it to be sometimes incomplete and sometimes very confusing (especially unacceptable methods of pricing)...

The book spends most of the text explaining unacceptable methods of valuing a company. The author says that all of these methods are not applicable for companies under $30M in sales. I disagree! Using Discounted Cash Flow methods to place a value on a company is widely accepted compared to "rule of thumb" approaches. His explanation of the DCF and other NPV methods is also flawed. He ignores the cash flow impact of debt, capital expenditures and working capital changes! His book is only good for a small business owner with sales probably under $3M to $5M.

Take care : Referring to chapter 2 " Diesel basics" under the title "Compression ratio"; page 9 It is written : Compression ratio = Swept volume + clearance volume/Swept volume. The correct equation is : Compression ratio = Swept volume + Clearance volume/Clearance volume .

This book is an excellent intro to Diesel engines, suitable for students of auto-mechanics, and do-it -yourselfers. It begins from basics, and goes all the way to the new electronic-controlled diesels. It shows systems from the major manufacturers, and includes small block designs. One drawback is the lack of color photos, but there are diagrams on every page. The book is worth its price.

A truly dreadful book which trots out the most dismal clichés about art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has nothing new to say.

The book does exactly what it is supposed to do--present focused and simplified theoretical discussions of major issues in modernism. People whose reading already includes advanced art historical theory might be disappointed, but they shouldn't be reading on this level anyway. A good intro survey text.

Note that the paperback version is the student study companion to the hardback book, not a paperback version of the original text.

This text has been used by The University of Maryland's Asian Division in varying editions for some years. It is easy to read and follow. The support materials and end-of-chapter questions are good. The book has also been used by a community college and is more suited to two year programs than bachelor's degree level study. Many key concepts, principles, and theories are omitted or glossed over. The cases are almost too easy and also somewhat confusing. Some are hard for students to answer. The current edition is shortened from the previous version. This may be to meet the market's needs but which target audiences? Daft, Boone, and Robbins are just three authors who have better management principles texts on the market. Heilreigel(sp) and Slocum's text is also better. If using this text, a supplement like Brad Lee Thompson's "The New Manager's Handbook" or Blanchard/Johnson's "The One Minute Manager" would be very helpful. As I get ready to teach the 300 level management principles course via distance education, one of these books will be used to supplement Megginson, Mosley's text. Dr. Alan D. Kardoff

There is something peculiarly ahistorical about this history of Marxism in the USA. Buhle's brand of Marxism operates in a historical vacuum where external events are rarely if ever glimpsed. Thus, Marxism's record in America becomes little more than a series of rather inexlicable failures. Names, dates, events, rarely appear, and when they do, they are largely decontextualized. Pesumably themes remain, but when taken outside their explanatory contexts, they become abstractions - surely a strange outcome for an exercise in historical scolarship.

"Old Marxism" is roundly condemned. Yet no real analytical explanation of why those political parties failed is presented. Instead the narrative of failure moves along like a free-flowing stream without hint of the surrounding shore. Buhle has more success with accounts of the New Left in which he participated. But once again there is no sense of context, i.e. period potential or lack thereof. Nowhere, for example, does he address the political potential of an anti-war movement evolving within a larger context of general prosperity. For a work on Marxism, the absense of economic context here, as elsewhere, amounts to a paradox and characterizes the book as a whole. But then, inclusion of such themes would perhaps smack too much of the Old Left.

Recurring instead are cultural themes. That Marxism failed in an elemental way to connect with American culture is a powerful and provocative thesis that lies buried somewhere in the text. Resurrecting it and addressing the historical subplots would amount to a real contrbution. But alas, as the book stands, New Left thinking may make for energizing politics, but in Buhle's case, it makes for poor historical writing.

This book is an excellent resource for those who already have some basic understanding of the history of marxism. However, for those who are looking for an introduction to this history, this book is not for you.

It takes a lot of time (or it seams that way) to get through this book. I do not know what slowed me down more, was it the disjointed writing or the plot that seamed to just be thrown together. The highlight was the interesting details of NASA, which come from the author. I only made it about half way into the book. There are many better books out there.

Back in the late 1980's, the Space Shuttle program was all the rage as the topic of stories and movies. What make this novel unique was that a Senator and space advocate wrote it (mostly). Beyond that uniqueness, with it's intricate real experience detail, Night Launch is just another technothriller.

I am sorry to say I was disappointed in Paul Karleen's response to the relatively recent Pre-Wrath Rapture theories being expounded today. Bouyed by the strong recommendations by Dr. Charles Ryrie and Dr. John Whitcomb on the back cover, I dove into the book expecting a clear and powerful rebuttal to the Pre Wrath theorists. Instead, I got a very confusing and overly detailed argument that lost me in its intricacies. Furthermore, his arguments against the Pre Wrath theory could be equally, and I believe more damagingly, applied against the Pre Tribulation theory. As a recent convert to the Pre Wrath view of the Rapture, I was not persuaded by Karleen to reconsider Pre Tribulation Rapture.

For some time I attended Believer's Fellowship, the Open-Brethren-styled Assembly wherein Paul Karleen serves as one of the Elders, and, as such, I was acquainted with Paul Karleen and had the opportunity to converse with him on several occasions. Therefore I am personally able to verify the authors personal credentials for the writing of this book.

First of all, I want to substantiate the fact that Paul Karleen has a respectable knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. That said, I am convinced of the validity of the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church versus the Pre-Tribulational Rapture doctrine argued for in this book.

As a graduate of the Institute of Jewish Studies (IJS), a school of the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry (FOI), I am also personally acquainted with Marvin (Marv) Rosenthal, the author of "the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church", the book that Paul Karleen argues against with his own book here. This is due to the fact that, for many years, Marv Rosenthal served as the Executive Director for the Friends of Israel.

Despite the fact that I have often found Paul Karleen's teachings to be profound and scholarly, this being substantiated by the fact that he once served as a Professor of Philadelphia Biblical University (PBU), the Institution wherein I, myself, received my Bachelor of Science in Bible, I found his arguments in this book to be rather simplistic and unconvincing.

If someone is looking for an Apology against the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church, I recommend "Maranatha" by Renald (Renie) Showers as a preferable alternative to this work. I also sat under the teaching of Renie Showers and I consider his book to be far more scholarly and convincing, although I still remain a Disciple of the Pre-Wrath doctrine.

Shalom - Soror Samhain