I read this book when I was taking the exams of Institute of Export.It is a very simple book about International Trade Law.That's why it is good for the readers especially whose second language is English.One of the missing points inthe book is the lack of cases.It gives the name of the cases but not the details.You need some other books if you would like to go a bit more in depth especially on the cases.

This is a remarkable book-very odd in its way-a swashbuckler with hardly a dead man in sight. Pope seems to have challenged himself to imagine a string of seven actions which spill hardly a drop of blood and gore. A particularly telling scene, I think, is the night attempt to blow up a French 3rd rate in harbor: you see a mighty flash and are deafened, then...next chapter. Avast there, what happened, really? The emphasis is on the astonishing ingenuity of Ramage and his men to anticipate, out think, manipulate, and outmaneuver his enemies time and again during the second part of his independent cruise in the Mediterranean (a true continuation indeed of "The Ramage Touch"). Ramage comes up with one wiley ruse de guerre after another to humble and discomfit the French. Just think of the potentialities if you could get your hands on the new French semaphore towers ashore.... It takes extraordinary luck, very stupid or drunk enemies, and an inventive author to pull the capers off in an entertaining fashion. It's amazing to how much deviltry and destruction Pope can put Ramage in one book. The seamen enjoy the cruise enough to make good jokes, too.

In the course of the story we get to learn more about the types of Mediterranean winds, provisioning a landing party, muffling oars, how signalling worked, "nipping" the anchor cable, and how to "fish' a broken spar, plus gun powder and how to fuse it. Apparently it is beneath our dignity to count up the prize money Ramage and crew will rake in if they can successfully bring their captures back to Gibralter.

The entrapment plot on which this book is hung echoes the scenario of an earlier story, "Ramage's Diamond." Pope is particularly obvious this time hiding plot elements, like mere destinations, from us. Not only does Pope not tell us (OK), but Ramage doesn't tell his officers on not one but two of the dangerous missions he has cooked up in his vulnerable head! That's dereliction of duty. Unlike in Kent's Bolitho series, there's almost no crew turnover in these stories, certainly not in the core cast of characters, still alive and in the same crew from that intiial romp on the beach to save the queen in Tuscany! While Ramage's fame spreads rapidly, officers he has trained do not. Inspiring leadership plays a part (it's no wonder the whole crew re-ups in the next book). Three maps cover the early locales in the story. The usual elegant typography is here, with better proofing than in the Bolitho series also from McBooks. On the end papers is news of their reprinting of three (3) more nautical series, by Donachie, Stuart, and Parkinson. Hurrah!

Hey, if your looking for a good discriptive book on the Rastafarian religon this is for you! The only thing I dint like about the book was that it was kind of one sideded to the religon. Now I know that religon is a touchy subject for most people but, the other books on rastafari have been more welcoming of all types of people. However I would recomend this book to anyone exploring their inner self!

Readers of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and Dostoevsky's "A Writer's Diary", as well as students of 19th century European history, will be interested in this ground-level story of the plight of Romania, caught in the middle as the dispute between Russia and the Ottoman Empire led to war in the late 1870's. Romanians were happy to use the dispute, in conjunction with the weakening of the Ottoman Empire, as a device for gaining full independence from the Empire and international diplomatic recognition, but they were appalled and helpless as Russia used the peace negotiations to insist on recovering the portions of Bessarabia that she had lost to Romania in the Treaty of Paris of 1856. This excellent and readable treatment is marred only by the tone of the discussion of the "Jewish Question", where the author's none-too-subtle personal opinions come to the fore in considering the issue of full citizenship rights for Romania's Jews; both the Jews' preference for money-lending over "fields of endeavor which would strengthen the economy" and their susceptibility to "directives from abroad" are cited in arguing for the "insurmountable difficulties" that granting them full citizenship would create. Otherwise, a first-rate book.

This book takes a long time to get into (and it's not that long!). At first I was really turned off by a strange writing style: it doesn't flow; it seems unnatural; although not complex it requires time for interpretation. However, once the Chinese come into contact with the Europeans, the conflict is intensified and interest ignites. Then again at the end, too much denouement occurs too rapidly. But through all the strangeness, the reader is forced to think about the value of knowledge for its own sake. This novel should be made into a movie as it has great potential for great visual beauty.

Being French, I was intrigued by some comments I read on this book and compliments on the author. Delbanco was even compared to Peter Mayle, however, I have to disagree. Although Delbanco's stories are sometimes amusing, the text does not flow as well as Mayle's. I find Delbanco's story telling very disjointed and the style too spoken-like. The concept is valid, the facts are interesting, but I do not find this a compelling read.

The ad at Amazon needs to clarify that the Linux edition included with the Linux half of the bundle is the 5.0 kernel, versus the current 5.2 release.

The 3 stars are for the lousy editing and organizing of the book, not its actual contents, which is a collection of the more important works of I understand one of the world's greatest writer.

Books like this should be judged by the way they are edited -- the stature over the past 200 years of the author and of his works contained in the book are beyond dispute anymore. You can always say all the superlative words about, say, Shakespeare or James Joyce, but it will only show that you are just catching up with what the rest of the world knows already. Same here.

Usually, books like this, specially those published by supposedly respectable publishers, would be a bit more well organized. A well known critic would introduce the book at the level of an average reader, would tell you how the works that comprise the collection were selected, would tell you the merits and demerits of the available translations and why a particular translation was chosen for the collection, etc.

It would have maps and chronologies and a bit more background information so you will appreciate better the historical and geographical and cultural context of the author's works.

Aside from the chronology and a terribly irrelevant and unreadable and useless and boring exercise in conceited academic hoo-hah, otherwise known as the book's Introduction, you get none of those goodies and you must just fend for yourself while wading in 1,248 pages of 200 year-old literature.

The specialists -- those who are engaged in the cottage industry that surrounds a major writer -- will probably like this book, if indeed this book collects all of Goethe's books that matter in the English translation.

However for the dilettante like you and me who just knows that Goethe is supposed to be a good writer and specially those who are looking for a good English translation of any of his major work, this book is no help at all. You just don't know whether the translations are the best ones available in English.

Almost all the paraphernalia in the book are useless, and you will be like reading an unknown 200 year-old 1,248-page book of an unknown writer.

(P.S. but I did enjoy reading the Sorrows of Young Werther and the poems, for all they are worth.)

This book started out really interesting and thrilling but really faded out in the end. It started out being a thriller and ended up being sci-fi. The killer is too predictable and is really unlikely.

The main character, Abby, is a senior in high school and the captain of the cheerleading squad. Everything seems to be going great for her, until she's brutally attacked and left for dead on the football field at the school. As she recovers from a coma, she realizes that someone attacked her and might strike again. She starts to get visions that her friends are in danger. She warns them and one by one they turn up dead. Abby knows she must stop this killer who will do anything to hurt Abby and the ones she loves.

an encylopedic approach but a superficial survey - good introduction for a novice.