as a person whose family is from aegean macedonia (where this story takes place)i know first hand what atrocities happened to the natives of all of macedonia by the turks the serbs the bulgars and especially the greeks. this author is confused about who are the real macedonians and what is the real macedonia. people who fought for true independence of macedonia did not side with any of their "liberators" and if they did they were known to be traitors of macedonia or as locals called them "speown". when somewon was killed for this it was always blamed on the "other side" but more likely by someone in their own village or even by their own family. nice story but that all it is just a story. real i doubt it . in future when writing of macedonia please be factual and not just political mombojumbo for the greek government . remember up intill 9-10 years ago the greek stance was no such thing as macedonia.

This is not a good book, in fact, it is a dreadful book. The problem is not so much the subject matter (D. Nasos), rather, it is the way it is written. The author unfortunately does an injustice to the life of her father by the inclusion of pan-Hellenic nonsense throughout much of the book. References to Greek gods, heroes and morality is fine, but in this case it was grossly over-done and verging on the ridiculous. The total disregard to the Macedonian-speaking population in northern Greece is tragic. Perhaps she did not have enough information to write a comprehensive account of her father's life. This is a pity as I was quite seduced by small framents of his life, especially in America. His early years in the "new world" when he was struggling to earn a few dollars were most moving and I feel much, much more could have been said. This book appears to be nothing more than a Greek ethnocentric view of life written by a person who should have left the writing to someone who has something interesting to say. To the reviewer who claimed that this book is better than ANGELA'S ASHES - you have got to be joking!

An interesting story which, althought from a personal point of view as any biography, it provides a good description of macedonia during the 20th century. I have read this book and I may say that some of the previous reviewers rated it only based on its title and the sort description provided. Thus I attribute the attacks to misunderstanding. This book refers to the province of macedonia in northern greece (the ancient kingdom) and it's relation to bulgaria and NOT to the slavs (of bulgarian blood) and their civil war with the minotiry of albanians in the modern-slavic-macedonia (the ancient kingdom of Paeonia).
This common 'macedonia' name tends to confuse a lot of people.

PS. I know that albanians hate this name, please forgive me, but this is the name that the ex-yugoslavian state selected since 1991.

As with most of Bruce Weber's books, his style is the same from the beginning and had not changed a bit. Though I admire many of his good works (and in fact had purchased a lot of his expensive books), a good 70% of images in his books were the same type of images we discard at photo school developing labs and the same type of images our instructors at Photo 1 asked us to improve. Reasons: out of focus, bad composition, low quality grainy and muddy images. Well, it's the name that sells, you know. It takes a lot to be Bruce Weber. Honestly, his works for Abercrombie and Fitch were much better than the books. If I were to make a name like my idol, my works will sell, as well. And I am not kidding.

As a photographer who really looks up to and loves the work of Bruce Weber, I know I have a strong bias for anything he does. However, this book is a great look inside Weber's world and is godo with the interviews as well. My only problem is the price, ... there are probably better books for those that really get into Weber photography and are looking to maybe buy just one book, such as the out of print Chop Suey Club, etc., that even cover his work with Abercrombie and Fitch, and are cheaper at the same time. I would only recommend this book for someone who wants to know more than your basics about what Weber is about, and price is not an issue, otherwise go for it!

Chorafas book is tedious to read. The titles are excellent, but the majority of the time I found the content under the title poorly researched, off the subject or focused only on one insignificant point instead of the subject title.

This book is difficult to classify other than it ties together a number of related, but different, disciplines. It is also one of the most interesting books on ERP, CRM and SCM I have ever read because of the eclectic array of topics and fascinating points of view.

Chapters I liked based on professional interest are: Auditing the Implementation, Operation and Maintenance of ERP Software, The Ongoing Change in the Practice of Auditing Information Technology, Auditing Supply Chain Solutions and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Case Studies in Auditing a Company's Financial Statements and Other Reports, Auditing the Security/Protection Methodology and Providing Improvements. These are solidly written and thoroughly cover all aspects of the topics. This is no surprise if you are familiar with Mr. Chorafas' work, which is heavily slanted towards financial management.

I also liked "The Next Frontier in Technology and in Supply Chain Management", which is one of the more visionary chapters in the book. It also has one of the longest titles I have ever seen (I truncated the complete title name). Unfortunately, like the title, well crafted sentences are not a hallmark of Mr. Chorafas' writing. Despite that, the information he provides between the covers of this book is thought-provoking and excellent fodder for long-range strategic planning.

If you are an architect, strategic planner of CIO of a company that employs or plans to employ any two or the three foundation systems discussed in this book (ERP, CRM or SCM) this book is essential reading. It is also an excellent resource for consultants who specialize in any of the three system types.

Eight years ago, Mariah Sullivan and her boss were accused of sexually molesting several of their day-care students. Shortly after the rumors started, one of their pupils (Dotty Orel) went missing, then was found murdered. Although Mariah was innocent of both molestation and murder charges, her boss was found guilty of child pornography and sentenced to prison. However, Dotty's killer was never found.

Now, eight years later in a new town, Mariah has started her own child day-care center called Tot Lot, far away from the old rumors and accusations. As the Tot Lot nears its one-year anniversary, it unexpectedly becomes the target of various grave threats: a child effigy is hung from the tree in the Tot Lot yard with a note ("Will this be your kid?") attached to it, someone breaks into the day care and leaves another message ("It's all going to happen again") in clay, and then someone writes "Tot Lot Kids Are Abused" on the window. But the most shocking event is when Mariah receives a child's shoe in the mail that belonged to the late Dotty Orel. Mariah then realizes her present tormentor is the same person who had murdered Dotty nearly a decade ago. And now Mariah must try and solve the identity of her stalker before s/he strikes again, because that person has already threatened to kill another child--perhaps Mariah's own 7-year-old daughter, Clarisse.

"Child's Cry" started out pretty good, but it was somewhat of a chore to finish. Usually I can read a 300-paged book in a few days, but this one took me a couple of weeks. There really wasn't a lot of action or suspense, and the identity of the stalker/killer was no big surprise; I had suspected them from the beginning. This isn't a book I'd recommend, but if you're really into suspense/mystery stories involving children exploitation, then you might like it. Otherwise, save your money.

This is essentially a dual language Russian/English survey of the last eight hundred years of Russian poetry, from the Lay of Igor' to early post-war period. There is no explanation of the context or stature of the various poets, and the poems selected are not among the best from particular authors in my opinon (Blok, Akhmatova, Tikhin, etc.) but there's not a lot out there competing, either. Russian poetry is very moving, classically structured and lyrical. This survey doesn't really do it justice.

Good summary of the new BIS rules, but the review of understanding marking-to-model is sketchy, inconsistent, and rife with too many pseudo-graphs and footnotes to his own books and articles.

I don't like this book. It explains elementary things about agents, in totaly non-scientific way.

Very blah-blah style of writing.

This book gives a good insight of the agent domain and also about the ongoing intresting project in MIT regarding Intelligent Agents. This book also gives a good overview of KQML. This book is very good if U want to know about the intelligent agent technology without going to any specific language implementation details.

A much better title for this book would have been "Interesting Financial Concepts That Hopefully Some Other Book Will Teach You"

As an engineer, I saw this as a very shallow treatment of Chaos Theory that will do NOTHING for those who actually wish to apply it to financial markets. Chapter after chapter poses questions to the reader but fails do deliver the answers. One can only assume that the few diagrams and examples presented are not explained because the author just does not fully understand them.

The reviewer who claims that the book was a good starting point may have been partially right. It asks so many questions that now I must find a text with at least one or two answers.

Although math is mentioned in the desciption, you won't find any in this book. This book is written for junior high school economics students who have never heard the terms chaos or fuzzy logic before. With a background in non-linear dynamics, I found this text insulting for its price. Application of the current trendy concepts to any market whatsoever was completely lacking. It is essentially a 300+ page version of Webster's dictionary definition of chaos. For the amount of information present in this book, it should be priced in the five to ten dollar range.

Something of a disappointment. There is almost nothing of a truly technical nature. A lot of chalk board drawings but nothing you can feed to a computer to test any ideas. It would have been worth the price if it had included a few real world models, perhaps implemented as spreadsheets. Otherwise, it's just a b-r-o-a-d overview.

A book with ostensibly some structure but lacks any logical lead through. I defy anyone to make sense of his few pages on structured bonds - all he says is that they're risky and those in the know have told him that many people do not understand them. I empathize with this lack of understanding - the author shares it.

The author has a bizarre bullet point writing system - certain sentences are pulled out for emphasis for no good reason. The book is littered with grammatical errors.

A real dud, spare your money.

Do not buy this book. If you own it, don't bother reading it. The information content is negligible. The English is appallingly bad. Material often has nothing to do with the sections to which it pertains. The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness rambling mode with no apparent logic. With 115 books to his credit, Mr. Chorafas is obviously in the business of churning out books on current topics, whether or not (and based on the evidence from this book, it is very much "not") he has any knowledge or experience with the subject. Prentice Hall should be ashamed to be associated as the publisher, and obviously did very little editing before publishing the book.

This is one of the worst books I have ever read. I was lucky to sell it on zShops for half of face value. Clearly, this guy has little or no experience with crederivs, and his weak command of English just makes it worse. While I think Nelken's book is also a little thin on material, and Tavakoli's book represents a somewhat dated view of the market, both are substantially more educational than this one. My own experience suggests that one is far better off to understand bond/loan trading first, plus some structuring and capital allocation. That is enough to figure out how to trade crederivs. All this hype about the insane risk in these things is crap - it's not substantially more risky than bonds, and people have been in that business for a long time. The only essential difference - counterparty risk - is not really addressed in any satisfactory manner anywhere.