I am a final year school student, focusing on 1920's America. I found Weisner's research valuable in giving another view on the Teapot Dome Scandal. Other texts which are available here in New Zealand are brief and do not have the detail which Mr Weisner has uncovered. Ihad hoped to find other reviews of this book which also agree with his research, however I have not found anything else which gives the detail and documented evidence that is available in A.B. Fall and the The Teapot Dome Scandal. It is a fascinating book and I hope historians will take the time to review this evidence.

I wish I could provide a comparative review, but to this day, this seems to be the ONLY book available that actively addresses what happened to Buffalo in the last quarter century. Thank you for conducting interviews honestly, without unwarranted nostalgia or trying to put a "happy face" on what continues to be a sad and terrible situation. I also appreciate your craftsmanship, both in the gorgeous photography and in your writing. The little was otherwise available on the subject through the Buffalo Historical Society was so amateurish that I was embarrassed to continue reading.
As a Western New York expatriate, I lead a happy life. That is, until I visit back home, and realize that no one knows me and that poverty has settled permanently on my hometown. I had imagined once that I could contribute to my community, that I could have somehow helped, but like the Blizzard of '77, the economic collapse was bigger than I was. You help to provide meaning to the Steeltown Diaspora.

I am from the South and I love hearing stories of others who live from there. This book is so easy to read . The author uses some homemade stories to execute his humor and lessons learned within this book. I felt that the author brought out the South through fond memories and I enjoyed that.

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David Ishmael has combined his travel and knowledge of a foreign culture with a facinating premis to produce a book that is sure to stretch your mind. One is faced with human situations and ways of thinking that seldom occur to the modern Westerner - but should. A good book should make you think and teach new things to put to work in new ways. This book does that in a delightful way. I can't recommend it highly enough.

This book covers the (theoretical) fundamentals of grinding like no other, period! I learned a lot from this book. Covers the elementary part of grinding into great depth. It made me look at grinding with another perspecive. This already payed off at my workplace. When receiving an education the fundamentals are sometimes not covered or in very shallow detail. Especially when receiving a on the job training. This book complements the practical skills of qualified personell by giving the operator a broader horizon. It may be too much dry reading material for a novice, but is very helpfull if the individual wants to improve their theoretical knowledge of the grinding process. One of the best books (if not the)I own. Next month I will purchase the authors book 'Metal Cutting Principles' this is howmuch I valued the info in this book. Nuff said.

Anyone familiar with Prof. Munitz's work recognizes this book as a building block in a life's effort oriented towards the widest-possible perspective available to humans. This work provides reassurance that Munitz possesses the bona fides to made subsequent claims concerning epistemology and morality. Therefore, this book matters as one element in a grander picture painted by a humble and intelligent individual. It stands alone, as well, as a contribution to cosmology.

Osborne's book is an excellent account of the first European expedition up the Mekong River, from Saigon into the Southwestern region of the Chinese empire. As it is based on official and unofficial records of the exploration, written by the actual members of the French team, the account is both vivid and accurate, and conveys so much of the hardship and heartache experienced by the Frenchmen and those who accompanied them. It is also a profound and readable introduction to the history of Southeast Asia, its relation to China, and its position as the centerpiece of a colonial competition for trade, conquest, and scientific discovery. Great book!

If you've never been exposed to the "Great Books" movement in higher education, you probably don't know who Robert Hutchins was. I only knew him as a dazzling champion of this almost-forgotten ideal of learning, as did his contemporaries. Milton Meyer showed me a man superhuman in his aims and yet tragically flawed. He espoused the Classics without being a true student of them, and yet was he not more Shakespearean than any of the professors he governed? Anyway, the book moved me. If you have any ability to be inspired by the story of an imperfect man, read this book.

I first saw Mr. Viorst on PBS an an expert on Middle East affairs and was impressed by his keen insights. Considering that he is a Jewish writer living in the United States, he has established a highly independent and well-founded perspective on the state of Israel and its relationships with both the Arab world and the United States. After reading all of Henry Kissinger's writings on the Arab-Israel struggle, I found this book a wonderful counterpoint to the cold war outlook on Mideast politics taken by so many American administrations. I would compare it to David Shipler's perspective in his book on Arab and Jew; Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Perhaps with the end of the cold war, Mr. Viorst's perspective on the Arab-Israeli struggle will begin to find more resonance in the capitols of the western world. I would highly recommend this book to any serious student of Mid-East politics and history. In a time when we are fighting a battle against Osama bin Laden, Mr. Viorst illuminates the reasons why American policy in the Middle East may have, purposefully or inadvertently, helped to inflame so many Arabs while bringing no lasting peace to the region.

He also does an excellent job, through the political history of Israel since its inception, sorting out the movements, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, Zionist and Revisionist, etc. that have pushed and pulled Israel in conflicting directions over the past 50 years. For that alone, this book should be compulsory reading for any student of Israeli political history. While it was written in the late 1980's, it still shines a light on the events which have since transpired.