An essential read for anybody entering the world of WEB publication. Covers many issues from technical to commercial.

"Holding On" is an alternately delightful and thought-provoking homage to the spirit and people that make our nation so unique. This is a rare book that will please any reader until the last page...because you will be left eager to meet more of these proud real-life characters.

Harvey presents an excellent review of the concept of justice (both social and environmental) and its survival in postmodern context. Also a nice treatment of dialectical reasoning.

I was attracted to this work becaues i'm interested in Marx and have read another of Harvey's books "The Condition of Postmodernity." Harvey is an erudite scholar who's formal education is in georgraphy, but his research has produced accessable and powerful studies beyond his origins. "Limits to Captial" is a complete and balanced account of Marx's economic work centering upon his major text "Das Kaptial." Harvey has does a intense study of Marx and Marxist scholarship (Lenin, Rose Luxingberg, and others) to produce a systematic and dialetical account of Marx's critique of Captialism. Even though harevy pays attention to the importance of Hegelian dialetics this book is accessable to to readers who do not have strong philosophic of economic backgrounds. If your are interested in Marx and/or captialism this is an excelent inroad to begin your studies. A detaled biblography of cited sources is a gem for continuted research. His book on postmodernity is also excelent.

When I wrote this book about the transformation of lower Manhattan a number of years ago, SoHo was already recognized as an artists' and a landmark loft district. Because of the many modern art galleries and the neighborhood's general ambiance of being "discovered," it also became a tourist destination. I wanted to explain the process of discovery--how derelict loft spaces attracted artists in the 1960s and 1970s, and through them, provided a cultural core for the commercial redevelopment of the central city. Did I predict that the art galleries would flee to another neighborhood, and be replaced by clothing stores and shoe boutiques? That rents would rise and struggling artists would be replaced by rock stars and rich people? LOFT LIVING lays the groundwork for these developments, exposing the connections between chic urban lifestyle, media hype, and real estate developers. This book was fun to write and, I think, prescient.

Harvey Hartman and his firm have spent the last ten to fifteen years studying "wellness" and all that goes with it: vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements (VMHS), the consumer trends toward prevention, alternative medicines, organic foods and the like. Hartman has had the good fortune to choose an industry which has reached 15 billion dollars in size and continues to boom. His research is impressive is impressive for its focus on wellness, for the scope of this booming industry, and for the depth of the Hartman firm's consumer insight.

The book is well-organized and structured into chapters on particular topics (VMHS, Alternative Medicine, broad consumer trends, etc.). Each is based on extensive quantitative and qualitative studies the Hartman firm has published.

The book suits itself to retailers, manufacturers and the various marketing service industries who participate in this area. The scope and depth of the research is astounding - far more than any one firm could commission on an ad-hoc basis. And here you get it for free!

If the book has a weakness, it is that it focuses exclusively on the US and lacks any international references. Nonetheless, international marketers are well-served to read this book for comparisons to their own market.

William L. Florida, Consumer Marketer

Open City consistently publishes great stories, poems, essays, and artwork. I look forward to each issue, because each one is so different, and because this magazine continues to be vital and relevant, esp. because many literary magazines are so staid and dull....

This is the best nutrition book I've ever read! You need nothing more than this book. He knows all about nutrition. This book is so spectacular! It's not like any other book on the planet! It's better than all those put together. He gives you the importance of the right foods in your body. This book helped me sleep better when I regulated my food alkaline intake. I'm using a certain type of vegetable instead of salt and I feel better knowing I'm eating the right foods. This is the one and only book you need for nutrition. This book is the best "investment" I've made for my body, ever!

Dealing with fragments is like walking in a minefield: you can never be too cautious. There is only one methodology: keep your speculations "tame". The more ingenious a speculation may sound, the more aberrant may prove to be. If even the great T.B.L. Webster could not avoid this pitfall (his "Studies in Menander" ended up a major embarrassment), then nobody is immune. This volume brings together a number of major studies on the fragments of Old Comedy. The volume is comprehensive, welledited and well printed, representative of a variety of authors, subjects and approaches. As a rule the essays followed the cautious road, as pinpointed by Kenneth Dover's introductory note. One should not look here for a resurrection effect: what is lost is lost. But this is as close as we can get towards recovering at least the gist of the Old Comedy experience beyond the great master. A worthy investment.

The influence of David Harvey on the academic discipline of geography cannot be overstated. With incredibly perseverance, Harvey called for greater ethical commitment right from the 1970s which saw the beginning of his career. This book charts the course of his views as they change from then till now. Before I tell you what the book is about, let me say a few words about the style: Harvey writes in incredibly moving and deceptively simple prose (though his ideas are as complicated as any of the Continental thinkers who dominate elite theory today). In a community of theorists who rival each other in being prolix and obscure, this is truly refreshing.

The first part of the book contains several essays, written between 1974 and 2000, all exploring two key themes:1) the discipline of geography and its relevance to today and 2) the nexus between certain forms of geographical knowledge and political power. Some essays are absolute gems. Specially noteworthy are the last two: City and Social Justice, and Cartographic Identities. In the first, Harvey theorizes the possibility of radical urban grassroots movements and the conditions for their 'success' (a bit problematic it must be admitted with its urbanist telos, specially for someone from the economic South like me) and in the second, he envisions a program for a synthetic study of (mostly mutually noncompatible) geographical knowledges constitued at different institutional sites (academic, the State apparatus, transnational orgs like IMF etc, multinational corporations, military, popular knowledge etc etc) as a task for geographers of the near future.

The second set of essays try with great skill (though it must be admitted that to someone not overly familiar with the historical-materialist tradition, they are hard to get through) to insert the thematics of space (especially important when one considers the growing unequality of development in today's world and the international (gendered) division of labor)in a historical-materialist tradition with the project of founding a historico-geographical materialist tradition.

In any case, WHATEVER your background read this book. You may not agree with everything but it will trulymake you question a lot of your received notions.