Really. This book is so fine, so well written, so fascinating, that I actually re-read it! Mr. Levine, please write more. I've recommended this book to many friends, including scientists who had never shown an interest in literary subjects. I practically forced my best friend--a professional wrestler (!)--to read it. The result: Mr. Levine now has a motley crew of new admirers.

The Scene: Three months before my qualifying exams. I have crammed every book on theatre I can think of. I have notecards that I memorize. I have no love of theatre anymore, no interest in the subject, just trying to get through the ordeal that so many of my friends have failed. I don't allow myself to read books for fun, or all the way through. I only skim for facts to drop.

One day this book arrives in the mail with several others I've ordered. I dutifully skim it for facts to put on my notecards. I find myself being drawn in. It is academic reading--I couldn't imagine that it could be all that enjoyable. More importantly I don't have time to enjoy a book. But I am enjoying it, so I decide to let myself really read the first chapter (on Shakespeare).

I can't put it down. I'm reading about museums now, public parks, things that I will never be able to use on my exams, but I love the way he thinks! Not only am I loving Levine's incredible book, but I am even excited about my field again. Levine's book is an incredible gift, a gift that helped me renew my delight in what scholarship and history can do. A model I will never live up to, but will cherish and delight in. And I did pass, quoting Levine not to impress, but out of a real delight in the field and the joy of sharing ideas.

The Internet and the Information age has brought a new era of privacy, or lack there of. Identity theft is rampant and personal privacy is eroded in the name of ecommerce efficiency or "homeland" security. Internet Privacy for Dummies is an excellent text empowering the individual to fight big brother. What can you do to protect your privacy, in ten easy steps. What laws are on your side. And what forms can you fill out to vaporize that pesky telemarketer - all right there for your easy use. An excellent text - highly recommended.

This book contains a collection of approx. 40 scholarly articles in the area of Near Eastern studies. Each one is very interesting and very well done.

It is VERY nice book. Especially for medical students and residents.
You can understand from detail to basic of diseases. With this book, you know how to approach and make your list of differential diagnosis.
I worked for infectious disease patients for a while, and this book was very useful because you can get the general knowledge not only about infectious diseases but also general internal medicine, skin lesions, bone diseases, and so on. I especially recommend the chart of antibiotics(Chart 37). I like this book because we can also get the update etiology of diseases. So nice.

Current Medicine is right up there among the top few reference books. It has excellent chapters in Cardiology, Infectious diseases and Respiratory medicine. One of the key features is the references of the latest articles at the end of every topic that is covered. This is book is worth every cent that is spent to buy it, a truly productive investment of time and money....a must buy for students who want to ace their exams.

This is a "must have" text for any student of medicine. It has all the information one needs for ward rounds, presentations, and exams. Medicine is an ever-evolving field and this book keeps up with all the latest developments. The references are conveniently given at the end of each section so the student can easily look up the most relevant articles. I especially like the "Essentials of Diagnosis" that precedes each disease entity and summarizes the key points. However this book is very much clinical/management-oriented. It does not have pictures/slides nor does it cover pathophysiology (for that, Harrison's is a better book).

Get the Ring is a must-buy! There is at least something (actually, lots of things) for everyone on every single CD. I myself was amazed at how the series seemed to be talking personally to me. The issues it addresses are exactly the ones that I have come up against again and again while dating.

For example, the information about the differences between men and women is priceless. I know that lots of people today have trouble with this idea, but what can you do? Men and women really are different, and this series does an excellent job of describing each one fairly.

Not looking for perfection is another key theme that struck home. I found that I have really been looking for that "perfect" someone, just like in the movies and the novels, and that's one reason why I've always been disappointed in relationships - they never measured up!

The advice on actual dating is terrific. Even though it might not all be relevant to everyone, there are a lot of good, sound principles in there that can be applied in different ways to fit different situations - for example, the need for down time, which is something I had been ignoring.

Another aspect of the series that I really appreciated was the emphasis on character development and how the person you are is what's really going to determine the nature of the relationship and how well it goes. That was a big revelation to me.

The 10 ways to marry the wrong person are fantastic! I felt like whacking myself on the head with each one. Why couldn't I have heard this five years ago?!

But the biggest advantage to Get the Ring is how realistic it is. On the one hand, it dispels a lot of illusions that people (including me) have (in my case had, because I already heard the series) about dating and marriage. But on the other hand, it doesn't leave you with the feeling that you're stranded holding a burst balloon. Each speaker explains - with lots of empathy, I must add - how to rebuild your outlook on dating so that, if you follow their guidelines, you're sure to be more successful in the future.

If you are dating - or married, for that matter - than you owe it to yourself to buy "Get the Ring." Even if you never listen to self-help products, change your policy this one time. I promise you that you won't regret it. I didn't. I am now going out with someone and Get the Ring is my bible - and things are going great!

Dear Mr. Levine,

Thank you so much for putting together this comprehensive overview on love, dating and marriage. I always thought I knew everything one needed to know about finding a mate until I listened to your Cd's and heard what your experts had to say! Wow, now I have a whole new attitude and approach to dating and relationships. Never before had I heard the information that was revealed, such as who to say NO to after one date, what qualities are a MUST to determine the right mate and what's needed in the foundation of a relationship to make a happy home. I am very excited to begin my search with a new perspective, thanks again and come dance at my wedding - soon!!

Warmest Regards,
DLR 33 from NYC

Get The Ring is an excellent six CD audio collection that provides invaluable insight for singles about finding the right person for marriage. David LeVine interviews many reliable resources within the Jewish Dating Community who provide common sense back to basics advise. Whereas this CD is a bit more focused on the Jewish Community, persons of other faiths can certainly utilize this information.

The people interviewed on this CD set all have varying styles. Rabbi Shimon Green is certainly the must humorous of the bunch. Lawrence Kelemen certainly reflects on societal issues the most. Excellent points on how seeking the one you love is not taught in school. Too much of an emphasis on veneral diseases instead of how to treat a member of the opposite sex.

Regardless of who is speaking, excellent advise flows like a river into a stream. Its important for single people to evaluate strengths and weaknesses carefully. What are key deal breakers? Also what are potential red flags? Its very important to notice how someone treats those whom he or she has a casual relationship with like a telephone operator.

Also the importance of physical attraction, ethics, and how long should one date someone. Another key point is to network when dating someone. Getting recommendations from trustworthy people always helps. You are oh so precious why not go the extra mile.

Other sections emphasize the value of being humble and acts of kindness as more important than raw chemistry. Kindness and a humble attitude can actually create long lasting chemistry as opposed to a flash in the pan relationship where both parties never take the time to know the person.

I could emphasize so many other good moments of this CD for many more moments. However the deep meaning behind the words of wisdom from these speakers is what will provide long lasting knowledge to many single people out there. This is a must purchase for anyone in search for true love.

I grew up in the neighbourhood described in this book. We left in the mid-fifties along with many other families for the near suburbs, but I remember the vitality of the neighbourhood well. We continued to return to the area (just off Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury) until my remaining relatives were driven out.

The authors go into great detail to set the scene of the neighbourhood and to describe the motives and actions of the main participants. I think that there is sufficient evidence to conclude whether any party has a greater share of the blame -- if blame must be attached at all. The authors point their finger at the banks (who always seem to be castigated for being Brahmins). Relying on the authors' own evidence, I conclude that it was the result of the cruel, vicious, criminal and arrogant, posturing blacks who drove the Jews out. Exceptions to this were noted in the book. The authors said that the Irish were tougher and wouldn't give in to intimidation so easily; the Jews were seen as easy marks. How right those harsh characterisations were!.

The book left my mother in tears. Highly accurate, the book will give you something to cry over if you knew the area. It will puncture a liberal myth in any case.

Its easy to believe that the status quo is inevitable, that Jews have always lived in faceless suburbs. But this book shows that this is not so--once upon a time there were Jewish neighborhoods just like there are Chinatowns and black neighborhoods today. And it also shows that the status quo isn't just a natural result of the market -- that government "urban renewal" drove blacks out of older neighborhoods into those Jewish neighborhoods, thus spurring Jewish flight. These sorts of places aren't totally extinct--if you want to see a slightly more upscale version of what Blue Hill Avenue must have looked like, visit Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh sometime (I think the major commercial strip is Murray Avenue, but I haven't visited there from some years).

"This book is must reading for urban planners and elected officials. I cannot recommend it enough" Paul J. Walkowski, Author, "From Trial Court to the United States Supreme Court"

For someone who was only vaguely familiar with FDR and his New Deal/War policies, this book was a treat. Out of all the FDR books available to purchase, I started with this one because what better way to discover a man and his administration's agenda than through the voice of the people who put him there? I found myself admiring FDR and his New Deal policies that recognized and built up the "Forgotten Man" of the 1930s- often at the expense of Big Business- many of whom are heard from here with hundreds of adoring letters(many letters claim FDR to be a "God" or "right next to God.").

The book documents each Fireside Chat FDR gave from 1933 until close to his death in April 1945. Each chat is given five to seven pages of review and then anywhere from ten to fifteen pages of reactionary letters for each Chat. Even though I agreed with most of FDR's New Deal policies, I enjoyed reading the negative letters he would receive challenging his policies as there are SO MANY adoring, deifying letters from his followers that one tends to wonder if anyone ever disagreed with FDR. The disagreeable letters most often refer to him as an aspiring Dictator and the really harsh letters label him a cripple.

I enjoyed reading this book a great deal and tended to agree with FDR on almost everything he presented in his Fireside Chats except that towards the end of the war, he became infatuated with a National Service Law that would require every US citizen to take part in the war rather than have a choice to fight (thus giving his dissenters some material to back their Dictator claims) and then, not more than a year later when it became evident that the Allies would win the war, he wanted every US citizen to take part in "Keeping the Peace" training- required military training that would help the country promote democracy in the post-war world.

The book also presents the dilemma FDR had with free-thinking Southern Democrats and his aspirations to start a new political party had it not been for his death after just having been elected to a fourth term, in addition to his battles with the Supreme Court in the late 1930s and his wish to "modernize" the court by getting some newer, younger blood on the bench.

If you are a collector or admirerer of US history books, I would think this book belongs on your shelf. It harkens back to a time when our government had a real conversation with the people during a time in our history when we needed it the most. FDR did so many wonderful things for our country that are still prevalent today. As a young, twenty-something, I appreciated FDR's creativity with his programs as well as his ability to care for the Forgotten Man despite his aristocratic upbringing.

The black mark, however, on FDR and his New Deal programs, at least in my eyes, is that they did next to nothing for African-Americans. A lot of things were said during the Fireside Chats about equality for African-Americans, but little was done. The book presents this paradox as a political issue for FDR where he wanted to do something to help African-Americans, but that it would have alienated the Southern Democrats in the Democratic Party to the point where other, "more important" legislature would not have been able to pass. In other words, FDR sacrificed this issue for other programs that he wanted passed.

One last, interesting note on the Fireside Chats- the term "Fireside Chats" was coined by the media, not necessarily by FDR or his administration. In fact, FDR would often mock the term on a few occasions where he would give summer addresses and note that exactly no one was near their fireside, or even another chat that was given at a White House dinner FDR coined a "Plate-side chat."

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

-- FDR, in his (Democratic party renomination) acceptance speech of 1936.

The generation of Americans who lived through the Great Depression and World War II bore witness to -- and helped fashion -- momentous changes in the world around them.

We know a lot about the rise of fascism in Europe; of militarism in Japan; the battles and trials of the Great Depression and World War II; the ultimate Allied victory and the postwar boom. But have we listened to the voice of the common American of the time? What was it that allowed American democracy to prevail, while in Europe it was swept away in a tide of fascism?

This book goes a long way toward answering those questions.

Seeing formerly democratic societies fall to fascism in Europe, Roosevelt came to believe that these democracies failed because they were too weak. He felt that a government that could not provide an economic framework which held jobs for the unemployed, food for the hungry, and shelter for the homeless, would eventually fall to some sort of strongman system. In coping with the many challenges he faced, Roosevelt reinvented the American presidency into what is termed the "modern presidency" -- a much more dynamic leadership role than it had been prior, in both the American political system and the American psyche. He accomplished this feat largely through his use of radio addresses, called "Fireside Chats." This book deals in the stuff of these historic radio addresses, and documents the effects of the two-way communication -- for his listeners responded in droves, and their letters were read and considered by Whitehouse staff, and even Roosevelt himself.

Fascinating and revealing, the many letters from common people of the day do much to illuminate our understanding of the 1930's and '40's. Do not miss this wonderful book!

The next generation wireless technologies are going to greatly affect the way business and consumers communicate. This book presents a technical and marketing oriented overview of 3G wireless telecommunications and its various applications. Topics covered include network technologies, transmission systems, standards, devices and applications. 3G Demystified contains many useful diagrams and illustrations to assist the easy to read explanations, and serves as a good, useful reference book.

This book is very well structured and covers 3G is a systematic manner. It is an excellent source of information. The topics are covered in a clear and to the point format. It is easy to understand and covers basically all you need to know about 3G, in terms of the standards, networks, devices, applications and market opportunities. 3G Wireless Demystified is your single source of information, and makes for an excellent reference book.

Reading this book was a breeze. Misters Harte, Levine and Kikta have transformed the hottest topic of the telecom industry into an understandable and easy readable format, without sacrificing depth of content. All of the key issues-- GPRS and EDGE, WCDMA, CDMA2000 and applications are covered. Having previously read other books by these authors, I find that their writing style enables anybody to understand subject matter that you would think only experts could decypher. I highly recommend 3G Wireless Demystified!

This book may be understood by readers with little or no background in cellular technology. It starts with the very basics of cellular and covers more advanced topics including the details of AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, and GSM technologies. The material is well organized and clear. This book is very useful for IT managers as well as for those who want to make careers in cellular engineering.

Overall, a great book and highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn more about cellular technologies.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book full of enlightening and memorable anecdotes. The book makes the sources of Argentina's instability and anti-Americanism very clear. However, it would be more accurately entitled "Inside My Career in Argentina." Don't expect to learn much of the inner workings of Argentina's government. This is really the memoir of an international corporate lawyer who had business dealings with Argentina. Foreign policy flare ups affected the deals he worked on, and he tells Argentina's history through that lens. As important as Peron was to Argentina's history, Levine only met the man once and covers that in less than a page. Nor will you get much insight into Menem. It's an enjoyable read as Levine had a rare opportunity as a Harvard Law grad representing Argentinian companies at that time. (No doubt today Argentina's elite sends its own kids to Harvard to later represent them in the U.S.) It's a career experience worth recounting, but it isn't truly an insider's view of Argentina.