William Price is indeed an overlooked architect. While I'm hesistant to call him a genius, his work has a breadth seldom seen in the work of his contemporaries. He was one of the last of the Philadelphia architects to come from a background of manual training rather than an academic background, but clearly he was able to apply the lessons of contemporary practice learned from books, and stretch into new areas of the Arts and Crafts movement and advanced design in reinforced concrete.

The author spends an inordinate amount of time in the book describing how Philadelphia, with a strong heritage of innovative industrial design is left behind in the architectural world due to an academic bias of the press based in New York and Boston. While this is important to Price's reputation, it has little to do with his actual work. The prose in the book is repititious, reading as a series of loosely related lectures rather than a single thesis, and the book design does not help the reader.

The illustrations, largely drawn from the firm's archive now held by the author, are very well produced, but could have been supplemented by more new photography. A significant number of Price's buildings do survive, and color photography would bring out the great qualities of material, color, and texture that were so important to his work.

In summary, a book on Price was long overdue, but one would have hoped that it would focus more on the great qualities of his architecture.

This book has been written giving you a view on seasonals that had existed a few decades ago! Sure enough there is an update manual written a few years ago but that is not much heop anyway. The fundamental situation that affects seasonals had changed rapidly over the last two decades thus changing the seasonal tenden \cies of some commodities, for example, Brazil is now a major player in the world soybean market and their planting and harvesting time is different from the U.S. yet they have an impact on U.S. futures prices!

I have been trading professionally for over 10 years. I have done very well in the markets after a long learning curve. The ideas in this book have a slight chance to work, but you'd be better off fliping a coin than using his entry methods. I was on the floor and everyone knows about these ideas. Everything in here needs a tight stop.

time tested and very workable trades abound in this book, used at face value or as a tool in contract selection this book should be a prerequisite in any traders library

Whilst this book provides a useful idea about swing trading, it is extremely too repititive as there are many things writtenl over and over again tat could bore you to death. The only useful thing I have found is the quotes takenl from W.D. Gann master comodities course. Even though you learn about Gann angles, these are best taught with the use of the master squares to give the best trading result. Unfortnately, you cannot find a Gann square here

This book serves as a good introduction to the Gann Theory. It explains clearly the basics of Gann Theory: How to use the Swing Charts to identify trends, together with other Gann tools like Gann Angle,Squaring and Anniversaries to determine the likely date/time for Heads or Bottoms (ie. Cycles) and important supports/resistances. With this book, you will be able to grasp the basic framework of Gann Trading. Yet given that the book does not mention the more advanced Gann tools, it only fulfill the introduction/ elementary purpose. So the same price should have bought another book that talks more indepth about the topics. Besides, the book is too repetitive that it seems half of the price is paid to those "copy and paste" pages. I will say, this book deserves five stars if both the price and the pages are cut down by halves.

Mr. Gopee missed the point when he said the book was an insult to his intelligence and by implying that it was repetitive. The technique was not intended to fool anyone. The author intentionally wrote in the style of Gann. Remember that the author is not the publisher. If there was anything wrong with the writing style, then it would have been spotted during the editing process.

If you had read any of Gann's book, you'd have known that repetition is the key. Keep doing it over and over again until you get it right. You sound like a bitter trader who has had trouble with the simple rules. Almost all the "Gann traders" I know are always looking for the "master time factor' or some deep dark astrological secret. Too many traders today want the answers, but are not willing to study and spend time learning how to trade.

This is an update to the original book and unless you have the original, this book will not do you any good.

This is my first book about salts and I could not understand what the book was telling me because it apparently references another previous book which I do not have.

This book is essential for the salt cellar (open salt) collector. It must be used in conjunction with 5000 Open Salts : A Collector's Guide. The former gives the price range of each open salt. The latter provides a photograph and description of each individual salt.

Unless you are very new to coin collecting, this book has very little to offer. It does have some good, basic descriptions or discussions about US coins and their history, but if you are looking for what to pay for that next coin purchase you make, I would caution against relying only on this "guide".

When I purchased this book, I was most interested in reading the "Value Trends", but was disappointed to find little in that area that was helpful. The back cover in part reads: "It is the only book that gives you: (among several items) 'Price-performance graphs visually tracking a 12-year history of every series of US coins'." No such graphs were in the edition I received.

I would send the book back for a refund if it was worth my time. I would think most people would be better off buying the latest issue of the Grey Sheets or better yet Blue Sheets, that are available on the internet.

This book was a complete waste of time and money for me. Poorly organized and cross referenced. For the novice, such as myself, it provided no explanation as to the types of marks to identify the makers. It did not display any marks either. There are no color photos, and what photos are found are dark and useless. I was very unhappy with this purchase.

NOTE: I am NOT writing a review ... I just want to inform you that you have the incorrect backcover summary for this title.

You have the summary for THE AMERICAN JOURNEY (see below), and, instead, the title is actually:

Diversity Amid Globalization : World Regions, Environment, Development

From the Back Cover Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, The American Journey introduces readers to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. It gives prominent coverage to the West and South, highlights the importance of religion in American history, and traces the emergence of distinctively American ideals-and the way the conflict between those ideals and reality has shaped our nation's development. Compelling stories, ample use of quotations, excerpts from primary sources, and plentiful illustrations bring the past vividly alive.This combined volume covers American history from 1600 to present times. Chapter topics include the war for independence; the first republic; Jeffersonian Republicanism; the Jacksonian Era; industrial change and urbanization; slavery and the old South; the Civil War; transforming the West; the Progressive Era; the Great Depression and the New Deal; World War: 1939-1945; John F. Kennedy and the Cold War; Nixon and Watergate; and the Reagan revolution.For armchair historians who appreciate the fact that knowledge of the past matters most of all if we are to understand the present-and shape the future.

This book was a big letdown. As a native South Carolinian I was looking forward to finding some points of interest that not everyone knows about. To suggest that places like Patriot's Point in Charleston are little known secrets is silly. There's a HUGE naval ship in the middle of Charleston Harbor! How can this be considered "off the beaten path"? This book would be helpful for someone visiting our state for the very first and possibly only time, since it's focus is on the most well known tourist attractions in our state. Fox didn't even have the dates for the South Carolina State Fair correct. Never, in my 39 years, has "the fair" been held in September. In fact, when I was younger it was even later in the year than it is now. I think maybe Mr. Fox has been living in Georgia or Florida and only claiming to be from our great state! He knows well the few restaurants he frequents in the low country, but that is it. The BEST book to check for really interesting places and history is SOUTH CAROLINA: A DAY AT A TIME by Caroline Todd & Sidney Wait. These ladies put our esteemed Mr. Fox to shame with their knowledge of our state.