If you are really interested in what happened between Turks and Armenians in 1915,i can suggest you to read Heath Lowry's The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau's Story.Professor Heath Lowry is a well-known historian in Princeton University and in his book,he proves Ambassador Morgenthau's Story wrong scientifically,shows how the book is based on rumors.A must to read for those who are interested in this matter...

The book is advisable only when one reads it with Heath W. Lowry' s "The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau' s Story", published by ISIS Press, Istanbul in 1990. As Dr. Lowry describes:

"The answer is simple and relates to the fact that Morgenthau was writing a piece of wartime propaganda with the expressly stated purpose of mobilising support for President Wilson's war effort. He consciously down played the close relationships he enjoyed with the Young Turk leadership throughout his sojourn in Constantinople and sacrificed truth for the greater good of helping to generate anti-Turkish sentiment which would transform itself into pro-war sentiment."

Unfortunately the American public opinion during that time was based on such sources as the services of Dragaman (translators) between the officials of the Ottoman Empire and the American Ambassador. And these dragaman were not Ottoman Turks but Ottoman Armenians and Ottoman Greeks both were in conflict with the Ottoman Empire. Ambassador Morgenthau used two of them, two Armenians, namely Hagop S. Andonian (personal secretary) and Arshag K. Schmavonian (legal assistant). The printed copy however went through severe war time propaganda editing by the US Secretary of State, Robert Lensing and Pulitzer award winning author, Burton J. Hendrick.

One of the most dramatic incidents and the diversion of the facts were about the life insurance benefits of the deceased Armenian insurers of an American Insurance company. The book claims that Talaat, the Ottoman Interior Minister, made a request to him that the Ambassador should help to facilitate payment the insurance benefits to the Ottoman Treasury, as there were no heirs to the insurers! However, Dr. Lowry proved that after reading the actual dated letters, the request of the Ottoman Minister was to stop the American Insurance Company from transferring their capital funds from Ottoman Empire to France, and thereby preserving sufficient capitalization for any benefits claims. Such diversion of the facts is extremely dangerous.

It is therefore an important document about the wartime journalism and subsequent unfortunate diversions of the facts to base Armenian claims of 1915. We could only be grateful to Dr. Lowry that he shed light into the story with his review of the original letters stored in FDR Library and in the National Achieves.

Ambassador Morgenthau has always been one of the most reliable sources on the Armenian Genocide. No surprise that so many attempts have been made to tarnish his image, or to question his testimonies on the terrible crime committed by the Ottoman Empire against its Christian Armenian subjects. Yet, the Morgenthau version of the 1915 events is abslutely irrefutable, and I strongly recommend this book to those interested in finding out what has really happened during the agony of the "ill man of Europe".

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the strange and unfortunate saga of Pete Rose. It offers his version of the "truth" regarding his banishment from baseball as well as his views about his magnificent career. Although the book features the information most fans would want to know, it is not structured well. Roger Kahn organizes the book as almost a dialogue between Rose and himself, which gives the reader the feeling that the book is cut and pasted together from random interviews. The transitions from Kahn's views to Rose's views are sloppy and at times confusing. It is hard to believe that Kahn spent three years writing this book.

Buy the book for its information and overlook the unfortunate fact that Pete Rose selected the wrong person to write his biography. Roger Kahn was either loafing through the project or he was severely past his prime. Maybe he should have "hung 'em up" when Pete Rose did.

PETE ROSE DOES A GOOD JOB IN THIS STORY CONCERNING HIS CAREER AND PRIVATE LIFE. THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING HIS GAMBLING IS DONE IN GREAT DETAIL AND IS A STAND OUT. PETE COMES ACROSS AS BEING CONFIDENT AND AT TIMES COCKY, HONEST, AND ARROGANT. I ADMIRE PETE THE BALL PLAYER, BUT AS A HUMAN BEING HE IS NOT A MODEL CITIZEN. I FOUND THIS BOOK WELL WRITTEN AND QUITE INTERESTING. A MUST FOR PETE ROSE FANS.

i can't recommend this book. there are many other books which are much better. the authors of this book treat you like a first-grader.

i'm sorry, but this may be the worst med-spanish dictionary ever done. the authors treat the reader as first-graders. i would definitely not recommend this as there are many other books which do a much better job.

Great book to keep readily available in ER, clinic, labor and delivery or wherever have Spanish speaking patients. Book focuses on key questions that guide patient management and which allow you to obtain relevant identifying information and to write a history and physical exam. Book also includes extensive sections on obtaining informed consent for numerous specific procedures, etc. The audiocassette that comes with the book is very helpful.

This edition is ripe for update (the information in this guide is more than three years old). The lodging and restaurant profiles are adequate, but dated.

I live near Cusco and have seen new and better accommodations, restaurants and dives open up. When I was in Cusco, in May, 2003, Footprint was there researching the next Cusco edition.

The one constant is the information on the attractions and ruins - timeless. Ben Box is at his best describing and touring the spectacular antiquity of Cusco, Machu Picchu and surrounding areas.

When it comes to profiling tour operators, Ben Box is superb. Especially consider his profiles if you are hiking the Inka Trail or want to see Manu Reserve (only 10 lic. operators). He has also highlighted some of the NGOs working with abandoned children and environmental issues - applaudable indeed.

The best place in Peru for up to date information is the 'South American Explorers Club' in Cusco (Lima has a club house too). The address given in this edition is old, SAE moved over a year ago. The new address is 188 Choquechaca #4, Cusco (Tel. 84-245484)

On the downside, the index is paltry and this guide lacks an accommodations or restaurants index. Thus, if you have a recommended restaurant you want to look up in a large city (Lima, Cusco etc.) you have to go through all the restaurant pages 'til you stumble across the name you seek or miss seeing it completely.

The publisher's use of paid advertisements for hotels, tour companies, calling cards and travel services (over 20 ads in this guide - many full page) are intrusive and causes one to question the integrity of the guide, when the same company with a full page ad is profiled and recommended by the author.

Also disturbing and disappointing is Ben Box's quick gloss-over of the rising crime in Cusco. Last year there was a rash of taxi robberies and rapes. The police in Cusco are a joke. Anyone with a car and who sticks has "TAXI" written on the front window is not questioned by the authorities. Thus, criminals cruise in private cars with a "TAXI" sticker and prey on unsuspecting tourists, especially women. Ben Box's coverage of crime and safety in Cusco is basically non-existent. Much better is the more recent 'Footprint - Peru' Guide.

These things noted, Instead of this guide I would encourage you to consider the 'Footprint - Peru' Guide 4th Edition (make sure it is the 4th Ed.). The "Peru" 4th edition has much more than this guide has and is more current. However, when Footprint brings out, the soon to come, Cusco 2nd edition, then I would strongly consider that guide.

When I read a biography I want to be transported into the life of the subject, and follow along as that life unfolds. I don't want the author's presence there at all, unless it's to sum up his or her thoughts towards the end of the book. But in this book Roger Lewis doesn't let you forget for one second that it is he (Roger Lewis) writing the book. He fills it with enormous amounts of unnecessary information, information on how he wrote the book, his inane interpretations of Peter Sellers behavior (on page 170: "Seller's predilection for signs and symbols directed at him from beyond the grave....imply his basic comtempt for human life and reason." on page 183: "(Sellers') telescope, topsy-turvily fixed on the inverted clockface of Big Ben, is symbolic, surely? Sellers always wanted to outwit time; to show himself indifferent to it's distructiveness."), all too frequent mentions of himself (on page 197: "Had you been leaning over the railings of the little footbridge .....you would have seen an interesting sight. Along the edge....two characters approach.....Kenneth Griffin is remembering his old colleague, Sellers; his companion on this occasion -namely, the present author - is doing his best, whilst clambering thorough bush and briar, to take mental notes on the speach."), and the annoying habit of often discribing in detail photographs that do not appear in the book, that would have been better simply reproduced without the long discriptions, which, of course, include Lewis' thoughts on what the people in them might have been feeling at the time the photos were taken. If the subject matter of this book weren't as interesting as Peter Sellers is, it would have proven almost unreadably irritating. Lewis' constant editorializing would be better suited to a short article, but is impossible over the length of a book.

A horrifing account of what Peter Sellers was like in his private life. A 'blank' who found it hard to communicate with other people, and was probably very mentally ill. This book has been criticised from various quarters, but look at who Roger Lewis interviewed and then read all the other biographies of Sellers and you will still find an intensly lonely and hurtful (to himself and others) man.

This biography is one of the most exhaustively researched and well written books about an actor that I have ever read. I've been a fan of Sellers for 30 years and have read every book I could find about the man, including the "authorised" (by Sellers' last wife, not Sellers himself) biography and 'P.S. I Love You' by Sellers son Michael, which was the best book about Peter Sellers I had read..until this one.

A lot of people have taken issue with the fact that Lewis writes of Sellers as an "evil" man, but Lewis has interviewed many people who were close enough to Sellers to back up many of the authors claims about the actors erratic and sometimes downright mean and vindictive behaviour towards others. Lewis recognises and celebrates the actors extraordinary talents, but his primary goal is to peel back the layers of his public persona and show us the man as he was seen by those who were close to him. The Peter Sellers revealed in this book is a man who was obviously mentally ill, a man who clearly suffered from manic depression and crippling anxiety. Lewis writes of a man who physically and emotionally lashed at those in his personal and professional lives rather than reaching out for help and support.

If you want to read a feelgood biography of Sellers, this is not the book for you. This is more like a cross between a biography and 'Hearts Of Darkness' as we accompany the writer through a journey where he uses every method at his disposal to locate the "real" Peter Sellers. It's a sometimes harrowing journey that is subjective by its nature, and it's not a trip to take if you want a typical showbiz biography. It's also worth noting that the original UK edition is even more hard hitting as it contains some material that has been excised from this US version (an interview with one of the Boulting brothers has been removed from this edition, for example).

This book is being adapted as a HBO movie starring Geoffrey Rush as Sellers. It is currently filming and should be released late 2003/early 2004.

There is no concrete example in this book! Only a few which is either generated by AppWizard or copied from the samples come with Visual C++ 5.0. You cannot get any idea how to develop robust DB front-end applications after reading it. Maybe you can use it for reference for some ODBC and DAO classes.

This book is supposed to be designed for an advance developer. Well, my opinion is that this is not designed for a developer but for somebody who has a management and non-technical background who just want to read something about Visual C++ Development. Most of the code in this book were created by just using the appwizard of the Visual C++ package. Anybody can do that! If you know Visual C++ software development and read this book, you will probably doubt if the authors really know Visual C++ and MFC programming. Perhaps the authors are expert in their own field but this book is poorly organized and I guess haphazardly written. I do not recommend this book unless you have nothing else to do.

A casual glance at the back of this volume reveals a "User Level" indicator: accomplished to expert -- definitely not for the casual or inexperienced programmer. The buyer is given fair warning. This is a good reference for the experienced C++ programmer who knows some SQL/Windows/VC++IDE and wants to put them all together to create PROFESSIONAL, industrial-strength programs for a living. The author makes no bones about targeting the most financially profitable areas of database programming. The format of this book is not geared to the dive-in-and-get-your-hands-dirty approach (which is what I prefer.) A "Hello, world!" tutorial mindset, like mine, is bored and confused by not having written anything by the end of the first few pages. Chapter 1 is a (very objective) evaluation of the available tools to do the job and why VC++ is the best. If I had been sufficiently warned, I would have skipped that one. From there on out, it is a well-organized reference and tutorial (in my opinion). This is definitely a get-the-job-done tools book for a professional writing professional programs in a real-world environment. If you want to get the skills for those six-figure jobs, this is the book to buy. (Make sure you know something about SQL/VC++ Windows development first, though.)

Christian Feldman, in "Mother Teresa: Love Stays", does not do justice for the life and work of Mother Teresa. Writing from an apparently distant and impersonal perspective, Feldman lacks the affectivity vital in capturing the tremendous love of a woman so devoted to Christ and his suffering children. "Love Stays" is, however, sufficient as a newpaper-like account and may serve as a worthy general introduction.

The documentaion is somewhat thorough and accurate. Events and interviews in which she participated are quantitatively well covered. Frequently, Feldman inserts quotes from Mother Teresa; however, it would be much more effective and informative if all of these sources were footnoted. Perhaps off-setting this, Feldman does include comments from those who had the pleasure of meeting her and working with her - complete with the context of the situation in which the quotes were taken.

Betraying his generally objective writing style, Feldman not infrequently inserts his own subjective commentaries. He proposes thoughts and connections Mother Teresa may have had without any real evidence, such as the suggestion that she was thinking of her own second calling when speaking about the Annunciation. He misleads the reader by putting words on Mother Teresa's lips, using quotation marks followed by such clarifications as "she seemed to be asking." (p. 24) He puts feelings in her heart that many would not find compatible with the loving woman's long-standing reputation, such as diagnosing her with "profound depression" in one section and, further on, describes her as "hissing" at some would be attackers. Such conclusions need backing up and should be left for the reader to determine.

To his credit, Feldman opens the book with a heart wrenching prologue which so beautifully captures the spirit of Mother Teresa and her selfless work with the abandoned and dying. Unfortunately, the rest of the book does not always follow true to this initial picture. Perhaps his intent was to paint a more human picture of Mother Teresa complete with connections to the secular and non-Christian worl. But this denies the splendid reality of the greatness of this little woman and even, at times, seems painstakingly fabricated. For those of us who wish to share a close spiritual affinity with her, this book leaves us dry.

Many nice pictures but the title of this book may have reflected its contents better if it had been '1000 Inventions and Discoveries from mainly Europe, China, Egypt and the Middle East'. Although it mentions discoveries from 3,000,000 BC, there is practically no mention of any significant discovery from India. The thousands of potential readers of Indian origin and those who know about the great discoveries India has contributed to the world may not appreciate such an 'oversight'. ...

this book, if you can call it one, does come close to covering what you need to know. the author's style is condescending and trite. there are much better books out there!