The journey through economic times does not begin with the begining of recorded history, but in the late middle ages. JKG then fastforwards over the next 8 pages to WW1. For the first half of half of the rest of the book JKG indecisevly meanders between a left leaning history, mostly of the US, and his own personal experiances in government jobs and at various shools. By the second half of the book he has apparently made up his mind it is to be a story about the underpriveleged and thier holier than thou defenders, most notably JKG himself, against the evil ambitions of the comfortable class. An example on page 174 of a conspiracy of the comfortable class to keep the poor down with a tax cut rather than increased social spending consisted in part of the members of the State Department having a "Galbraith Early Warning System" to warn other members of the comfortable class cabal of the times when JKG was returning from India to save the country from the tax cut. On page 191 appaernetly he feels it was the "perverse genius" of Richard Nixon to make Americans distrust government through such actions as Watergate. The writing is unclear and confusing throughout the entire book. For example, Does JKG really beleive that Watergate was a plot by Nixon to get Joe Sixpack to distrust government, Or does JKG just have extreme difficulty string a few words together into a coherent whole. I still do not know.

When I began reading this I tried to think of a more pathetic attempt at a book on economics that I read in my life. After many remembrances of the many economic books that I have read I was able to think of one in which I only made it through a few chapters. In it some author I do not recall the name of used long term technical analysis to predict a global depression in the late 1980s through the 1990s. Several more chapters into the Galbraith book I changed my mind, this was worse than the book by the false profit of doom.

While I feel that most economics books are woefully lacking in statistics this has to be the worse of the lot. In the rare event that there is a statistic it is more of an inept and incomplete attempt to convince the reader of something than provide actual information.

On the positive side, in my exhaustive search throughout this entire tome (it is not really all that long-it just feals that way) I was able to find a singlr quasi interesting albeit incomplete sentence on income distribution on page 134.

With writing like this how does Harvard do so well in the rankings?

After the first world war the old world order begin to collapse.The great powers were no longer real great powers and then a new world order begin to form.This book gives you a realistic point of view about the whole economic events after WW1 till the end of communism.Reading this book also teaches the close contact between economy and the future of earth by showing us the collapsing empires,ideas and utopias because of economy.

This book has beautiful pictures, but not enough info & absolutely no help on figuring out values.

I really like many of the designs that Kenneth J. Lane has produced over the years and loved having a reference book of all his different styles and periods. The prose is of a chatty style that I usually am not too fond of but Mr. Lane is so upbeat and aware of the good fortune that has blessed him that you can't help but like him. The photography is wonderful and it is fun to see photos of celebrities wearing his jewels. The book could have been stronger if it has an addendix of technical information about the creation of costume jewelry or had a reference as to current pricing of some of Mr. Lane's vintage pieces. But I had many a fun evening looking and reading and will definately keep this book available for several more readings.

A teenager is seduced into gay sex by an older "sophisticated" man. Then he is encouraged to participate in drugs and orgies. An innocent gay is raped and commits sucide because he is gay. Every conceivable negative stereotype of gays and gay life finds its way into this novel. It is propaganda for the religious right, confirming their worst fears. There is nothing here of tenderness, of love, of reality. And this review will not be printed because Amazon (who wants to sell books) will not print a negartive review.

Ken Anderson's novel fully delivers on what the "Barely Legal" short story excerpt promised. If you're looking for a well-written, can't-put-it-down gay page-turner, consider your search over. Here you'll find a sensuous older man-younger man romance complete with hot sensual lovemaking and details of growing up gay in a 1969 South by several characters. Much of the novel's setting is at a huge remote villa overlooking a vast forest-fringed lake. Mr. Anderson is quite adept at setting a mood whether it be the uncertainty about Vietnam facing draft-age males in 1969, a blazing fireplace with bone-chilling cold outside, the rampant 1960s drug use, an almost-drowning or the claustrophobic feel of being buried alive(I could almost literally feel the dirt coming down on me). While applauding Mr. Anderson's depiction of gay life(several worthwhile role models in the book!)in 1969 and taking into account the intelligence, awareness and world travelling of the gay characters, my only complaint is that no mention is made of the Stonewall Riots which predate the novel's opening by barely a month(and the novel's main action is the next 5 months)and which had such a huge impact on gay life. Aside from that one tiny gripe, my advice is buy this book, curl up under a warm quilt and read the night away.

"Destiny and Deliverance" subtitled "Spiritual insights from the life of Moses" delivers a solid collection of 8 chapters each by a different author. Philip Yancey and Joni Eareckson Tada lead the way with particularly well written insights. One pleasant surprise was the terrific contribution of John C Maxwell whose great gifts in speaking and leadership have not always translated well to the printed page. His chapter on the 10 gracious gifts God gives leaders is worth the price of the book. Good stuff all around with a couple of "weak-sister" chapters that don't add much. "The Prince of Egypt" may not have topped the box office but this book helps to broaden the impact of its message.

This book is boring. Reader speaks in monotone. Does not hold attention and runs in circles. More informative books available on this subject.

If you want to learn about these composers but don't feeling like reading about them, then this is for you. Each tape has 2 sides, containg information on a certain composer. Different voices are used to portray different people, and excerpts from some of the composers' most famous works are included on the tape.

Is this a tome? I was expecting deep subject coverage. What we have instead is a reproduction of the API docs. Does that a tome make? I think not. What's missing? Complex examples. Real-world examples (who creates windows with API calls when we have TForm?). Undocumented insights behind the APIs -- things you can't find in MSDN or the Platform SDK. More than anything, this book highlights the bloody lack of good Delphi books. This one is definitely a pass.

I don't know many Delphi developers who can't at least read VB code. Obviously, the authors of this book can, because the examples are eerily similar to the VB Win32 examples in MSDN. So much so that I rather doubt a competent Delphi developer who has MSDN would really get much value from this book. If you can read VB, you don't need this book. I was expecting unique insights into the way that Delphi implements the API, particularly the graphics API, but instead got a lame VB-to-Pascal translation. Can't recommend this book.

Couldn't help but notice the obvious similarities between this book and the examples in MSDN and the Platform SDK. If you have either of these, I don't know why you'd need this book. I bought it thinking I'd get expert advice and insights. All it really is is a rehash of what's publicly available from MS anyway.

Regardless of the author's bias, the book is just dreadful. Of all the books on this subject, there must be one clearer than this. Just terrible.

This book supposedly examines different political ideologies, but all it does is slam on the right. Meanwhile, the left is somehow sacred, and avoids criticism. I wonder if the writers have been up in the ivory towers too long, because the real world is not reflected in the writing of this book! Unbalanced, and not worth reading.

After reviewing a number of textbooks on American ideologies, I found the Hoover textbook to be exceedingly fair in its presentation of all contemporary American ideologies. It approaches the topic historically and is quite accurate; I found no bias in favor of any particular ideology. It not only covers all the bases, the structure is sensible and very helpful for students, who think they know what "liberalism" and "conservatism" mean, when in fact they do not. It's not my dream textbook, but I highly recommend it.

John Kenneth Galbraith certainly deserves inclusion in a series on the great economists of modernity. Unfortunately, the writer is a huge fan of Galbraith (and doesn't hide the fact). As a result, his criticism is almost nonexistant whereas he seems to enjoy praising Galbraith to kingdom come (and Veblen as well). A whole book on Galbraith without a mention of a major critic, Milton Friedman? Hardly worth 15 dollars, let alone 60, there undoubtebly will be greater biographies of Galbraith in coming years.

"The most common liquid is water, which we use for generating hydroelectric power and white-water rafting." p308 Vol 1 Oh, is that all? If you are intent on learning physics, do not buy this book. The explanations leave much to be desired, the organization is poor and the problems at the end of the chapter seem to expect the reader to know more than the book cares to teach. If you have a committed teacher, this book can be wonderful, but otherwise, try something else.

If you thought a book with a foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith would be a tax-and-spend, big-government screed ... well, in this case you would be right. The authors are probably too oblivious to even be embarrassed by the wrong-headed interpretations they put on such matters as productivity and the expected unending upward slope of interest rates to favor "the lenders." This is ham-handed analysis, often shockingly simplistic and tendentious, and now getting dated of course. But I give the book one star for at least touching on some interesting subjects and being reasonably readable, even if one must be cautious about its interpretations. I bought my copy remaindered for about three bucks -- about the right price.

If you are an economist you might find this book readable. If you are not trained in the dismal science you might just find this book to be dismal itself.

Far too often the author asserts points and then asks the reader to take his assumptions on faith while he builds up to his grand conculsions. This can serious hamper the lay reader in being able to follow the arguments made. Those with a more in depth understanding of fiscal policy might just find the conclusions themselves to be faulty and un practicle.

Written in 1996 this book is already out of date and rapidly becoming more of a hostorical document than a current events book.