Upon checking for my review just now, I realized that I erroneously reviewed this second edition. I assumed that I was writing about the first edition only. I have NOT READ the second edition. So please remove my review from the panel of reviews for this second edition. I could not leave the rating item blank, so the rating of 1--has no relevance. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Good for non-profit managers and board members who are not familiar with the subtleties and possibilities of income earning opportunities. Also, those with some knowledge and experience of having partnerships with businesses can validate what they are doing and get other ideas. The book has many vignettes to illustrate the authors' ideas and suggestions. Most of these are real life examples, not hypothetical. The title, however, can turn off people, sounds almost greedy and tacky. If one persists though, I think the authors give a more respectable twist to the phrase, "Filthy rich", somewhere in the introduction, and dont mean what it sounds. In contrast, the title of Steckel's other book, "Making Money While Making a Difference" is more appealing. Steckel has academic and consulting experience, so I would give credibility; however, the title makes you wonder if it is overstated. Read with caution but enthusiasm, which is perhaps what the authors really intended.

Worth the read and certainly the modest price. For the rookie and intermediate non-profit manager and board.

The fact that you are even reading this review indicates that you are considering buying it. Please, I beg you, listen to me - I have something vitally important to say.

This 'book' sullies the good name of Greek scholarship. That the other academics involved allowed themselves to appear in a book with Simon Goldhill should cause us to scorn and dimiss them - from their jobs, should they repeat this offence.

His filthy chapter is offensive, unpleasant, depraved, and yet somehow also excruciatingly boring - almost coma-inducingly so. Every word drips with the bearded contempt he has for women, for Greeks, for life itself.

This book does not only sully the name of Greek scholarship - it sullies the good name of drivel. It plumbs new depths for the human species. I beg you not to buy it, ever.

For the Greeks, for those who have gone, and for yourselves: just say, "Goldhill: never!" We must fight him in our lecture halls, we must fight him in our libraries, and we must never surrender.

If we resist him now, if we defeat this menace, then even if Greek scholarship lasts for a thousand years, people will still say: this was our finest hour.

I don't agree with the review that has been posted on this site. In a paranoid and weird way, it seems to accuse the author of being a member of the far right. I think that is cruel and unjustified. However, it is fair to say that Simon Goldhill - as the academic consensus internationally indicates - is simply (a) a profoundly unpleasant man, and (b) a pretty useless scholar.

So, criticise him within this framework - as a failed academic and a failed human being. But don't make accusations about his political outlook which cannot be derived from his scholarship. Unless Mr Seddon knows something we don't?

I can't comment on the book. However I must point out to anyone who has read the two other vicious reviews/character assasinations that Simon Goldhill is a profoundly good man.