For a first time American businessperson (woman, at that) it is a comprehensive and high-level look at doing business the Japanese way.

The book hits you like a slap to the face. Right from page 1. Some of the ordeals Alexander Dolgun goes through are mind boggling.

Beyond the story of a man who endures everything, I also enjoyed the narrative on the internal problems of the Soviet communist system. Whereas most of my knowledge of the USSR is based on the American Media, this book put a face and a heart around cold war russians.

The book began to drag near then end, but overall an amazing book. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Survival, simple torture, and Cold-War Russia.

I enjoy the genre of adventure stories with a few exceptions. Most mountain-climbing books leave me numbly wondering why people are so stupid. ...

That said, I really enjoy these Man vs. World accounts. This book is the tale of an American kidnapped by the Soviets and held in Russia for years. His tale of the tortures he and his fellow prisoners endure will make you question how a man can survive so much with his sanity intact.

Dolgun does a wonderful job portraying prison life and despair and how prisoners cope with horrific limitations. His accounts of the people and places he experienced in Russia are as penetrating as a Dostoyevsky or Dickens. If you're interested in the Gulag, this is a much more accessible work than any of those by Sozhenitsyn with the exception of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". That account is fictional; this account is not.

I note that you can buy a good used copy for a buck here on Amazon. Spend that buck and be amazed that this book didn't make anyone's top 5 list of adventure stories.

Wow! I read the condensed version of this book when I was 12. Now I am 15 and still love it. In fact, I'm even using it for a book report in school. Buy it, read it, treasure it forever!

Well from this I learned wild rice is of three categories. Paddy commercial machine, lake machine or hand, and native harvested and hand processed lake and river rice. The third is the best unsurprisingly. From Minnesota Native Americans.

Also it's "oleurpein" in olive oil which reduces blood pressure, and it's free with olive oil. That is economically no market for the ingredient in pills in other words. So eat olive oil it seems.

Fish and chips originated in Northern England when women working in cotton mills didn't have time to make a daily hot family meal, so bought from urban vendors. That would be the historical slant I guess.

Balsamic vinegar was known to the Greeks but became famous only in the 1980's due to a cookbook. It is made especially in Modena, Italy, for some reason.

Older wine types are being revived. The Vallais in Switzerland is "a hotbed of archaeological viticulture, with Humagnes and Arvines popping up everywhere." So the authors said.

An ostrich egg would make an omelet for 12 people. They eat other parts also.

All told cheese many varieties, street-food, beer, markets, biotechnology, raw food, even leftovers. Slow food in its setting here and there and even elsewhere.

Well from this I learned wild rice is of three categories. Paddy commercial machine, lake machine or hand, and native harvested and hand processed lake and river rice. The third is the best unsurprisingly. From Minnesota Native Americans.

Also it's "oleurpein" in olive oil which reduces blood pressure, and it's free with olive oil.

Fish and chips originated in Northern England when women working in cotton mills didn't have time to make a daily hot family meal, so bought from urban vendors.

Balsamic vinegar was known to the Greeks but became famous only in the 1980's due to a cookbook. It is made especially in Modena, Italy, for some reason.

Older wine types are being revived. The Vallais in Switzerland is "a hotbed of archaeological viticulture, with Humagnes and Arvines popping up everywhere." So the authors said.

An ostrich egg would make an omelet for 12 people.

All told cheese, street-food, beer, markets, biotechnology, raw food, even leftovers. Slow food in its setting.

"Slow Food" and the slow food movement deserve better than this. The subjects are interesting and informative, but the frequent mistakes in the words ( not typos - real serious errors) makes it embarassing and I finally gave up. Because of the too-fast or careless editing ( apparently by non-English speakers in many cases) I would not give this book as a gift to anyone I know who otherwise would be interested in the subject. Too bad.

I own this book.It is one of the best books I have ever read.I recommend it very strongly. You won't be sorry you bought this book!

the book is simple and makes the tough parts of econometrics understandable.however some core background topics are lacking... statistical depth for persons without a solid background in statistics. such is found in other texts(see jonston, gujurati, koutsoyannis, intrilligator).furthermore the book assumes prior knowledge of matrices,hence those without a solid background herein,at left at a loss.

As a post graduate student facing an econometrics course for the first time I found this book to be invaluable. I found the delivery of material particularly in the 'modern' topics to be much more accessible than in either Gujarati or Enders. Some knowledge of statistics and some elements of mathematics are required, but as I quickly learned, any text on econometrics at this level requires these skills. Some authors try to overcome this hurdle by including reviews of statistics and matrix algebra either in an appendix or in an introductory chapter. Watson & Teelucksingh do not do this. They present any required techniques in the body of the text . While for me in a few instances the necessary skills required reference to introductory statistics texts, I found this to be more convenient than the summaries that are found in the appendices or introductions of other econometrics texts. After all, such summaries are typically attempts to fit elegant theoretical constructs into a few bullet points. My recommendation to the post-grad student to whom econometrics is new is to use this text and where necessary support it with whatever statistics text you were comfortable with at undergrad level.