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Found this on Amazon after pricing at my college bookstore. Book arrived still in original shrink wrap, and even with shipping I saved over $30. Very nice to do business with. Promptly answered my emails.

This book is very good. The sender send to me very quickly and I have no problem within. Thanks Amazon!

I can not make my review by the simple reason that I did not received yet the book i've bought one month ago.
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Roberto Felicio Coimbra

I am from Istanbul and I cal tell you this guide is fantastic. Before you visit my country Turkey read this guide. It is accurate and colorful.

This Travel Guide is Awesome! It's very easy to read, great pictures and cool tips regarding your next trip To Istanbul.

It's a Must!

I had never used this series of guidebooks before, so I did not know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised during my recent visit to Istanbul in June of 2007.

The main selling points of these DK guides are the superior maps and illustrations of tourist attractions. Major museums, mosques and palaces are shown in detail, with drawings and photos of the interior and exterior, as well as nicely illustrated historical tidbits. For doing the touristy things like visiting major attractions and taking pictures, this guide is great.

I am not sure how good this guide is when it comes to restaurants and nightlife. I did not explore that side of Istanbul as much, and what I saw did not impress me much.

Overall, I think I would have preferred a guide geared more towards active young people with a slightly cynical edge - this guide seemed to present everything as pretty and somewhat sterile. From what I saw, Istanbul definitely has an interesting culture that this guide did not fully capture.

Overall, good guidebook, and highly recommended. Read it ahead of time to know where the main sites and activities that interest you are located. Then do some more research online for good hotels to stay in - online reviews are more up to date.

This is one of the best guide books I have ever read! SO easy to leaf through it and find exactly what one is looking for. The maps are well drawn and easy to navigate, and the photograph make the whole experience complete. I loved most the chapter on foods and drinks to be tasted in Istanbul. Will be a great guide to take along on my trip there.

I found this book very easy to follow and will use for reference in the future.

This book is interesting, was hard to put down.
I read the entire book in just a little time.
I would give the author an A+.
Amazon service was great.

Feng Shui is a very negative system. This book wasn't as bad as the others. It was invented from an ancient poem and the reading of dead bones from graves. Someone came up with this system that seems to threaten you every step of the way. Your home, entrance, bed, couches, etc must all be positioned a certain way or else you have bad luck in finances romance and life in general. It's all nonsense and doesn't work. Save your money and remain happy in life. Putting purple paper in your desk will not create money for you.

Sorry, but I think the whole book could have been written in one chapter. Most of the book was saying things like, don't buy a chair until you sit in it, or keep clutter off your desk. Advise that just takes common sense and fills up pages. I was waiting for the author to tell me not to run with a pair of scissors in my hand. I felt talked down to and unless you are very young with your very first apartment or house, you might also find the book insulting.

This is a great book for the Feng Shui beginner! It is clear and very easy to understand.

classic selections that provide the best remnants of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism that has been expanded to include representation of Plutarch and Cicero and some recent papyrological evidence. The collection is especially strong in ethical reasoning.

I just finished using this text in a graduate course on ancient skepticism. I have to say I was not particularly enamored of the organization of the material. I found the breakdown into subject matter less helpful than a breakdown by source would have been.

That said, the translations are good, read well, and communicate meanings effectively. The sweep of the material is impressive. Some of the cuts and emendations are rather odd, though, particularly in the Sextian Modes. In comparison to Annas and Barnes' translation ("Outlines of Scepticism"), which preserves the complete text, "HP" was lacking.

This book does not offer much in the way of analysis or historical context, either. If you're studying Sextus, go with either of Annas' books (her other is "Modes of Scepticism") as an intro text. If you want a truncated reader in the area, this book will do.

This is a highly recommended book by legal professionals. I support their opinion since this book holds a wealth of important information to help people have a vital resource to be successful. It is user friendly and the legal concepts are written to be easily understandable.

This is a great book for undergrad students taking any type of business law class.

I like it a lot but it needs to put into simple word for a person like me who don't known any thing about law could understand it better. over all its a very good book. A lot of good information.

Lollie L. Jefferson

The book came in a sealed cover. Although it looks brand new, it does say it is "used". You would never know it. It came in a timely manner and when I followed up w/the seller to see when it shipped, they sent me back an e-mail within a few hours. I would highly recommend using Off Campus Athens again.

I have been through a few bad and good text books throughout my college career, but this had to be one of the best I ever picked up. It is easy to search through and actually makes the topics interesting to read.

The World is Flat brings the reader up to speed with what a global economy really means and highlights how far we as a country have fallen behind in regards to education, innovation and other areas critical to the future. The author travels the world and collects true real-life information that would be eye opening for just about anyone. There are other countries who believe that the age of the United States as the ecomomic leader is over and the author explains with facts, not opinion, why they may be right. Freidman goes on to outline what has been suggested, by knowledgeable people from all sectors, to help Americans maintain their leadership position and standard of living. This is a non-partison review of the world and if it was required reading for our politicians the presidential race might be a useful discussion of issues that would truely help our citizens.

Thomas Friedman has truly outdone himself with this one, this is a fantastic description of how the world has/is evolving. It has truly sparked my interest in outsourcing and provided me with numerous interesting tales to add to the occasional conversation.

This book is very well done. Thomas Friedman has put in alot of time in analyzing this book, it contains alot of information, that definitely get one stimulated and should force one to go on nice long thoughts about how the world is changing. All in all this is a great book though long, it contains some excellent information, i would recommend reading it slowly. Pace urself and u will find it enjoyable.

This book has made me afraid to stay in America. I read the book and now I want to move to china or india so bad.

this book got tedious after awhile. I had to keep my eyes from closing and my mind from running somewhere else while I read. In a sense, he kept retelling what he already said in the beginning and almost all of his interviews are from Indian CEOs or Chinese CEOs. Some of the facts I learned from this book are quite surprising.

While I was reading this book, I was overcome by a really big urge to go up to Pres. Bush and slap him.

Overall I liked this book for only the new facts I learned, but other than that it was pretty tedious.

This is an absolutely fantastic book on globalization and the frightening and inspiring realities of its growing potential. A great piece.

The previous reviewer is probably correct about the audience for this book. That said, if you've come through the American academic system, at least in the humanities or social sciences, in the last 30 years or so, this is a fascinating account of the way particularly American concerns and politics led to a "structural misunderstanding," a selective appropriation and transformation of French thinkers and their ideas.

And if you think Sokal has had the last word, I'd recommend Latour's Reassembling the Social, where he draws upon the Science Wars to upset fundamental approaches in the social sciences. The Science Wars were vital for social theory, just not in the way Sokal would like.

If someone was not aware of the controversy surrounding the works of philosophers and literary critics going by the names of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, Michel Foucault, and Alain Badiou and decided to read samples of their work, it might be interesting to see if such a reader would find them as "radical" as they are sometimes portrayed in both the academic and popular press. Such a neutral and isolated reader who is not embedded in the community of experts might extract an interpretation of these works that would be very different from the usual ones currently expounded. Being free from the hype and controversy might allow such an individual to give a fresh interpretation or new paradigm, and one that might in fact have didactic utility. In addition, it would be very interesting to see the reaction of these philosophers and their followers to this interpretation/paradigm. Would they object to it with the assertion of the impossibility of "neutrality"? Or would they view as normal, as being yet another example of the tensions and "oppositions" that are embedded in every text?

If one believes in the wide scale proliferation of the works of these philosophers, as the author of this book clearly does, it might be difficult to find such a reader. The author portrays "French theory" as a body of works, ideas, or texts that have seeped into every facet of American culture, both academic and non-academic. His evidence for this however is very meager and in fact purely anecdotal. This perhaps should not be surprising, for a sound statistical study of the influence of "French theory" would not be forthcoming from someone who stands in opposition to things scientific. But it is a supreme irony that those in the scientific community, particularly those who cheered after the successful culmination of the "Sokal hoax", also do not study the impact of "French theory" from a rational, scientific perspective. Instead, very cursory summaries of "French theory" are given, coupled with selected quotations that they feel support their case of its degrading and anti-scientific bias.

In spite of the author's refusal or inability to present a case for the widespread influence of "French theory" he does introduce the reader to some of the works of the French literary theorists along with short histories and biographies of these theorists and a few of their followers. Anyone who was in the academy during the 1980's and 1990's no doubt has vivid memories of the controversies going on at the time with "politically correct" thinking, the Sokal hoax, and the book by Alan Bloom widely discussed and debated. Many viewed "French theory" as an epistemological black plague that must be stamped out without mercy in order to protect "naïve" impressionable students and the scientific enterprise. Others viewed it as an invitation to revel in a kind of literary Dionysian ecstasy, to become "intoxicated at the prospect of never hitting bottom" to quote the Derridean translator Gayatri Spivak. Others, dubbed the "neoconservatives" by the author and by the academic guru Stanley Fish, felt that it was proof of the decadence of liberalism and the American "Left." But here lies another irony with all these groups: they all seem to take on the attributes of the very thing that deconstructionists describe: they all seem to inhabit their own "logospheres" with each one completely convinced of its apodictic certainty, of possessing the legitimate metanarrative, and having as its purpose the total subjugation of the other "logospheres" to its hegemony.

The author rightfully takes issue with the degree to which American academics and their students have understood "French theory". Few it would seem have taken on the enormous time commitment involved to master its intricacies and historical context. In the introductory pages he makes clear just what he means by "French theory" and in the early chapters one gets the definite impression that the literature departments in the United States were "ripe" for an inculcation of "French theory." But regardless of the intellectual content of "French theory" it is perhaps a compliment that American culture is receptive to new ideas, no matter how alien they may appear at first glance. If American society went overboard with "French theory" it was because of its possibilities of being a guide to making sense out of things, as a tool that competed with structuralism. The deconstructionists however did not mean this to happen, argues the author, and any set of procedures to that end would be their anathema. Popular culture even got in on this distortion, the author quoting the case of the Hollywood movie "The Matrix" and its incorrect exploitation of Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacre et Simulations."

But one could also argue that even a "misunderstanding" of "French theory" could be taken as proof of its influence. After all, it would not be the first time that "surface readings" have resulted in substantial philosophical, literary, or political movements. And the Sokal hoax could be interpreted as an example of what some cognitive scientists call conceptual blending, as an expansion (deliberate or not) of a text to make it say something that is similar to another text. The concepts of quantum gravity do not bear much resemblance to those in hermeneutics, but they can easily be made to resemble them by this blending of concepts. Such a blend may be a farce to some, and from a scientific perspective it certainly is, but for a "neutral" reader it might actually be entertaining or poetic to a certain degree. In this respect Sokal may have done more harm than good for the scientific community, in that he showed how easy it is to "corrupt" a text, even a scientific one, and make it express concepts that are very similar to another one, no matter how "irrational" the latter is. He thus may have inadvertently presented an example of the flexibility of scientific discourse, which in the traditional view is "tighter" in its interpretation and demands a high degree of mental discipline for its understanding.

The author ends the book with an exaltation of French theory in its ability to "decipher" the "operations of power" and its "theoretical grasp of the world." This can only be done he says by extracting it from the academy and the hands of professional commentators. Oddly enough, he refers to the risk of taking it on, and expresses hope that it will "restore life to life." Taking a swipe at the capitalist marketplace and all of its (supposed) vicissitudes, French theory will according to the author spare us of the capitalist logic and consequent cynicisms. In asserting this he is definitely of reactionary status, and has his work cut out for him if he is to stymie or disrupt the flow of technical and scientific advance taking place at the present time. At least for this reviewer, it is difficult to see how the rhetorical constructions of Derrida & Co. could significantly halt this advance, and it really should not attempt to.

I bought this for my mother based on the review, figuring if she didn't like it, I would. She is a highly educated person, but wasn't familiar with the topic, and I thought it would introduce her to some of the theory that I use, etc. and give her some kind of entry into my academic world.

No dice - she found that you have to already be familiar with the topic to get anything out of this. After reading it, I agree. I found it wholly fascinating, but can understand why someone else who is not in this environment would be lost. The writer makes many assumptions regarding the reader - it's NOT an introduction by any stretch of the imagination.

That being said, it's a good book.

I read iron cowboy very fast when I received it. Out of habit I immediately reread this book. Upon rereading it I read things I missed the first time. Jared to feel remorse but coped badly with his quilt and of course blamed Sarah. No doubt this was not the best book I have every read, but I did enjoy it. Ms. Palmer is a good writer, but I think it would be hard to develop a good story when you only have 190 some pages to do it in. I found ms. palmer books are really good when she has more pages to develop and expand the characters. I wanted more from this book
that the page limit would not allow. So, I think we need to give ms. palmer some credit that she even accomplished a far better written book then some of the other harlequin desire books I have wasted my money on.
Her desire books are a lot more complete and less rushed then the others.
So, please reread this book, slowly and maybe you will see what I mean.
I have read some really bad books in my life time by bestselling authors,
this one was a step above some of those.

O, dear God!!! I wish Diana Palmer will be able to read this review!
I have been her fan for more then 15 years.I have about 100 hundred books of hers.
What is going on with Mrs. Palmer in the last 5 or so years? She is not capable of writting anything that can even come close to any of her older books.
This particular book is so booooring...Sara is huging Jared in cemetery and offering him to look out for each other,and he is so interested in the North African theater of war,uh give me a break Diana!And please do not put on your books something like " brand new Long Tall Texans story", because I have all of those stories and the new ones are just very bad.Why is that I am wondering??
Why Mrs Palmer does not stick to her writting style that made her so popular!! I think she should read some of her old stories just to refresh her memory what we like and EXPECT from her. Mrs. Palmer let's start with September morning from 1983., or Unlikely lover.
Please, Mrs.Plmer do change and start delivering the new stories but written in your old style.Thank you.
If it is possible I will give this book less then one star.

This book was terrible. It read like a bad 1970's B-movie (I always get the feeling when I read her books that she's not up to date with the current year wer'e in). I do believe Ms. Palmer is stuck in a time-warp and I think the characters (male and female) are just plain stupid. All of her female characters were either born and raised in a barn or kept in the closet and let out occasionally. No one in the US can be as naive as her female characters; they love emotional abuse from their men; the men usually have way too many hang-ups and what reasonably intelligent woman would keep putting up with them. Really! Who would believe that so many former intelligence agents, live in one small town in Texas. Maybe she should stick to historicals.

I think it is official. Diana you should turn in your pen. I am sorry but this was the worst yet. How does anyone condone the fact that this poor girl who had lived through enough was a victim of date rape? Just because you know your attacker does not mean it is any less awful. Yet, it was never acknowledged as this by the author or those around them. He intended for them to have sex and she did not plan or want to have intimate relations. He took advantage of her and showed no true remorse. As usual for Diana's characters, she took the blame which is typical for most victims. Ms. Palmer, your views are from a day gone by. Men who treat women so horribly are no longer found acceptable in today's society. I commend you for holding high moral standards for your women but why is it ok for your men to act so atrociously? Readers, please be warned when you read this book, it is a substandard example of a once wonderful writer.

This had to be one of the worst books I've ever read. The characters were unbelievable, the plot ridiculous and the storyline was just awful. This is the only Diana Palmer book I've ever read and if this is any indication of her work, it will be my last. When she introduces characters from her other books (I suspected that's what they were based on how ridiculously they were introduced) it was so convoluted it was amusing. I tried to explain this book to some coworkers and all I could do was laugh at how ridiculous the whole storyline was. When asked why I didn't just put it down, I said that it reminded me of trainwreck...I couldn't look away!