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This book says in several hundred pages what can be said in 5-10 pages. It is highly repetitive, and has more of a moral message than a financial one.
It has very little "hard", quantitative information.

I agree with the majority of the advice in this book. I've always thought the stock market was just a legalized pyramid scheme. It makes a lot of sense to focus on how to increase your personal productivity and income. BUT there were two overwhelming thoughts I had while reading this book:

1. Wait - didn't I just read this same sentence 5 times? It felt like the author kept repeating the IDENTICAL phrases over and over again. Like he was just trying to fill enough pages to be able to publish a book.

2. Is this a book or just a 271 page advertisement to take the author's financial seminars?

So, while it is good advice, be prepared to skim alot of pages because it is extremely repetitive. And I would say that this is a book to borrow from the library because once you've read it, there's no need to reference it again.

I used to work in financial services; I left because I didn't believe in the concepts we were trained to share with others. Investing all of your extra cash in high risk/potentially high return instruments in response to your concern about possible future lack, often robs people of the best possible present moment. I don't believe that we can afford to live without planning for tomorrow, but heavily mortgaging your present for a possible better future may not be the best move either.

The author shares with the reader a different way of looking at day to day finances, retirement planning, and general investing. His approach allows for investing without that quake of fear in your stomach every time you open the financial section of your newspaper.

This book fills an important gap in the financial planning/get rich sooner than later book section you'll find in all the bookstores. It presents an open-hearted, sensible, fearless approach to money and its long term accumulation that will strike a lot of people as the right way to go.

Mr Gunderson's success is a testament to the methods he shares here. This book is highly recommended.

Rich Dad must be making progress in influencing other authors. This is another recommendation to "buy rental properties". The author does not hit it nearly as hard as Rich Dad does though. It is subtle but it is throughout the book. We also learn that that banks are ripping you off by taking your deposits and lending it out to others for more than they pay you. Gasp! 401K's are awful and a waste of your money.

The author does have a decent discussion of risk vs. reward. Different investment vehicles are not really inherently risky. It depends on your knowledge of them. Overall good insurance discussion, but lacking disability insurance coverage past a few bullet points.

Overall....waste of the time I spent to browse it. That is the opportunity cost I willingly paid. If you know nothing it will only make you think that everyone is out to get you and make money for themselves...which is probably true, but this book will not arm you with any knowledge to fight back.

Amazing book. The principles taught in this here really opened my eyes and made me look at money, and my stewardship over it in a whole new way. I would recommend this book to everyone.

I love these Bob books. I bought sets 1-5. My boys are still on the first box and they are cruising right through. Kindergarten and first grade. It is GREAT to find a set that introduces new word families and then reinforces them. You won't be disappointed. The drawings are so simple but my kids really do relate.

These are great learning to read books. We're working our way through the whole series.

This was a gift for a boy. He loved it! Success! I love giving gifts
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We have really enjoyed this series. My son, who just completed kindergarten, has used the series over the course of the year. The cartoons are funny, the text builds from set to set in a logical way. The box design gives kids a great feeling of accomplishment and let's them set goals -- we set up a card with stickers. My son gets one each time he reads a book in the set and when he's done with a box, he gets to go the bookstore to choose a book. The books build his confidence as a new reader and develop new skills in a more gradual and coherent way than other series I've seen, which claim they are for new readers but don't have a logical progression in the language they use. These books do.

My son (age 4) after learning his letter sounds has found these books incredibly rewarding. He can read a whole book by himself! The Bob Book series is so smooth that he dosen't even realize that new concepts are being taught with each book/set. The steps are just enough for him to be challenged but still rewarding as he is able to complete each one at his own pace. We were introduced to these through his Montessori school and purchsed them for our home.

it is our required textbook for organospectroscopy course. it provides a series of useful databases, which is good for future resaerch.

however, the explaination is not so detailed with some information or some typy of coumpounds missing.

and i wish it can provide soft-cover edition and therefore, be much cheaper.

It's an OK book if you are a novice in the Spectroscopy determination area, but a very nice book if it's going to be used as a reference book. It's very handy and explains the principles of the Spectroscopic and Spectrometric determinations in a very understandable way. Moreover, the excercises are challenging, making this book and excellent tool for those students interested in learning how to determine structures out of some spectra, although the spectra sometimes are so clean that they don't correspond with the one's that are taken by routine. The weak points of this book are the IR chapter and the lack of a UV chapter explaining various useful techniques for structural determination such as ORD and CD. The NMR section is just OK, but there are more details to be explained in the 2-D NMR NOESY, TOCSY and ROESY. I think the Mass Chapters are the best that any single book has offered to me so far to understand quite easily how powerful is the GCMS as a tool for the Structural Determination of Organic Compounds.

The book is subdivided into only 3 of the 4 classical methods for spectrometric identification of compounds: IR, MS, and finally NMR (covering 1H, 13C and very little of 19F and 31P). UV is left out in this edition, so maybe getting a hold of the old edition's UV chapter (which is extremely well-written) might be desired. The MS and the IR chapters are also well-written and explained out. It is in the main technique (NMR) that the author fails to deliver the subject in a straightforward manner and lacks what I think is most important in this field: a large number of exercises and problems.

This book provide a the basis of the fundamentals of Spectroscopy in many fields (IR, HNMR, CNMR, DEPT, COSY, HMBC, HMQC, TOCSY, MS, and much more) It has many real problems in an special chapter. And the most important, it has a lot of important tables and spectrums.

This book has wonderful charts and tables for quick referencing, however it is sorely lacking in demonstrations and worked out examples for students new to the subject. The chapters are painfully slow and complex when explaining the theory behind the spectrometric methods and effects on classes of molecules. In short, don't use this book to learn the material unless you already know it. It is a comprehensive reference, but not an effective textbook to teach from.

Of the organometallic texts I've seen, this is my favorite. It provides a good introduction and eases the reader into heavier material. It's a great reference and a good starting point for learning the subject.

I'm an organic chemistry graduate student with some inorganic background, but I know very little about organometallics. This book seems to be a very good introduction for someone like me. Well written, understandable, relevant.

I absolutely LOVE this book. I first bought it for my Junior year analytical chemistry class, and I still use it today in grad school. It is VERY good at explaining NMR theory. Anything I ever needed related to NMR or IR I found in this book. It is by far the most useful chemistry book I own.

This book is probably the best introductory reference on spectroscopy currently available, and I've checked out pretty much every book on the market right now. I'm a chemist, and this book got me through my senior synthesis and spectroscopy lab. Proton and carbon-13 NMR, IR, GC/MS, and UV/Vis are all covered in the book. It includes many handy tables of characteristic shifts for NMR, characteristic absorbances for IR and UV/Vis, and a nifty table on common GC/MS fragments by m/e. The chapter on 2D NMR is lousy, but that's not really introductory material anyhow. The UV/Vis chapter is kind of cursory, but UV/Vis isn't all that useful.
This is a book that I intend to hang on to for a while.

I have found this book to a great tool for students of organic chemistry especially those wanting to further their education in graduate school or medical school.It is eay to read and can also be used a "teach yourself" book. I recomend this book to anyone who is a bit shaky in interpreting NMR, IR, and Mass Spec.

The new edition of Pavis might be the twin to Crews' Organic Structural Analysis. This text discusses the fundamentals of 1H NMR, carbon-13 NMR, infrared spectroscopy, UV spectroscopy. The book also includes a section on 2D NMR. Pavia should not be missed by advanced undergraduate students who pursue research and practicing chemists who need quick reference on interpreting spectra.

Standard textbook outlining most spectroscopic techniques as taught at undergraduate level. However, contains an embarrassingly dated treatment of mass spectrometry which can not have been rewritten since the 1970s. No mention of the biggest MS techniques in use today (electrospray and MALDI), a glaring oversight especially in light of Fenn & Tanaka winning Nobel Prizes in 2002 for just these developments. And time-of-flight instruments having a mass range of 5000 and resolution of 200? Several years before this book was published, commercial machines were available with mass ranges well over 100,000 Da and resolutions of 10,000+. Not only poor, but misleading. Overall, a rather derivative book that seems to have been written largely by consultation of more authoritative work (probably an early edition of Williams & Fleming).

this book contains a lot of information, but organized in such a way that is easy to find what you need.

The book was in perfect condition and was sent at time.
I will agree that my first experience with Amazon was an excellent one.

Thank you

I'm taking an organic spectroscopy course for my graduate program in Organic chemistry and my exams consist of MS, IR, proton NMR, and C13 NMR spectra.

This book is absolutely incredible. It gives you chemical shifts for nearly every conceivable structure for proton and C13 NMR and it also gives you absorptions for the IR frequencies of known functional groups. It has helped me many times in trying to determine the structure of an unknown compound.

Like the other reviewer said, this book is the bible of organic spectroscopy. I see it being used all the time in the organic research lab when graduate students are trying to figure out what they synthesized.

This is the best organic spectroscopy book I have ever found. If you have to take any kind of organic spec class, this is definitely a must.

If you are taking a class in organic spectroscopy or use NMR all the time in your lab, then this book is a must. Gives you table after table of chemical shifts for C-13 NMR, H1-NMR, IR, Mass Spec, and UV/Vis. It also comes with a very useful NMR Predictor CD.

This book is a classic on people who were interned in China during WWII. I have used it in connection with the book I wrote, "Called to China: Attie Bostick's Life & Missionary Letters from China: 1900-1943," since Attie was interned in this camp near Weishien. This book provides a vivid description of the conditions there.

-Rebekah (Becky) E. AdamsCalled to China:Attie Bostick's Life & Missionary Letters From China: 1900-1943

"For even saintly folk will act like sinners, Unless they have their customary dinners."

That's the theme of "Shantung Compound." It's the best sociology laboratory one can imagine. Take a diverse group of 1,500 Brits and Americans, shut them up in close quarters for two and one-half years in an internment camp, feed them barely enough to survive, let them rule themselves, and see what happens. That's what happened to the foreigners in the Japanese-controlled parts of China in World War II.

The situation at the internment camp in Shantung starts hopefully as the foreign internees elect a government, set up hospitals and kitchens, allocate space (9 feet by 4 and one-half feet per person), and establish a thriving black market. After that things go downhill. Some people won't work; others steal; and the community can't find any way to impose its will on the offenders. Missionaries comprise a large number of the internees but they are as lazy, morally obtuse, and uncooperative as many of the less savory members of the group. The most interesting and divisive moral issue comes up when the Americans internees receive food packages from the Red Cross. Should they share with the British or not? Another good story concerns the sex lives of the teenagers in the camp which became, to put it mildly, scandalous.

The author is a theologian and looks at both the moral and material issues. The book is not all bleak. The moral lapses and disputes of the internees do not destroy the community -- although one suspects than another year of internment would have seen that happen. One of the positive notes of the book is the character of Eric Liddell, the Olympic champion runner portrayed in "Chariot of the Gods" -- who is one of the few human beings in the book to come through as wholesomely good. (The author changes the names of all the internees mentions in the book but Liddell is easy to identify.) "Shantung Compound" is a classic of its kind and is perhaps the best book I have read on the behavior of human beings under stress.

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Gilkey's academic liberalism is tested by the reality of the stress he observes as a mid-20's, very involved leader under prison conditions. His insights in the complex areas of law, food distribution, justice, work (his insight into lazy workers is very good), equality, theology, among other topics makes this book required reading for all managers, supervisors, teachers, religious leaders and lawyers. His associations with gifted intellects as well as self serving persons during his incarceration allowed him to validate his presuppositions. This is one of the most insightful books I've read in a long time. I now know why he is such an highly respected, revered teacher, mentor and theologian. His insight into the original sin of mankind is worth the price of the book! This book is truly a blessing.

This book should be required reading for every college student to better understand human nature and how people function when building a functional micro society from scratch.

This book left me speechless and introspectively questioning the Christian faith I espouse. In Shantung Compound Gilkey, through his experience in the internment camp, stops the "program" of our spiritual doings and forces us to examine the conscience of our spirituality. His book has molded together spirituality, philosophy, psychology, and sociology--all of this together into a powerful delivery that demands a reconstitution of true religion in the hearts of seekers and believers alike. Even now I grapple for words to describe the book because it's just that powerful. Every Christian thinker must have this book as well as those who question Christianity. If anything it should restore faith in faith.

I think this book does a good job of trying to account for both sides of the issue (the author states in the opening section that he still believes the vaccine program is the most important public health initiative). But you cannot overlook the disturbing governmental and pharma coverups for the sake of saving face and benefiting billions of dollars respectively. What these poor parents have suffered with their children and the children themselves! It is no wonder the public has a serious trust issue with the vaccine program as it stands even today.

I don't like how it was written. Very hard to read. I expected more facts rather then a story line. The book makes it hard to focus on the facts because your flipping back and forth between 10 different families and their stories. However, the information provided it very useful. Lots of research and facts. Very interesting.

A must-read book for anyone who's interested in knowing what may cause autism in some children. Whether anyone believes Mercury causes Autism or not, the fact is it should never have been in vaccines where it's injected into tiny babies. Not only is mercury toxic, but so is aluminum, antifreeze and other toxic ingredients in vaccines, to name a few. Monkey/human tissues in vaccines can also alter the DNA's of our children. It's no wonder children are at such a high risk of having autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, etc without a genetic cause. I truly believe the synergistic effects of all these toxins in our vaccines, food, plastics, and the air we breathe is the direct result of these disorders. Toxic chemicals are so ubiquitous in our environment and why add to that by putting it in vaccines. At least in other countries like Europe, they take a precautionary stance that if something "may" cause harm, then it should be banned. Here in America, they want absolute proof that harm is a direct result of certain toxins. We are treated as guinea pigs by the huge chemical/pharmaceutical companies out to make a profit and our children are the greatest victims. With the rising rates of cancer and autoimmune diseases (such as autism & diabetes), we should all be proactive in letting our government know that we want safer products, whether it be vaccines or toys. I urge all of you to read "Exposed" by Mark Shapiro to learn more about how our beloved country is the dumping ground for chemicals banned in other countries. While the EU has become the environmental leaders, we have become the environmental loser.

Well, well! The US Government has fought tooth and claw against the heroic efforts of thousands of families to obtain compensation for injuries to their young children that they believe were caused by mercury contamination from vaccines. And now, very recently, we learn that the Government has finally (and quietly) conceded a link between vaccines and autism-type disorders in some children, after assiduously and continuously denying precisely this for years. See the following more recent information by Mr. Kirby:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

Well, Dr. Carley and fellow scoffers among the reviewers of this book?! You told us in your review that "a bigger lie has never been told" than the cold, hard data and analysis presented by Mr. Kirby and these families. (Just the kind of considered, sober analysis, yours, that we want from our "medical professionals"!) Perhaps you will tell us that the same Government that has fought these families so tenaciously now has joined the big grass-roots conspiracy? Does this mean that the "lie" "told" by Mr. Kirby is now only the SECOND biggest lie ever told? Second only to this reversal and acknowledgment by the US Government? In the face of such criticisms, to many outside the controversy Mr. Kirby and these families probably seemed like strange voices in the wilderness when and after this book was published. Perhaps not so much so now!

I have participated in this controversy for some time as an insider. This is a marvelous book. David Kirby is extremely brave to have written it, stuck by it, and stayed with the story, to the present. Even braver are the families of the affected children (many of whom I have had the honor and pleasure to know and to work for) who have persisted in what they have known is the good fight, in the face of the most overwhelming opposition imaginable, from big Government, big science, the big pharmaceutical industry, and last and least, ersatz "experts" and shrill scrawlers like Dr.Carley. In the light of all this, I invite anyone approaching this issue for the first time to consider in which of these competing, very different, voices you find more comfort placing your trust.

I have long been convinced that the families of whose courageous struggles Mr. Kirby writes here would, somehow, some day, finally see the widespread recognition of the truth of what happened to their children, which truth they have long known. The recent admission by the US Government is a very significant first step in that process. When the families' vindication finally comes, it will be in no small measure because of this book.

David Kirby is a disinformer who wrote this book to make people believe that autism is caused by mercury...thus, if the mercury is removed, the vaccines will be safe. A bigger lie has never been told; as the corruption of the immune system caused by injecting viruses directly into the blood stream causes all autoimmune diseases (of which autism is one) and cancer, in people and in pets.

My website has an interview of myself and David Kirby which you will find in the "Hall of Shame". Except as a lesson in how disinformers work, this book is worthless.

Rebecca Carley, MD
Court Qualified expert in VIDS (Vaccine induced Diseases)

When it wasn't able to ship because out of stock, an email was sent immediately, indicating which day it would likely come.

The book is great!!