John Gray Books

Do your research on line before going to any of the hotels suggested in this guide. Some of them are real dumps. Also, the guide does little to show you how to get around the country. I'm spoiled by Rick Steves guides that basically take you step by step on how to get out of the airport and to the sights, restaurants, hotels, etc. There are no prices and maps of Bangkok do not even show where the airport is at. It doesn't do what a guide is supposed to do, guide you. It gives a general overview of each city and gives a history lesson, but not much else. I have to wonder if the people who wrote the book actually went to Thailand or just read about it. Waste of money if you ask me. Something to read while on the toilet, otherwise I'm doing all me research on line.

Full of great and relevant information. Some prices have already gone up, despite how recently the book came out, but that's par for the course in Asia. It would have been nice if there were place names spelled out in Thai a bit more, so you could point them out to taxi drivers. They rarely spoke English and my pronunciation of the romanized Thai words wasn't up to snuff. It's also not as handy as a reference guide for looking up phone numbers or addresses to hotels, restaurants, etc. as say the Lonely Planet. It does provide a bit better context though and reads more comfortably. All in all, a good book. I bought it because it was so recent, but think I may go back to Lonely Planet for most future travel guides.

I bought this book and relied on it to plan my
vacation for 30 days in Thailand with my family.
This book is very, very inaccurate! The
information is so inaccurate that I think the
authors just made up things to fill up pages.
It was worthless when I was visiting cities in
Thailand because each time I found the
information incorrect and misleading. I cursed
this book many times when I was on vacation in
Thailand for being so useless and deceptive and
inaccurate. I really hate to give a book such
a terrible review and I usually would never
comment but because this book let me down so
much in Thailand I decided to tell other readers
to warn them to look elsewhere for "reliable"
information. Have a good trip to Thailand is my
wish to you but buy some other book than this one.
It is DANGEROUS to print untruths and misinformation
and wrong address and wrong prices and wrong
everything else. This book was dead wrong so many
times it made me vomit. The authors now have no
credibility with me and I will never buy another
Rough Guide to anywhere because of it. It's
expecially dangerous when you are traveling with a
young child as I was and relied on the book and it
let me down again and again putting my family in
a bad way really fast. It's not fun when this happens
especially in a foreign country with your kid.

Fed up with the traditional Lonely Planet I turned to the Rough Guide for an alternative view. While this guide gives detailed historical/background knowledge it severely lacks in the essentials, notably transport prices and detailed maps.@There were just too many times when this book became a more of a frustration than a help. This book is best read before you go and left at home.

I just returned from Thailand and I took four guides: Thomas Cook's, Lonely Planet, Let's Go, and this guide (see my reviews on the others guides, and do seriously consider Lonely Planet Islands & Beaches IF you are only going to spend time as a sun lizard).

`Thomas Cook Thailand' is a special niche guide, best suited for those with tour groups and `Let's Go Thailand' is the guide for those backpackers that are `on the cheap'. This leaves Rough Guide to face off with Lonely Planet and in some areas it is superior to L.P and in one big area it is not.

Rough Guide's restaurant recommendations are by far the best of any guide I reviewed; they are both reliable and informative, giving great descriptions and dish recommendations, "the grilled river prawns with chili, the matsaman curry and the delicious durian cheese-cake." The restaurant prices are listed as: Expensive, Moderate and Inexpensive.

The hotel accommodations recommendations are also descriptive, very reliable and most have either webpage addresses or email. Sadly, Rough Guide still uses the user 'unfriendly' price codes, instead of just saying in dollars (or Bahts) what the cost for the hotel is. Thus you need to memorize the table where the number 4=400-600B and 5=600-900B etc., then you can convert to either dollars or euros to get the price. Also, since the Guide is published in 2004 (thus the information is from 2003) you add 10-20% for inflation. Both Lonely Planet and Let's Go just tell you what the price is. "Duh".

The Guide has excellent information that tells you the nitty-gritty that prepairs you for your trip. It also has great history, religion (Buddhism of course), environmental and cultural sections. Not to be missed is the additional reading recommendations (six pages).

Where it bombs is BANGKOK. The Guide says that Bangkok is "sprawling, chaotic and exhausting" and that is exactly how I experienced the 115 pages that covered this mega-city. The layout is dysfunctional. It has no logical consistency between any two points. Bangkok is the home of 11 million people; it is huge and spreads out like greater Los Angeles. It needs to be broken down into regions and then sections and those need to be logically kept together. But, this guide will give you information on one area, like Thanon Sukhumvit, then 60 pages later the accommodations for that area, then 20 pages back will be the Thanon Sukhumvit map; but wait, the restaurants for that area... you guessed it, will be located some where else. Hello! Who laid this out? What herb, pray tell, were they using? So, if you plan to spend any significant time in Bangkok, then Lonely Planet is a better guide.

Maybe the 6th edition Rough Guide will improve the Bangkok section and hopefully increased the guides paltry index (8 pages for all of Thailand - Bangkok alone could be 8 pages) and make this an outstanding guide. Bangkok aside this is still a strongly recommended guide.

For the majority of the book, the glossy pages are filled with pictures of nearly every cover of our favorite girls' series books. The Dana Girls section does NOT contain all the different artwork and seems to be slapped together and added to the book at the last moment. But other than that, I liked the book...

I bought this book because I wanted to see pictures of all the Dana Girls books. I can't believe that is the only series that isn't pictured fully! Only one book cover in each format of the Dana Girls is pictured. All the other series have every book pictured. That was very disappointing. It was fun to see new books added for this update of the author's previous book: Cherry Ames, Connie Blair, and Vicki Barr, but a letdown that the Dana Girls books were overlooked. I probably wouldn't have purchased this if I'd known.

When I first bought this book, I was already collecting most of the series mentioned (There is a of them on the front of the book). The first series mentioned was Ruth Fielding. Four formats were listed, of the five formats that exist. This was the first warning. All through the book, John Axe combined formats, or did not list them at all. Although it gives some nice eronious information (i.e. information about the stratmeyer synicate), most of the contents can be found after a two mininte search on Google. At one point, I emailed John Axe with a few Beverly Gray formats that he did not include in the guide. In his reply, he called them "anomalties", and compared them with some misprints that he owned. As of yet, I have not found a good guide, except ones for individual series. ...

I agree with the previous reviewer who mentioned the text was very disorganized. Much of the information provided is very redundant, hence the book could have been much shorter (and less expensive).

Synopsis: National cultures and laws affect accounting standards used by different countries. The book discusses the major differences of accounting in great detail. There is a push by the International Accounting Standards Board to harmonize accounting standards so that international financial statements will be more comparable. Will they succeed? Read this book and then decide for yourself.

I have used the book while working on my Final Thesis. I found it very informative and at the same time it is not overwhelmed with extensive discussions not relating to the main topic. It is clear and logical.

This text suffers from its haphazard organization and lack of clarity in presentation. Textual material could be simplified if presented in tabular form. Text also suffers from lack of precision in references to accompanying tables. Material and citations tend to be a hodgepodge of older and, in some cases, obsolete studies done by other academicians.

Since I lived in Cleveland for several years this book was very interesting, well written and fun if you can equate murder with fun, I enjoyed it

John Stark Bellamy II, Death Ride at Euclid Beach and More True Tales of Cleveland Woe (Gray and Company, 2004)

Bellamy puts forth his fifth (and, if his preface is to be believed, final) book of the darker side of Cleveland history, Death Ride at Euclid Beach. If you've read any of the others, you know how this works-- stories ranging from two to roughly twenty pages about some sort of nasty, mysterious, sordid, or otherwise interesting bit of Northeast Ohio's past.

While I'm pretty much the target audience for this sort of thing, I have to say I'm glad Bellamy's hanging it up; I'm not sure whether it's his writing style or the innately boring nature of North Coast life, but Bellamy's reflections in the preface ring quite true; any more and he'd simply be treading water. Face it, Clevelanders; we're just not all that interesting. But what Bellamy's managed to dredge up over the years has been illuminating. ***

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If you want to establish an authentic rapport and absolute dmain of the basic principles of this Science Fundamental Discipline , this book is for you .
The litherature is exquisite , the diagrams are of first rate . And the explanations about the multiple issues involved in the whole understanding of The Periodic Table , the covalent and ionic bonds , the hygdrogen bridges and Solutions and Oxide . Reduction Equations are overwhelming .
There are no holes in this book . The images and grafics are breathtaking .
You will not need the guide of any teacher after you acquire this book .

This book is wonderful. I have never, in my life, thought that shopping centers and other retail properties could be so fascinating. A real page turner, and you'll probably learn soemething too!

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED TO READ THIS BOOK; IT IS SUCH A WASTE OF TIME. ALL EXAMPLES AND INFORMATION IN THIS BOOK IS FROM 1960s THROUGH EARLY 1990s. NOTHING IN THIS BOOK RELATES TO WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY(2000 THRU 2006)BECAUSE THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 1996. VERY POORLY WRITTEN BOOK AND THROUGH OUT THE BOOK ALL YOU WILL SEE IS A NEGATIVE TONE ABOUT THE SHOPPING CENTER DEVELOPENT AND INVESTMENT. I THINK THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK SHOULD BE " HOW TO AVOID INVESTMENT IN SHOPPING CENTER INDUSTRY...."
I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY BODY WHAT SO EVER.

When this book was first published in 1963, it was excellent. It has been quoted frequently by subsequent writers and has achieved almost classic status. However, it is now showing its age, especially with regard to archaeology. The new two-volume commentary (vol 1 by Cogan, 2001; vol 2, Cogan & Tadmor 1988 - yes, it came out first) has superseded it. While it is still worth reading, especially for its insights into sources, it is now not the first choice commentary.

No es un mal libro, pero si estas buscando tips para mejorar tu relación de pareja, este libro se queda corto, es muy redundante y poco ilustrativo.
Los primeros capítulos si dan buenos consejos que se pueden aplicar, pero al final se vuelve repetitivo y redundante en lo mismo.

Recomiendo comprarlo usado, porque vale la pena leerlo, pero no pagar mucho por el.

saludos,

I completely agree with the previous review that this book is nothing but a John Gray advertisement. I didn't even make it to the second chapter. After I got annoyed with "John Gray does this...", and "John helped me with that...", I thumbed through the rest of the book and saw his name repeatedly on every page! I was looking for good relationship stories and maybe some advice and inspiration, instead I got the printed version of Mr. Gray's infomercial.

I completely agree with the previous review that this book is nothing but a John Gray advertisement. I didn't even make it to the second chapter. After I got annoyed with "John Gray does this...", and "John helped me with that...", I thumbed through the rest of the book and saw his name repeatedly on every page! I was looking for good relationship stories and maybe some advice and inspiration, instead I got the printed version of Mr. Gray's infomercial.

This book is filled with testimonials for John Gray's approach to relationship development and enhancement. The overriding theme is essentially, "And then I read Dr. Gray's book" (or, preferably, "attended my first seminar") "and my live was changed forever." There are a few allusions to the specifics of his theories, but basically the jargon is used and the reader is assumed to be familiar with the subject already. The book has been marketed as a collection of real-life experiences of ordinary couples, with many of whom the reader should be able to identify, but this is not the case at all. It is a glowing "puff piece" which reads as if it had been drawn from the evaluation forms submitted by couples at the end of his seminars. I am not disputing the significance of Dr. Gray's insights and presentation in the slightest, just the thrust of this book.

I have read dozens of self-help/relationship books and have found John Gray's philosophies to be the most straight-forward, accurate and effective. His descriptions of men and women and their differences in behavior and response are dead-on, as is Dr. Gray's belief that understanding those differences is the only way to truly get along. Dr. Gray's books will help you and your mate see that you are BOTH "normal" in your behaviors and responses, even though you may seem irrational or unreasonable to one another at times. Dr. Gray will help you see that boys and girls are just plain different and as soon as you realize what that means in a relationship, trust me, you will breathe a HUGE sigh of relief and give your mate the biggest kiss ever!

If you liked John Gray's book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, you may enjoy hearing these stories of how the ideas in that book were used by couples who attended his seminars and did counseling sessions with him. A primary benefit appears to have been providing a couple with a common language about their communication needs. The ideas will have more power after hearing how someone else reacted to and used them. These reactions are in the form of letters that are read by John Gray in this audio cassette version.

If the concepts in that book are ones that you do not agree with, or already have full power for you, you can probably skip this audio cassette.

I found John Gray to be a below average reader to listen to, and was tired of his voice before the cassettes were over. He made no attempt to shift his voice from his usual one as he read each of the letters, and listening became monotonous. An actor would have dramatized and differentiated them a bit to make for more interesting listening. Having a man read a woman's letter in a male voice is also fairly uninteresting.

The words would have had much more meaning and impact if they had been read by the person who wrote each letter. Then the nuances and emotions the person felt would have come through better.

John Gray's ideas about how to improve marital communication are pretty simple, and this abridged version could have been even more abridged. The two primary concepts [(1) of men listening to women without suggesting solutions and (2) women letting men have quiet time] are repeated in almost each one.

If your relationship needs work, I suggest Relationship Rescue and the Workbook that can be used with it as a starting point. I think you will get more benefit from those than from this audio cassette. If your issues are severe or long-standing, you may also need professional counseling.

If you want to read one book or listen to one audio cassette by John Gray, I suggest that you go to Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.

After you have finished with whatever materials you have used, I suggest that you consider where else you may have weak communications. How are you doing with the rest of your family? With your friends? With neighbors? With those you work with? A good way to find out is to take some private moments to ask each person how well you are communicating with them. Chances are there will be opportunities to improve. Ask questions to improve your understanding of what they tell you. Then follow those ideas.

Enjoy all of your relationships more!

The comment by Benjamin Shobert ("I believe certain attachments to specific evangelical Christian ideas about inerrancy, infallibility and inspiration colored the last ¼ of the book, and as such, limited the poignancy of his conclusions.") stops short of being helpful.

What does he mean by 'certain attachments to specific evangelical Christian ideas'? Are the ideas Bright is attached to in support of or in opposition to inerrancy, infallibility and inspiration of the Bible?

If it is that Bright stands in support of those issues, then I will certainly be interested in his work. If however he is opposed to them, then I would not at all be interested, for I do not care to be reading 'Christian Evangelical' works on the Word of God that do not espouse precisely those issues.

Since when is anyone qualified to comment on the bible who does not hold to its being precisely the Word of God?

Bright's book is an attempt to answer some of the pressing questions relative to the role the Church should give to the Old Testament. I was thoroughly excited reading the book, being very appreciative of Bright's attempts to be completely candid over the difficulties in holding to a literal hermeneutic of Old Testament authority. I found Bright's conclusion very unsatisfying and quite unfulfilling. He seemed to have the courage to ask the really hard questions, but would not follow through logically on where his questions were taking him. I believe certain attachments to specific evangelical Christian ideas about inerrancy, infallibility and inspiration colored the last ¼ of the book, and as such, limited the poignancy of his conclusions.