Shopping Books

I was thankful to find a Miva script resource in print. However, as I am interested in the security aspects of the language, I had hoped to read more in depth about macros. This book is a better desktop language reference than real world application development learn-by-example concept guide. This book is a quick read, will help you get your head around the basics of Miva scripting, but be aware of the author's free use of macros in script examples.

Look, I have a BS in Computer Science. I see so many manuals that it would make your head swim. This book ranks up with the worst of the worst. It is a reference, NOT a guide. If you already know Miva, great, buy the book. If you are just beginning, keep searching because this book does nothing, absolutely ZIP in helping you create, maintain an ecommerce website.

If you're customizing Miva Merchant or developing other Mivascripts, you'll find this book essential. The writing is clear, thetext is well-indexed and full of examples. My only complaint is thatmany of the examples are simplified - perhaps to help us all getstarted...

The book was complete complete and I did not see any mistakes but it was mainly just a nicer printed version of the manual. There were some scripts and explanaitions but not much. If you want a bound and printed reference it is good, otherwise I would just use the only manual and example code from the shopping cart or a miva programming site.

Not only is the information in the book unhelpful, it is now completely useless. None of the places I went to existed anymore as this book hasn't been redone since 1995!

Mr. Waldstein is a bargain-hunting angel. This book is well-organized and a fun read, though sometimes directions are sketchy and hours of operation or phone numbers are wrong. It is less like having access to a city's reference librarian than meeting a friendly person who's lived in the city for years and knows all the best places though not always the details.

This was the first book of the Mr. Cheap series and is now in a second edition. Organized into four main sections (shopping, entertainment, restaurants and lodging), reviews are informal and newsy, usually around 100 words. The index is adequate and an appendix lists restaurants (the most comprehensive section of the book) by food type/ethnicity.

Well worth its cost though not the only reference you'll need.

Cheap internet cafes, public library lectures, poetry readings,kayak trips, jazz music...... Retail sections also form a large part of the book: infomation on second hand musical information is available; if you want to bring in your instruments to trade in. Similary, second hand bookstores offer the same service. A wide range of CDs, books and furnishings and electronic equipment for the bargain hunter with also locations of fabric stores for designing clothes as well as dress patterns. Besides listing the locations of more unusual supplies like where to get portfolios, there are address guides of the chains of larger stores. A good supplement to Mr Cheap's Guide is Romantic Days and Nighs in Boston by Patricia Harris & David Lyon. It gives great ideas for strolls in the parks, cycling, afternoon teas,picnics and brunches for two. Mr Cheap's guide does not provide maps or comprehensive transportation information and is ideally used as a supplement to a travel guide with location guides. Instead of a travel guide, a travel map is also ideal: hightlight the spots of the map of interest and then plan where to go and stay. Most of the information should ideally be used as early as possible; for bookings of hotels as well as current information on talks and free concerts. It is recommended that internet research is done with the book at hand: for the university lectures, performances, concerts and symphony sessions, current information is needed so read the book over and highlight places of interest and check up for more information. Some organizations also require that you write to them so do armchair travelling in advance.

The problem I have with the books that Victoria Magazine publishes (and I own a few now) is that they are often a well-done rehash of what has already been printed (text & photos) in their monthly magazine. Don't get me wrong, I adore Victoria Magazine and have subscribed for years and enjoy most issues. Books like The Passionate Shopper are great for someone who doesn't read the magazine because then the content is new and fresh and wonderful. But if you are a regular reader, it's often stuff you've already seen in a pretty new hard cover and you'll feel cheated, like I did.

I picked this book up thinking I'd just browse through it, and after 40 pages decided it was such a great resource I wanted it for my library. It has the best sources for each of the specific sections that I've seen to date. If you're a reader of the numerous decorating magazines available, you're recognize some of the names, but there are many others I've never seen before. The book is divided into categories, so if you're looking for accessories, vintage tableware, pottery, blown glass, Meissen, fabrics, restoration of period frames and the like, this is the book for you! Victoria Magazine has covered all markets very well. You can save yourself a lot of time by using the sources in this well thought out book.

The information isn't current (one place I checked was not in business anymore). A disappointment.

Very informative. This book covers all aspects of the retail store design process. From the design of the space to how it effects the public. It would be a great book to use as text at the educational level of Designers/Architects as well as a great reference for professionals.

than to try to get thorugh this one. I'm guessing this is the previously published copy with updated pictures, but....the "photo-copied" pages are so hard to see, you would be better off going downtown or to your local mall for information. Sorry, did not even read this before I returned it. The quality is so bad, you'll kick yourself for buying it....

The content of the book is great and there are lots of useful references for further readings. It can help a novice to quickly brush up his/her knowledge on the retail design and construction subject. However, the printing, what I should say is the photocopying-like quality of the book really stunned me, not to mention this is a book with lots of store photos, the quality of the book is like a stack of photcopied papers with shades and tones on the black and white only photos.

I would love to be able to review this book, having just read Suzy's "C'est La Vie". However after a long conversation with a non English as a first language speaker, it was decided if I wanted the rest of my order I would have to forgo Born to Shop NY. Others, let me know if you were able to purchase this book and if it was helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a problem with travel books in that they try to cover EVERYthing in a city. I like books that just tell me the best places to go for what I want.

This book leans towards being a total reference, but offers the shopper plenty of options.

The bargain shopper needs to know one thing - Century 21 next to the world trade center site. That is about where the unbelievable bargains end. Now you can save some money on the book and spend it on shopping

One nicety about the book is that the author includes place to eat around the shopping.

The last edition of Born to Shop disappointed me becasue Suzy Gershman's interest seemed so narrow that the stores and places she liked were too far out of my range. In this edition she's made some changes. Cheap shopping is listed and the luxe, nowhere else except NYC stores are listed as well. She must have gotten some younger helpers because much to my delight the Sean Jean store and and Triple Five Soul shop are mentioned too. One thing I've always liked about the Born to Shop series is that the advice shows you how to get around town safely, how to buy quality and how to have a good time with as few hassles as possible. And don't think this book is just for women. In our last trip to NY my husband frequently consulted it and was very pleased with the directions and commentary.

This book and Gerry Frank's guide are all you really need to take a weekend NYC trip.

I couldn't believe it when I laughed out loud whilst reading this text. A strong theoretical base supports this amusing ethnography of shopping - the sort that is done week in, week out, rather than 'leisure' shopping. I highly recommend reading it from cover to cover, rather than trying to skim it as one might other academic texts. It will be of use to anyone studying material culture, social anthropology, and sociology, in that it indicates clearly not only its specific content, but also its methodology. Reading this text makes Miller's classic "Material Culture and Mass Consumption" a lot more accessible to those of us who are just starting to research this area.

This book contains a personal theory of shopping based on an ethnographic study of household provisioning in a North London neighborhood in the mid-1990s. Miller begins by describing some of the households and some of the results from his interviews on shopping. In the second chapter, he explores the literature on sacrifice, and in the third final chapter, he makes an argument that shopping and sacrifice, if not the same thing, can at least be considered comparable. His reasoning, if I understand it, is that both acts involving giving something of oneself or one's resources for the greater good.

I remain unconvinced, however. I've never given much thought to sacrifice before, but it seems to me that sacrifice involves giving something back to the deities as partial payment for a unearned favor. On the other hand, shopping seems more to be choosing to trade earned resources. For me, the comparison between shopping and sacrifice just doesn't go through, and since two thirds of the book is spent arguing for the comparison, I was a little disappointed.

Some minor quibbles: the book is definitely written from a British point of view, and some terms or expressions used in the book to describe living situations or shops will be unfamiliar to North American readers. Also, Miller puts great emphasis on the fact that most of his shoppers tend to be women, and that shopping in the environment where he did his work is an activity associated with the female gender. He relates this back to his sacrifice theory and also to feminist studies of housewives sacrificing themselves for their families. He gives very brief consideration to the fact that a predominance of female shoppers may be culturally-based, but doesn't seem to consider it seriously. Nevertheless, there are many cultures, particularly in Muslim areas and parts of Asia, where it would be unseemly for a woman to appear in the marketplace, and where men do all of the shopping, even for their families' clothing. Much of Miller's argumentation would not hold in such an environment. Thus, even if he does have something with his sacrifice/shopping comparison, it is only an artifact of the culture where he did his study, and should not be generalized beyond the shoppers of this North London neighborhood.

This book is about ten good pages and the remainder is a stream of rambling woofy ideas with very little to hold it together.

Beyond the first chapter, the content varies from the social impact of social sacrifice to how the Greek philopshers would rate modern thoughts on mass consumption.

It has very little to do with WHY people would go to a supermarket and HOW they act while they are there - nothing on causality, just lots of words joined together.

Be careful about buying this book. It's a waste of space as far as a text book to assist anyone in business - it's a first year university book for liberal arts time wasters.

The last reviewer must have been an expert, because to me, this book was very helpful and I've already saved nearly 1,200 dollars in the last 6 months by following Mr. Jacobsons advice. It's a great buy!

I'm a sucker for learning the inside scoop from people who have really worked inside a particular field, so I bought this book. But if you have ever read a women's magazine about this subject or a newspaper article, or even listened to your mother, you won't read anything new. Just because I spent my money doesn't mean you have to.

There are a LOT of sailboats out there, often built in small numbers by obscure builders no longer in existence. Getting information on these boats must be a *real* challenge.

Hope springs eternal that there is a source in print that lists at least 95% of these boats. This book is about the best try so far, but I've found my "hit rate" (successfully locating information on a more obscure sailboat) with the smaller volumes is about 20% - not very good. And, even if there's a listing in this book, it's often very incomplete. But at least there's a line drawing.

If you enjoy browsing boats as I do, this is an enjoyable volume, but you'll find it frustratingly incomplete.

I gave this book only three stars not because it is bad but because it is so very dry. The book is organized by boat length, and each page has some line drawings and a list of specifications for the boat (eg displacement, rig, etc.). Many of the columns are left blank, and the idea is that you fill these in as you shop for a boat. Unfortunately for those of us who wish to truly "armchair shop", there's really not much information here which one wouldn't get from the broker, anyway. It's a good reference for basic, objective data about these boats (information often left out of classified advertisments) but is not the kind of book one would just sit down and read.

This book was a disappointment. Gershman mainly suggests the stores that fit her style which is, in her words, non-trendy and older. She omits many of the one-of-a-kind boutiques that make New York a truly unique shopping experience...a time to savor and discover the new styles that one only reads about in magazines and sees on the E! channel. Instead, she leads shoppers to chain stores and common mall fixtures, which would be ok...I do want to know where the Gap is located. But, she mentions the same stores over and over...pointing out each location all over the city. If purchasing a shopping guide, consider Fodor's CityGuide New York. It contained every single bit of information as Born to Shop plus much more.

This pithy, unrelentingly cheerful guide book is quite useful. Even if you aren't a power shopper the book gives you a clear picture of NYC and what's fun to do there. It gave me the most up to date answers about taxis fare, the subway and how much a limo from the airport will cost(don't bother). As for Suzy's reccomendations. Well, her taste may be different than yours. As far as she is concerned there are only certain places in NYC worth shopping in so if you are curious as to the best place to have lunch in Harlem this aint the book for you.
I haven't been to NYC since I was a kid and had forgotten everything I knew about getting around. Suzy's book was a big help.

This book might have once served as a good guide to my favorite part of New York City. But things change rapidly in Brooklyn and "Brooklyn's Best," published nearly a decade ago, is now so outdated that it is misleading.

Many of the shops, restaurants, galleries and venues lauded in the book have closed their doors; others have fallen in quality. Buildings that the book touts as "must-sees" have been torn down or closed to the public, landmarks have undergone major renovations and entire neighborhoods have changed in character and population.

There are good, new guidebooks to Brooklyn out there with much more current information. Until or unless the authors decide to issue a new edition of this book, do yourself a favor and avoid it.

The world's oldest subway tunnel, the second largest art museum in America, and the greatest concentration of historic houses in New York. These are just three of "Brooklyn's Best" described in this book. Every time I visit New York I always spend time in Brooklyn and with this excellent guide in hand, I now have even more reasons to visit. Brooklyn is huge-it would be the fourth largest city in the States on its own. The authors, both Brooklyn residents, manage to pack an enormous amount of information in its compact 160 pages: shopping, sightseeing, restaurants and "happy wanderings." Few guides to New York City spend much time covering Brooklyn except for the three "B's"-the huge Brooklyn Museum (which has a real mummy), the Botanical Garden (go in May for the cherry trees), and the most famous bridge in New York (which happens to be named after Brooklyn.)

The book's chapters are short-usually two pages-and conducive to browsing. Before you know it you've read half the book and learned that Brooklyn has 93 ethnic groups, the Park Slope area has one coffee shop per adult resident, and the tallest building is the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower which, by the way, is every bit as impressive as anything in Manhattan. You'll also learn where to find the colonies of parrots that thrive in Brooklyn, or the floating barge that hosts chamber music recitals. From its colorful cover to its list of web sites, this is a handy and attractive guide to the best of Brooklyn.