Extreme Books

This book by Philip Rees was written quite a few years ago now, and you can really tell. The book is so biased it is just within the limits of both publish- and readable material. Using words like "evil", "despicable", "immoral" and the like in a biographical overview, is hardly something we would do in 2007, at least I hope we have evolved a bit since the early 1990's. Rees is (was?) a British librarian, and the book is basically his own political survey of large parts of the radical "Right" since the 1890's and into the 1970's and 1980's.

The book includes a lot of very strange choice of persons, ranging from the Italian fascist Balbo to the chief idealist ideologue of the Third Reich Alfred Rosenberg, from the Portuguese dictator Antonio de Salazar to the Sicilian radical traditionalist Julius Evola. The question I'd like to ask Mr. Rees is what these men have in common, besides being considered "extreme right" in his own biased eyes? Balbo was a freemason, a philosemite and a person that wanted to grant Italian citizenship to the entire colony of Libya, while Rosenberg was arguably the person that has defined Germanic and European idealist philosophy the clearest ever. I just don't see how all these people can be considered to be of the same tradition or the same mode of thought. In my humble opinion he could have left out over half the book, and instead made the "biographical dictionary" more coherent.

The book is filled to the brim with all kinds of obscure Italian fascists and others of a similar position, but as I have said, I don't see what these people have to do with HS Chamberlain, Alfred Rosenberg, Corneliu Codreanu or any of the other idealist European freedom fighters. That being said, I did find a lot of useful info in the book, since it includes a little bibliography about every person, though very little in English, it is useful for finding more information for the various people in the book, if you manage to disregard Rees' abusive language.

Recommended, but mostly for the extremely interested.

basically step by step pictures that are numbered that show you how to do a variety of tricks. they cover all the different styles of bmx so you can find something that interests you.

Book is very nice, but be prepared for a very small book for the price.
I have now bought two books from this author and both books cost me a
small fortune,but my husband is a Capt. on our city's fire dept and also on the bomb squad so he collects these things. There are very few pages in this book and they are more like the children's "Golden Books" thats how small the book is. When paying over 20.00 some dollars for the books I was expecting a much bigger book for my dollar. Just be aware of what your getting. If its worth it for you, then the money is not an issue.
Again for me my husband collects them, but I thing if he knew how much I paid for them he would even be disappointed.

The people in the book are true hero's. The book speaks about the good people can do. This is the three book I've read is as good as the rest of them. I would tell people to read it.

Fox and Levin are leading authors in the field of criminolgy. Jack Levin's books on hate crimes are among the best academic work on the subject and I assign them to my students. That's why I was surprised at the non-academic tone of this book. It utilizes some research but reads more like a true-crime book, full of all the gory (and super-gory) details. It's too much to ask students to read (although the sections on profiling are very good). The sources used are also questionable. Dr. Joyce Bothers? The worst is James Dobson, right-wing homophobe for Jesus and leader of the quasi-hate group, Focus on the Family, as an "expert" on the impact of pornography. Dobson has no place in an acedemic text, unless it's one of Levin's books on hate.

The "Massacres" section of the book has lots of valuable insights on mass murders and my students are reading it now, but if you are looking for the definitve research on serial killers, I would suggest Eric Hickey's "Serial Murderers and Their Victims." And hopefully the second edition of "Extreme Killing" will focus on the research.

I found this as the only/automatic (featured?) selection item when searching for "National Geographic space" ; originally, was trying to find a nice overview & history of space exploration book published by National Geographic. Just odd or weird, i think.

I didn't realize from the description and the book specs. that this was a coloring book, or I wouldn't have purchased it. It's not a bad coloring book, I just thought it was a story.

The book jumps out at you from cover to cover. A bit history blended with a dash of "how-to", but it's missing one of the most extreme sports of all....RODEO.

This is rather like the Guiness book of military history. A collection of some of the most, worst, best, biggest, bloodiest, etc. in military history. The author divides the book into several major sections based on an historical period: ancient, medieval, early modern, late 19th and early 20th century, and modern or recent history. Each section is packed with brief descriptions of the record-holding items organized within that section. It is a nice layout for reading in quick little tidbits without having to read in any particular order, just as the interest moves you. Fans of the History channel series, "The Most," will especially enjoy this book since the format is very similar. Not a bad showing for a book of its kind but I did find much of it lacking the detail most serious military history enthusiasts crave.

This book, though poorly written, has a story to tell, though it could have been better told by someone who knows how to write. It is, however, an easy, quick read and moderately interesting. It does have some merit, in as much as it chronicles the author's ascent of Denali.

Most of the book is spent recounting the time during which she and her team mates were trapped on Denali at 14,000 feet, caught in one of the most severe storms on record which saw eleven people perish. Her description of the horrendous weather conditions and sub zero temperatures, which pinned her team down for a period of about two weeks, is graphic, though repetitious. She was lucky to have been with two experienced guides who knew what they were doing. This is undoubtedly one of the main reasons she and her team mates survived their ordeal.

Disconcerting are her repeated racist references to Asian climbers. Her comments are unworthy and make her sound ignorant. It cannot help but affect one's opinion of her, and that opinion is unflattering. This is unfortunate, as she is a person one might otherwise admire for her pluck and stamina.