Netherlands Books

I was curious....what could make this book worth the price? Just one enlightening sentence or possibly a dawning of truth? The editing was the worst that I have ever witnessed. Actually I don't think it was edited, or for that matter, reviewed in any way for accuracy. I suggest any one interested in this type of book read specifically from Spinoza or Newton and come to their own decisions about religion and science. Another excellent resource is any reading on virtues, Cosmic and natural law, or the book of Genesis and Revelations in the bible. Consider yourself what you choose to create between the first and last chapters.

I ordered this books several weeks ago and have not received it yet. I am very disappointed in the Book Store.

I am saddened that Ms. Rose-De-Viejo writes with such a callous soul and with venom in her heart; so unbefitting for a woman of Latin heritage of luke-warm blood, for a scholar with an ounce of integrity, for an animal. My recommendation is not to purchase this book.

if im the first person to review this book .. im sure its quite bad

The Publisher, Harry N. Abrams has advised me that they have cancelled publication of this calendar and never printed any copies.

Art historical scholarship has undergone a profound revolution in the past 25 years, but you would never know it from this tedious monograph. Walsh writes reasonably well, but without passion. The greater flaw, however, is the abscence of the kinds of histortical, political, social, or other insights that would provide a context for understanding the larger significance of Steen's work. Instead, one is left with a journeyman quality academic tome.

This book was a great disappointment. The book only covers the most generic tourist spots, and on the subject of the Red Light district unacceptably refuses to even review or mention anything dealing with coffeeshops or prostitution. If you want a bland and intentionally incomplete guide, this would be the book for you. If you want an unbiased and complete guide, try the Time Out Guide to Amsterdam instead.

This book claims to analyze the newspaper industry in the Netherlands and in the United States, and then compare and contrast them. I know very little about the newspaper industry in Europe, but I do know enough to know that the newspaper industry in the Netherlands and the newspaper industry in the United States have almost nothing in common with each other besides the same general product.
I know a lot about the newspaper industry in the United States, and despite the book's title and its pretensions, the book's focus on economic and technological issues tells only half the story. The author seems rather clueless about the relatively poor quality of most newspaper staffs--especially when compared to the often brilliant people running computer hardware and software companies, major consumer magazines, and so on. Does the author even know that the average daily newspaper in the United States has a circulation of only about 12,000? Does the author know about the booming industries of weekly community newspapers, alternative newsweeklies, etc.? Finally, the author seems to have taken everything that executives of major newspaper chains and individual newspapers at face value (he both assumes that they know what they are talking about and that they are being open and honest with him), despite the fact that if more of them knew what they were doing, the author wouldn't be asking if newspapers are a "lost cause."

My Antonia By Willa Cather was a novel I chose to read for a project.This book was split into five differentbooks,was told by a character in the play, and plotted on closeness vs. distance. I didn't like this book that much. I thought it was too long and pretty boring.
This Book was split into five different books. These books were written by a man named Jim Burden. The first book starts when he is ten years old, and he on a train ride to Nabraska to live with his grandparents. He writes about his whole life through all five books. He also inquires about an imigrant who lives in Nabraska named Antonia.
Jim was the main character in the book. It is based on his life as a richer person watching the imigrants grow in Nabraska. He was writing about the settlement in the midwest. He had a secret love his whole life for this girl, named Antonia. She wants nothing to do with him in the first part of the book. He thought that she treated him with little respect, and not giving him the attention that he wanted.
In this novel he compares closeness with distance. He loves Antonia, and he is phically close to her. At the same time he was so far away from her, she didn't want to have anything to do with him. He has a vision of her in his mind, and that was what he thought of her. She was completely different. Thats why he was so close to her but so far away.
This book was not the best for someone who is looking for a book that will be an attention grabber. I didn't enjoy this book very much. It was just too boring, there wasn't really anything that was too exciting going on in this book. It was about this mans love for a woman, that he never really persued. He just kept it to himself the whole time. Thats not exciting to me.I wouldn't recommend this book for anyone who has to read it in a time period.

Really more a history , with some B/W pictures, plus a few tiny floor plans/elevations on the last page. Does not explain its construction.