Berg Books

Poorly outlined. Theory is used intermittently and poorly explained. Very boring book too. It doesn't really contribute much to discussions on the Soviet Union or Post-Socialism. Excellent book layout and graphic design, but terrible content. Avoid unless you want to be bored.

Alexander is a female, academic, biracial transracial adoptee who recounts her time working at an organization for South Asian male youth in a British, working-class neighborhood. She details the opinions and life experiences of young men that British officials have begun to view as "a threat" (read: like Afican-descent youth). It's hard to judge this book because it is by a British author and for a British audience; it makes no attempt whatsoever to be a comparative ethnic studies account. Alexander has a great project and will be a keen expert on race relations in the United Kingdom in the future. However, much of this work left me frustrated. Alexander does much to problematize the oft-oppressive field of ethnography and her place in it, yet I find myself skeptical that all her subjects had no problem with her as an academic observer. Sometimes this book becomes far too internal, never answering why a reader would care about some of the mundane issues, yet it also led to no larger answers that readers could apply to their lives or future readings on similar topics. This book adds little to the burgeoning field of men's studies as it relates to men of color. Nevertheless, it could be an okay scholarly addition to those interested in Muslims in the West, South Asians in Britain, and the villification of youth of color throughout white-dominated communities. If you enjoy Asian Dub Foundation's music, or liked the film "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"; this is another project documenting the British South Asian experience and may be worth a read.

Not what I expected. Though well outlined it could have given more details.

I bought this item for my two teen-aged children to help increase their reading speed and comprehension skills for college study. The whole system is confusing and didn't increase their reading speed or comprehension very much. They were extremely bored with the whole thing. I am sorry to have wasted my money on this program. I already had the Alphanetics program I bought many years ago when I worked as a counselor in a private college. I should have stuck with it, but this came highly recommended from an organization that my son was enrolled in to help him earn college credit by examination. I had high hopes, but it turned out to be a dud. I would not recomnmend this program. It appears that the author is extremely gifted with the ability to read with superhuman speed, but he lacks the ability to translate what he knows into a format that others can learn and utilize. Sometimes it seemed that something was left out of the sessions and I was left with the feeling that there has to be more to it than what was presented. In other words, I don't think he's that great of a teacher.

This book is very dull. Not a fun read in the slightest. I had to chug through it for a college class. Don't go out of your way to read it unless you have no other choice.

This series has some wonderful details of foreign festivals, but the Kenya book is NOT AGE APPROPRIATE for age 4-8, as indicated on the amazon.com summary. The text is more a grade 5-8 level, and there are 4 pages devoted to male and female circumcision of young people, including a definition in the glossary. We ordered it for our K-grade 5 school, and reluctantly, will be returning it, as we feel it is not age appropriate for our students. (And we are a very liberal school.) Our teachers feel it is appropriate for grade 6 and up.

This is a solidly researched book by Reinhardt, a Bundeswehr soldier out to prove that Germany had already lost the war before the battle of Moscow, because of her strategy of winning short wars on the cheap through Blitzkrieg and armaments in breath.

While agreeing that Hitler did save the Ostheer through his famous Haltebefehl, Reinhardt believes that, because of Germany's lack of natural resources and manpower, the Reich stood no chances of lording it over the Soviet communist hordes, and that by 1942, all Germany can do is to concentrate her offensive in the South (while on the defense in the North and centre) and prosecute economic warfare to capture the resources rich Donets bain and the Cauvasus oilfields. This despite the fact that under Speer, Germany in 43 and 44 managed to produce a lot more armaments and was fighting on all fronts againat not just the Soviets, but the Anglo-americans too.

What Reinhardt has forgotten is that all along Hitler was bent on capturing/destroying the military/industrial complexes of Russia, and that he plainly disagreed with the OKH's obsession with Moscow and the destruction of Russia's army, as Hitler believed that by depriving the Soviet hordes of arms, its inexhaustible manpower will count for nothing.

This book also reveals the OKh for what it was, a bunch of armchair generals like Halder who was never near the front, fought his last war decades ago and had no idea what modern warfare is.

As a neurology resident trying to learn Pediatric Neurology, I was a little disappointed with this book. It is organized to deal with specific disease entities (ie disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, endocrine disorders) and does it very well, but it does not deal well with actual clinical syndromes. There are no chapters on pediatric epilepsy or pediatric migraine, which are the bread and butter of Pediatric Neurology. There are even diseases that clinicians need to know about, such as Landau-Kleffner, that the book doesn't even mention.

There are some good tips, but this is strictly for the in-house portrait photographer using the standard 4 light system. A couple of good tips regarding broad vs. narrow lighting, height of main light, and use of light modifiers, but only about 3 pages on the actual business of portrait photography. Images in my opinion are outdated, and not that great.

I too was expecting different uses for duct tape and also what others had created that was unique or useful. On average, less than one day out of every month had a useful tip or funny joke. Mostly inappropriate/unuseable suggestions or very bad jokes. Today's: Out of deodorant - duct tape a flower under each arm.

As someone who likes duct tape, as I was excited to get a calendar with 365 days of it.

Unfortunately, I was hoping that it would have ideas or tricks - but it's mostly jokes. Worse, the jokes are not very good. Last week included duct taping wheels to your shoes as makeshift roller blades. Another involved putting duct tape on all your furniture so it doesn't get dirty.

Not exactly comedy gold.

I'd recommend looking elsewhere for your laughs. If not, you will be disappointed every day for an entire year.