Rowe Books

This book starts with the basics of gambling on Thoroughbreds and goes to mostly money management issues and strictly mechanical systems based upon final betting odds. Very outdated.

This book written by expeirienced handicapper Robert Rowe is good starting material for the begginer. It explains all the basics the wagers the odds and so on. But when I happened upon this book a year or so ago I already had been handicapping sussesfully for 4 or so years. So I'll assign 2 ratings for the begginer this is 5 stars for the intermediate level 3 stars. And if your advanced don't bother.

I'm familiar with Bob Rowe's work from American Turf, Racing Star Weekly and other publications. He's a good writer and knows racing as evinced by his latest and best book How To Win At THOROUGHBRED Racing. The current tome, How to Win At Horse Racing, contains much useful information but seems to me as if an editor was over zealous, and should have left Rowe's original words as submitted. Nonetheless, this doesn't distract from the essence of the information provided. Rowe has been writing about racing since I was 17. I'm 67 now. He obviously knows which end kicks and which end bites.

The tendency of this book to ridicule America (its history, its culture, its priorities, etc.) really calls into question the objectivity and political persuasion of its authors. Whether it's the destruction of the environment or world poverty, America and the American people are always to blame. We use too much energy; we don't share enough; blah blah blah. America does more to promote peace and economic development throughout the world than any other country. While the authors of this book don't seem to be so, I, for one, am PROUD to be an American

The general feel of this book is dark and dull. Graphics are oddly benign,upside, the Geography in Action sections offer realistic insight into Geographic concepts. Clawson and Fisher tried.

The general feel of this book is dark and dull. Graphics are oddly benign,upside, the Geography in Action sections offer realistic insight into Geographic concepts. Clawson and Fisher tried.

This book tells,in six clearly defined steps, HOW to find a decent Alzheimer's nursing facility and HOW to get financial assistance from Medicaid. No important detail is neglected. This is information you cannot get from any other source. The author has personally and successfully gone the full route. He tells the reader what to expect. How to overcome problems along the way, and how to respond to Medicaid's numerous requests for verifications. Many, if not most attorneys would charge $1,500 for providing assistance when applying for Medicaid financial help.

I had ordered this book to be shipped express, as my mother has senile dementia., and I thought I could find out more about Medicaid. I was EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED to see how this book was packaged for the price. It had said SPIRAL-BOUND, (which in itself is not expensive)., and instead I got a book with a cover that costs probably $1.00 from the drugstore. Also, glancing through the info., I knew most of it from talking to social workers and others., or from getting pamphlets or just asking questions., so I don't really see where the info is that you can't get anywhere else. It might be a little helpful for someone just starting the process., but not at all worth the price. Most I would have paid is 1/4 what the author/publisher charges. Sorry! . . .

I am an architecture student and this book was assigned in my studio class. Although the reading can be difficult to follow, it is highly informative about the design process and challenges you to do further research to expand your knowledge. If you are buying this, don't be afraid to take that extra step while reading. Knowledge is power, Are you up to the challenge?

I read this book as a precursor to a lecture I was giving to a group of undergraduate architecture students on 'design thinking'. At this point you may be asking yourself, "what is design thinking"? Exactly. My understanding had more to do with how we identify and balance the multitude of issues that surround any architectural or urban design problem. I see it as our ability to distill from all the forces and influences on a site, the project's essence. Rowe sees it in a slightly different manner; a very scientific one. Which in this publication, for me at least, made for a somewhat dry read. There are stretches of scientific analysis of human problem solving skills that I imagine many will find fascinating. However, as an architect I was interested in understanding in a more tangible way, what informs our intuitive decisions related to site, place, space, movement, program, structure, etc.

Additionally, I would have liked to see the design and thought processes of the three initial case studies investigated more thoroughly. They were largely abandoned after their introduction with just a few references back to those examples in the text.

The writing can be a bit verbose at times and when blended with the frequent scientific jargon, a bit taxing. At times the book appears to be collecting and synthesizing all critical writing completed on the topic over the last century, frequently quoting and referencing other works. This is a serious read and if you approach it with the right mindset, you will find some real gems and well constructed thoughts.

I thought a baseball mystery might be diverting, but this is awful. I can't believe there are 3 books in this series. Who could care about a detective investigating silly events for a long-forgotten baseball team ? Not me, though I tried.

Get me into the world of 19th Century baseball and I'm already in a place I want to be. Add to that great character writing, solid research as a backdrop, and a top-notch murder mystery, and I'll have a book in my hands that's hard to put down. G.S. Rowe is able to combine these elements with some interesting sub-plots (old love wans, new love waxes, controversial politics) against the premise of a new start-up breakaway baseball league for a very satisfying, successful result. Rowe writes characters as well as Larry McMurtry. And his craft is advancing; there is some brilliant writing here. I hope there's a fourth book in this series. Congratulations to Rowe and Pocol Press for bringing Double Play to print.

Okay, I am an English teacher in Korea and I have been forced to teach many horrible books, but Exploring English is not one of these. This book is imaginative and fresh. The material is very well presented with many additional suggestions for expanding the material. The students enjoy this book. The best thing about this book is that it is simple to use and does not require an additional work book. I would encourage any teacher to use this series in the EFL/ESL classroom.

As an ESL teacher of six years and after studying the field of TESOL in graduate programs for 3 years, I have to say that this book is just another one to toss on the pile of ESL garbage materials. All the exercises are simple grammar substitution drills. The book attempts to cover too many forms in too few lessons. There are no explanations of grammar and no exploration opportunities to make such an inductive approach useful. Furthermore, I found the characters represented in the book to smack of stereotyping to the very point of racism. Do your students a favor and DO NOT adopt this book. If you must adopt it, make sure it's for the highschool audience it was written for and not for adult learners. I was forced to teach this book to adult learners for 5 years and even the very semi-literate beginners were not naive to the condescension involved in such a choice. I think the Northstar Series is much more communicative, and appropriate for adults.

I really enjoyed this book. It is a funny, wry, and entertaining collection of modern fairy tales. It's a perfect bedside table book; light-hearted and well written.

Unbelievable drivel.
Twisted fairtales, as promised in the blurb on the back cover, but no mention of how dull and unentertaining they were!
Anyone could write this sort of rubbish, but I would have expected that it could have been written much more cleverly. With a little bit of wit and humor, please?
This book contains 7 short (very short) stories of tales based on twisting the old fairy tales. Every story seethes with cynicism and every heroine is daft to the duplicity of others. There are endings, whether they are happy or not they are always endings, and I admit the Fat Wife was not as tedious as the others... but I hardly think that in Fairy Tales for Grown Ups it needs to be a showcase of stupidity & deviousness - does it?
Honestly? I wouldn't bother.

Several years ago I served as a Fulbright instructor in American Studies in a central European country. A part of my job was to contribute to the American Studies university library so that academics and students there would have access to the most essential scholarship. John Rowe's The New American Studies was the first book I thought to send (and the second was his Post-Nationalist American Studies).

Rowe's The New American Studies is essential reading for those who engage in North American cultural studies. It is essential, moreover, for all "organic intellectuals" who are concerned about the catastrophe of globalization and rightwing hegemony and their effects on university education. Rowe introduced poststructuralist theory to American Studies back in the 1980s and has never stopped being a powerful voice in North American Studies--he is among the most eminent of the scholars working in the reshaping of American Studies pedagogy and criticism today. This work builds on Rowe's theory of postnationalist critique, the idea that American history and culture is a construction of nationalist ideology--that "America" and its literary tradition is a discursive act based on racial, gender, and other cultural forms of exclusion. He calls for a "new" American Studies, a North American Studies that seeks to uncover America's cultures of imperialism.

I feel sorry for the any student in American Studies who has to read this dense, jargon filled book. It's painful

This book was sent to me as a gift, and I'm glad, only in the sense I didn't buy it myself. Why anyone would find this "mysterious" much less interesting is beyond my imagination. This must be a self-published vanity project, because it's targeted toward a non-existent market: a juvenile mystery for kids who love early 20th century baseball ?

G.S. Rowe has spun a splendid tale of murder, mayhem, free love and baseball in Boston in 1897. With a historian's eye and novelist's fine touch, Rowe?s second Will Beamon mystery remains true to the texture of Boston society and politics before the turn of the twentieth century. The pages are filled with historical characters -- Jimmy Collins, the Hall of Fame third baseman; "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, soon to be mayor of Boston; Arthur Soden, the penurious owner of the Boston National League club; and Emma Goldman, the anarchist who supported the struggle of workingmen for fair wages with her fiery rhetoric. A famous manuscript from Pilgrim times is stolen, and Beamon and his friends are charged with returning it to thepeople of the Commonwealth. There are plenty of twists and turns along the way, all wrapped around the exciting last month of the baseball season, a year when the Boston baseball club would not fade in the stretch.

I'm tempted to give this book two stars, but it does have some material that may be worth referencing. It is perhaps better suited to a British audience than an American one. An example of what I mean is on page 92 in a section entitled "Americanisms": "Some Americanisms may be resisted where an English word exists -- 'transportation,' 'utilization' and 'escalation' all have good English equivalents, and the habit of adding extra prepositions, etc. -- 'consult with,' 'meet with,' 'talk with,' 'win out,' is also unnecessary and undesirable." The latter remark certainly reflects English as spoken in England, not America. Still, how is one to say "I will talk with so-and-so," without the preposition? Not even the British would say "I will talk him later." As the author repeatedly exhorts his readers to use language naturally, Americans will continue using these "unnecessary" prepositions, and they will not be in the wrong. As for the words mentioned earlier in the quote: Are they not good English words? If not, the author does not find their use so offensive as to provide alternatives. Again, any reader is better off ignoring the advice.

The book has other definitively English slants that would not benefit American readers. In chapter 9, "Words That Get Confused," we are told that "metre" is a unit of length while "meter" is an instrument used to measure something. Many English dictionaries make no such distinction and consider "metre" to be simply the British way to spell the word. The same is true for the supposed distinction between "practise" and "practice," words having different meanings according to this author but not according to many dictionaries.

Appendix 2 of this text is supposed to aid writers in spelling words ending in -able or -ible, but this section also fails the dictionary test. We are told that the word "ignitable," which appears as is in dictionaries, is supposed to be spelled "ignitible," which does not appear in many dictionaries. This is only one example in a long list of words ending in -ible which may be better spelled with the alternative ending. Beware the advice you take!

Finally, the advice on letter writing offers examples of salutations for people of rank in British circles, but not Americans holding high offices. I advise the American reader to again seek out a good dictionary, a Merriam-Webster's for instance, which often contains such information.

Despite this book's flaws, it offers decent advice on many aspects of writing for many purposes. Nevertheless, better references are available.