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An excellent guide for eating out. I've lived in Kentucky all my life, and my wife and I are always looking for unusual places to eat. This book covers them, from the tiniest most out of the way places, to some more well known restaurants. It's a good way to avoid the fast food franchises while you're traveling, and still get a good and different meal. I wish more states had guides like this.

An excellent overview for students of Latin American economies and those interested in questions of inflation and macroeocnomic policy.

Although listed as "out of print" by the distributor (University of Texas Press), there are still copies of this book for sale at the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (ims@albany.edu).

Excellent book.

Strengths

1) Depth & insight on Ecuardorian culture & geography.
2) Excellent prep if you plan to visit
3) Author's writing style is clear - but still eloquent.
4) Excellent photography.

Weaknesses

1) Could be longer.

Hardy Boys Edge of destruction in a book about a political banquet when Fenton Hardy is kiddnapped. The kiddnapper needs to receive 20 million dollars within days if Fenton is left unharmed. That's just the start! The boys get involved saving eachother's lives and their fathers. They are injected with with a virus that knocks them out. They risk their lives their lives trying to escape! This is is one of my favorite books.

This book provides a good overview of the Eisenhower presidency, 1953-1961. It shows that Eisenhower was far from the genial but uninformed leader belittled by his contemporary critics. In fact, Eisenhower successfully navigated the nation through a series of dangerous episodes in the depths of the Cold War. At home, he displayed an unfortunate lack of leadership on civil rights, but he largely succeeded in his basic economic policies of controlling government spending and restoring some balance between revenues and expenditures. Unlike most of his successors, he presided over almost eight years of peace and prosperity.

If you are looking for a short, fair overview of the Eisenhower presidency, this is the book for you. It is clearly written and informative. It also contains a good bibliography and a documents section.

I met Leigh Binford in Dec 1994 during the burial of the 143 children and 2 adults that were sent back for the formal burial at El Mozote. Binfords analysis is more in depth than Danners dramatic book as far as cultural background and historical development of El Mozote and the state of Morazan in general. I currently am living in San salvador and right now they (Medicina Legal Forensics) are currently exhuming massacre remains near San Vicente.

Too bad the whole worlds attention is so Pavlov to the Medias bidding to current events while the past -and current- U.S. Involvement in El Salvador is swept under the rug and hid behind low intensity conflict style blaming. "Oh its their fault" Yeah, we trained them, and knew it was going on all the time. Right NOW we are VERY involved in COLOMBIA, and everybody is just sitting and browsing the net with starbucks coffee., Lets get off our duffs and find out what's going on. "Oh, but wait.. I have to see if My plastic Horses have sold on Ebay." Good work LEIGH!

I found this book to be truly well organized, as I was able to find anything I needed about the country. It was very interesting to read and the descriptions of the different parts of El Salvador were very well written.

I strongly recommend this book for people that want to travel to El Salvador or who have children that need to write a report.

I checked this book out from the library before going to El Salvador, and I found it a very helpful overview of the culture. When I returned, I was showing my friends and family pictures from this book as much as I was showing my own pictures. I am purchasing the book to have as a keepsake from my trip, and because of the good information and pictures. I especially liked the parts about the revolution, and Bishop Romero which are harder to remember.