Vincent Reviews

These are lovely stories with insightful commentary by authors after each story. We are using the book for Unitarian religious education program, the moral lessons are so relevant to life here today. Have met one author Lisa Galang, one of the brightest most enthusiatic writers and speakers I have ever met. This book is a treasure in our house.

An interesting collection of essays by different historians,this book does an excellent job of introducing the beginning university student to a number of issues related to Stalinism and historical methodology(somehow unconsciously);however,the lack of footnotes/endnotes makes this undertaking less credible and useful for more advanced readers.

Synchronicity, by Vin D'Angelo, is a little book with a big heart. Both poignant and thought provoking, this love story explores some of the possibilities of re-incarnation and the reason to re-live a life with others from our soul group. D'Angelo juxtaposes current events with life in the future to show how the soul carries memories, feelings and beliefs into each life experience. It is an invitation to appreciate the opportunities in our own present day actions.

We purchaced Vincent Terrrace's book Complete Encyclopedia of TV Programs in the late 1970's and found it to be almost unabridged, hence making it the best reference book we had found on televison. In an effort to update the new programs from 1976 to 1992 we purchased TV Characters and Story Facts 1945 to 1992. However, there were many programs missing from the new book, such as: Starsky and Hutch, Mannix, and the Rookies. Instead of attempting to include all the years from 1945 to 1992, maybe the author should have concentrated his efforts on more complete programing from 1976 to 1992. Maybe it was a matter of economics that prompted this book instead of just adding a third volume to the Complete Enclopedia of TV Programs.

Although this work is interesting in that it attempts to flesh out the details of the lives of the Emperor and Empress of Mexico, it's lack of bibliography and any kind of footnotes or end notes makes it very incomplete. Additionally, I was very disappointed to see that the author (perhaps because of his royal connections) failed to even mention the rather horrible manner in which the incapacitated Empress Charlotte's personal fortune was completely looted by her brother King Leopold II to fund his personal posession of the Congo (later taken over by the Belgian State and turned into a Belgian colony).

This is a subject I am interested in. The only reason I gave it two stars was the easy reading. There was a definite bias in favor of Max and Charlotte. Benito Juarez, a decent man at heart was villifed and referred to as "that Indian." Max was also a decent man who meant well. That was the sad part of this story that was left unsaid. If you are looking for a cut and dried "black hats and white hats," you will not get it, except for some of the slime who clung to the Royal couple and convinced him to take Mexico's crown. A crown that in reality, was as thorny as the cactus, eagle and snake of the Mexican flag.
Read Joan Haslip's The Crown of Mexico instead.

Yes, it is true that this book has no footnotes and no bibliography to speak of, and that it is full of rumor and speculation and unanswered questions. As I read along its sometimes insipid prose I said to myself: why do I keep reading? There was only one answer: I seldom fail to finish a book I start. But about the time that Charlotte goes back to Europe this book became exciting to read and began telling me things I had not remembered about the the story from when I read, back in the summer of 1945, Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico, by Bertita Harding, a novel-like telling of the story which really caught me up in those halycon days of my youth. Of course, one would like to know the truth and the source about things like Charlotte's bizarre crashing into the residence of Pope Pius IX, but it must be more or less accurate, can we not think? This is a defective book, but anyone interested in 19th century royalty cannot help but be a bit attracted to what it has to say. Who is Prince George of Greece, does someone know? He could at least have told us who his ancestors were, I would think.

It is my good fortune to be in a college program aimed at the adult learner. I had heard much about today's college atmosphere molding many of our young people into politically correct animals and was glad that type of teaching was not reaching me. Unfortunately it found me in a Business Ethics course which uses this book. Messrs Shaw and Barry, in a writing style that is very familiar to me, do a rather unethical job in an attempt to bring you around to their point of view. In the book they cite single sources with assurances that others must feel the same, use the famed, 'many have said' frame of mind, and introduce each chapter with one of societies ills, the entire purpose of which seems only to be to cast a negative light preparing the reader to dislike something that follows. In a specific example, a section on the natural right to property (p 146, 2nd paragraph) in a part of the chapter that is supposed to show the moral justifications of capitalism has a sentence that reads as follows: "Although we are no longer permitted to own other people, we are certainly free to own a variety of other things, from livestock to stock certificates, from our own home to a whole block of apartment buildings." I was so bothered by this one sentence that I had to put the book down for an hour. There were no statements on slavery in the beginning of the chapter and after looking there was nothing that would indicate a disclaimer about not being able to own people in the entire book. Yet here was a statement in a section that was supposed to show the morality of capitalism that gets shot down in the second sentence. If this were the only example of questionable writing in the book I would not have written this review. Another section that was supposed to define capitalism spent more that half the section discussing socialism. Much of this book seems to be designed to incite a person's emotions. As an adult learner it seems silly to me to attempt to coerce my viewpoint in such a manner. My open mind is better reached through logical discussion of facts and views rather than this unethical attempt to work at my underbelly. I'm insulted and disappointed by the attempt. What bothers me more is that other students not my age (33) are being influenced or coerced by material of this type in advanced learning institutions. I'm concerned that these are the types of texts and the professors that teach from them that drive children to throw tofu pies and yell 'shame on you' at officials just for eating meat.

Well, I happen to disagree with previous comment. Not only did I like the course, I also liked the book. It wasn't an easy reading, I got to tell you. Sometimes it took more than one reading and several minutes or reflecting to figure out what the authors were talking about. But in the end it all made sense. And as a bonus the book went into great detail on philosophy, psychology, political science, and economics which I found quite helpful, since as a business major I didn't have a chance to take courses in first three subjects mentioned. The best thing, however, was, that almost a year later in packed Helsinki bar, I was able for about 15 minutes to talk about greatest German and French philosophers - all about them I learned from this book.

Sullivan's "College Algebra" is a mish-mash of material, very little of which has any relevance to the questions at the end of each section. I am extremely upset that my university changed to this text, as it is vastly inferior to our previous book. There are no examples of key points that are needed to complete homework. What explanations that are available are hard to decipher, much less understand. This text should not be allowed to be used in any classroom, college or high school.

This book covers algebra very well. It is a simple, easy to understand text that most students seem to be able to grasp. It's main attribute is that it treats college algebra simply and does not scare students away. This book is also a good place to start if you are attempting to self teach.

order was not shipped the same day, so seller gave me a discount and I still received the book pretty quick. Great customer service. The book is in mint condition.

This book should have never made it through a peer review process. It is hard to believe that the author was allowed to display so much opinion and mis-information. Refrences to geology in this text are inacurate and pose a matter of debate of the author's credibility.

This book lacks any new science. The author's "tangents" into other aspects of geology are often inacurate and misleading to students of any level. The author's claims of science and discovery are eccentric and very odd to read. This book needed a more detailed peer review process.

This is a great text book for understanding and mastering the concepts of geological remote sensing. Dr. Vincent best illustrated the physical and geological features of geological remote sensing, and made them easy to understand.

If this is "the official" salute to GI Joe, then Hasbro either didn't read it carefully, or didn't care about all the many (did I mention MANY?) errors in this book. Even a casual fan of GI Joe will find enough errors in this book to make it laughable.

Basically an abridged copy of his "Complete Encyclopedia to GI Joe", Vince fills this book with Hall of Fame figures and his own biased opinions. If you want good research, buy the Book by John Michlig. If you want Adventure Team, buy John Marshalls book. If you need something to hold up a wobbly table, wait until this shows up at the discount book store.

A great text for the entire line of the "Real American Hero." Extensive information on all of the GI Joe's that have been released since their creation in 1964. The book organized into the different eras of GI Joe from '64 to '97.

The text is very readable and obviously well researched. The authors knoweldge of the subject is demonstrated very well in a teaching manner. The reader will come away from this book with a tremendious amount of information about GI Joe from his roots to where he will be in the future.

The only clue on the front cover of this book that it is not a V.I. Warshwski novel is a single line reading "V.I. Warshawski Stories." Discovering that I'd paid $7.00 for short stories rather than a novel was a disappointment, and as I started the book, I discovered that the publisher had double spaced the text to make it appear that this was a normal length book. However, the biggest disappointments were the stories themselves. In the story entitled "The Pietro Andromache," the author stoops to gathering all of the suspects together in a room and cleverly solving the mystery! Adult characters in this awful story actually utter the lines "Yowie! Zowie! Powie!" and "Pooper snooper, pooper snooper." This is one of the most inane stories I've read in years! I have been a fan of this author for a long time, and have read all of the previous books in this series. This time I feel ripped off. I will probably not buy more books by this author.

Had Windy City Blues been the first V.I. Warshawski volume I'd read, I may have been disappointed. As it was, the characters were familiar, and I enjoyed the new format (even though I hope Ms. Paretsky sticks to V.I. novels in the future). The author owes her readers nothing, and is entitled to experiment with her popular character. If this is the first time you've read a V.I. Warshawski mystery, by all means, read the others!

The stories in "Windy City Blues," written throughout Ms. Paretsky's career as a novelist, are not up to her usual standard, but they are entertaining enough to be worth reading. It has been long enough since a new V.I. Warshawski novel was published (the last was "Tunnel Vision," 1994) that it just feels good to see these familiar characters again. But don't expect complicated plots: none of these mysteries taxes Vic's estimable deductive skill much.