J.P. Morgan: The Financier as Collector

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Rosebud.......2007-02-25

J. P. Morgan amassed one of the worlds greatest art collections, mostly European works between the Fall of the Roman Empire through the Renaissance. He collected paintings to sculpture to relics to grave goods to furniture, tapestries, gems and so on. By the time he died in 1913 half his fortune was in art, 60 million dollars. He donated most of it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was president and was a major force in its establishment.

This is a coffee-table picture book containing about 30 pages of text and 100s of pictures of some of his most important works. It's not very in-depth and is a quick read (few hours) but (at a cheaper price) it's a pretty book and, being printed in Japan, it is of high quality. One leaves it with a feeling of seeing a random pile of stuff, which is exactly what many critics of Morgans collection have expressed.

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Over 1,000 illustrations, meticulously reproduced from rare issues of renowned fashion magazine, present a striking array of women’s fashions from 1860 to 1914: elegant evening and dinner gowns, stylish daywear, wedding ensembles, bathing costumes, mourning clothes, cycling outfits and much more; plus detailed renderings of shoes, hats, parasols, and other accessories.

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Another definitive reference on the topic of 19th-century fashion.......2006-08-13

"La Mode Illustree" was to 19th-century fashion mavens what "Vogue" and "Elle" are today, with its gorgeous color and B&W line illustrations of the latest in fashions for men, women and children. Joanne Olian, former curator of the costume collection at the Museum of the City of New York, has painstakingly assembled a huge collection of the finest illustrations showing beautiful ladies' fashions from 1860 to 1912, with almost every year getting at least one page (though, as another reviewer mentions, some years unfortunately aren't examined in much detail). Every illustration is full-page and accompanied by a paragraph or two of text, generally taken directly from the original description of the item in LMI. Nobody who is at all interested in fashions of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods should be without this book!

The best resource I've yet to find for this period!.......2002-02-06

This book is one of the most comprehensive, well-done and complete guide to both Victorian and Edwardian fashion I've ever seen. Although the illustrations are black and white, they are surprisingly well done (most costume design books don't detail hair styles, patterns, etc, but this one does.) I recommend this book as a very accurate guide to the period for researchers, costumers or fashion enthusiasts. The book, along with fantastic illustrations, includes a summary of the times and fashions and a very helpful glossary. Also it is much more than any other book I've seen--- it included SEVERAL fashions for each year and several different occasional wear layouts. If you are curious about this period, you must buy this book. I only wish they had a similar book for every period!

Don't let the cover fool you!.......2000-03-17

I was leery of ordering this book, because most of the books that claim to illustrate both the Victorian and Edwardian eras merely skim over the Edwardian. But I was pleasantly surprised.

The book covers the years 1860-1914 and gives equal (or slightly superior) coverage to the Edwardian and pre-WWI years. The illustrations are large and detailed, allowing for very good views of the trimmings of the garments, and the smaller rear views of many garments are invaluable to the recreationist. Also included are period captions describing the intended uses of the garments (tea or opera, for young girls or women "of a certain age"); these are both interesting and very helpful for the self-educated costumer. The selection of dresses, coiffures, hats, parasols, coats, lingerie, nightdresses, and children's clothing is well chosen and the garments are lovely.

My only complaint is that a few years are either entirely skipped, or skimmed over: 1866, 1872, 1875, 1878, 1883, 1893, 1899, and 1911. However, the existing material is excellent and very useful--I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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History will never forget the Kahleefornia recall debacle, which jerk-pressed Arnold "the Gropenfuhrer" Schwarzenegger to a position of power, despite the unexplained existence of dozens of women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by him. Among the hundreds of also-rans and also-almost-rans are Zonker Harris and his mom. While some in the Doonesbury universe seek office, others serve. Alex and her Seattle co-hordes devote their young, restless, and body-pierced Deaniac energy to hooking up "flash art" with politics. Half a world away in Iraq, a major bad boy from stateside devotes himself to liberating the city of Al Amok, ruling with a steady hand, a full glass, a devoted Chinese handler, and an economy based on looting. As fate would have it, B.D. finds himself heading upriver on an apocalyptic mission to terminate Al Duke with extreme prejudice, a story line so made-for-TV that B.D. feels compelled to bang out the screenplay on his laptop in real time. Fortunately for the man known to Honey as "sir," the media red-lights the hit, though car bombers quickly pick up the option and put the project back in play. In the homeland, a wartime president has the answer to almost all the questions ("9-11") but tries to shelve the still incomplete story of his own National Guard duty back in the daze. Mark and Zonk join the war against trash politics by offering a $10,000 reward for any witness who can collaborate the flightsuit-in-chief's account, but their efforts, alas, come to naught. Yes, it's a divided nation. On the west coast sexual assault charges accompany a rise to power, while back east they mandate a fall: Walden College's acting coach, Boopstein, lets accusations of way-personal fouls force her football team off the field. Sex parties for recruits? "Who knew we were that competitive?" marvels President King, ending Boopsie's gridiron apprenticeship with two little words: "You're fired."

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"...in some small,meaningless way,I'll miss having you around.".......2006-08-16

Another great Doonesbury production! Trudeau continues to keep up imaginative satire on the American scene.Whether you lean to the left or to the right; you just gotta admit Trudeau is a master of satire. Who but Trudeau would think of representing muscle man Schwartzenegger as "The Hand",and then to really drive the satire in a bit more--call him "Herr Gropenfuhrer"?
Then there's President Bush with his Roman -style War Helmut.Anyone can associate a Cowboy Hat with Bush ;but it takes Trudeau's genius to come up with this helmut.
My one regret about this period is that we didn't get a character of John Dean.Maybe he was just too much for Trudeau to handle without going "TILT".
This seemed to be the period of losses all the way around.Walden loses its Football team and coach,it's very raison d'entre,Zonker loses his chance to run for Governor of California,B.D loses a leg , Duke almost loses Honey to an Iraqi and on top of it all; too many good soldiers lose their lives in Iraq. And we call this a Comic Strip. I have been following the strips since I was a kid. I cut my teeth on Dick Tracey and Pogo . I still follow Tracey,but sadly we have lost the satire of Pogo and the swamp. Life was a lot simpler in those days. One thing was ,we knew who the enemy was; "it was us." in Pogo .In Tracey, it was Mumbles,Flattop,Pruneface or their ilk; and we could trust Tess,Junior, Gravel Gertie and the Police Chief.
I still have a positive criticism on the Doonesbury books,though. It is a shame that the strips are not all in color. They were all colored in my newspaper .The artwork is an
important and extremely good element of this strip and reading it in black and white is like looking at a sunset without its color.Even the sillouettes!
Anyway,fans of Doonesbury will love this book.

Great Work Mr. Trudeau!.......2005-04-03

Doonesbury is a mainstay in my life. Just recently have I become a fan and just recently have I picked up almost all the books in order to keep myself up to date.

The political satire involving several major characters over so many years IN REAL TIME is really something to tip your hat to.

This book in particular deals with Arnold's reign of governatorship and the farciful laughs behind his groping of women beforehand, hence his Doonesbury Name "Herr Gropenfuhrer." He is shown as a large groping hand instead of the muscle-bound oldie-but-goodie we all know and love him to be.

More than anything else, this piece chronicles mainstay B.D.'s final days in Iraq as a militaryman. His last helmet is taken off by EMT's who nurse him after a shell-blast has taken off his leg. Stirring stuff and easily my favorite Doonesbury saga.

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Those who enjoy speaking Southern, or wish they could, will delight in hundreds of regional delights like "abode" (a wooden board), "acknowledge the corn" (to confess), and "pully bone" (wishbone). Includes 4,300 entries and 27,000 words.

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hand reference.......2007-06-12

It's smaller in trim size than I thought it would be but handy and useful none the less. It's formatted like a dicitonary but it doesn't give background origins of the words/sayings. Almost as if you are a foreigner heading to the South and need a quick translation guide. For deeper meanings of the words you would need to go the internet.

An interesting collection of Southern words.......2005-06-01

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this dictionary. This is probably the richest collection of Southern words in print. It is true that there are few etymologies provided and the entries are all concise. However, I would much rather have the work as it stands as opposed to having only half the number of entries with a detailed analysis. In fact many of the most interesting entries (i.e. those petaining to untranslateable concepts) do have a longer explanation. There are many entries contained here which cannot be found in Robert Hendrickson's "Whistlin' Dixie". On the other hand, there are a few entries Hendrickson uses that cannot be found here. Hendrickson also provides a more detailed descritpion of each entry and perhaps has slightly more toponymous expressions. If you are in doubt as to which dictionary to buy then, if you really love this dialect of American English, I strongly recommend that you buy BOTH. The two important works on Southern speech complement the other and are both reasonably priced.
First of all, I would like to say that "The Dixie Dictionary" is extremely rich in folklore entries. For instance, there are fascinating terms like 'belling' (a wedding custom), 'dumb cake' (a cake made in silence and used for fortune telling) and 'infare' (a feast the day after the wedding). There are literally dozens of unique words pertaining to various kinds of legendary monsters such as the 'Bingbuffer', the 'clew bird' and the 'galoopus' etc. There are also words connected with folk healing like 'chamber lye', 'nanny tea' and 'fasting spittle' as well as call words used to command animals (e.g. 'coo-sheep/coon-nan' and 'sukee' , etc.). Folk expressions concerning the weather and seasons are also represented in entries like 'blackberry winter' and 'dogwood winter' etc.
There are also many terms taken from the Civil War like 'copperhead' (a Northerner/Yankee who sympathised with the South. There are many nicknames e.g. 'Rackensack' (someone from Arkansaw) and a 'Cracker' (someone either from Georgia or Florida) etc. in addition to toponymous phrases like the 'Carolina robin' (smoked herring), 'Charsleston eagle' (buzzard) and 'Arkansas toothpick' (bowie knife) etc.
Another category of terms which reflects the devout history of the people is the religious terminology like 'amen corner', 'pound' (party for a new preacher), 'toadstool churches' (which grow up as a result of revivals) and 'pokeweed religion' etc. There are also countless terms associated with tobacco, moonshine/whiskey and games like marbles. Several entries do not constitute distinct words as such but rather dialect variants/different pronunciation e.g. 'ovair' (over there), 'leben' (eleven) and 'zactly' (exactly). Talking of the last word 'zactly', dialectologists, will be interested to encounter certain similarities with some West Country British dialects (which often use 'z' in place of 's'). For instance, in the Cornish dialect (many terms of which are derived from an ancient language akin to Welsh not English) I recognised the following entries : 'ashcat', 'cap'n', 'kilt', 'emmet' (meaning ant - in West Cornwall it is 'muryan' yet 'emmet is used in E.Cornwall and in Devon), 'furmety' and 'rassle' etc. This leads me to postulate that Cornish miners may well have settled in some places in the South.If any fellow-readers would like to purchase a Cornish dialect dictionary then search on this site (there are good dictionaries available by Jago, Phillipps and Ivey). If they are not available in Amazon.com then try the Amazon.uk branch. As you can probably detect from my review, I found this work most interesting. It is an important contribution to the culture of the South and to dialectology.

For writers looking to pen southern-style dialogue.......2002-09-09

Compiled and edited by southern journalist Thomas W. Howard, The Dixie Dictionary: An Introduction To The Southern Language is a fun, enjoyable, and useful glossary of terms unique to American Southern English dialects. From "all vine and no 'taters" (a phrase to describe someone who is all talk and no action) to "whistle-pig" (groundhog), The Dixie Dictionary is packed from cover to cover with wry, flavorful phrases that most northerners have likely never heard of. Highly recommended for writers looking to pen southern-style dialogue, as well as anyone planning to visit or move to the South, or who just wants to have a good time paging through some truly unique and eyebrow-raising expressions, The Dixie Dictionary is a welcome contribution to personal and academic Language Studies reference collections.

The dixie-doodle dictionary: How to understand a southerner

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The dixie-doodle dictionary: How to understand a southerner
Jake Moon
Manufacturer: Two Continents/Piasa Publications
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Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
Dian Eaton
Manufacturer: Citadel
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Teach Yourself French Language, Life, and Culture (Teach Yourself)

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Decent book
Nice introduction to France
The people, places and things behind the news...

Teach Yourself French Language, Life, and Culture (Teach Yourself)
Celia Dixie
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0658009079

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Each Teach Yourself . . . Language, Life, and Culture title delves into the customs and ways of a country and its inhabitants, taking a respectful yet lively point of view. Topics covered include government, arts, language, work, leisure, education, festivals and celebrations, and food. By asking questions like Is Italy the birthplace of opera? and How much beer does the average German drink? and Do the French really spend hours at the dinner table? this series invites readers to examine fascinating aspects of another culture.

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Decent book.......2004-05-20

This is a decent book that covers French culture. It is a bit more broad. Less specific about certain aspects of France and its culture. Not very academic but also not really helpful for anyone who plans to visit France.

This book is more of a general overview of French culture. I suggest Sally Adamson Taylor's CULTURE SHOCK FRANCE.

Nice introduction to France.......2002-11-14

Seldom can I walk into a bookstore and find just the book I am looking for when I don't have a title in mind to ask for. However, this book was it. I didn't want a language course and I didn't want a travel guide, nor did I want a book about Napoleon or recent French politics. Staff always seem confused when you say 'no' to the above. I found the book almost by accident. I read it from cover to cover as if it were a novel. It is an excellent blend of facts, anecdotes, humour, language and reference information. Celia Dixie has done well with this most excellent introduction to France. One point about domestic tasks, pages 240-241: do French women help with maintaining the car? fixing the roof? cleaning the gutters? mowing the lawn? removing the burglars? etc

The people, places and things behind the news..........2000-12-13

While no one volume can encapsulate the culture of any nation, Celia Dixie's work will go a long way towards explaining the signifigance and meaning of the people, places and things which are constantly referred to in French news reports. If you like to read and/or listen to the wide array of French news available on the net, this volume is invaluable.

A carpetbagger's guide to Dixie: (A humorous Southern-English Dictionary)

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A carpetbagger's guide to Dixie: (A humorous Southern-English Dictionary)
Edward Hugh Marriott
Manufacturer: Preston L. Bergen, Inc
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ASIN: B0007169B6

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What's up with that awful blurb?.......2005-01-25

I was a little surprised to surf to Amazon and read that Kubrick hadn't made a film worth a damn in the last 30 years of his life, so naturally I had to click on the link and see what was going on. I actually read this book several years ago when I was at the height of my fascination with Kubrick, and remember it being quite good if perhaps a little dense at times. The latter may have more to do with my own reading level at that point than any fault of Nelson's (it was around the end of middle school or start of high school for me). It's still on my shelf so I may give it another look sometime.

To say that Eyes Wide Shut was anything less than a stellar film, indeed one of Kubrick's very best, will be laughable in a few more years. The critical reappraisal continues, Kubrick's films always were late bloomers...

Only if you are a true Kubrick fan.......2004-01-11

I was so so offended by the slackness and cheekiness of this book that I absolutely had to write a review... The writing style is so bad it will make your head spin like a top. The sentences run on forever, and Professor Nelson can't seem to keep to a point at all. He spends most of his time impressing himself instead of trying to communicate with readers. Don't bother with this one unless you are a true Kubrick diehard.

Good scholarship, occasionally overwhelming.......2002-09-20

Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson ...is one of the best Kubrick books available. Nelson discusses all of the films, and devotes a chapter to each one beginning with Lolita. There are photographs, too, but the printing is so lousy for these that they are easily ignored. The text is the most important material here. Nelson is an astute critic, and his text is informed by a comprehensive knowledge of film history and the realist and formalist schools. Although he uses the term mise en scène more times that I would care to tell you, his prose is immediate, conversational, and engaging. Here's one example from his 30-page essay on The Shining:
Early in the film, for instance, they learn how to negotiate the corridors of the hotel ("to leave a trail of breadcrumbs," to quote Wendy), and in once scene Danny moves in a circle around the Colorado Lounge on his Big Wheel tricycle, while Jack tends to remain stationary within its center. Wendy and Danny explore the hedge maze and complete a circular journey that travels into and out of its diabolical design. Jack, on the other hand, imitates what Borges characterizes as the death-in-life of the "North" (that is, northern European intellectualism)-that yearning for a totally rationalized world without those crevices of unreason that arouse despair in some and imagination in others-rather than the "South's" desire to traverse the maze and engage its multiplicity, to confront fate and choice, and to outface oblivion in an act of creation.
Whew.

For Kubrick Fanatics Only.......2001-03-03

Did you ever wonder why the carpeting in Room 237 in "The Shining" was green and purple? Or why the camera moves on the dolly from left to right in "The Killing"? Or who that artist Ryan O'Neal was referring to during the art-room scene in "Barry Lyndon"? I never did, and I imagine most people don't either. Which is what makes this book so problematic. Stanley Kubrick was a legendary perfectionist, and his work seems to have inspired a similar level of meticulousness in authors who write about him. This book analyzes Kubrick's 10 feature films down to the minutest detail (his first two brief features and "Spartacus," in which he was a director for hire, have been wisely glossed over), and the effect can be a bit stultifying. To be sure, the author comes up with some interesting tid bits about the great filmmaker's work, but just how accurate is all this? Kubrick has been known to pooh-pooh this sort of treatment of his work, and it's easy to see why: In writing about "Full Metal Jacket," Nelson refers to a scene where the character named Cowboy is dying and there's a burning building in the background that looks like the monolith in "2001." The author says that is Kubrick's way of signalling an evolutionary moment. In fact, Kubrick said in a 1987 Rolling Stone interview that the structure's resemblance to the "2001" monolith is just a coincidence. Even more bizarre is the book's near-total absense of any criticism. It is almost entirely descriptive. He mentions in the postscript that "Eyes Wide Shut" is one of Kubrick's "finest achievements" and he criticizes parts of "The Shining" but otherwise fails to note what works and what doesn't in these films. There are some fun parts in this book, but it is weighed down by its leaden prose and heavy-handed academic style.

A wonderful view.......2000-11-26

There can be no greater praise for a book about Kubrick than to say that it is worthy of its subject. This one is. The opening chapter gives the bare biographical facts, and attempts to dispel a few of the myths about Kubrick's personality - not least the idea that, for example, a man's real or journalistically endowed flying phobia should have the least relevance for a viewer or a critic of his films. The next chapter analyses the early films up to the first masterpiece, Paths of Glory; and each subsequent film (except for the compromised Spartacus) has a chapter to itself. Nelson's critiques are detailed, comprehensive, thoroughly readable and constructive - which is to say, favourable. He appreciates the films and wishes others to appreciate them too. This revised and expanded edition contains, in the first chapter, a charming tribute to the director and, in two new chapters, analyses of Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut which show that, in the intervening years between The Shining and the present, Nelson's abilities have diminished as little as Kubrick's. All the essays in the book can be read and enjoyed for their own sake - I was especially fond of the one on A Clockwork Orange, long before I was able to see the film itself - but they will also make you long to be back there in the dark, sharing the artist's vision with the eyes Nelson has widened for you.

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Kubrick : Inside a Film Artist's Maze
Thomas Allen Nelson
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPWIHE

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Dr. Suzuki questioned why all vocalists vocalize every day to improve their voices, but instrumentalists do not do so every day with their instruments. He believes that on any instrument, one needs to practice to make a more beautiful tone. First he talks about playing a beautiful resonant tone with the bow while plucking the string with a finger. When a pizzicato is played, the resonance goes on fo for a long time. Students should listen to that resonance and play the same kind of clear beautiful sound. He talks about how to make a difference in the tone by using a different bow speed, how to practice to find the resonance point, how to change the weight of the arm on the bow to produce a different kind of tone, and how to change tone color. This book includes all of Dr. Suzuki's basic ideas abo ut tone.

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Tonalization: Suzuki method report 1977
Shinʾichi Suzuki
Manufacturer: Talent Education Institute
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Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)

Another good book from Aagaard

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Starting Out? Yeahhh Right.....

Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)
Jacob Aagaard
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
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These books are perfect for enthusiastic chess players who are starting out in the game, and who are seeking to understand the basic principles behind these important openings: the Pirc/Modern and the Grünfeld. These 2 books are written in a user-friendly style with an abundance of notes, tips and warnings scattered throughout, while key strategies, ideas, and tactics for both sides are clearly illustrated.
The authors of these books are very skilled and experienced chess writers, who are used to writing for players of all levels and are renowned for their ability to explain ideas in a lucid and straightforward manner.
These books will be especially beneficial to those players who have previously sharpened their chess skills with the earlier books Starting Out in Chess, Tips for Young Players and Improve Your Opening Play.

*User-friendly design to help readers absorb ideas
*Concentrates on the fundamental principles of the openings
*Ideal for the improving player

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Starting Out: The Grunfeld Defence (Starting Out - Everyman Chess).......2006-03-16

A good book to begin your exporation toward Master play in the Grunfeld. This book should be supported by another book on the Grunfeld that covers your favorite Grunfeld Varations in greater detail once you begin playing it.

Another good book from Aagaard.......2005-06-24

I detest closed positions and when I first started playing chess I honestly believed there was no other option to facing 1.d4 other than the Queen's Gambit. I purchased and began to study Starting Out the Queen's Gambit but I still did not like the games and frequently lost. My record against 1.d4 was horrible. Now I have found a system that I enjoy. The positions which result from the Grünfeld tend to be semi-open and the ideas employed by both sides are rich and can be complex. That is the kind of chess I enjoy playing.

Aagaard has done a great job in introducing players to this opening and he has not pulled any punches. Some of the ideas and lines are complicated but he apparently struggled to make the book as up to date as possible. He even included a few games that were played weeks before his manuscript was sent to be edited.

The format is typical of the Starting Out series by Everyman Chess so if you enjoy any other books in the series you will certainly enjoy this book. Throw in Aagaard's odd sense of humor and you have a great introductory text. As for the review by KR from Texas, Aaagaard certainly checked his analysis with Fritz 8 as he makes several comments concerning this in the book. I am much more willing to trust the analysis of an IM backed by Fritz than I am to trust the average chess player but any book of this sort will have its errors and the whole point of *studying* a book like this is to question and understand the analysis and lines given - not to simply swallow what has been written with no thought that it might be incorrect or inaccurate.

God Help Us from the Twisted Chess Opinions of Bad Players.......2005-06-02

The previous review is nonsense! The Grünfeld is a very reputable opening, regularly essayed by grandmasters at the very top level (whereas the Modern Benoni, incidentally, is at such levels viewed with some suspicion, especially if Black plays . . .c5 before White has played Nf3). To paraphrase Jonathan Speelman, you should not play the Grünfeld if you are afraid of a passed d-pawn.

Starting Out? Yeahhh Right............2005-05-26

With all do respect to the author, this book is not well written. I got this book to actually learn the Grunfeld. Well It turns out I waisted my money. When I explored the Grunfeld a little more, i found out that it is a worthless opening. I now play the Modern Benoni. The Modern Benoni is excellent for agressive players and if you want to learn the opening I recommend Starting Out: The Modern Benoni. Ive had great success with this opening. Now back to the Grunfeld. The Grunfeld is bad because it lets white get a strong central advantage for no reason at all. Ive also found a few errors in this book. The variations are not well explained so your pretty much on your own the figure them out. So, Please save your money.

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A Sound Basic Review of Financials

Clear, simple and extremly useful

Worst book I have bought yet

Good for beginners

Financial Statements: A Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports
Thomas R. Ittelson
Manufacturer: Career Press
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Finally, a resourceful and unique primer on financial statements that uses a creative and different approach to explain every kind of financial report a small business owner or manager needs to succeed. Through an unique visual approach, this book leads users to a clear understanding of how business scores are kept and how to interpret the results.From balance sheets, cash flow statements and income statements, learn how to understand the basic elements that will pave the way to achieving financial success.

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Excellent.......2007-09-10

I'm in an MBA program and have had numerous undergraduate accounting classes. This book is fantastic. It is FAR superior to "How To Read A Financial Report" by John Tracy. "Financial Statements: A Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports" by Thomas R. Ittelson is clear and concise. It's the best book I've found on the subject. I highly recommend it!

A Sound Basic Review of Financials.......2007-09-07

A sound review of what I learned almost 40 years ago and have not used in about 25 years. Brought back what I learned and used years ago.

Clear, simple and extremly useful.......2007-07-19

For the person who buys stocks, this book is an absolute must. Ittelson's writing is clear and gets to the point. By the end, you will have a very good understanding of financial statements. I got interested in this book as an investor and I am very pleased with my time investment in reading this book.

Worst book I have bought yet.......2007-06-11

I bought 3 books, the one I am reviewing, "Reading Financial Reports For Dummies", and "Guide to Understanding Financial Statements". This book gives no information for beginners who are trying to learn how to understand financial statements. I read all 3 books twice, and I didn't get anything...and I mean nothing from this book. The other two were very well written. Reading Financial Reports For Dummies and The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements. I suggest not wasting your money on this book. It is basically a lot of numbers with very little explanation. It is also confusing because the definitions are different and there is no explanation why they defintions change when reading a financial report.

Good for beginners.......2007-06-07

This book would be an excellent supplement to a beginning accounting class. The author explains the material so that it is very easy to understand.

But if you've taken intermediate or advanced accounting classes, don't waste your money. There isn't anything new in this small book. It doesn't cover all areas of accounting and the areas that are covered are not in-depth. Example: There is a brief mention of straight-line deprection but nothing about salvage value and no mention about the other depreciation methods.

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