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Cannot be used as a source because of an incorrect translation, which distorts the histrography. Also there are other issues concerning the scholarship. It might could be saved if the editor and publishers were to redo the work. Perhaps grade school teachers could use the book in support of their lesson plans. Invest in both a better translated and written book.

This book is a rare contribution to the history of Geography. Side by side, religious voyages and places description bring a lot of informations, impressions and pieces of old imaginary. Like Arabian and Cristian Middle Ages geographers, Jewish itineraires are an important source to understand simultaneous world conceptions and how nets of commerce and cultural relations were stablished around Mediterran Sea and Asia.

Have you read a book about jewish written by jewish, have you read a book about jewish written by who hate jewish, this book is realy defrent, simply is the truth about the history of jewish around the world, interesting, something you will never read in any others or even hear it from jewish, its a great novel and great book, highly recommended.

I should give it more, but it's fictional, and I like true tales of the past. It's fairly short and somewhat colorful. You get a brief taste of what it would have been like for a German family to make the trek to Texas in the old days of the west. The boat trip alone would have killed most of us. It's a nice story, but I like the Laura Ingalls Wilder books better.

I was expecting actual letters and commentary. This is a book written not just at a young person's level, but also for young people. As an adult looking for serious information on the subject of German settlement of Texas in 1847 - I was dissapointed. Perhaps a simple label of "Fiction" would be nice.

Apart from that - the story is interesting and well written and I would recommend it to people of any age interested in this subject. Don't expect a scholarly account and hard facts, this is fiction but fun.

This story, as told from the eyes of a young girl from Germany, gives a fairly accurate account of what life may have been like for a family immigrating to Texas in 1847. It is appropriate for all ages and backgrounds, but is particularly interesting to the Germans who established themselves in Texas. As I read it, I related to the language, customs, and locations presented in the story. I am eager for my father to read it. His mother might well have written the story herself.

Israel and Tarver write that they respect the self-determination of transgendered people, yet they propose guidelines that leave decisions about transgendered people's bodies, ultimately, in the hands of mental health professionals. The authors do not address this basic self-contradiction. To their credit, the authors also include essays by other writers, some of whom contest this autonomy-denying aspect of their proposed guidelines.

The authors propose three elements of human sexuality: sex (male, female, or intersexed), gender identity (male, female, androgynous), and sexual orientation (attracted to male, attracted to females, attracted to transexuals, attracted to gay men, attracted to lesbian women, etc.).

I am writing this review from memory, so I am not certain I have the (types) correct. The key thing is that the authors argue that sexual orientation is not the same thing as gender identity.

A great overview of current care standards and practices. Also includes some personal narratives. Directed to professionals in the health and therapeutic fields, but clear and readable by non-professionals, including patients, family and friends. Probably more useful if reader already has some familiarity with the field.

I thought How Late it Was, How Late was excellent and one of the best books I have read in the past couple of years. So, I had high expectations after hearing about Translated Accounts. The premise of the book is intriguing but the language and repetitiveness of the book made a worthwhile story unbearable.

James Kelman won the Booker Prize for his novel "How Late It Was, How Late" a good few years ago now, but in the time since then he has produced superior work such as "The Good Times" and "Translated Accounts".
This book is a series of narratives written/spoken/emailed by people (of uncertain geographical location) whose right to free speech has been denied to the extent that sometimes it is only by attempting a decoding of the censor's voice that anything can be understood.
The narratives are sometimes romantic, sometimes banal, and occasionally horrific. But because the language is garbled by translation or censorship, the images thrown up are general rather than specific. There is no doubt that the author knows a lot about the former Yugoslavia, but such reference points aren't really useful since the book is more concerned with this kaleidoscope of individual experiences, rather than shaking a leftist fist at governments.
In ways this book is a first. It's not the everything's-under-the-surface dream world of Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". It's not the inner-city Glasgow of "How Late". Neither poetry nor prose. What it is is the glacial hardness of the human spirit under a strain so great that sense itself is broken.

There's so many books out there, and so many good ones (thankfully), so it's hard to explain exactly why, after reading this one, I felt I'd read something truly important.
Language forms the deep centre of this novel, the story of an un-named country under what seems to be a kind of stark martial law.
The whole book is written in a kind of elegantly broken English. These are the stories of a non-English country forced into English with little regard for the identities of the people or the importance of either language. You see how hard it is to explain?

After all that has happened recently, the fibre of this story feels desperately necessary. The human stuff that is so difficult to parse within this novel (due to the faulty translations--the really incredible style developed by Kelman, it's just amazing, really), is the struggle we're now all facing to find the right language to describe our horrors.

This book will immediately remind you of certain books by Nobel prize winning guy Samuel Beckett. It's not as heavy a read as say, The Unnamable, which is good. It's sort of like Beckett's later fictions, but instead of completely vanishing down the endless hole of despair and (let's face it) nonsense, Kelman is telling a fascinating story.

If when you read you don't like your time wasted on tripe, vacuousness, bull, sloppiness, hackwork, guile, smoke &/or mirrors, etc. then certainly this is a book worth reading. The essential truth here, is that like Faulkner, like Joyce, like Beckett, like Pynchon, like Bellow, this is a book for history. The deep history of great reading.

While I am a complete novice with no accounting experience, I do hold a college degree, and am facile with numbers and concepts (usually). Because accounting is such a terminology-laden undertaking, the fact that this book does not contain a glossary, and that terms used are not clearly defined, left me feeling lost. Given the recommendations I'd seen for this book, I'd expected a more basic treatment of the subject of bookkeeping as related to accounting, to make the mechanics of the process more transparent. I felt that this book rambled between accounting concepts and business accounting practices in its descriptions of procedures one might use. As for the use of this book for the "small business," it seemed to me that "small" was a relative term. I'd liken the scale of "small" to be along the lines of comparing Google to Microsoft -sure, Google is "small" in comparison, but for purposes of a small start-up service business, the scale seemed out of proportion.

Overall, for the rank beginner, I'd still suggest looking for something in a more graphically useful format, with a good glossary and more clear detail. For someone with accounting/bookkeeping experience, this book may provide more useable information, although I still feel that the way information is organized and presented is less than optimal.

It's a good overview of accounting terms and procedures, I liked that it was about the new business. I mainly concetrated on the record keeping chapters, and I don't know why some books call expenses, cash disbursements, and other books call expenses, expenses? I keep a record of expenses, and another of petty cash expenses. To me cash disbursements are always paid when they have to so I don't have a due date and a paid date. Also I don't generate a sales invoice and then record the income because they happen at the same time, I collect immediately, so that part is unecessary or could be elaborated on for the business that uses this method.

It helped me with quickbooks and I have a better idea of how to prepare financial statements using software. This is a good review even if you have other accounting books, it's small and easy and to read and you can take it anywhere.

Usually accounting is too dry for me, but the chapters were straight to the point. A good buy for an inventory based or service based business, Most accounting books lack a common sense explanation, this one is a good deal.

This book provides a detailed look at what the Tejano people experienced and thought of the seige on the Alamo by Santa Anna and the Mexican Army during the Texas Revolution. Matovina takes authenic documents and accounts and arranges them in an unaltered form in this book. His arrangement(chronologically as they were originally recorded) gives you an idea of how feelings and attitudes changed during the years that followed the actual event. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in furthering their knowkledge of what took place during the battle and, especially, its affects on the citizens of San Antonio after the battle.

This book is an excellent reference for those interested in
accounts of the "other side" of the Alamo story. While, as with other books giving accounts of Tejanos who witnessed and/or were
present before, during or shortly after the battle, there are many conflicting versions of what happened that fateful day; most of the mystery surrounding the deaths of Crockett and Bowie remains unsolved. Nevertheless, the author does a great job of presenting the best evidence available through authenticated documents, and affords the inquisitive reader the opportunity to further research those grey areas and, possibly, reach the right conclusion of how the "heroes" died. Because we live in a society where the majority love to view departed combatants in the light of "heroics"-- whether or not deserving thereof--books like this one in particular are crucial for those searching for the truth. This is a definite 4+ for Alamo enthusiasts.

While I found many of the recollections to be intersting and informative I couldn't escape the fact that the author of this book is pro- interventions and pro- status quo. The author exemplifies the best and the worst about hospital care in the United States although she practised in Canada and Scotland.

Information: As the author it would be difficult to rate this book however I do know a production company in Toronto has aquired the rights (they think the book 'excellent, we just love it') for a series of half hour television shows. Currently a proposal is with an interested broadcaster. Decision soon. Frances Wirvin.

Bloodsong is a good book that gives us an insight into the mysterious world of the mercenary. These men have a glamorous persona that is shown not to be so. Many of these men have served in the finest Special Forces units in South Africa. War is what they know and it is how they make a living just like an electrician or a plumber. After reading Jim Hooper's first book Beneath the Visiting Moon I was a little disappointed in this book. Bloodsong did not have the same action packed scenes that Moon had. In Moon, Hooper gave us a connection to the characters and when something happened to them the reader felt it, not so in Bloodsong. Overall it is a good read about a group of men that many people know little about. I would recommend reading Nine Days of War of Beneath the Visiting Moon before reading this to gain some background knowledge of the situation in Angola.

The late lord Harold MacMillan's winds of change that started off as a relative gentle breeze in western Africa in the early sixties had built up to hurricane strength when it reached Southern Africa. In the middle eighties the major part of the region was ablaze: full-scale wars were waged in Angola and Mozambique, troops and police anti-terrorist units were deployed along the Angolan - South West African border to neutralize the liberation groups and in South Africa the black townships were virtual war zones. The South Africans were with their backs to the sea but managed to survive and to suppress wave after wave unleashed on them.

Having been the pariah of nations for decades they had to be totally self-reliant: a war machine unequalled in the history of the Dark Continent came into being. Equipment was designed and perfected. Thousands of men were conscripted, processed, trained and to a certain extent, programmed for warfare.

And then, in the late eighties and early nineties the unimaginable happened: peace broke out!

For many South Africans it was a low blow - all of a sudden they were both without a mission as well as a way to eke out a living.
For years armed conflict was all they knew and lived for and in the new political dispensation their skills were not required and instead, quite frankly, actually frowned upon.

Thus, with uncanny entepeneurial skill and leadership qualities Executive Outcomes (EO), South Africa's first mercenary army was conceived out of necessity and born in comradeship. Although the banners had changed the cause had remained the same.

Jim Hooper, an American author and journalist currently residing in England and a veteran of the armed conflicts in Southern Africa, was invited and allowed into the inner sanctum of EO. In "Bloodsong! A first hand account of a modern private army in action" the combatants themselves recount the exploits of EO graphically. The volte-face of EO by siding with an erstwhile enemy is discussed and so is the harassment of EO and members of their families by both old-guard South Africans and paranoid new politicians.

During their involvement in Angola EO was paid the ultimate compliment: they were approached by the Angolans to retrain their army.

Bloodsong! is well written and researched and Hooper reveals a compasionate insight in the driving force behind all those involved. The narrative is sober and according to an EO-leader
"as close to the truth as possible".

Although one would have preferred more accounts of the "grunts" themselves the book is reccommended to all thse with an interest in military operations.

A truly informative can't-put-down must read!

Sure, just another book that on one hand tells us that only a small minority of Quaker 'fanatics' were abolitionists, and that the war was over expansion and not slavery, and then the next minute have us all believe that Union troops faught and died to end slavery when in many of their hometowns there were laws that forbid blacks, Indians, and mulatooes from staying in town after sundown. If you believe that people died for this, then you need to be reading bedtime stories. The war was fought over MONEY, POWER, and caused by disagreement between Constitutional Federalists and Jeffersonians. Even the Supreme Court ruled that secession was allowed under the Constitution (in 1862 I believe), but in their ruling said basically that 'this is our ruling, but to no avail, because the issue is being decided on the battlefields as we speak'.

some drivel, some repetitive and others stunning with fresh insight. Impossible to characterize as biased because of the variety of sources. What is called the "American Civil War" is a complex event which is difficult to untangle from all that preceded or followed it. The self-rightousness, aggrandizing commercial motives of the North were often masked as moral crusades and the theme emerged time and time again as I read. I would have to add this as a "must read" for anyone who is serious about scholarship of the period.

First of all, the edition I read was retitled "Attack on Telemark." I can't tell you how excited I was to begin reading this book and will therefore have difficulty explaining to you how disappointed I ultimately was. I truly believe these men were brave and were heroes. The problem is that Knut Haukelid is not a writer in any way, shape or form. The book is so poorly written I had trouble determining what was going on. The actual raid is so ill-described and generally glossed over that I thought the raid unsuccessful and to be followed up by the "real raid." But no, that was really it. I kept reading and waiting for the story, the drama and the action to unfold but it never did.

For better accounts of raids and other small unit actions try reading "Combat WWII: European Theater of Operations" edited by Don Congdon. A superb book. Or try "Pegasus Bridge" by Stephen Ambrose. An unbelievable book.

True story of how the Norwegian Resistance, with the help of Britain, stops the Germans from acquiring enough heavy water to make their own A-bomb. Exciting first hand account of skiing and avoiding the Nazis. Begin to understand the sacrifice made by the Norwegian people in their resistance to the Nazis. Made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas in 1968. I recommend reading Blood and Water to get another take on this exciting story.

This book proves that "Heroes of Telemark" is not an exagerration. First hand documentary account of Norvegian underground against Nazis prove during WW II. It is actually very modest account of the coreougeous soldiers to deny Hitler to build atomic bomb. It is somehow overlooked to the one of the reasons of Nazi failure to build the bomb. But thanks to these heroes whom some of them lost their lives for the cause. Even the writing sometimes gets into some details I feel it is necessary for the documentation. I don't hold it against.