Foreign-market Books

I've lived in Rome for years and often recommend this guide to friends. Not only is it tiny (and thus fits in a pocket), but it includes many wonderful little places that locals know and love and that tourists may miss completely.

I love Rome. Off the beaten path and local favorites are my travel passion, and the shopping in Rome can't be beaten! So this book-ette, seemed a good choice. But I have to say, of the 46 books, and some odd hundred websites I comb looking for hidden secrets, this one is just okay. Its very small (about 4x4 inches) and difficult to read easily. So many of the suggestions are obvious and cliche. Though I do have two pages tagged for my upcoming visit.

I would consider it a fun and pretty gift for someone visiting Rome for the first time. Otherwise, save your pennies, they will be better spent on plastic rosary from St. Peter's square.

I found this while looking for a good guidebook for my daughter to take to Italy. She was accompanying a friend of mine who loves to shop and this was the perfect little thank you gift to give to her before they left. It is very small (easy to carry on-board or while actually shopping), with one shop per page. It is aimed more at the little specialty shops and boutiques so I don't know if she was actually able to put it to use this trip, but she enjoyed getting it. My only worry is that since the book is several years old, I wonder how much of the information is outdated. Still, the perfect gift under the circumstances.

Excellent idea, nicely executed, but 4 years is too long for a book like this not to be updated. About half of the restaurants/shops listed are no longer in existence. Much of the remaining information is no longer accurate.
It does provide a somewhat surreal experience to follow a map to an address only to find a car dealership where you expect a leather boutique to be. Otherwise i'm afraid this edition is fairly useless.

This is a wonderful book for anyone to use as a "behind the main streets" guide to Rome. If you any desire to experience the real Rome rather than just falling in step with the thousands of tourists, this book will lead you to wonderful shops and experiences. Buy it long before your trip and study the routes. You will not be sorry.

My husband and I travelled to Spain for our honeymoon knowing very little Spanish (cerveza, por favor and gracias were basically it). This book helped us to communicate with ease. The book is organized by situation to allow you to find stuff quickly, and also includes a small dictionary. Its small size made it easy to carry with us everywhere. We also carried the Living Language Spanish-English dictionary to help us translate specific words, but to put them in phrases that actually made sense we used this book. We will definitely buy other phrasebooks by Fodor's for our next trip.

I have this book and several other Spanish language books. This is the best of the lot. It has a dictionary of most common words, a useful phase section with pronunciation and useful information about Spain and Latin America. It is worth every bit of the price. Es muy bueno.

I picked this up before a trip to Guadalajara, and it really came in handy. It was simple to use and full of exactly the words I was looking for. I practiced with the cassettes on the plane, and then I brought the phrasebook everywhere - shopping, sightseeing, eating out, and (unfortunately) to the pharmacy for, um, an emergency. It even helped me there, although I wish the situation to test that particular area of usefulness hadn't come up. Really a great buy and a fantastic way to stretch those two years of high school Spanish I barely remember.

The audio with this book has useful phrases that would be great to learn before your trip, however the phrases are spoken to quickly for a beginner to learn. Also, the format is inconsistent. In the beginning they start off first giving you the word/phrases in english followed by spanish. Then, without any warning, it changes to giving you the spanish word first and then the english. This makes learning even more difficult. This is not a good program for beginners. Maybe if you have taken spanish classes and know some basic spanish vocabulary, grammer, and phonics then this would be a helpful review. If you are a beginner like me with one semester in college completed years ago this program is not for you.

I'll get straight to the point: Do NOT buy this unless you have a basic, solid knowledge of Spanish already.
This CD set is comprised of phrases, first said in Enlish, then repeated in Spanish. The Spanish pronunciation is difficult to understand without the book in front of you- which is confusing to follow.
This CD set does not teach grammar, pronouns, tenses, etc. It only teaches phrases- complete sentences.
In order to benefit from this set, you will need to already understand some basic verbs and pronouns (gender and formalities) or you will become lost very quickly.

This CD set is only good if you need to quickly memorize phrases for traveling- but remember, you will also need to UNDERSTAND what people say to you. It's better to learn the basic language skills than to memorize, "Where is the bus station?" and realize you have no idea what the response means!

I recommend starting with a "Teach Yourself Spanish" course first. That will give you a good foundation.

The book contains a wealth of practical information however there are errors in the mathematical formulas, dates and etc. This is most frustrating from a reader point of view and dampened the confidence in the material presented. However, it is relatively a easy read for general understanding of the money and FX markets. I hope the author does a more thorough check in the future edition in order to do this book justice.

This is a great practical book for the beginners and intermediate people in the market. When I started in the market as a business analyst, with no prior experience, it was a confused world of trading. After reading this book, things make much more sense. In addition, the book explains brief analytics on how to price and when and why certain instruments will be used for trading. It is geared towards trading. Refer to other books if you are more interested in middle/back office functionality (like settlements, P&L calc, risk management etc.)

This book is excellent for beginner as well as for advance. It covers all the details right from bottom to top in a very lucid language. It also covers enough diagrams that explains the subject very well.

If you have some experience of foreign exchange trading, this book is not for yourself. You would learn everything written here within the first six weeks of your job as a foreign exchange trader.

However, this book is great for the REAL beginners who want to learn about foreign exchange from the very beginning and for trainers or teachers who teach those who has little knowledge the foreign exchange. This book starts from explaining what bids and asks are and explains so far up to the mechanics of foreign exchange derivatives. The most remarkable feature of this book is illustrations of deal components and market segments showing how each deal components and markets are related to each other. Detail explanation on different market conventions applied to different currencies is also useful. Short questions at end of chapters are good to review what you should take away from the chapters.

Many a times, trainers in the banking industry find it very difficult to teach complex subjects like foreign exchange and money markets to relatively junior guys. This book will prove to be of great help to those trainers. Probably the first ever attempt in this subject.( Luca's text book can easily be replaced by this book just because of its excellant padagogy). Hope other titles advertised by RFT will also become available soon, specially the one on Risk Management.

This classic French novel is a joy to read. It combines a perceptive analysis of French society with an enthralling plot-line. Sophisticated yet easy-to-red, this book is a must-read.

This book spoke to me! I am a dual national, French through my mother, and I lived many of my childhood years in France and have many French relatives and friends. I read this little book with so much interest. I actually sobbed at the ending of this memoir. It is magnificent in its sparseness and ability to reach the universal in those few and well chosen family anecdotes. The struggle of societal hierarchies has rarely been so lovingly described.

This book provides a detailed insight into the author's feelings towards various topics but mainly betrayal and guilt. It however lacks in any real content and at times seems to be recounting what has previously been told.

The stopping and starting of the book in different places can be a bit confusing especially for a person who is not fluent in french. However the class systems are represented well and one begins to feel what it must have been like for the lower class people struggling to imporve themselves. In places the book can be a bit boring yet on the whole it is very interesting to read and provides a good insight.

I thought the abrupt starting/stopping in describing different parts of her life were used excellently. The reason the book did not get five stars was simply the content. The emotion was there, the writing style was great, but I just thought the subject matter was rather boring.

Dumas rates five stars; the story rates five stars, but the formatting makes reading it on the Kindle a nightmare! The lines of text are fixed-length, and they are longer than the width of the Kindle page, even at the smallest character-set size. Thus each line displays as one full line, followed by a short overflow (or word-wrap) line. Ugh! I asked for, and received, my money back, and I deleted the item from my Kindle. I am VERY disappointed, as I wanted to read it in the original French, but I couldn't cope with the jerkiness that the ridiculous text formatting imposes on the reading process. (OK, I see others didn't seem to notice . . . so, I guess I'm picky. But there you are: my opinion, for what it's worth.)

I read this book with my class in high school, and I enjoyed it then and still do now. I found it an easy read, and it has helped me to read the 'texte integral' version as well, which contains the full story in regular French, not in 'simple French' as it is in this version.
The only reason I dislike this version is that the vocabulary in the margins is not usually the more difficult vocabulary of the passage, but it is something bearable.
For someone learning French or wanting to brush up on their skills, Les Trois Mousquetaires is excellent, and it also provides the reader with one of Alexandre Dumas' fascinating tales.

It seems that two of the three other people who have written reviews rated the wrong edition. As the other reviewer pointed out, this is the "texte integral." This is not an edition to be read by somebody who is beginning to learn French. I consider myself very fluent in French and still have difficulties with some parts of the text.

For a more advanced reader such as myself, this book is an excellent read. Dumas is an excellent author and I have enjoyed every story of his that I have ever read. The plot is well developed and engages the reader through to the end of the novel.

This is not Les Trois Mousquetaires of Alexandre Dumas; it is "adapted in simple French by R. de Roussy de Sales." It includes marginal notes, usually not on the most challenging vocabulary in the paragraph, and a set of writing exercises in English in the back.

However, this is a good adaptation, if you are looking for something to challenge rusty French skills.

Dumas' characters and action are exciting and compellingly drawn, and the boundary between history and fiction is blurred enough to make Dumas' version the more persuasive.

This is still a terrific story.

This edition of the book, ISBN 2266087594, is not an adaptation, has no vocabulary, no writing excercises, and no English anywhere. The review below is of a different edition.

This book does have footnotes that explain historical references, maps showing the travels of D'Artagnan, and sections talking about historical context and structure of the text. To be honest, I did not find all this extra information useful, but it was there if I wanted to look at it. This edition is "texte integral", meaning that it includes the entire text, even a preface and appendix written by Dumas that are not part of the main story.

Dumas is an inventive and entertaining story teller, and Les Trois Mousquetaires is on of his better books. Recommended.

Gerry really helped me with keeping my trading in the positive. The techniques that he goes over in the book are prices less. Chapter 5 is a must read for any forex trader.

Thanks again for sharing your priceless knowledge.

Sencillo y con bastantes ejemplos que muestras las posibles situaciones que día a día como trader enfrentamos.

Permite explorar herramientas que pueden hacer que recupere ciertas entradas
pero como los es en todo lo relacionado con el análisis técnico, el backtesting y la personalidad del trader lo es todo

I have been trading for years and the FOREX for four years and this is one of the best books I've read on the subject. I highly recommend it.

This was an excellent read. I bought this book partially because of the title "Turning Losing FOREX Trades into Winners." You see, I'm definitely one of those that had some losing trades and I thought it would be refreshing to read something that dealt with my reality.

Initially, I was simply hoping for some tips on when to reverse a position, and while I found that, I found it while getting something I wasn't expecting. The whole book is loaded with images (the second half seems to have more real estate given to visuals than to text) that deal with the practical reality of entering trades in "gray areas." That is, instead of focusing on the fairly rare "perfect entry," the book deals with what the market actually looks like every day, where you simply don't see the prototypical entry. It does show trader's dream entries, but only to make a point. Then it goes on to show multiple cases of what you can expect to actually see.

The text seems organized to allow beginners to get a greater feel for the topic while allowing experienced traders focus on specific trading techniques. Being somewhere in the middle, I found the explanations helpful, yet I'm keeping the book/website open to specific sections. It's certainly worth the investment.

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Regarding profitability, there are two types of traders; those making and those losing money. If you are losing money (i.e. your strategy has a negative expectancy or faulty execution) then this text CANNOT HELP YOU. In this circumstance, cost averaging as expressed in this text will cause you to lose money faster since the premise is to make up for losses on the next or the next few trades. This is what is known as a Martingale type system (see Wikepedia for info on Martingale). As Van Tharp always says, the anti Martingale approach works.

If you are making money with your system, i.e. positive expectancy, then I would ponder one thing about taking the advice in this text and that is ... Why would I alter my money management system because I've lost a trade? Certainly my money management approach will take into account losses and still be able to steadily increase my portfolio. Additionally, increasing your risk on the next trade assumes that your next trade is more likely to be successful than your last trade. Well, free Internet research will show that this premise is incorrect. Additionally, cost averaging is dangerous and may actually cause a good system to become marginal and a marginal system to lose money. Please read good money management texts for factual evidence to back up my claim (Van K Tharp etc).

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With regard to the text's shallowness, I can only say that it has no clear strategies. In fact, even the cost averaging that the book purports to teach has been handled in a very sketchy fashion with ideas on how to effect it strewn throughout the text in sentences such as "when suffering two or more losses in sequence, I do not attempt to recover everything with one trade, but spread it out over the next three or four entries" (page 101). Why not the next five or six entries, or seven our eight or one or two. Where is the rational behind using the next "three or four" entries. This statement alone should clue newcomers to trading to the fact that cost averaging is very dangerous.

The title is very appealing to those searching for the truth. The closest you will find in this text is the mention of their proprietary ROI (River Oscillator Indicator). I know nothing of the indicator but from the author you get the feeling that it is very good bordering on miraculous. You'll have to pay for it. Nothing wrong with that. However, this book does not teach you how to use it. If interested, contact Concorde Forex Group, find out the cost of the indicator per month and any other costs such as training to use the indicator. Then make a reasonable decision as to whether or not it is worth it to you.

In closing, if you have a propensity for gambling, (which I don't recommend) then I suggest you review the freely available techniques available on the net. In fact, they will even give you detailed methods of how much to risk, how much to increase your risk for each subsequent loss and when to quit (when you have reached your draw down limit), which is more specific information than contained in this text.

I live outside the US, so lucky for Amazon that it's not cost effective to return this book.

ugh. looking back, i don't even know what possessed me to pick up thisbook. three stories of love in europe. Three best friends, of course. How great that in their trips to European countries, all three of them could accomplish nothing but fall desperately, dramatically in love.
The British story, with the boy named Kit, was the worst. The girl was so stupid--hiding up her Texan accent the whole time? I hated that. it was entirely stupid.
These three stories are cheesy, overdramatic, and written with the skill of a thirteen-year-old. Skip it.

I enjoyed this 3 stories very much! They were sweet, well written, and romantic. It made me want to travel the world. Danna's story was my favorite. I enjoyed that the 3 girls had such different ways about them. A good read for any teen girl.

This book is VERY good!! I didn't realize at first, but it is actually three seperate books that are kind of together because they are happening at the same time and kind of weave into each other. it is very good and i would definatly recomend it!

Although these stories are really good, they are a reprint of the stories from three books that Rachel Hawthorne did a couple of years again. The books were from the Love Stories series and they are exactly the same. If you haven't read them I would definately buy the book, but if you have read the love stories book then I wouldn't buy this item.

Three best friends from Texas set out together to spend a year of high school in Europe's biggest cities.

Kit travels to London to try and become a proper lady. She believes that she'll have a new sister as a housemate -- imagine her surprise when Robin turns out to be a boy (and a real hottie!). Unfortunately, he has a girlfriend with serious snark aimed at Kit and all of her traveling blunders.

Dana journeys to Paris for a romantic relationship, but instead she seems to always run into a boy from Texas. To make things worse, she keeps thinking about him when all she wants is to be swept off her feet by a Frenchman.

Carrie spends her year in Rome, where her father still has family. While working at the family restaurant, she meets a gorgeous waiter who happens to hate Americans. She tricks him by blending into the Italian world and now she knows her heart will break when he learns the truth.

All three girls come to terms with themselves and romance during their year abroad. Read this novel and be swept off your feet while traveling the world in your pajamas. Rachel Hawthorne is one of the top writers of teen romance!

Reviewed by: Jennifer Rummel

...I have not gone through the whole book yet, however what I have seen so far has been great and wonderful, highly recommended to anyone who loves travel or just for general interest, beautiful pictures, authors did an awsome job in writing this book, very knowledgable, comprehensive worth every penny...

I have traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa, and my favorite places are the suqs, or bazaars of each city. I have actually visited half of the bazaars featured in this book, and therefore I can attest to the accuracy of the information provided. This book captures the variety, texture, and atmosphere of the bazaar. The only aspects missing are the sounds and the aromas. Of special interest and value are the maps of each bazaar, for wandering through a suq can be an overpowering experience. Nowhere else have I come upon this type of information. The photos are well done, showing both the people and their surroundings accurately, but beautifully. This book makes me want to pay a return visit to a bazaar, soon.

From 700 A.D. to 1900 A.D. the Islamic bazaar included a vigorous trade in humanity. Over 11 million Black Africans were kidnapped from their homes and pressed into slavery by the Islamic dynasties. Males slaves were castrated and sent to the fight the wars of the Islamic world. Female slaves went into harmes and household service.
If a history of the Bazaar is attempted by this author it shoujld be complete and accurate.

I checked this out of the library, and when I get back from Syria and Lebanon, am going to buy it. An entirely different perspective from anything I've ever seen. Even if it does omit anything about the ongoing conflicts of the region, we already know all of that. This tells us and shows us something we don't know. When I'm walking through the bazaars in Damascus and Aleppo, I will be carrying this book in my head and seeing everything differently because of it.

As a beginner of Japanese, I have found that this package is best as a grammatical reference. Most of the basics of Japanese grammar are very well outlined and explained in the booklet, and when I want to see how to form a particular sentence I can usually go to the booklet and find it easily. The material has been very helpful in this regard.

This set includes 3 audio CDs; however I did not find them particularly useful for a few reasons. First, the CDs only consist of Japanese sentences taken from the coursebook, with no English accompanying it, so you are hearing Japanese speech only with the idea that you will be using the book along with it. Also, Japanese pronunciation is generally pretty straightforward, so if you know how to read the Romaji system (the system in which Japanese words are written with English letters, and is not difficult at all to learn) it's easy to pronounce sentences correctly on your own. Now the first CD goes over pronunciation basics, and I found that part helpful, but after I learned that I didn't really need anything else on the CDs.

One drawback to this package is that, except for a small amount presented in the back, there is no Japanese kana writing accompanying the Romaji text in the material, either in the coursebook or the dictionary. Since this is a basic course I doubt the company wanted to include that. However if I want to learn to read and write the Japanese sentences presented I often have to look up the words separately in another dictionary. On the other hand, there is a chart in the back that teaches you how to write hiragana and katakana correctly, and this is a good reference if you are wanting to learn that.

So this is kind of a mixed bag, in actuality. I wouldn't recommend it as an audio resource, as I think there are probably more thorough ones out there. I think it would be a much better deal to purchase the coursebook separately (the Japanese Coursebook: Basic-Intermediate (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses)), which you can do, and a good dictionary, such as the Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary.

I am in the process of studying Japanese to prepare for living in Tokyo next year. Learning Japanese through the Living Language series is helpful but also has some drawbacks. The biggest drawback is that the writers fail to include pronunciation helps in the text itself, however they do indeed provide native Japanese speakers to help in the accompanying three CDs. Also, they spend the first four or five lessons on various grammatical topics, which can actually be a little confusing when trying to learn a new language. Other language series jump into learning words and phrases by repetition, citing the fact that to really learn any new language you must practice repeating it over and over out loud and not worry at first about grammar and syntax. That being said, I will seek to finish the 40 lesson in this course and hope it better prepare me for my year that will be spend in Japan.

When I was preparing to leave for Japan this was the first book I picked up to help with my language preparation. Imagine how surprised I was to find out when I got there and use some of the phrases on my new Japanese friends they said "Yes, we understand what you want to say but that's not what real Japanese people say." Later on in my study, my Japanese friend found the book, got a pen, and started changing the phrases around to suit a more natural style.
In short; this book is a good starting off point for learning Japanese but in no way should be considered modern or comprehensive.

IMPORTANT NOTE! If your are going to get this book, make sure you are getting the CD's too. Japanese in a language where the vowel sounds are totally different from English and a long vowel sound can totally change the meaning of a word. (EG. The words "hospital" and "hair salon" in Japanese have VERY similar pronunciation, you need to hear the words spoken it to produce it correctly.)

I started this course book and cd collection and I really like it. Unlike most tutorials it starts off with the basics of grammer: understanding vowel and consonant pronounciation. Starts off with everyday words for each, very short lesson to show you how to pronounce all the vowels and consonants and then you listen to the CD after every lesson to hear exactly what you are reading. Just like learning our own native language it teaches everyday words first, just like we learned apple, Monday, dollar etc first and then sentences. It also explains syllabary. I've picked up many tutorials trying to learn Japanese and so far this has been the easiest to understand and relate to. It's not repition from a tape/CD it's actual learning how to understand and speak it. THEN you can go on to learning kana, kanji,writing etc. Some complaints I read is that it doesn't use the Japanese characters or real-world sentences and situations. Well this is like learning in elementary school. You learn letters, then the words, then the sentences and essays and so on. You don't just jump into writing long words and sentences when you don't even know how to read yet. My only complaint is that with this and all the tutorials is that it's difficult for me to hear some of the words so I have to keep playing back the entire lesson just to replay one word that I have trouble with (on a CD).

firm founded catholic that he was, mauriac was horrified that many readers find therese a sympathetic character; mauriac insisted he intended her to be "a monster," the embodiment of evil. this is one of those books (it has an odd affinity w/madame bovary, another heroine of confused intentions and behaviors)that readers will turn to again and again out of a difficult-to-satisfy desire to decode therese and/or themselves. therese's crimes are arguably commited by the third hand, the one we all generally keep behind our backs. this is a book that opens ones eyes to oneself: assuming one has periods of dispising ones spouse and/or child and/or friends and relatives; assuming that the people we are when things are going well and happily are frequently not the people we become when we are thwarted, disappointed, seemingly incapable of flight OR fight.

This is the best French literary work ever! You must read it!

THERE WAS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE BOOK BEING IN FRENCH! I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN RIPPED OFF!

Mauriac's psychological portrait of Therese Desqueyroux beautifully illustrates the infinite complexity of the human character. Therese goes through so many phases in this book, so many explanations of possible motivation for her strange crime, some of them deeply touching and innocent, some abhorable. It is impossible to choose one opinion of Therese and stick to it throughout the novel. At times she deserves only hatred, at times pity and love. Her ever-changing state of mind makes the reader question whether or not it is ever possible for a person to objectively look back on their lives. Depending on her state of mind, Therese creates very different interpretations of her past. Mauriac engages the reader in trying to figure out what has brough Therese to the level of a criminal. Is it the fact that she grea up without a mother? That her husband does not love her? That she was born into the wrong atmosphere? That some people are simply born evil? And what makes this book so fascinating is that no single answer can satisfy Therese. Mauriac takes the reader through Therese's unhappy life, as well as her own analysis of why she has become a woman who loves to suffer and to watch others suffer, as she tries to convince herself that happiness does not exist.