Foreign-market Books

I don't always like Morgan's style, but I always come back for more. This is a little different from the previous books I've read by the author as the others were more futuristic and this is set on Earth in the near future. A good read that keeps moving along. Especially interesting when viewed in light of today's economic situation.

Market Forces is a science fiction story about the not so distant future where globalism is taken to an absolute extreme. Corporate executives who wish to score a big contract or receive a promotion have to duel each other to the death on the highways.

After reading some of the reviews here I bought this book expecting to read something of a lower quality than the Takeshi Kovacs series. I was happy to be proven wrong. The writing in this book is on the same level as the rest of Morgan's work. The one real flaw in this book is that the world the story takes place in could have been more polished. You're not given much background on how the corporations got to the point where they have more power then national governments. A couple of times characters will mention an event called the domino recessions, as if that explains everything. One of the characters gives a decent background story about how the executives started dueling each other on the highways. It's just too bad we're not given a similar background story for the rest of the world.

There's a few other things about the story's world the leave you wondering. For example the book is supposed to be about a world where capitalism is taken to an extreme. As a result there's a small executive class who are extremely wealthy and then there's everyone else who's dirt poor and have to live in the "zones". The zones are the slum areas of the city which are sectioned off from the corporate areas. They receive little police coverage or any other type of service. Everyone living in the zones is depicted as being mostly unemployed and members of a street gang. The problem I have with this is that if so many people in the zones are unemployed they should all have starved to death years ago. A purely capitalist society wouldn't give out any form of social welfare. Also there's no mention at all of the middle class. They obviously exist because there's plenty of minor characters in the book who hold middle class jobs. These people aren't rich enough to be executives, but you'd think they'd be killed in the zones by all the out of control street gangs. I suppose there must be some middle class neighborhoods that receive police coverage, but the book makes no mention of this. Probably because that would take away from the coolness factor of the rich vs the poor that the author tries to play up throughout the whole book.

Ultimately the book is still a good read with a solid story. I just wish the author would've let his world evolve from the story rather than trying to force it into a anti capitalism viewpoint.

After reading the Takeshi Kovac's series, I was thrilled when I found
Market Forces. Unfortunately it left me very disappointed. Whereas Morgan
was able to create a rich and textured world of the future in the Kovacs
series, this one is barely believable and somewhat 2-dimensional. The
protagonist is certainly no Kovacs, either, although I suspect that is
what Morgan wanted. My apologies Morgan fans, I did not want to write this
review. In my opinion, though, you can miss this one.

I liked, but didn't love this book. It had some interesting premises, and I did finish the book, but it isn't as good as his other books.

First off, I thoroughly enjoyed Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies. I loved the high tech, the excellent worldbuilding, the dark noir element, the great action scenes, and the compelling main character. Market Forces has NONE of that. So, I'm extremely disappointed.

Morgan's worldbuilding in this novel is among the most childishly absurd and intellectually insulting I have ever come across. Highly paid 'Wall Street' style analysts in expensive suits drive 'Death Race' matches on the streets of London. This is not only required of them but they are encouraged to 'finish the job' by blowing someones brains out if necessary. OK, I guess this is satire or hyperbole. In fact, this is the only FUN part of the book. Overall its just too ridiculous. Poor people live in the 'cordoned zones' where gangs run freely and violence is rampant. Our suited death race drivers spend their days analyzing and influencing third world countries by 'investing' in revolutions and dictators. By night they run around murdering poor people that get in their way ('cause they can).

BUT! Our main character feels guilty about his evil ways, even though he's really good at it. He has marital problems! Hence the main conflict. There is lots of really terrible dialog between the main character and his wife. Will he give in and have the affair with the sexy journalist?! Who cares? Maybe he can escape his company and go to work for the UN, the last bastian of morality in the world (in the book). That's when I tossed this piece of garbage.

Maybe this should be my primary criticism, but the entire 'moral lesson' this book continuously preaches at the reader is nothing short of Marxism. Morgan should crack open a GD history book and learn about the realities of socialism. Show me where collectivism and central planning has EVER in the history of the world has created more prosperity than economic freedom and capitalism. I can recommend lots of theory and philosopy but history is the proof.

In summary.
A. Absurd and stupid world and concepts.
B. Boring plot. No high tech, minimal action, horrible dialog.
C. Marxist philosophy permeates.

not what I expected. just provides basic info, useless for those looking for applicable trading strategies..

If you are looking for good Forex book...well...keep searching. Poor English aside, the techniques & strategies in this book are doubtful for me.

While not an expert, I will NEVER dare to put real money on line using the "Igork method". Using this method, I manage to blow out my practice account 4 times before to finally give up.

There is useful information in this book, but the poor English will give you a hard time, even if you are native English speaker.


Hopefully, there are much better Forex books, so keep searching. I wouldn't like someone to think that I am promoting specific book or author; therefore I will not give any book titles here.

The english in this book makes its hard to read. The strategies depicted in this book are common. I was expecting more trade management and RRR stuff in this book from the title "Beat the odds", but none of these stuff appears in the book.

Final part of book is useful particularly to forex. Providing many strategies base on the volume of the market during different time periods.

Overall better than some of other forex trading books which provides nothing more than an overall of the forex market and some standard trading strategies.

I am from Indonesia, I cannot understand if someone could rate this book at low level, for me, this book is worth more than 5 stars.
I am intraday forex trader and I really benefit so much from this book, boost my performance at incredible pace.
Igor explain in very good english about the subject, and this book is really a guidance, when I read it, i feel like i'm in the course with Igor Toshchakov as my private mentor.
It covers everything you need to know to be a very good trader.
I Thank's Igor for writing such a practical and useful book.
I've taken many courses, bought many books on this subject from Amazon and other stores. This one is the best. Highly recommended

Most probable price direction reflected by certain price pattern is explained in this book. Give me new insights. This book is not for the forex newbies, some basic forex trading knowledge is needed.

great book that does not leave anything out! i use it more as a reference than a read, though..it's looong!

The book contains a lot of undigested info on trading in currency markets, failing to explain much of the things it illustrates.

The structure is good, topics are comprehensive, style is concise.

The problems,

The book seems did not proof read carefully. There are many typos, very confusing.

Especially in the second part, which is about technical analysis, it does not explain details when they are needed. And it lacks proper explanations for figures. Some figures do not match patterns he described.

This guy, Luca, seems to be famous. He is maybe good at trading himself and he is able to write a good book, but he just did not put himself into it.

This book turned out to be quite different from what I was expecting. By the cover, I thought it would be about finding a brokerage account, and then getting set up to trade away. To my surprise it was more of an educational textbook than a "do it yourself" guide for individual investors.

However, this book contains a lot of interesting information about foreign exchange and how it works. It discusses the history of foreign exchange, factors that influence it, terminologies used by traders, and the different means that currency is traded. The primary focus is the multimillion-dollar trades put forth by large firms. It serves as a good reference and a good supplement to other readings about finance/economics in general. Since it covers a wide range of topics and somewhat glosses over them quickly, I suggest reinforcing with other more specific books on economics.

The good points are that it contains much useful information for educating yourself in the foreign exchange area. The downside is that it is not a practical guide for people interested in getting their dollars converted to Euros by this evening.

Luca has written what is essentially a text book for the foreign exchange market. That is good in that he provides a survey of the market, its history, how it works, etc. If you want to learn about the market, this book contains the information you desire. It reads like a textbook, though. If you want something to help you actually trade the market, look elsewhere.

Agatha Raisin had gotten away from the Birmingham slum she had been born in, worked her way to the top of the PR business in London and finally achieved her childhood dream of owning a cottage in a village in the Cotswolds. All would have been so perfect if not for Agatha herself. Ms Raisin had a certain way with her, one that tended to annoy those around her. A way that, when coupled with her sometimes loose interpretation of the truth led her into trouble, particularly in the romance department.

When a fortune teller 'saw' Agatha moving to Norfolk Agatha was only too willing to pack up her cats and flee Carsley (and her on again/off again romance with next door neighbor James Lacey) for Fryfram. Unfortunately for Agatha Fryfram was a lot like Carsley, only the cottage lacked central heating and a microwave, the villagers weren't as friendly, and the weather was awful. In fact the only real similarity was that here too were deep hidden secrets, gossip, scandal and murder. Agatha found herself once again tracking down clues and stepping on toes but this time lead on by the fairies haunting her garden.

This is the tenth in the long running Agatha Raisin series of cozy mysteries. Those who are fans of the series will be a bit disappointed in the absence of many of the usual cast of characters but will undoubtedly enjoy the focus on Agatha and Sir Charles and the surprise ending. As always with this series the true appeal is in the characters, not the mysteries. Cozy fans new to this series would really be better off starting with AGATHA RAISIN AND THE QUICHE OF DEATH and those readers looking for a challenging puzzler will want to give the entire series a miss.

As the book opens, James Lacey has once again left Carsely without saying good-bye to Agatha. Near the end of Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden, Agatha paid to have her fortune told. Although Agatha claims this is only a lark, she decides to act on the advice that the man for her will emerge if she goes to Norfolk. In typical Agatha fashion, she sticks a pin in the map and rents a cottage sight-unseen in Fryfam.

Almost immediately, Agatha is discouraged. Fryfam is cold and flat. The cottage has no central heating. No one wants to listen to her brag about her experiences as a detective. And there are some mysterious lights in her garden . . . and a missing item. The only person she likes is Mrs. Wilden, who runs the pub . . . but the other women don't care for her because their husbands spend every possible moment in the pub admiring Mrs. Wilden's beauty.

Invited to tea a the local manor, Agatha soon finds herself snubbed by Tolly Trumpington-James . . . a business man on the make with the hunt set. In annoyance, Agatha decides to write a murder mystery that will feature the death of Tolly-like character in a fictional manor house based on the one she's just visited. Soon thereafter, Tolly's prize painting is stolen after more mysterious lights. Agatha's decision to write becomes quite a problem when Tolly turns up dead by the method that Agatha's brief manuscript describes.

Buttressed by telephone calls to Mrs. Bloxby, the ever patient vicar's wife in Carsely, and a visit from Sir Charles Fraith, Agatha decides to find out what those mysterious lights are all about and to clear her name with the police.

Sir Charles is up for a bit of fun and games with Agatha, which she attempts to fend off. What will happen between the two of them as the mystery and danger deepen?

Meanwhile, Mrs. Bloxby does her best to steer Agatha away from thinking about the missing James Lacey. Sir Charles goes so far as to tell Agatha that she should see a therapist to get over her fixation on James. Agatha's competitive instincts are aroused, however, when she finds that James is back in Carsely and keeping company with Melissa Sheppard, the latest blond to set her sights on becoming Mrs. Lacey.

This story doesn't quite work. I found that I wasn't interested in the mysteries or Fryfam. M. C. Beaton portrays a village inhabited by people you wouldn't want to know . . . and I didn't. The superficial Sir Charles Fraith is a weak reed to rely on for building a good story. He's not really charming, just a socially skilled with the morals of a tom cat. There's a lot of intended humor in the book, but I found it to be too heavy handed to be satisfying.

The mysteries are pretty predictable in their resolutions and didn't do enough to sustain my interest.

I would grade the book down to two stars, but there's one development that makes the book a more interesting read than that for those who are long-time fans of the series.

I'm not through the book, yet, so perhaps this gets addressed later, but what happened to the third cat Scrabble from her previous book?

In this 10th adventure of Agatha Raisin, we see our heroine gloomy over the loss of romance with love-interest, James Lacey. To cheer herself up, Agatha sticks a pin in a map, and sets out for holiday in the village of Fryfam. She rents a cottage, and soon meets a group of ladies from the local women's club that she immediately tries to impress by saying she is writing a novel. However, she soon becomes embroiled in another murder investigation, when the title character of her "novel" dies in real life and she is implicated in his death. Add to this the "lights" she sees at the edge of her garden, a stolen painting, another murder, and the theft of Agatha's two cats and the reader finds themselves in the middle of a perfect case for Agatha! Will Agatha triumph in a village so far away (in distance and in culture) from her own?

I have cherished every book in the Agatha Raisin series and this book was a delight. Although some of the other characters were noticeably absent (not much was heard from Mrs. Bloxsby or Roy Silver), I still enjoyed reading about the zany adventures of Agatha Raisin. Once again, this plucky sleuth sticks her nose in where most people would not, and in the process she finds courage to always catch the killer!

The first book in this series is "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death". Enjoy!

In this story, Agatha Raisin decides to take a short vacation in the Norfolk area of England, where she rents a small cottage in the village of Fryfam. She felt that she needed to get away from her home in the Cotswolds, and think of something else rather then James Lacey, a man who didn't return her love. Also, by chance, a fortuneteller told her that she might find true love in Norfolk.

The rented cottage in Fryfam has a large garden and often little lights appear among the bushes. Many of the villagers seem to believe that fairies are the cause of the mysterious twinkling lights. Agatha makes a few friends who invite her to quilt with them, and when she discovers that their husbands are ignoring them, she intrudes with some suggestions to make the errant husbands take notice. Agatha's friend, Sir Charles Fraith shows up for a surprise visit and to keep Agatha company. When the local squire is murdered, she and Charles do some sleuthing to try and discover the killer.

I've read several of the Agatha Raisin books and learned that the more you read them, the more interesting you find the stories and the characters. Initially, it did take more than a few chapters to get involved with, and understand Agatha, who is a little cranky. If you like mysteries that are set in the British Isles, try out a M. C. Beaton book, they are all fun to read.

I will sum this up by simply saying this book is the beginning of the journey. It is for beginners and those that need more education on technicals.

So many people use indicators but few really understand proper implementation.

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Forex market is the largest financial market today.This book is focused on technical analysis and while it has chapters on setups and on trend following ideas it still is far beyond what is a holy grail in forex market trading.
Overall a good but not great book,not for beginners but for intermediary levels in forex trading.
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I was pleasantly surprised. I expected classic views, as state in the title, but in fact it has lots of specific info about forex trading and mechanics. I even liked the parts not related to TA more than that dealing with classic TA.

A good book if you are looking to day trade for longer term trading there are better resources. Boris has an aggressive style of trading with a propensity for damage control through positional reversal, it makes for an exciting day!

You have to wait till chapter 10 before you see something unique to the book. The other chapters are spent talking about what you can read up on most forex websites. The last two chapters 9&10 are spent on know thy self, analysis, setups and strategy. The setups/analysis is mainly based on bollinger bands. Not exactly keen on Bollinger bands, so my interest was nil. If you are a complete beginner to forex, this book may be useful..maybe.

COMPLETELY USELESS AND UTTER NONSENSE!!! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!
Just make sure you take a look what's inside before you make the purchase!!
Chapter 3, Self empowerment via trading software??? The author begins by saying that there is no software out there that can make you a reliable profit... then on the next page he says you should invest in his MTI trading package which isn't cheap because investing in cheap software just does not work. Furthermore he contradicts this notion by saying that people who can create such software might as well sell it to a bank for millions, why bother selling it to small individual investors???
Terrible, terrible book. Let's just say if you buy this book you might as well be paying for an advertisement for his trading software.
If you are still not convinced that the book is 220 pages of a money making scam together with his software, read the back of the book and see who has written reviews... An insignificant person named Larry Pesavento, who probably does not even exist and Stephen R. Covey, who does not even comment about the content but rather the authors "great" character. Finally go look at the author's background... nothing spectacular at all. Just some average scam artist trying to get rich from teaching people how to make money on the currency exchange by reading better books out there and teaching himself. I hope you aren't the one getting being scammed by this idiot.
This book is going back to where it came from and hopefully back to the author himself. He might as well be giving the book out for free had he intended the book to sell his software.

You won't be disappointed in The 10 Essentials of Forex Trading. I've read it from front to back and find it the perfect learning tool. It has really helped me put Forex Trading into a good perspective. I was attracted by the title of 10 essentials and wanted a good reference book. It is easy to follow and makes the Forex learning experience easier to understand. I'm ready to put what I've learned to work. So should you. Highly recommended.

I would recommend this book for sure. Yes, it is simple but that is the whole problem with the forex market and why 90% or higher do not know how to trade. There are so many "systems" and folks are confused. He shows how to trade with a high probability in this book but it's his personal testimony that I identified with most. It got me headed in the right direction by pointing out that I must use discipline or NO system will work. This is not the only information you need to learn to trade but a good one for your collection. I really enjoyed the book a lot.

Before you put your money on the line, READ THIS!

This book is a quality item for becoming acquainted with the reality of trading forex.

Good advice on the psychological aspects of trading.

What nerve...

"I never cease to be amazed at all the 'marketing gurus' who start Forex education training companies or attempt to sell Forex 'buy and sell signals' and prey on the ignorant by promising them untold fortunes on the Forex for the bargain price of $995." p. 33

Also on p. 33... "When it comes to trading on Forex, I highly recommend the MTI 4.0 charting package" He likens the software to, "A solid built, 1,100-foot, state-of-the-art cruise ship with all the latest gauges for weather ... " and follows with, "With so much at stake, do not take a shortcut on paying for quality trading tools."

And oh yeah... he owns MTI.

And then when you search online for the software, you get to scammy looking sites that sell it in the same fashion that get-rich-quick ebooks are marketed. And then there's the inevitable 7-day free trial... and no mention of the price. After some webcrawling, I found that the software costs $199 per month. Hmmm... Not to mention that the software looks cheap. I'm a programmer myself and I can tell you that the MTI software looks like garbage.

Here's another hint... google 'mti scam' and see what you get. Here's a sample: http://www.forexpeacearmy.com/public/review/www.markettraders.com

Personal note: enough with the analogies to flying an airplane. So the guy has a pilots license... that doesn't mean that every function in his software package has to be analogous to a control in a cockpit. Lame.

Summary: The scammy nature of the software package that he endlessly promotes is enough to spoil anything else that the book might do well. Not that I'll find out, because I'm throwing the book in the garbage.

What makes this book different from books such as Market Wizards are the profiles of the traders interviewed. They are normal retail traders coming from different background and succeeding in their own way. Whether their success will continue in the future remains to be seen, but this book provides an insight on how they reach their current achievements and is useful for people who are still seeking a trading method/lifestyle.

This book has inspiration and will motivate the new trader however the book lacks substance. The writers should have put more understanding into the explanation into what these traders were doing.

I think charts and deeper explainations would be useful as well.
Another point I want to make is that the traders are not everyday people. Everday people do not have $150,000 dollars to start trading with and deal with Forex, Futures and Foreign Trade.

The title of this book should be
Millionaire TRADERS How Privledged People Are Beating WallStreet Ar its Own Game

Everyday people are people who start out with a couple thousand and come from regular jobs without ever being brokers, working the pits, low financial understand, a housewife, a construction worker, a college or high school drop out etc.

( a Great Trader story is : How I Trade For A Living By Gary Smith
Now the guy may not be a millionaire yet but he is close & his book really details how he traded his way up from the bottom. His book details all hiss losses and winnings with detailed information


Some of the stories I was left hanging trying to understand the stradegies of the traders mentioned in this book. The details are very fluffy with no substance to back them up.
Any person who would buy this type of book is looking for more than just a success story. I can buy readers digest if thats all I want. I believe most readers would buy this book searching for detailed trading ideas from successful people. I think that this book would have been much more successful if at the end of each interview, the trading stradegies would have been explained in more detail-

For a really detailed trading JOurney with solid substance
read Jim Cramer's- Confessions Of A Street Addict
that book is solid on top and in the middle

Millionaire Traders boosted my motivation and provided some inspiration regarding my Forex trading. The book did not provide any specific trading strategies, the focus was toward the general traits that successful traders share.

This book is a waste. Completely inactionable. Worthless. Good story here and there, but does it help you at all? The answer is a resounding no.

This book is full of good advice offered through the people being interviewed with critiques of what they said and of their trading styles given by the book's authors. Also what markets the interviewees trade in are discussed as well. However the reason for only three stars rests in the fact that this book, rather obviously, must not have had a proofreader. There are instances of words being inadvertently added or left out throughout the book and a particularly annoying and unforgivable instance is when the word "there" is used when the word "they're" is obviously meant. The authors must have been in a rush to get this book to print and out on the shelf. If you find these oversights as irritating as I do you may just want to pass this book up. However I don't think the advice given is enough to redeem this book's abysmal oversight as the advice can be found in other books of much better quality.

The erudite Mr. Lewis allows the reader to learn when, why, and how the Muslim world began to take interesta in the West, rather than vice versa.

This is really an excellent, well-written book, with lots of good information. The sub-title of the book, "What Went Wrong" does not refer to the knee-jerk question about why the islamists hate us, it's about how and why the once high culture of Islam has devolved into the violent morass that much of it is today. The book goes all the way back to the seventh century, and is written from the point of view of islamic cultures of the time. The book has changed my frame of reference about what is going on in the outside world's relationship to islamic cultures. Professor Lewis' style of writing is very readable without a lot of editorializing, the way a real scholar's should be. I have read several of his books now, and intend to read them all.

Intel co-founder Andy Grove popularized the saying "only the paranoid survive," which has become a mantra for high tech companies competing in the fast-paced global market. The none-too-subtle message of Bernard Lewis' "The Muslim Discovery of Europe" is that "only the curious thrive," which could (and should) serve as a mantra for western societies, the United States above all else, during this period of staggering western power.

The subject of this book is as simple as it is sweeping: how did the Muslim world view the West (namely western Europe) from the medieval period to the early modern age? Lewis aims to tell the story of Muslim discovery and interaction with the West from their viewpoint and in their words. The picture he paints of early Islamic society is not flattering and ought to serve as a cautionary tale to modern Americans.

Lewis writes that for over a millennium (800-1800) the Islamic world was disdainful and dismissive of the West. The most remarkable aspect of the Muslim view of Europe was the utter absence of any curiosity about its cultures, languages, arts or sciences. While Europeans traveled to the Middle East, learned Arabic, and wrote a host of books on Islam and Arab culture, for centuries Muslims, Lewis argues, could not have cared less about Europeans. One comparative example is illustrative: Cambridge University established a chair in Arabic in 1633 whereas the first ever Arabic-to-Western language dictionary (in this case French) was not published until 1828 in Egypt.

The West was viewed as backward, slovenly, and above all "infidel." Lewis argues that this strong undercurrent of cultural arrogance and superiority led the Islamic world to fall further and further behind the West as technological innovations and the western economy grew at a rapid pace beginning in the sixteenth century.

So why was Western curiosity about the Islamic world not reciprocated? Lewis contends that the multi-cultural nature of early Europe fostered a need and interest in learning other languages and cultures and dealing with other religions, whereas the relatively monolithic Middle East used one language for religion, government and commerce and never had any firm ethnic or political borders. For Muslims, all Europeans were "Franks" -- that they spoke different languages, dressed uniquely, and eventually practiced different forms of Christianity was unimportant and unexplored. But the main impediment to Muslim curiosity of the West was religious. In Muslim eyes, Lewis says, Christianity was something known and discarded. Anything associated with it was ipso facto inferior and grotesque. Thus, the Muslim world ignored the Renaissance and the political implications of the Reformation, as both were deemed essentially Christian in nature. Lewis repeatedly cites the French Revolution as the first major European event that had major repercussions in the Islamic world namely because it was so overtly non-religious.

This book should give modern American readers pause. Unfortunately, an objective reader could see some parallels between the sixteenth century Islamic world and twenty-first century America. Contemporary Americans often exhibit little interest in foreign cultures and languages, tend to be dismissive of foreign methods and systems, and all too often hold their own faith to be superior to others. Let us hope that we don't wait until the barbarians are inside the gates, as the Muslims did with the Europeans, before actively trying to understand and, where appropriate, emulate others.

It was interesting to read a review that commented " It is still true, you can not find any study in those countries about Christianity".

That statement is absolute fiction of course - especially in the 33 Jesuit schools in Syria. Perhaps in the west, it has slipped our minds that Jesus was born in the middle east, and we adopted this middle east religion from them.... The eastern Churches very much study Christianity, and many Muslims around them in the Levant, since Jesus is reverred in Islam. John the Baptist's head is maintained in a memorial monument in the middle of the Ommayad Mosque in Damascus.

The most noted manuscripts used for our common bibles today, were discovered in Alleppo (Syria).

Cursory research reveals Lewis's connections to Intelligence, and that speaks for itself. This book should be read, to balance it, in conjunction with 'Hostage to Khomeini' and 'Venice's War Against Western Civilization', unless one wishes to be taken for a very sophisticated ride. Better still, one could reside in the middle east for a while and see for one's self instead of amplifying other people's writings without the slightest ability, credential or experience to determine whether or not they might be accurate. But be ready for shock - it has little in common to the Psy-Ops portraits we have been spoon-fed with by western media, moronic television porgammes (suchas Fox), and artful books such as this.

It's still a fine read, and awfully convincing - it hit it's mark in that respect. Much knowledge on Christianity - one wonders of the author hails from Christian ancestors ?

Continuing the other review - that people in the middle east would supposedly benefit greatly from reading this book was also amusing, to say the least. People from the Middle East would benefit best from a good lawyer and a truth serum, given the looting and plunder of their resources...

This book clearly demonstrates that Professor Lewis is extremely knowledgeable about the Muslim world.
The book has a great deal of information, primarily what was written by Muslims about Europe. The most striking feature is that Muslims' knowledge of (and apparent interest in) Europe was surprising sparse and poorly-informed up until the nineteenth century.

Professor Lewis discusses several reasons for this, including:
a) initially Islam was on the rise, with Europe being barbarous (the Dark Ages), hence strong feelings of cultural superiority;
b) Europe was Christian, which was viewed as a superceded religion, and the primary enemy of Islam, and hence offering little of interest;
c) Supremacy of theology in Islamic intellectual life discouraging "innovation", which became equated with heresy; and
d) Lack of Muslim communities in Europe, due both to Christian intolerance and Muslim desire to live in an Islamic state.

Only after the heavy Ottoman defeats of the late 18th century did the Ottomans start to shift their position and begin to acknowledge that there was a lot to learn from Europe. Even then the process was slow, hesitant (even back-tracking) and limited.

I found the book interesting, with a lot of information. However I thought it rather dry - I kept waiting for a section which brought it all together and and gave the "so what" factor. For me, the book would have been significantly improved by more discourse on what this all meant - hence only 3 stars.

La manera como muestra el dia a dia de un trader permiter observar el analisis y la disiplina que se debe adquirir por medio dela practica diaria para lograr un ben trading

muy buen libro con excelente sistema.

I have read MANY trading systems books and taken several courses and one-on-one mentoring --- in my humble opinion, Raghee's down-to-earth and uncomplicated methods are just what I needed. She seems to be a very giving honest person and I admire that. This book and her other book totally changed the way I viewed the Forex market ... to where I'm making profitable trades instead of losing trades. Thanks Raghee!!

I really enjoyed this book. It provided my with some interesting and valuable information.

Interesting to read, but shallow in content. Provides a momentum breakout strategy and a trend following strategy. However since it was my first book on forex/trading, I found it quite useful last time.

This is an excellent follow-up to her previous book. It's understandable that if an individual had not read her previous book, they would not understand the purpose in the things she shares. But it is very clear, that she gave considerable thought to what she writes. Undoubtedly, there was a purpose in almost every detail. If there were any questions that you may have had after reading her first book (which in my opinion is the best book out there on Forex, and I have read almost every one of them) she more than clears them up in this book. After reading this second book, I feel confident that I understand one of, if not the best forex trading system available. And her system that she makes available can be used in any equities, futures, or commodities market. Her discussion of the importance of market cycles has helped me to be a much more capable and rounded out trader. In my opinion this book is an outstanding contribution to Forex education. Raghee, is a true chartist through and through. And to those desiring to gain valuable insight into technical analysis of the Forex market she is truely a Chart Maven.

.....I love that laurie has had elizabeth branch off into her own world, and she did it in a way that if you didn't read her other series, you can still enjoy this one. The only draw back may be that the series can't last that long, because we all will want the twins to make up eventually. But it was definatley a great book and i would reccoment it to anyone who enjoys her other series'.

i have 2 say , this is a great improvemennt 4 e! e and svu are very realistic but somewhat shocking. o well c'est la vie... sarah mourns over her superstrict father and her boyfriend problems. it was a good book but dint say much about liz!

I love the ELIZABETH series.(Is it ok that I just add I find SRyear and also Jryear major dissapointments and soo boring?) ANYWAY!- I love Elizabeth but also Jessica.Id rather read about her than Lady Sarah and her should-I-lose-my-virginity problem. All the same I cant complain,not really.Its heaps fun to read just like Sweet Valley University.

The Elizabeth series is definitly great. I always wondered what the twins would do when they got older, like where they would live and what their jobs would be. In this series, Elizabeth jets off to London in hope of a new start. The only work she can find is the maid of an earl... Everything is so interesting, like the new setting, characters, and plot. It's very descriptive, and you always want to know what will happen next. I definitly recomend this series to others.

i expect it to has the same interesting style as senior year/fearless and better content. woops...the plain old sweet valley rules again. Almost everything were described as forever, the worst/best, the ultimate...in short, overly exaggerated.(no wonder the characters were so miserable) Running away to london with a few bucks because of being betrayed by family - acceptible, but when i read the book.. 'ultimate betrayal'-ppphhtt!!!.At least she could have sneak back home and pack just to save herself and readers from further 'extreme' torture. Majority of the characters are drop-dead-gorgeous and model-like and a few others are either horribly ugly or a little not good-looking. Normal, natural people are not worth being in the limelight. Superficial;feel impulsively attracted to cute guys/girl, model-like gf/bf...nobody seems to be attracted to someone for the first time because of something the person do (excluding smiling/flaunting shiny hair) TYPICAL OLD-FASHIONED TEEN BOOK

except that the basic storyline is good.....the whole being a maid in london and status conflicts are okay