Partner

Had current events not argued so strongly against Peter Partner's central themes in "God of Battles", I would have agreed that it is an excellent book. Its exploration of the terror and damage wrought by Islam, Christendom, and Judaism in Europe and the Middle East is excellent, and altogether frightening. As explained by Partner, fundamentalism and mercilessness remain much of the problem today. One of Partner's themes is that Western perceptions of the Arab world are simplistic and reactionary; that not all Muslims follow the savage fundamental rhetoric that we commonly associate with "terrorism." Unfortunately, we now know that while it is technically true that the Islamic world is led by even-handed rulers, in actuality the inmates are in charge of the asylum. Arab rulers kow-tow to fundamentalist interests within their own peoples with terrifying regularity, or are simply powerless to prevent its growth. At the same time, Western politics concerning the Middle-East have also grow less tolerent. Indeed the overthrowing of the Taliban rule in Afganistan has redistributed the balance of power in the region. Western and Middle-Eastern relations have grow infinitely more complex since the 1997 publication date of "God of Battles." Perhaps a newer edition is in order - one that takes into account the renewed interest in jihad by fundamentalist Muslims, and the unwillingness or inability to stop it by the moderates.

All the excuse for shedding (other people's blood) in the name of their god... Holy war is an excuse for killing over religious differences. Such is the sentimentalism that lead to crusades or jihad. Unfortunate that such is the predicament today. In a way, it does show that religion can be used to support terrorist activities (as excuse or plain unreasonably other people of attacking their religion).

Religions have resulted in more people killing people than wild animals killing people. Think about it!

Doesn't even deserve one star. There are chapters on Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, and Spells -- but none of the chapters have anything in them. There are pretty pictures and there is large type -- and the information is vague and stuff everyone already knows. Not in Depth AT all. The Star signs each have a page of surface description -- and then there is a match up of each sign to every other sign regarding compatability -- each of these combinations gets ONE SENTENCE of description. For example it may say -- Gemini and Capricorn -- "Don't get along or see eye to eye." (THAT's IT...that's all) Please...don't bother. I want to learn something new when I read, but there was nothing to this book. I read it all in less than half an hour...and learned nothing. I may have been spoiled by Love Signs by Linda Goodman -- which puts this book to such shame.

Yet again my Grandmother writes yet another wonderful book.Full of practicle ideas .In this age of uncertainty it enlightning to put you faithinto finding the right person

This was a really dreadful book that I had to return. It is poorly written and badly edited. The typography is amateurish. It's too bad, because the authors obviously believe in what they have written but they apparently could not get a reputable publishing house to handle it. A much better book along the same line is "Too Good to Leave; Too Bad to Stay" by Mira Kirshenbaum.

If you expect a book to be as much help as all the advice you get from your friends bundled up into one item, than this is the book for you! It is easy to read yet makes one think for a long time to come. I did find the title misleading at first; the introduction does focus on the other books available by this team of authors, the 16 compatability guideposts, but then it is stock full of practical thoughts. All these little notions you've had are talked about right hear; the book does not leave you wondering but validates your feelings and lets you put your thoughts into action. If you decide to end the relationship, you know why it did not work and how to do better next time. Otherwise, you'll know after reading this book why this person is right for you and can pass it on to your friends!

Geeze I can go anywere in the country and be aware of all the ins and outs of the local laws , I can decipher situations and also know how to speak other langauges when I'm in a tight sqeeze.
it's a great book to have for any emergency !
It's definitely a handy little book , I would recomend it to anyone.

For the past year, I've kept a copy of Pocket Ref in my desk drawer at work. I refer to it at least once a week, and I've given two copies as gifts to co-workers who kept borrowing my copy. When I learned that a law-enforcement version was available, I searched high and low trying to find a copy. I should have come to Amazon.com first... Pocket Partner is a teriffic resource for anyone needing a concise guide to investigation, contacts in law enforcement, or HazMat information. Everyone who works in the field should have a copy handy. While it might not offer the depth of information on a particular topic that other books do, the Pocket Partner in your glovebox when you need it is still much better than the tome sitting on a shelf back at your office.

Fourty-four enjoyable square and folk dances for everyone. Music and the calls. Written by Miriam H Kirkell and Irma Schaffnit. Illustrated by Deirdre Baird. 129 pages. 10"x 8".

As far as his human qualities are concerned,after having had personal contact with the author, I only can confirm that he manages to encarn entrepreneurial spirit, humanism, affection for his fellow people and yet still being a ordinary man. I especially appreciate the chapters about Spain. The stories he's telling are a mirror of his polifacetic and interesting personality.

Ms. Lamb has written some very good books but this is not one of them. The story is predictable and the characters are shallow so it is unconvincing.

Up to this point, I have loved all the Clancy books I have read. This one was simply horrible. Please note that the author of this book is Steve Perry, not Tom Clancy, and it is not up to par with the works Clancy is known for.

The story line is very simplistic and they characters are very one dimensional. About 50 pages from the end you could predict the ending with a good degree of accuracy.

If you haven't read any of Clancy's books (the ones HE wrote), then pick one of those up. This one isn't worth the time or the money. Too bad 0 stars isn't an option.

I wrote my review about 40 pages from the end of the book. I must now revise it and remove all points. This has got to be about the worst book I have ever read!!!

I picked this book up because it was sitting there, I was out of reading material, and it had Tom Clancy's name on it. I was skeptical when Clancy hadn't written the book, but I thought that if he put his name on it, he believed in it.

There is no story here. Nothing happened. Nothing! ... A few disconnected scenes of people practicing martial arts, some guy drinking beer in virtual reality bars looking for clues (ridiculously stupid angle), and a conclusion that must have been written in one afternoon because the author was bored. The problem is, as is customary, I read to the end of the book to find that out.

... There were some parts that held some promise, but there is no coherency, and the conclusion is so bad that I wanted to destroy the book and any credibility it has. ...

overall i thought the book was excelent. the book kept me on my toes thinking about what was going to happen. the book was action packed with not only the whole gun slinging scene but also in the scence of how Tom portrayed the world years from now. I love how he made everything electonic. and how everything was made into a thechnologicaly advanced system.
the plot kept moving making the book a page turner. the only thing i disliked about the book, but made it flow however, was how it would jump between charators. beyond that i loved it.

I bought this biography because I have always been fascinated with Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in her husband's administration. I was hoping for an objective look at her contributions to policy, instead, this novel is full of acrimonious allegations and innuendo. It seems that the author is completely unable to separate HRC the person from her politics. This book is horribly slanted and I would not recommend to someone who truly desires insight into either one of the Clintons.

I could not even finish the book. The negativity in virtually every chapter oppressed my soul. I wanted facts and to gain some knowledge about Hillary, and all I got was nausea. Milton's bias was oozing from every page. The information was second, third, and fourth hand, unsubstantiated, and based on assumptions and innuendo. It was like reading a tabloid that went on for over 400 pages. Milton spent too much time explaining what Hillary thought and what all of her "ulterior motives" were for virtually everything she has done in her life thus far. Did she know Hillary's inner thoughts by osmosis or through some Vulcan mind meld? Come on! Don't buy it, don't even check it out from the library. I would have given it a negative 5 rating, but that was not an option. A complete and utter waste of paper and ink.

I want my money back, badly -- but the purchase was my own fault. I am a historian and a teacher of writing, and I bought this book thinking that it would provide substantive political analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton. This book, however, is not really designed for that. When "People" magazine recommends this book as "gossipy" and "well-written" -- and I don't read People precisely because it is gossipy and lacks literary substance --I should have thought harder about the money. Although the author is exhaustively thorough in documenting the charges against the Clinton's, she relies heavily on ring-and-run ideological attacks, anecdotes that do not really clarify the assertions she makes, and, most painfully, mean hits against every personal decision Hillary has ever made (including the decision to change her hairstyle, which demonstrates conclusively the contradictions of feminism). I would understand the attacks if all of them centered on H.R.C.'s political differences from the author. But the author attacks all of Hillary's parenting choices -- including her decision to spend time bonding in the hospital with her new infant (something Hillary had learned at the Yale Child Study Center, and thus proves Hillary's obsession with being an "expert"), her commitment to child safety (mocked because HRC was "determined to do everything by the book"), and even her intentions to protect Chelsea's privacy (a specious concern because Chelsea herself "entertained 72 sleepover guests" in the first four years). The most awful attack is when the author chastizes the Clinton's use of role-playing to help Chelsea deal with the nasty things opponents would say about Dad, Mom and Daughter. This effort was bad, says the author, because "the nastiest things Bill Clinton's opponents said about him were essentially accurate" and so Hillary was passing the "legacy" of denial on to her child, "training her to believe that the truth was a lie." To make a long story short, this author has ensured that her biography will be replaced momentarily by a more serious author. If you want gossip, buy this book... then throw it away before smarter friends see it on your coffee table.

Tom Clancy's latest Net Force offering falls short of the high standard he has maintained for his novels. Those accustomed to his technical detail, his political manuevering, his non-stop action will find that this novel focuses much more on personal relationships than previous books.

For instance, VR expert Jay faces the greatest challenge as he must track down the computer responsible for creating situations resulting in mass deaths. For the first time, Jay experiences physical dangers in VR and his experiences are tense and shocking. From VR, however, the book switches to Tyrone and his high school romance, something that has no place in this book. The teenage jargon, the infatuation with the school beauty queen and the boomerang trials are hardly subjects relevant to the book but rather interrupt the flow of the story.

A good deal of the action takes place in England, which provides the opportunity for interaction with MI-6 and British intelligence. Again, however, there is more focus on romance with a British counterpart and the resulting problems than action. The plot is thin and the exciting finish we have grown accustomed to in Clancy works is missing.

In other books Clancy has co-written, Op Center, Net Force, etc., it has always been possible to see Clancy's style and direction. Night Moves has much less of the Clancy style - and it shows.

I've read some of his other books that have been better. The story was a little disjointed. He had some characters like Mikhaly Ruzhyo, and a few others that had great potential, but he got too many things going at the same time and too little time for each of them to develop properly. I did like the way he portrayed Lord Coswell, the English billionaire. He figured he was a law unto himself and seems to have gotten away with murder (kinda like what's happening here in the United States). I enjoyed the book but it wasn't his best.

Diction, different ways of speaking a language, and dialect, the author's word choice, all affect this novel extremely. Because of the fact that it has a dual setting in both England, and Quantico, Virginia, make the author's word choice one of the only ways that the reader can discern between the two settings.
In this passage, the diction used implies that we are in the U.S. "You're in the Neuro Ward at the base hospital. You had a CVA, a cerebrovascular accident. A stroke." Compare that to a different passage a little bit farther along. "Not much, my boy. I was ringing you up to see about that, ah . . .small matter we discussed recently over supper." What a difference! Just by reading the two quotes, one can immediately distinguish that the first was set in an Army Base, in America. The second set in a castle in England. The use of the words my boy, ringing, and supper insinuate that the reader is now in a different place, where people speak with different drawl.
The dialect used in this novel also helps us distinguish from the settings, but it also allows the reader to discern between the upper and lower classes. For example: "Oh, and Applewhite? Se if you can't drum up major Peel. If you should happen across him, tell him his lord wishes to dine with him." Compare that to this quote. "Come on ya blimey old codger! Give us your money afore we beat your bloody coat red!" This almost automatically allows the reader to tell that the first was the higher class, and the second, the lower.
Diction and dialect were two dreadfully important literary devices in this novel. Had the author not used these devices, the readers mind would be a jumble of places, and people.