If you have no idea what Internet is and have never seen ebay web site then you might learn something from this book. But for an average Internet-savvy person it offers little to nothing. There is a lengthy description of well-know information (like terms of sale of ebay) and constant selling of ebay business model: nothing you can't read elsewhere.

The author "gets" eBay. Unfortunately, he was not granted interviews or access to eBay people. As a result, the book is little more than a collection of articles from the Industry Standard, Fast Company abd the like. Furthermore, the book covers eBay until December 1999 or Q1 2001 at most. Back then, it looked like Yahoo! had a business model, remember? And yes, the author contemplates the possibility of a Yahoo! takeover (which was possible) and even the ridiculous idea that eBay should perhaps create its own "portal" in order to grow... Not worth the money. Buy "The Perfect Store" by Adam Cohen instead.

This book gives an overview of ebay's creation and why it has been a success. It gives no insider insights however. It was fun to read but I did not learn much from it. This book does not have substance.

i am disappointed with this book as it was for my 5 year old and it contains way too much on the mating subject; more than i care to have to discuss with him right now. of 31 pages, there are 14 pages with text and 5 of these are on the mating subject. it's a shame, because the rest of the information is good and the illustrations are fairly good.

i am disappointed with this book as it was meant for my 5 year old and it has WAY too much MATING content in it than i care to discuss with him right now. out of 31 pages, there are 14 pages with word content, and of these, 5 pages deal with the mating subject. too bad, as this is a fairly informative book with fairly nice illustrations. i am in the process of returning it to amazon. i guess this is the disadvantage of shopping on line.

This book was interesting to read. I'm going to Marine bio camp and it helped me alot. It told me alot of things i didn't know. I would highly recomend it.

The book has some good photos, but the printing is poor quality and the layout and design are sloppy and confusing.
Whole sections of the text are lifted directly from Vincent Seyfried's "The Long Island Railroad: A Comprehensive History." And the source of some of Brian Merlis' photos must be questioned.

having grown up in sheepshead bay, I couldnt say no to this book. Pictures and history are quite interesting, but they arranged somewhat haphazardly and the history is not in chronologic order. A good book if you are from the area

While the book cover and illustrations are charming and well done, this book is not at all what I expected. The non-quilt projects are very basic. The quilts are very plain including several nine-patch quilts. Also, the quilts shown in the pictures are not of the highest quality (non-straight piecing and quilting). I do not recommend this book at all.

My mother bought me this book as a gift and it inspired me to try making one of the "little quilts" that was featured. The instructions on the quilts and the bunny accessories are very easy to follow, even for a sewer with limited talents. However, don't be mislead by the title of the book. You will NOT find any Bunnies by the Bay patterns inside. The only patterns you will see are for accessories like a lace bag, felt bird, etc., along with the quilt patterns. This would be a good "gift book", but if you're looking for patterns, shop elsewhere.

In some areas, this book assumes you have never seen a guitar beore, in others it assumes you have been studying for years. Of primary concern to me was that there was only 1 page of text - which was in essence an advertisement for the book!

In 74 pages of scales, it offers only the Major, Minor, and Minor Pentatonic scales, and doesn't even show THOSE in all positions. The book assumes that if you are given a scale in "A", you also have to be told where the "A#" is.

The Arpeggio section displays no picking patterns or notation/tab, just fretboard maps. Some of the Arpeggios are shown over the entire fretboard, some are only shown in the first couple of positions.

The chord charts are just ordinary chart, they have no text which may display insight into chord construction or useage.

Bottom line: I have seen chart and fretboard maps that were of greater use available free on the web. If you are looking for an in-depth study of Scales, Arpeggios or Chords...this book AIN'T IT.

this book provide enough information to keep you busy for a long time

I found the book to be an exercise in academic deconstructionism. For example, the author assumed a lack of strategic flexibility on the part of Patton to deal with the static battle line. An interesting assumption but confusing tactics with strategy, especially grand strategy, is always a problematic tendency of academics. A career military professional will see through the rather weak argument and see the authors attempt to lable the Lorraine campaign as a "defeat". The author predicates his argument of the assumption that the Ruhr was more important than it turned out to be, that Patton was wrong concerning his belief that, if supplies had not been redirected, he could have pressed the Rhine and misses the opportunity to see the creative flexibility of the 3rd Army as it relieved Bastogne, a feat which no other allied commander believed could be done in less than 30 days. When viewed against the exploits of the 1st, 9th, and 5th Armies, it seems that the author is simply looking to write a book that will cause a stir about an American icon. Patton was rude, crude and certainly a primodona. He was wisely never choosen as a group commander, in my opinion. However,Patton, unlike Napolean, never lost and that is sometimes hard for "fair" minded American academics to take in light of his anti-academic approach to killing the enemy. Unlike Eisenhower and Bradely, who were overjoyed at the taking of territory, Patton, in his and his subordinates writtings, knew that to win wars you must engage and destroy the enemy not hold territory.

This is one of the only books I've ever read that critique General Patton. This book, to me the layman seems extremely well researched, and worthy of academic exaltations. The author is brave to look at the Lorraine Campaign with such a critical eye, not always welcome on American icons of war.

If you're looking for some insightful running suggestions in SF, avoid this book. [In my opinion anyone] could have written this book from 3,000 miles away by reading tourist brochures and looking at maps. The suggested routes are obvious, uninspired suggestions that anybody who is moderately interested in running in or around SF ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT. A huge portion of the book is taken up by content on races... I presume this was done to give it some bulk.

This book did absolutely nothing for my SF running intelligence.

During the recent year and a half that I lived in the Bay Area, I enjoyed having this book. It suggests routes for San Francisco plus the North, East, and South Bays. It also has a lot of information about each course and about a handful of Bay Area races. For someone who has lived his or her whole life in the Bay Area, maybe the information seems redundant. However, for a newcomer like myself, the hints were very welcome.

My biggest beef with the book is that several of the courses require one to first drive to a certain location. I am hardly the only person to have lived in San Francisco without owning a car--lots of people rely on buses and the subway--and it was frustrating to see so many great looking route descriptions followed by the words "No access by public transportation." It cut the number of routes I could follow by as much as a third.

I've read all of Robert Stone's novels and will probably continue to do so, but that's based more on the earlier stuff. I especially liked Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Children of Light. Outerbridge Reach had good things, but was the first step down; Damascus Gate was a big letdown. On this latest, there seem to be 2 stories smashed together -- one semi-interesting about middle-aged guy starting an affair and one unconvincing about the woman he has the affair with and her kooky life in Haiti-like latin american country. I thought the first provided a good delineation of how a restless guy in a less-than-satisfying marriage might end up straying (and, tellingly, the novel gets immediately more compelling when the story returns to this setting at the end), but the other story just didn't work for me -- too contrived, too much hokey intrigue, too much like a fake Robert Stone. I'm in agreement with the other reviewer who holds out the possibility of an "Old Man and the Sea"-type comeback (although that particular fishy tale is no favorite of mine) because I'm truly grateful for the books Robert Stone has given us and I wish the best for him (and, selfishly, I want more great stuff to read). One thing I might recommend to ol' Bob would be to focus on the humor -- I don't mean he should try to write a comedy, but what's really missing from his later books for me is that they've become too humorless; just not funny in places like they used to be. Maybe a clue there? I don't know...and I feel like I'm on shaky ground telling Robert Stone how to write novels, so I'm done.

Bay of Souls is a relatively short novel that is interesting but at times convoluted. I have only read one other book by Robert Stone, Damascus Gate, which I thought was brilliant. This one, though not without merit, was a bit of a disappointment to me. Michael Ahearn is a professor at a small rural college. He is married and has a twelve-year old son. Michael's life is not unhappy, but it has a bleak quality to it, similar to the cold Northern landscape he inhabits. His marriage is basically good, but his wife Kristin is a formidable and somewhat aloof woman who seems to intimidate him a little. In short, like many men approaching middle age, Michael is doing all right, but feels confined and has the desire to experience something new. This something comes in the form of Lara Purcell, an exotically beautiful professor from a Caribbean island called St. Trinity. They impulsively start an affair and when Lara returns to her island home after her brother dies, Michael comes along. This, to me, is where the novel falters. While the contrast between the rural American heartland and the Third World tropics is obviously a deliberate part of the book, the transition is so abrupt that it seemed to me like a different book altogether. On St. Trinity, Stone throws in a host of confusing, though typical (though more for a spy or suspense type novel) elements --corrupt officials, Columbian drug dealers, an intrepid reporter, American troops who covertly support a dictator. This part of the novel is a little cliched, with Michael running into the same cast of cloak-and-dagger type characters wherever he goes. The spirit of Voodoo also pervades the island, and this is central to the story. Lara believes her dead brother took possession of her soul before he died. She is now committed to retrieving it, which means she has to take part in some elaborate rituals. Lara is also deeply involved in all the political intrigue, in a way that is not well explained. For example, it is briefly noted that she was once a socialist (who may have had an affair with Castro) but then suddenly "switched sides" to support right wing extremists...why? Lara also apparently had some covert reason for teaching at Michael's college; this too is never explained. I suppose these questions are not really the point of the novel, but for me they were holes that I can more easily tolerate in a suspense thriller than a literary novel like this one. Finally, the Voodoo aspect of the tale remains ambiguous --are the occult forces real or only in the minds of the participants? I suppose it isn't necessarily crucial to know this, but I simply found myself with too many unanswered questions by the end of the book. Robert Stone is an interesting and original writer. His use of language is always creative and there are many turns of phrase that I admired in this book, even while I was less than satisfied with their context.

Robert Stone has done it again in this little novel. Bay of Souls, like his previous books, has the hero in a personal crisis in a dangerous place. On a tiny Caribbean island there are many dark forces at work and they are not just political.

It is an exciting story and Stone's plots are tinged with metaphor. Once again we see how the great powers act in the Third World countries they say they are liberating. As Liz McKie, a Miami Herald reporter, says of the American intervention in St. Trinity "..we don't quite get the bad guys out and the good guys turnout to be not very different from the bad guys and, hey, it's all looking kind of the same as it was."

Some critics have savaged this book and DeLillo's Cosmopolis I think unfairly. It's maybe because these writers say what they think and step on a few toes.This is a great read and is written in taut chilled prose. Read it and decide for yourself.

I just finished reading this book over the last three days and I feel like I wasted valuable personal time. This latest installment of Savich & Sherlock was a real disappointment.

The story finds our daring duo on the trail of a serial killer who is either male or female, has supernatural skills and can only be seen in her true form by secret agent man, Dillon Savich. I've never been a fan of mixing supernatural hocus-pocus with suspense. It never seems to add to the believability. Are their killers who seem superhuman and are hard to catch...of course but magically disappearing from crime scenes is lame. It also gives our hero and heroine less validity as top crime fighters.

The major reason to keep reading the book is the sub-plot of Lily Frasier's stolen artwork. Lily is Dillon's sister and has survived an abusive husband, her daughter's death, a new marriage where she has supposedly tried to commit suicide twice, and just had her grandmother's paintings stolen. Enter a college friend of Dillon's, Simon Russo. He is an art broker and helps Lily track down the true whereabouts of her grandmother's paintings. I liked the underworld of forged and stolen art by ruthless collectors. This really should have been the story.

I hope that the next installment is written with more care since this is definitely the weakest book in the series so far.

Catherine Coulter's new mystery Hemlock Bay brings back two of my favorite characters, Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, who are now married and have a child, Sean. Savich's sister,Lily, is in a terrible mess which involes her husband of 18 months,his parents and her Sarah Elliot paintings. Lily is helped by a friend of her brother's ,Simon Russo, who is an art dealer of sorts and discover's that four of Lily's paintings have been stolin and replaced with very good forgeries. Savich and Sherlock are also on the trail of the Tuttle brother's who kidnap young boys and then kill them. The Tuttle brother's are not what they seem. The supernatural highjincks involve the Tuttle's and and unknown force only known as the Ghouls. Overall I enjoyed the book. It was a fast read and fun. Ms. Coulter is getting better with her modern mysteries. I do enjoy her historical romance novels more but, I am becoming a fan of her modern mystery novels as well.

Ok, so you have to get past some supernatural mumbo jumbo that is a little bizzar, but the rest of the book is very well done. I love Dillon and Sherlock and their adventures. There are several sub plots going at once and just when you get ready for the end (and the inevitable "let down" that the book is over) something else happens and you get to read on! Dillon's sister Lily isn't a helpless whimp - although Simon bordered on it at times. Well worth the read and I much appreciated how "clean" it was - just fun adventure and romance - not close-porn.

Who ever wants a piece of me will have to tell me so on this web page and thats the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so

Although a good, general source of information on dogs, out of the 120 page book, only about 30 pages involve Chessies, specifically. I was disappointed, and would not recommend it, unless the only Chessie book available (which it isn't). Too much advertising specific brand-name products, not enough Chessie stories.