This is a collection of academic essays on gay cultural products from Latin America, Latino America, and Spain. Unfortunately, the stodgy texts on ancient Spanish authors often drown out the cool articles about gay US Latinos. You may want to read it for the great essays about Reinaldo Arenas, especially given the success of the film about him. However, you are better off buying "Eminent Maricones" by Manrique or Cherrie Moraga's books.

This book is definitely needed in the field of historic preservation; however, this edition is so poorly executed that I would advise against purchasing it, particularly at the full retail price... The Figures are sometimes mislabelled, and the descriptions of them within the body of the text often do not match what is actually diagrammed. The photographs are all black and white, and are frequently too dark to demonstrate the architectural feature being described. I found the errors very distracting, not to mention disconcerting in what purports to be "the most complete and expert resource you can find." I believe Mr. Irwin has written a valuable book, but I wish I had waited for the second edition.

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I got this book for my econ class and disliked it from the beginning. The authors attempt at humor and light heartedness just makes the material more confusing. Also the books lack of any color makes it much less attractive and useful than other books that show their graphs and diagrams in color. The color helps distinguish better between lines and other material. I would not recommend this book, and if you have a choice don't get it.

This is certainly not an ebook. Rather, this offer is a 4-page brief on Mr. Jacobs. With the title page and short closing page, the Acrobat page count is 6.

The price is perhaps 1/4 the price of a good paperback book bought, say, at an airport. One might buy this item at this price hoping to get the equivalent of a chapter or two of good information about Qualcomm, a great company indeed managed by terrific people including Irwin Jacobs. One's hopes might be buoyed by the good reputation of the author, Stuart Crainer.

I myself bought imagining that the ebook would focus on personality and management style. However, I was particularly hoping to read about the history of the company and the early trials with selling CDMA. Perhaps the story would highlight traps and tricks of building and sustaining a business dependent on patented intellectual property as its primary advantage. What were the challenges, and how were they overcome?

Unfortunately, the ebook turns out to be only 4 real pages of material best suited for the general reader. The brief write-up informs us of the creative, collegial atmosphere that Irwin Jacobs creates based on his engineering approach and his university background. There is a little history highlighting Linkabit, the OmniTrac satellite system, and of course CDMA. However, that is it.

The advantage of a low-cost ebook is that it is hard to get burned. After all, [the price] is not much money! On that basis, two stars seems a civil statement of the value of this offer.

Let us hope that someone produces a good history of Qualcomm. Stuart Crainer could certainly do the job. Done well, we would have a solid contribution adding to real knowledge.

The author could have written a better textbook by leaving out the "fluff." The author either had to add "filler" to create a larger textbook or he "likes to hear himself talk." I suggest buying a study guide, if one is available.

A very general and little deep book on risk analysis in projects.

At first glance this text appears to be comprehensive and informative. But if you are an instructor looking at this text for a class, please take the time to read the first three chapters completely, and then do the problems at the end. The text is often too generalized, and the examples are not helpful. Too little time is spent developing the basic concepts, and the advanced concepts are presented matter of factly. The problems do not have solutions, and are difficult to solve, leaving you with more questions than comfort. Example problems were typically very easy to solve, and problems were more complex, and often misleading. The preface states no prior knowledge of electronics or electrical theory are required....I wonder who wrote the preface. I have extensive practice in simple circuit analysis, Thevenin, Norton, Superposition, and Source Transformation. This text confused issues rather than supported them. The subjects were written in such a modular framework, that the relationships between theories were missed. I found previous texts on circuits and other information to use as references.

The book would be completely deserving of a 5 star rating if there would have been answers to chapter questions in the back of the book. A few samples are worked out in the book, but the lack of a significant number of problems with solutions(or answers) leaves the reader unsure of progress. This book is definitely not recommended for self-instruction or for use as an introductory college text.

This book is absolutely not recommended for self-instruction. Without answers, how can one know if you're doing the problems right? If there is a solution manual, it should come with the book.

This is a truly horrible book. It's written so poorly that the only way it can be used is as a look-up reference. If you don't have a really good instructor for Not-for-profit accounting, find one using a different book. You won't get much out of this.
The 7th Edition is just as bad as the 6th.

If it was possible to give this book a negetive star review I would. It has no organization, no structure, and makes no sense. It is by far the worst text I have ever had to read. Although the author is a professor, he must be a very bad one. He has no grasp on how students learn, and makes no attempt to link information together. He uses the same example throughout the entire text. As if in chapter 9, you rememeber what entry 14, is in chapter 3. A horrible book. It is easier to read the GASB statements than it is this book. DO NOT BUY IT!!

WARNING! This book may cause drowsiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after reading this book.

It's too bad the author has absolutely no literary skills whatsoever. I'm no great author myself but you'd think by the time they got to the fifth edition all the errors would be gone and they would have improved upon the existing text. I guess the editors must have let this one slip through without actually reading what they were going to be publishing.

If you are unfortunate enough to have to buy this book then you will be dumber for having read it and may God have mercy on your soul.

I hate to say this, but this book is a waste of paper and ink. It is poorly organized. It reads like somebody just copy and pasted paragraphs and sentences from a million and one source and never ever re-read the paragraph. The chapter headings and paragraph headings mean absolutely nothing. You will find yourself reading a sentence and wondering where is it going, then you will realize that you have no idea where it came from so you just give up and attempt the next section or next paragraph. But no matter how much you skip, you never ever come across anything worthwhile. If you have bought this book, fight hard to get your money back. I wonder if the editor that approved of this book still has a job? I have no idea how it made it to the sixth edition.

The rating of 1-star for this book is rather a compliment for this poorly written book by Heidi Vernon. The book is outlined in a confusing manner with chapter content unrelated to it's chapter titles. Terminologies and definitions are not clearly defined. In fact, there ARE no definitions in this book. Since this textbook is written mostly in an essay form, students to this subject are expected to already know any terms or jargon in this subject. There are grammatical errors and typos in this book. THIS IS THE SIXTH EDITION? How did it ever get this far?