This book is well written which makes it a usefull tool to improve my English.The content is OK, but nothing worth it to rave about.(Perhaps,the author need to visit Continent of Asia little more often.)

This is a good book -- it tells what we already know. Too bad that the author could not predict any of these events -- but then of course hindsight is always 20/20! I do not think this book helps one to do business in Asia. One major drawback - the author seems to have no understanding of Asian business and seems not to have sullied his conclusions by speaking with any Asians. Read this book for a glimpse of perfect hindsight -- but read also "New Asian Emperors: the Overseas Chinese their Strategies and Competitive Advantages" by George T. Haley for a more fair appraisal of the Asian situation and a terrific understanding of Asian business.

The Auther explain the underlining historical events ( e.g. the ups and down of dollar Yen exchange rate) that lead to the boom and bust of the Asian economics. He also account for the 1994 Mexico financial crisis in similar manner. Useful for understanding events shaping the world's economics.

Save your money. Buy a book from one who has the expertise to write on this subject. Bernard Moitessier can say more in a few pages than this book has to offer.

Henderson covers all the bases, and the book is full of helpful hints. But book is a synopsis of all he's read (not complete) and is presented in a dry style. Though solid at core, information is now dated. Good for brief history of single-handing, and lots of helpful hints and illustrations. Well worth the purchace, well worth the read, but keep reading. Does anyone know what boat is on the cover?

This is a reference book. A "must" for anyone persueing the reality of offsore singlehanded sailing. This is not a basic how-to, but rather assumes the reader has some relevant experience.

The writer delves into yacht and rigging design from the historical perspective all the way through to modern day Vendee' and Around Alone (ex BOC) type purpose built (solo) racing machines. None or very limited coverage of Mini Transat(s) or 6.5m class boats.

Chapters also include psycological motivation, sleep deprivation, steering, stores, etc.

Some pictures & sketches mostly b/w

What makes an author want to self-publish his/her own book rather than following the conventional methods for publication? The answer to that question is found in this splendid book where authors share their experiences in the self-publishing arena. This 25th anniversary edition of the classic never loses the flavor of the original as it explores the motivations of those writers who said the hell with commercial publishers.

Contained in the book is an interesting history of self-publishing in the United States from Thomas Paine through Ernest Callenbach (author of Ecotopia). After the introduction, the authors tell their stories about their foray into the arena. Their reasons are diverse as the works that they have written. Some stuck with self-publishing throughout their careers while others entered it briefly only to go back to commercial publishers. See the reasons why they felt the need to self-publish as well as why some of them returned to the commercial arena.

I enjoyed reading about their experiences and would encourage anyone seeking to self-publish to get their source of inspiration from this book. I must caution you that this is NOT a how to book. The title is misleading and the so called updated how-to tips are a joke. I was disappointed in finding out that this wasn't a how-to book but it was an enjoyable read.

This book has a misleading title. It is not really a handbook,except in that it may be held with your hands. The image it sends isthat it is a self publishing manual, like Dan Poynter and others have written. It's not, so don't be fooled.

This book is a collection of stories about self publishers and self published works. At that, I found it to be interesting, and a worthwhile read. But if you are expecting it to be something else you may well be disappointed.

Imagine buying a Repair Your Own Car Handbook, and finding it to only contain stories of others who have repaired their cars. The misleading title scenario here is essentially the same.

The title is an injustice to potential buyers. This is not a how-to book. This is not a handbook (except in the sense that it may be held with your hands).

This is a book with many accounts of books which have been self published, and the people who have self published them. As such, you may find some value or interest in this book. Do not, however, confuse it with The Self Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter (which really is a self publishing manual/how-to/handbook etc).

The material covered is old, (some of it really old-like Thomas Paine, William Blake, and Walt Whitman). This book is potentially interesting, but don't let it catch you by surprise.

There is nothing practical about this book. It is a looooong, purely theoretical torture with only a few examples that don't work too well in the real world. I had to buy it for one of my graduate classes and here I am three months later even more clueless than I was when I started. This book is very boring, painful to read. It doesn't help that the author is clearly biased in favor of traditional HRM and refuses to give much room to more modern thinking. The exercise book is a nightmare. The exercises are either impossibly difficult and time-consuming because the textbook does not offer valuable guidance for any practical problems, or they are an absolute waste of time - students basically have to copy a chapter. I could go on like this forever. In a nutshell: buy this book if you have to, but sell it as soon as you can.

This text was a quagmire of unreadable editorial comments! I purchased this book for a Human Resource class. I gained more knowledge from my fellow students than I did from this book. Defiantely skip it!

I was assigned this book for a class, and I must admit, I was interested in the topic. Finding ways to promote cultural diversity is a must in the business setting, and with that in mind, I dove into the book.

I was surprised at how viciously anti-white-male the first few chapters of this book were. By the time the topic moved from ethnic minorities and women to people with disabilities, the attitude toned down somewhat, but I considered the first two chapters provocative and hostile.

It's a shame that a fine text about cultural diversity begins with such a high degree of discontent and anger. Once the tone of anger subsided, the book was a worthwhile read.

I think the merits of the book, promoting understanding and non-discriminatory and non-stereotyped attitudes and actions in the workplace, were overshadowed by the *very* discriminatory and stereotyped view of the white male worker.

(I am not a white male)

My initial response to the first two chapters of the book was "bunk!" As a member of a "minority" group, I protest the characterizations made about how we "minorities" feel we are treated... Once the book moved on to workers with disabilities, older workers, and foreign workers, I think the focus went off trying to rile up the potentially disgruntled workers, and the second half the book was well worth reading. As a manager, I found the exercises and self-scoring evaluations valuable.

I would recommend the book to others, but I might also recommend that in future editions, it would be worthwhile to tone down the aggressiveness against white men in the first two chapters.

A VERY POOR ATTEMPT BY HENDERSON. VERY OUTADATED DATA AND FACTS.

The book is absolutely brilliant. It isn't so much how it's been written, but more how it's been put together. The 'red flag' module is the most detailed and comprehensive I have ever seen.

Worth every penny!

I am fascinated with the history of logos and which oil company was bought out by what gas company and so on. Guide to Gasoline Logos gives just that kind of information. However, a logo book MUST be in color and this entire book, except for the cover is in black and white. How else would you be able to distinguish diferences in logo ages and eras? Some of the black and white logos are repeated from one time period to the next. There must be some color variance or shade nuance but we will never know. Also, some of the pages look as though they were Xeroxed! Because of the poor graphics, I must give a relatively low over-all rating. I would willingly pay much more for a full color book.

This is a rather complete collection but I was dissappointed by the fact that all reproductions save the cover were in black and white.

The problem with this book is that it tries to cover a wide range of models in one book. The book gets into the details only to subject the "do it yourselfer" to a surprise i.e the component that they speak of in the book is, either not there in your vehicle or is not at the location where they state in the book. Needless to say working on a typical installation becomes a bit of a guessing game since you do not know what awaits you. The book definately does not cover all inline six models from 1984 to 1996, my truck is 1995 and it don't look anything like what them folks at Haynes are talking about.I wish somebody at Haynes would read this and straighten it out for me.

I've always like the Haynes manuals, but this manual is often wrong. For example, the book said to tighten my rockerarm cap bolts to 19 foot pounds, but the correct specification in 19 inch pounds! Now I have to buy new push rods and hope thats the only damage that was done.

Also, not all the parts mentioned in the book are actually on the car! And it's darn frustrating when the pictures don't match.

I think the best approach would be to have two manuals to compare against each other. Haynes is always the first I'll look to, but from now on I'm going to keep a Chiltons handy.

I am a big fan of Visual Quickstart Guides-I own them for Flash and HTML (3 & 4) as well, and would never give them up! But this guide was disappointing in its lack of depth. Office:mac is a broad suite of software, and I was extremely disappointed that this book fails to include many user tricks. The Visual Quickstart model is well-applied, but only to simple things such as opening files, setting tabs, formatting chart elements, etc. I believe the shallowness is due to its attempt to cover Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage in a 398-page volume. A VQG for each module would probably have the space adequately to cover the capabilities of the software. Questions I had from using Powerpoint for several months were not answered.

I can only recommend this Guide to those who have never touched a Microsoft Office component before. This is not the ready reference power users are seeking.

This book is truly for beginners. It tries to hand hold a little too much. Golly, I do not want someone to spend three pages showing me how to save a darn file! While there is nothing wrong with that, and it might be of value to people who are *really* new to computers....folks who've been using PCs or Macs (esp. MS Office in its previous reneditions) will find little value in this. The first chapter does provide valuable info about what's new in 2001. If you're an advanced user and want to learn the more advanced tricks unique to Office 2001, stick either to the app specific titles in this series or look at O'Reilley's MISSING MANUAL series. Stay away unless you're a newbie.

Very, very bad. Nearly of no use. Please, respect also the comments from other reviewers. I bought it during my SAP Academy, when I was strugling to get some information. But, unfortunately a disaster even for a beginner, not to mention someone who works in SAP consulting business.

I found SAP R/3 Help file is much better than this book. This book is based on older version and has no configuration instruction at all. It only creates confussion especially for new readers. I won't recommend this book to anybody.

If you are an MM type and have little or no experience with SAP, then this book is great - it will introduce you to all the aspects of the SAP Materials Management module. Be warned it is not too technical and does not really show you 'how to do things' rather it will show you 'what can be done'.

ABAPers and CONFIGURERS will glean very little from this book.