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As Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s, Alfred E. Kahn presided over the deregulation of the airlines and his book, published earlier in that decade, presented the first comprehensive integration of the economic theory and institutional practice of economic regulation. In his lengthy new introduction to this edition Kahn surveys and analyzes the deregulation revolution that has not only swept the airlines but has transformed American public utilities and private industries generally over the past seventeen years.
While attitudes toward regulation have changed several times in the intervening years and government regulation has waxed and waned, the question of whether to regulate more or to regulate less is a topic of constant debate, one that The Economics of Regulation addresses incisively. It clearly remains the standard work in the field, a starting point and reference tool for anyone working in regulation.
Kahn points out that while dramatic changes have come about in the structurally competitive industries - the airlines, trucking, stock exchange brokerage services, railroads, buses, cable television, oil and natural gas - the consensus about the desirability and necessity for regulated monopoly in public utilities has likewise been dissolving, under the burdens of inflation, fuel crises, and the traumatic experience with nuclear plants. Kahn reviews and assesses the changes in both areas: he is particularly frank in his appraisal of the effect of deregulation on the airlines.
His conclusion today mirrors that of his original, seminal work - that different industries need different mixes of institutional arrangements that cannot be decided on the basis of ideology.
Alfred E. Kahn is Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy at Cornell University and Special Consultant to National Economic Research Associates.
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The Economics of Regulation: principles and institutions. (Alfred Kahn's two volume treatise): An article from: Atlantic Economic Journal
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Title: The Economics of Regulation: principles and institutions. (Alfred Kahn's two volume treatise)
Author: Coldwell, III Daniel
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Atlantic Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1990
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Volume: v18
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Great business book.......2006-11-22
An easy read with life applicable lessons. Fictional story written so that you can apply main characters actions to your own business life. Very good book.
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There's a Calf in the Sitting Room...
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"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience.
Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
The Doctors' Plague is a riveting, revealing narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.
About the series:Great Discoveries brings together renowned writers from diverse backgrounds to tell the stories of crucial scientific breakthroughs—the great discoveries that have gone on to transform our view of the world.
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Detailed Look at a Doctor's Quest to Make other Doctors Wash Their Hands.......2007-03-19
"The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis" by Sherwin Nuland is a nonfiction account of the life, death, and important medical discoveries of Ignac Semmelweis, a doctor who discovered in the nineteenth century that the simple act of washing your hands could save the lives of thousands of patients.
Unfortunately, Semmelweis was so ahead of his time that no one believed him. He studied and worked in Vienna (the Harvard of medicine in its time) and, later, Hungary during a time of political unrest and discrimination that made him and his discoveries more outcast and radical than groundbreaking or believable to his colleagues. He also suffered from his own bellicose nature to the point where his book (which should have justified his discoveries) ended up being an attack upon his enemies and further discredited him.
"The Doctor's Plague" is written by a doctor himself who is personally fascinated by Semmelweis to the point that he traveled to Vienna to see Semmelweis' old stomping grounds in Vienna's maternity ward, as well as researched Semmelweis' own medical records to determine what really caused Semmelweis to go insane and die in a mental facility in the prime of his life.
"The Doctor's Plague" begins with a fascinating (and readable) account of a young pregnant woman who goes to Vienna's maternity ward, gives birth, and then dies from a most horrible and painful death that, at the time, the doctors could not explain. The author, Nuland, goes into gruesome detail about how the infection enters, then destroys, her body, making you shudder and feel grateful for the fact that we live in a world with antibiotics.
The rest of the work is devoted to Semmelweis, with much emphasis on the conflicts he had with medical leaders of his time (as well as his book). The text does get a bit dry at this point, but it is readable, and you are left shaking your head in wonder (and dismay) at the people who were considered geniuses of their time.
I read this book before reading the fictional version of Semmelweis' life (called "The Cry and the Covenant" by Morton Thompson). I believe reading "The Doctor's Plague" helped me a lot in understanding the complex political, social, and medical issues brought up in the fiction version, and am pleased that I read it first.
The Curse of Character.......2006-07-31
In a short, readable volume, Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. has succeeded in telling the story of a brilliant man whose findings changed medical science completely, and might have helped those changes take place much earlier but for his inability to get along with his peers and elders.
True, the blame for childbed fever continuing at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna where he worked and studied should not fall solely on Ignác Semmelweis' shoulders. Arrogance on the part of others, as well as politics and simple entrenched institutionalism put up barrier after barrier, ensuring that medical students would for years after continue delivering babies after handling cadavers (the practice which was the primary problem at that hospital, and probably countless others worldwide). Dr. Nuland explains this in a style friendly to lay readers but which pulls together interesting facts from history, the culture in which Semmelweis worked (including its attitude toward women and children), as well as the world of medicine. He also writes sensitively about a man who had the knowledge to save others nearly a half century before it is put to use, whose personal quirks and lack of respect for others played a part in the disregard of that knowledge.
Fascinating, enlightening, and highly recommended.
Ignorance is NOT bliss!.......2006-04-19
This is the story of a doctor who realized that birthing women might not die of infections if doctors and other attendants washed their hands before treating them - simple as that.
I think Dr. Semmelweis would have cracked up (for want of a better term) anyway, but his ridicule by colleagues expedited the inevitable.
Handwashing - Doctors Still Don't Do It.......2005-03-12
Semmelweis is one of the heroes of modern medicine for discovering lack of physician hygiene was killing mothers giving birth. His reforms worked immediately to eliminate childbed fever and for that he felt the wrath of the establishment. FDA Dr. David Graham felt the same wrath when he exposed the VIOXX drug scandal recently, so this problem continues today.
Lack of handwashing continues also and you can find hundreds of medical journal papers on this problem at www.pubmed.org. For example, only 32% of gastroenterologists and 50% of GI endoscopy nurses wash their hands before and after handling every patient. This is common in other specialties as well, and medical error continues unabated. See Angtuaco et al. Universal precautions guideline: self-reported compliance by gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal endoscopy nurses--a decade's lack of progress. Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 Nov;98(11):2420-3.
The real value of this book is to help the layperson understand that unnecessary risks in medicine exist even today and that politics and apathy still impede reform. The only solution is for the general public to understand clearly the relation between cost, risk, and benefit in our healthcare system and take appropriate action.
Emotion seems to cloud judgement in this area. For example, when discussing this topic with a Dean of a major university (that has a medical school), he commented that "most of the people who die in hospitals from medical error are old and would die anyway." Well, no, your daughter giving birth doesn't need to be one of the 90,000 people who die in the U.S. from nosocomial infection each year, and your grandmother in the nursing home doesn't need to become a statistic either.
Good work.......2004-12-27
Wonderfully written. So many of these popular medical history books are full of fluff. But this one is tightly structured and full of substantive statistical and factual detail.
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Ever since Jane Goodall unlocked the mysteries of wild chimpanzees, and Dian Fossey lived among mountain gorillas, the world has been captivated by primates and the people who study them. Here, at last, is the riveting story of Birute Galdikas, a pioneering primatologist who has spent much of her life studying orangutans. In 1971, twenty-five-year-old Galdikas began living in the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo, where she encountered menacing poachers, blood-sucking leeches, and swarms of carnivorous insects. Determined to penetrate the world of the elusive "red ape" in the name of science and conservation, Galdikas embarked on a quest of more than twenty years to become the foremost chronicler of orangutan life.Her first task was to forge a bond of trust with the animals, but her initial forays into their world were thwarted by skeptical and territorial orangutans like handsome Cara, who hurled dead branches at Galdikas from the tree canopy above. Eventually, Galdikas became a surrogate member of the community, triumphantly claimed as "mother" by little Sugito, who clung to her fiercely, night and day, for months. Reflections of Eden is an exotic adventure, a history of vital scientific research, and the memoir of a remarkable woman.
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Through another pair of eyes and ears.......2007-05-25
The next best thing to living in an Indonesian rain forest with these creatures is reading this account. The animals are of course, her main focus but the daily life and the reality of bringing a child into this forest are all examined and told with the same voice. The rain forest, sights, sounds and smells come to life through her vivid descriptions. I have reread this book along with all of Goodall's and the Fossey books and this is a necessary addition to the knowledge of great apes.
Reflections of Eden.......2005-10-13
If you are inspired by dedicated peoplewith vision and or conservation this is a must read. Professor Galdikas is an amazing woman and is part of the Leakey sisterhood ie Fossey, Goodall and Galdikas, who have made life time studies of apes.
Wonderful reading.......2003-09-03
Wonderful book! Galdikas brings us from her very beginnings as a young woman studing Orangutans to a true scientist breaking new ground as Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey did. The information and descriptions she passes along to the readers is endearing, educational, and brings you to another world. Read this yourself, you will be enchanted, you will cry, you will be happy you experienced this book. Thank you Birute!
Birute's personal account of two decades at Tanjung Puting.......2003-07-13
Having spent time volunteering at Tanjung Puting, I felt this book was wonderfully written. Although The Professor (Birute) is not an open person, she willingly shared her personal feelings in this book. She tells us in a wonderful fashion about the difficulties of establishing Camp Leakey in Kalimantan. She discloses much about marriage and divorce from Rod, and raising Binti. Her account of Rod's efforts during 7 1/2 years at Tanjung Puting are wonderful in that she credited him with so much. I appreciate her assimilation into Indonesian and Dayak culture. At first glance it may be difficult for us to understand how she could marry Pak Bohap, a native Dayak who even admits to having eaten orangutans. But her writing about this relationship is so understandable. Overall, this is a wonderful book by a woman entirely devoted to the conservation of one of the world's great apes. The story of her life in Borneo is fascinating. A great read about one of Louis Leakey's proteges!
Leakey's third "angel".......2002-05-07
The other two "angels" on their mission of Great Ape rescue were of course Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey who studied respectively Chimpanzee's and Mountain Gorillas.(Fossey we know died for her cause). Birute Galdikas started later than the others (1971) and her Great Ape - Orangutans - were also less known and in some respects, less regarded than the others.
Does Galdikas' work in Borneo and her story in REFLECTIONS OF EDEN remedy this oversight? Only somewhat as this book is as much an autobiography as it is a natural history of the "men of the forest". Galdikas' affection for her mentor Louis Leakey is obvious as is her fondness for her fellow primatologists. "Dian, Jane Goodall, and I were family. Louis Leakey had recognized us as kindred souls and become our spiritual father." This connectedness she felt extended to the mystical. When Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 Galdikas tells us "even before I learned of her death, I knew Dian would be killed, I knew this was her destiny."
It should not be a surprise to read here that a scientist that feels this way will express a high degree of passion about her subjects. All three of these primatologists at different times have talked about "my apes" and this attachment is certainly reciprocated by the Orangutans. Galdikas tells about Sugito an orphaned young male "who selected me as his one and only, his mother". Orangs are the most arboreal and reclusive of the Great Apes and this naturally provides a challenge to studying them. Galdikas has nevertheless learned more about their social behavior than any other researcher. She mixes these insights in with her own life in the jungle at "Camp Leakey" and with life in Indonesia as a whole. In this context Galdikas even recognizes that for a Third World country like Indonesia, conserving and rehabilitating the Orangutans is yet just another priority that they must effectively juggle with. With this book she continues to encourage both them and us to care.
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The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics despite averaging 110,000 fans at each home football game. Schools across the country struggle with the tradeoffs involved with recruiting athletes and updating facilities for dozens of varsity sports. Does increasing intensification of college sports support or detract from higher education's core mission?
James Shulman and William Bowen introduce facts into a terrain overrun by emotions and enduring myths. Using the same database that informed The Shape of the River, the authors analyze data on 90,000 students who attended thirty selective colleges and universities in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Drawing also on historical research and new information on giving and spending, the authors demonstrate how athletics influence the class composition and campus ethos of selective schools, as well as the messages that these institutions send to prospective students, their parents, and society at large.
Shulman and Bowen show that athletic programs raise even more difficult questions of educational policy for small private colleges and highly selective universities than they do for big-time scholarship-granting schools. They discover that today's athletes, more so than their predecessors, enter college less academically well-prepared and with different goals and values than their classmates--differences that lead to different lives. They reveal that gender equity efforts have wrought large, sometimes unanticipated changes. And they show that the alumni appetite for winning teams is not--as schools often assume--insatiable. If a culprit emerges, it is the unquestioned spread of a changed athletic culture through the emulation of highly publicized teams by low-profile sports, of men's programs by women's, and of athletic powerhouses by small colleges.
Shulman and Bowen celebrate the benefits of collegiate sports, while identifying the subtle ways in which athletic intensification can pull even prestigious institutions from their missions. By examining how athletes and other graduates view The Game of Life--and how colleges shape society's view of what its rules should be--Bowen and Shulman go far beyond sports. They tell us about higher education today: the ways in which colleges set policies, reinforce or neglect their core mission, and send signals about what matters.
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Slanted and dull read.......2004-12-09
This book resembles two men with a vendetta over people with a solution. Using a lot and I mean a lot of statistics they turn the data to favor their arguments. If one school out of many supports their claim, that is the stat they use, ignoring the stronger evidence. The authors do not offer solutions beyond "there should be changes made nation wide." These are the same people who write the mellon report, so getting additional attention is their goal, over informing a reader.
Great data but a slow academic read.......2004-05-04
I was enlightened and educated by this book. My starting opinion was directly opposed to college athletics as they are at many major universities. However, through this research, I've come to see the differences between "big-time" sports such as basketball and football, and most other college sports. This agreed with my college recollections where I knew many athletes in "smaller" sports who worked hard as schoolwork and their sport. They played their sport for the love of the game and the camaraderie, but most knew that their careers ended at graduation. I continue to admire them and wonder why some many universities continue to hurt those sports to maintain the larger sports.
College football and basketball, in particular, are fully-subsidized minor leagues for the NFL and NBA. If the NCAA drastically changes the way it does business, those leagues will have to find another way to test and screen athletes. This won't hurt the schools at all; in fact, the schools will benefit. Good student/athletes will still get a college education (as many baseball players do today), and pure athletes will still have a chance to compete and become professionals.
This book substantially helped shape my opinions on college sports in a well-researched and documented manner.
I recommend this book for anyone who wants a balanced yet critical look into college athletics. jgalt5@yahoo.com
Ignore the star ratings... for now........2002-12-24
As promised, I am coming back to you with my observations after having read through most of the book.
Sadly, for all the hype and all the praise the book has received, I am beginning to wonder if a) reviewers actually read the book, and b) if they did read it, did they actually question the merits of the authors research and conclusions. After having read most of it, I conclude that they did not.
I could go point for point, but alas, because of space I can not. A number of troubling points however -
First, the authors take liberties with anecdotes and too frequently back up their claims with them. For example the discussion about the Williams College Lacrosse team, or the Ivy League Lacrosse player.... I think it is a mark of dishonesty that the authors quickly point out the poor state of collegiate athletics because they read a story in a university newspaper... as was the case in the Princeton players instance.
Second, in graduate school we were always told never to overlook footnotes. After reading through most of them, I am glad I did. In a number of instances, there conclusions are based upon data that was compiled at one school in their universe of thirty. Or that an anecdote used as an illustration, was actually from a instance taken from outside the universe of schools they used.
Third, I think they demonstrate a disdain for athletes when they question at length their value to the diversity of campus. In their mind, because of a whole host of issues, they don't add to the amount of diversity in a university.... what are some of those issues? Political inclination (Not Liberal or Far Left), choice of major (economics or Poli Sci), tend to group with other athletes. Which begs the question, what type of student do the authors believe add to the diversity of university.
Finally, there is a terrible lack of balance. If you knew nothing else before you read this book, you would finish by thinking athletes are a lower caste of intellectuals that for some reason were admitted into these universities, not based on their academic abilities of course. That universities have made some sort of deal with the devil to accept these sort of intellectual anchors to improve their markting and PR machines that are built solely on athletics.... which begs to ask....
Where is the critique of these institutions and their pactices? And why is it only athletics that is responsible for losing money, while all the other departments are deemed as critical elements in the mission of the university? Sadly, these are questions that aren't answered but should... if athletics is going to be put under such scrutiny, shouldn't the rest of the university be submitted to the same rigours?
Anyhow, I will be back. If you are interested in my notes, feel free to email me ...
Partial Review (Star rating to be ignored).......2002-11-19
Let me start out by saying, I am only about a third of the way through. I am also a former student athlete and current coach. But it seems as though someone should chime in with their views on the book since no one else has. So with that in mind, take my initial observations as such.
While I am struck by the depth of analysis and the thoroughness of their methodology, I am also struck by the sense that the authors have decidedly taken the view that college athletics, in of itself, is an entity unto itself. And that in the instances cited, are incongruent with the mission of an educational institution. While there certainly is merit in the academic performance analysis, it is unfortunate that they fail to see the merits of athletics in the educational environment. While it is easy to quantify the development of a student in a classroom, it is impossible to quantify the role of collegiate athletics in the development of the individual student. Does devoting 12 hours a week to studying for Western Civ. add something more, something more fundamental to the student that spending 10 hours a week on the practice field does not? Regretably, academicians have spent more time dismissing the value of athletics, rather than creating methodology to judge its worthiness. And while classroom performance remains something tangible and quantifiable, no one has endeavored to quantify the merits of working within a team for a common objective, experiencing leadership within a team environment, and all the ancillary benefits that are brought about from participating in collegiate athletics. Instead, they are quick to point out and highlight everything that is detrimental, but not unique to, collegiate athletics (alcohol, violence, etc.).
My overriding concern is one that may or may not have merit and could potentially be dismissed by the end of the book. Written by and for academics, it is with great concern that this will be adopted by institutions of higher learning to justify the alienation of student-athletes based upon quantified generalizations. This could very well become the classic coffee table book that so many quote and act on, but have never read.
I will be back for another review when I am struck with the additional thoughts that inevitably come from reading a book of this nature.
The Game of Life is intelligent and timely........2001-07-22
Higher education is full of many injustices. Prior to a 1991 antitrust ruling, Penn, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Yale conspired together to ban all merit scholarships and set tuition artificially high. When Princeton awarded $1000 research scholarships to top students, the Overlap met in January 1987. Princeton denied that it had violated the Overlap pact. Dartmouth called the denial "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt said, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me." The president of Princeton, defensively replied, "I would really not have thought a person as well trained in the law as Mr. Schmidt would make such a blatantly foolish assertion." Now, William Bowen, no longer president of Princeton, has co-written a much more courageous defense of intelligence and merit, The Game of Life.
It couldn't have come at a more critical time. UC president Richard Atkinson has recommended abolishing the SAT I from college admission considerations. Seattle public schools are considering abolishing the letter-grade system. Defenders of Affirmative Action are calling the notion of merit, itself, into question. It should be obvious that we, as a society, have grown very uncomfortable with the very idea of intelligence. Yes, intellect can be subtle compared to a touchdown, but to read The Game of Life is to bear witness to pure genius.
Don't be fooled by the multitude of facts and figures. This book is a thought-provoking work of art. Bowen and Shulman commit blatant acts of philosophy regarding such subjects as the definition of "leadership." (Can a pushy leadership style compensate for a lack of vision?) They slay myths that fools so glibly declare, such as the myth that athletic success inspires alumni/ae giving. The book is worth every penny alone for offering a window into different professional strategies.
Everyone should read this book, but it is especially essential for anyone in a position to make important decisions in higher education. If one seeks to uphold the mission of a university, then it is important to learn from this book what athletics cannot do. Then, one should put down the book and consider what athletics does do. For instance, it is proven that athletes contribute to a culture of binge drinking on campuses. In recent years, I've watched in disbelief news reports of university students literally rioting in the streets for drinking privileges. How many more alcohol poisonings does it take before we shall change the culture of higher education?
The Game of Life proves that, in our current system of athletic scholarships, the stereotype of the dumb jock is absolutely true. So long as we continue to waste educational resources on these sub-par students, I can't believe that we are a truly civilized nation.
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Learn to speak the colloquial language the Filipinos really use with Making Out in Tagalog. This phrase book is an excellent guide to the modern Tagalog spoken in everyday interactions - giving access to lots of colorful, colloquial expressions not covered in other phrase books.
Making Out in Tagalog features a pronunciation guide and notes on Filipino language and culture. The phrases are organized according to typical encounters. Each expression is given in Tagalog script so you can show the person you are talking to. Making Out in Tagalog will bring you to a new level of fluency and communication in Tagalog!
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No Other Tagalog Phrase Book Like This One!.......2007-04-11
A must for someone dating a Filipino or Filipina. This book is full of phrases that you would actually use (and some you don't ever want to hear!) You will not learn Tagalog using this book, but it is a must for the library of those who are learning Tagalog. The book get's down and dirty and tells you the phrases you really want to know! Enjoy. Trust me this book will make you laugh.
Book for people with a sense of humor.......2006-09-08
I bought this book as a gift for my boyfriend, who is half Filipino. I took one look at the title and figured it was right up his alley. It IS called "MAKING OUT" in Tagalog after all. That, along with the male and female symbols on the cover give you a huge clue as to what to expect inside. Obviously, this book was made for those with a sense of humor. It is not a grammar book, but a phrase book...and the phrases range from practical to funny to downright raunchy. Perfect for anyone who has a slightly warped sense of humor, and those who are not easily offended. If you are looking for useful phrases you can use to get around on your visit to the Philippines, and you don't plan on picking up a one night stand, you need a different book entirely. But if you want to have a laugh, and make your Filipino friends crack up- get this one for sure. The best moment we had with this book was sitting in his Filipino mom's kitchen, reading the raunchy phrases to her, and watching her laugh and say "oh my gosh!" A very fun book!
Excellent book for it's purpose.......2006-07-23
This is a excellent starter book for beginner's in Tagalog. I have another Tagalog book which was rated excellent, but some of the phrases my wife told me were dated. This book uses modern day slang phases which will keep you from sounding like an old fart. It explains some uses of words & structure of Tagalog, but just some basic points. If you can memorize all phrases of this book by heart, I think you will be able to converse in a basic level with Tagalog. It will provide you a good foundation to build on.
They could have left the bad words out though, like F*** Off, and Condom. I let my kids learn from this too but tell them not to go to those specific phrases. They could have said Back Off instead of F*** Off. Just my opinion.
Not that great........2006-04-21
This book Making Out In Tagalog is actually basically a really expensive phrasebook. It really doesn't deemed being priced so high. If the fontface and spacing were reduced it could fit in your pocket on 20 pages. The book contains a bunch of phrases that you may or will learn such as Greetings,Eating,Date and Time, and such.
The only chapters worth even buying this book for is the Party Talk, Curses and Insults,and Lover's Language because they are really the only phrases that are hard to find in Tagalog resources and because they are a small selection of the slang used by Filipino youths. Even so the book could have used *ALOT* more phrases (especially since alot of the first couple of chapters was sorta like a review) and it seems so shortcoming. The book really would have benefited if it would have shown more literal meanings and more detailed descriptions of when the phrase would be used, (it only does this for a small number of phrases).
Overall, This book is not a necessary buy,unless you find it cheaper,or unless you can check it out from a library maybe write down a COU*few*GH of the words on like 20 blank sheets of paper, because as I said most of the stuff you will already know. But buy it if your interested in only gaining slightly more knowledge. Hopefully, any future editions will be improved.
Sounding Like an Idiot in Tagalog.......2006-03-04
This book should be titled "Sounding Like an Idiot in Tagalog" because it has no accent marks or glottal stops to tell you how to pronounce the words. I am so tired of Tagalog books that leave out these essential parts of the language. Other than that this book is helpful.
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Wet, Wet, Wet.......2002-06-02
I found this book at a Book Outlet store and thought "for the price, I should get it", so I did. I have to tell you that this is one of the best books to use to build up confidence and technical skills in wet into wet watercolor painting. Each chapter is fun to read and the examples (step by step) are so easy to follow that they help you become an "expert" by the end of the book. I have lots of watercolor books and have found this to be one of my favorites on wet into wet technique for the above reasons.
Wet-in-Wet Watercolor.......1999-11-25
Ms Speckman's book helped me break through to a new level of watercolor painting. She deals entirely with "wet-in-wet", breaking it down into three sections: The Saturated Approach, Painting by Sections and the Painterly Approach. Beginning with a practical and thorough discussion of paper and pigments as they apply specifically to wet-in-wet watercolor, she proceeds to original and effective step-by-step instruction. Although I have purchased and worked from many books on instructional watercolor, I found Ms. Speckmann's techniques to be unusual and exciting. I particularly enjoy her iconoclastic preference for opaque pigments and the way she showcases their unique qualities. Well written and lavishly illustrated, this book is a valuable reference work.
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
- Life Insurance Mathematics, 3rd Edition With Exercises Contributed by Samuel H. Cox
- Macroeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction
- MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA Self-Paced Training Kit: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Design and Implementatio
- Painting Sharp Focus Still Lifes: Trompe L'Oeil Oil Techniques
- Reference and Information Services: An Introduction
- Clerk III
- Out of the Shadows: Political Action And the Informal Economy in Latin America
- 1997 Connecticut State Register & Manual
Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy, and Practice
Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th Edition
Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation
Lessons from Deregulation: Telecommunications and Airlines After the Crunch
