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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geography, Second Edition by Joseph Gonzalez, Thomas E., Jr. Sherer ISBN: 1-59257-188-3 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Humerous, informative and full of great tidbits!
Comment: It is hard to believe that a geography book could be so much fun and so readable. The book takes the reader on a grand tour of the earth and its people bringing us both history and current events. Maps and sidebars do an excellent job of explaining the material. For the individual who feels like geography passed them by, this is the book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Ok, but where's the rest of it?
Comment: This book is good for someone that has no idea where Canada is but it falls short due to errors and cultural information. The amount of facts could be located in the CIA World Factbook. A geography book shouldn't just allude to national GDPs but to the traditions, cultures and people that make each one unique. This book glosses over these things too quickly and stresses political and economic factors. Whilst important, they are not the only things constituting nations.
Rating: 1
Summary: Too Many Errors
Comment: In addition to several mistakes mentioned by other reviewers, I would like to draw attention to the nearly useless "Former Yugoslavia" section. While having a single section for the five new countries may have may arguably have *some* sense when the book was originally published in 1997, it certainly doesn't now. While some of the countries were heavily affected by ethnic strife -- as the author keeps pointing out -- Slovenia, bordering Italy, Croatia, Austria and Hungary, has been an economic success story and will be joining the EU on May 1st. Its experience over the past decade has been completely diferent than, say, Bosnia, but the reader of this book is never told that. The country doesn't even get its own listing, as the author was still stuck in the old "Former Yugoslavia" mindset when the book was written.
The idea behind the book is good, but if the volume simply reinforces some misconceptions and fails to provide any true insight in the subject matter, it doesn't accomplish its task, no matter how worthwile it may be. In other words, I doesn't deserve anything more than one star.
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Title: World History for Dummies by Peter Haugen ISBN: 0764552422 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide To American Government by Mary Shaffrey, Melanie Fonder ISBN: 0028643534 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History, Third Edition by Alan Axelrod, Alan, Ph.D. Axelrod ISBN: 0028644646 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: U.S. History for Dummies by Steve Wiegand ISBN: 076455249X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Conflicts by Steven D. Strauss ISBN: 0028643666 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 17 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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