Customer Review: I just finished reading Factory Girls. It had received a 5 star rating in a magazine review and I thought it might be good. It really was. I am a big lover of Chinese movies, and thought this book would provide a background between the old and the new. It didn't disappoint. My only critical thing... more info
Customer Review: I enjoyed this book but wish the author had toned her Oedipal romanticism concerning her father and his playboy lifestyle during the years when they lived in Cairo. Glamorizing his adulterous and selfish behavior during the early years of his marriage was overdone. That part of the book would have... more info
Customer Review: Picking up at almost the instant that Angela's Ashes left off, "'Tis" is a worthy successor to Angela's Ashes. A thoroughly enjoyable read, I found myself flying through the first half of the book. As his life settles down, the narrative understandably slacks a bit, the best parts are his wandering... more info
Customer Review: (Crossposted from LibraryThing) Outstanding book. Buchanan lays out the road our nation has traveled on and where this road leads us, and it isn't a pretty picture. Disturbing and sobering, this book is a wake-up call to Americans to realize the disastrous route our country is taking. Not a... more info
Customer Review: Mr Buchanan has written a masterwork here, a dead on critical analysis of the most pressing problem we face today. That is uncontrollable,unmonitored,unlimited immigration.More and more of the worlds Third World trash are polluting our states from shore to shore. Invading like mongol hoards in all... more info
Customer Review: The United States of America is the great melting pot of the world's immigrants, or is it? A white, middle-class, Protestant, European American lifestyle is what the great melting pot of American folklore was truly intended to articulate to the immigrants of the early 20th century. Mai Ngai counters... more info
Customer Review: I read this book as I am interested in the topic of how the war on drugs has hurt our country more than helped it, and was looking for more information. However, it was the section on immigration that changed my life. Until I read this book I used to be pretty liberal Florida Democrat and a bit of... more info
Customer Review: I rec'd the book in a very timely fashion. The book has some wear & tear but not bad for the price. I recommend this type of buying and I will be doing this again probably next semester.