Robert M. S. Rogerson

amazing, 1 May 2007

I coudent put this book down. The illustration of life under the communist government and the prior administrations of the kuomintang and the imperial government is incredibly eye opening and illustrative.

I particulay like it because it fuses a personaly humanitarion story with the history as it happens, giving a duel insight to events at the time (revolution, ww2, cultural revolution) and how that effected the charectors and authers in the book. Well worth a read.

As for the last reveiwer who is living in cloud cuckoo land. Not being able to get by on £40 ish a week in Britain is no where near as bad as 30 million people starving to death on the wym of one man or… Read more

Excellent, 10 April 2007

Unlike the precious reveiwer, ive actually read this.

O'reilly picks up on the current battle between what he calls "culture warriors" (People who beleive in traditional values) And secular progressives. People who beleive the western world is a bad place and should undergo major changes.

Oreilly points out many "battles" in the culture war. Such as in Xmas when stores prevented their employees from wishing happy christmas and making them wish happy holidays. Traditionalists rallied and in 2006 the stores (like wal-mart) backed down and allowd their employees to say what they want to say to customers.

He also talks about the ACLU and the effect they have on… Read more

A breath of air!, 5 April 2007

Along with the chilling stars, there are now finally books being printed with some commmon sense about climate change. This book puts all the contary opinion in one place and explains easy to understand language why the notian we're all going to die unless we surrender our money and libertys to our government to stop climate change is a myth.

The book points out hyprocracys such as when the green lobby says global warming "is the greatest threat, worse then terroism" So when solutions to CO2 emissions such as "sinks" (artificial forests) and nuclear powerplants are proposed, they lobby to get rid of these solutions from the kyoto treay. BEcause suddenly, artificial forests and… Read more