© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-vicfar Recent reviews written by member vicfar en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_491546316420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - James G. Speth is Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences at Yale University. In this recent book (2008), a concise but scholarly treatise of less than 300 pages (including hundreds of references), Speth outlines some of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491546316420 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:27:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491546316420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488928874116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Naomi Klein’s scathing report on the age of globalization is now 10 years old and has become a classic. Read today for the first time, this 500 page, highly annotated book does not contain many surprises: who hasn’t heard about sweatshops,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488928874116 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:35:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488928874116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483675573892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Last year I promised that next time I move I will shed 5% my book collection. I know it will be difficult, because I love my books. This book, however, is already on the list. This work, which can be read in a couple of hours, is based on Randy... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483675573892 Thu, 3 Sep 2009 19:04:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483675573892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480747622020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - The Christian myth was fashioned during times of great upheaval and horrible suffering, and is therefore anachronistic in much of today’s Western world. Yet, it endures. For a lot of Christians, faith is based on a literal interpretation of that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480747622020 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:52:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480747622020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478628974212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - There is no genocide that we are more frequently reminded of than the Jewish Holocaust. This is because its victims will never stop to tell us about its horrors, hoping it will never happen again. But, unfortunately, it did, and still does. There is one... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478628974212 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:07:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478628974212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476040236676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - The common wisdom says that China, which is liberalizing its economy and opening up  to foreign influence, is headed toward a Western-style democracy, which will arrive whether piloted in by the Communist Party chiefs or engineered by the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476040236676 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:48:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476040236676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475670482564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - The victim, stripped naked, was forced to lie face down, while a strong man sat forcefully on his back to prevent his movements. Then three or four men, equipped with a huge hammer, would take a long, greased stake and insert it through the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475670482564 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:38:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475670482564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472471342724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - These are strange times: only two decades after the collapse of the USSR, the “only remaining superpower” and would-be leader of the free world has amply demonstrated its utter incompetence both in the political as well in the economic arena,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472471342724 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:16:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472471342724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470175944324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Diagnosing the end of the American empire is hardly a brilliant, courageous feat. Indeed, the US is in dire straits, economically and militarily, is losing its credibility and leadership everywhere in the world, and appears unable – even with a new... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470175944324 Tue, 12 May 2009 19:02:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470175944324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462223937156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - From icy Norway comes this delightful 90-minute black comedy directed in 2006 by Bard Breien called “The Art of Negative Thinking” (Kunsten a Tenke Negativt). It is a comedy that seems to turn the famous American dictum... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462223937156 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:54:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462223937156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459372596868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Another book about America! And written by yet another French intellectual! What good can come out of this? Why bother to read this? The fact is that the magazine Atlantic Monthly, having heard that there is a famous French philosopher, journalist and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459372596868 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:02:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459372596868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457798880900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Mathematicians are strange beasts….that is why I am a chemist. I was fascinated by calculus in college but I was certainly put off by how these profs were treating us young chemists. My Calculus 101 teacher would call me to the board... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457798880900 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:42:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457798880900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456710000260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - I am not sure why, but people tend to give me Bill Bryson’s books as Christmas presents. Perhaps people do not know that I have a rather low opinion of Bill Bryson because, although he is somewhat witty (but often corny and predictable), he tends... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456710000260 Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:57:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456710000260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454918966916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Although I used to be a great Woody Allen fan, it is generally accepted that his inspiration has been going downhill since Crimes and Misdemeanors (probably his best), and, although many critics have claimed that Woody is back, his latest effort,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454918966916 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:01:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454918966916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_453538188932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Rome, October 24, 1990: Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, the last leader of the now defunct Christian Democratic Party, and at that time under investigation for corruption, revealed to an astonished Chamber of Deputies the existence of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~453538188932 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:48:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_453538188932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_450306215556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - If you travel to Tuscany, there is a good chance your itinerary will bring you to Pisa, even if only on the way to Florence, because Pisa has the main airport in the region. This town, situated 80 Km East of Florence and crossed by the same river (Arno)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~450306215556 Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:03:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_450306215556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_448077074052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - A colleague put this diminutive book (156 pages plus notes) on my desk the other day, and I managed to read it all in one day while enjoying the Belgian version of the Indian summer on my balcony. It is, indeed, easy reading, but compelling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~448077074052 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:19:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_448077074052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_447422303876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Very often, when I have a chance to sit down with my younger brother, a philosopher and playwright, I like to discuss history and politics and gauge my inferior knowledge against his more credible scholarly background. We live in a politically... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~447422303876 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:23:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_447422303876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_446326869636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - In this highly readable, densely annotated 350-page book, American journalist Alexander Stille chronicles the career and the rise to power of one of the most flamboyant politicians Italy has ever produced, current premier and tycoon Silvio Berlusconi... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~446326869636 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_446326869636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435459427972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Could this happen? Yes, if Vincent Bugliosi, the man who successfully prosecuted Charles Manson, has a valid point. There is no question that Bugliosi would enjoy sending George W. Bush to the electric chair. This book is somewhat of a script of how he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435459427972 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:33:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435459427972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434602348164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Why is it that, alone in the developed world, America is debating Intelligent Design vs. Evolution? Why is it that the president of the US himself, by supporting the teaching of Creationism alongside with Evolution, has taken an openly anti-science... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434602348164 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:44:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434602348164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434188684932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Sex and the City....This despicable film is apparently a chick&#146s flick, which would explain why most guys, including myself, hate it with a passion. It is bad enough to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to church or to a funeral, but this was way... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434188684932 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:47:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434188684932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432397192836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - In this short book (250), first published in 2002, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner for Economics and Chief Economist at the World Bank during the Clinton administration, takes on globalization and its enemies. Instead of presenting a general picture... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432397192836 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:04:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432397192836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431522942596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - In this recently published 400-page bestseller, Catholic journalist John Cornwell examines the role of the Papacy in the Jewish Holocaust, a very controversial topic addressed by many authors over the last 60 years. The book is actually a detailed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431522942596 Mon, 26 May 2008 19:17:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431522942596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_430182010500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vicfar - Niall Ferguson is Professor of History at Harvard and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford as well as at that bastion of conservatism that is the Hoover Institute, a think-tank of highly questionable scholarly value. Dividing his time between the two US... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~430182010500 Thu, 15 May 2008 18:18:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_430182010500?linkin_id=8003929