Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Just More Race Baiting Product review: Wouldn't it be lovely if we could put aside the notion that our skin coloring matters? I don't mean "matters" in the sense that we shouldn't be proud of who we are. I mean "matters" in the sense that "white" is inextricably opposed to "black" and vice versa. Dr. Welsing sees "white" America as locked in a strategic game plan to dominate, subordinate, and destroy the lives of African Americans. She expouses the view that African Americans can only improve their lives by realizing this simple truth. This is a "truth" that I don't buy. If you're interested in a thoughtful approach to racial healing and reconciliation, this book is not for you. If you believe that people, regardless of race or color, should live and work together in harmony, there are plenty of other, better reasoned, and more thoughtful books to consider.
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: A Great Read Product review: I just finished reading a really great book that I think that anyone would enjoy. The name of the book is "Against the Odds" and the author is James Dyson. I bought my copy from Amazon.com.This book has everything and was hard to put down. It is a recent (2002) well written fascinating autobiography of Dyson who took huge risks and overcame tremendous difficulties to rise from poverty to become Sir James and a billionaire by inventing the very successful cyclonic vacuum cleaner and other products. The book is about innovation, what makes people resist innovation and act against their own interests, business principles and organization, marketing in different cultures, education, etc. and is a great story especially when you are in need of a little inspiration. Read what he did when he was told "Your product can't be any good because if there was a better way to make a vacuum cleaner, Hoover would have already done it".
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Excellent maps and reference Product review: I use this as a companion while I am reading other railroad books which do not have good maps of the roads in question. I have found it very helpful to following text about where the rails were located. I highly recommend it.
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: a vivid window on early American sexuality Product review: This is a very readable and yet sophisticated look at what early Americans thought about sex. It covers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also ranges from New England through the southern colonies. It's full of insightful comments about attitudes to gender as well as sex, including what we now call homosexuality and the links between religious belief and sexual values. The author recognizes his debt to earlier scholars (despite what the other reviewer writes), but contributes much that is new and important to our knowledge of this topic. A great read and an important book!
