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Title: recommended but with one intolerable flaw
Review: This book provides a fine overview of the subject and I recommend it. However, it is burdened with the infuriating weakness of presenting untranslated French, German, and Latin phrases within a book that is published for English-speaking readers. If I were an editor I would not tolerate it. First, the author is not justified in assuming that English-speaking readers have her command of foreign languages. For example, those of us who study science tend to know less in this area than those in the humanities. Two languages, maybe, but we seldom speak or write a third. Second, it is an inappropriate demand on the reader's time to translate these blocks of text for themselves. I did so, but I was as mad as Hell for having to take the time to overcome the author's carelessness.
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