Pages from Japan at War.

[MAP]

Thank you Rene! Will do Sir!
Best Regards, Russ

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[jeeplover]

where can i buy this book

[MAP]

where can i buy this book

See link below

Russ Arendell

[fukuoka]

Uh, yes. Details matter for those who care. And he 'published a frikken book' doesn't really exempt him from having professional standards. Not sure of actual numbers, but 300,000+? books every year are published in US alone. Publishing itself is not an indicator of how good a book is. It is more about how much money was given to be published. Anyone can pay money to have something published. And it is so easy to get ISBN number. Try it.

As for this book, the author posted images on this public forum. So, I would imagine, they are images he thought to be representative of the book. The pages are, as I said, amateurish. The editing includes such laughers as: It's for Its, 'In Point of fact ' [groan]. 'This small number is small indeed in view of the fact' UGH! The author needs an editor that is well-versed in English style.
The author says he stands by the production. Nuff said.

[reneblacky]

See sour grapes!!

[tomp]

'This small number is small indeed in view of the fact' UGH!

Oh, man, that brought back funny (and slightly uncomfortable) memories! One of my Philo. profs. at university wrote the same thing on one of my papers when I included the richly descriptive word of "tidbits" in one of the paragraphs.


Tom

[fukuoka]

Sour grapes?? Do you mean that you think I wish I had published a book with such bad editing? LOL, yeah, sure. If only I had published such a poorly written book!

Again, I am only talking about the written style, ridiculous fonts, and general look of the book--which are indeed amateurish. The contents, though, which I haven't seen in full, I cannot comment about.

reneblacky, since you are defending this book so vigorously, I would assume you have some stake in the success of the book. If not, why are you so adamant in defending it? To be honest, I have no interest at all; I am just commenting on the advertisement OP has posted for his book. The ad failed, IMO. That's all. Sour grapes has nothing to do with it.

[arditi]

The book was made by an amateur/s. Everything you mention as a complaint is fine. It's not a book you would enjoy as gramatical errors are throughout. I will certainly make many more like it in the years to come. Make sure you stay away from it and the others. Wink. I want you to feel academic purity and righteousness in your reading materials/habits. I tease, of course, have a great Sunday! We have some beautiful snow falling this early morning and I plan on taking a quick look and then sleeping to noon or so. Best to all, Russ

[fukuoka]

paraphrase: 'I wrote a book that is amateurish and riddled with grammatical errors. And I will do more in the future!' LOL, OK. Glad to see you embrace your shortcomings. Really, there is nothing more to say about this.

[MAP]

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