More negatives than positives.
590504
I tried all the ear buds provided and none of them remained in place. Fortunately I had an extra pair of comply foam tips and it helped a lot. Overall I believe this item is over priced. I thought since these cost more than others, these must be better. They're not. Noise cancelling does work in my noisey Honda Civic, but with a notable hiss. Battery life is good. Better than the Samsung Level U pro - with active noise cancelling (which I returned) and better than my LG HBS-810 (which I've owned for over a year). The sound quality is not impressive. My LG's and the Samsung's sounded better. But for about $80 bucks? They're not worth it. Plus the loop around my neck is too tight (I wear a shirt collar of 16-1/2). All the negatives I'm sorry to say out way the positives.
227998
There's good stuff in this tome, but there are parts that are not so good.

The author is very opionionated.  He thinks that believers in an efficient market are incompetent.  He has similar contempt for those that believe small-cap companies have higher growth potential.  In short, those that don't agree with him are idiots.

When the author looks through data, he only sees evidence that supports his cherished theory.  By the way, this is the same accusation he levels at others.

My advice is that buy this book used and take the advice contained therein with a healthy dose of skepticism.
4028595
I was excited to give this Kindle to my girlfriend.  She loved her paperwhite Kindle, so I thought that this would be a great birthday present.  However, being the tech-savvy person that she is, it didn't take her long to find out that she can't synch her contacts with outlook, and the calendar won't synch wirelessly with her computer and iphone.  While it had many positive attributes, including a sharp display, the positives were outweighed by the negatives.
2255798
This is a mistake because the design does not get a fair trial, and is not born out of conflict and debate, so its not as good as it could be.
2142454
The church has made some ground in helping the developing world (which the book calls the majority world). The book discourages many types of help and states that they may harm the poor. The book fails to say the cause of poor may be from internal causes, but blames it all on the rich's down trodding of the poor. When Helping Hurts may keep some people from lifting fingers, giving them an excuse to say that they are harming the poor by charitable giving.

The author even believes he should have left the life of a sick HIV infected person in the hands of the locals in Africa, saying that what he gave (a manner of eight dollars) was harmful. The HIV patient may have died immediately without that eight dollars, but the author believes he should have gotten in a car and left, rather than donate.

This is simply a failure to see good stewardship.
689710
This seemed so cute in the ad, but I found that its negatives may outweigh its positives.

Pros:
1. Cute design (I lived overseas for a while so the "engrish" doesn't bother me. I find it a bit fun) - I know it's supposed to be French, but its close enough haha
2. Nice thick, soft fabric

Cons:
1. Spelling - for those who are detail oriented, the misspelling may be too much.
2. Don't really like that the mouse has such a frowny face.
3. Sizing is largely inaccurate. I bought a 3T for my 2 and a half year old daughter thinking a little larger is better because it would give us room to grow. However, it was a struggle getting the neck opening over her head and she demanded it come off immediately because she said it was too small. For frame of reference, my daughter is slightly below normal in the pediatric growth curve so she is smaller for her size.
511103
There are many risks in its back and one risk in its face.
105019
The truth hurts. While it hurts, it is also much harder to swallow. These are issues that require consumption by everyone.
759968
This campground directory has some great points and some negative points.  The commentaries and the descriptions are great.  These are not checkmark ratings like you find in other directories, but specific positives and negatives about each rated site.  Having stayed at several of these campgrounds, I occur fully with the reviews.
The negatives?  The maps stink.  Presumably, cities on the map marked with a black bullet are listed in one of two sections in the directory.  There are numerous cities with a black bullet that simply are not listed anywhere in the directory.  Second, a number of the campgrounds are listed under cities that are different from the street addresses given and different from other directories, causing you to search other maps to find the location.  The most interesting mistake, however, is on the map on page 60.  They have Montana shown where I always thought Utah was, but maybe its revisionist geography.
2378383
Some good information and some bad information.  Perhaps if left to a professional writer who researched his information It would  be better.
2820900
The first half might be summarized:
1.  Things are really good and getting better all the time.
2.  Some (much fewer) things aren't so good, and some (even fewer) things are getting worse.
3.  Anyway, the good things aren't making us happy.

Along the way, he proffers numerous possibilities for why people aren't happy but none of them are analyzed at length.  I didn't feel any more enlightened than after reading the earlier&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Good-Life-and-Its-Discontents-The-American-Dream-in-the-Age-of-Entitlement/dp/0679781528/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement</a>&nbsp;].  In fact, I found more satisfying the few pages in&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/How-the-Mind-Works/dp/0393334775/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">How the Mind Works</a>&nbsp;(pp. 389-393 The Happiness Treadmill, and pp. 506-9 on friendship ).

Then, for a few chapters, he presents evidence that people who forgive, have gratitude, and are spiritual are happier.  So if we want to be happier, we should cultivate forgiveness, gratitude, and spirituality.  Instead, he says, people are constantly looking for someone to blame or to be annoyed with.  This is not just socially accepted but socially rewarded.  And intellectuals tell us everything is purposeless atoms in an uncaring universe.

The last 80 pages are an argument for what the early 20th century would have called social gospel: universal health insurance, a high minimum wage, lots of foreign aid; government should regulate executive compensation.  Whether you agree with these or not, they don't have much to do with the subtitle of the book.

To be fair, Easterbrook pretty much says, They would make me happy, and they SHOULD make you happy, too.  However, that points to another problem with the book.  Though marketed as a work of social science, it is full of preaching.  Much of the book is not about why people feel worse or better but about how the author thinks we should live.

In the last few pages, he seems to say, Once we are not poor, nothing we do will make us happier, so we should just be good people and do good things.  Now that would be an interesting thesis to organize a book around.
12437
I read this book because of the many claims that the book will show why expanding the Social Security System will strengthen it. While the book refers to the 2033 insolvency deadline projected by the Social Security Trustees, addressing the extension of the program through its years of future insolvency is not taken as seriously as the need to expand the program with additional benefits.  I was disappointed in the depth of the thinking in regards to program expansion costs and the lack of relating those costs to the insolvency deadlines( as close as 2016 for the Disability Trust Fund.) There is lack of  attention and respect to the Trustees' role and annual reports and the  call of the Trustees to address insolvency issues now, even though the book alludes to the same, yet still goes on to support expansion at any cost. The Trustees 2014 report emphasized that the two factors impacting the solvency of Social Security are revenues and expenditures and the book seems to criticize those concerned with expenditures as naysayers and any efforts to reduce costs, as irresponsible. While efforts in the past to reduce skyrocketing costs have succeeded in extending Social Security benefits to its current surplus, the projections of insolvency in less than 20 years with this surplus still stands.  It is not proven by this book that expansion will not result in additional expenditures and indeed those expenditure costs are listed, but with no direct explanation of the relation of those costs to the affect they will have on delaying the insolvency projections. The book does an excellent job of summarizing the current structure and benefits of the Social Security Program and of defending of the program for its success and importance as an essential protection necessary for the public good.  The book also provides substance and support for continuation of Social Security as  a pillar of the economy,  explaining attempts by extremists to undermine its structure and continued provision of defined benefits, clarifying that vigilance of the public is necessary.  I think that the writers have given options for ensuring funding of increased benefits by increasing the rate of taxes on workers and lifting the cap which will have all earnings taxed.  Good, but this in fact would be a solution to delaying the projected solvency as well.  Can we afford to delay insolvency and also make additional and more benefits available?  What if Congress fails to raise suggested taxes, but  yields to the call of expanded benefits from those who see Social Security coffers as unlimited? A disaster. I find that this scenario is very dangerous to the continued existence of Social Security and will be the fodder needed by those who would change Social Security to a system of savings accounts due to its unsustainability . The books claims  that any reduction should not be considered, especially increasing the age for full benefits, thus leaving  the increase in taxes as the primary means to resolve all issues. Again, more harm than good for the future solvency of Social Security? The programs to assist caregivers and workers who need to have paid leaves could be funded by the general funds, and perhaps as entitlements from other sources; the call to have Social Security be the payer for these and expanded benefits, needs to be  very carefully assessed before supported. Any expansion should also be considered as to its effect on keeping the system able to pay even its current benefits into the future. Expansion without consideration of it cost and effect on Social Security as is, will weaken, not strengthen the Social Security system.
1832195
Some good information here, but the book definitely has a negative bias to life in Florida ... read it and take the opinions with a grain of salt.
585846
It shows typical plans where the engines lack enough depth to understand that they have problems, so are not able to defend well. Anyway of course there are a lot of threats that escape human ability, but from time to time they are winable.
2737676
The book is very emotional and is an interesting read, I'll give it that.  Carson is a good writer presents a compelling case, but it is supported by lies and half-truths.  I'll mention a couple of them below...
Carson wrote, "Dr. DeWitt's now classic experiments [on quail and pheasants] have now established the fact that exposure to DDT, even when doing no observable harm to the birds, may seriously affect reproduction. Quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. But few of the eggs hatched."  But Dr. DeWitt's actual article yielded different conclusions.  Quail that were fed DDT hatched 80% of their eggs, while the control group that wasn't fed DDT hatched 83.9% of their eggs.  Hardly a significant difference.  Carson also "conveniently" forgot to mention that DeWitt's control group of pheasants hatched only 57% of their eggs, while those fed DDT in high levels for an entire year hatched more than 80% of their eggs.
Carson seemed to believe that DDT was responsible for declining bird populations.  Yet somehow she forgot that the bald eagles were threatened with extinction in 1921, 25 years before widespread use with DDT.  The peregrine falcon and brown pelican populations also declined significantly before widespread use of DDT.  So don't blame DDT for that.
Yet another thing she forgot was the millions of humans saved, with little real damage to the environment.  DDT was only shown to be harmful in HUGE doses; i.e. doses that are many, many times higher than could possibly be encountered through normal usage.
In summary, read this book if you like to be scared, but don't take it too seriously.  It's kind of depressing that this piece of trash was taken as fact and started a movement, at the expense of millions of human lives due to insect-carried diseases.  There are problems with the environment, sure, but DDT is not one of them.  This book was written with an agenda, and it succeeded in that regard.  So we have wonderful Rachel Carson to thank for many of our pest and disease problems we have today.  Give her a round of applause.
1107360
There is a large amount of good information in this book. It is unfortunate that the author presents such a negative attitude about so many medications. It would help if he would evaluate more on the, "risk v. benefit"  basis rather than, "don't take it". In some instances there may not be an alternative. He does seem to be a bit of a medical nihilist, possibly because his speciality is psychiatry?
1679506
I got this item as a gift back in August of 2015 and have found some things to be good and some to be bad:
Pros:
1. Long battery life. 40 hours or so.
2. Good sound quality.

Cons:
1. Cannot listen to two sounds at the same time. Music in the background while on phone calls is not allowed.
2. Cannot find warranty information anywhere in the manual.
3. Company telephone # is not provided anywhwere to call for support.
4. Battery low announcements every 20 seconds for 50 minutes is annoying. We know it's low so just say it every 5 or 3 minutes, but not every few seconds.
5. The power button got stuck after about 4 months of use. Website is in chinese. Plase provide US #.
Overall, ok product with some severe lacking features.