Reviews for European Competition Law Annual 2005 The Interaction Between Competition Law And Intellectua...

The average rating for European Competition Law Annual 2005 The Interaction Between Competition Law And Intellectua... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-07 00:00:00 Walter Teckemeyer This review is going to sound negative but it shouldn't - this book was interesting and exactly as advertised but... This sounds petty but the very small text made a seemingly small non-fiction book actually quite a long, dense read. Combined with some chapters that I should have skipped (development of physics in the 20th C, The Visual Arts etc) it meant this took longer than I expected. Also, it brought home to me just how geographically narrow my history knowledge is. Once into the more conventional historical narrative chapters, Europe, North America and the Commonwealth flowed easily. But my lack of a base knowledge of Latin America, Asia and parts of the history of the Soviet Union meant that the rapid coverage of those areas was harder to follow. (I will have to make some decisions as to whether my current ignorance there is something I need to fix or accept - it's clearly bigger than I consciously realised.) This book does not give that base - trying to cover everything in 340 pages means a lot of assumed knowledge. At the end of the day however, I picked it up for 50 cents at a library sale so I still feel pretty pleased about the acquisition.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-14 00:00:00 Robert Rubin Reading this book made me feel smart :-) I read it to study for the foreign service officers test, and it is extremely comprehensive. The chapters are relatively short, and are divided generally by geographic region and time period. Some of more boring authors stood out as just cataloging of events and people, others made history more of a narrative story. The chronology of events, discoveries, and culture in the back of the book is invaluable for studying.