Careers for History Buffs & Others Who Learn from the Past, Second Edition
Author: Blythe Camenson
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ISBN: 0658021680
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books (27 March, 2002)
Sales Rank: 331,738
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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Rating: 1 out of 5
A Complete Waste of Time and Paper
It is fascinating what authors, editors and publishers think they can pass off as a "reference" or a "guide" and how little regard they have for readers' common sense. This book is little more than an outline for a class or seminar without the student participation. In fact, the information is so bare-boned that it demonstrates the author would hardly have enough expertise to actually teach such a class or seminar. History majors, beware: even if your college has a poor placement program, it will still have covered more than this book.Clearly an assigned project in which the author indiscriminately listed every resource stumbled upon, the acknowledgements and interviews still take up more pages than the resources. Practical advice is dispensed with a headline and a mere paragraph or two while the interviews are banal and bland. The most offensive appendix listing: the author's own web site where she'll "help" teach you the steps towards getting your fiction published! She seems to specialize in subjects which simply cannot be taught. The reader should take the author's own advice from page 9: "Don't forget the Internet...fire up any search engine and enter key words such as 'history,' 'jobs,' 'museums,' 'curators,' and so on. A well-defined search will bring you to some interesting and helpful websites." Better yet, skip the insult of having paid for this book entirely and go directly online; it'll prove much more informative.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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