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Fire and Ice
by Michael Adams
from Penguin Group (Canada)
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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As much as I wanted to like it.... 
Adams claims he is a pure researcher, but you don't get very far into "Fire and Ice" before you realise that he's a man with an agenda, and that agenda is to portray the US as a gun-totin', God-fearin', Bush-lovin' county of idiots, as opposed to the liberal-minded, socially conscious, tree-hugging Canadians. As a Canadian, who happens to agree with many of Adams own personal beliefs, I am also smart enough not to buy what he's selling.
When you have an agenda, stats can tell you what you want to hear.... more info
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Fire & Ice. .
The book is OK. The book you sent me had been constructed incorrectly. From page 128 for about 80 pages, the pages were upside down in the book. I phoned Penguin and they told me I had to get a new book through you.
I don't have the patience to deal with your return process. Why can't I call someone on the telephone.
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Simplistic and Sanctimonious 
Michael Adams' Fire and Ice examines differences between American and Canadian social values at the close of the twentieth century. Adams is a long-time pollster on social issues with the Canadian firm Environics.
From an overall perspective the book offers little new insight into North American social values. It is important to recognize at the outset that the types of aggregate value-mapping techniques used by Adams are blunt tools at best. In some ways they are analogous to horoscopes, so general... more info
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Disappointing and underwhelming.
For those who were looking for a fair comparison between the two most geographically endowed nations on the planet, you will not find it here. Michael Adam's approach suffers from a bias that paints the United States an irrational, dark and forbidding place. He uses many distortions to obtain the answers he needs to promote his view, rather than absorbing critical facts. Although my complaints are numerous, two examples will suffice.In one case, he travels a great length to glorify minivan drivers as... more info
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