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The 2007-2012 Outlook for Public Building Stacking Chairs Excluding Bar, Bowling Center, Cafeteria, Library, Restaurant, and School Stacking Chairs in India

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I first discovered Dr. Parker's brilliant analysis and forecast of Indian stacking chair consumption while completing my thesis on the roll played by wheel based ergonomic office chairs in workplace fatalities. In particular, I found fascinating the statistical modeling employed by Dr. Parker to determine governmental stacking chair purchase requirements for the year 2011, which is well know to be the year that the Indian Civil Service Entrance Exam switches to a "Standing Only" testing methodology. Indeed, after months of careful study I can find only two obvious faults with the findings put forward by Dr. Parker. Firstly, and far more seriously, while Dr. Parker's analysis included over 2600 Indian municipalities, his thoughtless exclusion of Indian bowling allies cuts short any possible insight into the scarcity of stacking chairs and the effects on Hindu-Muslim bowling alley violence. Perhaps the infamy of the religious riots in Pune, following Mohinder Singh's perfect 300 game in 1998 led to this exclusion, I only hope that this obvious gap in analysis does not alienate future generations of readers and lead them to repudiation this otherwise thoughtful and deeply insightful study. My final criticism has to do with the quality of the publication and lack of full color illustrations. The choice to use black and white illustrations may be in keeping with the scholarly focus of this publication but I find it hard to distinguish between the Duo and Cello stacking chairs featured prominently on pages 316-318.
Finally, I must comment that Dr. Parker's treatise on stacking chairs has reinvigorated my own personal interest in furniture based consumption modeling and the related effects on the medical industry. I have recently begun a study of metal folding table usage in the southern United States and the corresponding rise in emergency room visitation. I won't provide any spoilers in this forum, but I can't help but tease the fact that I have found a widespread correlation between metal folding table usage at Baptist picnics and emergency room visitation for trauma in the distal and proximal interphalangeal joints. I encourage the many fans of this book to check back soon for my own publication.

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This book is, indeed, quite good at describing the outlook for public building stacking chairs excluding bar, bowling center, library, restaurant, and school stacking chairs in India. However, I am a bit offended that the information for the Kashmir region (which is claimed by both India and Pakistan) seems incomplete. Such scholarship is inexcusable. I will be going elsewhere in the future for information about the outlook for public building stacking chairs excluding bar, bowling center, library, restaurant, and school stacking chairs in India.

you should really read it in the original Hindi. The English translation fails to convey the author's passion for the topic.

This book is primarily filled with a left-wing chair stacking agenda. I'm sure President (elect) Barrack Obama completely supports this liberal clap-trap. Oh, and to the reviewer that refers to the author as "Dr." -- I can assure you HE IS NO DOCTOR... certainly not in the classical sense of the word. But also many of the author's theories remain unproven. His bold claims cannot be backed-up by simply quoting quantumn mechanic rhetoric. Other than these issues, I really enjoyed it.

This is, hands down, the best book I have read on this topic - and I have read plenty. I would however, in future editions, like to see the topic of chair stacking in bowling alleys better addressed. Nice work by the author!

The rumor mill has been abuzz of late with talk of the movie version of this book. None other than James Cameron, fresh from the success of Avatar, has been tapped as the director, and the long-speculated casting of Al Pacino in the lead role has at last been confirmed. Needless to say, I am excited!

This is a most gripping book, and a natural choice to have been optioned into a Hollywood blockbuster, and I am relieved that it is in competent hands. I remember early rumors that David Lynch was being considered as a director, and boy was I worried. His abstract approach to cinema may work in certain cases, but for a straight-forward thriller like "The 2007-2012 Outlook for Public Building Stacking Chairs Excluding Bar, Bowling Center, Cafeteria, Library, Restaurant, and School Stacking Chairs in India," a more mainstream director was needed.

There isn't much I can say about the book itself that has not been said before. It is of course a must-read for chair enthusiasts, but of interest to anyone who simply enjoys a good read. It definitely makes my all-time top five list of books about chairs in India, but is maybe among my five favorite books of any genre. Don't wait for the movie-- read this book at once, especially now that a paperback version is available for an affordable $495.00.

Well, it seems that everything is being outsourced to India, including the latent demand for institutional stacking chairs.

The author breaks his information down by sector and region. I wish I would have known that before buying it -- what I was hoping for was by geographic coordinates. See, I was hoping to look at some of these chairs using the satellite images in Googlemaps, but since this geographic information about the chairs isn't included... well, It's a lot of dough wasted (I can't return the book because I ripped it up in anger when I found it wasn't what I wanted).

Other than that, it's just like reading a book about computers.

This book was riveting from page one. I was extremely disappointed that bowling centers were excluded, however, as that is my main area of interest as it relates to stackable chairs.

Mind you, there are warehouses full of books on NON-stacking chairs as they pertain to bowling centers. My studies, though, have always frustrated me in that, when I finally located stackable chairs in literature it always insisted on excluding bowling centers, a major hub of stackable chair activity.

So, I ask you, where does a bowling center enthusiast quench his stacking chair thirst? For me, this book was sub-par.

At the time of writing this review, this work is already about half-way outdated. I recommend we all wait til 2013 to buy the newly updated version, which should include actual data for public building stacking chairs excluding bar, bowling center, cafeteria, library, restaurant, and school stacking chairs in India.