Trading is all 1) your beleifs, mental states and atitudes and 2) managing risk. IT is NOT about methods ...
And the book is overpriced. Correct price would have been around USD10.00 (!)

Buy the real work of Joe Ross (Trading the Ross Hook, trading by the book,..), not the weak copy "TNT".
The illustration is very poor (no time no price on the charts..?) the introduction up to page 113 is useless (if you like you can read for Mark Douglas instead). weak language not at all what Joe Ross used in his real work.
too much marketing and advertising for the seminars
Appendixes are copied from trading the Ross Hook. All in all it is a very poor version of the original work of Mr. Ross
Save your money

As founder of "Traderscoach.com" I thought this book provided the reader with a realistic view of trading as a profession that takes time to master. You will learn alot about trading and the approach to trading that is necessary to be a consistant winner.

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I'm a huge fan of Garfield and his antics - I often see myself in the lazy, smart-mouthed little fiend. This little book of "excellent" excuses highly disappointed me. Overall, I think I found only about five excuses humorous. None of the material comes from Jim Davis, but several writers who can only serve up a poor imitation. Perhaps the fact that I'm not a child factors into my lack of appreciation, but the cartoons of Jim Davis appeal to adults as well as children. This book definitely reflects very poorly upon Mr. Davis.

This is a funny little book. Garfield's excuses will make adults laugh with the fat cat's wicked sense of humor, while children will have lots of fun trying to put them to use.

I bought this book for my younger sister who is a major Garfield fan. She enjoyed the humorous excuses as well as trying them out on the rest of the family.

I have no doubt in my mind that Dr. Wecht is a talented and very experienced forensic pathologist. However, as a book on this subject, it is the worst that comes to mind. I wouldn't even recommend this to someone as an introduction to the subject. Most of the book seems to point to someone with an extremely large ego, which is unfortunate. Most of the book consists of how he got introduced to the case, his sterling reputation, his travel plans, and even what he ate. In chapter 11, page 216, he writes: "An elaborate buffet of vegetables and meats had been prepared for us, but because we had eaten on the flight to Manila, the three of us settled for soft drinks." This is how most of the book reads. What makes the author think I have any interest in this? I am interested in interesting cases or unusual events or facts of forensic pathology. There is very little written as far as technical information regarding the subject. In most of the cases in this book, he does little more than travel to an interesting locale, read the official autopsy report, agree with it, and leave. Are these the best cases that the author could have documented? You can actually get more detailed information about these cases from newspaper articles, and that is very upsetting. And in the cases where something interesting was discovered, the author never follows up on it. It is as if once he was out of the official investigation, he had no interested in it. Well, as someone who IS interested in the subject, I want to know the conclusion of the case, if possible. There is a reason that this book is out of print. It isn't very good. I will expect a better effort from this author in the future. Do not buy this book. Instead, buy Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples. It is MUCH better.

These chapters came from cases where his knowledge was crucial in exposing official mistakes of showing weaknesses by the prosecution. The accuracy and fairness of crime lab evidence are entirely dependent on proper identification, protection, and transfer of evidence from the crime scene. The Introduction explains how a seeming accident was found to be murder by analyzing the entrance wound and the position of the shotgun. Forensic pathology investigates sudden, violent, or unexplained deaths. 75% of all deaths are from natural causes, 75% of the rest are accidental. About 1.5% are suicides and homicides. Many of the most controversial cases on record have involved medical examiner systems, due to political influence (p.9).

Chapter 1 deals with the Trial of OJ Simpson, and the evidence for guilt or innocence. One of the biggest mistakes was to not get a forensic pathologist to the scene immediately; important evidence was lost forever (p.34). Nicole's stomach contents were discarded; if empty, then 3 or more hours elapsed since her last meal. Page 43 tells of the high error rate in laboratory testing of blood and other specimens. Nicole's uncorroborated diary wrote of being followed to a "Payless shoe store". Would a fan of fashion and style ever go there? Page 49 says there is NO regulation on DNA testing, or of the astronomical percentage estimates. Page 59 tells that two weeks after the murders there was no blood on those socks; weeks later there was! Page 67 says no cuts were seen on OJ's hands on the flight to Chicago. Page 70 tells of Cochran's wearing that knitted cap; to me, it looked like a child's cap.

Chapter 2 discusses the suicide of Vincent Foster, and how rumor mongers blew it up into a fantasy (p.81). Chapter 3 tells of his investigations into the aftermath of Waco. This was a tragedy that never should have occurred (p.100). Chapter 4 tells of a shoot-out in Cleveland; the coroner's staff was guilty of deliberate, willful, and clever deception (p.114). Chapter 5 tells of a shooting in Chicago where "this whole operation may have been nothing more than a political assassination" (p.131). The State Attorney and the police officers involved in the raid were charged, and found at fault (p.134). Chapter 6 deals with the 1989 Oakland earthquake. Many who died would be alive if state and local emergency management officials had done their jobs quickly and efficiently (p.142). The autopsy reports were done by the lowest bidder, and the reports had the lowest quality (p.146). Chapter 7 tells of the nightclub fire in 1977 Cincinnati. Many did not die of burns or smoke inhalation, but from invisible and odorless toxic fumes (p.162).

Chapter 8 explains why a fall from a high building was homicide and not suicide or an accident. Chapter 9 investigated the mysterious death of a government opponent; it was an accident. Chapter 10 tells of the unexpected death of a government official; it was a natural death. Chapter 11 tells of the execution of a maid that caused an international incident. Chapter 12 deals with the swine flu panic of 1976, a result from using "Legionnaires Disease" to allocate money and authority to the CDC and FDA (p.231). At least 52 people died after receiving swine flu vaccine. Chapter 13 tells of a man serving a life sentence for stabbing his wife and her parents. Fingerprints found at the scene did not match the suspect, the victims, or those who were in the house before the murders (p.247). After the State forced the defense lawyer off the case, he was convicted at the third trial (p.258)! Pages 259-60 tell why a jury will convict even if the evidence is unconvincing! Chapter 14 tells of his viewing of an 18 minute videotape of an autopsy on an unknown being. He could not say it was a hoax.

Far from being "fluff", Dr. Wecht's mind-ripping coverage of 14 topics ranging from "The Mysterious Death of Vincent Foster" to "The Nightclub With No Way Out" is fascinating and worth every minute to read. The book combines previously unsolved mysteries with medicolegal brilliance to make for reading that will not be set down until finished. Dr. Wecht intrigues the reader...(who would thought of a second Simpson killer?)...while weaving in information about the work of the forensic expert. A great book!

take me 15min to browse thru the bok and I pratically didn't learn anything new. If you are new to PC and want to burn your first CD, you may learn more by just tinkering with the software you already got. This book does not go into any detail on the stucture of the file format, TOC or anything. It touches many topics and then go to the next. Read the help file or manual on your burning software and that's pretty much what this book is about. Here's some examples: HFS (file format): "short for Hierarchical File System. This is the file system used on the Mac. Although it's being slowly phased out, HFS is still important in the mac world." What kind of crap is this!? There are a couple of paragraphs on mixed mode disc and then it give tons of reason NOT to use it.
On top of all these, this book is outdated, EasyCD and Toast are old versions and it did not really say anything about VCD or DVD, stick with the help files in your burning software!

I give this book 4 stars. It has everything you need to know to install and record music CDS. I also learned more about making data CDS in this book than anything else I've read yet. A good pick.

I just finished reading Hewlett-Packard's OFFICIAL RECORDABLE CD HANDBOOK written by Mark L. Chambers. I received an HP CD-RW drive (8200i) and tried to learn how to operate it on my own. I promptly ruined 4 new R-W disks. After reading the HANDBOOK, I now have backed up all my files, my operating system and working on a family album. This book certainly improved my learning curve and allowed me to "get right to it" after only several hours of reading. My thanks to HP and Mr. Chambers for this helpful book.

I found Clodfelter's work to be a rather complete summary of the use of air power during the Vietnam war. Clodfelter writes from the standpoint that war is a continuation of politics through alternative means (von Clausewitz). He analyzes the air campaign in Vietnam in terms of the presumptions of the military and political leadership of the time. He speaks at length at the motivations and results of the three major campaigns: Operation Rolling Thunder, Linebacker I, and Linebacker II. As an undergrad history major at Loyola University Chicago, I found "The Limits of Air Power" to be excellent.

This book isn't perfect. Several times I found myself thinking 'hmm, I don't think that's a fair conclusion', mainly because of the author's occasional unsustained assertion, hyperbole or sweeping generalisation. But heck, this book deals with a very contentious topic, so the author isn't going to please everyone anyway.

The research is good, the argument compelling (even if not always agreeable) and the prose clear and engaging. In short, this is a good book. It's certainly much better than the anonymous reviewer from Montgomery, AL, suggests.

I teach airpower, and I encourage my students to read this book. They shouldn't swallow it all hook, line and sinker, but they SHOULD read it.

An associate professor of history at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mark Clodfelter displays a huge knowledge of facts and figures as concerns the American bombing of North Vietnam. He masterly shows the connection between political and military factors conducive first to the failure in saving South Vietnam as an independent country, and later to helping the United States save their face when getting out of the trap. What is no less interesting from an up-to-date standpoint, the book also helps understand why the war of Kosovo was won by air power, and why not just so according to the three-day schedule envisaged by the NATO's high command.

I recently returned from a 3 month tour of Europe and took this book with me. While it did have a number of major European cities in it the actual information about them was definetly lacking. I found my self usually better off with out a book at all as opposed to only having this one. Several other travelers we met felt the same way and some were lucky enough to have Lonely Planet guides. For the money spent I'll stick to them or Rick Steves in the future. i.e. This book would take you to the train station/ subway but then fall short on what the heck to do to get a ticket!!! Which is important information stranded in 20 different stations/ subways a month each with different customs. Frommer's did do an excellent job of pointing out all of the gay and lesbian districs and bars in each city and the gay friendly hotels and shops... but they also have a strickly gay guide to Europe as well. The amount of space used for this information could have been better allocated for more pertinent information. I'll have to give a thumbs down on this book. Take something else with you or take nothing at all.

Frommer's does a good job with the general hints on travelling cheaper, but unless you plan on visiting only the major cities and capitals only, look for another book. There are 24 major cities and surrounding areas covered from Ireland to Budapest, but that's not many cities in comparison with all of Europe. I only will have a short time in Europe and that means that I will only be able to visit two of the cities listed and have to use another book for everything in between. Lonely Planet is much more inclusive and definitely covers the lower price scale.

Just returned from a 2 month trip using the 2002 guide. I found the recommendations for the restaurants to be excellent. After realizing that the Frommer's writers and I had the same tastes, I made it a point of seeking out all of their 'starred' recommendations for restaurants. The sightseeing descriptions and recommendations were also quite good. The hotel recommendations were not as good. A few of the hotels we stayed in that were not 'starred' or listed as a 'Find' were not as comfortable as hotels in other books.

We traveled with this Frommer's, Rick Steves, Lonely Planet and Rough Guides through France, Belguim, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Italy. We liked Rick Steves' recommendations for lodging, Frommer's for restaurants and both for sightseeing. Lonely Planet and Rough Guides were not used if in a Frommer's city. If in a Rick Steve's city (but not Frommer's) we used Lonely Planet for restaurant recommendations (not as good a Frommer's but better than Rick Steves).

Background: Two travelers, professional, early 30s with enough money to stay out of the hostels, but did not want to blow the bank of 5 star lodging. Rick Steve's packing philosophy. Both traveler's love to eat!!

While I'm exceptionally pleased to see a resurgence of interest in WW2 subjects, particularly as they apply to the experiences of our veterans, I remain a trifle dismayed at the lack of depth of much of the historical writing which has flourished in the wake of this renaissance. THE LIRI VALLEY is no exception.

In contrast to superb works such as Donald Graves' SOUTH ALBERTAS, this book seems to try to cross a non-man's land between history and tale, accomplishing neither very well. While I will be the first to say that Zuehlke's style of writing is very easy to read and flows well, in this case, the substance contained therein seems suspect. I'm afraid I have to agree with the prior reviews in that credibility with respect to attention to detail is lost pretty much from the beginning; although I suspect the fault lies more with an incompetent editor than with Mr. Zuehlke himself, his puzzling attack on Mr. Dorosh unfortunately tends to diminish his own credibility as a historian, rather than to support his case. This day and age, there are simply too many well-read people out here, and neither technical nor typographical errors can be easily excused.

I would recommend this book for someone who is already familiar with the Liri Valley campaigns - it is indeed easily read and understood, and complements other noted works on the subject - but am hesitant to do so as a primer on the campaign.

One would hope that Mr. Zuehlke will have the services of a 'knowledgeable' editor for his next volume in the series.

The author's comments about one of the reviews here deserve to be quoted in full: "Please note that I've only filled in the book rating because it's required to post this message. [An author shouldn't rate his own book.] As an author, I generally don't respond to reviews. Michael Dorosh's review, however, requires a respons--notably because it is, as his title infers, "riddled with stupid errors." I do not, for example, mis-identify "Patton's 7th Army as the 5th." Neither Patton nor the 7th saw action in Italy proper. They left that theatre after Sicily, as any military historian worth his salt would know. The Perth Regiment's badge was as described during World War II, a fact thoroughly noted by Brigadier George Kitching at the time under whom the regiment served. The RCR's pipe and drum band is described in detail in the regiment's war diaries for 1944. In fact the band's instruments were smuggled to Italy against orders by the band members, a fact recorded at the time by the regiment's long-standing 2 i/c Major Strome Galloway. It would behoove Dorosh to get his own facts correct before he starts slinging mud."

These comments say a lot about Mister Zuehlke's approach to the subject. One gets the impression he writes about flavour-of-the-month topics, WW II now being one of them thanks to Hollywood's renewed interest in this era, without any real understanding of the subject. While some of the quotes generated for the book were interesting to read, there is really nothing new being said about this campaign. As a broad overview from the Canadian perspective, this is a little more fleshed out than the book about D-Day Dodgers by Daniel Dancocks, but doesn't offer anything more in the way of depth of understanding of the campaign, or Canada's role in it.

I think it is amusing and disgusting that instead of looking over his own book to see if perhaps he might be able to learn something from a critic, the author merely presumed he was correct and lashed out like a spoiled child. Most real historians do what they do for love of subject; any opportunity to learn something new is eagerly seized. Not so the case here. Taking a quick second look at the book for other surface errors, I notice his list of ranks at Appendix D omits Staff Sergeants, and he clearly has no idea of the difference between ranks and appointments (CSM and RSM are not ranks). He is wrong about the cap badges (The badge that Mister Zuehlke is so positive was a WW II badge was not minted until 1948 (p.114 2nd edition of CANADIAN BADGES by Daniel Mazeas). Why Mister Zuehlke would embarrass himself by not double-checking - either before publication, or after being publically called on it - is beyond me. If he is so distanced from the historical community that he has no means of checking these things, I don't see how he can be considered an effective researcher.

Bottom line and more importantly than details of rank or badges - Liri Valley is a readable introduction to Canadians in Italy, but the serious researcher or historian must look to other sources for reliable, accurate information, or for anything but a "standard" WW II history.

Like most Canadian historians, Zuehlke ignores the German side of things at any level below the corps or division. Only one German soldier was interviewed for the book, and is quoted exactly once, with regards to morale. No German unit histories are cited in the bibliography, and apparently no German primary sources - papers, histories, reports, veteran interviews - were consulted. Again, this adds nothing new to previous works.

This is simply story-telling with no historical weight and no real insights into the campaign beyond what other Canadians have left in the official record.

Please note that I've only filled in the book rating because it's required to post this message. [An author shouldn't rate his own book.] As an author, I generally don't respond to reviews. Michael Dorosh's review, however, requires a respons--notably because it is, as his title infers, "riddled with stupid errors." I do not, for example, mis-identify "Patton's 7th Army as the 5th." Neither Patton nor the 7th saw action in Italy proper. They left that theatre after Sicily, as any military historian worth his salt would know. The Perth Regiment's badge was as described during World War II, a fact thoroughly noted by Brigadier George Kitching at the time under whom the regiment served. The RCR's pipe and drum band is described in detail in the regiment's war diaries for 1944. In fact the band's instruments were smuggled to Italy against orders by the band members, a fact recorded at the time by the regiment's long-standing 2 i/c Major Strome Galloway. It would behoove Dorosh to get his own facts correct before he starts slinging mud.

Don't even think about trying to survive in Brasil on this book. While other LP language guides (I have used their guides to Latin American Spanish, Mongolian, and Russian) are thorough, and provide lots of conversational phrases to get you into and out of almost any key travel situation, this one is woefully lacking in any aspect. Not enough vocabularly, not enough questions, not enough areas. After three weeks in Brasil, I managed to successfully use this book twice. It's cheap but it's not worth the purchase price.

As the book title says it's a Brazilian phrasebook, and for those who said that most pages have multiple errors in spelling and grammatical errors, all I can say is that it's so not true. As a Brazilian born and native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I can guarantee that. But you must remeber that Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese are almost two different languages, so you can't use this book to survive in Portugal.

As one reader put it, this book has nothing to do with Portuguese. In fact it is on Brazilian language, which is becoming a distant dialect from the latter. So if you want to learn Portuguese, avoid this book, but if you want to learn Brazilian, that is your choice.

For reasons of political and religious correctness the Americans have issued their own versions of these pocket books. The British ones are much better.

Beautiful little series of books which I was coveting (mea culpa) long before I bought them. It seems awfully unfair for the people below to give the book such a low rating becase 'nick cave' didn't introduce the chapter. Who cares?

I enjoyed the format, design and lush language of the book.

I gather from the other extremely negative reviews that the British edition of this book has an introduction written by Nick Cave. While I'm sure Nick Cave's commentary on Mark is wonderful, so is the introduction by Barry Hannah in the American edition. Barry Hannah, a hilarious and rough-cut Southern novelist whose ability to craft a startling sentence is nearly unsurpassed, is drawn to Mark for reasons likely similar to those that drew Cave (or to those that led Borges to write an astounding story called "The Gospel According to St. Mark"): Mark is the strangest, least comforting of the Gospels, forging a dim and demanding Christianity out of the disquieting words and acts of Jesus with a minimum of explanation. God seems distant and truly ungraspable here; Mark is a million miles from the cloying certitude of the Pauline epistles, or from, say, the more prosaic Matthew. Hannah, a self-described "bad Christian" (again, not so different from Nick Cave, at least by my lights), manages to bring these qualities out beautifully in his introduction. (Hannah also makes "bad Christian" seem like probably the best thing anyone can hope to be.) By all means, get the British edition with Cave's introduction (as I now plan to do), but don't let that keep you from reading Barry Hannah's introduction too.

This piece of work is a terrible example of a book written with the main purpose of being first in the market and making the most money as fast as possible.

The JFC 1.2 platform was available from Sun early December 1998, and this 1400 page book was released in January 1999. The number of simple typos and pure errors are enourmous. Also, most internal references to the system uses the term "JDK 1.1" suggesting that the book is just a copy-paste operation from an earlier edition.

But the worst is this: One of the most important elements of the entire JFC is the very general GridBagLayout manager that is used to arrange UI components within windows and dialogs. Even if every aspect of the JFC claims to be covered in the book, this maybe most important part is not mentioned with a single word. An the reason is simple. THE AUTHOR DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT! In the reference part of the book the following explanaition is given. Quote: "GridBagLayout is, without a doubt the most powerful layout manager in the JDK 1.1. It allows for very specific customization of the screens look han feel. However, it is also very hard to use. Having worked with Java since December of 1995, I have only begun to understand GridBagLayout, and still find tools like Visual Cafe invaluable when building screens using this class."

I was tempted to take the book back to the store and ask for my money back.

WASTE YOUR MONEY ELSEWHER

Excellent source for gaining an understanding of the JFC. Covers the Swing, MVC, and other JFC concepts such as design patterns.