As a GenX manager at a "DotCom" company, I expected this book to be full of insight into my employees. The major problem is that this book is hopelessly outdated!

I says that it was published in 1996, but I imagine the research was done way before that. The entire first chapter is devoted to the terrible job market and how GenX'ers do not have the opportunities their parents had, and ad nauseum. The main point of the book is interesting, but common sense: Treat your employees like adults, not children and they won't throw tantrums.

Also, I found it very annoying that everything had to do with X. "X'ercises" at the end of each chapter, being "over X-tended". How trite can you get?

As a GenX'er, I actually felt a bit insulted by this book. There isn't any real difference between our generations and other; they are really only perceived, and propagated by books like this one!

Buy this book if you have absolutely no people skills or knowledge of how to deal with people. Then again, should you really be in management if you don't?

I was greatly disappointed in this book. The writing style was inconsistent and the layout was visually obnoxious. I mention this because if there was any useful information in this book, the presentation distracted from it incredibly.

The primary points in this book were elementary, and most people could be more creative and productive without this book. I would not recommend this book. If you have a good business plan, have a group of friends read it, take them out to dinner and brainstorm. You will have more fun, and get a better return on investment.

I guess it's fascinating stuff to a lawyer (which is what the author is), but most of these cases are so off the wall and bizarre they are irrelvant to us plebes.

It is Puma's first day of school, and he is continuously biting the tails of all of his classmates. When the other animals in his class trick him, Puma is caught and unable to say his recurring phrase, 'It wasn't me!' Written for young children beginning school, Willis and Birchall try to convince the listener that biting is painful and unacceptable behavior. Their attempt is unsuccessful especially since Puma was biting for fun. Young children, who have never been biters, might put Puma's actions into play and begin biting because it is fun. The fact the he is sneaking up on all of his 'victims' shows that he is attempting to be devious. Not the best book for using with young children who need to be convinced to stop biting.

I am disappointed to see this book catalogued, once again, under architecture theory. I don't know where to file it, but not here. It is a dense conglomerate of interpretations of and anachronistic projections onto the theories of Alberti. As such it deals with architecture only tangentially. Even specialists in Architecture theory and history will find the writing opaque, pointlessly recondite, and unfocused. Paragraphs are divided at apparent random, sentences bury the principal clause deep in strata of grad-school gobbledygook, and even the most lucid statements require excavation. If there were some brilliant insight to redeam the writing, I might suspend disbelief, but nowhere does M.J. treat us to an IDEA. The whole piece reads like a Master's thesis. The value of the book lies in it's openminded rethinking of traditional assumptions in Alberti scholarship. Most of these, including the idea that Alberti was a sort of proto-modern in his theory (as I read it anyway) seem somewhere between provocative and wild. Some are exciting. But I am left feeling that M.J. has mostly just used Alberti as a lense for modern theory. This is not required reading. Don't bother.

I read all three books and they are out of sinc, book one should be book 2 or maybe 3 it is hard to tell in any case they are really hard to read in any kind of order, the main seal is to hard to believe and it really borders on bordom and same thing over and over.

I've read quite a few spec ops books; fiction, historical, good, bad...and this book falls in the "eh" catageroy. It was mildly entertaining, the characters were mildly believable, and the story was predictable at best. Thankfully, the monotany of the pedestrian plot was boken up by action sequences and jungle tracking/stalking scenes. But even those were defeated by the fact that you *knew* that they would always make it out safe or find their man. if you have nothing better to do pick up this book. You might like it you might not. enjoy.

This book did not help me at all. In fact, I returned it the day I received it. If you are a high school student and don't really have an idea what you want to do, or aren't familiar with a lot of the options in the environmental field, this book may be good for you. But for me, as someone already in the professional environment and looking to find out about unique opportunities that don't fall into categories like biology, ecology, or agriculture, this book provided no help.

The book has some excellent color photography but is let down by lack of detail in the text and photo captions. Some of the cars used for photographic reference, especially in the Federal section, are not totally original. The worst part is the captions and text do not point this out. The most glaring errors are the under hood shots of the Federal cars. Examples are: Page 80, one has a rotary air conditioning compressor, the original is a York twin cylinder; incorrect ignition leads, no fan cowling, plastic cooling fan (should be metal), there were other shots that did not show original components. The ironic part is the paragraph in the front cover inset, it states "Several cars, such as a remarkable Mk 1 photographed in the United States, have been preserved throughout their lives by just one careful owner, making them exceptional survivors in unrestored and correct condition". This statement is far from the truth. Mr Taylor's other Stag books were very good, this was very dissapointing. This is especially so when people purchase this book as a reference document.

This book starts out like many other PC Maintenance books and assumes you know little or nothing about the internal components, which is fine but the writer, I believe, intended it for more of us who have some Technical skills, and just need to learn more about the machine itself, for this you have to skip to the parts that you already know, which is sometimes a lot of the chapters. The discs were great and the warnings in the book were some I wouldn't have expected, and am grateful for.