The Professor goes on the road, and so naturally, Danny, Irene and Joe tinker with his latest creation. When they discover some of its capabilites (like creating thunderstorms in the kitchen) they think they have a new weapon in their ongoing battles with Eddie "Snitcher" Phillips.

Hillarious is the best way to describe this book. If you are the type of person who can laugh at themselves, dive in, otherwise stay home and hide under the covers.

Photographs are good. very few speices of doves are discussed. there should be more emphasis on new mututations of doves.there is always confusion between pigeon and doves and this book also does not clear the confusion.

Evaluation is a necessary, even essential, aspect of library management, an argument this book successfully puts forth. The authors indicate, in the book's introduction, that this is "not strictly speaking a how-to-do-it book so much as a how-it-has-been-done book" and this phrase succinctly sums up the book, as well as pointing to its strengths and weaknesses. The book largely succeeds as an overview of the motives for evaluation and the processes by which it can be carried out. Yet, librarians looking for a more practical guide to the actual steps by which an evaluation project might be carried out will need to look elsewhere.

Organized into six chapters, each devoted to a specific area of evaluation, the book presents a series of case studies, meant to provide specific, individual examples of evaluation projects which have been carried out. Some of these examples are very useful, reflecting a specific, recognized problem, with a step-by-step approach to developing a solution and evaluating that solution. In these instances, the approach to evaluating and solving the problems really could be used, with little change, by other libraries.

In other instances, the case studies are less useful, as a particular solution is put forth, without much in the way of specific supporting evidence that this solution really is the best solution. The solution is assumed to be the best way of solving the problem and the evaluation appears tailored to supporting this assumption.

The book is primarily useful as an introduction to the idea of evaluation, as a means of opening a dialogue on evaluation and the need for it. Experienced librarians will probably find this less useful than new or beginning librarians. It would likely be of particular interest to library and information science students in library management courses.

CONS: The jam trax are useful but they could have been improved by placing rhythm guitars on the CD panned hard right or left so they could be removed. I was hoping for just drums and bass to jam with.

Also, there was some variation in track key and style but overall the tempos and feel of the set of tracks was more similar than i would have preferred. To me it felt like the same improvisation style fit on too many different tracks. The chord progressions are generic (as required i guess). Most annoying to me was the tempos didn't vary enough for my taste. One solution is to get the Marantz PSD230 that can change the tempo of a CD without changing pitch and the pitch without changing tempo.

REQUEST: Maybe Danny Gill can put out style specific Jam Trax in the future !!? :-) I'd be willing to try them and i bet a lot of others would too.

PROS: It is still good for solitary practicing, convenient, and the recording had good sound quality. It's a good occasional alternative to a metronome. In defense of the author i think it would be difficult to put together a "be all, end all, emcompasses all jam track CD that pleases everyone". It could be that it just didn't suit my taste. If you want an beginner to intermediate level, upper mid tempo with lots of blues and minor pentatonic scale based stuff this might be just the thing for you. Plus it always shows up to practice!!

I don't like the way monkeys are portrayed in these Photographs. I have been a collector of monkey ephemera for one a half decades. This curious collection comes out of a desire to understand our simian cousins. I have yet to understand them. Anyway, this book gives a really misrepresented picture of what it is like to have a pet monkey. Come on! Monkeys don't go the rock shows by do-gooder rap stars. They like Willie Nelson. Then the picture of the guy petting his pet monkey at the end. It is as though the author is trying to make up for the rest of the book. I didn't see any pictures of iron birds, either.

Yes, I am educated enough to spell misrepresentation. I am also a graduate of Morehead State University and soon will have a Masters of Business Administration. Wait it gets better. I also have already obtained an MCSE, MCSA, Dell Certified Technician, A+ Certification, Brainbench Computer Technical Support, ExPert Rating Computer Technical Support, and 17 other professional certifications. Could this be possible? Yes, it is. Morehead State University is a fine institution and there are not as many "hicks" roaming the streets as Mr. Offutt would like to believe. There is no mistaking his imaginative talent and excellent authorship, but his egotistical dreamland is very questionable. I would recommend this great work of FICTION to anyone out there who enjoys a good Kentucky redneck or imbreed joke because you are just as imaginative as Mr. Chris Awful (oops, eye lowst meye diktonary!!!)

I heard Mr. Offutt on the Radio, National Public Radio, talking about this book about "going back home". "Returning home" has been a dimension in my own life, so, I connected with the author's observations.

The radio interview with Mr. Offutt piqued my curiosity and this is the first book I have read of his. So, that being said, unlike other reviewers, I have read no other works of his to compare this one to (which other reviewers have).

I knew the book was about returning home to Eastern Kentucky. I read the jacket cover of the book where it revealed that Mr. Offut now lives in Iowa City, Iowa. So, before I read the first page, I surmised that he went back home to Kentucky but for some reason didn't stay there. This was confusing? Maybe confusing is the wrong word. Disappointing - dismaying. It was obvious before even starting the book that going back "home" didn't work out.

I went to college also in the Appalachian mountains and Offutt's descriptions of the Kentucky Mountains, ridges and hollows (hollers), was evocative and brought me back to those days of my own. His interactions with his former teachers and friends were good I thought. He runs into a former girlfriend and briefly thinks about what could have been with her for about two paragraphs. He talks about his adolescence.

I too have been involved in college teaching and I found his descriptions of reaching out to one or two of his special students quite poignant and very real. I found his descriptions of interacting with town folk with special language and gestures quite accurate. He painted a good picture in my mind and I only wish there was more of it! His anecdote about going into the bank for a mortgage loan was a great piece of writing as he paints the picture of getting the loan without even having his college teaching job signed, sealed and delivered yet.

I agree with the other reviewers who have mentioned the Chapters about the Holocaust. Offutt's in laws are survivors of the Holocaust and he intersperses chapters about them and their war time experiences throughout his own memoir. It is like two books in one but it did not work for me. I like the Kentucky part that are Offutt's own, not his transcription of his in laws talking about themselves into a microcassette recorder. Right now, I do not want to read a book about the Holocaust, and I felt deceived a little to find that material interspersed in his own personal memoir. Maybe this is some creative device that went over my head? If so, someone please explain it to me.

I rated the book lower than 5 stars for the reason of the Holocaust chapters. I greatly enjoyed the Kentucky chapters. If I want to read books about the Holocaust, I will get those when I choose to.

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this memoir reads like a journal and seems to square many assumptions the writer went into a larger world to confirm. my own experience: leaving the south, making friends from other cultures, then coming back (for what?) line up almost perfectly with the trajectory of Mr. Offutts story. Progress has been made, work needs to be done.
Locals who have problems with this book, I have advice: go and be.
Chris is actually doing you a service...

This is the worst book I have read so far. There are so many errors in the book! And all descriptions about J2ME are vague. It's really a pity that I spent my money on this useless book.
Don't buy this book!!!

If you are a developer and eager to find resource on Java Mobile development, this book must disappoint you. This book just give you a general java mobile concept. May be this technology is too green so that all topics are not in depth to discuss with very limited examples.

The worse of this book is some examples just show the source code only with no any demonstration of the program running or even the complied result and that made people hard to understand what the source code mean.

If you see the content that this book cover MIDP for Palm. Don't believe this, this book is only cover the early stage of java KVM in Palm but not included the current Sun MIDP for Palm OS

I found this book very useful for getting to grips with the wide range of technologies available for Java platform on mobile devices. It's strong point is the breadth of subjects covered and not the depth. However, if like me, you prefer to get on to a quick start and the get deeper into the subject on a "as needed" basis this book will provide it. It got me up to date and able to continue on my own from the first three chapters.
If you are already an experienced J2ME developer then the case studies will show how others have tackled some J2ME problems. If you are a beginner then you will get a complete treatment of the range of technologies.

This book only teaches you a way to classify different people. You ask yourself 4 questions about a person, and based on the answers you can put him/her into one of 16 profiles. The main problem is that once you have classified the person, you haven't really gained much. Each of the 16 profiles are basically amalgamations of the traits deciphered from those original 4 questions which you asked yourself. So, for instance, you would ask the question "is this person generally fearful or not fearful?" Then, you'd combine the answer (let's say he's not fearful) with the answers to the other 3 questions. Then the profile would say something like "may be confident." To me, this is just a synonym of what you originally measured which is that he is not fearful. There is only about 2 pages on each profile - not nearly enough about motivation or persuading each profile. Korem also does not give enough practical techniques on how to answer the basic 4 questions that he says will help you profile people. For instance, there are no examples of how a fearful or a not fearful person would act in a given situation. For example, I know that fearful people sometimes act overconfident in order to mask their fear. Korem does not give us any way to distinguish this. Finally, the book doesn't offer insight into the fact that people act differently in different situations. For instance, an insecure person may act really tough around subordinates, but will become sickenly sweet to his superiors. Another example: how many people do you know who act completely different at home than at work? Here are some better book recommendations: "Reading People" - for a general intro "Words that Change Minds" & "Selling the Way Your Customer Buys" - Both these books tell you how to ask the right questions in order to discover what makes a person 'tick.' "Secrets of Sexual Body Language" - It's aimed at the dating scene, but it has full color glossy pictures and is actually a very good intro book for studying body language.

This is an excellent book for beginners who are interested in the art of profiling. It is good because it gives the reader the understanding of how to evaluate people and how to deal with them. That is very important when one is working in big organizations. This book will help you advance on the job. It will do that by giving you an intuition on how to deal with people. With that being said, this book includes exercises to improve one's intuition on the behavior of people. Moving away from all that, I gave it three stars because the book falls short in that it claims that the methods in the book are enough to classify just about any person. I think that the methods are pretty good. However human behavior is much too complex to allow us to classify people into just a few categories.

When I bought this book I knew Dan Korem worked for the F.B.I. so I thought this maybe would have a lot to do with his cases. It had very little but more on the process. It mainly depends to on what you're looking for in this book. If you want to know the process of profiling this is all you. If you're interested in the jobs that have been done find another one.

I bought this tape for my boyfriend in hopes he would understand women better. Not this tape. Although it started well with a great understanding of the challenges couples face, it quickly lead to the only solution to handle a problem is to dump her. This tape was no help and would do more damange than good.

I bought this cassette tape in the hopes that my boyfriend would understand me a little better. Although it started well with a comprehensive understanding of the differences of men and women in today's society. It soon turns into an insult to women. Joseph Angelo's solution for any relationship difficulty is "dump her". He describes women as insane and liars. I would not recommend this to anyone that would like to help or improve his or her relationship.

Finally a book written by a man who obviously won the battle of True Love, verses Societal Manhood! This book is written so that any man can understand the changes that need to be made in order to have peace in their lives and tranquility in their hearts! There may actually be a chance for women to find a Real Man out there after all!