This book is a must for anyone with an interest in County Clare history or genealogy. Included in this primary reference source are the personal letters and observations of the surveyors involved in making the Ordance Survey maps of Ireland. The material provided can not be found in any other source. Every parish is accounted for with descriptions of churches, castles, and significant topographical features. This text should be considered supplemental and more personalized than Lewis's "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland". One should not expect to find extensive genealogical information on 19th century farmers, but there the lords of castles listed and some older family pedigrees. While this is primarily a reference book it also contains comments of the travels of the authors and reads as an interesting and enjoyable novel.

Perhaps this may be preaching to the choir, but the people who are reading this book probably already know how people learn. The people who need to read this book are the bad, burned out teachers who fail in their role as educators. With that in mind, I believe that this book has a lot to say to many. Unfortunately, what it said, I already knew. Research done by John Dewey and Howard Gardner demonstrated a lot of what this research has to say already.

Perhaps the most interesting part of this book dealt with misconceptions. Every students that walks into a classroom, walks into the room with misconceptions. Teachers give the students facts that dispute these misconceptions, but rarely replace the misconceptions. It is only when teachers make students active in disproving a misconception that the students actually internalize the truth. This is where the American educational system fails miserably. For example, most teenagers still believe impeachment means removal from office. When you prove Bill Clinton was never removed from office, they can actually see evidence that disputes their misconception. How else could we have proven the Earth was not flat before space travel? Demonstrating through learning which required thinking to prove a misconception wrong.

Discrete good ideas. But the book does not present solid practice evidence that the framework will work. The core is model and in many places the authors implied good quantifications. In real world it is hard to get near precise and one needs to handle many quantity and quality unknowns.

About a year ago I was faced with a business problem to solve. My intent was to try and develop client offers which concurrently delivered value to the client, the employees and the shareholders. I had a conceptual frame work in mind but I didn't really have any idea of how to go about the task. Synchronicity at work - I had purchased a copy of "The Value Enterprise" about two months earlier but had not yet read it. I thought it might have something to offer. What I found was a well thought out "How to" framework to support my conceptual "What". After finishing the book I contacted Brent Wortman, we were able to do some work together with great results. I found the book to be an easy read, with practical application.

This is a must-read for anyone who aspires to business greatness -- from shop floor manager to CEO. It's no longer good enough to see stock price as the be-all and end-all of corporate performance, and Tully, Wortman and Donovan see the whole picture. Companies need to retain their talented employees, deliver the best products at the best price and THAT's what leads to solid financial performance. Fundamentals are out in today's dot-com world, but they'll be back. For leaders who still believe in value, this book should be top of their reading list.

After 18 years of marriage and a child conceived before marriage, Elizabeth Sinclair wanted a divorce. She feels lost, unhappy. Donovan Sinclair has been so involved with his work that he seems a stranger to Beth. Once they separate, Beth can't seem to trust Donovan or herself to reunite.

Beth is somewhat selfish, but her friends call her on it and she tries to get past it. The teenage marriage explains her need for freedom and the taste of another life. A bit abrupt in the ending.

Well, on the overall, this d20 game supplement isn't a bad product, but it's not what I would have liked to get. This Atlantis is described as to fit with the Classical Greek period (Plato was the first to speak about Atlantis). As such, you get an history of Atlantis, new character races, 4 new prestige classes, a few skills /feats /spells /etc. making this product an excellent supplement if you want to run a campaign set in ancient Greece, and/or Egypt. In such a setting, Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, etc. would be ridiculous; so you would get a good alternative with the races given in this booklet, which fit well in that kind of mythology.
However, as far as I am concerned, I was deceived by Twilight of Atlantis. I would have liked to get something more futuristic (of the tech-magic kind; reminding of the last Disney movie), and not related to ancient Greeks. If this is what you would also like to get, this supplement won't be up to your expectations.

This book is written by the guy who appeared as an expert witness for MS in the anti-trust proceedings. When asked by a government prosecutor if he knew of any operating systems (other than MS brand OS's) that would cease functioning if you removed the browser component (as MS claims for Windows) he replied, "Yes. KDE".
Of course, as the government prosecutor pointed out, KDE isn't an OS, but a desktop environment that runs on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Pressed for other examples, he replied, "Uhh, GNOME?" GNOME is, of course, KDE's major competition as a Unix desktop. In this context, Madnick might as well have just blurted out "KDE" again.
Consider this an object lesson in what can happen to your credibility if you sell yourself to tell someone else's lies for them.

(btw, I haven't read this book & never will. I just thought any prospective buyers should know the preceding bit of info)

I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books, credited to a Juliet Hastings. They were well-written and kept my attention all the way through. (I did not understand why they were sold as "erotica." I thought they were excellent "suspense/thriller/crime" books.) This is credited to a Peter Birch, who seems to be writing as though he is getting paid by the word. The story line is OK, but the characters never take on any life so that you do not care what happens to them. As a result, if this is supposed to be erotica it fails, as the sex is clinical and boring. Either bring back a better storyteller or kill off Anderson!