The newest book by the same authors is actually even better. Both are excellent in the approach to the subject, advice given, and readability. I have learned a great deal from each of these books...as a student of elk hunting must always strive to do!

This book is easy reading and packed full on tips. The authors reveal tips about elk that unless yu have spent years among them in the wild you will never learn. I have bowhunted for 6 years. This was only my 2nd year bowhunting elk. I read the book to give me a little edge and it worked. I won't be one of the people these guys refer to that go years without getting an elk. The tips in this book and all of the information about elk refreshes your memory about what you CAN do to improve your chances of having a successful season. I plan to read it again next year before I head out after these elusive and majestic mammals. Get it, read it, try it. Good luck!

This book is an exciting look into the professional and private life of a particular virologist/epidemiologist, C.J. Peters. The action takes place in several locals including MARU, CDC and AMRIID.

Unlike "Hot Zone" (mentioned by previous reviewers) this book is non-fiction and written by an expert.

The story provides any would-be epidemiologist with a realistic view of the problems and challenges that are likely to be encountered. (Though it is unlikely that he, or she, would experience this much adventure in one lifetime - Peters is the James Bond of epidemiologists!) When dealing with communities of people with varying cultural and religious beliefs, not all of the challenges are of a scientific nature.

Reading this book is well worth the time - and particularly recommended to young people thinking of entering the field of medicine. There can be more to life as a doctor than cursing HMOs and tracking a swollen stock portfolio!

C.J. Peters retold the years of battling emerging infections very well. He explained what the clinical symptoms of the disease were, as well as any additional scientific info about the virus itself. He also told of his battle to stay married while hunting these viruses. I would certainly recommend this book to any aspiring virologists out there, or anyone who is just interested and wants to remain informed.

If you thoroughly enjoyed "The Hot Zone" and are now wishing to learn more about viruses (without taking a course) this is the book you're looking for. Scientific, yet entertaining and humane, it is a rare find. Dr. Peters has an extraordinary ability to explain his concepts in such a clear manner as to make it possible for the lay person to understand. I recommend it highly.

Iai: The Art of Drawing the Sword is good as a refresher, at best. Craig opens his tome with some personal history and stories, which is a fine method of doing things, until he brings his own opinion into it. He gives the impression that spiritualism should account for most everything in iaido; as most practitioners are aware, spiritualism is only one aspect, and technique is equally or more important.

Throughout the book, Craig provides small interludes detailing Japanese history, and other information, some of which is accurate, some of which is very much exaggerated, and some of which is not true. While the thought was nice, he should have researched his facts more.

The drawings accompanying his descriptions of the kata are sketchy and vague; a beginner would have difficulty following them, although someone with grounding in another Japanese sword art such as kenjitsu may have better luck. However, with knowledge of the kata, or at least of the mechanics of the motions, a reader would find this book a helpful reminder, as long as he does not try to base his study entirely on this book.

Overall, this is not a terrible book, but there are much better on the subject, with regards to technique, illustration, and history.

This book covers a lot of ground! It includes everything from every part of a Japanese sword, seppuku, how the blades were tested (and includes more humane tests one can do at home in this modern age), along with taking care of the blade, dos and don'ts as well as some great history. Great book, I highly recommend it!

This book offers a lot of great information. It starts with care of the blade, and a little history. It then progresses into several basic techniques, a history of ritual suicide, the 47 ronin and how the old blades were tested on prisoners, their results printed on the tang (I have actually found blades with such ratings on them). It also covers identifying marks on blades, what to look for when looking at a historic sword and more.

Worth every penny I spent for it.

The first 200 pages of this book had me on the "edge of my seat". The combination of mystery and almost-horror genre was excellent and the pace was just right. Diana's struggles and relationships with both the "hunt" and the others were actually easy to relate to. Unfortunately, the story fell apart in the latter pages with a very weak ending. The reliance on the "power" and the mystical strength of both Diana and the antagonist were just a bit much for me. The book moved from a credible human suspense with believable characters and action to a superhuman or supernatural non-thriller by the end. By the time the climax occurred, I cared little about who won or whether I read the rest of the book. Sullivan also spent very little time on characterization of other players in the book...only the painfully long descriptions of Diana's past. This book reminded much of Congo...great start...poor finish.

I read this book simply because it is nearly impossible to find solid novels centered upon hunting. It has always intrigued me that though millions of Americans hunt, very little quality fiction embraces the subject. Reasons? I don't think it has anything to do with the media stereotype of hunters as illiterate rubes, because well-studied statistics generated for marketing purposes demonstrate that most avid hunters have degrees beyond highschool diplomas. Rather, I believe that hunting is an exceedingly difficult topic to realistically render into good fiction. Anyone who hunts, as does the author Mark Sullivan, knows that the hunt is a visceral experience. Those of us who hunt, whether we admit it or not, have chosen to unroof instincts that, while at the very core of human existence, lay utterly dormant in most modern folk. There is precious little writing after which a hunter/author can model his or her work. If this book seems to beat the old hunter-as-psychopath-man-as-most-dangerous-predator/prey bit to death for the umteenth time, it's likely because that's the only well-established formula out there. I think Mr. Sullivan's characters seem a bit wooden, and the scenes a bit disjointed and clumsy, precisely because he is struggling to break free of this tired storyline. I hope he tries again, because he's really onto something.

I picked up this book on a whim, and I'm glad I did. This is a fast, engrossing read. The mystery was fairly easy to figure out early on, but it was interesting to see the characters process the clues and find the answers. A very strong female main character didn't overwhelm the story but pulled it all together. A fair amount of violence is involved, so if that bothers you, you might want to skip this one.

You're more likely to have seen Silence of the Lambs than Manhunter, though it's Manhunter that is closer to the life Douglas has lived. Douglas hasn't had the benefit of a beachfront house and designer suits from the creator of Miami Vice. He's done much, much more. Joining the FBI in the last days of the Hoover regime, he has been one of those responsible for dragging it out a role as America's secret police. By recognising the motivations of serial killers and developing the science of describing them to narrow the suspect pool and predict their behaviour, he has added offender profiling to the weapons available to law enforcement. The cases described in the book are harrowing - Douglas hides no detail that helps the reader understand the techniques he uses, and makes no bones about his preference for the death penalty in such cases. He has long inhabited a world that most of us hope never touches our lives or those of our loved ones. He has emerged out of it sane and with clear-headed proposals for making our world safer. The writing style is clear, helped by Mark Olshaker, author of four crime novels. The book is already available in the UK in softcover.

I learned about this book while searching for information on the methods used by law enforcement personnel to catch the most unusual and baffling of criminals -- people who mutilate their victims or conduct ritual behaviors surrounding the murders. This is exactly what Douglas talks about in this remarkable book. Douglas championed the cause of behaviorial profiling, convinced that psychology could be used to predict future behavior; an idea that was previously greatly doubted in the scientific community. If you watch "The X-Files" you will see this method often reflected in Agent Mulder's investigations of ritual murders and other bizarre crimes. Douglas is also clearly dedicated to the use of solid, real world facts to support his methods. He does not engage in pure speculation, but uses the factual evidence he acquires to make a theory. Over time, as he finds flaws in his theories, he meticulously adjusts his technique to make his predictions work. This book should be a staple in the collection of anyone who is interested in criminal psychology, investigative techniques, or FBI methodology.

Douglas's career experience is anything but boring. Sort of a biographic story, Douglas tells how he struggled to find a career for himself and then stumbles his way into the FBI. He takes us through how the criminal profiling unit became a recognized unit under the FBI. However, don't get me wrong, the book is rich with terror as Douglas recounts the cases he worked with some of the most brutal criminals of our time. I never used to read for pleasure and since reading Mindhunter, I have gone on to read Obsession and Journey into Darkness (also written by Douglas and Mark Olshaker). I strongly encourage anyone who has an interest in criminology, to read this book.

This new title from Titan/Lucas books introduces some characters I have not seen in other Lucas books (I am a professional reviewer). Aurra Sing is a good character who we may get to see more about - she kicks off the first story. The ending was a might predictable however. The next story was of Lando, our old friend from Sky City, then a story about Boba Fett which I found rather boring. The last story is about Kenix Kil AKA Kir Kanos and is probably a prelude to further adventures of Kanos. An uneven collection, all out of different stables, Lucas books are usually of a higher quality than this. Rather disappointing which is why it has a low rating. One for addicts only!

Dave Dorman rendered the cover art for this work. Mr. Dorman is by no means the only artist that creates the visual work for this and other Star Wars Series, but I have always felt he is one of the best. I wish I could say the same for the collection of short stories profiling some old friends and some new, but that would be a stretch for even science fiction.

The books short stories vary greatly in terms of the quality of the stories, and several of the "Hunters" are worthy of their own books, as some of them have already enjoyed solo pieces with the focus on only one of their guild. Boba Fett has already extended well beyond a few pages in a mediocre collection, and his character enjoys a following that is almost as large as the gap between his skills and those of his fellow hunters. He is in a class by himself, and I believe that is how he should be portrayed.

There are two newer entries that were not part of the original trilogy and they both seem to have strong futures. The first is Aurra Sing who appears to be headed to a level of performance second only to her male counterpart Fett, and then Kenix Kil, who brings the whole storyline of the Imperial Guards that were seen in the first movies, but never spoke or revealed anything about their elite group. This same character has appeared in the "Crimson Empire Series" which I feel is one of the better groups of collections.

One of the three of these I read recently covered in detail the work that goes into the cover art. It also documented how careful Lucas and his people are to be sure that characters have consistent visual appearances. In this work that quality control stopped at the cover as far as Lando Calrissian was concerned. I don't know who was drawn for that episode, but this guy didn't even look like a distant relative. Very often the level of enjoyment I get out of these is determined by the quality of the art, and I think that is appropriate given the level of effort involved. And I guess that is why I continue to be mystified that you can read one book and the renderings are as faithful to the characters as film, and then pick up another volume and view images drawn with no care given to the fact that a real actor played this part, in many cases for hours at a time on screen. Who they are and what they look like are not open for interpretation. When they are badly rendered you have to wonder how they ever got approved.

Want a guide to the notoriously infamous benefactors feeding off the rage of others, dealing exclusively with an eclectic montage of bounty hunters from all species and all walks of life? Well, this just be the book for you then. It pits not on the popular into a world of hunting and trying to survive, but it also sports newcomers as well, introducing its reader to why these faces are revered as some of the most successful seekers in the business. First there's the lovely Aurra Sing, Jedi-hunter extraordinare, capable of capturing the most elusive prey in the best and worst of conditions. In fact, she makes a great deal of sport out of it, finding herself capable of outwitting even the most dangerous proponents. This is something she finds herself entwined in now, the calling card of the face she seeks taking her to Endor and beyond. Switching gears, see how Bossk, Dengar, and 4-Lom work into the plans of Quaffag the Hutt as he decides to deal once and for all with Lando Calrissian while playing games that Hutts are known to play. Then its off to see the most reviled of the feared in action, with Boba Fett finding himself needing to take out a little trash by the name of Jodo Kast; a bounty hunter who thinks that he's in the same league as the man with the Mandalorian armor. Lastly, we join Kenix Kil as he makes his way through the remnants of the empire disguised as a bounty hunter, the last of the Imperial Guard left in circulation and one of the most dangerous men alive, still loyal to his oath of destroying all those enemies of the Empire years after the Emperor's departure.

All the stories collected within these pages are good despite being short, with Aurra Sing, Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction, and Kenix Kil rating within the praiseable ranks. Of these three, I'm partial to the telling of the Boba Fett story because it is written well and is drawn well, plus its dealing with the most infamous of the big kids. Aurra Sing comes in a close second with Kenix Kil right behind her because these stories are done well themselves, and they are also about characters that many haven't yet tasted that much. Scoundrel's Wage, while an interesting story in some rights, doesn't do much in regard to bounty hunters at all and only explains how Lando manages to get himself into Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi. It paints the hunters out as ineffective and is more about Lando himself and the cunning he possesses than the minions commanding the high dollars.

If you find the forces working outside the boundaries of both good and ill, then this might be something you'd like to check out. All the stories are pretty good in this TPB form, and the Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction tale needed to be harvested for quite some time now. So, sit back, barter on the outcome of who will and won't taste the talents of the figures lurking in the shadows, and read up on some rather exquisite struggles. For the Star Wars seeker, it is something that comes highly regarded.

I am a college student that has recently started armchair investing. This book really made the process understandable allowing me to open an account at an online brokerage firm. I however fell short of giving the book five stars for the writers political comments ei. His distaste for Merill Lynch for their boycott of investing in South Africa during apartheid.

This book is your standard issue Storyteller guide. Complete with Q&A, essays on changeling, alternate histories and locations, etc. While I am a big fan of Changeling, I must say that this book is a very average addition to the series. Nothing really revoltingly bad (Like the editing in "Inanime; the Secret Way), nothing really extradordinarily good (Like the... well Changeling doesn't really have a great book). Just a very average book with some nice ideas. Get it if you must, skip it if you must. No difference.

A good source of quick information, especially for beginners, including knots, equipment and water situations.