This book is an absolute necessity if you follow UTAH/BYU football. The rivalry is vividly painted with the book. It is almost an entire history of this tense rivalry. Rosetta and Miller are particularly good at taking the UTAH or BYU view in each chapter. The book synopsis is correct on the cover of the book--each chapter makes you laugh and cry, disagree and agree, and protest and cheer (it all depends on which side you are on!). This book does not take sides, UTAH/BYU fans will love one part of the book, and hate another part of the book. READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they

....although, nothing could have predicted the tragedy of Sept 11, and the ensuing military action against Afghanistan, there are plenty of theorists who have predicted that momentous changes will come about because of our computer age. Many of these philosophers, scientists and artists come from the French theorist group that have included folks like Jean Baudrillard, Foucoult, Camus and the like, who some like to call postmodernists, other like to call deconstructionists and still others may call death mongers. Another of the greats from this group is Paul Virilio whose work should be taken a closer look by all of us...

He is a multi hyphenated type. An architect-artist-theorist-writer-dromologist. He is somewhat of an mentor to the big time Cybertheorists John Armitage and Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. He was born in Nantes France where he witnessed the Blitzkrieg by Hitler's army and other WW II bombings. This has a lot to do with the forming of a lot of his thoughts. And for you here, I have a few salient points gleaned from his thoughts.

#Virtuality will end reality.

#Television is the medium (museum) of accidents. One exposes an accident on television in order not to be exposed to an accident, in order not to be exposed to an accident...

#Research in cyberspace is essentially a search for God and the unity of God.

#Wars are becoming more like Cyberwars and/or video game wars. Look at the Gulf War and the war in Bosnia.

#Technology will separate the mind from the body.

And there are thousands and thousands of insights Virilio has that are more than thought-provoking, to say the least. We should
take the time to read his work. He has said things that maybe will help us avert further disasters...

If you want to establish your web presence fast, this is a very handy book. The CD-ROM gives you all the templates you need, and covers almoust any kind of business. This is not a book on how to make a killer site, but it covers the basic marketing skills to attract clients on the net. I learned a lot in how to revise my own website.

An insightful glimpse into a quaint and beautiful land...the author provides a solid basis for exploration, and manages to capture the soul of a changing land and it's people. The photographs alone will make you add Yorkshire to your list of must-see places....see the town where the Bronte sisters wrote and lived, churches that date back to the 16th century, and seaside villages that were pillaged by vikings. Don't just put this book on your coffee table!

Peter really gets to the point of self-differentiation with his newest book. Personal branding is a topic the author knows well and shares with the reader the essential how to's. The topic is timely as well as easy to follow. This is a MUST HAVE book on how to MARKET. It should be the only book you read on Marketing.

Whether you are an independent professional interested in marketing your identity and services, or someone who is interested in improving their perceived worth at home or work, The Personal Branding Phenomenon is an invaluable tool.

Montoya points out clearly in his book how you can use your own strengths and identity traits to promote, improve, and shape a Personal Brand.

And it makes sense.

I can see how harnessing the power behind Personal Branding will be an awesome way to position myself to increase my freelance career and move up the corporate ladder at work.

As a manager, I can see how Branding can help my employees and make them more successful.

It's organic. It's natural. It's great.

Also, the book is very well written. It has great examples and comparisons that give readers an even better understanding of the philosophy.

This is a must read for small business owners.

It's a great book and well worth the money.

Not being one trained in marketing, I hoped Peter Montoya's book would guide me in developing a marketing strategy for my small business. It did much more than that. I now see how every area of my life influences my personal brand whether I am aware of the principles and insights in Peter's book or not. It has inspired me to take action.

I expected a serious book such as this to be work to read but it entertained me throughout. I particularly enjoyed the insight into why the personal brand of a person like Martha Stewart is vulnerable to revelations inconsistent with their image.

Bud, Not Buddy is an award-winning book written by Christopher Paul Curtis that takes place during the Great Depression. This was a period of history when the overall world economy was suffering. The main character in this story is Bud Caldwell, a ten-year-old orphan, who is transferred out of the Home (i.e., orphanage) to live with a foster family, the Amoses. After a short while, Bud finds it hard to get along with them. Therefore, he decides to leave the Amoses and go in search of a well-known musician, Herman E. Calloway, whom Bud believes is his father. That is when he stumbles upon a great discovery.
This is a book that is worth reading because the author makes the plot very unpredictable. For example, when Bud is in the Amos¡¦s shed, he finds what he thinks is a vampire bat. Because he does not want to get his blood sucked, he uses his jackknife to slice the creature. This fools the reader into thinking that Bud has just slaughtered an innocent animal. In reality, Bud has not killed a bat¡Xhe has cut off part of a hornets¡¦ nest and aggravated those living within. In addition, the author also does an excellent job in giving Bud a distinct voice. He purposely uses some incorrect grammar and other diction so readers can actually hear Bud talking to them. The techniques that Curtis uses make this story seem realistic.
This is an excellent book with many interesting incidents, but my favorite part occurs near the end of the book, when Bud shows Herman E. Calloway his collection of rocks with the writing on them that his mother had given him, which matched those that he had. This is the most suspenseful episode because at this point, Herman looks ready to give Bud a beating because he thinks Bud stole them from him, and Bud appears ready to prove that Herman is really his father. When Bud insists that he had received them from his mother, Herman demands that Bud reveal his mother¡¦s name. When Bud says that her name is Angela Janet, Herman looks stunned. Soon, Bud finds out that Herman is really his grandfather on his mother¡¦s side of the family, not his long-lost father. I found this discovery very surprising because Bud¡¦s constant conviction that Herman was his father led me to believe that he was right. Bud¡¦s finding a relative makes the ending of this book satisfying.

Bud not buddy is an excellent book. I choose to read this book because it sounded like a very good book. Bud, Not Buddy was a historical fiction novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book's setting takes place during the Great Depression and in many different areas in which Bud takes journeys to find his father. The book talks about his mother who died when he was very young and he has not yet ever known his father but finds out in the end that he actually meets his grandfather.
The people he meets at the end are relevant to the story because they are band members with his grandfather. I would say the themes of this book are determination, courage, and hope. No matter what life throws in Bud's way, he is always focused and determined to find his father. A surprise observation was in the end when you expected the man to be his father but in fact it was his grandfather which was a shock to me as the reader. The plot in the story kept you interested because you always wanted to know if he was going to find his father in the end. There is a lot of figurative language and vocabulary used in the story and Bud's "Rules" provided much laughter during the reading. I think the pacing and tone, as well as the sentence length and structure was appropriate for the grade level that this was set for.
I would recommend this novel to young children who may have never known one of their parents and that they should never give up hope in their search.

Bud Caldwell encounters many things such as hornet's nest, a big bully, and a train hop. This might sound foolish but there's always a reason for his remarkable actions and choices. I recommend this funny book for ages 8-12. I recommend it for ages 8-12 because it is neither a hard read nor an adult plot, but it wouldn't be interesting for teenagers. Nothing will stop Bud from finding his father. He always carries around many flyers of a band... will the flyers help him or work against his intentions? Bud is the main character, and a very confident ten year-old boy who has unlimited bravery. He has a lot of incorrect understandings, which, much of the time, turn out to be hilarious. He is named Bud, not Buddy, because his mother thought it would be more grown up for him. This book is set in the 1920's or 30's. Bud's courage and endurance taught me to keep on going, no matter what. Christopher Paul Curtis is a wonderful author, whose books are always a treat to enjoy. He writes his books in first person, just as a black child would. He has a lot of slang in his book such as, "My eyes don't cry no more." I think it makes his books a little bit of. I highly recommend this book in addition with, The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, for they are both funny and ad venturous. Happy reading!

I have a huge collection of how-to, business/career, self-help, motivational books. Honestly, I give up reading a book after few chapters because the material is too good to be true (or too difficult to follow in a practical manner). Many of these books talk about how to walk on the water that (now) I know is impossible. While this book talks about real practical stuff (too bad to be true)! It talks about what not to do in the workplace! I am really impressed. After reading, "Dangerous Company" cover-to-cover (out of my huge collection of books), I am going to read this book from top to bottom probably a few times. It is a great resource. Authors should publish a workbook that one can follow. I really like this book. I wish I had this book when I started my career in the USA ten years ago!

Himanshu Pandit

Many of us, including myself, spend a huge amount of time and energy trying to "get the job done" not realizing that some of the behavior patterns are making our work lives more stressful, less effective and in some cases making you---or your employee---a difficult person to work with.

I picked this up after searching online for a career transition book. The authors, two guys from Harvard, have written a really fantastic guide to managing your career. If you know anyone who has had negative performance review, has problems being a "team player" or if you are a manager that has an employee that everyone in the office perceives as "difficult", do yourself a favor and pick-up a copy of this book.

These guys have practical exercises and explanations for some of the bad behaviors we have at work---procrastinating, falling behind, constant feelings of stress or anxiety. Far from the "touchy feely" approach of many of the self-help schmaltz out there, these guys are from the business world and offer real steps and real solutions to modify the negative behaviors. (eg. you may be a natural worrier and never be worry-free, but you can cultivate new ways to process the worry so that it doesn't interfere with your "getting the job done.")

In my opinion, a must read!

I thought that there was a lot of really good content in Waldroop and Butler's "Maximum Sucess", in addition to a very logical organization and a cystal clear style of writing littered with concrete examples to make the points come to life. The book is divided into TWO PARTS, the first dealing with 12 behavior patterns that are destructive to one's career and the second dealing with the four underlying psychological dynamics that are the root causes of these behaviors. I find this organization to be very satisfactory from a writing perspective as well as from the standpoint of human psychology, that the roots of our behaviors are in our minds, in what we are mentally. I read the authors "Discover Your Career in Business" (1997) in October 1999 and it really helped me to understand my own interests and the kinds of positions in business which were a good fit for a person with those interests. The authors combine a deep knowledge of human psychology with an understanding of how business works, a rare combination. Ultimately, this is a book about knowing oneself, mastering one's character flaws, and becoming the kind of person one is capable of becoming; it is about self actualization and fulfilling one's potential, specifically in a business career. After reading their first two books, I can't wait for their next production! ---- Greg Feirman (Gfire77@yahoo.com)

Paul Kyriazi moves through the elements of living the James Bond lifestyle like a silken-sailed clipper ship in a fresh breeze. This 90 minute motivational tape is densely packed with practical information on personal improvement and developing a personal style--everything from organizing your thoughts to reading the wine list at your favorite Vegas hotel.

You can take or leave Kyriazi's specific advice on certain subjects (such as "Order the cheapest champagne by name so she won't know." Personally, my Bond Girl knows more about champagne than I do!) Still, 99% of this tape is an excellent primer for upgrading your life and lifestyle

Whether you are a Bond man or a Bond woman this book on tape is well worth the price. I'm only sorry it isn't on CD, since I expect I'll wear mine out. It won't make you Sean Connery, or Ursula Andress, but it will help to make you a better, more vibrant, you.

The single drawback of this tape is that "How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle" should be an entire series of lectures. You may not agree with everything Mr. Kyriazi says or suggests, but this tape certainly gives you food for thought. And a taste of Dom Perignon to go with it.

Enjoy!

I already consider myself successful having achieved many of my personal goals. And although I've been studying and achieving success for years, I had gotten stale and complacent. In other words I began to go into a dirty t-shirt wearing, couch potato mode. Then I bought this tape and, as absurd as it sounds, galvanized my entire life back into action and positive progress.

The important aspect of the tape (and book) is the re-programing of your mind and asserting control over your negative emotions. This sounds wishy-washy, but it's the real gem. Once you begin to ask yourself "what would James Bond do in this situation" it all falls into place. You will not believe the results and turn your life will take.

You begin to immerse yourself in a lifestyle that promotes action and excitement. You plan adventures, you dress well, you act (and then become) confident. You exude prosperity. Much of the by-product of all of this is attracting women.

This tape scratches the surface but it is one of the best. I then recommend you get the book. I have listened to and read a lot of personal improvement products over the years. This one has lots of realistic techniques: not just theoretical advice. Highly recommended.

This tape is one of the best I have ever got. I espected something different and was very surprised when I listened to it. It is a very serious self-help tape that gives a lot of useful and practical advice on how to creat a James Bond life style. In contrary to some expectations, it stretches the necessity of responsibility, especially dealing with women and money. Besides many serious issues, the tape is a lot of fun to listen to and therefore combines usefullness and enjoyment in one. I can highly recommend that not only to the many James Bond fans but also to everybody who wants to spice up his or her life.

I agree with an earlier reviewer that the book is a good reference and the overwhelming details contained in it make it difficult to get the basic fundamentals. The authors need to trim it down and focus more on fundamental principles. I feel at times the book is somewhat convoluted and hard to follow. This is sometimes the case with books that have multiple authors.

Another reviewer pointed out the over abundance of yeast molecular biology contained in he book. I again agree with this person. I realize yeast is where we learned a lot about eukaryotic molecular biology. But I wish the book focused less on yeast and more mammalian cell biology. People using this book are likely to be looking at careers in biomedical research or medicine. I think more mammalian biology would be more beneficial.

Why do all these textbooks have to have a CD to run the price of the book up ?

An excellent textbook with a very clear writing style. Includes excellent diagrams and photographs to illustrate the text. The best of the lot. Personally, I would put this book well ahead of the similar book by Bruce Alberts et al., for its clarity and bredth of coverage.

This book gives the average biology (or non-biology) student not only an overview of cell-biology, but gives in-depth information on nearly any subject regarding this matter.

It easy to read, starts on the basics before explaining complicated matters and it got the BEST illustrations i have ever seen in such a book!

My opinion is, that anyone only remotely scientifically interested in the subject of cell-biology should get this book!

James Brady, The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea (1990, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin edn., 2000)

This is a splendid little book about what one American statesman characterized, quite accurately, as "a sour little war." The reasons are clear. With the possible exception of the Falkland Islands War, no other conflict in the second half of the 20thcentury was fought over ground as consistently inhospitable as the three-year struggle in barren, frigid Korea. Author James Brady, who served as a Marine lieutenant there, describes the essence of the problem early in the book: "Hard enough fighting a war; in Korea, the cold could kill you." And he invokes the horrors of combat in the First World War and the Civil War when he makes this point: "In some ways, it wasn't a modern war at all, more like Flanders or the Somme or even the Wilderness campaign." Brady is a wonderful writer and creates marvelous word pictures of the war. Many operations took place after dark, and he writes: "The grenade, the knife, the shotgun, even the shovel and the axe were the weapons of night patrols." Brady also offers telling observations about matters important and trivial, including fearing the night as shells roared out "very low and directly overhead," feeling chagrined when he could not answer a colonel's question about the location of two machine guns which he commanded, using a wooden ammunition box as a toilet, urinating on his rifle to thaw it for firing, not changing underwear for 46 days while "on the line, living in holes," and subsisting for weeks at a time on c-rations. Nevertheless, according to Brady: "There was a purity about life on the line, a crude priesthood of combat." And he also remarks: "When you weren't fighting, the war was pretty good." Readers may be offended by some of Brady's recollection, including the incessant references to Koreans as "gooks" (except when he visits a village and addresses the inhabitants as "our Korean brothers"): The Korean bearers who deliver supplies to the line are known by everyone as the "gook train," and the universal eating utensil manufactured from a shell casing is known as a "gook spoon." Chinese soldiers always are "chinks." However, I found Brady's honesty engaging, even when it was politically incorrect. Brady's memoir is remarkably free of rancor, and, in fact, he appears to have respected his adversaries. Brady reports that some of the one million Chinese engaged in the war had been fighting continuously since the mid-1930s, first against the Japanese, then amongst themselves in the civil war which preceded the victory of Mao Zedong's Communists, and finally against the Republic of Korea, the United States, and their Allies. Nevertheless, Brady saves his highest accolades for his own First Marine Division, which he characterizes, without false modesty, as being "as powerful an infantry division as there had ever been in combat anywhere." Brady saves some of his most wry observations for superior officers, but he had unbridled admiration for his company commander Captain John Chafee, a graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, who later was elected governor of Rhode Island and then had a distinguished career in the U.S. Senate. This book is not about grand strategy, national policy, or the geopolitics of the early Cold War. It provides a very narrow view of the Korean War. But, taken on its own terms, as the account of one Marine officer's experience, it is excellent.

James Brady's "The Coldest War - A Memoir of Korea" is at once both a personal view and a writer's view. Brady spent a little less than one year as a Marine officer in Korea as a rifle platoon leader, company exec, intelligence officer and finally a company commander. We are fortunate to have a writer of his caliber tell us his innermost thoughts as he grew from a green 23-year-old Second Lieutenant into a very mature, and war-weary First Lieutenant (still 23 years old) leaving the war, all in the period of about ten months. By his own admission, he was not a hero, and equally by his own admission, he had no intention of becoming one. He merely wanted to be a competent officer, and live through the experience of a lifetime, making as few mistakes as possible on the way. He saw action, he saw death, he experienced the loss of friends and describes all of this in stark detail, with no frills. It is a description war as it is, not Hollywood's version, and one gets the sense that if others in combat could write the way Brady does, the stories would all be very similar, and our history of war would be much more complete. Brady does not mince words, and his descriptions divulge criticism of shortcomings of higher echelon decisions and higher ranking officers alike, not from spite or in a desire to get back at those he didn't get along with, but with a clear eye to failings of leadership and communication common in all military systems, especially during combat. Walter Cronkite says this book reads like a novel, but I disagree. There is no plot, no happy ending. It is a wonderfully descriptive and detailed book about the personality of the Korean War, a "police action" which is only now getting its due. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves history, and wants to learn more about Korea than can be learned watching all the episodes of "Mash" back-to-back.

The book is about one of the most miserable places in the world to wage a war. Korea in 1950 was unheard of by many Americans, but the U. S. Marines were sent there to help defend South Korea from the expected Chinese invasion. Those Marines will never consider the encounter a "Forgotten War." The terrain and weather made it far more treacherous than any of the island fighting in the south Pacific during World War II, and some Marines who fought in both places claimed Korea was a nightmarish land dreamed up by the Devil to pit humans against each other. James Brady, a 23 year old second lieutenant when he landed in Korea as a platoon leader, aged quickly during his tour in combat Being new to the Corps, he found some enlisted career-men were more knowlegeable than contemporary officers. He gives them all their due, but considers Captain John H. Chafee the real hero of the book. The personal hardships of Marines of all ranks on line, is interspersed with humor and horror, but the most memorable part of the book belongs to the adaption of a green newcomer into a seasoned combat veteran. Brady has a talent for sniffing out the phonies and laying his bets with the soldiers of silent professionalism. "The Coldest War" tells it like only this distringuished writer could. Each page gets the reader into the feel of the unforgiving environment. The cold, the steep hills, the constant time in the front lines takes the reader into the uncomfortable setting of blood letting, death, and the terrible stench of the country. It's a book you won't soon forget.