This book originally was a collaboration between Kato Kaelin and the author. Eventually the two men had their differences and this book was issued without Kato's approval. Also, the book came out in 1995 before the verdict was reached in the criminal trial. Mr. Eliot does a good job of demonstrating how Kato when questioned by Marcia Clark gave a much different version of reality than he did to the author. Fear, gratitude to O.J. and self promotion appear to have won the day with Kato.

This book has much information which is not common knowledge. From this book a person gets a much more accurate view of life with Kato, O.J. and Nicole than press reports provided. Nicole's day to day life is portrayed and her various likes and dislikes. Kato's life with O.J. is also shown. Kato accompanying O.J. to film shoots, football games and other activities is documented. Various confessions of both Simpsons to Kato are recorded here. Some information is given about each of the four Simpson children. In short, if one is looking for little known personal information about the Simpsons and Kato, this book provides it.

Kato's Attack and Kill offers the low-kyu player the insight of the feared professional who earned the name "The Killer." Many books discuss attacks and threats, but this one gives us explicit examples of actual kills, as well as the tesugi essential to effect them. Attack and Kill will help kyu-level players work toward Shodan and solidify their understanding of the balance of power, and will offer Dan-level players a discussion of a topic rarely mentioned elsewhere.

The material is presented well, and the book is enjoyable to read.

Being brand new to the art, I wanted a working background guide to quickly provide a foundational knowledge from which to build. This book goes well beyond! Well illustrated with pruning, training, propagating techniques, and traditional styles, it provided a superb basis for getting started. The only thing I wish it would have included was a section on "before and after" (to guide one on where to start in the initial pruning process, or "how to select a plant and how to indetify the style that might best fit a particular shaped plant". If your just beginning, this would be a great first step!

This book is the most over rated book I have yet to find on Amazon.com. I was so excited about this book when I read the great reviews, only to become very disappointed when I got it. It really did sound promising!! I really am surprised at all the great reviews it has received.

Any reader of self-help books, will see that there is absolutely nothing new or different about this book. It is written in a very elementary style that is almost insulting to a person's intelligence. The "tests" at the end of the chapters seem as if they are written for a child.

Throughout the book the author is constantly referring to MDM$...which is code for Million Dollar Mindset. It is mentioned so often, you feel as if you have purchased an advertisement for her company instead of an informational book.

Bottom line advice: SAVE your money!!

The author discusses many of the challenges she has overcome in her life, and offers a fresh approach to sweeping through achieve satisfaction in life. Her book has numerous tips highlighted throughout that provide useful information and direction. Two of these were of specific and immediate use to me increase my business and decrease stress and clutter. Her writing style is easy to read, and contains many unique, helpful, insights.

Since meeting Cathy one year ago I have learned how to deal with my elderly Mother -I hope my kids won't have to deal with me in the same way.
My Mother had me on a yo-yo until Cathy taught me how to give her boundaries that she didn't even realize I was doing. We actually can enjoy each other's company now. Cathy has also taught or I should say is still teaching me to set priorities for Rhoda and to put Rhoda first. This is a difficlt step for me but I am getting there. Her book is helping too. That is a must for anyone who desires to improve themselves in business orpersonal life. It is EXCELLENT./// Rhoda Collier,Consultant

If you like News Of The Weird, then this book may very well be for you. It's a collection of sometimes painful, sometimes fatal tales of woe and strangeness. In these pages you'll find the story of the Muncie, Indiana woman who shot off her own big toe (she had a callus), a professed UFO abductee who killed two people and then suggested the death penalty for himself as a way of proving his tale, various idiot crooks who found themselves stuck in very bad situations, the various bizarre ways in which people can get caught sans clothes and all the weird lawyer moments you could ever want. A terrific collection for the bathroom bookshelf - there are chuckles, howls, winces and agonies galore. --Reviewed by Steven McDonal

I was reading this book while riding in the car with my family. My father had to pull over to the side of the road because he was laughing so hard. As for those other headline books (Jay Leno and This Is true), they don't compare to how funny this book is.

The pictures are undoubtedly the best feature of this book: they're clear, bright, colorful, and most-importantly, helpful. The text and recipes are easy to understand, although not flawless; occasionally, they read like poorly-translated stereo instructions.

However, the author has strangely neglected several of the most common types of sushi. There's absolutely no mention of fresh salmon (sake), yellowtail (hamachi), grilled eel (unagi), or even tobiko. Some of the more popular rolls in the USA, such as spicy tuna, California (crab & avocado), and spider (crab tempura) are also missing. A section on sashimi would've been nice as well, but no luck.

Rice, the basic ingredient of any sushi, only gets three pages in the back, and they're all in black-and-white (unlike the glorious color photos used for everything else).

In short, it's a nice presententation, but woefully incomplete.

This book is an excellent guide in teaching you how to make sushi. There are literally hundreds of pictures in the book. You will find all of the typical edomae-sushi and "rolls" that you get at a Japanese restaurant. It will take you step by step through each of these, from selecting and making the rice, forming the rice balls, cutting the fish, choosing the fish, making sushi rolls, etc. I have been making sushi for myself and friends for over six years, and it started with this book. I highly recommend it for a "do-it-yourself" type person. One last tip: go to an oriental food store and get quality soy sauce, rice, seaweed, etc. It makes a BIG difference.

I've bought numerous books on Flash and the Dynamic Scripting that can be intermingled with Flash.... Flash 5 ActionScript F/X and Design, Flash 4 Creative Web Animation, and different Wrox books on ASP, ASP databases, and ADO. This book ties ALL of them together. It explains motion scripting for beginners, and then it shows how to import variables from ASP, PHP, Perl, and Cold Fusion. These 1000+ pages contain EVERYTHING you want to know about Flash, it it with out a doubt, THE BEST FLASH BOOK EVER CREATED!!!! It even branches out Flash to other programs like Dreamweaver UltraDev and Generator, it explains how to display information from databases using Flash Turbine. If you read this book, you will be a master at Flash.

An excellent book! Well worth the investment! It transitions well from more basic concepts to more complex topics -- With lots of substance for people at all levels of experience. Even those with more expertise can learn a thing or two from the different conceptual approaches presented. The book is not just about "here's how to do the same old boring X, Y & Z, just in the updated version of Flash", it also says "here's some different ways of thinking about solutions that takes greater advantage of new features of Flash". I also really enjoyed the mini math and geometry lessons... it's good to know that years of high school algebra and geometry could be put to some use!

The interface design chapters were particularly outstanding; judging by how awful so many Flash sites are at integrating interactivity, PLEASE!! I BEG YOU!!! everybody read the chapters on designing interfaces! They are a "must read" for anyone who wants to improve their site's interactivity.

The game design chapters are also incredibly helpful as well, and I think are some of the first useful explanations of game design I've ever seen for Flash. Even if you're not designing games in Flash, using a familiar game like Asteroids as a vehicle for explaining some pretty clever design elements works very well. Not to mention, it's very cool to be able to make your own video games! Flash isn't just for dull corporate websites anymore!

I'll be incorporating the lessons learned from those chapters into all the stuff I do... even though I only get to do very boring stuff for a corporate site. And if I use what this book teaches, maybe someday I can get hired to make games and do cool interfaces!!! :)

If you are a newbie,......their are other alternatives that will get your feet wet, but if you are a practicing Flash developer and have a firm understanding of ActionScript...this book will inspire you to build real dynamic Flash apps. It touches on Flash Javascript methods, Flash and textfiles and goes into server side middleware solutions like, CGI,Perl and PHP. It also introduces you to database integration. This book gives you real world solutions, which maybe a bit elementary, but overall it lays the foundation for you. I found this book to be inspiring and to be the book which pushed me to learn CGI,PERL,PHP and MySQL. If your looking to build real dynamic/interactive Flash applications or websites this is the book.

This book is a perversion. It is an affront to Nicole and Ron's memory. I bought it thinking it would have accounts from akita knowledgeable people relating their opinons about the case. Not so. It is supposed to be done in cheek yet I see nothing funny about the murders of two people. There are excerpts in their that are perversions. I don't believe in censorship but would make an exception in this case. If I ever find it at a library I shall check it out and burn it to save others the fate of seeing it. No research about akitas was preformed before publishing obviously and I don't think the person that wrote it even likes dogs. To top it off the writting is horrible. One run-on sentence was 2 pages long! My opinion is don't waste your money or time. My copy shall be used as TP. It is not fit for anything else.

I loved the premise, because I remember back during O.J.'s trial, people were saying if only the dog could talk, he could identify the killer. Well, this dog does. I won't give it away, but it is right on. Kato even has a website that is updated a lot,...

My favorite part has got to be the chapter that takes off on what Faye Resnick, Nicole's best friend, wrote in her bestseller, that Nicole and she had a single 'physical' encounter after a wild night of drinking and whatever.

In the dog's version, Faye gets confused and drags Kato into her bed. Very funny.

This was the best book I have read in a while !!!
2 thumbs up !!!!!!!!!!!! KATO

I found this book surprisingly flat. It was an enjoyable enough read, but Kato seems to be more interested in dropping names than building stories. Chang's copious footnotes demonstrate this aptly -- she adds information on writers that you never "hear" from again. I would have enjoyed hearing more story-building details from him about his friends, life abroad and in Japan, career, marriage.

I would have given 'A Sheep's Song' five stars if I hadn't expected something much different. But what I got was refreshing and at times philosophically profound. It is difficult to recommend the autobiography of a person you have probably never heard of, and even more difficult because I expected a concise look at Japan over the last seventy years through the eyes of one of that country's great thinkers. Little did I know how much he yearned to be away from Japan, if for no other reason, to learn to appreciate it more through his absence. What Shuichi Kato provides is an in depth look into his reasoning for wanting to be away from Japan and a detailed account of his life and in the process gives the reader a taste of Japan's contemporary history and the adventures of a Japanese abroad throughout Europe. Of particular interest is Kato's perspective on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This section is worth reading the whole book for. While not for everyone, 'A Sheep's Song' is recommended for those looking for a world perspective that is intriguing and entertaining.

I found this autobiograhpy to be an interesting view into the life struggles and journey of Kato Shuichi. I feel the translation was done quite well and was deeply moved by the details and insight the author put into his autobiography.

Reading A New Woman, one does wonder who Hopper is more interested in, Kato Shidzue or Margaret Sanger. While Helen Hopper does effectively portray Kato as a pioneer of safe, somewhat reliable "family planning" methods in Japan during a revolutionary era in that country's history, she does not prove that Kato's efforts were as radical (rather, controversial) as her American counterpart, Margaret Sanger. Indeed, Hopper contends that, in Japan, birth control was virtually a non-issue lost among the political struggle between the civilian government and the strengthening military right. So what's the big deal? Why am I reading this? -It is nonetheless an interesting social history on the changing role of Japanese women in the twentieth century. 3 stars.