I need to disclose up front that Jack Katz was a friend of mine. I met him while studying for the Washington State bar exam in Seattle in 1980 and we kept in touch over the next two decades as I popped in and out of Seattle. That said, I am genuinely impressed at what he accomplishes in Capitalist Dogs.

Seldom does non-fiction succeed for the reader on so many levels. Jack looks at finance, of course, but from the perspectives of law, psychiatry, economics, political science, public relations, industry and sales. A painless way to learn a subject considered arcane to the masses (myself included), this particular gem is just as worthwhile an investment of your time for all its sparkling wordplay, characterizations and imagery.

Nor is Jack's witty effort a mere standard textbook rehash! In the wake of the Enron fiasco, it could serve as a new primer for investment. (In fact, some of his observations are positively uncanny, written as they were before that scandal.) Would it be too bold to suggest that Capitalist Dogs be assigned as a first semester text to finance majors, much as Karl N. Llewellyn's The Bramble Bush for many first year law students?

If so, some effort will need to be made to ensure that the URL web links sprinkled so generously within are kept current. Other references which may tend to date this tome are less problematic: Dr. Greenspan is likely to remain a larger than life legend for some time and the position of Chairman of the Federal Reserve as important as that of the imperial Presidency.

I will miss Jack. I knew him, but I didn't really know him. I visited Montreal with my wife last year as Jack and his wife Leslie had recommended so long ago. News of his demise came too soon afterward.

In retrospect, it was his natural enthusiam that made Jack stand out. That quality is apparent in his book as well and that is also why I can praise it so wholeheartedly. Perhaps I was overly eager to read it: I wanted to come to know Jack better than I did, but I believe that we finally succeeded in making a lasting connection.

Chevy

I never thought I would enjoy a book about finance until I read Capitalist Dogs - A Financial Fable. Jack Katz has written a brilliant, witty, irreverent and highly informative book about the complicated world of finance that is finally easy to understand and totally entertaining! I didn't feel as if I were wading through intellectual quicksand to be able to grasp the vast amount of information that really is necessary to become savvy about the stock market and what we are being told by those who are supposed to be "in the know". The book is filled with memorable animal characters, a la Aesop's Fables, that give substance to each concept the author explains. His animal characters provide mental portraits that enable the reader to recall difficult financial concepts through his rich visual descriptions. No sacred financial guru or ivory tower institution is spared by Mr. Katz. I have found it really useful as a reference guide as I peruse the morning financial pages. There is something in this book for everybody, from new investors to seasoned veterans. I really enjoyed this book!

This handbook is concerned with clinical practis of audiology. It provides a through revision for basic audiological evaluation procedures such as audiometry & impeancemetry. Special test battery , Central auditory testing, Evoked response audiometry and auditory rehabilation measures including hearing aids and assistive lesitining devices all have been disscused in very comperhensive and fruitfull manner. However its chapters concerned with Otoacoustic emissions and cochlear implantations - in my point of view - are insuffecient and in need for more deepinig. It is an important text for every audiologist

The problem with a lot of people is that they do not get in touch with their own emotions and the causes a lot of problems later. This book will give the insight to be emotional intellegent and how does emotions work in our lives. Enjoy reading it.

Traditionally, emotions were seen as a topic unworthy of study by Sociologists, who saw emotions as "irrational." Recently, emotional experience has been retrieved as integral to social life, however, no analyst has managed to capture the nip and tuck of emotional experience as katz has. Drawing on Freudian theory, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenology, he shows how emotions influence social life through both their situated and their transcendent relevance. Must reading for any researcher who hopes to get a handle on this elusive phenomenon.

While this book is clinical in nature, it is very helpful to the lay person in understanding different types of auditory processing problems and what their effects are on individuals. There are many different types of graphs, plates, tables and figures which assist in understanding different types of behavior and management and some crossover to ADHD and why. The diagnosis is better understood along with the various auditory therapies available and necessary to assist in training a person deficient in certain processing areas. The authors do a good job in explaining the tests for CAPD and what the evaluation results are based on.There is also an excellent reference list after each particular section for further reading based upon these authors' research, etc. There are many strategies for success for individuals with CAPD; this book covers so many questions from the neuroscience to evaluation to the relationship to specific learning problems to treatment and management.

I've read The First Kingdom series three times. I have six autographed prints by Mr. Katz. I usually spend hours looking at each drawing and immersing myself into his world. He is not easy to follow and I guess I have never really figured out why his world exists. Something about post-apocalypse changes in the universe. It really makes no difference... fantasy is fantasy. I always feel as I read his work that I am not just reading a comic, but participating in a life work, a internal dream that is being shared. I wonder what has happened to Jack Katz?

Jack Katz writes an informative, concise and easy to understand book to the criminal mind. He explores the real question of WHY criminals do what they do; what drives and motivates them, and what goes through their minds before, during and after they have committed a crime. His research is complete and impressive.