I rated this as a 2 only because you couldn't rate it a one and a half. I must admit the descriptions on both the covers say alot to attract you in. Unfortunately, I have to say that this book is not well liked by myself or the other 4 people, in my company, who reviewed it. The information is clearly the most basic, at best. I found that the authors severely lack in research experience and easily could have done a better job on this book. While reading through the sections covering computer security, bodyguards, private security, etc., I discovered that the authors, who have no practical job experience in these areas, painted a false picture in their descriptions.

This again shows lack of research and creative writing experience. The publisher has put out some much better law enforcement publications. Personally, I can't understand why they accepted the transcript from the these authors. I have put this book back on the shelf, where it belongs, and use it as a reminder of where "not" to go looking for this specialty career information.

If you're interested in law enforcement, but don't have the slightest idea where to start, you might get something out of this book. If you've taken any criminal justice or law enforcement classes, however, skip this one and pick up a book that isn't so elementary. The best book ever written on federal law enforcement positions is "Guide to Careers in Federal Law Enforcement," by Thomas H. Ackerman. Your chances of getting a job in federal law enforcement will increase substantially if you have the information presented in Ackerman's book. Those who want to be municipal cops should consider "Police Officer," by Hugh O'Neil. Although O'Neil's book is quite basic, there is some good information about getting into police departments.

This book is a good explanation of how to locate different law enforcement jobs. It's easy to understand and well written. Great book.

The book is a personal account of an American trapped in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. One expecting lengthy details on life on the Japanese home front will be disappointed. Only a very small number pages give one much information on life in Japan during WWII. To be blunt, I thought the book was pretty boring.

This tightly edited volume of Mary Tomita's letters is an important and very necessary addition to the field of Asian American Studies. Exploring the wartime experiences of Mary Kimoto, a young Nisei (second generation Japanese American) from rural California who travels to Japan and is subsequently trapped in that country during World War II, the letters in this book give tremendous voice to the experiences of this Kibei woman. Kibei were Japanese Americans partially educated in Japan before returning to the US to reside permanently. While the exact number of Kibei is unknown, they are estimated to have numbered into the thousands. While many Nisei went abroad for study tours (kengakudan) sponsored by local immigrant newspapers, an relatively smaller group went to Japan for long-term study or work. Full of warmth, humor, and pain, Tomita's letters to her best friend Miye betray the somber realities of being a minority among the Japanese. It adds a unique chapter to the history of American racism, the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, and Japanese history. All this, and so much more. This was a wonderfully crafted, expertly edited text that should be on the shelves of anyone interested in issues of biculturalism, racism, and Japanese American history. I cannot recommend this book enough, and will be sure to assign it in my university courses.

I found myself bursting into laughter thoughout this book. I know some people may like the dialogue, but it really ruined the entire mood, if there was one, for me. If you want one word to describe the dialogue, it's 'inane'.

I borrowed this book from a friend who said it was pretty good (of course, she reads dictionaries for fun) and began reading. It seemed okay at first, albeit a bit boring. The further I got in this book, the more I wondered if this was some author's idea of a practical joke. The plot was crazy - there was very little of it and the little that existed was confusing and/or cliched. The characters are so wooden you could build a bridge out of 'em (sorry, random Monty Python quote).

Oh, and one of them is named Rhys. I loathe that name.

I would love to give you some examples of just how laughable this book really sounds, but I gave the book back looong ago. It's the only one I've actually returned to her within the same week I borrowed it, which tells you something. In fact, the only reason I finished it at all was that I was incredibly bored and that dialogue was hysterical.

All right, I'll stop harping on the dialogue.

The monster itself, which is not a monster after all, is thrown in there so randomly that I was left scratching my head (metaphorically) and staring at the book in surprise when I finished. Much of the plot seemed random, when I could follow it. I love fantasy, but books like these make me start to question my faith in the genre.

In closing, I hope the rest of the series is better than this...although I doubt it could be worse. If you're ever depressed and want something to cheer (or crack) you up, just pick up this book. They should rename it "How Not To Write A Fantasy Story".

This book is about an apprentice to the embroiderer Dame Araglas named Sarita and a ranger named Rhys and their adventure in Var-the-Outer.

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This book provides a very good introduction to the Scopes Case mentioning everything from the plan hatched by George Rappelyea and various Dayton, TN businessmen, to the brilliant yet caustic Clarence Darrow, to the quiet John Scopes. The only bad point to this book is that it is quite one-sided. It portrays William Jennings Bryan as a buffoon,and the country people of Tennessee as illiterate. Bryan was probably the greatest orator of his time as well as a lawyer, not a buffoon. Otherwise this book was very good at giving an overview of the case.

Upholding the dignity of the rural Tennessee audience while still assailing the antievolution efforts of the Fundamentalists, Mary Lee Settle's "The Scopes Trial" is also an interesting combination of pro-evolution and pro-south. One of the few works about the Monkey Trial to chastise both Darrow and Bryan, Settle takes the prosecution to task for challenging science and chiding the defense for stereotypical thinking about the people of Tennessee and the South. When it was published this volume was "highly recommended" for "Grades 7 up." Certainly the account of the trial is understated and her choice of excerpts fails to convey the great emotional and intellectual impact of the event. However, the coverage is unbiased and effectively conveys the tenor of the period. Although this is a "juvenile" account of the trial, Settle provides insights into the region of Eastern Tennessee circa 1925 matched only perhaps in a few accounts by native journalists during the trial. Given her target audience, this is certainly appropriate.

Family Nursing Practice was required reading for one of my Family Nurse Practitioner classes. Its interesing reading, but rather lightweight regarding useful material. The authors use frequent case studies and examples that are carried on throughout each chapter, which help to illustrate the important points and to hold the reader's attention.

I would to know what ver happen to Ray and Jane LaFontaine. Seem like Geral Posner is done very well for himself as author of many fine nonfiction but what ever happen to Ray and Jane they seem to just vanish. In Dallas last November I ask many people "what tehy think of LaFontaine theory" and they laufgh at me.

and who are you calling a 34 star loony???

you sound liker disonfo

Even by the standards of Weird Reviews, the "reviews" that this book has provoked below are so bizarre as to be suspicious in themselves -- is someone intent on creating the appearance that only a 32nd Degree Loony would bother with this book? Are the "reviews," in fact, part of some nefarious conspiracy??? Does it take a 33rd Degree Loony such as myself to recognize all this? In any event, the book is undeniably tedious and self-congratulatory, and I admittedly skimmed entire sections as the authors launched into ever-more-convoluted theorizing about Oswald's role in the assassination. I assume they did this because it's very difficult to publish A 500-Page Book when all you really have are A Couple of Pieces of New Information that could be summarized in three pages. The only things you really need to know, which I will now tell you, are that (1) the authors were responsible for bringing to light Dallas Police Department arrest records showing that the "three tramps" were, in fact, three tramps and not E. Howard Hunt and two aliens from Zeta Reticuli, and (2) the authors were also responsible for bringing to light the facts that in addition to the three tramps another derelict was arrested and placed in the same holding cell area as Oswald on 11-22-63, that he overheard Oswald commenting on a pre-assassination meeting about gun-running with Jack Ruby and another character (who was being brought through the holding area as Oswald made his comments), that he gave this information to police in Memphis in 1964, that he was interviewed by the FBI at that time but his story was discounted because -- mysteriously -- there was no record of his arrest in Dallas, that in 1992 the authors discovered his arrest records in Dallas and documented from a phone log that he was in the same cell block area as Oswald, and that he is still alive (or was in 1996). Anyway, that's about it for useful information, and frankly I wish the authors had fleshed out the facts in item #2 a lot more thoroughly instead of launching off in other directions. The part about "Oswald talking" hardly seems to me to be the sort of stuff of which hoaxes are made -- the gun-running is clearly established, what the derelict overhead Oswald say doesn't amount to much apart from the reference to Jack Ruby, the fact that the derelict told his story in Memphis in 1964 is beyond dispute, and the whole thing would've gone unnoticed if the authors hadn't discovered the derelict's arrest records nearly 30 years later and managed to locate him. So the authors' evidence seems to fit nicely in the overall scenario that Oswald didn't act alone, even if you reject 95% of everything else they have to say. This book is understandably unpopular with assassination researchers who have made their livings out of theories that the Three Tramps Who Weren't Really Tramps are the key to it all, but it does seem to me that the authors are responsible for some genuinely new and important evidence. There are some other interesting tidbits as well, and overall my assessment is that this book is worth your time so long as you're prepared for it to be six or eight times as long as it needs to be, very confusing at times and self-congratulatory to the point of being irritating. The authors also fail to make any connection between the assassination of JFK and the Roswell UFO crash, which was a big disappointment to those of us on the 33rd level of looniness. What's the frequency, Kenneth?

This book is written for young people, primarily adolescents. Ido not believe that any child should be exposed to this book; if thechild has suffered through a disaster and heard the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and wants to know if that is what s/he is going through, the disaster counselling resources available from FEMA and the Red Cross -- and mentioned on the last page of text in this book -- would be far preferable to reading this strange compendium. THIS BOOK HAS A MAJOR FLAW WHICH EXTENDS THROUGHOUT: IT FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PTSD IS A NORMAL, ALTHOUGH MINORITY, REACTION TO AN ABNORMAL OCCURRENCE. Only once do the authors state that at least 25% of disaster victims suffer from PTSD, and they completely fail to draw from this that PTSD is thus so statistically significant as to be a normal response, not some aberration. Instead, the authors broadly postulate and without citation to any autority,, on page 54, that "[t]he people most likely to develop PTSD are those who have difficulty acknowledging or expressing their emotions," thereby branding their young readers to see themselves as suffering from a mental illness, at worse, or at best from a personal flaw. More effective would have been a neutral phraseology such as "How a Disaster Makes You Feel," even if PTSD is an accurate diagnosis to an adult clinician. It is obvious, even prior to reading their biographies, that neither author is a psychologist. (But read on and discover that little of this book is even about a child's response to a natural disaster). The book also fails to recognize that different children have experienced different levels of destruction in a disaster, and that this external factor affects the severity of each child's response...Also of note is that of this book's measly 61 pages, 42 are devoted to cursory examples of different types of natural disasters (when undoubtedly the reader has only suffered from one and her/his parent has purchased this book to deal with it). The book is also primarily devoted to preparing for and surviving during the disaster, not POST disaster results. That portion of this book titled "After Disaster Strikes" does not commence until page 52! Even the reading list associated with this book is confusing. Of the 12 suggested books, all but one describe various prior disasters, and the 12th is Melodie Beattie's Codependent No More (clearly not a book for children). I cannot imagine what possessed the authors to write this peculiar book and then to call it "Everything You Need To Know About Natural Disasters and PTSD." Even more so, I am astounded and perturbed that it was ever published! IF THERE WERE SUCH A CATEGORY, I WOULD GIVE THIS NEGATIVE STARS.

Flying with baby gives little to no good information beyond what to put in the diaper bag and what to pack for snacks which I feel most parent already know. There is no good safety information or information about how infants fair health wise on airlines. The pamphlet is very fluffy and I believe most parents already know all this information.