I originally thought that the main focus of this book would be about veterinarians, in fact, it covers the whole range of animal related careers, from working in a pet store to becoming a vet, and all the places you could go after you've become a vet. It has a very helpful chapter on the process of getting in to vet school. The financial aid and acceptance policies are different from those of other schools, and all fall under a single overseeing board for all the schools. All the schools are listed here along with contact info for each. All very detailed.

Robert E. Lee's daughters are the subject of this beautiful and poignant book. So touching is the correspondence between the General, his wife and daughters that you feel like an interloper. The lost art of letter writing as praticed by the Lee family gives a vivid picture of Antebellum, Civil War, and Recontruction-era social history.

The Lee Girls by biographer Mary P. Coulling is the informed and informative story of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's four daughters: Mary Custis Lee; Eleanor Agnes Lee; Mildred Childe Lee; and Anne Carter Lee. Diaries, letters, paintings, and other contemporary records were utilized as primary source materials upon which to base an bibliographically historically accurate narrative of these women's lives through girlhood, the horror of war, and the era of reconciliation and rebuilding. A truly excellent and well balanced chronicle, The Lee Girls is a welcome and highly recommended addition to American Regional History, Civil War Studies, and Reconstruction Era Studies collections and supplemental reading lists.

Enjoyed the time frame of the book. It was not just the girls during the civil war period but also gave attention to the sons as well. The black and white photos were a plus but I wish the author had featured photos of the two surviving daughters in later life. This is an excellent well researched book into the lives of four charming girls of American history.

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.

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.