For those interested in getting a taste of organization development without previous behavioral science training, this is a great book. It deals with practical issues of the field that can be beneficial to potential practitioners such as external consultants, researchers and theorists, practicing managers, and even employees. This book touches on the important aspects of organization development but it does not delve deeply into them. So this provides a great overview and direction, but should not be the only book for those interested in the field. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get a taste of organization development.

This terrific edited book is aimed at a pretty small audience: disaster and trauma professionals. The book's chapters range widely in content and sophistication. The highlights are the chapters of no-holds barred, naming names, well-deserved criticisms of the profit-motivated trauma treatments of the day: EMDR, Field Thought Therapy and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. These are important views that won't get published in the professional journals. The chapters on trauma theories are less engaging, but largely cutting-edge. Some of the other chapters, such as the one on assessing the impact of trauma in work-related populations, focused more on technical sophistication than on having something meaty to say. If you are a trauma professional, you should find several chapters to justify the purchase price. But this is not a book for a general audience.