I was truly disappointed in this text. While it may be appropriate for military use, I found it difficult to tranport the information and tactics to a civilian environment.

Given the events of September 11, 2001, there is no better text to read on the emergency care of WMD than this book. Intended for prehospital audiences, this information-packed book might also appeal to doctors and nurses. It covers the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons threats, and it has several good chapters on conventional explosive threats and burns. The excellent integration of WMD care into standard civilian prehhospital practice reflects the backgrounds of the authors, both (according to the bios) of whom have extensive EMS experience.

A must read for ANY prehospital/EMS or emergency care provider, regardless of job or positiion. This stuff is too improtant not to be well-versed in, and this book is the right ticket.

not a bad introduction for the amature panner, offers some inquisitive insight to the art of panning

This miscellaneous collection of stories is mildly interesting, but on the whole appears to be an exercise in putting daydreams down on paper. One or two of the stories have an interesting twist, but most are predictable. Some of the shorter works at the end of the book are pointless (the author admits this in the introduction). There are a number of typographic errors; spell checks available in most word processing programs should have eliminated these prior to publication.

The book presents a systematic technique to generate Jacobians for arbitrary serial manipulators. Unfortunately, the intuitive approach to Jacobian generation is not discussed, and readers with no alternative reference will have to follow their rather tedious method. Overall, the book is ok, despite small recurring errors.

This is the third Carcaterra book that I have read (Sleepers, Apaches) and by far the worst. The scenes in this book are so unbelievable, I found myself stressed about finishing the final 1/3 of the book. There is a stead-fast rule in this book: If a character has a name, he/she is probably not going to die. I feel Carcaterra realized this in coming to the end of writing, so he kills off several characters in a matter of pages.

I also feel that Carcaterra remembered that he introduced the idea of conspiracy from the other street boys in the late rounds of writing and realized that he had to kill their leader before moving forward.

Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone. I regretfully picked this book up in an airport bookstore based on my past experience with Carcaterra novels. This will be my last based on the fact that I felt he was whoring his writing out and begging for a movie deal with his latest work.

While waiting to board on my last flight from Houston to Europe, I bumped into this last work by Carcaterra. I did not read "Sleepers", so this was my first experience, but, regretfully, I am not going to account as a memorable one.

I am Neapolitan and the memory of the stories told by my Grandma of the famous "Quattro Giornate" (the four days of Naples)are still vivid in my memory.

Maybe my expectation was different, maybe to high, considering how sacred is this event in our minds: the conclusion was rather disappointing.

I noticed several criticisms already (the confusing geographical description, the mispelled Italian words) and I share this view, although I do not account for these to be crucial points in the assessment of the value of this book.

However, everything is so artificial and fake. I accept the romance between Nunzia and Connors, but the real story is a story of misery, starvation, blood and (how many) tears.

The Nazis look like puppets, falling under the shots of the clever Neapolitan kids: that is not true! How many died because of the ferocity of the German soldiers!

The whole plot seems to be taken from a Travel Guide. Only the most historical and touristic places are mentioned in the book. And how many common sayings about Neapolitans: the truth is the opposite; we hide our virtues and talk mainly of our flaws!

And then, it was not just kids: let's be realistic! There were several adults still around and, absolutely not mentioned in the book, the fundamental role of women (the mammas) was absolutely neglected: they were the logistic supply and the field hospitals at the same time.

There is a lot to say about the 4 giornate: Carcaterra scratched just the top rusty part of the lid .....

Lorenzo Carcaterra latest novel "Street Boys" is not just another WWII war story, Carcaterra's narrative is heart-wrenching nonstop action and the best I have read. This author has taken a piece of history and woven a fiction sure to touch the heart of every reader. It is 1943 and Nazi bombs have riddled Naples for months, now their orders are to level the town. Word has reached the German tank troops that the only live residents in the city are children. In an effort to ease their job, German planes drop individually- wrapped, poison-laced candy. From page one of Carcaterra's story, readers will cheer for these homeless hungry heroes as they fight for the only home they have known. What this ragtag troop of children accomplishes will astonish and enthrall and make you forever a committed Carcaterra fan...

Jon's life is full of detachment (many one-night stands, lots of drugs and partying), and suddenly, almost inexplicably he has a change of heart. He stops all his bad behavior and changes his life for the better. This forced plot development isn't entirely fleshed out enough for the reader to believe in it. The many editorial errors and preachy rhetoric detract from the potential of the story. I wanted to like the book, but overall it's just a skeletal, vapid, yet hopeful story.

To me this book reads like poetry. I am so glad to see that not everyone sticks to the same formula as everyone else who writes. It is really refreshing to get the opportunity to read such a unique piece of work.

I like this book because we all need to know that no matter what we do there is always hope for us if we find ourselves in a bad situation. So often, people feel that there is no outlet for their frustrations and this may lead to more deeds that are not condusive to healing. In Detatched, Jon comes around and realizes that no matter how bad his situation has become, there is hope for him to love himself again. African American gay males need this reassurance of hope since it seems on every turn we are constantly being knocked down either for being black, gay, or both. This book made me realize that these are just situations that we need to handle and that we can handle.

This book will appeal to everyone if they can be open minded.

Thanks to Lorenzo Robertson for a Great Book.

unbelievable....this piece of work has kept me moving to find peace of mind...so that i can "DETACH".

I have been reading Danielle Steel novels for several years, including the book she wrote about her son's life, and this overdrawn gossip column, The Lives of Danielle Steel, is complete junk. I wouldn't be shocked at all if the authors of this book never even read a Danielle Steel novel, which I consider "real" fiction. If you are a true fan of Danielle Steel don't even bother to read this book because it tells nothing about the author's real life.

Well lets just say that the two others, Vicki L. Bane and Lorenzo Benet have done a wonderful job dishing the dirt on Danielle Steel. Wow, she is human after all. Don't let this dirt change your feelings about her as an author-she's just a normal human being like the rest of us. Maybe she can dig up the dirt on these two authors and write about them. Now that would be something. Don't they have anything better to do, like getting interviews for "People" magazine?

All of these negative reviewers are missing the point. This book was written to show the interesting parallels between Danielle Steels life and the characters in her book. The book doesn't go out of its way to say that Danielle is a bad person - it's just saying, "look, her books are a lot like her life." You people should just relax and enjoy the parallels between life and fiction. This is a great book, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I'm also a Danielle Steel fan - I've read all of her books - and I now look back at them with a different eye, which is fun!

The best thing about this book is the preface by Charles Rosen. The rest it hugely disappointing. It is amazing how a poet can be so non-descriptive! How can any writer has been friends with both Mozart and Casanova and yet have nothing to say about them? One gets no sense of what life was like during the end of the 18th century at all. Even Da Ponte's own thoughts and motives do not come across. All that is left are petty political games at an assortment of different opera houses. Da Ponte's story is less amusing than the description of a single flirtation in the truly interesting and picaresque memoirs of his friend Casanova.

If you're looking for a concise overview of U.S.-Mexican relations (from the 16th Century to 1985) from the Mexican point of view, look no further. "The United States and Mexico," part of the "United States and the World: Foreign Perspectives" series, concentrates like a laser beam on Mexican motives and interests. In addition, aside from a score of typos and a badly composed section on the Mexican War, the book is exceptionally well-written.

However, if you're in the market for an accurate, balanced history of U.S.-Mexican relations, keep looking. "The United States and Mexico" will squander your trust and time with exaggerations, falsehoods, unsupported generalizations, and flagrant errors of judgment.

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