There's not a lot of information out there readily available on Inger Stevens' life, and from what Mr. Patterson writes, most of it is wrong anyway. According to his biography of the actress, Ms. Stevens herself gave out fictitious and occasionally contradictory accounts of her life to reporters and acquaintances, which must have made it hard to piece together a definitive account of what happened to her.

To that end, Patterson should be commended for his efforts to detail her story, and for his detective work into her mysterious death (which he states may have been a murder). This book's strength is its pooling of information on this often overlooked actress -- the compilation of personal letters, interviews with family and friends, reviews and articles from a variety of sources -- giving her fans and interested readers insights into her unique personality.

The book's weaknesses, however, are apparent in the writing and editing. The information is often presented in choppy, disjointed fashion, while the prose is at times awkward, repetitive and poorly punctuated.

These qualms aside, the facts of Inger Stevens' life not only speak for themselves, they shout how lonely and lost she often was. Even if she didn't take her own life, her long trail of badly chosen relationships only led one way. It's a sad story, and I appreciate the hard work Mr. Patterson invested to tell it.

This book dis-covers alot of materials-Buddhist and non-buddhist alike. The connections between Buddhism and phenomenology are astounding. But the book speads itself too thin by covering too much ground (the additional sections comparing Buddhism and post-modern ideas seems especially unclear and suspect). If the relatiosnhip between Buddhist ideas and phenomenology - Husserlian phenomenology that is, were given much more thought, it might be more focused and interesting.

This comes from William Doerner & Steve Lab's "Victimology" 3rd edition, published this year [2002]
from the third chapter, 'The Costs of Being a Victim.' Read it critically, because the casual reader is being
set up to accept history as contemporary fact. Look at the tense Doerner writes in, even though his
example is now thirty years old"

The Second Insult: System Participation

A victim's problems have only just begun if the case is processed through the criminal justice system. The
system extracts further costs as soon as people enter into the halls of justice. In fact, the plight of victims
and witnesses has led at least one prosecutor to chastise the system for victimizing its own patrons. Ash
(1972:390) describes typical system encounters in the following terms:

[T]he witness will several times be ordered to appear at some designated place, usually a courtroom
.... Several times he will be made to wait tedious, unconscionable long intervals of time in dingy
courthouse corridors or in other grim surroundings. Several times he will suffer the discomfort of
being ignored by busy officials and the bewilderment and painful anxiety of not knowing what is
going on around him or what is going to happen to him. On most of these occasions he will never be
asked to testify or to give anyone any information, often because of a last-minute adjournment
granted in a huddled conference at the judge's bench. He will miss many hours from work (or
school) and consequently will lose many hours of wages. In most jurisdictions he will receive at best
only token payment in the form of ridiculously low witness fees for his time and trouble.

Doerner & Lab use present tenses to describe something that happen thirty years ago, as if it happens
now. Karmen pulls the same stunt in his "Crime Victims" 4th edition (2001) by presenting a long article in
the present tense which comes from the 1982 President's Task Force Report, twenty years ago. My
problem is that these are respectable names in the victimology market, and they're trying to pull a fast one
by manipulating the reader's emotions. Of course what happened thirty years ago wasn't right, but we're
led in our outrage to presume this still happens. Why try to present past injustices as present problems?
Do the writers not have any more recent examples?

Please, if you're finding yourself sucked in by the deceptive advertising, false promises, and outright lies of the despicable method of thievery called alternative medicine, stop right now and read this book. You have nothing to lose -- whereas if you stick with the quacks you're likely to lose thousands of dollars and maybe your life.

And no, I have nothing to do with the AMA (whatever that is) or traditional medicine. I just know fraud when I see it.

This book is a needed antidote to the thousands of hucksters who are fleecing the American public. Giving hope to people in trouble is commendable, but knowingly spreading false cures and making millions off the gullible is reprehensible. I urge you to read this so that you or anyone you love may not be taken by the frauds and fakes in the irrational alternative medicine movement.

I really enjoyed this book. It taught me much about why and how different types of scams are perpetrated by different types of alternative medicine huxters. It was very objectively written, with opinions that were backed up with excellent references. A great book to survey all forms of health quackery currently being hawked to the public.

I used this book in my sophomore year Intro to EE class and it has to be the most horribly written technical textbook ever. I read from the book only once the whole semester and spent the rest of the time learning from tutors and lecture notes. The examples are cryptic and poorly explained and the chapters are haphazardly organized. I pity those who're forced to buy this for their EE classes, but if you have a choice, you can definitely find yourself a much better textbook than this piece of junk.

I'm a retired EE and having other textbooks in my library on this subject I would conclude that this is not an easy book to follow, certainly not as an introduction to second year engineering students. For example, the write up on higher-order circuits is just too superficial and left too large a gap to follow up into the examples or homework in my opinion. This treatment of subject areas seems to be the norm rather than the exception. This book is not incomplete and has many classical examples but it's just difficult to follow. There are better books. Its probably best to have other references in hand such as Schaum's, Charles M. Close, Ralph J. Smith, Johnson/Hilburn/Johnson and a good set of class notes to fill in between the gaps.

This book is to hard to follow, with bad examples and explaining things so you can't tell what is going on. I hate this book. My advice to you is if you are taking a class that is using this book, get another book to use because this book is worthless.

shipper INFO5 never delivered the book and strung me along. Never do business with global books or bookconsignment dot com

With prose more sleep-inducing than general anesthesia, this tome (at least it feels long) microwaves managerial cliches until you wish to forgo a career in public service. Avoid at all costs.

A small book on a large subject--But the shorter length makes it more likely to be read. The book has a series of chapters on the expected topics, like dealing with hiring, firing, and the personnel system. It is a worthwhile book, but doesn't have anything startlingly new or original. Still one of the few books to treat this subject from a practioner's view rather than an academic one. If the subject interests you, I'd suggest reading Haass's "The Power to Persuade" in addition to (not instead of) this book.

Using the over-used word "creative" as a shield, "Tools for Innovators" rehashes common-sense and stale ideas as exciting new methods for public managers. Current and aspiring managers should avoid this platitude-ridden guide: It will not improve your managerial skills, only waste time.

This book sums up the some popular management tools to be used in public organizations with the intent of helping them to meet citizens demands of highest quality service. Including Strategic Planning, Total Quality Management, Re-Engineering, Benchmarking, Outsourcing, many approachments (or tools) that can be useful in restructuring public organizations are told in this valuable book. Readers who want to understand the basic principles of popular management tools developed for private sector organizations (but can be applied to public sector)should read this book. One of the obvious weaknesses of the book is its cases which were not well-developed.

Overall, I recommend Cohen's book to readers who have spare time.

The textbook is extremely difficuilt to read. The exceptions from the articles which are supposed to help in the understanding of the case complicate issue even more. You have to supplement reading of this book with hornbook or Emanuel/Gilbert. If you can avoid this book feel yourself lucky

For those of us living along the Lewis and Clark trail in Montana and using this book with school children who study Lewis and Clark, we found an obvious error of historical fact. Lewis and Clark never traveled into the Flathead Valley as Kroll states on page 23. Instead, the explorers crossed over Lost Trail Pass into our lovely Bitterroot Valley and traveled north to make camp at Traveler's Rest, on the edge of present day Lolo, MT. The old Lolo trail (now US highway 12) leaves the Bitterroot Valley crossing the Bitterroot Mountains to the west. Could it be Kroll became confused because the Native Americans Lewis and Clark met in the Bitterroot were the Salish Flathead tribe?

I am a MCSE who looked at this book for use when studying for my tests. Now, a networking class is using this as a manual and I have to say something. This book does not cover the material well enough to take the tests nor in depth enough to actually do Enterprise networking with NT.