As a culinary student in a reputable institute, I was presented this book to use as a textbook for my business management course. The structure was sufficient, focusing almost exclusively on the hospitality industry, but the content was not. The majority of the book deals with self-evident truths and situations that can best be solved by common sense, but instead Miller voices his opinion that when experience fails you, revert back to the management theories, most of which he denigrates, others that he blatantly misinterprets.

Miller also pens that "management at any level in an art", a statement that many would disagree with and should give some insights as to what the 10th grade, babble-filled prose is all about. For a management book, especially one for $..., I was expecting a more technical approach to managing - theories and illustrations also combined with charts and math, two aspects that are completely vacant in the textbook.

There is a general sense of the grim reality of the hospitality industry that I was relieved to see (two stars). There's mention of the low pay, hard work, and long hours that will inevitably come with the job, and the book maintains that thought throughout. Overall however, it's too much money, and too much time, for reading what I already know.

This textbook package contained "Supervision in the Hospitality Industry" 3rd Edition hard cover (ISBN# 0-471-19420-0) and National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation-NRAEF ProMGMT Student Workbook (ISBN# 0471-41305-4). Chapter 9 on performance evaluation was the greatest insight. A great learning tool to help focus my job development within the huge vacation/hospitality employer I work for here in Orlando, Florida.

You can be the most organized person in the world and you will still run into difficulties when trying to communicate in an effective manner, recruit, train, evaluate performance, discipline, and delegate all at the same time. For anyone, it's a lot to have on your plate. This book makes it seem simple. It offers way to alleviate some of the frustration that comes with the job.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who already owns an introductory physics text such as Halliday and Resnick or the Feynman Lectures...the quantity of material beyond the scope of those books is very disappointing. The authors seem more interested in pretty pictures and impressive graphs than content. The only chapter I found useful was the chapter on nuclear physics. If you can find this book used for a bargain, it might be worth the money, but at the full price, purchase at your own risk.

A clear, historical and contamporary book

I am intensely interested in Franklin D. Roosevelt and his times, so I figured this book on a little-explored aspect of his career couldn't miss. Colorful characters straight out of "Guys and Dolls" rub elbows with the patrician Roosevelt in this account of the transition between the free-wheeling era of Tammany Hall to the do-gooder era of the New Deal. Too bad that author Mitgang lacks any sense of story-telling ability. The organization of the book is sloppy and confusing and robs the story of any drama. The humorous aspects fall flat. Great idea for a book, but the execution is a misfire.

Mitgang's presentation of the scandals involving NY Mayor Jimmy Walker, leading up to the Seabury Commission investigations and Walker's removal from office by then NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, offers a story that should be captivating. The personalities involved were among the major American political figures of their time. Walker's precipitous fall from power was one of the major political events of the era. But I laid down the book feeling that I had somehow been presented the story, but only at the most superficial level. Perhaps I should have known better given the book's brief length. But Mitgang has a good reputation as a journalist, and I expected more. For example, none of the major actors is presented with much depth at all. Their motivations are not explored in sufficient degree. The implications of FDR's action in this case for his Presidency are not explored. Walker's failure to run again for the mayoralty--if for no other reason than self-vindication--is not analyzed. Some major political figures--including former Governor Al Smith and succeeding Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia--are given what might be walk-on parts or cameo roles, if this were a movie, despite the fact that they were clearly major power brokers at the time. All in all, this book is a reasonable BASIC introduction to the story, but left me wanting more. It is hardly history; it is more a narration.

This thin book is a quick, breezy read. It shines a spotlight on an interesting time in American life -- the tail end of the Roaring 20s and the onset of the Great Depression -- and the long-cherished "spoils" system of municipal government.

Many larger-than-life characters are here: FDR, Jimmy Walker, Fiorello LaGuardia, Al Smith. Smith's metamorphosis from trail-blazing liberal to the anti-Roosevelt in four short years was particularly eye-opening for me. (In school, they only taught us about the "Happy Warrior"of 1928, conveniently foregoing the not-so-happy iteration of 1932 and beyond.) I was also struck by the enmity toward the pre-presidential FDR which was evident in many quarters.

This book is mostly a collection of previously published material either from Games Workshop's out of print supplements or White Dwarf magazine. If you have both the Restless Dead and Warhammer Companion supplements, you will probably find that most of material here is lifted from the two books. For the new converts to the game, the contents are interesting and the varied mix of articles (from new rules to short adventures) would make it useful to any player or GM.

This book was a typical biography, good for reports and whatnot, it has some of Turner's Paintings, and it has a lot of information.

Don't make the mistake I made thinking this book will stand by itself. It is designed to help you as a student to better understand the instructional presentation in Machining Fundamentals textbook (sold separately).

The connection between religious fanatacism, repressed homosexuality, and self-hatred has a long an ugly history, and the authors make their case. But do they have to do it over and over and over and over again? Jeez! they clumsily revisit every point ad nauseum. On top of it all, their facts are a disaster. For example, they give historical background on Boy Taliban's hometown in Marin County, and state that its old Spanish Mission San Rafael was founded in 1681 (it was founded in 1817), and that those same missionaries enjoyed burning the Indians alive. I have studied California history my whole life, and have never, ever, ever, ever, read that, ever (Oh, do I repeat myself? That's a tic I developed after reading this book). As for clumsy, after giving useless detail about Marin County, they state that Boy Taliban liked playing with plastic Jedi warrior("Star Wars") figurines, yet failed to mention George Lucas and company are based in Marin County as well. So what was the point of local color when you forget the obvious? Later on, they talk about Islam's jehadi (jihad) warriors, and completely missed the opportunity for delicious irony...

I wish that this book is written by John Walker, then readers may be able to have a clearer picture for how and why he became a Taliban. The authors provide lots of information about John Walker's childhood and boyhood, but there are lots of "gray" areas, for instance there are 8 months nobody knows where John Walker was and what he was doing. The authors are able to raise a lot of questions but I don't think they have the answers. Same as most readers I disagree what John Walker did but I feel sorry for him and his parents. The only thing I "respect" him is that he left America for searching the life of purity because he was tired of American's materialism. Not too many young people realized that how materialism influences this country.

This is an interesting, insightful, and fascinating book. Its easy to see why Lindh's attorneys attacked it. The authors raise a lot of questions and bring out a lot of facts about this young man and his trips to Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, that his attorneys would probably rather we did not think about. For example: Why did Bin laden thank Lindh? What was Lindh doing in Yemen when the USS Cole was attacked? I also found the book insightful from a psychological perspective. It answers a lot of questions. This is an intersting book. I recommend it.

This expensive booklet of less than 70 pages (including many illustrations) is intended as a souvenir of Tyler's restored plantation house. (Incredibly, although Tyler was born in 1790, the restorer is a grandson, still alive at the time of publication in 2001.) The pamphlet, based completely on secondary sources, is deliberately uncritical and minimizes the more unsavory features of Tyler's presidency. The three-page sketch in American National Biography provides a far more accurate understanding of the tenth president and his administration.

John Walker writes in his book, ""Every parent at some point and time in the raising of their children, especially single family parents (his error, not mine) had to come face to face with reality, and the sexual attraction fora son or daughter. Let me - the writer, being the first to say I have also been victimized by the temptation of incest and at one time caught up in the thoughtful sensuousness of incestuous behavior."

That sets the stage for Walker's book. HE, as the adult in an incestuous relationship, calls himself a victim - and he writes a book accusing the Ramseys of having sex with their daughter and then killing her to cover it up.

The book made me feel dirty, sick.

This book is not recommended - not if someone wants to read about the true life murder of an innocent child named JonBenét Ramsey.

Now, if you want to witness the rantings of a self-confessed pedophile.... this might be just what you are looking for. Too bad he is putting JonBenét's name and book on his sick fantasies.

The very unreverend and unholy John H. Walker writes like a pedophile. Indeed, in his book he tells us that he is a latent pedophile. I would not be a bit suprised if he masturbated whilst he was writing it. His book is sickening beyond belief. He has written this book for own sexual gratification whilst exploring his own pedophilic fantasies, and it has no basis in any known fact to what happened to JonBenet Ramsay. It is appallingly written and it appears the publishers could not run to the cost of a proof reader. The idea that this man could make money out of this disgusting book is sickening. I suggest that someone at Amazon is given the unenviable task of reading it immediately and that it be withdrawn from sale. I never thought that I would agree with censorship of any kind but this book has shown me that there are times when censorship is right. I was unable to submit this review without putting in a star rating. However, I do not really rate it in any way shape or form.

Beware if you order this book, that it is a workbook companion to
the hardcover. It's not clear when you read the description. I
have no real opinion since I though it was a text and I have no
need for a workbook, but I had to enter some star rating