I've read all three books (and the "Inherit the Earth" anthology) so far. The story deals with hunters only every other book (except this one, and then only marginally), but there's definetly an overall arc -- there are events mentioned in this book and the last one that occur in the first novel.

The second book tells the tale of a new hunter and how he copes with that fact -- it's great. This one has the supporting character as a hunter but a) she doesn't know what she is, b) she sees nothing but Garou, and c) deals exclusively with a Garou sept.

Predator & Prey: Werewolf was a decent story, about a Metis werewolf and a newly awakened hunter. While the plot was a little thin, the way in which both characters come to terms with their differences and in the end rely on each other to overcome the odds makes for a good story. However, it did end rather abruptly, which is a course do to the fact that there was to be a sequal. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to see a hunter through the eyes of a werewolf and a werewolf through the eyes of a hunter.

Thoroughly enjoyable and consistent work from White Wolf's best writer. The story is small and focused mainly on two characters, each at the crossroad of major decisions in their lives. I loved how the action is paced throughout, lending more time to building characters and raising the stakes. The chapter with the farm attack was incredible and quite shocking, showing the massive power and stamina of the garou. My only real problems with the novel are that I wish it had more of a conclusion and that the copy editor would do their job and fix all the spelling and punctuation mistakes.

I have read Ms Dams 3 Hilda J books now and I just don't get it.
Murder in Red, White & Blue was interesting UNTIL the solution.
Never, never have I had to try so hard to figure out the ending.

OK, I deserved it! After suffering through the first Hilda Johansson mystery, I should have learned my lesson. This main character is so wooden, so unlovable, so contrary...and the plot is so thin and undeveloped...it's not a rewarding read! Stick with the author's Dorothy Martin series...that's where she apparently puts her best efforts!

It's September 1901. The country is reeling from the news that President McKinley has been shot. But of even more concern to maid Hilda Johansson is the fact that the assassin had passed through South Bend, Indiana within the last few weeks. Had he met with any of her friends? But when two bodies are found, one covered with an American flag, things really heat up in town. Is this the work of anarchists out to destroy America? Or are immigrants being unfairly blamed? Add to that the secret the workers at the Studebaker plant are hiding, and Hilda has her hands full.

This book is a fascinating mixture of fact and fiction. I was drawn into the time and place completely while reading. I enjoyed the Hilda character, an independent woman struggling to live in her time and social place. The story itself was very good. With several different things going on at once, it was hard to know for sure what was happening and who to believe. And, while I did guess the solution, I completely overlooked the clues that pointed to the ending. My only complaint is that the author's note really belongs at the back of the book.

This was my introduction to the Hilda Johansson character. I'm hooked on this fun mix of fact and mystery and will be looking for the others in the series.

Not so long ago, the thought of running a corporate PBX on a client/server network was unthinkable, almost ludicrous. Now many companies have a VoIP (Voice Over IP) PBX via their Cisco routers. Some organizations have separate VON (Voice Over Network) systems. While the benefits of convergence are many, their security implications are often ignored or, when they are considered, are addressed too far along into the development process.

That convergence is the focus of Voice and Data Security. About a third of the book addresses the fundamentals of voice and data security, covering topics such as cryptography, sniffing, and spoofing. The rest of the book deals with securing digital and voice assets.

As an example, PBX and mail fraud are huge problems facing corporate America. Yet while most companies are aware of the situation, many organizations don't do all they can to secure their voice systems. This book contains an excellent policy and audit checklist on how to set up a corporate PBX policy. Items such as protection management, standards and procedures, technical safeguards, and incident response are discussed in the checklist, which alone is worth the cost of the book.

A single unauthorized modem in a corporate network will undermine firewalls, cryptography, and all other protection mechanisms. Thus, the authors cover how war dialers and telephone line scanners can be used to ensure that the back doors that unauthorized corporate modems create are closed.

Voice and Data Security is valuable to those needing a good introduction to the core ideas and security repercussions involved with the convergence of voice and data systems. It speaks volumes.

I am a senior engineer for network security operations. I read "Voice and Data Security" (VaDS) to learn more about vulnerabilities in the voice world. A search for "voice security" here yields four results, of which VaDS is the only in-print title. Although I would have preferred VaDS to focus solely on voice security issues, I still recommend it as the only modern published reference for this critical topic.

When reading VaDS, it's important to remember that all of the authors have some sort of relationship with San Antonio-based voice security company SecureLogix. That's ok, as Foundstone is the powerhouse behind the successful "Hacking Exposed" book series. Some parts of the book read like commercials for SecureLogix products like TeleSweep and TeleWall, but the authors largely focus on non-proprietary solutions to voice security.

VaDS is strongest when it speaks solely to voice security issues, and, to a lesser degree, network infrastructure. I learned quite a bit about tapping phones (ch. 11), voice mail abuse (ch. 14), and voice-data convergence (ch. 5). Chapters on broadband infrastructure and exploitation were helpful. Even though the final chapter seemed out of place, its intriguing coverage of cyber law kept my attention.

Less helpful were the chapters covering general security issues, such as cryptography (ch. 18), malware (ch. 19), sniffing (ch. 20), scanning (ch. 21), passwords (ch. 22), firewalls (ch. 23), IDS (ch. 24), and denial of service (ch. 26). This material is so well-covered elsewhere that its appearance did little to help VaDS distinguish itself. Chapter 27 was an exception, with its succinct discussions of popular Microsoft IIS web server vulnerabilities.

Aside from including well-worn material, VaDS suffered slightly from a few technical mistakes. Explanations of buffer overflows in chapter 4 needlessly associated them with TCP-based sessions. UDP-based buffer overflows are exploited regularly. The author of this chapter also seems to believe that buffer overflows are a problem because they overwrite "user ID and privilege information" on the stack. That's rarely the case; subverting return pointers is the problem. Chapters 8 and 15, describing voice protocols like H.323, were difficult to understand, and ch. 18 (p. 283) makes an unsubstantiated claim that "a well-known Mid-East terrorist was discovered to be using steganography." Typos on pp. 155-156 appeared, and port 443 was replaced by 444 on p. 69.

Overall, VaDS marks a welcome contribution to the information security community. I plan to include it in my tier two security analyst reading list, with recommendations to concentrate on its voice-related content. Hopefully the second edition will strip out the unnecessary network security coverage found elsewhere, and include more excellent explanations of voice security issues.

(Disclaimer: I received a free review copy from the publisher.)

William Sargent is kind of the poor man's Bill Bryson: he gives natural history and geologic background while trying to maintain a loose narrative structure, and he succeeds about as often as he fails.

I thought this book was going to be some kind of adventure tale of roughing it for a year, but it turns out that Sargent lives in the Notch, and kept a diary for a year. The book as a whole is kind of like the pictures in it: occasionally interesting, but fall short of being really beautiful because they're rendered in poor-quality black-and-white printing.

I felt it was necessary to counter the previous reviewer's negative rating. This is a truly excellent book. The positive statements in the "editorial review" are far more indicative of this book's quality. As one who has read Bill Bryson, all I can say is it's like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. Bryson is fluff and cute little anecdotes. Sargent is meat and solid information on natural history and geology --which is the whole point. If that's what you want, this book is indeed 5 stars!

This is volume one of a series, and perhaps should be read first to obtain the background for the other volumes. The author has trouble completing scenarios he creates. In some instances, the writing is clumsy. I have previously noted in reviews of books by other publishers that publishers should employ readers (people knowledgeable of the subject). This is another example of a book rushed into print without adequate proofing.

The book is three separate related novelettes. The first story features Isaac Biggs, captain of the foretop on the merchant bark Anne in 1810. It covers a time period of several days and deals with the problems and seamanship aboard the bark. There is a thieving third mate who intends to kill or injure Isaac. Having created this problem, the author extracts Isaac by having him pressed into service aboard an English frigate. No more is heard of the Anne or how the problems aboard were resolved. An additional chapter could have closed out this tale.

The second part of the book is a story about service aboard the British frigate Orpheus from 1810 to 1812. Isaac Biggs is a maintopman and plays a supporting role. The action skips forward rather quickly from 1810 to 1812 when the Orpheus leads a small squadron against a French convoy. Here the writing goes off track. The Orpheus is attacking a French brig, almost wrecking it completely with a couple of broadsides; then the brig is fighting like a frigate; then they board the brig; then they take off the captured officers who seem to be the complement from a frigate, etc. The author seems to lose track of where he is in the storyline, and seemed to forget that a brig was a lieutenant's command with perhaps 40 to 50 in the crew, no significant number of marines, and perhaps 12 four-pounder popguns for its armament (the light structure of a brig could not take the recoil of heavy guns). The story of the action against the French convoy is never completed, and the tale skips forward to a scene in a tavern in Nassau.

The third part of the book is about an American privateer commanded by Captain Smalley, formerly captain of the bark Anne. Isaac Biggs joins the tale at the midway point. Eventually Isaac is able to return to the United States. By placing three stories in the same book, the action becomes superficial at some points, jumping between points where action is very detailed. The repeated nautical commands for sail handling can get a bit tedious.

Part of my disappointment in this book stems from the fact that I am naval historical fiction nut and have been really looking forward to something other than a British hero. As an American, I've alway thought that the War of 1812 would provide the perfect fodder for an American Hornblower. Unfortunately, that is not what we get here.
Clearly the author, Mr. White, knows his ships and his sailing. But that's like the special effects in a sci-fi movie, you have to care about the characters or else it's just a bunch of flashing lights. The author shows some potential as a writer, but it all reads a bit too amatureish -- like a first submission to a creative writing course. There are are way too many point of view shifts, so it can become difficult to remember who is who. Perhaps it was an intentional attempt at subtle parody, but I found it annoying to have very similar personality types in the role of junior officers on the the American Anne and the British Orpheus. And then, the story final seems to get going with a privateering raid -- and then they go home. Yes, it's the first book in a triology, but the story just stops -- it does not end.
I've also got to get this off my chest. The forward was written by someone who is supposed to be a professor of history at the Naval War College, yet his historical facts are wrong! James Barron, captain of the Cheasapeake during the Cheasapeake/Leopard affair was not killed in that action. He was courtmartialed and temporarily suspended from duty in the navy as a result of his role in the affair. His other claim to fame is that he was the one who killed Stephen Decatur several years later. Of course, none of this really matters since the none of the provocations for war (other than pressing sailors) was even mentioned in the novel --wasn't there something about "orders in council?"
Anyway, I don't recommend this book. I do not plan to purchase or read books two and three.

Generally, I am not an avid reader of historical fiction, but I read this book on a recommendation from a freind. I truly enjoyed White's work, so much so, that I found myself participating in the action, rather than reading it. I could feel the salt spray in my face and the boom of the cannon against my chest. Truly a wonderful read!

My conclusion is that Jennifer must be an extremely selfish person.Who the heck else would turn their back on a dangerously ill father that they have always been close to all because of something as stupid and petty as a no-hoper like Rick Andover!!It's ridiculous!My father had the same illness as Jennifer's dad and I know how these things work,it is soo silly!!AS for John Pfeiffer(future rapist,jerk,arsenist and suicider),was this story a small sign of the selfishness to come?He took his sweet time telling Jennifer it was he and not her father who got rotten Rick arrested.And notice how he leant on Elizabeth,all wimpy-like.Yep,that's John Pfeiffer.I also laughed a bit that John was worried about Jen hanging around bad news like Rick.When it is John who set Lila's house on fire then blew himself up in the middle of the school oval.Hilarious!All in all,this novel tread that middle ground,between Good SVH Book and Boring SVH book.May be worth a look.

In this book john seems so kind and caring but in the book 81 (or something) he almosts rapes Lila Fowler! STRANGE!

When I first started to read it, I couldn't put it down. I finished it in a day or two. I thought it was a great book, and I'm glad John came clean even though Jennifer got mad at him. I recommend this book to any Sweet Valley reader!

This was one of the worst SVU books in the series. Sure, it seems intriguing by the summary on the back of the book, but hey, it ain't all that. (Excuse the slang.)It lacked the suspense and excitement that usually pushes the reader to keep on turning those pages. I found myself dreading each chapter and anticipating the final conclusion of the story. I didn't even get the conclusion. The book is a two-part series, so if I wish to read what happens to Elizabeth and the gang, I have to drag myself to the nearest bookstore (preferably Amazon, wink, wink) and purchase Part Two. And so far, I haven't seen Part Two on any bookshelves yet. Overall, this book seemed to drag on monotonously with Elizabeth freaking out over William White halluciations. Half the time I didn't know if she was dreaming or if she was seeing reality. I suppose Part Two will finally put an end to my distress when the hallucinations are explained and a conclusion is found. After all, I can't read a book and not find out the ending, can I? (Even if it does mean buying a second part.)

Listen. This book is good. I don't care if lovely William has returned for about the fifth time. I like him. I also know the fact that Tom and Elizabeth were born to be together not that wussy ugly Todd. So what if the book isn't dwelling much in the old reality area. You don't read books for reality, you read them to be entertained (otherwise you'd read an encyclopedia instead) and this book is highly entertaining. I live in England and my friend got it over to me. Bravo to the writers. I look and londg for the next installment of wonderful Will.

This book is definetly good it's more interesting to read than the second one but I really enjoy this book more..

Elizabeth and Tom Watts (her boyfriend) seem to be having trouble in their relationship. Elizabeth ex-boyfriend William White who Elizabeth thought died in a Car Accident really didn't. William White and Elizabeth were really in love until one day Elizabeth finds out that he is a racist and was involve in an attack of her bestfriend Nina and her boyfriend Ryan. Elizabeth expose the news all over campus. But when William White returns is he looking for a second chance or revenge?? This book will leave you amaze!

I was subjected to this book as a requirment for an Engineering Management masters degree course. I've seen a lot of textbooks in 7 years of college, but this one has got to be the most frustrating! There are MANY typos, not just mispellings - but problems done incorrectly. Also, many of the chapters are taken from other text, so there's not a good flow to the book. You'll probably only buy this book as a requirement for a class, but beware!!!

We were required to buy this textbook for our Engineering Economics class at UT-Austin. I found this book helpful as an introduction to business. It gave us quite a number of examples and review questions to help us understand the major concepts. Even though the book may have contained a little too much information, I really liked it since I learnt a lot from it.

This is a faithful recapitulation of the Disney animated movie of the same name, featuring colorful scenes from the film. As a rehash of the movie, it is okay, but the picture book format highlights the dated qualities of the film. Characters are often shown in Victorian dramatic poses, mouth agape, which diminishes, rather than enlivens the text. Also, I miss the comical scene of Snow White, who, due to her relative height, must stretch out across several of the dwarfs` beds lined up next to each other, in order to take a nap. There are other, better versions of this fairy tale for small children, so don`t go out of your way for this one.

I was asked to review this text by a group of EMTs at the teaching hospital where I am employed as an ER physician and surgeon. The text contains conflicting information and is not well organized. I would not recommed this text for teaching new EMTs. It could be useful as a review for experienced technicians or paramedics.

While the information can, at times, be repetitive or confusing, overall the book stresses those skills and topics which are important for prehospital emergency providers. The book is easy to use as a reference, reads at a slightly higher level than many introductory texts, and can be a valuable resource even for an EMT-P. This book does require, however, some direction and sometimes elaboration from from a knowledgeable and organized "Basic" instructor.

Worth owning and using.

THIS IS A EXCELLENT BOOK TO USE FOR LEARNING THE BASIC EMT. THIS BOOK WAS USED BY MY PROFESSOR AND 16 OUT OF A CLASS OF 19 PASS THE STATE TEST. SO ADVICE IF YOU GOING TO STUDY TO BE AN EMT USE MOSBY IS THE BEST