As most writers grow older, their skills diminish. So with Enter the Milkman. A lot of the book is padding - each character repeating the same thing over and over again. MacLeod's books are humorous mysteries and the humor is there but the mystery is not that taxing. Her earlier books are masterpieces, so get this one to fill out the set.

As a long time fan of Ms. MacCleod, I eagerly dug into two new finds. I believe I own every Shandy book she has written; "The Odd Job" and "Exit the Milkman" "Exit.." is very true to her form. Charming, whimsical characters, and a familiar cast of regulars, make it a great addition to her repetoire. However, the humor seemed bit less apparent than usual. I find I often laugh aloud during her stories. This outing was a little more subdued. The delightful dialog was there, but seemed just a tad less witty than usual. The story was more "plot" than "people" driven. In every other regard, I found it entertaining. The ending twist, was one I had totally missed! I could not have picked up her cues til then. Great Addition to a mystery reader's collection.

A great book. While maybe not the most textbook of mysteries, its a great read full of fun and humor. I loved it, I couldn't wait to finish it and find out who dun it!

The book has very little meat to it, although it has 200pg it ends on page 100 and gives you a bibliography. It does not go deeply into how to develop a disaster recovery plan. The second half of the book pretains to irrelevant information.

reader who want to start their DRP, and do not know where to start with, this is the book that you can kick off with your DRP meeting with this guide. A good book that you can trust and work around with your IT DR on this subject.

Case studies, project timelines, statistics, organisastion charts of a DRP, and some questionairs and forms help readers to quickly have all these information in your finger tips.

As a planner, I find it very useful too. It also act as a check lists of your current planning and be sure to cover as many area as possible. The Appendix is very useful that provide flowcharts, charts, diagrams, forms, questionair, procedures and more.

A book that should not be miss.

As an IT Manager for a mid-sized (140 emp) company, I found the primer to be extremely helpful as a starting point for planning. Hiatt clearly explains the nature of risk and planning. Statistics are lengthy but drive the point home. Most importantly, she reveals that DRP isn't only about IT.

If you are an IT person in charge of starting the process, this is an excellent primer that points out all the other areas you have to consider. Hiatt outlines in 100 pages all the elements of research, planning, implementation, and maintenance. She reveals who should be involved in the process and what type of people should maintain the accuracy and currency of the plan. She even gives criteria on how to choose your team. Hiatt references many times throughout the manual when/how/if to use an outside consultant and off-site storage facilities. The following 150+ pages of vendor listings, charts and appendices are extremely helpful. She doesn't just write about planning, but gives you the checklists, plans, and questionnaires to help you get started. It will be much easier for me to use some of her lists and customize for our needs instead of having to write it all from scratch. Plus, she gives a thorough objective listing of vendors which saves me from searching the Internet. As Hiatt recommends, I will continue to research but, her primer will be my main reference. I can now get started without buying expensive software.

If I could find something even lower than one star, I would rate this book at that level.
This is the most slanderous book that I have ever read. Most of the information came from inaccurate reporting. She tries to sensationalize the cases by cutting and pasting snippets from newspaper articles. She makes no attempt to report accurate information. This book is a travesty. Her theories are insipid and stale. This author gives false hope to those who have been hurt. If you are looking for insight and or comfort, stay away from this book. Do not by this book.

The painful elements of Dr. Schwab's saga have little to do with being Jewish. Neither is this an indictment on rabbis. Clergy abuse of power and sex occur with alarming frequency in all faith groups in settings where fiduciary trust placed in religious professionals meets undisciplined, self-serving attitudes. This book calls upon every reader who can exercise influence to set up proper standards, policies, and procedures to take preventive action in their own religious community. I hope and pray this book will help prevent more abuses.

Sex, Lies, and Rabbis: Breaking a Sacred Trust is a powerful book. It is a combination of memoir and nonfiction about clergy betrayal, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and even two murders related to clergy sexual sexual abuse. It outlines cases, the cover-up by clergy authorities, what has to be done to correct this, prevention, definitions of abuse, clergy-personalities likely to become predators, and a seven step healing program. It is a must-read for anone concerned about any kind of abuse, prevention, and healing, and in the words of Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer who wrote praise on the book jacket, "a must-read for anyone seriously involved in the Jewish community who believes that it is critical that we create safe and caring Jewish communities." The Rev. Dr. Nils Friberg wrote, "...Clergy aguse of power and sex occur with alarming frequency in all faith groups...I hope and pray this book will help prevent more abuses." The cover of this book features an original drawing by Doris Lubell which starkly illustrates the subject of the book. It should be displayed by Amazon.com

I can't seem to find the spirituality in this book. A four to five year old boy finds "comfort" in the eternal blackness where there is no light, no sound, and no other entity but himself. My definition of spirituality includes coexistence with God. God is Light. This book appears to be from an atheistic point of view that attempts to comfort children in the belief that there is nothing but darkness, silence, and solitude in the hereafter. This book portrays a preexistence and a hereafter devoid of God. Don't be fooled by the hype.

Super book! Nice to see a book that addresses abstract concepts in a simple way. Leaves the door open for thoughtful questions and does not back the child into one way of looking at things. We can all live our life through our own faith but, isn't it nice to see things from other perspectives. This book brought up some wonderful thoughtful questions from my child - comfort, fear of the dark, birth, death, faith and security. Aethist undertones are lost on a first grader, only an adult will interpret this...it's the parents responsibility to communicate family values not shield children from diversity in thought and religion. Part of learning who you are is learning how and what others value...see another point of view. Knowledge is power and ignorance breds fear and intolerance.

Who is Ben? is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Charlotte Zolotow is an amazing writer and she doesn't disappoint here. The book is a loving, gentle way to introduce complex and sometimes scary ideas about life and death. Accompanied by soaring visuals that perfectly capture the serious, mysterious subject matter, the book would make a terrific gift from a loving grandparent.

The remark that this book "traces this aesthetic revolution..and is a compleling guide through the founding years of Modernism" rings false after even a cursery examination. Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great architectural geniuses of the period, is represented by a chair. Grueby Faience is given a reproduction, but Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck are not mentioned. Several of Otto Wagner's students are repesented, but he does not appear. Gaudi and Horta cannot be found. Josef Hoffmann, the great genius of Secessionism, is poorly represented and two of his most famous chairs are attributed to Kammerer. Tiffany appears to be a minor window designer. Etc. One suspects that the authors saved photos in a shoebox and threw this series together. This is a great idea that is unfortunately very slovenly assembled and ultimately serves to distort and flatten this inventive and extravegent period of architecture and art. Taschen and his authors should be ashamed of this endeavor.

TASCHEN's Decorative Art series spans the 20th century through the 1970s and carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine's Decorative Art yearbooks. Published annually from 1906 until 1980, the yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics, and remained on the cutting edge throughout its nearly eight-decade run. Since going out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have been highly prized by collectors and dealers. Preserving the yearbooks' original page layouts, TASCHEN's Decorative Art books bring you an authentic experience of each decade's design trends and styles. The now complete six-volume set is an essential addition to the comprehensive design library and the devoted collector will want them all.

Decorative Art 1900 ~ 1910s - This volume highlights the aesthetic transition from the Victorian era to the modern age at a time when 'modern' was a genuinely new concept. Eschewing designs that displayed excessive ornamentation, this era of Decorative Art yearbooks showcased the work of progressive designers like Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Voysey, Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte.

I totally disagree with the reviewer from Hongkong who must have been writing about some other book when she portrayed Infatuation as funny and sexy, with witty dialogues and hot passion. As it happens, most of the book is devoted to a character analysis of Judith. In a nut shell, Judith knows that she is an ugly duckling with incredible brain power. We don't see any real attraction developing between Luke and Judith until the last quarter of the book. And then when it does, the author's analysis of Judith is vindicated for she is accepted by Luke because of her brainy self rather than her looks. The most tragicomedical line of the book must be when Luke agrees with Judith that she is not beautiful. Disappointingly for me, just when I'm getting interested in the story in the last quarter of the book, the plot reaches its climax and comes to an end. The story is dry and tends to drag on. I must say that the writing is good as can be expected from Charlotte Lamb. I gave it two stars.

A very well-written and enjoyable read. You can never go wrong with Charlotte Lamb. Her books are always full of to-die-for heroes and beautiful , virginal heroines who save themselves for the men of their dreams. The story is funny and sexy; the dialogue witty and the passion hot.

I am a B.Comm. student and i found it useful as a spreadsheet program. It is fun and easy to use but if you want to hone your marketing skills get a job. The book would be better suited for high school level

The game does an excellent job of taking marketing theory, pricniples and concepts learned in text books and applying them to simulated market conditions. It is no replacement for the real world, but if you want to pratically apply theory and achieve deeper understanding this is an excellent excercise.

A sweet book. We enjoyed the pictures (photos of street scenes in Paris) and the text was nice although not exciting. Not as fun as some of Charlotte Zolotow's others, but a good book to read to our daughter before we go to Paris!

I love this book and I love reading it to my daughter, and not just because I love Paris. It's refreshingly unique in the world of books for children--books with relatively few words, that is. The photographs are wonderful and match the text perfectly. The author has taken such a fresh approach to viewing that beautiful city, and she has chosen her words with care. The book's title is so meaningful once you read the book. This is a book I wish I had written for my daughter.

Yet another writer who doesn't get her historical details and contemporary mores correct; there were too many things which made me blink in this book.

Apart from that, the story was uninteresting and ludicrous. Wealthy woman's relative tries to kill her by drowning her. She's rescued by some sort of pirate/robber, with whom she - naturally! - falls in love. She decides that she needs to marry in order to protect her fortune, so she marries her criminal. And then tries to pass him off as an aristocrat!

I'm sorry, but please!

A one-time read which went straight into the charity bag afterwards.

I picked up the book because the author's last name is the same as mine (are there better reasons?) I found the book funny, without being stupid, with enough mystery to add spice to the romance. I've gone on to enjoy several other books by Ms. Dolan.

I immensely enjoyed this book. After reading the last negative review on this title, I had to put in my support for this title. I liked Ms. Dolan's characters and found them immediately appealing. I admit the storyline was not all that realistic, but I liked the adventure aspect. Ms. Dolan reminds me a bit of Carla Kelly's characters, in that they are truly unique, three dimensional, and very memorable. This one will be a keeper on my shelves.

As a avid mystery reader I found this book to be very exciting. I couldn't put the book down! It was never really dull or boring and had a very ingenius plot. Out of all the Charolette MacLeod books I have read, I found this one to be the best. It starts off when the Kellings go to bury an uncle only to discover that someone had already been buried in the family vault. It was fun to read and was very thrilling at times.

This is a very offbeat Peter Shandy adventure, but not at the usual college. A trip back in time in Wales that was most enjoyable. Worth making an effort to find if you enjoy the Shandy series, humor, or interesting use of language.

The Family Vault is the first in MacLeod's Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn mystery series, in which we are introduced to Sarah and her convoluted family. The book begins as the heroine prepares the family vault mentioned in the title prior to her uncle's funeral only to find it already occupied by the skeleton of a showgirl, Ruby Redd. All is made (mostly) clear by the end of the book, leaving plenty of hooks for subsequent mysteries. "The Family Vault" is a bit stiff compared to her later books, but a fun fast read nevertheless.