Gellman passionately advances the notion that Hull's undersecretary, the notorious homosexual and wealthy Harvard man, Sumner Welles was responsible for everything usually credited to Hull, such as the founding of the United Nations. Welles was pro-Israel as is Gellman. Gellman dismisses Hull as being anti-semitic even though Hull's wife was of Jewish heritage.

A very biased account of an important period in American history which ignores all evidence counter to the author's position.

Nice overview of making wine and home. It has many receipts. If I would offer one suggestion to the author it would be to add information about were to obtain winemaking equipment and supplies.

While some of this out-of-print book is obviously way behind the times, it was still a good read and had some good timeless information. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit was the telling of a bit of advice from a friend in the publishing business. He relates that most of the time he can tell if a book is worth anything in the first 3 pages, certainly by the first 10. Sounds like another book I reviewed (positively) "The First Five Pages" by Lukeman.

The two authors in "Writing Young Adult Novels" had previously published some of their own work, so they had some experience in which to back up their advice. They also relied on a lot of quotes or small passages from popular YA books that were successful and I found that information very helpful.

This book was a fairly light and quick read, and the few hours I spent I considered worth my time. I quickly glossed over the few sections that gave general "how to advice" and laughed at few times they mentioned the problem of looking at a blank white sheet of paper in the typewriter. I can't recall the last time I actually saw a typewriter, and I am quite sure that my two year old will never touch one, however the general advice on how get started, how to proceed and how to finish was all in line with what I have read in more recent books on writing.

For writing in general, I would skip this book and look at some of the more popular offerings (several of which I have reviewed), however, if you have an interest in this field I would recommend reading this book, it is well written, reads quickly and has sound advice.

This is an interesting,informative and useful book. I used it for school and it will be one book that I keep. Great case studies.

I think the book is so liberal and it advocate large government. Freedom is not through following the forced laws like affirmative action, ADA, etc. but having a choice especially in employment. Employer should have the say on what they want and who they want to work and not work. The book pretty much tells you that this is the law and its good for you ,so follow or else.
That is socialistic.
We are giving more power to the government to tie us down with more laws and regulation. Their responsibility is to protect the citizens and not to do business. That's for the private sector.

This book gives a good comprehensive look at the mountain of law and regulations encountering employees in both the public and private sector. The examples in the beginning of each chapter are very useful as well as the actual cases used to exemplify how the law has been applied to real-world situations.

I choose 1 star cause it is the worst book I ever
read. The author is obvious shallow in this area and
he tries to present a complete view of the networking
and communication, which he fails to do. And several
concepts are totally wrong in the book and many
chapters are simply copy and paste.

Don't waste your money to buy this trash.

If you are looking for snappy language and explanations for laypeople, don't buy this book. But if you need a real reference that helps you put together the various communication technologies and explains their differences, here you go. Of the few books on this subject I have read, this is the only one I would recommend.

Emerging Multimedia Computer Communication is a complex book. It deals with network telecommunication technologies. This is not a good first book on the subject. It is loaded with technical terms and buzz words. However,this is a well written book. The subject material is extensive. The authors use Internet URLs as a rich source of learning. The range of this book is amazing.It is well organized . Follow the Internet URLs and see if you can untwist the merging technologies.

This book is written by small, established clique with association to the Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. Individually, each researcher has turned out years of credible research. Unfortunately, they have a reputation for deviating from credible research results when arguing policy to the public and when making a case for specific reforms. The major failures of the current child support system are largely attributable to this crowd, which from the 70s have promoted the application of old Soviet Russian "welfare policy" in the United States. Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of this history, is that Congress was so willing to implement the reforms, forcing states to replace traditional Constitutionally based mechanisms for dealing with family issues.

I too, would like to rename the book. A proper title would be "Our Two Decades of Failure and the New Spin for the 21st Century: What We Want You to Believe Now".

I agree with the previous reviewer that lack of focus on the effects of child support reform at higher income levels underlies a basic failure of the book to enter current discussion in a rational way. The "success" of the authors in promoting policy reform is largely concentrated in the fact that federal "welfare laws" and welfare bureaucracy have now been extended to all income levels. Simply ignoring the most damaging effects of these reforms doesn't make them go away.

Each chapter of this book is a separate study looking at child support enforcement and its impact on nonresident fathers. The authors believe the biggest impact of enforcement efforts falls on low income and poverty level fathers, therefore virtually all of what they study focuses on that group alone. Consequently, it would have been more appropriate to include "Low Income" in the book's title. Unfortunately, the majority of nonresident fathers are not in this population, as enforcement activities impact them as well. Understanding the impact on the bigger population would help policy makers improve overall enforcement activities. One area that I was especially disappointed about in this book is the fact that none of the authors address the foundation for child support enforcement, and that is the basis that child support orders are determined. Statistics and figure abound on what nonresident parents (usually fathers) "owe" in child support, yet it seems to be simply accepted as a given that the guidelines used in each state are fundamentally sound in their philosophy and economics. If, as many argue, the numbers are overstated through lack of consideration of the expenses of an involved nonresident parent's "parenting", the impact on them can be enormous, creating a roadblock to involvement in their child's life. This creates enormous conflict of its own, and certainly can't help but contribute to the problem of father absence. As the US Census has pointed out, when a nonresident parent is involved in their child's life, compliance with child support is approximately 90%. One could argue, which this book fails to do, that for enforcement to truly work, we should do all we can to foster dual parent involvement. This book provides an interesting look at poverty level fathers within this public policy arena. Its usefulness from a practical point of view however, is limited to only that population. Focusing change based on this material would be dangerous as the data is "incomplete".

This book, unlike most other books which blindly focus on independent aspects of poverty and well being, succeeds in bringing together a pool of information on Fathers. I found the writing articulate and the information at worst a honed compilation of all research on the topic, and at best an excellent resource for all in the field of population studies.

The author brings a little too much 1990s sensitivity to the 1870s, creating a world which just didn't exist. In the author's view, the indians were good, pure, clean, and represented just about every good quality; while the settlers and cavalry were less-than-bright exploiters of the wilderness and ravagers of the environment and the local populace. This kind of revisionism gets tiresome, and luckily my 10 and 12 year old kids recognized this as well as I did. The author's reliance on politically-correct ideology creates unbelieveable characters and situations. If the author had himself been a settler in Kansas during that time period, I believe we would have had a different point of view in this story.

A Beautifully Written Story about a Young Boy and His Horse who face and Overcome many Challenges. NOT meant to be a True to life Historical Novel. My Son and I loved it! Nice to read a Warm Inspiring Story about a Different Time and Place.

After reading this book, one can not help but see that is a biased view of discipline. It only gives the author's point of view without giving attention to the other side of the issue. He is strongly against corporal punishment and gives false accusations about using corporal punishment as a disciplinarian method. After further investigation of this author Hyman, it is plain to see that his main agenda is to abolish parents' and teachers' rights to discipline children as they deem necessary. Further, the norms he uses in the Teacher Variance Survey, should not accurately be the norms. Because he does not use enough respondents(only 608) to accurately represent the vast number of educators that work with children in the nation.

As a person who values options in discipline, this book is terrrifc because the author aligns major theoretical perspectives with reasons for a child's behavior or misbehavior. Dr. I. Hyman, a reputable child psychologist/researcher, describes useful methods which can help both parents and teachers identify their own patterns of discipline, which may or may not include techniques such as punishment. I like the book for what it is; a no non-sense approach to understanding how and why, we as teachers or parents, respond the way we do to a child's behavior. Hyman provides some terrific scenarios demonstrating these approaches. Also, folks who highly support the right to hit their children may not like what the author has to say since he provides other options for discipline, including reinforcement, investigation of the environmental setting, and understanding WHY a child behaves a certain way. This info is useful since professionals in the medical and psychological professions agree (as is seen in their organizational position statements) that there is little place for corporal punishment in our schools. It's worth it to take a look at other options which have proven to be more effective, and this book provides a curious, open-minded reader with an opportunity to do so.

Economic history is studied based on concepts such as Merchantilism, Physiocracy, Classism, Marxism, Keynesianism, and so on. There are important people involved in this conceptual framework, such as Petty, Quesney, Smith, Marx, Keynes, and so on. Rima manages to take this simple history and create something far more complicated than necessary, and at times, incoherently pedantic. For example, Rima tries to explain derivation of a demand curve AND Hick's optimum conditions in 13 pages. Get real! Rather than issue a prolegomenon (Rima's word, page 202), I will make a suggestion: if this book is required reading for a college course, throw it away, and purchase Stanley L. Brue's excellent, coherent, and well-edited book, 'The Evolution of Economic Thought' (sixth edition). Brue's book is pricey, but you will actually learn something useful and interesting, and you might get from Quesnay to Keynes in 10 weeks without killing yourself!

i think that the guide that came with my book, which shows pictures of the slides that professors are supposed to use was completely usless, if you have to purchase this book for a class, try and get a used copy. It is not worth the price you have to pay. There is another book by Breyli and Meyers titles Corporate Finance which is much more comprehensive and much better.