As a corporate executive, I am always seeking material that will provide new insights into ensuring deal success. This book doesn't offer much. Many of the major findings I've either read before in newspapers or come straight from the pages of more detailed books on how to succeed at M&A. There is not a lot of detail on following through with particular strategies and the idealism of the authors suggests that they have never been true players in the process. This book seems like a diluted version of the two pioneering books that have already said it all --"Joining Forces" and "Winning at Mergers & Acquisitions". In my opinion, no integration can truly work without implementing the guidance set forth in these two masterpieces.

I was checking the comments on The Catcher in the Rye and saw that there were Cliff Notes on this book. I couldn't believe it! That someone would actually write notes on The Catcher in the Rye. This book should never be summarized into Cliff Notes. This book should be read in its entirety or not at all, regardless of how much time you have. This book can be read easily in a few hours, and it's the best book I've read in a while. It is a disgrace that this book was allowed to be put into Cliff Notes and these are for people who are too lazy or ignorant to pick up the actual book.

The only reason you would need cliff notes for this book is if you are lazy or short on time and theres a test the next day. Yet the cliff notes arent descriptive enough for you to get the whole book. I can understand needing cliff notes for the confusing dialect of "tale of two cities", or the background and analysis for "Brave new World", but going through the Catcher in the Rye is a breeze, and the book is enjoyable. Its one of my favorite books ever. Dont even bother with these cliff notes.

Despite the fact that CliffsNotes has helped me through one too many an English Lit quiz, I believe that this is taking it a little too far. Catcher in the Rye is, by far, one of my favorite books of all time, and to create CliffsNotes for it requires something less than academic foresight. Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees. The entire point of J.D. Salinger's one and only published novel is that though we do need to carry out our schooling, education isn't there to cloak the mind into believing that regurgitating facts onto meaningless scraps of wood pulp. It's there to take the free thought that we have and expand it, so that we can better express ourselves, and not bury who we are behind a pile of textbooks. The specifics of the life of Holden Caulfield are not important. The generalities of the life of Holden Caulfield are not important. What is important is the ideals expressed in the book--not where Holden went to school, not how many times he mentions the hunting hat, not where the ducks do actually go. Both teachers and students of today must learn that teaching others and yourselves that this is all that's important is like building a wall around yourself. So read the book. It'll bring you to something closer to happiness than an A ever will. And hell, if you actually read the thing, you might ace it anyway.

it is full of typos and other errors! Page 44 whether or not a candidate MEATS your. . .

In the first recipe for a "basic loaf" in this cookbook there is either a misprint or a mistake in the list of ingredients. The author recommends using compressed yeast as opposed to active dry yeast. As compressed yeast is not always easy to find she provides an alternative if using active dry yeast. However, the author starts to give the directions for adding active dry yeast and then states "then add the butter". What butter? Other than greasing the pan nowhere is butter mentioned in the recipe or recipe list. This renders the recipe useless...I am returning the book. What a shame.