I first used this book as a student-I found it useful then, today I insist that all managers reporting to me review, and use, the concepts and techniques provided by the authors.

The book is useful, in that concepts are well explained, the examples are relevant, but most important for me is that it provides managers who have little or no experience in determining project costs with a handy means (including formulae and worked examples) of doing so.

I have tried to get copies of the most recent edition, the popularity seems to be such that the book is sold out. I most readily recommend this to anyone who needs to justify capital expenditure, who needs to do project costing, and who has to prepare proposals for submission to the boss (or the board of directors)in order to obtain funds for capital expansion, refurbishment or simply equipment upgrades.

Banned in the UK, the bizarre diatribe attempts to causally link the incidence of child abuse in a country with the age of its record buying public. 265 pages of highly dubious statistical analysis cover Britney Spears alone, with authors perhaps telling us more about their own sexual proclivities than those of the small third world countries they are studying.

I've upped the score to three stars because any book that covers Britney Spears published in 1995 shows a degree of foresight that one would not expect from authors this narrow minded.

This book does not really live up to the promise of its title, as it never really explores to any great extent the "pleasures of death," but it is a decent introduction to Lacanian ideas. Ragland never leaves the professor mode of explanation and enlightenment, and her style is hampered by her reluctance to drop her position of mastery, but she nevertheless manages to convey some concepts that may provoke further thinking.

This was an alright book for finite math. The book did contain real examples (a positive) along with tons of formulas that I'm not sure that I'll ever see again. The probability stuff was good from this book, but some of the explanations were lacking clarity. Some of the topics include: Finance, linear programming of the simplex method and geometric approach, graphs, trees, counting, statistics along with relations and functions.

Sullivan's decorative designs are much cruder and less engaging than the design on the cover (The Schlesinger Mayer store) which is almost assuredely the work of his cheif draftsman, Geroge Grant Elmslie. This type of awesome interlace coincides with the years Elmslie was employed by Sullivan and reappears on Elmslie's work after he leaves.

Sullivan was a marginal architect (See Three Great Architects) whose greatest contribution may simply be that he was the focal point for the Group of Eighteen.

This book is worth reading, but it's verry shallow as far as it's charactors go. The good guy wears a white hat sort of thing. The main charactor Johnsmith (all one word) is a divorced schholar of old english. He looses his job, the right to seen his son, and he starts using drugs. These aren't just ordinary drugs though. They're modern techno-drugs that make you halucinate in a pre-programmed way. Because not having a job is a crime in this future Johnsmith figures he'll be sent off to to the moon instead he goes to mars and manufactures drugs for the prisoners on the moon. He fights rebels on Mars (Where'd they come from? ) and discovers the truth behind his drug induced halucinations. The ending seemed to me to be a wrap it up in 5 minutes attempt that kind of worked. The book is on the high side of mediocrity. It's like Sullivan tried to blend Total Recal with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and pulled off a halfway decent job.

This is a reasonably good resource for MSP guidelines. However, since it was published in 1996 Medicare rules have changed and it is not completely reliable as a resource.

Subtitled "A Humorous Dictionary for Catholics"

This book, based on a potentially good idea (a fun religious dictionary), falls somewhat short of expectations. It seems that when the author came up with the idea of writing this book, he made a list of "religious" words (from "abbey" to "Zion") and then quickly made up definitions for them (most of them during Mass, he claims). None of them made me laugh, although a few made me chuckle. Includes cartoony illustrations.

A few examples:

Apostasy: The difficult process of giving up one set of beliefs in favor of another - such as converting to the metric system.

Canon Law: The principle that whoever has the canon makes the law.

Devil: Evil with a capital D.

Evil: Four-fifths of the Devil.

Free Will: A gift from God that you will pay for later if you use it incorrectly.

Incense: Holy smoke.

Lot: How much salt there is in a pillar.

Martyr: A religious person who gets stoned.

Mount of Olives: A hill located near the Straight of Vermouth.

Papal Bull: A letter from the Pope that is in-falli-bull.

Satan: An angel who got fired.

Wine: The grapes of Mass.

Not a serious book, it will still make a cute gift for your Catholic friend going though First Communion or Confirmation.

This book is very interesting and alot of great knowledge. The only down fall is the pages are too thin and that makes it hard for high lighting. The expensive cost of these books should make better pages, because they also rip easily.

George Sullivan's biography of Reggie Jackson is an accurate portrayal of his baseball career. It also includes Reggie's high school days and stats from his athletic career. The pictures included in the book, seem to be the most significant ones outlining key points in his baseball career. One can just look at the pictures and see the successes and failures of Reggie Jackson's playing days. I would definitely use this book if I were doing a theme on baseball. Reggie Jackson is truly one of the all-time greats.