This alleged memoir has been repeatedly exposed as a fabrication by genuine Special Ops veterans' groups and the U.S. Naval Institute's PROCEEDINGS. Mr.Smith was apparently a real Naval officer during the Vietnam War, but his Southeast Asian service was limited to the Philippines. During the period of the novel, he was actually serving as Treasurer of the Officers' Club at Sangley Point Naval Air Station, PI. However, I am sure people who wish to believe these things will find his account insightful, along with other such "true" war stories like "The Dirty Dozen" and "La Femme Nikita".

I am no military expert nor a buff by any means I am totally new to most true life military books having just become interested in these type of books, but even I could tell this was totally bogus. First of all he was the only survivor of this elite team? My how conveinent no one to back up his story. Second it just does not ring true he come off like a guy who watched to many Vietnam movies about tortured vets who went through hell and back. It is just is to cheesy to be real.

I have read the reviews of some of the readers of the book, and I am dismayed at their lack of basic knowledge of the workings of the CIA covert actions. Why can't we find out about the authors history, CIA! why can't the facts be confirmed or denied? CIA! It's true that the author took liberites with the situations, but over all, we need to hear everybodys recollections of that war and we need to take into account every detail. Were there young men recruted right out of boot camp to serve in covert activities? Were those young men and women sent into harms way? Were those people ever acknowledged for their service or bravery? Were some even forgotten in the jungles of SE Asia,Cambodia and other places we wern't suppose to be at the time? Lets get to the facts as to why this war was fought, not over one man's recollections over anothers. I don't think that too many people really want to know the facts about the war in VietNam, I don't think that we really want to know who wore the halos, or who were the friendlys and who were the bad guys. I suppose that the Vietnamese have their versions also, I suppose that they could tell some stories that we would dispute because we didn't do those kinds of things, did we?

I agree with reader #1. Time and time again, I referred to the book only to find that it contained inaccurate information that simply did not work.

I asked the publisher if there was and updated version, for which there was not.

The book is impressive - nearly 900 pages, but most of them are just too basic. I am an experienced Frontpage 97 user, and I learn faster just playing with the program. The authors go in extend with beginning stuffs such as adding images, changes text etc.. while on advanced topics such as adding activeX controls and scripts, there is simply not enough information. The layout of topics is confusing too. For example: discussion web (forum) is appeared in 2 places: 1. Chapter 23, pages 537 (deal with creating, posting and deleting articles), and 2. chapter 11, page 249 (discussion form handler). In my opinion, if the author group them together, it will be easier to follow.

The CD have many sharewares, but most of them are not that useful.

I would rate this one worse that the "Laura" series.

I bought Using Frontpage 98 and Mastering Frontpage 98 and neither really said much. Using Frontpage 98 is a book written for beginners in NON-beginner language. Mastering Frontpage 98 is slightly better, but they are still both difficult to follow and where is information on Active Server Pages, JavaScript, VB Script, and any of the advanced features?! They aren't in either of these. However, if you are patient and want to know all the basics of Frontpage, then the books might be for you.

This is the most boring book I have ever read! I loved the boxcar children books, and all of them I would rate better the 3 stars, but this one was so borring. MYSTERY ranch? What MYSTERY? The was no mystery in this book at all. The whole thing was just so borring. It's the worst boxcar book I have ever read, and I have read about 42 of their so far 87 books! It's just so borring.

This was the book where the Boxcar Children ate peas for dinner and went to bed at 8:00. They took an entire chapter to plan what they were going to do that day, instead of just doing it. I think this is the right book, but I don't remember because they were all so boring I forgot them. If you are looking for a series for your children to read, I would advise you to keep this out of children's reach. They may need psychiatric treatment after reading this bore of a lifetime. Nothing worth your time is in this book, except that going to bed at 8:00 was a good laugh. --Andy, 12 years old

Why isn't this book as good as the rest? I hated it when i was little, much as I loved the rest of the original series. Years have passed since then and I read it again and it's not so bad. But the other reviewers are correct in the fact that this is no mystery, really.

As for the purpose of this book in the scheme of the entire series, it's actually very important. This book is the important link between books 3 and the rest of the series. This book introduces Aunt Jane, a very important role in the future of the children, and it sets the groundwork for book 5, "Mike's Mystery", which takes place on the same ranch some time later. And book 5 is the springboard for Mike to be more important in later adventures. So there is a purpose to this book.

I can't really recommend it though. But any child who wants to read the whole series should not skip this book - it's still part of the experience, no matter how dull it may seem, and it's really not THAT bad.

"Federal Jobs in Law Enforcement" is another example of an ancient career book that should be taken off the shelf. Entry requirements, application procedures, training programs, and even the agencies have changed dramatically since this book was published in 1992. A much better choice is "Guide to Careers in Federal Law Enforcement," by Thomas H. Ackerman, which is by far the best book ever written on federal law enforcement careers. A good resource for history of the agencies is "Handbook of Federal Police and Investigative Agencies," by Donald A. Torres.

I found this book to be of almost no value as a resource for finding a federal law enforcement job. It's fine as a history book, but not as a job search resource because almost all of the information has been out of date for years. Many of the jobs listed don't exist anymore, and there's no information on how to compete for a federal job. It was probably a good book when it came out eight years ago - if you were looking for a history of only the largest agencies - but not if you were looking for a job.

This book is great. It gives the reader a look at all the departments in the US Government that deal with law enforcement. Even angencies that some people didnt know about.

This book was very good, but I think it needed more action in it. It got kind of boring, but it was a good book. It needed some more story to it to.

I really liked Benny uncovers a mystery and I think you will too. Just take my advice. Don't expect too much excitement. I recommend this book to kids who like excitement and surprises!

This is an okay book if you've never heard of Visual Basic and you want to play around with the program.But as far as the Author's claim that this book teaches how to program and build applications in Visual basic, I would say no to this book.The book focuses on the program Visual basic itself not how to use it to build your own applications. My surprise is that my school actually choose this book for a junior level programming class.
This book offer no indepth explanations of terms used and it has no additional resources. The glossary doesn't even contain some of the key terminologies.This book is probably best for an advanced VB user who needs some sort of a refresher guide.

A very basic book. If you are looking for OOP or database programming basics, this is certainly not a book for you. But if you are a casual user who just wants to see partial capabilities of vb, go with this book. I guess if this book is used in schools as a requirement, it should be for "Intro to VB" and not for even VB-I.

This book as a story is well written, contemporary and for the most part fun to read. My interest in the book was to see how it dealt with the topic of bedwetting. Overall I was disappointed. Lily is described as an occasional but frequent bedwetter. So, while this story might help children to feel more sympathetic towards peers who wet and enable them to empathize with children who share a similar experience, the conclusion does not offer hope to the many children who have never been dry at night and for who bedwetting can be characterized as a chronic problem. In fact Ms. Warner furthers some misconceptions and stereotypes about bedwetting by suggesting that Lily's troubles have a psychological basis (which statistically may be true in about 3% of children who wet) and that withholding fluids might be a viable treatment approach.

The conflict in the story identifies a crucial moment which almost all bedwetters face but the resolution (though not uncommon)does not offer the possibility of a long term solution.

I am happy to see any book which helps raise awareness of the common and often distressing problem of bedwetting. For readers looking for another Lily adventure this book might fill the bill. For readers looking for a book to help their child better understand his or her own wetting or offer some insight or help in resolving wetting, Accidental Lily is not much help.

This book just goes to show how important it is to look for the little "Authentic Transcriptions" stamp that most guitar-book covers display. These transcriptions are downright LAZY, reducing key singles like "Steve McQueen," "Soak Up The Sun," and "C'mon C'mon" to a few composite arrangements and a "recall with variation" markings. Were they afraid they'd run out of room? Nowhere to be found on these three tracks are Crow's outstanding supporting vocals, which ONLY appear on "Weather Channel" and the straight-thirds of "It's So Easy."

I never even stopped to think that a guitar book wouldn't include background vocals or note *SOME* alternate rhythms/patterns upon repeated recall -- in my experience it's unheard of. Then again, so is entirely ignoring the primary electric guitar on the opening track. Go figure. Mid-album rockers "Over You" and "Lucky Kid" seem to have escaped the narcolepsy of their transcriptionist, but don't let the multiple staves fool you: the production of this album is incredibly layered -- if I can find this many problems with it in 48-hours there are surely other missing parts that i just haven't tried to play yet.

This book is a good jumping off point for your own arrangements, and perhaps a wonderful tool for the beginning guitarist, but you can probably find equally competent transcriptions for most of these songs on the internet for free. Save your money!

I got the book because I had been so impressed with other books in this series. The result was a terrible disappointment. Few of the nice features of the series are present. There is no step-by-step numbering with callouts, no good use of color, and the font is so small I have literally to use a magnifying class. You want to avoid this one.

Good for research but not exactly coffee-table blurb.