Stroke Survivors is a worthy contribution to the field of caregiving and recovery from one of life'most devastating experience. In its first pages, the reader is drawn into the riveting experience of several personal accounts chronicling the inner experience of the stroke victim--the pain, the terror, the confusion, the disbelief, and the sudden isolation of having speech, organized thought, and/or controlled movement stripped away.

The problem with the book is its lack of focus. Written by a stroke survivor and two clinicins, the book is forever changing from voice to voice in a rather meandering style that leaves the reader a little disoriented. The central focus ofthe book is perhaps too wide-angled: Is this a book (as the title implies) about stroke survivors? If so, then why not make the case studies easier to follow,less laden with social work jargon. Is it an academic work? Then why not clarify the research questions and draw conclusions that are a little crisper? Is it a book about caregivers? Then why not draw a more clear portrait about one or several caregiver? The book is actually filled with helpful bits of information. But its meandering style and lack of focus make much of that information inaccessible to the reader.

I bought this book hoping it would help me with my resume. The example resumes are terrible. You can get better resume writing advice for free from many university career center websites.

Avoid this book. It contains nothing but the most basic resume writing tips, and at that, they are very outdated. Exerpt: "Though there may be instances where you deliver your resume in person, usually you send it through the mail." Have any of you actually mailed your resume out, at least before this economic setback? No, of course we've been emailing them for years. The 20 pages of this book (1/8 of the total) that actually talk about resume tips are very similar, as if the only reason this book has a copyright in 2000 is for the dates on the sample resumes - the rest is straight out of the 80's.

I expect much more from a book targetted for engineers. This MIGHT be appropriate for much less technical positions.

I'm interested in checking out RVing for my family and me. I bought this book because of the title and description on Amazon (no reviews had been posted at that time).

All I can say is this IS the worst how-to book I've ever read. It contains about 80 pages of info that is relevant to the title of the book and even that is repetitive. The rest is travel routes for NASCAR and Casino touring, some dealer listings, and miscellaneous other peripherally related material.

What was this guy thinking? I wanted to know about RV pros and cons for Class C RV layouts. Issues with satellite dishes. Detailed maintenance issues. How vehicle maintenance might be different than a van? What accessories might be useful? What can I expect at an RV park? Few of these questions were even remotely answered.

I can't believe this book is the "ultimate" guide to anything. This book is just plain bad news. Stay away.