I agree with the first reviewer. A blatant case of intellectual dishonesty. Michael Radelet is one of the worst researchers on capital punishment. I don't know how the guy got his tenure. Don't buy it!!

Just some definitional clarification in response to comments made about the "intellectual dishonesty" of the authors:

CAPITAL OFFENSE - a crime for which the death penalty may be imposed. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Ed. 1999.

Black's is the legal system's most trusted authority on legal terminology, and while it is perhaps unfair and potentially misleading for the authors to have exploited a reader's possible misunderstanding of the nature of capital sentencing and prosecutorial dealmaking, the authors are correct in their usage of the term.

This is a wonderful book documenting some of the most significant failures of Justice in the 20th century. The stories presented within are both enthralling and heartbreaking. I highly recommend this book.

Another reviewer accused this book's authors of "intellectual dishonesty" for including crimes that did not result in a death sentence. However, this reviewer erroneously stated that only crimes that eventually result in the death penalty are capital crimes. This is not true. A capital crime is an crime that carries with it the _potential_ for recieving a death sentence - not just the crimes that actually do recieve such a sentence.

The authors also stated in the introduction that they would be including crimes which, at the time they were committed, constituted a capital offense, but no longer are considered death penalty-eligible (like rape).

The only "intellectual dishonesty" present is that of certain reviewers who make false statements and tarnish the reputations of well-respected researchers.

Having worked with Putnam Texel several years ago, I was excited to finally see her work published. Under her direction, the project we worked on produced some of the best analysis materials I have seen to date. I was very eager to see how she had evolved her methodology to include such modern software engineering techniques as use-cases and the UML.

As the title dictates, "Use Cases combined with ...", one would expect some steller use-case technologies presented. Unfortunately, the use-case analysis presented here are both immature and offstream. No where in the book are use-case models and their notation per the UML standard presented. The use-case scenario examples are weak and fail to cleanly flow to software design. The concept presented that use cases map to class methods emphasized the authors fail to understand "true" use-case technologies.

The rest of the book is full of home-brewed project duties and diagramming (CCDs, CCCDs, STDs, PID! s, PADs, & CIDs) which, if followed to the receipt, could quadruple your project's schedule. There fails to be an effort to show how the process can be streamlined.

The authors do present a complete flowing process which other methodolgist often fail to do. There are some good ideas and some specifics that can help scientists fill in the holes of their own methodology. I would suggest a process of this type for large scale developments. I would also suggest, however, you look elsewhere for use-case analysis techniques.

I agree with Bruce Arbuckle that this is an excellent book, and also that the title is somewhat misleading. The feature that drain@yahoo.com from Los Angeles, California complained about ("The rest of the book is full of home-brewed project duties and diagramming (CCDs, CCCDs, STDs, PID! s, PADs, & CIDs") I found to be an asset! Whether you are a veteran OO developer or manager, or a novice at OOA/OOD there is plenty here to borrow and put to use in developing your own style and methodology. Rarely is a complex subject like this covered so thoroughly and with such attention to detail.

Textel and Williams provide a cookbook which can be followed to the letter, or which you can modify to satisfy your own OO sensibilities. I particularly found the continual contrasting and comparing of Booch, OMT, and UML to be interesting and edifying.

The Project Management spreadsheet was an unexpected bonus. By following the phases described in this book step by step, producing the recommended deliverables, and using the review items for each phase, anyone with half a brain could successfully manage an OO project -- even someone in management! :-)

The title of this book appears to be misleading. It really discusses an approach or "SLDC" process for OO. This should be apparent to anyone that looks at the cover because the "side bar" states what it covers. The Preface also states that it presents a framework for OO methodologies.

For organizations new to OO, this book provides an excelent "how to". You can even take the inside cover and put in a project tool like MS project!

As the authors state, it is like a cook book and after you try it, you can modify the recipe to suite your environment.

The structure of the book is excellent. The information was very well presented.

I highly recommend this book.

This book characterizes much of what is wrong with the current way in which text-books are pumped out by authors/academics/publishers to serve as a new yet ultimately qualitatively useless addition to the heap of knowledge in any given field. It is not that the topics presented here are useless, meaningless or anything of the sort, it is simply that the mediocrity with which they are written about and presented to the reader- supposedly a student attempting to learn about these subjects- is apparant on nearly every page.
If the mark of someone who truly understands their field of study is their ability to clearly and easily convey and teach it to others, than many of the contributors to this book do not truly understand their field, certainly not to the extent that they should when being held up as the fore front of their academic field. Read or Buy if you must, but turn to others sources for a better reading and learning experience.

This book provides a solid overview of Organizational Communication from a scholarly perspective. The authors do an excellenct job of identifying and elaborating on key issues, elaborating on related inquiry and elaborating on future considerations for the field.

This book was a pretty tough read, and most of the concepts about women starting out in medicine were fairly obvious. Some things, though, were new to me. I did not, however, learn enough to really give this book a lot of credit. It would have been easier to just look this particular subject up on the web or in an encyclopedia. Enjoy!

This book was extremly well researched, as well as well written. The antecdotes about the doctors were inspiring, and were often amusing. A great read. P.S. The author recently was awarded the Ross Winterrowd award for best book this year in composition rhetoric for Out of the Dead House. She should be congragulated.

A true story about the exploits of a soldier in the development of a new military division of mountain climbers and skiers during WW2. Begining with the call up and training of new recruits to the embarcation to the Pacific and then onto Italy. Good personal glimpses of the innner workings and thoughts of the military command during that period of time

But much of the book, which reaches just 150 pages, strays merkedly from the purported subject. The author has a pithy writing style, but his efforts are sometimes misdirected.

I only reed chapter 9, since this was what I had to read for my assignment. I found it interesting but very heavy. Maby someone else find the book better? I should add that I am not a native speaker of English.

Putnam is a former airline employee with absolutely no background or training in sociology, psychology, biology, or any science to promote his bigoted philosophy. At no point is this man authorized or qualified to speak as a scientist.
Just reading a couple of sentences of his racist viewpoints makes one glad that such small-minded stupidity is vanishing. But it also serves as a grave perdition to all of us that this type of hatred is still very prevalent in our world.
Fortunately, just as Putnam and other bigots have the right to express their hateful messages, we all equally have the right to avoid them.

I just finished reading this book. As one who graduated from college with a BA in 1968 and who was steeped in the liberalism of that day, but whom time and experience have mutated into a free-thinking person, reading this book was like a time trip into a medieval society. Everything seemed strange and alien, until I realized that it reflected an idea long gone, but nevertheless true and valid. Putnam argued that the inherent inferior intelligence of the black person, as a whole, demanded segregation in social situations, lest the two races intermarry and thereby drag down our society. Fortunately, even today, intermarriage has not happened in great numbers.

He argued for school segregation mainly on the grond that it was necessary to prevent intimate contact between the races, but overlooked, or at least only superficially considered, the impact of blacks on the white educational system. The major problem with integration is what it did to educational quality and discipline. Any but a fool could have forseen what did happen. As schools massively integrated, the educational standards were lowered to the extent necessary to allow at least a majority of black students to pass, for to have done otherwise would have resulted in charges of racism, potential violence and dismissal. As to discipline, you only have to ask students who went throutgh a school in which a large segment of the population was black, say 30 or 40 percent. I have a nephew whose education was hampered by the constant unruly and violent behavior of the blacks in his school. Eventually, he dropped out of school as his parents could not keep him in a private school due to costs, but his life was in danger in the public schools. He went on to get his GED (general equivalency diploma), but he was never the same afterwards.

Some may argue that Putnam's view is that of the average white racist of his time, but that overlooks the fact that he was essentially correct in his predictions. However, correctly perceiving what is to come is today considered "politically incorrect." Alas Absalom.

This book is just as racist and bigoted as the other reviewers have made it out to be, yet they miss the value of the book in learning about the mentality behind Segregation. When this book came out in 1961, it was considered a well-written thesis for not only why Segregation was nescasary, but why it was the moral thing to do. It offers that rare insight into the the thinking of the times that has escaped most post-Civil Rights literature. This book is representitive of the thoughts of the majority of the white South in the 60's, and should be recognized as such.

If you like a book where the heroine spends 98% of the book dithering, running away and being totally illogical this one is for you! It wasn't for me!

I thought I had written a review for this book, but I see I skipped it. It is one of those books, actually, that I have some doubts about. I had no doubts that the book was well-written, or that the characters, zany as they were, were interesting. But on the other hand, the heroine's culinary pursuits (in the village bakery, that is) seem a little unreal. It was funny, on the other hand, to see the gentlemen of the ton lusting for her - baked goods!

The problems I have with the book is not with the hero or heroine's motivations. The heroine, the daughter of a duke, who prefers to use her maiden name (although legally and socially she would have been known by her husband's name and rank), has had an unhappy childhood and even unhappier marriage. To compensate, she turns to cooking and to charitable works in her village. Enter the hero - the partner of her late husband in a spice-importing firm. The hero is an earl (of course!) who has turned to trade to revive the family fortunes. [One problem: Few peers directly engaged in trade; those who did so tended to be despised by other aristocrats. Investing in certain types of companies was permissible on the other hand, directly, or more likely, indirectly].

The hero's links to trade are actually less problematic compared to the story line. Although I can understand her fears, her dithering made the story somewhat hard to follow.

An entertaining subplot involved the servants - the earl's man being determined to ensure that his master remains a bachelor (to the point of actively meddling in his betrothals), and one of Lady Harriet's maids being determined to nabble said valet. I did find the names of these maids somewhat distracting, and wondered where their names had come from.

Having read a few more of Putnam's books, I have to say that this is probably her best work. She has now turned to writing historicals.

A woman who loves to bake, cook, and experiment with new dishes--and does so with great skill and delicious results. A man whose heightened sense of smell has served him well in spice import ventures and made him lover of well-seasoned food. A match made in culinary heaven?

Not when the woman is Lady Harriet Worthington, widow of Lord Frederick Worthington (a womanizer to the end), daughter of the Duke of Sidenham (distant and cold); now her own woman and loving it.

Not when the man is Lord Elias Westwood, Worthington's partner in a very successful spice import business--a man who wants possession of Lady Worthington's shares in the business, since she has so mismanaged them since Freddy died.

Passions rise and flour and dough fly from the first time these two meet. Most definitely a character-driven novel, REFORMING HARRIET allows us to eavesdrop (along with the servants!) on Harriet and Elias as they try to come to a mutually satisfying disposition of the portion of the spice business left in Harriet's care. Eileen Putman breathes life into an intriguing hero and heroine, then sets them free to learn and grow... and love.

Kimberly Borrowdale, Under the Covers Book Reviews

I found too many errors/typos/inconsistancys between the textand the appendices. Almost too much information smashed into smallspace. Not up to the quality of other Putnam titles. END