The premise of this book sounded great. Unfortunately, the author forgot that depth is needed to make a plot believable. The heroin was a weaver of tapestries - but the basis of her peace loving world was never explored. The hero seems to be in 2D with just agression and lust. It is a pity that this stoy was not re-worked by the editors as it coul have been fantastic if the promise of the outline had been fulfilled.

I was really disappointed in this book. It started off well with the heroine being kidnapped after wistnessing an assisnation. A lot could have been done to develope Mar-dot and thier psi powers. This was the most interesting character in the book. A little emphasis tken off the high sexual tension and a little more put into the story would have been appreciated.

I have been working on establishing a call center for a small IT consulting company and was hoping to find a book to aid in selecting technologies and determining management and training methods. I didn't find it here. Call Center Savvy is directed toward the managers of very large centers, and is much more appropriate as a theortical discussion starting point than a practical guide to call center management. Also unimpressive is the fact that 78 of the book's 208 pages are used as a listing of companies offering products for call centers; while the phonebook-with-a-bonus might be useful, the same information can be found online (in a more searchable format).

on page 66 there is an article written by The Dawson News. In that article it has a list of bodies recovered from the 1923 explosion. But there is one George Makris, my great uncle, that was killed in the 1913 explosion not the 1923 one.

Looking at a list of autobiographies of Hall of Fame-quality baseball players, one would think that Andre Dawson's would be one of the better ones. He flourished for 20 years with forgettable teams, finishing with 438 home runs and 314 steals, a terrific combination of power and speed. He was also one of the highest-profile victims of the 1987 owner collusion that rocked the sport, and the first player from a last-place team to be named Most Valuable Player of his league.

However, "Hawk" is completely run-of-the-mill. At less than 200 pages in length, and written at a junior-high-school reading level, it's a book I read in one weekend. Entire years of Dawson's career fly by in a single paragraph -- and even then it was written two years before he retired. What few individual games he describes, are poorly-remembered: there are some annoying statistical errors that could have been resolved by Dawson's co-author merely looking at boxscores.

Dawson's biography is really about his Christian faith, and about the support of his family through lean times. The book came out through a Christian publishing division, so that's no surprise. The final chapter ends with a sermon about living positively and an invocation to the Lord.

In terms of being a good baseball book, there's an intriguing early look at current star Alex Rodriguez (Dawson writes in 1994). There's a good concise history of the ownership-players labor strife, and two memorable stories: one about Dawson's signing wih the Cubs in 1987, and another about a shocking act of racial prejudice in Montreal. But in the long run, the stories of faith are inferior to Dave Dravecky's in "Comeback", and the labor history falls short of even "Ball Four".

"Hawk" is aimed primarily at Christian teens, and works best when read on that level. When Dawson is elected to the Hall of Fame in 2003, however, his autobiography will not go with him.

I love Christopher Marlowe, and I am happy that this play did not discourage me from reading his "Dido Queen of Carthage," "Faustus," "Edward II," or "Massacre At Paris." In my opinion, "1 Tamburlaine" and "2 Tamburlaine" are interesting studies at best. I feel that too much of Marlowe's genious takes a back seat to bad humour. Furthermore, Tamburlaine himself lacks the malignant charm of Faustus. He also does not play on our sympathy like Edward II. Nor does he have chilling passages like Guise. The only possible reason I would give for reading this is that it was Marlowe's first effort. Also, the bad humour allows us to see the mentally disturbed side of Marlowe. My best advice to anyone who reads this is don't let this discourage you from reading his great works like "Dido Queen of Carthage," "Faustus," "Massacre At Paris," or "Edwatd II."

I bought this (not from Amazon) as a reference, and only find the listing of poker hands in value of any use. Badly written, grossly out of date and a poor facsimile. One wonders how it remains on the market with so many better editions around. Anything but the "complete" Hoyle's

If you were expecting to get the hoyles book of card games rules, you will be very disappointed with this. It is very out of date, many games are not listed at all, and the rules are insufficient or incorrect even for a simple game like Hearts.

This book is published with very poor quality type, it is very difficult to read.

I was asked to review this book before it was published and dismissed it as a terrible joke. Now I see that it isn't. The authors have a very limited understanding of electric machines. They are excellent control engineers but lousy electric machinery people. The concepts they use in controlling the machines here are pretty useless in the real world. It makes for great academic papers and may generate discussions in the controls world but the book is incredibly naive in its assumptions and the control concepts are useless. Don't waste your money.

This literature is heavily biased to 12 hour work shifts. Not practical at all and very skewed. As an Industrial Engineer I have spent many years dealing with 24-7 manufacturing operations and there is much more data that supports 8 hour shifts for high fatigue situations than this book would lead you to believe. Was looking for data and alternatives and got neither. Lots of fancy words and conjecture. If you do not need the facts this book will impress your friends.

Dawson's mysognious brattle is as unimaginative a blue urinal cakes. He lacks the humanity & humility of a solid writer, choosing instead to wander aimlessly & listlessly through tired topics and long-dead themes. Bury this book & buy something else.