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*Clipped Wings* is a history of the disbanding of the U.S. Army Air Force Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. Unfortunately, *Cliiped Wings* is dull reading, academic in the bad sense, which obscures the truth in two or three places in an effort to emphasize the sexism that existed in the 1940's.

The best book I have read about the Women Airforce Service Pilots is *Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines,* by Sally Van Wagenen Kell. Second best is Marianne Verges' *On Silver Wings*.

*Clipped Wings* falis to point out that two women members of Congress, Clare Booth Luce and Margaret Chase Smith, voted to kill the WASPs in 1944. *Clipped Wings* also fails to say, as Marianne Verges demonstrates, that WASP leader Jacky Cochran did not do the best possible job of prolonging the existence of the WASP organization.

In addition, on page 26 of *Clipped Wings*, the author claims that "...WASPs [were used] for top secret missions involved with the Manhattan project," but the book does not substantiate this claim.

Finally, the last chapter of *Clipped Wings* is laden with turgid academese about "hegemony" and "gendering," which in regard to sexism in the 1940's, only belabors the obvious.

CLipped Wings tells of a situation which should not be a surprise when women only got the right to vote around the time of WW I. Here were women, many of them, living through a time
when they had no voting rights, take the call to help defend
this country.. Some of them like Aline Rhonie Hofheimer of Warren, NJ decided that she too wanted to help. Many of these
women were well to do but had a big purpose. Aline was one of the older ones being born in 1909. She was the only one to fly both in the WAFS and the ATA.. or so I'm told. In any event,
I can not get enough of books about these women and Clipped Wings
,by telling this story has to be considered a gift from the past.

This is the best of the books on the WASP program to be published to date. Relying on first-hand interviews and recently declassified documents, Clipped Wings consistently demonstrates that the US failed this group of dedicated veterans.

Of special importance is its amplication of feminist military critiques to an actual branch of the military, proving what before had been strictly theory. The best chapters are those that include numerous examples of media sexism and the ridiculous thought patterns of Congress--two elements of culture that unfortunately still impact women who enter male-dominated fields.

Before you buy this book, keep in mind some facts about Robert Whealey:

1) His personal hygiene is poor. He maintains a constant foul-smelling body odor. Somedays, his normally white hair has a yellowish hue to it. People make a point not to stand too close to him while he is eating, for fear of being bombarded with food particles.

2) At public lectures, he asks the most ridiculous questions (such as "does the Brezhnev Doctrine really exist?" when he teaches International Diplomacy and should know better).

3) He wanders the college and town like a homeless beggar. His pants are usually barely clinging to his posterior, and he has accidentally mooned more than one person.

Thus, the book may be fine, but the man is just a fruitcake.

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Hitler and Spain is a very good book and is also very well researched. After reading it, I learned about many events and key people in the Spanish Civil War that I was not aware of prior to reading Hitler and Spain. Also, the footnotes at the end of the book are very well documented and are worth taking a look at. Dr. Whealey, if you are reading this in Athens Ohio, my hat is off to you for writing such a wonderful book. I am very excited about your new book on the American intervention in kosovo coming out this year.

This book describes Nazi Germany's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. The author, Professor Whealey, has written much about Nazi Germany's relation with Spain. The book explains the reasons behind Hitler's decision to intervene. It also describes the military situations. The best part of the book gives a general overview and analysis of how Germany's intervention in Spain affected the two countries and the international situation. Overall, it's a great and thorough book that analyses as much as it describes.

if you have already read "How to teach your baby Math" and "How to teach your baby how to read" you are wasting your money. The book ads very little to what the other two say.

We only see a benefit in this book for those entering the Doman system, since they can get two books for the price of one.

If you read past the first two chapters, which the person above obviously didn't, you will see that this program goes beyond reading and math by showing you how to give your baby "bits" of encyclopedic knowledge in a very comprehensive way. My son knew 50 periodic symbols when he was three, in addition to his states by sight, presidents, birds, and butterflies. Glenn Doman is a pioneer, a true visionary who sees a world where all children are intelligent--even ones who have had brain damage.

This book is excellent, I recommend it, This method really works! It's fantastic!!! I did it whith a little variation and even it works!!! Thank you Glenn Doman

In this book, one can learn that: The internet started as a Defense Department project in the 80's p. 120 The proper way to search for pager manufacturing in internet web search engines is just to mention "pager", and not worry at all about other key words or symbols. p. 124 That, according to an intelligence project, pager repair could be a great business. p.139 I was lead to believe by a book review that this book would give me a great deal of information about passive intelligence gathering. It does not live up to its promise, and lacks credibility for so many factual (1,1969 2, +pager +manufacture + industry +trends ) and analytical (3 I threw my cell phone away, and got another for free)errors. What a shame.

I work as a professional performing due diligence for VC firms and client companies in Seattle and Silicon Valley. I have been using many of the techniques for several years that enable me to rapidly assess business opportunities and develop turnaround strategies. I am also a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

What this book did was enable me to enhance my business process and better articulate this extremely difficult line of work. For example, the business process outlined on page 58 is crucial in that it identifies several "Stop" or check points with clients. Key in this type of consulting, especially where steps you take as a consultant may directly add risk to your client, it is important to know where to draw the line and involve them for a decision. The authors clarify where the key decision points are when it comes to going from passive to semi-active, to active intelligence gathering. Critical, as time is money to you. But! to the client, information - or exposure thereof also means risk that could become your liability.

Consultants in this field are in the knowledge business, and one of the most difficult things to do is get the client to place a value on knowledge or intelligence. The authors, through wit and excellent real-world examples, spell out some of the keys to getting paid!! (pp 67). Naturally, this would go over the head of the casual reader who has never practiced and is looking for a "cook book" approach to due diligence of new business opportunities (i.e. see above commentary from Bogota).

This book is a "how to" book in that the authors have taken the time to clarify and rank several research tools and locations that one might not normally be aware of. This comparison alone is worth the money, as anyone who has used the web for performing research would agree.

The real brilliance in this book is subtle. By connecting the examples, you learn how to ask questions and iden! tify with what is important in doing intelligence research.! Again, for anyone who has gone in circles with clients who "don't know what they don't know", or worse yet, don't know how to value knowledge - this is critical to delivering fast, and minimizing your exposure.

Frankly, the Bogota guy didn't get it and has probably never performed true business intelligence. I agree that the coverage of the Internet web search engines, which used the example of finding information on pagers, is old news. The chapter's purpose was to show how more advanced tools outside of the Internet, such as Nexis, are preferred substitutes. That point was clearly made. However, this example was only used among 10 pages of chapter 5 (which was taken up with images of why the web doesn't work). The other 257 pp of this book are the meat.

My hats off to the authors for delivering a humorous text based on real-world wisdom that cuts through a very gray area that is as difficult to perform, as it is to explain.

As an investment banking anaylst, one of my primary jobs is build financial models of the companies we evaluate. One of the most underrated and (in my view) more important element of my work comes when we perform due diligence and understand the soundness of the assumptions we build into our models. Most analysts (in my experience) are too infatuated with their sophisticated spreadsheets and believe the sheer complexity of their models can compensate for a lack of understanding of the fundamental business they are set to evaluate.

The book does an outstanding job of articulating, at every step, the importance of challenging one's assumptions and systematically gathering, synthesizing, and =analyzing= information that helps to dig through the colored lenses of wishful thinking or purely numerical analysis. The occasional injection of humor is quite welcome - in a world of stuffy self-important books on business, here's a piece of work that was written by people who love what they do, and are adept at making you better at what you do as well.

Miz Bolinga be sippin on da playa-hata-juice.

I havent read this book yet but, being a student of Mrs.Boligers 9th grade Literature class I am sure that it is a great book. For all you ppl who are alwayz HATEING on her for the things she writes about of the things she says in her newspaper column, you need to get to know her before you critize her, even when you meet her that does not give you the right to put her down.!!!!
Mrs.Bolinger you are a great teacher never give up!!!!

Lynne Bolinger writes withgenius. She has great insight into teaching and life.

This guy must be from outer space!
His junk will not fly in our factories, I guarantee it!

I had a copy of this book for years and lost it recently. Although I remember so much of it by heart I bought another copy as it is one of the most timeless, relevant and clearly written books on deploying visual production controls. I thought that was testimony enough to the value of the book.

It is a hit book just feed readers' needs - especially for value chain or Costing saving research.

This was very disappointing. Lots of emotionalism, little of philosophical value. I read the book to try and understand the viewpoints of those who apparently don't believe in knowing where they are going before they leave. (Which of course would make one wonder how they knew when they had arrived?) I'd include my email address but I don't want those who believe in this book to fill up my in-box!

I'm not certain of its Btu value but, dear reader, that's exactly all it is good for.

I found this book to be one of the best ever explaining why the education system is failing. The only people who could find fault with it would be school teachers, principals, and administrators. Robert Holland has researched this subject with more depth than perhaps anyone in the country and writes on the subject with clarity, accuracy, and wit. This book is a must-read.

Not With My Child You Don't is a "must-read" for every parent of a school-aged child! It provides an in-depth look into many of today's so-called "education reforms" and makes sense of the senseless for the average parent wondering what in the world is going on in their child's school classroom. It is an invaluable resource for any grassroots education activist or organization. With contributions from citizen activists from coast to coast, the book clearly shows that the problems in America's schools are systemic in nature and that ignoring them and hoping that the problem will go away is not a sensible alternative for parents who are truly concerned about the education their children are receiving. The Appendix resources alone are will worth the price of the book! Robert Holland is a talented writer who puts his many years in professional journalism to good use in providing American parents with a powerful, well-researched documentary exploring the multiple agendas that are a driving force behind "modern" education.

This book is a heap of arrant nonsense

Contrary to the previous reviewer, this collection of essays is well worth reading. Of course one can disagree with points made here or there, but if you take the time to actually read the thing I don't see how one can leave the book without having experienced a huge degree of mental stimulation. Yes, it's written in a meandering style, but following the thoughts is the whole point. So--if you like thinking, that is--I say this book is of 4-star calliber!

This book has been very influential in France. If you don't take your philophy neat, of if you are new to Nancy's thought, then I recommend starting with Maurice Blanchot's _The Unavowable Community_, which relates Nancy's concept of finitude to the work and life of Georges Bataille. Blanchot shows why, in the face of the various totalitarianisms of the 20th century, we should care about Nancy's work.

Very disappointing. Perhaps I had the wrong idea of what the book would cover but I had hoped to learn types of learning disabilities and how to deal with them educationally. That is not the scope of this book, despite the title. It does not address LD in depth, test results and their meaning, educational alternatives, etc. My main concern is the misinformation about IDEA federal law and the rights of the learning disabled. Specifically, there is the sentence that states a school evaluation "can take up to six months or longer." (p.27). Federal law under IDEA states that the school has 45 days to complete their evaluation after the parent signs the consent. PLEASE don't wait months to have your child evaluated.! The earlier the intervention, the better the outcome. I would not recommend this book.

this is a very simple easy to read book on learning disabilities every parent should have a copy or borrow one from the library. another great one to have on hand is from emotions to advocate by pam and peter wright

I would not be so quick to assume that this book does not have some highly valuable information that would not typically be found in the typical 'disability' book. (Sorry - I was forced to give a rating - so I opted to give it a (5) to average out the above (1). Hope that's okay.)I would think that it would not attempt to cover LD's in the 'in-depth' manner the above reader expected, but rather to concentrate more on the day-to-day issues that most parents wrestle with; at home, at school, with neighbors, with friends and extended family, etc. The issues reach far and wide, and are highly complicated. In reference to the legal aspects, this is only one small part of the overall picture. And regardless of how the law is stated - it still must be carried out, before the child benefits. IDEA 97 is there, in place, ready to use. Do the schools follow it? No. The question then becomes, 'What does a parent do? How should they handle it? How can they fight the system and win - and yet benefit in time and still survive as a family? These are not issues covered under the law - and yet every bit as important in learning to cope with, while finding strategies that either can provide temporary relief, or even just hope for the future. In our experience, it is true that the evaluation process can take (6) months, and there can be many, many legitimate reasons for this. In our experience, it was to our benefit overall, as we wound up with a better evaluation that gave profoundly more accurate, definitive data. This book just may provide some rare, highly insightful information you'd never find elsewhere.

This book offers good advice to local community groups, but it is in need of a serious update. Although it is targeted to grassroots groups, it is often used by people in planning practice. Given the juvinile content of the book, and the limited consideration of current methodological standards and technology, it could result in a marginalization of citizens groups and practical planning efforts directed at them. Why do so many authors of these types of books think that citizens are stupid? Why do so many authors of these types of books think that freehand drawings are common in the urban planning profession? Why do so many authors of these books give examples of bad survey methodology to citizens? Obviously they don't understand that citizens are smart, and they are capable of presenting cogent proposals to public officials. Unfortunately, this book doesn't expose citizens to the techniques to make that possible.

This book gave great insight to the task at hand in planning our neighborhood association. The layout of the book makes it a great reference piece.

This guide is a very practical for citizens who want to begin the neighborhood planning process. It provides step by step procedures on how to get started and what to expect. It begins with an introduction to neighbhorhood planning and why it is important. It then goes on to describe a seven step planning process that begins with data collection and ends with implementation. Though somewhat vague, there is information on how to collect and interpret data, how to pinpoint issues, and how to set goals. The descriptions are easy to read and practical for the layman, but the professional planner might find the reading a little to "thin". The appendix contains a very useful example of a citizen survey and specifics on how to perform a goal setting exercise. Overall, Jones uses easy to understand everyday language to describe what can be a complex and intimidating process. Every neighborhood group should have a copy in their office!