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As a woman with breast cancer, I have spent considerable time researching and reading all the books I can find on the topic. I found this one to be poorly written (sooooo boring....when it doesn't need to be; it reads like a bad textbook) and a poor source of information. There is a need for a good book on this topic. The other one I found, Man to Man, is equally bad. I wish I could recommend it, but all I can say is SAVE YOUR MONEY.

In a state of shock and full of fear...this book provided the answers I was looking for and put me at ease.

Most helpful in giving insight to how feelings may run during the healing process. Good tips on things not to say. Excellent explanation of different types of cancers. Explains very well some of the decisions that will need to be made by the cancer patient.

What this book is: a large collection of exciting and dynamic projects, virtually a must-have resource for its striking and dynamic style of presentation. Jones presents a full exploration of what may be termed 'machine-design', and his examples are wonderful specimens of craftsmanship.

Of course, with so many architects, his complete presentation is overloaded with visual goodies, i.e., "eye-candy". One wishes he's spent more time in making his verbal presentation more lucid. The text is confusing, jumbled, and affectatious. It may be fashionable to speak about architecture in lofty, disjointed metaphors, but instrumentally helpful it is not. It is ironic that with such a cut-and-dried, what-you-see-is-what-you-get approach to the design of buildings, Jones has chosen render his thoughts so murky.

It is, nonetheless, a wonder to peruse: the honesty of utilitarian pieces and the import of machine-design strategies is a marvelous gift to architecture.

Since the early nineties, I've been an avid fan of Jones' architecture, using the tectonics of the machine as the driving force in his designs. The illustrations and models are extrordinary to look at and study and offer an adaquate summary of his career (although I wish he included more detailed accounts of his earlier works).

Wes Jones' architecture may not be practical from the humanistic or economical point of view, but the machine architecture he practices continually evokes compelling examples and images which inspire me and other fans of design to search for innovation in our field.

My only complaint about the monogram is his pretensious writing style which is difficult to follow - much of it pure 'train-of-thought' writing, it seems.

If you find Jones to your liking, however, Neil Denari will be another architect you'll enjoy.

Back in 1992 I happened to see Wes Jones give a lecture at the "Emerging Voices" series in new York City's architectural league. I was anticipating this event greatly; Jones was at the time a member of the firm HHPJ whose graphic drawing style, and provocative designs were making a name for themselves. They had just one and completed the construction of the Astronauts Memorial in Florida. It was a double bill lecture and Jones was up first. As he spoke and showed slides, my anticipation turned to disappointment to anger. Reading rigidly from a prepared text he talked about philosophy, Hiedegger, and modern living. His slides were of the text he was reading from, pictures of typewritten pages. Some of the audience members left, I almost did too. He finally finished to a polite applause.

Jones' new book, "Boss Architecture" evokes similar feelings that I had those years ago. Beautifully produced, thoughtfully designed and chock full of those cool looking drawings of pseudo-industrial structures, it is imbalance with dense self conscious writings and stories. Architects who write about architecture can't seem to avoid wordy, pretentious complicated writing style, and Jones is no exception. Even the footnotes have footnotes. Of all the essays presented here, only one I found engaging, readable and clearly illustrated his concept of "bossness". "Hot Rod" is a great comparison between European and American attitudes about machinery, and cars in specific.

Jones' architect has maintained the same consistent fascination with machinery. All the projects express the structural, mechanical and fabrication systems as a visual image. The "contemporary vernacular" of the industrialized nation is a consistent theme is his work. Projects such as the Donner Lake cabins using shipping containers or the KOMA Museum in LA combine modern materials with innovative plans to make an architecture that sings. Other highlights include the Lake Superior Freshwater Aquarium i! n Michigan, the Head Start Childcare Facility in NJ, the spec. office complex in Philadelphia, PA, and the Zimmer stair at the University of Cincinnati. Other projects, such as the government center in Taiwan and the convention center in Romania project a robotic, and banal authoritarianism that gives these buildings a dismal bureaucratic air.

It's also interesting to see that of the 20 projects presented 15 are competitions, the majority of them not won by him. Also striking is the absence of color photographs of the few built works. I guess this is in keeping with his machine esthetic. Color is left to highlight the drawings.

Most disturbing is his fascination with the German philosopher Martin Hiedegger. Its a known fact the Hiedegger was a avid member of Germany's Nazi party, and Jones liberally drops his name and use of his quotes. This reader is left with a strange aftertaste seeing these machinery buildings born from an influence by the infamous German philosopher, something that Jones apparently has no qualms about. perhaps this is one of the reasons why this is a compelling book. Like trying not to look at a car crash on the highway, we are instead transfixed by the carnage, and someone else's misfortune.

Very easy to read and entertaining book about the compatibility between sun signs on a basic level. However, the book earns demerit points because some of the jibes at sun signs are too cruel (especially for Scorpio). Teri King is a Gemini so they come off pretty well!! Also, unlike Linda Goodman, the book seems unduly pessimistic about some combinations and needs to be more positive and helpful. Perhaps she's just wanting to call a spade a spade but in this Aquarian age of brotherhood....hmmmm.

I do not plan my life around my horoscope, but sometimes I find it fun to see how accurate it is. This book, "Love, Sex and Astrology," describes the twelve zodiac signs in detail, the character and physical traits of each sign, and also includes descriptions of the higher and lower type of each sign, and also has a quiz to determine which one you are. Detailed descriptions of relationships between different signs make it easy to find the "perfect" mate (now all you have to do is find a higher level capricorn...). It's a great book! Keep it around just for fun.

A nice light read for those who want to know something about relationship astrology and don't want to be bogged down with too much detail.
Its a humorous and truthful book but a little
lacking in compassion. Some of the jibes at sun-signs are quite mean. Although I liked the
book, I found some relationship analysis too
pessimistic and lacking in positive suggestions for improving things.

This is not a very helpful book to understand globalization. The author makes a lot of rhetorical comments, blames every bad thing in the world on multinational corporations or international organizations, and offers little analysis in global issues. It is also deplorable that the author mostly refers to newspapers and popular magazines rather than academic books, even though he is an economics professor. (There is no bibliography in the book, only a few endnotes for each chapter). Last but not least, the book is very poorly written. It is dull, repetitive, and full of unnecessarily long sentences.

Professor Tabb has done an excellent job here. This book is well researched, well argued and cautious to avoid naive oversimplifications of the issues surrounding globalization. I haven't read another book that lays out more clearly the ways in which "globalization" is effecting the environment, workers rights and democratic ideals. I strongly encourage you to read this book if you are looking for solid information on what the "globalization" debate is all about. There is certainly too much to overview in this space. However, I should respond to another reviewer's claim that Professor Tabb is not well researched in that he does not cite much from academic journals. this is true, as the scope and focus of this book lies outside of academic ideological posturing on world issues and goes to the statistical facts, actual statements and track records of global finance institutions and examines the official public line on these issues, as documented in the Economist and the Wall Street Journal. this book is in fact very well researched, and very much worth your time.

The author gives some examples of the logic of capitalism. For instance, he quotes the memo written by former Clinton treasury secretary and current Harvard president, Larry Summers, when he was Chief economist at the World Bank in 1991. In that memo he explained the "impeccable" economic logic of exporting "health-impairing pollution" to "vastly underpolluted countries" such as in Africa. And then there is recounting of former Bush treasury secreatary Paul O'neil's confrontation at a shareholders meeting with one of the workers at an Alcoa plastics plant in Mexico when he was CEO of that company. O'neil told him that Alcoa's plants were so clean in Mexico that one could eat off their floors but the worker responded that his excellency was lying and produced newspaper clippings to prove it. Alcoa pays virtually no taxes in the town of the Mexican plant of that worker and the town's infrastructure (schools, hospitals, sewage, etc) is in shambles. Half of the town's 15,000 residents use backyard latrines. Alcoa, along with Ford, contributed 52,000 dollars to build a school for three hundred students, that has one teacher, a leaky roof......

He points to the workers at the Reebok plant in Thailand, workers in China's "industrial zones," Nike and Alcoa workers in Mexico. Instead of working 80 hours a week, and getting constantly cut and bruised by machines, and getting chemicals in the eyes and nausea and headaches, or getting beaten up if you don't work fast enough and getting arrested if you try to leave work, these people could fight for their dignity if they had a viable union to advance their cause.

It is only labor rights, such as the right not to be fired for launching a strike, which allow workers to try to get rights to decent pay, humane working conditions and other such essentials while they make their bosses such huge profits with their work. The author goes over some of the public relations efforts of such companies. The Clinton administration helped in such an effort with top retail companies which created a "code of conduct" with companies policing themselves but such standards have been little enforced.

The author looks at the particularly interesting case of aids drugs. 17 million people and counting have died of AIDs in Africa. However U.S. companies have patents on the leading AIDs drugs which gives them a monopoly on producing them so they can charge 10,000 dollars to poor Africans for Aids treatment. Al Gore on behalf of U.S. pharmaceuticals threatened sanctions on South Africa when that country passed laws allowing for local companies to produce Aids drugs at 90 to 95 percent cheaper than American pharmaceutical companies demand. The Clinton administration argued that compulsory liscencing laws did not apply in that case. And the Pharmaceuticals have argued that they need to charge high prices so they can continue to research Aids treatments and if they are stricted their entrepreneurial genius will strangled. Of course, the problem is that these drugs have been substantially developed through U.S. government funded research. For instance the author points out that while the company Glaxo Wellcom claims to have developed AZT, it was actually the National Cancer Institute and Duke University researchers that developed AZT to suppress the Aids virus in human cells and Glaxo Wellcom did not do any of the immunological or Virological studies or test it on patients. The author points to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research which found that of the 21 drugs "considered to have the highest therapeutic value of those introduced between 1965 and 1992" publicly funded research developed 15 of them. Most tropical diseases have been cured by U.S. military research or by private companies that do research on livestock and pets. The author notes that the U.S. government has offered 200 million to the UN's proposed 10 billion dollar program to fight Aids and has insisted that its money be used to buy from American pharmaceutical companies.

He notes that neoliberal capitalism has been a horrible failure throughout the world. The deregulation of capital flows has led to increased financial panics such as the Asian crises a few years ago. 90 percent or more of international financial transactions are for speculative purposes. He notes that eliminating tarrifs for Western goods has led to the destruction of local industries, throwing farmers off the land, and so on. He notes that Western countries, with their usual grotesque hypocrisy, put tarrifs and huge subsidies on their agricultural products against foreign competetion. He quotes a study from the World Bank which states that greater openness to trade slows income growth amongst the poorest 40 percent of poor nations. The author refers to the subidized sugar industry of Mozambique and IMF efforts to privitize it.

The author notes that polls show that a majority of Americans symphathize with the views of Anti-WTO protestors. Real wages have stagnated for a majority of Americans over the last few decades. Job insecurity has greatly increased. His quotation of statistics about Americans crying on the job, getting inadequate sleep, problems at work affecting their personal lives, and so on is interesting. He quotes Human Rights Watch which points out the great attack on Unions launched by the U.S. government, continuing since the Reagan years. 54 percent of young workers say they would like to join a union but 80 percent of workers say it is somewhat or very likely that union organizers will face retribution from companies

The author devotes a section to the environment too, probably the most difficult of the book. He points out that drilling in the Wildlife refuge in Alaska will only produce oil in ten years and after that only 42 million gallons a day. He says that 49 million gallons a day of oil would be saved if the miles per gallon of SUV's would be increased by three miles.

What we have here is an English import whose author simply helped himself to the title of a very well known American book WORD FOR WORD! There oughta be a law...but I suppose there isn't.

My boyfirend and I read this book, one chapter at a time. We tried out all the different sensual and exotic massage techniques described in this book and we were pretty upset when we were finished with the book. We learned many different ways to please and satisfy each other, just by touching each other on different parts of our bodies and by focusing on our pleasure zones. This book offers good advise that can be useful for everyone, especially couples. This was a great book and the price was very reasonable.

I decided to buy this over Gordon Inkeles' arbitrarily, and I have read through it once so far. I already feel ready to use the techniques that are so thoroughly and sensually described. The photos are usually helpful and tasteful (Puritans be damned!) and the sections on oil selection, etc, are well presented. It's a little over the top on creating a sensual environment -- not all of us always have the time or money to create the lavish dens so described, but it does create a tastefully erotic tone for the entire book. I haven't used the techniques yet, but again, I feel confident just knowing a small portion of what is written. Highly recommended, though I'll try other books too as my experience grows. One star? Seems impossible.

This collection is terribly read, especially the woman's voice, the strange crying tune she had bothered me so much that none of the words registered. If you like to buy an audio reading of poems, I highly recommend the collection producted by BBC, it is so far the best.

All I know is that I checked this out from the library expecting it to be annoying because of the other review, and expecting to just have it play in the background while I ignored it. But I figured why not it's from the library & to my surprise, I was quickly drawn in.

I will expand on this review as soon as possible (at the moment I am only briefly near a computer). But I think these readings are sensitive, subtle, lyrical & the collection exquisite (see table of contents). I really did not find the woman's voice to be screechy at all, in fact it is very calm but maybe a bit too formal. She reads a large segment on the first side of the first tape right after the cuckoo song, (actually until 200 for those who have a tape counter) but afterwards very little. Again, a better description on the way.

Beg my pardon, I could not recommend this book for technical managers, software and system engineers or architects. For me it seems that several (not all) stories are written by marketing department... Happy people telling us: "project finished in 2 months". 2 months?.. please a project manager speaks about man/days or man/months.. No indication about implementation costs... No real architect description.. a few computers... Sun,Hp..... (my major point) No real PRO and CONTRA, or ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS and SOLUTIONS... The books seems to be a J2EE glorification without speaking about J2EE (except introduction)

This well-edited collection of ten case studies details the state of J2EE practice circa early 2001. Making its debut at Sun's JavaOne conference in June, the book candidly documents the experience of Sun's enterprise partners building server-side Java applications. From the mostly success stories two facts emerge: J2EE is component-based software development done right, but most projects are still using JSP/Servlet technology, with EJBs on the planning horizon. Also important is the continuing emphasis on scalability and performance, ever the bugaboos of virtual machine platforms like Java. Readers embarked on their own J2EE initiatives will appreciate the book's coverage of challenges creatively faced.

The introductory chapters by Dr. Rick Cattell and Jim Inscore of Sun Microsystems go beyond prefatory fluff, providing one of the better overviews of J2EE's goals and architecture. Developers and their managers will benefit from a close reading of Sun's strategy for distributed computing.

All in all, "J2EE Technology in Practice" is an exciting snapshot of a successful movement that promises the best is yet to come.

I'm not surprised that there have been a wide range of ratings for this book, becuase this nature of this book is not suited for everyone. It is not going to teach you J2EE development, and it is not going to help you figure out exactly how you should approach a J2EE development project. What it does do very well is to give a small sampling of how J2EE is successfully being used in very diverse industries. Since these are only a handful of case studies, this book really only provides anecodtal stories of success, rather than scientific proof. But, I found these anecodtal stories to be a fascinating quick read in order to gather more information on how different companies have been approaching enterprise development with J2EE. Some reviewers criticized the blatant product marketting in the book, but since the products being marketted are a wide variety of competing J2EE servers, I found that quite interesting.
The reason I give this book a 5 star rating is because I think that for the kind of book it is trying to be, it does a very good job. If you already have a good knowledge of J2EE technologies, and would like to know a bit more about how other companies are utilizing J2EE technologies, I recommend picking this book up and giving it a quick read by skimming past the parts that aren't as applicable to you.

As someone has already stated, this book brings a dark shadow to the series. Having been an avid fan of the NetForce titles from the very begining, I was disapointed in some ways with this latest offering. The action feels mechanical, and you keep getting that feeling of "...havent I read this one before?" even though many of the details and characters have been changed. On that note, if you are an avid fan Im afraid you'll be a little disapointed in the send off of Alex, Toni, and General Howard. It is a hollow farewell to say the least. The series has always been great in character development but I would have to agree that this book spends too much time on trivial details that dont need to be expressed. IF THERE IS AN UPSIDE.....and there always is, it is in the way things are dealt with toward the end of the book. As a director Alex Michaels was willing to bend the law at times - As the new director Thomas Thorn is willing to bend it around until it starts making snapping noises. All in all, a good read, but not the best. I do hope the series continues though, there is potential here.

It is an interesting story but there are some errors that will distract the reader from the fiction that the author is creating. I can't believe that Clancy does not know the difference between the Baltics and the Balkans (see page 121). I hope it is a big oversight or a super-sized typo. Or could it be that Clancy is going to have the Serbs and the Croats who live in the Balkans go looking for oil in the Baltics where the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians live? Is he creating a new fictional ethnic conflict for a future book? Or is it lack of geographic knowledge? Also, when Eduard is escaping from the mansion, at times I visualize him on a bicycle, and at other times on a motorbike. Do I have a reading problem, or is there a writing problem here? Note, this is not to criticize the book as a whole, but just to criticize specific instances of lack of quality control that caused me to deduct one star.

During the trip home from Orlando, I was able to finish up Tom Clancy's Net Force: Changing Of The Guard. This is part of his paperback series that bear his name but is written by others. The setting is about 10 years in the future, and the action revolves around a government office called Net Force. This group uses computer technology and the Internet to track down criminal activity. In this installment, the NF group has obtained an encrypted disk with the names of all the Russian spies throughout the world. The breakdown of the code is going slow, but a certain sleeper spy in the US is willing to do anything to keep the government from learning of his involvement. When the top NF codebreaker is nearly killed in a kidnapping attempt, there is an all-out attempt to find the killer and the person who might have hired him.

Generally speaking, it's a good read. It will make more sense if you've followed the series, as there are references to past people and events that you won't know about otherwise. It doesn't kill the book if you haven't done the reading, but it helps. I personally like near-future techno-thriller novels, so this one works for me. It's not as action-packed as others in the series, but it is still a pleasant diversion.

A mediocre book on a great topic. Rather than providing any specific insights (original concepts, tools, and techniques) on how to achieve customer intimacy, the book is hardly more than a 200-page repository of truisms. Nothing is elaborated upon; everything is surface and words. One is left with the impression that the author is more interested in promoting his consultancy practice than in conveying anything deep or useful. For a more thorough treatment of the same subject, readers may want to turn to "Customer Connections" by Wayland and Cole.

This book is an excellent way to both begin building as well as to hone a customer-centric business model. Admittedly, it is not an academic tome, but few practioners are looking for such. This both explains and inspires in a way that virtually all levels of employees will be able to relate. Yes, it's an important listen for the boss, the foreman and the hourly craft employee. Most everyone commutes to and from work - let your managers and employees alike get the "facts of life" from other who have tried and won (and a few that have not). It's a great read/listen!

This book places an explanation point on the need for businesses to clearly focus objectives and critical needs around the customer. It goes without saying that no customers = no business. This is a quick, one week read by nature of the flow of information as well as poignant examples. Senior staffers to factory staffers should read and take note. Our businesses fail when we are not intimately acquainted with our customers.

The Exchange 5 Source Book written by Mann, Bracka, et al is very difficult to follow. It seems like it was written very fast by many people and pulled together at the last minute. There are many disjointed segments that are often repeated in other portions of the book. There are references throughout the book to other sections that in some cases do not even exist. Overall the book is a general overview of Exchange Server and Exchange/Outlook clients. I used the book as a background to the Microsoft course work and did find it to supplement the material somewhat. One notable well-written section is on designing and installing an Exchange system. In addition, some of the material on Internet connections was good. I would recommend waiting for some of the other Exchange 5.0 books that are scheduled for publication in the next few months

I found the book to be difficult to follow in most areas, particulary in setting up clients and how they communicate with the server. Does anyone know of a good Exchange book, I mean really good from start of the setup (server) to enterprise messaging systems all at a reasonable level of difficulty. e-mail me at venlov@globalserve.net

This book is pretty general, it gives a good overview, thats about it