John Waters Books

As with all Kessinger titles, caution is advisable. This is NOT a reprint of the "Works" of Taylor but of a 19th C edition of those works "not included" in the standard collections of his work.

It is nonetheless interesting for a scholar or collector, but it is hardly what the title suggests!

By reviewing the book title and the Editorial Reviews From Book News, Inc. appearing on the website, it appears that the book offers good base of information for learning about Saline Water Processing.

A better assessment of the book would have been possible had the table of contents (Title of articles included) been given for better knowledge of covered topics.

Of particular interest is the fact that those who contributed are practitioners rather that just individuals with theoretical backgroung. Most important is the fact that there is mention of "Plant Design and Operation.

The question remains if it would be possible to have the table of contents of the book to allow a better and more specific review.

There aren't many interesting books on the subject of China's relations with the Middle East for archive-accesibility reasons on both sides, one assumes. This somewhat tedious study covers some ground, mostly on Sino-Palestinian relations up to their split in the early 1970s following the Soviet adoption of the resistance after Sadat's ousting of Soviet advisors from Egypt. It is an interesting subject but here is treated drily with unending name-dropping and lengthy, long-winded quotations of lengthy, long-winded statements from Chinese officials. There is little analysis, not necessarily a bad thing, but the book is little more than an exercise in data collection. Useful, but not particularly insightful. There are some other sections on China's relations with Oman and Kuwait. That's about it. My biggest beef is the total lack of contextualization: the Cultural Revolution and its vagaries are barely mentioned! Eh?

Though the book does not go into great detail, it does have useful information hidden in the text. I would have liked to see a better treating of GIS, like pratical examples and real case studies.

A lot of the general information can be found on the web. What would make this book better would be some geostatistical examples, color photos as opposed to low res black and white ones, and a bigger section on GIS and remote sensing.

I have been told this is the leading book on wildland watershed management. I do have a complaint though, I believe with a little creative thought any book can be made to be interesting or atleast bearable. This book tends toward the extreme side of dry. It does have the information needed, but the graphs are very dull, nothing here to break the tedium of this book. For the cost of this book (...) there should be colored graphs, if for know other reason than to stop the strain on the eyes, bigger font, to help with not falling asleep and if you HAVE to read it like I did. ANYTHING would have helped.
But like I said it had the information you need, just not in a good format.

Found this in the library and since I deal with customers daily I need some guidance. Instead of covering the art of selling, finding leads, upselling etc, the authors starts out by first saying no matter what your job is you are a salesman. Your selling your service, making an impression for the company you work for with each contact with a customer or potential customer. The next chapter gave a test on myths of being a sellsman but then they got totally lost. The authors covered communications, managing meetings, writing a 30 second message, preparing a presentation, comparison between being perfection and excellence, and the whole book litterd with idiom. but nothing on selling. The author gives stories of consulting jobs and being a customer walking a way from sales like a badge of honor on 4 occasions. It seems the authors did very little selling but is a consultant that specializes in finding faults in others presentations in selling to get customers. I did like the message regarding everybody is a salesman but the author has little experience to pass on to the reader even with the support of a ghost writer. There were only 180 pages and I get everything from world opinion on changing and things aren't the way they use to be. Little selling to be learned from this book. The author also borrowed heavily from other books some I've read already making this a more a book about working smart than selling.

Brigid's book is a huge success so far! I've been using it as a training tool - one chapter at a time. I have one of her quotes "Nothing Happens Until Something is Sold" hanging at the front of my office. We talked about the quote and the importance of their selling activity in our last Sales Team Meeting. In a nut shell, projects are not going to land in our laps... nothing happens until something is sold!!! Simple but SO true!
I also copied the Short Quiz out of the book for everyone to take. It was an eye-opening experience to say the least! I expected that everyone would get one or two questions wrong. Surprisingly, it ranged from 2 to 7 incorrect answers out of the 20 in the quiz!! It got us all laughing - and it helped spark some great "training" conversations!
I read a lot of "selling" books and this one RUNS to the head of the class! Thank you for putting all of your wisdom in writing to share with all of us!

Ramm's review is right on. This book says little. It's like a shell for "Selling for Dummies" without the meat fully developed.

This entertaining, engaging work left me laughing! Brigid's style and real life examples showed me how sales are a part of everyone's life -- and a valuable skill set that one must embrace regardless of their vocation to be successful. This book should be required reading for anyone in the business world who want to be successful!

I was very excited about this book - until I started reading it. The first half of this book focuses on telling us why we need to have sales skills and insisting that salespeople are really not horrible people. (If I really wasn't interested in selling, I obviously wouldn't be reading the book in the first place!) The second half of the book covers several topics on living a productive life in general, such as striving for excellence rather than perfection. While all of this may be good advice, most of it is just common sense and there is virtually nothing that relates specifically to selling.

I had a season of kiteboarding under my belt when I picked up this book. By the end of the season, I could maintain upwind ground pretty well, but actually getting upwind was still elusive. I had been reading Kiteboarding magazines feverishly and was excited to see someone had written a whole book on the subject. I was hoping for some good tips in such a concentrated source of kiteboarding knowledge.

I don't know how much money it takes to write a book that will be sold to such a small niche audience, but it seems that costs were contained by sending the book to press without it being edited. Their were-many annoying punctuation, errors not too mention sentences that were entirely to long with little continuity between paragraphs and peppered with a lot of slang probably in efforts of making the book cool. I didn't even know that this kind of thing bothers me until I picked up this book -probably because everything else I read HAS been edited fairly well.

I'm guessing that another cost cutting measure was the money saved not hiring a graphic designer to create diagrams that should have accompanied detailed descriptions of body position, wind direction and kite steering maneuvers. There were plenty of times that after I read a description of something I already knew how to do well I thought to myself "I can't see how a beginner will make ANY SENSE of this!" In the book's 278 pages I counted a whopping less than 10 diagrams.

Anyway with all that being said, if anything the book is comprehensive. It does cover quite a bit of material and the author's style is entertaining. And I did pick up some tid bits of knowledge after all. If you wanted to get into kiteboarding you may still like to have this book around. With any luck, you might even find a future "volume II" that flows well and includes many clarifying illustrations.

Unfortunately this doesnt give enough basics and shows very little structure in its outline.Few diagramns that are really instructional.
Strong on safety and danger but little direction to the beginning kitesurfer.
It seemed more like the dialogue that a instructor would give you through a series of lessons and in that context would most likely be excellent.
I have been kitesurfing for about 5 months and can ride a board in and out - so I'm still learning alot but found the thrust of the book not really helpful.
With the amount of experience the author has,he would have a huge lot more to offer and perhaps may do next time.

I had a season of kiteboarding under my belt when I picked up this book. By the end of the season, I could maintain upwind ground pretty well, but actually getting upwind was still elusive. I had been reading Kiteboarding magazines feverishly and was excited to see someone had written a whole book on the subject. I was hoping for some good tips in such a concentrated source of kiteboarding knowledge.
I don't know how much money it takes to write a book that will be sold to such a small niche audience, but it seems that costs were contained by sending the book to press without it being edited. Their were-many annoying punctuation, errors not too mention sentences that were entirely to long with little continuity between paragraphs and peppered with a lot of slang probably in efforts of making the book cool. I didn't even know that this kind of thing bothers me until I picked up this book -probably because everything else I read HAS been edited fairly well.

I'm guessing that another cost cutting measure was the money saved not hiring a graphic designer to create diagrams that should have accompanied detailed descriptions of body position, wind direction and kite steering maneuvers. There were plenty of times that after I read a description of something I already knew how to do well I thought to myself "I can't see how a beginner will make ANY SENSE of this!" In the book's 278 pages I counted a whopping less than 10 diagrams.

Anyway with all that being said, if anything the book is comprehensive. It does cover quite a bit of material and the author's style is entertaining. And I did pick up some tid bits of knowledge after all. If you wanted to get into kiteboarding you may still like to have this book around. With any luck, you might even find a future "volume II" that flows well and includes many clarifying illustrations.

This book was used at Portland Community College for an Environmental Engineering sequence (2 Quaters).
Even though this book has introductory concepts of Chemistry, Biology, College Algebra and Fluid Mechanics I would highly recommend a term of "Freshman" 100 Level Chemistry, Biology and related topics in Physics.

The authors intend that the instructor (coursework) will follow the chapters in numerical order. If you have an instructor that skips around a lot it makes this book very unfriendly. It also helps greatly if the instructor provides field trips and lab work directly related to the chapter topics.

The authors covers the chapter topics very completely, however it is a very Dry Read. The example problems often leave out unit conversions. The publisher does not provide a student solutions manual, therefore making it very difficult to find errors made on chapter problems. Many of the images and pictures could be a lot better.
The authors do not present the under laying theory well because they expect the reader to be moderately versed in the math and science aspects.
The authors do a good job explaining the physical processes of water and wastewater treatment.

I feel that I gained a lot of knowledge from this book and there are not any other choices that provide the overview of processes and theory all in one book.
This is NOT a book you want to buy new. Buy It Used. If you are studying this topic for yourself buy an Older Edition.

This was the text for my environmental engineering class at Cooper Union (Fall 2002).

Speaking from my own experience and that of many of my classmates, this book is highly frustrating to use and is a poor learning tool all around. Solutions to example problems often have no units shown in intermediate steps, leaving you to guess. The writing often deteriorates into recitations of mind-numbing laundry lists of the numerical particularities of a given topic. The book rarely gives the reader a good, gut feeling for what's actually going on in a process under consideration.

A complete rewrite in collaboration with a skilled technical writer is suggested. More sample problems are needed. Mr. Hammer is no doubt exceptionally experienced as an environmental engineer, but his pedagogical skills as evidenced by this book simply don't make it.

Basic things like key words and concepts should be incorporated. Graphics, which are generally poor and sometimes illegible should be improved and expanded upon. An earlier 2nd edition by Wiley that I came upon at the library was actually better than Prentice-Hall's current low budget 4th edition, which is the one my class used.

In short, avoid this book, either Wiley's 2nd edition or Prentice-Hall's 4th. I'm currently scouting around for a replacement, so that I can actually learn what it was I was supposed to have learned.

This is an excellent book to read if you want to learn about wastewater treatment or just if you want to refresh your knowledge of this theme. The book presents easy to follow examples in many of the topics, say, clarifiers design (primary, intermediate, final), Aeration basins, etc. I prefer this book rather than Viessman & Hammer because it is much more friendly. I have not check yet the part of the book corresponding to water treatment, but the wastewater part is very good.

A massive tome of a book, full of cliches, thin on primary research, sensationalist in approach, a must read for British readers. A turn off for others interested in the other side of the hill.

Author has written a comprehensive account of U boat campaign in both world wars.

The book opens with Germany imposing a naval blockade of British Isles.Suddenly Britain was engulfed by a crisis of stunning dimensions andAdmiralty in London despaired.Had no idea how to combat menace.But the serious nature of the threat aroused latent dynamism of the British.Flurry of inventions ensued such as hydrophones,depth charges,underwater location devices.The most important being the emergence of the of convoy.Convoy helped English to penetrate the German blockade.German campaign foundered because naval command failed to evolve suitable tactics to negate the success of allied convoy system.


Sadly during interwar years the Admiralty became complacent about ASW .Meanwhile Nazis came to power in Germany.Hitler was determined to reverse the outcome of World War I.Simultaneously the U boat arm had a new competent ,dynamic leader Adm Karl Doenitz who honed U boats into a formidable offensive weapon and hurled it to assail Britain's sea line of communications.As a antidote to the convoy Doenitz evolved the tactics of wolfpack.U boats were spread out across probable path of convoy.When a convoy was sighted sub sent a sighting report to shore-based HQs while continuing to shadow the convoy.HQs in turn directed other U boats lurking in the vicinity towards the convoy. U boats now coming from different directions converging towards target thus formed a pack.This constituted an effective tactical riposte to the convoy: concentration of defending force vis a vis corresponding concentration of attacking forces.Advances in the field of W/T made this manoeuvre feasible.


Despite the novelty of the system often convoys sneaked through U boat cordon.A fact which symbolises the im mensity of the ocean.Thus Adm Doenitz tactical problem was intercepting convoys.It was precisely here that radio intelligence came in.Radio intelligence helped the U boat command pin-point the position of the convoys. Immedietly U boats were put across its track.From early 1942 many of pack attacks came to be guided by Sigint.


But during the early phase of the war attacks took palace in and around British isles where bulk of shipping Britain's overseas empire converged.Pack attacks launched on the surface during nights caught British defences napping.Since Asdic could not detect surfaced U boat.However since U boats mostly operated on the surface it gave scope for radar detection.As author says the outcome of the campaign was influenced by technical innovations.Most important being ASV III radar fitted into coastal command aircraft which started patrolling sealanes.


Radar robbed U boats of its invisibility and pack attacks became difficult whenever convoys came under the range of aircover.Often U boat had to submerge thus losing contact with the convoy. From autumn 1942 onwards most of the escort groups had one vessel which carried automatic high frequency direction finder FH4 which can intercept the first contact signal of U boat.Then a destroyer homed in onthe bearing forcing U boat to submerge and lose contact with convoy.

Mention should also be made of role played by OIC of Admiralty in foiling pack attacks.Author has rightly dubbed it as nerve centre of anti U boat war.British penetration of German naval enigma cipher made posible evasive routing of convoys.In short ,Doenitz U boat packs were mastered by superior technology :combination of airpower ,radar, HF-DF cryptanalysis,improved depth charges better escorting techniques etc.

By May 1943 U boats were defeated but struggle for establishing technological dominance continued as Doenitz again planned to hurl his favourite weapon against AngloAmerican supply lines after making them invisible to Allied air and surface escorts.Snorkelled U boats which appeared by Jan 1944 to a great extent helped evade radar detection .By early 1945 submarines emerged . This marked the beginning of a new era U boat war since it rendered all Allied ASW techniques obsolete.

Author has termed the phenomenon as'unappealing lanscape of square one'.To sum up,considering the level of technology prevalent at that time war against U boats was immensely complex ,sophisticated campaign.This book impecabbly researched,and I consider best available on the subject.

Erudite and lavisly detailed;brimming with statistics on U boat war also contain tables on U boat losses.

I can not believe anybody would write a positive review of this book.

Yes - Phoenix would not exists as it is today without the water it pumps out of the Colorado River, hundreds of miles away.

Yes - The attorneys handling Arizona's legal attempts at getting Colorado River water were doing a horrible job until Mark Wilmer came in and changed the legal strategy thereby winning the case.

No - This book does not contribute any critical or insightful history to what is already known of this story. It doesn't even tell the story well.

This book rants on and on about how great Mark Wilmer was, and then throws in the tiniest bit of history necessary to justify the writing of the book.

It would have made a good magazine article; there is simply not enough material for 132 pages (what little interesting material is there is kneaded and stretched far too thin) and the whole thing lacks an awful lot of depth that might have made it worth reading. If you know absolutely nothing about Arizona's water history and you don't really want to learn anything - but want to feel like you are, then I might recommend this book. Personally - I think Mark Wilmer's story and work might be a compelling and fascinating read, unfortunately it isn't as written in Dividing Western Waters.

As someone who has lived in Arizona for almost his entire life, "Dividing Western Waters" was a fantastic book. I have recently become infatuated with books about Southwestern History. While this book deals with more modern history, the story is nonetheless one of the most important ever for the desert southwest.

For the most part the book tells the story of Mark Wilmer, the Arizona lawyer credited with winning the Supreme Court case (Arizona v. California) that secured Arizona's allottment of Colorado River water. The author does a great job in outlining Wilmer's strategy and legal arguments and how the Arizona legal team changed course thus winning the case.

Water has been the most fractious resource in the American Southwest. It would be difficult to overstate just how important Arizona's victory was when the decision was finally handed down. If not for Wilmer's brave but brilliant about-face midway through the case, the Valley of the Sun would be nothing of what it is today. Phoenix and the surrounding areas would still be dry southwestern towns struggling to remain relevant.

I applaud this author for giving life to a story that all who are interested in history ought to read.