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The book has alot of information. I own one of the old Machetes and it was quite interesting to read about it. I would highly recommend this bood to anyone owning a Collins Machete.

Since I appear many times in the text of this book as an observor, as a facilitator, and as a source, it may be considered presumptuous for me to review it. But since I am competent to do so, here goes. Ed and I knew each other from 1971 when we first met. Since I am in MD and he was in CA our face time was limited but we kept in close touch by snail mail and phone. He made many trips to the source at Collinsville and I dug a large amount of materials out of the National Archives, Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress. Since Ed focused strictly on Collins products and only on the sub lines of machetes and I am interested in all military edged tools and cutlery as well as axe work in general, we overlapped our interests. Is this the book I have written or would have? Certainly not, but I know for certain that it is all in focus and, unless there is a new vast discovery of documents, if there is anything more to be known about Collins machetes you can put in a very small pot. By focusing as he did Ed was able to find things that I never did nor even thought to look for. The ultimate test of this kind of book is is it interesting, and is it useful? I think it is so, and I wll be able to chop out all the corporate history which was in my original work and refer the reader to this one. Carter Rila

This is an excellent book for both those interested in how those in law enforcement deal with informants & those in law enforcement who have to deal with informants. I found his admonition to control the informant especially important. Most CIs know how to work the system & if not careful they'll work you too. Should be required reading for anyone in law enforcement.

This book was well written, and detatiled. The lessions were followed buy examples that illistrated the key points. I am now prepareing to go into narcotic's, and the authur has vast knowledge in the subjct of narcotic's. This was an execllent begining to the use of informants. The authur has clearly set up the paramitors for the selection, preparation, and use of informants. The cases that are talked about in the book are from taken from current and historical cases, both narcotics and other crimes. I found this book very interesting. I have loaned it out to a fellow Officer who has commented that it is an excellent book and he has been in narcotics for 7 years.

Everyone who is facilitating conversations on difficult subjects and/or conflictual issues should read this book. Ron Kraybill gives us his best tools, learned from years of mediating and teaching, including years working in South Africa. Whatever your issue or conflict, there is a tool here that will help you.

A colleague handed me a copy of The Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding). We both work in an organization, live in a community, have allegiance to a Land, and are concerned for the whole world - so conflict and disputes are all around us.

"It's a quick read, hands on, lots of useful techniques; you'll like it."

It was and I did.

Whether you are planning to lead a group through a conflicted time, or will be part of the group itself and want to learn more about taking a larger point of view - this little book is a great resource.

Bob Leming
Philadelphia

"The Crafting and Use of Ritual Tools" contains all the information you will need to craft your own wands, staffs, and ritual daggers. Construction details are in step-by-step format, and the authors have included guidelines for adding personalized decorations. Highly recommended!

Don't hesitate - get a copy of this book. It is the absolute best guide I've read on how to make and use your own spiritual and magical ritual tools. Why pay a lot of money for commerically made tools? It's fun to make your own! Learn how to make and use a ritual staff, wand, rune set, medicine shield, athame, and more.

I liked this workbook from the folks at LEI a lot. I have gotten lots of use out of Learning to See over the years and finally they have published a worthy follow up book that expands my thinking. This book provides a ton of meaty advice about the creation of a complete pull system for a typical discrete parts plant. Like the other stuff these guys write it is in the form of a case study answering sequential questions that unfold as you progress through the text.

The Pro's: 1) This format really helped me stay focused on the topic by providing a single complete end to end example. 2) The graphics and examples are very clear, 3) the 12 questions seem logical and complete, 4) the formulas are overall thinking are simple and logical, 5) It moves beyond a simple value stream with only one product The Con's: 1) I only have one really and it is true of all LEI stuff - I would like to see different examples from a variety of industries. Specifically some low volume high variation, more build to order stuff, and job shop or off the wall examples would help out a lot of us with diverse situations. (Maybe too much to ask for in one book). Overall though this is a minor detraction and it is a great learning aid. I can see using this a lot to lead some of the plants I am in charge of improving by expanding their pull systems in a step by step manner.

Every other lean management book encourages you to use "Value Stream Mapping" to improve your processes. The idea is that, having seen what is wrong with current processes, you will somehow "solve problems" and "improve the flow". In practice, unfortunately, it's rarely so simple. The real challenge of Value Stream Mapping is not just drawing the "actual state", but coming up with a robust "future state", and then to visualize it on the shop floor - which is a skill in itself. And in fact, there is very little published about it, apart from this remarkable workbook.

As a lean consultant, helping clients to come up with a transformed process and to put on paper an "ideal state" has been a recurring stumbling block, if only because there are so many new things to explain: leveling, kanban, material handling - all at once! This workbook has helped me immensely because I now get clients to work through it step by step to clarify and share their understanding. It's both general in its scope and explanations, and very specific in how to attack the problem. Indeed, it's one of the very few lean books that gets into the real nitty-gritty of how to redesign a flow beyond telling you to "just do it".

I can't recommend Creating Level Pull strongly enough to all those who try to really implement lean (as opposed to just talk about it). This is it: this is where lean really happens: capability vs demand, creating the pacemaker, controlling production. I'm really impressed with it because it explains clearly and simply some tricky and counter-intuitive lean mechanisms, which are at the core of just-in-time. Definitely a key to successful lean implementations.

A must read for any technical manager who is responsible for a system that uses replication or is planning to do so. Technologists (DBA, SA, DA, Developer,..) will also gain valuable insight into the world of data replication that the vendor documentation does not provide. The decision tree (pg215) and the case study take this book over the top.

It's tough to find an entire book on the subject of replication. Most database books give only a chapter's worth of lip service to the topic, if that much, and then move on to the other "important" chapters. I can't even count how many "advanced" database books I have that devote an entire chapter on introducing SQL, yet skip this advanced topic. Distributed apps require distributed data and this book defintiely covers a lot of ground in the right direction.

The only thing that kept me from giving it a 10 is the hope that something better may come along. But even if it does, I'll still thumb through Buretta's some more. The Case Studies are a particularly good feature, and one actually applied to the situation I needed resolving when I picked this book up

This is a great book- one that I find myself referring to almost daily. As it says in the books intro., each chapter provides a comprehensive view of the various components of a successful Win2K rollout. I agree with this statement, as it does it very well.

I bought this book along with a few othr titles from Syngress, Minasi, etc. This book is really good, and it'll be on my list of keepers as I can see it being a really useful reference tool.

I need a book that help me to learn quikly y easy how to use the wizatrons of Clarion 5.0 or More.

If is Posible, If you have an spanish book from this type is better for me

It's amazing how the concepts of Clarion never change. The fundamentals presented in this book are still highly useful in developing Clarion apps today (2005). Keep it within your arm's reach and it will pay off.

"One of our primary goals in writing that book was to give developers the skills they needed to solve their own programming problems. We tried to build, in the reader's mind, a mental model of how Clarion programming works. We wanted to create a road map through the maze of Clarion programming options.", David Harms one of the authors of this book.


This is the book to have if you are looking to learn how Clarion works. If you try to learn Clarion 6 using the current user's guides, you will get frustrated. Why? Because the current documentation for Clarion assumes you have been programming in Clarion since they invented it. This book will help you with that.

After you learn the essentials in this book, I'd recommend to subscribe to ClarionMag and read the newsgroups.

Hope That Helps(HTH)!

The editor does an excellent job of assembling an informative collection of previously written works. An easy straight read.

This book is what the doctor ordered when it comes to the Ins and Outs of Computer Based Digital Recording, it'll show you how to understand the Hardware and Software needed to make it all work on your musical projects, A must have for newbies to this confusing world of Digital Music. I like to Thank the Author for this no-nonsense approach to the basics.

This is a must read for all parents. Great parenting tips from a real mom! This book is the bible on parenting. Very respectful of families and children. I loved it.

This is the best book I have ever read on parenting. While it needs some copy editing and an index, the information it contains is so well informed, so practical, so honest, that it is truly indispensable. I would love to give this book to every expectant parent in the world (I hope it will be translated into other languages). The author explains which parenting techniques work best and why. There are disciplinary examples for every occasion and every age group. She explains each stage of child development so you can understand what can be expected of a child at each age. She demonstrates why every disciplinary action that builds your relationship with your child is a successful method and every action that diminishes that relationship is detrimental. Parents can't be perfect, but this book will give them the tools to do their best. I wish I'd had this book 40 years ago, but at least I've given a copy to my daughter for raising her children. (My daughter loves it, too.)