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Basically, if you're considering picking this up, you probably don't need it. If you're considerate enough to learn how to be well mannered amongst your peers, you probably already have decent manners. That said, this book will be a handy reference guide. It lightly covers a myriad of common "etiquette important" situations such as parties, weddings, funerals, graduations, table etiquette, etc. It also gives the reader advice in confrontational situations, such as how to talk to someone who has an offensive odour, if someone cuts you in a line, what to say if you or your husband may have said something offensive at a party, etc. It has a nice index in the back so this is great to pick up and look at in a pinch. I will say that this book is basically common sense, and if you are slightly familiar with common ettiquette, this will just be a nice second opinion. At the end of the book, I learned this: If in doubt, send a handwritten thank you. For anything (it seems).

I think this book helps deal with some of the upscale modern rudeness of today. Living in Southern California is a Real challange to ones patience and older style of upbringing.

We all have situations where we have to deal with rude people, or are not sure about the proper etiquette for an awkward situation, or just need a pointer on how to do something properly. With related topics organized together the book is laid out in a question and answer fashion. First the author presents a common question and then provides the appropriate answer. Sometimes there are additional related comments to further expand the reader's understanding. Some of the subjects are: Inappropriate questions and how to respond to them, Conversational blunders, Name Amnesia, Gifting at Work, Breakup Basics, Introductions, Dating Etiquette, Table Manners, Reservations, Tipping, Airplane Manners, being a good host, dealing with houseguests that won't leave, wedding presents, receiving lines, wedding showers, sending funeral flowers, hospital visits, and funeral dress. The book addresses both traditional situations where the average person might find their self as well as more contemporary situations. This is etiquette in the modern world and for the average person. Excuse Me, But I Was Next is a recommended read.

I selected this book on a lark, fully expecting my interest to wane somewhere around page 25. Surprisingly, I not only finished the book but recommended it to a friend.

The book covers 100 etiquette dilemmas that turn up in everyday life. Everything from what constitutes black tie and white tie down to whether an e-mail thank you is ever appropriate. Others topics include what is reasonable to expect on a toddler play date, whether to invite siblings to a children's birthday party, how to set a proper formal table and what to tip your nanny. Also, whether black and white are appropriate colors at weddings and whether bright colors can be worn at funerals.

The tone of the book is far from the censorious or supercilious tone one might expect from an etiquette manual. To Peggy Post, etiquette is used to make others feel comfortable and to prevent hurt feelings that can ruin a group's ability to enjoy itself. Etiquette is not meant as a sieve by which one artificially separates class from trash. It is primarily aimed at considering the feelings of others. It is not about enforcing class distinctions, moral codes or gender or age norms. The right person to open a door is whoever gets there first. It is perfectly fine for women to offer to assist men who are struggling under a load of packages. And so on.

Post even tackles "moralish" questions about whether to say grace at a dinner party and whether to follow along with the religious practices of another faith at weddings or funerals. The message is clearly to be oneself in a way that does not insult the other party. Post also breaks some new ground in the contentious areas of whether to wear white after Labor Day. But you'll have to read the book to get that scoop.

Peggy Post's book is delightful, urbane, gracious and charming -- not at all stuck up. It is full of wonderful examples that model proper responses to uncomfortable situations. Wait till you hear her response to a person asking nosy questions about an adopted child! Her response was perfectly clear, it set boundaries, but did so without a trace of cruelty. Just what you'd expect from a book on proper behavior.

I particularly enjoyed Susan Bennett's narration. She gave voice to the firm-yet-fun voice of Peggy Post without sounding smug or superior.

Ms. Post covers "the top 100 manners dilemmas" with a gracious style that is practical and appropriate for today's culture. Mostly common sense, these are worthwhile as reminders and provide a helpful look in the mirror for a little personal brushup. Every reader will have some kind of "aha!" moment as the author offers a treasure chest of polite and gracious responses to awkward situations. My favorite was the ultimate, polite rebuff to nosy questions: "why do you ask?" The book lives up to the classic comment on manners from Emily Post: "Good manners reflect something from inside - an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self." It's an easy and worthwhile read.

I found the book fairly rudimentary but useful as an introduction to the components that make up the email system. The major disappointment arises from its NT-bias, as if the author was commissioned by Microsoft for the book's creation. I wish more authors can keep their personal biased opinions to their dinner tables and out of professional technical books. Phrases such as "NT is such a fine platform for developing commercial-grade systems" and "even that final refuge of UNIX should fall within a couple of years" simply do not conjure up impressions of objective professional writing. Sadly, I must add this sort of self-righteous writing is what contributes to the anti-Microsoft sentiments.

I prefer the books from john rhoton but this book also include a very good description of theory of email. Very much content.

I'm a student so I want to looking for a technique a about JavaMail. If you can give me a book for free, I only use it for research. Thank you and look forward from you.

Hughes has written an excellent book. He explains the protocols and standards extremely well. Which is the diamond of this book. (i.e. why you should buy it.) But the implementation illustrations are mostly Windows NT with a mention of a UNIX counter part. He even explains how to install Microsoft DNS and Proxy. The NT explanation is like a double edged sword. If you know *NIX, all you will need is the P+S. Hughes points out how M$ has gone of the track of the standards and screwed up. (like how Exchange is a single file message store mail server incompatible with POP3 and SNMP) The cd-rom has the RFC documents created by the IETF. If you are looking for a book that explains the ins and outs of Internet e-mail without missing a pin-drop, this is the book for you. All the best!

I had to implement a POP-3 mail client and this book saved my life.

The material in the book is overly oriented towards NT and you have to take with a grain of salt its NT bias. Its technical content however is superb. The mail protocols it describes work on UNIX without change. The one thing you have to watch out for is the different circumstances under which NT and UNIX produce "\r".

The well organized CD is in and of itself worth the price of the book. The book gave me a tutorial which explained what I needed to do. The CD gave me the details.

I am an experienced programmer and I'm not sure this book will help beginners though for beginners it has very useful glossaries.

After reviewing all the choices in this category, I purchased this book because the description promised solutions to e-mail overload. As a busy entrepreneur running a 10-person team from a home office, e-mail is a very big part of my workday. I was looking for solid strategies to help me use this tool more efficiently and effectively. Instead, I got an eye-glazing management analysis, pitifully short on solutions. Directed at managers and employees of large corporations, the book is all but useless for anyone else. The so-called solutions were just short of insulting. A few standout examples: "Don't send unnecessary e-mails"; "Don't read every e-mail you get"; "Pick up the phone instead of sending an e-mail." Ya think? Maybe there really is no solution, but after slogging through 189 b-o-r-i-n-g pages, it would have been nice to come away with ONE solid suggestion that could be implemented. I can't say I got even that.

In Managing Your E-Mail: Thinking Outside the Inbox, Cavanagh offers several suggestions to increase your e-mail suaveness. She begins by explaining the significance of the problem: mismanaged e-mail can cost millions in lost productivity. She also points out how e-mail can cause certain legal problems. She then answers these problems by suggesting solutions for e-mail policy development, inbox management, and better e-mail drafting.

This book is a good read for anyone who uses e-mail in the workplace, especially at large companies and institutions. Everyone will benefit from implementing her suggestions right away. This book is also a must for anyone who is in charge of e-mail policy development. As far as application, there are some really useful suggestions on how to improve your email drafting. You will be able to quickly write more professional e-mails, which will have more impact, and keep your reader's attention. After reading this book, one will also gain a better understanding of technical processes of e-mail.

Cavanagh disappointed me, however, with some of her suggestions about inbox management. She basically suggests deleting everything but the most important e-mail. I am, of course, somewhat over simplifying. But I can say that after implementing her suggestions of inbox management, I found myself out of the loop with some important information. Perhaps these suggestions need to implemented by the whole institution to be effective.

. . . unless you began using email yesterday. It is a classic example of unhelpful, non-writing. My heart sank when I turned the first page and noticed the font size - about 14 points, with 1.5 line spaces. This is a magazine article, inflated to book-length. On the plus side, you won't need a separate, large print edition. If you want the only useful suggestion in this book, here it is: send less email, and maybe you'll receive less. You'll only reach this pearl of wisdom after enduring over 100 pages of drivel, such as, "The sent folder contains copies of all the email messages you compose and send." Really? Eureka! My life is transformed! The author has managed to fill 185 pages with similar sentences, each of which should be punctuated with "DUH!" If anyone has a good strategy for controlling email - and I don't want to read long stories about hamsters, either - I'll be glad to buy their book.

I enjoyed this book because it helped me increase my business productivity by redefining my e-mail habits.

Christina Cavanagh outlines the dangers of e-mail, including viruses and lawsuits. She also shows the productivity decreases caused by spam, e-mail ping-pong, and inappropriate use of e-mail as a communication medium.

More than that, she gives practical suggestions on how to increase your productivity using this essential business tool.

This excellent short guide to the promise and peril of e-mail reveals some surprising and little-noted facts. Far from creating a paperless office, for example, e-mail has multiplied the paper businesses consume. Along with making communication more convenient, immediate and spontaneous, e-mail has raised false expectations and increased the probability of hard feelings and misunderstandings. If those were the only problems this book spotlights, it would be worthwhile to take it seriously. But author Christina A. Cavanagh additionally offers some frightening examples about the invisible cost of e-mail, measured in terms of employee time and legal risk. The book has a tendency to repetitiveness and prolixity, and many of the recommendations for managing e-mail are familiar. However, We particularly recommends her strong examples, which may convince managers to implement the best practices they may already understand but often ignore.

The book was disappointing. While there was some value to its content, the publication is more akin to a published university thesis than a book. Limited in scope to buying books online, wih reference to the Inter-American Development Bank's experience at using email to sell its publications, the title is misleading.

With hundreds of messages a year, it is hard to get the attention from prospective customers that marketers would like. E-promotions looks at the effectiveness of e-mail promotions as a complement to marketing strategies used by booksellers. A must read for marketers and e-mail users alike.

The E- prefix is hot. Every word preceded by the magic fifth letter of the alphabet seems to generate attention. E-promotions, of course is not any different. This publication builds on this eye catching phenomenon to describe the efficiency and legitimacy of e-mail marketing for targeted audiences in the publishing industry. Great book for college students and marketing profesionals.

The substance of this book is a comparison of email marketing promotions from Amazon, B&N, and Borders. Some interesting numbers are presented but, overall, this book is nothing more than a primer for those entering the eMarketing field. I question some of the conclusions which the author arrives at given the limited number of participants (182) in his own ePromotion campaign.

Not a bad book but there certainly are others I would pursue with greater vigor than this one.

This book is for people who are new to the online marketing. It contains many ideas that have been out there for years. I would say no more than 10% is new stuff.

I would recommend it to people who are new to Internet marketing.

I was disappointed with this book. I had read the Thomas Mails book on the Apache and was impressed with it. However, that was years ago! It appears that Mails has found a more lucrative market. In this book he panders to people who see Western Culture as the Great Destroyer. He is suppose to be talking about Hopi prophesies. In the book he says that any reasonable person will recognize that the Hopi are right and he encourages people to INVENT ceremonies! That is NOT the Hopi way! Hopi are traditional people and it is important to perform ceremonies in the right way and with the right attitude. Hopi go through extensive training starting at about the age of eight. I asked an elder one time how he felt about people trying to copy Hopi ceremonies & he said since they do not know the correct way to perform the traditional ceremonies, they do not accomplish anything positive. They do, however, drain away some of the power associated with the ceremony, making less available to Hopi elders. This is a dangerous situation as the Hopi are no longer able to keep the world in balance. Koyaniskatsi- World in Chaos!

The Tribal Council is not the traditional form of Hopi government, which is based on the matrilineal clan system. Each village is independent and within each village, each clan is independent. This worked well in pre-Spanish contact days. In the modern world it would make it difficult for the Hopi to have any control of their destiny. Therefore, although some villages still abstain from participating in the Tribal Council (they are not forced into it!), the Council has provided an interface between the Hopi and the Federal Government and have provided a voice to speak to the non-Hopi cultures for the Hopi people.

The Hopi have mixed emotions about the book. Some say it at least warns the Bahanas of the dangers to this world. Others are shocked by the way Mails presents their culture and beliefs and to NOT approve of this book.

This book is not popular among those Hopi who are on the payroll of the US Government or helping the Peabody Coal Company or part of the BIA-created tribal council. But it does tell the story of those elders, particularly Dan (who died recently), who have an important message for the world. Highly recommended!

A must for any one seriously interested in the Hopi people, their history and future. Highly recommended.

This is a large book, yet only the last small section actually deals with the Hopi prophesies. Spends most of his time talking about Nostradamous, his own ideas, etc. Manages to insult both Hopi AND Christians with his advice to go out and make up your own ceremony- Hopi elders I spoke with consider this highly detrimental to the balance of the world. This book is controversial among the Hopi, too. Some like it, but most I have spoken with do not consider it a worthwhile book.

The text under discussion is a profound critique of not only the activities of the BIA and the neo-colonialist Hopi Tribal Council but, in its essence, stands as a moving and formidable critique of Western civilization - one that illuminates the processes of cultural genocide that has been carried out against indigenous populations in the wake of their military conquest and occupation by a foreign power - and the deep resistance of traditional indigenous peoples to the processes of cultural genocide.

The elders who speak through the auspices of this work embody a profound political, moral, cultural and spiritual sophistication
that upholds the values concentrated in the name of their publication - Techqua Ikachi - Land and Life - Tierra y Vida.
What is most striking is the awareness the text creates of the inseparability of morality, culture, spiritual practice and political depth, and their rootedness in the Land, in the Earth, and in the relationship of peoples to the Earth. The most fundamental premise that is expressed in the text is its call to "blend with the land," and the text as a whole illuminates the meaning of a culture devoted to this principle in practice.

In so doing it stands as a striking counterpoint to the disintegrative powers of the culture of the capitalist colonial settler state that now occupies the land, and offers a sharp and abiding critique of the alienation and atomization inherent in the world view and cultural practices of the now-dominant European conqueror. From this standpoint the text is a classic treatment of resistance to the imposition of colonial rule and of the impact of colonial rule on the cultures of occupied and oppressed peoples.

In effect, even if it is not explicitly stated, the criticism of the Traditional Elders aimed at the "Progressive" Tribal Council is similar to the critique of the Autonomous American Indian Movement and other similar groups - and a critique that presaged other, similar Indian critiques by twenty years.

The picture the traditionals paint of the Tribal Council is one of a neo-colonial puppet government which has acted at the behest of and in accommodation to the colonial power of the United States in stripping massive amounts of coal from sacred lands, destroying sacred sites, depleting the water table in a profoundly dangerous manner, and that has acted to disintegrate Hopi culture to accommodate the demands of the dominant culture. The Traditional Hopi have also resisted the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo / Dine people from Hopi land. The forced relocation constitutes the destruction of the single largest group of Native American living in a traditional manner in the US. It is, in effect, and act of genocide the Hopi Traditionals have resisted in concert with the Traditional Dine (Navajo) people, based on their own sacred agreements.

The Hopi Tribal Council was illegitimately constituted on the basis of a "majority vote" that represented, in practice, only a tiny fraction of the Hopi people from a minority of the autonomous villages. The Traditional Hopi never made a treaty of any kind with the US government, and maintain their right to the status of a sovereign nation.

The evolving, century long story of the struggle between the Traditionals and the "Progressives" (Or, Hostiles and Friendlies) is laid out in compelling detail from a Traditional perspective. The reader of this review should be aware, however, that the Traditional perspective does not reduce to the anti-colonial categories utilized thus far in this review.

The story is, rather, the story of the unfolding of Hopi prophecy, the tale of a People and their Mission to maintain the Earth in Balance together with all peoples, and of the prophetic charge laid on the Hopi by a central deity.

The tale of conflict that is told paints a picture of the unfolding of that life way as foretold in Hopi prophecy, and thus it paints a practical and illuminating picture of the kinds of practical and spiritual blending with the Earth that will be required of all of us if the planet and humanity are to survive.

The tale is told at all the levels outlined above - the spiritual, cultural, moral and political levels - each element interwoven into a seed - a gestalt of information that together constitute the Hopi prophecy and Mission as articulated by its most traditional elders. The subtitle of the text, which asserts that Hotevilla ( the village founded by the Tradtionals to maintain the Traditional Balance and prophetic charge of the Hopi People) is a "microcosm of the world" should serve the reader as a guide in understanding why the tale is told in the form it adopts.

The prophetic instructions insist that the Earth and its Peoples have entered a period known as the time of Purification, and urge each of us to abandon the two hearted path of modern "civilization" and return to the path of one-heartedness that the Hopi Traditionals have sought, so valiantly, to maintain.

I have deliberately avoided much emphasis on the content of the Hopi prophecy or their spiritual and cultural practices as rooted in the Land. It is up to the reader to determine for her or him self whether the sharing of this prophecy matters to them and to the world. I believe it is of central and unequivocal importance. Your choice is your own. Choose well.

I use this for work and it is amazing! I will be ordering more for gift cause they are so cheap and so perfect!

I should have read the dimensions 'cause this book is little and slim. I think of it as a 'traveling' booklet. It's soft-covered and can fit in your purse or jacket pocket. Space is somewhat limited. Overall, if you want a handy lightweight, spacesaver booklet, this one is fine.

I absolutely love this little book. I have one at work, and one at home and keep all of my passwords in them. I have actually bought several for our employees to use at work so they don't leave their passwords on little post-it notes on their monitor. Much better. The only suggestion I would have is to provide a few unlettered pages at the back for spillover when certain letters, such as a-c are filled up.

Never recieved the books. They were ordered a month ago.

a great book. Has many cartoons dealing with computers. Thebook comes with a CD-Rom that has files of each cartoon that can beprinted in b&w or color, or emailed or posted on web pages.

Even with the CD, there's just not enough content here..

Internet years are like dog years, so this book is really 28 years old (originally published in 1996 using cartoons BEFORE 1996). The cartoons are as amusing as 28 year old NEW YORKER cartoons would be. The book includes my favorite Internet classic, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Release is given to use these cartoons for personal use - commercial use without permission is explicitly prohibited. You get 100 NEW YORKER type cartoons in black and white in the book. On the CD, you get 100 GIF files duplicated in both black and white and in color. There are three different directories (Show, Print, Email). Most pictures are about 50k (min is 11k, max is 215k).

This collection is the most imaginative concept for one that I have seen done by New Yorker cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff. Unfortunately, the selection of the cartoons failed to take into account the rapid advance in computer savvy and awareness. So cutting edge cartoons of 1996 often seem like ancient history in 2001. On the other hand, the book contains a CD-ROM to allow you to have a digital copy of each cartoon. You are allowed as much noncommercial use as you want.

The book contains 100 black and white cartoons, the CD-ROM with the 100 cartoons (many in color) plus 50 more, and directions for using the CD-ROM on a Macintosh or with Windows and e-mailing the images. There is a brief introduction by editor and contributor, Robert Mankoff.

I graded the book down one star for having so many dated cartoons, down another star for having a too limited introductory essay, and down a third star for having too few cartoons on too small pages for the price. I graded it up two stars for the CD-ROM and license for personal use features. That's how I ended up at four stars.

The theme of these cartoons is "a new playground for Murphy's Law." Some of the cartoons were probably never very funny. Was it really credible to say that a restaurant cannot serve the meals you want on time because the computer is down? I don't think so, but 2 of 100 cartoons have that theme. Jokes about getting or printing out messages by e-mail also quickly wear thin. There are too many of those in the book.

Normally, I would complain about the editor selecting 16 of his own cartoons for a 100 cartoon collection, but I must agree with Mr. Mankoff that his work deserves it compared to the others.

On the other hand, some of these cartoons are priceless. Here are a few of my favorites:

"America Off-Line" with a man lying in a hammock, by Robert Mankoff

"The e-mail isn't functioning -- pass it on." Four computer users are sitting side by side as one turns to the other, by Robert Mankoff

"Good graphics, Dave, but the answer is still no." A woman turning down a man proposing on his knees, holding a video of a wedding ceremony running on a portable computer, by Robert Mankoff

"Home-Pageless" A sign held by a street person looking for a handout, by Mick Stevens

"Marge, this is davelow@meth.smu.com and anncann@bur.com -- I met them on the Internet." A man introducing a couple to his wife in the living room, by Michael Maslin

"A computer virus ate my homework." A boy explaining to his teacher, by Arnie Levin

"The computers are fine, the staff's down." A picture of collapsed abstract people, by Charles Barsotti

"Nightly Lap Top Dancing" A sign in a computer store window, by P.C. Vey

"I think I'll head back to the house for a little Net-sex and a nap." A man to his wife on the beach, by Michael Crawford

"Thanks pal, let me put you on my mailing list." Street person to man giving money while typing into a portable computer, by P.C. Vey

"Select All" and "Select None" The thoughts of a group of men and a group of women looking at each other in a bar, by Joe Dator

"I can be upgraded. Can you?" Message on computer screen, by Aaron Bacall

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." One dog to another, by Peter Steiner

"Believe me, the e-check is in the e-mail." Robert Mankoff

"You are entitled to one call, one fax, or one e-mail." Man with two policemen in the stationhouse, by Arnie Levin

"The Bill Gates Wealth Clock" by Jon Agee

"There's nothing wrong with your personal finance software. You just don't have any money." A man talking to another man, by Ted Goff

After viewing this collection, I think you will agree that cartoons about being compulsive about the Internet would have been even more fun. I was surprised that there were no jokes about on-line ordering of products and trading of stocks. Clearly, our uses of the Internet and computers are evolving very rapidly. As the examples above show, there certainly do seem to be themes that work well over time by playing on the fundamental human foibles.

So you can turn this book into a five star offering if you can simply find a friend who will e-mail all the cartoons to you for free! Maybe that's the purpose of the e-mail a friend feature on each book's page.

Seriously, this book can give you much food for thought about how computers are affecting the way we relate to each other. In many cases, computers become barriers to communication rather than facilitators. Think through your day today, and consider how many of these jokes could have been made at your expense. How can you humanize your work with computers?

Make progress at light speed, and keep laughing all the while!

This book could be more useful, but the wording you'll have to add and take away on your own. Some of the samples are too personal. But overall, nice.

I keep this book on my desk for use when I have a particularly difficult letter to write. I have used it more for sympathy letters, when I just can't find the words I want. Big help

This book tries to be everything and in doing so does not cover any one letter type effectively. It gives very short examples of about 500 different letters many of which are very specific though could be adapted. I don't feel like I would be much a head for having the the book. A few of the sentences are good but a few seem rude to me. Also this is the exact same book as "The Someone Cares Encyclopedia of Letter Writting". I made the mistake of buying both and I mean they are the exact same, word for word! I do not reccommend this book, either of them.

After reading Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power (which is one of my all time favorite books!), I was naturally drawn to reading the biography of Fools Crow. Alas, I found the book a bit tedious and disappointing. I am sure Thomas Mails wrote an accurate account, but his style and the points he emphasizes make for a plodding read.

Despite these troubles, I found the book to be informative of life on the 20th century Pine Ridge Reservation. The problems outlined in this book are not going away, and if this book raises concerns about what must be done to correct these terrible issues it has done a great service.

This book is also very good in regards to giving a history of the Sioux since the Great Sioux War of 1876. So often the history of this great nation is placed in the background to the white culture making it difficult to see with any degree of accuracy. This book is from the vantage point of a Sioux elder and tells the sad tale of an oppressed people.

This is the story of Frank Foolscrow: The Ceremonial chief of the Teton Sioux:

I very much enjoyed the story of the politics on the reservation.

I do have several problems with this book.

1. The story was recorded by Thomas E. Mails a Lutheran, and I found it disconcerting that in some places the Term "God" is used, and in others the Sioux term "Wakan Tanka" is used.

2. On page 100 Mr. Mails equates the tobacco ties as a rosary. The Tobacco ties had nothing with a rosary. They were simply offerings to his 405 helpers.

3. On page 107 Mr. Mails implies that Frank Foolscrow was a Catholic. It is clear that he retained his spirituality.

4. I am VERY disturbed by what he calls "The Kettle Dance". I am not from that culture, and do not know what it represents to the people. So I have no right to judge it.

5. The colors associated with the directions are wrong. I don't know if Mr. Mails got this wrong, or Mr. Foolscrow believed this information was too sacred to share. The accurate colors for the Sioux medicine wheel is.

Black in the West and represents Earth. White in the North and represents Air. Red in the East and represents Fire. Yellow in the South and represents Water Green in the Center and represents Spirit

You can see the accurate layout of the Sioux medicine wheel on the cover of "Native Wisdom" by Ed McGaa.

Questions or comments. E-Mail me. Two Bears

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This book is the counterpoint to Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power. It is more a retelling of his life story, there is less description of his worldview which is more the focus of Wisdom and Power. One feels reading this that he could have gone on and on about the politics at the reservation, he doesn't and for me seeing how he expresses his views about this situation while keeping a gentle ad moderate tone is quite revealing of his personality. There is a fascinating account of his exerience at Bear Butte, which is the highlight of the book.

This book feels to me like a compilation of the simplest pieces of other books on the subject. I didn't get a real authoritarian feel here, which I think is necessary in a 'How To Make Money' book. With the way the world is now, anyone can claim themselves to be an expert, and here, I did not see anything other than regurgitation. If you are looking for a book on this subject, I would go with Carol Harris's book.

The book is wonderful for the busy business person who wants to get straight to the point on how to organize a profitable e-mag. I wanted to use an e-newsletter for marketing purposes for my small business. Because of this book, I have started a whole new subsidiary to my business. It has actually started to become an income stream, though minor, for my business. It more than pays for itself. I owe a large percentage of this success to "How To Publish A Profitable E-mag. If read from front to cover, it will take you less than 1 day to read. The author presents valuable resources and bullet point information. She also promotes other valuable resources that she doesn't even profit from. I find her book to be genuine and practical. I have used it as a blue print for our new business. She is very honest in mentioning the limitations in her book, but she points you to other books and periodicals that get further into the technical aspects of e-magazines. "How To Publish a Profitable E-mag" is definitely the first stop in publishing a profitable e-mag.

I bought this brief "How To" book and was rather impressed. It provides a sound methodology for writing and publishing e-books in an age where small self-publishers can theoretically compete with the large publishers, especially if the self-publishers are skilled at digitizing their publications for online sales. The references to key "virtual" partners were also invaluable. Finally, I liked the fact that I could read the entire book in an hour or so.