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Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams (The Agile Software Development Series)
Published in Paperback by Addison-Wesley Professional (2004-10-29)
Author: Alistair Cockburn
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Yet another tool in the Agile toolbox!
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Review Date: 2007-11-30
The "Agile" umbrella includes multiple approaches/lenses from which to view, practice and evolve software and teams. Alistair's material offers an additional lens. So when reading this material, I don't believe it was ever his intent for people to pick up Crystal and say "This is it". Rather, this material offers an alternative framework of thought that would nicely meld/synthesize with other characteristics/practices/behaviors under the Agile umbrella of software evolution. I've not personally applied the material yet .. but could see it's inter-relationship to those things I do currently practice today under the Agile space.

Great book
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Review Date: 2007-11-05
I love this book. Recommended read for anyone who has to obtain requirements form customers. The book also has many team building elements and a great Agile roadmap.

Excellent Writing
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Review Date: 2007-01-06
Cockburn's writing style is fluid, the agile development topic is interesting, and his experience is very valuable.

Just starting out with "agile"? Try Crystal before XP.
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-10
The Crystal methodology is extremely lightweight, and is not saddled with the percieved "rules" of XP. This is *the* guidebook for the Crystal familiy. Pick a few of the 7 properties and get started building better software!

Informative
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-02
Lots of relevent information about Software Development project management. It give insight into ways of dealing with stuff I see every day at work. I am about 1/3 of they way through, it is well laid out, I'd recommend it for anyone that is a technology development group and want some good ideas for how to deal with projects.

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Divorce: It's All About Control; How to Win the Emotional, Psychological And Legal Wars
Published in Paperback by Execuprov Pr (2005-10-15)
Author: Stacy D. Phillips
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Divorce: It's All About Control
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-20
The book is excellent! I have given it to friends and clients who are involved in divorce proceedings, who are finished with the divorce or are happily married! This book is helpful to anyone who is or has been or may become involved in a relationship.

An easy to read book offering great advice
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-03-04
This book is easy to read, very insightful and offers the wisdom one needs to know when going through divorce. I would recommend this book to everyone thinking about or going through divorce. I recommend this book to all of my clients.

Excellent guide through the terrible months
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2006-05-03
This book has helped me through some of the most difficult months of my life. It cuts right to the personal behaviors you need to address in order to deal with dissolution in a healthy way and move on in your life. Very practical and hands-on, the charts and questions that you work through in the book are very helpful in helping address your own particular challenges in your divorce. A very smart, useful analysis with priceless practical advice on the "Internal Wars" and battles we fight with ourselves as we try and make positive change in our lives.

Helpful
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-11
I found this book helpful not just for someone considering divorce, but also as a relationship guide. Stacy has seen it all, and she can help you evaluate your control of a very tough situation. I felt fortunate to be able to use her advice, and it will ultimately save legal fees. The book convinced me to take control of the parts of my life that I had let slip and to feel good about those areas where I'd maintained control all along.

A Happy Marriage, it's all about giving up control
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-09
Marriages begin to deteriorate when they fail to appreciate how damaging trying to contol each other becomes. And when they turn that deadly corner past the point of no return toward divorce, it's all about control.

Ironically--and sadly-- each spouse does not see themselves as controlling, but merely defending themselves against their partner who they perceive is trying to control them.

If this dynamic speaks to you and you're heading towards the end, you'll want to read this terrific, book by prominent Los Angeles family attorney, Stacy D. Phillips.

Despite the title, this book can also help you save your marriage and prevent divorce if you will take Ms. Phillips wise counsel to heart and apply it to your relationship.

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God is in Control
Published in Hardcover by Thomas Nelson (2003-03-20)
Author: Charles F. Stanley
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God in Control
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Review Date: 2008-03-28
This book arrived in great shape and in a very timely manner. Like all his books, Stanley writes so the average person can understand fully.

I disagree
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2008-03-10
The whole theory of God is in control of every single thing amazes me. Is He is control of the abortionist hand as he rips the baby from the womb? Free will is a part of this world. So I suppose most would say when someone dies at an early age the old adage of "well, it must have been Gods will" tell that to that persons children, that will really help out in their relationship with God. People wake up, quit giving credit to God for things that we as humans have goofed up ourselves. Everything that happens doesn't mean it is Gods will just because it happened and He didn't stop it. Was it His will for the abortion law to pass? No, because that would go against His word, but it did pass didn't it? So what happened? We as children of the most high God have a responsibility to utilize the weapons of warfare He left us such as His and The Holy Spirit. We need to rise up and come against such tragedies in prayer and stop giving God credit for bad things in our lives. Satan is the one who comes to kill steal and destroy....Not God. Read john 10:10 satan and God are not co-conspirators working togethor to refine our character and teach us lessons etc read eph 4:11 If God is in total absolute control of every little thing, then He's not doing such a great job is He? This world is full of a lot of bad things and I refuse to believe God is up and heaven and is controlling the shooter and he kills kids in a school...makes no sense. Anyway I would recommend reading the b ook :God is not your problem" by Billy Joe Daughtery It addresses many things such as the sovereignty of God etc amazing book in my opinion...

Outstanding Book
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-12
This book is helpful and wonderful in reminding us that God is in control of every situation. The photography throughout the book, which was done by the author, is also a beautiful reminder of God's magnificence in the world. The book is easy, quick reading but still has a powerful, profound message to deliver. I recommend this book for everyone.

Wonderful insight
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-07
This is a wonderful book that just opens up some insight into the reality of our relationship with God. He is so great and yes in the end He really does have all control if we just allow it

A response to "Rover1" , who wrote a review on this book:
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-18
Rover1 asks in his/her review if " God is in control of the abortionists hand as he rips the baby from the womb". The way he/she structured the question reminds me of the old Groucho Marx joke " have you stopped beating your wife?" It is a "no-win" question, and reveals Rover's misunderstanding of Christian theology.. If you say "yes", then God becomes an accomplice to murder(abortion). If you say "no", then God has no control. The question should be: Is it within God's will that the abortionist be given the opportunity to abort the baby?' This places the guilt on the proper shoulders ( the abortionist's) , but still recognizes God's omniscience/omnipotence. God does not want the abortionist to do it, but gives him the free will to make that choice. Of course, the abortionist must answer for his evil actions later, but that's a whole different theological topic.
Hope this clears up Rover's bad theology.

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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
Published in Paperback by Simon & Schuster (2007-07-03)
Author: Joseph Margulies
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eye-opening look at Guantanamo
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Review Date: 2008-01-08
This book made me sad. Because it is so well-written about subject matter that was beyond my belief, I have been shaken out of my idylls. Worse still it is so well documented that every item can easily be looked up and confirmed.

What brought me to this book was my reading in German the book by Murat Kurnaz, "Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo" in July of 2007. Not a detail of the legal matters mentioned by Margulies is in conflict with Mr. Kurnaz's first-hand account of his experiences as a prisoner. Margulies' book should be required reading for every Congressman and Senator in Washington, DC. I will not be able to rest now until justice is meted out to those who have committed such horrendous crimes against humanity.

Mr. Margulies and Mr. Kurnaz point out that "harsh interrogation" is far more than "water-boarding." Mr. Kurnaz was physically picked up and his head was placed under water while he was punched and kicked in the stomach. He was suspended from the ceiling for days, until he passed out. US physicians attended him, not to give relief from his suffering, but to keep him alive for more torture. He witnessed prisoners killed by US torture.

Margulies' book is an opportunity for education. May we all be better educated.

A powerful and important book
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-08-29
This book deserves a much wider audience. No matter how bad you think things are in Guantanamo, this book makes clear that the reality is ten times worse. Margulies is extremely knowledgeable about the issues, and he's a fine writer. It is hard not to feel ashamed -- and outraged -- by the injustices that are occurring under our flag. Let me add that I do not know (and have never met) the author, Joseph Margulies.

Confronting a black hole of injustice
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-10-22
The author was the lead counsel for Rasul and other detainees in the noted Supreme Court case of 2004, Rasul v. Bush. The question in that case underlines the whole bitter debate with the Bush Administration: whether detainees at Guantanamo have the right to challenge their indefinite detention in a fair way. The other big issue in this book involves torture and how the detainees are treated.

The author notes that the United States has always been at the forefront in upholding the Geneva Conventions. Even during the Korean War when the North Koreans treated American POWs barbarically, the U.S. upheld the Conventions. Even during the unconventional Vietnam War when the Viet Cong did not wear uniforms and hid among civilians or when American fliers were tortured in North Vietnam, the U.S. honored the Conventions. According to the Red Cross everyone in enemy hands has some status, either as a POW under the Third Convention or as a civilian under the Fourth Convention. In the past the U.S. has served as a model in upholding these laws of war and had until recently established the moral high ground in the face of lawless torture around the world.

Bush keeps insisting to the American people: "We do not torture." He is not lying according to the narrow definition established in the Justice Department's legal opinion known as the "torture memo" by Yoo and Bybee, and subsequent revisions to that opinion. The author notes the veil of secrecy over the inner workings of Guantanamo, the careful screenings given to visitors, but Time Magazine obtained leaked records concerning the interrogation logs of Mohammed al-Qahtani, which reveal the kind of methods used: solitary confinement, sensory overload, induced hypothermia, sleep deprivation, various devices used to cause severe disorientation, various forms of humiliation; in other words, a systematic breakdown of the human personality, a psychological assault that can be done without laying a hand on the prisoner, intended to lower the detainee not just to the sub-human level but even to the sub-animal level (the chilling comparison by the interrogator to banana rats). The question becomes what else would be found if other interrogation logs were made available.

Secretary Rumsfeld referred to the detainees as "the worst of the worst." But are they really? Beyond the locked gate of national security, the author refers to numerous voices from the military and intelligence services who state that only a minority of the detainees have yielded intelligence of any significant value, that there have been "no big fish", that the majority were "dirt farmers from Afghanistan", or in the case of the author's clients, impressionable youth who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The author notes that only 5% of all detainees were captured by Americans. The rest were rounded up by the Northern Alliance or by war-lords who were more interested in settling scores. The roundup was made even more of a farce by a Defense Department campaign to distribute leaflets offering a bounty for any terrorist.

In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Rasul for judicial review of Guantanamo detainees, the Administration undertook to set up CSRTs (Combatant Status Review Tribunals) in order to determine whether a detainee is an "enemy combatant". But the CSRTs have been so skewed in the interest of national security that evidence is withheld and charges are often hidden in a farcical way. The detainees are also prevented from presenting evidence or testimony unless it is "reasonably available". An example of the absurdity of this process is an exchange quoted here from the petitioner Ait Idir, a petitioner in the forthcoming Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court case, in which the name of the accuser, an alleged al-Qaeda operative, is not named for security reasons.

The author describes the outlandish charges made against his client Mamdouh Habib from "confessions" he gave after his rendition to Egypt to be tortured. Fortunately for Habib, when they tried to render him to Egypt for a second time, the lid of secrecy was blown off by the press, and he was released without any charges and flown back to his home in Australia after three years of incarceration.

Extremely well-written, intelligent arguments.
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-07-12

One of the few books I've read about any controversial topic that resists the temptation to start name-calling, insult-slinging and obvious political agendas.

Dr. Margulies succeeds in explaining legal arguments in a way that is engaging and not condescending. He addresses every question you could have about torture and then some. He does something many authors fail to do: he argues his point in a greater context than the argument itself. That is to say, anyone can argue torture in the context of laws or the Geneva Convetions. Dr. Margulies goes further and discusses torture in the context of security for civilians and soldiers and foriegn policy, and then also provides the background for the writing of the Geneva Conventions and why we have refrained from torture in the past.

Absolutely enlightening.

Makes You Wonder Why Bush Is Not In Prison
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2007-01-04
Robert McNamara noted (about WWII), "LeMay said if we lost the war that we would have all been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He... and I'd say I... were behaving as war criminals." No question that the only thing that keeps Bush, Rumsfeldt, etc. out of jail is that fact that they are protected by our country's hard to challenge power. If we were a broken power rather than a great power, it seems certain that someone would try to lock them up.

This book confirms that many laws, national and international, regarding torture, detention, and so on have been willfully violated. It is a compelling and disturbing story. And the final chapters are still to be written.

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The Memory Jogger II
Published in Spiral-bound by Goal/QPC (1994-01-15)
Authors: Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter
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Great things come wrapped in small packages
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-06-11
Everything about this amazing guide is RIGHT from it's convenient size to its comprehensive content. If you know what you need to measure, you'll find the right tool for it here and even if you don't know what to measure, it'll tell you. Just fantastic. A treasure. Useful tip. It's a great resource when I need to present complex information visually in a presentation. Use it for inspiration if, like me, you struggle with visualising business concepts

Vital tool for consulting
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Review Date: 2007-07-04
The day after I bought it my boss asked me to build a priority matrix. I didn't bat an eyelash. I went back to my desk and 15 minutes later I emailed him a priority matrix for our project. He had a meeting in the conference room 15 minutes later with the director and partner. They were so impressed with my work. Thanks Memory Jogger II.

Quick Reference
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Review Date: 2007-05-14
The book provided quick tips for facilitation and team building. I like the format which allows for using the book without ruining the pages.

Memory Jogger II customer review
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Review Date: 2007-03-08
I had to get this for an MBA class I am currently taking. It provides summaries and examples of common business tools in a small package. It's a great reference guide. I didn't do a lot of searching, but for the little searching I did, Amazon had the lowest price.

Tools for excellence
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-30
This book is set up for anyone to have many tools for them to use at anytime. It has flowcharting, public speaking, many diagrams, and several team based exercises to help become better. In the front of the book it has a tool selector, and it takes some of the guess work out of tool selection.This is just one of many great books this company offers. Our copmany uses several of these in our professional training with our clients. This is a really good book for those looking for continuous improvement. The Memory Jogger Plus is an excellent book also and has many great tools and other goodies.

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Murach's OS/390 and z/OS JCL
Published in Paperback by Mike Murach & Associates (2002-03)
Authors: Raul Menendez and Doug Lowe
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The best book on JCL and probably the only one you'll need
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Review Date: 2008-04-13
This book is excellently written; clear, concise, and easy to understand. With examples on the opposite page of the text, it is very easy to follow and comprehend. It can easily read front to back or as a reference, it not only clearly explains what, but how and why. I've worked with JCL and mainframes for over 20 years and would strongly recommend this book for beginners or experienced professionals. I keep a well-thumbed, heavily highlighed, tabbed copy in my cube at all times. Keep in mind, this book is updated as dp systems are updated, so don't get the earlier editions (ie, the Second Edition in the gray and black cover) which are obsolete. You only need one book on JCL - this one is it.

Good Book on Mainframes
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Review Date: 2007-07-26
Good reference book, I have it by my desk and use it often.

I wish it had some info on FTP, may be next release.

Endorsing other people reviews
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Review Date: 2007-04-10
I must agree with the others reviews. This book is an invaluable resource that will save your time reading those boring, 1000-page, IBM Redbooks. It gives a nice introduction on IBM Mainframes, operating system concepts, as well mastering JCL skills. After reading this book you will feel more confident to go deeply into the IBM documentation and learn the extra skills needed to your area (databases, networking, programming, etc.).

Excellent z/OS JCL reference resource
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2006-06-29
This book is a tremendous reference resource for anyone who works in the IBM mainframe environment, especially for those who don't work with JCL on a daily basis or for those seldom-used tasks for which you may not have any "canned" JCL readily available. I strongly recommend this book as an invaluable JCL reference document.

Now I Understand Mainframes
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2005-09-18
My job requires me to write scripts on Windows and Unix platforms. I have no problem writing Windows batch files or Unix shell scripts to copy or move files, change permissions, create and delete directories, write results to log files, etc.

Recently, I was asked to write a mainframe script. I was told to write this script in Rexx. When I looked into Rexx, it was just another scripting language. It was not hard to understand how it worked. However, unlike Windows batch files or Unix shell scripts, there was more to writing a Rexx program than just knowing the Rexx language - I needed JCL to run it!! I had seen JCL before. I knew each job started with a JOB card and that it executed PROCs and PGMs. I also knew that I did not know nearly enough about JCL to write JCL to do what I wanted it to do. That's when I went to Amazon and found this book.

Not only did this book confirm what little I did know and correct some misundertandings I had, it went far more deeply into JCL to describe how to use many features that I did not know existed. One of the best features of this book is that it provides some background information on how mainframes work and the naming conventions used. This information is useful when JCL coding is introduced because the reader has a better idea of what the JCL is used for and what it happening with the various statements. JCL coding is not even introduced until Chapter 4!!

After the background information, this book then goes through the various aspects of JCL coding. The basics of what I needed to know to run my Rexx program were addressed as were many concepts that I can now put in my "bag of tricks" for future projects. I am sure most of our mainframe programmers do not know most of this material.

This book is not limited to JCL. It also describes how to compile Cobol programs, how to copy, move, sort, delete and print datasets using common mainframe utilities. It even has a chapter on Unix System Services. Prior to reading these chapters, I had no idea how to copy a dataset to a new dataset on the mainframe using a batch program. For me, this was a trivial issue on a Windows or Unix platform. I now know how to do it on the mainframe. This book clearly explains the process. It also provides coding examples for all concepts described throughout the book.

If you are new to computing, I don't think you want to start with the mainframe as the first platform you learn. However, if you have some computing background from working with Windows and Unix, then I highly recommend this book to get a solid foundation on how to run batch programs on the mainframe.

In the past, I had to ask a coworker to help me when I needed to work with JCL. I purchased this book so that I could code some JCL for myself to run my Rexx program. Now, not only does my Rexx program execute flawlessly, I also have a thorough understanding of how to write mainframe batch programs for future projects. Who knows, maybe my coworkers will start coming to me with their complex JCL coding problems!!

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Six Sigma Business Scorecard
Published in Hardcover by McGraw-Hill Professional (2006-12-12)
Author: Praveen Gupta
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The best business scorecard book
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Review Date: 2008-03-17
Finally a book that incorporates two powerful concepts: scorecards and six sigma. I have worked on various projects with the aim to achieve operational efficiency and at the same time I have been part of various meetings and discussions to find best ways to "empower" the staff to help them understand, align and achieve corporate goals. Both these efforts have largely been fragmented. The measurement tools to achieve both these goals have, at best, been mediocre. This book provides a comprehensive, more robust and practical approach to bringing the two concepts together.

This book gives a pragmatic approach to not just evaluating performance but also provides easy-to-use tools that help predict performance and profitability. This book provides a much needed scorecard methodology for the 'new' globalized world. A must-read for any business leader.

Best business book since "The Goal"
Helpful Votes: 11 out of 18 total.
Review Date: 2003-12-04
Praveen, I just have to buy you a cup of coffee or a drink one day. I am just finishing your book, "Six Sigma Business Scorecard " and have to say that I haven't been this riveted to a business book since "The Goal". Books like this for me have been far and few between.

The Best Six Sigma Book I've Read
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2006-02-01
I am writing to congratulate you for your outstanding work on the book you have written about the Six Sigma Business Scorecard. I have spent the past week reading it, and I've realized what a fantastic tool it is.

I am a Six Sigma Intern, and I work at Recofarma, a Concentrate Plant of the Coca Cola Company, located in Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil. I was trying to create a Massive Communication Plan for Six Sigma within the company and one of my ideas was to create a Scorecard for Six Sigma, then I looked for related material at Amazon.com and your book appeared on the top of the list. It surely was a great investment.

A Fresh Look at Contructing the Business Scorecard
Helpful Votes: 6 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2004-01-06
Finally, a pragmatic approach to developing a Business Scorecard that captures the profitability proposition through periodic measurement of critical performance. The critical thinking used to construct and evaluate each element of the hierachical measurement structure provides a keen insight into the contribution value of each functional area of the business. The concise step-by-step approach in building the overal Business Performance Index provides the guidance necessary for immediate implementation by small or large enterprizes.

CEO'S DREAM BOOK FOR MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESSES
Helpful Votes: 8 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2005-03-19
I have read a few hundred "non-fictional" books over the years for my MBA, for quality, etc, but I have to tell you that this book about the use of balanced scorecards is the best business related book that I have ever read, and I feel that every CEO should completely absorb it to utilize its "pertinent" applications that are applicable to their business processes, thus institutionalizing the process metrics' continual improvement concepts of ISO/TS 16949:2002 and ISO 9001 in all types of firms, including those that are not automotive suppliers!- Bill Cooper, Global Quality Systems Senior Manager, Lear Corporation

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Standard of Care: A Novel
Published in Paperback by Sentient Publications (2007-03-25)
Author: David Kerns
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Thought Provoking Novel
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Review Date: 2008-07-10
Excellent, fast-paced, thought-provoking novel. Dr. Kerns provides an insider's look into the state of our healthcare via a very personable set of characters and a story that kept me entertained cover to cover.

Standard of Care
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Review Date: 2008-07-06
This was a very interesting book, highlighting the changes in medicine today. The for profit hospital is very different than non profit and the story guides you through the changes. I think if you are in the medcial field ,this is a good read.

Wish I could have made it last
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Review Date: 2008-01-21
I enjoyed this book tremendously and had to ration myself so I didn't gobble it up in one sitting! As I completed it last evening, I had two distinct experiences: As a critical event began to unfold, I had an adrenaline rush as though it were happening to me! And when a disclosure comes that explains one thread of the story, I got a lump in my throat. It was one of those situations where I had to remind myself it was a fictional story yet my physical reactions were quite real. David, thank you for a lovely reading experience.

A Captivating And Visionary Read that Exposes the Anatomy of the American Health Care Crisis
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-16
From mourning the tragedy of little Kerry Jameson, a child whose life as we know it was cut short by medical error/understaffing, to identifying with the ethical dilemma of finances versus care faced by Dr. Dan Fazen, "Standard of Care" brings to life in fiction, the real-life circumstances faced daily in todays hospitals. This book would be enough as a can't-put-it-down read that reaches to the core of human values, and reminds us that right can prevail through the compassion of a single individual, but it goes much further.

Reading this book, one can envision a country where the medical system works! "Standard of Care" should be read and re-read by anyone who hopes to make a difference in the health care of Americans. Though I longed for a sequel the moment I finished the book, Dr. Kerns has a gift to put forth the solutions that could repair our ailing health care system. I hope he pens it!

A fictional account with real-world feel
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-08-06
Full disclosure: I have the good fortune of knowing Dr. Kerns both personally and professionally. He is an amazing, talented and inspiring character --- and he has written a remarkable first novel.

I recently finished reading Jerome Groopman's excellent non-fiction "How Doctors Think". Groopman discusses medical errors often referencing the effects of the medical establishment. In "Standard of Care" Kerns personalizes that discussion through the conflicts of Dr. Dan Fazen. Faced with the very real-world challenge of being the physician he wants to be and the physician he is expected to be, Fazen reaches deep into himself and deep into his own past to find answers.

From the artfully crafted prologue to the powerful conclusion, this book will grip you. With characters you can care about, dialog that flows naturally, and some of the most important ethical questions of our times in the balance, you will not want to put this book down.

I thoroughly enjoyed it (twice) and highly recommend it.

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Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
Published in Hardcover by LifeLine Press (2003-05)
Authors: Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
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Buy this book
Helpful Votes: 16 out of 19 total.
Review Date: 2003-08-05
If you want to know the truth about the medical system and the enormous number of errors and cover-ups within that system, read this book. Well-researched with many shocking and heart-breaking case studies, the book provides answers as well as showing the problems. Thank goodness someone had the courage to buck the system and break down the Wall of Silence for all of us.

A Better Book By Far
Helpful Votes: 19 out of 28 total.
Review Date: 2004-11-01
This is a better book by far than the unfortunately better known INTERNAL BLEEDING. It is certainly more honest. It has the clear advantage of being written by people who know and understand the subject ,and unlike Internal Bleeding, it does not suffer the disadvantage of having been written by physicians who, purposfully or otherwise, seem very intent in obscuring the responsibility for medical mistakes.

The authors of Wall of Silence have written an honest and valuable book deciding (to the public's advantage) to let the chips fall where they may. A MUST READ!!

Truth be told
Helpful Votes: 19 out of 25 total.
Review Date: 2004-03-07
This book is a well researched, well written must read for all Americans. The authors share their personal story as well as the stories of others who have suffered at the hands of a careless physician. While the stories will break your heart, they may also save your life, or the life of someone you love. While none of us want to believe that those we trust with our bodies and our lives would neglect a sacred trust, the fact is it is happening all too often. This book delivers the message without hype, fear or hysteria. Read it, share it and take it with you.

Dying for Safety and Accountability
Helpful Votes: 19 out of 23 total.
Review Date: 2003-09-15
What separates Wall of Silence by Gibson and Singh from other books on this topic is the refreshing and bold truth telling contained within it's human stories of pain, injustice and frustration. Not only did the authors shoulder the risks and courage requisite for listening to and then writing about the human face, consequences and devastation of needless medical error tragedies, but they also ferreted out and exposed the ugly truths, told by medical providers themselves, about how the pervasive greed, secrecy and code of silence in the healthcare industry works to bury medical mistakes through a host of means; including blackballing and burying the careers of the competent and ethical medical providers who dare to tell the truth and who place patients above profits. As a medical provider, I can find no better way to encapsulate the meaning and hope of this treatise than through those words offered by the Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. This book is, as she states, 'A call to arms for families who have had loved ones disabled or die in the pursuit of medical treatment.' And, I can only hope that it could also catalyze a 'Call to Arms' for medical providers who wish to return medicine and healthcare to the patient oriented, compassionate, ethical and hippocratic way of practice.

First do no harm
Helpful Votes: 24 out of 30 total.
Review Date: 2003-11-18
If even one person dies, that is one too many. But it is not just one, not even 10 or 100 patients who are maimed and dying from health care mistakes. As Gibson and Singh reveal, the numbers are much much higher than that. And anyone of them could be you or your loved ones. Medical errors do not discriminate. Everyone is vulnerable even doctors themselves as patients.

Yes, to error is human but that really doesn't appear to be the problem here. A great deal of the problem appears to be that a percentage of health care providers make multiple errors because no one stops them. According to Grayson and Singh many nurses do not recommend their place of employment to their family and friends.

When people are not held accountable for their actions and the consequences of those actions everyone is endangered. Taking or being forced to take personal responsiblity for your actions and their consequences plays a large part in how many mistakes you make.

I would think it would be every irresponsible health care provider's nightmare to literally have to personally experience everything that they inflict on their patients.

Since health care providers are safe from the magic wishing wand, the next best thing is to guard against such mistakes and be public with the information. It is a matter of ethics. When you are ten and don't want to "rat out" a buddy it is rarely life or death. But health care providers are not ten anymore and it is their ethical obligation to put the safety their patients or potential patients first. Please read this book and tell others about it. All of our lives depend on it.

Controls
The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology
Published in Audio CD by Sounds True (2006-09-01)
Author: Bruce H. Lipton
List price: $79.95
New price: $49.27
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Average review score:

Great work! Great Speaker! Great Science!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-25
Listening to this book it was an immense experience to hear how Dr Lipton explains about the ins and outs of the biology. What I found particularly higly interesting, was the constantly present buildup of lower-level phenomena (e.g. cell biochemistry interaction) to a collective higher level observables (e.g how a collection of cells express themselves).

Where I must compliment Dr Lipton is his enthusiasm with which he speaks. I necer heard an 'uh' or any other kind of pause and it never seems as if he is reading from a paper too. This for itself is a joy to listen to.

It all, makes a very well founded scientific piece of work and presented higly interestingly. As a physicist I feel pitty for myself not to have studied biology instead.

In the later chapters it comes to the point of mentally controlling the physics (of the body - the cells). There, and only there I am having a conflict. Not because I am in a tight scientific tube of thinking, but because it just can't be. What I mean to say is this:
Dr Lipton refers to 'buying into the disease'. To put my opinion clearly I will polarise with an example to the more extreme: Suppose I have no legs but 'I do not buy into that', will that make me walk?
OR: if I command my cells (in whatever way) not to feel the pain when walking hot coals, what happens with my command if the 'coals' appear to be 1000 degree Celcius. My feet will vaporise, if I feel it or not.

Dear Dr Lipton, you are a great man and I love you for this work and your enthusiasm, but there are real physical limitations as to what we can command our cells to do. I hope you can appreciate that.

I hope I'll ever meet you. Only one star reduction because of the latter argumentation.

Nevertheless one must and may not fail to share Dr Lipton's thoughts. A must have, a must read! Higly recommended.

The Wisdom of Your Cells CD
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-17
This set of 8 CDs opens a window to understanding what is really going on at the cellular level of especially the human body and what this means for our health and well-being. Narrated by the author Bruce Lipton in an easy-to-listen-to way and also presented in language that is easily understood for the non-scientist, ordinary person in the street.

Cutting Edge Science That Will Rock Your Socks
Helpful Votes: 11 out of 11 total.
Review Date: 2007-07-14
"I am listening to the CDs you sent me... they are fantastic... totally changing my understanding of life itself !

Thank you SOOO MUCH !"

That's the note I received from my son, a pretty brilliant guy himself, after sending him Bruce Lipton's The Wisdom of Your Cells CDs. My husband, a professor at UCLA, and I just sat enthralled by what we were hearing. We'd already read the book and I had also ordered all the DVDs available by Lipton. Listening to the CDs are totally expanding my consciousness. They wonderfully complement my other studies of quantum physics, consciousness, and health.

The information is enlightening and exciting. This is no small potatoes stuff. This is information people need to have. No matter who you are, you will get a lot from these CDs.

Conversational and oh so informative
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-17
I love this series! Bruce Lipton discusses challenging topics with a passion that inspires my ears and mind. The chapters are well segmented too, and there are practical examples woven in.

Yey for teaching that soaks in.
Yey for updated health notions propagated by well-respected, western-trained experts.
Yey for holistic perspectives that allow us to be human, natural and in awe of existence.
Yey for passionate nerdiness.

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 8 total.
Review Date: 2008-01-01
The information to be found within this CD presentation is both indepth and astounding, HOWEVER there's a lot more and its even MORE MIND BLOWING!

Go to brucelipton. com and pick up these DVD PRESENTATIONS:

"The Biology of Perception - The Psychology of Change, Piecing it all together"

"As Above - So Below; An Introduction to Fractal Evolution"

"The New Biology - Where Mind & Matter Meet"

The information provided by Dr. Lipton in these presentations will make you VERY, VERY HAPPY - JOYOUS, POSITIVE ABOUT LIFE.....YOUR LIFE AND ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET!

If you're at all concerned about your own health, the health of loved ones....the health of the planet and all life forms AND functioning systems and the elements within them.....GET THIS INFORMATION, UNDERSTAND IT, AND ALERT EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT IT ASAP!!!

Don't wait for Dr. Lipton and/or anyone else do do all the work getting this out into the mainstream consciousness!!!!! When you're familiar with the astounding revelations contained in these presentations, you'll know why you NEED to do this.....for the good of yourself and for the good of the entire planet and everything on it. GET MOVING!


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