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Solid writing here. Convincing dialogue. Some interesting characters. A mystery. Gets a bit farfetched at the end, but Judd did a good job of laying the groundwork for the improbable events of the last thirty pages. The book is pure entertainment. Don't look for anything more. But it works as entertainment. A good read during travel or on vacation.

Camerion Judd has mastered the western genre as well as stories from America's first frontier. Now he begins tweeking the stories. This has a whole lot of twist and turns. A boy running away, his dad's in prison and as the sports writers say "his whole future in front of him." We find a bone collector, the lady who has been raised from the dead, The snake oil sales man with no morals but lots of history. then the rich man with the beautiful but rather wild daughter.

Judd takes all of these through death threats and some murderss, law men and lots of action and makes it seem reasonable. As I said Cameron Judd has mastered the craft well . I look forward to his next.

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It's hard for me to believe Cameron Judd is not read and reviewed by more people. He is an excellant story teller. In this one he tells of two lost souls who find each other. A story to kindle your heart. The main character Penn finds two other great friends and lives on. You will find this story hard to break from.

This is a good little book on massive global trends, but Hobsbawn here loses touch with the pulse of history, and his self-describe leftist perspective lacks in concrete details. Don't get me wrong, it's a good read. I had no idea that factory workers made 419 times less than the average American CEO (some newer publications say 475 times less), and Hobsbawm's analysis of the "global gap" is penetrating. Wealth is polarizing not only within but also between nation states. As he says, we now live in a world "where people can live on cake rather than bread," a world where one-sixth of the world population is hungry or food insecure. Perhaps Hobsbawwm is at his best in this book when he analyses the insular nature of contemporary life in wealty Western states, like American:

"...to live in the the favored regions is to be virtually cut off from the experiecnce, let alone the reactions, of people outside those regions. It takes an enormous effort of the imagination, as well as a great deal knowledge, to break out of our comfortable, protected, and self-absorded enclaves and enter an uncomfortable and unprotectd larger world inhabited by the majority of the species. We are cut off from this world even if the sum total of amassed information is everywhere accessible at the click of a mouse, if images of the remotest parts of the globe reach us at all times of day and night, if more of us travel between civilaztions than ever before. This is the paradox of a globalized twenty-first century."

In this book, Hobsbawm does a pretty good job of fleshing out general trends (like the decline of the nation-state, the rise of private rogue armies, the burgeoning service economy) and placing these within his now standard historical framework; but the book is lacking in many respects. Most notably, the he completely downplays or ignores the current eco-crisis. He never mentions how one in four Americans will now get cancer; how DDT and PCBs and other unhealthy toxic chemicals continue to pollute our soil, water and bodies; or how genetically-modified foods and organisms (GMO), bovine growth hormones (rBGH), and a wide variety of hormone disrupters are being surrepticiously placed into American food and household products, thereby making all Americans de facto guneia pigs. Furthermore, he doesn't even mention the intellectual property rights issue, which is perhaps the most important issue of our time! See Vanda Shiva's "Stolen Harvest" for a quick primer.

Nor does this book make any solid attempt to link the colonial and imperialistic history of the Third World with the contemporary situation, although obviously Hobsbawm has a firm understanding of the historical processes of Imperialism and Colonialism (see his three-part history serious). Today, although colonialism and Empire have officially ended, Third World markets remain subjugated to their former colonial and imperial overlords. The masters of old continue to rob these regions of primary resources to be used in Northern industries, and they continue to imports large-scale cash crops from these regions at the expense of local, traditional crops, biodiversity and food security. This has huge effects on the local food and job market. The results are often broad-based poverty and hunger, as can been seen in Brazil and Bangladesh -- two big food exporters.

The economic North has also increasingly set out to export menial labor to Third World these days, which has an equally devistating effects on local life, albeit it in different and multifarious ways. The exportation of labor also hollows out production and jobs in the home economy as well, leading to what has now been called the "Third-Worldization" of the North. Hobsbawm gives some analysis of multinational corporations and their effects on global labor and environmental issues, but it seems very topographical, like the rest of the book. After finishing, I felt let down. A lot more could have been accomplished with this subject in my opinion.

At the end of the 70's Mr Hobsbawm with a famous essay "The Forward Search of Labour Halted"in which he criticized the complacency of the labour class and his own Communist Party. . Mr Hobsbawm indicated that the working class had been betrayed by its own success. In this volume, his views are yet gloomier and notes that as the Soviet Union has collapsed the impetus for collective action has waned and "private and selfish interests seriously erode left-wing values". Modern day lefyist governments (such as Britain's Labour) efforts at redistribution are weak and the only real criticism of capitalism is voiced (unfortunately) by the very ant-communist Pope John Paul II ! Hobsbawm's reflections are the result of sevral interviews with Antonio Polito, the London correspondent of La Repubbilica, perhaps the (and left oriented) Italian daily newspaper.
As someone who wishes that more intelligent and authoritative figures criticized the excesses of capitalism I found this volume very refreshing. Espaecially as it avoided environmental and multiculturalism fantasies most commonly asociated with the modern left and re-opened a more economically focused discussion.

This is certainly a must-read for anyone interested in globalization, anxious about recent world trends, or who wants some inkling of where the 21st century will take us. Hobsbawm's analysis is consistently excellent.

In a series of interviews with Antonio Polito, he talks about topics such as American hegemony, the "new economy," the nation-state, and the depoliticization of politics(this is my favorite chapter). While I certainly don't agree with all of his projections (he believes that Russia could disappear as a proper country), his insight is a refreshing antidote to the triumphalism and vapidity that generally passes for mass-media discussion of the next century.

I took the same course that the other Chicagoan mentioned, and this was a required text. It does a great job of explaining how and why so many of us got here. While it was a great choice for the course, I'm now tracking it down 8 years later because I want to reread parts of it and pass it on to a friend. Truly valuable to anyone who wants to understand the landscape of this country. Ever wonder why most Filipinos in this country have a mom or an aunt (or both) who are nurses?

This book seems to be intended as a text for a college course. I didn't take any course associated with this text, but I found the test interesting anyway. What I found most interesting was that this book provided me, finally, with the answer to that unusual question: "Why are there so many Korean stores in African American neighborhoods?" Having spent my teen years in an African American neighborhood, I have seen this first hand. This book says that this trend exists because African American neighborhoods in the inner city often have high crime rates and larger corporate supermarkets are not willing to take the risk of going into these areas. Independent store owners will take that risk, though.

This book also discusses the Mexican-American ("Chicano") community. It references Cesar Chavez and Jose Angel Gutierrez and the Chicano movement and the "La Raza Unida" movement. These are two men who have been important in my life because I spent the early years of my life living at "Colegio Cesar Chavez" ("Cesar Chavez College") in Mt. Angel, Oregon. See: COLEGIO CESAR CHAVEZ by Maldonado.

Many other ethnic groups are discussed as well.

this book was assigned to a class i had in college 3 years ago. the class was Racial and Ethnic Groups which was a Sociology class. It gives excellent, well-written essays on various racial/ethnic groups. The book is truly a must have. This book unlike others gives an account of many groups in the U.S.

This is an interesting story of the frontier life in Tennessee. The protagonist Joshua Colter finds himself alone in the wilderness. Here Judd weaves his story of these brave long hunters in the Cherokee land of Tennessee. You will find that Judd makes you feel that you are there with Joshua. It is a good read. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and "Natchez Above The River"

Saw this book on a shelf and was interested by the subject. But once I got started reading I couldnt quit. I felt as if I were on the Tennesse frontier with Joshua Colter. I am definetly buying the other two books in the triology. I would strongly recommed this book to anyone interested in American history, especially the colonial period.

This novel is so entertaining!! Cameron Judd uses a great cast of fictional characters to convey the history of the settling of Tennessee as well as backing it up with factual characters, places, and events. I recommend this book to anyone who hated history as a child, but has become an avid reader in old age, like me!

I have often used the OTN, but rarely been impressed by its relevance or its lucidity. Some chapters seem to specialise in wading through an interesting and important subject with remarkably dull and often inapposite focus on matters of little real clinical interest, and often its lengthy reviews end in inconclusive summaries. Prof Barsoum's chapter is one of the shining exceptions.
Probably a necessary purchase for a practising renal physician keen to have comprehensive sources, but for me not a joyous parting with this much money.

very expansive more then other bibles american style (brenner and scrhier)
i love oxf txtbooks couse in spite the heaviness they are all well balanced between the state of the art and the practical point of view.
The nephro book is the end stage of reference for a ph interested abt the argument.
Many prefer the work of brenner but this book is more oriented in basical sci
and , it is probably a personal point of view, not so incisive in terapeutical approach.
probably the scrier txtbook is quite similar to the oxf.
so if you have a 1000 dollars in your poket not esitate to buy the english txt; if you have an half of this budget buy one of the two american txt book (all time hnoured)

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I bought this book for the General Contractor exam. It is also an excellent reference book for people working in the construction business.

The book gives narrative descriptions of the different possiblities for building componets used in commercial construction. It basically says " here are the choices." But, it does not provide the constructability, cost, and site management information necessary to evaluate which of these choices would be best for a particular project. Nor does it provide the information to best approach the execution of the project once a collection of project components is selected.

Although this is intended primarily as a technical book, a little managerial information would have been helpful to evaluate these techical components.

Choosing Project Success - A Guide for Building Professionals

This book was necessary for the WV general contractors exam. It still remains a good resource to hold on to in the future.

There is a reason that a seventh edition of this book has been printed. It is well written and excellent instrucional material. Students of business and marketing would do well to read this text and then save it for future reference.
Reviewed by: Adam Platts, Northridge

Whether you are a student or a pr practitioner, this book clearly tells you what Public Realtions is all about. Plus, you won't waste your money on this. It is up to date with the latest trends affecting PR, like laws, cases, and technology. I highly recommend this to all people who are interested in public relations. I have read many pr books but this one tops it all.

This book is a must have for anyone interested in PR. It is up to date and illustrates all the relevant forces working in PR. It also outlines application and startegy for an effective PR campaign. Along with this book, I would also recommend Michael Levine's Guerill PR Wired, which is also a must have for anyone remotely interested in PR.

This is a very thorough and authoritative treatment of regression methods for analyzing count data. It is very current and covers many topics not commonly found in books on point processes. Economic applications are emphasized but the broader applicability of the methods is eluded to.
The authors intent is for this book to be read by researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the many fields that make use of count data. Chapter 1 introduces count data, the Poisson distribution and the Poisson process and also shows how the Poisson process can be derived based on the assumption of independent and identically distributed exponential waiting times. It concludes with specification of regression models for counts and a number of practical examples where modeling count data would naturally arise. The importance of the integers is emphasized with the quote from Kronecker at the beginning of the chapter, "God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man."

Chapter 2 provides an extensive treatment of model specification and estimation methods. The authors cover many approaches and provide excellent references to the literature. Generalized linear models provide one common approach in the statistics literature and these methods are well described in this chapter.

Poisson regression is the main topic of Chapter 3 but the chapter goes on to discuss negative binomial models that handle overdispersion. An example of data on doctor's visits is used to illustrate the techniques. Statistical tests for overdispersion are also presented. A variety of other modeling techniques are also provided.

More general models including mixture models are considered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 looks at ways of evaluating potential models. Chapter 6 provides some real economic data from health services to illustrate the methods of the earlier chapters.

Chapter 7 covers time series analysis for integer data. The authors provide information and literature that is not standard in a text on time series analysis but is applicable to count data.

Subsequent chapters deal with more complexity including multivariate data,longitudinal data analysis and measurement error models. Important recent developments in bootstrap methods and Bayesian statistics are covered in the context of problems for which these methods have demonstrated their value.

This is a great reference book for statisticians and econometricians interested in problems involving counting processes. It could also be used for a graduate school text on point process regression.

Well most prople are used in telling stories about the unapliability of economics in real life. That math and logic can not apply to most economic books! Most of the people say that economics are only theory.I will tell you that this book is one of a kind, reading it you will be able to have a better understanding of Econometrics.If you have enough money to pay the rent and some left buy this book ! its better than food!

This is a very thorough and authoritative treatment of regression methods for analyzing count data. It is very current and covers many topics not commonly found in books on point processes. Economic applications are emphasized but the broader applicability of the methods is eluded to.

The authors intent is for this book to be read by researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the many fields that make use of count data. Chapter 1 introduces count data, the Poisson distribution and the Poisson process and also shows how the Poisson process can be derived based on the assumption of independent and identically distributed exponential waiting times. It concludes with specification of regression models for counts and a number of practical examples where modeling count data would naturally arise. The importance of the integers is emphasized with the quote from Kronecker at the beginning of the chapter, "God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man."

Chapter 2 provides an extensive treatment of model specification and estimation methods. The authors cover many approaches and provide excellent references to the literature. Generalized linear models provide one common approach in the statistics literature and these methods are well described in this chapter.

Poisson regression is the main topic of Chapter 3 but the chapter goes on to discuss negative binomial models that handle overdispersion. An example of data on doctor's visits is used to illustrate the techniques. Statistical tests for overdispersion are also presented. A variety of other modeling techniques are also provided.

More general models including mixture models are considered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 looks at ways of evaluating potential models. Chapter 6 provides some real economic data from health services to illustrate the methods of the earlier chapters.

Chapter 7 covers time series analysis for integer data. The authors provide information and literature that is not standard in a text on time series analysis but is applicable to count data.

Subsequent chapters deal with more complexity including multivariate data,longitudinal data analysis and measurement error models. Important recent developments in bootstrap methods and Bayesian statistics are covered in the context of problems for which these methods have demonstrated their value.

This is a great reference book for statisticians and econometricians interested in problems involving counting processes. It could also be used for a graduate school text on point process regression.

Excellent Read...couldn't put it down. I've read all 3 and all 3 were excellent. Cameron Judd has a fan for life. He is an amazing story teller and I love the way he ties in factual events and people with the fictional charecters of the book.

This is an excellent book. It is well written and researched like all of Judd's books. There is a problem, however. Only the first and the third books in the trilogy are available. This has been a great disappointment to me. This is the first book. The second book "The Phantom Legion" is out of print.

"The Shadow Warriors" takes place during the events leading up to the Civil War and events during the Civil War itself. The location of the story is mainly in the eastern part of Tennessee, in both the cities and mountains. All the characters in the book meet up with one another at least one time if not more. At each encounter the reader learns a little more about the characters involved. Which tends to help the reader understand each individual character, and what they're like. Unfortunately because "The Shadow Warriors" has several main characters, it makes the book hard to follow. If followed by the reader, it is a great book. This book follows many types of people and how the Civil War affects them. For starters, Ben Scarlet is a bum and a drunk who lives in the streets of Knoxville, Tennessee. He is one of the characters whose life is shown in the Civil War. Ben's allegiance (Secessionist or Unionist) to the war depends on who is holding the bottle from which he is drinking. Amy Deacon's life as an avid Unionist and participator in the underground railroad is also followed. Sam Colter's life as Amy's associate in the underground railroad is likewise portrayed. Hanibal Deacon is Amy Deacon's uncle who is eventually killed for the Union cause. All these people were considered main characters. The author of the book had a interesting writing technique, he never flat out described a character. By having the characters explained through constant run ins among each other, he managed to keep the reader from acquiring a full profile on any one person till the end of the book. Personally as a reader of the book I was not fond of this style. One reason I have for this is that the reader never knows what a person was really like till the book was over. As the book develops, because there are so many people, understanding the book a difficult task. If you manage to follow the book, it can really shed some light on how life was during the Civil War. Another setback in Cameron Judd's book, is the fact that his ending lacked something to be desired. The results of two of the characters actions went unanswered. Amy was arrested, but whether she was punished or not was never revealed. Sam was also arrested but what eventually happened to him was also not revealed. This left the book unfinished; not knowing the outcome of two main characters' lives. It is a good book to show the effects of war on different people. I really liked the book even though it was hard to follow. I definitely would recommend this book to anyone interested in trying to understand the Civil War. It would also be a good book to use as a teaching tool for U.S. history teachers.

This book was great for the knowledge it contains, but due to a mix up is an editing nightmare. Wait for the 2nd edition which will be expanded and edited to a readable format. I have worked with the author for 15 years - you will not be disappointed in the 2008 release, but leave this one (2003) alone.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to change. This book is so simple in its approach but startling in its revelations that it causes. I picked it up expecting another boring "How do you feel about that" book, but I just could not put it down. The tools that I was given and the basic understandings that I recieved are life changeing and I would read it again and again.

when i first picked up the book i thought here we go again another self help guru, man was i wrong and pleasently surprised. the book was gentle and slightly brash but very informative, very powerful and uplifting and very unique viewpoints on how things work. he challenged nothing but gave you the room to explore and grow leading lightly but allowing you to form your points of view. a must read for anyone searching for answers and information.