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Wally Shirra doesn't lack for confidence. Then again how would a person, without the self confidence of a test pilot, strap himself to a rocket? A great insider's view of the program. However for all his confidence Shirra goes out of his way to not cast a single stone at the many people he crossed paths with through out his career. A class act. No new real information is uncovered through this book. Just a fun read.

I long have been a huge fan of Wally Schirra. I have always adored his keen sense of humor and wit. Furthermore, his impeccable aviator and astronaut careers always made me feel awe struck. Therefore, I greatly looked forward to reading Mr. Schirra's account of his career. My main interest was to get a real insiders look into the space program - which I believe the book did successfully on some major points. Mr. Schirra's wit pleasantly shined throughout the book - this made the reading more pallatable. Regretfully, the reason for my three star rating is the fact that the book would ramble. Without a moments notice, it would jump ahead in time and backward in time. I found this fact to be very irritating as I tried to stay focused and gain as much information as I could from my reading. I thought that maybe I was being too critical, but this sore spot was evident throughout the book. By the time that I had finished the book, I felt exaspirated from the time warps. Do not get me wrong, Mr. Wally Schirra is still a brilliant man in my eyes - I just found that the book was not a good representation of the the true great man that he is. All in all, for the average reader, I feel that this book has many good bits of information - as long as you are willing to sift through the minutia of time jumps.

Not even factually correct in some cases.. as when Wally implies that he got the LLTV training cancelled because it was dangerous. Wrong !!! It was used through Apollo 17. I own over a hundred aviation and space books, but this one I gave to Good Will after I read it.

Wally Schirra, perhaps more than all the other "Original Seven"
Mercury astronauts, embodies all the great strengths along
with the weaknesses of this group compared with the astronauts
who entered the space program after them.
It must be remembered that when the original astronauts were
chosen in 1959, manned spaceflight was a great unknown. In particular,
it was not known how the human body would responds to all the stresses
caused by the massive accelerations and decelerations of the spacecraft
in addition to the problems of prolonged "weightlessness". Thus,
those astronauts chosen were found to be able to withstand worst-case
scenarios for these things. Piloting skills were not as important
because the astronaut didn't really have much control of the Mercury
spacecraft.
By the time Schirra flew on his Sigma 7 flight (the fifth of the series), it had been found that the psychological and physiological stresses were not that great. In addition, the flight before his, Aurora 7, by Scott Carpenter was a near disaster because he did a poor job doing what little
piloting he could. Thus Schirra was called on to show that, indeed, with
good piloting skills, precise maneuvers could be carried out. Using what
Schirra called "the light stuff", Schirra proved that a skilled pilot can
do what has to be done while conserving precious fuel.
By the time the much more advanced two-man Gemini spacecraft came to fly, it was now necessary to carry out far more sophisticated missions, involving rendezvous, docking and EVA. Schirra in his Gemini 6 mission, along with Tom Stafford, spectacularly carried out the first rendezvous when his spacecraft met up with the already orbiting Gemini 7. Schirra was the perfect choice because he showed that the "light stuff" can
allow complicated space operations of the type needed to land on the Moon using the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode within the fuel constraints that were available. He also saved his Gemini mission when the Titan II booster rocket's engines cut off seconds after ignition and Schirra's
outstanding "feel" as a pilot told him NOT to carry out a very dangerous
ejection, so the mission was saved to fly another day.
Gemini training using simulations was far more complicated than those for Mercury and the veteran Mercury astronauts who flew Gemini like Schirra and Gordon Cooper found them more exhausting.
After the Apollo 1 fire, Schirra was once again called in to save the manned spaceprogram and was assigned the first Apollo flight. By this time, as he put it in his own words, he was being "devoured" by the space program. Fellow crewman Walt Cunningham felt that Schirra really didn't want to fly the mission but he pushed himself to do it out of a feeling of responsibility to his friend and fellow Mercury astronaut Gus Grisson who perished in the fire. This flight (called Apollo 7) not only would break in a new spacecraft that was far more sophisticated than the already complex Gemini spacecraft. Whenever flying a new spacecraft, there are always uncertainties as to whether all the bugs have shaken out, and in addition, the simulation training was even more time consuming and exhausting. All these things took their toll on Schirra, and the pressures came bursting out of him during the flight when he became ill with a head cold. Schirra began berating the flight controllers which enraged Chris Kraft, the head of flight operations.
Also, even though the mission was scheduled to last 11 days in order to
test the ability to last the duration of a lunar landing flight, Schirra
adamantly opposed carrying out more than a minimal number of scientific experiments. This was another legacy of the Mercury astronauts who loved flying but generally had little interest in the scientific aspects of space exploration. Thus, Walt Cunningham felt that the mission, although proving the spacecraft
was spaceworthy, wasted a lot of time that could have been used to
carry out more experiments and which would have alleviated their boredom
on the last days of the mission. Schirra even objected to carrying at TV camera on board, but NASA management insisted, saying the taxpayers had the right to see what their billions of dollars were going for. In this matter, Schirra relented.
Fortunately, as the moon landings approached, NASA began to choose astronauts who weren't as "tough" as the Original Seven, but they were better educated scientifically and technically, and they were better able to handle and understand the complex systems that made up the Apollo spacecraft, and they had more of a willingness to study geology and other scientific disciplines which Apollo's space exploration capabilites would enable space and planetary scientists to exploit.
Like all the other astronaut autobiographies, with the notable exception
of Mike Collins' "Carrying the Fire", this one does not really describe
what spaceflight is really like, nor will the reader will not really learn much more about America's space program by reading this book.
However, American owes Wally Schirra a lot. He stepped in twice when the
space program was in crisis and his exceptional piloting skills (maybe the best of the Original Seven) put America on its path to the Moon.

As much as I was a fan of Wally Schirra during his days in the space program, or perhaps because of that, I was mildly disappointed in his autobiography. This work strikes me as typical of a number of astronaut biographies and autobiographies rushed into print over the past generation or so, rather unremarkable in literary style and adding little to the historiography of this critical era of space travel.

Perhaps this should not be surprising. The author identifies himself as a technical man who throughout his military career kept his nose to the grind of precision flying and admits to little connectedness to the culture outside. No one should take up this work and expect to find Astronaut Schirra's opinion of "My Fair Lady." To the day of its publication the author through his book exudes continued pride in his association with other pilots of exceptional competence, and conversely, an avoidance of those who in his view are or were more form than substance. [Chuck Yeager, for example, will probably never grace the Schirra Thanksgiving table.] If Schirra is infected with hubris, it comes honorably.

Schirra is the antithesis of the joker and clown he was sometimes depicted as in, say, "The Right Stuff." It is within the world of test flying and space exploration that the reader will best connect with Schirra: learning, for example, that Schirra had little use for the extensive battery of medical tests to which all the early astronaut candidates were subjected. He was highly critical of the early conceptualization of Project Mercury. He was among those who considered early spaceflight "Spam in a Can" and lobbied extensively for pilot control in all of the various programs in which he served. His blunt talk, however, made sense as events would prove.

One can probably argue with credibility that Schirra was one of the half-dozen most competent pilots of the entire Mercury-Apollo era. His Sigma 7 flight in October, 1962, was a quantum leap for Mercury in terms of both distance and fuel economy. But his greatest contribution to the space program may have come in December, 1965, when in a four day period the author not only averted a major space catastrophe but achieved a technical breakthrough of major importance for reaching the moon.

Gemini 6 was a star-crossed flight from opening day. Scheduled for October, 1965, its mission objective was rendezvous with an unmanned Agena rocket launched hours earlier. The Agena inexplicably blew up before Schirra's and Tom Stafford's craft was launched, and the mission went into temporary limbo. However, after much discussion about feasibility, Gemini 6 was rescheduled for a December launch, with its new rendezvous target being nothing less than Gemini 7, the 14-day endurance epic of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.

Gemini 7 was launched successfully early in December, and after a mere nine day turnaround of the Gemini launch pad--itself a record of sorts--the author and Stafford were ready to launch Gemini 6 in pursuit of Borman and Lovell. But in what has to be one of the more hair-raising moments of the space program, Gemini 6's launch rocket shut down a millisecond before lifting off the ground. The various disastrous scenarios were as numerous as the imagination permitted. In his own printed words Schirra is quite matter of fact about this dilemma and his now-famous choice against capsule ejection--which, incidentally, saved the rendezvous mission itself, as matters would transpire. For the historical record, Schirra sees his decision as the vindication of human pilots over computer guidance, and he seems proudest of this maneuver and the mission that followed.

He is right to be proud. If Schirra's instincts served him well atop Gemini 6 on the ground, his piloting skills three days later would set the space program ahead by leaps and bounds. Gemini 6 found its target in minimum time and milked the maximum possible navigational experience from the rendezvous. Gemini 6 established that with a skilled pilot a space vehicle could pretty much go wherever needed, an indispensable technical advance for moon landing technology.

Gemini 6 may have been Schirra's finest hour in the space program. It would be different after that. The fiery death of his old Mercury sidekick Gus Grissom in 1967 left Schirra as the only active member of the original seven astronauts and raised doubts in his mind about the Apollo Program in general. Apollo was exponentially more complicated than the Mercury Program for which he was chosen. Schirra has plenty to say about Apollo management, but there is a hint in his reflections that the Mercury crew [which included, at least hypothetically, Cooper, Slayton, Shepard and himself] might have been "over the hill" when Apollo took center stage. [182]

Schirra's comportment before and during Apollo 7, the first of the Apollo manned flights, has been the subject of considerable conjecture. This reader's impression is that Schirra had reservations about the vehicle, but more so with the management team behind it. The author complains that he was misled about guidelines for acceptable launch time wind velocities, and once in flight, pressured to perform tasks that interfered with basic shake-down procedures. The author's head cold while in space would later take on humorous proportions in his award winning Actifed TV commercials, but at the time his general health and its impact upon flight procedure became major ground to space confrontations. But in rare candor for an astronaut, Schirra admitted the unthinkable--Apollo 7 was boring him out of his mind by mid-flight. [203]

Schirra had announced his retirement before Apollo 7, and if Deke Slayton is to be believed, the author would never again have to worry about space boredom, as his crewmates Eisele and Cunningham ruefully discovered. The happy ending to this tale is Schirra's personal pride and contentment at his career's body of work and the ongoing respect he enjoyed from the top professionals in his field at the time of his book`s publication in 1988.

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I have been on the Billings Ovulation Method for a few years now and beleive me, if you don't cheat it is 99.99% effective. The downfall to this method is that you are not suppose to know exactly how to use it without instruction. There are ways to contact these instructers that can guide you through the process for a fee. Check with your local womens center or life center, they can help. I was able to go through my training course right here in my home for thirty dollars, and you don't have to be Catholic to use it. Good luck to you.

PS.. I did get pregnant during the time of practicing this method but it is because we chose to cheat on my most fertile day. An Anniversary and a few drinks will impair judgement like that so be careful...lol

The ovulation book was great. The book was a good price, it was packed full of information and came with a chart and pleanty of stickers to get you and your spouse started on the wonderful journey of natural family planning.

I was hoping that the book went into better detail. It did not help me. However, it was informative and an easy read.

You can read this book in 30 minutes and understand it. After ordering this book I was recommended "Taking Charge of your Fertility" by a friend. Taking Charge is more complete but uses this information, however. By the time my amazon.com shipment arrived with the second book, I was already pregnant from the first time trying The Ovulation Method (we had tried to get pregnant approximately a year before getting this book). So read it. You can also use it to avoid getting pregnant. It works!

This slim book promotes the Ovulation Method, profiling its advantages and utility. But it is not an instruction book. I'm only giving it three starts because although it's well-written I'm not sure who the intended audience is, or what group might find it useful.

For someone looking to learn a mucus-only method, I would look to "The Billings Method:Controlling Fertility Without Drugs or Devices" by Evelyn Billings. For someone just interested in any kind of fertility charting, not specifically a mucus-only method, I highly recommend Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler as the definitive book in this category.

In Shut Up and Make More Money, Bill Radin provides a well needed reminder to remember the service side of the industry and get paid for remembering it. He provides simple ways to get the edge while maintaining and increasing both professionalism and revenue. Although technically, some of his ways are outdated, a good recruiter will find great resources within this book's pages. Because it's technically outdated, I wouldn't recommend this book for a brand new recruiter. I would, however, recommend it if you'd like to find a myriad of ways to get the immediate edge on your unwitting competition.

Just when I would start to feel I was getting something out of this book, I would see something that was obviously incorrect or misleading. Could use some strong editing. In the end, a disappointment

In Shut Up and Make More Money, Bill Radin provides a well needed reminder to remember the service side of the industry and get paid for remembering it. He provides simple ways to get the edge while maintaining and increasing both professionalism and revenue. Although technically, some of his ways are outdated, a good recruiter will find great resources within this book's pages. Because it's technically outdated, I wouldn't recommend this book for a brand new recruiter. I would, however, recommend it if you'd like to find a myriad of ways to get the immediate edge on your unwitting competition.

Tired concepts, outdated ideas, and transparent gimmicks. I would not use these ideas and if I were a client I would not fall for them. Pretty much a waste of money.

While much of this material would have been great for the late 80s and very early 90s, with todays phone butlers and very savvy gatekeepers, this book is absolutely no help. The strategies are simply out of date. Buying this book is a waste of money and reading it is a waste of time. I've noted one endorsement on Amazon from another author of books for recruiters. He must be a close friend of Radin and is probably looking for a reciprocal endorsement. Radin does have some great books out there - this isn't one of them.

I was extremely disappointed when I got the book and found that it has all the answers and rationales at the end of each chapter as opposed to being on the same page. Now I have to constantly flip back and forth to get any studying done. This makes the book useless as a study tool. The only thing that kept me from giving it a lower review was the CD which properly gives the answer and rationale immediately after you answer the question. I recommend against purchasing this book.

This review book is generally very good, with an endless supply of questions. However, on occasions questions and answers will contradict themselves (which can be EXTREMELY irritating and frustrating). I have experienced this both in the book and when using the CD. I also have Mosby's Comprehensive Review for NCLEX 18th edition which remains my favorite (I have used 3 different reviews). I highly reccomend it, and my friends who have other review books tend to like it better as well. The review outlines are extremely helpful, and the questions and rationales provided are great! Their CD is better too because it allows you to bookmark questions to go back to later. You can also narrow questions down on a more specific level (i.e. pediatric pharmacology). Hope this helps!

This book supplies me with in depth review. This is a must have for any nursing student preparing to go into nursing.

This is a great book for practicing NCLEX questions. It does not have outline format information as some NCLEX review books, have. I did not purchase it for that purpose. I wanted questions and rationale. It served me well. In another review it said that some questions are contradictory, that is true, and some are not well written. I guess I expect that when you are looking at thousands of questions. I have used another book also during nursing school, but for the last few months have used this book to prepare for my exam, which I took today. Kudos.

Patricia Aalseth sets example for how to present complex material in a simple, concise, and understandable way. If you need to learn major definitions and abbreviations of coding and billing, e.g., ICD-9, CPT, LMRP, CCI, HCFA, modifiers, and other issues quickly, Codebusters helps you the fastest.

Yuval Lirov, Practicing Profitability - Billing Network Effect for Revenue Cycle Control in Healthcare Clinics and Chiropractic Offices: Collections, Audit Risk, SOAP Notes, Scheduling, Care Plans, and Coding

This is the most worthless book i ever bought in my life. The book is a 48 pages leaflet with apparently no information. And it costs $32. Thats ridiculous.
Strongly NOT recommended!!

This book is great! It is very clear and to the point, explaining the basics of CPT, ICD-9 assignments. It is a very good tool for any coder to have on her desk to help clear up the issues that come up every day! It would be a very good training manual for employees new to a medical office.

LIGHT SPIRITED IS THE WAY I DEFINE THE DELIVERY OF THE MESSAGE OF MR. COSLICK, WHO GIVES IT ALL.

I AM A PERSON INVOLVED WITH PROJECTS, AND I HAVE HIT THE ROAD, BUT AFTER READING THIS BOOK I HAVE LEARNED MARKETING PRINCIPLES THAT GO BEYOND THE THEME PRESENTED IN THIS BOOK.

This book is a compilation of what Merle thinks are comical situations and how they affect marketing your business. He goes on for pages with these ancedotes that do absolutely nothing to help you learn how to get your business going. Then there are about 20 pages of glossary terms and xeroxed copies of forms that you would get if you asked for information on a clearing house.

This book is spiral bound and is not worth your time. If you read this book you come away feeling cheated and the realization that this book was written for profit not to help you start a business.

LIGHT SPIRITED IS THE WAY I DEFINE THE DELIVERY OF THE MESSAGE OF MR. COSLICK, WHO GIVES IT ALL.

I AM A PERSON INVOLVED WITH PROJECTS, AND I HAVE HIT THE ROAD, BUT AFTER READING THIS BOOK I HAVE LEARNED MARKETING PRINCIPLES THAT GO BEYOND THE THEME PRESENTED IN THIS BOOK.

I had a different take on this than previous reviewers. I am currently reading older Carla Kelly novels as I came to this author late. This novel is the happiest Kelly novel I've read so far, with nice people and no real villains. I liked the hero, and felt he was giving Kate Billings a chance to gain self confidence, to learn that she was a capable and competent woman who didn't need him to rescue her, just as her experience with the Bladesworth troupe of actors allowed her to shed some of her own prejudices about class. Miss Billings Treads the Boards is a fun read, well worth tracking down.

The review below from bookjunkies encapsulates the very mixed feelings I have about this book. It's very readable, and I enjoyed it while I was reading; I liked Kate Billings and the troupe of actors very much. Hal Hampton, aka the Marquess of Graydon (not Everdon) was in some respects amusing, and even solicitous. But I am in complete agreement with the other reviewer: his reason for not helping Kate and the troupe out of their mess was not at all convincing. It seemed like a very convenient plot device for dragging out the story, and no more than that. I'm not at all surprised that Kate gave Hal a black eye when she discovered that he'd lied about the threat to his life!

Other aspects of the plot, such as the marriage certificate, were extremely predictable; it was simply a matter of counting the pages until they happened.

All in all, if you want to read a *really* good Carla Kelly, find Reforming Lord Ragsdale or Mrs Drew Plays Her Hand!

I have mixed feelings about any Carla Kelly book that I do not quite like. While the heroine Miss Katherine Billings and her predicament are delightfully and sympathetically portrayed, and the acting troupe and family that Miss Billings falls in with are believable and all-too-human secondary characters, the hero a Marquess is a real disappointment.

Warning - spoilers ahead.

The problem I have with this book is that the hero acts selfishly throughout the book, and justifies his actions late into the story by claiming that he wants to test her mettle before marrying her. At that point, I could have slapped him cheerfully, and wished that Katherine Billings had up-ended him (again) for another suitor. Alas, unlike in LIBBY'S LONDON MERCHANT there was no other suitor in the offing, not for Miss Billings anyway.

The book starts out with a bored and overweight Marquess escaping town to avoid criticism by his sister and others (including his valet who irritates him, and me as the reader). Ah yes, the Marquess also has his sister's son as the heir [note to author: Dear Miss Kelly, this rather spoils your plot, even worse than in MISS MILTON SPEAKS HER MIND]. Since his journey up North and the exact route he takes is supposedly a secret, it is a shock to him (and to me) when he is attacked by pretend-highwaymen who are in reality his disinherited sister's son (aforesaid nephew who is heir to the Marquessate and the fortune) and his dismissed valet. Now you would think that the reasons for this attack are quite reasonable, wouldn't you? But no, the nephew and the valet want the Marquess to be grateful to them and by staging a mock-attack, they hope to win back his favor. Duh! And they leave said Marquess bleeding to death (or nearly so) in a country lane, while they get hopelessly lost looking for a doctor.

The Marquess then staggers into a barn, where it turns out that the lady he is looking for, Miss Katherine Billings has been pressed into service with an acting troupe. [To cut a long story short, she got off at the wrong stop and mistook the waiting carriage for that of her lecherous would-be employer; the actor waiting at that stop mistook her for an actress. She prefers to remain with the troupe temporarily rather than go to her employers, since she has been warned on the stagecoach trip that the husband is a notorious lecher. Miss Billings, you see, is penniless and homeless]. I won't tell you why the Marquess would be looking for Miss Billings, but that is clear from the first chapter.

Ah well. The Marquess's identity is revealed to the troupe, although he will go by the name of Hal Hampton. He pretends to be in fear of his life, from his villainous nephew and ex-valet; they undertake to care for him and to restore him to health, and carry him off up North. In the meantime, a hue-and-cry has been raised for the missing Marquess. The Marquess, now Hal Hampton, is pretending to be the husband of Miss Billings (now temporarily Miss Hampton) and having a fine time getting into shape with the troupe. Enter a Bow Street Runner, who is not deceived by the act, and whose purposes are uncertain to the troupe. Has he been employed by the Marquess's solicitors and the estate trustees? Or has he been employed by the Marquess's would-be killers? They take no chances and protect Hal Hampton from discovery, even when offered a magnificent reward.

The theatrical scenes are well-done, showing the progress of a small-time troupe with genuine talent through the North and their disastrous ending in town. Until they are saved by their own hard work, coupled with Miss Billings's own decision to help out. [How? Read the book]. Everything, or almost everything, ends happily for the actors, with the arrival of two great Regency names - Kemble and Kean.

But I digress from the love story, such as it is, between Hal Hampton (aka Henry Tewkesbury-Hampton, Marquess of Everdon) and his mock-wife Miss Katherine Billings. Is it really love when the hero acts selfishly almost through the entire novel? It is true that he helps out nobly with the troupe in staging their brilliant production, but he does so because it will be "fun" (and incidentally, help him get into shape). Not because he really wants to help out. His argument at the end of the book is that he wanted to see the troupe and Miss Billings win their way out of disaster through their own efforts. Not bad - except that his own example has hardly been one to inspire anyone.

My summary at the end of the book was that this story had a great heroine, a memorable set of secondary characters (with two romances among troup members thrown in) - and an unlikeable hero with some appalling friends and relatives. Even the valet comes across as rather more decent. The plot lines involving the Marquess's disappearance from society and his attackers make little or no sense. It might make more sense to someone less critical than me.

Rating = 3.7 [upgraded to a 4]
P.S. This is so far the lowest rating I have assigned to any Kelly book.

Michie is one of the few educators out there that consistently crafts his writing with such care, compassion, and insight. I really enjoyed reading this book. I think that as teachers we need to read our narratives and see them in a practical public forum, like Michie provides, instead of just an academic policy chart. Michie's writing is consistently reflectively and engaging. I highly recommend this book to anyone in the teaching profession, or the academic world.

This is the dumbest book I have ever had rammed down my throat. This book claimes to be advocating change to public, high-needs schools but all it really shows is the class envy of a bunch of mindless liberals. The problem with people like Michie is they have been away from the real classroom for too long. They get too involved in there higher education indoctrination that they forget what it is like to be a real public school teacher. Michie, like others who indoc higher ed., live in a dream world and they think their "progressive ideas" are going to improve public education when in fact all it does is put our children in deeper trouble. My warning to you is if you have to read this book keep in mind that there is a bias against anything with common sense. Just as important, "progressive ideas" will only make our children "feel good" and will never improve the quality of their education. Maybe Michie's next book will be "We lied to you. How liberal teacher education programs are out of touch and a waste of time."

I have been blessed with the privilege of taking a class/workshop with Michie and am just as invigorated by this book as his class. This book profiles the experiences, both good and bad, appropriate and inappropriate of teachers in urban schools. From the beginning, Michie acknowledges and addresses criticisms of his previous writings as well as discusses his intellectual struggle with the fact the he is/was a middle-class white man teaching poor, urban children of color. He also recognizes that this book is written from his perspective and therefore is filtered through his eyes rather than the teachers (though he tried to free it from his personal reflection as much as possible and just "show" these teachers in real world situations). His goal is not to profile five "good" or "star" teachers, just five real teachers struggling to teach for change, struggling to help their students change their lives and worlds.
This book showed me that even "good" teachers (I think they're all good teachers in this book, but that's just me) screw up. Even good teachers have bad days. All urban teachers, particularly new teachers, especially ones who teach against the status-quo and push their students to think critically about everything they read about and learn about, sometimes fall. But they have moments of triumph as well. They have moments where students go above and beyond expectations, and moments where they see just how much these "ghetto" or "low-achieving" students know about their world.
This book gave me hope and ignited a new fire in me. I hope it inspires you just as much.

This should be required reading for anyone working or planning to work in a medical office setting. Easy to understand and well written. The author also has a website that is one of the most informative medical billing websites I have ever seen. They are a wealth of information!

Not only is this book a Basic, it is a bare-boned Basic. I believe that all information in this book could also be found from a basic web search. I have purchased many, many books from Amazon and this is the first I have ever returned. I was quite disappointed and I suggest you look elsewhere for the basic information that may lead you to purchase this book. Bottom line: no where close to being worth $27

This is an excellent resource for expert witnesses and those that use their services. If you are not in one of those two groups, it may not be useful to you. If you are in those groups, the detailed information is well worth the cost. In fact, if you put just a few of the ideas into action, it may save you many, many times the cost of the book. It is no wonder that so many copies of this niche book have been sold.

This book was not exactly what I expected. I expected more narrative and less statistical reporting. I wanted detailed written input as to procedures already in practice by experts , and also how to identify pricing schedules and contracting policies that will work for you. I did not gleen very much from this book.