McDonald's Books

I was interested and hopeful that this would be a book about Tea roses but alas, it barely mentions Tea roses at all. It is rather a pretty little coffee table book discussing the author's favorite Hybrid Teas which he has successfully grown in a clime generally considered too cold for H.T.s. Not a book for the serious old rose enthusiast, who would like to know more about the once popular Tea roses of the late 1800's and early 1900's.

This book is set up as a text book, with anticipatory guides, questions and activities for the reader to do. I was expecting a book with too many ideas, but instead this book is for those that aren't familiar with the arts or how to incorporate them into the classroom. There are better books out there, and this is more of a stroking of the authors' worth than anything else. I was very disappointed with this book.
If you have no clues about what art is or how to use it in your lessons, than this book is for you, but if you have any background using art at all, ignore this book.

I thought this would be great for my kids 7 & 9 who are studying the Vikings. It looks awesome. They couldn't wait to open it and see what was inside. The ideas are great but the actual activities are lacking. The Viking boat is very difficult to get together, the instructions are vague and you need strong quick-setting glue to be able to glue and then bow the pieces. The mast is a piece of cardboard you need to roll up. How exactly do you roll cardboard? The game is neat - the little pieces are nicely detailed. The board is a folded piece of paper (maybe this is where they should have used the cardboard) and the istuctions are to simplistic to follow (we added our own). It also includes a small paperback book, a map of explorations and a paper on Norse myths which are all nice. With all the work that went into the design of the beautiful treasure chest with drawer and lock&key, I'm dissapointed the activities weren't as well designed.

The class is a joke. Teachers or upcoming teachers should already know these basics. This is why Education in America has gone to heck.

This type of learning should not be taught with a traditional textbook, anyway. This particular one suffers from poor layout, way too many colors, and fonts that strain the eye.

This is a required text for a class I'm taking. It's a waste of money. What's sound (the basics on skinner, piaget, etc ad nauseum) is already in every other education textbook and the technology segments are dated, frequently wrong, and assume you are mentally retarded.

Does anyone really need to be told what a keyboard is? For 2 pages? Book also has a profound Microsoft bias and seems to openly deny that anything else exists.

Avoid, if possible.

I had to read this book for a Technology and Education class, and it was a total waste of time and money. I'm a professional computer consultant in the middle of a Masters in Education, so I feel qualified to discuss the technical aspects of this book.

While this book was Copyrighted in 2005, almost all the pictures and content are so dated I think that little has changed since the first edition. A Third edition has just been released, which may be more up to date, but I feel it will be just as useless.

The main problem with this book is that it covers everything with no regard to technical ability. For instance, the book informs the reader what a scanner is, and then says they can be usefull for converting a printed page to editable text on the computer. If you are learning what a scanner is for the firs time today, then you AREN'T ready to start using OCR to import documents. In other places, it says floppy disks (yes, the 3.5 disks) are useful for storing information (most computers don't even accept floppy disks).

Additionally, the book is entirely pro-microsoft. It briefly touches upon 'free' software as it distinguishes between shareware and freeware, but doesn't mention Free/Libre Open Source Software. Between Sakai, Open Office, Firefox, and the myriad of other programs, this is inconceivable. All the pictures are for Word, Outlook, and Internet Explorer. It also makes no mention of Apple Computers (at least I didn't find any) or GNU Linux/*BSD.

Finally, it is filled with cute buzzwords that mean nothing, at least to me, such as "The DID's formative feedback look ensures performance objective validity." which appeared on the sidebar with a lightbulb.

Basically, if you don't know anything about technology, this book will be of no use, as much of it will gloss over what you need to learn, and if you are already a competent computer user, this book will be dated and provide scattered information that might have been helpful 5 years ago.

I would recomend not buying this book. If you are a teacher and want to see how technology can be used in your classroom (without learning useless information like what a POST is) I'd try Will Richardson's Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts. That was useful and interesting, while not being too technical.

This book casts more light on Patrick McDonald's personality disorders than it does the the subject of interrogation. In the course of my 22 year career in law enforcement and corrections, I have never seen an instance where Patrick McDonald's loosely formed ideas would be relevant to an interrogation practitioner. Mr. McDonald comes off in this book more like a person who would more likely find himself in the position of being interrogated by a policeman rather than conducting an interrogation! From an academic point of view, Make'em Talk is not to be taken seriously. This is nothing but a venue for McDonald to validate his improverished ego and self-image by making himself out to be much more than he is. I deal with this same genera of pathological behavior in my work in counseling youth offenders.

As a former US Army Officer and US Air Force NCO, I have to say that this is an incredibly bad manuscript. The author touches little on any substanative military or psychological theory that might be of use to any professional member the military or law enforcement. This book is nothing more than a collection of the infantile ramblings and anecdotal, "war stories," of an ego-inflated right-wing extremist. The content, organization and basic writing craft exhibited by the author, falls well below what is to be expected from a professional writer, not to mention a professional soldier. This book is not for the serious student or practitioner of interrogation. The book reads like the pure trash and tripe that comes out of a publication such as,"Soldier of Fortune," Magazine. As far as Mr. McDonald is concerned, I have this to say, you are an embarassment to both the US Military and intelligence profession. I want my money back!

This guy is/was a torturer. Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib shouldn't be a surprise if an army employs people like McDonald. If you're accused of torture and human rights abuses, "deny everything, admit nothing - and make counter-accusations." Sounds like Rummy and the Pentagon brass read this book!

I believe in free speech, but this is too much.

This book casts more light on Patrick McDonald's personality disorders than it does the the subject of interrogation. In the course of my 22 year career in law enforcement and corrections, I have never seen an instance where Patrick McDonald's loosely formed ideas would be relevant to an interrogation practitioner. Mr. McDonald comes off in this book more like a person who would more likely find himself in the position of being interrogated by a policeman rather than conducting an interrogation! From an academic point of view, Make'em Talk is not to be taken seriously. This is nothing but a venue for McDonald to validate his improverished ego and self-image by making himself out to be much more than he is. I deal with this same genera of pathological behavior in my work in counseling youth offenders.

I agree with the other reviewers. This book is vague and was not worth my time. I couldn't wait to get to the last page just so that I would know, without a doubt, that there was nothing in this book of value.

Don't let any of today's youngsters know that this book exists--they would hoot in derision! Yet this is a luxury edition of the 1903 musical operetta by Victor Herbert, including some music. Accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Victoria Lisi, this volume has preserved the script and even lists the turn-of-the-century cast.

Sugary tale about a stereotyped rich and hateful villain trying to force a sweet young thing to marry him. Many children and even some toys help foil the miser, when he invades the sanctity and threatens the innocence of Toyland itself. The script abounds in terrible puns and a simplistic plot--virtually impossible for kids of the 90's to appreciate.

Toys and dolls plus a kindly toymaker come to the rescue, as the youngsters from Mother Goose Land flee to Toyland to further their dreams and escape their nightmares. The little old Toymaker speaks as the true spirit of Christmas about the importance of bringing joy to young children. Browse this lovely edition whenever you want to return to those ingenuos days of yore--Childhood!

One of the editorial reviews of this book should serve as a warning. "...an antidote to the theoretical 'faddims' that makes marketing disciplines abstract and irrelevant'.

Unfortunately, the book has steered so much away from a theoretical approach that it comes across more as a collection of aphorisms. For example (opening the book at a random page): '...it is the positioning of the company brand in conjunction with its core processes that creates and delivers customer value throughout the organisation'.

The most disappointing aspect is that there is so little new in this book. Reading The Loyalty Effect or The Service Profit Chain would be time better spent.

Cranfield has a great reputation in the UK as a business school, so I really had high expectations for a book written by four of its academics. The dearth of references in this book (even if the excuse is that it is written for time poor CEOs) is embarrassing, and revealing.

The central thesis is that everyone in an organisation needs to be involved in marketing; or that marketing is broader than the functional role of marketing. Again this is far from new, and a subject which is treated much better in Peter Doyle's Value Based Marketing.

I read this book in a few days of bedtime reading; buy Doyle's book instead for a more detailed and considered treatment of this topic.

I really do not understand why they printed this book. It seems to be little more thana random collection of photos that happen to show the faces of various GI's in Europe. Not all have a D-day connection, and many are rather boring shots of "a guy in uniform."

Sorry, but the state of the art in military history deserves a lot better than this so save your money. Shame on the publishers for putting out something like this which adds nothing to the base of knowledge on WW2. Surely there are historians that could do a lot better, and photos that are much more interesting.

This book is full of boring gossip. The author did not even meet Mr Getty, so the stories are all second hand. It is has many typos.

The authored who worked for Mr Getty did not have much respect for him. I would recommend My Life As I See it, by J. Paul Getty this book is full of humor and insight.

As an avid coupon clipper, I was excited by the prospect of learning new techniques to trim my budget even more. Unfortunately, this book is so rudimentary that you'd have to be a five year-old not to already know all about it's secret "tips".

This book reads like a high school paper. It is filled with generalities that are so unhelpful it's laughable. Shop at consignment stores and the Goodwill for bargains. Gee, why didn't I think of that? Clip grocery store coupons and buy the item when it's on sale for a double savings -- what a groundbreaking idea.

Here's my big tip for anyone thinking of buying this miserable pamphlet trying to pass itself off as a genuine book -- you can save money by not buying it.