12 months of experience does not make one an authority on anything.
598588
Here is my problem with this book. The author worked for Disney World for one year. One. Year. And as a participant. No one. NO. ONE. Can be an authority on anything with the scope of Disney World in one year. Certainly not enough to write a book about it. These are the exaggerated experiences of one young man who worked at Disney World in a peripheral position for 12 months. This book is more a result of the way the author lives his life than it is about the way Disney World runs it's parks.
I have been a cast member at Disney World for over a decade. And yeah--- some amazing and... interesting things happen off stage, but this book does tend to stretch the truth a tad.
It's entertaining, but it's not really any kind of comprehensive look at what it's like to work for the mouse.
4771185
Rorty doesn't argue his (actually very subtle and complex) positions. Just responds with a bunch of generalitions that wouldn't suffice in a relatively sophisticated undergtrad course.
3634676
First of all half the book has nothing to do with the Clinton's and just "documents" the author's seemingly endless confrontations with his superiors...USAF, Uniformed Secret Service, Air Marshals, etc.  A self described life-long dyslexia and ADD sufferer, the author's writing style is inconsistent and rocky at best.  Finally, I am no expert on the USSS nor on the inner workings of the White House, but as a 27 year US Air Force pilot I think I have a pretty good handle on the inner workings of the Air Force.  And I feel comfortable saying that virtually every single USAF anecdote he writes about in Chapter 2 is absolute, unadulterated BS.  As I read it, I could not shake the feeling that if he needed to make up virtually everything in his USAF experiences, how much of the rest of it is accurate?
1536458
Fortunately, I knew how to answer the sample problems in this book from what I learned in high school BUT this is not the book if you weren't a good student in high school (officially I wasn't a good student but I do remember some things that I KNOW other kids had difficulty with) and once again, the dripping font used in the Dummies books discourages auto-didactism because it doesn't offer a safe place for someone hesitant to dive in and embrace new subject matter.  What this book shows me is what the military expects in terms of native intelligence but absolutely coupled with a foundation of education that sadly I KNOW that many ordinary kids in America are not offered in overcrowded, undisciplined classrooms so the kid may be qualified but this test will make them feel humbled and unqualified simply because they never had the right classroom environment and literally were never taught these things in the classrom whereas many things for me were introduced in a way that made me feel it was information that was natural - I was never intimidated and this book as a stand alone will make someone who doesn't already know the answers feel like they have a long way to go.
2249596
The first section of this book was interesting, but it was not an example of what was to come.  Many of the practitioner/authors made it clear that actual practice lags behind the available body of knowledge.  The usual development of jargon, charts and soft salable materials seem to still dominate actual practice.  Many less than expert consultants want to make money and the HR practitioners want to bring in consultants that will make them look good.  No wonder the title "consultant" has such a poor connotation  Not much has changed in the past 30 years.

Many of the personnnel practices including recruiting, selection, retention, etc. have been written about for years and little is added here.  Employee assessment was briefly mentioned, but the development of assessment centers that would measure results was not discussed at any length.  Human Resource Accounting by Likert should have had much more explanation.  The discussion of Power without differentiating power from authority was pretty weak.

People thinking about this book might ought to first read works by Rensis Likert, K. Lewin, Maslow and other leaders in Organizational Behavior.  Experts in this field should be real experts and not just feel good marketers.
511613
Not to be trusted.  If it snows early one year in one place, the author crows about it on TV, oblivious to other years and other places.  The guy doesn't understand the difference between one sample and an average.
2170687
Product details say "12 months and up" and the packaging says "5 years and up".  Not cool.
4926883
The book is written for specialists, it is not a book for anyone who wants to learn how to flourish!
851369
The autor wanted to express himself, but he could have done it with his friends, he didn't studied or documented himself to write.  This is a book with no sence, a personal opinion at the best. Dont waste your money and time with it.
2245111
Ms. Brown may have a degree in Criminal Justice, but she is not a psychologist or scientific researcher in human factors.  She is a great self promoter. I have to believe in her mind her TV appearances and radio show has  qualified her  as a premier profiler.  This is clearly not true.

I wish I read through some of the other reviews.  The beginning of the book is interesting but goes downhill from there.
742180
As a teacher with 20 years in, this (the job) is not easy.  The author writes honestly about knowing when it was time for him to move on. Fair criticisms of large para-educational organization.
2144901
I do not wish to be too hard on this book, because I respect what the author was trying to convey, and their own steps for achieving the life they wanted. The reason I give this a low rating is because most of the advice in the book is given without examples, anecdotal or otherwise. Unfortunately the feeling I had when reading was that this was about equivalent to receiving unsolicited advice from a stranger eavesdropping on a conversation.
2109263
This wasn't a documentation of the experiences of a victim...it was an effort on the part of his therapist to capitalize on his relationship with the victim.  No insights or "ahah" moments here.
2848582
Any factual review of the book versus his testimony (yes, depending on WHICH testimony) does not square.  Obviously, he had a bone to pick with the current administration for passing him over for a position he desperately wanted.  His next best thing was to trash this administration, even if he had to fabricate most of it.
The real standard to look for is his comparison of fighting terrorism by the Clinton administration vs. the current administration.  He basically gave a pass to the Clinton administration, which did absolutely nothing except lip service to combat terrorism.  For example, each terrorist act committed during the Clinton administration brought out Bill, biting his lip, stating that he wouldn't rest until those responsible were brought to justice.  Obviously, he hasn't rested any in 4 years minimum, since he made his appearance, made his statement, and then went back to doing what Bill did best..........posturing.
The book Clark wrote took nothing into account except his displeasure of being passed over for a job.  Other than that, he has no explanation for the back-stabbing that he is very good at.
1275840
The guy is a legend, but that doesn't mean his insights as an 80 year old are worth paying for. Lots of homespun anecdotes, not much that is relevant in 2012 - at least not on  the subject of technical analysis. If you want a good book, read "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edward LeFevre- now THAT is a classic. This book is either going back to Amazon for a refund, or into the dumpster.
4435541
While the author writes well, his characters are not very complex and there isn't much of a story here.  His knowledge of patent litigation is extensive, but his lack of familiarity with practice in the US Patent and Trademark Office betrays the assertion that he is "one of the country's leading authorities on intellectual property law."  An "authority" would know the limits of his expertise.

Remember: This book is fiction, including some of the author's assertions concerning the law.
54706
The word "cherrypicked" cannot describe the manner in which Ha-Joon Chang chose arguments to support his thesis, that the state is, of course when ran by the correct and enlightened people, the best organization to direct economic growths. Using "cherrypicked"  in this context would be an insult to cherries and picks.  Using the word "one sided" to describe this text would be an insult to non-euclidean geometry. Ha-Joon Chang is not even ignorant, since he chose facts that would have contradicted one of his theses to support another thesis. Ha-Joon Chang  is simply dishonest.

For example, when writing about early US history and protectionism, he attributes the growth of US economy to protectionism, not to the large number of immigrants that were arriving each year, all of them with skills and most of them with money ... When singing praises (and praises are sung in a high voice, he is not beating around the bush) for state interventionism he fails to mention that state interventionism failed in more instances than it succeeded, or that the apparent success of state interventionism in the developing world in the '60s and '70s can be more readily attributed to cheap credit and still having a reserve army of agricultural workers, which neither the Communist states in Eastern Europe nor the others had available in the '80s, when Ha-Joon Chang claims that a switch to more free market ruined the good life brought earlier by state interventionism. When writing about the progress of South Coreea from the '50s to the '90s he does not peep a word about the crunch that came in the late '90s.

The "washing machine" anecdote is simply wrong. No woman wasted hours each day washing: rich women had others to wash for them, and poor women were working anyway, did not have the time to spend hours washing ... hand washing is not the hugely time consuming chore he makes it to be and never was: for example, outsourcing this activity was first done by working women, not by the rich.  It might appear to be a huge chore if you grown in a home with lots of servants and you have a few hired just to do the washing for everybody else.

I will not waste more time on this. I am sorry I bought this book. I wish I would have back the time I wasted reading and expecting the surprise, the gag that would make the whole unwholesome mess make sense.