Kompass Australia, 2002
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    Kompass Australia, 2002

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    The Economist Pocket Law (The Economist Books)
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      The Economist Pocket Law (The Economist Books)
      Tony Wales
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      Interstate banking and nonbanking in America: A new recipe for an old prescription : or why does the elephant banker wear tennis shoes and waterwings, and carry an Economist pocket diary?
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        Interstate banking and nonbanking in America: A new recipe for an old prescription : or why does the elephant banker wear tennis shoes and waterwings, and carry an Economist pocket diary?
        Bruce L Rockwood
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        Pocket Guide to the European Community ("The Economist" Pocket Guides)
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          Pocket Guide to the European Community ("The Economist" Pocket Guides)
          Dick Leonard
          Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
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          Fire in the Belly: An Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Passion/Chutzpah
          • Is Entrepreneurship for Me?
          Fire in the Belly: An Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
          Yanky Fachler
          Manufacturer: Oak Tree Press (Ireland)
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          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 1860762107

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Passion/Chutzpah.......2003-09-17

          Yanky brings to light what all folks who have asked themselves the question "do I have what it takes to strike out on my own as an entrepreneur?" Do you have the fire in the belly? The passion in the pit (of your gut) The real guage of success is if you can make the adjustment from the security of the world of traditional 9-5 work (ladder world) to the land of freedom. Yanky's book makes you ask yourself the critical questions. I have witnessed this book's ability to change peoples lives.

          I recommend it highly, and if you ever get the chance to see Yanky in person, don't pass it up you will be impacted and enlightened by the experience.

          5 out of 5 stars Is Entrepreneurship for Me?.......2003-06-12

          This book is simply wonderful! If you have ever wondered about the emotions that prompted you to want your own business, or if you feel displaced by your desire to run your own business or even if you aren't sure that owning a business is for you.....READ THIS BOOK! It will not tell you how to start a business, but for those who feel unfulfilled in their 9 to 5 it will help you learn about yourself, your needs and what's possible for your future. Not to mention that it's an easy read, it's clever and you will see all of your friends, family and coworkers within the anecdotes contained within. I loved this book. Not just for entrepreurs either!!!!

          Simply Mediterranean Cooking
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Great fast & easy food
          • delicious!
          • has captivating writing form for the reader interest
          Simply Mediterranean Cooking
          Byron Ayanoglu , and Algis Kemezys
          Manufacturer: Robert Rose
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 1896503683

          Book Description

          Simply Mediterranean Cooking reveals to the reader where the world's best food can be found - from the Mediterranean. And once you've sampled the extraordinary dishes in this book, you'll find it impossible to disagree.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Great fast & easy food.......2003-01-19

          My husband is a really picky eater. Everything that I have made from this cookbook, he has raved about. The recipes are easy and really fast. I have not been able to get all of the ingredients from my local grocery store, but the cookbook includes substitutions for the harder to get items. Definitely a good buy if you want to make fast & easy Mediterranean-style food. Be aware though that not all recipes are 100% authentic -- many of them are healthier interpretations by the author.

          5 out of 5 stars delicious!.......2000-08-01

          I checked this book out of the library and now I'm ordering it for myself because every recipe I tried was easy, nutricious and different. The ingredients required weren't hard to find and the dishes were quick to make. The book is very well designed and easy to follow with interesting ancedotes for each recipe. It s inspired me to cook more often!

          4 out of 5 stars has captivating writing form for the reader interest.......1999-10-09

          I have tasted the recipes I useded in the book.They came out fine without having to be extreamly fussy with details. That I think is important. Because some recipes can be real hard to duplicate. And you never know what your going to get or expect. It could be a flop. Substitution of ingreadients for less coslier and heathful ones is good to be included. Since no one person has same taste or wants when it comes to food and preperation. I cannot give it top ranking even if it deserved it. So this is truly a great mark without plain old inflation. Buy the book see for yourself. Its intertaining.
          Mediterranean Country Kitchen: Mediterranean Style Captured in Simply Stunning Recipes (Contemporary Kitchen)
          Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
          • Beware of the Clark/Farrow Repackaging Scam
          Mediterranean Country Kitchen: Mediterranean Style Captured in Simply Stunning Recipes (Contemporary Kitchen)
          Joanna Farrow
          Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
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          Binding: Paperback

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          ASIN: 0754803058

          Book Description

          This superb collection of ever popular Mediterranean cuisine presents recipes for every meal and occasion.

          Customer Reviews:

          3 out of 5 stars Beware of the Clark/Farrow Repackaging Scam.......2002-11-26

          These two authors write stunning books of delightful, easy-to-follow recipes, with lush, evocative photographs, and great attention to detail on the culinary fundamentals of each recipe. The only problem is that they keep recycling and republishing the same recipes/photos over and over again. I got burned three times. I bought the book "A Taste Of The Mediterranean", which I liked so much that, impetuously, I went online and bought three more titles by the same two authors, Jacqueline Clark and Joanna Farrow. I got "The Mediterranean Cookbook" (the one with the close-up photo of some ripe tomatoes on the cover). It turns out that this is the exact book as "A Taste Of The Mediterranean", but with illustrations in place of the photographs. The third book I received was "Mediterranean Country Kitchen", which while it is a lovely book, is nothing more than a condensed version of the same recipes/photos from "A Taste Of The Mediterranean". Lastly I bought the newer hardback book "Mediterranean : A Taste Of The Sun". This is an outstanding, lengthy book (500+ pages), but about half of it is "A Taste Of The Mediterranean" recycled in its entirety. I would certainly recommend the new one "Mediterranean : A Taste Of The Sun" as the finest and most complete of Clark and Farrow's sumptuous books on subject. But I'm feeling angry and a bit duped at buying the same book over and over again. Buy the new one, skip the earlier, cleverly-disguised retreads.

          SPSS 8.0 for Windows Brief Guide
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            SPSS 8.0 for Windows Brief Guide
            Spss Inc.
            Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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            Binding: Textbook Binding

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            ASIN: 0136879144

            Book Description

            This concise guide provides an ideal resource for users who will be using SPSS 8.0 software on a network and do not need more complete documentation. This easy-to-use reference provides a simple introduction to SPSS 8.0 for Windows by means of a set of tutorials that acquaints users with the various components of the SPSS system.
            SPSS 8.0 for Windows Brief Guide
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              SPSS 8.0 for Windows Brief Guide
              SPSS
              Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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              ASIN: B000OJ19M0

              Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding (Origami)
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • Not for the first timer
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              • Absolutely the best origami book I've ever used.
              Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding (Origami)
              Robert Harbin
              Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 0486297071

              Book Description

              Hundreds of diagrams help paperfolders at all levels create over 120 models ranging from a traditional sailboat, cicada, flapping bird, and jumping frog to such less common subjects as a Japanese lady, gargoyle, octopus, and a Moor at prayer. Also includes figures originated by internationally renowned origami experts.

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Not for the first timer.......2007-03-11

              I really like this book, but you need to have a little experience with origami to use it. I could make cranes, boxes and water bombs before I bought this book. I've learned a lot from it but there have been a number of folds that I couldn't understand until I saw them demonstrated. And there are still lots of things I can't figure out, especially pieces that have to be turned inside out. If you've never folded, this is not the book for you.

              5 out of 5 stars The best is back.......2002-01-20

              My Great-Aunt introduced me to many things - astronomy, biology, and origami. This was in her personal library and when I'd visit we would always pull it out and make at least one of the figures in the book. She had already managed to do nearly every figure but she was patient and I would try my best to keep up. When she died, I looked for the book but it had mysteriously disappeared. I saw that it was back in print and I snatched a copy up right away. This is the best folding book that I have ever run across. It has models that range from the very simple to the VERY difficult. You can fold out of this book for a lifetime and never fail to learn something or see something new. A great book... grab it while you can and fold your heart out!

              5 out of 5 stars A legend.......2000-10-30

              The book which launch my interest in origami in the late 60s. If not for the discovery of this book, my interest in origami would have been lost.

              The models are still very fresh even for the origamist of today. There is a very good range from traditional models, simple models to the intermediate stage. An excellent first introduction to origami.

              It contains works of experts who are not around today. Among my favourites are those by Ligia Montoya. Simple but extremely effective.

              Nowadays origami experts tend to concentrate on details making folding the models extremely difficult for a beginner. I prefer to concentrate on representing the subject just right with just the sufficient details to differentiate the model and avoiding the complexity of folding it.

              There are also models with sufficient difficulty to challenge the slightly more experienced.

              A must for all enthusiasts.

              5 out of 5 stars One of the Great Classics, Finally back in Print.......1999-12-21

              Rejoice, origami lovers of the world: Harbin's "Secrets of Origami" is back on the shelves. One of the first of my 40+ origami books, the old, battered, early 70s hardcover still holds a place of honor on my shelf. This is one of the best origami books EVER published. For the beginner, it opens the door to a wonderful array of simple to complex models, for the advanced folder, it provides a survey of the best Western folding from that formative period of 1960s. Fred Rohm, Adolfo Cerceda, Ligia Montoya - these are names that must NEVER fade from the annals of origami. Buy this book. Use this book. Treasure this book. Very few like this have been printed before or since.

              5 out of 5 stars Absolutely the best origami book I've ever used........1999-09-08

              Of the dozen books on origami in my library, this is my favorate. This is the book that I used to learn to fold. The intro. section on bases is wonderfully presented. I still have my copy of this book from 20+ years ago. Though tattered and torn, I still pull the book out and create new forms. I like the background information on the artists who created the forms and I enjoyed the variety of challenges from easy to complex. My favorate form in the book is the bat...I also made a wonderful mobile of some of the various bird creations in the book.
              Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding;
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                Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding;
                Ned Williams
                Manufacturer: Book Sales
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                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 0706400054

                Wild Man : The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg
                Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                • Ellsberg was NEVER a glory grabber
                • Fascinating Biography On A Controversial Anti-War Activist!
                • Half a life. The personal half.
                • I'm overly fond of the subject matter.
                • An anti-hero in anti-heroic times.
                Wild Man : The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg
                Tom Wells
                Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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                No wonder Daniel Ellsberg withdrew from participation in this biography. Although the author declares himself "sympathetic politically" to the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, Tom Wells bluntly depicts a very flawed personality. Almost from his birth in 1931, according to Wells, Ellsberg was shaped by his domineering mother into a brilliant narcissist, arrogant about his unquestionable intellectual gifts but so unfocused that he never really fulfilled his early promise. At the time he passed along the top-secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam, which revealed that the government had frequently misled its citizens about a war many of its own experts felt could not be won, Ellsberg was certainly and commendably convinced that the truth must be told. But he was also frustrated by his failure to achieve the prominence he felt he deserved at the RAND Institute think tank and eager for public recognition. Wells traces the trajectory of Ellsberg's life fairly but unsparingly, drawing on the many interviews Ellsberg gave him before their break in 1995 and extensive (often directly contradictory) comments by his friends and colleagues to portray someone who habitually exaggerated his importance and overstated his role in various projects. (Wells concludes, for example, that Ellsberg's claim that he prompted Robert McNamara to order the Pentagon Papers study "is almost certainly untrue.") It's not a pretty picture, and the author doesn't gloss over Ellsberg's compulsive womanizing or his carelessness about security classifications. Nonetheless, he also paints a nuanced portrait of a man who began his career as a convinced cold-war hawk but was prompted by both research and his firsthand observations to conclude that the Vietnam War was a tragic mistake. --Wendy Smith

                Book Description

                In March 1971, Daniel Ellsberg gave The New York Times access to a classified government report revealing the secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg, a former Vietnam Marine, said he violated national security to protest an illegal war. The release of the Pentagon Papers exploded in controversy. Ellsberg was indicted for espionage; charges were dropped when it was revealed that Nixon operatives burglarized the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist in order to discredit him. Wild Man is the first biography of the man at center stage in one of the most remarkable periods in American history. What drove this cold war intellectual to break the law? A richly detailed tale of the times, this indelible portrait of the hawk-turned-dove who tried single-handedly to end the war will stand as one of the great American stories.

                Customer Reviews:

                2 out of 5 stars Ellsberg was NEVER a glory grabber.......2005-08-10

                Wells(W) has written a biography that places an undo emphasis on certain minor aspects of Ellsberg's life,including unwarranted moral judgments that appear to be hypocritical, while completely ignoring certain major accomplishments of Ellsberg for which he has never received his just acclaim(and has never sought acclaim)First,W appears to be fixated on the fact that Ellsberg had sexual relationships with a number of different women.For just a few examples,George Washington,Benjamin Franklin,Thomas Jefferson,Napoleon,Douglas MacArthur,Dwight D.Eisenhower,and Martin Luther King also had sexual relationships with a number of different women.The emphasis that W places on this fact is incredibly overblown.Am I supposed to stop reading J M Keynes's General Theory and A Treatise on Probability because Keynes's sexual orientation before 1922 was primarily Gay?The conclusion I draw is that W either sought to embarrass Ellsberg and/or wanted to add irrelevant material that might sell more copies of his book.Second,the discussions of Ellsberg's contributions to decision making do not recognize that Ellsberg is the Father of modern decision theory.It is a practical certainty that had Ellsberg's 1962 dissertation been published in the 1960's, instead of in 2001,he would have already received a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.Chapter 7 of"Risk,Ambiguity,and Decision"(2001;Garland Publishing Com.)supplies a complete modern decision theoretic foundation for Keynes's major General Theory analysis that uncertainty(Ellsberg's ambiguity)is THE cause of involuntary unemployment and insufficient long run investment.The problem here is that Ellsberg has remained far too quite for over 40 years on what he accomplished.One can only hope that Ellsberg will decide to "toot his own horn" a lot more vigorously in the future.Any reader of W's book should automatically buy a copy of Ellsberg's "Secrets" book if one desires an accurate biography that concentrates on the important things.

                4 out of 5 stars Fascinating Biography On A Controversial Anti-War Activist!.......2003-05-24

                While I found this absorbing and thoughtfully written biography of Vietnam anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg to be a bit overblown and pretentious at times, it is a masterfully written exploration of a complex and puzzling man, and provides the reader with a far-reaching biographical portrait that both neatly complements as well as providing a foil for Ellsberg's own recent autobiographical efforts in the best-selling work "Secrets". While "Secrets" concentrates first and foremost on the period of his life leading up to and including the debacle over the illicit release of the top-secret Pentagon papers to the press, Well's biography, "Wild Man" gives us a much more fully developed, balanced, and for the most part more objective look at the mercurial, narcissistic, and stunningly brilliant Ellsberg's life.

                Ellsberg's direction in life was aggressively forged in the crucible of his aggressive and domineering mother's ambitions for him, such that he rose by dint of ability and hard effort to the heights of academic success early, graduating with a PhD in Economics from Harvard in the pre-Vietnam war era. Yet Ellsberg often did the unexpected, especially given his pedigree as an ambitious young Jewish-American intellectual; after college he volunteered for the Marine Corps, and served as an officer before going on to graduate school. After graduating from Harvard, he soon found himself recruited for the Rand Corporation, an elite Defense-Department funded think-tank and private preserve for intellectuals useful for the DOD bureaucracy. Sure enough, Ellsberg's controversial ideas and thoughtful repose gained him notice and a post within the government working for a highly placed Pentagon undersecretary.

                This position placed him in the catbird seat in terms of his access to the opening sequences and related bureaucratic responses to the expanding conflict in Vietnam. Even as he lent his support to the Pentagon, Ellsberg became concerned about the use of body counts and other quantitative measures being employed as key indicators of our military situation and progress being made. Criticisms of the methodology fell on deaf ears however, and Ellsberg found himself more isolated and less influential than he had hoped he would be. Instead, he argued for a long and detailed survey "on the ground" in Vietnam, which he would volunteer to accomplish for himself, and which he felt confident would give a better, more accurate and realistic appraisal of American forces in the region. Over a eighteen month period, Ellsberg became convinced the war was being conducted all wrong, that the employment of such metrics as body counts, bomb tonnage, and areas secured were catastrophically misleading at best and profoundly delusional at worst.

                The rest, as they say, was history, and it is useful to have both Ellsberg's recollections as well as those of an independent biographer in detailing just how and why all that cam e to transpire did so, for the devil is in the details of the historical record. At the same time, I was a bit offended by Well's recurring tale-spinning in terms of providing the reader with salacious material about Ellsberg's peripatetic and admittedly insistent womanizing. While there is no doubt that Ellsberg is no saint, I still fail to see why Wells felt it was so important to stress Ellsberg's ego excesses, his romantic escapades, or his apparent inability to stay the course on any particular intellectual path long enough to make a career of it has to do with his heart-wrenching decision to expose himself to a possible life behind bars in order to provide the American people with what he felt was critical information they had a right to know. Still, this is fascinating material, and any self-respecting sidewalk psychoanalyst like you and I are likely to enjoy a lot of his thoughtful ruminations about Ellsberg even as we know they are largely irrelevant to what happened and why. This is a worthwhile if somewhat flawed book. Enjoy!

                3 out of 5 stars Half a life. The personal half........2002-09-01

                Daniel Ellsberg's profession at RAND in Santa Monica was the creation of mathematical models of conflict situations - wars, face-offs, threats of war, crises - the daily business of the cold war. He is said to have done this work brilliantly. He was expert at game theory.

                He was unusual, probably unique among defense theorists, in that he stood up from his computer terminal, turned aside from his theoretical models of the war and went to war himself, personally, with a rifle. It comes through that Ellsberg was a bit of an enthusiast -- a war lover. Strangely, the Viet Nam chapters are the only chapters in the book where the character and the story really come alive.

                But Ellsberg returned from Viet Nam depressed and disgusted. He ultimately copied and released to the press The Pentagon Papers, the classified historical account of US policy in Viet Nam.

                Very few people actually read the Pentagon Papers. Tom Wicker of the New York Times read into it and was struck and evidently quite shocked by the idea that a war could be discussed as though it were a rational game. He did not know, and most people still don't know, the extent to which US cold war policy, our grand strategy, had been subsumed into John von Neumann's mathematical descriptions of parlour games.

                Daniel Ellsberg's biography should have had something to say about his profession, about game theory, about the awkward, perhaps ridiculous overlay of a mathematical theory on a shooting war in the jungle. Ellsberg was deeply inside this business, a RAND superstar, and in the end he became disillusioned and quite talkative about it.

                The author of this biography completely missed this whole astonishing backstory. He simply left out Ellsberg's professional life, his strange and remarkable line of work as a war gamer.

                What we have here instead is a relentlessly hostile, tut-tut-tutting 604-page description of Ellsberg's personal life: his childhood, his hard pushing mom, his social activities, his water cooler conversations, and his dates and his nights. What are we supposed to do with this kind of information?

                If you are still wondering why we were in Viet Nam, and who isn't, there exist some much better and livelier books to read: A great introduction to the RAND era and story is "The Wizards of Armageddon," by Kaplan. It was recently re-published in paperback. Prisoner's Dilemma by Poundstone is an excellent book on Von Neumann and the Game Theory. Another book on the subject is, of course, "The Pentagon Papers." Ellsberg's autobiography, which is soon to be published, may also prove helpful.

                This biography, "Wild Man" does contain, by the way, some interesting historical facts. For example, the author observes that RAND maintained a French colonial villa in Saigon. We are left to wonder what the heck went on in there - that is, what their game was. The author doesn't seem to have a clue that it mattered.

                5 out of 5 stars I'm overly fond of the subject matter........2002-06-29

                Having to practice the piano as a kid seems to me such a great start for the life of an intellectual, that even the beginning of this book made sense to me. I can relate to most of the character features of this book in an intellectual way, also. It is reported on page 573 that "Ellsberg was invited by undergraduates to teach a student-sponsored course on `nuclear weapons and foreign policy'at Stanford in 1979." As a lesson in reality, student interest dwindled rapidly when students discovered "that Ellsberg `relied too much on his memory of what he personally was involved in. . . . It may not have been well organized." More in line with the way everybody is thinking about these things, Harvard Medical School arranged for Ellsberg to teach a course under a center John Mack "had set up called the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age." (p. 573). This approaches the field of philosophy in allowing the students to think that they are directly engaging in a study of the thoughts of their professor.

                I have owned WILD MAN / THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DANIEL ELLSBERG for a year, and appreciated the information about his Harvard years the most. He certainly had more fun at Harvard than I ever had. Photograph number 5, showing "Daniel and Carol Ellsberg holding the purloined ibis at Harvard" shows how readily the students who wrote the "Crimson" could make the news in their paper whatever they wanted it to be, including his line, "It is absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided." (p. 89). Ultimately, news in this country became about what the students at Harvard thought it was. I'm afraid the failure which WILD MAN frequently expresses about the life of Daniel Ellsberg relate to the character of our political system as much as to anything that Daniel Ellsberg might have done.

                For a few months, I have been reading SAKHAROV / A BIOGRAPHY by Richard Lourie, and I noticed that Daniel Ellsberg was mentioned on page 360 of that book, as someone that Sakharov saw after seven years in which he had seen no one. Sakharov is not mentioned in WILD MAN, not even in the list of people who Tom Wells would give more credit to than Daniel Ellsberg for accomplishing something in the control of nuclear weapons. Politically, it was always felt that Daniel Ellsberg's contributions were "not going to be any kind of dynamite," (p. 351), but Ellsberg himself seemed "nervous and worried. . . . He spoke fast and made jerky movements. He seemed to be a harried man." (p. 351). Sakharov had the advantage of dealing with a political system which could see the need for a change, when he could deal with a leader, Gorbachev, who sincerely needed to find ways to change things for the better. Daniel Ellsberg is already in a system in which change is such a constant that almost anyone in the system could be the anonymous source who told Tom Wells, "I mean, he doesn't even begin to pretend to be interested in me anymore." (p. 604).

                5 out of 5 stars An anti-hero in anti-heroic times........2001-08-23

                Having been interviewed for this book I can testify to the trueness of the part that dealt with the overlap between Dan Ellsberg and myself. Tom Wells gives an absolutely remarkable picture of that time, the time I knew Ellsberg. Presumably Wells's skill at interweaving the stories given by the many people he interviewed are accurate throughout the book. Fascinating book. I couldn't put it down. Interesting to see this picture of the muddle and deceit of our government about that war. I recommend the book to those too young to remember some of Ellsberg's times as well as to those of us who are old enough to remember part of the history of his times. Wells has done a terrific job.
                Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg
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                  Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg
                  Tom Wells
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                    Tom Wells
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                      Richard E. Roberts
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                        Arnold J. Love
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                        "A terrific combination of pragmatic techniques and relevant theory. I wish I had this book when I became an internal evaluator 20 years ago--but I am glad I have it now because it is helping me put my experience in context, and providing many new ideas. I will make substantial use of it on the job and as a text in my next teaching opportunity." --Gerald L. Barkdoll, Associate Commissioner for Planning and Evaluation, Food and Drug Administration "An essential tool for the managers of any organization. The evaluation techniques used for internal evaluation are discussed from the vantage points and practical concerns of internal evaluators, making the book a valuable desktop reference for internal evaluators." --Canadian Evaluation Society Newsletter "Serves as a handbook for managers developing an internal evaluation system in their company, including information on evaluating goal achievement, efficiency and strategic benefit. To help managers apply what they have learned, there are several practical exercises at the end of each chapter." --Personnel "Readers find concise summarizations of, and helpful tips about the different methods for carrying out systematic internal evaluation: needs assessment, program utilization studies, evaluability assessment, systematic program monitoring, consumer/ client satisfaction studies, quality assurance, and self-study. Whether the reader of Internal Evaluation comes from the private sector or a nonprofit organization, whether he or she is the manager of, or the person responsible for carrying out an internal evaluation, this is a practical and useful guide. It reaffirms that evaluation, properly understood and applied, is not an enemy but an ally in a hectic world." --Jan Corey Arnett in Foundation News "This book quite adequately provides the reader with a comprehensive view of internal evaluation, its value and place within an organization. . . . Very well organized with a detailed introduction to each chapter, and a comprehensive summary. Provides many case examples, diagrams and tables which help to clarify and explain concepts. This text is written in a textbook fashion. Practical exercises are provided at the end of each chapter which further clarify concepts introduced. In addition, a comprehensive reference section is provided as well as an author and subject index. . . . A solid introduction." --Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling "Presents a particular view of internal evaluation that proponents of decision-making approaches to evaluation will find useful. . . . A manifesto for a managerial approach to internal evaluation, a useful message for those who wish to take up that cause." --Evaluation and Program Planning An indispensable tool for managers and an essential part of the management process, internal evaluation has become the method of choice for evaluating programs and problems. To better acquaint managers with this invaluable management tool, Internal Evaluation offers a step-by-step guide for conducting such an evaluation. After presenting the theory behind internal evaluation (showing how internal evaluation fits with other aspects of organizational life), this practical volume describes the stages of internal evaluation, ways of identifying users' needs and selecting appropriate evaluation methods, the evaluation techniques associated with each stage, avoiding common pitfalls, and how to develop and manage the internal evaluation resource. Also included are discussions about techniques that better emphasize the vantage points and practical concerns of internal evaluators, making Internal Evaluation the perfect desk-top reference for internal evaluation practitioners. Replete with examples taken from real-world settings, this masterful volume brings to managers, practitioners, students, and internal evaluators a broad spectrum of useful methods that allow them to take full advantage of the power internal evaluation offers.

                        Guidebook To Pennsylvania Taxes, 2004
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