Columbia Reviews

The book gives a good overview of the areas with many addresses. Anyhow I found it a bit too black and white. It gives useful maps, but no coloured pictures from the areas, which would make it a bit more pleasant to read.

I highly recommend this guide to anyone who will be traveling in the Northeast as well as Canada. This guide gives you everything from upcoming events for the year to where to stay & eat. The maps are easy to read and follow. I have been a reader of the Mobil Guide for many years and it is continuing to give the most accurate, up-to-date travel information. This is the MUST-HAVE for the Northeast traveler.

interesting story. good involved plot. I found that the detailed references to Vancouver and surrounding locales distracted from the story. If you are from Vancouver, you don't need them and if you are not they don't matter. I think the characters are good. Would like to hear more about Jackson Cole.

I picked up this book at the recommendation of a Chapters salesperson in Vancouver on a recent trip. Started reading it on the plane on the way home. I enjoyed the Vancouver references since I'd just visited a few of these places. It even referenced blueberry tea which I ordered once thinking I was actually getting blueberry tea!

This book had a lot of characters which I sometimes had trouble keeping straight, but which I wanted to know more about. The book could have been longer, with more development of the characters. But I was instantly grabbed by Jackson Cole, and desperately hope Ms. Smith includes him as the main character in a series. I loved the pace of the novel and the tension it created. I was left wanting the story to go on, and will look for the sequel. I do fear, though, that my memories of Vancouver will now be influenced by this book . . . was Jackson Cole someone I met on my trip, . . . or not?

The book is called "A Camping Guide", so I was expecting a guide to camping, campgrounds, etc. Well, it's more like a suggested trip guide with very little (5 lines) information per campground. Also, they list only very few, only those which are on their suggested trips. Even though not a complete loss (the trips are kind of nice), I think the title is completely misleading. Also there are 5 trips for WA, 2 for Oregon, and 1 for BC... very Washington centric. I also don't quite understand why a camp guide needs information about downtown Seattle.... not many people camping there last time I checked. If I want a tourist guide for Seattle, I buy one and there are many better ones.

Now this is an RV guidebook. The book is separated into 1 tour per chapter(there are 8 tours in all) - and included in each chapter are suggestions for what to see and where to camp plus pictures of some of the campsites. They seemed to like the less commercial more nature oriented ones that I prefer. I especially liked the shopping mentions as all hiking and no shopping makes me a dull girl! While I won't follow the tours exclusively, they give me a heads up on places and sites not to miss and I look forward to putting this guidebook to use very soon.

I kept waiting for this book to develop something: a character that seemed real, a situation with depth, a conversation with substance. And to no avail--I finished the book without any of those things happening

L.R. Wright moves us with the intelligent portrayal of a life wasted. Her central characters of Karl Ahlberg and his fiancee Cassandra are well rounded, likeable, and all too human. You will find your heart aches for the boy in this book, and at the same time he will frighten you. Wright has the gift of eliciting emotion from her readers. Her supporting characters (Sid & Bernie) flesh out the story such that you want to read more about them as well. Altogether a great read!

The book is actually a farce--one of the authors is currently employed by Columbia (at least that's what I gathered from the credits), the other seems to be your typical middle-management consultant. So much for unabiased analysis. NOWHERE does any one discuss the government case against Columbia/HCA. The FBI raids are mentioned but there is no discussion whatsoever about what precipitated them, what evidence was found, and what the governments case ultimately proved to be.

One great line does stand out: "If anything can cast a pall over a leadership retreat, it's an FBI raid."

The book does point out a glaring omision in analysis of health care policy. There needs to be an indepth analysis of what went on (and is going on) with Columbia/HCA. This book, however, is not it.

If you can get through all the pages of mergers and acquisitions, the book does a very through job of explaining Columbia/HCA's corporate philosophies and what happened that led to their downfall.

Lutz did a fine job encapsulating the meteoric rise and subsequent fraud investigation of the monolithic Columbia/HCA. A well balanced, ammoral perspective on the Richard Scott and Tom Frist philosophy that gives the latter '90's health care administrator a thought provoking benchmark of where the "for profit" model took us, and how it will influence our decisions tomorrow. Enjoyable read, the chapters on Lessons Learned and Implications most worthwhile.

Stuart Little has always been a wonderful book and it would have made a wonderful movie if the producers had used the original text as a guide. Instead, they strayed so far from the original text in making the movie that they were forced to publish books like this to bridge the gap. The E.B. White text is beautifully written and has captured the imagination of children and adults for decades. Do not buy this, buy the original.

I Read Stuart little when I was little in the late 70's I enjoyed the book I allways felt it would make a great cartoon, it's about time they made the movie if you like Stuart little Reald Mouse and the motercycle and Runnaway ralf

I think this book would have been useful several years ago but this edition is almost 10 years old and the information contained is out of date. The elevation profiles provided for the roads in Alaska are also misleading and not detailed enough to be reliable.

I wouldn't recommend that you buy this book if you intend to tour Alaska. Buy a general guide book (Lonely Planet or Rough Guide) and get some decent maps instead.

The second edition is a useful book covering all the major roads in Alaska and the Alaska Highway as far as Whitehorse, YT. Information is organized by region and then by roads within those regions. An introductory section describes the background of the area and provides land management and emergency information. Any communities the cyclist will pass through are described and services relevant to cycle touring are listed. Roads are broken into approximately 80-mile segments with a small elevation profile provided for each. The terrain and road surface are described and the mile post locations of any junctions, water sources, camping, food, lodging, and roadside sights are tersely noted. No mile-by-mile description is provided. Unfortunately, the service information is dated as north-country businesses seem to pop up and shut down with alarming frequency. Coupled with the Milepost, this is a helpful book. Those used to hand-holding touring guides with detailed ride notes may be disappointed.

For a topic this broad the author has delivered a very slender volume. The author relies heavily on the scholarship of his predecessors. He has a propensity of extrapolating examples from Jewish texts, taking them out of context, and frequently failing to provide adequate translation to demonstrate the connections he is attempting to construct. In all should one wish to consult a reputable authority on the subject the gold standard is still Leiberman.

Schwartz is a genius. This is not subtle. He is a genius.

This is not the report I had previously downloaded from NASA's web site (as a PDF) which was sent to the press. This is the internal NASA report and contains a lot of detailed data analysis and some good diagrams to help you understand what failed. It does not cover any of the work proactice problems or management descisions that are covered in the other report. One point I did note - 8 tools were lost reconditioning Columbia including three screwdrivers, two sockets and a mini flashlight. There are also several mentions of low bolt torque setting on closeout panels and other fittings. All in all not the report I wanted. The paper is average quality and printed on one side only. The pictures are OK but would be better if they were larger and on glossy paper. Would someone plase send me the report that NASA sent to the press? nigel-t@msn.com

The information about the subjects may be adequate, but it does not explain it very thoroughly and the MCAT is about having a full understanding and being able to link concepts together. In addition, the tests have many mistakes! After having done a few passages, I started carefully picking through them after I had finished and found a few answers which directly contradicted the passages - these practice tests served only to confuse me. It feels as though no one proofed this book. Since then I've bought a book from Kaplan and Princeton and although they are a bit more expensive they have been used by many pre-meds with reliable results - and they don't have mistakes.

I don't understand how this book could get anything but a "1 star" from anyone. The questions are downright wrong! I've only done a few of the passages and found numerous mistakes where the book outright contradicts itself. You don't have to be a genius to find the mistakes, I found them in the verbal section. This book needs to be tossed - do yourself a favor and spend a little more money buying Kaplan/Princeton or basically anything else.

Hey, pre-meds! I had 4 weeks to concentrate on studying for the MCAt after my summer session last year. I have a great grasp of the concepts in the pre-med courses and just needed the STRATEGY of how to do well for the MCAt. This is THE book. If you really understood the stuff in your classes the first time around, this book gives an excellent review and supplements the stuff you didn't learn but need for the MCAT. All in all I did 1 week non-stop studying/section then a week of tests I went over with friends. With such intensive studying, I fared well [9v 11p 11b]. I know of one person who got a 37 using this alone to study! Good luck to all.