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1. Quirol says

   Save your time and the one cent and read Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
   and prepare for the 21st Century global economy with solid sanity.

   November 22, 2009, 6:28 pm
2. Cabrera says

   I can’t put it down! I love his honesty, his say it like you see it and his human approach. Not sure what else to say. It’s on my top 10 list.

   November 23, 2009, 6:36 am
3. Eriksson says

   Tom Peters’ book is entirely spirited and full of spontaneous ideas for sales. His approach is out of the box, he is not a conformist, leaving me with many ideas to start now!

   The book is written in many short example. Easy to digest each part. Let the concept become a part of you.

   November 23, 2009, 6:43 pm
4. Passler says

   This book is okay to read, but while I started reading this book seriously to read it all at once, I just oculdn’t do it at once. It took me lot longer to finish this book than most others — compared to the size of the book, not because the content is bad, but the way it has been written.
   Don’t get me wrong this book is not a waste of time or money, and in fact, points delivered out of this book are well stuck to my brain that I use it regularly, but when you are reading a “Tips” book, it is hard to remember continuously everything thing and use it, so you have to stop and read some other time — more like reading Gita/Bible/Qaran — Absolutely fantastic words of wisdom, but can’t swallow it all at once and by the time your each the end, it is lot longer..

   I was thinking between a 4 star and 5 star for this book, but it ended up with 4 star, because, I didn’t intend this book to be written this way — better set of examples/anectodes would have made the book more interesting to read and remmeber the points easier, forever.

   November 24, 2009, 6:17 am
5. O'Kelley says

   If you are stuck in a rut of ordinary, tread-worn practices at your work, this book might help snap you out of your funk.

   But if you are looking for keen insights and practical solutions to real business problems, this definitely will not move you to action.

   I’ve read almost every one of Peters’ books. This one is sub-par.

   Since an author needs to keep publishing to stay on the lecture circuit, this feels like an attempt to augment the Powerpoint slides Peters must have been carting around when this book was published.

   It’s becoming harder to believe what Peters preaches, because everything he does now is so over the top, it’s his new normal.

   I am a huge Tom Peters fan, but being “out there” just to remain relevant is not working anymore.

   November 24, 2009, 6:45 pm
6. Fleetwood says

   “Wow The Dow” is an easy to read book geared toward showing parents and children how incredibly easy it is to invest in the stock market. Not only will this book strengthen your parent child bond but you will be amazed at how easy it is to invest in the stock market. Inside there are easy to read graphs, games, puzzles and too many other neat little side bars to mention. The side bars themselves make great reading.

   The best part about this book is that it teaches adults and children that you don’t have to be Bill Gates to be an investor. In fact, you can begin your investment portfolio with less money than you spend buying this book.

   Being a stock market novice myself, this book taught me how to identify companies, learn everything about the company and most important, how and where to buy their stock. It also stresses the importance of not using a full commission broker to do what you can easily do yourself for a fraction of the cost.

   After reading this book, I find myself very hesitant about unwise spending. I now have a little voice in my head that is saying, “If I invest that $1.05 that I spend at WaWa for coffee, every morning, and I use that money to buy one share of EMC every 6-9 months, and the stock does a two for one split every Spring, how much is that coffee really costing me? ”

   I don’t have any children, but I can only imagine where I would be today if my parents showed me how easy it is to start investing in the stock market when I was 10, 7 or even 4 years old. This book uses true life scenarios where one of the author’s daughters invested two thousand dollars when she was a small child and now that money will more than cover her college education.

   Do yourself a favor and read this book. Although this book is very new, it won’t be long before it’s on every coffee table in America.

   November 25, 2009, 6:41 am
7. Ring says

   This is the type of book I wish I had when I first became interested in investing. It is so elementary that I can actually understand what the stock market is all about, and how I personally can benefit from getting myself educated about investing. What’s more my teenage daughter is learning about investing and investment clubs and students from her class are getting together weekly to talk about the stock market, using this book as a guide. This is a wonderful book to introduce kids and teenagers to investing.

   November 25, 2009, 6:08 pm
8. Pendl says

   I found this book to be extremely helpful in decoding a very intimidating topic. The forum in which the book was layed out made for an easy and exciting read. I finally feel comfortable and adept to invest, in addition to having various resources for doing research. I highly recommend this book and have bought several copies for friends and family with and without children.

   November 26, 2009, 6:21 am
9. Urrutia says

   I made a mistake when I read the reviews. I forgot to look at how old the reviews are before buying the book. They are all dated in 2000 or 2001. This book needs to be updated. It is interesting but note that the suggestions are over six years old. There are better ways now to buy and sell stocks. The authors suggest going through a certain company to buy stocks in your child’s name. It is much easier just to buy them through an online broker and tell your child that those particular stocks are for them. (You can even create a separate account and tell your child that this account is their account.) Plus, there are now online brokers that will do trades for free (limited number per month). The book does have some helpful concepts on getting your child interested in stocks, but some are too time consuming. Today’s Internet-savy child knows that she can easily get the charts and graphs for free from online brokers. She does not have to spend hours trying to create them herself. Instead, she should spend that time researching the companies. I’m half-way through the book. I’ll come back and write more when I am finished. Oh, and I should note that the quality of the printing is not very good. It took my eyes a while to adjust to the small font. …. I never did finish the book. I found other instead.

   November 26, 2009, 5:58 pm
10. Flanders says

    This is one of the easiest to read and understadn investment books I’ve ever found. Teaching children the value of long-term investment and money is a wonderful gift to give anyone. Adults will find the clear explanations, sound advice, and tips on getting started no matter how much you have to be valuable as well.

    This and Jason Kelly’s “Neatest Little Guide…” series are my favorite introductory investment books.

    November 27, 2009, 6:43 am
11. Krum says

    Lovely book for planning your trip, with good color pictures, clear maps (although no topographical types) and descriptions of trails that help you visualize the scenery and make you want to set out immediately. I recommend it highly. However, carry photocopies of the relevant pages rather than the book itself in your pack, as it’s a bit heavy for its size. Also beware of the designation “easy” for a trail. Maybe for super-fit trail goats with rock-solid ankles and indestructible knees, the Lake Ann trail (as an example) is “easy”, but for us normal folks it would be better described as manageable but a workout, perhaps a 3.5 or 4 on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is a paved level path, and 5 is almost a climb and leaves you utterly exhausted at the end of the day. I suggest you buy this book for planning ahead, but cross-reference with (and perhaps choose to carry with you) Craig Romano’s Day Hiking North Cascades, which has more realistic descriptions of the effort involved, as well as topo maps and altitude profiles of the trails.

    November 27, 2009, 5:59 pm
12. Arthur says

    Craig and Kathy have updated their opinionated prior work “Don’t Waste Your Time in the North Cascades” and have done a spectacular job again. I wanted to wait to write this review until I had the opportunity to use the book during a recent extended backpacking trip to the North Cascades, and wasn’t disappointed in the quality or accuracy of this guidebook and the opinions expressed by Craig and Kathy Copeland.

    I agree with their approach. I flew 3,000 miles to backpack in the Glacier Peak Wilderness with my 23 year old son, and didn’t want to have a second-rate experience of slogging through uninspiring stuff to get to the “WOW” stuff. So this book was a big plus.

    It all depends on what you want. Yes, the entire wilderness is wonderful. Yes, it can be appreciated regardless of whether the scenery is spectacular. But spectacular makes me shiver with excitement, and while I don’t mind working for it (and working hard, too!), I definitely want the WOW. If you want this type of mountain experience, then get this book.

    By the way, I also purchased the MP3 on their website about bears which is a must download. Their thoughts on water purifying technology and trekking poles are also invaluable for those unfamiliar with such topics.

    So, if you are planning a day trip or backpacking trip to one of the places the Copelands write about, and you want to maximize your experience…then buy their books and enjoy.

    November 28, 2009, 6:42 am
13. Hanley says

    I recently picked up this book – Wow guide – North Cascades.

    In addition to exploring the outdoors I seem to collect guide books and I have to say “Thanks! to the authors. The attention to detail and the writing from an actual experience of personally being there comes through.

    This book just happens to cover the area I call my backyard. Having been on most of these trails, I can tell you that little advice like… “at 2.5 mi you might notice a faint trail beginning to countour right (northeast). Ignore it. It goes to…..” really makes a difference.

    I have been in the outdoor industry for most of my life, either in the field or behind the scenes helping others get out there. So I have an appreciation for accurate and grounded information.

    November 28, 2009, 6:00 pm
14. Go says

    The book is with beautiful color photos for each hike which nicely complements with short, energetic, passionate, funny, useful and opinionated descriptions. Vital info for each hike is neatly organized and there is a good description of getting to trail head although there are no GPS coordinates or elevation profile graphs. Maps for hikes are very basic and you WILL need Green Trail maps along with this book (each hike description contains Green Trail map# that you will need). The binding is fragile and pages are too glossy/slippery for a hiking book so I don’t think it can take rough use on trail. The book has an “hike at glance” table which can help you to choose an hike for your preferred length and elevation gain however book is missing a central detail list of content so to actually locate an hike you will need to go to other page. One other thing missing is table for best hikes to do for a given month. For Cascades this is very important and should be included in “at glance” table hopefully in next edition.

    If you really want to get your money’s worth, I suggest you buy or borrow from Library another book Don’t Waste Your Time in the North Cascades: An Opinionated Hiking Guide to Help You Get the Most from This Magnificent Wilderness. Both of these book are written by same authors, published by same publishers and have almost exact same content (and I mean word-by-word same) for common hikes between two books with exception that the later one contains all hikes organized by 4 ratings (Premier, Outstanding, Worthwile, Don’t do) and also the later doesn’t have color photos. This is extremely useful for hikers like me because I don’t get to go to Cascades very often and want to make best use of my time by picking the best possible hikes. So having this ratings from author I don’t have to ask other less experienced hikers about what I should be choosing when choice is so vast.

    So for me, the best thing is combination of this WOW book and a list of hikes sorted by rating from “Don’t waste your time…” book (pg 5-9). I really hope author includes this ratings in next edition of WOW book in “at glance” table.

    Having said all that, I believe this is probably the one book you should buy if you are going to buy one for Cascades. And if you are going to do only two hikes in Cascades it should be Skyline Divide and Ptarmigan Ridge!

    November 29, 2009, 6:21 am
15. Simpson says

    Going to the North Cascades (America’s Alps)? There are hundreds of miles of trails to choose from, and everyone has limited time to spend hiking. The authors take an opinionated approach about which hikes are the best – because they have the best views, get you up and out of the forest, and otherwise have a lot to offer. Most of the hikes are in Washington, in and around North Cascades National Park, but a few are in Canada.

    I didn’t know this book existed when I went up to the area, and I was surprised at how useful it was. I had a week to go hiking, and all of the hikes that I did from the book were spectacular. The authors make a great balance of telling you what to expect without giving the whole hike away. The book has amazing color photos for each hike, and simple maps, elevation gains, topo map suggestions, etc. Each hike review is separated into opinion and fact, which makes for easy reading.

    I wish the authors could write books like this for all the major hiking areas of the country – it would have saved me a lot of not-so-memorable hikes. I look forward to their upcoming Utah hiking book. One thing to note is that most of the hikes are fairly serious endeavors, even the day hikes. If you also enjoy doing easier hikes, you will have to purchase another guidebook, or rely on park information.

    November 29, 2009, 6:16 pm
16. Tabibian says

    An ok book if you are into this sort of thing…

    The WoW game itself is pretty restricted it what it will allow you to do programming wise; consequently this book is pretty limited in what you can do with it…

    I enjoyed the information in the book; however, I didn’t find much practical use for it – other than intellectual…

    MJL

    November 30, 2009, 6:29 am
17. Rehman says

    Programming in WoW is extremely fun; takes me back to the old days of learning a new programming language for the first time. I have also missed Waite Group Press and glad to see they are making a comeback (still love their unmatched use of high-quality thin paper). This book starts off by giving the reader access to a custom WoW plugin called WoWLua, which is a LUA editor that works right inside WoW itself. There is also a larger addon environment/IDE for working with graphics, etc, right inside WoW. So, to answer the most common question, you don’t need to shut down WoW and restart it every time you make changes to your scripts! I am an instructor who is using this book for a LUA programming class and enjoying it very much.

    November 30, 2009, 5:57 pm
18. Unwin says

    I’ve written code in a lot of different languages, but had never really touched Lua (the language used to write WoW addons).

    I picked up this book hoping that it would give me a good foundation on WoW addon creation, and it did. What I didn’t expect was just how much I’d be going back to the book over and over as an API reference.

    Although Blizzard keeps updating the WoW API, this books extensive reference section covers enough of the fundamentals, that I always start there.

    I can’t say that this book would be the best starting point for anyone who has never programmed before, but then again, creating addons for WoW isn’t really an endeavour for anyone who hasn’t programmed before.

    However, that’s what made this book so great for me. The Lua language and WoWs API are full of eccentricities and “gotchya”s. This book provided a really good “get up to speed quickly”, and functions as an ongoing reference.

    The authors also maintain a website that updates as the WoW API updates.

    December 1, 2009, 6:34 am
19. Edgar says

    I enjoyed this book and it helped give me the basics to lua and wow programming. It takes you through several helpful addon examples that I now use after some minor customizations.

    December 1, 2009, 6:33 pm
20. Bigler says

    I’ve been struggling to write an add-on for World of Warcraft, and have mostly been using the WoWWiki site with various other framework sites to learn. While those resources have been pretty helpful, this book has provided a clear, concise explanation of Lua and the WoW API that is unrivaled. In the week that I’ve owned it, I’ve been able to accomplish more with my own add-on than ever.

    December 2, 2009, 6:40 am