Social Networks and the Semantic Web (Semantic Web and Beyond)2 reviews Peter Mika Springer, 2007 Semantic web meet social networks This book delineates a prominent research and application arena for the next years. As emphasized in the foreword, the strength of the book is to look at overlapping boundaries between social network and the Semantic Web. Peter Mika shows how Semantic Web and social network analysis can work ...             Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries (Studies in Intelligence)1 review David Carment, Martin Rudner Routledge, 2006 Adequate Content, Disgusting Pricing I am a publisher, author, and intelligence professional. I was a speaker at the conference from which most of this material is derived. I wish to respectfully inform all prospective buyers that a book like this, in lots of 2,500, costs a US penny a page to produce. I could produce this book ...             Twenty-First Century Intelligence (Studies in Intelligence)1 review Routledge, 2004 Brilliant Author, Despicable Pricing I normally buy and read every serious book on the profession of intelligence qua spies, secrecy, espionage, and so on, but I am quite shocked that the publisher would dare to offer this book, at 256 pages, for $125 (now $170). This is despicable. It is reprehensible. It is unprofessional. ...             Strategic Intelligence [Five Volumes] (Intelligence and the Quest for Security) (v. 1-5)2 reviews Praeger Security International Multi-volume, 2006 No serious college-level or specialty military collection should be without this in-depth reference. College-level specialty collections strong in military and political studies of foreign policy and strategy will find essential the in-depth, five-volume set Strategic Intelligence: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government. Here's a comprehensive survey of how the sixteen major U.S. intelligence ...             Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations: A New Model in the Making (Cass Series on Peacekeeping)1 review Peter Jakobsen Routledge, 2006 5 for Substance, Zero for Pricing I am adding this book to my list of outrageously expensive books that will never become mainstream because the substance of the author has been overwhelmed by the greed of the publisher. This book cost less than a penny a page to produce and received no marketng to speak of. As a publisher and ...             Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society1 review Peter Jackson, Jennifer Siegel Praeger, 2005 Get Herman or Bozeman or Quiggin or Steele Instead I am a publisher, an author, and an intelligence professional. This book undoubtedly has good content, but the publisher has been grotesquely irresponsible in pricing it out of reach of individual scholars and citizens and government officials seeking to continue their education. As a ...             Intelligence, Political Inequality, and Public Policy1 review Elliott White Praeger, 1997 Important Topic, Grotesque Pricing This book joins my list of books I will never buy, read, nor recommend, because the publisher is charging three times what the book is worth. As a publisher myself, I am happy to inform prospective buyers that this book cost a penny a page to print. You do the math. Authors get 15%, Amazon gets ...             Handbook of Intelligence Studies1 review Routledge, 2006 Extraordinary Perfection Properly Priced I rejoice to see the publisher reduce the price of this book from over $150 to a much more professional and ethical $40 or so for the paperback, Handbook of Intelligence Studies. BRAVO. This is without question the single most important book at the operational level for the study of ...             Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change1 review Cambridge University Press, 2002 This Book Joins my List of Great Books at Wrong Price If the author will get in touch with me I can publish the book for sale at a cost of no morethan $39.95. If a digital copy of the book is available, I would like to post it immediately. This book is an example of what happens when authors do not demand control over the pricing of their work. ...             The Hidden History of 9-11-2001, Volume 23 (Research in Political Economy)7 reviews JAI Press, 2006 New 9/11 Research from Prestigious Scholarly Press + More Indictments Against the Bush Treason I am a professional medical librarian with 25 years experience and must point out that Elsevier Science Press, and other publishers in the same league, including Karger, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, and Wiley Interscience, are ALL expensive because 1) the peer-reviewed research work ...             The Whole Digital Library Handbook1 review ALA Editions, 2007 Exhorbitant Pricing I am adding this book to my list of excessively expensive books. I only list those books I would havb bought had the price been reasonable. It cost the publisher less than $5.00 to print this book. Amazon pays 45% of the retail price, so call it a $25 return. That is too much and completely ...             Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide, 1945-20001 review Antoon De Baets Greenwood, 2001 5 for content, 1 for outrageous pricing I am the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, quite by accident (loading annotated bibliographies from the books I write) and have for the past two years been protesting the price jumps from industry. I am also a publisher. This book cost no more than $10 per copy to produce. Industry has gone ...             Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society1 review Peter Jackson, Jennifer Siegel Praeger, 2005 Get Herman or Bozeman or Quiggin or Steele Instead I am a publisher, an author, and an intelligence professional. This book undoubtedly has good content, but the publisher has been grotesquely irresponsible in pricing it out of reach of individual scholars and citizens and government officials seeking to continue their education. As a ...             Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries (Studies in Intelligence)1 review David Carment, Martin Rudner Routledge, 2006 Adequate Content, Disgusting Pricing I am a publisher, author, and intelligence professional. I was a speaker at the conference from which most of this material is derived. I wish to respectfully inform all prospective buyers that a book like this, in lots of 2,500, costs a US penny a page to produce. I could produce this book ...             Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations: A New Model in the Making (Cass Series on Peacekeeping)1 review Peter Jakobsen Routledge, 2006 5 for Substance, Zero for Pricing I am adding this book to my list of outrageously expensive books that will never become mainstream because the substance of the author has been overwhelmed by the greed of the publisher. This book cost less than a penny a page to produce and received no marketng to speak of. As a publisher and ...             Social Networks and the Semantic Web (Semantic Web and Beyond)2 reviews Peter Mika Springer, 2007 Semantic web meet social networks This book delineates a prominent research and application arena for the next years. As emphasized in the foreword, the strength of the book is to look at overlapping boundaries between social network and the Semantic Web. Peter Mika shows how Semantic Web and social network analysis can work ...             Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change1 review Cambridge University Press, 2002 This Book Joins my List of Great Books at Wrong Price If the author will get in touch with me I can publish the book for sale at a cost of no morethan $39.95. If a digital copy of the book is available, I would like to post it immediately. This book is an example of what happens when authors do not demand control over the pricing of their work. ...             Handbook of Intelligence Studies1 review Routledge, 2006 Extraordinary Perfection Properly Priced I rejoice to see the publisher reduce the price of this book from over $150 to a much more professional and ethical $40 or so for the paperback, Handbook of Intelligence Studies. BRAVO. This is without question the single most important book at the operational level for the study of ...             Twenty-First Century Intelligence (Studies in Intelligence)1 review Routledge, 2004 Brilliant Author, Despicable Pricing I normally buy and read every serious book on the profession of intelligence qua spies, secrecy, espionage, and so on, but I am quite shocked that the publisher would dare to offer this book, at 256 pages, for $125 (now $170). This is despicable. It is reprehensible. It is unprofessional. ...             Strategic Intelligence [Five Volumes] (Intelligence and the Quest for Security) (v. 1-5)2 reviews Praeger Security International Multi-volume, 2006 No serious college-level or specialty military collection should be without this in-depth reference. College-level specialty collections strong in military and political studies of foreign policy and strategy will find essential the in-depth, five-volume set Strategic Intelligence: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government. Here's a comprehensive survey of how the sixteen major U.S. intelligence ...