This effort is one of the most disappointment among the 100 or so baseball history titles that I have read in the past half-dozen years. The book is poorly edited and filled with literally hundreds of typographical errors. (Also the footnotes section at the end of the hardcover edition is simply eliminated from the end of the paperback, without corresponding adjustments in the text!) This factor is especially disappointing when it comes to the butchered names of dozens of Latin ballplayers. There are also numerous historical inaccuracies here. Hispaniola is not an island to the west of Cuba. Jackie Robinson was not called up to the Brooklyn Dodgers "not long after the 1947 began." Aluminum bats are not made in Cuba by the Batos company. And such errors go on and on. This book is a major disappointment when it comes to historical historical research.

A historical synopsis of what is now the official garden of talent for the Major Leagues; Latin America.

Ignites the importance of the Spanish American War - in baseball anyway.

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The book has some interesting tricks and tutorials, but really should have been implemented into the Infini-D user manual. For two Specular employees to charge money for this is a little crazy.

This book is less than seven inches tall and has comics that are in other books.

I recieved this book for my birthday last year. I immediately sat and read it. To my dismay, however, I found it depressingly short. I like dogbert's approach to this topic. He is Mr. Attidude in the world of Scott Adams. All in all, you get what you pay for in this book.

I was looking for a practical guide to school nursing, to helpease my transition from hospital practice to community health. Thisbook is fine for the school nurse who is starting a clinic literallyfrom the ground up. It even has floor plans for school clinics. The assumption is that the schools have unlimited funds, large space and unlimited time to provide healthcare, and the focus is very administrative. Treatment of everyday shcool nursing issues is very cursory. The extensive treatment of sexual-orientation issues renders the book very suspect--there is an agenda here. There are lots of reproducible forms which can be useful. However, the fact that this book was written by an MD should have been a red flag: Not for nurses who live in the real world and need practical advice. END

Ideal handbook for a new school nurse
offers many forms to utilize, ideas for your office, and updates on school health. Helps you get started with one easy book

I have not yet read the book, 5 years after it was published. It predicts the doom of Lloyd's of London, which still has not occurred. They've been able to sort out their problems.

There is an important misconception in the reviews and sinopsys on this website: Lloyd's is not an insurance company; it is an insurance market formed by syndicates providing insurance and reinsurance coverage. Some of these syndicates have been very profitable, others have not.

Excellent introduction to Lloyds, the incestuous relationship among the insiders, and how the insiders used their superior knowledge coupled with the myths surrounding historic Lloyds to dupe individuals into becomming Names. If you're in the business, this book has a lot of dirt about a lot of folks. A good read

Well, it contains a reprint of the oh-so-imitated-at-least-a-zillion-times cover and story to Uncanny X-men 138 where Cyclops leaves the team after the death of Jean Grey, which is a classic story with incredible John Byrne/Terry Austin art. And that is about all that this collection has going for it. Most of the X-force reprints in this book you can probably get at cover price at your local comic store. The bottom line? Unless you just really love X-force and current issues of X-men reprinted as a trade paperback for no apparent reason, there's not a whole lot to this one, true believers.

Since Im like the X-Men i bought this figuring it was an anthology of old X-Men but was I wrong. I really stopped reading the X-Men along time ago when that Age of Apocalypse thing came.It was my first time reading the new X-Men and it was better than I expected. What I like most was the first appearance of Jubilee in "Ladies Night Out." It showed the geeky mercenary mutant hunters extradoinare: The M Squad. I thought the story that shouldnt have been there was "Men." It was just a confusing tale of hostile aliens versus the X-Men.

Go straight for the Official Guide to GMAT Review from ETS. I spent a month working through Cracking the GMAT from Princeton Review and now find myself 3 weeks away from test time and completely ill prepared. Princeton Review tests told me I was doing great - when I started working on real GMAT problems I was completely lost. Half of the techniques taught are not unsed on the real test and the concepts taught in the Princeton Review are so rudimentary it is laughable. Skip this book - waste of time.

Firstly, the questions are much easier than in other books, such as Kaplan. Although it may be argued that Kaplan is harder than the actual test, there's nothing like being prepared for hard questions and then breezing through the real test.

Secondly, I thought the book was too focused on being able to "out-psyche" the test-makers, giving you tips on recognizing how the test-makers try to fool you with wrong answer choices. This may be good if you are completely lost on how to solve most problems. But these strategies don't work on a great many real GMAT questions (the test-makers know of these strategies, I assume), so I'm a big fan of a tutorial telling me how to find the right answer rather than how to find the wrong ones.

But the worst thing about this book would have to be the Practice Tests on the CD-ROM. With the computer-adaptive GMAT, it is very helpful to practice on good computer tests. The ones on this CD-ROM have a look and feel that is different from the real test. But hands down, the biggest frustration was when a popup box (like when you try to 'Open' a file in Word) opened in the middle of a test and asked me locate the missing file q0.cst or some such nonsense. The test malfunctioned after that and the last two and a half hours of my life were wasted. I couldn't even find out if I had answered the previous questions successfully or not.

My advice: work through the Official Guide and Kaplan first. Then, if you have time, look at this book.

I took the GMAT a few days ago and scored 690. Good but not good enough for the top 5 schools. May try again in a few days time. I used Princeton Review and Kaplan for practice and like you will see mentioned in several other reviews here, the Princeton Review's questions are a tad easier than the real exam. Kaplan on the other hand is way tougher than the real exam and I find it quite hard to complete the sections on time in their exams. The Princeton Review is a better written book and gives you some insider tips while Kaplan is more politically correct. For instance The Princeton Review tells you that "size does matter" on the AWA section whereas Kaplan doesnt. I also found the essay templates suggested by Princeton a good idea and Kaplan doesnt have anything like that. The essay templates make the AWA a breeze once you have brainstormed and arrived at the arguments you are going to make. It preconstructs the essay structure for you and saves you time. Its a particularly useful tool for people who dont have much dexterity with words and see the AWA as a pain in the neck. In Kaplan's defense, I have to say that though the tests are much tougher than the real GMAT, they are useful in helping you clearly see the areas where you need to improve. It may also help you improve your speed a little. That said, I must complain that the tutorials in Kaplan are quite useless, all that multimedia and jazz notwithstanding. Conclusion : Get both Kaplan and Princeton Review and take tests from both, from Kaplan alone if you dont have the time for both. Use Princeton Review more for the verbal and AWA sections.

Alice Adams obviously labored to include all the 'hot' themes here -abortion, the homeless, revolting sex and drug use. All the themes are poorly and shallowly expressed. And, of course, there is the gay daughter and all the gay friends. If only Adams had written the story we were promised on the flyleaf.

A boring novel about boring waspy women in San Francisco who have no morals and no concern for anyone else besides themselves. These characters were predictable and dull. I hoped for something memorable to take away from this book, but I was left with nothing. I just hope that these characters are truly fictional and not based on real people. People like these characters are sad examples of humanity.

The insight into one family in a well-told tale gives the reader food-for-thought about many contemporary issues. Alice Adams is truly a gifted writer and this book is ample evidence of this fact. Five protagonists is a difficult feat and only a truly excellent writer can pull it off.

Several years ago there was a British lecturer who, in order to win a competition for the most boring lecturer of the year, wrote -and delivered- a Marxist analysis of a fairly ordinary joke about a coconut. The lecture went on for several highly tedious hours.

Mr Solomon's "attack" on Dilbert and Scott Adams reminds me of that lecture.

Mr Solomon makes an error common to many so-called media critics. They over-value their own importance and fail to identify terrible faults in themselves. Whilst, mysteriously, being able to see minor (or imaginary) faults in others.

Mr Solomon further attacks Scott Adams for making money from his intellectual properties. Mr Solomon's attack on Mr Adams would, therefore, only be valid if he criticises from the position of a man who writes entirely for free.

Unless Mr Solomon does work for financial reward?

In that case it would be very easy to dismiss Mr Solomon as a self-serving hypocrit and to ignore anything else he has to say on any subject.

For people night suspect that "once a self-serving hypocrit..." But that would be an unfair attack on Mr Solomon,would it not? Almost in the same way that Mr Solomon made an unfair attack on Mr Adams.

I love reading scathing criticism of humor by well-meaning but, unfortunately, completely humorless critics. Solomon and Tomorrow show they lack the required funny-bones needed to both understand and appreciate Dilbert. Far from being a double agent of the corporate elite by using the new opiate of the masses-humor-to quiet the grumbling proletariat, Scott Adams uses "Dilbert" to poke fun at us all. If Solomon and Tomorrow would simply go back to Scott's seminal work, "The Dilbert Principle," they would see that Adams' basic premise is that we are ALL idiots sometimes, whether we be managers or peons. Their "shocking" claim that Scott actually favors downsizing comes as no surprise to real fans, either. In "The Dilbert Principle" Adams clearly states that the first round of downsizing probably was a good thing. But too much of a "good thing" can be fatal; and Scott says as much in the same chapter of his book. Furthermore, despite our critics' claims, Adams DOES offer his own solution to the problems of the modern corporate situation: the OA5, or Out At Five, Principle. This principle isn't a groundbreaking insight into how companies could be run; it's just common sense from a man who has actually spent years inside a cubicle working for a large, bungling, and yet somehow successful corporation. What the OA5 principle really says to managers is to simplify things, let your people do what they do best, and don't get in the way.

Solomon and Tomorrow expect too much of "Dilbert" as a vehicle for corporate criticism and proletarian exhortation. That's not what it's about; thus, their critique is really misplaced. There are examples in the strip of dedicated workers (Alice, e.g.) and good managers (although it WAS just an alien in disguise). But "Dilbert" is about the silly and frustrating things that go on in almost all corporations. It's a way for us to relate, not a manifesto for revolutionary change. Nobody is being fooled here by the purpose of "Dilbert," except perhaps for the authors of this book. And as for the co-optation of "Dilbert" by the very corporate America it makes fun of...come on, fellas! This is standard practice. When John Lennon songs are used to sell Nike shoes, Jimi Hendrix is used to sell Camaro's, and Gen X slackers are used to push all kinds of syrupy sodas, it's fairly obvious that corporate America is pretty immune to criticism and only welcomes the opportunity to reach those who vow never to become a part of the heartless machinery of the modern corporation. Solomon and Tomorrow not only miss the point of "Dilbert" entirely in this book, they don't even understand the corporate monster they say "Dilbert" is serving. Critiques of corporate America have their place in our society because there are a lot of things wrong with in the modern workplace. However, isn't attacking a comic strip as a way to sell your rhetoric to the general public a bit dubious and, might I add, "Dilbert"-esque? Solomon and Tomorrow had better be careful or they might find themselves bungling around inside the borders of Scott Adams' strip.

One can often tell much about a book from the opinions of its detractors. For instance, the most common arguments in the negative reviews of this book so far have been, "But downsizing really IS a good thing" and, "If you disagree with me, you're a Communist." A close runner-up is, "For cryin' out loud, it's just a cartoon; it's not like Dilbert's being hyped as `a cartoon hero of the workplace' or `ripping aside the flimsy corporate curtain' or anything like that." Honorable mention goes to "But Dilbert has shown top managers doing stupid things, too," breathtakingly missing Solomon's point that we the workers are not suffering because top management is stupid (or because we are), but because top management is actively screwing us over - and Adams is helping them get away with it by telling us, "You can't do anything about it; just lie back and enjoy, er, laugh at it." A must-read.

This book is very basic and is well outdated by at least 3-4 years. no mention of dvd or dts!! according to the author thx is the breaking revolution??? I purchased the book in hopes of finding a few tips on the design and building of an actual home theater ($15,000 - $25,000). what i got was a boring explanation of dolby pro logic and stereo sound. if you are designing a $1500 system with a $300 dolby surround sound receiver this is the book for you!!!!

if not keep looking!!!!!!!!!!!

The book is well written and the material covered logically organized. However, advances in technology makes this more of a history text than the current "how-to" book that I was looking for. You would never buy this book in a store because you would flip through a few pages and find out that Wolenik talks about DVD in the "future tense". I would buy an updated version -- even for a rank beginner this one is not worth much. OK pictures!

This book is all about the systems and equipment, how they work or not together. It does not go into decor of said equipment. No themes or anything like that, just the tecnical mumbo jumbo. It seems to focus on higher end equipment as well and does not give each manufacturer of stereo/audio equipment equal reviews or ratings. Some are just brushed over, barely mentioned. It is a good starter book, but definetly does not cover all aspects of a home theater design.