They just keep adding to this book without removing or editing old material. The book has become a chaotic jumble of ideas of the various authors. There are other better books out there.

Well, I think this book is very informative. Unfortunately it is very boring. But, that just goes with the subj. matter. The one thing that is extremely annoying is the unit conversions table. I think that it could had been placed at a more convinient location (inner front cover) instead of being on pg.651/789. On that note, I'd recomment photocopying the u.c.table when working on the problems. An introductory book to get you started is: Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (richard m. felder). Great book!

This book is written specifically for chemical engineers.It covers topics such as EOS for non-ideal multicomponent mixtures, chemical reaction thermodynamics and thermodynamics of solutions. I suggest it to everyone who have trouble with this course.

This book is billed as an unbiased history/biography of Joseph Smith. I had read Fawn Brodie's, No Man Knows My History... and was "itching" for more. I think Ms. Hill should just openly admit that her brother wrote a major work, that she quotes liberally, while working at BYU--she may not be Mormon, but she has a vested interest in the cause... promoting her brother's work? This book was a cheap second.... Read Ms. Brodie's work

Donna Hill's book was a disappointment to me. It gets three stars only because she does a respectable job in the last half of the book of recounting the Church's experience in Nauvoo, the polygamy issue, and the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

The most disappointing aspect of Hill's book is the superficial way she examines the evidence and circumstances surrounding the First Vision and the writing of the Book of Mormon. She examines the three separate accounts written by Smith of his First Vision and essentially states they are reconciliable. This echoes the assessment of the accounts made by Dean Jesse in his article in 1973 on the First Vision which occurred in Brigham Young University Studies Journal. Hill leaves out the fact that Smith stated he was a different age during each recounting of the vision, that the message delivered by the heavenly beings was significantly different in each account, and that his inability to specifically date the vision differs dramatically from his ability to date with absolute specificity the vision that told him to go dig up the Golden Plates.

Also troubling about her analysis (or lack thereof) is the following: 1. She alludes to a dream that Smith's father had which is recounted in Lucy Smith's biography of her son, but fails to mention this dream somehow found its way totally intact into First Nephi in the Book of Mormon. 2. She fails to deal with the issue of Smith's imagination and the fact he told tales recounting the early inhabitants of the Americas prior to the time the Book of Mormon was translated (Lucy Smith's biography does recount this) 3. She discusses the subject matter of the Book of Mormon, but fails to deal at all with the vast body of extrinsic evidence that tends to refute its claims (the fact that there is no evidence that animals described in the Book of Mormon lived here during the time mentioned, DNA testing showing Indians are related to Asiatic peoples--instead of Middle Eastern Jews, the absence of archaelogy establishing metallurgy, shipbuilding, etc.)

Hill does deal with Smith's 1826 trial in Bainbridge, New York for being an "imposter and moneydigger". She does admit that he may have been convicted of the crime and put on probation, but fails to grasp some of the larger implications of the event. First, the whole thing started when Josiah Stowel traveled all the way from Bainbridge to Palmyra to find Smith to look for buried treasure. In order for this to occur, Smith *had* to have had a reputation for engaging in such activities that was fairly widely known. Second, several accounts of the trial say that Stowel testified that he knew Smith could look into a seer stone and see buried treasure underneath the earth. The implication of this is that Smith had broad persuasive powers. Since people can't see what is underground with a seer stone one must conjecture why he claimed that he could.

I felt her treatment of the Book of Abraham controversy was inadequate. She admits that modern Egyptologists that have translated part of the papyri from which the Book of Abraham was written have a very different translation than that which Smith claimed. However, she suggests that perhaps the papyri only served as a "catalyst" which opened his mind to receive the inspiration to write the Book. Perhaps, but entries from Smith's own journals during this time period use the language that he was preparing an Egyptian alphabet and grammar to translate the papyri. One has to ask the question, just exactly when does a prophet say something that is accurate, and when does he not?

The book redeems itself, in part, by recounting history of the Saints, as Smith began to build the church. Her recitation of the polygamy issue in not a whitewash. The persecutions that the Mormon people endured in Missouri and Illinois are absolutely shocking. Hopefully, they will never be repeated against any group, anywhere. I hadn't realized, until I read this book, that things were so bad in Illinois at the time of the Mormon expulsion from Nauvoo, that Governor Ford actually feared Civil War.

Smith does come through in this book as a highly charismatic, very likeable, and highly intelligent individual. This is a far cry from some church works which have attempted to paint him as an ignorant country boy.

An interesting, but a superficial book.

This is certainly the best biography about Joseph Smith so far. I believe it is certainly the most objective, it does not bash Smith or praise and defend him. Its objective is to attempt to understand Joseph Smith. I feel for the most part it does achieve that goal. I felt after reading it I certainly had a better understanding of who Joseph Smith was. I appreciated the fact that Hill did not get off on issues such as whether or not the Book of Mormon is real history or if Joseph Smith was a true prophet, that was not the books goal. My only criticism is it does not really focus on Joseph Smiths culture or enviroment that he lived in. It also sometimes seems that it is more of a early history of the Mormon Church than a biography. There are more biographies about Joseph Smith currently being written that I believe will replace this one as being the most definitive biography of Joseph Smith. However right now there is no better biography about Joseph Smith available. And having spent several hours of my own in the Churches Historical department studying certain aspects of Joseph Smiths life, I do feel somewhat qualified in saying that.

I bought this book because it's recommended by my SON to review for the NCLEX. What I don't like about it is the answer section where it tells you why an answer is incorrect. The editors are inconsistent with their rationales and many times their reasoning is pretty vague. For example, one answer tells you Play-Doh is an appropriate toy for a toddler and then 10 questions later it is dangerous because a toddler might eat it. There is a great deal of review questions and the CD is helpful as are the review sections.

While it certainly got my mind working, this book was of little help with the nursing exam. The exam I took focused much less on disease states and medications and much more on vague diagnostic questions. On the whole, it's not a bad book but be sure to speak with someone who has recently taken the test prior to using this or any other book for preparation. It'll give you a dose of reality and allow you to focus on questions that will actually be asked.

This book starts you off with a brief overview of the individual areas of nursing such as Med/Surg, Pediatrics, Psychology... for each section it has questions followed by a section of answers with rationales for the correct/incorrect answer. Once you have covered the material from the individual units the book has two comprehensive tests where you can put your knowledge to the test. This book includes a CD-Rom. The CD-Rom offers you the choice of a practice test and a tutorial. Both give you rationales for the correct/incorrect answers. All in all a good book. The only thing I would add would be questions about delegation.

This book is the best of the Property hornbooks. The Sprankling book by Lexis is also good. This one is better because it has less fluff in it. This book is so superior it is obvious to anyone who uses it.

Having had property with the illustrious Prof. Burke himself, this book has been a godsend. As with most E&Es I would heartily recommend this edition. The examples and explanations are clear and concise, and not a little bit entertaining. I don't know why some of my lawschool peers seem to think that some answers are wrong, however, they should very well know that there are no absolutes in the law. At any rate, grab this E&E and run with it. It really comes in handy during crunch time, and that is when supplements show their true value. The book rates high for both personal and real property.

Of all the property hornbooks this is the only one which will translate into a high grade on a law school exam. The Moynihan book is to small and covers only Prop 1 material. The Singer book is to voluminous, this book covers every testable subject and leaves the discussion of untestable material to the property nerds. Look no further, this hornbook is all you need to get an A in property, if you actually read it it of course.

I'm sorry, but this book is much too full of description and symbolism. If you juxtapose it to other short stories, I'm sure you will notice the negative difference. My advice is: Do not buy this book!! Find another one - you will enjoy it more! When you unpack the story, you'll find that the first paragraph is full of description about an empty ocean, all mysterious and strnage. Other settings are a ship deck and an L-shaped cabin. I think I need not say any more - this book is dreadful!

Conrad knew how to pack a punch in a small number of pages. He knew how to evoke dread. And he knew how to tell a story of the sea. It's not as involved or incredible as Heart of Darkness (but few things written in the English language have ever been)-- this little story about a stowaway is tightly told. Still, it will leave you with an appreciation of the abilities of a master.

Excellent book. Had to read it for class and loved it. Would recommend to anyone.

The book is very informative if a bit radical-protestant in itself. The author brings as truth, i would not be overly sure about. But the stuff about the witnesses: polemic but that's the way it is.

...This book as well as many others has finally set many people free and given them free thought instead of just going along with the rest of the lemmings. Many people have been released from their feelings of guilt and fear and now are able to lead normal lives instead of living their lives for a man-made organisation that is "ruled" by imperfect men who change their minds and prophecies to suit their own interpretation...

This book gives you an inside view of the WatchTower Society Cult. By the way, all the Jehovah's Witnesses who are posting these negative reviews have either not read the book (they are not allowed to read material against the Watchtower teachings) or aren't very good witnesses in the first place!

if one is contemplating investing in hedge funds personally,pursuing a career in hedge funds,starting a new job in an institution which invests in hedge funds, or just curious, then this book may be helpful. it is NOT going to be additive to most investment professionals, i.e. if you are already doing it, this book will seem very very basic. I bought it in the hopes of picking up new perspectives on structuring a hedged portfolio. in hindsight, I should have given the money to a qualified charitable organization...

This book is up to date and starts off with a good overview. It then explains in a concise section what alpha and beta are, and also about efficient frontiers for different strategies (graphs of risk v return, showing what would happen if you were 100% strategy, 100% bonds, or a mixture of the two). It then goes into a detailed description for each strategy what the practical issues are.

Great book. This is the best source for detailed descriptions of hedge fund styles and where their returns come from.

Since Reconstruction, works of Southern history and, in this case, sociology have usually fallen into two distinct genres. The first tends to reinforce the popular Old South mythology with exaggerated, romantic imagery as inspired by an emotional attachment to the "Lost Cause." The second is a reaction to the first. The revisionists, always irritated by the chauvinism of Southern popular mythology, want to convince you that Southern mythology is exactly that--a myth. The most violent of the revisionists will have you believe that romantic images of the Old South are fundamentally fictional--an image created by the Southern propagandists eager to create only the most flattering cultural portrait. For the record, THE MIND OF THE SOUTH falls more into the second category than the first. In fact, all of the works of Southern history and sociology that we now consider "classic" are more critical and revisionist than romantic. The non-fiction works of Cash, Odum, and C. Vann Woodward, and the fiction of Ellen Glasgow are all appreciated throughout the country for their critical views of what we call the Old South. It has become nearly equivalent in Southern studies to call a work both revisionist and worthy of praise. The ideas are, unfortunately, redundant. One's appreciation for things Southern all but negates one's credibility as a serious scholar. But the problem with extreme revisionism, and with the Cash work in particular, is that it has you believe that Southern mythology is SO fictional that it is nearly arbitrary. It wants you to believe that popular Southern imagery is a product of ignornace rather than careful consideration of the evidence. There is a difference between calling mythology an exaggeration, as the best works of William C. Davis, John Shelton Reed and Edward L. Ayers do, and calling it patently false, as the works of C. Vann Woodward and W. J. Cash do. This is the challenging question for any revisionist: If the popular view you are trying to de- and reconstruct is false, why (and how) was it originally created? And more critically, if all of history is just a social construction, what makes your take on things innately more accurate than mine? It seems to me that popular mythology must have some grain of truth, for it would not have developed as it did from nothing. It must be based on something that really exists. This idea, of course, is violently rejected by most post-modern historians who believe that ALL of history is nothing more than a social construction. For those sympathetic to that view, this book will appeal to you. To those looking for some insights into the factual basis for a Southern creation myth, you'd do better to read Ayers, Davis, or Reed. These fine historians are able to treat the topic with a sensitive balance of critical insight and popular appreciation.

Published in 1941, one can't help but think that THE MIND OF THE SOUTH is an iconoclastic reaction to the immense popularity of GONE WITH THE WIND, released in 1939.

If you pick up this book, my advice to you is not to quit reading at page 200. Though Cash paints a picture of the South that is mainly unflattering, it is not entirely without reason and maybe not completely because he hates the region; I believe that in the latter half of the book, the reader gets a clear image of "The Mind of WJ Cash."

This book indeed embodies a comprehensive history of the South, beneficial and useful once the reader embraces the flow of Mr. Cash's prose and his myiad tangents. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of the South, though some readers have and will indubitably see this "classic" work as self-righteous, hypocritical and incongruent as the author's subject matter.

For Boomer aged Southerners, there was no formal Southern history. At school you got Yankee cant; at home you got Lost Cause and Jim Crow. That doesn't fit the Chamber of Commerce image of cities too busy to hate, but that was the reality for all but the most miniscule minority of white Southerners. Through public school and college in The South, I never had a word from Southern thinkers with the minor exception of Faulkner - not much of a thinker, but a good describer.
Cash was my introduction to Southern intellectual history, and by the time I found him I was far from the South in both space and time. I can feel Cash in my very bones; a dose of Tom Watson populism, a dose of Mencken's cynicism, and a whole bunch of the self-loathing that a defeated and impoverished people wore like tattered old clothes every day. Some neo-Southerners call Cash a South-hater, but they miss the point; Cash wanted desperately to love The South, but could find little to love except myth. You get much the same with Woodward, though in finer clothes. "Strange Career" is nothing but myth, yet it propelled Woodward to the heights of the Academy. The key to both these books is that they are Yankee approved mythology. The publishing houses are not on Peachtree Street, they are on 5th Avenue. For anyone wishing to begin exploration of Southern thought, Cash, the Nashville Agrarians, and Strange Career are the places to start. If you go no further, you won't know anything about The South, but to go further, you must start here.

Being a Ph.D.,Pharm.D., and now in medical school, I have seen a lot of texts in the realm of pharmacology. This book is really bad. The pathophysiology is weak at best and the authors apparently felt that the pharmacology (MOA's, etc.)where not worth elaborating on. They seem to have skimmed on the "pharm" part. Unfortunately this book is the textbook used at a lot of pharmacy schools... if you are a pharm student, you are much better off buying Goodman and Gillman's! It will be much more useful resource throughout your career. It will also be a better study resource for exams and seminars. If you're a med student, run for your life! This book will do nothing for you. I regret buying this book and feel it is not worth the price.

Addressing the negative comments given to this book by a Dr. Doctor who's going to become yet another doctor, if you truly have your PhD and PharmD (from a halfway decent school), you would recognize the difference between pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. It's awfully troubling if you don't. In agreement with the "triDoc", Goodman and Gillman's is the superior of the 2... in terms of PHARMACOLOGY. However, if you want a very good reference for a practical approach in the treatment options of certain disease states (i.e. PHARMACOTHERAPY), this book should be your choice. It's a wonderful and much used reference. I will agree with another reviewer in that it may be worthwhile to check into buying the hand book addition first (due to its more compact size and less cost). Pharmacotherapy versus pharmacology...Hmmmmmm.

As a pharmacy student, I found this to be an excellent reference - it covers an incredibly wide variety of topics in fantastic detail. However, the book is a little too wordy and detailed to get the overall grasp of a subject if you are covering it for the first time. But if you just need to look up that certain drug, side effect, condition or other similar information this is the book for you! There are great summary and comparison charts, easy to follow headings and a great index.

I finished this book last night and went, this afternoon, to AMAZON to check the reader reviews. I am surprised that people liked this book. The plot is silly, goes nowhere, and started from nowhere. Several of the scenes and characters are not even tangentially related to the story. I've never read any other of his books. I'm sure others have to be better or else this one would not have been published.

I first read this about this book in a feature article in Los Angles Magazine in 1984. I later read this book while spending the weekend at the Marriott Rancho Las Plamas Resort in Rancho, Mirage, Ca. near where this book takes place.

The book focuses on a San Diego Police Officer who looses his son in the PSA jet crash in San Diego and escapes to a desrt town to escape San Diego and to still be near his ex wife who lives in Rancho Mirage in an exclusive Country Club.

The Main Character of this novel "Black Sid" gets an all expense paid vaction to Palm Springs to investigate a murder of a Millionares son. Black Sid like Harry Bright and the millionare all have lost their son.

The plot is very captivating and well worth the reading. Just be careful, it may inspire you enough to go to the Coachella Valley area and fall in love with the desert and buy a home in Rancho Mirage like I did!

I've read ALL of Wambaugh's books, and this is one of his best works. The characters are well developed, they are so real and vivid. As usual, he includes just the right fine character details, you end up knowing the players so well that you feel like you've known them all your life. And I am sure there is nobody (that did't cheat and read the end first) that could have ever guessed how this story plays out.