Save yourself the waste of money you will inccur if you purchase this book. If you're looking for a decent book I suggest the Sybex or Microsoft line of books.

There's a reason why so many used copies are for sale....

Straight to the point: I don't recommend this book.

The descriptions of components and services in Windows 2000 were vague, there were multiple grammatical and spelling errors in the text, and (based on all the sample test material I have seen so far) this book really does not prepare you well for the 70-221 -- rather, it would seem to be better used as a "reference" should you need a quick definition on what something is. But, the book's use of acronyms without spelling them out or listing them in a glossary even makes that difficult sometimes.

All in all, this book really dosen't prepare you for the test very well. Your money would be better spent on a book that tells you how things can and should be configured, and gets into the nitty gritty about whatever topic is being described... rather than give you a brief description of what something is. As busy as they are in this book trying to define every single computing term, they tell you very little about how to configure them, and almost nothing about the scenario(s) in which specific configurations would be helpful.

I passed exam because of this book. Recommend for all beginners.

This book is to assist you with the COMPUTER GAME, "Monopoly Tycoon", not the board game "Monopoly". I bought the book for assistance with the board game, being misled by the editorial description.

I'm an adult--agewise. This book will not be much help beyond the game guide that came with the game software. The basic strategy recommendation for single player was made obsolete by a software patch released after the strategy guide was published. One or two minor points were in the strategy guide that I did not pick up from the game documentation. The game website has better strategy hints for free! Save your money for something better or an updated edition. The multiplayer strategy said than human players were unpredictable and most of the single player strategies were not appropriate. There's a news flash for the cable news channels!!!

This book explains the intricate yet intriging game very well. By explaining some of the petty confusion they are able to clear up the game. For people who have this game wouldn't it be nice to have the upper hand constantly? With this guide you are able to comprehend the game more and also have a more tricks, and stradegy. So, if you would like to have the upper hand and have power/hegemony over what happens in this game then why are you reading this you should be out there buying the guide!!

The main drawback of this book is that the poor chapters about different types of homicide are not followed by any further literature.

Murder One contains a lot of case studies of actual crimes. It also details motives and methods on all sorts of crimes including drug distribution, parents who kill their children and serial killers.

While this book is a great quick reference book, solid crime writing requires a little more depth than this book offers. It's worth having, though, to get you started on the right track.

"Murder One" accomplishes its purpose: It is a good writer's guide to homicide. Its breadth dictates lack of deep detail. It covers murder: weapons, business murders, narcotics murders, gang murders, organized-crime murders, contract murders, crime-of-passion murders and thrill/lust, sexual, mass, serial, vehicular and bizarre murders.

All books, including "Murder One", I have read in the "Howdunit Series" have been incredibly helpful.

What happens when you take two gay men, one lesbian neighbor, a crossdresser, a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, assorted other characters and mix in a murder? Hey, the concept sounded great, and I expected to find the promised "fast and funny" murder mystery.

Unfortunately, the author failed to deliver on his own story outline and what I got was a very poor example of creative composition, grammer and puncuation. I often use dashes for effect in my writing, but this book is overpopulated with them. So many in fact, that I found myself tripping over ordinary hyphenated words. Come on, the old comma rule applies for dashes, too. When in doubt, leave them out!

Composition and grammer aside, the character development is very weak. Besides being a totally bitchy and unlikable bunch, they all speak in the same voice and unless a "______ said" is provided you really don't have any idea which character is speaking.

The author started out with a plot premise that offered unlimited possibilities, however before he attempts the next book in his promised series he had better find a good editor to help him deliver a polished end product instead of another first draft.

Besides one dimensional characters and a contrived plot, the author exhibits a strange fetish for dashes. The must be a hundred of them in the first 50 pages. What happened to the more appropriate comma? The editor and proofreader have much to answer for also. The typos and inapprpriate words are very distracting.
Having gotten that off my chest, the three main characters are likeable and worth giving another chance, given the experience the author has gained with this venture.

...there's a new dynamic duo in town and their names are Jeremy and Sheraton. This one has it all, a murder, a mystery and some of the sharpest humor to come out of a word processor in history! If you've never been to Greenwich Village in NYC, you'll feel like you were there and you'll have seen it through the eyes of Jeremy and Sheraton. You couldn't ask for two better tour guides or amateur sleuths. Joe Albanese is going to give Janet Evanovich a run for her money when readers "discover" this book. What are you waiting for, read it already!

Mr. Burr brings up some great points. Unfortunatly, many of the "contradictions" he lists are not contradictions at all. For example, one "contradiction" Burr lists in his book involves the genealogies of Christ. In the New Testament, there are two genealogies of Christ. One is in the book of Matthew, chapter 1, and another in the book of Luke, chapter 3. If you look at them, they look completely different. They don't even agree on Jesus' grandfather. The fact is, however, that these lists are not contradictory, but instead complementary. The genealogy in Matthew is Joseph's family line, while the one in Luke is Mary's.

There are many cases like these. The he doesn't back up his claims...

This book is basically a laundry list of contradicitons in the bible. I like the book, and thought it would make for a very good conversation starter the next time a religious group knocked on your door, but I really wish the author would have backed up the contradictions with some discussion and historical perspective.

An amazing little book, still raising eyebrows and upsetting fundamentalists 150 years after its publication. While the author is not a scholar and never claims to be, he offers a number of cases where the bible might contradict itself. No attempt is made to put things in context, or to put a spin on them. Just verse for verse contradictions. The Preface is an eye opener, and I have to say this little volume has aged very well. Thought provoking for those who can't be spoon fed their faith.

Essentially the Book can be viewed as: 1. Part 1: Basic Excel techniques that most users already know. 2. Part 2: Intermediate Excel techniques that many users of Excel have already picked up. 3. Part 3: Advanced Excel techniques. More specialized and their usefulness depends on how many are needed for a chemist's job. More advanced users (which is probably the target audience for the book) have most likely picked up the techniques that are useful for them and could figure out the others if they were required for their job. 4. Part 4: Chemical Applications of Excel. Very specialized and of only limited appeal. As mentioned in the advanced techniques, many users (probably the target audience) could figure these out if they were required. 5. Appendices are of limited appeal since the online help has a complete list and these are not only part of the lists, but are dated.

Book is very dated. Subject matter is not for Excel 97. Excel 97 was released after the book was in print, though new features in Excel 97 are noted in Appendix I. Most material seemed geared to Excel 4.0 with some mention of Excel 5.0.

Examples in book are all from the Macintosh version of Excel, so it doesn't have the feel of the version IBM version.

The example worksheets for the chapters are not mentioned in the chapter, many are not that worthwhile and many macros do not work since they are Excel 4.0 macros

Excel for Chemists: a comprehensive guide is any but! As a chemistry student who uses this program and wanted to learn how to make excel do more, I found Billo's book useless. It was hard to follow and the examples were poor. The accompanying disk did not work(it was not even formatted!) I called John Wiley Tech Support in the book twice and the publisher did not respond to my messages! Billo could have done a better job by giving mutliple examples with clear directions on how to write complex scientific equations, macros, and how to use excel to fit data. The only useful things I got from the book is how to to create forms and the chapter for advance charting techniques. If another edition is in the making I would like to see the author include different examples of chemical analysis for spectrometric data and more examples of how to use excel for data analysis in other areas of chemistry: polymer, gas-phase studies, lifetime data. I think people learn best through examples; clear ones that build on one or more skills at a time.

As a member of chemistry department in a University, who teach student the basic skill of use of Excel in the lab, I find this book a very useful tool for myself. Although it is true that the book is a little too complicated for the average user who knows only the basics of spreadsheet and barely graph the data, however for somebody who needs to write macro functions for the students to perform the calculations effortlessly, Excel for Chemist is a very comprehensive book. Exmaples given in this book is fair: after all, this book is not for everybody, and I have a feeling that Billo wrote this book based upon the assumption that most readers know more than the basic of Excel (which is not too surprising, considering the fact that Excel is one of the most heavily used spreadsheet around).

I bought this tape for my boyfriend in hopes he would understand women better. Not this tape. Although it started well with a great understanding of the challenges couples face, it quickly lead to the only solution to handle a problem is to dump her. This tape was no help and would do more damange than good.

I bought this cassette tape in the hopes that my boyfriend would understand me a little better. Although it started well with a comprehensive understanding of the differences of men and women in today's society. It soon turns into an insult to women. Joseph Angelo's solution for any relationship difficulty is "dump her". He describes women as insane and liars. I would not recommend this to anyone that would like to help or improve his or her relationship.

Finally a book written by a man who obviously won the battle of True Love, verses Societal Manhood! This book is written so that any man can understand the changes that need to be made in order to have peace in their lives and tranquility in their hearts! There may actually be a chance for women to find a Real Man out there after all!

As a student using this as a primary text in a graduate-level spectroscopy course, I found that this first edition text is far from polished and does not surpass the spectroscopy texts curretly avaiable on the market. Errors were found in the text and end-of-chapter problems. The extreme scarcity of worked problems and review questions with answers made it difficult for a student to test his or her grasp of the concepts. There is no study guide. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the chapter often relate poorly to what was stated in the chapter's text. As a result of these shortcomings, I turned to other, more established spectroscopy texts for clearer descriptions and understandable examples. Perhaps later editions will improve upon the first; however, I would advise against buying this text and recommend a more established spectroscopy textbook.

I took a class in organic spectroscopy this year (spring 1999) and this was the primary textbook. My professor skipped some of the chapters and handed out supplementary materials instead. I don't know what was the motive to choose it as a textbook, i guess because it covers all, although superficially. If you are looking for a book on the subject, I suggest finding a few older ones that concentrate on subjects instead of something that wants to be the Holy Grail of Spectroscopy.

I teach the class this book is intended for: graduate level organic spectroscopy. It is a first edition, so there may be a glitch or two here and there, but I have been very pleased with it.

In my opinion, there are no ideal books out there. Either the background/theory is inadequate (e.g., Silverstein), the tables are hardly useful (e.g., Pavia), or there aren't enough problems. On the other extreme are NMR-only books like Gunther's or Schlichter that are beyond the scope of the course. While I personally would like to see more tables than are present in Lambert's book, they are a good start and will do very well for many people.

The book includes very reasonable introductions to a great variety of techniques. The section on ionization in mass spec, for instance, has subsections on LD, SIMS, FAB, MALDI, ESI, TS, and APCI on top of the usual EI and CI methods. In the optical spectroscopy section, there are good introductions to CD and ORD. The chapter on 2D NMR is also much more extensive than typical for these books.

There are 35 "integrated problems" in the back of the book, but I might like to have seen more problems associated with each chapter.

I assign this book with confidence, supplementing it with some tables and home grown problems. As far as I'm concerned, it's the class of the current (1999) lot.

A lot has transpired since Richard Rovere died in 1979 that makes his book outdated and irrelevant: Venona and the disintergration of the Soviet Union, for example. Both have put paid to such questions as "if there were Communists in the State Department." Arthur Herman's book "Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" --using the revelations and documents from the former Soviet Union-- clarified these issues once and for all. McCarthy may have been an eccentric demogogue and an alcoholic (so what makes him different from many other politicians?) but history shows that he got it essentially right. Diehard communists, progressive communist sympathizers and all those misguided souls that believed and still believe that it was a "noble" cause-- will never forgive him for getting it right.

Richard Rovere should consider himself a comedian. The book has so many flaws about Senator McCarthy that I can't believe Mr. Rovere can be classified as a legitimate historian.

Declassified Soviet documents are proving that Senator Joe McCarthy was right. Biased historians like Rovere should be academically scorned for thier years of lies and distortions.

No one will be offended by Rovere's much-racking depiction of Joseph McCarthy. Seriously, how many people are there left in America, or anywhere around the world, still willing to stand up and smugly look you in the eye and say Joseph McCarthy was a necessary man fighting for American freedom in a time when Communists were hiding in every shadow? But the book, written in 1959, just isn't all that up-to-date. Of course much of the information we now know was suppressed at that time and J. Edgar Hoover--viciously complict in the development of all the Red Scare and blacklisting craziness--was still in power at the time of publication. Nobody would want to make an enemy of Hoover, so anything dealing with McCarthy and Hoover's contact is treaded over very lightly. This, unfortunately, makes the book somewhat inaccurate, which is a shame because so many dark secrets and shameful public deeds are recorded with a passion and an obvious intense desire to destroy the image of the drunken old demogogue. In 1959, just three years after McCarthy's death, and five years after his disgrace, this was an important book because so many people were still unsure of their opinions towards Tailgunner Joe. I imagine that this book made quite a difference as even Hoover himself took the opportunity to smear the late Senator, drawing comparisons to Krushchev's posthumous denunciation of Stalin. The book is certainly worthwhile for anyone interested in a recreation of the terror of the 1950s, written from the perspective of the 1950s, but there are several more contemporary biographies of Joseph McCarthy and, regardless of the fact that this one is likely written with more beautific prose, in a case study like this, information beats out pretty words every time.--Lance Polin

Dr. Rhawn Joseph "forgot" to include scientific analysis of The Forgotten Ape = the Bonobos (see the book by de Waal published by the University of California Press). Dr. Joseph's 'University Press California' book is interesting and revealing as an example of how selective, incomplete coverage of evolutionary science can be used to justify the most extreme contemporary cultural expressions of misogynistic patriarchy. It could be used as a text book for study of that phenomenon. The photographs of nude women with motorcycles reflect the cultural ideology that makes the pursuit of valid science so difficult in America today.

This book at a superficial level appears to be intelligently written. If you are a scientist who has studied human sexuality you will know what a sham this book is. The author apparently doesn't understand the fundamentals of the field, like minimal parental investments and its evolutionary consequences. Don't buy this book.

Dr. Joseph is among that elite group of scientists who not only makes amazing discoveries but has the amazing ability to "think outside the box." In the 1970s Dr. Joseph was the first to demonstrate, conclusively, the role of early environmental and hormonal influences on sex differences in cognition, scientific studies he published in prestigious scientific journals. He has also made major discoveries in the field of evolution, including the evolution of language, religion, sex differences and sexuality, and has published this work in prestigious scientific journals such Behavioral and Brain Research and the Archives of Sexual Behavior. In this brilliant, tour de force, Dr. Joseph explains the origins and evolution of human female sexuality and points out unsettling facts that the patriarchs of science and culture would prefer to believe were not true. For example, among almost all species, almost all females will mate, whereas 30% to up to 75% of males never have sex. The same is true of the human female who, on average, has more sex partners, and certainly, more orgasms, that the average male. Females are built for sex: consider the millions upon millions of women who work as prostitutes. What human male could engage in sex with 5 or more women a day, for years? Women have more sex than men, though it is often with the same man. That is, whereas a few high status males have numerous sex partners, most males do not. However, who is having sex with these high status men? Women, lots of women, ...