The chapter entitled Graphics-Based HDSSs uses only verbal descriptions of graph types. It is ironic that a chapter that discusses the value of different types of graphs to facilitate cognition in different types of tasks imposes the extraordinary burden of making the reader visualize those paradigms unaided and making the reader hope that he correctly understands them.

This book is well written and easy to read but is much too basic. The book covers a variety of topics, but none of them in enough detail to be of assistance as a textbook in any but the most rudimentary of courses. For example, many of the major topics in healthcare decision support are discussed in less than one page.

This was a very disappointing foray. I am glad that this text was a gift and I didn't spend my own $$$ to purchase it. The first edition of this book is well known to have problems. Many of the problems of first edition texts are ironed out by the time the second edition is published. Not so here! The text is rife with factual errors. It is unfortunate, as this book is considered a "standard" text for the field. Also, too many chapters clearly kowtow to industry.

This book is a poor review for recertification as it gives incorrect information. Be careful before purchase! I challenge the AAOS to publish a 3rd edition which is meticulously edited.

I use this book as a reference and as a learning guide and find it useful for review of material with which I'm familiar. However, this book presents unfamiliar topics in a confusing, poorly organized fashion. As a basic science text, I hoped to find a logical, instructive text that facilitated learning new material. Instead I found a text which glosses over key concepts in order to present the latest research. In addition, many figures are inadequately captioned and explained.

I would recommend this text only to those who wish to have a reference for material with which they are already familiar, and not to those learning the material for the first time.

- the text has lots of gaps. steps are missing.
- the screenprints are tiny. it's hard for me to read them
even with a magnifying glass.
- there are no callouts.

this book is no good.

The author is already a classic in this kind of guides. He doesn't write about the program in depth, but he just references the most basic issues about its installation and how to start to use it. So, if you have never work with Outlook before, you will get a general idea about it in the shortest time. Don't buy it if you are looking for an easy way of finding the Outlook 2000 new feautures .

I am new to the field of web development and I have read this book .Though title is "NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED" even then it calls for some skills in VBScript & VISUAL BASIC. Some of the examples in Chapters 5 , 6 & 17 are not working inspite of downloading from publisher's site.

This book may be useful for systematic introduction to ACTIVE-X .

I haven't read this book, but if it is anything like some of the other "No Experience Necessary" titles (like Visual Basic 5.0, Steve Brown) it will not do for someone who is just learning ActiveX. This is not to be disrespectful to the author, but be careful when purchasing this title. Definitely should be PERSONALLY reviewed before purchase to see if you've got what it takes to put together any potholes you might find!!

With over 15 years of experience and up to date on all of the new product lines as well as the upper level machines, I must say that this book isn't worth the paper it is printed on. Most if not all of the information contained is readily available from the manufacturer of the appliance. If you have a more serious problem with your machine then you do in fact need a technician to inspect it and give you the options to repair it CORRECTLY or to purchase a new machine. Put your dollar to use and hire a real professional, with real, in the field experience.

Being an appliance repair tech with over 15 years of REAL field experience, I can say the info in this book is at best common sense and at worst just plain wrong. Save your money to spend on a service call to have a real professional service and maintain your appliance.

Good coverage of XML with a usable parser ...

... however, you are left the problem "why did I just learn all this stuff". It goes into great depths showing you how to traverse through XML, but it never tells you why you would want to do it. It certainly never connects the the XML applications with a .NET web service. After going into great detail showing you how you write a schemea, it all turns out to be pointless because you don't actually need to use one for a .NET Web Service (which is what I thought the book was all about). Similarly the subject of WSDL is covered in great detail - why go to this depth and never explain why. It mentions the passing of credentials as a SOAP header on page 316 and the book ends on page 327.

This book is a Microsoft reference lift turned into a book with a scabby example of a "real-life" example. Forget this book and by the Microsoft Developing XML Web Serices and Server Solutions.

For a beginner book. So far this book has not given me
any more information about web services than a beginning
book for vb.net or c#.

Few things to note,
could not get to work:
1/ chp4. web service proxy class example
2/ chp6 and chp7 is missing both the .mdf and ldf files
the examples WILL NOT work without it
3/ chp8 is missing the show_data.mdf
the examples WILL NOT work without it

For a beginner book to be thrown out with missing files
and non working examples, there should be no excuse for this
since the examples are not even difficult

Oddly enough, the databases for the vb.net version for this
book does work for the c#.

I was fortunate enough to have wrox sent me the db file for
chapter 7 but again I was hit with misfortune from additional missing code

It i s possible to use the text, mainly for editing.
The content does not go to the point. The examples simplicity make them irrelevant. On the whole a text which avoids a concise, clear, and intelligent style.

As you might surmise I agree with the reviewer below. If thestar-rating scale included a minus section, this book would probably have earned a few stars on the minus end of the scale. This review is written mostly of solidarity with my fellow readers/programmers.

The book has no in depth information on CICS, no mention of background processes. The index pages don't match the contents of the book (try julian date for example). The map examples are most simplistic, never found in real life. Nobody codes like these examples. In short, hated it!

As a lifelong baseball fan and Joe DiMaggio fan, I was most pleased by this book. The book moves along well and tells the Yankee Clipper story from the viewpoint of someone who knows his subject well. I believe any fan of DiMaggio and his era of baseball will thoroughly enjoy this work. I have read many DiMaggio books and this one is as good as any. I recommend it!

A reasonable effort, but surely there must be more out there on this American Icon. I learned some interesting tidbits about Joe and his penchant for hitting streaks. Outside of that, not much else that you could not find out on your own with a few minutes of research. True, Joe Dimaggio is a serious recluse, but the information on him is all there in black and white. I never got a true sense for seasons or accomplishments. Joseph Durso was just all over the place with this effort. To write about Joe Dimaggio, you have to write with love and passion for the man and the game. I just never got that feeling reading this book. It was like reading a racing form. Interesting facts, but not great reading.

It was the review above that put me off this book, but I read extracts from my university library and also consulted "joseph Beuys: the art of cooking" from the same author and found nothing of use, just a general rantings of the authors relationship to the artist. well, good for you - but how does this help me? or anyone else?
The author SEEMS to offer the same hero worship that Joseph Beuys was keen to escape from, given the dangers of idolising anyone, his critics certainly made a big deal of this (especially benjamin "quite mean" buchloh who compares Beuys to fascism and claims that a former luftwafe pilot cannot represent the art of post-war germany - but I say, look to your own problems in dealing with your national identity in the climate of psychological post-war reconstruction and leave the do-gooders be) and the image tends to override everything else - the lasting image is one of messiah and not creative freedom.

It would probably be hard to overestimate the impact the works of German artist Joseph Beuys have had on modern European art. This is true. It is also true that Beuys was, and still remains, a most fascinating figure, and a most inspiring one as well. Thought provoking, liberating, and magical. However, Beuys was no great philosopher. Actually, to be quite honest, he was equipped with a brain like a Swiss cheese, full of holes, and whenever he was asked to talk about art - or politics, or ecology, or whatever - most of what he had to say made no sense whatsoever. For those of us who are FOR BEUYS - compared to those who are against him - READING Beuys can be very depressing, being constantly confronted with nonsense, mixed with lack of knowledge and pure mumbo-jumbo, and not even the slightest bit sophisticated, or ironic. Durini's book contains transcripts of a discussion with Beuys, entitled "We are the revolution", and more.

Generally speaking, Durini's book is perhaps the most embarrassing one I've ever read. She, a (self-proclaimed?) "cultural professional, journalist, writer and patron" of the arts knew Beuys personally, and he - she says - changed her life. I bet he did. She was a Beuys groupie, and now that he's dead she's devoted her life to repeating over and over again just how splendid he was, and in all ways imaginable, strongly emphasizing - constantly - how fascinated HE was with HER, how SHE inspired HIM, and how THEY collaborated, and so on. Despite the book's subtitle, "A Life Told", it's not about the life of Joseph Beuys, and neither is it about art. Instead, Durini - it would seem - has taken every word Beuys ever ushered for granted, all of the nonsense and the mumbo-jumbo, and boiled it into a Swiss cheese soup, adding more than a few dashes of egomania. If it wasn't so absolutely pathetic, perhaps it could have been funny. But it isn't. As far as I am concerned, the MOST embarrassing part of the book is an "interview" conducted by a certain MBM, "interviewing" Durini. If she - Durini - didn't write ALL of this herself (and while I was reading I kept suspecting that she had ... Which (sane) interviewer would go, like MBM does, "In Beuys I see the totality of reason set within the context of life, and therefore in the real and the spiritual"? And what the heck does it mean?) ... Where was I? If she didn't make this up herself, MBM ought to be ashamed of himself. Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, I fear, would never even stop to consider.

Go buy some other book.