Looking for a book that might possibly give me a better insight into the aesthetic value of music, I bought this with high hopes. Having previously studied music, I was also hoping for a unique perspective and a broader education in classical music, but found this book to be nothing more than a college level textbook. It is arranged nicely and has great appendix on creating a music library. But the author is often long winded, using musical terms that aren't clearly defined and over descriptive and opinionated explanations of composers and their works. This might be nice for someone who has a beginning interest in classical music, but not for someone who has a working knowledge of the field.

Those of us serious about classical music probably own, in addition to hundreds of recordings, such necessary references as the "Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians," "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music," "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music," and/or (for the ultimate reference) the multi-volume "Grove Dictionary of Music." For us, this book may seem like an unnecessary addition. However, that is not the case.

Karl Haas is to classical music what Carl Sagan was to astronomy--he brings it to the people. Every day, thousands of listeners tune in to hear Karl Haas's radio show, "Adventures in Good Music," and this book serves as much more than a program companion. If you are new to classical music, use this book as an excellent introductory manual and reference (second only to Roger Kamien's "Music: An Introduction"). And if you are well-versed in the classical music tradition, this book is still a must-have because you will find a more enthusiastic and knowledgable account of the joys of music nowhere else. Haas's world-famous avuncular style reverberates through his written prose just as livelily as when heard over the airwaves. Put this book in your musical library and lend it to anyone you know who is curious about the world of classical music.

This is an indispensable reference for every facet of music appreciation! If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Rondo and an Overture, or which music selections you should have as essentials in your classical collection, this is without a doubt THE book to own! It is clearly written, with colorful background information loaded along with the nuts and bolts workings of musical instrumentation and appreciation. A comprehensive index, bibliography, glossary, and extensive listing of suggestions for building your music library, make this a book like no other! Buy this no matter what stage you are in Classical appreciation.

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I felt that this little pocket guide was really easy to read and helpful, especially when I needed to specify questions for certain interviewing sessions with clients. I would recommend it to anyone who needs a little extra help with difficult clients. Great for Students!

This is a highly practical reminder book for conducting mental illness diagnosis interviews. It is well-written and well-organized. Probably will be most useful for medical students and psychiatry residents, but may also help young and possibly even experienced psychiatrists. Avery Z. Conner, author of "Fevers of the Mind".

This interview guide is the perfect companion to the novice practitioner. Zimmerman has condensed the interview sequence of the major disorders so that you can logically follow, and intentionally interview a client.

This book is a little pricey for its size, but the content is A-1.

Well I found out the hard way that YOU DON'T REALLY NEED THIS BOOK. not saying the book is bad, but the game is kinda easy. I say that because this is my first strategy game and I aced it easy matter of fact I had no idea what I was doing till about a third in the game. So if you have a little bit of inteligence (which of course you do because you got a PS2 and shop on Amazon) try to play it without the book first. I have faith in you. plus the book just shows you "Their" stratagy.

When I first played Kessen, I was stuck on the very first level. I had to tried several times to beat the first level and when I did I got stuck on the second level. It was very difficult for me. However, when I got the guide, I was able to try out some of its strategies that I never knew. It was excellent. When I performed the startegies presented in the book, I was able to beat the first few levels with ease. Another reason to get this guide is that its character bios are very interesting and useful. There also quite a few pictures in there. If you get stuck on this game, get this guide and it should help you.

This game was hard about at the third level. But With the guide it was easy as pie. Also i found how to get all battles on it.

This has the veneer of academic research, but it's not actually a sociological study despite being written by a professor. Gottdiener writes mainly of his own experiences as a frequent flyer, such as when he was approached by a prostitute at O'Hare, or snowed in at Logan, or became ill at Denver. These first-person narratives are coupled with observations of how people behave in airports and aircraft. The strongest part of the book is about how flying distorts our experience of space and time; the worst parts are where he descends into ranting about how awful flying can be, because of things like people who insist on reading during night flights (Hey, I do that - some of us can't fall asleep merely because they turned the lights off!).

The most impressive thing about Life in the Air is its scope. There have been many books on the aviation industry, but we have been waiting until now for someone to take on the rather more perplexing nature of air travel culture (in the same way that scores of writers have explored automobile culture).

Indeed, the book's uniqueness and originality presents a problem for marketing. Under which bracket should it fall? Air travel anecdotes? Sociological study? Cultural prognosis? Disgruntled passenger? Ultimately, I would argue, it is all four rolled into one and that suggests its strengths and weaknesses. The latter would be exposed by any expert on airline catering, or labor, for example. Certainly the lack of primary research would leave some academics fuming. Equally, the use of personal evidence would undoubtedly worry those who like to see arguments framed around statistical spreadsheets.

I prefer to concentrate on the strengths, however. To repeat, it is the holistic nature of the work that makes it invaluable. Thinking 'that has never happened to me' does not invalidate many of the arguments. The discussion on bi-coastalism hints at the time and space disorientation prevalent in many modern lifestyles. This is a brave, path-breaking book that raises more questions than answers. I hope other writers go on to answer them.

'Life in the Air' is an extremely interesting and innovative look at the culture of airports and flying. Gottdiener who is a Professor at SUNY Buffalo, takes the social and cultural route of examining air travel in the technological age with wonderfully thought-provoking and vivid examples that illustrate the vagaries of frequent flying, airport lounges, travel etiquette and bi-coastalism. All in all, a must-read for anyone interested in social or cultural geography as well as a new kind of urbanism besides all the aficionados of flight and airports.

A lot of good material is covered and in a relatively tight fashion. The presentation of logic is well done, but when getting into the BDDs, the explanations get a little complicated and I personally had to read it over several times before I could make sure I understood what was going on. This book also does not have anything on symmetry, so if that's what you're looking for, there are better books out there. However, this book can hold its own and I recommend it to anyone interested in learning the basics of model checking provided they can take handle some of the heavy duty reading.

This book is a good introduction to logic. It is highly readable, not dry. It explains logic in the language of humans, not arcane mathematics, yet it somehow is able to remain rigorous. This makes logic make sense, rather than it being an abstract intellectual pursuit detached from life and other topics.

Half the book is on logic, half on model checking. I've only read the logic part so far, so I cannot compare the model checking treatment to that in Clarke et al.'s "Model Checking."

The logic treatment is not specific to computer science (or at least did not seem to be so, for someone not a student of mathematics and logic), so in my opinion the title is a misnomer; perhaps a better title would be "Logic for People, and Model Checking Too."

Having taken this class at Kansas State University under the author Michael Huth. Reading this book before lecture often left me a bit confused, but after the lectures it seemed to be brought together, but this is my personal experience, your milage may differ. The book has excellent examples and a great introduction to logic and this book, along with great instruction should help you understand better the logical foundations of computer science.

I am spending my summer in Switzerland and decided to take a trusted Lonely Planet Guide with me. What a disappointment! The book is poorly written, has very few good tips on things to do and places to visit and, in my view, is completely useless for out of the way places; my list of complaints can go on and on. I no longer take the book on weekend trips as it is simply easier to ask the locals.

Although I usually like Lonely Planet guides, this one should never be published again.

I bought the book for a recent trip to Switzerland and found it to be informative and well written. Looks like Lonely Planet are trying out something slightly different here and I like it. Going to Swizerland? Well worth the buy.....

I found this guidebook very useful on a recent trip to Switzerland. Unlike most "tourist" guide books which are full of photographs, the Lonely Planet guide only has a few pages of photographs and is full of useful information on places to stay and local restaurants. The book is divided into chapters by region (e.g. Zurich, Geneva). Within each chapter are details on places to visit,hotels , restaurants, as well local services(such as transportation). There is even information on where to find the nearest laundry.

As with the Other Lonely Planet Books ,it is well written and targeted at travelers on a budget.

Some of the information appears to be out of date. Hopefully Lonely Planet will release a new edition of this. Until then this is a great convenient guidebook to use.

Happy travels

although it's about the only thing out about MX, you'd be better off waiting to buy a book that comes with example files on a CD or companion web site, or just get something on 8.5. this has nothing. it's all "do this, do that.." but provides no image, sound, scripts, or movies to work with.

Great orientation to Director MX. Helped me get up to speed quick. Good sections on Digital video, Lingo, all the basics. Clear and concise writing, easy to follow. Keep up good work!

Very clear writing style. Has saved me lots of time and got me up to speed quick working with MX. Covers all the essentials.

I always wonder when I'm reading books with ..., sad-sack characters: are we supposed to sympathesize with this person, or is he being written about as an object of satire? Does the author identify with this character, or is it more of a cautionary tale? The main character of this book is pretty unredeemable (if a book is supposed to be about the most interesting character a writer can imagine on the most important day of his life, well, this book doesn't hold up). And, to be frank, not much happens. That said, it's well written and occasionally insightful. I finished it, which is saying something when it comes to most gay books. Would I recommend it? Not really, unless maybe you're a big fan of the author. And for what it's worth, my partner feels exactly the same way.

The voice here is the same likable voice of Merlis's wonderful first novel, AMERICAN STUDIES, and like the earlier novel, MAN ABOUT TOWN focuses on true-to-life people in realistic circumstances, this time in a political setting. The novel is set in Washington, DC, in 1995 (a historical setting that both serves several of the novel's central themes and conveniently distances it from GWB-era policies and issues--much as gay novels in the 1980s tended to depict gay life pre-AIDS).

Besides the comfortable narratorial voice, the novel offers intelligent (though not forcefully "intellectual") musings on age, monogamy, racism, wealth, and hero-worship, among other timely issues. Again like the first novel, the author's focus is on older gay men, entranced and puzzled (and occasionally appalled) by the ways of youth--preeminently (in this novel) one's own youth and how quickly it evaporates. The main character combines politically progressive outrage with a settled, mostly conservative life style--the latter, much to his chagrin: he'd like to be more bohemian and eventually makes efforts to loosen up.

Like Merlis's previous novel, AN ARROW'S FLIGHT, the plot of MAN ABOUT TOWN hinges on a parody of the heroic quest, and here is where the novel falls apart a bit, nodding in too many directions and letting go of a number of plot points (and characters). However, the book kept me with it till the end, and although I might have personally preferred a tighter narrative structure, it was ultimately enough to spend some time with a protagonist who, however imperfectly, attempts to realize himself and his long-dormant desires and gain some grasp on the shifting events of history and, more especially, his life.

How wonderful to discover a fine novelist by chance. I had not heard of Merlis before, but was recommended "Man About Town" . And what a joy it was to encounter the delights offered by this fine storyteller and wordsmith. This is a gay novel of substance, far above the usual "here we are being glamorous and dancing on the glass floor" party boy focus of most gay authors. I will be embarking on both of Merlis's other books straight away. I encourage you to do likewise. Mr Merlis, I thank you for what is now one of my favourite reading experiences.

This short pamphlet dwells more on disciplinary aspects of supervisor-employee sessions than on true coaching. It tries too hard to solve every problem in a one-shot encounter with an employee.
The book pretends to be about improvement through coaching, yet the encounters described in each example have too much of the usual "you-did-wrong-now-fix-it" Theory X style of management that true coaching avoids.
However, the examples are a definite improvement over the usual tactics described as the usual approach to employee performance problems. A better read, for only a few bucks more, would be COACHING FOR IMPROVED WORK PERFORMANCE, by Ferdinand F. Fournies. While Cottrell & Layton's book will get you to first base, you really need a long-term solution that will create self-sufficient, self-correcting workers.

This is handbook is packed with easy to follow tips on how to coach ALL your employees to help then become better at their jobs! This book is a must have for ALL leaders! I would also recommend Daivd Cottrell's book, Listen Up Leader!

This book gave me a good process to follow when working through a performance issue. It is short and to the point.

The concept of SuperStars, Middle Stars, and Falling Stars struck a chord with me. I would recommend this book for all front line and mid level supervisors and managers.