While I haven't tried any of the other books available for the test, I have to say that this one is rather aggravating. The review itself isn't too bad, despite the fact that it starts in elementary school math and progressed to topics that I don't think would ever be on the test. The practice test is horrible, with questions accompanied by incorrect diagrams, doubled answer choices, incorrect answers and questions, etc. I ended up getting an 800 on the Math IIC test, so it might not be completely useless... but I'd still definately recommend trying another book.

Elmore and Heald is a very hit and miss book. The first chapter about simple transverse waves on strings is pretty good except for the confusing treatment of Fourier series (which I can't imagine would help anyone who hasn't seen them before). Chapter 3 on elastic theory was fine too and the EM waves stuff in chapter 8 wasn't bad.

However, the introduction to tensors in chapter 7 and their application to more complex elastic theory was horrible. The dyadic notation they use is really old-fashioned and their presentation is confusing. The stuff in chapter 12 on fourier transforms and integrals wasn't that great either.

More generally, the problem is that it spends too much time diving into excruciating detail without teaching and emphasizing important concepts. Not to mention the fact that there are no example problems.

Mark David Hall has tried to fill a void in the historiography. A biography of James Wilson was certainly overdue by 1997. Hall does shed light on Wilson's unique epistomology and how he integrated it into the liberal and republican ideology of the time. Indeed, Hall demonstrates how Wilson's belief in a "moral sense" that existed in all human beings necessitated an optimism toward popular rule, an optimism that surpassed that of many of the other Founders by the late 1780s.
Nonetheless, this work has numerous unforgivable mistakes. Hall over-emphasizes Wilson's democratic tendencies, going so far as to actually call him a democrat -- a title that Wilson would have abhored as much as aristocrat. Hall notes Wilson's belief that majoritarian government had to have its power checked, but this aspect of Wilson's ideology he gives slight attention to. He makes a disengenuous argument that Wilson believed that balance of power was needed to check corruption rather than the democracy. This distinction is hollow. To believe that democratic government needs to be limited is equivalent to believing that democratic rule needs to be checked. The truth is that though Wilson did believe that the people could be trusted more than did the other Founders, he also believed in limiting popular power. Wilson disagreed at many points how these checks ought to be achieved and to what degree they were to be implimented. But the same can be said for most of the Founders. Wilson is better classified along with the majority of the other Founders as a republican and a liberal -- a republican willing to allow the people a slightly greater role in authority, but a republican nonetheless, not a democrat.
Hall also over-emphasizes Wilson's role in developing the governmental ideology of the new republic. Likewise he often underestimates the activity of others. This work also fails to place Wilson's ideas in the context of broader, external, intellectual activity, therefore giving the reader the impression that he originated more than he did. Finally, this author fails to chart Wilson's intellectual development. There seems to be an assumption that what Wilson believed in 1789 was what he believed in 1768 soon after he arrived in America.
This is a book that I wanted to like and it does have some redeeming value, but ultimately it is too flawed to allow any more than a single star. I will be looking for a new biography of Wilson, soon.

This is the second Zubro mystery I have read, and it was not near as good as the first one, "Another Dead Teenager." However, I am not deterred from reading all of his work, and I will continue to purchase the new ones as they are published.

What I criticized in "Another Dead Teenager" I found to be much worse in "Political Poison," and that is Zubro's continually interjecting explanations for a character's actions or of police procedure. It was a moderate bother in the other book, but in "Political Poison" it is a major impediment to enjoying the book. The editing was slipshod as well, with many typos and other errors in the text. Zubro apparently has improved at telling his stories by letting the characters reveal what is going on, rather than stepping into and stopping the flow to provide an explanation.

Most mystery readers are savvy enough to know how things work, and don't need constant reminders on why police do the things they do.

If you haven't read any of Zubro's work before, don't start with this one. He is a much better mystery writer than what this novel exemplifies.

When a non-native English speaker (myself) catches poorly worded sentences and many inconsistencies (from the use of commas to book titles), the translator, Mark Hooker, must be in serious trouble... And when a non-specialist in Dutch history (again, myself) finds inaccurate statements on recent history (e.g.; on holocaust, HIV disease... just to name a few) to justify "controversial" points of view, now it's the writer's turn to be in trouble...

The format of the guide was well done. However I found the inflrmation provided for each model was incomplete, lacking any in depth review. There were many popular models missing. Some of the pricing information seems to be inconsistent with what boats are selling for.

I was looking for a comprehensive Cubase reference, and this book looked like I could buy. The big disappointment came when I started reading first chapters. It looked very famililar. Of course, it was just a regular Cubase manual - only printed out for me comparing to electronic PDF version. I compared tables of contents - identical except for 40 page tutorial added to a printed version...If you own original Cubase CD, then you'll find better ways to spend your fifty bucks.

This book, piecing together many uninteresting articles, is sort of cliche in architectural critism. They are not inspiring, not imaginative, not new, just words that have been repeated for thousands of times. Fortunately they are at least not wrong.

Although the soundtrack sounds good, there is very little more than some basic common sense offered. This is just a basic overview, not much substance. This product is overpriced for what you get.

Mark Linley's views on positive thinking are good,but as for the sketches I didn't learn much more than I do just by teaching myself.It's very average in that there isn't that much to learn.And no way am I grabbing an egg and sticking plasticine nose and eyes on it.Bye!!