I was so glad I didn't buy this book b/c there were errors in it. Not too many where it would be a book I would never reccommend, but there were mistakes. I am surprised b/c one would think a test prep book would be proof read before it was released. All and all it was a good book and I'm glad I had it to get through the GRE. I gave it only one star b/c it should have been proof read better. Hopefully the next edition will be correct

I found this review book to be very frustrating. My fiance, who has a finance degree, found many errors with there math examples. The answers to most of the math examples were typos and that made it increasingly frustrating. It squeezed too much useless information into each section and did not provide enough useful tips on saving time. If one was to buy this book, they better have a bookstore available to look at supplementary GRE materials. If you are looking for a confidence builder to the GRE, don't search here.

Actually it is not a book a guy should buy. Maybe it is just worth borrowing and going through for a week. The exercises are not at all challenging and tend to give a false impression of the GRE as a very easy exam. Also it lacks a good word list.

The Manual of Therapeutics for Addictions was an assigned textbook for my substance abuse diagnosis course. I am in a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) program. I found this book to be of little use to people in the clinical field. This book was advertised as being a good source for mental health professionals. This book is primarily focusing on discussions and treatment plans that either devalue the role of clinicians or are impertinent to our scope of practice. This manual should have been advertised to medical students only.I'd first like to mention that this manual did provide helpful information on the various physiological effects of different substances. I found that many of the physiological effects, and withdrawal symptoms are very similar to DSM IV disorders. This made me aware that as a MFT, I must never overlook the possibility of substance use/abuse. This information will also help me better educate family members as to the drug effects of opiates, stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, and cannabis.This manual doesn't value the therapeutic experience, nor does it consider therapy a viable source in treatment planning for substance abuse. This book advocated the use of methadone and other outside help, such as AA and NA. Most treatment modalities discussed in this manual were geared towards medical professionals. Clinicians cannot prescribe methadone, use restraint harnesses, pump client's stomachs, or give them drug tests. Most of the treatment discussed in this manual revolved around the ER and inpatient treatment. How relevant is this to outpatient clinical work? It isn't.I also found many encompassing statements in the AA chapter. I find it very difficult to believe that so many of the generalizations are true. For example how is it possible that the "...first epidemic of alcoholism occurred after 1750..."? The Bible records drunkenness back in the times of Noah. Is it possible that humans have exhibited such self discipline that alcoholism didn't existed until after 1750? Another outlandish generalization is that "..in over 60 years of existence there has not been one fight..." in AA over the topic of a Higher Power. I am wondering how the author of this chapter can make such blanket statements. There are millions of AA members across the nation. Is it possible that he is omniscient?As a whole, this manual is not a good tool for MSWs, MFTs, psychologists. Considering that only a small fraction of this manual provided helpful information, I'd recommend finding a less costly way of obtaining the information. The internet is a good source.

Norman S. Miller, Mark S. Gold and David E. Smith collaborate with other writers to form a book titled, Manual of Therapeutics for Addictions. The text uses many writers from different fields to add to the book's body of knowledge and research data.Some of the strong points of the book include: Definitions of many medical terms which are related to addictive disorders. It also gave a thorough explanation of drug addiction, including the many types, prevalence rates, intoxication and withdrawal symptoms. The book also covered treatment issues for the many addictive disorders and explained rates of comorbidities. Another positive aspect of the book was that the chapters were rather concise, in that they focused on one or two particular issues and discussed them in a way that was readable and easy to follow . Also, the use of DSM-IV diagnoses throughout the book helped the reader relate explanations of disorders to the actual criteria for which diagnoses are given. Now on to the aspects of the book which I felt to be unsatisfactory, or should I say, the meat of my critique. First of all, though acquiring the aid of professionals in the field to help make a book has its many benefits, it also has its downfalls. There were a number of times in the book when authors of different chapters had completely strong and opposing viewpoints. For instance, the use of psychotherapy was encouraged in one chapter and totally debunked in another. Statistical information throughout the book also proved to be inferior. There were numerous times when the data being given were based on studies and surveys completed over 20 years ago. I find it hard to believe that more recent data could not be collected if a little more effort was given on the part of the authors. Another negative aspect of the statistics given were that the percentage ranges of findings were so large that the reader virtually had nothing to go by. For example, it was not surprising to find ranges of between 20% and 75% when the writer was trying to make a statement about a particular topic. Worst yet is that the writers never acknowledge their unfortunate lack of preciseness to the reader, instead they continued on as though they had just given the reader a valuable piece of information. The explanation of diagrams and statistics were also not well thought through. I found on occasion, other possible and likely explanations for the data that was given. This makes me question the objectivity of the specific writers of those chapters. Furthermore, I was very surprised to see in some chapters, such as the one concerning Alcoholics Anonymous groups, that information was given and stated as factual, when in actuality most individuals who are familiar with the field and even many who are not familiar with the field would be able to easily decipher that it was nothing more than mere opinion. This aspect of the book was very insulting to the reader, especially when one considers the caliber of the three editors of this book, all of whom are MD's, and who should know better than to allow opinion to be stated as fact in their text. Another negative aspect of the creators of book, as told to me by my professor, is that it was advertised on the internet to be a good handbook for social workers and the psychological professions. Rather ironic, when one considers, as I stated earlier, that the book periodically debunks the effectiveness those types of related interventions have. Lastly, though equally important, is the price one is required to pay for this book. To the browser it might come across as a good text to have in one's collection yet upon further investigation by the reader the shortcomings of the book become apparent. Save your money and look harder for a decent book.

Being dissatisfied with my previous text for a graduate course in Substance Abuse Treatment, I went to the Internet to see what was out there. I found a 1997 book with good reviews and a detailed outlining of chapters. I was familiar with one of the authors, David E. Smith, founder and Medical Director of the Haight-Ashbury Clinic. It was a straight medical model, which was not necessarily negative, as that still represents the mainstream of addiction treatment. In addition, I appreciated how closely the comments on assessment and diagnosis remained true to DSM IV. The inclusion of chapters on treatment of addictive disorders; the treatment of gambling, eating and sex addictions; cultural considerations; AA; treatment efficacy; managed care; and ethics sounded like the outline for the course. The book does have medical sections of use to the behavioral science student that are not included in most texts. A strong point is made that assessment for drug abuse should be a part of any assessment, and that more than one drug is likely to be abused. I appreciated the inclusion of drug testing and the pros and cons of the various tests. It is useful to know that psychotropics are not very useful in the treatment of addictive disorders. The authors see addiction as the cause of many psychiatric symptoms and state that the first step is to separate the drug from the person. A major repeated point of the authors is that psychiatric symptoms are usually the

antecedent rather than the consequence of drug abuse. The authors' position is that drugs are taken for their "positive, brain reinforcing effects" and not for relief from psychiatric symptoms. The argument seems a revision of the "which came first question." The sections on managed care and legal and ethical issues in substance abuse are well done and informative. The preface states that the book is appropriate for "physicians and other mental health care specialists." The back cover states that the text is " Designed to meet the diverse needs physicians, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, medical students and residents, this authoritative text offers clear, step-by-step recommendations on the selection and application of both pharmacological and psychosocial therapies." While useful in supplying pharmacological information and data on diagnosis and assessment, this manual misrepresents itself as giving an adequate representation of psychosocial treatments- the chapter titles and subheadings do not present what they state. The preface states that "As many as 50% of general medicine populations and 75% of general psychiatric populations contain patients with addictive disorders." The authors state, "Enthusiasm for treating addictive disorders can result from developing and possessing knowledge and skill in their diagnosis and treatment, especially when patients are followed into their recovery." This is the only place enthusiasm is found in the entire book. The interior of the book is clinical in the worst sense of the word, and contains unfounded generalizations and statistics. The psychosocial parts are done with such superficiality that only someone unfamiliar with this material would benefit from reading it. The UglyMost prevalent forms of treatment are included, but represented by a brief one-paragraph description. The only chapter with any depth or passion is the one on Alcoholics Anonymous. This chapter is the most

poorly written of the manual. It contains bias, lack of analysis of the findings and more erroneous generalization than fact. The author of this chapter borrows statistics without questioning from AA's big book and other AA surveys. For example, they report that 50% of those starting AA drop out within the first three months; of those sober less than a year, 41 % continue for another year; and of those sober over 5 years, 91% will continue in AA for another year. The implication is made that the longer in AA, the more likely the abstinence, which may be true. However no mention is made of all the people for whom AA is not working. The author of the AA chapter makes generalizations that are contradicted elsewhere in the manual. He states, "All physicians are viewed as friends of AA." On page 264, he states, "...several pitfalls can occur between treatment professionals and members of AA, primarily involving conflict and rivalry." Other areas of conflict are noted, which imply the relationship with medical and mental health personnel is sometimes less than endearing. The commitment to AA and its derivatives as the only form of effective treatment is disquieting. It is stated that "AA and NA are compatible with the treatment of all medical and mental disorders. They should be considered essential in the treatment of all addictive disorders." Norman Miller (1995) concluded in another book, that "Only one method of treatment appears to be effective and to consistently work in the long run, mainly abstinence based treatment when combined with either regular continuous and indefinite attendance at AA meetings." This reader can mostly accept that abstinence based programs are the most effective, although it has not been empirically established that AA is the only effective treatment for alcoholism. In Project Match (1996), a study sponsored by National institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a comparison of the treatment modalities of "twelve step facilitation", cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational enhancement therapy, found all treatments to be equally effective. Also, it seems very odd to me how someone so familiar with the drug area would choose to classify alcohol separately from all the other drugs. For the last two decades in professional circles, the rallying cry has been that alcohol is a drug like any other drug. Summary: Although the manual contains many important statistics and discussions, due to the inadequacy of the psychosocial sections, I would not even recommend this book to the medical student or physician interested in the non-medical aspects of addiction.

I am a fan of LeVitus, and a huge fan and enthusiastic user of BBEdit. And I can't fathom why anyone would want a book that covers only through BBEdit 4.5, when the current version (with numerous significant changes) is BBEdit 7.01. Save your money, and apply it to purchase of BBEdit 7.01.

A pale shadow of the BBEdit v4.5 manual -- don't buy this book. As a long-time user of Bare Bones BBEdit, I eagerly awaited the release of "The Official BBEdit Book," seeking to learning more about harnessing the awesome power of BBEdit and perhaps some of its secrets. Bitter disappointment is my description of this 381-page 'hack job.'

It's dated, only covering BBEdit 4.0, the previous version. This doesn't bode well, considering it's an "official" book. Mention of BBEdit 4.5, the latest version, amounts to one sentence with no mention of MacOS 8 or new features like contextual menus and the Table Builder. One of BBEdit's most important and powerful features Global Regular Expression Parser (GREP), has a scant 5-1/2 pages devoted to it. Absent are adequate explanations, insight or examples of real world GREP. In contrast, BBEdit v4.5's slimmer User Manual contains a superior section on GREP. Contrary to the title page, the included CD-ROM does NOT contain, "...tools and extensions not available elsewhere."; they are included on the BBEdit v4.5 CD-ROM or elsewhere.

Much of the text is taken up with HTML coding and tags, which is admirable since 90 percent of users buy BBEdit for that task, but a more accurate title might have been "Creating Web Pages with BBEdit." Also, the chapters on HTML, Perl and Frontier seems to have been recycled from other sources and are of limited value.

Forget this book -- it's a poor imitation of the User Manual with some web coding added for bulk. My advice -- buy one of Lynda Weinman's excellent html design books and BBEdit v4.5. You'll be better rewarded and learn much more than "The Official BBEdit Book" could ever teach you.

A pale shadow of the BBEdit v4.5 manual -- don't buy thisbook. As a long-time user of Bare Bones BBEdit, I eagerly awaited therelease of "The Official BBEdit Book," seeking to learning more about harnessing the awesome power of BBEdit and perhaps some of its secrets. Bitter disappointment is my description of this 381-page 'hack job.'

It's dated, only covering BBEdit 4.0, the previous version. This doesn't bode well, considering it's an "official" book. Mention of BBEdit 4.5, the latest version, amounts to one sentence with no mention of MacOS 8 or new features like contextual menus and the Table Builder. One of BBEdit's most important and powerful features Global Regular Expression Parser(GREP), has a scant 5-1/2 pages devoted to it. Absent are adequate explanations, insight or examples of real world GREP. In contrast, BBEdit v4.5's slimmer User Manual contains a superior section on GREP. Contrary to the title page, the included CD-ROM does NOT contain, "...tools and extensions not available elsewhere."; they are included on the BBEdit v4.5 CD-ROM or elsewhere.

Much of the text is taken up with HTML coding and tags, which is admirable since 90 percent of users buy BBEdit for that task, but a more accurate title might have been "Creating Web Pages with BBEdit." Also, the chapters on HTML, Perl and Frontier seems to have been recycled from other sources and are of limited value.

Forget this book -- it's a poor imitation of the User Manual with some web coding added for bulk. My advice -- buy one of Lynda Weinman's excellent html design books and BBEdit v4.5. You'll be better rewarded and learn much more than "The Official BBEdit Book" could ever teach you.

This book should NOT be sold as a new book - its information is obsolete.

I used this book several weeks ago and got into trouble because every I-75 exit number in the book is incorrect. This is the case on all the Georgia maps and coupons. Georgia changed its exit numbers last February (it announced this change 3 years ago) and removed all the old numbers. This book shows only the old numbers and was therefore no good to us.

I paid good money for this book and didn't expect out of date information.

You can read the other reviews and they are scathing, but accurate. I live in Georgia and use I-75 to go south to Florida and, yes, every exit number in Georgia is incorrect and with a publishing date of May 1999,and a three-year-old state announcement that in February 2000 all the exit numbers would be changed, this is a significant faux pas on the part of the author. And, with all the coupons and advertisements in this book, it does feel like one of those motel discount publications that you can pick up at truck stops and gas stations in every state. The print quality, paper and really small font size (pica 6!) are a significant distraction, but this is not all the author's fault, there was a publisher involved in this too, eh?

So what is there about this book that is redeeming. What does Christine Marks have that you can't find in a USA Guide, or State Guide? I was impressed by information on various locations, communities and counties. Christine Marks did a lot of digging to come up with some very interesting and provocative vignettes. County information, cultural insights, historic blurbs that were NOT in my other state travel guides. I am a Bar-B-Que afficionado and I did not know that in October, in Vienna, GA, there is The Georgia Barbecue Championship! Or that Fried Green Tomatoes are found at the Whistle Stop Café in Juliette, Ga. I like these tidbits of information and this, and this alone, makes the book valuable to keep. I also like the concept of the guide following a route, providing information with maps that break the journey down in bite size portions. These two aspects, especially the unique information, makes me keep this book. It is my hope that Christine Marks pushes this forward, gets the right exit numbers, larger readable fonts, better paper and printing, and dumps the blatant trashy advertising. With the number of cars that roam up and down this huge stretch of highway there is a market for good guides. Conditionally recommended.

In response to the "un-generous" comments previously written about this book, I would like to submit a counter argument that the book isn't all that horrific. And how can one with any common sense compare a new author with Dave Hunter who has been around for several years. Also, I honestly doubt his first book was of the quality that he offers currently....did you ever hear of giving someone a chance?

signed, Frustrated in Windsor

The authors follow the outline they used to write their C++ book, and it just doesn't seem to work for Java. They usually provide one programming example in each chapter. Many times it is the same ole program enhanced. There really NEEDS to be more programming examples to reinforce and to show how to apply the programming techniques presented in the chapter. They use the same programming problem exercises they published in their C++ book. Java is more of a GUI language. It is not like the "black screen" algorithm, mathematical equation programming language that their C++ book teaches. Maybe these people are not Java programmers, but textbook writers, and this was the easiest way to produce a Java textbook. I guess you could say these authors have perfected the "turnkey" method for writing a programming language textbook. Many, and I mean many of the programs printed in the text have errors or typos. Swing is not covered. The authors do not provide a CD. This is a very expensive ... misstake. Don't buy this book if you want to learn Java. Buy the Sun Java books or go to the Sun website and go through the tutorials and documentation. The "Java Black Book" is a good reference if you have a specific question or need further explanation on using a technique or function. There are other Java websites that will teach you Java better than this book does.

The authors did good job in C and C++ books but not in this Java book, you can not learn Java out of this book, I recommend Introduction to Java Programming by Liang

You can not learn Java out of this book. The authors did good job in C and C++ books but not in this Java book, I read also the laboratory book that one also very weak I recommend Introduction to Java Programming by Y. Daniel Liang

I totally agree with the previous reviewer's comments. There are a lot of typos. Demo program is not working on NT4. Jump over topic and never come back. Promise more but give less. No systematic way to explain C++ and NT. When talk about NT, it is a massy compilation of the existing material. The whole book is organized illogic and in a massy style. My advice to the reader, don't even look at it.

This book just plain failed to deliver. It continually talked around the subject matter, always promising more detail later, but later never came. Many chapters and sections merely repeated what had been said before, or punted: the old 'outside the scope of book' dodge. It was touted as a programming book, but there was little in the way of code or theory, just a lot of general overview already available in a lot of other places; too many screen shots, frequent typos, and most damning: references to Win95 -- remember this is supposed to be about NT! I bought the book looking for NT specific programming topics, not a general introduction to the Visual C++ environment, or vague generalities about generic topics. My advice to the author and publisher: next time don't be in such a hurry to put something out that it shows

I took POLS 132 (International Relations) and my professor was John Rourke, the author of the book. He knows his stuff (he writes a new edition every year), but his lectures were horrible! Half of the students in lecture would never go, and the students who did attend class only went because he took attendence. He cannot teach. He rambles on and on in lecture and is frequently off-topic. This is reflected in his writing. Having the textbook as our only source was hard enough, not to mention having him as the professor for our class! Just save your time and money--stay away from this book. (And if you're a UConn student, don't take his classes.)

One of my classmates for our Poli Sci 100 Intro to World Politics class put it best, "...it's clearly biased and I don't learn anything from it." He was right, find another book or a class to take, but don't read this text. If this is your textbook hopefully your teacher can lecture well, because this textbook teaches nothing at all.

Good book for an introduction to International Relations couse in terms of topics covered - but the author's bias is clearly leaning toward that of an idealist/globalist. Make sure you get a balanced perspective from the other side of the coin before taking this text as gospel.

Oh my....this book is certainly off the beaten track. Here is an author who decided the topic of 666 would probably sell, so he moved forward to discuss it with a completely empty bag of knowledge. The author himself must have published this book because any publishing house with adequate knowledge would not have touched it. And how in the world can anyone write or read about 666 without mentioning the Roman Empire or the Catholic Church? It is like writing about the State of New York without ever mentioning New York City. Like writing about poetry without ever mentioning the word "stanza." I say to all readers out there, "forget this book. It is based on lousy information and a few assorted scare tactics that don't hold the water of logic.

This book is so incorrect it screams of poor research and a lack of biblical knowledge. The author makes the terrible mistake of pretending he understands the mark of the beast when, in fact, he doesn't have a clue. He mentions barcodes and computers. Ha ha! He is so far off. The mark of the beast has been upon the human race since Justinian declared Christianity the official religion of Rome. Wake up, author. You need to KNOW what you're talking about before you write and self-publish a book.

Lot on barcodes and some bible verses. I received the book as part of subscription package. Otherwise I would not have spent the money for it.

"Understanding CORBA" was written by two software engineers at the now-defunct Digital Equipment Corp. This dinky book reads very much like a DEC manual from the "good old days": dry and uninformative. Reading the book may not give anyone much insight into CORBA, but it will give you an idea of why DEC is no longer around.

This skinny text barely skims CORBA's surface. It was written by a couple of software engineers at DEC, and it is just as dry and uninformative as any DEC manual. Reading this book, you may not learn much about CORBA, but you'll gain some insight as to why DEC is no longer around.

This was a good introductory book for CORBA, targeting readers with only elementary knowledge of operating systems and programming. Advanced readers who want to get an introduction to CORBA will find this book readable but unsatisfactory.

Phew, I'm glad that I read the reviews here, I was starting to think I'd lost my mind. This is easily the worst programming book I've ever read, HANDS DOWN! I'd been a COBOL programmer and then moved to VB as well as just straight HTML so learning a new language shouldn't confuse me as much as this book had me confused. I can't imagine someone who is completely new to programming even attempting to use this book and it does in fact say beginning to intermediate as a Reader Level.

This is the worst book I've ever read in my own life. That could have been called "The worst 60 minutes on Java: an introduction on how NOT to program"

I didn't get my 60 minutes worth out of this book. Its best only as an overview of the language, and is dated (not covering Java 1.1).