I used Criminal Law by Gardner and Anderson as my text when I taught an undergrad Criminal Law class. I found it overly simplistic, even for that level, and left my students with too many loose ends. The case excerpts used are drastically edited, sometimes only a sentence, which does not help demonstrate the proposition the cases supposedly stand for. It seemed that the authors also spent an inordinate amount of text on relatively unimportant topics. I also found the instructor's edition to be unhelpful.

The Theatre Student series is uneven at best: George Latshaw's Puppetry: the Ultimate Disguise represents the cream of the crop while Makeup and Masks is among the dregs. The makeup techniques shown here were outdated when the book was published long years ago. The photos--many of which are grainy--depict poorly-realized makeups. Perhaps the authors underestimated the abilities of high school students to create theatre: hardly the attitude to take when writing for teenagers. A poor addition to the literature. Skip this one