This book was not what I was looking for. My teacher assigned us a Biography/Autobiography book report (like every month), and I checked this book out in the library. Yeah, maybe its ok for 4-8 year olds, this book is really boring for children like me. This book had stuff I already knew about, and I didn't learn anything. It was really boring and had no interesting facts. So, if you are looking for a book with a detailed scope about Thomas Jefferson, read another book.

This is a great book for older remedial students as well as grades 1-4. The primary facts are here with some illustrations. The text is simple and easily understood.

This book was chosen as a text for a networking class. No one in class, including the teacher WHO KNOWS NETWARE was able to make it through the book! Arthor might be competent but if you can't read it how can you tell. Poor grammer. And his description of abstract concepts were generally defined with abstract concepts, not real world scenarios. For beginners as well as advanced users I now would recomend, after hours and hours of reading both, New Riders: Netware Professional, 4th ed. It's very readable, accurate, and just a great overall reference book that you'll return to-depending on how long Netware is around to turn to. Neither are "how-to" books.

This is a comment on one of the reviews. I find it very amusing to read a review that critiques the grammar in a publication by spelling the word "grammer" Richard D. Seepaul

Was this book edited at all? It reads as though it was written in one weekend, with no references other than the Yellow Pages. For example, the author "helpfully" provides us with a listing of good temp agencies--suspiciously, every single one begins with the letter "A". You have to wonder if any real research was done in other parts of the book, or if the author just copied down names and addresses from the phone book (as she clearly did in this section). The writing is repetitive and full of generalizations, and many of her "facts" are just plain wrong. I moved to Chicago three years ago, and I wish I hadn't had this book then.

I bought this book before moving to Chicago six months ago and it has been almost a total lack of help for anything I've tried to use it for. For starters, the neighborhood information is completely out-of-date (I passed up good neighborhoods because of this book!). And unbelievably, this book for NEWCOMERS lacks a comprehensive index and instead organizes everything by neighborhoods. In other words, if you want to know where any major landmark is, you have to look it up by neighborhood--but wait, you don't know the neighborhoods yet because you're new. This was a real brainstorm by whoever organized this book, and it's a real fun way to waste 20 minutes when you're just trying to find an address. There is decent information here, but I can never find any of it when I need to. My advice: skip this title and go straight for Fodor's Cityguide Chicago or The Unofficial Guide to Chicago, both excellent guides with clearly organized and updated information. They would both be loads of help to a newcomer.

Not a bad guide ... *if* you're moving to the city. Suburbs are not covered at all, except for some off-handed remarks about the "hinterlands".

Also had some errors in radio station listings.

This is the workbook for the text I was assigned in Italian 101. (The ISBN is the one on the back of the gray and white workbook, but the image is that of the textbook, so make sure you're ordering the right one.) Some practice is preferable to none, but the exercises here are very short and choppy. Nothing is repeated, so if you want to really *practice* you'll have to make homework for yourself instead of relying on these assignments. The exercises generally require little effort. For example, each chapter has exercises where you look at a conversation in the text, then fill in the blanks in a conversation in the workbook--and the conversation is word-for-word the same as the one in the text. You don't have to think, generalize, or have even a basic grasp of Italian (or English, for that matter) to do that.

I also think that the text and workbook focus on vocabulary to the exclusion of grammar. The book doesn't talk about conjugating regular verbs till the third chapter. Instead, we've learned groups of vocabulary words that relate to topics like Grocery Shopping, Women in Italy, and Vacations.

On a positive note, you probably won't be turning to either of these books for reference or practice, so they'll stay in good shape and you can sell them at the end of the semester. I'd buy a good Italian dictionary and _501 Italian Verbs_ if you want to be able to write coherent sentences, because you sure won't get that from _Eccoci_.

This book is not difficult to understand. However, I find that this book's examples have too many errors. For example, in chapter 8, the examples given have errors. The result of the examples are not what I expected. It makes me feel whether my understanding is correct or not. Moreover, there is no author email address in this book. The reader cannot send comments to the author.

The book is good in the sense of the simplicity with which the author tries to explain and introduce the concepts. However, it is full of errors: I could not find one example without errors. Specially in Chapter 4, which introduces SQL, there are too many errors. That is unforgivable!! I think the author of this book did not even check what he was writing. I do not recommend this book to anyone until a serious revision of all the examples is perfomed!

I read this book to get some ideas for setting up a database with multiple servers in different countries. One requirement was high availability and fast response times under the condition of instable network connections. I am not a database expert, so I can not assess the accuracy and completeness of the material very well. The following is my view as a "novice" reader.

The book is divided into three parts: theory, distributed database architectures, and multi-database architectures. Part one introduces relational algebra, SQL, database models (hierarchical, network, relational), ER-diagrams and such. Part two concentrates on homogenous distributed database architectures. Part three is about heterogenous (e.g. mixed hierarchical/relational) distributed database systems.

The book is demonstratively well structured and easy to read. The author begins with a roadmap, and each chapter begins with a statement of purpose, a description what will follow and how this relates to the topic. I found part one to be a decent introduction to general database concepts. However, I had the impression that the book is too shallow overall. One of the more noticable omissions (to me) is in the part about deadlocks: the author concentrates entirely on deadlock detection, while deadlock avoidance and deadlock prevention are not even mentioned. I can't say if this is because the latter are not used in databases. Moreover, as another reader noted, the examples are full of errors, which is quite annoying.

Altogether, the book entirely failed to give me any hints for solving my problem. Data replication, which is probably the one technique that I need to apply under the circumstances described above, is mentioned in only one paragraph in the entire book. The author instead focuses entirely on database partitioning. If you need that, the book may be for you, although I assume there are better books on the subject. I do not recommend this book.

I always look for books on how to take care of curly hair because, well, I have it! This book was helpful within the first three pages but went downhill from there. They're were no pictures, models or hair-y stories from the author. Overall, I just didn't like it. I thoroughly recommend "No Lye" or "Curly Girl" instead of this...just horrible!

After purchasing Pamela Ferrell's book Let's Talk Hair, I decided to buy this one for more styling options. I was suprised to see the horrible lack of information for hair care and hair styling. This book provides no information on a maintenance regime, the hair products section goes into great detail on all the chemicals and ingredients in products but doesn't tell how to choose products or what products on the market are good, and the styling section has little information for home styling. The author goes into great detail on hair makeup and on what actually is in hair products along with a very detail nutritional guide on all the ingredients in food. The hair styling section is basically about popular braiding styles and a few natural styles like the 'fro and the twist out 'fro, and some information on locking. Overall, don't waste your money or time on this book.

The 1772 publication date of Gronniosaw's _Narrative_ seems to have been recently established by Vincent Carretta in _Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century_ (Kentucky, 1996), with the evidence offered on pp. 53-54. The post-1791 editions in which Equiano understandably deletes the wording "My hand is ever free--if any female Debonair wishes to obtain it" after his April 7, 1792 marriage to Susanna Cullen are the 5th (Edinburgh, 1792), the 6th & 7th (both London, 1793), the 8th (Norwich, 1794), and the 9th and last (London, 1794). My source for this information is Vincent Carretta's authoritative Penguin edition of Equiano's _Interesting Narrative_ (1995), pp. 297-297, note 633. A reader from Virginia

Prospective buyers of Mr. Allison's edition of Equiano's autobiography should be advised that although Mr. Allison says that his "edition follows the first American printing . . . (New York, 1791)" and that "the only significant changes . . . are the insertion of paragraph breaks and notes to the text," Mr. Allison does not warn the reader that he's silently combined parts of various editions of the autobiography to form a book Equiano himself never published. For example, if you compare the next-to-the-last paragraph (p. 195), in which Equiano mentions his marriage, to the passage on page 187, where he says his hand is free, you might get the impression that he's saying he's available for adultery or bigamy. But the fault lies not in Equiano, who changed the earlier passage after he added the paragraph about his marriage in 1792. What Mr. Allison gives us is his text, not Equiano's. And he might have mentioned that the New York edition was published without Equiano's knowledge or permission. Readers should also not assume that all "facts" given are true. For example, on page 21, Gronniosaw's book was published in 1772 (not 1770), Marrant's in 1785 (not 1790), and Equiano died on 31 March 1797 (not in April).

This is the workbook for the text I was assigned in Italian 101. Some review is preferable to none, but the exercises here are very short and choppy. Nothing is repeated, so if you want to really *practice* you'll have to make homework for yourself. The exercises generally require little effort. For example, each chapter has exercises where you look at a conversation in the text, then fill in the blanks in a conversation in the workbook that is *exactly* the same as what's in the text. You don't have to think, generalize, or have even a basic grasp of Italian (or English, for that matter) to do those particular exercises.

I also think that the text and workbook focus on vocabulary to the exclusion of grammar. The book doesn't talk about conjugating regular verbs till the third chapter. Instead, we've learned groups of vocabulary words that relate to topics like Grocery Shopping, Women in Italy, and Vacations.

On a positive note, you probably won't be turning to either of these books for reference or practice, so they'll stay in good shape and you can sell them at the end of the semester. I'd buy a good Italian dictionary and _501 Italian Verbs_ if you want to be able to write coherent sentences, because you sure won't get that from _Eccoci_.

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