This book appears to be written by and for 6 year old children. The information is generalized to the point that it is of little help in working with the actual product. Factor in the MANY typos and you have a difficult to read, entry-level book that barely rates as reference class material, let alone an MCSE study guide.

This book is a good starting place for those who need to develop and in-depth understanding of a complex product set. It sets a foundation of understanding of concepts and processes and provides good examples of how to best use complex functionality.

This book was recommended to me by my physician. He wanted me to learn about different types of depression, their causes, and possible treatments. I read the review here and thought, "Well, I can take a little Christianity along with the psychologically helpful information the book will provide."

Boy, was I wrong! This book is a little bit of the basic psychology of depression and a bunch of Christian propaganda along with it...

This book ended up making me more depressed than before I read it. It's depressing to think that the majority of our country is populated with people who share his biased opinions about humanity.

If you're asking God "Why (me, my child, spouse, parent)?", read this book!

If I purchased this book in 1995 when Delphi came up I would be really satisfied. But when you have around "Developers guide" and "Mastering" books along with the list of other usefull ones, I consider that buying this book is just waste of your money.

If you're just starting in Delphi and want something to supplement your classes, or you're a seasoned professional who doesn't know how to do some things in Delphi (I found the section on programming DLLs very useful as I hadn't tried programming them in the past) this book will be an excellent choice.

Please do NOT buy this book. Unfortunately, it _still is_ the recommended text for our school's OBGYN rotation, like most schools...but that's b/c the ACOG recommends recommends it...I used it anyway - and it's poorly written, contains about only 1/2 (the really cursory, simple 1/2) of what you will be asked, is woefully short on many OB subjects, and very old on gyn-onc Tx and procedures. It _is_ readable in a 6 wk rotation - but most students will buy this in the 2nd year to go with their pre-clinical courses - to which it is not at ALL suited. The only good point is that it has some 1500 multiple-guess questions in the back which are usefull for step 2... but it doesn't make it worth it, since you can buy the PreTest book, which is much better for exam prep. I would recommend the Lange Basic OBGYN book by Cunningham instead. I'm not even going into OB - but I got ALOT more out of that book than out of the Beckmann text - which I have grown to despise after seeing the other books available. I can't believe so many students are encouraged to waste their money - and worse, their time - on this thing...

This was the recomended text for my Ob/Gyn clerkship in medical school. It was pretty comprehensive yet chapters were short enough that a busy student can manage two or three per call night. It was good preparation for our exam, which at the University of Iowa, was the S.H.E.L.F. exam. This text tackles topics from hydatidiform mole and vestibulitis to hypertension and depression. The scope of this book encompasses not only all subspecialties in Ob/Gyn but also primary care, ethics and anatomy. Because of the nonintimidating conciseness of the many chapters in this book, I was able to overlook the initial lack of interest in OB/Gyn that I took with me the first day of that rotation. I was also able to excel on this clerkship. I still refer to this text on occasion, even as a second year Ob/Gyn resident. Third year medical students would be doing themselves a favor by checking out this easily afforded text. Not only is it an excellent resource, study guide and starter book for me, it changed my life.

An astonishingly successfull attempt to take a one-page idea and repeat it enough to create an entire book. The author's premise is valid: Human beings who have looked at the earth from space return with a different view of of our planet not only literally, but philosophically as well. However, rather than expand on this idea, he simply repeats it. Page, after page, after page. I stuck with the book hoping the last section containing interviews with space travelers would redeem the work, but each interview was merely a copy of the first, which went something like this: "When I first glimpsed the earth from space, I was overwhelmed with its beauty. I gained a sense of how everything on earth was interconnected, and I knew I would never look at life the same way again". Save your money, and read this review a couple of hundred times for the same "Overview Effect" as you would receive from the book.

A must read for any aspiring space hero.
Get inspired. Get in action.

Edition 2 features interviews with Female space explorers as well.

Like all Basic Not Boring boots, this introduction to pre-algebra is designed around a theme that kids can relate to -- in this case trekking/camping. Its appeal should be sufficient to sustain the interest of a 6th grader through sections dealing with signed numbers, simplifying expressions, solving and graphing linear equations, ordered pairs, etc. Working at a leasurely pace of one pre-algebra lesson per week, we found the book provided enough material to keep our child busy for most of the school year, capped by a fairly thorough final review test. On the downside, there is too much emphasis on operations involving positive and negative integers, forcing kids to struggle with signed numbers and the mechanics of solving simple equations at the same time. In our opinion, it would have been better to introduce fractional and percentage coefficients to teach kids the magic of inverse operations in isolating variables. Moreover, beware of a number of mistakes in the main part of the book as well as wrong answers in the Answer Key. Nobody's perfect, but in a textbook that's downright embarrassing! To sum up, this book is fine provided you have a sixth grader who can't tell a variable from a valedictorian. It'll wet his or her appetite for algebra. Then, in the 7th grade, start all over again with one of those hardbound 500-page, $50 intros to pre-algebra that provide the real stuff math is made of. Your child will be ready for it.

the book is pretty well self-explanatory for the title. it talks about the basics and then refers over to the algebra

Fabozzi was the "editor" of this volume but he offered no comment or introduction. Some of the articles appeared to have been hastily written. The articles in the book are so brief and inadequate, and yet the book contains no suggested further readings or bibliography. Given the book's disappointing quality and brevity (262 pages), I strongly object to its price of 75 US dollars. I have seen better books with Fabozzi's name on them.

I own both volumes of Prof Prosp on FIPM and plan to buy the third one as well as soon as it becomes available. With as many books that Fabozzi edits, I don't expect him to do a foreword--his job is to pull together the experts and I think he's done that well. I think the book does a good job of hitting the key issues, and offering a comprehensive overview. It's worth having on the shelf, especially in conjunction with the next volume.

Well I am only on page 10 and am considering quiting this book. I have a BSEE with quite a lot of mathematics history, but I know nothing about Riemann geometry. I got bogged down right from the beginning with this book. It's not that the material - so far - is that demanding, but the explanations are terse at best and some formulas seem to pop onto the page from hyperspace. Some variables are undefined, unfamiliar nomenclature is used without explanation and there is no exposition to show from where some rather complicated formula appear. Too much is assumed by the author for a book that claims to be a "beginners guide". You can waste a lot of time trying to guess what is on the authors mind.

I get the impression that by adding another 10 pages or so of elucidating math and text this might be a nice little survey of the subject matter, but as is I can't recommend it.

Can't agree with my friend from Ann Arbor. This is the most accesible book on Riemannian Geometry. Or to be precise, this is not even a book on Riemannian Geometry, It's only a guide! The author doesn't take the universal intrinsic approach to the subject, but only look at everything as a subspace of Eucleadean space, and see how those apparently extrinsically defined concepts indeed have intrinsic meannings. And that gives you a taste of the real part, which you must turn to some other books.

After teaching a course at the community college level using this book (which I inherited, on short notice), I can honestly say that there must be better options for learning music fundamentals. I am examining other textbooks for next year, and can guarantee that Ottman's will NOT be among them.

Ottman seperates elements that would be best be consolidated (i.e. rhythmic elements). While he suggests an organizational scheme to reorder the book and keep elements together, the way the text is written would obliterate any benefit from doing so. Ottman's writing style is dry, and tends to be overloaded with advanced detail that is best left to a 1st-semester theory class. At times, Ottman can also come across as condescending towards the reader, which irritated my students (and this instructor) greatly.

Ottman also makes the mistake of assuming that everyone who is learning music fundamentals is familiar with, or interested in, classical music. The musical examples included in the book tend to be as dry as his writing style. Some folk songs are simply labeled with the country of origin; without the lyrics, they are just boring. Many other textbooks successfully integrate examples from popular music with the classical examples; this book would benefit from such an integration.

Not all is lost, as Ottman does a decent job with the Appendix, which looks towards serious study of music theory. He also does well with repetition within exercises. The book also includes a detachable keyboard card, which visually links each key with its representation on the grand staff. But generally, these features alone do not merit a recommendation.

This book will teach the practicing musician everything you they could possibly need to know about music theory and notation. As a beginner of music studies, I found it all a bit mind bending at first. My advice is to just hang in there and before you know it, the long words and scary looking notation sections will all make sense. I borrowed this book and am now trying to find a copy to purchase (that doesn't cost over $100 aus) as I know I shall be using it as a reference tool for many years to come. For the serious musician, it's a must have.

a major kink to enjoy this book, which ranks pretty high up there on the publisher, Blue Moon' books, for the strange.

OK so if you read the ed review and see 'this man who provides them with prolonged spasms of ecstasy' then I guess it would kind of conjur up the eroticism of the moment, but, when you read the book, and, by about the third ,Mr Merlin spits into Janice's face and then 'she blinked,but said nothing, feeling the sputum slowly sliding down her cheeks'.

Yup, the books says cheeks, plural, wow ...just to think about it .... yeeeeech, well enough said about that ...

Anyway, the rest of the 192 pages of the book we find a lot of women getting spanked and whipped, and, the oddest thing (if there can be something odd in this book) before the women get whacked, the whacker adds up the number of strokes she is going to get, based on imaginary infractions.

Maybe accountants would enjoy that but I sure didn't .....

For its genre, non-vulgar, consensual female masochistic interaction, with dominate-sadistically stimulated males; this gets my vote for best in its class. It has a cleverly woven plot that also gives most of the episodes an interesting setting and justification. The majority of the work deals directly with the SM-interactions, sex, and the details, so you don't feel you are wadding through lots of filler to get to the interesting material.
Though some may like rougher fiction, I appreciated the exploration of the theme, without, vulgar street language, non-consensual sex, and brutality. If you like SM fantasies, of a plausible kind, yet get turned off by rougher violent, brutal damaging behavior, you will likely, like this book. Despite the SM turn on, it is refreshing that the author and his characters seam to care for and respect the women they interact with. My biggest disappointment is that there is not much other work available by this author.