I looked at this book in my local bookstore, and couldn't buy it, because it was unpleasant to read. The paper was thin and extremely bright white, while the typeface was too pale. Inserted examples were in Courier type, as if people still use typewriters--these inserts were even more difficult to read. These major flaws made the book unusable to me.

I teach an English Composition course at a small community college. The course focuses on writing research papers of 12-15 pages. Most of our students have no experience in citing sources. I have found the Winkler and McCuen book helpful in teaching them the two principle annotation styles, as well as in guiding students through the process of writing the research paper itself. The book also includes instructions for citing electronic sources according to MLA and APA style formats. The fifth edition of the book, with its spiral binding and and tabs, is, in my opinion, a very useful tool for students who are writing their first research papers. Of course, the book must necessarily abbreviate some of the information regarding MLA and APA formats, so we also have available, in our college library, both of the official style manuals for these research paper formats. However, for the students' own suppementary "textbook," I have found this text a very worthwhile choice.

I gave this book 5 stars because it has everything you need to write a research paper in it. It goes from the cover page all the way through to the bibliography. It also is very well organized, so if you're just looking for one certain part, it's easy to find.

My child didn't care for this book, and I didn't much appreciate it either. We expected a story about a family's trip to the zoo, but the story was primarily about the family. The father was grumpy and lied about his child's age, trying to get a better price. He also called his child a brat. (Adults in children's story books should be good role models.) The mother never smiled or said anything positive. Her picture portrayed her as no more than a child herself. The children fought and complained. "The Zoo" was only a setting for a story about a negative family tolerating an unpleasant day. Not appropriate for a children's book.

This book is very good. This book may not be educational but it is very, very, VERY funny. I love this book and I first heard it at a very young age. I don't get how someone can't like this. This book may not have good role models or a happy ending, but I swear if you have a dry sense of humor you will love it!

This book should be required reading for Zoo staff and Zoo visitors alike. ZOO is full of the ugly truth that surrounds so many zoo visits. I know. I work at a zoo. This book is appropriatly meloncholy, giving the reader{if they have'nt already] very mixed feelings about these institutions. The characters are real and if just one reader can see themselves in these characters and change for the better,dreams do come true.As always, Anthony Browne's illistrations are haunting and rich. the text is subtle, giving the reader an opportunity to read between the lines as they look between the bars on cages,to find their own perspective. I recommend this book.My three-year-old asked me thoughtful questions about it for days.It was fun to have such meaningfull dialogue with someone so young.

it is a very good book actually, but i'm having some difficulties in solving the exercise, so i think this book need a complementary book or some kind of manual or solution. But if there is, I would like to be informed about where i can get that kind of book. Thank U!

I used this book as my self-study material and I benefited from this book a lot. I would recommend using it either as a textbook for Advanced Accounting course or as a reference book for professionals. Here are the few points that I would like to share with you:

1.Logical order The order to display the topics in this book is logical and consistent. This is important for self-study users. At the beginning of each chapter, there's always a paragraph or two summarize the main points that are going to present in the chapter. This gives the reader a whole picture.

2. Clear explanation and examples The book uses easy explanatory languages and the examples are very representative. Each example, the author is showing us every detail steps, so it is easy to follow.

3.Relevant exercises and problems. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that can help to reinforce the concepts. Most questions can be found directly from the material. There are also exercises and problems that are related to the topic presented in the chapter. I remember there is an accounting book I used before that the problems required more knowledge than the chapter actually covered. This not the case in this book. Some of the examples in the chapter could be used as quick reference while working on the problems, too.

The only thing I would recommend, if I need to find some, is that I hope there could be more real life issues mentioned in the book. In this way, readers can relate the knowledge to daily life even closer.

I've taken only one course in programming (C++) and was hoping this book would provide me with a better understanding of algorithms. My biggest problem with this book is that they use their own notation based on older programming languages (such as Pascal) - I had a hard time moving from a C++ way of thinking to figuring out how they were expressing the same thing. It didn't work for me because of this... This book looks as if its over 25 years old and is very British. It has some odd English colloquialisms and is written for an English audience. I really don't think - in an object-oriented world, I could recommend this book - if you tried to move to C++ from this, you'd be very confused.

You know all those game players out there spending their quarters to play video games?

The people who wrote those games started out with books like this one.

Get this book and try writing your own sort algorithms, use the bubble sort, the ripple sort, and then when you've got them down pat, learn the shell sort and the tree sort.

You would think that sorting is boring, but you'd be surprised how useful they become when you want to design a game or puzzle using the computer.

And, when you learn tricks to tweak those skills, you'll be several steps closer to selling a game to Nintendo.

Get this book, and learn some good and useful programming techniques.

John Author of the first "Microcomputer Star Trek game" (released for the TRS-80 in 1978). Before 1978, you could only play Star Trek on teletypes and mainframes.

I think the book is over priced. Finished it in two days. Interesting only from the standpoint that Chrysler was a pioneer on a few items. Since Mr. Breer died in 1960? the automotive technology has exploded, so many of his statements are now not relevant.

One of the trio of engineers that company founder Walter Chrysler dubbed his "three musketeers", Carl Breer offers an even-handed recounting of many of Chrysler Corporations's engineering triumphs.

He spares no detail when describing any of a number of Chrysler's firsts, from sorting out the mysteries of the carburettor to perfecting the Lockheed hydraulic braking system. He offers no apologies for Chrysler's biggest flop, the 1934 Airflow, instead highlighting the revolutionary advance it made in the area of the quality of ride for passengers. But he tends to gloss over the negative effect the car's styling had on sales, pausing only to criticize production for adding needless weight to the design. Perhaps the Airflow was just one of those times when the three musketeers won the swordfight at the risk of losing the castle.

There's a real feeling - more intense than in Walter Chrysler's own autobiography, or even in the just-released book by Robert Lutz - that Breer was one of the true pioneers in the automobile industry. Engineering detective work emerges as valuable history as he describes how various technical breakthroughs become possible after careful analysis of often conflicting customer comments and complex circumstantial evidence.

Included also is his fascinating eyewitness account of his trek as a young university student from Stanford in Palo Alto to the devastated city of San Francisco during the great earthquake of 1906.

This book is not light reading, but not only did it hold my interest, but I also find myself returning to it from time to time to refresh my memory of the steps taken in solving various engineering puzzles of the automotive age. For in these solutions one may find inspiration for resolution of technical challenges in any of a number of modern fields of endeavor.

This book provides a good basic understanding of boiler operations on a wide variety of boilers. It is geared towards the novice operator or for as a learning guide. The depth is somewhat limited and is not supported by any theory. The author describes the overall process but does not get into optimizing the boiler, which every operator should do.

This reading is not meant to be entertaining or for light reading, but a study guide for the operator...

I am currently studying for a New Zealand Boiler Attendants National Certifificate level 2 (for operating boilers up to 6MW)and have been operating for over 2 years. I wish I'd had this book before I sent my last 2 assignments in. I would thoroughly recommend this book for any operator.
Only negative I have is the lack of metric units, but that does'nt detract from the usefullnes of this book.

Although not an actual biography or military history (at least it is does not read very well that way), this book seems to try a bit too hard to rationalize many of the actions of the British Legion and its controversial commander, Banastre Tarleton. When his troops admittedly misbehaved, was he really just too far away, not watching or unable to control them? Was he really such an innocent victim of a vast post-war public relations conspiracy -- or perhaps where there was smoke there also some fire? Very few "saints" fought on either side in the nasty civil war in the Carolinas during the American Revoltion, and the Legion's lot was further complicated by the fact that many of the men were from northern colonies. It is unfortunate that with so much well-researched, detailed and useful information presented on the Legion's activities, it gets somewhat of a "denial" spin at times regarding some of the unit's off-the-battlefield behavior. Maybe this is a partial response to the almost ridiculously Nazified Tavington character in the recent movie, "The Patriot." However, a significant amount of scholarship by respected historians supports a contrary or more balanced view (not only Robert Bass' 1957 biography, "The Green Dragoon").

Much mythology has been written about Banastre Tarleton, the best
cavalryman of the american revolution. Anthony Scotti has finally separated fact from fantasy and has shown that his style of warfare was typical of his time. In fact his counterpart on the American side was Light Horse Harry Lee, whose style was the same. Both were "brutal" in their method of fighting. Since Tarleton was on the losing side, he has been demonized. Lee on the other side is considered an American hero. This book is a
very welcome addition to the literature on the American Revolution and is an excellent read. It should be in everone's library who has any interest in this war.

A great book with a lot of information. Now the question is where to find an up-to-date version of this comprehensive volume ?

This is a book that should be re-released with updated information. It is the wine connoisseurs indispensible resource.

This is a book for those who want to be prepared but made the mistake of thinking this book would help. The author has a firm grasp of the obvious and of how to type, pounding the obvious into the readers head until they are effectively moot points. Their is little structure to the book. Information is presented in long paragraphs which ramble around the information until the reader gives up and moves on to the next paragraph. Clear thoughts and segues from one topic to the next are as endagered in this book as Snickers bar in a Systems Administrator's cubicle. While the author seems to know his subject the reader has to work at gleaning the useful from the long winded.

The four redeaming qualities are: 1. Most of the information you want is in there, somewhere. 2. The appendices. 3. The Self Test Software self test CD. 4. The plug of Amazon.com on page 166.

This book is great! It gave me all the insight I needed to get through the Microsoft Exams. Told all of the "tricks" necessary to pass these difficult exams! Two thumbs up!