This textbook is a mess! Certain sections such as those that deal with classical transmission genetics are reasonably good. On the other hand, those sections that deal with recombinant DNA/genomic technology and the molecular basis of cancer are very weak. The writing in these sections is convoluted, and the level of coverage fluctuates wildly between oversimplification and mind-numbing detail. The book does not seem to have a clear target audience in mind, and the authors appear to have not spoken with each other during the writing. Considering the relative strengths of their earlier text, "Introduction to Genetic Analysis," this new effort is all the more disappointing.

Genetics has traditionally been taught with the topics in historical order, starting with Mendel and only later reaching molecular genetics. However, it is much more logical to explain Mendelian genetics in the context of molecular genetics. (No other science abandons a logical building-up of concepts in return for historical chronology!) Griffiths and colleagues are the first to write a text with this preferable and long-overdue approach. Their overall organization is the best that I've seen. While many of the chapters are very well written, there are some parts of the book that are substandard and hopelessly jumbled, such as the chapter on mutational mechanisms and DNA repair. As this is a first edition, I am optimistic that these problems will be ironed out in the second edition. Another criticism is that the figures are adequate but not outstanding; the artists should take lessons from their colleagues who worked on Genetics: From Genes to Genomes by Hartwell and colleagues. Despite its drawbacks, I prefer this text to others that are available.

I'm very impressed with the excercises in the end of every chapter. The excercises are fun and not too difficult.
The material is very well illustrated. Again, good work .

This guide was the first I found on XP. If you haven't certified on a fairly recent MS OS, this might be of use to you, but do not stop with this book. If really just scratches the surface. Most of the topics covered in the book (it does cover the objectives in a superficial way) are things the 70-270 test takes for granted you know. If you are 2000 certified, you want something else more geared to the specific differences between XP and 2000. The guide does include specific additional reading, usually from the Resource Kit or the Knowledge Base, and many hands-on lab setups (you need a 2 or 3 pc network, with 2000 Server on one). Bottom line, I do not feel this is a very good book by itself for any experience level.

I get the impression that Dillard and Northrup really rushed to get this book onto the bookstands. Reading through chapter one I found many instances where the authors stated Windows 2000 when they meant to say Windows XP. For example, page 19 suggests that to install Windows XP you simply "insert the Windows 2000 Professional installation CD-ROM and reboot the computer." Well, last time I checked the Windows 2000 CD installed Windows 2000, not Windows XP.

So then I consulted the Microsoft Knowledge base, and discovered Q316452 which lists out all the mistakes in the book. What a mess! These authors really rushed the book, and made a lot of mistakes as a result.

On the bright side - I did pass the exam, and the book did give a good overall perspective of the knowledge required to pass. My advice, however, is to make this book a supplement to a much larger amount of study. The exam had a surprising amount of questions related to the PC BIOS (APM vs ACPI) and SCSI BIOSes.

To the authors I offer this - please put out a Second Edition as soon as you can, and correct these errors. The 70-270 is a fundamental exam for the .Net MCSE's, and I don't want to be working with dummies!

I was very surprised when I used this book and the associated practice exam system (both in the book and on the CD-ROM) in the amount of information about the XP OS that I learned. I've used XP since it was in beta, read the Resource Kit, read other Microsoft Press books on XP and still I found reference to items in this book that I had not read anywhere else. Granted, the book presents the data in very brief summary statements and if you really want to learn more than what is needed to get the practice exam answers right you will need to use the on-line help in XP, the Resource Kit and the Microsoft Web Site. But the knowledge gained after reading the book and following up with the additional resources was well worth my time.

My only complaint about the book is that much of it was obviously the Windows 2000 Professional Exam Prep, and whoever performed the global search and replaced missed quite a few 2000 references. It can sometimes be a little confusing when they are giving you a scenario involving Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and the answer does tell you to boot from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM to correct your Windows XP installation.

Regardless of whether you are studying for the MCSE exam or not, if you want to delve into the Windows XP OS and learn about things that may not have been obvious, this is a great book.

Great title, but the substance of the book is lacking. It reads with the big powerful words of a direct marketer, but it reminded me of the direct mail I hate. Alot of power words, but nothing to really sink my teeth into.

A book that is great for the person starting out is Make Your Website work for you. It's a basic book, but it gives a more robust program. There's also one about affiliate marketing and developing associations. I think both will help you better market online.

"Email Marketing: Using E-Mail to Reach Your Target Audience and Build Customer Relationships" contains a wealth of information on using opt-in e-mail to grow business. It covers the negatives of unsolicited e-mail (or spam) and the positives of opt-in and opt-out e-mailing, crafting an e-mail campaign, writing attention-getting e-mail and testing response to a campaign. It also discusses producing effective e-newsletters and e-promotions, advertising in other people's e-mail and how to use persuasion techniques in messages.

When a Web site offers the opportunity for a person to enter an e-mail address on the company site and receive promotions, newsletters or other information, they are using opt-in e-mailing. Opt-in (or permission based) e-mail advertising, is stressed throughout the book.

"Email Marketing" goes into the nuts and bolts of opt-in to show how to do it well. It is filled with first-hand accounts from a diverse group of companies on how they use opt-in e-mail to stimulate business. The book also shows several Web sites and documents used in direct marketing.

Companies considering the use of e-mail sales messages as a marketing tool to build a client base for their businesses should look at this book first to see how to use e-mail effectively without spamming and hype. "Email Marketing" covers the positives and negatives of using e-mail to capture prospects and customers.

"Email Marketing" is no flimsy tome on spamming. It is a serious attempt to help businesses use the positives of e-mail to increase their customer base. Without using technical jargon, "E-Marketing" covers the thorny problems of setting up e-mail format to relate to many different messaging programs. Reading this book is an excellent first step to create a successful e-mail campaign.

This book gives some handy guidelines as to what to do (and more important: what NOT to do) with email campaigns. Although the book keeps telling you to use a particular opt-in email list (it almost looks like the author has some stock in this list), it's a very useful book to start with. It will not give any technical details on how to realize an email campaign, but there are other books about this subject.

Prior to reading this book I did not have a lot of experience with Email Marketing (other then a "victim"). I would really advice anyone in this situation to read this book before sending out any email. It really got me started on the subject and I know ordered several other books for a more detailed discussion of several aspects.

There is some discussion about how to answer email send to you. However, most of the book is focussed on sending out (batches of) emails to you clients/prospects to get them to do something (most of the time visit your website or place an order)

This books is a real *must* read for anybody wanting to use email as a marketing tool. It will prevent you from making numerous of costly mistakes and it will give you plenty of tips and hints you probably didn't think off.

This book is the worst finance book I've come across. I had to resort to a past finance book in order to get through the class that this book was assigned for. It has no mathematical basis for serious students of finance. There are numerous typographical errors.
An excerpt, "To give a simple example, consider the choice between alternative A - you get $100 today - and alternative B-you get $95 today. Suppose you had to guess how a stranger, about whose preferences and future expectations you nothing at all, would choose." This is UNIVERSITY LEVEL MATERIAL?!?
Do yourself a favor, look somewhere else and do not buy this [book]

I was required to purchase this book for an MBA class in Business Finance. To put it simply, this book is terrible. There are errors in calculations from front cover to back. The describers used to name calculations are changed from page to page, without any consistency whatsoever, requiring a flow chart to understand what it is Bodie and Merton are discussing. Nobel prize or not, Mr. Bodie and Mr. Merton should be embarrassed to publish such trash.

Also, the way the questions are worded in the end of chapter reviews leave little relevance to what was taught in the preceding pages. Often questions that are asked are open-ended and very ambiguous.

I would not recommend this book to anyone and have asked my University to stop using this book because it is so flawed.

Like others, I too first saw this book in paper. I am now using it to teach a class of law students -- smart kids but mostly without great numeracy. I think it is working okay but (like so many coursebooks?) perhaps not as well as expected. One problem is indeed the typos -- I'm a sloppy writer myself and typos are my incubus, but with all the beta testing and with all the publisher support, you would think they could have done better (indeed, I sent my own list to the publisher back in the beta days -- I got a nice thank you but I don't see my name in the acknowledgments, so I suspect they hit the trash). Aside from that -- the presentation seems mostly clean and straightforward, but quite often too elliptical for my students -- I've felt I had to do a lot of backgrounding. Unlike other reviewers, I quite like the problems -- I think some of them press the envelope a bit, but that is just fine with me, exactly what they should do. I do feel that the authors bring together a remarkable lot of stuff in a compact and orderly manner. In this respect with this book as with so many other coursebooks, perhaps it is the case that the teacher is getting more out of it than the student.

Whoa. Ms. Fritz seems to have some issues with Europeans in general and Christians in particular. Here's a sample:<>(pg. 29). Here's another beaut.: <> .Apparently nobody ever told Ms. Fritz that the only reason we have copies of the Greek and Roman classics is because they were copied and preserved by Catholic monks. She has also never heard of Pope Gregory the Great or Thomas Aquinas, or figured out who opened the first universities.

According to Fritz, the Christians continued in their benighted state until they had the good fortune to be attacked by militant Muslims, at which point, <>
Jean Fritz needs to follow their example. This book is venomous, egregiously inaccurate agitprop garbage.

I have never come across such blatant hostility towards Christianity - and in a children's book to boot! The research is inaccurate and the writing poor. For example, the author writes about Prince Henry, "He was religious enough...." and then continues on to, yet again, put Christians in a tiny, mindless box. What does it mean to be "religious enough"? Don't make the same mistake I did by buying this book.

The inaccuracies which plague this book are many. The author has allowed a vitriolic personal bias against Christianity to take the place of historical accuracy. In addition to the stunning inaccuracies, the venomous, contemptuous tone of every reference to the Christian faith is problematic. In this day of tolerance, it is surprising that anyone would allow their personal prejudices to be so visible and so hateful, especially in a book for children! In a book which is supposedly based upon history, it is surprising that anyone would print out-and-out lies such as are found in this book. Why did I give it two stars? Because the text, when it is not too busy attacking the author's imaginary archenemy, is refreshing and useful. It is humorous, winsomely written, and fun. The illustrations are great, too. It's sad that the author's personal biases have marred this otherwise fine work.

first, i would like to acknowledge that anthony burns and the story of anthony burns are great. with that aside, i can now say that the book....WAS AWFUL. it was easy, yet confusing. plus, it was not very deep at all. i learned nothing new. nothing at all. not reccomended for anyone looking for something out of the ordinary. not reccomended period.

My overall view of this book, Anthony Burns, is that it is very slow. It was a good story about freedom and rights, but it could have been fifty-pages shorter. During the last four chapters it talked about Anthony and his court trial. Every chapter seemed the same which lost my interest quickly. I also think the book had to many characters. I could never keep track of which person the author was talking about. I think Anthony Burns' story is a good one, but I don't think it was written very well. For example, every chapter was a different season and it would skip years. Anthony Burns had a very inspiring life, fighting for freedom and being traded from master to master; however, the overall story was just not very interesting. My opinion of this book is that it is a good book about a man's fight for freedom, but it was too slow and slightly confusing. I think this book would appeal more to adults or history teachers.

If you are looking for a good book about historical non-fiction book about a slave name Anthiny Burns, I would have to say this books for you! I thought that Anthony Burns: The defeat and trumph of a fugitive slave was a so-so book. I didn't like how the book moved from time to time but other than that it had a good plot. The book is about a slave named Anthony Burns who gets captured and goes on trial and if you want to know any more you should buy this book!

clearly written by a pair of highly intelligent intellectuals. it is a pity they cannot comunicate.

The authors not only demonstrate their understanding of financial markets by way of the breadth and precision of the topics discussed, but they also present the material in a way that is understandable to even those uninitiated in finance. If you are looking to learn the basic concepts underlying the various markets (equity, bond, mortgage, etc.), and you are interested by the wide range of pricing tools available today, this book is up your alley.

This is one the best introductory textbooks on the subject of financial markets and institutions. It is comprehensive and full of examples and exercises. The authors do an excellent job of presenting complex concepts in a relatively simple and straightforward style. Highly recommended.

THis is not good bookin fact i have better books abotu freehand

so i recommend not to buy this book

Well, I was looking for a book to help me out with Freehand 9, not to mention how to incorporate it with Flash. This was not the best of books. No offense, if you're a print person, then this will be a good book to have. If you work on web and multimedia, then this book is not what you're looking for. It's well written, but not much help to what I was looking for.

un libro impresindible para aprender a utilizar todas esas herramientas de freehand que no saltan a la vista con solo utilizarlas. Pero que sin embargo posee ejemplos demasiado basicos y simples de diagramacion que no muestra el real potencial de Freehand, pues lo hace ver muy infantil e impractico.

Tambien necesitaria tener mas informacion sobre el trabajo de freehand con las impresoras postscripts, e imprenta en general.

En definitiva un gran libro para partir, pero uno malo si lo que se necesita es aprender nuevas tecnicas o trabajos mas profesionales.

Brown's book suffers from a lack of good editing; accounts are out of sequence and disjointed, whole paragraphs are repeated and participants confused. The tale of ARAMCO and the Kingdom's transformation is a remarkable one that Brown fails to do justice.

this book is distinguished only by the sheer volume of the number of errors the author has managed to include. For this he deserves a five star rating

For those unfamiliar with the Middle East this work may seem daunting in its detailed analyses not only of events but of the background and character of the people involved in them. The author takes full advantage of access to sources not previously used in studies of this kind and presents his findings in an orderly and fluent, easily readable fashion. As a participant in some of the events he describes I can vouch for the authenticity of his accounts of early times. On the other hand he betrays a lack of familiarity with the technical aspects of the oil industry. This does not detract from the value of the work for the general public who even from a quick read will gain an idea of the complex problems that Aramco encountered and overcame with varying success.

This book is boring. It has a wonderful IDEA for the plot but Norton over-embellished and as a result, you find yourself reading about dark dank halls and the numerous sub-plots. It's as if the main plot finally figured out it wasn't being paid attention to and it ran away from it's abusing master.

Most reviews of this book were to say the least bad. I however enjoyed it. it was what I like to call brain candy. YOu don't have to think hard to read it. You just enjoy it. If you like Andre Norton's works, this is not her best effort, but it is a fun and quick read to pique further interest into scifi/fantasy reading for someone just starting to develop a taste for it. BTW, I wouldn't reccommend this for a guy. This was definitely a chick book.

I think that anyone who says that this book isn't good is a true lover of fantasy. The plot was great and well-developed, the characters strong and the scenery fantastic. It was the first book I've read by Norton and I am now a great fan of hers! I know a good book when I read it and this was definitely one of them!