This is the philosophy textbook that we're using in my Philosophy 101 class... and it's driving me nuts. The author finds a 'favorite philosopher' for each chapter, which is completely annoying if you wish to have any opinion of your own about western philosophy. The information might be complete, but it's extremely difficult trying to cut through the author's views in order to get to that information. The completely unsubtle partiality makes it difficult to learn anything concrete from this book.

Wolff's perennial textbook, now in its eighth edition, has faults. This is a given for any book or other work in the print medium, and, for that matter, for any human artifact. Nevertheless, after teaching philosophy for thirty-six years using everything from classic sources to newspapers to novels as texts, I have settled on Wolff's About Philosophy as the best means for introducting the most diverse of all academic disciplines.
Naturally, the book reflects the author's interests and preferences, although these are never presented as truths above debate. In fact, Wolff reveals his willingness to revise his own traditional, Western preferences for rationality-based theoretical constructs devised (virtually solely) by those of the male gender. Objectivity, too, comes up for careful scrutiny and, ultimately, rejection as an appropriate property of an acceptable philosophical theory.
In the end, About Philosophy is both a highly personal, and yet, a highly accurate documentation of 2500 years of philosophical speculation and research. Its faults may include that, in spite of its thoroughness and clarity, it does not summarize the views of every philosopher and movement in the Western tradition. No volume, introductory or not, could accomplish this, but the ideas selected by Wolff are clearly among the
germinal springboards for the entirety of Western Civilization.

I give such a high rating to cancel out the overly critical opinions of the two other reviews. This book is fine introduction to Western Philosophy with all of the major topics discussed in detail in a way that is very approachable to the beginner with good citations of the major work of each philosopher where appropriate. The others reviewing might suggest their own idea for a text book since they understand so much better than the auther the proper way to teach philosophy to the beginner.

This book contains little perspective on Wellstone himself, a figure whom it is easy to love or hate.

It's mainly useful for recording certain facts surrounding the 1990 election and for a largely positive spin -- in a superficial and biased view -- of Paul Wellstone.

This book is interesting and worthwhile in two ways: first, because it does press Paul Wellstone's [fabulous] politics, and second, because it is a well written documentary of a fascinating campaign. Anyone interested in progressive politics or innovative campaigning is advised to read.

This is an excellent book that portrays what a politician should be. Plain and simple, if you like real politics, READ THIS BOOK!

I really had high hopes for this book. So little substantive is available on the career of Simon & Garfunkle. Unfortunately, this childish, fawning tome is almost a waste of time.

It's so hard to determine what the author had in mind. Certainly not the music of this duo. She spends more time on a plot synopsis of an Art Garfunkle movie than she does IN TOTAL on the creative process of the duo's groundbreaking albums. How they made their records, how the songs were created, life on the road - very little on their art is discussed. That seems not to be important to this amateur author.

Since she had such access to Garfunkle, that must be why the focus is on Artie-minutia (and then she should have called it that!). But if one wants insight into the actual career of this duo, to learn about their music, their muse and their legend...look elsewhere. Lord knows where that is...

There are too many factual errors and fan-mag platitudes here to make this an authoritative biography or analysis. Too bad, since the subjects are such interesting people with such interesting careers. Look elsewhere.

I'm a huge fan of S&G, and this book is very respectful and lots of fun to read. But . . . Kingston (the author) goes through every song on every album and explains what it's about--that uses up about 25 pages in the book. Us fans already know the songs, when she rehashes them it comes off as trite. Also, there are a good many typos and mistakes. She lists Madison Square Garden as being in Pennsylvania (it's in New York) and cites newspaper "The Detroit Times," a paper that went out of business in the 1950's I think. There's a missing word here and there. Also, she's English, and there one or two things she said in the book and I wasn't quite sure what she was talking about. Also, she rehashes interviews published in Rolling Stone and other magazines. Why not just give us the gist of the article. Instead, she gives us verbatim quotes. That uses up about another 25 pages.

It's a fast read, and a fun one, but the book isn't perfect. A good editor could have straightened this book out.

This book covers a lot of topics - but lacks in-depth explanation on many important stuffs. I tried to reference the book to help me with some Excel automation. However, the 40 Excel pages in the book helps only a little. Not a single word on 'charts', poor presentation on 'Range', no mention of Excel built-in functions... MS user's guide or online help is much better. The coverage on other parts look just like the Excel.

This book shows at a very high-level, what you can do with VBA in all of those MS Office applications.

The only problem with this book is that every piece of information can be gathered from MSDN.

If you are not sure what VBA is, or how you can use other Microsoft Products in you Visual Basic projects, then get this book. It will be a real eye-opener.

This book is a good starting point before you go out and buy that 2 inch thick book on your individual office component. This book does not go into advanced concepts, it is moreover a guide to Office's object model. I felt that it left many important concepts out. The selection of what was important in Excel was sporadically helpful. I started out with this book, but needed additional references to drill into the specifics. I've *never* accessed data the way they say to in Access, nor would I. There is a discussion section in the back with suggestions on how to use the Office suite to solve problems, but no specifics.

In the book, Rabinow seeks to reflect on his experience during his period of studying Morocan-islamic-religious sects and family linages related to saints of Muslim belief.

In whole he forgets to describe (providing he saw any) women or children and their role in the whole system of religion in Moroco.

Thus, if read as an ethnography, the book is very faulty.

This is a great introduction to some of the intricacies and complications cultural anthropologists face when doing fieldwork, since the world is our field (and not some lab cordoned off in some building). Several reviewers have mistaken this book for an ethnography, which it is not. This book is a self-reflexive look unto the complications an anthropologists subjectivity and experiences brings into one's study.

First off, this is not a book about the Moroccan people. It is a book about the ethnographer's experience with a community of Moroccan people. I assume that, somewhere out there, is a university press publication of his actual findings gathering dust on a shelf. Instead, this book is about some of the more uncomfortable aspects of anthropology and the destroying of illusions.

Questions of finding the outsider's insider (someone enough on the fringes to be willing to take you under their wing, but not so much that they don't have a good in-road into their own culture), of the purity of research (did you have to pay these people before they'd bother to talk to you? Were they expecting payment based on relations with other enthnographers?), and how much one can really understand a culture just by sitting a watching it (as opposed to participating, which threatens objectivity) are the issues Rabinow faced, and what he wrote about.

"Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco" is just that, memoirs on the process of the research itself, not Rabinow's findings. There are interesting comments on Rabinow's interactions with his insiders, but rarely the sort that could go into a standard academic tome. This answer to the delima of objectivity, splitting one's experiences into an official report and a journal of sorts, is one I'd like to see more of.

The book is simply old!! The book which was written 3-4 years ago obiously doesn't cover many important aspects of networking.

Here's a dictionary, teach yourself the English language. This book was written with that mentality in mind. Possibly a good resource book, but by far a good teaching manual, despite the title.

If you are looking to be a Network Admin. or to be able to design and implement a new network, then this book would be no more than an appetizer.

This book is really good for those of us who just have some questions and want to be able to understand how things work a little better. After reading this book, I realize I have more to learn.

With the fast pace of the internet, this book, published in 1997, is woefully outdated. I accidentally purchased it thinking I was getting the October 1999 version of the series.

This book is an excellent overview for the end user. This book explains the general concepts of Internet and World Wide Web and yet the area they cover was very broad but not in depth. If you are confused with all general concepts but do not have interest to go very deep into the topics, this is definitely the book for you. Good visual presentation always great for understanding the subject. I have been using this book when explaining the Internet to non-I.T people, they love it.

This book was great because I am new to the 'internet world'. The visual format of the book allowed easy interpretation of all of the information. I highly recommend all of these books - I have purchased 5 more of these books from IDG and marangraphics and am now becoming more comfortable with computers and the internet. I highly recommend their books on microsoft applications, such as access, excel, and html. The great thing is that their is no flipping back between pages - all of the info is right there before your eyes!

I followed an online recommendation to this book. As a lover of Alan Moore's From Hell (a graphic novel about Jack the Ripper) and a lover of London's dark side, it caught my interest. But for me the writing was ultimately more turgid than dense, more aligned with the author's inner thoughts than the character's - and somewhat too clever to easily digest. (For example - and this is from memory since I don't still have my copy - if you can work out the exact meaning of "He knew he would finally act when his hands were firmly in his pockets", then you might enjoy this book more easily than me. Otherwise I can't recommend it.)

This novel is an interesting read (I agree with the other customer reviews to a certain extent, but I'm always eager to learn new words and read with a dictionary close at hand) but rehashes the same old theory of the Royals' involvement. Sir William Gull was aging, in poor health, and debilitated from a stroke at time of the murders. I seriouly doubt he was physically able to murder anyone. He has been discounted as the Ripper MANY times as have the Royals, John Netley, and Walter Sickert, who is the Ripper according to Patricia Cornwell. Her theory will be detailed in her forthcoming book.

I attended the Jack the Ripper Conference in April and chatted with Donald Rumbelow, author of "Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook," as well as other Ripperologists. Don is of the opinion that the Ripper was "John Smith" or "Joe Schmoe," definitely no one famous, and his identity will never be discovered. I tend to agree with him.

I would recommend this book for its entertainment value but not for actual Ripper information.

the book is much more than a slash-and-gore filled crime genre mystery. West gives the Women of Whitechapel voice here and plumbs to the depths of a world of sordid artists and royals. There's a harrowing psychological tale to be told here, no matter who committed the murders. And besides, it's much more interesting to imagine the royals doing it than your average guy on the street.

A 1993 computer book is about as useful as a rusty frying pan. First you'll be afraid you're gonna die. Then you'll be afraid you're not gonna die. I'd rather stay in my cabin and tie some lures than read this manual.

This Freeland guy doesn't know jack about 1-2-3. I'm tryin' to use ViaVoice to dictate entries into my spreadsheet, and this book's worthless. And where's the Euro Currency support and Data Validation help? Guys like Freeland, I used to kick sand in their faces down at Carry Beach and then dare 'em to do something about it in the Bailey's parking lot that night. C'mon, Dummies, you can do better than this! Get somebody who knows the software more than Waldo, here, fer cryin' out loud.

Now, boys, these reviews display a lack of courage and loyalty that is very disappointing to me. I learned a great deal from this book. I learned that 2 comes after 1. And 3 comes after 2. This was very helpful.

I bought this book when it first came out and tried several of the psychics. Contrary to the experience of one of the other reviewers, I found Kim Allen to be the worst when it came to accuracy. I used her several times over four or five years, and maybe two of her predictions came true. However, she is a genuinely kind and caring person who really cares about her clients. Jill Dahne turned out to be on a star trip and she blew me off three times and I made her refund my money. Her mother, Micki, turned out to be a whacko who wanted me to change the spelling of my name! I have found other psychics not listed in this book who are much better.

I beg to differ with the other reviewers. I used this book and found the gretaest psychic of all, Joyce Keller. I was totally blown away by her reading, which was upbeat and positive the whole way through. It was as if she knew me and my problems, and answered each one explicity. When she told me I as going to marry someone I knew named "Ed<" I denied knowing anyone by that name. Nonetheless she was very sure. Sure enough, I did know an Ed, he was a coworker of mine. We kno longer work togtehr because I am expecting my first child, and Ed, is my husband. I love this book for helping me find Joyce.

The only important part of this book, is Kim Allen the "Love Psychic" based in New York. She is accurate, inexpensive, straight to the point and extremely friendly. If you buy the book she is in it. TRUST ME, if you want a psychic that will NOT disappoint, read about and contact Kim Allen.-JD