I am currently taking a Quant Meth class which is using this as the textbook. By far, this is the worst textbook I have ever encountered as a student. It is hard to understand and the answers that are given in the back do not explain how to get to the final solution. Because the problems are not paired (that is 1 is not like 2, 3 is not like 4, etc.) and the only answers are to the EVEN problems, you are basically lost. There is a website for the 9th edition that is "under construction" currently, so there is no help there. This is not a book conducive to learning. Teachers and colleges - PLEASE think twice before you choose this for your curriculum. Both you and your students will be miserable!

I am a professor using this book to teach a graduate level Quantitative Methods math class. This book is hard to understand for the students. Exercises included at the end of the chapters are hard to figure for the student based on what is presented in the text alone.
For the instructor, no teacher support is available except a solutions manual. All other texts I have used provides sample lecture material, additional cases, etc. This text provides no such support with a useless web site.

De una manera muy agradable, los autores nos ofrecen un gran paquete de conocimientos matemáticos aplicables a los negocios. Con ejemplos claros y un diseño que facilita su lectura, este libro es una verdadera joya para quien desee ampliar el uso de herramientas matemáticas en la gestión empresarial. Desde toma de decisiones hasta PERT/CPM.

It was quite a disappointment to find that almost 300 pages of this 400 page book were dedicated to a roster. The roster appears to come directly from the National Archives compiled service records. Only 39 pages are dedicated to telling the history of the regiment. The roster is just the basic information from the Natl. Archives and there is no indepth statistical analysis of the regiment. This book is very basic and would rank near the bottom of regimental histories that I have read over the past decade.

If you are interested in Civil War history I would recommend that you leave this book on the shelf. However if you have a family member who served in the regiment then it might be a nice keepsake. Less than 40 pages are devoted to the history of the regiment and you would be just as well off to read the regiment's reports in the Official Record. Most of the pages are filled with the names of roster of the regiment.

There is very little to grab hold of in this book. Even the roster seems to be limited to what was found on the National Archives Compiled Service Records. Overall a real disappointment and not at all what I was expecting.

This is a well written, well researched book on the men of the 38th Alabama Infantry. It's obvious that the author spent many, many hours of research to produce this work. If you had relatives in the War of Northern Agression, or any interest at all, this is a "must have" for your bookshelf, although it won't be on your bookshelf much. There is interesting facts on hundreds of the men who fought for what they believed in. Very, very interesting reading.

There's little enough gay mystery out there, so I don't want to sound too discouraging. The main problem for me with THE WOODSTOCK MURDERS was the humor. I'm beginning to think it is very difficult to combine laughs with suspense--when it works it's fabulous, but unfortunately (Fred Hunter's Alex Reynold's series is a case in point)it's almost impossible to get the right balance of comic with seriousness. But I cut Froscher some slack because it's his first book and because he has a show business background and so most of his characters are going to be a little larger than life (but if one more character burst into song, I was going to have to hurt someone). I liked the character of Buddy (who, despite the book jacket, is really the main character), but I never felt like Tom was real (or very interesting). Again, not surprising (considering Froscher's background). As is typical in most series, the two main characters got together way too fast (anti-climactic--in all the ways that really count). It doesn't allow for the reader to get to know and care about the characters. That kind of thing needs to be milked. Also, I think this was a let-down because there was no threat ever to Tom or Buddy. I don't require car chases or gun battles, but a feeling of jeopardy (even if false) might have helped. That said, I would still buy the next book and give it a try.

Joe Keenan is my gay comedy god, so I'm afraid I end up comparing any gay comedic writing I come across to the books of JK. The author of this book is no Joe Keenan, but having said that, The Woodstock Murders is still an absorbing mystery with fun characters that the reader ends up caring about by the end of the book.

It is always pleasant when murder victims deserve their fate, and no one could be more deserving than the loathsome Driver clan of Jon Froscher's THE WOODSTOCK MURDERS. The NY Drivers, deviant kin of Ma and Pa Kettle, are being picked off one by one right under the nose of State Trooper Senior Investigator Tom Wilder. Tom is handsome, bright (card carrying Mensa member), and gay. It is Tom's thankless task to try and find the Drivers' killer among his own friends and neighbors in pastoral Woodstock (yes, that Woodstock). His job is made more difficult by his budding relationship with one of Woodstock's newest residents, the boyish and breezy Buddy Keepman. Buddy, a former Broadway dance captain, acts as houseman or 'keeper' to the Schaeffers, legendary show biz folk prone to excruciatingly precious banter. Buddy shows all the signs of developing into an amateur sleuth--a potentially fatal hobby. THE WOODSTOCK MURDERS has a certain nostalgic charm, despite the rel! ! entlessly cute bits. First time novelist Froscher has a nice eye for detail. He has penned the beginning of what should prove to be an amusing series.

D.L. Browne

This book tries to give us a small hint of what the future may be. Arthur Clarke tries to describe the future as his creativity imagine. It was writen in 1986, but I read it in 1997, so some of book's predictions seems idiot to me. In my point of view, Arthur Clarke should focus on a story, not fortune-telling. Of course science ficcion must do some wild guess, but a good book is sustained by the plot, not the situation.

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the 20th century's greatest writers of fiction-certainly of science fiction-and, as many of us know, of accessible science writing. However, this book is not an essential piece of his canon. It's interesting, to be sure, some of Clarke's visions of the future are novel and worth thinking about. There are several noteworthy situations outlined, including a possible scenario for World War III (this scenario however, shows the hazards of prophecy... apparently Clarke failed to forsee the fall of the Berlin Wall, for Germany is still referred to here as "East" and "West".) A lot of the writing doesn't really sound like Clarke... especially the medical chapter, it comes off as a bit dry and boring in places, lacking his trademark wit. It almost seems as if these chapters and scenarios were written by someone else and merely edited by Clarke. I'm not knocking the book-it is interesting, nicely laid out, and very professional and highly ambitious in scope-but Clarke has SO MUCH superior material available that there's no reason for you to pick this up unless you've nearly exhausted his output.

Much of the information contained in this book is misleading because it is outdated. Not a good preparation tool for standardized exams, as many of the practices recommended in this book count as mistakes on those exams. Certain things, like using semicolons to separated a list of items that contain commas, are pretty good ideas, but are not part of standard English anymore.

Part of the xx Made Simple series, this volume (c. 1981) needs to be updated and revised.

The Etheric Double, by Arthur Edward Powell, first published in 1925, is well written, clear, comprehensive on the chosen subject and probably completely incomprehensible to modern educated readers. Incomprehensible, not because the writer is obtuse, which he is not, but because the author builds a view of human existence that depends on assumptions none but the most gullible would believe.

The author's intention is obviously to make the world a better place for mankind by improving man himself. The method chosen is to explain that there are seven kinds of matter from which man is made. The three most coarse (solid, liquid and gaseous) making up the physical body, and the four more refined (super etheric, etheric, sub atomic and atomic) making up other bodies such as the Etheric Double, the Astral Body, the Mental Body and the Causal Body. Apparently man should be able to improve himself by strengthening and learning how to improve the communication between his several bodies. To give the author credit, the content is a compilation of works by previous students of the occult and is probably a lot easier to read than their works.

The only reason I read beyond the first page was because the author was my father. The mystery is: How could my father, who always insisted that logic and commonsense should rule human behavior, how could he have written such balderdash.

Those who have studied eastern energy modalities such as Reiki, Prana or Kundalini will enjoy this early century interpretation of the energy body. Old Fashioned language is used but those who have studied the modern energy understandings will be intrigued by explanations that we now know even quantum physicists support about the mind and body connection.

I bought this book for my first trip to Amsterdam. The basic info is sound but there were some problems. The most annoying is that key parts of maps end up in the middle (binding) making them difficult to read. The restaurant reviews were in inaccurate and left the reader wondering whether anyone from Frommers had been in the restaurant. In summary the book is OK but there are better ones on the market.

I just took this book to Amsterdam. I found it to be very helpful. The books features maps dedicated to a single subject (such as a restaurant map, a hotel map, etc.). We used these extensively. The Frommer's Irreverent Guides have more candid and entertaining reviews (including information on coffeeshops, which this book essentially skips), but this book is an excellent one-stop source of travel information. If you're only bringing one guide to Amsterdam, this one will do the job well. If you can pack two, bring along the Irreverent Guide (or something similarly hip).

Some time has now passed since the sociological conditions that inspired this book, namely the euthanasia debate of the '90s with such figures as Dr. Jack. In that time, the ideological axe of the authors in their interpretations has become far more apparent than perhaps when it was initially published--though it received no more than a tepid response then. Hardly the neutral book the authors claimed to offer. It is useful for identifying the crucial players in late antiquity, but the final product is one that is very far on one side of mainstream scholarship... without sufficient justification or even very enjoyable, coherent organization.

I have to agree with the Cambridge, MA, reader. While martyrdom has once again become a topic of considerable interest in the wake of 9/11, this is not the best exploration of the topic. The book hardly seems unbiased, and it seems to lack a thorough grounding in modern reading theories and hermeneutics.

To mistake this book as a social and religious stand on suicidewould be an injustice. This book is an insightful historical accounton the act of suicide that encompasses the lofty idea quoted within its text, "Only by being grounded in the history of our own tradition will we be able to restore rationality and intelligibility to our moral attitudes and commitments." The writers waste no lines on the emotional rhetoric associated with the idea of suicide. Instead they make interesting observations such as, the distinction or lack thereof between martyrdom and suicide, the inclusion of a wide and varying amount of facts and references, and for those who find the correlation between literature and history fascinating there is a quotation by Socrates that can arguably be seen as a quote paraphrased by Shakespeare with his own delightful twist, "If it is unconsciousness, like sleep, in which a sleeper does not even dream, death would be a wonderful gain; To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream . . . " While I have a bias against suicide, finding it sad that anyone would wish to rush to an inescapable event, the issue of death is so complex and emotional that it must be debated with facts from all fronts. This text is a must read for anyone who enjoys learning about the past.

A lot has transpired since Richard Rovere died in 1979 that makes his book outdated and irrelevant: Venona and the disintergration of the Soviet Union, for example. Both have put paid to such questions as "if there were Communists in the State Department." Arthur Herman's book "Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" --using the revelations and documents from the former Soviet Union-- clarified these issues once and for all. McCarthy may have been an eccentric demogogue and an alcoholic (so what makes him different from many other politicians?) but history shows that he got it essentially right. Diehard communists, progressive communist sympathizers and all those misguided souls that believed and still believe that it was a "noble" cause-- will never forgive him for getting it right.

Richard Rovere should consider himself a comedian. The book has so many flaws about Senator McCarthy that I can't believe Mr. Rovere can be classified as a legitimate historian.

Declassified Soviet documents are proving that Senator Joe McCarthy was right. Biased historians like Rovere should be academically scorned for thier years of lies and distortions.

No one will be offended by Rovere's much-racking depiction of Joseph McCarthy. Seriously, how many people are there left in America, or anywhere around the world, still willing to stand up and smugly look you in the eye and say Joseph McCarthy was a necessary man fighting for American freedom in a time when Communists were hiding in every shadow? But the book, written in 1959, just isn't all that up-to-date. Of course much of the information we now know was suppressed at that time and J. Edgar Hoover--viciously complict in the development of all the Red Scare and blacklisting craziness--was still in power at the time of publication. Nobody would want to make an enemy of Hoover, so anything dealing with McCarthy and Hoover's contact is treaded over very lightly. This, unfortunately, makes the book somewhat inaccurate, which is a shame because so many dark secrets and shameful public deeds are recorded with a passion and an obvious intense desire to destroy the image of the drunken old demogogue. In 1959, just three years after McCarthy's death, and five years after his disgrace, this was an important book because so many people were still unsure of their opinions towards Tailgunner Joe. I imagine that this book made quite a difference as even Hoover himself took the opportunity to smear the late Senator, drawing comparisons to Krushchev's posthumous denunciation of Stalin. The book is certainly worthwhile for anyone interested in a recreation of the terror of the 1950s, written from the perspective of the 1950s, but there are several more contemporary biographies of Joseph McCarthy and, regardless of the fact that this one is likely written with more beautific prose, in a case study like this, information beats out pretty words every time.--Lance Polin

I am taking a business management class that uses this book as its textbook. What a snoozer this book is. It is absolutely, undeniably, inexcusably, frustratingly TOO WORDY! It uses way, way, way too much text to explain concepts. These guys need to retake a class in business communication, since they seem to have forgotten one of the most important aspects of business communication: BE CONCISE AND TO THE POINT.

This book is as dry as the Sahara, and is more sleep-inducing than a big mug of Kava Kava cocktail.

I found this book to be poorly written and edited. The text is dry, unclear and boring. Although some of the cases were good I felt that they lacked enough information to make a decent analysis. It would have been better if they had focused on quality rather then quantity.

I've been using the book for a couple of months now, don't be fooled by the information that says you can download the software from the web. It's not there! Only a teaser demo program. In fact, I can't seem to find it anywhere. Now I don't have the time or instructions to special order it.

Hey Thompson and Strickland, quit being so cheap and include the software with the book or put it on the web! The download method is not working and I find it quite frustrating. I would give the book more stars if the much hyped software was actually available.