Professor Van Horne Books are certainly fundamental to approach right the theory of finance. I think we have all to thank him for his studies.

A compact book focusing on fixed-income market, derivatives, and risk management. Highly Recommended for advanced undergraduates

Book contains about 154 pages and is divided into 6 sections. The sections discuss Light, Artificial Light, HID Lamps, Reflectors, Setup, and Electricity Basics. Appendices include Radiant Energy, Requirements of Plants, Troubleshooting, Types of Lamps, Glossary, and Index.

The book is a mixed bag of great information and cluttered lists of data. The major theme of the book wanders about. Some of the discussions contradict each other. For example, Van Patten does a masterful job describing why useful light for plants should not be measured in lumens. But then he goes ahead and displays his huge listing of light readings in lumens. Why? You made your point, use PAR Watts.

In another section, Van Patten decribes every possible detail about horticultural lamps and reflector systems, but draws no summary with a specific list of brands and models. Don't get me wrong, he lists lots of data. Pages and pages of spreadsheet like lumen data for over 115 models of bulbs. Pages and pages of 54 three dimensional charts. Yah, great, you did lots of research - but I don't need to see all the raw data. Just tell me which bulb I should buy. Maybe give me a top ten list. Should I really care what the lumens are for the 97th best bulb?

Many conclusions are very vague. For example Van Patten actually writes, "we still do not know which lamp is best". Gee, that a great reason to write a book.

I'm torn as how to rate this book. The book contains many jewels of information that are well researched and finely written. Some of Van Patten's findings are exciting, extremely interesting, and even thought provolking. But in between is a littered jumble of confusing tables and charts. It's disorganized. There are lots of typographical errors throughout. He should have hired a book editor before publishing this (or hired a smarter one).

If you plan to garden indoors with HID lights, you must buy this book (you have no other choice but this book, because there are no other texts available). The book is most valuable to purchase BEFORE you select a HID system. It will save you from making a costly mistake.

PS: I use two HID lamps, a 400 watt Agrosun and a 400 watt Sunmaster Warm Deluxe. Both are installed in identical Hydrofarm Super Grow Wing Systems. I love the results - I can grow anything!

"Gardening Indoors with HID Lights" is a cross between a technical manuscript and an How To book for beginners. With a bachelors in cellular biology, this book was perfect for me. It explained how plants react to different parts of the light spectrum for different parts of their growth cycle. It steered me away from what would have been an ineffective fluorescent to maintain my citrus trees during the snowy winter. Instead the authors skillfully discuss the relationship of cost, watts, and effective indoor growth area for what is essentially artificial sunlight. As a novice, I decided not to take all their advice about an indoor lighting system, since I wasn't sure it would really work as advertised. But the practical science which is woven throughout this book would have been an equally effective guide for a much more elaborate set up. The salesperson where I ended up purchasing my HID system did not recommend this book since it was "too technical." I myself would recommend this book to anyone who studies their gardening and purchases other garden books. A high intensity discharged lighting system will cost several hundred dollars. My system had no information with it guide me in it's use. This book neatly fills the gap.

I thought this book was an excellent combination of information and facts. Not only was it easy to find the information you wanted but it was also very interesting, unlike many of these kinds of books. I think it is an excellent rescource for any teacher or person wanting to know about education and how we got where we are.

This book is about the basic history of American Education, from the Revolution to Modern Times. Chapters are broken down into time periods, many charts, graphs, timelines available. Critical Analysis sections, end-of chapter questions, and bibliographies for each chapter are very helpful! this book is great for a Foundations of Education course.

This book takes a very technical subject and approaches it with straight-forward easy to understand format. I think it will be a great addition to my classroom.

This book explains LAN principles in a form that is easy to understand by students starting to study this topic.

Starting with the basics of communication in its broadest sense, the chapters proceed towards LAN communication and extend beyond the LAN to a WAN.

No specific Network Operating System is used to explain the principles involved. The information given in each chapter is sufficient and general enough to be applied to any existing Network Operating System.

This book is great. It is written in good style . This book is a manual for dealing with people. Anyone who deals with the public, has their own business, or needs to run an organization (even if that organization is a little league baseball team or home sweet home) needs to read this book. Great job by the author.

Dr Van Voorst has given us a rare glimpse into the early history of that then-new Jewish sect, the "Christians" by distilling, through textual analysis of two early copies of the Psuedo-Clemmentine Recognitions, a text probably atrriburted to Hegesippus and now lost in the original-the 'Anabathmoi Jacobou' or "Ascents of James". The work stands on its own as a wonderfuol bit of scholarship, and supports much of Robert Eisenman's work on James the Righteous. The story related is a narrative, probably poetically enhanced as much early Scripture seems to be, of a fateful public confrontation between the luminaries of the Jerusalem Assembly led by James (the Brother of Jesus) and the priestly authorities of the Herodian Temple over theological questions of messiahship and salvation (!). The debate, since the author is an early church apologist, goes to the new sect of "Christians" (Church of the Circumcision), and the narrative suggests that the entire population of Jerusalem was about to be baptized on the basis of the Scripturally-based arguments of James and the other Apostles, when "The Enemy", a man referred to as SAULUS in a marginal note in the Syriac copy of the Recognitions, incites a riot in the Temple courtyard with several of his followers, who seem to be a bunch of violent bullies who inflict bloodshed, injuries and deaths among all the people gathered. The end of the fight comes with James the Righteous, the Brother of Jesus, being pushed from the top of the Temple steps (hence "ascents") by "The Enemy" -Saulus/Saul- breaking both his legs, and the retreat of the Christians, with their injured leader, "towards Jericho" (Qumran is also that way from Jerusalem), and the Enemy and his henchmen being given warrants for the arrest of the members of the "Faithful" by the priestly authorities. If this sounds disturbingly familiar, it is because this is probably the precursor to the conversion story of Saul on the 'Road to Damascus' -the Sons of God at Qumran referred to their habitation as "Damascus"- and "Saulus" is known to Christians and Biblical scholars today as Saint Paul.
The episode related occurred sometime in the early 40's of the Common Era, and was apparently written down about 135 CE. I think we need to re-examine those Qumran scrolls....

Jan O'Meara, Homer News, June 9, 1994, said: "Baxter Bog Interlude starts right out with a scene guaranteed to pull the reader forward: a lone walker is attacked by a crazed moose, and a body of a man with a bullet hole in his forehead and an empty brain cavity is found. What caused the moose's aberrant behavior, who killed the man and why, and what happened to the brains are the mysteries to be resolved ... Bue's real strength is in his storytelling, so it's no surprise that he writes good, suspenseful action scenes that keep his plot moving and the reader engaged. His chase and hide scenes are tense."

San Francisco Bay Area radio personality Ann Arbor read "Baxter Bog Interlude" on the air during January and February, 1996 and interviewed the author live on February 7 as part of her popular radio program "Unbedtime Stories."

Norma Goodman, The Norma Goodman Show, CBS, KTVA Channel 11, November 1995, said during a live TV interview of Arne L. Bue: "... an Extremely interesting book..."

Don Pacis, book reviewer, Philippine News, San Francisco, Nov. 15, 1994 said: "To the new generation of environmental writers, add the name of Arne Bue ... a book that explores the mixed-up world of technology and how it fouls up one of the last pristine parts of the world ... by its very subject it links itself to a bigger movement against those who would despoil what's left of the natural world ...[Bue's] work is a moral response to the horrors of modern technology ...The writing is ... direct, often tense and taut. The plot ... overlaps and leads to an often meticulous ... piece of detective work."

Debbie Briscoe, Chugiak-Eagle River Alaska Star, August 13, 1994, said: "Those reading "Baxter Bog Interlude" get more than n Anchorage/Wasilla-based thriller. They get a glimpse into the subconscious mind of author Arne L. Bue of Anchorage .... "Baxter Bog Interlude" is the product of internal and external occurrences in his life at the time he was writing the novel."

Ted Leonard, author, "Neath the Midnight Sun," columnist, North Pole Independent, March 3, 1995, said: "Baxter Bog, a well loved swamp near Anchorage, is the setting for a gripping thriller, "Baxter Bog Interlude." Once I picked up this fast-moving mystery/adventure, I couldn't put it down until I finished it. This novel is a good read."

Arne Bue, an Anchorage author, makes his home near Baxter Bog Park.

Photographer Susan Rademacher Fry presents almost two dozen landscape projects by Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden in a coffee-table sized book. The photos are technically excellent and effectively communicate the naturalistic language O&vS use in their projects.

There is much emphasis on using native plants and plants that make sense in the context of the garden.Large grasses figure prominently in many of the designs. And many feature rudbeckias and sedums. The goal seems to be to knit a building seemlessly into its enviroment using appropriate garden elements.

When it's a penthouse terrace, a sculpture or fountain and a single plant may suffice. By the shore it's giant mounds of grass waving in the sea breeze. In a wooded setting by a mountain stream the emphasis is on rocks and water.

A number of sites are presented with sketches of the plans. Explanations, though very brief, are clear and helpful.

At times one can't help but feel that the book is a very large, expensive, illustrated cirriculum vitae for the landscape architects; but it is clearly much more. Their love of their art comes shining through. Don't miss the compendium of of 'favorite plants' at the end of the book.

And remember that fifteen years later one of the principles stated his regret that he'd planted quite so many rudbeckias.

Set in Washington D.C., Roger Gaborski's first novel weaves a tale of intrigue combining a mysterious high-tech biotech startup project with international spy overtones. Although written in 1993, it is futuristic and has not been outdated by recent advances in computers and biotechnology. Those with experience in government service or high-tech startups will recognize their colleagues as the story unfolds. At the other end of the length spectrum from Clancy, the story moves swiftly and concludes somewhat suddenly. It holds one's interest throughout. It's a good read.

I found that the title was a little bit misleading as well. The word "workbook" led me to believe that there would be examples, exercises and forms to work from. Instead, the entire book is broken down into tiny sections that only DESCRIBE how or why a particular analysis or technique should be performed.

Some of the information is purely common sense, and yet you are forced to read through a dry, overanalyzed, high-level description of it. For example, under the Project Documentation section, an explanation reads: "Communication. With the documentation, all those who were involved with the project can be informed about the development of the project from beginning to end." (Do you really need a book to tell you this?)

Some good suggestions and a few good examples do exist, but you must wade through time-wasting, frustrating, non-informative text before getting to them.

I think this book was nothing more than an ego booster and moneymaking scheme for a few E&Y consultants.

I'll agree with users who feel this book is dry, dry, dry. I also have some issues with the design of the book. There were concepts that I found confusing until I drew my own flow charts -such aids could certainly have been included in the book. There were too many bulleted lists that probably should have been numbered for easier reference and ranking. Where this book shines is on the mechanics on BPI; how to organize the project and the teams (although a good project manager should know how to do this), the sequence of steps to go through, and how to organize all the collected information.

What is missing from this book, in my opinion, is discussion on Risk Management and Change Management. You can document processes and manuals and forms until you're blue in the face, but in the end, you'll have to get human beings to buy into the difficult task of changing processes to reach the future state, and there is little discussion of this.

Provides an excellent framework for organizing and planning for BPR. The orientation is at a high level and should be adapted to your specific needs, but the overall structure discussed can be applied to large, medium and small efforts.