The only flaw with this series and it's minor is that there is little information on hostels. However, all the other information in this series of travel guides is wonderful.

As everyone else said. It's all you need. I am planning a European trip this summer. I spent hours and hours in book stores looking for the perfect travel book. This is it. I got one for Prague, Budapest, and London as well. The fifth city I'm going to - Berlin- comes out in May and I'm so glad I'll have a set.

I simply went to the library and bought Let's Go Europe for hostel information. Now that I know where I am staying in each city- I will bring these guides with me.

They are perfect. They break the cities down area by area showing many great sites in each area...including things I haven't found elsewhere. For example, the "Figarohaus" in Vienna. Being a huge Mozart fan- I want to see all the Mozart sites I can. The "Figarohaus" is where Mozart lived for three years in Vienna and where he composed my absolute favorite opera, The Marriage of Figaro- hence the name.

It's little things like that that can make your trip great as opposed to average.

Get it and no other...except Let's Go Europe which provides the missing hostel info. When I get to Europe...Let's Go will not be with me- only these guides will.

Eyewitness travel guides are invaluable when traveling to a city for the first time. Eyewitness VIENNA is no exception. I collect travel books and nothing compares to being able to visualize what your reading about. This book offers cultural and historical background along with all the all the pictures. It's virtually impossible to get lost in Vienna with this book. The maps throughout and the city map at the back are the best I've seen.

I can only second everything the other reviewer said about this book. It is so easy to use and so thoroughly cross referenced that we simply could not put it away while we were in Vienna. We finally gave up and just carried it around for instant referral at all times. My wife had lived in Vienna for a year as a college student, but she was amazed at the wealth of interesting and important information that we gleaned from this book. Its format is extremely visual rather than verbal, which really works for me. We are going back to Vienna next year and we will have our copy of the Eyewitness book close at hand at all times.

This book offers a very comprehensive look at microbiology and virology (with some immunology and parasitology thrown in); unfortunately, that's not a good thing if you're trying to study from it. The chapters are full of information on lab values and other minutiae that will be of interest to only those who make a living in the field. Otherwise, you'll have to search hard to pick out the relevant details that are worth remembering. There are definitely better, easier to use books on the market than this one

This edition have news about micobiology.

depending on the focus of your course, this might not have enough clinical case-related material. Great for the "big flick" with a very well laid out presentation (not enough pix or graphs), very good overall. Lot's of people in my class chose the Appleton and Lange (same publisher) 'Review" version of this book (blue cover).

I used this book for a complex variable course as part of my engineering study. I found this book very insufficient to explain things well as a beginner in the subject. There were often problems I could not understand because the book only offered a couple line explaination and no example. In fact almost all the class thought the book was terrible and didn't even read it. Now my school Rochester Institute of Technology has returned to its previous book. If you are well versed in math and want to explore another realm, go ahead with this book, but if you are no mathematician try something else.

It is wonderful to see this great book on undergraduate complex analysis back in print at even a more affordable price. I've used it in in one of my junior level courses and been totally satisfied with it. I will use a part of it again in a continuation course.

What is nice about this book is that it is a textbook, and not a cookbook nor a book that tries to include everything and fails at all of them. This book never lists too many results; instead it aims at the understanding of the subject matter. Its treatment of Cauchy's theorem clearly exposes the fact that different points of view (derivatives, series, integrals) in the complex plane lead to the same object, analytic functions. The sections on geometric and applied topics, such as linear fractional transformations and fluid mechanics, are a delight to read.

The book assumes nothing other than calculus (Green's theorem) as background. Topological concepts are kept at a reasonable level and some are introduced later when necessary so as not to hinder the development of its main topic. Some short side issues are discussed in tiny sections within the exercises. There are also plenty of regular exercises ranging from elementary calculations to rigorous proofs. This book also contains an appendix that I love on the zeros of polynomials, including the cubic and the quartic.

What attracted me most in this book is that one can read it straight through. There are no secondary undeveloped paths, sections to omit, unnecessary details, or long list of formulas. I recomend it for any course or self-study at the introductory level complex analysis.

1983 another era? Probably. 1983 New York another era? Definately. Hence, if you weren't likely to find this title in the cheap bins before 9/11, then you are now. It and every other book written about New York before that date, in fact. Not that I think the author in this instance would mind too much. NEW YORK DAYS, NEW YORK NIGHTS isn't a book that takes itself too seriously. There aren't tracts of socio-economic theory to get bogged down in ' in fact, only if granted a generous concession would NEW YORK DAYS, NEW YORK NIGHTS even licitly assume the guise of travel literature (at least, it's not congruous with my perhaps stubborn understanding of what constitutes literature). The prose is light and casual, which reflects the manner in which Brook engages New York the subject, i.e., drink in hand, ever alert for the free ride. He touches on subjects as disparate as lawyers, the Chelsea hotel, Greenwich Village, sushi, the Met, Bellevue Hospital, newsanchors, zoning bylaws, gay bath houses, educational institutions, Rikers Island, the judicial system, the Left, the Right, immigrants and the green card, Harlem, City Hall, the NYPD, the South Bronx, the festive season, and as well those usual suspects; cabbies and the subway. Observations run from the obvious ('It struck me how in New York the population unwittingly leans toward a jewishness as a kind of cultural norm') to the not so ('It really seemed to be true that in New York you raise your hat to a lady and she responds with the story of her life.')

Probably not worth sniffing out a signed first edition, but likely worth whatever it's going for in the cheap bins.

***stars

(An interesting footnote: Brook speaking with New York Mayor of the time, Ed Koch ' 'There'd been a group of bombings on New Year's Eve, and I asked the Mayor whether he felt that New York, as the financial centre of the world, was particularly vulnerable to urban terrorism. He looked astonished. 'Vulnerable? In england you had 27 people killed by a bomb, blowing up the horses in the park the other day! And in Belfast? More people are killed in Britain than in New York!'')