Some may misconstrue the title of this book to mean network management in the sense of system administration or network traffic flow. This is certainly not the case as the sub-title indicates. It is a book that covers some of what a traditional NT admin book would but is really much more. The book is very much geard towards the network/IT/IS manager. The book is filled with great bits on policies and procedures as well as how to get the most out of your NT systems. If you are an experienced NT admin this book will not have much that is new for you although, because it is so well written, it may still be an interesting read (as it was for me). But the new NT admin and, more importantly, the new manager, will find this a great book on how to use NT efficiently and what non-technical issues come up in the IT world. The book also has excellent references throughtout that point out places to find more specific details.

For the experienced NT admin 'Windows NT Network Management' is just a good read but for the new manager or someone coming over from other areas or systems it is an excellent primer on NT and system management issues.

I first heard about this book from Anil Desai about 4 months before its release. He had told me that it covered some of the issues that I was talking to him about. The book actually brings new ideas and ways to handle Network Management. My skills have defnintely been augmented by this book more so than any other. I would recommend that everyone buy a copy of this book.

This book provides details that are needed if you are going to support a NT-powered network. Great tips, and a level of detail that makes it the first reference book to grab off the shelf when trying to do something.

We Are The Poors: Community Struggles In Post-Apartheid South Africa by South African educator, journalist, and community activist Ashwin Desai is an informed and informative explanation of how the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 failed to end the conditions of economic, social, and political inequality for the oppressed majority of South African blacks. Nonetheless, new forms of solidarity and resistance to conditions of inequality have emerged, principally in the form of new and dynamic political identities as reflected in the growth of community movements, eventually coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. We Are The Poors is a significant and timely contribution to contemporary South African studies.

Desai's book is about elderly women who will put their bodies between their neighbour's house and the men with guns and dogs and sunglasses who have come to effect another eviction. It's about the ecology of the neighbourhood and the struggles to constitute the people stuck on the wrong side of the razorwire into movements. It is about fighting and tenderness and coming to Durban.

Desai's story starts in Chatsworth, Durban. Here the new South Africa meant unemployment for the poor after 10 000 jobs in the clothing industry were sacrificed to The Market when tariffs protecting our market from sweatshop imports were removed 4 years ahead of the WTO schedule. For many this was followed by disconnections from electricity and water and then evictions from their homes as the Durban Metro began to reorganise the provision of basic, life sustaining services in accordance with 'international norms' and under the cold logic of profit. Desai tells us how a movement of the poor was built in Chatsworth, how it spread to other townships in Durban, drew in students and workers, made connections with similar movements developing in Johannesburg and Cape Town, put somewhere between 20 000 and 30 000 people on the streets outside the UN conference on racism in Durban last year and became part of the global movement of movements against the subordination of all aspects of society to The Market.

All these years after Machiavelli and Sartre and Fanon much academic work continues to flee the disorder and mess of life for the more comfortable worlds of abstracted empiricism and theory where the sterile manipulation of numbers or words becomes a self-referential end in-itself. Desai's book has no elaborate graphs or references to Homi K. Bhabha. Numbers and theories are only employed to illuminate lived experience. This book, with its stories of children prostituting themselves to stave off their family's eviction and mothers fighting off the police, can not be reduced to a power point presentation. Desai describes it as "journalism - an account from the frontlines of the establishment's 'undeclared war' on the poor."

Scholars like Patrick Bond and Hein Marais have published valuable critiques of the herding of the energies and hopes of the democratic movements in to the Market's corral. And David McDonald and James Kilgore (writing as John Pape) have shown that in the post-apartheid era up to 10 million South Africans have been disconnected from water; the same number have been disconnected from electricity; a further 2 million people have been evicted from their homes and 1.5 million have had their property seized for failure to pay their water and electricity bills. McDonald and Kilgore have also found that the majority could not pay their water and electricity bills, that many of those who do pay do so at the expense of things like school fees and health care and so the idea of a 'culture of non-payment' should be seen as, at best, a myth. They also show that none of this is necessary and that this assault on the poor it is a direct consequence of the shift away from policies based on the principle of cross-subsidisation to ensure sustainable access to services by poorer citizens and towards policies that aim to generate profit by recovering the full cost of the services provided to each customer, including installation costs. The rich had the installation of their basic services subsidised by apartheid many years ago and so what the World Bank calls 'good public fiscal practice' means that electricity costs 30% more in Soweto than in Sandton and schools in poor communities in Durban have their water disconnected in the midst of cholera epidemic.

Radical thought usually takes the oppressive power of the state and the market as its focus. And explaining the nature of the structural violence in and from which the oppressed must make their lives is important work. But Desai, like Frantz Fanon and the Italian Autonomist School, does something different. He begins with the creative energies of the oppressed. And so he gives us storms and tributaries and rivers of struggle. We discover the Hindu festival of light, Diwali, re-imagined with the electricity disconnecting Durban Metro cast as the villain of darkness. And there is Psyches, the rapper who makes beautiful the heroes of the latest ugly clash with the police; Sifiso Sithole a polite young man who usually reconnects a few people to the electricity grid before settling down to his homework in the afternoons; the UDW students, steeled by the murder of one of their number by the police while protesting the exclusion of poor students from their university, who defend fragile new born spaces for critical thought and action from "the goons from the ANC youth league" and the mothers and grandmothers across the country, like Mama Manqele in Chatsworth and Mevrou Samsodien in Taflesig, who rebel because obedience can mean disaster and even death.

The movements encountered in this book are familiar in that they are a return to the non-racialism of the UDF (as opposed to the longstanding multi-racialism and more recent bougoise nationalism of the ANC) but excitingly strange in that their aspirations are not to seize political power but rather to diffuse it with the aim of creating neighbourhoods in which individuals and communities can flourish. But the movements in this book are perhaps at their most unfamiliar and challenging when, in the words of Mpumalanga township activist Maxwell Cele, it becomes clear that "No one is in charge of the protests, except the anger and hunger in every person."

There are a few flaws in the editing and the layout of the book. The misphrasing of a sentence in the introduction that results in the number of people who lost jobs between 1996 and 2001 appearing to be a statistic for 2001 alone is particularly unfortunate. But the significance of this book, with its urgent, occasionally poetic and probably rushed passion that has evoked the feel of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth for more than one reviewer, is not exhausted by its novelty as the first book on the social movements of the post-apartheid era. This book matters because in an age where the human is deeply buried under a dead but respectable technicism it pulsates, rudely, with life.

These are the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, in 1987. The proceedings contain several widely quoted research papers. The 3rd conference was held in 1991, again at Tucson, and the 4th in 1999 at RPI. Without a doubt, these conferences have brought together some of the very best researchers in the field of constitutive modeling.

Beautifully written, rich stories that take place in India.

Indian writers are hot right now, but no one comes close to Desai's fine blend of realism and romance. A child of a German and an Indian, Desai probably is able to synthesize a cultural viewpoint all her own. Her unique (often satirical, always witty) eye sees much, and her writing is a bafflingly brilliant mix of poetry and economy.

Not a bad story in the batch... you'll want to read them again and again!

Unfortunately my brothers and sisters, another prophet walked among us, and we,again were relatively unaware of his presence. With the media focused upon events of wars, Gandhi's greatest feats went relatively unnoticed; we did not have enough exposure to his work; we did not see each step of his leading India out from beneath the crushing heels of Western oppression. I highly recommend all of Gandhi's literary efforts, but I find this particular work to be especially interesting. The Gospel of Selfless Action:...Gandhi does much to heighten both a reader's awareness and respect for one of the most inspiring and selfless men to have ever walk among us. He elucidates Universal truths which cannot be denied--this book, quite simply, is worthy of five stars.

To read about a man who came from abject poverty in India to founding one of the world's most prominent Yoga movements is remarkable. The book also illustrates the incredible heart of love that Desai gave to his many followers. Although recent events have illustrated his own need for personal development, it does not undermine the truly remarkable ascent of a very evolved being. The book is well written and there are many pictures enclosed. A bargain at the listed price!

The matter covered in this edited book is of direct relevance to a Geotechnical Enigineer as it will give him a confidence in evaluating the right parameters and then model the behaviour on scientific lines

From the graduate student in economics to the layman trying to find his way through the maze that most current writing portrays economics as, "Price of Onions" is a must read. If the individual has the slightest interest in India's economy,she may ignore this book at her own peril!

a cliff notes version of radiology no fluff, all pearls. besides, my son wrote it!

The first section of this book explains the thinking behind Ayurvedic cooking and the difference between the three doshas- Vata, Pitta and Kapha. It attempts to help you find which one you are, gives examples of meal plans and then the rest of the book is made up of recipes. I found this book to be very accessible and although based on Ayurvedic principles it feels to me like a normal cookbook that I can just pick up and cook from. The reading before the actual recipes was very enjoyable.I have experienced many new tastes using this book. Some of the recipes are so easy, simple and delicious and some take much longer but are equally delicious. There is a wonderful section on beverages including lassis and almond milk. Each recipe designates which dosha it would be good for. The breakfast and snack sections are also great. A very good book for someone wanting to explore Indian cooking or looking for new recipes.

Bob Sachs, author of "Tibetan Ayurveda", recommended this book to me. I feel that Tibetan Medicine is the best system of medicine.
They believe that behavior determines health. But the second
variable is food. Their system is ayurvedic. Based on body types. But they don't have a suitable book out for sale. This
book is Indian Ayurvedic. Which is about 90% the same. Each menu will tell you in numbers how much it matches your body type. And there are other symbols which tell you about seasons and tastes and so forth. This is all really quite simple. But
I don't follow this book. My reason is Indian Cooking. All the meals are cooked using Indian Cooking. You are supposed to put
mustard seeds on the frying pan and as soon as they start to pop, you start to put in other ingredients. It has to do with timing. You don't want the mustard seeds burnt or black. This
is a small thing, I suppose. But I bailed out when I got to that. I do think that this book will give you the very best
health care outside of good behavior. Thank you and happy eating.

I'm not a vegetarian, but when I use the recipes in this book, I don't miss the meat. Yes, this book will teach you about the ancient art of Ayurvedia, but that would all be useless if it didn't taste good because I wouldn't use it. It emphasizes well spiced foods specific to your particular constitution, and I found that the recommendations often went along with things that I had already figured out, for example that I needed to eat well cooked foods. Most the ingredients in this book are easy to find - if I can get them in Philly, you can probably get them anywhere. If this were only a vegetarian cookbook, it would be a 5-star book (and I say that as a meat-eater). With all of the extra Ayurvedic information, this is a book you should have if you do any of your own cooking.