Did not find anything new for myself in that book, even though it has a lot of content and most likely will be helpful on 70-059 i find this book a bit boring..

Along with the official Microsoft Press book on TCP/IP, I used this book to study for and pass (855 score!) this very tough exam. This is a very good book that distills exactly what you need to know for the exam. However, I would not use this as your only study/preparation tool. This book does a very good job explaining the differences between WINS and DNS, LMHOSTS and HOST files, NetBIOS names and FQDN's. This stuff you really need to know cold, I mean backwards and forwards. The book's discussion of the tricky subject of subnetting is not adequate. Find another study source to master that subject.

I found this book to be a helpful companion (along with the TCP/IP chapter in "Mastering Windows NT Server" by Mark Minasi) in passing exam 70-059. I have had several years of experience with TCP/IP but this book does a wonderful job of filling in on some topics that you might not do on a day to day basis. This book, coupled with my experience, led me to pass the test on the first try. One quick note though: when you buy study guides, be sure you are getting the newest edition, sometimes shopping gets confusing with so many versions. I will buy from the exam cram series again.

The very best thing about this RPG has to be the character races. No other game I've seen has such original, and fully developed characters. The Eridani sword saint, all the way to the feministic Cizaracks.
One of the other great qualities about the game is the prices for the supplements. My friends all seem to baulk when I tell them I bought all of the books for less than $... For most RPG's it would take a life time to afford all of the supplements.

Battlelords is still an amazing RPG after 10 years. My friends and I have played countless other games, but this is the one we keep coming back too. It's easy to play, easy to learn, and lots of fun. If you could own only 1 sci-fi RPG, this would have to be the one.

Battlelords is one of 2 sci-fi rpg's that, after playing rpg's for almost 20 yrs, I can honestly say is a great game. The system is easy to use and understand, the wide variety of races (complete with histories and profiles), and equipment make Battelords a game that will keep both players and Battlemaster entertained for years.

This book helped me to pass the 70-58 exam with a 900 and I don't really have any networking experience. I would highly recommend it. I would however appreciate it if the publisher would reveiw it again for typos which seemed to be present in quite a few places. This could throw someone like myself off.

This book helped me pass NetEss with a 933 .. It is a good book with very clear wording, which any person could understand.

I did find that there were a lot of typing and spelling errors, which does become a little much. It covers all that you need to know for the exam and will be core credit to passing. YOU MUST... also take some online tests which simulate the MCSE exam itself.

The book will definately go into my "handy kit" and will be a great referance. The reason this book lost a star was because of it lack of information on RAID(and typos!). Use another source of information for this topic! IT IS IN THE EXAM! Microsofts description of this would be the best to study.

ENJOY.. I HOPE YOU ALL PASS

I used this study guide along with Sybex's Test Success (ISBN:0782121462, read my review)and both helped me pass the 70-058 with a 900/1000. My only complaint was that WINS and DNS topic coverage in this book was null, and I was tested on these topics in more than one occasion on the real exam.

This book takes a while to read, but it gives you a wealth of knowledge. You will feel that you have actually learned something, which makes this book an excellent networking-terminology learning tool as well.

The CD tests included are challenging and they provide a good measure of your real exam readiness. I'd recommend taking these tests once each and only after you have mastered the material completely. The reason is that the test questions (and answer order) are not randomly generated and taking these tests more than once might actually hurt more than benefit your learning.

I recommend this study guide for its value as an exam tool and a networking reference. Complement it with a Cram book, the Sybex's Test Success book (mentioned above), or a source of practice exam questions (Measureup or Transcender) to tackle the NetEss test with confidence.

-6 Stars! Superb, intricately plotted and riveting story.

...If you havent read P.D. James....it might be better to start with "Death of an Expert Witness". However, for a taste of P.D. James- this is an excellent choice!
Newcomers would still enjoy it, but may miss a little of the depth of character of the key players: Adam Dagliesh, a Scotland yard Detective with his own tragic past, who is also a published poet; and Sgt Kate Miskin, newly assigned to replace Dalgliesh's previous longtime assistant, wanting to make an impression, but plagued with problems in her personal life.

As a dedicated P.D. James fan, I would say this is even a step above her usual fascinating, exquisitely crafted stories!
Beautifully written and carefully plotted as usual.
This book is notable for the wonderful glimpses into the life of Dalgliesh's Sgt.: Kate Miskin. These personal moments dont distract, but further the story, and converge with the mystery plot to create a moving and exciting climax.

James always creates characters who are complex and beautifully described, but in this book she outdoes herself. She has created a rainbow of personalities ranging from the most endearing to the most odious characters.
In brief, a well-crafted, imaginative, wonderfully absorbing mystery. Only caveat would be a fairly bloody crime scene encountered by the detectives. Hopefully this wont put you off, as James never throws in gratuitous gore or violence. This was my absolute favorite P.D. James novel. If youve heard the authors name, and want to see if you like her without starting "at the beginning": This is a great choice.
In short: If you love mysteries, and dont own this book- RUN, dont walk to the "add to shopping cart" link!

3/5/02 edited 3/19/02

This ranks as one of P.D. James' finer achievements. One of her longest novels both in scope and number of pages, A TASTE FOR DEATH once more proves James' talent for devising an intricate detective story and filling it with well-crafted characters and some of the most beautiful prose ever written. The story revolves around Commander Adam Dalgliesh's investigations into the murders of two men who have been found, their throats slit, in the vestry of a church. The plot is complex and, in addition to the intrigue of the mystery, explores questions of politics, society, and morality. This is a wonderful novel with an explosive climax, certain to be a treat for both Dalgliesh fans and lovers of contemporary literature.

If you havent read P.D. James....it might be better to start with "Death of an Expert Witness". However, as a P.D. James fan, I give it ***6 stars***! Beautifully written and carefully plotted as usual. This book is notable for the wonderful glimpses into the life of Dalgliesh's Sgt, Kate Miskin. These personal moments don't distract the reader, but add to and advance the story's plot. James always creates characters who are complex and beautifully described, but in this book she outdoes herself. We encounter the full range of personalities from the most endearing to the most odious characters she has ever created. This was (nearly) my absolute favorite P.D. James novel. If you love mysteries, and dont own this book.. *Run, Don't walk: to the "add to shopping cart" link!

This is a valuable book. Along with Ford's "How to Spot a Phony Resume" I feel I have complete references for screening out bad applicants.

I've spent the last 15 years building on-line information and background screening services. The knowledge I've accumulated in that time is clearly described in this book. I believe a neophyte could get into the background screening business using nothing else. Editor Mike Sankey is a well known expert in the public record field.

Anyone who hires employees and wants to learn about background screening needs this book.

I bought it as a reference book during an MBA class in Financial Statement Analysis. Helpful and complete.

In all honesty, this is the sexiest thing ever to be committed to the printed page. All the players are here: FASB, AICPA, APA, IASB, EITF...delicious. Discussions on technical bulletins, interpretations and opinions are all concise and easy to understand, but still so lovingly complete. I used this book every single day in accounting theory and it proved incalculably useful. Clocking in at over 1,200 pages, the girth of this tome also made me feel more masculine as I lugged its enormousness past the droves of simpering art and english majors.

This book is especially useful if you need to research a wide range of accounting topics quickly. The format is very clean and easy to follow, but this is by no means a replacement for your other, likely numerous, accounting books. Basic to intermediate accounting knowledge is assumed and the level of detail is not akin to your standard accounting textbook; as there are relatively few examples and practice exercises (though they ARE there). If you are an accounting student, or just need to keep current, this is an invaluable tool. FYI: It also makes an excellent bludgeon.

I've been using the Wiley GAAP guide for the past four years and I couldn't practice without it. It presents the standards in a clear and easy to read format. I find the interpretations tell me exactly what I need to know in plain English. I always know I can depend on this book for information and keep in handy on my desk at all times.

This exam prep is good. I used this book in addition to the MCSE exam cram 70-210 put out by the same publishers and I was able to pass the exam.

Strengths:
It's a good Sorce for RIS, RAS, and computer configuration: desktops, accessibility options, basic share and file security.

Failures:
They could have covered group policies and multilink remote connections better. I was able to get through a couple multi link exams questions because I had written the NT 4.0 exams and remembered some of that information.

This book is good, but I wouldn't use it as my sole resource. If your are brand new to Windows 2000 check around for some supplementatary resources.

Aslam Mohammed A+, Network+, I-net+, CCNA, MCP, CIW-associate

I just passed this exam and I can say that this book gives you enough info to pass. It does put accents differently then the test, and some of the questions were not covered in this book, but overall you should be able to make it.

After reading Thomas Shinder's appalling, mistake ridden exam guide and failing the 70-210 exam I bought this book, read it and passed the exam easily. I found this book easy to read and understand and to be accurate, with the exception of the practice exam at the back of the book, which has some typos. This is definitely worth reading and I would have bought the book from this series for the 70-215 exam if it had been written by the same authors. The chapters covering Netware and Unix, which you need to know about for the exam, were excellent - everything you need to know if you don't have any practical experience in these areas.

Bought this as a gift for my teen-age son because he uses the title phrase often! In leafing through it, discovered the worksheets at the end of the book and started using them to journal - they DO work - especially after reading the book. Dr Ryce does simplify things to make his points; however, the book resonated loudly for me. Better yet, it resonated for my son. Other reviewers can say what they want about the stature of this book in relation to some others out there, but it was well worth the price of this book for the worksheets alone.

I don't know how to explain just how powerful this book is. I received it by "accident", as part of another's person product, and was so impressed with the book that I stayed up till 2:30 AM reading it. It is wise, practical, soul-searching, heart-warming, and empowering. I read dozens of books EVERY week, I've written a dozen books of my own, I've interviewed authors, gurus, and teachers, and I haven't seen a book THIS good in maybe 25 years. I'm not kidding. There is power in this book---and reading it can make you a powerful force in yuor own life. I strongly suggest you get it, read it, re-read it, and watch miracles occur in your life. --Joe Vitale, author of "Spiritual Marketing," and other books and tapes, ...

This book was given to a friend of mine. One lQQk at it shouted out "SAME OLD-SAME OLD" & a glance through seemed to confirm this. I was especially unimpressed to see that it had been self-published & that most of the reviews quoted were just people like me. I haven't even read the "Celestine Prophecy," (whose author wrote the cover's leading rave) nor do I intend to- the word "prophesy" belonging with all the other metaphysical mumbo-jumbo that passes for 'self-help' or 'spirituality' these days. More red flags: the author/publisher refuses to capitalize his name, & even worse! uses the title 'dr.' (he is not an M.D.- his doctorates-small 'd' are in 'naturopathy & holistics.

However reluctantly, I did promise to give it a 'once-over' for my friend who knows that I enjoy a 'good' self-help read (such as "Messie No More" which really did help me to clean up my act.)

As expected, I found the writing very amateurish, consisting of a feigned intensive conversation between the author and a man suffering from 'failed relationships syndrome.' Much of it seems to be bits & pieces of standard self-help information, just re-packaged for the vocabulary & attention span challenged. My only real disagrement arose over the author's insistence that we are created for a world of love. He presents this as a simple fact that just is - no justification necessary. But who's perfect? I decided to just ignore this & get to the worksheets that were promised to change my life.

So you can imagine my surprise when they actually did!!! Well, perhaps not my whole life, but certainly my thinking about some issues that had been bothering me for a long, long time. That is all I can tell you about this book, except that I am now ordering my own copy!

Maybe Michael Bruce should have hired a ghost writer. But don't hold it against him. Until a better writer happens along, this will probably have to be the definitive account of Alice Cooper's early life - as in, when the name indicated a band first and foremost, even if the lead singer decided to adopt the name as his own stage name, too - if only because it comes from the man who was probably the real most valuable player in the band. Though they began as a gang of rabble-and-rollers who also had a sense of the absurd which veered between the surreal and the downright insane (you have to hear their very first album, the Frank Zappa-produced "Pretties For You," to understand), it didn't take long before Alice Cooper began shaping into a slashing band with hooks to burn - the maturity which began on their second album ("Easy Action") and all but exploded on their third ("Love It To Death") may have been a rather watered-down and cartooned-up version of the Stooges' genuine teenage-wasteland angst, but there was no escaping the quick grip of songs like "Eighteen," "Under My Wheels," "Be My Lover," "Caught In A Dream," "School's Out," "You Drive Me Nervous," "Dead Babies," "Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "Billion Dollar Baby." And it was predominantly Michael Bruce - who was actually the better of the band's two guitarists, though fellow guitarist Glen Buxton usually earned the raves for the spiky lead guitar work even when he didn't play it (which, beginning with the impossibly best-selling "Billion Dollar Babies," was damn near all the time; the stories abounded about the band using unseen guitarists to cover for Buxton while Bruce actually switched between lead and rhythm guitar onstage) - who provided the hooks and the overall balanced structure that made the songs workable even without the stage act whose shock value, in hindsight, wore off into self-parody rather quickly.

It probably should have surprised no one that the overworked Alice Cooper fivesome delivered something less than their front line with 1974's "Muscle of Love," but what happened next proves somewhat tawdry - announcing a temporary hiatus for the band, on the pretext of regrouping and refreshing, Cooper the singer cut a well-received solo album ("Welcome To My Nightmare") with most of the band he swiped from Lou Reed (the famed "Rock and Roll Animal" group, spearhead by twin guitar slingers Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner)...and then some solo concerts with a few new variations on his old stage tricks...then another solo album...a few hit singles (especially 1977's surprisingly masterful and haunting ballad, "You And Me")...another couple of solo albums, including a live album at least a third of which was stuff from the old band. Meanwhile, the old band twisted in the wind and figured out the hard way that Alice Cooper the singer had no intention of ever reuniting Alice Cooper the band. (Almost a year and a half later, while Cooper was riding his slowly swelling solo success, the band gave interviews in which they assured one and all that yes, they were only on temporary vacation and they were just waiting for Alice to pass the word it was time to rock again.)

The band was fool enough to try it on their own for awhile (minus Buxton, apparently), changing the name to Billion Dollar Babies, and cutting an album which had plenty missing beginning with the foolishness of their new name. From there, they drifted apart to various ventures none of which came even close to their old glory, and practically the whole world forgot Alice Cooper began as a band name.

As all but the musical director of that band, Bruce has all the reason in the world to be bitter over their shabby treatment. He may not be David Niven as a show business memoirist, but given his limitations as a prose writer he's telling a story fans of the 1970s (remember: Alice Cooper the band was the hottest act in American show business from 1971-73) and of Alice Cooper will want to know, and if you get past his stylistic flaws as a writer you'll be surprised at how well he keeps the bitterness down to a dull roar and still has a stubborn pride in what he did accomplish.

This is an excellent book by Michael Bruce (Alice Cooper Band Original Guitarists) and Billy James (Ant Bee) which follows the Bands History from Arizona to Los Angeles To Michigan to Superstardom. It is well written and tells the story in an engaging way with much humor and candor. This is a MUST HAVE for any Alice Cooper fan and really any Rock Fan.

A great book that goes right to the heart of The Alice cooper band. I only wish that it was longer. Good content indeed!
Lovely photos and info throughout! If you are a fan of the early AC, READ THIS BOOK! It is essential!

Two disclaimers for this review: 1, this was my first P.D. James novel. 2, I believe that Agatha Christie was the goddess of all mystery writing.
I am used to a body within the first few pages, and letting Hercule Poirot deduce things from there until the solution is provided. However, there are no bodies until 80 pages into the book, and most of the discussion includes things that Dalgliesh brings out later with witnesses anyway, making them redundant.
Also confusing was James's apparent escape from reality with character names. Some are completely absurd, like the characters names "Makepeace" and "Gotobed." Combining words into names detracts from the proposed seriousness of the situation.

This book is much heavier than a true murder mystery, and the decision comes down to this: whether you want a true murder mystery, where you follow facts and psychology in the attempt to deduce the murderer, or whether you want a deeper novel -- a P.D. James novel -- where, along with the murder, time is spent reflecting on life and the world in a more philosophical fashion.

P.D. James' work occasionally collapses under its own weight as the author strains to combine psychological novel with crafty murder mystery--but DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS shows the writer at her best, creating a memorable setting in rural England, a host of very believable characters, and a complex plot, with all aspects of the work coming together in seamless fashion.

Dr. Lorrimer is a forensic scientist employed at a police laboratory, well respected by the scientific community and a bastion of authority in the witness box. Unfortunately, he is also a singularly unpleasant man: bitter at being passed over for promotion, petty in his dealings with underlings, vindictive in his personal relationships. So it is hardly surprising when he is murdered--but the circumstances are something of a shock: he is clubbed to death in the middle of his own laboratory, a situation that seems to indicate one or more of his co-workers is involved. And Chief Inspector Dalgliesh has an abundance of suspects from which to select.

James' detective Dalgliesh is a rather dour creation, and in some James novels he can become a tiresome companion--but here James balances his darkness against the demands of the overall novel to considerable effect. The result is a stylish, atmospheric work with an intelligent plot and a satisfying conclusion--a book to keep mystery fans sitting up all night. Recommended.

P.D. James fittingly wears the crown as "queen of the mystery writers"! And in "Death of an Expert Witness" the title is clearly shown and deserved. Again, James brings in Chief Inspector Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard, and once again, this venerable, brilliant, and honorable investigator is in good form. James usually presents a model in human behavior--she's good at this--and gives Dalgleish the full run to work out the inconsistencies, the red herrings, and finally the truth of the case. Dr. Lorrimer is a cold, efficient, dislikeable scientist; now he is a cold, efficient, and dislikeable corpse. Dalgleish must find out why he was killed--and it is more than merely because he was disliked. What did he know that panicked his murderer? After all, he was cold, efficient, dislikeable, and very knowledgeable, "an expert witness," as it were. Bring along a dictionary, as James' vocabulary is challenging--but not distracting--and her works are refreshingly intelligent and worth the effort it may take!(Billyjhobbs@tyler.net)