For many people, the name W.R. Grace is connected with lawsuits and legal nightmares. But, for a true look at the birth of this amazing enterprise, one should read "The Story of W.R.Grace". Apart from the civil actions that Grace has confronted in the past 50 years(which you will not read about in this book), the company and its fascinating founder, William R. Grace, hold a rich history and an incredible story of rags to riches.

As a young Irish boy, W.R. Grace came to America with a dream of wealth and commerce tied with a honest and sound approach to business. At a time when America's industrial revolution was booming and business pratices were not as regulated as they are today, Grace came forward with a honest and upfront approach that would change the face of America Commerce and would launch Grace into the spotlight, good and bad, for years to come. A must read for anyone in business!

I have just finished reading" Walking with the Lord"
by James Russell. He writes it very well and I
enjoyed alot of what he had to say. He seems to
speak from personal experience. I am sure that
others will enjoy it also.

Wallace is as important as Darwin in evolution, but less famous. "Island Life" is a great book in species distribution. not never an introduction. If you want a book of introduction, you can try Edward Wilson's "The Diversity of Life" or David Quammen's "The song of the Dodo". The former half of the book is the theory of species distribution. Some are still useful and basic for now, but some are too old to be true. But the later half of case study is worthy of reading. There are many details in comparison of difference island. If you are major in biology or ecology, it is easy to read. But if not, I suggest you should read some introduction book first. The most interesting thing is that you can realize the nature world one century ago from this book. Some place are still natural and not damaged by human activities. This book is definitely a science study, not a general science. That's why I don't recommend it to everyone, but the naturalist.

Wallace is most remembered for his independent discovery of the theory of natural selection, but he was also the father of the modern approach to biogeographical studies, and history's foremost tropical naturalist. This is one of his most important works. In it he extends work begun in another of his classic studies, "The Geographical Distribution of Animals," to two subjects: the influence of the glacial epochs on organismal distribution patterns, and the characteristics of island biogeography. Many students of Wallace's career consider this book his finest scientific effort, both for its joining of theory and empiricism, and for his attention to detail and breadth of study. Included is a full working out of history's first theory of continental glaciation based on a combination of geographical and astronomical causes, a discussion of island classification, and a survey of worldwide island faunas and floras. I give it a "4" rating only because it is now primarily of interest to historians of science and those environmentalists who might want information on the late nineteenth century state of island biotas around the world.

This book is laden with stuff useful for anyone dealing with networks on a support level. However using this book as a primary source is a bad bad idea. The spelling, grammar, and factual errors left me with a "duh" a few times. The chapters are out of sequence as far as any type of learning curve (more often than not other chapters are referenced to explain something that's being explained in the beginning chapters). It's very long winded too. I doubt anyone who has read this from cover to cover once can remember nitty gritty details when they hit the last page. The software test really bites too. The questions are WAY easier than what the real test covers. I'm sorry to say this book is out of the return policy timeframe for me. Get the ExamCram book instead.

I read this book, I took the practice exams cd that was included with the book. AND IT WAS TERRIBLE!!! The basic stuff was barely on the NETWORK+ exam. I think that Mike Meyer's Passport was even better than this bible book. I do not recommend this book at all. It just goes through some of the stuff but it is very redundant. I failed the first time I took the NETWORK+ because I changed a couple of answers at the end but then the next day I took it again, I passed with flying colors. I would recommend getting definitely the mike meyer's passport to network+ and another book besides this one as the main source.

Though I have found much useful info in this book, and like the practice exams and additional tools on the CD, the many typos and errors (including incomplete sentences) make it difficult to read. I think whoever did the proofreading (if anyone?) must've been asleep.

I was familiar with many of the elements and concepts beforehand, but I've had a hard time grasping newer or unfamiliar subjects due to the many mistakes.

I will definitely be using other materials to study with.

I've read through this book, expecting that it would teach me the majority of what I would need to pass the LCA tests. Only about 30% of what was in this book was on the test...the rest was pulled from ?????
I can dismiss a few typos in fictional reading, but when you're dealing with technical information and command syntax, that doesn't cut it. Punctuation errors, mispelled commands, missed switches, etc, are not going to make for an effective learning tool.
The redundancy of information (paragraphs repeated...verbatim) is ridiculuous and unecessary, since this is sort of a "cram session", in my opinion.
Some of the information was also misleading and/or downright contradictory. I spent quite a bit of time searching linux websites to get clarification, which sort of defeats the purpose of an all-in-one book.
I will admit, however, that I must have retained something, either from this book or the hours I spent online--and passed the install/config test. Barely. My advice...look elsewhere. If you're a newbie, this book will only confuse you. If you're looking to become certified, there are much better technical references out there. I should have left this one on the shelf.

I used the SAIR GNU Linux Install and Config for the first test and did very well. With the lack of the rest of the books, I turned to this one, seeing that it was touted as a better book. This book has a horrible tendency to repeat itself to the point of being annoying. I studied through the second section, System Administration, and took the test, and about 20% of the test covered material that was not mentioned in this section of the book. Looking through, several questions on the test showed up as items in the next section, Networking. There needs to be a re-evaluation for this book, geared towards training you for the SAIR tests, to actually cover the material the appropriate SAIR test covers.

I found this book to be very helpful for studying to take the Sair Linux exams. However, this book falls short with the sheer volume of typos and mistakes.

Also, for the CD that is included, I did not find it helpful at all. The mock exam program is also flawed in that some questions did not have a correct answer. Even though it was obvious there was a correct answer, the program did not list one. In addition, about 95% of the questions were taken directly from the book.

All in all this book does an excellent job covering the material thoroughly. If you are purusing this certification, I recommend this book. However, you will be frustrated time after time when noticing so many mistakes.

This books is awful. The SNMP tools provided on the CDROM do not load up properly. The source code does not address anything new or clever that you can't get from the MSDN. Save yourself the trouble of returning it (look elsewhere).

I bought this book because of the title and I like O'Reilly books - concise and to the point.

This book is well written, concise and to the point. Part I contains an easy to read intro to SNMP. Part II contains some good info on the NT SNMP services and writing extention agents.

HOWEVER, I was disappointed on the coverage on the management API. Why? Because this API is obsolete. WinSNMP is now the standard, is available now and will come with NT 5.0. Now I am not a great fan of the WinSNMP API (you can just tell it is from Microsoft - badly designed API and more complicated than it needs to be). Thank goodness there is SNMP++ from HP - an SNMP C++ class library which is available for free on multiple platforms including NT. SNMP++ on NT actually uses WinSNMP.

I'm glad I did the research on SNMP packages for NT. If I had followed this book blindly I would have ended up with a management application that may not run when NT 5.0 comes out.

This would be a great book if it was updated with the WinSNMP and/or SNMP++ API.

I was tasked with the job of developing an SNMP agent. I knew what the acronym stood for, and that was about it. The more I found out, the more I realized I had to do. I am still working on my agent development, but this book has gotten me well on my way. I have written an enterprise MIB, loaded it in the NT registry, and have a .dll which I modelled from this book... I still have a bit of work to do, but my MIB browser is recieving data that I programmed the windows NT SNMP service to send!! GREAT examples! the CD has been worth its weight in gold!

I bought this book because I was trying to teach myself enough to become a Financials Developer. This still MIGHT be the right book for me. However, this is not a step by step guide to the installation. In addition, the book assumes some familiarity with accounting systems.

For those critics of you out there who think that this book was not this or not that, especially the reader from Port Arthur in Tasmania, I suggest you buy an Oracle Reference Manual or Users guide. Get real! This book gives a great introduction to the core Oracle Applications and I believe it was well done. It introduces the business and Functional side to Oracle Financials. For those pretentious readers who can't spell Oracle read the cover "Oracle Financials Handbook" - "Planning and Implementing the Oracle Financial Applications Suite" No where does it say Technical Reference Manual. I'd like to see these half baked consultants write ANYTHING half as good. Well done David and Graham. If anyone cares to discuss this work email me and we'll "CHAT"

Firstly, I have to admit I'm a friend of the primary author David James, but I think they did a great job. Some of the negative reviews have been unfair. A book like this can't possibly be all things to all people. It doesn't cover HR, Payroll, or the core Manufacturing modules - that's why it's the "Oracle Financials Handbook", not the "Oracle Applications Handbook". It's definitely not a reference book or technical manual - you get those from Oracle Corporation anyway. What this book does do, is give an excellent background to real-world implementation of the Financials modules at a functional level. It's great for beginners and the more advanced, but I would defy even the gurus to read it and say they haven't learned from it.

I actually tried to talk David out of the whole endeavour almost three years ago, not because I didn't think he was qualified, but because I didn't think it was possible to write such a book covering all the Financials modules. I think he'd admit he underestimated just how much work it would be. That's one reason why a book like this hasn't been written before - there is just so much information to cover, unless you resort to wholesale cutting and pasting from the manuals and other people's papers.

I think the book is very impressive. I know David's skills, and I know how hard he worked to put everything together, and update it as the product evolved. I would recommend it to anyone working on a Financials implementation.

This text is absolutely inadequate in the gastrointestinal physiology area for the level it proposes to teach. They really need to get someone who understands this area to help them out.

The book is an easy read enough for an introductory text, but the details for many chapters are really inadequate.

I found this book to be invaluable for learning physiology. It was in-depth and has excellent illustrations. A must-have for the physiology student.

When I used this textbook, I was looking for a mathemtical/engineering approach to chemistry. This textbook, however, explains concepts with examples but little or no scientific proofs. I found myself filling in proofs from other courses like thermodynamics and science of materials. Overall, a very thorough book, but heavy on the memorization, and light on math and graphs.

A somewhat essential book for the interested student, it lists out what I believe are the great master's early works before the Nazi era ended his days in Europe. Though the texts are brief in description, the black and white photographs screams for hours of close attention and observation, for though unclear they are, eaten by the hunger of time, they offer the reader a different scope about his works. From traditional masonry to steel and glass, the book offers little stand about van der Rohe's lines and designs. It doesnt offer much argument if his steel and glass structures are very much derived from the proportions of the Romans (the conventional school of thought today offer this as the truth), nor does it explain much about his calculated dealings with Hitler's architectural department before he got caught up and subsequently branded a degenerate, nor does it elaborate anything on the communist-related projects he had done before. His later collaborator Ms.Reich does get a brief mention, but as in the rest of this rather thin monograph , everything's brief, but makes a good quick reference into the almost unknown timezones of this 20th century, and perhaps of all time, greatest master architect.