One of the staple themes of noir is the average man thrown in the midst of a large crime, usually thanks to some yummy woman who comes out of nowhere. James hits all of these right on the head as Nick, a struggling saxophone player, is drawn into the schemes of his schoolboy crush, who shows up out of the blue one day. When she is apparently killed while sneaking around a meat-processing plant taking photos, her getaway driver Nick comes under the heavy attention of the police, as well as that of some very sinister folks who refuse to identify themselves.

As he pokes into the matter a little bit-not convinced that she fell accidentally into a meat grinder-he starts encountering some very nasty animal rights ..., as well as a bizarre semi-cult of all-natural beauty product saleswomen. It becomes clear that someone doesn't like his poking around and the apathetic musician must now tread very lightly in his new role as amateur detective. Meanwhile, he's also dealing with the ups and downs of his band's fortunes, which strike an rather off-key note in most of their chapters. It's still pretty decent attempt to write a modern noir, with all the ecoterrorist and ... multinational corporation activity at the center of the book and Glastonbury as a climactic setting.

The crime, once revealed, is also classic noir, and so is the ending-unfortunately, the clues are rather too obvious for any reader to be surprised by the "shocking" twist at the end. ...Instead of this creating suspense (as in a Hitchcock film, for example), it merely makes the proceedings seem a bit tedious as one keeps waiting for Nick to figure it out.

This is not a book for you if you are a Visual C++ developer, and looking for material which will help you do better event logging. The event logging API is same as in MSDN or VC help. Didn't give me anymore insight than the help files provided by VC.

This book is primarily a re-hash of the MSDN documentation on event logging as included in the platform SDK. It is useful in that it constitutes a printed version of that material, but it offers very little really new information. Some of the sidebars add interesting tidbits though. From a development perspective this book offers some valuable information and source code examples, however be warned - once you get to the deep end you are left to your own devices.
The book gives reasonably clear guidelines as to how to read event log records but very sketchy details on how to decode them. In short this book does **not** continue where the MSDN leaves off, which is a shame since the general style of the book is very accessible. The chapter on auditing and security could well have been omitted - it sits uneasily with the rest of the book's contents.
The source code CD that is included provides a number of trivial example programs and copies of commercial event log related programs that appear to all be available on the 'net, but the example programs are so trivial as to be useful only for cut and pasting of event log API calls.

I rate this book three stars because it is accessible and comprehensive. It does not merit a higher rating as it is not comprehensive enough for developers and does not appear to be sufficiently oriented towards the requirements of an administrator.

This book addresses the event logs that are created by Windows NT and Windows 2000. There are three types of event logs which can be. All are security-relevant and can provide testimony about improper system activity. The book provides good coverage of the subject.

Logs are stored in system areas of the hard disk such as \winnt\system32\config and have recognizable names such as SecEvent.evt. Unfortunately they are not easily observed with the event viewer provided with Windows NT or 2000. Third party software is helpful to make sense out of the event logs. In complex networks with many event logs to monitor it becomes essential. The CD-ROM provided with this book includes a great collection of event viewers.

For the reader that would like to hack some code together for event viewing the book provides Visual Basic and other language support for this purpose.

Despite the great support that this book gives for native event log examination it misses an important point by not providing the capability to look at event logs that are not live. This is a clear need for event reconstruction and forensic applications.

O'Reilly books have an animal theme. This one features a line drawing of a beaver on the cover. What an appropriate choice - beavers do logging too.

The book lacks to too many explanations, and universities shouldn't use it for classes at all unless the proffessors are planning to use it for assigning problems only.Unfortunatly the book has less than 13-20 examples in all of its ~500 pages, which is the worst thing you can do to for a physics student who is just trying to learn the material in an advanced way after General physics.The book has no advanced concepts to say its not meant for introductory, so in both cases the book is not an introductory nor advanced.If you are looking for a better book in a little advanced concepts (( after General physics)) as modern physics then don't waste time looking for a good book if there is an excellent book written by Rohlf its an excellent second year I've ever read -Modern Physics from aá to Z0-
James William Rohlf-
ISBN: 0-471-57270-5

This book tries to be complete at first but excludes many important concepts and basically just talks about developing atomic physics the correct way instead of doing it. It is riddled with bad errors and is actually often incorrect. For instance, when dealing with Einstein's work on lasers, the formula in the book is off by a cubic factor of the energies involved -- yes, that is to the third power. Furthermore, it doesn't derive most of the formulas, so most people would learn the (very) incorrect forms. And when it does derive the formulas, sometimes the derivations lead to the correct result but are not the correct way to get there. The book often deals with deriving equations and results by analogy, in a non-rigrorous form, but then at times it will all of a sudden introduce something completely rigorous and offer no explanation as to where it came from. If it does something from freshman physics like derive the wave equation, why doesn't it introduce other concepts with proper background? Finally, the answers in the back of the book are often wrong. All of this compared with the writing style make this book horrible. The authors sound like they are writing to themselves, as if they have hidden knowledge about some of the topics (as a previous reviewer noticed, it seemed as if there were things they weren't telling, making it appear as if the concepts were hidden somewhere). My advice: get a couple of other books if you are serious about learning this material. Even the format of the book seems as if it is a bunch of notes, as there is no textual organization or pedagogy at all. Because of the nice historical accounts, it almost gets two stars; however, the subject of the book is not history, so it gets just one star. Oh, and this book is in its fourth edition, so errors in actual concepts and formulas (for instance, being off by a factor of a cubic term) is unacceptable. The only reason this book ever got used is because a faculty member at Texas A&M University helped write it, and they required it to be used at the course here for many years (all the way up till 2002, even though the 4th edition came out in 1984). Horrible book, and the faculty's greedy disposition to profit off of it like this should be looked down upon.

This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever tried to use for a class in my life. I was required to purchase this book for my Engineering Physics class at Texas A&M. By the way, Dr. Adair, co author, is a prof here (must be why its required) so I think Ill stay anonymous :). It is complete drivel written in a language that only a person with a doctorate in physics could understand. Its full of flaws, and has absolutely no example problems worked out. After having used this book I have no coice but to assume the authors were trying to keep this stuff a secret. I relied primarially on notes and used it only for homework problems assigned.

Wordy editorial by Russell. He talks about many things other than Lincoln's life. Interesting to people that are VERY familar with the era (history professors), but not to the person looking for an historic account of Lincoln's life. Did not even want to finish this book it was so boring.

The back cover has blurbs like "Incredibly funny' and "powerful comedy" yet none of these quotes are credited to anyone. I suspect they come from the author. The skits are sexist and homophobic, but I could overlook that if they were funny. They're not. Laughs? I couldn't muster a smile. The book is full of misspellings and grammatical errors. AT [the price] a pop, surely they could afford a proofreader. As a bonus you get an ad to order "Bible tracks". Someone should tell the author there is no such thing; I'm sure he meant Bible tracts. I wasted my money.