This is one of the most comprehensive and clearly written textbooks for graduate level behavior science methods I have come across. I learned from this book myself and, now as a professor, I will be using it in my graduate class.

This is the one that you'll keep after the class is over. You'll come across some odd methodological issue 5 years after you buy the book and it'll be in there, explained perfectly. The section on interpretation of interactions is particularly great. You can't learn more about power and meta-analysis more efficiently than by reading the relevant chapters in here. The ethics chapter is more entertaining than anything like it in any other text. I've been teaching from this book for 9 years and still get students calling saying thanks for making them buy it.

The book under review is one of the best books that has appeared in the field of Public Choice Theroy. Myself doing a post-doctoral research on the public choice theory, I found it a necessary reading for not only those interested in the field but also for general scholars of political theory. The author has covered almost all the necessary subjects about which all over the world increasing attention is being paid or needs to be paid. This book is an answer to those who find public choice theory as basically a statistical theory only. The books has actually covered all the philosophical underpinnings of the public choice therory. This books stands out to be a highly recommended reading for scholars of social science. Sukant Vyas Lecturer Department of Political Science Dyal Singh (Evening) College Lodi Road New Delhi - 110003 (India)

This anthology has almost 300 poems about the life of Jesus. The variety of poets and poems is impressive. Because it is arranged chronologically, instead of by author, it is easy for the reader to find poems focusing on a specific part of Jesus' life. This gives the reader the opportunity to discover new works that can enrich their spiritual lives and their appreciation of world literature.

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Whether you are simply interested in an ability to understand meta-analytic studies or have already published such works, this small text will be of great assistance. The author provides clear and concise discussion of all the relevant issues including valuable formulas for obtaining effect sizes from various tests of significance, procedures for appropriately combining effect sizes and testing for significance, and an interesting discussion of the binomial effect size display. While such information and methods are available elsewhere, I have never seen such a clear and concise presentation. There is also an excellent discussion of the file-drawer problem and alternatives for addressing it. In short, this is an elegant work that belongs on the shelves of any life-long student of the social sciences!

I read the reviews for the book and decided that it looked interesting and decided to read it. After reading the book in a day, the least that can be said is that it is an amusing book. Even if you are not yet an official member of academia and are just a lowly student, it is very easy to see how some of what is going on in the book also happens in real life. I daresay it also happens in other professions, but I don't have the experience to back that statement up.

Though the book is very fun to read, some of the themes could have been better developed. For example, the idea that by destroying all of Adam Snell's work would eliminate him from history could have been taken a lot further. PFITZ by Andrew Crumey plays with many similar ideas concerning the creation of a character and the possibility of being forgotten with the elimination of one's work, and PFITZ is better in that respect. Also, the reasoning behind the attacks by Underwood is fairly lame.

Even though the book is not perfect it still has many good qualities and if you're looking for a book to enjoy during the beautiful spring weather, you won't be disappointed with this one.

It will be a sad day when this novel goes out of print. (Read Book and you'll understand.) The satire is specific to English departments, but anyone who hates pretension or who has dealt with the inside politics of higher education will really savor it. The writing is clever and inventive, a pleasure to read from the very first page.

After 20 years in academia, BOOK exloded the political nuances of my experience into raucous humor. I laughed til I couldn't laugh any more and I have given away multiple copies, including one to a University president.

After reading this book and comparing it to Dr. Arem's book The Thyroid Solution and another book for Graves Disease called Graves Disease; A Practical Handbook; I found this book to be lacking in how it was presented, ease in understanding and resourcefullness.

One of the best and most informative books written. In easy-to read and understand format. I highly recommend this book for everyone!

This book -- and the newly printed "Living Well with Hypothyroidism" -- have been pivotal in my experiences as a hypothyroid patient. Perhaps the most important thing I've learned is that newer research shows that many thyroid patients feel better with a medicine that contains two types of thyroid hormones (T4 and T3). Currently many of us are still on pills like levothyroxine or Synthroid, which only have one type of hormone. Although I haven't yet convinced my HMO doctor to change my medicine from the traditional Synthroid, she did increase my dose and I already feel better. This gives me hope that I can feel even *better* on a medicine with both T4 and T3.

This is a *reference manual*. You will want to read the Xlib Programming manual published by O'Reilly first. And you will only want this book if you want to program X11 directly, as opposed to using a toolkit such as GTK or Qt.

Having said that, this is a *good* reference manual. It contains none of the usual boilerplate text all too common in badly written manuals. It explains every feature of Xlib and the X11(R5) protocols in detail, and how to make best use of them. It is concise, well-organized, and to the point. And the index is actually quite useful.

The book is not entirely up-to-date. It would be better if it also covered some of the newer standards and extensions. There are some minor typos that might be corrected in the newer versions, but none that will give you any trouble. As the book focuses only on core protocols, you must look elsewhere for information on how to interoperate with Motif, Qt/KDE or GTK applications.

In short, if you are going to write some program that uses Xlib or the X11 protocol directly, this book will help you. And the differences between X11R5 and X11R6 are relatively minor and of little interest to the kind of applications most people would write without a toolkit. But still, if you are a toolkit developer, I would consider buying a newer book.

This book has been updated and split into three books:

X Window System: Core Libraries and Standards (1996, 700pp)

X Window System: Core and Extension Protocols (1997, 700pp)

X Window System: Extension Libraries (1997, 400pp)

Each of the new books covers through X11 Release 6.1.

I own this book, but I do not own the three newer books (I didn't know that they were replacements for this book). I contribute to the XFree86 project, an implementation of the X Window System, and I find this book to be useful in understanding the operations of X; I have not written a program that uses X11 directly, but I can see that this book (or its replacements) would be very useful when doing so.

I have worked in the field of opthalmology for about 8 years as an assistant and there is no such thing as color blindness only color deficency..if you were color blind you would be unable to see anything....make sure that you don't mislead the public..but it is a very informative book for the general public. Written with the patient in mind.

To my knowledge there are only two books on the subject of color blindness. This is an excellent account of the subject and I look forward to further editions of this book. I would suggest that future editions include a physiologist or neurophysiologist to beef up the sections dealing with the way the eyes work and the way in which they perceive colors. Treatment of the different types of color blindness could be improved by dealing with each type as a separate condition - and by specifying the mode of inheritance of each type. A chapter on legal aspects would also be welcome. Is colorblindness a qualified disability as defined by the americans with disabilities act? Is the school district legally required to accomodate (make adjustments for) color blind students? Unfortunately, there are still people out there who refuse to accomodate people with color blindness and other disabilities! The color blind community should insist on the installation of traffic signals that are visible to color blind people, and the flashing red light must go! It is a pity that the 23 million people with color blindness have been so quiet for so long. It is a pity that President Clinton, who is colorblind, did nothing to improve conditions for color blind people. This is an excellent account of a condition that is poorly understood and which is rarely accomodated either at school or in society.

I have a 5 year old just diagnosed and this book was amazing to read. So many things came to light. His teachers and parents are now much better informed and my son's future is much brighter now that we understand his problem. Please have your child tested, and get this book if he is. You will be glad you did. I even bought extras for the school.

I found this a harder book to wade through than Fatherland.
I suppose this was partially due to a darker tone to the book, maybe this was imparted by the fact that much of the book take's place in the middle of the night. I am sure another aspect was that the some of the subject matter was a bit redundant to me, having recently finished the lenghty tome Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I was also put off by the now familiar, having read FatherLand and Archangel previously, literary and thematic twist that Harris employs of couching the revealation of historical pogroms and monstrostisties as the cause of the books mystery. All of these three books employ this same device, so that by the end of Enigma I was not that surprised by the historical cause of the "enigma".

Having said all of that, I did enjoy the book, especially the insight into the accomplishments of Bletchley Park as well as the mystery Claire's dissapearance. I guess it was just not as enjoyable as Fatherland, and it was probably a mistake to tear through three of his books in so short a time period.

'Enigma' is a story of intrigue that takes place at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. There are two main storylines: cracking the enigma code before a shipping convoy is destroyed, and discovering the motives and intentions of the mysterious Claire Romilly.

Both these storylines revolve around the main character, Tom Jericho, a cryptanalyst working on breaking the german naval enigma code.

'Enigma' starts off very slowly, and after 90 pages, I was about to put the book down and move on. However, Harris really starts getting to the heart of the action about this time, and the book really takes off. Perhaps he could have condensed the first 90 pages and made this book five stars, but taken as a whole 'Enigma' is quite entertaining.

If you enjoy books about wartime codebreaking, you will definitely want to read this book. If you read and enjoy 'Enigma', you should check out Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon.'

This book is a must read for anyone who likes smart, savvy adventure mysteries.

The main character is Tom Jericho, a mathematician and cryptoanalysist who works in a government building in Britain, trying to crack the Nazi Enigma code known as Shark. Tom and his team manage to crack Shark a month ago, but the Nazis have set up a new version that makes Shark, which already has several million ways of encoding, just 26 times harder. Jericho is overworked and tired, and distraught over his girlfriend, Claire, dumping him, but he is sent back to help the team crack the new code. The Nazi U Boats are planning an attack in 4 days, and the code is virtually impossible to crack in that amount of time. To make things worse, Jericho finds that Claire is missing under very strange circumstances. Jericho must deal with the constant memories of Claire, and team up with Hester, Claire's roomate, and his many co-workers to solve the mystery of the Shark.

The book is very intelligently written. Harris knows exactly what he is talking about, from historical facts to every little detail of the Enigma machines and codes. He delivers these facts to you in an engaging style that keeps you riveted. This book is NEVER boring. Even the long passages about the codes and mathematics are so interesting the pages just fly by. I'm a person who detests math with all my heart, but this book manages to capture my interest and hold it.

I'm amazed at how the characters are portrayed. They're all superbly characterized, even the very minor ones, each with their own unique speaking style and actions and motives. The characters are so realistic that you're able to see all them and REMEMBER all twenty or so main characters as if you've known them all before.

The pacing of the book is fast, but manages to deliver romance and deep thinking without dragging the book down. The superb, complex plot, the characters, and the intriguing details make you want to go back and read it again.

Note: you'll probably need a dictionary or at least some knowledge of WW2 to fully understand all the terms and references in this book.

One thing is for certain, you'll put down Enigma enlightened to a lot more about WW2, in addition to having read a great book.