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.

It's actually two books by two different authors. The last 100 pages consists of extracts from various articles, letters, and journal entries by Leibniz that Bertrand Russell put together to form a coherent statement (since Leibniz never actually wrote a whole book himself). The first 200 pages consists of Russell's analysis of the 100 pages of Leibniz's philosophy.

The Leibniz section is pretty straightforward and interesting. I read the book because I was curious about "monads", which are the metaphysical analog of mathematical points (well, sort of). Before Leibniz gets around to monads, he goes into his theory of predicates (every element of the universe is a predicate that goes toward describing ME), which I found pretty interesting. There's also some discussion of space and time that I liked. The last part of the Leibniz section contains some arguments for the existence of God, which is probably the weakest and least interesting part of his philosophy -- as Russell gleefully and exhaustively points out.

I didn't like the Russell section (2/3 of the book) much partly because he brings other philosophers like Hegel and Kant into the discussion (I'm not very familiar with either); and partly because he goes into such depth critiquing fine points in the Leibniz writings, that I completely lost interest in anything Russell has to say.

John Malcolm Russell has written some fine books on Assyria, one of them "Final Sack of Nineveh" is a superb tome on the history of the excavations and modern destruction of Nineveh. But unfortunately this work was terribly dry, rather boring, and most frustrating in that he spends way to much time going over Lady Charlotte Guest's diary and all the who-what-when and why of the time she lived in and not hardly enough time on Layard and the excavations. And as far as how the Met acquired the reliefs, it basically came down to agreements made with the Rockefeller family. Not very exciting. I suppose i'm more interested in the digs themselves and would have preferred more on them and less on the lifestyles of the rich and famous. The first chapter on the layout of two key palaces was great, but after that it turned into a long, dull read. Great story...just not told so great.

This book was interesting, but still left a lot of questions open in my mine. I especially enjoyed the chapters from the theological perspectives, but did not learn much new on the neuroscience research. I liked all the different perspectives that the book had to offer. It is definately technical reading!

If a huge book of magazine listings is what you need, this book is perfect. It has most every magazine imaginable and the listings are departmentalized making them easy to find. By calling the number in the front of the book, you can order the book on disk for the computer. Bottom line, unless you need a listing of every magazine imaginable, this is not worth it.

Rossi proposes a good argument on the Authorship of "Enfranchisment of Women". However, I feel that, at times, her argument becomes very confusing. There seems to me to be no doubt that Harriet Taylor Mill actually wrote the essay.

This is a great book, but th[is] version ...is a cheap xerox copy of the original. The illustrations are of very poor quality and it's not worth [the item price]. I sent it back.

The sixty articles in this book date from the early l960s to the early 1990s, but are not likely to become obsolete soon. Probably the most controversial paper is the one that tries to show that we are not all descended from one set of parents. Recent DNA evidence, however, is not all that clear. One article on women might raise eyebrows. It claims that men were the achievers, innovators, AND producers of society. Two papers on evolution (Chapters 56 and 57) are thought provoking. The first says that races are a byproduct of past selective pressures and are no longer distinct. The other says that as late as 1979, one-quarter of introductory physical anthropoly books still argued for the validity of the race concept! Excellent supplemental material for a college course in biology. Others will find it tedious.

This book is (apparently) an early attempt to describe the setup, configuration and administration of Apple's OS X server. This kind of book is much needed but this one fails miserably because it is so woefully out-of-date. It does not address 10.2 Jaguar Server and, in fact, most of the screen captures and artwork are OS 9. When it does attempt to develop a subject it does so so lightly that it's almost a hoax. Avoid this book. Save your money. Look elsewhere. Print and read the Mac OS X Server Administrator's Guide that comes free on the 10.2 Server CD. It is ten times the book that this one is.

The release of "Mac OS X Server Administrators Guide" is the first of its kind for this platform and I'm sure much anticipated by some. However, I have to feel for the authors, Andrew G. Russell and John Welch, because they are about a year too late and caught right before the transition to Mac OS X. (As of this writing Mac OS X Public Beta is available for purchase.)

While I found the Administrator's Guide a well written and thorough book, my expectations were not met by a long shot. The authors spent more time and chapters than necessary discussing "A Peek Inside the Mach Kernel","Network Preparation" and "Understanding TCP/IP." They completely gloss over NetInfo, a very powerful network information management tool at the heart of Mac OS X Server, as well as WebObjects. They are only mentioned a few times and not discussed in-depth.

If you are using Mac OS X Server for anything but NetBoot and Apple File Services, you will be dissapointed. The Mac OS X Server user community has done a much better job cobbling together information and experiences on the web than this book is worth.

If you want a very simple "reference" book to sit on your shelf for occasional use--the type Apple Computer should have included with Mac OS X Server in the first place--then by all means buy it.

Have spent a week with this book and found it very helpful. I admin a mid-size network of K-12, primarily AppleShare but moving to Mac OS X Server. If you have an admin background but lack Unix experience, this book is a agreat place to start. It's well-written and organized, and even manages to be funny once in awhile.

If your needs run more to WebObjects and business applications, you'll need some additional books for in-depth info.

If your key focus is on getting and keeping users up and running, this book will help you do just that.

I hate this book. Carlton put the book to press without taking into account corrections by the authors. All three authors of this book are experienced puzzle designers who rarely make mistakes, but Carlton's own designers incorporate a huge number of misakes into their designs, caused by mistypes, misunderstanding, carelessness, and a failure to understand the importance of sticking to the original design.

I think this book should be immediately withdrawn, and I hate having my reputation tarnished by association with this book.

John Bremner

Excluding the spelling and grammatical errors, the lack of instruction (i.e. it isn't mentioned whether calculators, and other instruments are permitted), the ambiguous questions with more than one logical answer, the emphasis on specialized vocabulary (what does knowledge of military ranks have to do with true intelligence?), no actual "I.Q." rating scale, and a replacement scale that is entirely inaccurate, it is a very worthwhile book.