This textbook ties everything together very well and in a proper sequence which makes it easy for the reader to understand. Graphical approac made the linkage even more easier and understandable. The cases were quite good too and aid students in applying the concept. Certainly a suitable book for anyone who wants to see how management accounting takes place in an organization .

This edited volume continues to be a classic in the field of assessing and testifying in court on the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder. As an expert witness in these types of litigation for both the prosecution and defense, I find the rigor of the assessment chapter by Dr. Terence Keane as well as the overarching strategic review chapter by Dr. Robert Simon himself, to be consistently relevant to my practice. Don't be deterred by the book's diagnostic datedness (DSM-IIIR versus DSM-IV)--it's a "must-have" for everyone interested in fair and ethical litigation related to psychological trauma.

I respect Vicki Hearne, I like this book. Bandit, and his case that Vicki fought for so well was a very important watermark in exposing the myths and half truths that cause so many local authorities accross the country to blindly deem certain breeds of dogs as dangerous. I want to love this book because of this, however, for me the book was to difficult to read. Vicki uses extremely complicated sentence structure and seems to enjoy putting the reader through the wringer before she makes her point. I had to come back to this book a few times to finish it. I believe this is a story we all should be aware of, unfortunately the style of writing alienates it from a good deal of it's prospective audience. If you're well read, go for it, if not just expect to go through a mental obstacle course before the book is finished!

This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the problem of biting dogs. It is extremely well-written, researched, referenced, and very informative.

My one reservation is that the author advocates the use of choke-collar training. There is so much to be gained from modern psychology and operant conditioning when training an animal. Pain in animal training is totally obsolete.

But this one small quibble doesn't spoil an otherwise engaging and thought provoking read! Very few fiction or non-fiction dog books can hold a candle to this one in scholarship and quality of writing.You will need to read it at least twice to absorb all the subtleties.

An extended and beautifully written book on an insight of Hannah Arendt's, that goodness that goes public turns into the worst sort of evil.

Emmanuel Levinas, at the end of an essay on Heidegger's Nazism, ``The diabolical is not limited to the wickedness popular wisdom ascribes to it and whose malice, based on guile, is familiar and predictable in an adult culture. The diabolical is endowed with intelligence and enters where it will. To reject it, it is first necessary to refute it. Intellectual effort is needed to recognize it. Who can boast of having done so? Say what you will, the diabolical gives food for thought.''

This book is some of that intellectual effort towards the future of dogs.

Ok, let me start by saying this is one good and complete guide, it covered ALL aspects of the game... but the truth is that for this game, you really don't need a strategy guide, I mean, the game's pretty linear, and there aren't any secrets (with the exception of the bloopers which, by the way, are never mention on the guide)and the game itself its too short. Definetely not required to beat the game.

This game guide is the absolute best thing. It contains everything from maps, tells how to beat each level with words rather than pictures making it better. It even contains the FMV sequence pictures and script. It says how to beat every boss and contains the passwords, and cheats to beat the game!

THIS BOOK HAD EVERYTHING. THE MOVES, THE BAD GUYS, THE PICTURES, THE STORY. EVEN THE DARN GAME SCRIPT. It made me really want to play the game. This is a must for mk fans.

The software basically covers the SAME EXACT INFO as the book and 99.99% of the times its word for word the same. Why spend extra money ? Just get the book. Also, on my computer there were about 15 - 20 test questions where some html tags were not interpreted properly and were therefore indecipherable in some cases (I do know HTML). The book is great. Just get the book. The authors could have did a lot more with this concept, but sadly they didn't. I did pass the SCJP test and their book helped a lot.

Worthwhile complement to "Complete Java 2 Certification." Offers practice and timed exams. Keeps statistics. Allows review of answered questions. Provides explanation for each question. Good investment.

This is an excellent tool not only for learning ALL of the Java Certification material but also for charting the progress of your study.

It allows you instantly to review your progress. And with it's comprehensive review questions it's very useful for helping to pinpoint troublespots or missing areas in your study.

This is the only tool I've come across that easily helps you determine if what you THINK you know is the same as what you ACTUALLY know.

After completing all of the many review questions and practice tests contained in this product, the Exam itself was almost an anti-climax!

It deals especially well with some topics like Threads and IO which are really not covered all that well with other guides.

Initially I was somewhat concerned with the rather steep cost of this guide but as it turned out it was well worth the price!

This is a short book of quotations by famous (and not-so-famous) people who answer the question about just who Jesus Christ is for them. The point that stands out is that there are common people who answer the question. The realization then is that each of us must answer the Christological question. What do you say about Jesus of Nazareth? There are wonderful depictions of Christ in art throughout the book, my favorite at the end, Caravaggio's Thomas probing the wounded side of the Risen Christ. This makes the reading all the more a pleasureable experience. What's missing? A larger number of people quoted. Why not less Bishop Spong so as to have some Bonhoeffer? Shorter passages from J. D. Crossan so as to include D. Berrigan or the Dali Lama. Less R. Funk and more Gen X personalities like Moby. Less Thomas Keneally and more common folks. High praise for the poetry by baseball pitcher Dan Quisenberry. So, actually I give 3.5 stars. I am a bit tough here. Space could have been left for the buyer to pen in his or her own thoughts to the question we must answer: Who do you say that I am?

The concept behind this book is solid - a mixture of a wide variety of art related to Jesus and quotations. In the art the selection is marvelous Jose Clemente, John August Swanson, Giovanni Battisto, El Greco ... the variety of images of Christ presented is excellent, the printing of them is adequate. Unfortunately, the quotes are less broadly selected - they are biased towards the Jesus Seminar and Bishop Sprong theological threads. However, there are some wonderful selections from individuals such as Sojourner Truth, Corazon Aquino, Tolstoy, Napolean.

This is not a safe volume to give to a conservative Christian unless you know them very well. However, it can be a choice for those who are theologically liberal in today's terminology, who are seekers, or who are interested in religion and Western culture in a more abstract manner.

Not everybody rates this book very highly (and so do I with 3 starts) I might as well take a different road. Granted the book is not a great one but I strongly recommend your buying if you want to have a quick understanding on what is all about J2EE architect exam.

Well this book is not written for a new programmer, or someone with little knowledge of JSP and Servlets. It requires a solid experience on J2EE to understand the book content and samples. You will not guaranteed to pass the exam only by reading this book,

This is the first published book for the SCJEA certification.
Although it's very light (less than 200 pages), it does cover
EJB, UML, Design Patterns, Security, Internationlization, and Protocols. It provides useful information on how to apply your
knowledges on these topics, but you should learn the knowledges
from practice or from other books. It contains some very interesting mock questions, on UML, Security, Internationalization, Protocols, which help you a lot to understand the concept in an architect's way. It provides a case study for part II and part III, although it is a good example, you need to know enterprise java architecting before reading this chapter.

I finally decide to give it 4 stars instead of 5 because of two reasons:
1. There is nothing about messaging. legacy connectivity.
2. They copied the nine sample questions from Sun's site, but gave no more explanation. What's more, in the book, the answer of question 5 is incomplete (it should be A, E, but in the book, the answer is E), and the answer of question 9 does not appear in the book (which is D).

Since it's the only one available, I suggest you buy (or borrow) this book...

I disagree with what some readers feel about the book. This book is just what a study guide should be. Concise and focused on the objectives of the exam. I read the book, took the exam and passed. I had very little time to study and this book, being so concise, definitely helped.

If it had taken 1000 pages to help me prepare for a 48 questions exam, then I would think that the author merely just did a 'cut and paste' from EJB specs and a few other books. Instead, this author bothered to extract the essence of the information required for SCEA and presented it to the reader.

Most of the sections - Security, I18n, Protocols, EJB, and Design Pattern are well written in an easy to understand and concise manner.

Having said all that, I wonder why some objectives are missing. Common Architecture, Legacy Connectivity and Messaging are left out completely. Also, the UML section could have covered a few more notations.

Still a good book for SCEA candidates but take note, it says "Study Guide" not "Idiot's Guide". So don't expect the book to teach you how to write the "Hello World" Bean.

It is the most boring textbook I've ever seen. Too dull that I nearly fall asleep. Luckily my teacher has excellent lecture notes so I can understand the concepts of physical anthropology.
If you are so unlucky that you have to use this book, I can only wish you have a good teacher. God bless you.

An acceptable intro text for physical anthropology. It's overall scope is wide, and it covers the relevant topic, but it's just so . . . dull. It takes a rare person to fall in love with physical anthroplogy after getting through this book. Jurmain et al are in fine anthropological literary form, which means half-asleep and probably on a fiber-reduced diet. This book is so stilted and formulaic that getting through each chapter is a herculean labour. It's also fairly childish in its format, with irritating extra " Try This!" questions at the end of each chapter; the sort you doubtless remember from high school and junior high textbooks and the ones which no one - not even the teacher's pet- ever did. The price is also ridiculously high considering its a non-specialist text for beginners. Come on guys, gimme a break, the right-wing government where I live already believes students are made of money.

This is probably THE most boring physical textbook on the market, but it is also the most comprehensive. As an undergrad, I couldn't stay awake through more than a couple of paragraphs at a time. As an anthropologist, I can't think of a better text
to assign to my students. For the serious student, there simply is no way to avoid this book. It set the standard.

Okay, I have read a few of the reviews about this book, and I am going to try and put them all together to paint a more complete picture of this book.

I read this book last night, and although impressed wouldn't be the word I would use, there was certainly something to his writing that drew me in. I have read a lot of good fantasy and a lot of bad fantasy, and this is far from the worst I have read; and I really feel with a little work and maturity on the part of the author, this could be part of the better fantasy out there.

I will qualify my opinion and say that I have read Goodkind, Jordan, Hobb, Feist, Haydon, Modessit, and many other notable fantasy authors. The main appeal to these books wasthe scope and grandeaur of worlds they created. Hobbs Buckeep comes alive during the reading, Haydons characters are so well developed they could be living next door to you, the vastness of Jordans world (politics, war, intrigue, history) are unmatchable, and on and on for each of these authors.

The main thing that I think Newcomb succeeded at was his creation of a unique fantasy "idea". Not often do authors these days come out with something new on the age old fantasy spin. (I personally think the last one was David Farlands Runelord idea with which I am really impressed); and I think that Newcomb should be congratulated for that. The idea of magic in his book was intersting, and kept me entertained, as well as the created of a dark history (as so many authors before him have used for effect: Jordan, Goodkind, Hobb, Feist, etc.)

Having said that, and complimenting Newcomb on these few promising story threads, i think he does need to do some work to make this book similar in caliber to the authors I have mentioned before. The plot falls short, sure, it is is entertaining and fast moving, but needs more substance and depth to it. (think politics)

The characters are abominable. (Although an interesting thing to note would be the almost complete role reversal from Jordans simpering males and femdom culture) The women are not developed well at all, and I immediately didn't agree with his description of "male and female, light and dark"; you can't do that; you will lose all of the women as your audience. The wizards are the same as they are in any book, stodgey, old, and know it alls. (I would like to see something different at some point). The main character (Tristan) develops through th book, and I don't have a lot of issue with that.

So in summation, I think this book was an enjoyable read. Certainly not the best book I read, butI really feel there are a lot of things the author can do to make the next books better. Hopefully by the 10th or 11th book (as most modern fantasy authors are won't to do) his writing will have gotten better.

Yikes. I don't write a lot of reviews, but I'm a little surprised by all the negative response this book has generated. Unfortunately I think a lot of this springs from a few aspects of the book, namely:
--The major villians are female sorceresses
--These sorceresses are portrayed as lesbian/bisexual/sexual deviants
--Parts of the book have strong sexual content, including deviant behavior

The response has been to portray Newcomb as misogynist, and many readers have been offended by aspects of this book.

However, I really don't think this book deserves the villification it has received. Granted, it's not groundbreaking, it's not for the easily offended, and the quality of the writing is not the best. But it does have a compelling cast of characters and does a nice job of developing them. The heroes are the kind you can really cheer for, and are also multidimensional. The author also does a good job in fleshing out his fantasy world while keeping the plot moving, unlike a lot of "epic" fantasy these days (*cough* Jordan).

The bottom line is twofold: first, if you're going to blame someone for the flaws in this book, blame Del Rey. This could have been an exceptional book with proper editing. Second, even with all its flaws, this book kept me turning pages and provided a very enjoyable read. And to me, that's what really matters.

Was this supposed to be Martin or Jordan? No (although far better than Jordan's last 4 1/2 books). Was it supposed to be far more imaginative twist on the young orphan who suddenly obtains great power and saves the world? Yes.

I think a great many of these reviewers spend far too much time in the minutia of very, very minor spelling errors (Don't blame the writer, blame the editor), rather than focusing on the tale that's being told and the vehicle for that tale. In my estimation, Newcomb came up with something far more interesting than most, and displayed an excellent ability to twist the stereotypical fantasy plot.

Frankly, I enjoyed the characters far more than most books, in particular the villians. Indeed, Newcomb spends, and rightfully so, a considerable amount of time developing the threat level of these women. My only criticism is that they were wiped out in a matter of few pages. Nonetheless, I was thrilled to not experience the following: (1) Orphan boy comes into great power; (2) the lack of permanent tragedy that befalls the hero; (3) the lack of consequences or finality; and (4)lack of pacing.

Great read and it is a fast read. Would love to see a prequel with these characters.

Oh yeah, for those that made critiques about dangling plotlines, etc., a modicum of patience would do you well