I originally meant to buy Exam Cram not Exam Prep. When using Exam Prep I thought it did not prepare me for the tests. I have used one of the Exam Cram books for TCP/IP and thought it prepared me quite well. If your looking to take your MCSE test buy EXAM CRAM not Exam Prep.

I've been teaching the MCSE courses and on of my students brought the Exam Crams and Exam Prep books in the class, asked me to read and rate them. After reading through these books, I found these books are just excellent. They are full of technical stuffs, written in real English, and in a readable manner. I have even "talked" to one of the authors of the book as well (and his name is Ed). Ed was expert in the field and he was very fun to" talk" to. I definitely would recommend the books to all my students, friends.

I am a skeptical professional scientist looking for alternate views on how science should be conducted. This book is a joke, and a short one with big margins, that isn't funny. It may be valuable if you are considering writing a book and want to feel encouraged by how bad you can be and still get published. The authors get close to some significant worries about the misuse of science, but come nowhere near capturing our interest, preoccupied as they are with getting the 59 pages written. It took me an hour to read; it can't have taken them more than a weekend to write. We'd love to silence bad science, but would settle for silencing charlatans like these two.

Promoting a liberal agenda is not what science should do. It should promote the truth and freedom, and free enterprise, and not bias. Too bad those slimy evil liberals hijack science for their own sick agenda, like one world government or anti capitalist. This book shows how they are ALL WRONG!

I'll be honest--this book does speak to my libertarian notions, but in truth, the science in it holds up better than the "science" of the kind it attacks (generally, the "science" cited by environmentalists).

The suggestion that a negative reviewer makes below for "Science Under Seige" as being "unbiased" is ridiculous. That work is in the camp of the Gore/Ehrlich alarmist liars. If this book is biased, then that one is 100x moreso.

Furthermore, I'd say that this book definitely holds up better on logical merits than most books which sell the opposite viewpoints.

Michael Hammer is Founder of Hammer and Company, a management education firm, while Steven Stanton is Managing Director at the same firm. This article was published in the November-December 1999 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Michael Hammer is the inventor of business process reengineering and this is where he starts: "Although reengineering has in some circles become a euphemism for mindless downsizing, it has in fact done a world of good." But he claims that although many companies have integrated their core processes, only few have fundamentally managed the way they manage their organizations. However, in this article Michael Hammer uses various companies to show how you can make the leap from process redesign to process management. But he warns readers: "Creating a process enterprise is an enormously complex undertaking." The shift to a process enterprise involves much more than just redrawing an organizational chart, it is an enormously complex undertaking. In addition to the focus on the transition, organizations also need to have a realistic sense of the sacrifices and disruptions it will entail. The most visible difference between a process enterprise and a traditional organization is the existence of process owners who need to have a great influence on the organization. According to the authors organizations need to change shape as markets change, as new technologies become available, and as new competitors arrive. They comment: "A process enterprise is the organizational form for a world of constant change." The authors discuss the style of management, process standardization, the transition process, and the elements of the 'infrastructure of the process enterprise' in detail, using Texas Instruments, IBM, Owens Corning and Duke Power as examples for the creation of a process enterprise.

In this article, the authors continue on Hammer's invention of reengineering. He recognizes that companies have changed their ways but also recognizes that sometimes they have not focused on the results of these improvements. The underlying purpose needs to be "delivery of value to customers in a way that creates profits for shareholders." Although they use some interesting examples, they are not sufficiently clear about the implementation. Therefore the article becomes somewhat too academical. The authors use simple business US-English.

Hans wakes up one day and reads his obituary in the paper. Someone has stolen his name. Who? Why? And what game is The Joker playing?

A nice book, but not his best. Lars SC has written so many good books (Beatles, Bly, Gutten som ville vaere en av gutta, Billettene, Jubel, Herman...) so I was a bit disappointed with this one. But he still is the best Norwegian writer of today!

This book is an attractive introduction to its subject, and features some excellent articles. I especially liked the sections describing how working with the environment (including the local people) can be more profitable than destructive methods now in use. (For example, big game hunting parks versus poaching.)

However, there are a large number of obvious errors, and who knows how many non-obvious ones. In my initial reading, I was struck by several: 1) the cost of remote sensing satellites is not $50 billion and up, as even the US wouldn't build them at that cost; $50 million makes sense [this translation was published in NY, not London]; 2) Gen. Philip Sheridan was not a Confederate general; right war, but he was Union; 3) the solar influx is not 1.35 KW/minute/square meter; the units are clearly wrong, it is ~1.35KW/square meter (measured outside the atmosphere, normal to the radiation). A ten or fifteen minute scan in review prior to returning this book revealed several other questionable to ridiculous numbers.

The compilers of this book are 3 journalists and a graphics specialist, not specialists in the subject. However, between the compilers, the original Deutsch editors, and the editors of the ENglish translation, it would be nice if at least one competent fact checker was employed.

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I purchased this book because it was one of only 3 references in the store on Frontpage 2000. I thought to myself that at least the CD that comes with it should be worth the price.

After working through the book during the process of doing a medium sized website, I found that many of my questions were unanswered. This a good book if you have never done anything with the web at all, and are not interested in more advanced manipulation of your site.

A HUGE omission from this book is the topic of Cascading Style Sheets. For those who are considering this book and don't know, having knowledge of how to work with these is crucial, and this topic is completely left out.

Other than that, it was an OK introduction to the most basic of topics. If all you want to do is know what the basics are to put up a home page, this book will do the job. If you want to really dig into intermediate to advanced level features using Frontpage, this book is not for you. I will now buy The Complete REference book hoping for more complete coverage of advanced topics.

As for the CD, there isn't much on it that couldn't be had by surfing around the free sites on the web yourself, finding material that is actually relevent to your project.

Are you building your first web page? Or are you perhaps not the most experienced web designer? There are some huge FrontPage books out there that get into highly technical topics, but if all you want to do is learn FrontPage 2000 and build a web page you can be proud of, then I can't recommend this book highly enough.

This book walks you through how to use all the tools to build web pages, hook up those pages into a web site, and send the site to your internet service provider. When you get done, you'll know how to build and maintain your site, and you won't have had to wade through 1000+ pages to get there. This book even shows you how to use the included graphics editors to dress up your pages, and how to use styles and templates to create a really snazzy look.

The writing is clear and concise, and the wealth of screenshots makes it easy to follow the step-by-step. It might be a bit much to get through this book "in a weekend", but it won't take much longer than that, even if you're a beginner.

When I bought the software for Frontpage 2000 I knew NOTHING about web site design, and certainly nothing about Frontpage. When I bought the program, I also bought one of those 1100 page exhaustive (so I thought) tombs about how to use the program. I got about three chapters into the big book and decided that I didn't know what the heck they were talking about. Now, I'm no dummy. I'm pretty good at following directions, but I just didn't get it. So I went back to the bookstore and bought "Frontpage 2000 in a Weekend". I knew I was in safe waters after the first chapter. Wagner and Callihan do an excellent job of making the whole process of site design simple and painless. By simply following their tutorials I learned everything I needed to know to get amazing results ouf of the program. And just in a weekend (just as promised). As I continue to work in Frontpage, I occasionally come across a question I can't answer. I usually turn to the 1100 page giant first (I guess because it just LOOKS like it ought to have all the answers). But many times the solution they present is covered just as well or better in the Weekend book. My reccomendation: If you're just getting started wiht Frontpage, save the $45.00 on the big books and pluk down a quarter on "Weekend". It's money worth spent.

I have recently taken Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. The subject was difficult, but able to be grasped with some study. (I am an adult student)As for the "International Economics" textbook, I feel it is very poor as an educational medium. If you ever really sit and attempt to read this thing, all you are reading are a bunch of letters. There is no sense to the material and very little attempt to clarify anything. It is confusing enough to learn a difficult subject without having to decipher every letter of the alphabet into a different word or variable. I understand brevity is necessary to avoid repetition, but please! This is to be a learning tool. There should at least be some attempt to 'spell out' the information once. I feel this book was a very bad investment on my part, and would never have been my chosen text for this topic. I wouldn't even give it one star, but that was as low as I was able to select.

This book is very difficult to read as far as the main text is concerned. The graphs do help students understand the concepts but the organization is poor. After reading a chapter, I still do not get the "big picture". The authors do not attempt to provide any type of guide or roadmap for us to follow. You cannot learn anything from this book unless you are going to your prof's lectures.

Im a Computer Sceince student. Recently, I took an economics cource titeld "International Trade". This book is the text book for our class. I found it very easy and clear to understand ( there is no doubt that you really need to have a very solid Idea about macro and micro economics befor reading this kind of a book). The book is deep enought to servee as an educational media, it is no to little and not too much. I recommend this book

This book is horribly counterproductive. The review section isn't worth the paper it's written on, as it doesn't reflect at all the Physics C material. It appears that they just cut-and-pasted the review for the Physics GRE (given to advanced undergraduates), which is absurd. Avoid this book.

The book provides a thorough description and explanation of all the topics covered on the AP exam. However, it could use a few more additional practice tests and problems to achieve a better sense of the test.

helped me in my course and the test. Some of the questions were a little harder than the actual but got me prepared.

I don't think I would have known about this book if my father's letter wasn't in it. My Dad, John D. Rice, intrepid radio journalist from Sparta, Wisconsin, died in September, 1991. Sometime in the months following his death, his widow, my mother, became aware that a letter Dad wrote to one of his colleagues on the Wisconsin State Journal in the early forties, had been included in a collection of War Letters published by the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

The quid pro quo for my mother's approving the letter for use in the book, was that she got a copy. I think the letter was written to a Wisconsin State Journal editor named Don Anderson. The subject of the letter was Japanese radio directed at American Servicemen in Alaska where my father was stationed until 1943. John D. said it was pretty dull and corny, because the Nips didn't really understand American culture well enough to produce worthy entertainment.

I read some of the other letters and forgot about the book until about a week ago. My brother told me my Uncle Zel had heard there was such a book and inquired about it. My brother was unaware of the book, but I knew Mom had a copy. Well, the upshot is I arranged to get our copy to my uncle. I wondered whether the hype about The Greatest Generation had given the book a boost. So I checked Amazon dot com. Well, the answer is mixed. Its about 800,000th in the great pantheon of Amazon Books. I don't think thats so hot, but its all relative. It depends on what the LEAST well-rated book on Amazon is.

If you're interested in knowing some of John D.'s history because you remember him from somewhere, write me at mrice@elroynet.com and I'll bring you up to date.

Thanks.