As Emmitt Grogan of the Diggers said, Abbie Hoffman was a snitch. Fink, rat, stool pigeon, whichever word you prefer. For example: as soon as someone told him about them, he wrote about all the ways to get free food in NYC, which of course meant the authorities shut them all down. But Abbie got his momentary publicity buzz. Typical of how he operated his entire "career."

By attempting to reintroduce The Hoff to a new generation, this book certainly attempted the honourable. However, one of the most important elements of the original trio of books that make up the bulk of the text of this volume (REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT, WOODSTOCK NATION and STEAL THIS BOOK) was the brilliant artwork, punctuating the texts, that was not even mentioned in this one. If you can't find the original three, this will be a passable introduction to Hoffman's brilliance, but be forewarned that you're missing out on a unique experience.

Abbie was a rebel and I am proud to be from the same country as him.

He was the first to wear an american flag as a shirt (we see it on shirts, shoes, bandanas, etc now). He was proud to be an american and wanted to keep this country free.

Remember all the freedoms we have and what it would be like if no one fought for them.

Yes, there are some solutions. I was extremely disappointed with this book. To be fair, it says " Classroom Resourse Materials". It may be a fantastic book if you are an instructor looking for problems for your students. However, I am a student. I hoped to get a book that would show me in some detail how these problems are solved. It didn't do that for even one. Not one. It did give the answer to some. It didn't even explain anything. It is what it says: a book of problems. Quite frankly, I don't think it's that hard to think of problems. The hard part is solving them. So, if you need to understand how to work problems -- this book is not for you.

We all can count, but few can count really well. Combinatorics can be considered the art of sophisticated counting and it is a subject often neglected in the college curriculum. This book, with a direct, plunge ahead to the problems approach, covers all of the standard areas of the field.
Since the amount of explanatory text is kept to a minimum, it would not be easy to use the book as a textbook. The standard approach is a few paragraphs of text followed by a page or more of problems. Without sufficient additional explanation, the general student will no doubt struggle.
However, the quality of the problems is excellent and solutions to many are provided. Problems in combinatorics are fairly standard issue and the author acknowledges this in a brief list of standard problem types at the end of the book. However, it would have been an improvement if appropriate page numbers would have been associated with each entry in the list. Another feature that adopters will find very helpful is a list of dependencies. The list is a simple table noting that the problem dependencies are such that a problem can be assigned after a certain other one has been done.
While the quality of the book is excellent, one should think carefully before using it as a textbook. Much better suited as a course supplement, it is probably best used as a reference.

Published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission

This book contains several hundereds of problems in combinatorics, stressing on counting(enumeration). Last chapters deal with recurrence and generating function. The most advantage of this book is that it's problems are almost basic and classic, BUT this is at the same time the most disadvantage. I find this book is well suited to high school talented students(In fact I assigned some of the sections to my students as self-study homework, the result is good enough). But for universities students, these problems seem TOO EASY and routine. One more suggestion: Since combinatorics is a field changes so fast, a problem book could contains material more exciting and relatively new.

I wouldn't spend any money on this book. The theory espoused in this book is so far from reality, it isn't funny.

This book promotes the notion that "free enterprise" must be inserted into public transit so as to maximize the benefits to passengers and society at large.

However, this notion is demonstrably wrong.

For example, local bus operations in British cities outside of London were completely de-regulated in the 1980's by the national Tory government, e.g., public funding was almost entirely cut off and private bus companies were allowed to compete freely against one another (as opposed to "privatization" in the U.S. which has mainly meant a public agency putting service out to competitive bid). Regional pass schemes allowing passengers to freely transfer from one route or operator to another were abolished.

The results are conclusive. Bus patronage in British cities dropped more than 30% by the early 1990's. In London, bus patronage over the same period actually increased somewhat, despite major cuts in subsidy funding. The difference was that London retained regional governmental control of fare and service decisions, despite putting much of the service out to bid.

The disaster of British local bus de-regulation has also been repeated in spades by the ill-considered "privatization" of British Rail. Rail privatization has been a big enough disaster to become one of the hottest public issues in Great Britain.

The successes obtained by "centralized" regional planning and decision-making authority in elected government hands is quite conclusive in other countries. In Zurich, per capita transit usage is among the highest in the developed world, exceeding a number of Japanese cities. Zurich's success--in one of the most affluent, high auto-owning urban areas on the planet--is based on centralized planning at the canton level, plus generous government funding. Zurich has managed to retain very high transit market share despite rapid motorization since the 1960's. The reasons that Toronto, Canada's past success with generating high transit usage levels, are essentially the same as Zurich, though the current pseudo-free market provincial government in Ontario is too boorish to understand this.

"Free market" economists like Klein often cite the "success" of private transit in Southeast Asia; however, those "capitalist" bastions of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia have relied on centralized planning and sufficient funding to allow new transit systems to function through selective privatization, but not anywhere near the model that Klein espouses. In effect, government transportation policies in Hong Kong and Singapore guarantee the transit market (e.g., car use is restricted, heavily taxed). The Zurich and Toronto models have proven to be less authoritarian.

Klein proves how blinkered economists--particularly those who espouse "libertarian" views ("new right" in British and Australian terms)--are very shortsighted about public transit and other similar public policy issues.

For one of the few books that I've seen that "gets it right," I recommend "A Very Public Solution" by Paul Mees, a professor of Planning and Public Policy at Melbourne University, Melboune, Australia (yes, Amazon carries it).

Mee's point about urban transit is best summed up by this from one of my unpublished papers:

Flexibility would be the greatest benefit of improved transit to "transit dependents" and would-be "choice" users. This is clearly explained by the book "A Very Public Solution" (Page 289; Dr. Paul Mees, Melbourne University Press, 2000. Melbourne, Australia):

(Mees' excerpt):

With public transport itself, the critical issue is flexibility. And the key to flexibility for passengers is simplicity and predictability, not a bewildering array of constantly changing options. The latter produces confusion, not convenience. Paradoxically, to be flexible, public transport must also be rigidly predictable: perhaps the best analogy is with the road system, rather than with cars themselves...

This means that frequent service on an easy-to-understand, predictable, and reliable network of regional and local transit services delivers vastly superior flexibility to the customer. Such transit systems typically service a far higher percentage of "choice" patronage. Compared to an infrequent, specialized, hard to understand jumble of routes, such transit networks compete successfully with automobiles.

A Very Public Solution's prime case study is Toronto, Canada. Toronto has significantly higher per transit usage per capita than many European cities, an order of magnitude higher than most U.S. urban areas. Toronto's exceptionally high transit use occurs despite millions of residents living in dispersed suburbs essentially indistinguishable from the American norm. Canadian fuel prices are only slightly higher than the United States. There are more similarities than differences between Canadian and U.S. culture. Toronto's transit usage remain high, despite service cuts caused by an early 1990's recession.

"Curb Rights" tries to answer the problem of subsidized transit, but offers too much economic modeling, which would not necessarily work.

The book is founded on the theory of bus and jitney operators having rights to own the curb for bus stops. This brings about too much free market optimism, but very little assurance that public transit would actually be improved.

It's no surprise that free market public transit is advocated, one of the authors is from the Libertarian Party think tank, the Reason Foundation.

The authors also mention that in places where transit was deregulated, there was no survey on how riders actually felt about service before and after deregulation. So there is no guarantee about improvement.

There would be no need to take a "survey on how customers felt before and after deregulation." The "survey" would be expressed by customers voluntarily using the service, i.e. whether they were willing to purchase rides on deregulated transit vehicles. If customers were satisfied, the transit company would prosper. If not, they would go out of business and another company could enter the market and provide satisfactory service. That is the only survey that counts! If that's too much Econ 101 speculation, then you just don't get it!

I bought this book along with several others because I was researching real vampires. The first and main thing that set me off against this book is the fact that he makes the statement that people who claim to be vampires aren't vampires they are just 'sick'! This put me on edge and it wasn't a very mature statement of him. If he wanted to say such a thing he should have explained why he thought that instead of throwing all the research up into the air and giving a blank opinion. The book seems to be written for school age children and made me think I was 7 again while reading it. It tells of many stories involving vampires and vampire myths but writes them in a way that doesn't flow together. When he starts out telling the stories you almost think he's talking about his own experiences. As a adult reading this you have to say 'hey, wait a minute' and then flip back through the pages trying to find the connection between the lines. I have no idea why a publisher printed this since it is so horribly put together, and why the editor didn't say something about it and fix it. I would NOT recommend this book and it continues to be the worst purchase I have ever made.

This book gives some accounts about real incidents involving vampires. As Hollywood portrays vampires as bloodsucking, crucifix dodging ghouls, this book takes a look at five or so well documented historical events where vampires were involved and dispells the Hollywood myth. It briefly touches on Bram Stoker's Dracula and the 1922 film Nosferatu, but the majority of the book looks at old and modern vampires in the world we live in.

It's a quick read, but definately worth a look if you've always wondered about real life vampires.

Even though this isn't Arthur C. Clarke or Stephen King material, it is still a fun and exciting read, nevertheless. If you are deeply into vampires, you should read this one.

I began this book with much anticipation. After the first chapter, I was offended and disappointed. But I kept reading hoping it would get better. It didn't. The author interviews only 45 women and bases his theories on loosely held evidence. I don't know how I am going to finish this book, but I have to becausee it's a required text for a college course. As a woman and student, I am thoroughly offended and don't regard any of Levinson's ideas as "ground breaking". His methods are unscientific and he is a rather outdated fool.

This was an extremely disappointing book, especially in view of my admiration for Levinson's earlier work on men. Despite a few nuggets of useful insight, such as (1) many women never love their husbands, even on their wedding day, and (2) women with careers almost always make the career their highest priority, followed by children and marriage, in that order, the rest of the book is an extremely tedious account of the lives of 45 women. Levinson chose 15 homemakers, 15 businesswomen, and 15 academic women, all middle-aged in the early 1980s (the data here is 15 years old!) and uses them to generalize about all women in all generations. His major conclusion is that women's lives follow the same pattern as men's, but his demonstration is not convincing. He seems to take anything that happens in the woman's life as evidence for his theory. As mentioned above, all the women were middle-aged in the early 1980s, and thus were of the generation born in the 1930s and early 40s. This generation was raised in a pre- feminist environment and were already established in their life structures when the women's movement began. It is difficult to believe that women of later generations would have similar life stories. Furthermore, the choice of groups excludes some important types of women, most particularly (1) women in traditionally feminine occupations, such as as nurses and schoolteachers, and (2) self-employed small-business women or professionals. This exclusion may be deliberate, as to include these women might serve to undermine the ideology of the authors, which is orthodox gender feminist. The women portrayed complain of their lives as bored homemakers or sufferers of employment discrimination. Representation from the groups mentioned might have found that women can find fulfilling lives in other contexts. Also, the book needs to be followed up by a study of women who grew up in a post-feminist culture.

I began this book with genuine interest, but some trepidation after reading the previous and negative customer reviews. I have been compelled to write a review myself because I so thoroughly disagree with those reviews and hope to encourage others to explore the book for what it may offer them. In the book, the Levinsons share, discuss, and analyse the autobiographies of 45 diverse women. These stories are used to propose that adult development follows a somewhat consistent pattern, that is, is made up of predictable stages in a fashion similar to child development---each stage representing the struggle to solve particular developmental "problems" or issues. Like child development, the validity of these proposed stages, the factors that bring each stage about, and their consistency across adults will require a great deal of further study. I think it is possible that a good deal of the stage-like structure is simply due to the numerical system we use, that we spend 10 years being 30-something and 10 years being 40-something, and that these changes in numerical label evoke self evaluation--nothing in the Levinson's book denies this possibility. But regardless of whether further research supports this proposed structure in part or in its entirety, I think the book has much to offer. In viewing the lives of so many other women, and from the book's vantage point, I was able to step back and view my own life more objectively and to better articulate my own questions about my past decisions, current struggles, and future goals. Certainly no one life mirrored my own, but in their collective reflection I saw many aspects of myself and my life. The previous reviewers discounted the value of the book on the grounds that it was so outdated that the women represented could not speak to their modern lives and issues. Does 20 years really render human experience obsolete? Can it be that our mothers have nothing to say about the experience of Woman that can enrich and resonate with our own expereinces? This premise questions the utility of studying history altogether and is one I cannot support. I think that to ignore the commonalities that exist between thier lives and ours is self-centered, short-sighted, and it appears, even defensive. Women may presently have more freedom and opportunities than ever before, but the struggle between the many roles that women may now play has perhaps only intensified with added freedom. Keep in mind that our gender now celebrates women CEOs and yet has made Martha Stewart a mega-millionaire. The battle between domestic and professional drives is far from over. Perhaps by bearing witness to this battle taking place in others, we can hope to survive our own with fewer losses.

I wanted to learn about this subject and took the class from the author of the book at UVa. He's a pretty good professor but a terrible author of books. there are many usuage/grammatical mistakes in the book and its extremely hard to read. Doesnt make much sense and is highly not recommended.

I take this professor at UVa, good guy, good professor but the book is poorly written. A pain to read and doesnt make much sense, Poor english is used. Dont buy this book

Most psychology text books I've had to read have been a pain, but I found this one pretty easy to read and understand. (I think maybe the guys from UVA with the prof. that wrote this book must have a personal agenda...) But, that's just my opinion. Not that most of us have a choice in reading text books...

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As usual with the Haynes manuals, the information is right on! Good pictures and diagrams, excellent tricks to help get at the problem areas. I own several of his books for different vehicles and would recommend them to anyone.

The text does not cover materials it should, and spends time on issues that do not relate to the area of learning.

The last two chapters are very unorganized and unclear to most students.

Never have I taught a class with so many student complaints about a text.

I strongly suggest that you look elsewhere for a learning text.

I've never encountered a text that has been the target
of so many complaints. Students as well as faculty dislike this book on multiple levels.

Please for your own benefit, and your students, look elsewhere.

Great textbook choice for graduate level educational psychology courses.

Ok, where do I start? Perhaps with the lack of examples and lack of source code? No... I'll start with the fact that this book at many instances talks about stuff that you could do to your web page, then shows a pretty picture, then goes on without even telling you how to do it! What! I spent $30.00 on a picture book of the web! If I didn't throw my receipt away, I would have immediately returned it along with a harsh scolding, but I did so I guess I'm now stuck with a pretty paperweight. If you need some pointers, go look somewhere else, if you want to look at pretty pictures, browse through this book, then go somewhere else. But whatever you do, DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!

Frankly, this one is a slight disappointment. I bought this one thinking it would be as good as Looking Good in Print by Roger Parker, but I found it to be shallow and the author to wander off track into non-design related areas.

I just started Web Development and I thought this book has been very helpful (I checked it out at the library first) and am now purchasing it to have on hand for the future!

Very disappointed with this book. The examples are few and the explanations stopped short. Not very helpful to new users.

The contents of this book are almost the same as the previous version (2.0). The 4.0 release of the M.D. software have had lots of improvements and new tools that aren't reflected in the new version of the book.

The 4.0 release book has less information than the previous (2.0). One example is that NURBS Surfaces subject is not included in this new version (in the 2.0 it was). The exercises are the same, with the same sketches!

So, whatever you are a new or advanced M.D. user you might consider buying the 2.0 book version with the 3.0 update, it's less expensive and will be more helpful.

I was looking for along time for a book of this kind, but lalely i found this book in my friends library. i never thought that there will be a good book that will be able to describe so well the procedures and the steps for learning and understanding the logical order of Mechanical Desktop 4. in the book i found explenations and step by step notes about usage of Mechanical Desktop 4. this book has verry helpful index and is verry good as a hand book. thanks alot to Daniel T. Banach for opening a whole world infront of me.