--scuzzball ambulance chasers,flush with success after the tobacco "victory" go for guns. Disappointingly, they find a much smaller pot of money is available but go ahead anyway--I am sure expecting another win on their way to suing fast food for "obesity" and and then on to car manufacturers for selling cars that can be traced to drunk and incompetent drivers--enough there to keep another generation of lawyers in the upper income class.

Unfortunately, they ran into a speedbump on the way--four million NRA members.

This book is a largely a repeat of Handgun Control, Inc., misinformation, lies, embellished with the personalities of the ambulance chasers, big-city machine politicians and slams at NRA personnel--full of technical errors--Glock "revolvers", etc--

The authors of this book have a very strange idea about how things are supposed to work in the United States of America. According to our Constitution there are three branches of government and the people, under the First Amendment, are free to petition those branches as they chose. The NRA is a member-supported organization of gun owners who want to protect their right to keep and bear arms, as specified in the Second Amendment. As such it has a right to lobby and petition in their behalf. Charges that they have "undue influence" are ridiculous. They have exactly as much influence as the members are willing to pay for, just as any anti-gun organization would have. It just happens that there are more people who are willing to speak with their wallets in behalf of their rights than there are people willing to support legislation and litigation that would undermine those rights. The NRA does have one advantage: their position is supported by the Constitution.

The authors posit a new "branch of the government" that is not supported by the Constitution: trial lawyers. This "branch", which has made billions of dollars effectively writing law outside normal channels, now wants to attack the Second Amendment on behalf of the relatively small group of people who think that private citizens aren't bright enough to handle firearms and that they don't need them to protect themselves against criminals. This is despite the fact, as documented by Dr. John Lott, that crime rates are lower in areas where it is easier for private citizens to own guns, and even lower in jurisdictions where they are allowed to carry concealed firearms for self-protection. Since the anti-gun crowd knows it will never get a Constitutional amendment and serious anti-gun laws would be found unconstitutional, it is trying to sneak its gun control position under the door by harassing legitimate businesses with endless lawsuits.

If you are desperate for support for your anti-gun sentiments, this is the book for you. If you want the truth, look elsewhere.

more of the same insipid falderal about what guns and crime and violence have in common and trying to make a "vast gun wing conspiracy out of peoples real reasons to own guns. IT'S ALL ABOUT ARMED CITIZENS PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM THE TWIN EVILS OF BAD PEOPLE AND BAD GOVERNMENT!!

This book lacks a clear direction for any student. If the student is lost within the exercises he has no way of knowing if he is on the right or wrong approach of tackling a problem, a partial solution would be helpful for the exercises. I give this book a big thumbs down. It is of no help. I wonder why University of West Florida still uses a book that is not even supported by the publisher.

I am an economic Ph.D. student and I decided to get some more training in math through self-study. I started from fundamentals and this book sounded like a good idea. But surprisingly, I could read it only after I have taken some advanced courses in real analysis and algebra; graduate courses.

The book covers true fundamentals, but the presentation is on quite a high and abstract level (notation and "tons" of theorems). When I came back to this book recently, I appreciated its coverage (quite comprehensive), and would rather treat it as a refresher only.

I am glad I could discover the beauty of math from difference sources.

...renders this work nearly useless.

We recently were subjected to this book as a text on set theory and logic. It is adequate as far as it goes in it's explanations and illustrations (with an exception to be noted later), but is wholly inadequate as a student's textbook.

It lacks any solutions to the exercises presented at the end of chapters, making homework utterly pointless unless the instructors consume precious classroom time presenting correct solutions to the homework. Self-study, doing unassigned problems, is right out. You have no way to check your work.

This is made even more damaging to a student's ability to comprehend the subject due to the exception mentioned above, that in the text, the authors leave one too many proofs incomplete, "as exercise 'x' for the student" at the end of the chapter. This would make sense and even be useful IF AND ONLY IFF (IFF) the correct solution was provided in the back of the book. It isn't teaching if the students have to work out the entire mathematical history of a subject themselves. I mean, it's one thing to retrace the work of history's great mathematicians, and be able to see how they arrived at thier solutions. It is another thing altogether to have to duplicate thier work altogether, without being able to check to see how closely your effort matches the correct solution.

The book thus deprives the students of a number of proofs for theorems which it should be presenting to the student, either in the text, or in the back of the book, to be looked at only after the student has thought about the problem and it's solution first.

In short, this text takes a slightly challenging subject in mathematics and makes it much more difficult by leaving out any means of confirming correct answers or discovering incorrect answers to the homework. Being able to check and compare one's homework has always been, I thought, the entire point of having homework exercises. This book is the first I've ever encountered which left the student hanging this way. Perhaps it wasn't intended as a textbook.

I'm baffled and slightly upset. I feel quite strongly that I have been cheated out of a potentially valuable learning experience.

I found this book more confusing than helpful. The test questions were not comparable to those actually on the LSAT. They were more vague and misleading than those questions on the actual test, particularly the logic games. Using poor study materials can really hurt you, so I would spend time working with more beneficial materials than this book. I would recommend Kaplan books instead or just getting the official tests produced by LSAC. Good luck on the test!

I bought this book primarily as a source of practice analytical (games) questions. I didn't pay much attention to the test-taking tips, which tend to be the same in every test prep book anyway. However, the sample material is so poorly constructed and edited that it is completely useless.

Consider just the 15 questions on page 112-113. There is at least one question which cannot be answered correctly. There is another which has two correct answers, unless you make an additional assumption which is not stated in the question. There are two questions which ask exactly the same thing, with slightly different words. And there is at least one question for which the answer given (on page 121,) though correct, is accompanied by an explanation which is complete nonsense.

That's just two pages. The rest of the book is filled with similar garbage. Flipping through this book and picking out all the logical errors might actually be a good exercise for a future lawyer, but it's useless as preparation for the LSATs.

Luckily I just took this book out from the library and didn't waste my money on it.

Please, please, please do not buy or use this book. It is a waste of time. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to find this out is to use the book yourself. Please though believe my review and the others (who rate it low). I wasted about a week and a half. Perhaps I learned some basic reading comp. tactics, but that's about it.

I just bought Master the LSAT by Nova. Haven't used it yet, but the reviews (which I should have believed for this book) are pretty high.

This is an overhaul manual? I could have sworn it read like the Sunday comics with its pictures and captions. There is hardly enough beef in this book to help anyone rebuild an engine. Maybe if you had a NASCAR crew chief with 30 years of experience on your side you'd be able to rebuild an engine with this guide, but otherwise it's useless. At least I borrowed the book from a library and didn't waste my money. There's not enough detail, not enough clarity, and the instructions are vague. It spends like the first 5 chapters discussing how to use a micrometer and know how to build your own workbench. If I wanted to build a garage - I'll get my dad to help or a Bob Vila book, thank you very much.

I suppose this book is fine for those people who aren't going to attempt to do more than change the oil or maybe replace the brake shoes. I've found that anything more than that is either skipped over or mentioned only in passing. For example, the section on installing the intake manifold consists only of a picture of the manifold. The fault diagnosis sections aren't terribly helpful either. A few possibilities per symptom are listed, but they are very vague, for example, "mechanical damage." Occasionally you will find a helpful bit of information, but for the most part this book is a waste of money.

This book was simply a waste of money-awful. The requirements to qualify for the scholarships is too incredibly specific. It is also the worst organized book i have ever read. It took so long to comb through the whole book only to find nothing. Please, I beg of you to buy a diffrent book. Don't waste your money.

I'm a junior and didn't really find this book of much use. There aren't a lot of general scholarships. There's a lot of scholarships relating to specific schools or organizations. There weren't a lot of scholarships for essays, for juniors, or just an average person.

I have read this book on the internate. There are alot of mistakes. First of all, in one page it told about brownouts(like microwave beam torhing other buildings). I have never seen this happen. It also said that rioters ae suppose to set fires, I have never seen this happen. The prices to all these buildings are wrong. The cost for a Coal Plant is 4,500 doolars is suppose to be 5,000 dollars. It says that when there is a nuclearmelt down, fires are set. This is true in SimCity 2000 but not in SC3K. And there many other mistakes. Throw this book out.

This book is a very poor guide to SimCity 3000. Many of thereferences are for events and screens that occur in the SimCity 2000edition and which are not duplicated in the 3000 game. For example, the book refers many times to specific increases in the dollar value of tiles, even though the 3000 game does not identify specific dollar values, only ranges such as "very high" or "astronomical". The book even refers to the bus station as a four tile building (which it was in the 2000 game), not a one tile building as it is in the 3000.

The final insult is an entire chapter dealing with 2000 scenarios which are not included in the 3000 edition.

Overall, this is a poorly edited older guide book with little work done to properly update the information for the new edition.

Todd, you are so onto it. This book is an utter waste of cash. Even the new info is highly doubtful. Best to ignore tham completely methinks... And if you've bought it- get a refund!

This book is not for children. If anything, it would increase their feelings of isolation and nurture their insecurities about their place in the family. It's not surprising that Ms. Schlessinger would write something like this. In fact, it seems to mirror her own life as documented in Vicky Bane's very well done bio, "Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography". In short, "Growing Up Is Hard" does a far better job of telling us about Shlessinger's tormented psyche than it does imparting moral values to children. If you're looking for a child's book, pass this one up and consider something that's really for children. I'd suggest "Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type".

Laura Schlessinger's awkward text and Dan McFeely's ugly illustrations make a book neither kids nor adults will find appealing. Children won't relate to language no kid would ever use ("I hate my life!") or to the humorless, patronizing moral lesson. The best children's books are lovingly written by people who like and understand kids and want to entertain them. This object isn't really a book at all: it's another "Dr. Laura" promotional product. Reviewer "zeh" is right: you can do better.

The text is preachy and boring and would make any little kid squirm to be doing ANYTHING else except listen to this book. The illustrations make whiny, spoiled, self-pitying Sammy look like a defective Cabbage Patch doll and his stuffed Mr. Cat looks like road kill. If you want to PUNISH a child, make them read this book. If you want to read a fun story that really gets the point across about being able to go to other adults for help, read "Junie B Jones & Her Big Fat Mouth" by Barbara Park - that is what my 7 year old and I are doing!

The book is overpriced, and poorly written. There are some well done histories on the 92nd in print, this is not one of them. Half the book is written about three individuals, Fox, Baker, and Almond, the other half contains fragmented historical accounts of the units engaged in the Italian Campaign. As a poor aside he actually list the books in one paragraph that contain a more detailed history, but I ask; What is this book suppose to be about? I thought I was buying a history of a Black Fighting Division, instead I get autobiographical information on three people, only one of which-General Ed Almond I hadn't seen before. And no where in the book do I find any reference to the Divisions performance during the Serchio Valley attacks in December of 1944. As I stated in the title to this review. One good chapter does not a book make. Save your money folks, this book should be retailing for $ in the close out section of your local bookstore soon!

Is he making his students buy this dribble? The poor guy is constantly billing himself as a International Relations expert, a History Expert, a Terrorism Expert, anything he can do to get his face on TV as an "expert" commentator. He is now writing on African-Americans, yet is from overseas, and now professes to tell us about our history?

If the reviews tell a negative view of the publication in question, then why aren't the corresponding resources for searching the facts presented within the context of the review itself! Let other readers know what sources were used in the effort to discount a works accuracy, so that further research efforts may be undertaken also. Don't let the facts lay in tne shadows for everyone to second guess around, because your review constructs a fantom conclusion or reality! Stick to presenting an accurate conclusion, by dislosing some facts!

Certainly a useful project that promised to deliver a concise overview of Christianity in America. It is clear and concise indeed, but fails in its informative purpose on the side of accuracy. The entries are outdated and inaccurate, as I have had the opportunity to verify personally (i.e. at my own expenses). So, the information you glean from it, although concise and easily found, will not be sufficiently reliable to be be used with confidence. It is, in other words, a tool that promises to save you work in your research, but misleads you, creating double work for you instead: you still need to do your own research, but in addition you will also have to go back and correct yourself in what you stated on the basis of its entries. I would rather avoid it completely. A book of this nature is bound to be consulted not so much for the major trends in Christianity, but primarily for the lesser known branches of American Christianity... yet that's exactly where the dictionary is most lacking in accuracy.

This is a VERY difficult book to ingest. As you may notice, the authors decided, with this edition, to supplement their textbook with a Student CD, Online Net Tutor and S&P package to "assist" with this already challenging book.

Each chapter is roughly 36+ pages long plus 27 pages of chapter exercises/problems. The book is too wordy in "getting to the point" or too advance in their explanations for a "first time accounting student with no prior experience". The authors has COMPLETELY lost their focus to whom their target readers are.

If you want to fail your accounting course...stick to this 'reader-unfriendly' book as is. Otherwise, I suggest a real good study guide and supplement accompanying this "punishing read of a book".

Good luck!

This is a VERY difficult book to ingest. As you may notice, the authors decided, with this edition, to supplement their textbook with a Student CD, Online Net Tutor and S&P package to "assist" with this already challenging book.

Each chapter is roughly 36+ pages long plus 27 pages of chapter exercises/problems. The book is too wordy in "getting to the point" or too advance in their explanations for a "first time accounting student with no prior experience". The authors has COMPLETELY lost their focus to whom their target readers are.

If you want to fail your accounting course...stick to this 'reader-unfriendly' book as is. Otherwise, I suggest a real good study guide and supplement accompanying this "punishing read of a book".

Good luck!