This book should have been a classic introduction to musical acoustics. Instead, it tries to hard, is convoluted, often in error, and confuses musicians.

When I taught from this book, I and the class found errors in equations, references to equations, and calculations. When undergraduates are struggling to learn, this is a very bad context.

The book is so concerned with a level of comprehensiveness, that measured clarity is left out. At the same time, for the expert, it is too little. Therefore, it appeals to neither the introductory level nor the more advanced level.

I gave up using this book.

I have used this book as the primary textbook for an introductory course in the physics of music. It is at a somewhat higher level than some of its competitors (e.g. "The Acoustical Foundations of Music" by Backus) but still suitable for non-science majors with weak math backgrounds. It is the most thorough and informative book I have seen at this level. However, the students complained that it was somewhat dull. Also, the section on electronic reproduction of music is out of date--relatively little on CD's etc., and nothing on mp3 and related technologies. Still, I plan to use it again.

I have taught a course entitled "Acoustics for Musicians and Recording Engineers" to Engineering, Music, and Film majors using Rossing's THE SCIENCE OF SOUND. He has toned down the equations enough that the students aren't groaning, yet he's remained true to the interdisciplinary nature of acoustics as a pursuit of physics, psychology, math, and engineering. The structure of the book provides a wonderful outline for the course and it has been an invaluable resource for both me and the students who have wished to continue with their study of acoustics.

A good book to have on the shelf- will stimulate the thinking of intermediate level Access developers onto greater things.

Nice chapters dedicated to using Access 2002 as a front end to SQL Server and Oracle. If you are planning to do that, by all means this book is a great guide. Also, the first couple of chapters about application development are great for those developers who must spend as much time in the corporate board room pitching their ideas to computer illiterate bosses as they do with actual programming.

BUT: In several places in the book, the authors make reference to the 'CD included with the book.' Well guess what? There is none, but if you want to learn about and use Active X controls through the use of working examples, you will have to look elsewhere.

Most painful is that the authors tantalize you with nice definitions and screenshots of ActiveX controls, and then tell the readers that they should "See this chapter's application on the book's CD-ROM for code examples." ARG! No examples makes learning this stuff really tough!

If you don't care about Active X, or already know your stuff, then you won't be missing anything. Presumably though, you are purchasing this book precisly BECAUSE you want to learn this stuff. The lack of CD hurts especially when the authors omitted printed details from the book, fully expecting those details to appear in CD form.

I don't fault the authors. I fault Sams Publishing. On the bright side, the lack of Active X examples is the only major sore part in this otherwise useful intermediate guide.

The first 100 pages where realy great for all kind of developers.
It's not just for Access people.
Missing the CD and there are some copying from the 2000 version.
Still an importent book

This Book contains the many beautiful Collects composed by Thomas Cranmer in their original form from the the First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) for each Sunday and Holy Day in the year. Each Collect has an interesting historical note appended to it, detailing changes which have taken place at subsequent revisions such as 1552 and 1662, together with a most useful meditation.

I heartily commend this excellent book to all traditional Anglicans and Christian people of goodwill. Attractively bound and presented it is an ideal gift for a Confirmation or birthday - or as a Christmas present.

If you would rather go to a performance of Shakespeare than one of the World Wrestling Federation; if you would rather listen to Beethoven than Metallica; if you would rather watch a film directed by DeMille than Waters; if you would rather pray to God with a sense of awe and humility than with the never-ending "praise" that is all the rage; if you have been uneffected by the "dumbing-down" of the English language; then you should aquire this small book and consider joining the "praise" for the beauty within.

Collects are "collective prayers" used in Anglican (Episcopal) church services to set the tone for the service to follow, and as a transitional device to bring the whole congregation (with many diverse thoughts and needs) together so that the service may proceed with focus.

This set of collective prayers is organized into weekly readings following the Protestant Kalendar. However, you don't have to be Anglican to appreciate the absolute miraculous beauty and immense thought put into these prayers by Thomas Cranmer when they were written approximately 450 years ago at the time of Elizabeth I.

The book is printed on beautiful ivory paper in a very nice type font, with violet colored woodcut letters beginning at the top of each page. The price is VERY reasonable for such a nice book as this.

Critics in this "me, myself and I" generation would say that the tone of the language used by Cranmer is uneccessarily penitential and instills in people too much feeling of guilt. They don't stop to consider that if a person has reason to feel guilty...than perhaps feeling guilty would be somewhat beneficial. Does God forgive those who don't REALLY believe that they have sinned? Some day, all of us will find out!

If you love the English language, and feel gratitude for all that God has done for you, then I think you'll agree that Cranmer's genius for talking to God with a profound sense of humility is refreshing today.

This book was one of the worst psychology books I've read. It has a very...Ameri-centric view of psychology, and the author tells horrible anecdotes and even has his baby pictures in the book. Have fun with this one in class, kids.

This textbook is a broad introduction to the various lines of research and theory comprising the modern field of psychology. Besides being readable, the novel approach to study exercises, such as "Interactivities," (Exercises relating to the Internet) make the text a valuable resource.

I really didn't like it. I'm a newbie & I didn't find key concepts or advices for planning or installing NT (unleashed?!), but things I could see by myself. Sorry.

This book was helpful to me in providing support to our end users while upgrading our department to windows NT workgroups 4.0 (from win 98). This book would be best for someone already familiar with windows (win 95 or 98) and now needs workstation. Chapters are divided into readible text for theory and background and then sections with step by step instructions for configuring various aspects of the OS. There is a good balance between theory and very practicle information. This book will probably not be very helpful to a very experienced network engineer. It is also a little out of date, we used service pack 6 and it was not included.

This book will not boar you with introductory lessons on how to use wordpad and other utilities you learned with Windows 95. This book jumps right in and explains how the architecture of NT differs from windows. Very readable

This book talks in general about everything! NT Domains, TCP/IP, Networking, and so on. I kept looking for information on IIS and was hard pressed to find it. If you are looking for a book ABOUT IIS, and not Everthing about Windows NT, then look elsewhere...

This book is one of my favorite references. I don't think that any book could contain everything you need to know about IIS, but this one comes close. I found that it provides great security coverage. The usage information is also easy to understand. About the only area that's completely lacking is performance tuning information. I'd also like to see how to create complex Web site setups (this book seems to concentrate on sites of simple or moderate complexity). The author is also very friendly and helped me with questions I had in some areas of the book.

This book solved problems I was having with configuring IIS 4.0 for months. It clearly talks about security and how to setup a web site from the ground up. It also talks about FTP access and how to protect areas of your server while giving access to the correct users. Excellent!

Of all the books I've read related to Thomas Merton this is positively the worst. It is all written on conjecture and reads like a tabolid in a supermarket. It is not only an insult and attack on Thomas Merton personaly but also on everything that he held sacred and gave his life to with his honesty and his willingness to share his search.

Paul Hourihan's novel was a waste of my time. He obviously doesn't admire Merton. According to Hourihan, Merton was a total failure as a man and as a monk. Why? Because Merton failed to embrace India. He also failed because he remained a faithful Catholic. He failed because he remained a priest. (Hourihan sounds like an angry former Catholic who has embraced the East which possesses all answers to the world's problems.)
Merton didn't reject the East; he sought synthesis of East and West. And I think he may indeed have found it for himself. No doubt about it, if Merton had become a Buddhist or a follower of the Dalai Llama, Hourihan would have canonized him.
This is not a book for people who view Merton as a spiritual master. It's a mean-spirited swipe at everything Merton stood for.

I found this to be a complete waste of time and money. The book was neither scholarly nor thought-provoking. Nor was there any meaningful attempt to develop any particular premise. The impression I got was that the author felt that he could insure a wider audience by suggesting that he had some new insight on the circumstances of Merton's death. He doesn't. My impression at least was that the book is not even fundamentally 'about' Merton. Rather it is paragraph after paragraph of the author's view of his own self-evaluated "profundity" relative to eastern thought, with brief references to events from Merton's last week inserted here and there. There is also a strong, albeit never explained element of what comes through as personal bitterness toward Merton (or perhaps Merton's reputation) by the author
which raises the question as to what the purpose was of the book
to begin with.

There are all kinds of interesting perspectives on the personal and spiritual complexities of Thomas Merton - Ed Rice's "The Man under the Sycamore Tree" written in the 60's (now out of print), Mott's definitive biography "The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton", the delightful Shannon book "Silent Lamp", Merton's own personal journals. Don't waste your time with this one.

The book cover states that the book is lavishly illustrated; the cover is but not the book. It is not up to Yale standards.The photographs are small and blurry, often the colors are incorrect.Please wait for a good Catalogue Raisonne. As for the text, so many years of good research wasted. The text is ponderous, poorly written with endless sentences full of quotes and inserts.The author is critical , judgemental and constantly makes assumptions or gives personal and mostly unsubstanciated opinions. It is another book for Art History students (the author is an Art History teacher) not for lovers of paintings. I returned the book to Amazon.

Both the serious art scholar and the general reader will appreciate this visual and textual treat of a book which is truly "The Art of Thomas Gainsborough." Many of the plates I had not seen reproduced in previous books on Gainsborough, and Rosenthal's view of Gainsborough, that he was much more serious an artist and business man than he or his contemporaries saw him. I first went through this book, feasting my eyes on all the plates(most of which are in color and beautifully reproduced), which are roughly divided between Gainsborough's portraits, which he painted to meet market demand and pay the bills and his landscapes which he painted for pleasure. Rosenthal's plates also include details from certain paintings, so that the reader can study Gainsborough's brushwork and see clearly why much of his work suffers when hung from the wrong height or is viewed too close to.

While this book is roughly chronological, it is not a biography of Gainsborough, it is a biography of his work. Rosenthal traces Gainsborough's art from his beginings in Sudbury, his training and apprenticeship, early work in London, move to Bath as a better market to make money and perfect his skill as a portrait painter, and final move to London, resulting in his popularity as a portrait painter, establishment as a painter-courtier to the Royal Family and unofficial portraitist to members of the same,the near annual battles with the hanging commitee of the Royal Academy on the proper hanging of his submitted works, which led to his breaking with the academy as a member, his failures to sell many of his beloved landscape paintings, and his first serious attempt to create a historical painting in the final months of his life.

Original to this work on Gainsborough is the central theme that Gainsborough, like his fellow English artists, had to paint to the market demands, which in England meant portraits sold, while landscapes and history paintings generally did not. That meant pleasing the clientele without "selling out," something Gainsborough found sometimes difficult to do. Artists also painted differently, often using brighter colors and altering the paintings afterwards, to get their work noticed at the annual Royal Academy exibitions. Rosenthal includes illustrations of these overcrowded exibitions(both in paintings exibited hung floor to ceiling, and the crowds of people viewing them)to give the reader an idea of why Gainsborough and other artists were often unhappy with the hanging committees decisions on where their paintings were hung.

Most fascinating is the chapter "Faces and Lives" where Rosenthal compares and contrasts not only Gainsborough's multiple portraits of the same subject, but also with portraits of the same subject done by his rival, and President of the Royal Academy, Sir Josah Reynolds. Reynold's more often painted his sitters in a historic style with the sitters' faces sometimes altered so that acquintances didn't recognize them while Gainsborough's sitters were easily recognizable, if flattered. The prime example of this differences between the two painters are their portraits, of the actress Sarah Siddons, reproduced side by side in the book. Reynolds painted her as the "Tragic Muse", on a throne-like chair, clad in classical draperies. Gainsborough's slightly later portrait depicted her perched on a dainty French chair, dressed in the latest fashion, gazing off into space(contemplating her newest role, perhaps?)with the only clue to her career, a crimson curtain draped as background.

I was inspired by the compilation of bird dog stories found within this book. If you enjoy the excitement, fear, despair, and elation associated with the training, ownership and running of all breeds of bird dogs, you will enjoy this book. The authors help you relive the moments you have endured with your own dogs in addition to helping you imagine the hunts you have yet to experience. This is a definite must read for bird dog enthusiasts.

I borrowed this book from a friend and had a tough time putting it down. Great stories from writers who truly love their dogs. A few of the essays are sad, but all of them allow us to share a part of a fellow dog lovers life with his best friend. Definitely a must read.

Simply put, this was a very boring book. It is so small that it does not have time to get invovled with the subject which it claims to cover. Nice try, but it is a waste of money!

An awe inspiring collection of the true stories of the mormon pioneers on their journey of faith to the Salt Lake Valley. The author does an incredible job of allowing the histories to speak for themselves.