Extremely helpful even to a complete phobe like me. I had never found a book that I could actually sit down and read until this one.

Omigod. Someone finally wrote a computer book that isn't 8000 pages long. It's like the first 100 pages missing from every other computer book. Highly recommended for everyone that really wants to start at the very very beginning. I loved it, and I have to guard my copy with my life. Get your own!

This book explains everything in language we can understand. It starts with taking the computer out of the box and even shows you where the plugs go. It's a great tool for people who have a phobia against computers. It is so simple even my grandaughter could understand it.

This book is very readable and to the point. It provides a good introduction to the uninformed and causes those that think they understand it to reevaluate. He exposes the financial/political motives underlying much of the Y2K hype. Those that know the real severity of the problem are also those that benefit financially by it's being perceived as a BIG problem. I wish this book had been written 2 years ago, before so many were scared by the extremist books.

It's a quick read that debunks the whole Y2K "problem." This book tells the real story.

This book gave me the background I needed to learn why there is a computer scare and it also told me what is being done about it. I learned who really benefits from the panic, who is creating it and why it's not the problem everyone thinks it is. Good job Alan.

"Exhibiting Contradictions" is a terrific collection. It may well be unique in its field, moreover, for containing NO academic jargon. No sites are contested, no subject positions are occupied. Amazing! The clear writing makes it an excellent book both for specialists and for those with a general interest in art and art history, the changing role of museums, and the quote-unquote politicization of art. My favorite essays was the one on the exhibit of Art about the American West at the Smithsonian a few years ago, which caused such a huge flap because it challenged the myth of the Romance of the West. I also was fascinated by the essay on plaster-cast museums, a now forgotten institution of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century. But the whole collection is very satisfying, full of ideas and knowledge. Wallach has very interesting things to say about the role of the museum in contemporary life -- part shopping mall, part leisure-time scene , part--still! -- otherworldly repository of the Timeless and Eternal.