Probably the only book of its kind. Required reading for anyone new to the real estate industry and probably worthwhile even for those who have been in it for a few years, this book provides a comprehensive look at the modern office building from both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints.

This book is jam packed with detailed analysis and synthesis of almost every facet of the office development process. The editor has assembled a package of 32 excellent contributions from experienced writers with backgrounds ranging from property appraisal, architecture, contracting, loan underwriting, and much more than can be listed here. When I first saw this book in the library I had to go out and get my own copy for continued reference purposes throughout my career.

The story, Red, White and Blue: The Story of the American Flag, is a well written and interesting book. It reveiles facts one would never find out. A smart buy for anyone wishing to learn more about our counries past.

Easy, punchy, informative reading about our nations #1 symbol! Beginning readers will love it!

James Houston, a noted glass designer (for Steuben) lived among the Eskimos as a civil servant for the Canadian government. He helped them organize coops for the distribution of their art. This book is about the sailors who are taken in by Eskimos after their ship sinks. It vividly contrasts the highly organized and friendly Eskimo society with the unruly and often cruel code of the European seafarer. Great reading from an author who knows! Also recommend his Spiritwrestler.

I read this book many years ago as a child on a recommendation from my father. He gave me his copy of the book before he died. The book's details on Inuit life and how it is affected by the inclusion of the sailors makes for great reading. This should be required reading in school and for any Sociology course.

White Fang and Call of the Wild are both excellent. I recommend reading them together, as they illustrate two opposite facets of a dillemma: the choice between the freedom of the wilderness and the comforts of a regulated existence. Call of the Wild is about a dog who leaves his owner to join a pack of wolves. White Fang is about a wolf who is tamed.

What I like best about these works is that London, unlike many authors writing about animals (especially in children's books), doesn't endow his animal characters with human thoughts and emotions. Rather, he tries to convey a truly animal psychology -- less complex than a human one, perhaps, but no less intense.

-Call of the Wild- This classic tale of a dog's life is one to be remembered forever. The main character Buck, a dog, must learn to live as a sled dog to survive. -White Fang- This book, also about a sled dog, is a classic story written by Jack London.

John W. Crowley deals competently with the historical shift in understandings of alcoholism, from the temperance-led view of moral deficit to the illness concept of the 'alcoholism movement'. Whilst covering some of the same ground as Tom Dardis' s seminal work 'The Thirsty Muse', this book nevertheless raises some interesting insights into the lost generation of American writers and their antecedents. Possibly it is most compelling where it considers the context of the era, as characterized by the collective post traumatic stress precipitated by the Great War and the unique restrictions of the Prohibition years. What Crowley adds to this well-worn ground is his linkage to socially constructed gender roles in turmoil - though his account is not unproblematic in its approach. 'The White Logic' usefully rehearses the prevalent psychoanalytic view of that time in discourses treating alcoholism as a dysfunction of repressed homosexuality. Indeed, Crowley almost alludes to male alcoholism as a 'feminised' or emasculated space. He also highlights the extremes socially allocated the female drinker, the either/or paradigms of (un-sexed) lesbian or (over-sexed) slut. Rather than developing this aspect of the argument farther, the book falls foul of its own trap in its inclusion of only one female writer - Djuna Barnes - arguably selected as representative of both these polarities.

'Drunk narratives' by WD Howells, Jack London and John O'Hara - plus the obligatory Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald works - are deftly utilized. The author's selection of texts does appear to hamper a fruitful line of inquiry into the rise and drink-related decline of each individual writer's creativity. O'Hara's 'Appointment at Samarra', for example, is a first novel, whilst 'Tender is the Night' is a later work from an established writer in the grip of his addiction and already on a creative downward spiral. The most commendable chapter is chronologically the last. Crowley's method of inflecting literary text with biographical context is at its best here in his examination of Charles Jackson's 'The Lost Weekend'. It marks the ascendance of the 'illness concept' which still remains dominant, largely due to the medicalization of alcoholism and the prevalence of Alcoholics Anonymous, post World War II. Crowley also traces the increasing willingness of Hollywood to engage with narratives promoting alcoholism-as-illness. This is a strategy which of course accelerates after the successful transition of Jackson's novel to screen in 1945 - but with its ending changed to accommodate Hollywood's appetite for upbeat resolution.

Overall, 'The White Logic' is a comprehensive survey - perceptive and accessibly written. It runs the risk though of leaving the reader with a somewhat reductive impression - distilling modernism itself to a privileged class monologue, in the spuriously heroic pursuit of absolution through dissolution.

John Crowley's study of alcohol and gender in Modernist fiction is, I think, the most aware of the numerous books which are considered fundamental reading in this field. Where Tom Dardis' _The Thirsty Muse_ is too limited in its scope and completely fails to acknowledge the arean of gender within the context of alcohol and addiction, Crowley's scholarship takes the woman alcoholic into consideration, by including a chapter on Djuna Barnes. Too, some of the other texts within this area, like Gilmore's _Equivocal Spirits_, Newlove's _Those Drinking Days_, and Goowin's _Alcohol and the Wirter_ fail in their attempts to provide a comprehensive or inclusive anaolysis of the ways that alcohol has functioned in the lives and the works of twentieth century writers.

Certainly, Crowley's addressing of gender within this field is not unproblematic. Providing Djuna Barnes as a mere foil to his dicussion of the masculinity and homosociality he discusses London, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald seems dismissive of the important issues women's writing and women's alcoholism provoke. Nonetheless, Crowleys seems light years ahead of the predecessors.

The book itself is easy reading, his prose style critical and literary critic-esque enough to garner professional respect while still remaining lively and interesting and non sleep-inducing.

This book is the equivalent of a two-hundred-plus page poem, for the text is wistful, metaphorical and languid. Other than how beautifully it is written, the gnarled, diminutive plot takes suspension of disbelief to swallow all the circumstances and events following the climax.

White Oleander, put simply, is the coming-of-age tale of a young girl separated from her mother by imprisonment for a hideous crime, and the tribulations she must endure to find her crumbling identity in a corrupt society. Though the book is lyrical and rhythmic in its amorous decree, the tale is heart-breaking and morose with its many tragedies and unrelenting focus on the struggle to survive in a cruel world.

It all begins with a lover scorned, Ingrid Magnussen, a meditative, sharp-tongued poet with a touch of evil lurking in the pit of her stomach. She is enamored by the most unlikely of men and becomes passionate towards his nature, oblivious to the fact that she is not the only woman in his life. When she discovers her boyfriend's random activities, she concocts a deadly poison derived from the very title of the novel while her daughter Astrid (the main character) looks on in quiet contemplation. Soon after her lover's death, she is promptly arrested and sent to prison, leaving Astrid a helpless orphan without the vaguest conception of the consequences of her mother's actions.

From this point, Astrid is moved to and from three different foster residences, each one leaving more tragedy behind than the previous home. She is scarred for life by the bullet of a jealous lover, marred by a crazed canine, captivated by the lifestyle of a neighborly prostitute and gains a sense of control over the hypnotic power her mother casts in the poisoning letters she recurrently writes from the confinements of her cell.

I do not give four stars for the unbelievably outlandish plot, but simply for the bravery of Janet Fitch for a first novel with this context and the intelligence and imagination incorporated into her writing. May she be just as creative and triumphant with her second piece, and may we bless her with a five-star rating when it hits the shelves of Barnes and Noble, B. Dalton et.al worldwide.

Opening this book was like opening the door to an unknown soul; full of misery and mistrust. Fitch tells a heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, and thought-provoking tail of girl forced to grow up too fast. "The future was a white fog into which I would vanish, unmarked by the flourish of a rustling taffeta blue and gold. No mother to guide me." In reading this and the myriad of other poetic metaphors filling this book, chills shot down my spine. As I read, Fitch's words seeped through me like the poison of oleanders; affecting and intertwining her characters unpredictably. Her investigations of a vulnerable youth's reality lead me to question my own environment, and to discover more efficient ways to approach imperfections. And her vast exploration of the human heart and mind was both informative and beautiful. With her artful and detailed writing style, her story never failed to intrigue and entertain me. I must say that White Oleander was in every possible aspect one of the best books I have ever read.

I don't wait with baited breath for Oprah to tell me what book to buy next. But, after hearing her proclaim "White Oleander" the best book she's ever read, you know I was mentally forced to get it. I'm so glad I did. Janet Fitch is a wonderful author-her use of similes and metaphors is amazing. We have Ingrid, a narcisstic, over-the-top mother whose daughter, Astrid, worships her and hangs on her every word. Unfortunately, Ingrid feels the defenition of being a mother stopped at actually pushing her baby out, because Astrid is pretty much cast to the four winds. The only wisdom this so-called "mom" is interested in imparting to her precious daughter is in the form of poetry and prose-like speech- "never let a man stay the night; dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic". Excuse me? After Ingrid is arrested and charged with poisoning her lover (using the poisonous white oleander flowers that grow everywhere around them); Astrid is shuttled from one bogus foster home to another. She is shot at, gets mauled by a pit bull, kept in a home where the refridgerator is padlocked and the girls practically starve, and is forced to sell clothes for the foster "mom" in one house. Where's the beauty of the novel?, you may ask. Unbelievably, Astrid manages to find at least one piece of beauty and/or wisdom in each home she stays at and that, eventually, will educate and shape the woman she is to become. Ingrid writes to her from prison, telling her not to complain about her foster homes. "If they're not beating you, consider yourself lucky", she writes. Hmmmph. I found myself wishing they'd have given this selfish woman the chair. If the storyline doesn't sell you, believe me, Janet Fitch's fabulous writing will. Defenitely a book you'll want on your shelf for years to come.

If you simply want a few raise-your-eyebrows stories about WH occupants, order this one. If you care about historical accuracy and context, forget it. The myriad misspelled names and often creatively edited/paraphrased quotations are the first big clue that these authors took the path of least resistance (how hard is it for a self-professed history teacher and an alleged professional journalist to check these simple and very important facts?). The heavy reliance on only a few sources--some of them completely unattributed and others, like Ronald Kessler's Inside the White House, entirely questionable--is the second.

Certainly, most readers won't care that much about these flaws. If you're more interested in storytelling than history, this is a decent collection of cotton-candy gossip about presidents and their families. But history fans looking for a competently executed and engagingly written account of White House private life will still do better to check out the work of the wonderful William Seale, among other writers. Though it's written by self-described professionals, Real Life at the White House is amateur hour.

Real Life at the White House not only compiles into one fascinating book the history of the house itself, but some serious insight into the office of President, the types of men who have found themselves in the position, and how it changed them for better - or worse. It is amazing what we DIDN'T know about Ike, about Kennedy and about Reagan. Some of it is downright scary! While it is reassuring to know we have managed to stumble along as a nation because of, sometimes in spite of, the people who have held this high office, one is often reminded also that "absolute power corrupts absolutely", whether it is the President, his spouse, or the chief housekeeper.

This book is dangerous. Were it the U. S. History highschool textbook, every student would become a history major. Or sociology. What a delicious insight into forty-two families, their joys and sorrows, idiosyncrasies and foibles, and their forty-two different relationships with this old house. John collects tasty historical tidbits with the appetite of a black hole. Claire kneads them into irresistible prows like Bonbons of chewy fact. More danger - you can't put the book down! Real Life in the White House provides a surprisingly pleasant review of U. S. history with a lot of interesting occurrences you'll want to remember and share.

This book may be an adaquate study guide for preparing for Exam 70-068, but I don't think it's an excellent one. You'd need use Exam Cram or Transcender exams to get an idea of how the questions would look like in the real test because the Exam Questions at the end of each chapter in this book are too weak and too few.

The contents are not very well organized and some errors are presented in an authorative tone that they are not easy to spot if you don't try it out. Try its comments on the "Forcibly disconnnect remote users ..." option in Account Policy.

I read Sybex (stay away from them) and Dennis Maione's books on Server and Workstation as supplements to Microsoft ILT. Maione's books are an excellent source for a comprehensive knowledge of NT (not just for the sake of passing the test). Though suffering from the same type of Exam Questions, they are very insightful and tell more about "why" rather than "just-do-this-and-don't-ask-why" (which is the impression I got from the labs in MS MOC). In contrast, the chapter on network monitoring in this book is just like repeating what Microsoft says in its Training Kit on the subject (and without the sample exercises in Training Kit). The author's lack of insights, or unwillingness to share them, on the subject are shown in the absence of those Exam Tip and Warning boxes in the margin. However, at least, this is the only study guide I used that covers the subject, which is not a favorite of the real exam but is something that you could be tested on. I had a question on analyzing a sample frame in the real exam.

One reason I use the study guides is to see what insights an author can share with you drawing on his/her experience and expertise and to obtain a perspective different from Microsoft. I don't benefit much this way from this book, although it does cover what you need to study for the exam.

Just finished prepping for the NT Server 4.0 Exam using this book as the main study guide. Very well laid out with good use of text/colors, very typical of the New Riders Next Generation Study guides. Exam covers a VERY broad range of info and the book does a good job of covering it all. The author is very knowledgable and brings his practical experience to the book. My only complaint is the low number of study questions in each chapter. Recommend adding the Exam Cram book for those study questions. Also would not recommend the MS Press study kits, they are not worth the $$$ (unless you need the 30 day eval. software) and it helps to have a non-Microsoft point of view...

This book is well written, making it easy to read and understand. The content layout is also well done, making it easy to see exactly what is required to know for each exam objective. There is some small detailed information missing but I found that the practice tests identified this information to you anyway, so overall the content is adequate (the Sybex books I'm using, also have information missing). I did notice questions in the real exam relating to previous exams, so I would recommend doing the subjects in the following order: Networking Essentials, NT Workstation4, NT Server4, NT Server4:Enterprise. I found the practice exams to be an invaluable aid for studying for the exam and they are similar to the real exam. I used the Sybex books for my elective subjects, and found them to be very poorly written. The Sybex books were not easy to read and understand and the content was layed out in a poor way, making them hard to identify information for each exam objective.

This is a pretty twisted book,which blends a kaleidescopic array of mathematical concepts with surreal and enigmatic situations and inncidents.There's some really colourful writing here,and it's very impressive the way Rucker brings to life the various chaos and infinity theorems.VERY out-there cybermetaphysipunk!!

I read "White Light" when it first came out in 1980. I liked it so much I lent it to a friend, and of course never saw it again. Rudy Rucker has a masterpiece here, as far as I am concerned. He deals with infinity in a very interesting fashion, and makes it entertaining to us average types. Rudy Rucker deals with the soul; and the concepts of heaven and hell are approached in a very strange fashion. White Light refers to the melding of the soul with God, The Absolute, or Infinite, and in a sense, with the loss of one's ego and sense of self. While being irreverent, Rucker, a professor of mathematics at San Jose State, has very seriously written about the concept of mathematical infinity and with the absolute brain busting theory of infinity plus one. This is a novel, and you travel to the afterlife with Felix Rayman and, almost like Odysseus, embark on a journey of discovery. You will experience what it would be like to be in a place where you can change body shape, defy gravity, meet weird creatures, and deal with the infinite and eternal. But all is not groovy. You and your guide, Felix Rayman, encounter many frustrations and even sinister spirits now incorporated into bodies and who inhabit a strange place reminiscent of an R. Crumb landscape. Prepare yourself for a wild ride with "White Light". Oh, I ordered 2 copies this time, in case my loaner copy goes astray.

I read a few other titles by Rucker (The Hacker and the Ants, The 'ware series -- All reccommended by me, if that means anything to ya) and I thought I'd bite the bullet and spend the 12 bucks for the flashy cover and nice paper.. It was worth it. I've always been an enthusiast in infinite and chaotic math and found this book to be both informative and a hell of a lot of fun. Definately pick up a copy now and hold onto it (never know when these classics'll go out of print).

This book was a really good story but if you're a hard out terror fan this isn't the book for you.I enjoyed the book but I love most of Sweet Valley University.
What happens is deadly William White returns from the dead and is scarred over one side of his body.Elizabeth encounters him on the quad and at first she's really terrified of him.But gradually she starts to believe he really has changed.It doesn't help that her boyfriend,Tom Watts,is being a total jerk.But William hasn't changed that much as Elizabeth finds out.
The back of this book is slightly misleading but I won't tell you why.All I'll say is because the author only mentions a tiny bit about the''torture he's going to put her through.''I'm so,so,so sorry if this wrecked it for anyone.
The reasons why some will not like this book
-It is pretty slow moving and isn't actually that terrifying.
-This is the second time William has 'risen' from the dead and it's not that realistic.

But is a good read.It won't take long if you're a good reader.Give it a try even if it's not that spooky.
Happy reading.

To tell you the truth, I thought Deadly Terror would be no better than Cyberstalker. I expected it to drone on about Liz's virtual hallucinations (can you say yawn?) I absolutely despised Cyberstalker, quickly placing it on top of my Worst SVU Books Ever Written list. However, the continuation, Deadly Terror, completely made up for it. Once I finally let the fact that William White was actually alive sink in, the book graced me with a sense of fulfillment that I could not have enjoyed from Cyberstalker. It was full of surprises and subtle comedic quirks. I sometimes found myself laughing out loud as I eagerly turned the pages. Shockingly, I found myself growing more and more intrigued by the changed William White. I was impressed by his character, and, shamefully, I was secretly rooting he and Liz on. Naturally, those thoughts ceased nearing the end of the book. Towards the end there were many twists and turns that would stumble any reader. Overall,if Cyberstalker made you lose your lunch, don't worry. Deadly Terror more than makes up for it, guaranteed.

This book: the newest in the SVU category, has captured my in my thoughts about a young man't insanity about another woman he loves. The story is about a man named William White, who was in a fatal car crash, with Elizabeth Wakefield. IT is a good mystery, but I cannot tell you what happens for it will ruin it, now won't it?