Wallace's translation of Hegel's "Encyclopaedia Logic" is terrible. Buy the newer--and much more faithful--translation by Gereats, Suchting and Harris, available through Hackett Publishing Company.

Anyone interested in buying a copy of the so-called 'Lesser Logic" would be better off getting a copy of the newer translation by Harris etc.

This is the book Aleister Crowley mentions to be studied in " Liber OS ABYSMI vel DAATH." Via the reason, this man has gathered all systems of philosophy together into one gigantic fulfilment of bewilderment: if one actually contemplates what he means, one will just cause a destruction of the precepts which had accumulated to the point of fervour, thus causing one to feel worse after experiencing this annihilating tragedy of a text-book. Still, there must be some sort of sufficient synthesis inherent in the reading, as to cause a fantastic foam of brewing thoughts in the reflection mode of the Memory phase of the Mind, utterly beyond mere positive thinking.

Have enjoyed all of the Harrington Columbo's. Great for plane trips or even motel nights while on a Road Trip. This one pleased as always, but I found the shoddy research bothersome. No one in Southern California heats their home with oil and to find a block of up-scale private homes on West Santa Monica Boulevard (let alone be able to close the street because of a bomb) is really a stretch. Outside of that enjoyed the book and the references to previous Columbo books. Hope the series continues (with tighter research).

This was a pretty good Columbo story. The characters were interesting and the story was well told. The only problems i had with the book was 1) it was too short 2) the killer was way too obvious (even Columbo should have figured it out by page 50!). Still, this book is a great way to spend an afternoon

This was a good, but predictable, Columbo story. I just wish they wouldn't tell who did it and why right up front. Would be more fun to try to figure it out right along with Columbo.

Instead of the traditional life cycle, or "waterfall" approach to development, the Zachman framework presents architecture for organizing the perspective of the planner, owner, builder, designer and programming subcontractor. Traditionally we may be very good at thinking about data and function, but Zachman adds the dimensions of network, organization, schedule and motivation. Laying out these perspectives in a matrix allows the different roles to communicate better.

In the framework matrix, for some combination of perspectives there are tools available, but for many there are not, so the methodology is uneven. The framework presents an organization of metadata associated with organizing the artifacts or a project, particularly emphasizing the important of metadata about people, location, and motivation.

If your are looking for a warehouse design/blue print book, addressing data staging or star schemas then this book is not the best for you, but if you are looking for a book that offers a means of communicating between the data roles and stresses the need for guiding principles this book would be useful.

This is a useful book that I have bought multiple copies of over the years and given to users and technical teams. The Zachman framework is an ideal way to represent views of systems that are useful for the various stakeholders, from business leaders to the technical staff. The book explains the various views in the framework completely and in plain English, useful for talking outside the IS shop and selling concepts. The value of this book is in how solidly it reinforces the critical nature of data and importance of good data management, even beyond the warehousing level.

The foreword talks of this book as one of the great books of our time on IS architecture and knowledge management and the book lives up to being just that. Expand your mind . Read this book . A must read for all those working on Decision support systems and Knowledge management.

I was very surprised when I ordered this book and found out that yes, indeed, it was merely a very tiny portion of what I had expected. I suppose I should have known from the price, but the description (at least at that time) did not make it clear that it wasn't the entire dictionary.

While this may be a very thorough source for the words it covers, it should be noted in the basic information that this is ONLY 128 pages of a 15,000 page work. The description above is very misleading.

itz a dictionary. what more can i say

I was subjected to this book as a requirment for an Engineering Management masters degree course. I've seen a lot of textbooks in 7 years of college, but this one has got to be the most frustrating! There are MANY typos, not just mispellings - but problems done incorrectly. Also, many of the chapters are taken from other text, so there's not a good flow to the book. You'll probably only buy this book as a requirement for a class, but beware!!!

We were required to buy this textbook for our Engineering Economics class at UT-Austin. I found this book helpful as an introduction to business. It gave us quite a number of examples and review questions to help us understand the major concepts. Even though the book may have contained a little too much information, I really liked it since I learnt a lot from it.

Book was just your basic run of the mill kind. Nothing special about i

Geoffrey Matthews' and Byron Moldofsky's beautiful cartography is destroyed by the greatest error an atlas publisher can make--spreading the maps across two pages. The results are not just ugly; some information is lost in the crack.