This textbook is a mess! Certain sections such as those that deal with classical transmission genetics are reasonably good. On the other hand, those sections that deal with recombinant DNA/genomic technology and the molecular basis of cancer are very weak. The writing in these sections is convoluted, and the level of coverage fluctuates wildly between oversimplification and mind-numbing detail. The book does not seem to have a clear target audience in mind, and the authors appear to have not spoken with each other during the writing. Considering the relative strengths of their earlier text, "Introduction to Genetic Analysis," this new effort is all the more disappointing.

Genetics has traditionally been taught with the topics in historical order, starting with Mendel and only later reaching molecular genetics. However, it is much more logical to explain Mendelian genetics in the context of molecular genetics. (No other science abandons a logical building-up of concepts in return for historical chronology!) Griffiths and colleagues are the first to write a text with this preferable and long-overdue approach. Their overall organization is the best that I've seen. While many of the chapters are very well written, there are some parts of the book that are substandard and hopelessly jumbled, such as the chapter on mutational mechanisms and DNA repair. As this is a first edition, I am optimistic that these problems will be ironed out in the second edition. Another criticism is that the figures are adequate but not outstanding; the artists should take lessons from their colleagues who worked on Genetics: From Genes to Genomes by Hartwell and colleagues. Despite its drawbacks, I prefer this text to others that are available.

I'm very impressed with the excercises in the end of every chapter. The excercises are fun and not too difficult.
The material is very well illustrated. Again, good work .

I understand that it's difficult for the Christian community to face the fact that hundreds of thousands of them convert to Islam... but please understand that there is a reason for it. Anyone who researches Islam and learns about the true religion will see the light. This is what such book hope to deter... they hope to keep christians from learning about Islam and to encourage hate. Muslims and Christians are both people of the book, both children of Abraham, both believers in One God. Why do Muslims face such a crusade of hate from Christians as appears in this book?

Knowing and liking this book, I was sad to hear the two earlier reviews from Muslims, which were very anti- this Christian book. No Muslim of course will be able to accept this book, neither will the Christian author agree with the religious views of the two reviewers.

Despite many similarities, Christianity and Islam are not compatible. It is unfashionable to stand up and say "My God is the only true God". But both religions claim this, and therein lies the incompatibility. And so too, surely a Muslim will never like what is said in this book.

I have lived in a Muslim country and found many Mulsim friends, but have had to disagree with them about our faith. I have never made the mistake of seeing all Muslims as the same, it's sad to see Christians as one indistinguishable mass as do the reviewers.

This book is useful in facing the difficulties of being a Christian where it is against the law to speak out about one's faith to Muslims. But it helps by showing the common points as well as where we differ, and this is where many conversations between the faiths can at least have a measure of agreement.

But it is a Christian book with the aim of teaching the word of God. Only by ignoring his stated purpose could the author hope to win the praise of the reviewers.

I found this rather small text to be very big on insights. Having read a number of other texts on Islam (which were more academic), I found this particular brief to be rather refreshing. Written by a missionary who spent 43 years ministering to the Muslim people of Iran, it comes across with a genuine love and respect which only a person who actually lived amongst the Muslim people of Iran, could convey. It is absolutely NOT vindictive. Nor is it in the slightest disrespectful to the Islamic faith. It IS however, honest and forthright. The author is often times found sharing his personal experiences. These include conversations with his Muslim neighbors and aquaintances (some of whom converted to Christianity, some of whom did not), which was very insightful. For it was through these talks (many of which were initiated by his Muslim friends) that he alerts us to the confusion which too often exists amongst Islamic people about true, Biblical Christianity. A small book -- a small price to pay for some very GOOD information.

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

Superficial at best, this book is not worth the entry fee. Unless you have a burning desire to sample the writing style of the famous Ms. Weinman's sibling or learn how to use Sausage Software Java utilities, look elsewhere

I can't believe this book is out of print now! Rarely do you find the expertise and clear writing that is found here. I found it easy to read, easy to follow, and brimming with information.

If you are able to get your hands on this book, it's definitely worth your time. If nothing else, as an example of coding whiz Ms. Brown's fine editorial efforts.

This book provided some helpful hints and useful lists. But, the practice tests were extremely difficult and somewhat arcane. I used it as a backup book to help me prepare.

The 5th Edition of "Business Law Today, The Essentials" is a slightly pared down, paper-bound version of the authors' hard back college text "Business Law Today, - Text and Summarized Cases, Legal, Ethical, Regulatory and International Environment."

SUMMARY. The book fills the bill as a "Readers Digest" reference work on general legal principles. But, it is too broad in its treatment to be a reliable resource for comprehensive instructional purposes.

BASIS. This reviewer is an attorney with over 25 years experience teaching business law. The writer uses the 5th edition of this work, and used the 2d, 3d and 4th editions of the text, as a required instructional resource in accordance with directions from academic administrators.

POSITIVE ASPECTS.

- The 5th edition of "Business Law Today, The Essentials" is well written and very readable. The presentation is visually attractive.

- It includes new material on the up-to-date issues created by e-commerce and cyber law.

- There are excellent chapter summaries highlighting, in outline form, the major topics covered in the chapter.

- There are numerous marginal references to Web sites and sources for additional help and information.

CONCERNS.

- Content appears to have been sacrificed for aesthetic white space & wide margins. This has been a continuing trend. With each "new edition" there has been less and less textual material. Major legal concepts are given a short treatment of only a sentence or two. However, the interesting and provocative discussion questions at the end of the chapters raise issues which, if they have been addressed by the courts, cannot be correctly resolved based on the information in the text. The result is students have a misconception as to how a principle works or how the majority of courts might rule. When missing information is added by the instructor, student reaction is frustration and distrust of the text.

-Whole concepts have been deleted from text between editions.(Although, thankfully, the topic of usury, a major concept in business law which was totally deleted from the 4th edition, is again mentioned in the 5th edition.)

- Case examples too often tend to focus on the more colorful, unusual exception to a controlling legal principle, rather than explaining the rationale for the majority rule or demonstrating how a principle works in daily business situations. The result is often student confusion, since one does not learn a general principle where the only example of the its application is an exceptional situation where the general rule is not apply.

- Support materials and test bank answers to questions are unreliable. While the answers given in the test bank are legally correct, about 10-15% of the time it is reported the correct answer to a test bank question cannot be extracted from the textual explanation on the cited page in "The Essentials" edition of the text.

The title of this book gave me the impression that this is an objective account. However, once I started reading, it wasn't long before it was obvious that Reverand Miller has a profound hatred of this religion, and that his choice of title was intentionally misleading. Why didn't he title it "I Hate The Baha'i Faith And I Think You Should Too", "Baha'is; Deluded Heretics" or something to that effect? It is not difficult to understand why Reverand Miller has developed such an intense hatred. He was a Christian missionary in Iran; which is primarily Shiah Muslim. His success rate of conversion would have been even more chanllenging than that of a European Jewish missionary who set out to convert a community of rural American Pentacostals or Baptists. It must have struck him as frustrating when the Baha'is had an enormous rate of conversion, even though people of this religion are persecuted, arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed for their religion. This is, of course, my opinion, but I am certain I am not far from the truth. Reverand Miller, who appears to be acting as a prosecuting attorney rather than a historian or scholar, embraces every possible point of controversy and automatically takes the side of whatever is negative. For example, much is made of the betrayal and contention that developed between members of Baha'u'llah's family and disputes regarding matters of successorship. If this is how to invalidate a religion, why then can't we say the same about the betrayal of Judas and Peter's denial? All information from Baha'i sources is dismissed as "unreliable" without any further explanation. This book is not likely to convince any Baha'is that something is wrong with their religion. This book could be compared to a history of African Americans written by a KKK Member or a history of European Jews written by a Nazi.

This book is all about the opinions of one man because of what he has heard about this religion. If you are someone who has a negative view of this religion and you just want to feel better about what you believe, then this is a good book for you. However, if you're looking for a non-fiction book about the facts of this religion, I suggest you get the real information from a book published by the Baha'is themselves or on a website like [theirs]. If you're researching something, it's very important to get information from the primary source instead of secondary sources. Everything else is just interpretations.

Wm. McElwee Miller had an Ivy League education (masters degree from Princeton Seminary), and tremendous talents. But he chose to decvote his life to serve others in the mission field. He spent many years in Iran, working with often hostile folks. This book is the fruit of his long service in teh Middle East --listening to and sharing with Bahais. A very helpful read.

To characterize the poems in this book as mundane would be a generous act. Some Jazz a While is Miller William's most soporific title in his long career as one of America's leading minor poets. To make room in the academy in the name of "diversity" such as William's bucolic back-woods twang is a great insult to the classics of Western Literature. Conrad, Dickens, and Tennyson are under attack and we must defend our heritage. The poetry of this Jazz has no rhyme or reason.

Miller Williams has the distinction of being one of four poets to write a poem for a presidential inauguration (including Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Maya Angelou). But don't let Bill Clinton's opinion that Maya Angelou and Miller Williams are in the same class. They are not. Miller Williams is a far, far superior poet than Angelou. What strikes me most about Miller Williams is how 'American' a poet he is (he reminds me much of Carl Sandburg in this respect). Williams is one of the best loved poets of his generation, and for good reason. Of course he has poems that don't quite reach the potential he has, but the vast majority are good poems. I can think of no better way discuss Williams' poetry than by taking the eight best poems he has written. "The Caterpillar" is the best known and most anthologized of his poems. It's one of his earlier poems that discusses the endless circling of a caterpillar on a bowl, where it continued until it died. One would think it a poem in futility, but the final lines, "I think he thought he was going/in a straight line" sums it all up, not about futility, but about purpose and nature. "The Book" is a poem about joy changing to horror. "The Curator" is a touching poem about a Russian museum in WWII, where the paintings are taken down, in fear of bombing, and the curator describes what the painting are rather than the patrons viewing. It shows what are truly is, especially when the blind come to 'see' the paintings they never could before. "Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS" is a poem about love, even in the face of an unknown, deadly disease. How we love those close to us, even at our own risk and how we protect them, "not knowing anything yet,/we didn't know wha tlook would hurt you least." "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina" is one of the few good sestinas that exist among the thousands of sestinas out there (much like Elizabeth Bishop's and Dana Gioia's sestinas are worth reading). "Personals" is one of the funniest poems I've seen in a long time, and I will quote in full:

Like a challange? Male, 45
could pass for 60, at least twice divorced,
heavy smoker, sober now and then,
living in trailer home with no water,
looking for female with good job.

We may have no more need for half our doctors
and every talk show will fold flat
when we can understand why there are people
who will enclose a picture and answer that.

"Ruby Tells All" is a beautiful poem about a strong woman, that you have to read to fully appreciate. And finally, a poem with one of the most interesting titles I've seen, "Why God Permits Evil: For Answer to This Question of Interest fo Many Write Bible Answers, Dept. E-7" followed by the epigram "ad on a matchbook cover". It's a great poem on God and life.

What I really like about Miller Williams is his subject matter, which ranges from the mundane to the profound and that he writes in both formal and free verse. He is a treasure to American poetry and one we should all read at some point. After reading his work, it is no wonder that he is as well liked and respected as he is.

Any book able to cause people intellectually insecure enough to put their academic credentials right next to their names to use both "unintelligible" and "simpleton" in the same paragraph has to be doing something right. (If a "simpleton" like Williams understands the poems, yet you find them "unintelligible," doesn't that, erm, make you dumber than a simpleton?)

Williams is a low-key, unpretentious poet who writes with a stirring sense of geography, like a Louisiana-bred Robinson Jeffers. That the Harold Bloom-loving "Daisy Horvath, PhD"s get so thoroughly het up about his poetry is rather part of the point.

I bought this book for my niece's fourth birthday. The pictures looked vibrant and fun, and my niece's name is Molly, too. The premise of the book looked promising: she has a much-beloved magic dress that makes her anyone she wishes to be (such as a scientist or the mayor). The author, however, describes Molly's existence with a sneering snideness. She lives with her divorced mother and anonymous housekeeper in an all-white New York apartment. Her mother, accompanied by her interior designer, takes Molly to a society wedding, where all the guests appear to be caricatures of adult types that children would have difficulty recognizing. I can't imagine any child who would have a relevant context in which to place this book (and I feel sorry for any who would!). Characterization is poor--all the characters are stock stereotypes, and it lacks the fun and imagination of Eloise, another neglected child living in privilege in New York. This is not a book for children--unfortunately, it's not really a book for anyone!

Molly has a favorite dress and it has become very worn and tattered from constant wear. When she wears it she can be anything and often includes her cat Slim Enid in her adventures. When Molly is forced to wear a new dress to a "very important wedding" she is dismayed, but packs her favorite dress in a backpack to comfort her. What happens next includes a chance meeting with a homeless woman and a miracle of a small girl's belief. I wasn't that taken with the story, noy really liking the illustrations and finding the story a bit simple. I sat down with a friend's little girl and got a whole new perspective, She loved the story! It was this little friend who told me what the story was about, nice things are good, but being nice is always better.

Unfortuantely, the title of this review says it all. In a nutshell, the authors argue that we need to adapt our style--that we need to adapt our persuasive technique--to the audience. This idea has been around since Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and, unfortunately, this article adds nothing new. The one potential value of this article is that the authors use the "lingo" of business professionals. I would certainly never give Aristotle to my MBA or executive students, but I might consider giving them this article as additional (not required) reading. I certainly found the article to be interesting, and the topic is of tremendous importance to all business professionals. If you are just starting to explore managerial persuasion, then go ahead and give this item a try. My suspicion is that those seriously interested in persuasion will soon find that better resources are available. As an alternate starting point, consider reading Robert Cialdini's article which appeared in HBR a few months earlier (if my memory serves). I humbly claim that Cialdini's work is a better starting point, both theoretically and practically speaking. Additionally, HBR printed an article titled "The Necessary Art of Persuasion" a few years ago and I believe this article may be the best on applied persuasion I have read in years. So give Williams' and Miller's article a try if you are just starting, but don't stop your search with this article. There is some great material out there from our colleagues at HBR, and even more when you start exploring the books available. Happy hunting.