pretty helpful book, as a basic study aid, worth the price. i liked it.

I used P&K to supplement my casebook and class notes, and it guided me to an A- in torts. It's a great tool and a great read. However, it does have certain limitations: the final edition was published in the late 80s, so it does not provide much guidance on product liability, infliction of emotional distress and other emerging areas of tort law.

P&K gives you something that year 1 of law school sorely lacks: a context for the fragments in your case book. Its treatment of Palsgraf is particularly beautiful.

And since Prosser so strongly influenced tort law, you can be confident that you are getting good information. Some of my classmates used commercial outlines and they often worried about whether they could trust the material. No such problems with P&K; it was on the money all the time. And when there was a contradiction between P&K and my textbook, I was able to go to my professor and ask her about it. Try doing that with a commercial outline.

P&K is not merely fine reference tool; it is a genuine work of literature. I love it, and I highly recommend it.

. . . and one you should probably acquire for your law library at some point; its explanations are clear and lucid, and it's probably the single most-cited work on torts apart from the Restatement (Second). However, if you're a One-L looking for a study aid, there are a couple of things you should be aware of.

First of all, the most recent edition of this text dates from 1984. That means quite a bit of it is at least slightly out of date, and some of it is massively so (particularly in the field of products liability). For a more up-to-date hornbook, consider Dobbs. (I bought and used both.)

Second, when your torts professor talks about "black-letter law," s/he's not talking about this hornbook or any other; s/he's usually talking about the Restatement (Second) of Torts (or, in products liability, the Restatement (Third)). As much as I like hornbooks (and I am emphatically not a fan of the "casebook" approach), I have to say that if you want to get _one_ text to supplement your casebook, you should pick up _A Concise Restatement of Torts_ from the American Law Institute. And, ideally, you should memorize large portions of it.

Of course, you can do what I did: buy all three. It's a great investment, and it will pay off in your studies; Prosser and Keeton provide much helpful discussion of points that Dobbs treats more briefly, and the Concise Restatement is much easier to understand once you've digested the hornbook(s).

At any rate, this _is_ a classic text and you shouldn't go without it for any longer than necessary. Just be aware of what you're buying and set your priorities accordingly.

This book takes on a VERY ambitious topic. The integration of UNIX with Windows NT is a thorny issue...both operating systems require dedicated study to truly master, and mastering both is quite likely impossible. Add to that trying to integrate the two and the job requires a modern-day Renaissance man. Given this, I was expecting this book to fall a bit short of its goal of enabling sysadmins to manage and integrate their NT and UNIX systems. Instead it fell HUGELY short.

The general description of UNIX contains a large number of straight-up factual errors that any junior sysadmin should be able to spot. I don't know how it ever made it past any technical editor. I am less familiar with NT than with UNIX, but the overview of NT seemed to be reasonably accurate, although shallow and rather devoid of useful information. The remaining chapters on running both systems are not so bad, but they too suffer from an overabundance of text with a glaring scarcity of useful information. A general system administration primer on UNIX combined with one on NT will probably offer far more insights into the administration of a heterogeneous system (containing UNIX and NT) than will any of the information in this book.

The one redeeming feature (why this review is for *2* stars instead of 1) is the command references that make up nearly the second half of the book. First is a list of UNIX commands and descriptions, then a list of NT commands (or procedures for the GUI-based tasks) and descriptions. The lists are fairly complete, generally factually accurate, and contain interesting cross-references (pointing out what might be relevant to know about NT in the description of the UNIX commands, for example). The book may be worth the purchase just for these two sections. It's just too bad I read through the first half of the book before I got to them.

This is a great book for professional system administrators. I could easily toss out a half dozen other reference books on UNIX and NT because of the complete and accurate info in this book. Almost 800 pages of pure fact.

I run a technical education company that specializes in training both UNIX and Windows NT administrators and developers. This book will be used in our future classes. It addresses all the key fundamentals of both operating systems. As a reference for either UNIX or Windows NT alone, this book is good for any system administrator. As reference for interoperability, it completely reviews every major concept, command and utility in a very understandable manner.

Williams' book deals with the issue of export agriculture in Central America and its repercussions on the economic, ecological, and social well-being of this troubled region. Williams divides the book into three parts, according to the main exports of Latin America. First, Williams deals with cotton's emergence as a cash crop and its positive and negative aspects. Second, Williams deals with cattle and the effects it has had upon the land and the men who till it. This book is interesting in the way it views the cash crops in an economic light and in the ways they affect farmers, large
farmers, and the working class.

The environment has blessed Central America with some of the best land anywhere on earth. Central America's pacific coastal plain, for example, is ideal for growing cotton. The ecological consequences of growing cotton, however, are quite severe. The stress on the soil is severe, considering this crop is not for subsistence. While the law requires that the land be cleared as to protect the land, it is nearly inevitable to prevent the volcanic soils to be vulnerable from wind and water erosion. In the rainy season, however, thunderstorms take their toll on the soil since they make the land prone to flooding. This damage is in addition to the fact that the best lands are used for the production of cotton, while simultaneously polluting the coastal eco-system. The fertility of the soil was short lived in Central America, since after four or five years of consecutive cultivation the light soils of the coastal plain began to lose their natural fertility. This, in turn, led to the need to use chemicals to yield more crops per acre of land.

In regards to cattle, Williams argues that the emerging demand for beef in the United States as a result of the fast food business precipitated the need to make subsistence plots in Latin America land for cattle grazing. For institutions like the World Bank, AID and IADB cattle was seen as a pragmatic, quick way to achieve export led growth. By most accounts, this land was carved from Central American forests. Swidden agriculture (slash and burn) practiced by indigenous allowed for the land to be regenerated after the patch had been abandoned. Under modern methods of forest clearing, the land is almost always relegated to remaining fallow. Modern methods of clearing have allowed for flatlands below the grazing grounds to become subject to flooding. Williams concludes that for those privileged enough to gain access to bank credit, the beef export boom meant a quick way to expand their fortunes, while for those who planted for survival it spelled impending doom.

I particularly enjoyed using this book as an offensive weapon, but feel that for $325 I could have bought a much more effective automatic shotgun which would have served my purposes as a terrorist better.

After noticing the book among others in the series on the shelves of the medical library, I checked it out and found it a very good reference. The authors clearly know their field and the writing is clear and concise, as this type of publication should be. It is a must have book for scientists and scholars, as well as practitioners. Considering the obvious involvement of at least one large multinational drug company in the book, one would think that that it would be a sponsored publication so that "normal" practitioners and scientists could actually purchase it for their own reference library!

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

Robert Waite's earlier book, The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler was an excellent psychobiographical study. In this book, he compares Hitler and Kaiser Wilhelm and finds a striking number of similarities between the two men.

Though Hitler rose to power at the head of a mass movement and the Kaiser inherited his throne, the two men were alike in their pathological egotism and belief that Germany existed for their own aggrandizement. Both men considered themselves incapable of change. As adults they clung to playing childish games, e.g. the Kaiser enjoyed playing tag on his private yacht, and Hitler liked riding through Berlin yelling "Beaver" every time he saw a man with a beard. Both were fierce racists and anti-Semites. They enjoyed humiliating others, and spent extensive time traveling in order to avoid work. Both dragged Germany into destructive World Wars for which they were quick to blame others.

Waite reminds us that Hitler's fear that his father may have been part Jewish probably contributed to his anti-Semitism. Likewise the Anglophobic Kaiser had an English mother, with whom he had a poor relationship. She was a believer in the pedagogical doctrines of Daniel Moritz Schreber, designer of sadistic devices to improve children's posture and father of Paul Schreber, the chief inspiration for Freud's theory of paranoia.

He is aware of the limitations of psychobiography, but the use of two subjects allows Kaiser and Fuhrer to shed light on recent German history in general. Waite concludes that German history displays much continuity. The paranoid chauvinism of the Nazi era had strong roots in the Hohenzollern period. It was Weimar democracy rather than Nazi tyranny which was the aberration.

Though this book has many strengths, it is too speculative about Hitler's relationship with his long suffering mother. Did she, as Waite thinks, do something terrible to her son that aroused his intense, but concealed hate? Or did the hate stem from identification with his brutal, abusive father, who regularly beat his wife, Adolph, the dog, and everyone else in sight?

Waite also speculates that Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal, committed suicide as did several other women in his life. But looking at Raubal's "suicide" note raises doubts about this. It seems more plausible that Hitler might have had her murdered so that she would talk about his coprophilia.

Waite has given us a thoroughly researched, intellectually stimulating account of two men who managed to inflict on the world the sufferings they experienced as children. Kaiser and Fuhrer represents an original and fruitful approach to psychobiography and psychohistory. At the same time, it shows that, even at this late date, there are still many questions about Adolph Hitler that have yet to be answered.

Granted, I was fooled. I had hoped this book would be a collection of Utah produced fine art. Instead it is mostly a listing of Utah's artists, interspersed with a disappointingly small number of examples of their work. The major figures in Utah art do get larger bios (at least some of them), but many of the "bios" are little more than one sentence long. Apparently, every kid who ever scribbed on his schooldesk is included here, too.