The plot is predictable; the setting ill-developed; and the characters are shallow. The novel could have been as easily set in the LA of the 1930s as SF of the 1890s. Each chapter is preceded by an entry from the Devil's Dictionary the relevance of which for any given chapter is often problematic. What really rankles me is that although Ambrose Bierce is featured in the title he is a VERY minor character in the novel coming across as a somewhat cynical middle aged de facto bachelor smitten by a rather supercilious newspaperwoman. On the positive side the novel is short and not demanding--a perfect soporific.

If you never have been to Vegas and want to know a bit about sports betting, this is not a bad book. However, there are some superior books out there.

This book is not all that great unless you are looking for some nice prints of the old tobacco cards from the beginning of the century. But with online auctions and internet access, you may as well go out and pick up a few of the actual cards themselves. Now they might not be as inexpensive as this book, and it all depends on your own personal tastes, but I would much rather spend $20 on a 90 year old card than $4 on a book that reprints them. Of course, it would be tough to acquire 56 different cards from these sets without some monetary investment and time.

i think that the guide that came with my book, which shows pictures of the slides that professors are supposed to use was completely usless, if you have to purchase this book for a class, try and get a used copy. It is not worth the price you have to pay. There is another book by Breyli and Meyers titles Corporate Finance which is much more comprehensive and much better.

I want to see your book if i can. My field of profession is phisical therapy

thanks for all

goran

This is not the most well-organized Old English Grammar in existence, but it does serve a certain purpose. There is a wealth of information and interesting tid-bits of philological lore, but it is not an introduction to the language by any means (just a warning). Those who do have an understanding of the language would do well to own it, at least for reference purposes, but there are much better and more concise grammars available.

The book is really historical fiction. It is of value to have it due to the limited material written on Caldecott. It should be used with children who understand fiction based on the life of a real person. The spelling errors made in the names of English locations are really very noticable. No bibliography is given for background resources used and it shows little research done in basic, readily available information. Too much personal opinion given by the author, who would certainly have had no personal knowledge of the actual people's conversations or events, to be called true biography.

I picked this up in hopes that it was written by one of my favorite authors, but was hugely dissapointed. The writing is just not very polished at all. It was written in the sixties, so might be seen as a vaguely interesting artifact from that time, but there are much better books that can give you the flavor of the sixties. I believe that this is a first book, as it seems to hit many of the cliches of romance. The characters are okay, but nothing special, and the plot is so cliched as to be embarrasing. I honestly cannot recommend it.

...if you're looking for an Exchange administrator's reference book.

Although a hefty book, with a hefty price tag, this book simply discusses Exchange in general at great length without actually telling the reader anything useful at all. The raft of casual references to other Microsoft products and programming technologies would surely bore and baffle most programme managers while the lack of specific technical information and advice means that it is useless to administrators as well.

The style is verbose and so littered with gratuitous acronyms as to be unreadable; should you make the effort to unravel a paragraph you realise that actually there is no useful information there at all.

If you're looking for help with a real world exchange environment, want to know how exchange actually works, need to learn advanced administration techniques, or have to design an environment and want some pointers then forget this book. Even the supposed "Immediate Solutions" sections simply provide facile GUI screenshots of straightforward and basic operations without providing any explanation of what is going on.

In summary: I bought this book, and wish I hadn't.

At first look, this book seemed impressively comprehensive in its scope and I was excited to explore its depths. However, after an hour or two of reading it, I was confused as to why I was learning so little. Then I realized, this book is full of information, yet communicates little. It has no voice. It makes no commitments and takes no risks. The authors never step from behind the curtain of its Microsoft marketing vocabulary to give personal advice, apply experience to problem solving, or explore off-the-path alternatives.

I should say that there is one message that does come out of the book. It is so permeated with "Microsoft Exchange is your ultimate savior" promotional content that I'm surprised it isn't a Microsoft Press book. If your desire is to learn how Exchange fits into the context of Microsoft's overall messaging strategy, then this book is very good. It also definitely does have a lot of information in it, expressed in Microsoft terms. But if you are looking for the so-called "popular Black Book problem-solving format", then look elsewhere. Maybe you'll find it in a Wrox or O'Reilly book.

While Randolph Daniel tried to write a up-date on the Hardaway Site in Stanly County, North Carolina he definitely did not use all the data and information printed in Archaeological Journals throughout the years. The reader would be better off using the original works by Joffre Coe in 1964. Mr. Daniel could have done a much better job if he did more research in regards to the Hardaway culture.