These comments are based on the 3rd edition, 1998. I think that one of the biggest pluses is that Madden and Woodbury really know their stuff! They provide a logical progression of information to assist you in building a security strategy for AS/400 implementation. Most all the features are presented in terms of concepts and practical applications. The reader can take this book, start at the beginning or read sections, include the information in a plan, and sit down and do it! There are very good explanations and diagrams for the concepts in this book. Many of the remarked sample programs have the printed code for you to review and ponder. In retrospect, I have highlighted hundreds of keywords, bookmarked several sections that are "must do", and so this book travels with me to any site where security is a priority!

If you are looking for a book to use for securing the AS400 or Auditing the security you have just found it.
Recommended for all readers. Easy to read langauge. if you have not purchased the third edition, then go the 4th edition. It is better and improved.

One of the best place to learn the AS/400 security fundamentals. A recommendation to anyone who wants to implement security.

Having just read the book, I cannot altogether agree with the glowing reviews. The hero was unusual, I admit, and the idea original, but the execution was just a bit plodding here and there. Also, the protagonist is described as a social misfit, yet he has more friends than many normal people I know. I found his economic situation unconvincing - an assistant professor buying a large house with grounds near Oxford on the proceeds of a scholarly book? A lot of the time he just seemed to be sitting around waiting for things to develop. And most of the brilliant research is actually done by his assistant Miriam, who gets very little thanks for her efforts (that part rings true to academic tradition, anyhow). She would be a perfect partner, but the hero is too dim to even think of it. Somehow I could not warm to the guy, but I seem to be in a minority here.

I want more stories with this magic works in Modern England setting. Story reminds me of P. Anderson's Operation Chaos and Operation Luna. I liked the eccentric hero with his total lack of social graces and the good heart hiding under his wild child exterior. Whitchurch

Ms. Woodbury takes a 'normal' murder and puts it into a seductive setting. The reader is kept turning the pages through sheer fascination. Excellent readin

"The Glass Giant of Palomar" by David O. Woodbury is a fascinating book that gives an in depth look into both the telescope and its creator, George Ellery Hale.

It chronicles Dr. Hales' life and discusses several of the observatories that he founded. As the title indicates however, the prime focus is on the technological and engineering marvel that crowned his career; the Mt. Palomar Observatory and the 200 in. telescope.

The conception and design of the carriage and body of the telescope alone pushed the technology of the period, but the primary mirror was a real dilemma. A detailed account is found within these pages. Reading this book gives one a new appreciation for this instrument that unveiled the universe in ways even its designers could not dream.

This book is excellent for astronomy buffs and I both greatly enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

The original account of the building of the 200-inch telescope, predating Florence's "Perfect Machine" by over 50 years. Woodbury's account has the advantage of proximity in time - he interviewed and walked among the men who were responsible for the construction of this instrument, and gained the confidence of many. The book is perfect mix of exquisite technical detail (e.g, his account of the development and construction of the R.A. and declination drives quotes from one of the original engineers and is delightfully incomprehensible) and poetic admiration for the vision that drove the project. He captured the very human spirit of the scientists, workman, technicians, and even janitors who worked on the project. His accounts of the fabrication of the glass by Corning are fraught with anxiety, the cross country trip of the mirror on rail are sprinkled with details of the difficulties of moving such an awkward object as the huge glass disk.

Both this book and Florence's Perfect Machine are worth reading, and while they cover much the same ground, each is unique - Florence focuses more on Hale and his drive for "more light," while Woodbury focuses more on the majesty of the project. Five stars easily, for this 60 year old work!

I was able to read this book in one night and still had time to make a game plan for tackling the organization project at the office for the next morning. There were a few ideas that were easy to implement; some so simple I can't believe I never thought of them before. (The Tickler Files!) After two work days, I had changed my work process enough to feel better, and thus have some relief. Not to mention, on day two, my director stopped mid-sentance when she saw the top of my desk and praised me for how clean and organized I was.

This book is a great place to start for some easy, immediate results. However, I need much, much more on PDA's, e-mail, case management, and paperwork flow. The success I had from the small investment of time here will keep me motivated to move on to books tackling the larger picture.

I was totally disorganized and swamped with paper everywhere. This book was one of 3 I bought and was the first one I read. It is easy to read and follow, and it brought order and gave me confidence to start my umpteenth effort to get organized. Absolutely recommend it to anyone who is in need of a kick start to getting organized.

This book is well organized. It offers practical and simple to follow methods. If you don't want to spend a lot of time reading, but to take action getting organized, this is the book to read.

Brad's universe resides "here in the country, under the wide prairie sky with a good pair of binoculars and a head stuffed full of facts, [where]time [stands] still."

Memory is an intricate gift, one that can warm the heart on a cold day, and chill the bones during a heatweave. For fourteen year old Bradley Greaves, "knowing facts was fun, inventing things was great, but it wasn't enough. Piecing together [his]history, [his]life took longer."

Una Mae Greaves and her son Bradley have just settled in a small house in Camden, Alberta. It is September and as Bradley begins the school year, his father, who has been away somewhere for a long while returns home. Where his father has been is not discussed, and as time passes, Brad feels less a part of the family life he has shared with his mother. While searching in the back of his closet, Brad finds something that triggers his memory and leads him to discover the hidden truths about his father's illness, and why he feels the need to isolate himself from everyone he cares about.

Author Mary Woodbury writes an honest accounting of a young person who longs for acceptance within a community where he wants to belong, and fears rejection on the basis his family's imperfect past.

There are elements of this novel that will surprise readers.

Marda Woodbury's look at her own father's death is a gripping and well-researched look back at a tragedy and possibly a government cover-up. Woodbury does an excellent job of re-evaluating her father, Walter Liggett, and his death. Her father was an old-school muckraker in Minnesota and one of the most vocal opponents of then-governor Floyd Olson.

Not being familiar with this particular case before I read the book, I was concerned that this would be some sort of apologistic, revisionist history. However, the more I researched the case, the more I found that Woodbury had given a fair assessment of the murder and of her father's career.

The book is a case study in how political machines worked, a good look at the rise of gangland in the heart of the Midwest, and a really interesting history of Minnesota journalism in the 1930s. Liggett argues that her father was too good of an advesary, knew too much and couldn't be bribed - all fatal ingredients which spelled his demise.

I wish Liggett would have explored her father's reputation as a blackmailer. While she makes several references to it, and while that was many the gripe of many of Liggett's contemporaries, she doesn't seem to do as thorough of a job in researching the claims of blackmailing as she does in other parts of the book. While that particular area isn't exhaustively explored, the book still seems to have objectivity and balance.

Woodbury should be complimented for her well-documented research and her crafty ability to present this case in a new light, some half-a-century after it happened. She has done not only an admirable job in her role as a historian, but we also are given a first-hand account of what happened to the family and a look into the private dealings of Walter Liggett.

As a former Minnesotan, I was interested in this generally untold side of Minnesota history. I have lived in Minneapolis and loved it, but was shaken by these horrors that long preceeded my time there. I would have appreciated more specific addresses and names of businesses where events took place as it would have put the story in a more real context, but only for those familiar with the city. It is almost unbelievable to imagine the kind of opposition that existed to those publishing information which went contrary to the public image desired by those in power-both "legitimate" and underworld people. I'm glad Ms. Woodbury used her research skills to write this work. It does indeed exonerate her family, and her respect for her parents is well deserved, especially her telling of her mother's grace and dignity in coping with this tragedy.

I used this book during my undergraduate physical chemistry course. I was very confused when I was done. Essentially, the book aims to teach four topics: thermodynamics, statistical themodynamics, kinetics, and quantum mechanics. This is more than can be covered in one book! You really can't accomplish any depth or discussion while trying to cover so much material, and therefore I felt like I got to hear about a lot of things but never really learn about them. It is much better to get good texts on each of the subject areas. I would recommend Callen for the thermo, Chandler for the stat mech, probably Steinfeld for the kinetics, and Levine for the quantum. I know this will cost more than one book, but it's better than being confused!

All things considered, it's a nice effort to cram too many topics in one book. I think the writer tried and did as well as could be done, but it is just too many topics for one book to cover!

In Physical Chemistry, Professor George Woodbury combines the mastery of detail reminiscent of Tolstoy with the sweeping vision of Neils Bohr. A thoroughly enjoyable and highly readable text marked by clarity of prose, focused methodology and really neat graphics. This text, combined with the video lecture series of Prof Woodbury, is a must for any serious student of physical chemistry. A great stocking stuffer! - Larry Gloss, 24 December, 1997.

I first read this book a year after it was published, and the contents of it really nauseated me!

I recalled the girl's words to her therapist about how she had "some incest problems with my father." These words came to Dr. John Woodbury from the patient without the help of hypnosis, although hypnosis was later applied. It appears she had free-standing memories of the "abuse." I remember her telling Woodbury that the incest with Dad was "groovy." (???!!) Apparently she enjoyed it! What's more, she seemed to have been a consenting partner as if she were her own biological father's "other woman."

I wonder why the authors wrote the book. Was it to reveal a hidden part of our society? I hope not! The result has been a sexual "witch hunt" of great proportions!

Barbara Rainey, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

This novel, set in Hollywood in the 1970s, is a true story of a young girl who was sexually abused by her father, written by the psychiatrist she went to for her emotional problems. Actual conversations between the doctor and the patient are written word for word and you come to understand this incestuous relationship and how it affected her entire family life, including the relationship with her mother. We see her come a long way from when she first began therapy through the use of hypnosis, taking her back to the years when the abuse first began.

Silent Sin is a fast read that I found very interesting. I have never been in an incestuous relationship but I still found this book to be cathartic because it is about living a healthy life in spite of traumatic events. I highly recommend!

This book is shallow, judgemental, poorly researched and an insult to any the intelligence of any thinking person. There are some marvelous biographies about Edgar Allan Poe (The one by pulitzer prive winning biographer, Kenneth Silverman, is the best.) To call this a STUDY guide is absurd. It's a slanted, bias, narrow minded piece of propoganda.

Harold Bloom has assembled a slim volume of literary criticism on Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's introductory essay on Poe and his critics is interesting and informative but takes a harsh slant against Poe's literary merit. Not surprisingly, a number of the essays side with Bloom.

The great majority of the essays were written by esteemed Poe scholars, poets and novelists. D.H. Lawrence's essay contains a number of factual inaccuracies and is gratuitously offensive. Allen Tate's essay "The Angelic Imagination" is very good, as is Richard Wilbur's "House of Poe."

What surprised me most is the pausity of references to Poe's metaphysics, mysticism and hidden meaning. Harold Bloom has written at least 3 books on gnosticism and gnosis in American religion and literature. In at least one of those books, he called Poe a "representative American gnostic." Ironically, Bloom more or less pretends in this book that Poe's works have no meaning or message whatsoever and that Poe wrote only for effect. There are a number of essays which focus on Poe's metaphysics. Take a look at those collected in Eric W. Carlson's book, Critical Essays on Edgar Allan Poe.

a pretty good book. it's definently a good read for those interested in poe.

When I ran across this book in a store one day, I quickly bought it. What a disappointment. Mr. Woodbury's photographs are excellent, and can be seen in a number of field guides, but the information accompanying this book is useless. For example, Mr. Woodbury lists the Regal Fritillary, shows a photo, and gives a range description without once mentioning that this butterfly has not been recorded from the eastern United States for many years, outside a few local populations. One is left with the impression that this is a butterfly that may be seen commonly. It appears that the text of this book was quickly thrown together to get it into print. Recommended for the photos only

The late Dr. Woodbury has accumplished what few other butterfly authors have been able to do with his The Butterflies of Delmarva which is to write about an arcane subject such as the Lepidopterous creatures around us and make it understandable to the casual nature lover as well as the experienced pro. He achieves this difficult task by illustrating the living butterflies with beautiful and informative color photos. Each photo clearly shows identifying characteristics of almost every one of the resident and stray butterflies inhabiting or visiting the Delmarva penninsula. This makes field observations and identifications surprisingly easy. For example, after studying Dr. Woodbury's excellent photo of Papilio polyxenes asterius (The Black Swallowtail) and comparing it with the fine one of Papilio troilus (The Spicebush Swallowtail) I am sure that even the beginner will find he or she can quickly tell one from the other when faced with identifying that next big black butterfly flittering and fluttering in the meadow. This little gem of a book would be worth the money for the photos alone, but there is much more offered here as well. Dr. Woodbury accurately and concisely describes the actual locality where each of the individual species occurs as well as the hostplants where the caterpillars of each species may be found and the nectaring plants for the adults as well! Had Dr. Woodbury included the Superfamily Hesperioidea (the Skippers)of Delmarva, I would have gladly afixed the fifth star in my review.