I have not read this edition of Dr. Kent's book, but as a former student of Dr. Kent's, I was forced to buy his text when I took his comparative anatomy course. At the time, I found it a difficult read of marginal usefulness. When he left Louisiana State, a different, far better text was introduced. If this is merely an update of that volume, I echo others who recommend other sources.

Though this book is a decent introductory guide to comparative vertebrate anatomy, there is a significant lack of detail in certain sections. The text is very condensed, and difficult to read at certain parts. I recommend using a similar book by Walker.

The biggest waste of money out of my pocket. No examples, no illustrations, and worst of all--inaccurate information. Don't even bother.

I've read a couple of the other PDF web books and this one has the most information of all. Easy reading and put together well. Some of the info is a little outdated now with Acrobat 4.0 out. But a great buy for the money!

the book is simple and makes the tough parts of econometrics understandable.however some core background topics are lacking... statistical depth for persons without a solid background in statistics. such is found in other texts(see jonston, gujurati, koutsoyannis, intrilligator).furthermore the book assumes prior knowledge of matrices,hence those without a solid background herein,at left at a loss.

As a post graduate student facing an econometrics course for the first time I found this book to be invaluable. I found the delivery of material particularly in the 'modern' topics to be much more accessible than in either Gujarati or Enders. Some knowledge of statistics and some elements of mathematics are required, but as I quickly learned, any text on econometrics at this level requires these skills. Some authors try to overcome this hurdle by including reviews of statistics and matrix algebra either in an appendix or in an introductory chapter. Watson & Teelucksingh do not do this. They present any required techniques in the body of the text . While for me in a few instances the necessary skills required reference to introductory statistics texts, I found this to be more convenient than the summaries that are found in the appendices or introductions of other econometrics texts. After all, such summaries are typically attempts to fit elegant theoretical constructs into a few bullet points. My recommendation to the post-grad student to whom econometrics is new is to use this text and where necessary support it with whatever statistics text you were comfortable with at undergrad level.

It appears I'm the only person not from ithaca to review this book. I assume they're using this text at Cornell, or ithaca college, but I used this text at Texas A&M. Perhaps it was the instructor, but i didn't think that this book was that bad. Some of the proofs and explainations and examples were pretty lousy, but the assignment problems were pretty diverse, and i thought most of the explainations and examples were adequate. What i'm trying to say is that this text isn't that bad....

Granted, the semester is young, but so far this book's not too bad. Especially considering last semester I had to endure part of the McCallum/Hughes-Hallet series of calculus books for Multivariable/Vector Calculus. In comparison, this book has far more practice problems where you just work out the equations, rather than having to contend with applications and word problems while still wrestling with the concepts. While the examples are a little convoluted, at least they draw parallels to the problems, something the McCallum et al. series does not. In short, this may not be the best math book, but it could be a lot worse.

This is the required text for a math class I am currently taking. While the book is not spectacular, it is written at an elementary level and it is not mired in proofs, so one can learn the material simply by opening the book and reading. A definite strength of this book is that it covers a wide range of problems, from ordinary DE's to some PDE's. But it also includes whole chapters on applications to mechanical and electrical systems(circuits), as well as numerical methods and Laplace Transformations. The book is clearly written as an introductory text, but it covers a broad range of material applicable to higher level courses.

This book simply does not deliver any content. It is a well-written, attractively formatted, 199 page advertisement for a commercial product. I was extremely disappointed. It is the only book I have ever bought (and I've bought thousands) that I sent back. You will not learn anything from reading this book as most of it is spent describing a demo of the commercial product.

As Mr. Downey writes, this book is horrible. There are about 2 sentences of valuable information in the whole thing. Half to book is dedicating to instruction for the included software, which crashes my PC. Obviously this book was written to try and sell software, not as the technical resource it claims to be.

Whatever you do, do not buy this book, unless you want to waste some money.

I bought this book expecting at least a little information on what the book promised to tell about: Robot Sensors. What I received was completely vague theory of what a robot could have to do theoretical things. This is a fictitious book that most anyone could write without any prior knowlege on the subject. It astounds me that any respectable company would publish a book like this. I hope that in the futre, the author of this book will actually tell readers what the book is about and not try to swindle them.

A sample sentance of this book might say something like: "If we had a robot that had to navigate through a room, what would he need? Sensors! These would alow it to navigate through the room."

This is about the depth of the book. To make it worse, I was expecting a sizable book. Instead, the book is very small and filled with giant diagrams which contain absolutely NO information.

Why should you listen to me? I am a microcontroller programmer and I actually do many of the things this author dreams of in his book.

Bottom line, this book is the worst book I have ever seen on any subject. Do not buy it. I was forced to return mine and luckilly get a refund.

I don't know anyone who would want to read a romance novel that ends up being more depressing then romantic. I felt so bad for Luke. I'd fallen in love with him in the first book, "Luke's Daughters," and I don't know why Ms. Kent even wrote about something like this. I had an urge to stop as soon as the divorce, but I read it all the way through. The ending is less depressing, but I still think that this series was pointless.

This is the second book about the Brennan Brothers. Luke's Daughters was the first book and it was very good. This one, however, is focused on Matt Brennan. This book was very depressing. Matt was engaged to Kristen and than went on a special forces mission and his family was told that he was dead. Kristen was pregnant and alone. Matt's brother Luke thought he could help by marrying her and claiming that the baby was his. Luke and Kristen get married and have a child of their own. Five years later Matt comes back. Luke divorces Kristen and Matt marries her. This is hard on everyone involved: Luke, Matt, Kristen, and the two girls. I had a hard time feeling bad for Matt and Kristen. The people that I continued to feel sorry for were Luke and the girls. The story did a good job of sharing how everyone felt. It is basically a story of forgiveness and how to find a middle ground or balance among a heap of heartache, guilt, and anger. To find any real happiness in this series I highly recommend that you read the first book about Luke and the girls.

i had this book for A&P II and it was the most confusing book i have read. i could not understand it and it used more words than necessary to explain what the author was trying to say. the only thing worse than the book was the teacher that i had who tried to interpret it. the diagrams and pictures were also bad and hard to understand. there were also many mistakes in the book. not for a beginning anatomy class.

I have not completed this book but have found numerous mistakes. If I was not already familiar with human anatomy I would be learning the wrong information. I don't feel that is fair to the person that does not have a clue about anatomy and physiology. Unless changes are made I would not use this book as a text and I will not use it as a reference.

Just received the book yesterday and have been browsing thro' for just a night & lot of the pages starts coming off!! Terrible book-binding quality.

I can't comment on the content yet but I am sure I made the right decision after having read lots of recommendation from the newsgroup.

To "improbability press" - pleaaaaaase improve on your book-binding technique!

Just received the book yesterday. Hardly used for one night & the pages starts coming out! Such a terrible binding! Apart from this, I can't comment on the content of the book itself yet but I am sure I made the right decision in purchasing this book after all those recommendations by others.

To "improbability press" - please improve your book binding technique!

Hunter knows better! Historic Lutheran faith given to him (or was it taught him?) is denied in these confessions.

He places the so-termed father of CG, McGravan, in the same class as the Apostle Paul and Martin Luther. To a Lutheran, this is unthinkable!

His cure for apostacy is marketing the church. This involves church change to counter cultural change.

Many LCMS officials and pastors, along with prominent CG figures, recommend this book. Go figure! The leaven is alive and thriving!

For my response, see my book, Testing the Claims of Church Growth.

An example of fluff would be his treatment of the carpenter, mercury 7 flight. There was more to it then "as he twirled around in space....his fuel began to run out". Read carpenters book, "for spacious skies", or slayton's "deke!'. don't pay attention to chris craft's "flight".