A patchwork quilt of Bloomberg dispatches, slightly less biased than USAToday's coverage of the situation. Examine the heavy predominance of trial attorney and AG sources in the "Notes" section, compare the lack of industry source material (aside from public pronouncements). Nearly 20% of the book is a simple re-print of the settlement agreement itself.

The book is outdated. The test has completely changed since the book was published. Study your Methods book if you want to pass the Praxis II Test.

I bought this book to prepare for the school psychology speciality exam. It was useless for this purpose. The mock school psychology exam provided no explanations for the answers, nor did it mimic the actual exam offered by ETS in length or content. I ended returning the book to Amazon.com; it contained nothing that helped me prepare for exam that I had not already garnered from the ETS materials available for free.

The book does give explanations of its answers, however it does not have any PLT exams in it. Therefore, it does not have "everything you need to know."

All that I have to say that this book left out A LOT of stuff. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of Star Wars, but everyone who reads this book deserves to know more than what this book tells them.

This book suffered from the same things the movie did--namely, a lack of action. The book even left out some of the major parts, like a great deal of the space-based assault on the second Death Star, and instead concentrated on intangible elements like the Force. Don't get me wrong--I like the Force--it's just that it does not lend itself to description in a book.

I'll admit this book is for younger kids, but I have to say that it was not very good at all. Even when I read it for the first time when I was ten years old I didn't think it was very good. The characters are all faceless and boring, except for Han who is hugely exaggerated. The writing is also boring and unimaginative, and very undiscriptive. Children ten and under probably won't care, but adults and older kids such as myself should stick with Young Jedi Knights, and some of the adult novels.

I borrowed this book as a last minute attempt to study for my SAT II Math 2C. After taking the practice test, I was panicked, and almost in tears because of my low score. This book stressed things such as vector analysis, trig graphing on a polar graph and geometry, which were not on the test. If the book would have at least explained these topics, it would not be so horrible, but the or attempts were so weak, I consider them totally useless.
Kaplan's book was a little more accurate in terms of reviewing the information, but I would suggest buying a book by the Princeton Review or College Board if you want to study for ANY of the SAT Subject tests.

If you wish to do well on the math SAT II subject tests, I suggest that you do not buy this book. It has several errors in it and does not provide enough review information. The style of the author was hard to follow and the design of the book itself was poor. There are many fine math review books out there and many of them are here on Amazons website. If you don't want to waste your time and money, buy one of them.

disliked this book and used other resources to prepare for their SAT IIs (both scoring in the 700s). I cannot get into the particulars except to say they felt that it wasn't too helpful and that it was God-awfully dull.

Sorry I didn't check here first. This book is awful. Even the answer keys were incorrect, and some sections don't have answer keys at all. I am going to return this book too.

This book was awful.... if you are Middle Childhood it will not help one bit. The PLT practice exam was for K-6 and there are not specialty area tests for Social Studies or Language Arts.
Don't buy this book even though I don't think there are any helpful books out right now for the Praxis II.

Please do not give this book even a partial star! It is disorganized; there is no cross-referencing of information; and, it is a total waste of money. I will try to return it ASAP!

PS -- I gave this book no rating and was informed that a 1-5 star had to be posted. Oh, well.

Modern scholars are often driven by a host of pressures to
produce monographs, particularly tenure and in some cases
prestige. Even so, it is possible to produce competent
work that is precise and offers empirical evidence as well
as the insights of other scholars. That is to say, the best
academic work combines actual research with commentary on the
work and writing of one's peers.

Levy's _Cyberculture_ offers neither. It is a pretentious,
pompous exercise in self-aggrandizment that masquerades as
scholarly writing. The book lies in the tradition of McLuhan
and Nostramdomus, in that it offers prognostications and
claims for experientiality without much evidence. Many
technical details are shoddy or wrong, and there is a stunning
lack of detail that suggests the author might not have spent
much time exploring the current state of "cyberspace". To take
one example, the author's position that the importance of
the Internet for digital music is really related to its potential
for collaboration holds little weight against the massive
current use of it for music distribution, the production of
Def Leppard's _Eupohoria_ notwithstanding. Levy presents
no backing for his claims, and seems to ignore what's currently
happening.

Like all academics, the author attempts to create and define
the terms of his own debate. Scholars do this now so that
they can have something to write about, first off, and second
to attempt to form a legacy (in that other scholars will quote
them). Levy's attempt is centered around the Internet
as "Universality Without Totality", and of course these terms
are highly suspect and open to contention. Whither the
Digital Divide? Not here. Just like the lack of proper
documentation for sources in text. Just like any intellectual
merit beyond self-indulgence and blind seer-work. Proper
education teaches us to be wary of claims for universality,
and if Levy had stopped for a moment to consider the lack of
Third-World internet providers, or even the disenfranchised
in North America, he would have understood that there IS a
totalizing dimension to the Internet, which revolves around
ACCESS, the terms of which are CAPITAL and to a less extent
PRIVILEGE.

In short, there are many superior works on the impact of Internet
technologies on society. All of them are necessarily premature,
as Communication History teaches us that the printing press,
television, radio, and every other new medium took years to
"settle out" (it's called the "Incunabula" period). Still,
it's possible to use empirical research to understand the
current state of affairs with its concommitant implications.
It's also possible to skip merrily through some terms of
your own devising, making broad claims that bear tenuous
connection to lived reality, which Levy does par excellence.

I bought this book looking for real answers. This book covers material for someone who uses a LAN and is interested in how it works not someone who is looking to set up a LAN. This book is filled with generalizations and is not worth it.

Everything is completely outdated as well. All the products mentioned are now obsolete.

Even though this book has come out in a Second Edition (1998), the majority of its contents is obsolete. The authors refer to DOS more often than Windows. They use an Apple IIc and Mac+ for examples of Apple Computers. They only refer to UNIX-based commands in referencing how to use the Internet! DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY BY NOT BUYING THIS BOOK!!!

ARCO claims to be the number one NAME in study guides. Maybe the last twenty years in business lets you sell your name. The demographics of college educated teachers wants quality. The NAME is the strength but the price is a ripoff for getting twenty five sample questions in any of the multiple subject tests. Why do I care what is on 20 different subject areas? I only want the one I take. They think they make you feel confident that you will "score high" without giving any content to review. Four years 25 questions? The only reason I gave it a 2 and not a one is because I give students credit for at least looking for help. The professional knowledge section is the best part. Again it lacks content. Some people may want to learn by reading the answer key. Better stuff is out there