The author is a sensitive who writes about her own experiences and those that have been told to her by others. There is nothing compelling about the photographs and very little proof, research or data to back up her claims. This is a very light piece of work at best.

I bought this book thinking it would give more detailed information about attainable money records. Instead it ranks the top 1000 records in price order. The lowest record is $650.00. It does not explain why it makes a particular record that price. There are very few pictures. If it had more pictures this book would be very interesting. This book is merely a condensed version of the other record guides.

This book was the first out of print book of Maggie's that I read. It must have been done before she really discovered what her writing style would be. I can't say enough about what a truly excellent writer Maggie Osborne is now but this book was a disappointment. Usually her leading lady figures are such dynamic and wonderful people! In this book the heroine was your typical young virgin who is just perfect in every way (boring). The man that she evenually falls in love with first charms her by being insulting and later raping her after she is exposed to much brutality. Also, the violence in this story is excessive. But from each exposure of violence the heroine emerges whole and okay. (She doesn't just experience a rape by just one man which I found to be frustrating after a certain point.) I am glad that Ms. Osborne has perfected her style and now writes differently from the usual story line that most writers follow. I will keep to her current efforts and not continue to buy her books that are out of print.

This guide is the worst excuse for a strategy guide ever. It starts out by giving you two pages of gameplay basics, which are so basic the average gamer could figure them out within about 3 seconds of actually playing the game. It then moves on to classes, it has two and a half pages worth of classes each class getting between two to six sentences giving the barest of information about what the class actually does. It doesn't go into any great detail about what the classes special talents are it just says things like the muse can handle a spear. Not even mentioning the fact that she can go through water or use spells just that she can use a spear. By now you may be thinking "I don't remember a muse". Well thats another thing, not only do you only get a few sentences, many times the names are wrong, muse? mage the female wizard? and what is an Evil One? The guide doesn't bother to include the pre-requisets of each classes, and also misses several of the more secret ones, no white knights, no gorgons, no cyclops. The only other thing this guide has except for the walkthrough is one page which tries to stuff every item in the game, obviously the list is unhelpful because it has no stats on it. The walkthrough itself is a huge disappointment not only does miss basically every side quest, (including the massive Hell's Gate) it also misses at least a dozen secret characters and at times will actually tell you to do stuff that will cut you off from getting a secret character in the future. It also seems that the author didn't try all the dialog options, because at times he tells you to pick choices I personally wouldn't choose. The strategies themselves are ok I guess, but nothing a third grader with a little experience couldn't do by himself. Overall this strategy guide is absolutely worthless, and most gamers would be better off without it. There are some good online guides floating around the internet if you need them though.

The Tactics Ogre strategy guide from prima is a complete waste of money. It isn't very descriptive and doesn't include some of the important sidequests. DON'T BUY IT !

The guide did not cover all of the plots, including Hell's Gate. I received better information from the FAQs on the internet. It was very frustrating to use.

This is the worst MCSE software that I have seen. It is full of mistakes. There is a patch at their website but it didn't fix even half of the mistakes.

I bought it, and I'm really sorry for having done so. The exam software interface was done using IE 4.0. And they made sure you couldn't run it on Netscape Navigator... The questions are full of mistakes, and when you try to get an answer in detail, about 50% of the times, you go to a page (html) that has nothing to do with it!!

Worst: most of those pages were not even finished! Yes, you can see that the text is only a draft! This is completly unacceptable for such an expensive package.

I've never spent my money so badly in a computer product...

While the test questions themselves are very valuable, the program has a NUMBER of bugs in it which cause the questions and answers to be mismatched. For example, when you ask it to show you the answer to question 10 it may show you the answer to question 11 instead. Other bugs include showing you the answers as part of the question. EX: What is the right answer? A) yada yada B) yada yada C) this is the answer and why it's right. Very odd results occur while you are taking the practice tests. Some of the answers they provide are incorrect, a problem with their study guides as well. For example, several times they give you the START parameters incorrectly, and they can't seem to keep the default priority of applications straight. Once chapter references in correctly as 7, another will reference it as 8. It's clear that they have multiple people each write a chapter and throw it together with less than adequate technical editing. Someone wrote a review of their TCP/IP study guide and it was less than glamorous. If you're looking for a series of test questions, their paper version is much better (MCSE Certification Test Yourself Practice Exams ISBN 0-07-211854-7). You still have to deal with a few incorrect answers but at least you don't have to struggle with an application interface as well. It's always good to take as many test questions as possible, but the number of mistakes in this product make it very difficult to find it valuable.

Law professors should never co-write a book. Therein no two people should ever co-author a manuscript. It is obvious that Peter Kutner, tort expert, is the predominant voice in this book. Research on the background of Kuter and Reynolds shows a research professor pitted against a trial, classroom professor. Kutner is seen all the over the book due to his complexity. This is why the book is so distasteful is because Kutner like his usual style makes tort law too hard to understand and he cannot communicate effectively. The only area where Kutner shines is in the defamation section. Kutner is an expert at defamation, libel, slander, public figures, the First Amendment, and the best serum against defamation, la verdad: the Truth which as Jesus said sets you free. But, Kutner still cannot communicate the point effectively. For example, Kutner could take a whole hour explaing third party liability and no one would understand. And the simple explination could be done by a high school history professor. If a man parks too far out into the street and one car must pass the wrongly parked car, and thus a wreck insues due to blockage of the street the man who parked wrong is liable. And there you are, the explination. Kutner also shows too much focus on Enlgish common law and there by assumes that the US system of injustice is based on English common law for interpretation of American juris prudence. While study of all forms of law indicate the American system of injustice is based on both common law and statutory law combined. The American system of current injustice is based on the evolution of good statutory law such as the Code of Hamurabi, the Code of Justinian, tribal law (which Osborne Reynolds does write about quite well), the Bible, the Magna Carta, the Declaration of the rights of man, and the Bill of Rights itself, definately inspired by Divinity HIMSELF. Also, Kutner does not build up a good background and backup of simple torts in reference to complex Torts 3. People must totally know Intentional Torts, negligence, product liability, etc. to apply to intentional causation of breach of contract or marriage torts. In all, stay away from this book. Stay away from Kutner's classes, because complicated writing leads to complicated discourse which leads to madness on Kutner's final. Finally, stay away from the so called College of Law in which these gentlemen teach. Remember birds of a feather flock together. And in all cases this probably means there are others there who can't explain property law, or make criminal law way too ward due to musician genius, or all zealous in preserving the law school, or just can't help you learn the law. In the end, most of what you study for 400,000 hours to survive and end up to get a B-/C+ from these people is not worth the effort. English common law and American common law/statutory law/historical law mix have nothing in common and should not be based on each other. Trust me I should know about this a little since ah live in Scutland. My voice never seems to translate to enscription.

This summary of Kirkland's literary career dismisses all of Kirkland's work other than her first two frontier books. It belittles and blatantly misreads her writing and contains significant errors. It does little other than obscure the significance of this important writer.

In the case studies for abnormal sexual behaviors, along with Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, is listed that one of William Jefferson Clinton. If we consider the life of the former president an abnormal behavior instead of a political maneuvre to discredit a political opponent on an issue that it would be otherwise been accepted as a normal behavior from very many in the U.S. and abroad - many psychologists included - we teach a dangerous lesson and we set a dangerous standard. Such lesson would be very much welcomed by those people who exploit sexual personal issues to either state a twisted ethics (like Sen. Rick Santorum) or present a non-serious examination of sexual abnormal behavior, based on facts not always proved , like Mr. Meyer did in the case of Mr. Clinton.

A very disappointing book. This books seems to be a careless transcription of a similar Netware 4.x book. The book contains many technical errors (mainly things that relate to Netware 4 but are different in Netware 5) and is highly incomplete regarding new Netware 5 features (for example there is hardly any explanation on how to use SLP and directory agents in a pure-IP envirnment). A lot of space is also wasted on explaining networking fundementals (not related to NetWare), especailly since INETCFG, the tool to manage protocols and interfaces, is not explained at all. So what is the use of this long general lecture on networking if you don't explain on how to take benefit from that information in NetWare ?

All in all, I would not recommend this book to anyone. There must surely be much better books on NetWare 5.

It is too bad that this is required reading for a Java course, I think this book would be more effective lighting a fire than teaching you Java. It screams at you about keywords then fails to correctly use them itself.

My biggest problem with this book is the packages it uses. It doesn't bother actually using any standard java package, it uses a couple of third-party tools to try to teach you everything. Something called TerminalIO for the command line, and BreezySwing for gui. I'm surprised they didn't try to create their own System.out object for use especially with this book.