This book takes the reader through a comprehensive survey of major U.S. foreign policy from the early days of U.S. existence up to the publish date. It is thorough yet not so detailed that it bogs you down.

This book is very helpful to me as a veterinary technician student. The guide is easy to read, and the laboratory technique directions are easy to follow. The color hematology photos are very useful in identification of cell types. A little bit of all lab techniques are displayed in this book. It's a great lab book for a student or anyone else who needs a review. I reccomend it to add to your veterinary technician library.

Everyone with even a causal interest in business valuation respects Shannon Pratt. He lives up to his reputation in The Market Approach. My favorite is the contrast and comparison of the different data available for private transactions.

If there is any criticism, it has to be his subtle efforts to market Pratt's Stats. No one would blame him too much for that.

I use this book (and the entire series, for that matter) for my Adult Education classes. I've used and examined other teaching vehicles, and the thing that impressed me the most about this one is that the students get to create their own simple database from scratch. All other training programs I've seen use samples of databases that have already been created, so the student never has the opportunity to actually build one. Another nice feature (lacking in all other books I've seen) is the section on relating a database program to everyday use through lab exercises and case studies.

The illustrations are superb and the procedures are easy to follow (sometimes too easy. The user tends to anticipate steps, thereby missing something).

Of course, nothing is perfect, but the problems with the Shelley/Cashman series are minimal. In the Access 97 book, for instance, there is a note advising the user to make a copy of the diskette that comes with the book, and then dele! te all files except the image files. The reason for this is that further along in the book, the students will be using OLE to link to the image files and, since the sample database and the image files are both on floppies, this was not possible with a PC that has only one floppy drive. The main problem with this note was that it was small and easy to miss (and everyone, including me, did miss it). It was also presented way too early in the book, in an area of the training program where it wasn't needed. In my case, it was four weeks before the users needed to know the OLE procedures.

Other than that, I'd highly recommend the series to anyone.

This guide to Access 97 was very easy to use, but very thorough. I found it a great resource, even though I am now running Access 2000.

This book is in an easy to read format. It has activities for the reader to do, so that he/she will gain a better knowledge of Microsoft Office 2000. Some parts of the book were difficult to understand, but overall it is a well written book.

This is a great textbook! This book is very easy to follow, as it has provided step-by-step instructions on how to do each of the chapters in this book and of Office XP. It also has a chapter review section with more exercises.

These books are helpful and a good way to study for boards. Many people do not know how to approach board review - with these books you can set yourself a goal of 50 or 100 questions per day. Answers include explanations so you're not forced to look up wrong answers and try to determine where got confused. Plus, the actual board exam questions are actually easier than these. A good tune-up!

This is a guide book for diving the Puget Sound (Seattle area and more), the San Juan Islands, and British Columbia (Vancouver, Victoria and More). Each site includes Skill level, Why go, Access, Bottom and depths, hazards, Facilities and other comments. Also each has a map, and some sort of photo (surface or U/W). The maps are just NOAA duplications and I would think they would be better in a larger scale. Overall you can't really miss with this book. It has 141 good ideas about where you might try diving in the Northwest. Some of the information may be a little dated now, but I can't find many examples of that. I am also not sure how this book meshes with her other books that seem to be more specifically aimed at individual areas: that is, more narrowly focused. Good book, well worth the price for any northwest diver.

I first learned of the ideas contained in this book while at New York University's Stern School of Business. One of my friends was working for Saatchi & Saatchi while the research and book was being compiled. At the time (1997/98), Kevin Roberts had delivered several speeches and written a few articles on the initial research findings. Despite the fact that the ideas and concepts were still being refined, they made a lasting impression.

Based upon this initial experience, I was very excited to finally get a copy of the book. I wasn't dissappointed. Typically, I prefer business books with a lot of material that can be quickly implemented. I generally shy away from books that rely too heavily on war stories. However, the stories contained within "Peak Performance" are transparent -- its quite simple to see how the ideas/concepts can be applied at your organization. Furthermore, since the stories are based on sports teams which many of us are already familiar, they are that much more powerful. For maximum effect, I recommend that "Peak Performance" be read in conjunction with "Follow This Path" -- another great book on individual and team performance (in the context of strategic human resources). Grade: "A-"