I did use this book for two semesters and I did pass my classes with good enough grades to go on to calculus. I didn't like how it was missing any practical applications for most of the material. isn't college about the time to reveal hou you are going to USE all this math you've learned? Oh well many challenging problems but I would not buy this book for my personal library.

This book is really intended for kids - it has tons of pictures about the development of calligraphy, specialized writing, etc. It has little insightful information to help the beginner gain the basic skills of calligraphy

This is a collection of papers that are related in some way to the topics of religion and music. I approached this book with several questions: What is the role of music in the religions of the world? What is the attitude of world religions towards music? However, very few essays in this book address these questions directly. In most similar books of edited papers, the introduction contains an overview of all the papers and how they fit together. Instead, Sullivan writes in his introduction a very philosophical piece on the meaning of music in general. A number of other essays are highly philosophical and rather hard to approach. Others are anthropological and highly descriptive, answering questions such as "What music is played during religious ceremonies of lesser known cultures and who plays the music? (Wakuenai-Hill; Choctaw-Levine; China-Pian)", or "Who was Major Jealous Divine, a reportedly musical pastor in early 20th century America?" (Harris), or "Where did the music of the Jewish people as an ethnic group originate?" (Shelemay). However, I found the 2 articles on music in Islam extremely illuminating, especially the one by Nasr, in which he lays out a typology of musical sounds in Islam from the religious, through the halal (permitted), to the contentious, to the haram (forbidden). Perhaps the questions I had in mind when I picked up this book are actually only interesting in an Islamic context. The other papers in the book are well written and will no doubt be of interest to someone, but they weren't what I was looking for.

This book was one of the first texts on project finance. Fortunately, others have been written. The book is superficial in content, and woefully out-of-date in perspective. Over half of the book is made up of old contract forms used in project finance deals closed long ago. To make matters worse, the book is published in an annoying "loose-leaf" format on cheap paper that tears easily. In my opinion, there are far better books on international project finance.

It's painful to describe the things that are wrong with this book. It should be far better. Best feature: it's beautifully printed. The photographic reproduction is superb. Worst features: the titles and the selection of pictures. The main title, "Landscapes of the Civil War," is incorrect because most of the photographs aren't landscapes, even in the loosest interpretation of the word. In accordance with the techniques of the period, most are pictures of people posed for the camera. This kind of picture, naturally, is generally of far greater historical interest than an actual landscape. While it's useful to know what the countryside looked like before battle struck - and afterwards as well - these points are generally far down the list. The subtitle, "Newly Discovered Photographs from the Medford [MA] Historical Society," is positively misleading. The photos are part of a hoard of more than 5000 prints found in the Society's attic in 1990. This was a truly remarkable find, and the photographs are valuable indeed. But the modifier "Newly Discovered" deliberately suggests that these are photographs of the war that we've never seen before. This emphatically is not true. As a wild guess, at least 90% are in the National Archives and available on that agency's Website. Many are readily found too in Dover's fine reprints of the work of Russell, Barnard, Brady and Gardner. To be fair, acknowledgment is given in "Landscapes" to some of these other printings. But the subtitle is so deceptive it's unworthy of the subject matter. I find the choice of pictures extremely strange. Most of them are thoroughly familiar to any Civil War buff - which is not to diminish their value and interest. Was there so little new in that Medford attic? Some shots, where the subject is so far away that no information is conveyed, are poor even by the standards of the time. The editor, Constance Sullivan, actually includes a few genuine landscapes (Barnard's at Lookout Mountain, for example), but these are boring even to the most enthusiastic collector of Civil War photographs. A final impression, which I haven't checked with care. Prints made from damaged plates show the same defects here that are found in other published printings. They weren't made before the negatives were injured. This book not only presents nothing new, it gives us the familiar flaws we're so eager NOT to find in favorite photographs. It's splendid that Medford has these pictures. But the major shortcoming of the book is that nearly everyone else who wants them has them too.

I bought this book after about 10 seconds thought. The title was inspiring to me and I was hoping that it would lead me through Sullivan's methodology of decoration. Louis Sullivan is one of my favorite architects. After wading through the first few pages, however, I found the text almost impossible to follow. I began flipping pages to look at the pictures, but didn't find much inspiration there either. I'll keep looking for the great Sullivan book I'm dreaming of.

Mostly out-of-date information, although some is still useful. Even the useful information was difficult to find and not very clearly written. It may be a good source to the most basic of techniques. Better sources are available.

This book is deficient in providing information regarding the well documented and real risks in SSRI antidepressants. It seems little more than a restating of drug company propaganda. It does not adequately discusss the risks of akasthesia, tardive dyskinesia, risk of suicidality, sexual dysfunction, neurotoxicity, and other numerous side effects. The public is ill served by further reassurance that these toxic agents are safe and effective. The book is also deficient in discussing safe, effective alternatives to SSRIS such as St John's Wort, SAM-e, Omega 3 oils, dietary and lifestyle changes, psychotherapy, and spiritual work.

Ronald Feintech, Ph.D.

Despite its claim to offer the latest news regarding antidepressants, this book basically is compilation of already published information. It barely mentions the newer classes of drugs (post SSRIs: Remeron, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Serzone) and doesn't even mention the most popular SSRI in the world, Celexa. As far as I could tell, the author, a pharmacist and not a doctor, got all of his anecdotal evidence from one actual physician--the one who wrote the brief introduction. There is nothing in this book that one couldn't easily find surfing the Internet (particularly at these drugs' own Web sites) in about half an hour.

This book, published in April 1999, claims to offer "new information" on the new antidepressants. If you have not done any research whatsoever on these drugs you may find this to be true. However over 1/2 of this book is dedicated to a review of each of the 4 antidepresants in the title. The information is almost straight out of the technical documents already published by the manufactures of the drugs. Additionally the author is a pharmicist and NOT an M.D. I do not mean to knock the pharmacy profession but I would feel more comfortable getting this kind of information from a qualified M.D. I must admit that I had done research on these drugs on my own prior to reading this text. If you are considering using these drugs and have not done any research you will find a lot of useful information here.

Incomplete instructions, mis-information due to not having beenreviewed for accurracy before publishing!! And, I am only on chapter6. This is my first disappointment with a purchase @amazon.com.

Book has a very basic presentation,and is easy to follow. It was advertized as having 160 pages, but only has 146-including index. It will get you started, but does not even mention statistical procedures such as regression analysis and standard deviation, which are the main strengths and useages of the Quattro Pro Program, as far as I am concerned. Most of what is in the book could easily be gleaned from the "Help" menu. Much of the instruction is common to "Windows 95" methods, so therefore is redundant. This is the first book I will be returning to Amazon for a refund.