Taken as a work of humor rather than the work of a serious logician, this book is worth a laugh or two. Perkins is right on the money when he points out Limbaugh's logical errors, but Limbaugh is just too easy a target to form the basis of a serious introduction to the subject of logic. I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that Limbaugh's ad hominem statements are fallacious and lack intellecutal reasoning.

Hmm, but then given the lock-step mentality of Limbaugh's dittoheads, maybe it does take a rocket scientist.

Buy the book! Read it, enjoy it! You won't be sorry.

Professor Perkin's book is excellent for two main reasons. First, the beginning chapters are an easy to follow general introduction to the philosophy of logic for the average layperson (like moi). While it does not go very far in depth, the most useful and basic definitions of deductive and inductive arguments and their forms and fallacies are given. Second, in a calm and light mannered tone, it skewers what has always bothered me most about the Limbaugh phenomena: a desire on the part of his admirers (including himself), many in powerful political and media circles, to pass him off as an astute political thinker/critic, instead of what he is: a loud-mouth blabbing his opinions (which, of course, he has the perfect right to do). Perkins stresses that his book is not about saying Rush's opinions are incorrect, merely that the arguments and logic he uses to back up theses views are, to be charitable, sub-par. For an astute political thinker/critic Limbaugh's logical skills are poor and if you want to read examples of Rush playing fast and loose with the facts check out the book, "The Way Things Aren't". Limbaugh, like too many people on both sides of the political spectrum, is a shallow, lazy thinking reactionary. He isn't about embracing any political philosophy or ideology, merely a platform. That which is deemed in the media or public consciousness as "liberal", well, he's against it. Without listening to his program or reading either of his books, I can tell you his opinions on any major political or social issue, and no, I'm not psychic (It's easy, you try it!). Perkin's book is a great example of how Limbaugh (and yes, there are some on the left as well) is a master of what perhaps could be dubbed the anti-Socratic Method.

This book is an absolute MUST READ for anyone that prefers to think for themselves. Teaching elementary logic using the statements of Rush is brilliant! Not only does the reader review logic, but they also see how illogical Rush really can be.

Give this to anyone who takes Rush seriously, and enjoy them making such statements as "taken out of context" and "well, he's only an entertainer." Most dittoheads will refuse to read it- "liberal propaganda" they'll say. Then again, that's how Rush treats the truth as well.

A great read!

Consider the following statement from page 256. Here's some "early lessons" from the "new economy":

Dot-com startups as well as clicks-and-mortar strategies can be viable for B2B for B2C ecommerce if the applications leverage Internet technologies AND a marketplace strength.

Aren't you glad you bought the book? You ALSO need a marketplace strength to be successful, not just the Internet stuff. Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?

This text has a tendancy to give misleading information or entirely incorrect information. Even in the most basic concepts, the authors misuse terms or create terms used nowhere else in the IT industry. The authors relay their lack of understanding for basic computer concepts in this supposedly 2001 updated edition.

As an example for those who are literate in IT, the authors make statements such as "virtual memory is used only on larger computer systems". Got a 6 year old computer running MS Windows? You've got virtual memory.

If you wish to learn about IT, please find another book written by authors who understand the field, not business professors.

I am finding this book as an extremely useful reference tool for writing my senior thesis at Rutgers University (NJ) on the Internet and B2B transactions. I find it very easy to read and useful, and some of the case studies are very interesting and helpful. Some of the other buyers don't seem to think the book is worth its price but I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH THEM. I believe the book is worth its price.

This book isn't as powerful as I had hoped. It was a weak general introduction, and not enough to get you going all by itself. I was dissappointed that the postgresql syntax in the book didn't seem to still be the same as the syntax used in the postgresql version included in Red Hat 7.3.
This left me high and dry on how many arguments to pass to the pg_connect command. I was treated better by the MySQL database.

My expectations might have been set better if the title was something like "Special Edition Teach Yourself Relational Databases Using PostgreSQL in 24 Hours For Dummies".

I think this book is extremely thin on useful relevant content, although not completely without value; nevertheless, the books "PostgreSQL Essential Reference" and "Begininning Databases with PostgreSQL" are available now, and in my opinion they are vastly more useful than this book.

NB: "Practical PostgreSQL" is not out yet as I write this review.

I looked through several PostgreSQL books before deciding to buy this one. It had everything I needed to get PostgreSQL up and running in Linux. I especially like the sections on the different API's available. It covers more languages and has more details about the API's than the other books I saw, which is surprising for a book that's not that big. The sections on PL/PGSQL and the Tcl interface are very good. I think it's more geared to developers than administrators. The only complaint I have is that it didn't go into a lot of detail on setting up security, I had to dig through the official docs for that. Overall, I'm very pleased with the book. It's not a complete reference, but it's a good introduction that will get you started.

We bought this book for company work and only
to realize that it doesn't teach us very much.
We are looking for real content. Names of authors
do not matter much to us. We are a major technical
consultancy company working on state-of-the-art
technologies.. Pls guys, provide more content
instead of editing.

It`s just a "collection" of OLD papers. You can get anything
in this book other sources. Ad hoc network is changing very
fast, it`s really a bad idea to publish things that will
outdate soon.

Truly the best of research is collected in this book. In depth analysis on all important topics in ad hoc networks.
It is really a collection of some of the best works in this field(not a coherent book),... so it should be read as such.
Excellent experience.

We read that theirs is a perfect society but there are no particulars about health,, education, child-rearing, or politics. The author seems to be saying that only without men or sex can we achieve a Utopian culture. It was much more a treatise on feminism than a novel with 3-dimensional characters and an interesting story line.

In her Utopian novel Herland, written in 1915, Charlotte Perkins Gilman anticipates many of the problems of the 20th century, from pollution to over-population. Essentially a work of science fiction, the novel portrays a culture developed in isolation that has focused on principles of love, sharing, nuturing, reason and continuous improvement. While not great literature, Herland offers fascinating insights into a rational approach to designing a society. The Signet Classic edition also contains 20 intriguing short stories written from a feminist perspective. This is the book I will be giving at the holidays! It deserves a wider audience.

I felt as though the content exhibited limited, dated knowledge of the industry. I found more up-to-date, valuable and useful information on products and services through The Basket Connection.

Very helpful in business planning and marketing for a new gift basket business, but was very disappointed with the suppliers list. I wrote to approx. half of the suppliers on this list and received at least ONE THIRD of my letters back as undeliverable/no such address/forwarding expired,etc. Therefore, I feel that this book is a little expensive for the information that I received in it

The most offensive thing about this book is to state that Cary Grant was gay or even bi. I have gay friends that were bothered by it because it makes gays look desparate to be excepted. Cary Grant was an incredible man who cared much for the world. Him being gay would not be offensive but lying about him to make money is offensive to anyone, gay or not. I'm sure most men, gay or not would agree. I at least hope so.

I liked it, yes, but, I liked "Hollywood Lesbians" a bit better. It is a wonderful premise, talking to stars about their homosexuality, but, I believe that it should not have been written unless it was a bit more revealing in it's topic. Kudos to Mr. Hadleigh who is a knowledgable writer. I would have liked to know more though (a lot was hidden even still. the reader is told this. that right there gave me a sign that all is not right with this book).

Books like The Celluloid Closet and Hollywood Babylon abound with rumors about the sexual appetites of Hollywood stars. Boze Hadleigh's Gays in Hollywood, however, seeks to provide first-hand reports. An entertainment journalist since the 1960's, Hadleigh conducted volumes of off-the-record interviews with celebrities reputed to be gay or bisexual such as Cary Grant, Paul Lynde and Anthony Perkins, as well as less well-remembered actors like Randolph Scott and William Haines. In these interviews, often given only with the understanding that they would not be published during the star's life, Hadleigh attempts to get normally secretive actors to speak about their guarded sexual lives. The results vary widely, but even the "unsuccessful" interviews can be fascinating. Some stars like Paul Lynde, James Coco and Cesar Romero, speak freely and provide valuable accounts of what it was like to be gay in an industry filled with double lives and convenience marriages. Others like Cary Grant and Anthony Perkins are more elusive, but not without revelations about co-workers and peers. And one in particular is not so kind: at the end of his interview, an exceptionally ruffled Liberace expels Hadleigh from his mansion with imperial fury. Like his earlier volumes Conversations With My Elders and Lesbians in Hollywood, Hadleigh's work is somewhat journalistically suspect. He claims that for most of these interviews, he was not allowed to tape record or take notes, and frequently the questions seems stiltedly reconstructed and retroactively self-righteous. Still, the interviews are highly entertaining and provide an important alternative view of the film industry's social history. Recommended for both general readers and scholars of gay history / film studies.

"Warriors of Heaven" presents the celestial races in a manner that is both flat and without controversy. One of the highlights of the Planescape setting has always been that no one--particularly not the "authoritative" authors of official products--knows the whole story of the planes--they are simply too vast. As a result, PS products are known to present theories, alternate views, different takes depending on one's standpoint, wild speculations, misinformation, and even downright contradictions. Not here. No, everything here is cut and dried and told to you by a godlike narrator--as opposed to the nine or so different speakers (each with different knowledge, tone, and agenda) that illuminated for us the Faces of Evil.

Well, then, what about the information you do get? It would be useful if you wanted to introduce a few celestial-themed adventures into a non-PS campaign, but as far as those of us who like the planes themselves as a setting, there is really almost nothing new or useful here--unless one is really enamored of tables for game mechanics, and has no interest in the actual characterization of the ways, manners, cultures, and beliefs of the celestials.

Shall I sum it up? Warriors of Heaven has 75 tables and charts of mechanical statitics cluttering its 90 pages. Faces of Evil has none in its 95. If you want a rich, insightful analogue of Faces of Evil, then this is not for you. If you are dying to introduce a 3rd level Deva into your Forgotten Realms campaign, this is probably something worth reading. If there is to be a Faces of Good, apparently someone will have to write it for the internet.

Sorely disappointing. Eladrins and Guardinals become mortal, not to mention the Asuras. The impact this has is it takes away a bit of the character of the planeborn. The methods by which PCs can be made from Celestials (most, not all) was also disappointing.If you don't mind a Leonal with a STR-15,DEX-14,CON-13,INT-12,WIS-14,CHR-15 then this is the book for you. If you aren't into seeing the planeborn being reduced to planar elves and rakasta, save your money.Many of the spells were not new either, being only repeats that may be found in other books, hardly unique to Celestials. This book isn't a companion to "Faces of Evil" so be prepared for it to concentrate on giving stats for making weak planeborn PCs (the weak Celestials Lanterns and so forth, were understandable, but not Leonal, Tulani, etc.)and not significantly defining the culture of those creatures. A few decent ideas were presented, but far too few and those few couldn't outweigh the many powerfully horrific ideas that even counters earlier Planescape material without offering any good explanations as to why. Most products of this type usually reintroduce the creature(s) being presented in a manner that makes them more spectacular than ever. This time though, the opposite has occured. I know for one I will be ignoring many of the rules presented in this release from TSR. Do yourself a favor, save your money.

This is basically a weaker rewrite of Mayfair Games' Sentinels product, which TSR won in their lawsuit against the third-party developer several years back. Forced into the basic AD&D Cosmology, this product still borrows in spirit from the original source. As a fan of MFG's Role-aids product line, I appreciated the effort, but it was not nearly as well done as Shaman, Chronomancer, or the latest, the Guide to Hell. Still, it does introduce some good possibilities for a Planescape game, and as such, a creative DM can use this product as a springboard for greater adventure possibilities later. But still, I'd recommend the old MFG Sentinels and Demons supplements, if you can find them.

I opened this book with high hopes, being a huge fan of Tony Perkins, and was disappointed to find it consists largely of flippant remarks/opinions by its author rather than any serious probing or insight into this remarkable theatrical family. As a listing of career moments, it is fine, but as a biography or anything deeper than a roster, it is very thin. Some of the so-called chapters are merely one paragraph long, in which the author says she could not come up with any info.

This is basically a textbook, quite dry and academic, except for the author's occasional slips of mild witticism which occasionally make up an entire chapter (usually when she was unable to come up with any hard information). I found this admirable for its obvious effort, but ultimately unsatisfying as it offers little to no insight into either Perkins personally, and has a funny tone of proprietariness and prudishness. Also, why the high price? Not worth it. Stick with the biography.

Laura Kay Palmer's book was a treat and is a treat to any Anthony Perkins fan. She covers absolutely every bit of work Tony ever did and thankfully exposes what a gifted and brilliant actor/director/screenwriter/singer he was and always will be. It helps considerably that she knows whereof she speaks. Her reviews of his music and film and television work,(that which was available), are incisive, intelligent and unbiased, contrary to what one might expect from a fan of his work. When she likes a film that was poorly received by critics and public alike, she supports herself very well and backs up her competent criticism with elements of the work in question that failed to dawn on critics of that time. She also speaks out heartily against the "post-Psycho revisionism" that almost completely destroyed any respect he had as an actor up to this point. She also conjures up quite an impressive bibliography, which is worth reading by itself. Pick this up instead of Charles Winecoff's SPLIT IMAGE.

I was looking through this in a bookstore to see if it would be a good recommendation for a friend wanting to learn java. Save your money. Lemay turns simple concepts into convoluted blather. There are better books with fewer errors.

1. This book contains too many erors. most examples do not work. 2. It has NO JAVA 1.1 in it. 3.How it got published is a mystery. Anyone wants to learn JAVA needs to look elsewhere. this one SUCKS! To Laura (the author) Do this world a favor,write about things you really know and write less. T.I.A

Although the title of the book is "Java 1.1 Interactive Course" it does not handle Java 1.1 except as supplements, I do not recommend it for people who want to learn 1.1 There are some glaring errors - on p 118 it says that the loop test in a for loop is carried out after each pass of the loop! On page 141 main() does not instantiate the class Car. Some more care in proof reading is called for. The chapters on abstract classes and interfaces are very short, and remain abstract. The form of the quizzes as multiple choice questions isn't very good for learning - small exercises would be much more effective