Although several people had recommended this book to me, I found it to be lacking both in the number of schools listed and the information regarding each school. Not a single one of the schools I am investigating is reviewed in this book. Where is Lamplighter? Where is Callier? There is nothing in this book you cannot find by a simple internet search. Don't waste your time or money with this book!

I was not impressed with this book at all. It is as though the author sent a questionnaire to each school and then simply published whatever she received back, with absolutely no research or investigation. The information is organized 3 different ways, none of which are intuitive or easy to maneuver. It seems as if they were just looking for a way to fill up the book. Many of the top name schools are not listed, which makes me wonder how many of the lesser-known name schools are missing. Some of the schools profiles read like an advertisement from their brochure. There is more information online that is worthwhile and helpful, not to mention many of the private schools now have web sites...

This book does not have all the DFW Private schools listed. There isn't any information in this book that you could not find on the website. Just factoids. There are so many schools left out, I don't trust any of the information. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hockaday, Jesuit. Just visit their websites and save your (money)!

I just took an intro to particle physics class as a fifth year undergraduate who has had all of the usual courses that one is supposed to have to be able to at least gain a glimpse into the world of particles. This book by Perkins is one of the worst textbooks that I have ever had to use. The examples were limited if any, and the problems seemed not to correlate with the content of the chapters at all. The problems that I did work on I had to reference other texts just to get an idea of what he was talking about. I have to say that Griffiths' (whose EM book was great and his quantum book not all that bad) was much more mathematical and clear, as well as Halzen and Martin. I agree with the other comment. Get another book before ever buying this book. Plus my Professor was not too thrilled with it as well. I ended up buying the Griffiths text in the end, which helped a lot.

My undergrauate particle physics class use this book, and I can't complain enough about it! I am sure many in my class share the same opinion. I must admit that earlier reviews are right. It is a very comprehensive servey of high energy physics, but the writting is simply bad! It's so obscure, hard to understand, and extremely fragmented. Here is an event that should keep anyone interested from buying it. We were assigned a problem in the book as a homework problem. The professor later had to take it out of the problem set because appearntly, the problem concern a session of the book that's already TAKEN OUT of the 4th EDITION!!!!
I would recommend Griffiths book, except that that book doesn't emphasize on concept as much I suppose...o well, it's your call...but I'd say: DROP THIS.

Speaking as a graduate student in physics who is condemned to sort through this abominable text, I strongly discourage anyone from engaging in this book if they are given the choice. It's presentation is extremely fragmented, and explanations obscure - survey unlucky students who are condemned to this text and they will tell you that learning particle physics has been a matter of finding other strong treatments. Not at all recommended. I am disturbed by the five star marks awarded by Amazon.

and it was from that point that I really did finish reading this book.

The book deals with our recalcitrant hero, Harris, a small time hood that escapes from New York to, believe it or not, Cuernavaca, to go into hiding from some other small time hoods that he had cheated out of sufficient money for him to enjoy 500 dollar prostitutes.

And, oh well, that want the story is mostly about to decide whether the mexican, and some Califonia girls that Harris beds are actually prostitutes or just whores that enjoy the attention.

Although the book was interesting I can't really say that it was all that erotic though the author certainly did do some study of the strange and wonderfull in Mexico.

So if you are expecting eroticism, dont buy the book, if you are expecting lots of great sex, dont buy the book, if you ecpection an in depth look at the Mexican culture, dont buy the book .... otherwise .. well .. nuff said OK

I have bought almost all of the SNMP/RMON books and they are really nothing more than the RFC's a bit better formated and indexed. I had great hopes for this book, because Perkins "Understanding SNMP Mibs" was excellent. However, this book is no different from the dozen others that I have read. If you want a nice reference book and already have an understanding of RMON this book is nice. If your looking for insight or more explanation than the RFC's you will not find it here.

I found this book in a used book store. This book is certainly a great resource for developers starting to use Cafe, but the CD only has source code, and is not accessible for developers that do not have Visual Cafe. Throughout the book, numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes were found. This book certainly needs an errata.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman stands out as a feminist. She is known for her short stories, but is also wrote a novel, Herland, and a couple articles on women in society during the late 1800's. Her short stories are not all based on feminism, but rather life lessons. Her novel is creative but unrealistic. Her articles, "women and Economics" and "The Man Made World" are very repetitive. She expresses the same views with every point she is trying to make: the point being that men dominate almost every aspect of life, politics, marriage, money, society, and family life.
Her fiction is enjoyable reading. It not only could appeal to women but also men, because it does not focus only on feminist views. She expresses ideas on life that men and women share. There is always a clear image of what is going on in the story.
Her articles are very bitter, and her arguments are based on the same idea, that men rule and it is unfair to think that women are incapable of what men do. She talks mostly of what women don't do, and nothing of what women are able to do. Reading one section of both of her articles put together is like reading the whole thing. Young women today may find it hard to relate to her views, because things have changed drastically from 1890 to today.
As a feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was outspoken and strong with her one view. If there is an interest in Gilman, read her novel or short stories. They are much more interesting then her repetitive feminist articles.

I got this book hoping for a good introduction to Java; I got a garbage-y book and a useless CD-ROM. First of all, the version of the software on the CD does NOT work. I wasted hours trying to relate it to the software described in the book; and it's not even the same thing!!!! If you want us to buy a full version of a compiler, FINE...but please stick to what's on the CD, otherwise the whole damn thing is useless. I went out and got J++ 6.0 and the J++ Programmer's Guide (both from Microsoft) instead, and it is ten million times better. Don't waste your money on this book; in this case, go with Microsoft.

Worthless, at least to a beginner. The code in the samples and on the disk don't match up, the code contradicts instructions given in the text, unexplained logical leaps are plentiful, and the copy editing is shameful considering these people are accepting money for this thing. Bad, bad, bad! Run, don't walk, as far away from this book as you can!

This would be a 5 star book had the version of Roaster™ provided been a full or at least usable version!

Like most other books published by Sam's, Teach yourself Visual J++ in 21 days really lacks any learning value. Subjects are often incomplete, wordy or skip important explainations. In addition to it's lack of quality, this book has several mistypes or mistakes. I would not recommend this book even to an experienced OOP programmer wanting to get a grasp on J++.

This was the first Java book I bought. Once I realized that the book was incredibly buggy and that it wasn't me screwing something up, I was able to learn a small bit about Java (just because I had to go digging in another manual to find out why my applets didn't work after following the examples). In a nut shell, this book taught me how bad Visual J++ is. I was determine to stick with Microsoft products but I just couldn't stands no more.

All in all, I felt this to be a good investment, and Ive used it as a reference, which is saying a lot. As other reviewers have said, at times the source code could be better, but then one learns correcting other bugs, right? Good coverage of the basics and more advanced topics, such as inheritance, interfaces, packages, and OO development. In any case, this is an excellent into to Java and J++. The best book of its kind (Ive been burned by others). Id buy and advanced version by this author.

This is a modern erotic story where our heroine, licentious (...) that she is, ties up with a wealthy man and his wife and secretary into an escapade that, unfortunatlely becomes muddled in the middle of the book ....

I was Ok until abt the middle of the book when our heroine, Katherin, flies to a Pacific island with her supposed mystery man to meet up with his very sexually liberated wife Miranda .... after that the story seemed to completely fall appart for me ...

Yes the sex is hot in this book that is why it rates 1 star .... also ... seems to me that the publisher or someone goofed because the back cover of the book, and the ed review talks about some girl named 'Anna' ... troed has hard a sI could to fnd an Anna in the book ... I also think the person that did the ed review also only read the first half of the book and then got the name wrong ... LOL

I guess Ill just have to put this book 'Dark Games ' into a dark corner ....

Please note that the Michael C. Perkins who co-authored 'The Internet Bubble' and 'A Cool Billion' is NOT the same one who wrote this particular book.