About the best thing I can say about this book is that it gives hope to those plugging away at novels that just about anyone can get published nowadays. I'm in agreement with the majority of reviewers who complained about the novel's lack of editing and disjointed story line. In fact, the only reviewer who defended the mistakes and praised this book is from Houston where, coincidentally, the author currently resides.

I was hoping for something along the lines of John Ross' _Unitended Consequences_. I bought this overpriced read along with _Term Limits_ and found them both a waste of time. If you liked UC, you wont like this. Completely non-libertarian, to boot.

Blind Luck was an entertaining story, but the errors -- grammar, spelling, usage, punctuation, etc. -- made it a difficult read. I also found the description of the characters as "a group of yuppies" to be highly inaccurate. "Beer-guzzling, unemployed 20-somethings" would have been more accurate. The book proves that anyone with a decent imagination can get a book published, regardless of their writing skill. It also proves that any company with a word-processor could call itself a publisher, regardless of their knowledge of grammar, usage, punctuation, etc. While I understand that most books contain a few errors, it was very distressing to me that I could have used a red pen to make corrections on every other page -- at least! I found the story to be entertaining, and if the types of errors mentioned above don't bother you, you'll like it too!

I noticed that there will be a new edition of this text - I hope the authors took the criticisms of the old edition to heart. After using this book for a child development course, I was horrified to see how indeed very racist some parts of this book are. And it's the kind of new-age, oblivious breed of racism that is ironically based in a compulsion to be "diverse" and politically correct.

The depiction of the black family was too stereotypical - and thus offensive - for words. It almost became a satire of middle-class liberal racism, because the story of "Malcolm and Momma Jo" is obviously the way that the authors perceive the lifestyle of a typical African American family. Sroufe, et al should be ashamed of themselves.

These comments are meant to be constructive. I'm actually passionate about my psychology studies, have a 4.0 and hope to be a psychiatrist. I feel incredibly disappointed, shortchanged and offended to have had this book as our required text.

This book follows hypothetical situations of 4 kids, the writer's aging them as the chapters go thru developmental ages. The box has very good information, but is hard to read and a bit dry. I did learn a lot from the book, which is the purpose and would recommend it to others.

I felt the need to submit a review on this textbook, since the other reviews I read on the text not only didn't do justice, but didn't seem to have much thought and consideration put into them. Perhaps the reviewers with poor opinions on the text were using the book for a course they didn't care much for, and were taking merely to fulfill a general education requirement. In classes where instructors know most of the students are taking the course merely to fulfill a blank slot on their transcript, a more elementary and less expensive text could be considered. So, I would call that poor thinking on the school or professor's part. *I* took the Child Development course which I did, not only to fulfill some credits I still needed, but because I'm very interested in the subject as well as a degree in child developmental psychology or other psychology related degree. I didn't find the text to be in the least bit dry. I thought it was extremely well thought out and put together. This was one of the very few textbooks I actually read cover to cover during my 5 years of college. I even read a few chapters at the end that our class didn't have time to cover, purely for interest's sake. I go back to this book again and again. I have let friends with young children borrow the book after having highlighted sections for them to read which I thought would be helpful in their everyday understanding of their own children. This book will stay on my shelf until it is completely outdated, and will be reviewed and looked at again often. It is invaluable to me.

I have used other books in this series and was quite happy with them. But after reading the first few pages in this poorly constructed book, I could see it was only going to frustrate me with it's blatant and carelees errors. Some of the questions were appreciated, but over all it was not worth the time to even scan over it. Too many errors for my liking...Here is a simple explaination found before the 1st chapter.....We all know that the minimum RAM required to install Sever 4.0 is 16MB...right? According to this book..both Workstation and Server require 32MB!!!! DAHHHH

I've read several books on the MCSE courses. All of them have some errors. Some have more than others. This one has more than any I've come across. I do not recommend using this book at all. For the money, there are many other places you can acquire a bank of questions that are substantially more acccurate and relevant.

In comparison to the Exam Cram Networking Essentials I found this publication to be more than adequate. In fact I managed to pass the exam mainly through the questions in the book. Yes, there are errors, but if you know your basics you will pick them out. Yes, the publisher should have proofed it better. But on the whole I found that many of my exam questions had something in common with those in the book. This was a second purchase from this series and it's a cheaper method than Transcender

I'm a big Star Trek fan, but I didn't really like this book at all. I didn't even finish it, because reading it felt like the piece of metal that was wedged into Spock's back. And I know that the ST novels are set outside the regular Star Trek continuity, but the jump from Original Enterprise to first movie Enterprise in just a few months after an onboard explosion? Give me some credit.

I'm planning to release my copy via BookCrossing at a movie theatre after Star Trek Nemesis opens, so I hope it'll end up with someone who'll like it more than I did.

I am a fan of Star Trek, mainly DS9 and Next gen. But I do not mind pulling out an original Trek novel and giving it a read. However this one is lost in warp space. The author seems to be having difficulty with Trek in general. The Characters I will admit must not be easy to do or the universe itself. But some do it better than others and this one just doesn't come together. The plot seems jumpy and put together rather than a smooth progression. The characters just don't seem right. If you have to have every Trek book then get it. Otherwise you may want to give it a miss.

So Leonard Nimoy would probably never play Spock this way. But this book is FUN! Especially for romantic Spock fans who like to see him play the rogue. A fun, light read for Spock lovers everywhere.

This book, while trying to clarify the subject of implementing design patterns in VB and VB.net, mostly manages to confuse.

Since I had read the GOF book "Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" before I purchased this book, "visual basic design patterns" by Cooper, I was pretty familiar with the patterns and the solutions for the 23 patterns outlined by the GoF. However, Cooper manages to make his book hard to follow by not including complete code samples and by literally jumping to different examples to illustrate the same pattern. The reader is never really gets a chance to "get in the groove" with the author. It seems to me to be like a poorly edited movie with too many unneeded jump cuts in the middle of the same scene.

If you've never tried to code up the patterns in VB before ( as I hadn't), you absolutely **MUST** open and look at the completed sample code on the cd while reading the book to comprehend and "grok" the VB solutions.

Interestingly, I had no trouble at all reading and comprehending the majority of the GoF book, "Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" on a first and only read through it... ...So I know it's not an issue of basic comprehension with this VB pattern book, it's just poorly organized.

Truth be told, what this book needs is to be re-edited a couple of times for clarity. It has great potential, and but it forces you to run the cd while reading the text to follow the completed patterns.

That is all well and good, but in my opinion the text in a book should stand alone. This principal is used in all the other programming books I have read. (over 150) This is particularly bad if you are trying to read the book while **NOT** propped up in front of a computer. --- i.e. at the airport or on the back porch at home.

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Other reviewer already pointed the trend of making such books. I have to say even the first book in his series (Java) is not a good book.
Comparing these books with the original GoF book, the only credit I can give the author is giving an example to each pattern, which is quite a easy job for anyone who knows both the pattern and the language. The GoF book gives much better explaination for patterns (with examples in c++). Therefore this book is only useful to someone who has no knowledge of c++. Even for these people, I would recommand to read this book with GoF book together, GoF first for understanding one pattern, then this book for example of that pattern.

The source code implementation of the design patterns presented in this book differ radically bewteen vb6 and vb.net (as one might presume). Unfortunately, the vast majority of the supporting text is geared towards presenting an understanding of the vb6 code. It appears as though the vb.net(vb7...) material was added as an afterthought(in a rush), probably after the book had already been largely written. The vb7 material is brief, vague and frankly incorrect in some of the examples! Please don't make your future(?) customers pay for the fact that you got caught with a finished book on a technology platform(vb6), whose sunset was imminent.

There's nothing new here. Old facts, little analysis, a boring narrative. More of a fan magazine profile than an in-depth biography. Very poorly done.

Though still seen today on cable Gary Cooper's movies only tell part of the story. A man that never said 2 words when one would do or even one when a look would do. The book helps us all to understand this Legend of the screen better. Little known facts about his childhood and extensive education are revealed. Proving that images of silence often conceal greater intelligence than the ramblings of the self absorbed.

Cooper's book does some things quite well. While most courses on PDE's are reduced to repetitive applications of separation of variables and Fourier series, Cooper offers a new approach. He goes by equation rather than by technique, and introduces nonlinear equations and numerical methods very early. Separation of variables and Fourier series do not come up until Chapter 4. The first chapter, which reviews elements of analysis, is a very good reference. MATLAB is well incorporated throughout the text.

The reason I do not rate this book more highly is that the writing is unbelievably sloppy. There are at least five typos per chapter, usually more. Crucial things, like Green's first identity, are misprinted. There are dozens of typos in the answers in the back, which makes it very hard to check your work.

Judging just by the content, this is a very good book. However, the misprints in the math (to say nothing of those in the text) are so severe that I would not recommend buying it until a better-proofread edition comes out.

This is a fairly challenging text. It's currently being used in my undergrad PDE course, and the flow of material is a bit out of the ordinary. The book starts off with the method of characteristics and weak solutions, which are slightly more sophisticated and unusual topics than some of the later material, making it difficult to get started. The focus on using Matlab is nice, and most things are fairly well-explained. Typographical errors are rampant, however, making it very poor for self-study (you need someone to point out the errors to you).

All in all, not bad -- the second edition will hopefully be much better, and if you have a decent grounding in multivariate calc and ODE's, you'll be OK.

This is the sort of guide for people who need a guide to walk out the front door of their house. The advice about money exchange is completely outdated now that ATM's are found nearly everywhere in the world. The guide misses several interesting areas of France, most notably the Ardeche region. It completely misses the mark on Vieux Nice by characterizing it as unsafe when in fact it is probably the most interesting part of the town. And if you follow the bar advice, you will normally end up in an Anglophile ersatz pub and miss the French cafe experience. If you are a traveller who likes to remain insulated from the French, buy this book.

I used this guide while traveling in Paris and plan to use it in an upcoming trip through the Riviera. Their tips were insightful yet witty. With this book I found a really nice hotel which was quite cheap - 130 francs ($22) a day for a single room. Follow their advice and splurge on food, the French take their food very seriously. However, don't follow the advice on exchanging money at the American Express office. Their rate is horrible. A better suggestion would be to exchange US cash at one of the exchange bureaus on the street and compare rates. Their 'security suggestions' regarding places to use caution at night were a bit excessive according to my French friends from Paris. Their maps of Paris could have been more substantial as they only covered a few of the arrondissements in great detail. Otherwise a great guide to France.

Only had one to two pages on broad topics such as Accounts Receivable. I purchased this book and sent it back.

People are busy and time is short. This book provides moderate coverage of a wide range of accounting controls, good procedure examples and some sample forms. But it stops short of being truly helpful.

The book contains a little but of everything including payroll and EDP (Does anyone really call it EDP anymore?). It was originally released in 1992 so it's a little outdated today and it does not go into enough detail on the core functions.

The enclosed CD only provides pdf versions of the forms. How come they didn't provide the text versions to save more time editing? Forms are one of the most helpful parts of a procedure, but they only provide 36 forms. If you need to create controls then you will not save that much time using this product.

What you need are editable WORD versions of all the procedures and forms. More complete references to laws or standards to simplify future maintenance. And more detailed coverage of the core accounting cycles for cash, revenue, purchasing, inventory & assets, and general management & administration. Now that would be a truly helpful product that would save you a lot of time.

But Amazon.com does carry such a product. Accounting Policies, Procedures & Forms - ISBN 1931591059. Released at the end of 2002, its up-to-date. It contains 600 pages with detailed coverage of the core accounting functions, a sample accounting manual and procedures in-sync with today's accounting software operations, plus additional coverage on embezzlement prevention. You will save more time, find more relevant material and be a lot happier.

Very useful guide to financial controls! We instituted several new controls at our company as a result of reading this book.

British West Indies review sounded like they were inhaling some fireplace smoke.

A pretty book but not that useful. Just found a brand-new Better Homes and Gardens book on fireplaces, which I like much better. The BH&G book has handsome photos but lots of tips on making over a dated fireplace (which we have to do), as well as choosing and positioning a new fireplace (which we also plan to do in our master suite). The Better Homes and Gardens Fireplace book shows a wider range of room and furnishings styles than this House Beautiful book, in my opinion.

this books bring new idieas for people who love fire place in ther live my family enyoy the one that we have in our wekend home yon can buy it whit closing your eyes, the book make you dream