Taking the advice from the other's who reviewed this book, I bought it. Although I'd just finished Step by Step for Project 2000, I was looking for more concepts and principles behind PM for executives. This book was nothing more than a refresher for me. Its poorly written and the average user picking up a MS Project book for the first time would be lost. Stick with step by step books....

Order this book for my team of extremely busy managers. They love it! Truely user friendly for non-technical people. Easy large print for those whom need it. Great practical examples, charts and graphs. Well written and topics are logically in order.

I've always found project management and project management software to be intimidating. This book, however, makes it all very clear and much less ominous. Not only is the Microsoft Project 2000 software thoroughly discussed but essentials of project management as well. I highly recommend this book to anyone new to managing projects or to the person who has so far found project software the equivalent of the Monster hiding in the closet.

There is not a whole lot of information in this book. Even when the author is trying to present some information, it is not done in a clear and understandable way. Really disappointed.

Well I'm pleased to say that Tony Redmond has produced the best exchange 5.5 book currently available. I work with exchange and recently completed my mcp exams in both exchange 5 and 5.5 so spent a lot of time and money reading lots of exchange material.

There are lots of books out there that claim to be able to give you all the knowledge you need to pass the mcse, what I like about this book is that it is not an mcse book. This book covers exchange in a corporate production environment.

The author goes into the most indepth detail of the exchange architecture that I have ever come across. Utilising his experience at Digital as the world's number one implementor of exchange, he uses many real world examples of how to deploy maintain and support exchange 5.5.

If your going for the exchange mcp exam save your money, don't buy the 101 mcse exchange guides that are out there buy this book. Also if your considering deploying exchange, or are simply a systems person who would like to know more about the product, buy this book.

This is a great book on Exchange. As well as the technical information there's alot of details on how you should design and implement Exchange - and at the same time the author takes the time to explain why. The thing I like best about the book is that whilst Tony Redmond is obviously a fan of Exchange, he is not afraid to point out its limitations.

The book is about two educated englishmen who venture to the island of Borneo determined to capture the the sights of a rare albino rhino. The author sets the humor rolling straight off, and in his sardonic wit, recounts his adventures into the rainforest of Borneo.

Duly noted are the risks to life and limb (and appendages)he must be aware of during his adventure. These lessons are given to him by his good natured guides who taunt and tease the overweight white (very white) man. All in good fun, the banter flows both ways. Descriptions of their meals may take a tough stomach on the part of the reader. He spared the reader nothing when it came to describing the delights of dinnertime. The recollection of some repasts, especially the gourmet monster lizard meals were among the more memorable (unfortunately). It was amazing what they scrounged up to eat. I will not spoil all the little surprises they had at mealtime, you will know soon enough when you read the book!

Aside from the culinary experience, I found the travel journey delightfully funny and educational. While I know this is NOT the kind of trip I would care to have, I appreciate that the author had the guts to do it. At times, he doubted his stamina, but that is what made the novel work - he was a regular guy doing something outrageously difficult, not to mention dangerous. I can see that this kind of adventure would appeal to many others, but for me, I took his trip in an armchair where I was safe and knew what I was eating for lunch!

He is a charming writer, hooking the reader with teasing references. I admit I learned alot about their culture and some of their more sensitive political and social issures. A quick read, I went out and bought more of his books and look forward to a similar experience.

There are three things you should know about Redmond O'Hanlon's Into the Heart of Borneo: it's very educational, it's very funny, and it's a heckuva good adventure. The premise is that two middle-aged British academics, poet James Fenton and naturalist Redmond O'Hanlon, are dispatched to Borneo in search of the rare mountain Rhinoceros. Whatever their ultimate goal, after two pages you're hooked by O'Hanlon's clever writing and self-deprecating wit as he describes the preparations for their epic journey.
You can learn a lot from this book. For example, did you realize that Borneo is the world's third largest island? that over 1,700 different species of parasitic worm can infest your bloodstream? that a bite from a Wagler's Pit Viper will lead to nothing worse than near-death? On the more substantive side, you will also learn about Borneo's history, native cultures, geography, flora, and fauna-especially its amazing birds! And funny? the education you'll receive about Borneo is a bonus because the book could carry itself quite successfully on O'Hanlon's hilarious writing. Imagine two English intellectuals travelling by foot and canoe through remote rainforest with three Iban tribesman; one of whom, Leon, could host the Letterman Show.
I giggled continually throughout this book. One passage describing how Redmond and the Iban planned to "take Jam's head" upon returning to camp where a nervous but unsuspecting James was waiting had me laughing with glee.
As a fellow middle-aged, balding, and slightly pudgy man, this book gave me great hope that I too could travel to Borneo and survive such an adventure. Read it to learn about Borneo. Read it to laugh. Just read it! You won't be disappointed.

This the fifth book I've read on traveling in Borneo, and in certain ways it rivals my favorite (Eric Hansen's "A Stranger in the Forest"). O'Hanlon is not only literate and well-informed on the subject (Borneo) but he's one of those highly educated writers who doesn't take himself (or his elderly, unathletic) traveling companion (a famous poet) seriously. Part of the screamingly funny parts are when O'Hanlon is either making fun of himself or the Borneo natives are making fun of his ineptness. O'Hanlon is fat and out-of-shape and his small, powerfully strong, local guides never let him forget it for a minute! O'Hanlon is able to write characters so well, one feels as if you are on the boat with them; the three guides are lovingly drawn. For those with an interest in the ecology of Borneo, birds, or river journeys, there is much to learn through this engrossing read. I recently saw a documentary that filmed the "remote" areas where O'Hanlon's journey took place and I am sad to say, it has been totally deforested by the Indonesian timber industry; huge corporations that are destroying the Borneo rainforest due to graft and a lack of enforcement by the Indonesian goverment... subjects that O'Hanlon writes about in this book. Think twice about buying teak furniture, much of it comes from poached wood that is illegally cut from Borneo's rainforest, a sad coda to this funny book.

My wife Jennifer and I (Jason, believe it or not) received this book as a sort of gag gift. Initially, we found it useful for naming our baby. However, as other reviewers have mentioned, the book does not include much in the way or origins or meanings, if that is important to you. Also, the book seems to spend as much time detailing "bad" and "old" names as it does suggesting new, fresh ones. We also found quite a bit of repetition between the authors' various categories. Overall, we found the book useful and amusing at first, but I'm not sure it helped us to finalize our baby's name. If you are looking for a "traditional" or "conservative" name, this may not be the book for you. But if you want to go off the beaten path, I would think that this would be a good place to start...

I think of this as kind of a "companion" book for people researching names - I don't know that it would really fill the bill to be the one and only source a couple uses to make their final decision, but it really motivates you to put some effort into coming up with the most permanent gift you will ever give your child. Whether or not one agrees with the highly subjective evaluations the authors give names on many levels, the book provides food for thought on aspects I certainly wouldn't have thought about.

Plus: it reads amazingly easily - as opposed to 99% of other books I ploughed through, which became a chore.

One weakness: names from other cultural backgrounds. While these are included - and not just as politically correct oddities, but as valid and even "hip" choices - I question where they were drawn from or how chosen for inclusion. As a native German speaker, I was very interested to see the German list. Given that it was, as can be expected, small (for more extensive lists I would logically look elsewhere than this type of book)I was surprised at how many names were inlcluded that I had never heard of before - much less known anyone of that name. If the German list was so skewed, I would assume that other language groups were as well.

Innovative and interesting. Useful for those of us who want more than a list of names and their meanings. I particularly liked the analysis of naming trends and the connotations that names have.

This book should prepare one for the NEW GED, but the book itself is NOT totally new. The greatest changes are in the areas of math and writing, but even these pages are largely a repeat of Steck-Vaughn's old book aimed at preparing one for the l988 edition of the GED.Most of the publisher's hype about the book are unfounded. It, for example, is clearly not the biggest GED book available, despite that claim on the cover. And it most certainly is NOT the best. If you buy individual study guides for each subject, then you don't need this book. It is just a condensed reprint of the others.

This was the only study guide I had. I went through page by page in two weeks and passed the GED no sweat.

This book prepares a student to take the new GED test in a focused manner. The pre-test provides an excellent prescription of they student's strengths and weaknesses. Best one volume preparation book on the market.

This recording cannot compare with Musical Heritage Society's Treasury of 19th Century English Poets (MHC 312505Z). The readings (with some exceptions - "Jabberwocky" is delightful and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is well done - are dull and unengaging. The music is intrusive and unevenly recorded. Not at all the quality I would have expected from BBC, which has released really wonderful renditions of Shakespeare.

Some of the best actors in England reading some of the best poetry in the English language -- any poetry lover cannot go wrong with this version. I especially rejoiced to finally hear the delightful "To His Coy Mistress" read in the spirit in which is was intended (every other reader seems intent on declaiming as if it were "Hamlet" -- yuck). But the other poems are equally wonderful. ("Jabberwocky" is also not to be missed.)

This collection is by far the best available! Emma Fielding is exquisite! "Lady of Shallot", and "Marina" are especially well done! I enjoyed listening to it so much, and would highly recommend it to the poetry lovers.

Jeffrey Redmond's "The Er-Dan Stories" is his follow up to the Chronicles of Er-Da series. In this book he has the same planet of Er-Da now colonized by earthlings. And oh my! what they do to that planet! If you think we've messed things up here on Earth, just wait til you read what we do to that planet.

Redmond offers a wide variety of stories, with realistic and believable characters. He has them interact in bizarre ways with a wide variety of aliens and androids. There's wars,

riots, and destruction. And right in the middle of the incredible mess there's games of golf and visits to a local library.

The Er-Dan Stories offers everything for all tastes. There's love, hate, sex, romance, violence, murder, fun, adventure, humor, and everything else to make the colonists from Earth feel right at home. A thousand years in the future, in a distant part of the Galaxy, things are the same as here and now.

Except, of course, for the all powerful control of The

Imperium.....

You will find this book a good enough read. There's something in it for everyone. Even if you're not really a sci fi fan, the stories are still entertaining, and even a little bit educational. The author explains that he wants to educate others most of all. Overall, despite the gory parts, I enjoyed the book.

I just wonder where he got all those abnormal ideas from.

This is a really wild and weird bit of sci fi stuff! It's definitely NOT for the average reader. There's every kind of android, robot, space alien, earth colonist, and situation you can imagine. Not at all for the squeemish. I started to read it, and couldn't put it down! It's especially good for those of us who are over 18. So if bizarre and totally out there type of science fiction appeals to your tastes.... this one's for you! (It certainly was for me). I loved it! Thanks. Linda.

The interactive CD includes websites, video clips, audio clips, and tests, that increase interest in the subject matter. It's fun.

...I read this book for an undergraduate class and thought it was very good. One problem-- the final chapter was too brief, they should have split it into three like the previous edition.

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The subtitle is: the American public library in the information age.

The main strength of this book is in the historical perspective it offers. The authors give a broad, national overview of the public library as an institution, its governance and funding, and U.S. national information policy generally. This historical, research based approach makes for somewhat dense reading, but also makes the book a valuable resource.

The main drawback of Civic space/cyberspace is that the authors really do not provide much detail about the site visits to 22 libraries and other institutions which also shaped their thinking on the subject.

I found it frustrating that the book's generally postive comments about the future of public libraries and the ways that they are adapting to information technology were second guessed by the very last paragraphs of the book.

I would recommend this book mainly for librarians, library school students, or those significantly involved with public libraries in some way.

Now I love 'chick' books. You know, they make you cry, make you laugh, make you want to fall in love all over again and sometimes tell your mom you're sorry...... you know what I mean. I thought this book looked fun, and I was right. I snatched it up (have I menetioned I love this fun size of paper back and I thought the cover was cute?) and rushed home to start it. here are the things I loved about this book-
It is not tough to keep up with the dialogue, characters, or plot. That being said you may chalk it up for the perfect travel read, or pool side mind grabber. It does deliver a little bit of action... you know, romantic style, so it has it's hot moments you enjoy, and it has quite a bit of fun humor, without trying too hard to be funny.

Kennedy is likable, sometimes reminding you a little of yourself, sometimes reminding you what you wish you could be (just walk in and say "hi" to that old love just like it is the most casual thing in the world....) As she is working thorugh divorce and the troubles it brings (single child rearing... house buying/ selling/ fixing up) you will watch her grow. There are fun twists, fun friends, and of course, the never ending mother issues.... but it's all fun while being just touching enough at the same time.

This is a fun, light, romantic book, and if you are looking for that this summer, or for your next road trip, pick this up. It will let you enjoy your reading time and give that much needed escape from your own daily tasks!

Come on, women, lighten up -- this book was fast, funny, sexy, engaging, the perfect summer Friday-to-Sunday read. For this suburban mom whose eyes are usually closing after three pages, I love any book that makes me stay up reading until waaaaaay after my bedtime. Smart and lots of fun.

Are you bored by most contemporary women's fiction? Then check this out: here's an intelligent, well-written novel with characters you can really relate to and a contemporary love story that is romantic without being stupid and sexy (very!) without being offensive. As a comparison, Laura Zigman is intelligent too, and funny, but her characters are too New York City neurotic for me. Here, the heroine is a suburban wife with an okay-but-not-great husband, so already I'm identifying more. But this wife is a lot hipper and a lot more like people that you actually know--she has the kind of past most 40-year-olds have nowadays, even those of us who live in the 'burbs. And I love the title--how many of us, even those who are happily married, don't respond to the idea of the man in your past who maybe you should've/could've/could still marry? Here's another plus: A lot of this book is about the other great love experienced by women over 35: love of houses and house renovations. If you like to ride around your neighborhood on Sundays going to real estate open houses, trust me: you'll love this book.