This book functions well as an introduction to the internet. Having a lot of web and internet experience myself, I hungered for more insider tips earlier on in the book. I liked the list of search engines in Skill 5 that talked about how to best use each one. I can see this as being a good reference that will sit on a shelf in my office.

EXPLORE adds 18 well-selected tales of adventure to the Adrenaline series. They blend of humor, like Tim Cahill's Peruvian expedition with two eccentric companions; dangerous adventure, including A.N. de Vaca's exploration of America in the early 1500's; and more scholarly accounts, such as David Roberts' search for lost cliff dwellings in New Mexico. The best feature of this book, and the series as a whole, is that it exposes us to writings that we would otherwise never see. Ms Schwamm has cast her net widely and hauled in four centuries of engaging exploration stories. Some are excerpted from works out of print, but the bibliography makes it possible to track these books down if you must hear the rest of the story. So why only four stars? As a collector of the entire series, I find this volume less spine-tingling than the rest, with fewer stories of death-defying danger, which is okay - not all exploration involves a struggle to survive if you go about it properly. If you like National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, this is a book for you.

This book was wonderful. I took it with me on my trip to Hawaii and it was a wonderful source of information and history. I visited more places and ate at twice as much resturants than ever before. This book was well written; including so much history.You can tell it was written by someone who really knew the island. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is planning a trip to Oahu or for someone who is just dreaming of it.

I lead a course in groupware at the college level which complements theory with hands on MS Exchange. We used this text last term on trial and we will not go back to it. Though there is much very good material in an approachable form, the book suffers from verbosity - students complained (as did I) that it could have achieved all that it did in half the words. Suggestion to the author: strip out the lengthy (and often repetitive) anecdotes and the book will be five star.

This is a good overview, but is rather dull. It has the potential to be a decent referrence book.

This book reads into the lives of past traders. If you like "Market Wizards", you'll like this book. Each operater story is short and interesting, this book does not go in details on how each operator trades, just their life story.

A very opinionated, very fun to read book. Does not give many meanings of names, rather the authors concentrate on how the names are perceived today. Has a lot of unusual choices - not for you if you love very popular names. Could stand to be updated now, but still my favorite baby name book ever!

I own 7 baby name books, and this is by far my favourite. If you're interested in baby naming trends (and want to avoid a trendy name), this is the book for you. No doubt about it: this book is very judgemental (but people are judged by their names whether we like it or not). However, the writers seem to be well-rounded and intelligent so I often agree with their comments. The best thing about this book is how the writers discuss the names in current cultural context. I find this much more useful than a list of names with their obscure definition (who cares that Calvin means bald?). This book is useful especially for first time parents who may not realize that Brittany, Emma and Tyler are not original. I'd like to see an updated version of this book (even though I probably won't have any more children, I just find this book so fun to read)

This book was so entertaining and insightful. Sure, sometimes it was opinionated, but it's nice to hear a few opinions about a name anyway. I really enjoyed their perspective. It's a few years old, however - go with the new edition: The Very Last Word on First Names. Haven't seen it, but it's sure to be good.

In the Exchange community Mr. Redmond has developed a well-earned reputation as the leading source of expert information concerning the installation and upkeep of Exchange servers. This book will do nothing to damage this reputation. Even the kitchen sink is included in this monster tome.

That said, previous negative comments about this book deserve some acknowledgement. The book is almost too full of information. This is great for the experienced Exchange administrator, but can be a bit daunting for any novice. This was not the case with Tony's previous Exchange books.

As an experienced Exchange administrator, the previous 'complaint' is not a problem. However, whoever did the proof reading/copy editing on this book should be fired. To call the typos and editorial problems numerous is an understatement, most laughably an entire bullet pointed paragraph on page 86 preceded with the all-caps comment of 'TAKETHISONEOUT'. I can only assume that this paragraph is to be ignored. The quality of the proofing of this book is deplorable.

If you are planning to run Exchange 2000 this book is indispensable. It is not quite perfect.

Tony Redmond pulls together good material to understand the workings of Exchange 2000. His experience with disk assemblies, and optimizing the database are the best you will find. I recommend the book as a study reference as well as a source for optimizing your Exchange databases.

Tony Redmond has proved yet again that he it the worlds leading authority on Exchange. As with his previous two books he has gone into indepth detail of the kind that you just don't find in your average run of the mill MCSE how to guides.

What makes this book such interesting reading is that he has written from real world experience of planning and deploying Exchange 2000 in one of the worlds largest Exchange deployments (Compaq) and from the years he has spent testing Exchange 2000 internally at Compaq.

The technical detail is superb, but written in a no nonsense interesting style that many authors of computer books could learn from. If you want to really learn Exchange 2000 as opposed to just passing an MCP exam this is the book for you