Title says it all. Quit your bitchin! Nobody is making you stay. Transfer of if you can't handle it.

If it was appropriate under any circumstances to devote an entire book to the maggots (other than one detailing their various athletic failings and humiliating defeats at the hands of superior institutions) this seedy little pamphlet would pretty much be the one. However, it isn't.

Instead, I recommend William Shirer's "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich".

As a student at this institution, I think it should be clear that Reason 304 would be putting up with delusional people who think they are god-like in intellect and engineering prowess; I'm also amazed the author managed to edit it down to only 303 reasons.

I have a number of computer-term dictionaries and this is the worst of the lot. It is by far the poorest excuse for a dictionary of any type that I have ever encountered -- Princeton should be ashamed to be associated with this turkey. I cite a typical entry: "relational database - a database with a design based on the relational model." If this non-information is what you want in a dictionary, this is the reference for you. I can't express emphatically enough how unvaluable this book is. Please do not waste your money.

This book really sucks and shouldn't even be offered for sale! It was written in 1994 before the expansion of the the web and other great advances in technology. You can't find many terms and acronyms used today. The index is lame since and doesn't even reference the actual page numbers.

Save your money and DON'T buy this book!

I would recommend this book to anyone who feels that the computer field is important. It lists more than enough words (including their synonyms) in an easy-to-read format that makes looking up definitions easy and fun!

After a very shallow description of the types of resorts, and a plea for developers to be more sensitive to the natural environment, the book glosses over the huge planning phase and goes into how to turn a profit once the doors are open. All of the steps in between are dismissed with the understanding that you'll hire various teams of professionals to handle them. But THAT's what I wanted to know!

Please display at least the contents of this book so that it is easier for me to comment or make a decision to purchase!

This English-to-Spanish dictionary includes what are supposedly the most frequently used words in English, and gives basic definitions for them that would be useful for beginning ESL students or for young bilingual children. Still, the limitations might be frustrating for anyone else:

1) many definitions omit whole parts of speech. For instance, "affect" is defined only as a verb, when it can be a noun, also; and "air" is defined only as a noun, when it has several meanings as a verb.

2) the dictionary is ONLY English-to-Spanish. For those wanting to know what the Spanish verb "intentar" means in English (to try), one of the thousands of two-way dictionaries out there would be a better buy.

3) these are supposedly the 2500 most frequently used words in English, and yet the frequency order isn't given: there is no number next to "affect" to tell us it's the 10th or the 402nd or the 2033rd most common word in English. If these words really are the 2500 most common, then the actual order ought to have been known to the authors. Including that order would have been a selling point for the book; without it, there is really nothing that distinguishes this book from the herd.

In a field as "ever-changing" as retirement plan management and pension administration, it takes a special set of resources to keep up with these changes. Dearborn is excellent, simply top notch with their securities and insurance publications; but with defined contribution and pension plans, unfortunately, their data is lacking, too basic, and out of date. Emphasis should be placed on compliance testing as well as the reform bills passed through congress affecting pension plans. I just don't feel this is covered here.

If you want the creme de la creme of pension books, get Aspen Publishing's pension answer book series.

Fisas calls for complete disarmament of all countries, except for local police forces; for a standing one world army; for independent sources of financing so the UN isn't dependent on the good will of its members; UN ownership of all military bases in each country; etc. Ought to scare the hell out of anyone who loves their country. If you hate your country, you'll love this book.

Well...where to begin without going further back?

This book is a compendium of papers, most from members of the Sante Fe institute. That is, the papers are by the self-proclaimed "experts" in the field of complex adaptive systems (complexity as it is termed by some). Although published in 1999 it is mostly out of date as a reference but it stands as testament to something I think is more interesting than pure science.

What we have here is a prime example of how dogma (religion) begins and sadly, impedes any chance for progress. At this point, perhaps I should suggest that anyone reading this who hasn't heard of Kuhn, Wittgenstein and Prigogine to go and read a bit. And then you need to understand that we have completed the whole genome-mapping fiasco and "discovered" something that goes against what the high gods of complexity, genetics and evolution have been preaching: we don't have more than 100,000 genomes we have 30,000.

Ok, now back to the book. The papers, as I stated, are out of date. All interesting results here are tied back to the "magic" number of 100,000 genomes. That is simply due to the fact that according to the diverstity of cells and specific proteins in our bodies combined with present theories we need that many. So one would think, right away, that any new theory that is "more correct" than the old ones would quickly point out this large discrepancy.

Well, no one did find this. Instead they just muddle around withsome nifty math and even more exciting computer simulations and then settle back to make pronouncements. And what bombastic statements the high priests of complexity pronounced! The best part of this book are the transcripts of discussions about the papers from the big names, notably Gell-Mann, Anderson and Kauffman.

One would think that a bit of reading in philosophy would really have helped this lot to see beyond their noses. That is, how can there be a "true science" (uttered by one during a discussion) when science is simply a compression of knowledge and the whole idea of "truth" implies more compression? This is laughable when your own theory says that you can never tell if something is optimally compressed (just read Chaitin and Kolmogorov); I ask again, how do you know you have a "true science"?

Yes, egos are rampant here and it is enough to make you alternately laugh and then cry now that we see how far off the mark the "science" is. There are slights on Freeman but really, Freeman has more "science" ("theory that matches observation" to quote Gell-Mann) than anyone in this collection. In fact, Anna Wise has more science in her books about brainwaves than this group.

Disappointed? You bet. I fail to see how winners of Nobel prizes and "Genius" awards could end up being so far off the mark. So in the end, I can only rate the intended content (science) as "2 stars" but the high comedy and drama make the historical content worth 5 out of 5. Enjoy it for that only!

When this book was published, there was an unbelieveable paucity of creative thinking about the global arms race and arms control. A preoccupation on the weapons themseleves resulted in what we finally got: treaties between states that ignored the underlying human and societal and pscyhological problems. This was the first book to make a stab at addressing those issues...and it did a good job. The principles outlined are still applicable, despite the end of the Cold War, the demise of the USSR, and numerous other events that flowed from these two.

This dictionary, though simple to use, is missing far too many necessary words to be of any use to even a beginning student of German. I showed the book to my German teacher, and he advised throwing it away.

As other reviewers have mentioned, the most annoying problem with this dictionary is its limited vocabulary. The cover boasts 30,000 vocabulary entries, but they are most certainly not sufficient for anyone who wishes to communicate successfully in German. It is designed to be easy-to-read, with larger-than-normal print and plenty of white space, but I rather wish they had made the text a couple of sizes smaller and filled the extra space with useful vocabulary. It's also rather silly to give childish phonetic pronunciations for every word in the dictionary, since German is, in most cases, very phonetic and easy to pronounce in the first place. Conspicuously absent is some sort of section on irregular verb conjugation, such as can be found in many other similar dictionaries.

I bought this dictionary for the express purpose of helping me (before I gain proficiency in German) read philosophical discourses which make use of untranslated words in German (these are very common). Sadly, this dictionary seems to have none of the words that I've needed. Even the simplest of expressions, like the Erlebnis, are wholly absent from this dictionary (as far as I can tell... unless this dictionary has a "secret compartment" where all its more useful words are waiting, somewhere beyond the ken of those of us trapped in a merely phenomenological existence...)

Perhaps it's useful for people who want quick reference while travelling through Germany... however I have doubts even about this as (in the English section) I couldn't even find words that I KNOW exist, like the equivalent of "good bye"...

In sort- it's frustrating. But maybe there are SOME that could make use of it, and so (since I'm a charitable sort) I'll give it 2 stars instead of 1...

tapes sound like copies of copies of copies. I bought this with great disappointment. What a waste of money. Also, the people speaking sound like hebrew is the most boring language on the face of the earth. Don't be suckered into this one. It genuinely stinks. This is poor, poor, poor. At least make the recording off the original copy.

I bought this years ago before my first trip to Israel in 1995. It of course got buried and not used. A couple of years later I studied Hebrew at an ulpan here in Los Angeles. I've supplemented ulpan studies with tapes, videos, and lots of books. The Pimsleur series is very good. "Aval" ... this Barron's series is a disappointment for many reasons.

The biggest is: It's on tape. Good grief ... with technology where it is, why is anything being (re)produced on cassettes anymore? Oy! The recording quality is "kacha-kacha", and the grammar and choice of words is very different than what I learned in ulpan and what I'm continuing to imbibe.

Parts of the tapes ARE semi-helpful, where the grammar/vocab are near up-2-date .... it does help with my listening skills.

Overall, get the Pimsleur set (but let them know we all want a Level 2).

I was interested in learning Hebrew to converse with the suprising numbers of Hebrew speakers in my neighborhood. (Upper East Side of Manhattan). I looked at Encounters in Modern Hebrew series, but there was no indication of stress for each of the words. So I bought this set... I did the first dialogue and wanted to show off to my Israeli primary care doctor... boy was I embarassed!! The language presented here is way too old to be respectable any more. Pimsleur is a good alternative,but they only have one level.