Scott Glenn Books

I re-read "Seven Seasons of Buffy" in a lull between book deliveries and enjoyed it about as much as last time. It's a collection of essays by sci-fi writers on what was definitely one of the best series on TV IMHO. It leans a little heavy on romance and "who's Buffy's ideal man", but is a very good read overall. Intelligent writers, good content.

If you liked Buffy you'll love this.

I was expecting a semi-academic work. Instead, the collected articles seem to be on par with what I would expect from a fan website--not a book for purchase. If you love all things Buffy, you may find some of the articles interesting. If you're looking for an academic analysis of Buffy, look elsewhere.

Seven Seasons of Buffy is an anthology of essays about... duh... Buffy the Vampire Slayer, written by, it says, "science fiction and fantasy writers." Except that the reason I even knew about this book is that one contributor is Jennifer Crusie, and she's not by any stretch of the imagination a science fiction or fantasy writer. Unless you're one of those terminal cynics who classifies romance as fantasy.

The good:
The essays that took some aspect of the show and drew conclusions, and made me think, whether I agreed with them or not.
Those essays that left the biggest impression were the ones that were well-written, but that I disagreed with. Like the one praising Tara. In principle, I agreed, but in the show, she got on my last nerve--I really dislike sad-sack, pitiful, depressed, martyr characters.
The best thing about this anthology is that it provides a lot of food for thought, and springboards for conversation with other Buffy fan(atic)s.

The bad:
The essays that rambled on, more or less summarizing the series without actually making a point.
The essays that made a narrow-minded point or insulted those with opposing viewpoints, like the one praising Riley. I could follow the author's reasoning, but she lost me when she claimed that anyone who didn't agree with her was stuck in high school, and that real, adult, mature love was by definition, dull.

The verdict:
As in any anthology, there are good essays and bad ones. Fortunately, there were more good ones than bad.

I was really disappointed in this book. There were no great insights into the show or the characters. In some places it was a scene by scene narrative of almost entire episodes. I much prefered the philisophical musings in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosphy" edited by James B. South. At least it got me thinking. I was hoping this book (Seven Seasons) would show me aspects of the characters or plots that I hadn't seen - instead I got to read the very superficial musings of people with very little to share.
I actually found the final essay in the book, "Slayers of the Last Arc" to be the most enjoyable and not just because of it's insight into the show but also as a great "how to" guide for writers. I also really enjoyed Sarah Zettel's "When did the Scoobies become Insiders?" and Jennifer Crusie's "Dating Death".
This book is not a total write-off and I did finish it but I would look elsewhere if you're looking for something other than a basic episode guide.

A bunch of other writers talk about the most excellent Buffy. These pieces range from a comedy test from the The Forces of Evil, through some critical articles, and one or two fanlike rants.

An interesting article by Jacqueline Lichtenberg looks at the rise in the 1990s of the type of television show that eventually led to Buffy.

Secrets of Sarlona was a pretty good read. From the many different countries and cultures, to the cult-like infulences the Inspired have on the people on the gigantic country of Rierdra. Not only that, but for a book this size, it goes into some key details about each culture (like "a day in the life" thing), important NPCs, new Psionic powers,interesting feats that work with and against psionics, and new weapons.

My only dissapointments were the lack of info on ALL the Quori, instead only giving me three castes, and merely mentioning two others. and a lack of new monsters, overall; only a small number of them.

But I digress. Secrets of Sarlona was a good read, and an interesting adaptation to the Eberron world.

Now to get my hands on Secrets of Xen'Drik.

It is a very good book if you are running a campaign in Eberron on, or at least heavily involving the continent of Sarlona. Other than that It has very little use.

A few new prestige classes, feats, and weapons are the most it offers.

I think this is an excelent product. I like the ideas that the dreaming dark present as villians and this book expands on those ideas. Both in how they would be used, and how to use those who would oppose them. I also appricate the inclusion of new quori that can be used with empty vessels to make enlightened. Finally I am a huge fan of psionics and many rule books include very little additional material on psionics, so I am excited about the additional psionic content in Secrets of Sarlona.

For anyone interested in psionics canon in Eberron, I'd highly recommend this book. There are a lot of NPCs and political information as well as some weapons and feats that may prove useful. It seems a little bit of a throw-back to forgotten realms style regional modules.

Downsides for me was that the material was very vague or limited, geographically, but fairly detailed politically. For example, they'll spend a tiny paragraph for a whole region that is leaking chaos into Eberron in Adar and has a lot of fantasy potential, then spend 5 pages talking about a political group that really, after reading it, isn't very interesting or have clear goals or themes.

For crunch, the PrCs and quori-related stuff seems a little tame...a lot more flavor than bang. Enough of the artwork is mediocre to remove it from the list of strengths.

I think I would have liked the book to be...bigger. There is a lot of material to cover and a lot of it gets short treatment or no treatment at all, but still a good book especially if you are interested in non-Khorvaire Eberron, as I am.

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This book offers a powerfully renewing experience that builds spiritual practices to help readers share more fully in the life of Christ and to bring what is learned into all areas of church life. This twenty-eight-week spiritual journey will draw readers into daily time with God through individual reading and reflection and will gather individuals weekly with others in a faith community for deeper exploration. This book provides diverse, imaginative settings for learning the spiritual disciplines of prayer, scripture, deepest thoughts and longings and recalling where God has been especially present in each life. At other times, members of the group will participate in community sharing to explore common stories, questions, and discoveries about a relationship with Christ.

working with Exchange 2007 (E2K7) since July '07 and Exchange (5.5 and 2003) since 1999, i am somewhat familiar with Microsoft's Mail products. the E2K7 takes it to another level and this book gives you the info you need. is it the best and the only reference you will need? no, certainly not but it IS a good place to start. PowerShell is very pervasive and the more you know about it the easier your life will be as the EMC (Exchange Mangement Console) is not the same thing you got in the last version Exchange 2003's ESM (Exchange System Management). my suggestion is to pick up a PowerShell SP1 book, i reviewed a great one recently and i have about 5 so far.
Bottom line, good book to have but you will need others especially concerning PowerShell. i own about a dozen of the Admin Companions and their Pocket Consultants as well.

In the short time span of less than ten years, these seven American heros helped to invent and then use the spacecraft and systems they signed on to fly. This book will inspire and will make you remember (or realize) that if done with hard work, common sense, and teamwork, anything aspired to -is possible.

Looking at everything that goes on in today's world, I feel that we will never see this type of dedication, teamwork, and support in future projects. Let's lose the laziness and "me me" crowd, roll up our sleeves and GET 'ER DONE!

Published as Project Mercury was thrilling the Free World at the height of the cold war, WE SEVEN was written by the original seven astronauts (and edited by LIFE magazine's John Dille). For researchers and space enthusiasts, the chapters offer valuable contemporaneous, first-person accounts of Project Mercury--from the men, to the machines, to the systems.

Particularly valuable are the accounts of the historic 1959 selection process (and selection medicine) at Lovelace Clinic and Wright-Patterson A.F.B. There are painstakingly technical accounts of the engineering and design work on the hardware in addition to first-person accounts of spaceflight itself, from the days when astronauts flew alone and then only briefly--for a lifetime of fame.

First military tests pilots and then engineers, the Mercury astronauts were not professional writers. The editor does a brilliant job of preserving the distinctive voices of the individual astronauts, while showcasing the highly technical subjects the men describe in WE SEVEN, a bestseller when it was first published in 1962.

A must for any spaceflight history library.

We Seven-
The book We Seven is about the original seven astronauts of the Mercury program. The book starts off with the astronauts telling of their lives before they were chosen for the space program at NASA. Most of them had the same squeaky clean military records being test pilots and having combat experience. All of the pilots were either in the air force, navy or the marine corps. After that the astronauts describe the various tests they had to go through to see if they had what it took for the job.
After the seven astronauts where picked they had to go through even more testing on trainers for g forces and zero g's that they would face in space and upon re-entry. This was very repetitive and kind of boring because of the elaborate detail the authors wrote about even the simplest of things.
The book wasn't very good it took the fascinating topic of aviation and made it into an extremely boring task of reading. The authors of the book describe everything in an extreme detail probably due to their polished military background. This seems to be a habit for people in the military known from personal experience having a father who used to be a pilot.
Wrapped up this book would not appeal to someone who is not interested in either the filed of aviation or space because of its detail about all of the in and outs of the job.

I am in a first semester Organic Chem class. My teacher does not like this book, but it is required at the university (due to a recent switch from Wade). I purchased it along with the solutions manual and to tell you the truth, this is one of the worst textbooks I've ever used (after taking multiple Engineering courses in math, physics, chemistry, biology, biomechanics, etc). It touches on everything without ever testing the reader on it. For example, in introducing the conformations of alkanes, it never asks the reader to explain anything through Newman projections. Well, given that my lecture consisted of two lectures doing this to explain cyclohexane/pentane conformations, I'd say this is fairly important (this is not just my class, either, this seems to be the trend). Regardless, the problems are absolutely insulting--draw all 8 isomers of C4H10O2 is the book's idea of a good problem. Sounds rather lazy to me. When will I ever need to draw all of those isomers? That's what so many problems, especially the in-text ones, consist of.

My real motivation for writing this comes from my use of the Wade Organic Chem textbook--for only about 2 hours. It is 100% head and shoulders above this book and I have purchased it along with its solution manual to use for the rest of this course and the next. I have no idea why we switched, but I will still be using Wade.

This is a basic text for organic chemistry. Alot of the review questions seem TOO hard and there arent enough details in the solomons and fryhle answer manual. Chapter 5 is explained terribly and I dont like the nucleophile/substrate way of learning. I prefer the nucleophile/electrophile way of learing in the orgainic chemistry by Seyhan Ege. I believe this book to be superior in most ways.

GREAT BOOK! If your professor chooses this book, you are really really lucky. I am a second year college student, and I am half way into the semester. To tell you the truth, the professor told us that after using this book, the overall scores on exams went up higher than previous years. I myself was horrible at the orgo part of general chemistry. However, after using this book to study, I'm currently acing orgo!

This is a great book, has detailed explanations, clear and easy-to-understand illustrations, and VERY HARD review questions. If you want to get good at organic chemistry, this is the book to get even if you are using another book!

OK, so you're considering which book to get for 2 semester intro organic chemistry. Just buy the required text for the course, right? well, maybe.

You should know there are 2 basic approaches to the teaching of organic chem: The functional group approach and mechanism approach. By far, the former is much more commonly used and the way organic chem has been taught for decades. The problem is this approach promotes tedious memorization and you can be overwhelmed by the volume. Also, most organic chemists don't think in terms of functional groups. They understand their subject by organizing/systematizing reactions according to mechanism and reaction type as governed by a few basic principles.

The number of books that support the rxn./mechanism approach are few in number. They are (this list may be incomplete):

Organic Chemistry by Marye Anne Fox, James K. Whitesell (ISBN 0763721972)

Organic Chemistry by Clayden, Greeves, Warren, Wothers

A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry (6th Edition) by Peter Sykes

A Primer to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry by Peter Sykes

Organic Chemistry by Joseph M. Hornback (ISBN 0534389511)

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For the the functional group approach:

Just based on its sheer size and completeness, the best book has to be Organic Chemistry (now in its 6th Edition) by Morrison & Boyd (ISBN 0136436692). It's the gold standard by which all other functional group books are judged.

2nd best is probably Organic Chemistry by G. Marc Loudon (ISBN 0195119991).

All the rest - Ege, McMurry, Solomons, Wade, Carey, Bruice, Vollhardt, Maitland Jones Jr., Streitwieser/Heathcock, Brown/Foote - they're just carbon copies of one another. The exceptions might be Bruice and Jones Jr. which employ a quasi-mechanism/functional group approach.

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For those of you who want to start off with "just the facts" before tackling these organic tomes try: "Organic Chemistry: A Short Course" by Hart/Craine/Hart/Hadad now in its 12th edition.

The 2 books by David R. Klein are also recommended: "Organic Chemistry I as a Second Language: Translating the Basic Concepts" and "Organic Chemistry II as a Second Language: Second Semester Topics".

Another good intro: The Nuts and Bolts of Organic Chemistry: A Student's Guide to Success by Joel Karty

For the lab portion get "The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Student's Guide to Techniques" by James W. Zubrick

Check out my other reviews for other chemistry books.


P.S. I should really be mentioning Solomons since I am "reviewing" his book. It's very average and middle-of-the road. there. done.

This book has an answer to most questions you could have regarding web site maintenance, although it is heavily biased towards configuring UNIX servers. Windows NT, for example, doesn't get much of a mention. Also, many of the examples are written in Perl which was a shame as I was more interested in CGI written with shell scripts.

Some topics do not go into enough detail. For example, the section on how to install two servers on a single machine, each responding to different domain names, tells you "what" to do but not "how" to do it.

Where the book does excel, however, is in describing the concepts of how the internet works.