Robert Prentice Books

Explains everything very clearly. I always found math very difficult but this made it seem easy.

I found the book to be pretty detailed and the lessons nicely layed out and easy for students to use. The sreen prints were colorful but sometimes the content of the screens did not match the book. The lessons are available to download at the publishers web site. The content of the leasons, have you jump right into databases and some sudents got a little lost. I have still had a problem in obtaining any instructor support. Overall the book is one of the better instruction materials that I have used in the past.

MOST of this book except for exercise 2 in chapter 1 which uses PivotCharts as well as the previously added PivotTables. The instructions are unclear about several points having to do with the fact that they seem to want you to copy both from their instructions and from their illustrations and the two are mixed and switch from one place to the othe with little warning. I found this inconsistancy an unneeded source of potential confusion. Still, it does layout the basic operation of Access. I'm only on Chapter 2 but I hope they later explain how to filter form field inputs ourselves instead of just looking at the ones they already did for us. They act like the ability to filter is some big deal and not a basic function, I don't need a sales pitch I need instructuions. I skipped lots of those exercises. They also fail to indicate where buttons (Query butons aren't indicated in any illustrations) are then they tell you to use it. I'm still not sure which query button they are referring to most of the time.

Mr. Grauer's book is a wonderful tool to either learn Microsoft Access or brush up on dormant skills like I did. The book walks you through each exercise in detailed steps. Plus he has a website for answering questions and getting the data for the exercises. The book is far better than the text book I used to first learn about Access. I wish I had this book from the start!

The book did not include the disc but for my class i did not need it. Its good for anyone who wants to learn microsoft office, but you have to have microsoft office 2007 so be prepared.

Helpful for beginners and more well-versed users, though very heavy with busy work. The explanations are pretty clear and simple, and if practice makes perfect, you'd be close to that end after completing everything in this book.
WARNING FOR MAC USERS: don't get this book. It is intended for the PC version of Office, and even though you can still stumble through, most of the shortcuts are slightly different, and the overall way to do things can vary. It's a mess if you have to take this for a class and have a Mac, so think twice before taking such a class.

This anthology is obviously designed to be used as a classroom text, but it contains an excellent and very substantial selection of short stories (about 75) that would be of interest to anyone who enjoys short fiction. Although most of the authors represented are American, they include a wide range of voices within our culture, both past and present, and there are over a dozen selections from other countries as well.

I've used the text many times in my introduction to fiction courses and have found that it lends itself well to exploring particular themes (such as coming of age stories, gender issues, ethnicity and racism, etc.) and to teaching students how to analyze fiction. Because it is designed as a course textbook, it contains explanatory material about the elements of fiction and about how to write essays about fiction. These sections are less satisfactory than the stories themselves, and I suggest to students that they either skip those sections altogether or read them after reading the stories in each chapter. Better readers don't need the explanatory sections, but students who have had little or no prior experience in studying fiction find the explanations and sample essays helpful. Those portions of the book would not be of interest to the general reader who simply wants to enjoy a collection of fine short stories.

This is a very interesting book that should actually be revised as the edition I have is from 1993. Still, this is a very interesting work for anyone who wants to invest in franchising. It brings 10 in depth profiles, including Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Midas, 7 Eleven, and interviews with the founders of this quite known trademarks. They analyse the profile of possible investors, and investors should do the same about this business model and trademarks profile. This is a good start.

I used this book for my first course in Hydraulics and thought this book was pretty good. The material is organized well and the chapters get right to the point, I thaught one improvement that could be made would be to put more examples in the text.

I study both geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. This book deals much more with the geotechnical aspects as is named. It doesn't contain chemical issues or any microscopic behaviors you may find in some geoenvironmental books such as Yong et al.
I kind of appreciate the authors' hard work to combine a great deal of knowledge concerning the design of landfills. There are 18 chapters, and each of em talks about every possible component of a landfill (CCLs, GCLs, GM, cover, LCS, etc.) and also some important behaviors such as settlement & stability. A chapter about vertical barriers is not available becoz this is the "landfill" book. The book uses mechanical, macroscopic, and "rule of thumb" approaches.
There are some topics missing in this book. I believe. For instance, it assumes that adsorption is not available (retardation factor equal to unity) in the liner system, and this more or less makes your design too conservative. Subsequently, becoz adsorption is neglected, you won't see the topics about batch test and column leaching test in this book. Also, the way to obtain diffusion coefficients of porous media is not presented.
So far I've gone through some chapters and found errors from place to place. Pages 19, 122,158, 162-163, etc. need corrections.
To finish in a positive way, I believe that this book is "a must" for geotechnical engineers working on landfills. If your background is purely environmental, you'd better look for some other books. And if you are a geoenvironmental engineer, the book is one of the good references for your career. But it's not a bible.