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I sat for the May 2001 Exam and purchased the Wiley Finance volume to study from in addition to my review course. What a great investment! Unfortuantely the course alone was not helpful enough and I didn't pass the other three sections but I did ace the Finance section--thanks to the Wiley book. It gave me a clear understanding of what needed to be studied for the exam and plenty of questions. I'm sitting for the other three parts next May and I'm buying the Audit, A&R, and Business Law books to help me study. I know I'll pass this time around.

Book is very well organized (part of the detailed 4-book series from Pat Delaney, published by Wiley & Sons) and makes studying by topic easy to follow and understand. Each topic is followed by related questions, very similar to those on the actual CPA exam.

This book is more detailed than Delaney's 2 book set, and is specific to each of the 4 CPA exam sections. If you have passed some of the exam sections and need to redo one or two for whatever reason and have done ALL of the questions in the 2-book set and are looking for more detailed theory explanations, then this (or any of the other 3 in the 4-book series) book is the one to get.

Far exceeds the others (CPA Excel software, Conviser Duffy etc...) in ease of use, clarity of material and overall CPA preparation.

Overall, top marks.

This is a great review book before the examination. It has lots of facts to digest and is well organized in topics and questions. This is a good review book for family practice certification or recertification examinations.

Very comprehensive review book for the boards. Lots of good hints and facts without being overwhelming. I especially liked the Derm chapter, quite trenchant.

Hello! I have been a nurse for 4 years but I remember how terribly stressful it was to prepare for the boards!!! Relax, take a deep breath and buy this book! Out of all the books I had this one was the best. It gave you strategies to remember things, it went through each section of nursing that is covered on the boards with clarity (only focusing on really what you need to pass) and it had questions that most resembled those that were on the NCLEX. It also has a great section on all the pharmocology that you need to know. Every time that I meet someone who is about to take the boards I recommend this book. As I said, it saved my life!!!!

I took his NCLEX review in Boston, and I don't recall that Don mentioned this book. Needless to say, the five-day class was fine, and he had a handout for the class. But the five day class was way too fast to get it all down on paper, so having this book (I found it in a library) and reviewing all the points at my own pace really works. I wish he had the third edition published so I could use it.

Herbert Ford succeeded to write an original book about World War II. His heros John Weidner created an underground network as soon as 1940 and saved a thousand people (Allied pilots gunned down by the Nazis and Jews) without ever wearing a weapon. The great originality of the network Dutch-Paris is its high morale standards and its efficiency in making fugitives escape occupied France, Belgium and Netherlands towards Switzerland and Spain. A great book about an unusual heroe that deserves to be better known.

This book is very touching, inspirational, and gripping. It follows the experience of one man who would do anything to free as many Jews as possible in the Holocaust. It talks about those who helped him in his efforts, and how he himself escaped some very scary situations with the Lord's help. Everyone should read this book!

I love this book. The art is a great addition. Such a lot of work and good reading went into this unique reference work. Kister made his reputation studying and reporting on the quality of reference works. So, as you would expect, the book's design is flawless. You can get addicted to reading the samples he has chosen to include from each book.

I learned more about the history and lore of Florida in fifteen minutes reading this book than I did living there for eight years! This book is like rich food. So much information so quickly.

Kenneth F. Kister, who in his previous books established himself as a reliable, indeed an indispensable, authority on encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases, as well as a compelling biographer ("Eric Moon"), has now undertaken in "FLORIDA ON THE BOIL: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State" a surprising and, as it turns out, an abundantly rich and important guide to fiction that is set in Florida.

In brief, witty and wonderfully concentrated essay-reviews, Kister displays an unerring feel for the quiddity (the essential qualities and flavors) of some 300 novels and story collections, and along the way he also alludes to or describes a comparable number of other pertinent writers and books.

Some of the writers that Kister assays are well-known-to-famous: Carl Hiaasen, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John Updike ("Rabbit At Rest"), Thomas McGuane ("Ninety-Two in the Shade"), Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Harry Crews, Ernest Hemingway, and Peter Matthiessen, to name a few; and some of his subjects, such as Alison Lurie, Christina Garcia, and Zora Neale Hurston, are admired by the literati but are perhaps a bit less widely known than they ought to be. So Kister's essays are likely either to enhance his readers' appreciation of many writers or introduce them to writers and works they will want to know.

In addition to being a pleasure to read, the book, which is beautifully designed, includes a fine introductory discussion of the nature and history of fiction set in Florida, a selective bibliography, and it's miraculously easy to navigate thanks to an index that is searchable not only by title and author, but also by specific locales (e.g., Key West, Miami, northwest Florida, etc.), subject matter (e.g., marriage and marital problems; drugs and drug trafficking; environment, etc.) and genre (e.g., mysteries, thrillers and crime; romance novels and stories; sex and sex crimes, etc.); and as a charming bonus several of the entries are enhanced with evocative caricatures of the writers drawn by the award-winning Tampa Tribune illustrator David O'Keefe.

Helen's book gives the firsthand accounts of flight attendants, from the first stewardesses hired by the precursor to United Airlines, up to present day Flight Attendants. Chock full of photos from the private collections of each attendant. Excellent background on the industry, it's changes and history.

A must have for anyone aspiring to a career in Flight Service. The rare photos reveal the incredible changes that have taken place in the airlne industry. It was once necessary to first be a nurse to even apply for "Stewardess training "! Soon teachers were accepted too. Age, HT/WT requirements abounded. Also included are interviews with Flight Attendants involved in hi-jackings, and other in-flight emergencies. There are recollections of both tragedy and high (up) courage. Be it for the coffee table, library, or career resource center, FOOTSTEPS IN THE SKY fits the bill!

I find it striking that there are so many dumb people in the world. Like the person who wrote the review of this book and said "it's better than The Godfather...Mario Puzzo does an excellent job"! First, Editors Nick Browne & Horton Andrew wrote this book -- NOT MARIO PUZZO! Secondly, it analyzes the trilogy -- it's not an addition to the trilogy -- and thirdly, quit writing reviews about stuff you don't know. That's something I cannot understand, you write about something you know nothing about!

I could not stop turning the pages! I read & re-read the book, and I am still completly compelled with the Godfather! Much better than the movies! This is simply one of the best novels that has ever been written. It can hold its own among some of the greatest writers in history. Truly the defining novel of its genre. Mario Puzo has written the perfect novel and I for one will never forget his work.

This is the latest edition of a book that has been on the market approximately forever, and is used in a zillion schools and colleges. There is a good reason for this. While too challenging for novices, this is the one book you need to cover grammar in the broadest sense and vocabulary up through the advanced level. It is clear, straightforward, and is the benchmark against which others muct be measured. I was stunned to see that it was not carried by my local Borders.

If you need help in your French class, or you want to review over French grammar, then this is the book for you. The explanations are clear and easy to understand, the exercises are wonderful. This book will get you through the basics and past an intermediate/advanced level. This is an especially good book for tutoring and practice. As a French teacher, I often pull ideas and exercises from this book to help students better understand difficult concepts.

This mammoth, all-inclusive history of American film in the 1930's with almost 200 stills, portraits, and other photographs examines the film output of that legendary decade in its entirely - five thousand movies, most of them personally screened by the author. His skillful division of this mass of cinema into fifty distinct genres - gangster films, horror films, spy pictures, screwball comedies, campus capers, and westerns among them - combines fun criticism, facts, trivia, and social history re-creates a fascinating era for the movie nut, film buff, and cinema scholar. It is the essential volume on that memorable decade and its golden legacy.

I have loved this book for almost 25 years now!! It is the most enjoyable, most informative book ever written by a single author on an era in motion pictures and how lucky we are that it was written on the greatest era of films, the 1930's!! It's a huge book packed with information and commentary on films of the era. What is truly astonishing is that the author wrote this book on superb history and criticism on these era of films years before Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics were on the air, primarily from local television airings, revival houses in New York, and research!! Wonderfully packed with information and highly readable, by the time you finish this book you will rightfully feel you can hold your own with anyone if the topic in 1930's Hollywood films. There aren't that many photographs, but you can easily get that elsewhere, finding such superb detailed yet unpretentious writing on the period is the true attraction. Dooley truly enjoys the films of the era but he is not blind to the failings of weaker films or films that no longer hold up (and you will be quite grateful that he rarely gives away "spoilers" when discussing the films unlike many a historian). He writes with appreciation of the pace of the films, the sharp dialogue and charismatic performances of these superb films which he bluntly (and truthfully!) states was Hollywood's finest era. What a shame the talented Mr. Dooley, a novelist, never again wrote a book on film history because he truly takes his place with the greats on the basis on this single volume. If you love "classic movies" you can be certain you will love this book!

I bought this book and no other book for review prior to my LPN boards. I reviewed the book and broke it down into parts (the book is random information). It seemed like every question that came up was in this book. I have recommended it (and its companion book for RN's ) to everyone I know taking the tests. It is simply the best source of info: I've even used both books while on duty to as a quick resource. Good luck to all taking the Boards.

This is a very good book. It has good info and in very short bullets. It is a great book to carry with you when you have to go to the doctors office or if you are just sitting around.