Professional Resources Books

This book delves into a very critical aspect of current American society; namely, the exorbitant salaries of America's executives and high-level professionals, and the growing disparity between them and the rest of the people, especially the most underprivileged members of society. Although the findings cited in the book might suffer from methodological shortcomings, they are justified and confirmed by any person's observations of modern America. For instance, many of our corporate executives and lawyers own $1,000 suits, $60,000 cars, and have kids in private schools (not to mention enjoy $100 lunches on a daily basis) while there are countless homeless and welfare ridden persons who have very little mobility, regardless of work-ethic. There are clearly unjust differences in the amount of wealth and resources available to the most privileged members of American society and the poorest ones (also becoming known as the "under class"). This book is a valuable resource for anyone concerned with crucial societal issues that face the US in the years to come.

While I bought this book some time ago, I just got around to reading it. A fan of Bok, you must wonder about why he wrote this book and why the publisher published it. Must have been "star struck". Talks about why lawyers make more than others and makes judgements about who is more valuable than who. Of course college professors and teachers come out on top--why not janitors and iron workers? I hauled this book around on several plane trips and was wishing I would lose it in the seat pocket.

This is a guy people would have listened to. He could have built an interesting and important model about executive pay and been instrumental in influencing how organizations value to top talent they have. The book needed a severe editing job. It shows that people you expect a lot from just don't come through consistently.

I bought this book to try and help me narrow down those colleges that offer special programs for students with learning disabilities and the book was not that helpful. It does not segment out colleges with specific programs vs colleges with services, big diference.

This book is very useful because of the detailed information on hundreds of college programs for the learning disabled. The number of colleges covered has increased from the earlier editions. The disappointment comes from the selection of colleges. Some schools with programs are not mentioned; while some that are detailed, seemingly offer little more than what is required by law. For instance, Cornell is included, but not Ithaca; Brown is in, but not Salve Regina.

This book is not intended as a "How To" or a tutorial. And yes, it is in some respects a repeat of the VB 5 Help. Those of you who can remember back to a time when a mouse was simply an unwelcome visitor in your attic or basement, and the term CRT brings to mind little white characters in a green fog will appreciate this book. Those of us who do it for a living simply need to peel our eyes away from those beautiful 21 inch displays with all their color and glory and look at the coolness and conciseness of the printed page. Relish moving your wrists in more than one plane as you flip the pages. As I previously stated, out of 8 VB books in my collection this is the most worn and dog eared. The facts speak for themselves. Watch out for some minor typos and errors, nobody is perfect. I emailed the author with feedback on these and he seemed very receptive to input. However, I dare say at the rate our friends in Redmond, WA are releasing new versions of VB most authors will probably have little time to get out more than thier first edition on any one version of VB.

I tried to find help in this book on 3 occasions and spent more time trying to find what I wanted than it was worth. When you finally find the subject matter, it turns out that it tells you less than VB's online help. The included CD is just a reprint of the confusing book. Not worth the money.

This book is absolutely useless. It only provided information normally found in a sales brouchure. There was no technical content. It only told you what you could do with SBS, not actually how to do it.

This book has no substance at all. It lists features but explains just about nothing you may be trying to research. The book feels like a collection of headlines (including oversize fonts to fill the pages). Whenever you think you may be approaching an answer, it refers to the ominous "technology consultant". Even Microsoft's sales literature is significantly more useful than this "Resource Kit". Don't buy it even if you can't find anything else. At a minimum, make sure your book seller has a no-questions-asked return policy.

I have finished this book with only 2.5 days.
I feel very disapointed because this book mainly tell you what the features are avaliable in the Small Business Server 2000.
This book hasn't tell you how to use them, how to deploy them.

The style of the book is many titles in a chapter, but there is only a few words talking the title.
I feel that the author is saying like "There is Remote Access Service with SBS 2000. Then bye bye."

This book is too details for manager/decision maker, but not enough for administrator, so I don't know what this book for.

This book was written with SBS design and planning in mind first and foremost.

If this book is purchased up front and used early in the SBS life cycle then you will find it excellent and it will meet your needs. You will especially benefit from this book if you are new to SBS and unfamilar with SBS branding matters such as structured setup and deployment, console-based management, etc.

If your expectations were for the book to be a downstream technical troubleshooting manual, you need to consider using Microsoft TechNet for the latest KBase articles related to SBS or newgroups such as the Yahoo! SBS Group.

Note that this book does not discuss third-party SBS products such as virus detection applications, and you'll need to look at other third-party Small Business Server 2000 books that are on the market for that. These other SBS 2000 third-party books do more step-by-step deployment and administration than the SBS 2000 Resource Kit, so again, manage your expectations accordingly and you'll be pleased with this book.

I was expecting something similar to Office 2000 Resource Kit, a very good resource. but instead this book is not at all helpful for anyone who has never installed a server product before or been exposed to network issue decisions. Luckily I come from a Unix/Linux background and could understand the jargon and over emphasized subjects covered in this book. Active Directory is nothing more then an overblown address book (however, it is most useful) it's coverage is overdone in my opinion. Save your money and use the Server help documentation that comes with the product.

I've found this book extremely frustrating. It talks about a lot of things that I'd like to do, but does not tell you how to do them! I give two stars because it's discussions are still informative and provide some insight into portal design and sharepoint's capabilities.

But, what I really needed were practical implementation details, and this book completely fails to deliver in that respect.

The content is generally too "theoretical" to be of any help. It is more suited to a person who is evaluating sharepoint. A person looking for a reference to guide installation/development should look elsewhere. I expected at the very least a consolidation of the material at the MSDN, but I was wrong. The content is very shallow.

I would have given it one star, but the CD contains useful web parts that one can use as templates to in creating your own.

Ok, here's the deal I'm an experienced ASP, office, sql, IIS, exchange developer, digital dashboard. I've been tasked to customize and deploy sharepoint for a fairly large organization. Naturally I felt I needed a book to serve as a guide for the more exotic requirements. Of course I turned to Microsoft. BIG MISTAKE.

This book is long on theory, short on details. Its more of an idea book then a resource kit. Its not for a beginner, because the only thing it goes into any detail is installation. Which means nothing because installation is run by a wizard. So as long as you meet hardware/software specs its a breeze.

There is nothing about even basic customization of the dashboard (which is almost 70% of what an organization will ask for).

Its not for an advanced person, because anyone who has even deployed sharepoint once, or at least worked with a document management tool will be able to work out the theories. What I was looking for was how to implement those theories through sharepoint!

You know it may only satisfy a marketing guy who needed to know in a jiffy what Sharepoint can do, but has no intention of doing it himself.

What you buy is a giant table of contents to the MSDN. There are many chapters that are 4-5 pages long that whet your appetite and then refer to so and so at microsoft.com for details.

I have never seen a book with such terrible code samples. They are pretty lame (basically "hello world" type stuff) and there are NO explanations. Basically "type this, install, and press run". I dont even know why what I typed is useful.

I gave a two stars because the CD came with some neat stuff (mostly better implementations of the web parts installed by default). You can rip these apart to use as templates for your own code, but man your going to have to figure out EVERYTHING by yourself.

So if you really want to learn sharepoint go to MSDN and save your money.

Only someone who has never lived before would find this book at all helpful. It defines concepts that I found were too basic to be of any real help. It also mixes different types of management styles and yet doesn't delve into their differences. Most of the other concepts were worthy of a 200 level university course. I would say skip it.

I found a lot of the information regarding supervision and such to be "common sense", stuff that anyone who has worked for a mid to large company already would know

I bought this book with the hope to get deep insights into the workings of MySQL on windows platform, including issues like perfromance tuning on windows platform etc. But the book was a big disappointment. It is a dumbed down version of the MySQL documentation, for users who don't have any prior database experience. If you have already worked with database and want to learn about MySQL, you are better off reading the free online docmentation.

Much of the advice in this book is timeless and helpful. But there are major gaps in the content since it obviously was written before the Internet became a valuable recruiting tool. More worrisome, however, are some very questionable recommendations like:
1. Trust your first instincts in an interview (and perhaps end the interview process there)
2. When a resume indicates a gap in employment and the applicant says an injury was the reason, ask what kind of injury and press on to make sure it's valid.
I could go on but won't. Dr. Hair is a well-meaning man and very knowledgeable about some areas. I just wouldn't advise paying money for this book unless you get a very good deal on a used copy.

this book is unlikely to meet students' and professionals' needs and expectations, maybe because it's trying to do two distinct things at once: prepare students for the TOEFL and help readers incorporate the words into their active vocabulary.

TOEFL prep is probably best served by drill, and this book offers a useful division of vocabulary into manageable chunks.

actually incorporating vocab into your daily speech, however, is quite a different task, and this book offers little in that direction. i find both the 'conversation' and 'short talk' components to each chapter to be quite stilted and unnatural sounding--the exact opposite of the kind of model the target audience actually needs. reading a newspaper and a good novel and then discussing them with others is more likely to produce lasting vocabulary growth.

ALTHOUGH I CANNOT DOWNGRADE THE EFFORT AND BIBLICAL ACCURACY OF THIS BOOK, I CAN SAY THAT IT IS PRETTY MUCH A STUDY OF NEHEMIAH, WITH THE WORD "MISSIONAL" ADDED TO IT. I EXPECTED TO SEE MORE APPLICATION TO THE MISSIONAL MOVEMENT. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GOOD STUDY ON NEHEMIAH, YOU CAN GET THIS ONE, ALTHOUGH IT IS SOMEWAHT LIMITED. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP MATERIAL, THIS IS ALSO NOT THE BOOK. BOTTOM LINE, IT FALLS SHORT ON BOTH THE STUDY OF NEHEMIAH, AND ALSO ON THE MISONAL MOVEMENT.IT MISSES BOTH TARGETS.