Barton Books

Overall, this was a helpful practice exam that I found quite valuable towards passing the ARDMS Vascular Physics exam. In fact, I only had two other source materials from which to study, namely the Edelman physics book and another vascular practice exam by Lori Green & Lori Sens. These were enough to easily pass the exam on the first try. The Vascular Physics Review had over 3 times as many questions than the registry test so it was fairly thorough. However, some of the last sections could do with a few more practice questions to round out the topics. The explanations in the answer sections could be expanded a little bit as well, but there was enough to explain the more difficult concepts. At first I hesitated to buy the book but now I think it was money well spent.

This book was not worth the money or the time I spent working on it. I stopped wasting my time after the sixth chapter. Instead I studied Vascular Technology by Claudia Rumwell and that was all I needed. The questions in this book are outside the realm of what the vascular registry actually requires and I passed the test with a very good score. Also, the answers in the back of the book are mostly just references to other books, without many explanations.

THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS BOOK IS MORE FICTION THAN FACT. YES IT FOLLOWS THE ARDMS OUTLINE, BUT WITH SO FEW QUESTIONS PER SUBJECT IT PROVIDES LITTLE IN THE WAY OF PREPARING YOU FOR THE REGISTRY AND IS NOT WORTH THE EXPENSE. THE BOOK MAKES MORE OF AN EFFORT TO SELL YOU OTHER PRODUCTS RATHER THAN HELP YOU REVIEW FOR THE REGISTRY. THE CD ROM WAS USELESS, IT WENT STRAIGHT INTO TRASH.

You work with Windows 2000 both the server and professional in your job and you need to be able to configure, administrate and troubleshoot. You are looking for study material for those exams in one place and the material must have hands-on labs. Where do you go to get this, well Prentice Hall may have your answer in the book and lab manual set.

While the book is not specifically written for any either the 70-210 or 70-215 exams, it does give you information and material on both. It also has material for the 70-26 and 70-215 exams as well.

The book starts off with the overview of Windows, from 3.X to 2000 Advanced Server. From there you are installing, customizing, managing and administrating both the Professional and server. File Sharing, Group policy, data storage, disaster recovery, troubleshooting and security round out the text.

Written with great detail, I found the manual to be easy to follow and understand. I also found the step by step exercises in the book to be very helpful as well. One thing I really liked was that both review and test questions are included in each chapter.

The lab manual has over 35 labs, as with other books in this series, I again think this should be incorporated into the manual. The labs are both excellent tools for learning as well as helpful for every day network involvement. There is also a cd included with practice questions for both the 210 and 215 exams and overall this is a good study tool in the self study arena or in the classroom environment.

Appears to be simply a compilation from other books - and unfortunately not very useful at that. A total waste of money.

This book is a relatively short overview of the history of Spain over roughly 2,500 years. Necessarily, it does not cover all topics in great depth. However, it becomes clear through the course of the book that the author's interest is primarily in the last 200 years. Depth and detail increase exponentially as the book moves forward in time, to the point that the Spanish Civil War, the Franco years and thereafter receive the same number of pages that a number of centuries received earlier in the book.

This is turn means that the book is strong on how the current Spanish situation came about, and what forces shaped Spain's present political and social atmosphere. However, for readers looking for example for information on the 600+ years of Moorish influence in the south of Spain, the text is much more sparse. Even the days of the Spanish empire in the New World receive scant attention, and the Inquisition rates barely a mention.

The book is well-written, and appears intended for a general audience rather than for academia. As such it is quite accessable, although there are times when it degenerates into little more than a recitation of names of monarchs, their wives and children.

For readers looking for the roots of present-day Spanish politics and recent history, this book will be very useful. Those wanting to read about the glories of Moorish Spain, the Reconquest, the Spanish Empire and similar topics, however, would be better served by finding another book.

I was really excited when I checked this book out from the library. I unfortunately found it a huge disappointment. There were too many dry, unimportant facts bundled up with some tolerable information. I really wanted to learn so much more from this book. I definitely know more now than before I ventured into reading it, but I just expected a greater deluge of knowledge. I'm relieved that I checked it out before I bought it.

The "Protectors" series is wonderful in a general way. When I saw that another addition to the series was available I leaped at the chance to buy and read it. I am sorry to say that it doesn't match the emotional depth of the others. Secondary characters that we got to know in earlier books of the series, like Joanna and J.T. seemed like different characters now. The heroine of this novel is strong, but Joe O. is again not at all like I pictured him from "Blackwood's Women". Usually I can understand the progression of the issues the characters in the book go through. However, this one seemed choppy. I didn't always know why the characters changed there minds from blame and guilt to forgivness. The book leads us to know that there are more in the series coming. I hope that the next ones are more similar to the earlier books of this series.

I must agree with the previous reviewer. I love the series, but unfortunately this did not live up to my expectations.

I did not care either way for the lead characters and at most times found the heroine anoying (she may be a strong character - but she had no sense). The hero supposedly the professional "action man" let an untrained person (ie the heroine)into situations (because of guilt) that did not hold with the "protector" ideology and/or cause injuries to others! In fact the heroine needed protection from herself.

I am sorry that I could not give this book more stars. But a word of caution to first time Beverly Barton readers, don't let this book put you off. She is an expectional writer and I will still continue to purchase more of her books.

Horrible book. I made it to page 30 and threw the book right into the trash can! I might take it back out so I can burn it so no one else has to read it. This is the ONLY book I have ever thought about burning! I got this book because it was labeled as science fiction. it's true label should be "sicko porn"

Not only do the authors explore fun science and species functions, but they also explore human sexuality and various permutations. People have sex. People in sci-fi novels, however, rarely have sex, but the act is certainly part of the human condition.

I liked this book enough to have read it twice, and thoroughly enjoyed it both times. So: not everyone hated it. ;-)

Book written entirely in blunted sentences and sentence fragments. Like this! Pages and pages of fragments. Sex happens. Gratuitous sex. Pages and pages of sex! 4.5 light years for sex. Big problems on ship. Bad people on ship. Will bad people win?

Who cares?

I was hoping to come here and post a review to warn everyone away from this book, but it looks like about two dozen people have beaten me to it. I am an avid sci-fi reader and the description on this book had me excited. Interstellar travel! Alien artifacts! Colonization! These are all subjects that I enjoy the heck out of. But I couldn't get past the very explicit sexual references in this book. And coming from me, a self-professed pervert, this is a resounding denouncement. By page 20, I had been confronted with at least 5 explicit images that would give a trashy romance novel a run for its money. But unlike a romance novel, most of these images were dark, disturbing, and fairly pathological. I'm the last person to want to sensor a book, so if you're into filthy, detailed descriptions of sexual vice, this is the book for you. But if you'd prefer a good story that provokes thought and doesn't rely on shock value, steer clear of this not-so-great book.

You may have picked up this book thinking it will say a lot about the nearest star system to our solar system. However this says nothing about the star system Alpha Centauri that you may not already know: that it's a trinary star system with the stars called Alpha Centauri-A, Alpha Centauri-B, and Alpha Centauri-C. Actually the book says less than you may know. That Alpha Centauri-C, a red dwarf, is also called Proxima Centauri because it is the actual closest individual star to our star system, and I don't recall that name coming up. Although it may have, what with scanning significant parts of this dull book in the attempt to just get it done with. There are other books with titles of astronomical bodies, Titan [1997] was written in a way that you actually felt like you were on that space body, in this case a moon of Saturn. However, that is no way even close to the case here.

Oh yeah, and there's the abundance of sex in this book. I think it might be fair to say that the sexual `situations' were a bit unorthodox. And with this being science fiction, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I thought it was a bit overdone, but mostly I think that because it overwhelmed the story that the title promised: Alpha Centauri. I think it would have been better if this book was marketed as a book about sexually modified humans. As it is, be prepared to read about someone's male genitals being lopped off and landing with a thud in a pan, and that a [...] and labia are created and an internalized [...] that emerges during an [...], such as with a dog or horse, is created. Now all this was mildly amusing, although a bit overdone and graphic. There may be those that might find it interesting to read, though they would never guess it from the title. And like those that were hoping to read more about Alpha Centauri and having to wade through a lot of unorthodox graphic sex, there will be those interested in reading about unorthodox sex that have to wade through scientific talk on a planet around Alpha Centauri. The unfortunate thing is that it was not a good blend of the two. And the book was too long and quite dull at times.

The book gets some credit and an extra star for bringing up the thought that if you live alone for a million years without contact with anyone else or any other intelligent species is there any point for continuing to exist. Two stars total.

Addendum: the Amazon censors have been busy with my review. Any words above in [...] are body parts that begin with v and p and one omitted word is a body part in a state of arousal. I did mean to keep the review as G-rated as possible but as a case in point it was difficult not to use some words as the book itself is filled with such terms.

I'm currently enjoying reading this book.Then again.....I LOVED Six Feet Under.....characters don't get more screwed up than that.....I guess you just have to like the darker sides of life.

This book was left at one of those free book exchanges, now I know why. First, there was a typo in jacket sleeve, identifying the goal of the colonists as being Titan not Tritan, so I started confused. I struggled through incomprehensible technology, self-indulgent introspection (in the form interminable flashbacks), almost no narrative and constant sexual encounters. Finally, still struggling at 150 pages I decided to go online to see if I was the only one who had trouble with this book, apparently not. I love science fiction, but this is just a high tech book about sexual fantasies, with characters not even mothers could love. Just because it's in space doesn't mean it should be called science fiction. These are explorers who live in holograms, scientists with no curiosity or scientific methodology. Save your money, save a tree don't bother with this book. Pick up something by Pohl, Bradley, Niven, Bradbury, McAffrey, Bova, Clark, Asimov or LaGuin and explore.

Sadly I was disapointed even then. This book starts out with painfully undefined terminology that requires 1/3 of the dead trees to be read in order to understand. It was literally a chore to read this book- but I bought it and I would finish it.

3/4 of the story could be a typical survivor movie with the 'DR's happening instead of the 'time outs with a video camera'.

I was afraid I was losing my taste in SciFi when reading this book- but as it turns out it really is just a poor read. Skip it.

So I made it about two thirds of the way through this novel, and I've had enough. I tried really hard to like this book, and the blurb made it sound reasonably interesting, but very soon into the story I found myself engaged in these writers unfettered, vebose self-indulgance.
Shallow, boring characters who never know when to shut up (and never say anything really interesting... unless you find ugly characters navel-gazing really interesting), and yet another re-tread on the hoary old Ancient Giant Hollow Artifact scenario, which follows the usual and very predictable paradigms.
And you know, if I'm really keen to tittilate myself with some hard-core sex descriptions, I'll go out and purchase a copy of Hustler.
Having spent the last year living and working in L.A. (I'm from the UK), I'm tempted to think that this nonsense was written by two bisexual chemists from Santa Monica (no offence to any bisexual chemists living in Santa Monica).
Avoid this badly written drivel at all costs, and spend your 7 bucks on a Greg Egan novel instead. Truly, truly dreadful.

PS: I finally DID throw it across the room.

I couldn't even make it to the hundred page mark. There are better mysterious space object books out there. There are better troubled artist books out there. There are better sex books out there. There are better unsympathetic character books out there.

Don't be fooled by the blurb comparing this to Samuel R. Delaney. Barton & Capobianco aren't even close to being in his league.

In the previous book of the series Elsa was a very likeable character; independent, caring and trying to do her best with her orphaned brother. But in this book she became a sanctimonious, social climbing, money hungry snob.

Her goal was to marry a rich, powerful, socially respected man. Rafe was one of the good guys and understood what was important in life. It's a mystery why he was attracted to her.

I was really looking forward to this book and was very disappointed.

I am soooooo dissapointed in this book. It was one of the worst I EVER read. I am really surprised because I have read ALL of Beverly Bartons books and have enjoyed most of them (give or take a few. Do not waste your time or money. Read Grace Under Fire, The Protectors, The Eary Years or any other of the Protectors Series. They are very good and worth a read. If you really want to get into her books, read all of her novels, Every Move She Makes, What She Doesnt' Know, etc. They were EXCELLENT!

Having never read anything by Beverly Barton, I'm unlikely to pick up another one after reading "Keeping Baby Secret." The first half of the book deals with the kidnapping of the heroine's 2-month old child! This is NOT a subject matter for light reading, nor would any normal mother be able to "get over" this kind of trauma to fall in love with the baby's father in a few days! I liked Frank very much and appreciated that this couple was not young and dewey-eyed. Still ... kidnapping? And the shameless 'set-up' of two characters for (no doubt) another novel bothered me--it just came out of the blue! And PLEASE, when selecting a name for the heroine in your next book, pick something other than Lurleen (with a nickname of Leenie). I found this name, in itself, very distracting. Not a keeper for me...

I love Beverly Barton, but this is just one of the same old things. One man, one woman, one night = one baby. Of course the baby is kidnapped and then the father is the only one who can help find her, or him in this case.

I will say it is nice to hear a man admit that it wasn't all her fault. He can accept that he is equally at fault for the pregnancy. However, He can't be a loving husband and father because of a bad experience with his first wife.

The Protectors is a good series. But this plot has been done to death, and even Beverly barton can't save it.

I wonder if it is a set-up for her next book. Maybe about Kate or Dante.

A very so-so read.

As an expat living in Europe for a while, I was looking for some good recommendations on how to spend my weekends. This book is fine IF all you are looking for are locations and a very broad idea of what's available there (ski the alps). If you are looking for detailed recommendations, this is not the book for you. I wanted to see something like 48 hours in Berlin = hotel rec, breakfast rec, activity rec, lunch rec, activity rec, dinner and nightlife rec....repeat for day 2 and possibly a 3rd day for those so inclined. Each location could have had several such itineraries one for culture, one for outdoor activities, etc. So, long story short, don't buy this book thinking that's what you'll get or you'll be as disappointed as I was.

I thought this book would give you insight on how to acquire property as Dan Barton says he did, the author, it did not. I can sum the booklet in a few short phrases, which are basically taken from M. Losier's Book "The Law of Attraction".
0. Change your old ways of thinking (think ONLY positive)
1. Desire something
2. Have faith: visualize it happening
3. Go for it (desire and faith alone will not bring riches, you have to put you self in action)

P.S. There is a work-book at the end of the 28 page booklet to write down your desires and how you plan to execute them for 90 days- this is the only thing that I see as a positive. And may I say very positive, but you don't need to spend $36 on this book when you can buy one that gives you more insight and goes in depth such as "Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill. Though I do see that Dan Barton provides a 800 number to call his company when in need to ask him or his associates about this book or situation.