Carey Books

Very helpful book for any interested in getting into tax lien investments. Has a lot of examples and knowledge of how to get started and where to look for the best tax liens.

These certificates pay a guaranteed rate of interest which varies, but can be about 5 or 6 times the interest rate of money in the bank. In additon, there can be a bonus at the end of the certificate time (sometimes 2 years). If the lien is not paid off with interest and fees the governmental taxing authority will sell the lien to you and then you own the property because you paid the taxes on the property.

... the text is written in an informal conversational style targetting an average 8th grade student. If you want something that can fill its pages with solid substance, look elsewhere. On the other hand, if taxes and legal jargon intimidates you, the baby-talk tone of this book is for you.

I learned about tax liens from the Rich Dad series and when I read some of the information provided in this book, the 50% returns clearly shows that it is just part of the hype. Really you won't get up to 50% returns, with the industry average hovering around 8-9%. To the book's credit, it does state that you "could" go up to 50% or more not necessarily that you will.

THESE ARE THE MOST AWESOME BOOKS FOR LEARNING THE OFFICE PROGRAMS..

A comprehensive but terribly organized book. It is of little use to someone trying to teach himself/herself, and the poor quality of the index makes it useless as a work of reference.

Avoid it.

Maybe if you have an instructor holding your hand you can figure out how to use the information in this book. Don't buy it if your trying to learn it yourself, what a waste of $.

Designed for classroom learning, this book covers many if not all Excel skills. This book definately covers everything for the core exam and even the expert exam. What this book or any book can't do is simulate test taking strategy. Though material is comprehensive, the index is not intuitive or helpful compared to other books. In other words, if you want to find a topic, unless you've gone through the entire book already, its difficult to find what you're looking for. These topics could be covered in more than one chapter making your search more aggravating. All the pages are in color and displays many helpful charts and diagrams. There is no CD-ROM but you can access downloadable files from the publisher's website.

The item description said the book was in "pretty good" condition. When i received it three and a half weeks later it was badly water damaged and almost every page was ripped.

This book was OK, It had minor tears on several pages.
other than that it as good.

I had to wait awhile for this book to arrive.

My comments apply both to EXCEL and ACCESS textbook since they follow the exact same style:

1.
Since the heavy text is closely used near a PC, what is needed is some type of new binding, where the specific tutorial a student is working on, can be removed from the main book's binding and when finished it can be returned to the its original spot.

2.
Often the yellow places, where the authors discuss specific intructions or procedure to accomplish a given task, the authors get carried away with adding extra discussions and "warnings" etc that a student forgets what is being discussed at hand.

3.
Most dialog boxes should be in quotes since the authors mention these dialog boxes as if the student already knows of their existence. If placed in quotes, then it alerts the reader to look out for a specif dialog box when they finally do appear on the screen.

4.
Also the authors write in a sort of condensed style by essentially "compressing" two steps into one, such as for typical example:

"Open table Member in the Case 2/Brief folder."

Instead, they should say:
"Open Case 2/Brief folders."
Then
"Open Member Table."

The above authors' writing style chosen by these authors assumes already that the first time student understands right away what is being asked of them to do.

The entier book seems to be written in this style !

5.
The Case studies seem to be error free and have enough hints to help student finish assignments -- which are critical to getting through these books.

6.
All major subsections should begin atop a new page !
Again readers get the feeling they are trying to CRAM as much as possible on one page.


All is now left to do is to go over the entire books and buff out the stuff that makes them foggy.

Apparently the authors have been making constant changes since the original texts first started with in 2000 series and they did finally change some of the more complicated tutorial examples and gray background, but now they must keep buffing these books and make them easier to carry to a PC desk area which is often cramped.

Gerard Sagliocca,P.E.

This is the most well written software learning guide I have ever seen. The structure is logical and easy to follow. The graphics are incredible. Imagine the most well written textbook you have ever read. That's what this book is like. This isn't a how-to book, it's a complete course.

this company sent me the wrong book, but realized it before i received the wrong one, so they corrected it and gave me a discount. the whole experience was still not good, but they made it right.

There were a few gliches, but they were taken care of beyond my expectations

Generally, I found this book to be clear and well-written. The illustrations are great and the topics covered are all very interesting. The problem with the book is that the physical craftmanship is terrible. For a book sold at this price (170.00 new), I would expect to be purchasing a durable, well-bound, hardcover book. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the inside cover states it is a hardcover and Amazon lists the ISBN as a hardcover, it is in fact, a paperback. What's more, it is a poorly constructed paperback. McGraw-Hill, is the publisher, and I feel they should be ashamed to distribute such a product - particularly at such an absurd price. I understand that publishers need to charge more for college textbooks in order to make a reasonable profit, but $170.00 for this book is almost criminal.

The book explains very basic environmental terms and concepts fairly well. The information is very clear and the wording concise. It does a good job of getting some general themes across. However, I would definitely not pay full price for a book such as this. Look for it in a used book store.

This book really only has one part to warrant it's purchase, the handbooks in the back offer story's and statistics to every major character to grace the ultimate universe. Its basically like the marvel encyclopedia but for the ultimate universe and offers great art and backgrounds that any Ultimate fan would be interested in reading about.

The story of the book however is very lacking. I'm not entirely sure it should be called Ultimate X-Men and Fantastic Four since it only involves a fraction of the X-Men's team. The writing is nowhere near on par with that of either series and the art is at time terrible and others...acceptable. The only real reason to check out the story is so you can check out the new characters introduced to the marvel universe, but I must admit its a shame that Caliban was changed into some sort of machine with no emotions as emotion had such a large part in his original character.

Simply put if you like the Marvel handbooks your going to want to pick this up but if your looking for a good story with the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, keep looking.

This was a low point for the Ultimate line. The characters don't mesh well, and the selection of X-Men to pair against the FF seems alomost arbitrary (let's see, we definately need Wolveriene, let's just tack on Ice-man so we'll have that fire/ice angle with the human torch, and toss in Kitty, because phasing and invisibility complement each other so well, she'll attomaticly get along with Susan Storm).
They didn't think to use nightcrawler, who would have gotten along well with the thing because of the hideous appearence problem, and a little guy teleporting the Thing around would have been cool.
The villain is defeated in a way that made me feel cheated, as there was no real fight, just an I gotcha moment on the part of Reed Richards, who has no X-man counter part in this story (I can only assume that if Beast was still alive he would have been it, but oh well).
Even the super fight between the two teams is just pitiful, as the X-men are just pounded as they walk headlong right into a more powerful and more numerous group (with their biggest gun Wolveriene still shaken from his last fight).
At parts this is just idiotic, and it always seems rushed. Bad book.

I wasnt expecting anything worthy when i picked up this trade paperback. the concept sounded pretty lame for a teaming up, and it was only about 2 individual comic books long. however the plot was actually much better than i had thought it would be, and the characters were more true to their original marvel universe personalities. wolverine has no problem gutting the thinker's creature as well as rigging her escape vehicle to explode in midair. as for the thinker, she was drawn much more humane than her first appearance in UltimateFFvol.4, which was a terrible volume. the best thing about this tpb however is the official ultimate marvel handbook in the back. while it lacks a few characters who have not made many appearances yet, it's essentail in refreshing the memory with some material which may have long been forgotten. due to it's small amount of actual comic book reading, it gets a 3. however it's a necessary and interesting read from the ultimate universe, and the price isnt bad either.

I have read everything in the Ultimate line so far, including the dreadful Hawk Owl and Woody. This collection is a low point for the Ultimate line. The story isn't great, the art is sub par, and it is basically just 2 issues collected with the Ultimate Handbook thrown in to fatten it up enough to make a trade paperback. I did like the informative handbook of all the characters that have appeared so far in the Ultimate universe. The 2 comic issues were just way below what you would expect. I collect the Ultimate line because they use top writers and artists. More dreck like this and I will start looking elsewhere for a good story.

I am really lazy. I had a book report duw in one week and i hadn't even found a book yet. I picked up these cliff notes and I skimmed through them. Now, my English teacher doesn't know any better, and I have a 3.9 GPA!!! For all the lazy people out there, don't worry about doing the work, just buy the Cliff Notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLiff Notes....just the thought of them really irks me. Why? Because for one thing...teachers know...real teachers, college professors know when you are plagarizing and when its your own idea. The whole idea of Cliff Notes is for the student to be lazy, not think, and to steal another person's idea. Oh yeah, thats exactly what we want to teach our children. Not only that, if you are lazy enough to use cliff notes, then it will be only that much more obvious to your teacher because they will receive answers from you that you never could answer before. Ok I will admit, when I was a freshman in high school I used Cliff NOtes only because I had a teacher who was a moron. However I didnt get so "lucky" after that. I had english teachers who knew the CLiff Notes and could bust students easily...and now that I am in College I am thankful that I do not rely on Cliff Notes. For one thing, Kate Chopin is one of the best American writers and by not experiencing the depth and the beauty of her stories is just a tragedy. Another thing, college is a whole new ballgame, you get caught plagarizing work and your academic life is over. So for the sake of your future, use your brain.

These are some of the worst cliff notes I have ever come across. The summaries/commentaries are long. This is still a must if you are reading the awakening, but they are not well written for someone who wants a brief summary of what is going on in this book.

If you do get this book, don't forget to read the real book, as you are missing out on good literature and cliffs' notes don't cover everything in the original book...

I first read McWilliams book in the 1960s. It put into persepective the contribution of my heritage and explained how my family's origins differed from the expanse of "Hispanics" that came later to populate various aspects of the United States.

McWilliams understood the contribution and the resulting plight early on, before the Civil Rights movement, before Ceasar Chavez. McWillaims did us all a favor by not becoming the outside spokesman for what developed as a cause that he understood and elequently outlined in history and in ethic.

I don't think this book is quite sound. I would highly recommend Professor Ralph H. Vigil's book "Spain and Plains;Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains"

I really take issue with the dismissive review of the reader from Washington, I think they missed the point. This book was written in the late 40's as a response to the Zootsuit murders which brought to the attention of the American people the marginalized situation of Chicano people. McWilliams pieced together the little that was known about the history of the settlement of the southwest by Spanish subjects who were mainly people of mixed descent in order to establish that these people were not "immigrants" but rather more native to the land than the Anglo population. The mixture of history, sociology, and news was ahead of its time, making it accessible to people from different backgrounds. I think it was a wonderful example of the gritty style of American writers that has been lost in our times where passion has no place in the public sphere.

It was like reading a high school term paper. The book that was used for a constant source is a better option.

I found this book invaluable in my research on the play, The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance. It is objective in ways that most work on this subject is not. I highly recommend it.

This book was recommended by Cargill of Dog World, who said if you only get one book on dog nutrition, make it this one. I find Cargill to research things well and therefore come up with good recommendations.

This book was profoundly disappointing. I expected information on feeding my animals food "fit for human consumption" and from my kitchen (versus store bought). I realized shortly into the book that it was written by experts at Iams Company, a maker of pet food. Their recommendations are based on meeting the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) guidelines - a committee developed by the pet food industry when they decided they did not care for the requirements recommended by the Committee of Animal Nutrition of the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Science.
I did get one good tip from the book on how to clean my kitchen after working with raw meat. Otherwise, there are much better books out there for people looking for healthier pets through the food system.

I found this book to be filled with information on the nutritional needs of both cats and dogs. As A pet owner I always read the pet food lables. Till I read this book I was unaware of how misleading those lables can be. I have come away from this book with a much better understanding of the nutritional needs of my pets and how to feed them to promote health and longevity. I also have gained some insight into how to spot signs of nutritional deficiencies in my pets. Surpisingly two of the writers of this book appear to work for Iams, a rather large and well known pet food company. This book was far from biased for the pet food industry nor did it appear to promote any pet food. This book has changed my view of the pet food industry and I will be be much more cautious in the future. I am revamping my pets' diets today! I feel this book is a must for anyone who owns a cat or a dog.

I bought the book and enjoyed it very much. I also bought the audio CD and thought it a very accurate interpertation of the book. I travel some and the audio version is very helpful while traveling as so with other books. Another reviewer commented on how the book was boring. I did not find it so. I thought it had a lot of very valuable information on nutrution and exercise. It was presented in the form of personal testimonies from everyday people who were experiencing the Body for Life program. Michelle Lee did an excellent job of presenting the information. Her voice was pleasing to listen to and she presented it in a manner that kept my interest. Technical books, which this is one, are more difficult to present in an audio version than fiction is. The continuity was good and I felt the purchase price was well worth it.

Probably the lamest and most boring audio book I had the misfortune to hear. Bill Phillip's BFL audio book was great but this one is nothing but a boring monotone reading of the book. It also jumps all around confusing the listener as to what is going on. It appears they are attempting to recite the book but without photos that are necessary to understand where things are in perspective. Unfortunately, it also appears that Bill Phillips was the heart of BFL and this appears to be a boring attempt at trying to score some money off the past fame. It is hard to believe that whoever is running BFL now would let such a failed attempt out there. It is too bad that they produced this, as the real message they were trying to voice is not done justice. I am glad I did not pay full price, I felt ripped off!!! Very sad....