Benefits of Books

This book is perfect for anyone using, looking to use, or having interest in Citrix MF/Win 2000 Terminal Services. Strong coverage of all the essentials- Routing/Remote Access, Design Considerations, Installation, Configuration, etc. This one is a keeper...

Sorry Guys (Melissa & co.)...

After pushing through this one cover to cover and then attempting a big project I felt rather let down.

The book went to great lengths to discuss planning and network toplologies, as well as many repetetive discussions about the benefits of ICA protocols over RDP, not to mention endless pages explaining the difference between NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, TCP/IP etcetera.

Many chapters repeated material already covered and while I did glean some insights into licensing and the diferences between Terminal Server and MetaFrame this was not the information you ultimately need when it comes to deploying the product.

The main areas that are left out are user profile configurations, roaming profiles, group policies and application customisations and installations.

Probably a good book for sales people who want to know what the product can do - but who don't have to actually make it do it.

Only two stars from me.

Svend Petersen,
Sydney,
Australia.

This book does a really great job of explaining the design considerations of deploying Citrix MetaFrame and then explaining the complexities of intallation, configuration, troubleshooting etc. The way the book is written, you get a really good idea of what your network will look like when it's done, which makes it much easier to come up with a plan that works and implement it. Great Job!

The information is pretty simple and easy to use instructions. Basically, it provides pictures, explains what the pictures mean and how to use the program. The only problem I had with the book is I was looking for more of a advanced version. It's true that the book is easy to use, but more for beginners. One chapter in the book describe internet and how to use your computer, in which I think is meaningless because most individuals who want to create a web site already know the basic functions of the internet and the uses of their computer systems. But, all in all the book was useful to me and I guess I would recommend this book for first time web designers, but not for individuals seeking a more advanced web published site.

I was hoping that this book would explain some of the more advanced features of Front Page 2000 while still explaining the fundamentals of FP2K. Instead, I found the information extremely limited and basic (one of the pages explains how to use a scroll bar at the right of the screen.) The webpage photos shown throughout the book show very basic example pages and the book does not show how to use the program to its capacity. I would only recommend it to first time web designers, but not to anyone who has already used web publishing software before.

I've bought most FrontPage 2000 books written by various authors and publishers, but this one I use most. It is really easy to understand and that makes the Website design process fast! Easy graphics with efficient text explain all the basic features as well as many of the advanced features in a hurry. The content is nicely arranged and categorized. While no book can be complete on the subject and I use several books as reference for certain tasks, this book is excellent for quick learning, reference and implementation of FrontPage 2000 to create very nice and professional-looking Websites.

Beautiful organization, research examples to support common-sense recommendations, case studies with pictures, this superb book is the first stop for the healing garden designer. The case studies and design recommendations are grouped by health care setting, which makes the reading more focused. By far the best professional text on the topic.

Conclusion:
Despite it's flaws, it is probably the best textbook available on Healing Gardens.

Pros:
Clear advice to help landscape architects design healing gardens.

A comprehensive discussion of theory.

Cons:
If you want a picture book, this is not for you.

No evidence-based design (because there isn't any)

My first impression of this book was not good. I am a visual person and I wanted to see some large full-color pictures of healing gardens. Instead, most of the images were back & white, small and of mediocre quality.

Many of the images appear to have been taken by amateurs and the inexpensive printing on non-glossy paper did not help.

Yes there is a 14-page glossy color insert in the center of the book, but the snapshots shown were tiny, with 3 or 4 clustered on each page. There was no clear connection from the text to these images.

Site plans are critical to landscape gardening. There were only 35 site plans in this book of 610 pages and like the photographs, they too were small; typically about 4 x 4-inches each and none were in color.

The book's subtitle "Therapeutic Benefits..." and the use of Roger Ulrich as the author of Chapter Two suggests that evidence-based design will be central but it seems that there is not much good research to draw from. Ulrich writes "... very little research directly relevant to gardens has used the types of experimental-scientific methods that are considered sound and persuasive...".

Instead of evidence we have to consider the advice of experts and certainly the two main authors: Clarie Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes are experts. They also happen to be very good writers. They have clear suggestions for a wide range of healing gardens. They have separate chapters focusing on:
* Acute Care Hospitals
* Psychiatric Hospitals
* Children's Hospitals
* Nursing Homes
* Hospices
* Alzheimer's Facilities

Chapter 11 is called "Getting it Done" and it offers practical advice based on several case studies. It discusses funding and implementation in ways that would be very useful to someone who was meeting with resistance from the hospital administration.

At the end of every chapter there are several pages of references. For those in an academic setting these would be useful.

I might have missed it, but one thing I did not find in the book was: how to deal with gardens when plants are dormant. The two main authors are from the Bay area where the growing season is year-round. However, much of the rest of the planet has distinct seasons. Is it really "healing" to look out into a garden devoid of vegetation for several months a year?

Creo que es un buen punto de partida para comenzar a incluir en el diseño del entorno y el paisaje pautas que incluyan un beneficio directo en la salud de quienes lo contemplan.

This book is a clear example of the importance of rethink the teory and practice of decision making at governmental and enterprise level. It explains in technical and practical form the underlying theory for the systemic analysis of tangible and intangible factors.

In spite of the mathematical rigor that the author unfolds, the form as it quantifies the important inherent tangible elements to the complex situations, the neural basis of judgment in the decision making process and even his bond with the physics, makes of this book a remarkable advance for the decision theory . The decision situations usually involve benefits, costs, opportunities and risks. The ANP is a form to correctly approximate the uncertainty in the decision making process.

I bought this book for a class, and it was a useful reference, but it was very dense and math-intensive. It may not be for everyone unless you have a strong math background.

This book on ANP is very useful for researcher who are working on decision models.It provides very fruitful information on Analytical Network Process where the linking is non-hierarchical and non-linear. Though the previous book on AHP is also useful but this book is more comprehensive. I wish a grand success for this book.

I really like the books and I want to learned from it.

I really like the books and I want to learned from it.

I really like the books and I want to learned from it.

At a time of renewed debate over Medicare and Social Security, this is an important and insightful look at the origins and effects of America¡¯s distinctive public-private system of social welfare. Hacker¡¯s main point is that the American ¡°welfare regime¡± (he prefers this formulation to the common term, ¡°welfare state¡±) is a lot larger than most people think because, unlike most European nations, the United States relies heavily on private social benefits provided by employers, for example, private health insurance. The book carefully explains why private benefits play such a large role in the United States, why the role of private benefits differs between the two biggest areas of U.S. social policy -- health insurance and retirement pensions -- and what difference all this makes for the politics of U.S. social policy and the nature of present political debates. The book is original and well-researched. And even if you delve into the more theoretical parts of the book, it's a joy to read -- a rare combination of academic rigor, lucid prose, and clear thinking about current affairs.

Jacob Hacker's book is on the development of the American welfare state in the 20th century, specifically pensions and health care. He has three major arguments.

First, unlike Western Europe, America provides social welfare by a mix of direct state spending and private spending, which is regulated by the state and encouraged by tax policy. Social Security is the pre-eminent example of the former; tax-advantaged 401(k) plans are a good example of the latter.

Second, there is a great difference between pension policy and health care policy. Pensions are provided primarily by the state, through Social Security, with private pensions being on top of and in addition to Social Security. Health care, on the other hand, is provided primarily by private employer-based insurance programs, which are encouraged by being given favorable tax treatment, with the state providing additional care for those not covered by the private system, primarily the old and the poor.

Third, there is a continual interplay between the public and the private spheres, in which what is politically possible today is shaped by the vested interests brought into being by the laws of yesterday. Social Security, for example, was politically possible in the 1930s, because -- among other things -- there was no large private pension system with which Social Security competed. Universal heatlh care is very difficult to get through Congress, today, because we have a huge system of private health care, whose stakeholders tend to resist change.

These ideas are genuinely new and informative. For my taste, the book is too long and not very vigrorous in its prose; this book is definitely aimed at an academic audience and will be heavy going to the non-academic reader.

Learn how our environmental regulations really impact our economy and what the true cost of clean up is.

This book holds an excewllent treatment of the range and focus of topics which fall under the environmental resource economics realm. The author addresses both the fundamentals and advanced social concepts mixed with excellent examples of the economic principles which resource managers must make during the policy process and the inherent problems these policies present. A must read for anyone interested in working in the public sector.

Mandeville does a sterling job in unmasking social convention. His fable, upon which he provides his own commentary, stripes the outer layers of social convention from the reader and examines man from the perspective of his basic selfishness.

Mandeville has been criticized by many, whom he recognized, that have not even read his works. His work is still now largely neglected and unread., partly due to the quaintness of his 18th century writing style. But what a treasure awaits those who have the patience and perseverance to read this delightful work of ruthless honesty.

For example, Mandeville describes marriage mainly in terms of lust, not much different from the modern evolutionary psychologists. Prostitution is defended in pragmatic terms in that it 'protects' the family! Rulers who devote more time to the outward trapping of power and neglect such things as an adequate defense or police system come in for a serving. And on and on it goes ...

Mandeville is important in that the likes of Hume and Adam Smith were not only aware of his work, but influenced, in a positive way, by it. Mandeville, in terms of the development of our understanding of morals and society, cannot be neglected.

If you want to look society... and ourselves... honestly in the face, then this is the book.

My advice is buy the Libery Fund 2 volume edition

I first read an extract from this in second year English in university, and thought the author had some interesting ideas. Although the blurb casts the book as part of the great age of 17th-century English satire, it's more of a straight critique of society than a sarcastic diatribe, and probably doesn't warrant comparison with say, Swift's A Modest Proposal.

From what I can remember, the book is all about the changes taking place in society at the time, especially with the growth in the importance of commerce. Much of it concerns hypocrisy and some moral paradoxes that seem to go unnoticed. Mandeville's starting-point is to liken society to a hive, wherein the behaviour of the bees, though individually selfish, aggregates to form a kind of common good. The book was banned by the Grand Jury of Middlessex, and I suspect that much of the controversy resulted from readers mistaking description for prescription. In other words, people seem to have concluded that Mandeville was saying that this is how society ought to behave, whereas he was merely making observations.

His ideas are interesting, but I can't agree with all of them. One egregious error occurs when he makes the sweeping generalisation that morality is frequently selfishly motivated, using the following argument. Most people, if they see a baby falling from a high window, will rush to try and save it, not out of the child's interests, but merely to spare themselves the pain of seeing the child injured or killed. The next obvious question never seems to enter Mandeville's mind: if people are truly selfish, how would they have developed the empathy to feel the child's pain that strongly to begin with? So: a good commentator but perhaps not a brilliant thinker.

good book for government employees. It providesa a good overview on benefits and employee rights.

While not an exciting thriller to while away the night,
Or a romance novel full of love's first bite,
The Federal Personnel Guide is heavensent
For dealing with your employing government.
For CONUS, FERS, RIF and FEHBP (that's health)
The Federal Personnel Guide is literary wealth.

great, fast read, and all true. If you're starting down the path, or an experianced practitioner of the faith, you will learn much from Jim's journey though life.

I agree this is a quick and enjoyable read. It's one Awo's account of how the Orisa have brought physical healing, deliverance from harm, forgiveness for transgressions and understanding in living. However I bought the book SPECIFICALLY because it mentioned Ori, Ifa and Orisa worshipin the title and to my disappointment this book is a memoir, and provides no instructional material, historical background, or introduction of spiritual sciences to light. He merely choosing to refer to our spiritual practices in this way, which in retrospect is excellent - but just confusing as a book title.