Builder

Manual bookkeeping in lot of detail but we live in a computerized world. Better books show how to use QuickBooks and other automated programs, this one is designed for doing everything by hand. Outdated! Recommend looking for more up to date books with computer emphasis instead.

I think this book would be very helpful for those small to medium builders who have not come up with an acconting system, or need to improve it. It deals with many different topics of which builders need to be aware. In some cases, the book seems very elementary in its accounting terminology, then becomes technical in other cases. Some builders would not be able to follow the terminology in this book. I read this book from the perspective of an accounting professional who needed some basics in building accounting. There were some chapters that were very helpful for me, but others that dealt with such basic accounting, that I lost interest. However, this book is geared toward the builder, and I think it achieves its purpose.

This book contains around 900 different words. It is organized as flashcards in a bookform, with 3 words on every page. If you are disorganized and always lose your flashcards, I guess that this is the book for you. However, I was disappointed at having a lot of semi-flashcards that where too soft to be cut out, and that I could not organize as I wanted. Moreover, I found that many of the words were too easy (almost one third) even though I am not a native speaker. So native speakers must find this level ridiculously easy. The book claims to be "interactive". With that word it refers to a line beneath each word where you can feel free to write your own definition. Then again I just guess that my definition of interactive is disparate to the others definition.

The level might be appropriate for the some non-native speakers. But many of the words are way too easy for most people who went to college (this include words like ethnic, exemplary, passive, ideology, profound). Don't buy this book if you want flashcards. It provides you with flashcards in a book version which the authors thinks is beneficial: you don't lose them, you have an index, etc. Since the paper is too soft, you can't cut them out and use them as regular flashcards. If you like this book version idea and if you English is mediocre, well, only then I would consider buying this book.

As a certifed professional in Europe and the USA I cannot give my support to this book. The drills are outdated and unoriginal! Mr. Dinoffer tries to promote tennis in ways but seems to go overboard in the promotion of his company and products which misses the point of "coaching kids tennis." Tennis books which focus on children must place coaching as a priority rather than selling his products. I am appalled that he is doing what he is doing and recommend that Joe start coaching with ethics. I must say that if a review is sent in after this one that really gives lots of support to Mr. Dinoffer, I will bet you that it is from him or his staff and should be ignored. I have an inside source that he promotes his stuff both out in the open and in disguise... Ignore this book it does not deserve support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I will give this book a very low recommendation the concepts and ideas are not original and actually taken from other books offered by tennis federations such as the German Tennis Federation. Joe Dinoffer needs to start writing material that he himself thinks of... I will not support this book. I am sure that the supporters of this book have absolutely no knowledge that his material has been "borrowed" from other sources. This book cannot be supported by any law abiding coach. Any reviews sent in after this one ... need to be ignored!

Take this book at face value and enjoy spending some time with your kids in the background, on the playground, or at the park. This book was never intended to be a tennis book even though it was written by a well-known, successful tennis instructor. It is a skill-builder book that is easy and fun for kids, parents, and teachers to enjoy. Every p.e. teacher at the elementary and middle school level will find several different activities to get their students up and moving...and having fun!

This book concentrates on c++, but it doesn't mention much about C++ Builder. I do not recomended it, if you want to learn Borland C++ Builder.

This book has a lot of good information for people who are interested in learning C++. I have had experience programming in other languages, but this was my first time using C++. The book was well written and easy to learn, but I felt disappointed at the lack of information on the actual Builder Environment. The information and example program is a great start on learning to use the Builder, but the book could have used 4 or 5 more chapters on it. I have learned a lot about C++ programming from this book, but unfortunately I am going to have to buy another book to learn more about the Builder.

While this book is an excellent source for the C++ programming language, it is most definitely NOT a "Complete Reference" for C++ Builder. I would like to have seen some more useful information on using the IDE than was contained in the book.

Pages 1 through 124 are absolutely useless as the errors and false-starts out-weigh the positives. I did like the monster details. They're good for when I'm putting my ideas on paper for pre-planning.

And it has a cool poster in back.

This book was terribly written and poorly organized. It's difficult to follow, the tips come in the wrong order, and the examples often don't work. In addition, the book doesn't go into enough detail explaining terms and how and why things work. If you're not already a programmer, the book won't help you to learn anything about module creation. As a tool for getting started creating modules (which it purports to be), it's an utter failure. The authors often refer to their own module that they created, which you can allegedly download and use as an example, but as of December 2002, it still was unavailable. The section on monsters at the end is pointless filler that belonged in the adventure book if anywhere (even the tips the books gives are geared toward fighting the monsters, not using them in your adventures)...This book was a terrible waste of money...

After creating a couple of modules and reading the book twice, my appraisal of this Versus World Guide book is that it leaves a lot to be desired.

Chapter 1 is great -- the introduction to the Toolset (and the sample module you create during that introduction) gives you a great overview, explains most of the gotchas, has good general advice, is clear and concise and well-illustrated.

Chapter 2 is fine as a general set of advice about how to plan a module.

Chapter 3 and the rest of the chapters are not nearly as good. They go through the rest of the toolset in a haphazard manner, with too many script examples that aren't explained well at all, and the book doesn't have any coherent overall plan of how to explain how things work. Individual sections, like on how the Journal works, are fine. But typically the book brushes over each option without enough detail to be useful.

The Monster appendix is fine.

The C Language introduction appendix is atrocious. I know scripting, and I've been programming since 1980, but I couldn't follow at all the structure of what they were trying to show. They were far too stuck on using unexplained NWN module concepts for their examples rather than showing you the nuts and bolts of the language and how a While loop or an If statement works (I was just looking for how NWN-C was different than normal C, and it wasn't helpful for that purpose at all). If I didn't already understand variables and control structures, this book would not have helped at all.

But by far its biggest crime is that it lacks an index. As an introduction it's tolerable. For a reference, it's useless.

. . . is take a match to it and use the light to read some other book.

The introduction to REA's Physics Builder (paperback 1995 ed) is intriguing, and the book it describes would probably make an excellent study guide. The remaining 530 pages, however, make up a very different, and immeasurably inferior book. It contains more typos and errors than any published work I've encountered. Every third page includes a sentence which is incoherent and or an equation which is simply wrong. Even if it were not for the factual errors and the occasional corrupt questions, the book would still fail dismally, at least as GRE preparation.

The sixty question diagnostic tests which precede each section contain variations on only a dozen or so unique questions, slightly rephrased and given new numbers each time they are presented. The reviews which follow are comically eccentric, covering only a hand full of relevant equations and presenting them in absurd detail, while skipping equally basic and important material. (I imagine the authors realized how unbalanced the coverage was somewhere toward the end and decided to include the word "comprehensive" three times in the introduction in order to compensate.) The mid-review "drill" questions and the glossaries are either entirely qualitative, or require material which isn't covered in the review sections. Finally, a large percentage of the questions require a calculator and a unit conversion table. This is probably unavoidable when attempting to cover material from six different tests, but if you are looking for a quick GRE review book, having to look up conversions for slugs and kilocalories can be frustrating.

Several people I respect have recommended this book as an alternative to the infamous purple nightmare. (REA's GRE specific book.) It is conceivable that this book is better, but my advice is to steer clear of both. Get the ETS book and look through your textbooks. For a review of everything except mechanics and E&M, its hard to beat _Modern Physics from Alpha to Z-0_ by James William Rohlf. (Wiley and Sons, 1994) It's a textbook, not a review, but it is amazingly complete and presented at an appropriate level.

Considering the horror stories I heard about the REA's GRE Physics review guide, I approached this one with considerable trepidation. It can be said, though, that this one passes muster as far as it intends. Namely, this book is intended to prepare students for standardized multiple-choice exams in physics. In other words, essay-style questions one is most likely to find in university physics and beyond are not addressed. The reviews are succinct, but certainly not exhaustive. I would only recommend this book as a supplement to a comprehensive physics text. The setup, with diagnostic tests followed by reviews for each topic, is pretty helpful to the student who wants to quickly identify his strengths and weaknesses. God forbid this be your only text for preparation, though... Remember that it is always best to over-prepare. If you are like me, and just like to solve problems in order to keep your skills sharp, you can hardly go wrong with this book. However, if the GRE is looming in your future, it is perhaps best to look elsewhere. One caveat: This review was written following a fairly cursory examination of the book. No glaring errors jumped out at me at first glance, as they often do with other books. Another reviewer has mentioned an abundance of errors, though, so it may be best to avoid this work altogether. This book has been relegated to one of the dustier shelves on my book case, and therefore has not been subject to a more critical examination, that fact perhaps being a review in and of itself. One question that remains is why there is such a paucity of non-textbook physics books out there; isn't there an obvious need?

This is a workbook. So it contains a lot of blank spaces for filling in your responses. It is limited to the introductory level, covering such basic skills as identifying representation systems and the various Meta Model language patterns. There are many more NLP training manuals published since then. They can be followed beneficially without the workbook format. NLP also keeps advancing all the time. Just in the use of language, besides the Meta Model, we need to learn the Milton Model of hypnotic language patterns and the more comprehensive and sophisticated patterns summarised in Robert Dilts' Sleight of Mouth. We need more accelerated programs with greater coverage. This book is too basic and skim in content and may not be worth reprinting any more.

This book contains all of the obscure factoids that you are more likely to find on History IQ than on the AP Euro exam. I regret every penny spent on it. It is a poor excuse for European history as compared with my textbooks: RR Palmer and Joel Colton's a History of the Modern World or John Merriman's A History of Modern Europe. It belittles many important social trends, while stressing minutia such as the Colloquy of Marburg or the Sacaardi Law. The tests are poor indicators of actual test performance; I got 45-50/80 on their tests and 75/80 on the book published by College board. Buy it only for DBQ practice.

Need additional computer software to use the disk that comes with the book.

You will need a version for FormTool from IMSI to use the forms on the disk that comes with this book.

This book is meant to be inspirational for children who want to grow up to be millionaire business leaders. It is based partly on the original biography of Hill written by Joseph Pyle (a Hill employee) and partly on the writer's imagination.

Comfort embellishes history with lots of touches, such as romantic conversations between Hill and a waitress who he would marry. In fact, we don't even know she was a waitress (the only support is local legend).

A twelve-year old obsessed with trains might find the book interesting; for adults it is mainly an example of a writing style that is now hopefully dead.