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So far so good. It is a good tool. Our instructor is very happy with it too. However, next semester the new edition will be used. It is not boring either. I would recommend this book to any future student.

This book was used as the primary text, in a Master's Course in Organizational Leadership.

The authors are Linda K. Trevino and Katherine A. Nelson. Both hail from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and it shows in the book. Joe Paterno shows up predictably as a paragon of ethics, on occasion. This would be annoying, if not for the indisputable fact that he is in fact known in this area, so a little consession even for the regional plug is in line. It says something to be coming from the cross-state rival. ;)

This book does a very good job of presenting ethics in a way that can be understood despite the varied religious and social value systems that exist within the business community.

If you are looking for a morals primer that dares to take strong stands on what is right and wrong, you will not find it here. Predictably, as an academic book, there is a fairly significant post-modern bent to the material. It appeals to incorporate personal moral codes to be sure, but most appeals are in the abstract and more often then not come across as something that seems obligatory to say, but no real direction as to what that might mean and when to exercise it is offered. It usually reduces to an appeal to "follow your gut."

The book is divided into 5 sections which build upon each other progressively.

Section 1 focuses on the introductory elements of what Business Ethics are and why they should matter. The primary answers to note are that organizations have to manage ethics in terms of a liability to control costs, preserve reputation and maintain market share.

Section 2 relates to ethics and the individual. Descriptions of fundamental issues such as conflicts of interest, legal issues surrounding discrimination and sexual harassment and then whistleblowing's increasing profile in corporate society are covered. Most important, the basis for ethics and how they are arrived at within a Psychological and Social context are examined.

Not surprisingly, in view of the premises the book rests upon, situational ethics predominate. Different approaches are examining and costing consequences, examining whether a higher sense of duty or obligation exists from which to gauge response and yes, there is a nod of the head toward Virtue-based Ethics but no particular "brand" identified or endorsed, which makes the reference curious in that regard.

Some management tools to follow are provided which should indeed prove practical and helpful which was refreshing to see in what could have simply remained as academic tome.

Then follows a strong portion on the Psychological factors of determining right from wrong which addresses such issues as Moral Awareneess and Moral Judgment. Psychological issues such as Script Processing, the emotions involved in ethical decision making and an in-depth look at the Ford Pinto case round this section out.

Section 3 brings the focus onto Managers and Management. Basic issues such as hiring, firing and discipline are dealt with in addition to the important observation that management creates a workplace environment, not only by what is said but moreso by what is modeled. Therefore there are conclusions drawn in terms of what influence management has to enact ethical change within an organization. Primarily the appeal is to behavioral reinforcement and understanding of certain psychological "truths" that have become evident with organizations. There is lots of good material here including reward systems, peer pressure, assigned roles and communications all addressed in turn. A good section exists as well addressing how responsibility diffuses within an organization and that suggests some methods of how to deliberately instill personal responsibility to combat this trend.

Section 4 focuses on specific ethical problems which are endemic within organizations. In particular the competing interests of all stakeholders including shareholders, employees, management, consumers, and the community at large are examined and some methodology for how to navigate through these seemingly perennial conflicts of interest.

Better yet, the organizational culture is addressed with a multitude of case studies and discussion questions to delve in "the belly of the beast" in terms of all that this involves.

An obligatory chapter on Legal Compliance follows which in my opinion was the weakest portion of the book. This type of material is by nature going to be dull, but it also is continually changing and roots things clearly within US corporate culture.

Section 5 at the end moves the focus from what has been exclusively the US and approaches some of the unique issues of the Global Business Environment. Frankly, this too is pretty weak. It is worthy of its own book to deal with the unique characteristics of all the different

Overall, this is an excellent book. It is packed with great contemporary examples from recent history that speak very strongly to the need for a renewed sense of responsibility and ethics in the corporate world.

As is true with most academic books, it is overpriced and designed to move rapidly through editions to keep it that way. $60 for a soft-cover book is just not reasonable. I'm not adverse to paying a fair price for cutting edge knowledge. I expect quality for that not just in information, but also the physical characteristics of the book.

The average reader will find this likely tiresome when compared with more popular books in this area. Corporate offices and managers would be well advised to pick this up and in addition to reading, finding others to work through it as a team and use the many excellent case studies found within to their benefit.

This is primarily for the classroom. If you'll use it and work with it, however, I can see it being an excellent resource for the corporate manager, ethics officer or human resources leader.

This was a mandatory book for an MBA program on Business Ethics. It puts ethics in everyday language and examples and is not all theory.

I have long thought other books focused too much on philosophy or large scale ethics problems at corporations. This book gives everyone advice and practical tools to deal with ethics at all levels in a company. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to find out how to apply ethics in their organization.

This should be mandatory reading for business leaders today. It is one of the leading college textbooks on the subject and for good reason--the stories are incredible.

Having worked at Scott Paper Compnay during the Al Dunlap regime, I know that the stories may be hard to believe but are true.

The chapters do a good job of building on each other and the writing style is readable.

Glad to have the next edition published.

A good buy at a decent price. Some of the pages were stained with grease, but nothing too bad. I would consider this seller for more transactions.

I am only going to take Calculus 1 and saw that the Calculus edition was around $200.00 and was a HUGE textbook. I didn't need that. All I needed was the basic to get me through the first course. And I found it for only 115.00 including shipping and handling. I saved a lot and it was worth it.

Product was exactly as specified. Very quick delivery. Would definitely order from this seller again!

The book should also have even answers. We should unite and form a union of students against even homework assignments.

I am taking Calc II and am using this book. This book is horrible! I missed a lecture and when I tried doing the homework I got stuck. There are no example like the examples. I am here on this site to buy companion book so that I can do better on my homework. I wish they would stop using this book at university level courses.

This book is not for begineer like me, I graduated as a Computer Engineer and really have problem learning this book. I suggest to read the Semiconductor Fundamentals same author before buying this book

On a quick scan at first the material covered in this book appears intimidating. It covers concepts of quantum physics like Schrödinger equation; Blotch theorem; Kronig-Penney model; Brillouin zones and then covers the semiconductor physics as Fermi levels; carrier transportation. The book covers a lot of fairly complicated material in a very concise and explanatory manner. Just by the sheer difficulty of the material; I would suggest taking a course to help alleviate the pain of self-tutoring.

One more very good book from Pierret. A significant amount of the content is similar to the "Semiconductor Fundamentals" book from the same author. However the first chapters are different, and reffer to an introduction on Solid State Physics and Quantum Mechanics. If you cannot buy it at least get a copy from the library and take a look on it. It is worth!

Very nice book. I especially liked the manner in which minimal essentials of solid-state physics was covered. In a short time you can get to know quite a bit of basic essentials of solid-state that a semiconductor device engr needs to know.

This is an excellent treatise on the theory of semiconductors which is essential in learning solid-state devices like basic pn junctions and MOS devices. This book lays the fundamentals needed for a good understanding of these devices. Very useful for advanced undergrads and grads. This may be used as a companion volume with Streetman & Banerjee. However all the books of this 'Purdue' series is excellent - they are concise, clear and advanced.

_Fire This Time_ (a play on James Baldwin's title _The Fire Next Time_) documents the history and events before, during and after the 1965 Watts Riot in South Central Los Angeles.

For the most part, the writing is well done, especially when the author describes the events during the six days of the riot.

I had a couple of quibbles. The author does seem to describe many, if not most, of the people and institutions (government departments, media outlets, etc.) and either "progressive" or "right wing". Not that he is necessarily being inaccurate or wrong, but it just comes across as rather heavy-handed.

There are some instances of inaccurate research, though. On p. 28, the removal of the "Red Car" network, causing social isolation in Watts, is said to have happened in 1940. But Watts (and most of the southern part of LA County) actually enjoyed "Red Car" service until 1961. On p. 352, there is a reference to an LA Times article (on bus service) that leads nowhere (I actually checked the back issue of the newspaper, and could not find the article referenced). Some other issues, mentioned in the book, could have used a little more depth (like the Deadwyler shooting, p. 348)

So enjoy his ability to describe an historical event, take his politics with a grain of salt, and double check the references!

Unequivocally there is no other treatment of urban racial unrest that can compare!

Gerald Horne's book, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s is an extensive scholarly study into one of the United States' most violent riots and an event that characterized the civil unrest of the turbulent 1960s. Originally published by University Press of Virginia in 1995 and reprinted by Da Capo Press as a paperback in 1997, Fire This Time thoroughly examines the causes, conflict, impact, and meaning of the 1965 Watts Uprising. Horne, a noted black social historian, contends in his thesis that the Red Scare retarded Los Angeles' left based liberalism, once a progressive minded center of the working class in the United States. This move away from the left created a "vacuum that would be later filled by black nationalism" and eventually fueled the flames of the riot. Furthermore, this black nationalism manifested itself in the Nation of Islam, cultural nationalists, and the Black Panther party, all of which played a role throughout the uprising.(5)

Although Horne devoted some of his introduction to a brief survey of Los Angeles social history, he never made a convincing argument that the absence of a left based movement brought on by the Red Scare lead to black nationalism. This accusation coupled with the work's emphasis on class struggle gave the book a Marxist slant typical of many of the author's previous works. Instead, a more convincing argument might have been that racist attitudes and behaviors on the part of a white majority in the Los Angeles area resulted in South Central's devastated economic condition thereby leading to black nationalism. In the economic squalor of Watts, African Americans had no other recourse than to turn to themselves when society abandoned them. In essence, racism served as a catalyst for the emergence of the black nationalism that the author writes.

Horne chronicled the denigration of African Americans in Los Angeles by demonstrating the numerous ways in which government failed to treat them as equal. In chapter seven the author portrayed the Los Angeles Police Department as the "principal malefactor, the single offender in angering blacks to the point of insurrection. . . . [It operated] at the behest of the political and economic elites who administered the city." (134) Later, in chapter ten, the voting populous of the State of California betrayed blacks by passing the racially biased Proposition 14. This legislation repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act in an effort to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods.(224) The remainder of this chapter describes the appalling housing, education, and religious opportunities afforded to blacks in Los Angeles thereby steering them toward black nationalism.

Horne superbly illustrated the importance of black nationalism's role in the 1965 uprising. He explained that due to years of repression and disenfranchisement African Americans had come to be stereotyped as the subordinated, dominated, or "female" race even behind Mexican and Asian Americans.(12) Black nationalism offered African Americans an identity the void of such stereotypes. In addition, black nationalism made no apology for being black and anti-white sentiments in Watts intensified. Organizations that celebrated black nationalism such as the Nation of Islam, gangs, and the Black Panther party grew in popularity along with a new cultural identity. Black organizations established in white society like the NAACP, with their lighter-skinned, middle-class leadership lost appeal.(13) The nonviolent message of Dr. Martin Luther King seemed diminished compared to the rising popularity of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.(102) Clearly, by 1965 black nationalism championed the view that African Americans were no longer the submissive race dominated by white society. Blacks tired of the long, slow civil right movement demanded taking back economically depressed neighborhoods for themselves.

The author's thorough academic research of the black nationalistic movement in Los Angeles brought a human characteristic to the story of Watts. The stories, in many cases tragedies, spoke of people affected by the riot and demonstrated an uprising directed against the LAPD and the "well-to-do."(340) A careful analysis of the events that followed the Watts Uprising showed a significant "white backlash" to the violence that propelled Ronald Reagan into the governor's mansion and eventually the White House.(281) Finally, Horne revealed that little changed since the 1965 revolt and the Rodney King Beating Trial of 1992 sparked similar civil unrest.(358)

The author extensively drew on the papers from Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots and transcripts from the McCone panel both governmental studies into the uprising. Horne used records from various city and county agencies along with studies and oral histories from Southern California universities. The most valuable primary sources came from The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research which is located in what was once the curfew zone and is a depository of numerous historical facts on the Watts community. At this library, Horne collected oral histories from residents in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the riot invaluable to his study.(423) Before the extensive notes the book is 364 pages and includes a map of Los Angeles and photographs from the period.

Poor Gerald Horne does his best to write a history of the Watts "Uprising" -- one of the few such "revolts" that targeted liquor stores as prime military targets. But his thinking is scattershot and he does not use the English language well. Still, some will be satisfied with the facts he has marshalled.

As usual any book by Gerald Horne, Phd is very concise and intelligent. I have purchased this book and others of social conscience for my children, to see what the real america is all about. This book also shows that nothing has really changed on a subterranian level. The lesson that should have been learnd by the Wastts upheavel, has not made a dent. Unequal economics and the deliberated lack of funding for education and other social programmes are still, IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY allowed and accepted by the powers that be.

I found The Power of Beauty to be fascinating, thorough and for me, depressingly accurate.

If you ever wonder why some people are addicted to plastic surgery and all sorts of aesthetic enhancements ... this is a clue into and answer.

Nancy Friday is a great writer, no doubt, but this book did not ring true for me. Yes, it was part memoir; but she makes assertions based on her experiences that are a bit of a stretch. She is Freudian, insisting that female and male rage at each other is a result of infantile powerlessness in the face of mother's omnipotence, which may or may not be true. But she insists that if more men got into the nursery it would relieve infantile rage by giving children more than one pair of eyes to "see" them and thus relieving dependence on mom (and women in general). She says that fathers are less squeamish about diapers and genitalia, and women are generally disapproving of masturbation and sex, and that our present gender inequities are the result of attitudes each of learns of our bodies in infancy from mom. The power of beauty is used by women to be seen, as we didn't as infants. This author grew up without a father, and it is apparent throughout the book that she idealizes men, and is over sympathetic to how feminism has affected them. Moreover, she asserts that women are barring the door for men to enter the nursery. This I find absurd. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but men don't enter the nursery because they don't WANT to enter the nursery. Anyone who has cared for an infant (and the author has not) knows that it is (rewarding, yes) but also exhausting, grueling, messy, and time consuming; and men gratefully leave it to women, preferring to work outside the home. If that isn't it, another likely reason is because of what other men (and perhaps women) would think of them for taking paternity leave; it is NOT women who are barring the door.
On the bright side, she has the ability to make me think about feminist issues from a whole different angle, which is always good for me, or anyone else.
It seems that beauty is peripheral to the main gist of this book, not the focus. It did not give me the information I was looking for. Alternatively, I recommend The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolfe.

While this book is an autobiography of Nancy Friday, about her ambivalence between her desire to be seen, and her desire to not be seen, the bigger message is that she is using her life experiences to communicate that all women live with this ambivalence, throughout our entire lives.

And I am grateful for her willingness to be so visible, in hopes that we all will face our authentic selves.

My favorite messages from this book are:
· "If I can persuade you how beauty inspires envy and then how resentment sucks all the joy out of beauty, I will have accomplished something that is not easy for me, for I have envied nothing more in life than beauty, envied it in others and never believed in a bit of what I might have owned; to have enjoyed my own would have invited the spiteful envy of others, or so I feared."

· "The irony is that women feel easier about entering the workplace, providing for ourselves, challenging and acting like men than we do in confronting one another over the uses of beauty. We still practice the denial of beauty's power out of fear of reprisals from other women. At times it is as if men don't even exist."

· "Before women can enjoy the rewards that come with the beauty we now work so hard to purchase, we must learn to see our beauty as power."

· "Young women sacrifice so much at the advent of adolescence and then hate men for not rewarding us adequately for everything we gave up for them. But boys did not ask it of us. We did it, drank the KoolAid and then hated boys for not raising us from the dead with a power they never possessed in the first place.

To those who gave such strongly "negative" reviews about this book, could it be that it is not easy for many people to admit how envious most people are, over the beauty that they recognize in others?

I'll keep it brief. The Booklist review was right. I thought I'd get intelligent, psychological discourse on how beauty affects our lives. Instead Friday uses it as an excuse to wax poetic about her childhood. It sounds like she sat down with a girlfriend, a bottle of booze and a tape recorder and just blabbed. It should've been called, "Everything You Already Knew About the Power of Beauty But Were Too Lazy to Write 400 pages about".

Don't even bother with this book in a High School physics setting, it assumes the student has no knowledge of what a parabola is (that's just one example). Overall it's paragraphs and paragraphs of over-explanation.

This was ordered as a replacement book for one my son lost. It is in better condition ,and much easier to read than the ones issued by the school district!

Quite Frankly, this new Holt Phyiscs book, does NOT cover all the content that is involved in the detailed study of Physics. Not only that, but it leaves out some of the most important principles that are in physics. For example, Chapter 5-2, we talk about Energy, it doesn't give the law of conservation of energy, which is one of the most important laws in physics. It also when talking about Newton's laws, doesn't use the ideas that Newton had. There are so many things missing, I could go on forever, I wish I could give this book a negative score, but I can't do so. I'm currently in Physics at my school, and I like to study Physics in my spare time. Serway is a very good author of the college books, that I have, but this one does not cut it for a full understanding of Physics.

This was the text book used in my honors physics class. Though it may not go into extremely advanced issues, it does touch on A LOT of material, including basic collisions, fluids, rotational motion, relativity (a bit), and even some quantum mechanics. This book is definitely useful to anyone who wants a better education in basic physics and a start into somewhat beginner's advanced physics.

This is an excellent Physics manual and defines what a good physics textbook should be about. Excellent graphics and well defined explanations. A great resource for teacher and student alike.

Armed with only the most rudimentary understanding of XSLT, I found this book a little overwhelming. It's not a "cookbook", though the examples are good. There are a few places where it seems to dwell on minutia, but mostly it moves along at a jog to brisk run pace. I got a better understanding of the topic and and am prepared to do more research, but this could not be my only reference.

My main gripe with this book is the manner in which the author chose to present the material.

Rather than focusing on "literal" XSL-FO, the author gives fragments of XSLT stylesheets that produce the XSL-FO. This means that the path to understanding the XSL-FO in the examples goes through XSLT.

While I understand the author's point in choosing this presentation (that no one will "really" be coding XSL-FO by hand, but will instead be writing XSLT stylesheets to generate XSL-FO from other XML input), I don't agree that it's the best way to explain the material.

I would have preferred to see actual, "complete" fragments of XSL-FO (both with and without larger context). I can draw my own conclusions about structuring the XSLT that I need. What I'm really keen to see is how the XSL-FO itself works, otherwise I've got no clue -what- to generate.

An interesting book covering a powerful but niche technology. Not a book for the faint of heart, get it only if you want to investigate this very specific topic or plan to do things like XML > PDF transformation. The author digs immediately into the technical details, condensing a relevant amount of info in less than 200 pages; the results are good, focused and well structured, but it's not an entertaining read. This is definitely not a beginner book. A decent understanding of XML, XSL and XPath is required; some knowledge of printing would be helpful too

The book is a competent explainiation of XSL-FO, which is an XML-based language for describing the appearance of text, usually for the purposes of printing it. If you thoroughly read everything, you will understand how areas, blocks, spacing, and the various other technicalities interrelate to one another.

However, the author does not seem to be very good at explaining these crucial concepts for an audience that has no or little familiarity with the subject matter. One can pick them up, but the author does not make it easy. In order to delineate the book into chapters, the author will make a mention of some crucial fact, but not go into detail on it until much later in the book. The material is complex enough, and the author's method of demarcation does not help the matter.

Also, as mentioned by others, this book does often use XSLT transform examples to "explain" XSL-FO concepts. While any significant use of XSL-FO will certainly use XSLT transforms to convert from some other XML format into the XSL-FO, it is not appropriate to offer examples of XSL-FO that are written as an XSLT transform. Having a chapter or two in techniques for writing XSLT transforms for XSL-FO would have been more appropriate than providing examples of XSL-FO concepts using XSLTs.

That being said, this book does cover some fairly difficult material. XSL-FO is very complex, particularly when it comes to positioning things. The information is all there, and it is all good. It is simply a matter of explaining that information in a way that one can read the book in a linear fashion and understand. To gain the full measures of XSL-FO, you will need to re-read the book, or at least the sections on position of elements.

the author says he expects only some knowledge of xslt, but I think that some knowledge of printing and characteristics about texts, images, ... are also very useful if you want to understand this book. If you have this knowledge, this is a very good book for getting into the basics of xsl formatting objects.

First: sorry for my poor english, I'm brazilian
Second: I don't play Miniatures Game, I just use the miniatures for my RPG sessions...
Review: this set is awesome... it has many possibilities... for my game campaign it fits nicely! I got one Umber hulk that is great! Lots of tieflings and undeads... easy to put on a game session...
There are many miniatures that you can use as characters or villains...
I recommend this set of miniatures!.... and I will buy more too...

After opening over a case of these minis, I can say that I'm quite underwhelmed by the miniatures in this group. There are plenty of repeat creatures - a large fire elemental, 2 more drow, 2 more yuan-ti, a new umber hulk, manticore, and drider. Do we really need more drow or elementals?

There is simply not a lot of originality in this set. The gelatinous cube - a long icon from the earliest days of D&D - finally appears in this set as a rare, but it is little more than a clear plastic box. I could just as easily use a clear box that originally contained dice or something else.

There were a few other minis which I thought were underwhelming. The visejaw crocodile resembled something I could buy as a souvenir in Florida. The warhorse was just a horse with saddle (which appeared to be too large for the scale of other minis). My daughter has similar-sized horse miniature toys. Finally, the macetail behemoth is an ankylosaurus, and you can find one in any package of dinosaurs at a toy store.

There were a few interesting minis in the lot - a farmer (complete with pig) was amusing, finally giving us some commoner figures. But these were in the vast minority.

What WotC needs to do is perhaps release warband packs - maybe a dozen minis that are thematically linked (orc war bands, drow and driders, elementals, adventurers, etc). That would allow a GM to pick up a pack for an expected encounter. Grenadier and other metal mini manufacturers did this long ago, and it worked well. Then WotC could devote the major minis expansions to being nothing but monsters.

My 10 year old son has taken an interest in D&D and these miniatures were a terrific way for him to get into it. While I've read a lot of complaints about the quality of these figures from a collector's point of view, from the unobsessed point of view of a mother who likes to see her child play imaginative games, these sets are just great for kids. The minis provide a bridge for kids to cross between toys and the more complex rulesets of pencil-and-paper D&D, and I suspect that was their intent.

They are inexpensive, so I can buy him a couple of boxes every month. He gets the biggest charge out of waiting for the mail and opening the boxes to see what he's gotten this time. For parents who remember D&D when they were young, these make excellent gifts for your kids. They are a great alternative to video games -- and believe me, I love anything that peels my kid away from the computer -- while there is structure for the game, there is also plenty of room for the kind of imagination that made D&D so interesting to so many of us.

It is true that the older packs are less interesting and lower quality, but it is trivial to go to the Wizards of the Coast website to examine the figures that are available in the different series before you decide which series you want to buy. My son has already gotten several of the better figures in the 10 packs that I've bought so far, and there have been many happy hours spent waging epic war between beholders, elementals, fiends and innocent bystanding salt-shakers.

There's a good reaason why this brand-new product has already had its price slashed by more than 50% -- it's shabby, low-quality junk, bad even by Wizards of the Coast's abyssmally low standards. The most egregious problem was that there was almost no facial detail on the humanoid figures. Some of the so-called "rare" and "uncommon" figures which I received didn't even have eyes painted in! How hard is it to get a ten-cent an hour Chinese wage slave to poke a dab of paint on the "face" (read: "shapeless blob") of a figure which costs a fraction of a cent to produce? These figures are "rare" or "uncommon" only because Wizards deliberately under-produces the most desirable figure types to create an artifically high demand on eBay and elsewhere, creating an artifical market so that people will buy these packs in bulk and then break them up for sale as individual figures. Other sets have held their value through the years, and it IS possible to turn a profit on some figures, but that sure as h*ll isn't happening with "Desert of Desolation" -- a 50% price cut shows that the bubble has burst. Stay away from this set, folks. Buy "War of the Dragon Queen" for really nice figures, and don't think for a moment that D&D minis are an "investment" -- by the end of 2008 you'll be able to trade pogs for them. (Remember "pogs"? Weren't THEY a good investment? D&D minis are headed for the same garbage heap.)

If you are going to have only one reference manual this is the one to have. A reproduction of the original shop manuals. It has more diagrams and parts list then any reference material you will find. The other reviews refer to problems with the table of contents are incorrect. The table of contents list the paragraph number not to the page number.

Not sure why it is called a shop manual. A guy in a shop who is depending on this "shop manual" is in real trouble. It is not very comprehensive. The index is wrong, for example- information on the oil pump is not found on the page listed for oil pump info. Parts of the manual are fairly comprehensive but I found it lacking in many areas. It appears to be a botched reproduction of manual that really was a good one. I found the same manual in a tractor store for twice the price, so it is probably worth the money although one would have to seek out other sources of information to "fill in the gaps".

i recommend this book for anymore who might be looking for a manual for their ford n series tractors. i recieved mine just the other day and its great. the only problem with the manual is the index is alittle off on things but the book is good in getting you started on the road to fixing and repairing your tractor. pictures of parts and instruction is well done

I paid a lot more for this manual at a tractor supply store than what it is offer for here.
I was having electrical problems and needed a schematic, and instructions on how to replace the points.
This manual had no schematic for the 9N and didn't give any insight as to how to get to the inaccessable points. "nseries.com" had all the info I needed.

Useful for unbiased details

Fetherling, George, 2001 Kaplan, Fanny. The Book of Assassins: A Biographical Dictionary from Ancient Times to the Present. Wiley ISBN-10 0471158917; ISBN-13: 978-0471158912

This book is most useful for its historic details, for instance if one wants to recall "which Somoza was killed where" this is a handy place to find out. Fetherling is careful to thread his way through the morass that surrounds President Kennedy's death exploring the most likely possibilities including, as so many authors omit, that Fidel Castro may well have been involved. The reason for this review was I needed such a handbook to thread my way through a Cuban government sanctioned volume trying to distinguish probable fact from propaganda. In the Cuban book, while discussing the life of Stalinist master spy "Fabio Grobart" (the Castro's brothers' "maestro") the author had maligned Fanny Kaplan the woman who shot, and eventually, long after she was executed, killed Lenin. The Fetherling book provided me with a carefully researched account of very troubled Fanny, and thus by its balanced presentation of fact, provided me with a most apt illustration of Cuban government propaganda to use in my manuscript in progress "Narrations of War in Cuba."

A reference guide to assassins is an excellent idea, but this work does not live up to what can be a very intriguing book. It is printed on cheap production paper with no illustrations. Most of the entries are one page. A plus is that there are many obscure figures included that most readers have never heard of, but there is scant info on them whereas Lee Harvey Oswald, about whom most people already know plenty, has 9 pages. One other plus is that each entry includes a list of further references so, if readers are intrigued by a specific assassin's tale, they have at least one source to go to for more info. There is also an index on the victims in the back. Shop around for the best deal on this book and it will probably be worth it for anyone interested in assassins.

Not many books in a dictionary format are enjoyable to read. For me, this book was one of those few, wonderful exceptions. The information is concise, and most entries list references and other source material for those who are interested to persue. I have to rate it lower than I would like (3 instead of 4) just due to the numerous typos that exist throughout. Hopefully these will be cleaned up in another revision, as nonfiction works are hurt more by these grammatical errors than fiction items.