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This book presents a sophisticated dialogue between several prominant feminist theorists in academia today. While reading, however, I kept thinking that they just may have missed the mark. The book was intended to be a dialogue debating and unpacking many of the contemorary dilemmas in feminism today. However, I found this dialogue to be so personal and sometimes catty that I began to wonder what the point was. I liked Drucilla Cornell's essay on how to "do" ethical feminism because it dealt with tangible, workable issues in feminism. I found that many of the other essays smacked of metaphysical arguements that I just couldn't apply to my life or my own work in feminism. For example, there was a lengthy arguement over whether feminism is postmodern. While reading this banter I had the distinct feeling that it was becoming a linguistic, not a theoretical arguement. Also, throughout the book, obscure examples were used and not explained and I was left feeling inadequate and confused. This book is an excellent resource for those who are accomplished in feminist studies and who are interested in the personal relationships feminist theorists. It is imperative that those reading this collection have a strong base in feminist theory and a dictionary in tow. I felt about this book the way I feel about most contemporary feminist theory; that it is a lot of talk and no action, that it is inaccesible, written for the privileged. I am often saddened that such talent can be so misdirected and wasted on intra-babble within academia instead of trying to reach women and men that feminism should really be for.

This book is written for the reader who has little or no experience in currencies and currency risk. The information provided is very basic, and not of use to anyone wanting to get more than a superficial understanding of the subject. The title is "Introduction", but I still think it is (only) 100 pages of generalities, not worth the $... I paid!

About the ion exchange chromatography for the separation of proteins by using CM Sephadex.

This book is so difficult to understand, where is this guy coming from. It leaves everthing to intuition, if the profile lookes correct the market can still either go up or down so were back to sqare one, I think your better off looking at candlestick charts to interpret profiles etc.

Because I was going to have little time behind the console of an Exchange 2000 server while preparing for my exam, I opted for this eTrainer. I must admit that I am very disappointed with it.

If you just want to gain a basic overall knowledge of the product, it's fine. And, if you won't have access to an Exchange 2000 server, the interactive exercises will help familiarize you with the Exchange interface. But this is marketed as a comprehensive exam prep tool and, in that respect, I believe it fails. In my opinion, this product WILL NOT prepare you for the Microsoft exam. I firmly believe that if I had relied on this tool alone, I would not have come close to passing the exam.

The course spends a lot of time on areas that are only lightly covered by the actual exam, and it glosses over some real key areas that were heavily covered on the exam (e.g. backup and restore).

Throughout the course of using the eTrainer, I found numerous errors. The testing engine is a joke. Most of its 500 questions tend to be of a simple multiple choice or fill in the blanks nature. The Microsoft exam uses all complex scenario-based questions of a far more difficult nature than you what will see with the eTrainer. Some of the answers to the questions were just plain wrong (e.g. open port 993 on a fire wall for secure POP3). There was another case where the explanation provided for an answer was a direct contradiction to the answer itself. Gosh, you'd think a respectable publisher like Sybex would have put a little more effort into proof reading this.

All in all I came away with the sense that this product represents a poor execution of a good idea. In the past, I've used numerous Sybex exam prep books and usually found them to be excellent. In fact, I used James Chellis' Exchange 5.5 book for that certification. I'm a little surprised that he put his name on this one.

One more point; the description provided by Amazon.com states that the CD includes a searchable PDF of the Sybex Exchange 2000 Adminstration book. I did not find this on my CD, and there is no mention of it on the retail packaging or on Sybex's website. I think this is an error.

In summation, if you're looking for a quick way to get some Exchange 2000 knowledge, this will be fine. If you're looking for a tool to help you pass the test, I suggest you look elsewhere.

Although non-adiabatic transition is one of the very first phenomena discovered in the early days of Quantum Mechanics (1932),typically by Landau,Zener and Stueckelberg,I think this book is one of the first to ever been published on this very important and multidisciplinary topic.

So I was pretty excited about purchasing this book since I am a Graduate student in the field of Quantum Molecular Dynamics where Nonadiabatic Transitions are very important to consider.

Unfortunately, the author (Nakamura) fails to bring any kind of interest to the subject from the very first chapter.I think the main problem is the major lacking regarding the definition of variables in formulas (that seems to appear from nowhere).It makes it very frustating to even follow the author on some simple topics such as the Landau-Zener formula for a scattering two channel system or on semi-classical analysis and WKB method.

Most of the work in this book is consisting of Nakamura's previous publication in Journals such as JCP and Journal of Mathematical Physics.So if you are an expert in the field,I suggested to read the papers instead of purchasing this over-expensive book.For those who doesn't understand the papers,do not purchase this book either since the explanations are quasi-inexistant.

I will give it a star since it is the first (or one of the first) book to ever been published on the topic.

This book is just not good. It is jumps around a lot from a novice perspective, and is often either confusing or just not well explained. I would not recommend this book for any neophyte investor, like myself.

In my quest for information about tradable (short and medium term) share price cycles I erroneously ordered this book due to its promising title and deficiency of reviews. The book is of no use for traders but gets 2 stars for the book that it is (rather than what I wanted).

The stock market cycles explained are those mirroring the economic cycles which usually extend over many years. The author details the central bank (Fed) manipulation of interest rates to control the economy, and how the stock market cycle results from the interaction of economic activity and interest rates. He then explains how assets can be moved between cash, bonds, and stocks to maximise returns through the different stages of the economic cycle. Sector rotation is briefly mentioned. I consider this basic subject would be of interest to an economics student or a portfolio manager, but private investors are generally too passive to practise dynamic asset allocation. And for a reported advantage of 2 - 3% pa it hardly seems worth the effort.

To fill up the thin book, the final uninspiring chapters cover business life cycles, the P/E ratio, and a few empirical studies too esoteric even for serious investors.

The narrow subject of The Economic Cycle is well described in this book to the point of being over-repeated (probably to make up enough pages to call it a book). I imagine this subject would fill a comprehensive chapter in an economics textbook.

180 pages of more techniques than you could possibly use. The formulas are well explained, the strategies (series of 7, magic number of three, moving averages, exponential moving averages, stochastics, csi, rsi, regression analysis, etc) are also well explained. As somone who has searched for the ultimate formula, oscillator, technique or what ever for trading commodities, after reading this book, I've concluded that you can find a chart or group of charts to justify ANY idea. Given any market, depending on which combination of indicators one chooses, one could justify any decision. Now what good is that?

Do not buy. I was a contributor to this book and am ashamed of that fact.

I am managing Exchange Servert 5.5 and I brought different publications books to solve my day to day problems and managing the exchange environment properly. I did not see this book is giving any kind of exchange Secrets, they just covering lot of unnecessary stuff.

I was a contributor to the book. I think it's sad that anonymous authors from Seattle are embarrassed about being a part of a project when it was fully within their power to create something they wouldn't be embarrassed about. It's sad when someone partakes of a project, then feels the need to dissociate with it after it is done--and in an anonymous fashion.

That being said, I've given this book to a few friends, including the company that I work for now. No one I know that has actually read the book has come away with the feeling that they have just completely wasted their time and money.

The book is not perfect. It's hard to figure out where the text is going at times. But the information is invaluable and I haven't seen another book that covers all the informational topics that this one does.

You also have to remember that Exchange Server went through 2 major versions in an extremely short period of time. That shows in this book and probably accounts for the patchy feeling you get while reading it.