Having recently purchased a Stratocaster with Marshall amp after years of not playing, I needed a refresher on my chosen instrument. What a wealth of information I found in this fabulously illustrated and organized book.

Once I picked this book up I couldn't put it down. It covers about everything you wanted to know that is related to guitar playing. The author gives you a concise bio of 20 different legendary guitar players, a complete background of guitar manufacturing and specs, guitar playing, maintenance and repair, soundstage and recording. You can jump around to whatever chapter interests you and read it in any order you desire. Every single page is filled with information and no paper is wasted in this book.

I challenge anyone to show me a guitar book that does a better job. I've looked at a lot of them and this one is in a class by itself.

This short book is a collection of lectures given by this eminent physicist.

Unfortunately, the content of the book reads more like a Sunday afternoon discussion than a serious and intense investigation into what the title of the book promises. I always hate to be mislead and the title of this book is misleading to me. If an author is going to be as bold as to adopt the title of his book as the "Theory of Everything" and the "Orgin and Fate of the Universe," then I expect something more than a recapitulation of a series of theories that may lead up to a theory of everything.

The brevity of the book leaves so much unexplained. If I had not already read other books about string theory, quantum physics and relativity, I would have lost the significance of the thesis as the author "tip toes" lightly over these topics.

This is a book written by a brilliant mind in a complex field of study. Frankly, I expected a lot more. Perhaps the author was targeting a certain audience, which I was not member. This is good example of going too far afield to reach a general readership.

This book actually got me confused when I read it after taking the Microsoft Official Curriculum course. I thought I understood most everything at the end of the MOC course. Then while studying for the exam I read this Exam Cram and found myself in a worse position. Week areas of the book include IPSec, security, remote access and routing.

I found the book so unsatisfactory that I read and studied the Syngress/Osborne 216 book just get my bearings again. Wish I could return the Exam Cram book to Coriolis, but wouldn't you know it -- they just went out of business.

This book is amazing. Dr. Osterholm has the knowledge and background in bioterror techniques to scare sense into any American. What is most remarkable is that this book was written in 2000 before the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent anthrax mail attacks. There are even quotes in the book from domestic bioterrorist suspects who threatened to send plague through the U.S. mail to their victims.

You will read warnings about Osma Bin Laden and Iran, Iraq and North Korea. When you begin to realize that most of the warnings have already come true, you begin to really become concerned that the impending biorterrorist small pox attack is an inevitability rather than just a remote possibility.

All concerned Americans should read this book.

Scott Mueller's 13th Edition is the latest in his classic work on personal computers. This PC hardware repair manual is the best on the market.

Considering that PC hardware is designed, engineered and manufactured by so many companies around the globe, it is amazing that there even exists a single compliation that brings all these diverse hardware facts together in one book.

This book is to the computer technician what an auto shop manual is to a mechanic. You get all the details of the hardware so that you can work competently and confidently.

The author is a dedicated expert on computer hardware and the computer industry is lucky to have him share his knowledge and to keep updating this usefull tool each year. There is no other book that comes close to this one for PC hardware facts.

Highly recommended.

I have a huge problem with a book title claiming that it is about "ethical hacking" when it is anything but ethical. Of course, unless you are also a sixteen year old, like the author, and you get big kicks out of showing your friends how you can hack into your own computer.

The book has a chapter on altering viruses so that they will not be detected by antivirus programs. Ethical? Not in my opinion.

Most of the book is somewhat trivial, contains nothing new and is even mundane. The book starts out explaining how to hack into a Windows 95 machine that you have physical access to. As I read chapter after chapter, I kept expecting and hoping for something a lot more. Telnet for remote access, ICMP and NetBios commands are nothing new. It is more like a compilation of hacker/cracker website info.

There are pages and pages of nothing but programming code for those who want to see under the hood of some of the tricks. I admit that I am not a programmer and could have cared less.

The book is great disappointment. There is no central theme or purpose that I could determine. This book can't hold a candle to "Hacking Exposed" or probably most other books on network or computer security.

At 154 pages, this book is a short and an easy read. You can tell that the author is also a lecturer because the book seems like it makes a few basic points that could have been projected on a screen using PowerPoint slides. This book is not an intellectual analysis of data, but more like an inspirational pep talk.

You are practically presented with an outline in each chapter, complete with bolded headings and sub-headings. This book is also filled with poignant quotes from notable people spanning the ages of history. This approach is appropriate and effective for this subject matter.

The thesis of the book is simply find what taps into your creative passion in life and you will find the work you love. The book actually does give you a methodolgy to follow to uncover what at first seems to be an amorphous task. The "Focusing Questions" the author presents throughout the second half of the book is an opportunity for the reader to reflect and think about how this can make sense for him or her.

The title of the book may be a little misleading. "Finding the work you love" is not referring to actually getting the job. The title is referring to finding within yourself what it is that you would love to do for your life's work.

The audience for this book could be anyone from the high school or college graduate to the senior citizen. Anyone who is not sure what contribution they want to make for the rest of their lives might benefit from a bit of focused insight and reflection. Even if you are sure about what your life's work is, the book could still be valuable as a reinforcement that you are on the right path for you.

This book is great for a review. It does what it says -- Exam Cram. This book is great as a review resource. No one should attempt to use this as a primary study guide. Then again, it isn't meant to be anything more than what it claims. This book can be helpful in preparing for the 210 Exam and I recommend it as a supplement to your study materials.

If you never read one of the other A+ study guides, you probably would never know what you are missing.

This book is way too short on explanations and the practice questions would never be enough to get you through the real exam.

With that said, there is no good reason to spend any time studying this book. There are too many other great alternative sources that can do all the things that this book cannot. First, start with Mike Meyers' All In One A+ Certification. Then, use the Syngress Osborne A+ Certification Guide Third Edition. I breezed through the two tests with just these books.

There are many A+ certification guides to pick from and this was one of the ones I used. Probably no one book or source alone is sufficient to satisfactorily pass the two certification exams, but this book can be one of them. The other one I used was by Mike Meyers, "All In One A+ Certification Exam Guide."

This book is strong in two important areas. First, it is concise, well organized and easy to read and to use for review. Second, the exam sim software on the CD was very good practice for the real tests. For detailed explanations and descriptions, you need to use some other source. But this is the book I used for my final review preparation just before taking the exams.

The reason I cannot give this book a top rating is because there were some very major errors that were just plain wrong in the book. You can use the Windows 98 CD to boot and install the operating system, yet this book states otherwise many times. There were also other errors that I was able to detect because I had thoroghly read Mike Meyers' book. Still, this was a very good review and practice resource.