Transfer Pricing and Multinational Enterprises: 3 Taxation Issues (Supplement to the 1979 of the Same Name)

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Back in print! Panel Discussions is the combined knowledge of more than a dozen of the comic book industry's top storytellers, covering all aspects of the design of comics, from pacing, story flow, and word balloon placement, to using color to convey emotion, spotting blacks, and how gutters between panels affect the story! The struggle to tell a comics story visually requires more than a cool-looking image; it takes years of experience and a thorough understanding of the art form's visual vocabulary. Learn from the best, as Will Eisner, Scott Hampton, Mike Wieringo, Walter Simonson, Mike Mignola, Mark Schultz, David Mazzucchelli, Dick Giordano, Brian Stelfreeze, Mike Carlin, Chris Moeller, Mark Chiarello and others share hard-learned lessons about the design of comics, complete with hundreds of illustrated examples. When should you tilt or overlap a panel? How can sound effects enhance the story, and when do they distract from it? What are the best ways to divide up the page to convey motion, time, action, or quiet? If you're serious about creating effective, innovative comics, or just enjoying them from the creator's perspective, this in-depth guide is must-reading!

Customer Reviews:

Very good book with few faults.......2005-08-21

Very good book for the aspiring creator. I learned enough about storytelling to change the whole focus of what goes into each panel and each page. It made me realize things I might never have fiqured out on my own. I would have liked a bit more structure to the format. Like maybe asking each creator some standard, important questions and not just letting them talk about whatever they wanted. Also I wish the art was reproduced better. But over all a really usefull and important work for anyone interested in sequential art. I look forward to the next book.

Recommended for comics fans!.......2004-10-06

I picked up Panel Discussions from a friend and loved it! I've always been a comic book fan, but had no inkling about how much thought and work went into how comics were made. I found it fascinating to read about the process the artists used and the ways in which they think about their work before they even start it.

It's easy to read because of the interview-like style and makes you feel like you're at a con panel. I only wish they printed all of the images bigger and in color. Guess I'll just have to go read the original comics for that...

Something of a letdown.......2003-04-29

Lots of good comics creators are represented here, but on the whole this book suffers from poor editing and worse design. Too much space is given to talking about what attracted Artist X to comics, or how Editor Y never thought he'd be an editor when he was a kid. Who cares? I bought this book to hear professionals talk about their trade. Durwin Talon's interview style is very softball, and you don't get the impression that he's much of an artist himself. Overall, the book's text has a feel of "gee whiz, aren't these artists great?" rather than the serious discussion about craft between peers that its title and presentation would suggest.

The worst part about the book is the reproduction of the art itself, however. There are lots of pages presented here, but though there are a couple of brief color sections, the vast majorty are b&w halftone reproductions of color art -- which is to say, they've been shot from the pages as they appeared in print, rather than from the original art. Even worse, there's not a single page that was reproduced at print size, yet alone the size at which is was actually drawn. Most of the pages are reproduced at about 1.75"x2.5" -- barely large enough for the lettering to be legible. This seems a real shame for such a visual medium.

Overall, I'd say this was a good concept poorly executed. It could have benefited from the input of an experienced book designer who could have made better use of the pages available. A good, impartial editor would have been of immeasurable assistance here, too, to trim out some of the chaff in the text (and thus leave more room to display the comics themselves, which is what the book is supposed to be about anyway).

Invaluable work for the potential comic professional.......2002-12-13

There's a presumption among people that if something looks easy or simple, that it must have been easy or simple to create. Most people look at a page of a comic book and think, "Anyone could do that." But until you actually try and write a comic or draw a comic page do you start to understand the painstaking craftsmanship that is the hallmark of most comics out there. This need to actually "try it out yourself," is a reason why I have my students write a comic script (and also the reason for the existence of creative writing in the high school and undergraduate education). Although we are creating stories and scenes in our heads all the time, being able to translate that to the page is the difference between consumer and producer.

With that in mind, let me suggest for everyone who ever wanted to learn about the tricks of the comic trade to look for Panel Discussions, a series of interviews conducted by Durwin S. Talon, a professor of sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. While it shares some similarities with other dissections of the comic art like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics and Will Eisner's Sequential Art, Talon's book is slightly less formal in its structure, but makes up for that in the diversity of its points-of-view. The title itself is a pun, for not only are we discussing the panels of a comic, the format is similar to a panel discussion at a comic convention. Talon goes one-on-one with some fine artists like Will Eisner, David Mazzucchelli, and Mark Schultz, and has them break down the way they structure a comic page, how they get the reader's eye to move from point A to point B, and how light and dark play into the design.

Trying to read this all the way through is difficult, like hopping from room to room at a convention without taking time out for lunch or dinner. Instead, you should space this out, preferrably by reading the artist's comments, then taking the time to check out some of their work before moving on to the next. Unfortunately, that could be an expensive task unless you have a wonderful graphic novel section in your local library (don't be surprised--librarians are getting hip to the art form and they are growing collections). With that in mind, I hesitate to suggest this to the casual reader, just as I wouldn't suggest a casual novel reader to check out Umberto Eco's commentary Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. But if you want to learn more about the underpinnings of the form, this is an invaluable text. Talon and his publisher, TwoMorrows Publishing (who are filling the gap in practical comics scholarship--as opposed to academic comics scholarship--left by Fantagraphics), are to be commended, and I'm anxious to pick up some more texts by both.

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Solid Era of X-Men in Affordable Format

Asgardian adventures, mutant massacres, and more Chris Claremont classics!

Essential a Dissapointment

Essential X-Men, Vol. 6 (Marvel Essentials)
Chris Claremont , Barry Windsor-Smith , Louise Simonson , Walter Simonson , John Romita Jr. , Rick Leonardi , June Brigman , Bret Blevins , Alan Davis , Art Adams , Terry Shoemaker , Walt Simonson , Jackson Guice , and John Bogdanove
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ASIN: 078511727X

Book Description

"Mutant" means "change," and there was plenty of that when the Uncanny X-Men counted down to the Marvel Mutant Massacre, beginning with the trial of Magneto! Rachel Summers became Phoenix and the Brotherhood became Freedom Force! Lady Deathstrike became a cyborg, Moonstar a Valkyrie, Colossus a killer, and Psylocke an X-Man! And Sabretooth first set his clawed foot into the X-Universe alongside his fellow Marauders! Guest-starring the original X-Factor, Power Pack and Thor! Gods, Morlocks, talking frogs and more! Collects Uncanny X-Men #199-213, New Mutants Special Edition #1, X-Men Annual #9, X-Factor #9-10, New Mutants #46, Thor #373-374 and Power Pack #27.

Customer Reviews:

Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

This includes the classic Mutant Massacre, and some great Barry Windsor Smith stuff. A team of mutant assassins is hired to slaughter the Morlocks living in the tunnels after the city. Most of them fall, but they manage to get word to the X-Men, and their absentee leader, Storm. The X-Men come to help, at great cost to themselves. There is also an appearance by Thor.

Graphic Novel junkie.......2007-07-31

Ok, ok, I should say comic book junkie, because that's what they were called when I first started reading them some decades ago. This whole series of Essential X-men books are a fun read unless you get bogged down in details. I never did, I just enjoyed reading them. This is a great book. Enjoy

Solid Era of X-Men in Affordable Format.......2006-02-24

I love this "phone book" format - I remember reading these and have since sold mucgh of my collection. This book gives me the opprtunity to enjiy those issues in one setting! Only way to improve this is to add color and better paper but that's not the point - this is made for people who love to read comics!

Asgardian adventures, mutant massacres, and more Chris Claremont classics!.......2005-10-04

I can thank the X-Men for my present love of Marvel comics. When I was ten, the superlative X-Men animated series premiered on Fox and my good friend Nick offered to share with me his almost exclusively X-Men comic collection (which was begun by his father in the late 70's). I wasn't able to collect many comics myself until I discovered the Essential series five years ago and made the Essential X-Men #1 my first purchase. Also, as a casual moviegoer, I am even more thankful that the X-Men movie of 2000 was such a hit and opened the door for all of the Marvel-licensed movies that followed (which have a way of begetting even more Essentials). Frankly, I think that Chris Claremont's revival of the X-Men is probably the most deserving title to be reprinted in its entirety. It seems that Marvel agrees because we now have six Essential X-Men's (the second since the release of the second movie) and I'm just as pleased as punch.

There are so many enjoyable stories in this collection that I'd better just get right to them. Cyclops duels a still de-powered Storm for the right to lead the X-Men. The child who will one day become the time-hopping warrior Cable is born. Mystique's Brotherhood of Mutants receives a pardon for their acts of terrorism by serving under the U.S. government as the Freedom Force (it makes you wonder if our government would let an al-Qaeda agent work for the CIA). Fans of Wolverine are bound to love seeing their favorite Canuck go claw-to-claw with Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth in their X-Men comic debuts. In the latest Hellfire Club appearance, we learn that the preferred ensemble of the discerning depraved mutant plutocrat can include headbands and bandito masks in addition to double-breasted suits, powdered wigs and lingerie. Also, a recurring villain, who twice before survived a vivisection from Wolverine, suffers a heart attack in the heat of battle and dies (I found it to be a "comedy = tragedy + time" kind of moment). My personal favorite story would be issue #200, the Trial of Magneto. A repentant Erik Magnus Lehnsherr goes on the stand in front of an international tribunal to answer for his crimes against humanity while the X-Men scramble to stop the attacks made by a radical band of mutants called Fenris who (allegedly) want to free Magneto by force. The issue is a great balance of blistering comic book action and realistic characterization and emotion, plus it expertly ties in the events from an important past issue, and it makes for the most interesting courtroom drama from Marvel that I have read (and I've read all three Essential Daredevils).

One of the greater complaints about the fifth Essential X-Men is the amount of plot threads connected to other series that don't get presented or resolved in the pages of the book, and I'm afraid that's still the case here. It's an unfortunate but understandable drawback of reading these stories in reprints two decades after the fact. At this time in comicdom, all roads pretty much lead to (and from) the X-Men, and so more crossovers were featured in this series to get the recent bandwagon-jumpers to invest in other series. Therefore, some stories can't help but feel a little broken. For example, take the sudden arrivals of Spiral and Psylocke. I know who they are and where they came from thanks to outside sources, but you won't learn that from these issues since it's never mentioned. This book also contains a small fraction of the Secret Wars II crossover issues, so only some of the Beyonder's shenanigans on Earth are recorded. However, in what is perhaps an attempt by the publisher to stave off some of the inter-series mystery, non-X-Men books are included for the first time in an Essential X-Men for two great crossovers.

Exhibit A: X-Men in Asgard. Although the ninth X-Men Annual is well remembered for sending the merry mutants into the fabled land of Norse mythology, the saga actually began in a New Mutants Special Edition. This book is included, all 64 pages of it! After reading it, I felt that, if it had been omitted, I would have accepted the X-Men's sudden quest to free Storm from Loki's fiendish plan and the unexplained transformation of some of the New Mutants (into valkyries and fairies and the like) as par for the course. Not to mention that the Special raises as many questions as it answers. Why is Storm babysitting the X-Kids on the island of Cyprus when she was last seen starving and alone in the Serengeti a couple of issues back? Why is Karma, who was pronounced dead back in the fourth Essential X-Men, now alive and morbidly obese? Regardless, I still enjoyed this story and am happy to have read it, since it wouldn't otherwise be in an Essential volume until the Essential New Mutants #2 (and don't ask me when the first one will even come out).

Exhibit B: the Mutant Massacre. The first crossover that brought all of Marvel's mutant titles together (and Power Pack and Thor, apparently), the Mutant Massacre famously came about because readers weren't becoming enamored with the homely, sewer-dwelling Morlocks, despite their multiple across-the-board appearances. Therefore, author Chris Claremont rolled up his sleeves, crafted a new villain team called the Marauders, and sent them down into the Morlock tunnels to waste anything that moved. A previous reviewer commented that there was little point in offering the entire Mutant Massacre in B&W when it has long been available as its own trade paperback in color. While I agree to a point (I've owned the TPB myself for over a year), I feel that the Massacre was an event that greatly affected the X-Men world and that the entire sordid affair belongs in the X-Men reprint series so that any level of reader can understand it.

That's about all I have to tell about the Essential X-Men 6. I'd say that it's required reading for any true X-aficionado, and still a very entertaining read for anyone. As a longtime fan, I can say that the only thing that would make me happier is a second Essential for the original `60's X-Men. Until then, face front, true believers!

Essential a Dissapointment.......2005-09-21

I love the essential volumes, started since the first Spider-Man volume all those years ago, 8 years I think. I love readin the classic X-Men stories from Claremont and collect those great tpb's featuring the great crossovers. My complaint is I bought this for the X-Men stories not the crossover stories. If you want to read about the Mutant Massacre, go buy the tpb in color, especially since it was just re-released and readily available. Extremely and essential dissapointed in this volume. Marvel don't make this mistake again, we're buying it for the X-Men issues, and those issues only. Think about it money wise that if the person really wants to see how the Mutant Massacre turned out they will shell out the money to buy the tpb itself. Way to lose some money.

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The Art of Walter Simonson
Howard Chaykin
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Essential X-Men, Vol. 8 (Marvel Essentials)

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Essential X-Men, Vol. 8 (Marvel Essentials)
Chris Claremont , Louise Simonson , Terry Austin , Marc Silvestri , Rick Leonardi , Rob Liefeld , Walter Simonson , Art Adams , and Mike Vosberg
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ASIN: 0785127631

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The X-Men are dead to the world, and evildoers a-plenty are willing to make the hoax a reality! See the debuts of characters and concepts that sculpted the struggles and souls of the mightiest mutants for years to come - including the Reavers, Genosha and the Conover Crusade! The Brood barge in and the Marauders mix it up, topped off with a dose of demons who whip up an awe-inspiring Inferno! Guest-starring Magik and the Goblin Queen and introducing Jubilee! Collecting Uncanny X-Men #229-245, Annual #12-13 & X-Factor 36-39.

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Art of Walter Simonson, The
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Not Inspirational

warning.. this book is pushing humans to think deeper

A major tour de force in humor

Major tour de force in humor

R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N.

R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N.?: Reality Expressed by Virtually Explicit and Lurid Acronyms of a Titillatingly Insightful and Offensive Nature
Milt Pupique
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1591292336

Book Description

R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N. represents a unique approach to humor using acrostic wordplay as an irreverent vehicle of expressing the world as we know it. It is a groundbreaking work consisting of hundreds and hundreds of diverse acrostics dealing with hundreds and hundreds of diverse aspects of life-and-beyond, all arranged in a quasi-topical manner. This book bridges the gap between the ridiculous and the sublime, expressing absurdity in its? most authentic form?the truth.

Customer Reviews:

Not Inspirational.......2006-04-03

I bought REVELATIONS thinking that it was a good religious book. In this day in age of uncertainty, I was looking for some answers. But it seems that this book is not religious; it is not even serious.

I gave it to a friend in the hopes that someone might enjoy it. She seems to love it, and keeps quoting me passages. The 4-stars above are an average of my review and hers.

This book gives no answers, only jokes: humor-jokes.

warning.. this book is pushing humans to think deeper.......2006-03-15

This book makes you expand your mind and think in directions that you may have never gone. Very humorous and enjoyable.

A major tour de force in humor.......2003-02-02

One truly incredible book, a major tour de force in humor.

Simply put, the creation of this book lies well beyond the capabilities of the human mind as we know it.

Ergo, Mr. Pupique must be an extraterrestrial... and a mutant one at that.

Major tour de force in humor.......2003-02-02

One truly incredible book, a major tour de force in humor.

Simply put, the creation of this book lies well beyond the capabilities of the human mind as we know it.

Ergo, Mr. Pupique must be an extraterrestrial and a mutant one at that.

R.E.V.E.L.A.T.I.O.N........2003-01-21

Absolutely hilarious. I enjoyed this book immensely. Milt Pupique has truly revolutionized humor as we know it. I even bought copies for my family.

Those visible marks: The forms of our letters A B C D E F H I L M N O P T V U X G W Q R K S J Y Z

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Those visible marks: The forms of our letters A B C D E F H I L M N O P T V U X G W Q R K S J Y Z
Victor Karl Hammer
Manufacturer: Typophiles
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Sesame Street ABCs ABC's ABC Set of 30 Books Alphabet (26) + 3 Volumes Words Are Fun (A-I & J-R & S-Z) & ABC Toy Chest (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Words Are Fun ABC Toy Chest)

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David Korr
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Young Families, Inc.
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Binding: Board book

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SEVEN STRANGERS LIVING TOGETHER IN SIN CITY. IS IT ANY WONDER MTV'S THE REAL WORLD™ LAS VEGAS HAS HIT THE JACKPOT WITH ITS MOST OUTRAGEOUS AND DEBAUCHED SEASON YET?

All bets are off when The Real World hits Las Vegas Strip for the original reality TV show's most decadent episodes so far. Here's all the beyond-the-scenes dish and dirt on Frank, Irulan, Alton, Brynn, Arissa, Steven, and Trishelle -- seven cast members who work their way through the seven deadly sins in grand style, all the while living in a luxury, high-roller suite in one of Las Vegas's hottest new hotel-casinos.

Get the lowdown on the heat between Alton and Irulan and the Steven-Trishelle hook-up -- and find out whether the other roommates think these onscreen couplings will last. Find out which roommate everyone agrees was the sloppiest; who filled out their casting application while intoxicated; who regrets the hot, wet, bathroom threesome, and more. You saw them drinking, smoking, drinking, gambling, drinking, hooking up, passing out, then doing it all over again the next day...and the day after that...and the day after...Now find out what the cast and crew think of each other (or what they remember!) after it's all said and done...then fill out your own application for next season!

Customer Reviews:

better than the show.......2003-12-26

the same thing kept happening on this show: hook ups, sex , and drinking. pretty predictable after a while. the book gave us backround info on brynn that the show never bothered to show cause they wanted to focus on the couples.

Great book~.......2003-09-13

If your one of the millions of people who LOVED the real world las vegas then you MUST get this book! It tells what happened behind the scenes,why each person was cast,what their doing now, parts from their applications,love stuff,everything you need to know.Even about how people hated on them at bars and stuff for being on tv. Its a good book.And its THICK too! tons of pictures of Frank,Steven and Alton w/o shirts:)

MTV Real World Las Vegas Book.......2003-08-18

I think its a great book because it is very interesting and you cant wait to see whats on the next page of the book.and this book is great for school i bring mine to school every day and read it also you can learn stuff like team work, las vegas, and learn to trust your team. So i give this book a five stars and two thumbs up.

AND REMEMBER TO BUY THIS BOOK THATS A MUST!!!!!!!

This Book Is So Great It!!.......2003-07-06

This Book is So Great K.M. Squires Does a Good Job in Telling about Each of the Cast Members of Real World Las Vegas Or How I Like to Say it "Slots Vegas". I Like Reading about Them and I Like Reading Their Applications As Well. Well!!!. I also Liked Raeding about Their opinions about Every Thing that went down. I Give this Book a 5 Because I Love The Real World Show!!!!!. I Do!

Good insight.......2003-07-02

AS usual these books describe a lot of things that aren't shown in the episodes and let's you know how some of the roomates really felt about each other.

The Real World You Never Saw: Las Vegas: Confessions from Sin City (MTV's DVD Collection)

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Mtv Real World Ddpa 875484
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Binding: Hardcover

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Perfect for any Physical Education teacher.......2000-04-13

This book is excellent for any teacher who plans to include activity in their classroom. It gives explanations and rules to lead up games to most major sports. What a wonderful resource for new Physical Education teachers!

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Assessment, review, and practice for the CCIE Routing and Switching written exam 350-001

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCIE Routing and Switching written exam, including:

Bridging and LAN Switching
IP addressing, IP services, and TCP/IP protocol details
IP routing
Quality of service (QoS)
Frame Relay and Point-to-Point protocols
IP multicast
Security
Enterprise wireless mobility
General networking theory

CCIE Routing and Switching Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCIE® Routing and Switching written exam. Senior instructor and best-selling author Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve your routing and switching knowledge. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

CCIE Routing and Switching Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and Foundation Summary tables make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module by module basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this completely revised and updated second edition helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

CCIE Routing and Switching Official Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems® that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 500 practice questions for the CCIE Routing and Switching exam, all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.

This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.

Customer Reviews:

An excellent study guide!.......2007-09-27

The authors have excelled at making difficult subjects easy to understand. Its hard imagine someone could read this book and not pass the CCIE written.

Awesome.......2007-08-13

Wendell's books are still good refrence and operational manuals for practictioners and teachers alike

David

Excellent review resource for written exam prep.......2007-06-12

Well written, covered v2 exam blueprint. Highly recommended as a review guide before taking exam. Included tests in cdrom is big plus. Used it and passed re-cert.

An excellent introduction to advanced concepts.......2007-05-15

This book is an excellent introduction into advanced Routing & Switching concepts. I have just completed the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) examinations, and chose this book as the next logical step. I've already been very pleased with the decision.

The text is understandable and well written and can easily be studied from. I've started preparing for the CCIE and am working through the book as it is written, understanding and memorizing as I go (I also use the computer software "Supermemo").

One thing I will point out: the CCIE Written Exam Blueprint (available on Cisco's website) is changed to version 3.0 as of mid-June, 2007. This book is written for the previous version of the blueprint and doesn't include all aspects of IPv6. MPLS (another new topic for the CCIE Exam) is included in the appendix of this book.

Good, but lacking some detail.......2007-05-06

If you get your CCIE, you will be taking written exams for the rest of your career (I'm 12-year CCIE, I just passed my sixth written), so a study guide is a wise investment. This is a pretty good one - but even though its over a thousand pages long, it still lacks details in some areas.

Although it is common to buy some routing protocol books on top of these, that's not the areas that I found it to be weakest. Several protocols in the LAN section aren't discussed in sufficient detail, and the wireless sections look like they just got burned out and threw together something quickly. You had better plan on additional research on these topics.

The CD sample questions are sometimes helpful to point out weak areas, but don't expect to see many (or perhaps any) of them on the exam. The PDF version was extremely useful - not for reading but for searching. If I was looking for information on a protocol, I could search the PDF and find the page number, which matched the book. I always find books easier to read than PDFs.

CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide (CCIE Self-Study) (2nd Edition) (Exam Certification Guide)

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A woefully, inadequate "study guide" for Cisco's premier certification.
A good global view to exam
Puddle depth? That's one way of putting it...
Excellent Study Guide for CCIE Security Written Exam
Better buy this one quick as the exam is changing

CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide (CCIE Self-Study) (2nd Edition) (Exam Certification Guide)
Henry Benjamin
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Official self-study test preparation guide for the CCIE Security written exam 350-018

Updated content covers all the latest CCIE Security written exam 2.0 objectives, including:

AES, EAP, IOS SSH, RDEP, and intrusion prevention
DNS, TFTP, Secure Shell, Secure Socket Layer Protocol, NTP, and SNMP
Password security, password recovery, and standard and extended access lists
Encryption technologies and security protocols, including IPSec, AES, 3DES, TACACS+, and RADIUS
Cisco security applications, including Cisco Secure PIX® Firewall, VPN, IDS, IPS, and Cisco Policy Manager
Basic security methods and the evolution of new secure networks including packet filtering, proxies, and NAT/PAT
Cisco security applications such as the VPN 3000, client-side VPNs, and service modules

With increased reliance on networking resources to provide productivity gains and corporate revenue contributions, the need for network security has never been higher. Rising concerns over corporate espionage, cyber-terrorism, financial fraud, and theft of proprietary information have radically increased the demand for highly skilled networking security professionals. As one of the most sought-after and highly valued networking certifications, the Cisco Systems® CCIE Security certification is answering the need for technical expertise in this critical market by distinguishing the top echelon of internetworking experts.

CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is a comprehensive study tool for the CCIE Security written exam version 2.0. Fully updated and reviewed by present and former members of the CCIE Security team at Cisco®, this book helps you understand and master the material you need to know to pass the written exam. Covering all the topics in this challenging exam, this book is your ultimate exam preparation resource. Designed to optimize your study time, CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide helps you assess your knowledge of the material at the start of each chapter with customized quizzes for each topic. Increase retention of key concepts by reviewing succinct summaries of crucial concepts. Test your comprehension with chapter-ending review questions. Determine your assimilation of knowledge and get a taste of the CCIE Security lab exam with sample lab scenarios in the last chapter. Take timed practice exams that mimic the real testing environment with the CD-ROM test engine or customize the test bank to focus on the topics for which you need the most help.

CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide, Second Edition, is part of a recommended study program from Cisco Systems that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

“This book will be a valuable asset for potential CCIE Security candidates. I am positive individuals will inevitably gain extensive security network knowledge during their preparation for the CCIE Security written exam using this book.”

-Yusuf Hussain Bhaiji, CCIE Security Program Manager, Cisco Systems

Companion CD-ROM

CD-ROM contains a test engine with over 500 questions covering the full range of CCIE Security written exam topics, flash card format practice questions, and an electronic version of the text.

CD-ROM test engine powered by www.boson.com. Boson Software is a Cisco Learning Partner.

Customer Reviews:

A woefully, inadequate "study guide" for Cisco's premier certification........2007-05-03

The CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide glosses over "topics" listed in the CCIE version 1 blueprint. Each section provides a high level view of a subject. This book is riddled with configuration errors and lacks depth. While not study guides, other books like Network Security Principles and Practices -- Saadat Malik, Network Security Architectures -- Sean Convery and Cisco Router Firewall Security -- Richard Deal were excellent, detailed and fun to learn from.

Benjamin's description of cryptography and related protocols is terrible and should be avoided. A study guide should list salient features of a technology, not just fillers that will confuse the reader. I found chapter 4 (Security protocols) weak and skipped reading this chapter all together, preferring other, *better* tomes - Malik for example. Examples - The ESP Frame Format figure is incorrect. In the IPSec section, Benjamin writes "You can tunnel any form of data across the IPSec tunnel, such as IP, Novel IPX, or AppleTalk." Not without GRE to first encapsulate the non-IP traffic. IPSec works only on IP traffic and non-IP traffic should be encapsulated (recommended GRE encapsulation) prior to IPSec.

In chapter 5, Security Applications, Benjamin writes the following on VPN Concentrators "Cisco makes a number of recommendations in its SAFE Blueprint, but in general requires that the VPN Concentrator be located behind a Cisco PIX Firewall on the inside interface where the DMZ is located. The Cisco SAFE Blueprint has a number of recommendations based on network size and appliances, though". The SAFE blueprint does not recommend having a VPN device beyond a Firewall. Common sense would dictate that having this scenario would require opening up the Pix for all encrypted traffic.

I truly hope that Benjamin would write a far better book for the CCIE v2.0 blueprint.

A good global view to exam.......2006-07-28

It's a good book with most of all topics to someone make the CCIE Security written exam, but not so deep.

Puddle depth? That's one way of putting it..........2006-07-09

As another reviewer put it: puddle depth. As is not uncommon with most CCxx prep books, Benjamin's CCIE Security coverage is barely broad enough and nowhere deep enough. I'm using this more as a basic overview for a topic, then it's off to the Cisco documentation and lab work for a few hours to figure out how the thing really works.
Oh I wish for someone like Odom or Doyle/Carroll to write a CCIE Security book! It'd be two or three volumes, but it'd be worth the money, unlike "CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide". Buy it second hand, or better use Safari - at least you'll not waste a tree.

Excellent Study Guide for CCIE Security Written Exam.......2006-03-02

I obtained a copy of Henry Benjamin's "CCIE Security Exam Certification Guide" (ISBN 1587201356) to complete my final preparation for the CCIE Security Written Exam. Contrary to a few other reviews, I found this book to be extremely valuable for my final review. This book is exactly what it states in the title, a study guide for the exam. It is not a detailed analysis of security architectures and principles. It should not be viewed a CCIE Security "bible". Rather, this book should be used by a CCIE Security candidate only after he or she has read most of the other security related books listed on the CCIE Written Roadmap on Cisco's website.

I found the layout of the book to be beneficial for the CCIE Security candidate. Each chapter opens with a "Do I know this already?" quiz. The quizzes are helpful in assessing the reader's knowledge on the chapter's topics. Therefore, the reader will be better prepared to focus on the areas where he or she may be weak. The chapters then jump right in to its particular topic, presenting the material in a concise and articulate manner. The chapters close with a summary, questions and answers, and references to additional information. Finally, the book includes a testing engine as well as an electronic version of the book on CDROM.

I appreciated the "bonus" CCIE Security and Routing & Switching lab scenarios at the end of the book. A competent and confident Cisco engineer can never get enough hands-on practice lab scenarios to sharpen and keep ones skills fresh.

Again, I must emphasize that this book is a culmination of the CCIE Security candidate's exam preparation, not a starting point! If you are just starting your CCIE journey, I strongly recommend that you review the written exam blueprint on Cisco's website and begin with the Doyle, Malik, and De Laet and Gert Schauwers books, to quickly name a few. I am confident that this book assisted me in conquering the CCIE Security Written exam!

Mark Reyero
CCIE 12932 (R/S)

Better buy this one quick as the exam is changing.......2006-03-02

I used to book to easily pass the exam and disagree with the comments made by some that the book is littered with errors, its written with Cisco blessings, by a ccie, reviewed by ccie's and the ccie program manager, no book is 100 % correct, sure there are typo's what makes a ccie candidate succeed is their ability to adapt to anything, complaining about typo's tell me you should be doing something else, even the ccie exam itself has typo's, this book hits the mark, what's is there is what you need to know, there are new updates at ciscopress.com that fix a few bugs in the cd rom, the questions on the cd are spot on especially the questions with figures, if you want to pass the security 2.0 before 3.0 comes out which will be harder from what I have heard internally you better hurry up, once you pass then use the lab sections to help with the lab, from a triple CCIE.

Good Luck

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