Baseball Prospectus 2005: Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age (Baseball Prospectus)

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good stuff

Better bathroom reading than "Juiced"

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The Future Of Baseball

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Baseball Prospectus 2005: Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age (Baseball Prospectus)
Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts
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Don’t think there’s merit in the idea of analyzing baseball players using sophisticated statistical tools? Maybe you should talk to the deliriously happy members of Red Sox nation, whose team is run by Theo Epstein, a disciple of the BP way of thinking. Where can fans and fantasy players get this same inside intelligence that’s revolutionizing Major League front offices? Baseball Prospectus.

“ The best book of its kind”—Rob Neyer, ESPN.com
“ If a general manager hasn’t read Baseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence.”—Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball
“ Baseball Prospectus has become the standard by which all scouting guides should be measured.”—Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics General Manager
“ I never cease to be blown away by the geniuses at Baseball Prospectus.” —Jayson Stark, ESPN
“ The best book for preparing for a rotisserie draft”— USA Today

Packed with statistics, analysis, and attitude, Baseball Prospectus is the essential season-long companion for the millions of fans and fantasy baseball players who are looking to understand the inside game. Includes extensive performance analysis of 1,600 players—covering the majors, the minors, top 40 prospects, draft choices, and rookie ball—plus in-depth, insightful essays on all 30 Major League clubs and gimlet-eyed evaluations of their top 50 players. With ballpark-adjusted stats, a deadly accurate system for forecasting a player’s performance, and more, Baseball Prospectus hits it out of the park every year.

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good stuff.......2006-02-10

BP has a distinct slant on performance analysis that some people misinterpret as reinventing the wheel. They're not. What they do is present new and creative ways to breakdown performance and potential. It's not hocus pocus--these are smart people with proven metrics giving us a glimpse of the game from another perspective. Now, as for 1 of the most common complaints I've read here I have to come to BP's defense a little. It's just absurd...

Players are listed with their team from the previous year, even if traded or signed elsewhere. ...

Come on. BP writers follow a team for the entire year. That's one of the unique aspects of their coverage. So the author that covered the Diamondbacks is going to write Randy Johnson's blurb, even if he was dealt to the Yankees. Secondly, it's just smart organization. Do you know when their publishing deadline was? Do you remember what players changed teams before that deadline and which were after? Of course not. So they standardize it. If that's your biggest complaint about this book then you're plain fishin for something to whine about.

Better bathroom reading than "Juiced".......2005-07-16

As I pointed out in my Amazon review of Canseco's "Juiced," the BP makes for much better bathroom reading. My copy is all dog-eared and has post-it notes sticking out in different colors from all edges. None of my other books have that, so that's saying something, right?

Disappointing.......2005-06-22

Because I could find the Baseball America Handbook and having seen one of my classmates with it, I decided to acquire it. Although it is not a completely waste, it is disappointing.

First of all, stats like wins, saves etc. are not listed. I think it is important to have some idea of the basic statistics. Secondly, I do not like the organization of players. They list players who have changed teams on their old teams, keep pitchers and position players separate which can be hard to follow at times.

My biggest complaint though is the fact that they seem convinced that they know everything and that they are funny. As a result, there are quite a few snarky comments when describing players like Alejandro Machado (Nationals) that is not even close to informative and their attacks on Pat Gillick and Jim Bowden are nothing short of vicious.

For a prospect handbook, this is disappointing.

The Future Of Baseball.......2005-05-15

This refrence book is part of what's known as the sabrmetrics, or statistical analysis, movement in baseball today, particularily the pro game. The main thesis that this book is based around is the factual idea that baseball players (and, by association, baseball decisions) can be analyzed using stats. Many successful MLB teams, including the A's, Red Sox, Indians, Cardinals, and Dodgers use advanced statistics (some more than others) to determine what moves they should make.

This book isn't a fantasy baseball book, it is a scouting guide. You won't find Wins, RBI, or Errors listed here, because these stats aren't important when it comes to evaluating players. Some reviewers have complained at the lack of said stats, and that they should "at least be included". On the contrary, they don't fit BP's organizational hilosophy. They shouldn't be included at all. If you want to use BP for your fantasy league, you're better off buying a "BP Fantasy" subscription at www.baseballprospectus.com

Other reviewers have stated the the Sabrmetric way of thinking doesn't encompass all the lore, emotion, heart, etc. that play such an important role in such a beautiful game. They say that baseball can't be measured solely in stats. Unfortunately for them, it nearly can. If heart, emotion, and the like actually were important, then they would show up as anomilies in the stat relationships. Fact is, they don't. Those things don't really matter, because they don't effect how the outcome of the game.

The BP writers aren't out to dehumanize baseball. Far from it, in fact! They are providing insight into a new way to play the game, a way to play the game that has made the low-budget A's into consistent 90+ game winners, and the Red Sox into World Series champions. Sabermetrics can only improve the game of baseball, and the "revolution" is coming sooner than you think. In fact, its already here. Become part of the forward-thinking, extrodinary group of people known as statistical analists.

Still with a big chip on their shoulders.......2005-04-17

The Baseball Prospectus covers most major league players, complete with comments and their own type of statistics, emphasizing categories like on-base percentage and slugging percentage, which have become the vital statistics for many in the game. Their organizational comments try to focus on how teams build smartly, and how others gamble on short term solutions and never get anywhere. There is much to debate here, but such is the game of baseball that there's always going to be different points of view.

Unfortunately, the arrogant conceit of the statistical people reveals itself; simply go to the entries for Seattle and Oakland. In the Seattle profile, there is basically an assault on the professional character of Pat Gillick, one of the finest baseball general managers of our era, who is more of a traditionalist. Because of that, he is unfairly targeted in the Seattle chapter, which is unfortunate. There is a tendency to suggest that all baseball scouting should simply be done on a statistics sheet, as opposed to the expertise of experienced scouts who actually go and see young ballplayers play. Gillick believes in that, and he's had great success. The Baseball Prospectus types scoff at that, instead making a demi-god out of Oakland's Billy Beane. (who's won exactly zilch so far).

Another thing; the authors denigrate traditional stats like wins and losses for pitchers, and batting average and RBI's for batters. Tradition means nothing to them. Baseball isn't just a cold statistical pursuit; instead it has lore and history, and the game on the field isn't played by robots. Sure, there are better measures to evaluate players, but isn't it revealing that these new statisticians can't ever seem to agree on a measure of performance? There's always a new acronym based on some convoluted formula which seems to go by the wayside a few years later. But when one talks about RBI's, you have something tangible, something you can compare across the last century.

In closing, go ahead, hit that "No" button. I'm just wondering what old time managers like Billy Martin would have thought about all this. Baseball is all about putting the ball in play, not leaving the bat on your shoulder to draw walks. Hits are infectious, there are untangibles in baseball like emotion and momentum that don't figure into the equations of the Prospectus-types.

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Market Driven Politics is an empirical examination of the extent to which politics and policy are conditioned, or even determined, by global economic forces.

With the globalization of the capitalist economy the economic role of national governments is now largely confined to controlling inflation and facilitating home-grown market performance. This represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between politics and economics; it has been particularly marked in Britain, but is relevant to many other contexts. Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone—television broadcasting and health care. Public services like these play an important role, because they both affect the legitimacy of the government and are targets for global capital. This book provides an original analysis of the key processes of commodification of public services, the conversion of public-service workforces into employees motivated to generate profit, and the role of the state in absorbing risk. Understanding the dynamics of each of these trends becomes critical not just for the analysis of market-driven politics but also for the longer-term defense of democracy and the collective values on which it depends.

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market-driven politics - part two of review.......2002-02-16

Market-driven politics - part two of review
There is a great wood and trees problem in understanding the politics of this process. Unlike the textbook models of markets, every single real market has its own unique features. Individual cases then enable us to see some of the common features of this process. Leys does not make the case that each of the four conditions have a distinctive politics. Instead he shows the roles of lobbies, of personal networks of influence, of political funding, of the infiltration of political parties, the state and institutions of global regulation, of the resourcing of partisan research and think tanks, of the interested peopling of advisory councils and public boards. Their purposes, in a spectacular denial of conflicts of interest, are to weaken public regulation in relentless cycles of pressures for incremental change, to weaken enforcement and/or quality standards (but to apply them selectively to disadvantage public services), to weaken sources of resistance and stoke support, to restrict public capital and current expenditure, to re-structure the sources of public revenue, to claim risk-minimising contracts with residual state providers, to present the transformations of service into commodities, supply and demand as a `technology' transfer and abolish the concepts of public service. In both broadcasting and health conglomerates diversified, concentrated and differentiated; pay became spectacularly more unequal, product quality was shaped by commercial interests and residual services deteriorated and were rationed. New labour politicians, whose party is increasingly funded by corporate interests, operate in centralised and `depoliticised' ways which take them away from the electorate, unions and activists and enable them to naturalise markets and audit and to de-democratise the state..

At a time when Tony Blair has called public service unions `wreckers', Colin Leys shows just who the real wreckers are. He argues that public services are a key aspect of a democratic society; they express such a society's collective interests and they help shape it at the same time. There is never no alternative. Public services can be provided in many ways, from voluntary work, through non-profit trusts to state provision. These can be more efficient - not simply in costs but also in the quality of outcomes - than are firms dominated by short-term shareholder interests. Leys indicates what is to be done: public services need a clear philosophy that is publicised, celebrated and funded through taxation. They need practical policy, encouraging innovation and dynamism where it can be justified on public service grounds. They need active political protection and defence from the constant attempts to invade which `markets', aka capital, are bound to make.

This is a richly researched, well structured, beautifully written and compellingly argued book, and one which offers an original analysis of the hegemonic politics of markets. It could not be more relevant to our times. Buy this book, but do not add it to the gently groaning shelf. Keep it much closer to hand; read, reflect and act on it.

market-driven politics-part one of review.......2002-02-16

Market-driven politics

Followers of the debates on globalisation will be well aware of a surge of recent books associated with the anti-globalisation movement which explore corporate brands have reshaped consumption and culture (Naomi Klein's No Logo) have infiltrated the state (Noreena Hertz Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy)and have also consumed political parties and refashioned them in their own image (George Monbiot's Captive State).

Colin Leys, the reputed scholar of third world development and of British politics, has entered the fray on behalf of a socialist alternative with an investigation of the response of national politics to global economic forces. He uses the experience of Britain for this project, but his story spans the world and is of world-wide relevance. The book moves its lens systematically from the global system towards the detail of rapidly proliferating real markets. Leys peers through two key holes to see the politics involved in the penetration by markets of areas of society formerly ring-fenced for non-market forms of provision and values. The two cases are public service broadcasting and health care; both regulated in distinctively British ways but now being privatised and commercialised in ways only too familiar worldwide.

Leys starts where most critics of globalisation leave off. The economy is replacing society as the subject of politics. In low intensity democracies (the phrase is Samir Amin's) ruling parties find it increasingly difficult to direct the terms on which governments regulate the economy, though there are conditions under which some do it better than others. Their politics is driven by corporates which operate not nationally but globally. Leys has a wealth of evidence with which he fleshes out this profoundly political process (globally in chapter 2 and in Britain in chapter 3).He asks: how do states get voters to endorse policies which meet the demands of capital? How do states pull off the theft of sovereignty from their citizens? How are markets to be naturalised and democratic politics to be insulated from demos? This book answers such questions.

There is a general logic to the process: capital must expand. `Accumulate, accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets'! proclaimed Karl Marx. Capital expands in many ways, some primitive (resources are seized by force, peasants shoved off the land) others are sophisticated and carefully planned (the seething life cycles of products and their substitutes). Markets appear to slither into households (domestic service) and out again (`DIY', but read the book, for DIY is not what it seems..). Markets proliferate (markets for derivatives, markets for advertising, for management consultancy, legal advice, repairs..).

Leys follows markets expanding into the non-market public sphere. This is the arena for public goods, for national culture and for democratic expressions of citizenship. The novel insight powering Leys' analysis of market-driven politics is as follows. For markets to take over, four political conditions have to be achieved. First, public services have to be broken down into sets of private commodities (hip replacements, laundering, current affairs programmes popular with advertisers....) each of which can be supplied at (more or less) known prices. Second, needs and delights have to be reworked into effective demand expressed through purchasing power alone. Third, workers with collective values and a public service vocation have to be transformed into profit-makers and on less secure terms. Lastly, business requires and usually gets the risks of this transformation to be underwritten by the state. Those remnants of public services that cannot be completely abolished will be left as services of the last resort.

After this first phase looks like being successful, the general dynamic starts to grind; the costs of labour can be reduced; less specialised labour may be shed, components may be subcontracted to cheap sites. Products will be standardised for scale economies and a mass market. `Flexible production' usually masks a standardised technological core. All other labour, all other costs, will be transferred to consumers. (And the buck stops with women.)

Private contractors do not have to be efficient to notch up rates of profit attractive to shareholders. Public resources will be transferred to retain poorly functioning private firms up to the point where the costs of maintaining an inefficient status quo exceed those of exposing deficiency or delinquence, together with the transactions costs of replacing the contract.
- to be continued - in part two of review

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Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963-1973 (Harvard Economic Studies)
Richard C. Webb
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Government policy and the distribution of income in Peru, 1963-1973.
Richard Charles. Webb
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one of the only chiropractic books.......2004-05-07

This book was one of the best books I have ever read. Even though I am only 14, I already know I want to be a chiropractor. This book inspired me to reach for my dreams. Thank you dr. joseph. I hope I can bUY this book because right now it is out of print.

Great Read.......1998-06-22

This book was an invaluable tool in making my decision to attend chiropractic college and become a doctor of chiropractic. It was fillied with real life stories of the struggles in becoming a competent doctor. I graduated in June 1998 as a doctor of chiropratic and credit this book with helping me make my decision. Great read

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Travel writer and historian Stephen Foehr examines the historical, cultural and political influences that helped an island of two million people create the international music phenomenon of reggae and its associated forms.

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Live Vicariously.......2001-01-16

Take a vicarious trip to Jamaica with this book! Stephen Foehr travels to the heart of Jamaican culture, and meets with the people who helped form it. He leaves the safe tourist areas far behind and goes behind the scenes into the deep countryside and interacts with the denizens of some pretty dangerous places. Good book. Well researched historical perspective, but not so much that it is dry or reads like a textbook. Still this book would be a great for modern music history classes.

Foehr Reaches Deep.......2000-12-18

Stephen Foehr has an unequalled understanding of the spiritual and intellectual qualities of the people who have created the musical culture of Jamaica, and anyone who professes to have a complete library of the best books on this topic cannot afford to be without his book. From my perspective, it is the best book on the market today for people looking for an understanding of how Caribbean culture created one of the most distinctive musical genres of the twentieth century. What makes it superior is Foehr's ability to draw from decades of first-hand knowledge of his topic. He is not an anthropological field worker but a deep insider who works with the care and sophistication of the best anthropologists and musicologists. Add to this, however, that he is not an academic who is distanced from his subject by abstractions or a journalist on an assignment. He is close to the soul, and if you admire Jamaica and its culture, you will feel at home in the world depicted in this book.

jamaican warriors.......2000-11-14

JAMAICAN WARRIORS is fascinating and though about music, the social/political tones are revolutionizing and nurturing my understanding of reggae. I feel as though I'm with the author and the warriors as the textual conversations and images are so inclusive. Such makes for rewarding reading and fast page turning. A multifaceted book whether music, Jamaica travel, or history be your love.

Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots and Culture (ISBN: 1860743145)

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Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots and Culture (ISBN: 1860743145)
Stephen Foehr
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Publ.
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Using case studies to illustrate the range of theories and methods that can be used to study contemporary popular culture, this book covers such topics as television, fiction, film, newspapers and magazines, popular music, and consumption (fan culture and shopping).

For this new edition, examples have been updated, photographs have been added, and a greater emphasis has been has been placed on identity and consumption. Also included are new sections on television audiences, hermeneutics and reception theory, and globalization.

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Nobody does it better..........2006-11-08

Remember the theme song from James Bond, A Spy Who Loved Me? "Nobody does it better, though sometimes I wish someone would..." Well, much as I liked John Storey's study, when it comes to popular culture studies there is an even better study around. So together with a recommendation for Storey's book, here is an even more enthusiastic recommendation for Peter Swirski's "From Lowbrow to Nobrow" (2006), a book that puts all the hard facts (and insightful interpretations) of "nobrow" and popular culture right at your fingertips. Happy reading to readers of both.

A concise variety of theories for examining popular culture.......2001-11-09

I am using "Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture" as the primary textbook in an "Introduction to Popular Culture" class. Now, on the one hand it is clear John Storey's book is not written at an introductory level, which would have been a reason for me not to select it for my class. But this volume has two strengths that overcome that particular liability. The first is that Storey looks at six types of cultural texts: Television, Fiction, Films, Magazines & Newspapers, Popular Music, and Consumption (a.k.a. shopping). That pretty much covers everything you would want to look at in an introduction pop culture class so that students can get excited (relatively speaking) about analyzing their favorite television show or CD. The second strength is that each chapter focuses on two or three key concepts/theories. For example, with television Storey looks at Hall's notions of encoding/decoding television discourse, how television represents the ideology of mass culture, and how there are competing economies of television. So even if the writing level is for the advances student (quality), students being introduced to cultural studies are being presented with only a few concepts to absorb (quantity). Even if he is writing chapters rather than providing essays, each chapter does offer a specific case study (e.g., James Bond novels) that will facilitate student comprehension of the concepts, which they, in turn, should be able to apply in their own papers. Storey does have another volume that is specifically "An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture," but it is structured by theories (culturalism, structuralism, Marxism, etc.). Ideally I would like to be working with a book from Storey that had the structure of the book I am using with the writing style of the other, but clearly you have a choice here as to which way you can go given both your preferences and the level of your course. Storey does a nice job of explicating these concepts without rendering personal judgments, which I think is important when you are trying to get students to actually use such analytical tools. Final note: Storey's "Cultural Theory & Popular Culture: A Reader" is intended as a companion volume for his "Introduction" text and not this one.

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 34)

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Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research.
The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents.
Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.

Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction (Communication and Society Series)

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Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction (Communication and Society Series)
Mr Jerry Palmer
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Why is popular fiction loved by many and yet studied by few? Why is it despised by those who study "high culture"?

Popular narrative has not traditionally been well-regarded in academic institutions (the clearest expression of this disregard is silence.) Potboilers is an introduction to the main methods available for the analysis of popular fiction, regardless of the medium in which it appears. Popular fiction cannot be analyzed using the methods developed for understanding "literature," therefore new methods are essential.

Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative in print, film, and television, and considers the ways they have been analyzed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, and media and cultural studies.

Jerry Palmer introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. He focuses on both narrative analysis and the communications process, exploring generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance novel, and sitcom.

The analysis of the debates surrounding popular fiction gives a clear account of existing work and provides an invaluable guide for students and teachers of literature, communications, media, and cultural studies.

Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (Theories of Contemporary Culture)

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Cultural criticism at its global/local wry perverse best...

Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
Meaghn Morris
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Cultural criticism at its global/local wry perverse best..........2000-05-09

Meaghan Morris, early and late, writes cultural criticism at its global/local,wry perverse best. Lest this sound too late-capitalist cynical or rude, I should say that she writes from and as the local and national site of Australia, making this political and libidinal space of transnational cultural studies resonate with the most urgent, critical, and international issues that trouble our politics and poetics.

As such, she reinvents Asia/Pacific as she writes, showing us (or should I say the writerly obsessive "me") how to work and affiliate in a space of writing and moral-political concern. When I read her essays, I face the panic white sublimity of awe and admiration, clotted and displaced. She invents topics and tropes for each essay or book, reframing tourism, mass media, film, movement, embodied location, identity, without falling into the "banality of cultural studies" or the throwaway language and motel spaces that haunt our politics.

She is an untimely critic, whose writing is both too soon and too late for the market. But the "tyranny of space" in the Pacific has been overcome, and I for one am very grateful such an artist and cultural critic and scholar exists all packed into one person, Meaghan Morris.

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Your resource to passing MCSE 70-297 Windows Sever 2003 Certification Exam! Join the ranks of readers who have trusted Exam Cram 2 to their certification preparation needs! The MCSE Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Exam Cram 2 is focused on what you need to know to pass the 70-297 exam for Windows Server 2003. The Exam Cram 2 Method of Study provides you with a concise method to learn the exam topics. The book includes tips, exam notes, acronyms and memory joggers in order to help you pass the exam. Included in the MCSE Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Exam Cram 2: * A tear-out ""Cram Sheet"" for last minute test preparation. * Two complete practice exams and answer keys with key explanations. Trust in the series that has helped many others achieve certification success - Exam Cram 2. This ebook does not include the CD that accompanies the print edition.

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MCSE Help 70-297.......2006-11-10

I like the exam cram books I use these for any ms exam that I take and recommend it. It quick and easy to read not to much detail I like the summary sheet also.

Excellent Exam Prep.......2005-05-17

The previous reviewer doesn't seem to understand the concept of exam cram books. They're written specifically to give you an idea of what's covered on the exam. They shouldn't be compared to $60, 800-page books that go into great detail about every little nuance of the technology. Crams are $30 and overviews. Let's make sure we're comparing apples to apples here. If you want more depth, sure, go buy a $60 book, but don't unfairly criticize a book because it doesn't do what it never claims it's supposed to do in the first place.

Just OK.......2004-09-07

After reading both this book and the 70-297 Sybex book, there is no comparison. This book does not cover anything that you don't already know if you are on the MCSE track. It seemed to be more written for someone that is just taking this exam... and hasn't studied anything for the other 6 exams in the MCSE track. My advice, spend the extra $ and get the Sybex book by Brad Price... it will be money well spent, and you may actually learn something you don't already know... I know I did!

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