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Title: Should have left well enough alone
Review: The 1st edition was so well done that you might know the 2nd edition would be a disappointment. The authors and contributors have done a fine job; there is a wealth of well presented detail here. It's the physical production of the second edition that disappoints. For reasons known only perhaps to Wrox management, someone changed style sheets; light typefaces now appear where there was bold, double line space where there was single, wider bottom margins that consume more paper, etc. Inappropriate typefaces adversly affect the readability of what could have been another excellent book. They had it right to begin with; they could have left it alone.
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