This book is so funny! Look at all the other reviews... You can read it over and over and over and still it's as funny as "heck". It's all very honest... It's like a Seinfeld joke; It's hilarious, but in the back of your head you're thinking: "You know, he's right..."

Buy this and you won't be disappointed.

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The first real Dilbert book I read, and one of the funniest things in the history of printed media. So much so that my boyfriend offers it to me to read if i'm feeling sad, cos it's guaranteed to cheer me up every time.

As all the other reviews say, it's true-to-life, with spot on observations about just about everything you could imagine. But, rather than repeat all that, i'll include some tempting insights into the best bits:

"Sitting On Them" - the subtlety of the opening cartoon had me chuckling for ages

"Death" - "I said 'Honey, don't moon the cheetahs, they look fast'"

And my personal all-time favourite, that never ever becomes less funny...Coping with people who spit when they talk - build a cone of dryness. You have to see this cartoon. Really. You'll not regret it!

This is the third and probably the funniest Dilbert book out there! This book is so funny,you'll laugh out loud roughly every six seconds, it's hillarious and true to life. This book is not a normal Dilbert book either, rather then being just a collection of about nine months worth of daily and Sunday comics it's full of big ( one taking up a full page ) origninal strips specially made for this book featuring the master of wit and sarcasm Dogbert as he explains basic human ediquit in a hillarious and true to life manner. ( let's see how many times I can write the words " Hillarious " and true to life " ) Even though this book was obviously made as a clever market ploy by Scott Adams to get the strip off the ground and get a little more cash in his pocket ( in the early days the strip was not phenomana that it is today, infact sales were less then mediocre ) it's still clear that he had alot of fun making this book and you'll have alot of fun reading it. This book was made before Dilbert became a comic strictly composed of workplace humor so it focuses on all sorts of topics. Personally I wish the strip would be more like that now. I mean I think the office gags are really funny, but now that Scott has achieved his maximum popularity I wish he would go back to some of the old formula's again and have Dogbert make some clever sarcastic shemes again that don't have to do with bussiness consulting. So in short, if your a Dogbert fan or you've never even read the Dilbert comic or your a fan of sarcastic humor, or you just plain like buying stuff because it's out there then buy this book and prepare to be cheered up for about thirty-five minutes.

Hillarious and true to life!

In today's football world, Terrell Davis is known as a superstar, but not in the literature world. He was trying to accomplish this literature superstar role when he co-wrote his own memoir with Adam Schefter. An all pro athlete and a sports writer, a very thoughtless combination in the literature circuit. Throughout this novel, we hear some about the struggle of growing up in a bad neighborhood for Terrell Davis, but not nearly enough. This is mostly a story about football and migraines.

Terrell Davis had a troubled past and had to overcome it all to be a Super Bowl M.V.P. He wrote this book to let people all over the country know that they can overcome their troubled lives and turn a negative view of life into a positive one.

This book had its ups and downs, but for the most part it was down. It seemed, for the first half of the book, that every chapter went back to migraines and the repetition was incredibly boring. In the second half it was football and also came across as mostly uninteresting. I don't think that Terrell Davis was ready to write a book. He does not have the concept of grabbing the readers attention. Also, only having played two years in
the NFL, he wrote this book way to early in his career and could have made it much more interesting if he had let more of his career in it.

One thing that was good about this memoir was hearing his passion for football. If there was any sort of true writing in this book, it was when he was going deep into how he feels for the game. This is probably the one thing that keeps this book from being bought and then placed in the garbage.

So as a memoir, I believe this would be a poor choice for a well written piece of literature. Overall, this book ultimately shouldn't have been published for anything other than having Terrell Davis' signature put on it. But for sports fans, a Terrell Davis memoir with his signature on it would be a definite must have.

After reading this book I felt like I wanted to become a professional football player. Just reading about Terrell Davis's life, I didn't want to stop; it was so interesting. It seemed like this book just couldn't be long enough.
This is an autobiography that Terrell Davis, a superstar running back, told in the first person. This book starts out by Terrell explaining how he was feeling during the Super Bowl XXXII. During this game he got a migraine that took him out of the game for the second half. This is a game he would never forget.
Terrell Davis is the youngest of six; all children are boys, Terry, Terrell, Bobby, James, Reggie, and Joe. Terrell was born in San Diego in 1972. His father, Joe Earl Davis, was a very violent man, one night he came home drunk about 2 A.M., and he pulled each of his brothers out of bed, lined them up against the wall, pulled out his .38 Special with black electric tape around the grip, and just started shooting right above their heads. On April 17, 1987, his father died of Lupus, an immune-deficiency disease in which the body doesn't recognize itself and starts to attack itself.
Terrell played baseball but wasn't much good at it. But football was different for him. He started out playing Pop Warner as the Velencia Park Saints, in Velencia, he played high school ball at Lincoln High School, and went to the University of Georgia and played College ball their. He wasn't the best football player in college, but his senior year he stepped it up to get into the NFL, especially his last two games in college. He was chosen along with fifteen other running backs to go to an annual NFL's scouting combine, it's another chance to make an impression on a team. For the physical he was stripped down naked, walked out on a stage, while the Teams' trainers took a closer look.
Terrell Davis was drafted to the Denver Broncos, a team he thought would never take him, during the sixth round of the draft. While on the Broncos he was a sixth-string running back and only went in a little bit during the pre-season his rookie year, but when he was in he did good enough to start at running back during the regular season. After his rookie year was over, he rushed for 1,117 yards, caught passes for 367 yard, for a total of 1,484 yards. During his next two seasons, the Broncos won the Super Bowl, for two years straight.
Terrell Davis still plays for the Broncos, and still continues to break records. He is one of my favorite players and I had the opportunity to meet him in 1999. I really admire his determination to the sport.
If you have ever read one of those books where they stay on the same subject forever, then don't read this book; he talks about the same thing forever. But this book is great for football fans, and even better for Broncos fans. I really liked this book since I could relate to Denver, since I used to live there, and it was really fun to understand where and what he was talking about.

Terrell Davis could be one of the greatest running backs to play the game of football. An inside look is taken at the sports world and TD's life. The main goal TD has in writting this book is to inform the reader of growing up, his family and the sports world. Throughout the book TD shows his appreciation of his family and God. Sometimes the reader can sense some of TD's biases toward some of the things he has endured, but it can be expected in any autobiography. TD did an excellent job in writing this book. He is able to tell his story in a fashion which keeps the reader interested. When TD voices an opinion, he does a good job in backing it up. Because of TD's down to earth nature that is displayed in the book, any person can read this book and enjoy it. TD's book is enlightening and enjoyable. The reader will be drawn in by TD's touching personal stories and entertaining sports highlights. Overall the book is well written and portrays TD in a good light.

This was my first journey into the world of Lilian Jackson Braun, and I have to say that I enjoyed it very much. It was unlike any other book that I have ever read. It was refreshing to read a story without the bad language, violence, and graphic depictions of male-female relations that seems to be required for today's novels. I do not object to, nor am I offended by these elements, but it's still nice to be able to enjoy a book without them present. Being a cat lover and cat owner did enhance my enjoyment of this book as well. I was a bit disappointed by the ending, but overall it was an excellent light read. I plan to read many more of the books featuring the feline detective Koko, his little friend Yum Yum, and his sidekick Jim Qwilleran.

I am an avid reader of the mystery genre. Lilian Jackson Braun has a way of turning the mystery in her book into a fun, exciting sideline. As a cat lover, I instantly adored her style of putting the two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, into the spotlight. Qwilleran, one of the main characters, is a wonderful guy (and owner of Koko and Yum Yum) with a great sense of humor. The hubbub in The Cat Who Blew the Whistle is hilarious, yet the mystery is a deadly revolving point. It keeps you on your toes as you find everything ties into each other. I relate well with Qwilleran- my cat is also intelligent, but it has an insatiable urge to chew on everything and anything in sight. The dialogue in this book is interesting-it is "train lingo." This is a complex mystery comedy that I suggest to cat-lovers, train-lovers, mystery-lovers, and comedy-lovers everywhere.

Being a cat lover and knowing how felines can be, I decided to read Ms. Brauns books. When I started they became clear that not only does Mr Q have a great pair of cats but he loves them very much. In all of the books I have read of this series so far, Ms. Braun hints at who the "bad guy" might be then she has Koko and Mr. Q work together to solve the mystery. It is fun, reading what Koko and Yum Yum are doing then seeing my own cats "talk" as they do in the books. Mr. Q, with all his billions, works for a living, cares for his friends and loves his cats. I have yet to see where he uses his money to look "better" than any other person in the book. Reading this and others of this series puts beautiful pictures in your mind of what Moose County may look like and how it would be to ive "400 miles north of everywhere".

Pat O'Brien came to speak to my graduating senior class this year about the reality of college and how to make the best of it. I think it was a good thing to put the end in perspective first and make goals for yourself in order to make your path towards success even more efficient. His Winning Characteristics are not always easy to accomplish, but with discipline and hard work anyone can achieve them. Basic tips on studying, getting to know professors, extracurricular activites, and internships are helpful in envisioning your undergraduate years as challenging, but exciting experiences. Overall, O'Brien offers sufficient and real information that every college freshmen should know, and if he or she utilizes O'Briens advice they will be much more likely to be successful.

This book is about more than just surviving in college, it's about thriving in college. A must have for every student entering college. If you like this book, you'll love "Major in Success," by Patrick Combs. It changed my life.

I have read this book twice now, and will probably read it again. It motivates me so well. It gives you a sense of direction and provides you with the necessary steps to follow. If you are looking for the perfect graduation gift this is the one. This should be on every freshmen's must read list before going to college

Dr. sandra Grabowski (the author of the book) is my anatomy teacher at Purdue University. Although the book does have some excellent graphics and visual enhancements in all of the crucial areas of anatomy, the actual explanation of the material is rather weak and ambiguous. There isn't much clinical or experimental information, aside from simple definitions of disorders. I believe that the book would be better served by more elaborate explanations of key concepts in the text as opposed to filling the book cover to cover with pretty pictures. In my opinion, this makes the book ineligible to be a trusty reference. The blanks need to be filled in by the authors, and this would be an excellent improvement for the ninth edition.

This is the finest of all available books on Anatomy and physiology. The text is clear and easy to understand. The pictures easy on the eye and help to simplify the complex subjects covered. Scattered throughout the book are 'clinical correlates' which relate chapter information to 'real life' medical problems. These correlates help to integrate the information presented. The book contains clear histology slides and occasional pictures of cadaver dissections. The treatment of subjects is thorough including, for example, dysrhythmias in the chapter on cardiac anatomy and physiology. Accompanying the book is an atlas of the skeleton. Bright colors are used in all of the pictures and flow charts. The table of contents is thorough, clearly dividing up each chapter. I would Reccomend Tortora and Grabowski's A&P textbook for a two semester course in anatomy and physiology.

This is a review of the 8th edition

I loved this book it is my bible. I found it the most comprehensive guide that I have ever read. The only thing that other books have over it is the CD-Rom could be a little more interactive and more helpful. But the book rocked. It has that ablity to take you from the basis of all knowledge of this field of study and slowly and carfully unfold the knowledge in just the right way that it establishes it in your mind forever. I loved it and look forward to using it in other ways not just in class.

The cover of this book says it is about "Jefferson, Adams and the Revolutionary Election of 1800," but it is really about the period from 1787 to 1800. Only 50 pages are directly about the election; the other 260 pages are mostly about the period leading up to the election. Still, Weisberger gives a good overview of the crucial period in our country's history from when the national government was created by the constitution until the election of 1800 threatened to undo the Republic. Given the broad scope of the book, Weisberger can't give us a lot of detail in the room allotted. But I would recommend the book as a first step before delving into the details. To those who like hardbacks, the binding is fair and mine has come unglued.

The subtitle of "America Afire" is somewhat misleading. While it purports to be about "Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800," not until over two-thirds of the narrative have passed does author Bernard Weisberger begin to discuss the election itself and then for only one chapter. The book is really a concise political history of the United States from the ratification of the Constitution through the end of Jefferson's first term as President. The prose is lively and highly readable. And Weisberger is correct in his assertion that the election of 1800, in which a President who was denied re-election voluntarily relenquished power for the first time, was a monumental if often overlooked event in the early history of the nation.

The book actually reads like a series of magazine articles with each chapter covering a separate event. This may reflect Weisberger's longtime involvement as a contributing editor for "American Heritage" magazine. At just over 300 pages of narrative, "America Afire" reads like the work of Stephen Ambrose in the way it brings history alive for those who are not academic scholars.

This is a wonderful book. It isn't a "scholarly tome", but it is reliable. The author draws on many secondary sources (scholarly tomes) to weave together this surprising story. Everybody should know this stuff. Nobody does.

For example, how many Americans think that the Constitution established a "democracy?" It did not. The framers were much divided about the concept, and most were initially distrustful of it. The horrors of the French Revolution didn't help matters. American democracy emerged during the decade prior to the 1800 election as a political movement that morphed into a political party. And it wasn't even a coherent political movement. It was as much about personalities as about principles.

How many Americans know that the bitter partisan politics of our own day, which culminated in the remarkable election of 2000, has been ever with us? It has. If anything, the politics of 1800 were more bilious and hateful than today's.

As to that, how many Americans know that our "Founding Fathers" pretty much despised each other? They did. Adams and Washington against Jefferson and Madison. Adams was bad-tempered, jealous, and resentful. He was also brilliant, shrewd and as indispensible in his own less than conspicuous way as Washington was very publicly. Washington and Adams were personally appalled by Ben Franklin, whom they regarded as an atheist and a womanizer (which he was), and everybody hated Hamilton. Of course Hamilton was a hard man to love. Perhaps the most effectively influential of all the Founders, he had nothing but contempt for democracy, but practically invented American capitalism and almost single-handedly set the U.S. on course to its future status as international super-power.

Everybody knows that Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, but what most people don't know is that almost nobody, including Jefferson, actually believed this. Still, during the 1790's a political coalition, featuring James Madison, James Monroe, and Charles Pinkney (not to be confused with Charles Cotesworth Pinkney, the former's first cousin and an avid Federalist) formed around this remarkable idea. These early democrats called themselves Republicans, Republican-Democrats and, later, just Democrats. Their willingness to ride on what Jefferson called "the boistrous sea of liberty" and what we might less colorfully call "negative" campaigning probably saved the nation from, at the very least, reverting back to another British banana republic. Their opponents, the "Federalists", on the other hand, probably saved the nation from becoming another bloodbath like France before Napoleon.

The partisan clash of great men who were also ruthless politicians is the story of this book. This book portrays these events, and the men who shaped them, in a swift-paced and fascinating narrative. I highly recommend it.

I read this in place of my required college textbook on the advice of a friend. I browsed several books on C++, and this was the best one. Every topic was discussed in general at first, and then in greater detail in later chapters. If you want to learn C++ in particular, and object oriented programming in general, I can't image a better written textbook. The author also presents a methodical approach to developing algorithms, which I have found useful in other programming subjects. You must read this book!

Hi! I am student in the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Computer Science. I am using this book for my C++ progamming class. The book starts with simple things and builds up. Each chapter is nicely divided in subsections. Each and every section has an example and the syntax and format is clearly marked in a different color and this pattern has been consistently followed throughout the book. Each chapter has a section named "Part of the Picture:" which focuses on the application part. This gives me a broader picture about its use and forces me to use C++ in problem solving. Each section has many quick quizes, programming problems which tests my understanding. The authors have consistently followed Object Centered Design and reusable code. One of the authors has included his website where most of the examples are available for many platforms. Students can easily download them and can run them to get a clear picture without wasting time keying into an editor and then compiling it.

I am an electrical engineer. I tried many books to learn & understand C++. There is a lot of 24hrs,21 days & unleashed stuff out there but this book is amazing. The best thing about this book is its approach towards computing, how it builds up. When you start reading from cover to cover, everything is the basis of next thing to come. First i was amazed seeing its sequence of topics, as compared to other books on the subject it was completely different and now i know why. Most of the books on C++ usually have classes and advanced topics very early (that's why people complain C++ is complex); but this book gives you a very solid foundation to understand these topics. I never thought C++ was so easy.

The Camera, book 1 of 3 in the Ansel Adams Photography Series, is well written with many illustrations of the subjects in each chapter. It also includes many of Ansel's own photo's as examples. The chapters are written for the the novice as well as for the journeyman who want to refresh one's memory on the basics. The latter chapters get more involved with technical information. Book 2 and 3, "The Negative" and " The Print" are eqully well written with an introduction to Ansel's own Zone system. A must read for serious photographers or the novice interested in advanced techniques and/ or terminology. Ansel will go down in history not only as a great photographer but teacher and writer as well. I highly recommend this series to anyone interested in taking better pictures.

This book, the first of a three book series, introduces the reader to the various camera systems and accessories required for successful B&W photography. The book progresses into explanations on aperature and shutter speed selection, lens choices, lighting and image management. No detail is neglected. Best read in conjunction with books two and three.

This is an excellent book for any person interested in photography, any level. Here you'll find advice from how to place a tripod to how to get aesthetical results with stereographic pictures of the moon.

Merits and demerits and other features of equipment (cameras, lenses, filters, ...) and techniques (focusing, shuttering, panning, ...) are also pointed out.

I've just finished reading the whole book, but take for sure I'll read it many times from now as a pretty helpful manual.

This book represents a very detailed analysis of the issues that arise from interoperating between .NET and COM. The book describes the issues involved in using COM components within .NET with the same attention to detail as those in designing .NET components that are used within "legacy" COM apps. The book closes with a detailed discussion of P/Invoke and some more advanced topics such as custom marshalling. The sheer size of the book might be frightening to some but the book's structure makes it easy to pick up exactly what you need. For example, each major part starts off with an example-rich introductory chapter that is a great help in getting started with interop. On the other hand, the book allows the reader to really dig into the minute details of interop. I particularly liked that the book provides lots of valuable design guidelines and an abundance of realistic code examples. Maybe not a book that one wants to read front to cover but an invaluable reference and troubleshooter for anyone who works in the interop area and needs to understand what is really going on under the covers. The most complete work on this important topic yet.

This is an amazing reference book for COM and P/Invoke interop (i.e. Win32 interop), an essential topic that most .NET books don't cover well enough. It's essential if you're migrating to .NET, or even if you're writing a non-trivial .NET application from scratch since the .NET Framework has many holes in functionality that must be filled by using interop.

I was skeptical because I've had bad luck with Sams books in the past, but this book is wonderful! It's incredibly thorough, complete, and has lots of useful examples and great sidebars. The author's expertise really shines through... It covers things I couldn't find anywhere else (and I've looked at other Interop books) such as an in-depth treatment of custom marshaling, and I really enjoyed the last chapter with Windows Media Player that demonstrated how to expose existing COM APIs as brand new .NET-looking APIs with very little code.

The chapters are self-contained, clearly organized, and jam-packed with information. I swear, each page I learned something new, and that's a lot of pages! It answered all of my questions and doubts about .NET interop. I can't imagine doing .NET programming without this book.

Currently, this is *the* reference book for the subject area of .NET interop with COM and other unmanaged code via P/Invoke. At almost 1600 pages, it can seem daunting but just treat it like a reference. Open up to the chapter that covers what you are interested in, such as "The Essentials of using COM in Managed Code" (chapter 3) or "The Essential of PInvoke" (chapter 18) or "Customizing COM's View of .NET components" (chapter 12). This last one is one of my favorites because it shows how you have more flexibility in writing COM components in .NET than you have with VB 6.

Another thing I really like about this book is that it has lots of sidebars with tons of useful information that I haven't found anywhere (at least not easily) in the current .NET docs.

Heck, even the appendix is chock full of good stuff like mappings between COM HResults and .NET exceptions and PInvoke definitions for the Win32 API.

Is it just my imagination, or do the vast majority of these oh-so-helpful-rated reviews bear an incredibly similar style? You know, almost as if they were written by a single person? Who, by some chance, writes VERY MUCH in the style of the author?

I really liked this book. Unlike books that talk only about financial privacy and tax havens, the author goes into issues of lifestyle privacy, health record privacy, insurance information, and mentions specific top quality banks and insurance firms that provide services offshore (with their contact information).

The negative review claiming that the book does not offer this information is so false that I can almost assume it was posted by either a competitor of the author's or by a bureaucrat who wants to scare people away from anything offshore. The comment just has nothing to do with the content of this book.

Perhaps most meaningful of all is that the author actually lives offshore, but is retired. So he writes about what he knows and practices, while so many so-called offshore books are written by American service providers who have something to sell you but don't actually live the lifestyle. This author has nothing to sell you, but lives the offshore life. He has been writing about these subjects for some 25 years -- I've read his 1970s books -- and most other books can't come close.

This unique book is an extremely valuable, up to date guide to the best information ever published on offshore investments, mutual funds, asset protection, privacy tactics, tax-havens, tax mitigation and much more.