Much of this book is a rehash of what you can get from standard documentation. Some of the author's ideas and suggestions are not very practical. Really just a minor survey of the basic mechanics with little or no insight into the subject at hand

This book is not entertaining at all, the author has a way of interjecting his own views into the facts, and some of the trivia is way off. The most offensive of these errors is when he quotes Lou Gherig as saying "I stand before you the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Are you an American? Even my 100 year old grandma knows that the baseball legend said "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." Not "the happiest guy on the face of the Earth." Come on, man. Don't publish material you know nothing about. This book is a joke.

This book contains too much extraneous text and not enough trivia. There is some interesting and unusual trivia in the book, though. Some of it seemingly would only be known by someone like this author, who seems to be a stereotypical 60's-era Hollywood insider.

Another word of caution: the author (for some unknown reason) seems intent upon injecting his own personal views into the book. The most telling example of this is when he refers to would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. as a "bad shot." That tells you all that you need to know about the political views that the author sneaks in throughout the book.

This is a slightly different kind of trivia book in that it is not just a "question and answer" book. It provides some text to go along with individual topics, and also, unfortuantely, an apparent political agenda. The author eveidently finds it necessary to intersperse some of his 60's-esque politcal and anti-Christian religious views into the book. It seems like a book written by a stereotypical Hollywood insider.

That said, the actual trivia in the book is not too bad. The reader gets the chance to learn some things that someone who is not an aged hippie would not otherwise know.

Now if only that walkthrough had maps and some strategy for bosses then maybe the guide could get 3 or even 4 stars from me.

The guides doesn't cover the full extent of the game for starters and doesn't present any way of telling you some of the basics like learning magic and battling.

The walkthrough doesn't even have maps. Its one of those "Screenshot description below" type of walkthrough (and that doens't work when dealing with an RPG). I didn't mind no bestiary but I do mind them not telling me EXP. from bosses and enemies. They also tell me nothing about learning moves and magic. Overall this guide is useless, and as one reviewer said, go to GameFAQs if you want a guide to this game. This doesn't even tell you how to find most items in an area.

Overall, if you want to see pretty pictures and just get up and go without knowing any secrets (they don't even cover the special stage) then be my guest and buy this guide. But if you want in depth strategy then go to GameFAQs.

To say the least, this is a terrible book. It offers no maps, nothing about the secret dungeons, no boss stratagies. Nothing. It is not worth anything you pay for it, except maybe 5 cents.

If you need a Walkthrough for this wonderful game, GameFAQs has much better ones, for free!

If you own the Sega Saturn version of Grandia (which is in Japanese) then this book is quite useful, as it retells some of the story as you are going along. Doubtless this will annoy people who have the english version (hence the low scores).As a guide it is quite poor - It does'nt tell you where all the Mana eggs are, and there are no details of the secret areas...but it is a small price to pay for a story synopsis. Get this book if you love the game or if you have the Saturn version - which is the best one ;0)

This book must be my worst investment. The code is full of mistakes. The theory side is even worse. I bought this book for the code, to see how one does implement neural networks in an object-oriented manner - after reading the book i knew how not to implement! BAD!!!

Perhaps he really does understand linear separability and how it applies to the exclusive or problem in neural networks. However, Mr. Blum's ludicrous excuse for an explanation of this classic problem fails to demonstrate anything, including that he knows what he's talking about. Unfortunately this is an exemplar for the entire book.

Wiley should be ashamed for continuing to peddle this

This looked like a good book, with code listings for several neural net programs, and examples. But when you get down to the details, the examples lack clear explanations of how the data should be input, and the code listings are full of errors--functions are defined in one section of code, but are not declared in the classes they are supposed to be members of. There are several typographical errors, and portions of the code are out of order. A file is #included in one of the sections of code, but is not available among the listings. Overall, a shabby book

Unable, or unwilling, to secure the cooperation of Adams' estate, the publishers of this book have used images from the US national archive.

These substandard images have been reproduced hair, dust and all! It's an insult to a man who spent his life teaching and promoting quality photography.

This book was done without the authorization of the Ansel Adams Photographic Trust, as was duly noted in the book.

The volume reproduces Ansel Adams' images in a way that badly distorts his style. Most of the images are so dark and over inked that all you can see are the outlines. Adams' work was all about light and using details to show connections among objects. The only benefit you will get from seeing these images is to realize why Adams insisted on such tight control over his work. You will also come to more fully appreciate his comments about how his "reality" depended on what happened with the print, not with the negative.

Miraculously, a few images were reproduced in wonderful fashion. But you have to look long and hard to find them. Don't bother. I suggest you stick with the authorized versions of his work instead, which are all published by Little Brown. The main flaws of those volumes is that Little Brown designed the books in many cases to make the images too small.

Why, then, did I assign this book two stars rather than one? Well, I rather liked the essay by Eric Peter Nash about Adams. Nash provides a good balance between writing a short biography of Adams as a person, his development as a photographer through using new techniques, and Adams' reflections on his contemporaries. The essay is much longer than in other books about Ansel Adams and added usefully to my knowledge about his photographic techniques.

My advice is to read the essay and consider it in the context of images in other books. I would suggest you avoid buying this book.

After you have finished reading the essay, I suggest you consider how your purposes might not be followed as you wish when you are no longer alive. For example, do you have any possessions that you would like to have given to a certain person or handled in a certain way? Do you have a will that provides for those events to take place? Do you have an executor of the will who understands your purposes and is likely to outlive you?

Pass on your insights with care!

I bought this book thinking I was going to learn how to use the equation library. It dose not even mention it.

The overall style of the book is lacking and the quality of type face is patchy. At least Amazon will allow you to change the book or refund your money.

V. Jones

This is a very basic book for true beginners. It has very long narratives that include statements like, "Be prepared to be amazed and astonished." If you want to learn to program the HP 48, I do not recommend this book. It does give several examples but it does not tell you HOW to do specific programming functions. The various examples do include things like subroutine and system calls but it does not explain what each part of the example actually does. If you buy this book, Don't throw out your HP User's Guide! If you know of a good programming guide that tell's how to do different functions, including examples, please notify me.

Of course Dr Young didnt write this book. It is a compulation of various couples and their intimate encounters online. Sadly though the portrayal and explanations of these encounters are taken in the completely wrong context, even making a mockery of a relationship which unless you are in it..you really can't understand it. Sometimes Long Distance is the only way a couple can have a true relationship. Personally think more of an indept study should have been done on the writers and subjects of each scene..name, age, and whereabouts really doesn't give us a perspective of how the person is..and how that particular scene affects their life. Especially since this is a "Dr." wonders if any type of study is being involved with the subjects. The book on the other hand, well if you would like to see how cybersex can enhance things, it can be a great book. A great deal of spelling and editorial errors..but that is the beauty of it, these scenes were one time encounters. I do know however some of the scenes were adjusted to better suit the book. Probably should have left it original uncensored.

Just for the record, I am a student in an MBA program with Dr. Young and she did not write this book. The so-called content of this book is completely hypocritical of her true beliefs. The trash included in this book is not accurate of Dr. Young's teachings and counseling.

Just for the record, I am a student in an MBA program with Dr. Young and she did not write this book. The so-called content of this book is completely hypocritical of her true beliefs. The trash included in this book is not accurate of Dr. Young's teachings and counseling.

I was expecting a paperback book with an extensive index on all the itermediate functions of this program. I specifically needed to know how to link spreadsheets to keep from having to input data repeatedly.

This is a plastic spiral bound notebook from CPI Traning Solutions, Inc. and way overpriced for the information offered.

haven't recv'd the book yet. need it desperatley, having lots of problems with printing worksheets.

Bad quality and wrong definitions. Authors obviously lacking elementary knowledge. Not worth wasting time and money.

Poorly written Many mistakes - hope nobody plan to use it for studying

I have no idea where this author got their information, but it's presented with an air of authority (which should _not_ be present) and -ZERO- of the examples using sensors of any sort funtion in production release VRML2.0 browsers. Additionally, the description of Nodes, Fields, and the related ilk are merely warmed over without passing any substantial understanding or attempt to pass these concepts. Please, for the love of God, save your money and spend it on The VRML 2.0 Handbook or other resource.

The author of this book appears to have stopped short of actually completing it. The content is based on a Draft specification of VRML 2.0, and the examples will not work in final draft browsers. The publisher should have paid attention to the quality of the contents on this book. I hate to say this, but don't waste your money!