I don't reccomend this to TP fans. This is about rising businesses, Nothing to do with laura, coop, BOB, or even s. droolcup. Don't be fooled.

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A good idea from a generaly good writer, but fails miserably. Talk about ruining a perfectly good and reasonable plot, this book does that briliantly. Read the author, not this book.

The author assumes as factual the uses of ozone eating chemicals and destruction wrought by emissions of trace gases. Hence the possibility opens up to discuss the tremendously complex ways in which the problems need to be addressed. It will come as a complete surprise to both the author and the unsuspecting reader that there are no problems which need such complex and costly remedies. There is no gain in sacrificing the public's wealth on avoiding risks which do not exist. All the money spent contributes to is the material well-being of those involved in addressing the man-made catastrophe predictions. This volume is long on words and short on intellectual honesty.

This garbled biography of Senator Joe McCarthy is billed to be "an objective reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair", but degenerates rapidly.Rather, it is a factual free-for-all wherein the author doesn't bother to provide documentation for any statement he makes. He even goes so far as to cite to incidents occurring in towns and counties that do not exist in Wisconsin. Despite the book's fascinating subject, the author fails miserably to retain the reader's interest. I am heartily sorry for anyone who actually bought this book.

Why was this book published? The premise--to rephotograph sites that Stimsom had already photographed decades earlier--is hardly original. Prospective buyers should be aware that this is really nothing but a coffeee table book, and it is substandard even for that genre. The rather mediocre photos are only loosely tied together by commentary that is hardly more than poorly written fragments. Even the used book price... is excessive, considering the paltry contents. Even compared to other works in the coffee table book ghetto, this one is surprisingly shallow.

This is absolutely 100% the worst book on a computing subject I have ever had the misfortune to purchase, and that really is saying something when the subject matter is as straight forward as XHTML.

My thoughts throughout reading this book were the words 'incomplete', 'incorrect', 'inaccurate' and 'in the bin'. The 'Complete' in the books title is totally misleading, for those of you who already have some marginal XHTML experience you will notice the shortcomings over and over again, for those of you who don't; well you will never know just how bad your knowledge of this subject will be until you check out another XHTML publication. Also this book only covers XHTML 1.0, which isn't the latest standard (or should I say attempts to cover).

Note that this book is just one big advert for all their other publications as the entire book is compiled by chapters taken directly out of their other publications. They clearly state on the opening pages that one reason for compiling this book was to acquaint the customer with some of their authors, writing styles, and teaching skills so that you can easily find a match for your interests and needs as you delve deeper into XHTML. A point to note about this is the contradiction with the books title and that statement. I mean the books title is XHTML 'COMPLETE' and yet they tell you that one of the reasons for this book was to help you find a match to delve deeper into XHTML. If this book was complete you wouldn't need another book to delve deeper into this subject. All you're really doing if you buy this book is paying for an advertisement, and a very bad one at that.

Another point about these chapters is that many of them come from books published 5 or 6 years ago, the information in those chapters simply doesn't apply to the web today, and the books themselves are actually out of print, amazingly this is stated in the inside covers of this book. This also highlights how little time and effort went into producing this book, you can actually tell that they went through the chapters looking for every instance of HTML and simply added an X to the front. They didn't even bother to correct the errors in the original chapters before putting them into this book.

This book consists of:

A: incorrect information
B: totally out of date information
C: poor design techniques (like encouraging the use tables for layout in an XHTML document)
D: lack of important information and explanations (leaves you hanging time and time again)
E: mass repetition from chapter to chapter (this comes from having so many different authors covering the same subject)
F: contradictions galore (this also comes from having so many different authors covering the same subject)
G: some information copied and pasted right out of the W3.org website

It doesn't even cover all the rules of XHTML and the ones they do tell you about they break often. It's funny how a book over 1000 pages can give you a feeling that it is so full of nothing.

I admit I knew I took a chance when I bought this book as having read other reviews on the complete series it was clear they weren't generally very good, I just assumed that with such a simple and straight forward subject as XHTML you couldn't go wrong, the only thing wrong was that assumption as this book is a very bad joke.

This book is an exceptionally poor advert for their other publications, unless of course this book does accurately reflect their other publications. In either case I don't intend to find out EVER.

Amazingly I do have one good thing to say about this book and that is the CSS reference section. It is pretty complete and gives you examples and explanations of each CSS property. It even covers CSS2 and CSS3. However this doesn't make this ... book worth buying. Some may say you get what you pay for but in this case you don't.

This is a compilation of information that comes packaged with the film, etc. It never should have been printed. It doesn't tell you how to calibrate anything at all. junk.