The little book was well written and the pictures just enhanced the story. I enjoyed reading it and if you can look past the fact that it is written for children there are a lot of facts that are portrayed in a interesting fashion. I would add it to my collection and would read it again. It was inspiring!

Soren Kierkegaard original wrote his philosophy of life in the 1840s and offered more than 13,000 pages of existential thought and exploration into the meaning of Christianity and God. His work was not discovered by the French existentialist movement until after his death and became widely known in the 1930s. In Soren Kierkegaard: An Authentic Life, The Life And Writings Of A Christian Philosopher With Samples From His Works, Ben Alex shares his profound and personal experiences of pilgrimage to Denmark and his detailed and exhaustive studies of Kierkegaard's powerful life and thought. This Northstone Publishing edition is a beautiful treasury of Kierkegaard's existential philosophy in light of his religious experience and devout faith. Compelling photographs link Kierkegaard's words to important historical sites. This highly recommended compendium of quotes, inspirational passages, and interviews with scholars, is enhanced for the student of Kierkegaard's work with a concise biographical sketch.

Okay, yes, it's a nice gaming environment, but it's depressing! it also dosen't fit in with the other rifts books, it's way, way, too different, and too much time is given to other topics that aren't really important. But, i suppose, this will be balanced out with the follow-up suppliments. However, i do have to say this for australia: NO MUNCHIES HERE !! ;)

One of the best Rifts books to date. The Song Jucier is great

The charicters were cool. The weapons were just great. And even there were only a few vehicles and such they were cool too.

There's... all available publically on business practices in the games industry, which is quite peculiar, given how large a field it's become, and given the minute detail in which, say, the film and publishing industries have been covered. Thus, this is almost a necessary volume for anyone outside the field interested in getting into it.

That said, it is so relentlessly and laughably upbeat as to be beyond belief. The truth is that gaming may not be quite as corrupt as the music industry, or as vicious as Hollywood, but it can be a pretty darn brutal field in which to work.

I'd have given five stars if the authors had included examples, or better yet templates, for the design treatment and design documents. Given the amount of material given this is a surprisingly easy read. It is very well organized and it is very easy to find information your after without having to wade thorough extraneous information. This book should be on the bookshelf of anyone who is doing game design, computer or otherwise.

This book is proberly one of the best books that i had ever bought. For a wannabe game developer like me, this book gave me the insight toward what i should expect. It gave in detail what one should know to make themselve a complete game developer. Wheter you are an artist or a programmer, this book will help you guide yourself toward a sucessful carrer in this field.

Times were that graphic novels were about intrepid crews battling evil intergalactic empires, or apprentice wizards going on quests to recover stolen artifacts, or bands of superheroes duking it out with Earth's greatest menaces.

Lately, a growing number of graphic novels are about fairly average people leading fairly average lives. In these collections, no one is pulling on a pair of Spandex tights to race off to battle crime, nor are the conflicts on an epic and history-changing scale. Often, there are no real plotlines as such, or at least, the narratives tend to center on such relatively prosaic crises as the loss of a job or the breakup of a relationship or estrangement from family.

This particular volume pulls together some of the issues of the now-defunct sorta-monthly series "Box Office Poison", which was about the lives of Sherman, his girlfriend Dorothy, his friend Jane and her lover Stephen, and his friend Ed and Ed's cartoonist boss Irving Flavor. Sherman is a disgruntled college-educated bookstore employee (some of the most amusing sections deal with his trials at the hands of witless customers who wander in to ask for "that book about that guy in the blue cover"). He longs to be a serious writer, but seems to suffer from some low-grade slacker infestation which keeps him from accomplishing anything, while still remaining rather self-righteous about his integrity.

Jane and Stephen are academics, with Jane providing the fiery passion and Stephen a calming influence. He dearly wants to marry her; she's indifferent to the concept. Ed is a schlub with crippling self-esteem issues. He's an aspiring cartoonist who lands a job with former industry great Irving Flavor, a stand-in for Siegel/Shuster/Kane and other Golden Age comic book figures who created Superman, Batman, and others but never received a fraction of the riches their heroes brought to the publishers.

Dorothy is a successful commercial writer on the staff of a metropolitan magazine. She smokes incessantly, drinks too much, and lives in a wretched den of slovenly filth. She may also have a mysterious and shady past; Jane, her former roommate, despises her, but won't tell Sherman why.

The most fully developed plotline relates to Ed's attempt to force a comic book company to render a fair share of royalties to the aged and cantankerous Flavor. Most of the rest of the material involves vignettes about finding a new place to live after getting evicted, searching for roommates, dealing with insufferable bosses, wretched customers, and boring co-workers, and the trade-off between certain but low-paying work and the risk of seeking greater fulfillment but possible financial ruin. And, of course, the search for love.

Sherman and Dorothy make a strange and not always likable couple. Indeed, sometimes the reader simply wants to smack Sherman upside the head. Stephen and Jane live together happily, but Jane is strangely reluctant to make a commitment. Ed stumbles about unhappily, being painfully shy. And recurring characters who pop up at first in the margins slowly develop their own minor sideplots and pursue their own connections.

The artwork is quite nicely done and has a vividly distinct and appealing style. Many of the episodes are amusing; some are actually poignant. Separate sections are bookended by little flights of fancy, where both the main and lesser characters get to answer questions about sex and celebrity. On the whole, it's a well-produced work, but, like real life, it's not very focused narratively; there are small triumphs and losses, strange but bitter arguments over nonsense, relationships that implode spectacularly or simply wither away. None of the characters is without fault, but all of them have some virtue. It's kinda messy, but strangely absorbing. Give it a try.

This is a good book to familiarizing on how to implement web services using Java. What I found most valuable about this book is the coverage of AXIS, CapeStudio, SAP and J2EE.
As most other Web Services books, the chapters on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and Web Services Security are very general and take up half of the book. If you're already familiar with these concepts these chapters are useless. Also as most web services related technologies are quickly evolving I would find this book quite outdated today.

I have some gripes about this book:

*First of all, the explanation of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI gets quite confusing and convoluted. I had a hard time understanding the explanations given about these protocols, especially about how they are structured.

*The samples that cover Apache SOAP require the IBM web services toolkit 2.4. However, you can only download the 3.0 version of this toolkit from the IBM website. The 3.0 version is not compatible with the 2.4 version. In essence, you cannot run these samples.

*The security section of this book is only theoretical. No samples. (The reason given was that most of the security technologies are still in development).

Other than these gripes, this book will give you a broad understanding of the java web services so that hopefully, you can get started on implementing/deploying this new technology.

Wrox books tend to occupy a particular niche in the market. Wrox' strategy seems to be to be early into the marketplace with a book on a bleeding edge topic. Their 'Early Adopter' series is particularly aimed at this market, but so are many of their books. If something is wrong or superceded, Wrox will publish another book on the same topic, usually a bunch more books on the topic.

Wrox also tends to publish books with many authors. This makes their books spotty, though in theory it ensures expert knowledge of a wide range of topics. In practice I don't find it so. Certain chapters in any Wrox book will be effectively unusable.

The speed comes at a price in terms of proofreading and to the useful life of the books they publish. When I purchase a Wrox book I know what I'm getting. It's a book with a short useful life which will help get me started quickly on bleeding edge topics at the cost of some frustration and skullsweat.

Typically I will replace a Wrox book later on my learning curve when O'Reilly and other more careful publishers come out with their books. There is a place for books like these. Even if they aren't 100% accurate, they are timely and are rarely completely useless. I usually don't recommend them for beginning technologists for that reason.

This book was useful when I bought it but has now almost reached it's sell-by date.

Beautiful story of faith, love and family. This book is about adoption of grown-up children.

If you are a marketer and need a book to help you analyze your web stats available online from your hosting provider, do not buy this book. This is for big companies needing to program their own servers and extrapolate data. You will not learn much about terms and how to work with the auto generated reports. You will learn one thing: how ambiguous the data is to interpret but if you're looking for a book on web stats, then you already know its ambiguous. I wish I had a recommendation for you - and to help myself.

This book is far too junior for search engine optimization (SEO) specialists or search engine marketing (SEM) professionals and yet the chapters with technical content are too detailed and focused on the authors preferred technologies to be of real value to the person new to the business who is looking for an introductory book. In the course of 160 pages they go from explaining what a log file is to case studies including the BCC and eBay, a couple of the largest sites on the web, and this is too much of a stretch to satisfy anyone. It will disappoint the pro and lead the newbie off on tangents where they will be bogged down in details of the Analog logfile analyzer and the authors MS Access database. As a person who works full time as an SEO specialist and who teaches a two year, part time MS Access Developer Certificate program at our local college, I am baffled as to why the authors would propose the use of Access when there are so many good, free and easy products available to analyze web traffic and produce tables and graphs.

In the search engine optimization industry, site owners often focus more on optimizing their sites for search engines than on good quality content for their visitors. The authors have accomplished something similar here; a book that comes up on the radar due to a small field of competition and slick packaging but delivers little in the way of satisfaction to the end user. It is a very good example of writing a book as an aspect of an overall marketing strategy, but I cannot recommend it to anyone working in the industry.