OM&UID is a book about developing new object-oriented methodologies for interactive software. Nine different methods are presented by an international team of software experts like Larry Constantine and Philippe Kruchten.

All the authors are trying to solve constraints or deficiencies in existing methods. Since these are all new or experimental techniques, each author explains exactly what problem s/he is trying to solve, where the new method might be best used, and how it worked in practice. Most of the sections work through a couple of cases, so you can see how the method works.

A couple of the writers have pointed out how difficult current heavy-weight methodologies are to use. The models generated, unless the modeler is extremely experienced, are usually not correct. What's more, as the first chapter notes, the modelers don't realize that their models are bad. A couple of writers have tried to deal with the problem that business customers can't understand UML-style notation, and don't mentally describe their jobs in terms of classes or windows. That cuts customers out of the system design process at exactly the point where they should be most engaged.

The editor repeats what is generally recognized: that very few people use a methodology as such. Most of us use a grab bag of techniques from a mix of methods, heavily customized to our own needs. Mark van Harmelen's book may be best addressed to those who use mixed methods, because it helps us to see how experienced architects decide which techniques to use in different circumstances and how we can determine whether we were successful.

Great program for the beginner or Veteran Sonographer. I have been doing Sonograms for the past 15 years and it taught me a new trick or Two. Several Practice sessions on the CD gives the sonographer good practice performing the exams.

There are lots of good storytellers in print, but few with the raw power of Harry Mark Petrakis. The heart and soul of traditional Greek epic runs deep in his novels and short stories, and I love them all. The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis resonates from the very highs to the very lows of human experience. Birth, life, and death, and all the struggles in between are told through the eyes of a young Greek immigrant and his bride...a bride whose dowery paid their way to America in 1919.

This period in our melting pot history is rich with drama, and even though fewer of us each year remember it firsthand, most of us can trace our roots to a time when someone made an ocean voyage to these shores. And while Petrakis shows us Chicago of the '20s and '30s in a way we could never otherwise know it, he also shows us an intimate picture of the human soul that we will all recognize in a very personal way. I always love Petrakis' secondary characters like Glavas the diner owner who sponsors Kostas and Katerina, Dr. Barbaris, who delivers the children, and Father Marlas the priest who connects the newcomers to community and teaches them to read and write in their new language.

You will be moved to laughter and you will be moved to tears. And you won't soon forget The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis.

When engineers and managers get so tied-up in the day-to-day politics of business, it's a wonder we ever get our jobs done at all. Mr. Ousnamer has given us a much needed insight to get back on the right track of how to use the common sense God gave us and match it with our education and experience to solve the problems and challenges that face us on our jobs every day. Nothing is impossible if you "keep it simple, stupid!" Thank you, Mark, for your inspiration. I can't wait to read your next book

I have used this book through my entire med school years and is still a good reference source beyond med school. Contains very concise and detailed information from all the territories of the medicine. I would definitely recommend this to any professional and future professional in the medical field.

I wish The Sporting News would be this thorough for their hockey and baseball guides. They did a fantastic job of putting together a fact guide that not only encompasses the most recent completed season (1997-98), but all previous seasons that the NBA was in existence. I would highly recommend this as a companion to the NBA Official Encyclopaedia, in years the NBA Official Encyclopaedia isn't published, this can make an excellent companion update. Another alternative would be to buy the annual sports almanacs that are offered by CNNSI or ESPN.

This book is awesome. It talks about the past and present of a game they call "basketball." And, if you're a basketball lover, or you like watching basketball on TV, this is the book for you. It has directories of the front-office (like the GM) of each team and it has schedules of every game of every team. This is an awesome book, but if you just "hate" basketball, just get a biography of some famous basketball player and read it. You don't have to do whatever I say, but it works. I tried it on my sister. She hates basketball and I gave her a biography and she loved it. I also tried it on a couple of my friends. It works on them too. I also wouldn't get the book if you hate numbers. There are a lot of numbers in this book. Thanks for reading my review on a great "if your really bored" book!

This is a funny, well-written book with a great companion CD-ROM... for once, you get all the tools demonstrated in the text (and more). I found the chapters on morphing and 3D animation particularly interesting. Even built a 3D logo for my web page in 10 minutes, using the software on the CD-ROM. If you're looking for a comprehensive book that covers every angle of Web animation, buy this one!

This volume on the origin of baseball was part of the series of books on the sport put out by Redefinition in 1990, in an obvious imitation of the type of books put out by Time-Life. Mark Alvarez covers both how "The Old Ball Game" evolved as well as the great players of the 1870's when the game turned professional. The first half of the book looks at the stick-and-ball games that make up the Common Ancestors of baseball, The Doubleday Myth that sprang up regarding the game in America, The New York Game that made the sport popular, and the spreading of baseball For Health and Recreation purposes throughout the country. The second half covers the birth of the professional game, from The Wright Brothers (Harry and George) to the sport's initial Growing Pains and the influence of Father Chadwick. Diamond Dust covers the formation of the rules, The Great Tour that took American baseball players to England, and the creation of the National League as A Major Undertaking. "The Old Ball Game" features dozens of contemporary illustrations (mostly drawings rather than photographs), full page and one column biographies and stats on the great players such as Deacon White and George Hall, and such nice little gems as the official rules of Town Ball and the Knickerbockers along with the jargon of the game's early days such as "striker," "plugging" and "cranks." These books came out in the wake of Ken Burns' celebrated "Baseball" documentary and one of the nice things about them is that they definitely complement that epic work. Baseball fans will find these informative and colorful (in a USA Today sort of way).

Old Jewish Folk Music comprises the collections and writings of ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski as edited and translated into English by Mark Slobin, professor of music at Wesleyan University. Featured are insights into Soviet and Jewish history and musicology surveying the notes and lyrics of three hundred folk songs. Each song is carefully notated exactly as it was sung, and is accompanied by Beregovski's notes on origins and variants. Old Jewish Folk Music is a superb work of impeccable scholarship and highly recommended to students of Judaic and Yiddish traditions in music, Ukrainian musical influence, and klezmer music.