Pretty good book on the Boeing 777 but not as good as I had hoped. I was hoping for a little more detail on the different airlines uses of the aircraft and possibly more interior photos. All around a good book, but not great.

I have seen photographer Wagner at work and I'm always amazed how he can take something ordinary or otherwise over-photographed and bring a new perspective to it. How many airplane photos have we all seen? Yet Wags manages to bring a fresh vision to the 777.

You're almost tempted to skim the pages and luxuriate in the photos. That would be a mistake! The Norris text cruises along with his Jet-A-crisp style. There's very little company braggadocio here, yet the reader gets a true appreciation of "Boeing's Magnificent Seventh."

This book, with its perfect blend of informative text and dynamic photos (not to mention its nice square corners) belongs on every enthusiast's bookshelf.

This one's extremely informative and full of top-notch photos. Everytime I see a 777 at DIA I think of this book. It's great for any enthusiast.

Mr. Fisher has shown us once again, this time through a game of Golf that we can really accomplish anything in life if we really wanted to. It's all about having the "drive" to succeed. We aim at the hole from afar in the game of golf and take a swing. This is also precisely what we do in real life!

The only minor glitch is that I found it a repeat of his other 3 Millionaire books but through a different storyline. However a well written book.

Thank You, Steve.

Hey I am not ashame to admit it .. I am my own best friend.

Before every act there is a thought. Good thoughts yield perfect shots. As you think so shall you perform. Great story .. About an older and wiser man and a 'ready to learn' younger man. Not only does the wise millionaire bring out the 'brillant golfer from within' he triggers the young mans 'character' to give, to love and to 'walk his talk.' Love .. and one's readiness for love is the millionaires passionate message. The old man lights up the younger man and the younger man lights up a child's world. Metaphycially, ingenious while serving and dealing with each like type person within the reader. Ten fingers up for this one! If you love golf and would enjoy a good tune-up then this book is for you. The 'best golf tip' is to 'love the game' while you play. Hard to put down once you begin.

Also recommended: As a Man Thinketh - by John Allen

The golfer and the millionaire is a great book about the realities of life, you are either living or dying. The main character in this book Robert is dying. He has given away all of his dreams and only has his fading talent and good looks remaining.

He has given away those things that make you successful. He has stopped trying. The book deals with the rebirth of Robert and his attempt to achieve success in not only his golf, but in the other far more important parts of his life.

Robert is fortunate enough to meet someone who awakens him, and helps show him the door to achieve his greatest level in life. Many people, whether golfer or not, can benefit from this book as we all look to be our most successful in life.

So many halloween books are geared towards kids -- it's refreshing to find one aimed at adults. And adults with style, not just adults who like blood & gore. This book has crafts & decorations for a very elegant adult Halloween celebration. In these projects, skulls nestle among fall leaves & flowers, candles glow dramatically, & silken banners flutter in the wind. The photos are lavish, the instructions are clear, & the projects require only basic tools & sewing skills. I've been making Halloween decorations for years, but this book had beautiful new ideas I hadn't thought of & that I hadn't found in other books.

I'm a true Halloween addict, I must confess. Every year by July I'm "chomping at the bit" to find new and more inventive Halloween craft, decorating, and party ideas, and this book truly fits the bill. Although I have several Halloween craft and party books and enjoy them all, this will be one that I will definitely be using over and over in the years to come. Finally! a Halloween craft and decorating book with not only clear, concise directions to go along with the excellent color photographs, but a plethora of wonderfully ELEGANT ideas for a "spooktacular" Halloween party as well. None of the overly gorey, "kitchy" stuff here! More like the elegance of the parties that those of the Victorian era must have enjoyed. BRAVO! and Kudos to you, Miss Rogers, PLEASE! Do write more, perhaps for some other holidays as well!

I have a LIBRARY of Halloween craft books. Most are to cute or are to gory. FINALLY someone has come up with some classy ideas that are perfect for our adult costume party. My husband put together the butler ... in about an hour and it was a HUGE hit at our party. THis book has the best ideas I've seen. I can't wait til next year to try some more!

Wow! Talk about adventures, or should I say misadventures. I was parched until I read Car Camping. Now, I thirst no more, even though your humor is as dry as the desert. Your stories are as real as they come. This book will take you on a ride to places that will make you wish you were there getting in on the action first hand. Car Camping is a lesson in life - try and get away from it all and you'll find yourself knee deep in the hoopla anyway. Highly entertaining and part history lesson, Car Camping is a fantastic collection of short stories. Kudos to you Mark Sundeen. Keep on camping and keep on writing. I can't wait for your next book.

Sundeen's writing style is engrossing, and after two pages, I was sucked into his world, and could not put it down. I loved the descriptive way he characterizes nature and people, at the same time. He shows us many similarities between the two, offering his amazing and amusing insight. My favorite part was the last few chapters, when he was living in an old bunker that an old Nazi built. It was the funniest part, but most of all, I loved the common theme that was woven throughout the book - how some of us strive to be alone, but we never truly are. At times, we are engrossed and repulsed by human actions every day, and Sundeen paints an accurate picture of that feeling.

I can't believe some people that reviewed this book didn't like it because they thought it was a travel book like Fodor's Guide to the Desert or something like that. How did they get that idea? Just read the back flap and you know what the book is about. If you want a Fodor's guide, go somewhere else. But if you want a great novel in the vein of On the Road or Travel's With Charley, buy this book!

This is an "On the Road" for the 1990's. Semi-autobiographical, Sundeen tools around the desert southwest in his beat-up Subaru having adventures and climbing on stuff. He also meets people and rolls his car onto its roof in a cataract canyon. A great ride!
(That anyone thought this was going to be a Fodor's-like guide for car camping is the funniest thing, though.)

As a commuter from the western burbs of Chicago to the loop daily, I spend lots of time in the car. I needed learn Spanish for my job (Chicago has lots of Spanish speakers) so I decided to try 'Behind the Wheel Spanish'. My impression is that the native speaker is some kind of voice professional because his voice is by far the clearest and easiest on the ears that I have heard. (Note that I have tried Barrons, Berlitz, and Living Language courses). Second, unlike other courses, I always understood what the speakers were saying because they always explained everything in English. No guessing for me. Third, the material was useful for me. I was able to learn what I learned during my commute immediately upon arrival at work. Sometimes it was an expression, other times it was a new sentence or two, and sometimes just new words, greetings, location of things, a direction or two, or an exclamation. I received very positive feedback from the Spanish speakers in my office.

Lastly, the booklet was useful to me (not in the car obviously) because is provided me with the written tapescript so I could see how what I was learning was spelled. It also came with lots of exercises and keys. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn Spanish in their car.

I returned 'Learn in Your Car Spanish' after hearing a friend's 'Behind the Wheel Spanish' by Language Dynamics.
'Behind the Wheel Spanish is superior because it teaches you more than just a few stock phrases and words in Spanish. With this course you actually learn to communicate using your own original sentences. Best of all, English equivalents are given immediately along with the Spanish making this the ideal 'car Spanish course'.

I've heard it said in a million advertisements that you can learn Spanish anywhere. It seemed too good to be true until I finally bought and audiocassette Spanish course for my car.
Behind the Wheel Spanish worked wonders with my Spanish. It taught me the basic building blocks of the language easily and naturally. There was an excellent native Spanish speaker on the tapes to help with acquiring a native pronunciation of the language, and an accentless instructor who guided me through the course, giving me translations for everything I was learning.
As a result, I listened, I repeated, and after just a few months,
hablo espanol. Two thumbs up for this course.

This book serves as a survey of computational geometry algorithms. The explanations are very readable. The authors have taken special care to prove algorithm correctness and time complexity bounds.

Although I have yet to actually implement one of the algorithms in the book directly, I was exposed to a number of general techniques which I have used, such as randomized techniques to eliminate pathological worst-case performance problems, and various space partitioning techniques.

The algorithms are all presented in pseudocode, unfortunately, which is the reason for only 4 out of 5 stars. Also, some important details are omitted which make a few of their algorithms practically useless (although they are interesting theoritically). For example, there is an algorithm for pathfinding and collision avoidance for a translating (but not ROTATING!) robot.

If you're lookin for a computational geometry bible, this isn't it. But there are certainly some gems in this book and it is a very interesting read.

I also completely disagree with the one-star review below. The "Dutch book" is the clearest, most complete, most up-to-date, best designed, best illustrated computational geometry textbook out there. Some of the material may be a bit advanced for undergraduates (and for those people I would recommend Joe O'Rourke's excellent "Computational Geometry in C"), but for graduate students and other researchers who want to learn computational geometry, this book is absolutely essential.

This is an algorithms textbook, though, not a textbook full of code. You will not find compilable code in the author's favorite programming language du jour -- this may be what the first reviewer meant by "desperately needed details". What you will find is clear, correct, well-motivated explanations of the underlying algorithms, data structures, and mathematics.

The book does have a few faults. The motivating examples are often forced ("mixing things" for convex hulls??). The authors deliberately chose to show only one algorithm for each problem they consider, and occasionally the algorithm they chose is not the simplest or most efficient. But these are minor points.

If you're going to buy just one computational geometry book, this is the one to get.

I completely disagree with the above commentor who evaluates it as a kind of bad book.

I can not find any errors in pseudo code, and it's very easy for me to understand and follow. It contains hundreds of figures which help students understand the concepts. The idea is so clear, and followed by good examples. It's also worth reading for all computer scientists and mathematicians who are working on geometry. I highly recommend to use it as a text for Graduate course.

It can be worth being the "BIBLE" of all computational geometers.

I enjoyed some of the stories here, but Mark Richard's writing can be extremely tedious. Furthermore, his stories are sometimes too bizarre for my tastes. I love Flannery O'Connor's quirky writing, but this surpasses the oddities of her stories by large margin. These stories are truly poetic, and probably great for lit classes, but too difficult for the normal guy like me. I love "Strays", however, and will continue to work with Richard's stories until I appreciate them more. These stories are very cool, too cool for me. Richard is probably a cool dude.

Mark Richard's work may stand alongside the work of Larry Brown and Barry Hannah as great contemporary Southern literature, but CHARITY proves that Richard should stand next to Styron and Faulkner as one of this century's great American writers. This is an amazing collection that bridges a remarkable collections of emotions, attitudes, worlds...Read it.

these stories are beautiful and sparse and amazing.
and mark richard is very, very COOL. i was lucky enough to be a student of his years ago and yeah. can i write a review of him? he's AMAZING. that little gimp is as good as this book.

After reading the first book, I couldn't wait for the second one to be published. When it finally was, I was not disappointed. The suspense that King is weaving in this series is astounding. It makes you want more at the end. In this book, King adds a new personality to the mouse that Delacroix has taken for a pet. King involves you so deeply, that it seems that the life on the Green Mile is linked to this mouse. It's down right creepy

Even though "The Mouse on the Mile" is an entertaining second addition to The Green Mile serialization, it backtracks a bit in time, before John Coffey came to the E Block. The mouse (Steamboat Willy, later known as Mr. Jingles) is spotlighted a little more, as well the electrocution of one of the inmates, known as The Chief. I didn't mind either topics, but I was more interested in John Coffey's story, since it had just started to unravel in the first book, "The Two Dead Girls", then was all but skipped in this one. Great cliffhanger at the end, though, which will make readers eager to read the next book and the next--"Coffey's Hands" (#3), "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix" (#4), "Night Journey" (#5), and "Coffey on the Mile" (#6).

From a 13 y/o perspective. The Mouse on the Mile continues Stephen King's look into life of people on death row through the memories of prison guard Paul Edgecombe. This book introduces many new characters. There's a mouse that gets the name Steamboat Willie from one of the guards and Mr. Jingle's from one of the new prisoners. There's a really mean new prisoner William Wharton, who gives the bad guard Percy Whetmore, something to remember at the end of the book and makes me want to start reading the next book to find out what happens to Percy. A french man, Eduard Delacroix, and a gentle black man John Coffey. They are all waiting their turn for the electric chair, and finally the electric chair itself with the execution of the Cheif. This book is more exciting than the first. As always King leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat at the end of the book and you are racing to pick the next one up and get your nose in it. This book is not for those weak in the stomach. It is graphic in language and the description of many things that happen in a death row. I would recommend it to adults and others my age if they remember it's just a book and not to let it bother them. Off to start reading Coffey's Hands, Book #3 of the Green Mile Series.

Mr. Fisher shows us here how Millionaires really think and act. We can see the world from their perspective and get an idea of what it's really like being a Millionaire. He clearly shows that wealth is indeed a state of mind. That's where it all begins.

Thank You, Steve.

I've been in a "prosperity conscious" mode for the past several weeks and have been devouring books on money. I found Mark Fisher's book one of the best! I have highlighted sections on nearly every page. Yes, it's "old" information, but it never hurts to hear it again and again and again. That's how we change that subconscious mind he talks about. Truly, if you follow the principles, you will learn to Think Like a Millionaire.

I have all of Mark Fishers' books. He is a very intersting writer. His books give sound advice about money or how to obtain it. Mark does a good job of instilling in us that we can have it all. Just shoot for the stars and stay focused on your dreams and it will happen. There is nothing that we can imagine, that we can't do. So what are we waitnig for, let's begin the journey of self fullfillment.

Iai: The Art of Drawing the Sword is good as a refresher, at best. Craig opens his tome with some personal history and stories, which is a fine method of doing things, until he brings his own opinion into it. He gives the impression that spiritualism should account for most everything in iaido; as most practitioners are aware, spiritualism is only one aspect, and technique is equally or more important.

Throughout the book, Craig provides small interludes detailing Japanese history, and other information, some of which is accurate, some of which is very much exaggerated, and some of which is not true. While the thought was nice, he should have researched his facts more.

The drawings accompanying his descriptions of the kata are sketchy and vague; a beginner would have difficulty following them, although someone with grounding in another Japanese sword art such as kenjitsu may have better luck. However, with knowledge of the kata, or at least of the mechanics of the motions, a reader would find this book a helpful reminder, as long as he does not try to base his study entirely on this book.

Overall, this is not a terrible book, but there are much better on the subject, with regards to technique, illustration, and history.

This book covers a lot of ground! It includes everything from every part of a Japanese sword, seppuku, how the blades were tested (and includes more humane tests one can do at home in this modern age), along with taking care of the blade, dos and don'ts as well as some great history. Great book, I highly recommend it!

This book offers a lot of great information. It starts with care of the blade, and a little history. It then progresses into several basic techniques, a history of ritual suicide, the 47 ronin and how the old blades were tested on prisoners, their results printed on the tang (I have actually found blades with such ratings on them). It also covers identifying marks on blades, what to look for when looking at a historic sword and more.

Worth every penny I spent for it.