It did not hold the interest of my children and they said it was telling them things that they could easily have found on the Internet. It seemed to lack in content.

My family enjoyed it immensely, even though most of the projects were fairly simple. Very creative and on the whole, makes one's computing experience more fun, whether you are my age or my kids'.

I read this book and it helped me to play the game. I like to play games because they are fun to play. I have not played clock tower 2 yet but I think that I will like it just as much as Tomba because Tomaba was a fun game, almost as fun as that game I made. That game I made was really fun because I read the clock tower 2 book and that helped me make my game. If your looking to make your own game I would strongly recomend you buy this book! Sometimes when I am reading this book I get really scared and I put the book down and start to cry. I dont like to cry because then my dad makes fun of me and I dont like it when he makes fun of me because it is not fun. And that is my review of Tomba aka the greatest game ever made THE END

Even though I am a jaded gamer, I was rather impressed with this particular book despite its small size. The book looked like a joke when I found it on the store shelf, it is small and thin compared to your usual videogame cheat books from Prima and the usual suspects. But never judge a book by its cover... and its size.

The book is printed in full-color on glossy pages. Besides the architect's map of the rooms, you also get the gamer's view of each room - they had to combine several screen shots because the game camera never shows you the whole room, some hard work was definitely done here. All doorways or interactive objects are clearly designated with numbers and a full chart explains in detail what can be done or where the door leads to. These visual aids really help, especially if you've been frustrated with the text-based FAQs/walkthrus floating around the Internet.

For those impatient to read through the details, you can jump ahead towards the end of the book for a cut-to-the-chase walkthru. The walkthru tells you exactly what to do without skipping any steps or throwing in red herrings that you don't need. I managed to finish the First Chapter in about 30 minutes using the walkthru. The writing was concise, clear, and easy to understand.

The walkthru gives you the best of the multiple possible endings, and the book also tells you what conditions NOT to meet in order to get the other "bad" endings. Unlike game books for the major releases (such as the Resident Evil games) with the pressure of deadlines, this book is, as far as I can tell, free of errors or clues based on the Japanese original that have become unreliable due to American version changes.

It is clear that this book was being created by people who knows what they are doing and love their job, too. In the intro pages of the book, they tell you the game's origins on the Super Famicom and how one of the PlayStation releases was never ported for the U.S. market. You even get a bonus walkthru for the first Clock Tower game, now that's what I call getting more bang for your buck!

The backcover of the book has a bio for the authors, here's an interesting bit that might help you decide to buy this book if you have either the first or second game: "Mark wants to buy a truck, so please help him by purchasing this book." :)

This is not his good stuff. It is marketted fluff using his name. There are some good collections, but don't buy anything by this publisher.

This series is called the "Complete Crumb" for a reason. It is a collection of his complete works. As a result, some people who enjoy some of his work might not enjoy all of his work, but different strokes for different folks. Only the most diehard fan will find 100% of Crumb's works enjoyable. However, anyone buying this series is most likely already a diehard fan, and more casual readers can try out his regular format books quite cheaply to get a taste of his style or buy a more thematic collection to play it safe. As usual, Fantagraphics has published a collection living up to its extremely high standards of quality with excellent printing and reproduction values that will be treasured by fans of the comic arts.

The majority of the discussion in this book revolves around the history of Hollywood. It repeats itself often discussing the McCarthy Era and how it affected Hollywood. It also provides useless lists of big names in Hollywood. If you are any kind of movie lover you already know the works of Spielberg and Lucas and how the McCarthy Era affected cinema.

The book also promised to provide an in-depth look at the process of making films. The concepts were provided however, they were not given in-depth. Lists of movies were provided to illustrate the concepts in the book. However, if I had wanted a list of movies to watch, I would have found one on the net.

Basically this book is a waste of money to anyone that has a basic understanding of Hollywood and show business.

A great introduction to the entire world of film -- not just Hollywood, but a host of world cinemas from European to Latin American to African and Near Eastern. The examples used are well explained and are always pertinent to the points at hand. My favorite chapters were one on film theory (which made obscure concepts accessible to the beginner) and one that used all the concepts introduced in the book to explain the German silent film "Nosferatu." I had just seen the new movie "Shadow of the Vampire," which is based on the making of "Nosferatu"; this book made me understand for the first time what a complex piece of art that early movie is. I highly recommend this book as an affordable intro to film criticism that, while accessible and fun to read, does not talk down to its audience.

Unfortunately, I feel that this volume of this outstanding series is by far the weakest of the set. As of this writing, I own and have read all 37 published volumes, so I have a lot to compare it too. The book focuses mainly on 'I was there' first-hand accounts of flying the Corsair instead of the history of the aircraft and aces that flew it. This is OK, but I was expecting more of an aces/pilots/units approach that is the mainstay of the other books in this series. Often, first-hand accounts are just that, sort of a 'this is what happened to me', while overlooking the big picture. The artwork, as usual, is the saving grace of the book. The color profiles are outstanding as always. I would recommend purchase of this volume to ensure a complete set, but couldn't really recommend it to a military aviation historian.

Mark Styling and Jerry Scutts have given the air enthusiasts, historians, and Corsair buffs another one in Osprey's "Aircraft of the Aces" series. Like the others, Corsair Aces of World War 2 contains a great deal of information and carefully selected photos. It has the usual collection of excellent illustrations, particularly color prints. This book covers a much overlooked area of aviation history dealing with Corsairs in the Pacific Theater and includes our allies. This book gives these outstanding pilots their due. Perfect for US Navy, US Marine Corps, and Allied Corsair enthusiasts. It is a great book and I recommend it highly. Corsair Aces of World War 2 is well worth having for anyone interested in the exploits of Corsair fighter pilots.

There were four stories in this book: Daredevil: The Movie, Ulimate Daredevil and Elektra #1, Daredevil #32, and Spider-man's Tangled Web #4. I really enjoyed the section story, and I thought the last one was pretty interesting, although a bit depressing.

The first story, the comic adaption of the movie, was basically a very abridged version of the movie. Many of the scenes in the movie were cut out, which was understandable, considering the amount of space that was devoted to this part of the book. This comic was only two, maybe three times longer than the other three comics. Considering the title of the book, I expected the entire thing to be just a comic version of the movie - I wasn't expecting the other three stories. Because of how cut-down the movie story is, some parts of the plot are pathetically developed. The relationship between Matt and Elektra, for instance, seems to come up out of nowhere. Sometimes it's hard to understand what's going on, and I'm just grateful I saw the movie before reading this.

The second story focuses mainly on Elektra. There's a lot about some of her deepest friendships during a year at college, as well as how she first got to know and start dating Matt. Her relationship with Matt was really sweet, and I liked reading about her interactions with her friends. The main point of conflict in this story is the fact that Elektra and one of her friends keeps embarassing soem guy, who gets pushed more and more to retaliate. The only thing I didn't like was that this story ended with "Continued in Ultimate Daredevil Trade Paperback". I really wanted to read more.

The second story is about some police investigations into various criminals, including the Kingpin and his son. Daredevil and his secret identity are brought into the conversation. Mostly, I found this story to be confusing and boring. Mostly boring, since I eventually got over my confusion. Since I don't regularly read Daredevil comics, I had a somewhat difficult time following some of the cops' discussions about characters I didn't know. It didn't really feel like very much happened.

The last story follows the last hours of one of the Kingpin's men, when he realizes that his botched work will lead to his execution at his boss's hands. I thought this one was very well done, and it, along with the second story are the best parts of this book.

Overall, the artwork was very nice, but I think this book could have been much better if the people who put it together had focused on one thing or another, rather than jumping from comic to comic. In fact, because of the title, I think they should have just done a book-length comic adaptation of the movie. The adaptation that they actually did not do anything justice.

I know little about DareDevil but this was a pretty good book. It was action packed but most of the time action sometimes doesn't sound good on paper. What I didn't care for was the use of gd.

This book is not meant for the beginner and intermediate programer. The author intended this book for the elite. Don't buy this book if you don't have a background in Discrete Math or have Master the c language. Wouldn't not recommend this book to colleges who have a Data Structures class for undergraduates. The code in the book assumes that you can piece together the individual functions to write a full program in c. Also There is no problems that a student can try on his/her own and then find the answer in back of book.

this book provides a concise and fundamental look into algorithms. Excellent book if you want to learn performance time and running time on your written code and gives you the technique to speed up your code. It does not focus too much on what kind of programming language you use and it is to be read in a general sense.

This book provides no instruction about how to call deer. It is just a bunch of tall tales made up to convince you to buy the authors deer call. You should not have to pay for this book at all. They should pay you to read this infomercial.

this book was a pleasure to read. it is well rounded and informed me of things i was looking to learn. i will definately put the authors experience to work for me.

I can see that the author knows his stuff but he really has little idea how to write or to communicate information in such a way that the reader can follow it. He is addicted to saying 'First', 'Second' and 'Finally', without appearing to have any appreciation of the fact that readers will then expect to see information appearing in that order. Two examples:

In Chapter one, under the heading An Outline of this book, he talks about the 'next chapter'. One might reasonably assume a brief overview of each chapter, but this is not forthcoming. From 'the next chapter', he skips to Chapter 9 and leaves it at that.

In Chapter 6, he details three approaches, the final one of which is 'a number of neural correlates'. Turn the page and what do we see? Not a detailed examination of these approaches in the right order, but another set of approaches apparently specific to neural correlates, the last approach of the previous page. At no point does he continue with the stages detailed in his overview.

I'm afraid the whole thing is just too muddled, and I'm surprised the editor did not point this out to him.

This is the first introductory textbook on the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, and one that sets high standards. Professor Johnson provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the essential mechanisms of the development of brain, behavior and cognition. Developmental cognitive neuroscience is a relatively new field of research, and Johnson has been one of its pioneers. The book deals not only with research on human infant development, but also deals with early learning and development in animals. This book is required reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, and it is an excellent guide for researchers and teachers in this field. I will certainly want to use it for courses in developmental cognitive neuroscience.

I think this is a bad book for beginner
it simplify too much syntax
It is bad for biginner

I think this is an excellent textbook for digital system design as well as VHDL synthesis. lots of information both on academic and industry! easy to read, understandable and very neat. highly recommended to begginner!

The only thing can be improved might be the font size of VHDL codes. It should be much better if it looked smaller than current.