I belive that this book let's you travel in the past, in a world where go to the north pole was like go to the moon today. Amundsen was a no fear man, he went where no one went before him and his expedition were the unfortunate victims of bad luck and bad weather. This is the history of that man, and this book let's you live tha experience

I have not read the entire book and am not qualified to give a proffesional review I thought it was a book that reveals the deepest side of manand of nature.Thank you for letting me and others read it.I always like to read a good vampire novel... You never know what's out there.

I originally bought this book because of the author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, who is a respected expert on, and storyteller about, early British and Norse history. I wasn't disappointed - his text is a personal view of megalithic Britain which encompasses old and modern references to these enigmatic stone monuments. He doesn't tell the reader what to think, but offers a great deal of information and inspiration, including poetry and his own insight, to help broaden one's own interest. The artistic power of the photographer, Andrew Rafferty, is evident in the black and white illustrations of the stones. The pictures vary from grainy to stark, moody to powerful, structural to pattern-like. Each and every one is worthy to be framed. The combined work of these two men is inspired and I love it. History's now and alive!

Perceiving the western crisis of knowledge and its impact on the mission of Christian Church, this collection of essays, the result of an engaged discussion over several years, uncovers the fundamental issues of the epistemological shift and its implication for Christian communication. The book has two parts: the first part deals with diagnosing the epistemological predicament of the contemporary west, as it is discussed by Anglo-American, French, and German philosophers.

The second and the major part of the book that comes under the title, ¡°The Epistemological Predicament and Missiology¡± is a missiological discussion between a group of Christian philosophers such as Philip Clayton and Nancey Murphy and missiologists including J. Andrew Kirk and Bert Hoedemaker. The uniqueness and the importance of the book is its interaction between philosophy and missiology, covering the themes that must engage Christian theology and mission in a postmodern context. These themes include theological method and the justification of beliefs, the question of the character of Christian truth, the relation of belief and action, and intercultural communication. The book creatively illuminates the intellectual and cultural issues involved for both philosophy and missiology as both are needed in theologizing in mission in postmodernity. The value of this book is, above all, that it offers both the hard core of theory and practical implications for theology and Christian mission in postmodernity.

I've used Director for 5 years and i found this book full of good examples. I found the Object Oriented Programming chapter so exciting...Probably one of the best book on Director i've read (i'm waiting for Gary's new Book - Using Macromedia Director 8.5).
Buy it, non ve ne pentirete !
ciao

This is awesome! I've used Director for 2 years and was really excited about the new 3D features in 8.5 but thought I'd have to spend months learning how to use the engine. In 1 week of reading this I made my first user activated 3D projector that plays sound relational to my world.

I know why this book is so good: I looked at these guys sites in the front of the book for these authors - these guys really know how to create. Examples are inspirations!

This is the juice. I want more. Give me more.

PG Juice.

This book is technically competent, but goes right past the two most important factors; if you are developing XML, then you will probably be using Java, and that if you are developing applications (even with XML) on SQL server, then you are probably using COM+. Sorry.

This book is an excellent addition to the documentation provided with SQLXML, especially if you are just starting to use SQLXML. The book helps you decide if SQLXML is right for your situation. If it is, the book will continue to walk you through some real examples, covering some of the pros and cons of different methods. Being a developer, I highly recommend this book if you are using or considering to use SQLXML in a Microsoft environment.

This is what a technical publication should be. The book covers all aspects of SQLXML, from programming to administrative issues (including security concerns -- everyone needs to do more of that). It even discusses some of the other technologies out there, such as Oracle's integration with XML and the native xml datatype. If you are using or thinking of using SQLXML, I'd consider this book to be required reading.

It's the most surprising and tragic story I've ever read.
I've read this book 2 times and watched the film.Although I'm not a christian,the seven deadly sins are the most serious sins...Only
God can forgive us.The city always described as a mess,noise,gloomy,desperate and violence,and the weather had been raining,dark,mist and cloudy.But in the end,despite of cruelty story,the weather was brilliant.I think it's very ironical.
Somerset has got 7days until he retires and doesn`t want to see any criminal.After he found the body of "the fat man" ,he knew, it wasn't going to be easy.Finally he decided to stay to fight the fight in the city.

Here is Andrew Kevin Walker's justly acclaimed screenplay for "Seven", plus his first draft script for the Joel Schumacher fiasco "8mm." The first script is pretty much intact in David Fincher's brilliant film. The result was the best scary movie of its genre of the 1990's; in my opinion, even better than "The Silence of the Lambs" because of "Seven"'s deeper, darker moral (even theological) vision. Fincher omitted a prologue and epilogue featuring Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and discarded some lines of dialogue, but essentially everything was used. "8mm" is a very different case. As Walker explains in an interview that prefaces the book, director Joel Schumacher dumbed down his script, injecting spurious, lumbering melodrama and blunting the thematic amiguities so the result was a stupid revenge fantasy. (The Nicolas Cage character is given explicit permission to do the things he does in the final act in Schumacher's movie.) To be fair, Walker's original version is so incredibly dark that no Hollywood studio would ever want to film it. It should have been an independent film. In the introductory interview Walker also discusses how he wrote the scripts and how he got an agent to place "Seven" with the studios. He seems like a smart guy who is self-aware enough to keep a check on pretentiousness in his work. I would now like to read his original screenplay for "Sleepy Hollow" and his adaptation of Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage", two other works he mentions in this book.

This is tragic but amazing story. In this story Mill`s wife does very important role. She hates cities, and she doesn`t want to have a baby in the city.
Through the story the auther uses the contraction between city and country. To be honest he doesn`t like cities. The people in the cities have many sins, for exampled,greed,gluttony,wrath,envy,sloth,pride and lust.he tries to show that to live in cities means to commit sins.
The auther wants to make people reflect their life. For example the man who is described as the symbol as 'gluttony' is, I think normal man or the man who is everywhere. However the auther tries to describe him as the man who is really sinful man. To be fat or gluttony is absolutely sinful.
However, to be honest, I cannot understand the ending. What did Doe want to do? If he kills six or seven men, is it connected to something? I think his crimes is for only his sitisfaction, so it never has influence. From the begining to the ending, only Doe knows everything and only he knows what would happen next. Without doubt this crime is only understood by Doe, but this story is expressing America.

Writer/Director Kevin Smith shows he really understands the major and even minor players in the DCU. He gets the characterisation right for every character he writes in this incredible 10-issue epic. Before reading the book I was hoping that Smith would stay away from the supernatural when reserecting Green Arrow, but I take it back now that I have actually read the book. He presents a very interesting way of bringing Oliver Queen back from the dead. He throws twists in there to throw you off track and then just when you think you know what is going on, he changes the story's direction. There are some really funny moments in the book, particularly when Batman, The Demon and the JLA appear. He pays hommage to many characters and creators from the past including Alan Moore's legendary Swamp Thing run.
Without giving anything away, I was impressed with Smith's and the DC editorial board's decision not to make Green Arrow a nicer, more innocent character, thereby ignoring Mike Grell's contributions. It seemed for a moment that they were heading in that direction but by the end it became obvious that they weren't which is good.
I was a little bit disappointed with the ending which I thought was too convenient and bland, but overall, its an excellent start to what will hopefully be an excellent ongoing series.

I am a young comic fan who diddn't know a thing about The Green Arrow. My Pop was a major comic fan who stopped years ago. When I started and he found our that Oliver Queen (a.k.a. The Green Arrow, for those who don't know)had been resurected, He quickly started reading the Green Arrow once again. That trade paper back was lying around the house on a day I had nothin else to do and I decided to read it. Little did I know that was what I was doing the rest of the day. I couldn't keep myself from reading it. I quickly became a Green Arrow fan and read his monthly title every time it comes out. Kevin Smith has never ceased to Amaze me with his comic book writing talent. This is probably one of the best Stories I have ever read. I have now read the book 4 times going on 5. This is a must have, even if you HATE comic books. And for those Novel readers that read those big fat books like stuff from Stephen King or those best sellers, You would love this. The best comic ever.

When we last saw Ollie Queen, A.K.A. Green Arrow, he was being blown to bits in an exploding plane above Metropolis. No less an authority than Superman confirmed, after scanning the area, that there was nothing left. There would be no hope for the miraculous resurrection that we comic fans take for granted.
So when big-shot movie guy Kevin Smith started making noise a few years ago about doing a Green Arrow book with Ollie Queen, I was intrigued, to say the least. How could he bring him back without resorting to a cheap gimmick that would make the story a joke...?

Having just read Quiver, I really can't answer that. The story involves Heaven, Hell, The Supernatural, Superman, The Spectre, The Demon, The Phantom Stranger, Deadman, and a long-forgotten team from DC's past. None of these things should gel with a street-level hero like Green Arrow. NONE OF THEM. Yet Kevin Smith, with the art team of Phil Hester & Ande Park, made me buy into every bit of it. Smith deals with bits of DC continuity that I thought no one could possibly remember, but does it in such a way that, while bringing a smile to the face of longtime comic readers like me, doesn't alienate new readers or make them feel like they're missing something. The writing is top-notch, as is the art, and all involved deserve a round of applause for making every member of the DC Universe spanning cast act and look distinctive. The ending is scary, exciting, and touching all at the same time, and the final page gives readers something they've been clamoring for for years. I can't recommend Quiver enough, both to comic book fans, and fans of Mr. Smith's movies. Great, Great stuff!

As a welding business owner, I highly recommend this book to anyone deciding to weld for a career. This book is a text book, which may or not be in schools as we speak, but should be. It will give you all the information you will need to establish yourself as a compentent welder. First rate book, one you should check out, whether novice or pro, this will inform you!

As advertised, this book is comprehensive in scope - even the most esoteric forms of industrial welding are covered. It is a good reference text, but probably not a good beginner's how-to book. As a welding amateur, this book expanded my knowledge of the subject tremendously. The text is oriented more towards commercial and industrial welding that amateur welding.

One subject that is not covered that would have been most helpful is the electrical needs of welding equipment and how they are or can be met.

This book is essential for the novice (like me) because you get everything from instruction to reference material. It contains safety information, step-by-step instructions and reference material that a novice may never be able to find otherwise (such as recommended initial dynamic pressures for various tips and actual color pictures flames from different gas mixtures). There are some typos and it's a little tough finding certain things by index, but you should be reading the whole section anyway. You should certainly read this book before purchasing any equipment or performing any welding at all; it could save your paycheck, your project or even save your life!

It is easy to tell that this book was written by 12 different authors. The quality and writing style of each chapter varies widely. I thought the chapters on XPath, XSLT, DOM, SAX2, and SOAP were well written, but I was disappointed by some of the others.

The chapter on XML Schemas was the worst, in my opinion. This is a very important subject, but it is given the same amount of space as much less important topics. As a result, the author of this chapter tries to cover too much in too little space and ends up being quite confusing. Examples are thrown out followed by only partial explanations, and the author forgets to do some basic things like showing a sample XML document to match the sample XML Schemas in the examples. If you need to understand XML Schemas, skip this chapter and go directly to "Professional XML Schemas," which is very well written book on the subject.

This book is also too large and attempts to cover too many obscure topics. For example, it wastes a chapter on "XML Schema Alternatives" when it is clear that XML Schema is the approach that will be used by almost everyone going forward.

Finally, my standard complaint about all WROX books is that the font they use is too small! I feel like I'm reading a telephone book. Give the readers a break by taking out some of the less important chapters and increasing the font size.

I found this book very boring and tedious reading. The style of the book seems to vary as much as the number of authors. The concepts don't smoothly flow together. The book is a hodgepodge of technical information presented in patches by a huge bunch of authors. Obviously this book was an attempt to bring to market a book on XML as quickly as possible. The book doesn't provide enough examples or applications although it does present many examples on syntax. This may be a good reference book, but to really learn how to use XML I'm searching for another book.

The XML declarative language, with its adaptability and expressive power, is continuing to become the language of choice for reporting and classifying information. XML is a formal grammar that captures the syntactic features of a document type definition, and its properties, syntax, and applications are discussed effectively in this book. It covers XML as formalized by the W3C and the authors show how to use XML in Web-based and database applications. Readers who have developed applications in HTML will probably view XML as somewhat more abstract, since the visual representation of the content of a document is not emphasized in XML. Readers are expected to have a background in HTML, JavaScript, Java, and ASP in order to read the book. Although XML can be learned by reading the W3C specifications, these documents are frequently difficult reading, and this book makes the learning of XML much easier than reading these specifications. They include the W3C specifications for XML 1.0 in an appendix to the book for the interested reader. The book is a little dated, since the W3C has been updating XML specs since the time of publication (especially with regard to schemas), but there is a 2nd edition coming out soon.

In Chapter 1, XML is introduced as a mark-up language and its inherent extensibility emphasized. This is followed by a detailed treatment of XML syntax in the next chapter, with emphasis placed on the hierarchical nature of XML. The authors do include a discussion of Processing Instructions (PIs) for users who want to use XML in this fashion.

Document Type Definitions (DTD) are the subject of Chapter 3, where the authors communicate effectively how DTDs formal grammar is used to specify the structure and permissible values of XML documents. The formal DTD structure is discussed, and the principles behind writing DTDs are effectively outlined. They also discuss the problems with using DTDs.

Data modeling with XML is discussed in the next chapter, with information modeling via static and dynamic models treated in detail, and the authors carefully distinguish these two approaches. The actual designing of XML documents is given a nice overview as well as the role of schemas in XML. This is followed in Chapter 6 by a discussion of the (tree-based) Document Object Model, which overviews how XML documents can be accessed by various programs. Some helpful examples are given on how the DOM can be used to create an XML document programmatically. An alternative way of processing an XML document is discussed in the next chapter on the (event-based) SAX interface. The authors outline in detail the benefits of using SAX rather than DOM. In Appendix B the reader will find the Internet Explorer 5.0 XML DOM 1.0 W3C specifications. In addition, in Appendix C, the specification for the SAX 1.0 interface is given.

The shortcomings of DTD are addressed in terms of XML Schemas and namespaces in chapter 7. Since this book was published, XML Schemas have reached W3C recommendation status as of Nov 2000. The authors give a good overview of namespaces and schemas, with helpful examples. This is followed in chapter 8 by a discussion of how to link and query into XML documents using the XML information set, XLink, XPath, XPointer, XML Fragment Interchange, with XLST covered in the next chapter. For database applications, the authors outline the differences between relational databases and XML documents. A very detailed treatment of how XLST transforms the source document is given, and the authors compare XLS and DOM transformations. An Internet Explorer XSL reference is included in one of the appendices of the book.

More details on the relationship between databases and XML is the subject of chapter 10, wherein the authors show how to store XML and how data can be communicated between different servers using XML. The issues involved when moving data from RDBMS to OODBMS or from Oracle to Sybase, are discussed by the authors. This is followed by an interesting discussion on how to use XML as a distributed component model for server-to-server communications via XML-Remote Procedure Call and Simple Object Access Protocol.

E-commerce applications are discussed in the next chapter, with EDI and its improvement via XML. The business markup language cXML , which allows business to business electronic commerce transactions across the Internet, is also treated in detail.

The authors then finally discuss how to render XML documents more readable and pleasing for the viewer in the next chapter using the style languages CSS and XSL. The discussion is really interesting, for the authors dig a little deeper into the foundations of style languages. The discussion of style languages as rule-based languages is particularly illuminating.

The next chapter is very interesting and its inclusion is actually very surprising, namely a discussion of the Wireless Application Protocol. The authors give an introduction to the Wireless Markup Language and WMLScript. The book ends with four useful chapters on case studies for data duality, distributed applications, a book catalog information service, and SOAP.

There are many applications of XML in many different areas, such as CellML (proprietary) used in cell biology, CML (Chemical Markup Language) for molecular chemistry, IML (Instrument Markup Language) for control of laboratory equipment, BSML (Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language) for gene sequencing, and MathML for formatting of mathematical equations. I find XML an extremely powerful approach to information reporting and I am currently developing a package called NMML (Network Modeling Markup Language) for use in reporting results in simulation and mathematical modeling of networks, and FMML (Financial Modeling Markup Language) for use in reporting results in the modeling of financial instruments. This book, along with the W3C specifications, has been a tremendous help in the development of these applications.