This book is not correct. the pictures that is shows in it is just a reformatted version of director 7 and lingo. the text, pictures and the lingo are all director 7, wil little to no director 8 features

This book clearly describes director , shockwave and Lingo. Examples are given to illustrate the various concepts covered in the book. However, the converage of Lingo is not extensive , Director 7 Demystified offers better description of the Lingo programming model.Its a good book for beginners , however , for a extensive understand of Lingo , Director 7 Desmystified is a better choice

One thing that is nice about this book, is the fact that it has the lingo code that can be used not only for Director CDs, but also for Shockwave sites.. A must have.

Being an avid reader of gaming books I looked forward to this one. I envisioned a book similar to Barney Vincent's Behind The tables with many gaming stories. While there are some funny moments the tone of the book was depressing. The comment that you do not gamble as well when you drink lead me to wonder if perhaps this was written with a martini next to the word processor.

Read this book for the sheer fun of it. You won't learn strategies but you will get inside the head of a gambler. Scoblete is one fine writer, maybe the best gaming writer of all time. His style and wit are rare commodities in the gaming genre. Get this book!

This is an hilarious book at times and at other times it really digs in and tells you stuff you never thought of. I think it is worth the price and if you like gambling I would definitely consider buying it. It's an easy read but a great read.

This Book is of practical and direct use. Definitively it would recommend it for those that begin in the hobbie. It is simply a manual guided totally to obtain acceptable results without making the most common errors building a of wooden ship kit. I have bought several books of the topic but I remain with the impression that I should begin with this.

This book provides very useful insights into planking a model ship from a kit. The book is better organized than many books on model ship building, but does not cover complete construction from start to finish, instead pinpointing specific areas of difficulty you are likely to encounter with a variety of models and kits. The book has several lists of tools and equipment for establishing beginner, intermediate, and advanced workspaces and also provides directions for designing several specialty tools that are quite useful. The illustrations throughout are very detailed.

Yup, this one right here. My wife got this for me! I just started in this hobby, and SHE buys the best book. Isn't that always the way.

Anyhow, this is a trememdous book about building wooden ship models. It's clear, easy to read, and makes perfect sense. You'll learn more in 10 minutes of reading then hours of weeding through any kit's instructions. Start right here, then move on. This is a must book for modeling, and also, it's just plain fun to read. Many of the questions you have right now can be answered by reading this book. It has really helped me get going.

Don't wait any longer. Get this book, then find yourself a ship to build. Go for it.

I picked up this book knowing very little about trusts. Its a US book, and I needed to find out about UK tax. So there needs to be a UK edition. Nevertheless it proved very useful in raising potential red flags. It also has white space at the back where I made copious notes and reminders for my family and financial advisor. The book raises lots of questions to ask family members.

It appears that the Winston-Salem attorney (below) may have jumped the gun. Although he has not read the book, I'm not sure why he feels it's his duty to attack the author's credentials. I think the book is professionally written and is a helpful guide for readers who want to think and plan out the needs of their family and communicate those needs to their attorney. Proper planning is a key part of any family trust.

The allegation that the authors lack the proper credentials on the subject matter seems to be without merit. While a "Lexis-Nexis" search is the best way to obtain legal citations, it is not an exhaustive search of business articles, financial filings and can miss information from supplemental "special report" sections of paid journals. Perhaps the reviewer was too busy to refer to his own subscriptions of The Wall Street Journal or Kiplinger's Retirement Report.

Mr. Croke (the author) was cited in both of those journals earlier this year. The April, 2000 issue of Kiplinger's Retirement Report talks positively about his work and his book in a page and a half article and he is quoted several times in the March 7th, 2000 edition of The Wall Street Journal under an article called "Tangled Trusts".

This is the best book on trusts I've seen. Found out that my Trust failed to properly provide for my wife and children. Only thing my current Trust provided was a savings on estate taxes but it left my wife an inadequate income from the Trust, less than 3%. Providing my wife with the income she would need from my Trust is more important than just the tax savings. I was able to quickly correct this and several other major errors in my Trust. I learned about Trust options I didn't know I had. And, my attorney never told me about them and neither did the other books on trusts that I've read.

I used this review manual in addition to a few others to prepare for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam. Throughout the course of my studying, I found I used this one almost exclusively. It covers a large spectrum of most of the topics found on the General Section of the FE exam. The reviews are detailed enough to obtain an understanding of the topic without drowning you with too much information. I had been out of grad school for 8 years when I took the FE exam, and there were some subjects on the General Exam that I never had at the college level. However, this book obviously prepared me enough to pass the FE exam on the first attempt. I would strongly recommend using this review manual as the core of your exam preparation.

Don't waste your time with Lindeburg, this book will get you through the test. The book could have been a little more thorough on a few subjects, but I passed by studying exclusively from this book - and that was my goal. Do as many timed practice exams as possible, get to know the reference manual inside and out.

Lindeburg's texts are about relearning the fundamentals, Potter's text is the level of review you need to pass the exam.

I studied three days exclusively out of this book and it provided enough material for me to easily pass the exam. It brushes you up on each topic and never gets too in-depth. I think this is the ideal review book if you don't have a lot of time to study.

Warning to HS coaches...

The West Coast Offense, like any other offense, requires a certain type of athlete at certain positions. Just as the wishbone quickly degenerates without a power fullback to draw 4 - 5 defenders at the point of attack (Bear Bryant's recommendation, not mine!), the WCO requires a QB who is accurate within a given range (in the HS environment, 30 - 50 yards accurately and consistently) and mobile, receivers who have the native speed to force DBs into a 10 - 15 yard cushion and are capable of executing the occasional deep route. You run the WCO at your own risk if you lack those athletes, with predictable results.

Defensive coaches run 6 - 7 man blitzes, DBs congregate in the short zones (since they conveniently aren't forced to worry about the bomb), and unless your QB is exceptionally mobile (think young Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, etc.), you can count on him taking a pounding w/multiple interceptions, rushed throws, and sacks. Furthermore, most HS QBs lack the experience and maturity to avoid locking onto primary targets, which means that if the DBs hang in the short zones, you'll increase the opportunity for blitzing lineman/linebackers to take out the QB w/delayed throws.

Offensive lineman generally have an easier time in the WCO, since they are not forced to try to move defensive lineman/linebackers through drive blocking, but instead become amateur sumo wrestlers (another warning: Pro and College lineman routinely get away with blatant holds that will result in penalties at the HS level, so if you are counting on using WCO blocking techniques like the pros, think again).

The primary attraction of the WCO at the HS level is that many districts are composed of teams running offenses from the 1970s (the wishbone being the main example), and you may find success simply because your opponents aren't preparing to defend against a WCO every week.

In terms of best book, this is not. But it is a must read. The small chapter on how his protection works is different from Ron Jenkins The multiple West Coast Offense.(Which is a better book). But this book will increase your knowledge about the west coast offense, you can implement the offense with this book, so it's not a bad book.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in learning about the West Coast offense. It goes over every essential part of this difficult-to-learn offense and gives helpful insight into the strategy. As a quarterback, it helped me a great deal in understanding the offense and my role in it. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is serious about football and learning this offense.

Please do yourself a favor and avoid this book. This is the fourth edition and perhaps the worst introduction to fluid mechanics book ever printed. I am a PhD student and have had many courses in fluids. This book is riddled with errors and mistakes. The theory is correct but the derivations of certain equations and the solutions to many, many, many problems are wrong! I cannot believe these errors have survived to the 4th edition. Another reason to avoid this book is because the solutions provided with instructors make great leaps in solving problems. Many of the solutions state "this problem requires a laborious derivation and is much too hard to solve" or something to that effect! I also assist in teaching many intro fluids classes and this makes life miserable. Please use the 5th edition (or any other fluids book for that matter.)

I learned fluid mechanics from this book in college, tutored undergraduates with the help of this book in grad school, and used it as a reference for my advanced fluids class. In all cases, it was clearer and more understandable than other references I was recommended. I'm not saying this book is perfect - the description of the Navier Stokes equations, a fundamental concept in fluid mechanics, skips too many mathematical steps, as White is prone to do - but overall, if you are strong enough in math, this is a very good reference/first time book for fluid mehanics. White also has a good more advanced text on viscous fluid flow. If you are learning fluid mechanics for the first time, I would also recommend a Schaum's outline to supplement your textbook.

I was taught using this text book, and now, as an experience fluid process engineer, I highly recommend it for those who are starting into the field for Mechanical or Fluid Process Engineering and have a stong desire to learn about thermal processing and fluid systems! Great book! I refer to it daily in my work!

This book contains little information for the expectant father, that isn't already known or common sense. The author wants you to think this book, by a guy, is all guys need to know about the birthing process, but it seems like this book was written more to appease women, under the disguise of a guy's book. If you want a book that let's your wife think your interested, but contains little useful information and is easy to read, then this is it.

It's an easy read. Packed with insightful facts. I was reading it in bed one night and my wife (who is pregnant obviously) wanted me to read out loud to her. After reading chapter 9 -- "Do I Look Fat and Other Trick Questions" to her she commented "That's Right! How does he know that?"

I especially like the "Guy Talk" & "Girl Talk" inserts. This book is not just informative, it's a lot of fun. I recommend it highly and will be giving it as a gift to other "Dads-to-be".

And guys, the author is right. Reading this book really does put you in good graces with your partner. The morning after I read to my wife, I was awakened to a very pleasant surprise. We had just entered into our second trimester if you know what I mean.

I found this book to be very informative for the Father-To-Be. Every first time father should read this book in order to understand and more thoroughly enjoy his wife's/partner's pregnancy.

Divided into forty chapters, one for each week of pregnancy, the reading is easy. I found myself heartily laughing,often. This book was given to me by my wife and we enjoyed the information it contained together. The book includes passages from couples interviewed specifically for their experiences related to pregnancy. Some of the incites the couples reveal are incredibly useful. In addition the quotes from the couples are very humorous.

This book alleviated my fears, taught me a great deal about pregnancy, enabled me to enjoy my wife's pregnancy with her,and made me a better spouse and future father.

This book is a average book overall, however some problems I had with the book was the author's assumption on certain aspects and the readers knowledge (or lack thereof) of certain algebraic principles that they used on their programming examples and relational theories. There are good examples of coding and programming, especially if you to the publishers site to ftp the code examples. As a beginning programmer myself, I can honestly say this may not be the best book for beginners. I can only recommend an outdated "From C to C" that treats the reader more like a "true novice", and explains the steps a little more clearly than this book.

This book is not for beginners to programming. The examples are hard to follow. They start with a simple idea then the next example adds information to the example and then you get lost. How about one idea at a time and several examples of that one idea. That would be better for beginners. I have read other C programming books and this is not the best. Waite's group books are the best there is. Next in line would be the How to Program series by Deitel & Deitel. The best point of the book is how it discusses pointers. Since pointers are a concept that folds many ideas into one the authors chose to discuss pointers in regards to these separate ideas. Meaning that there is no single chapter on pointers but parts of four different chapters. The other strong point of this book is that you do get a compiler to work with, so it isn't all bad.

I found this text to be very informative for the beginner in the C language. The chapter contents give the beginner plenty of information to give him an excellent grasp on the lesson being conveyed by the author. A great amount of examples are provided in each chapter, which I find to be the best way of insuring that the reader totally understands the idea. These examples guide the reader through the process, step by step, making sure to highlight the importance of each application.

As a testament to how great this book is, I can tell you that I relied on the book as much as I relied on the lecture by my professor. I sat with my friends in my C class, so many times I found it hard to concentrate because they were too busy fooling around. Since I missed out on comprehending some of the C lectures, I made sure to read the chapter taught, every night after class. I got an A- for the semester!!!

Because I own another well-written book in Sams' "Unleashed" series, I bought this one. What I was looking for was a good XML reference with concise sections on rules of grammer. Instead this is a hot and cold running dialog that has an irritating tendency to skip ahead of itself by telling the reader the only way to learn is to plunge in. After presenting an example details are omitted as the reader is told that such and such a feature won't explained until chapter 38 so please ignore.

As an example of how difficult this book is to use as an XML reference, I dug and finally found in one of chapter 2's paragraphs a discussion of the '?' and '+' cardinality operators. However, for some reason the third operator '*' had to wait for chapter 3. Their descriptions were incomplete if not down right wrong and the term "cardinality operator" appears nowhere in the entire book. For example the description for '*' says it is used "to indicate that the entire choice group is optional." This description most closely matches the '?' operator. With '*' the group is allowed to appear zero or more times. The In contrast in Wrox's "Professional XML" all three operators are included prominently in a box with a description of each.

The material in this book would have been much more useful if the author and editor would have taken adequate time to better organize it.

This is the only book on XML that I have read besides Black Book (which is a junk) and some material on internet. I liked this book for it's crisp and clear explanation of fundamental concepts. The book, as it says, is targetted towards the intermediate to advanced reader and it assumes some prior knowledge of XML. Based on such a reader, the book is an exact target and indeed does some good things to them. Atleast it did for me.

The only thing that I did not like in the book was that the book seems to be little bit out of pace in keeping touch with the advances in XML technology. It does cover the various (advanced) kind of technolgy where it (XML) can be used but for topics like Schema, CSS1/CSS2 or XSL it is not quite in touch. I think it was written in Sep'99 and quite often mentions "as of this writing...". Things have changed pretty much after that, related to XML and would have been better if included. But such things aren't very important from understanding XML, fundamentally. So I would indeed recommend the book but would not give 5 stars due to this hitch. Moreover I haven't read other books on XML and I guess, this book would suffice for some more time (atleast for me).

ps: I found the style of writing in this book very impressive which makes the subject quite interesting. The examples are selected equally well as well.

I came into this book wanting to learn XML. I came out of it with a pretty good idea how to do it. Its not too difficult, but there are areas where I wish more was said. Other than that I am using XML every day, and this book helped me do it.