Many exclusive and unique dining experiences seem to be excluded from this overview making the representation of restaurants more commercial than an real respresentation of the finest of dining in Phoenix.

I found it to be missing many area top restaurants. Disappointing

The restaurants in this book in no way represent the top 100 restaurants in Phoenix, I think you should look around again and see the ones you missed.

Being an Oz fan for nearly 50 years, I was reeled in. But I quickly drowned in Gardner's laundry list of celebrities, authors and beloved fictional characters who are insulted by their inclusion in this lusterless soggy saga. L. Frank Baum has been maligned. All of us who grew up with or grew to love the Joy of Oz have been maligned by this preposterous travesty. Save your money and your time. This book is neither adult nor children's literature. It's just plain drivel. - advice from a former schoolteacher.

I had the misfortune to pick this book up in a science fiction bookshop recently. The spiel on the back of the book - not clearly marked out as a children's book in its UK edition, I might add - promised a great deal, and being a fan of Jeff Noon's writing, in particular his Lewis Carroll homage 'Automated Alice', I was quite taken with the possibility of discovering an American equivalent, a funky modern revisiting of the Land of Oz.
Sadly, 'Visitors From Oz' proved to be abominable tripe.<

Any discussion of this book's merits is now rendered irrelevant by the fact that it includes certain scenes which have the potential to upset readers in the wake of recent events. These might not destroy the appeal of a movie or TV show aimed at adults; they represent a more serious problem in the case of an Oz book, since the Oz books generally serve to bring joy and happiness to readers of all ages. (In L. Frank Baum's day his publishers used the slogan "No Baum book ever sent a child to bed to troubled dreams.") I think it will be a long time before anyone will again want to read this book or give it to their children to read. Previously I would have given "Visitors from Oz" three stars, but now, unless Gardner revises it, "Visitors" may as well never have been published.

I was not impressed. I am a huge Frank Herbert Fan, rapid even. I have been reading some of his lesser known work and this one was not all i had expected. It was decent over all but do not think that it is really fleshed out. It seems to be like an aborted Brave New World. The ideas are not fully explored and the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. I would not recommend anyone reading this. If you want some good Frank Herbert books other than the Dune Series try...Hellstorm's Hive and Direct Descent.

In the far future, , only genetically engineered humans are allowed to exist. They are concieved and carried outside their mothers, then they are divided into classes according to their genetic characteristics. Thus, their education, type of work, and future mates are all determined by the state.
The dominant class of immortals (Optimen), who are supposed to be guiding the human race, are instead abusing their power, and limiting human reproduction and mixing. As a result, several underground movements collaborate to overthrow the optimen (Brave New World, anyone??).
This novel feels like a sequel Huxley might have written. It lacks originality, new ideas and has no surprises. It is to be read only when one has read all the good ones.

This book was a good read for me, but was not without flaws. The most enjoyable aspect was the conflicted characters, their dialog and their ability to change. The tale is short, so not all interesting ideas are explored, and the ending was not overly satisfying for me. One particular mystery, the "outside influence", was discarded pretty quickly in a single brief quote by a character, and I'd rather it have been a more interesting revelation.

I purchased this thinking it was the paperback version of The Giving Tree. Instead its some cheesy activity guide that I wouldn't waste my time on. It is based on the book, but it is misleading that it is not ACTUALLY the book. Buyer beware.

Very helpful in discussing and making assignments to go with the book "The Giving Tree." Anyone who didn't realize this was not Shel Silverstein's book was too lazy to read the title.

Along with this review you may be reading a few others that say that this book is worthless, and that the shoppers wanted The Giving Tree. Well I would like to comment that they should have read ACTIVITY GUIDE first of all, as well as "BY FRANK SHAFFER PUBLICATIONS." Everyone knows The Giving Tree is by Shel Silverstein. I can only assume that this book has helpful activities for teachers to use in lesson plans and book extensions- I would like to hear from anyone who actually has this ACTIVITY GUIDE to know if it is, NOT from shoppers who were too lazy or stupid to read what they were buying!

I was very dissappointed in this book as a guide for where to stay on our trip to Ireland. It was a huge waste of money. My husband and I were in Ireland for 2 weeks total. We rented a car and traveled from Dublin south along the coast then westward then north along the west coast. We didn't make any reservations ahead of time anywhere; which turned out to be OK. We referred to this book a couple of times when it came time to find a bed and breakfast but we found that it was very limited. For instance it listed about 4 establishments in Waterford when it turned out there were about 40. We got better use out of the free bed and breakfast guides we got through the Ireland Tourism offices.

We were in Ireland for 6 weeks and although there are many other Bed & Breakfasts throughout Ireland, this book lists the best ones. Every Bed & Breakfast from this book turned out to be wonderful!

We used the third edition of The Irish Bed & Breakfast Book during our three week tour of Ireland in 1998. We found that the book, while only listing two or three B&Bs in a city, listed the better establishments. Whenenver we used the book as a guide we were always satisfied with our lodgings. Whenever we did not we were unhappy with the lodgings.

The seven places we visited from the book were always clean, comfortable, served good food and were pleasant to visit.

We will be visiting Ireland again in July 2002 and intend to purchase the fourth edition.

I just completed a course in materials science using the 4th edition and have been appalled by the poor quality of the book (spiffy cover artwork aside).

The book is full of generalizations that impart no significant understanding of the topics treated. Commonly, the book will simply assert that X causes Y without any physical justification as to WHY. Illustratively, when the book touches upon atomic structure, it uses a figure depicting the Bohr model of the atom without any reference to this being a simplification, nor any reference to the "actual" character of atomic orbitals.

Additionally, the book is rife with poorly worded problems which are accompanied by answers that seeminly have no correspondence to their respective problems. I did not do a single problem set from the book without finding at least one problem where the answer was just plain wrong. A particularly amusing instance was the assignment of units of area to a dimensionless answer (and NO, the quantity wasn't right, either).

STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS BOOK.

The primary feature of Askeland's text is in the speed with which its sections can be read. Unfortunately, this is due to the lack of necessary detail. Difficult concepts are often glossed over, while simpler topics receive undue attention. The example problems don't seem as relevant as they might be, and certainly bear more strongly on the author's skills than on the student's.

I may be unfairly comparing this book with Callister's "Materials Science and Engineering," but given the choice of either as a reference source, I would hesitate to choose Askeland. If you are stuck with the Askeland text for a course, but really need to understand material behavior, then invest in the Callister book as a backup - it will greatly enhance your understanding.

The text starts with an introduction to crystal structures that is needlessly complicated and do not give the student any sort of explanation as to how crystal structures relate to the topics dicussed later in the text. The questions at the end of each chapter are considerably more difficult than the sample problems in the chapter, making it very tough to learn from if the student is trying to learn solely from the book. Orange highlights are hard to read.

I finished reading this book on April 27, 1988, and in my post-reading note to myself I said: "I have just finished a book I shouldn't have bothered to read. It is written by a greatniece of Mary Phagan, who was murdered in Atlanta on Apr. 26, 1913. It quotes a lot of the trial documentation, and the governor's commutation statement, and so it was interesting as a crime account. But I really could not empathize withe the author's resistance to a pardon for Leo Frank, tho his guilt seems clearly not psychologically indicated. In fact the author's father refuses to condemn the lynching. The book is not an inspiring one.

Although one previous review states that this is not a good book to begin researching the Leo Frank/Mary Phagan case, I believe otherwise. Having just been introduced to the tragic story of little Mary Phagan, I happened upon Mary Phagan-Kean's book and read it in 3 days. I found it very interesting and informative - not just because the author is a descendant of little Mary Phagan, but because she had extensive information, whether it was the actual testimonies of the people involved or private letters sent by certain important officials regarding the case.
I went into this book without any real knowledge of the story, and although I still came out unsure as to Leo Frank's innocence, I came out with a lot of information about the trial and case itself. Sure, Mary Phagan-Kean is biased against Leo Frank and states so in this book, but it's hard not to be when there truly is a lot of "evidence" against him. True, however, that there is a lot of "evidence" supporting his innocence - and she doesn't hide that. In this book, the author doesn't tell you what to believe. She lets you decide for yourself.

If you are looking for the truth behind one of the most controversial murder cases in American history, it doesn't get any better than this. Forget the revisionist accounts which have until now masqueraded as historical fact, this book addresses the salient issues which the apologists for Leo Frank dare not address, and quite handily debunks the popular mythology of Frank's supposed innocence. The book is written by the great-niece of the victim and provides some poignant insight into her personal struggle to discover and present the truth of what really happened on that Confederate Memorial Day in 1913. By writing this book the author courageously broke her family's official silence of over seventy years on this sensitive subject, despite a relentless campaign of distorted facts, exaggerations and outright lies designed to posthumously exonerate Leo Frank. This book contains an abundance of carefully researched, factual information which was obtained from a wide variety of primary sources. It is a must-have for any serious student of the Leo Frank Case.

My school gave me CNC Workshop and we never use it. I put programming into simulation and doesn't work. I think there is much missing information.

This book sells well because of the simulator CD which impresses beginners and highschool level students. Anyone with CNC machining experience and know-how will come away disappointed.

CNC Workshop illustrates dozens of factual errors in programming format, it contains some glaring omissions, and spends far too much space promoting its own flawed software. This software has crashed and frozen up in many of my students' computers and fails to accurately portray CNC motion.

This is an adequate book for very basic level CNC knowledge or for people with only elementary knowledge of the English language. It does an acceptable job of explaining some basic NC concepts and the multimedia package (NOT the simulator) is fairly helpful for educators. It would be a fine book for $35 in a highschool shop class, but does not deserve to share shelf space with books by Smid, Lynch, Valentino, Krar, or Curran.

As a 12 year experienced journeyman, I found the book and program to do exactly what was expected. When someone buys a book or tries to learn from a book. Its intended purpose is to teach a person the foundation of the subject matter. This book was designed to give just that. I have tested the software and found no problems that would have not occurred in a real life situation. Do not teach students that if your CNC does not work or crashes, than the CNC machine or manufacturer [stinks]! To the teachers of the world that complain that it does not work. Get a Life! In the real world, CNC operations do just what you complain about, they CRASH. Now teach your students how to correct the problem. Stop teaching them how to complain. The software and book, and any book of learning, are not intended to make you and expert. It is to TEACH people that want to learn about the subject mater! Do to the number of different CNC interfaces that are on the market or being used in the REAL world. The book tells you right from the beginning, that codes are different to each machine manufacturer. That most machines are based off of the ISO standards, but use their own codes. If someone wants to learn the foundation of CNC's then this is a book for them.

Have bouhgt many WROX books and found this to be by far the hardest read, made simple things difficult and ponderous (suffering from verbal diarrhoea), referring too much to later content. Go read something else even from the web it'll save you money and time.

I liked the book and it's approach in introducing to XML Application Development. Unfortunately, Microsoft has withdrawn msxml.exe on which most of the content of the book is based. I am not sure if there is any plan, by the authors, to help the developers to get around this and yet, refer to the book for it's excellent approach to mastering XML Technology. I, particularly, liked the chapters on XSL, and practical applications (case studies), including CDF application. I, however, did not like the XML-Data chapter so much. This is mainly because it really does not provide the learning steps as much in detail as other chapters. I wish the author had followed the method used in authoring of CDF-chapter. The book does not provide step-by-step procedure (including that of tools required, setting of tools, personal web server etc.) for testing the source codes provided in the book. It is left to the imagination and the exhaustive work, expenses of time and communications for advice etc. of the learner of this new technology. It took me several hours before I could successfully test the case study source codes. Also, the author/publisher should provide after-sales support due to lack of the basic tool (msxml.exe) on which the entire book is based. Publisher should withdraw this book from the distribution/sale. It seems the author is planning to publish another book in lieu of this, later in Year 2000. Hope the publisher will be kind enough to give some discounts to the buyers of the current book.

This is a typical wrox book: covers mostly microsoft material, good code examples. You can read about XML from resources on the web, but this book gives you an idea on how actual applications may be implemented, at a time where there is little published browser support. 4 stars for the material, 1 for the timing.

Same-sex desire can cohere into many different identities -- we've known that since Foucault. Same-sex behavior often does not cohere into an identity at all -- we've known that at least since "Tea Room Trade." So why does Browning present it as a remarkable revelation that he has just now thought of, and that will come to the reader as a shocking revelation? This is a well written book, but interesting accounts of pansexual Arcadias are unfortunately interspliced with annoyingly self-absorbed tales of his tricks -- Browning believes that he is hot enough to attract every guy in the world, straight, gay, or whatever, and that the reader is desperately interested in hearing the details. I can buy better porn elsewhere -- but my problem with this book is not that there are many ways to express same-sex desire, not that there is gay life beyond the Castro Street clones with gym memberships and charge accounts at Ikea -- who'd want a world where everybody is the same? But Browning continuously states that those clones have no right to exist, that they are inauthentic, self-absorbed, sex-obsessed closet bisexuals. Gay life should should not ever include muscles, circuit parties, and political activism. In fact, there should be no gay people, anywhere, ever, just promiscuous pansexuals going with the flow. In a less enlightened age, we would call such rantings homophobic.

I found it very abstract and rhetorical. I wanted to like it and learn something. I found it unhelpful for my life as a gay man.

This book should insult any gay man who considers himself to be an intellectual. Full of faulty logic, purple prose, gross generalizations, and accounts of Browning's crusing experiences, the textoffers a disturbing, degrading picture of homosexuality. Despite a section on the works of Michel Foucault, the text demonstrates no knowledge of political ontology; also, the text avoids mentioning the works of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and David Halperin, but it posits Camille Paglia as an intellectual diety--look out! The correlation between coming out and becoming "born again" just doesn't work: the former is an outward, social/public event, and the latter is an inward, spiritual one. Nonetheless, the cover of the book reproduces a beautifu, homoeroticl print by Paul Cadmus.