This book is highly irritating for eight reasons:

1. It constantly tries to SELL you on VRML. Every tenth word is
"exciting".

2. It tells you all sorts of irrelavent stuff, like VMRL 1.0,
early VRML history.

3. It gives almost no examples.

4. It has almost no illustrations of what the VRML will render to.

5. It reads like a W3C reference manual. It constantly presumes you already know everything so there is no need to explain anything.

6. Here is an example of some prose that tells you that you must write "Shape { geometry Sphere" in that order.

"For geometry nodes to appear to the viewer, they must be contained by a Shape node and they can only appear in a geometry
field of a Shape node. Geometry nodes can't be children of group
nodes because they aren't leaf nodes. Geometry nodes, therefore,
must be contained by Shape nodes. The shape node contains one
Geometry node in its geometry field."

ALL THIS WITHOUT A SINGLE EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE HECK HE IS TALKING
ABOUT.

7. You come out the end not able to even do anything more complex than the two simplest W3C examples.

8. 3/4 of the book has nothing to do with how to write VRML.

This book is covering all the features of VRML, we waited long for such a work!

The Language is understandable and clear.

This is a lovely book, but is so politically correct that it is obnoxious. The primitive art of Australian aborigines, for example, is given as much, if not more, coverage than that of Europe and the Middle East. There is too much emphasis on the peripheral in a misguided attempt to be "fair," with a corresponding reduction in coverage for the prehistoric art of peoples who eventually created civilizations.

Few scholars could deign to undertake a survey of the world's prehistoric art, but Bahn is well chosen. He has experienced a breadth of world rock art equaled by few others. But, it is his command of history and literature that distinguish this book. The first 70 pages define the study of prehistoric art and survey the history of rock art research on each continent. For example, Chinese philosopher Han Fei produced the earliest written account about 2,300 years ago (much of the world's prehistoric art is younger than this). Modern scholars, on the other hand, only "discovered" Chinese rock art about 1950. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to Art on Rocks and Walls, rock art. Bahn leads the reader through the amazing array of rock art around the world and through time, skipping from place-to-place, style-to-style, and culture-to-culture while holding the reader's interest. He takes the reader through the science of dating and style. He turns to literal interpretations of vulvas and sex, human portraiture, zoophilia, and birth. Violence and warfare, sound and music, humor-the vast array of human experiences are revealed in his survey of rock art through the art itself. The reader learns not so much about the art of any one people as about how humans see and experience the world. Bahn's volume on prehistoric art is not the final word on the subject, but it is a valuable contribution to the literature. His survey of works predating 1900 alone makes this book and invaluable addition to one's library.

Artwork is not the best. Cannot be compared to that of The Best of Spiderman Hardcover.

This was a nice collection of stories. I especially enjoyed Evan Dorkin's humorous contribution. The reprints were unecessary. Any Cap collector worth his salt has them already. Why not give us two more original stories? Or if you MUST reprint something, why not reprint Joe Simon/Jack Kirby's original Cap stories? Or some 40's or 50's stories we've rarely seen?

The original stories here, however, are stellar. Worth the asking price for a nice hardcover.

This is a quick book written in conversation style that provides several examples of finished work and a few "how to" examples. He is an excellent painter, and I believe this book would be better for the intermediate painter than the beginner. He doesn't go into alot of detail about his technique. It seems he prefers to let the reader interpret for himself the meaning of his statements through observation of his works.

Any an advanced amateur landscape oil painter will find this book a great source of inspiration and practical advice. If you want to simplify your technique and,at the same time, capture the esence of the scenes which inspire,this book will help enormously. Beautifully illustrated with the authors work and supplemented with helpful step by step demonstrations. "Capturing Light in Oils" will have you reaching for your brushes with renewed enthusiasm.

To those who are interested in Czech poetry: Please get another translation of Jaroslav Seifert's poetry. Mr. Jagasich' efforts in translating the Nobel Prize-winning author are hampered by the fact that he lacks a/ a command of Czech and b/ a literary talent. There are a number of obvious mistakes in this book--not a good introduction to a great poet!

I have this book in czech and I am sure it is one of the best czech books of poetry. It is so emotional, lovely ... you must read it. Seifert is the biggest czech poet of 20th century.

Overall, this is a good book. Informative, but from a decidedly Protestant viewpoint. As one who is discovering the catholic Faith through the study of Celtic Christianity, I was disappointed that the author was so critical. It is true, the Roman church is imperfect, and has commited heinous acts in the name of God, but God uses imperfect things. I myself do not subscribe to the views of the Roman Catholic church, but we are One Body in Christ, and He is bringing His Bride the Church together.

The second chapter gives an excellent snapshot of the times we live in today. Chapter two is, in my opinion, what makes this book worthwhile. I cannot reccomend this book for those seriously studying Celtic Christianity. There are much better sources of study available.

This book takes a good look about Celtic Christianity, and although the author is a little critical, he brings up many valid points. I wouldn't base your entire views of Celtic Christianity on this book, but it is definitely a worthwhile read. Of course, I am a little biased, because the author was my English teacher in middle school. :)

I was hoping that this book by Gillette and Garson would be an objective treatment of the subject matter, but it turns out to be a disorganized and self-serving treatment of the subject. The book serves to promote the author, his practitioners, and the company (Cook Inc.) that supports Gillette's hospital (Cook Children's). It's a running ad for the Cook catheters he promotes in the book. The authors are primarily his employees, and even his wife! For a more objective treatment on the subject, I recommend the book by B Deal from Northwestern University. Too bad about the Gillette book, I was so looking forward to a fair treatment of the subject.

Davis Holt, I work in the telemetry unit under Dr. Paul Gillette and from what I have seen he is the leading foremost authority on this subject and Pediatric Electrophysiology. Check this book out if you work in this field or need a good reference.

For someone who supposedly collects crackle glass, this book's author has enough repeats of the same items to make you dizzy!!! Sometimes the same item is pictured twice on the same page for the same category. One Fry lidded pitcher is found NINE times, a green decanter is found THIRTEEN times, an amberina decanter SIX times, an unidentified decanter SEVEN times!!! On page 30, she says, "These Five Collectible Areas Increase the Value of Crackle Glass: Numbers 1-4 Characteristics will increase value....Number 5 Characteristic will increase value...." BUT I never found those five areas!!!!!!!!
For anyone who wants to have any hope of identifying or pricing a variety of crackle glass, this IS NOT THE BOOK for you!!! On the only positive note, the values the author DOES give seem to be fair and accurate.

This is an outstanding book. This books provides so much information as well as hundreds of vibrant photographs. The author shares so much educatinal history on companies that made crackle glass. The photographs are outstanding. She also provides valuable assesment data to help the collector determine the value of their own piece. I do think the author under estimates the values of some pieces. Many rare pieces are greatly underated in value, however, I highly recommend this book the both the advance, and beginner collector. A splendid job in putting this book together!! Definately 5 stars!

This Book contains the many beautiful Collects composed by Thomas Cranmer in their original form from the the First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) for each Sunday and Holy Day in the year. Each Collect has an interesting historical note appended to it, detailing changes which have taken place at subsequent revisions such as 1552 and 1662, together with a most useful meditation.

I heartily commend this excellent book to all traditional Anglicans and Christian people of goodwill. Attractively bound and presented it is an ideal gift for a Confirmation or birthday - or as a Christmas present.

If you would rather go to a performance of Shakespeare than one of the World Wrestling Federation; if you would rather listen to Beethoven than Metallica; if you would rather watch a film directed by DeMille than Waters; if you would rather pray to God with a sense of awe and humility than with the never-ending "praise" that is all the rage; if you have been uneffected by the "dumbing-down" of the English language; then you should aquire this small book and consider joining the "praise" for the beauty within.

Collects are "collective prayers" used in Anglican (Episcopal) church services to set the tone for the service to follow, and as a transitional device to bring the whole congregation (with many diverse thoughts and needs) together so that the service may proceed with focus.

This set of collective prayers is organized into weekly readings following the Protestant Kalendar. However, you don't have to be Anglican to appreciate the absolute miraculous beauty and immense thought put into these prayers by Thomas Cranmer when they were written approximately 450 years ago at the time of Elizabeth I.

The book is printed on beautiful ivory paper in a very nice type font, with violet colored woodcut letters beginning at the top of each page. The price is VERY reasonable for such a nice book as this.

Critics in this "me, myself and I" generation would say that the tone of the language used by Cranmer is uneccessarily penitential and instills in people too much feeling of guilt. They don't stop to consider that if a person has reason to feel guilty...than perhaps feeling guilty would be somewhat beneficial. Does God forgive those who don't REALLY believe that they have sinned? Some day, all of us will find out!

If you love the English language, and feel gratitude for all that God has done for you, then I think you'll agree that Cranmer's genius for talking to God with a profound sense of humility is refreshing today.

This is a very poor book. I dont like it but it have some very usefull information.

Paul McFedries' Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional is a useful resource for Win 2000 beginners as well as those of us who need short, sharp answers to everyday Win 2000 problems and tasks. I used the Guide to set up a simple network at home in less than an hour - a much less painful experience than using the Windows "Help" content.

It's certainly not as comprehensive as something like Kathy Ivens' Windows 2000: The Complete Reference, but it never sets out to be.