I cook Chinese and other ethnic vegetarian dishes nearly every day. Yet this book never once tempted me. I found the recipes to be mundane, even boring and the seasonings inadequate and uninspired. Exotic ingredients, sure, but they're not always available. And the authors' sermonizing about low-salt soy sauce and low-fat oil and other unnecessary instructions to make an otherwise exciting and healthful cuisine simply tasteless truly offended me. Aren't I old enought to choose my own soy sauce?

This book does a good job of introducing Chinese Vegetarian Cooking, by discussing methods, equipment, and includes an ingredients glossary. The recipes are delicious, and healthy, and generally easy to prepare. Most ingredients can be purchased at a reasonably stocked grocery store. We use it regularly, and find it's creative recipes both tasty and inspiring experimentation. We especially like the Hot Pepper Rice Sticks with Peanuts. Yummy!!!

Having played off and on for 20+ years I am now looking to purchase my first cue. I was hoping this book would help me decide or at least narrow my search. It did not. I did not find any info. on cue construction, Pros and Cons, what to look for (and out for), what brands are known for what. Nothing. I knew there wouldn't be great detail on every cue but I was hoping for something like "Balabushka is a good all around stick", "McDermott has a nice solid feel" and "Meucci is good for english players". Nope nothing even close. There is NO info. on materials or the pros and cons of different joints or tip materials. If you are looking to use this as a guide to purchase your cue for playing, save your money.... there is much better info. for free on the net.
But, if you are looking into collecting cues as a hobby or business then this is the book for you.

The book is broken into sections that include the history of Cue making, the components and tools required to construct a cue, and an comprehensive illustrated catalog of the various cue makers and manufacturers. Whether your interested in Balabushka, Szambotti or Cognoscenti, you'll find the data you need to recognize and enjoy the craftmanship of their work. The author provides a rating system for the intricacy and condition of the cues that is the standard for buying, selling and grading cues today. I would like to see more illustrations of the master cuemakers than the many cues that were shown of the mass production companies. Too much space was taken up by these cues that are computerized clones. All in all the book was well written and I am eagerly awaiting the overdue release of Vol 2.

Reason #1. There are no sandwiches in the book that you can eat.

Reason #2. Not enough sandwich humor...i.e. sandwich/pastrami jokes.

Reason #3. Phil Sanborn is a tool.

In its roughly 50 parts, all written by experienced cooks and cook book writers, HP Books' "The Book of ... Cooking" series takes you to the cuisines of various regions of the U.S. and around the world; all in easy to follow, well-explained recipes.

This installment, the Book of Sandwiches, starts with a brief glossary of typical sandwich ingredients, and then presents recipe suggestions for all major types of this perhaps most variable of all snacks, from tea sandwiches and hearty sandwiches to party sandwiches and canapes. Special chapters are dedicated to layered, open-face, long, hot, and sweet sandwiches. Classics such as the good old BLT, chili dogs, croquet monsieur, egg and bacon rolls, pitas, club sandwiches, ham and cheese combinations, Reuben and steak sandwiches appear next to unique recipes such as chocolate and orange brioches, Indian spiced chicken on Nan bread, mango and crab sandwiches, melon and ham fingers and pork-celery crunch.

From anchovy mosaics to Welsh rarebits, this collection of recipes, while not all-encompassing, is a great introduction to the endless possibilities of combining food with bread, condiments and garnishments - and at a relative bargain price, to boot.

The biggest drawback to this book is that "the Tomb," the hero, is merely an observer to much of what goes on. A whirl of things around him but the author seems overly careful not to have him do anything, shady or otherwise -- except for the breaking in to Chin's casino counting room.

There were also some real gloss overs. The murder in Vegas, and the juicy threat to Tomb the Vegas cop set up was never delivered. He smoothed it over. Pleeeese. The romance angle seemed abit forced, though this was suppose to show how he was a stand-up guy, interested in the female cop (just as wounded as he) and not the beautiful whores that seem to offer themselves up to him. All in all Tomb was a victim, and not very interesting.

Also, there is no such thing as a Chevrolet Saturn to my understanding, Saturn makes there own vehicles, and seeing that on the first page of the first chapter was a real turn off. ...

An okay effort, but that just doesn't cut it in the whirlwind crime-thriller arena.

This heist tale takes place mainly in San Francisco, with a side-jaunt to Vegas. Edgy ex-cop John "Tomb" Tomei has to help bookie friend Billy Rossi get even with some mobsters from Chinatown, lackeys of Kan Chin who have robbed Rossi and raped his girlfriend Sherri. Once Tomb links up with another loose cannon, Red Vanes, who has a grudge against Chin already, the only plan that emerges, sane or not, is to hit Kan Chin right back, to the tune of over six hundred dollars in poker chips, which can be spent like cash at all the best gambling spots in North America.

A few things help keep the book from being totally forgettable. First, Sherri's place in the story, after she has been raped, is always interesting. She goes on quite an adventure, but all the terrible things that get done to her only seem to make her stronger, and she is a key piece of the story right til the bitter end. Meanwhile, the first half of the book is the duller portion, consisting of very little action. But it is interesting to see the various opponents making their opening gambits against each other--that would include Tomb and his various friends and informants, some of them cops putting themselves out on a limb; and on the other side, we have two sub-sets of shady characters: Kan Chin and his array of thugs and enforcers, and some crooked politicians who want favours from Chin and thus can be used by him in turn, when it comes to the Chinese gangster's various complicated machinations. Finally, throw in one rogue Italian mobster from New York, freshly exiled from the Big Apple and trying to find new gangster friends in San Francisco's Chinatown. Slowly, all the key players converge.

The problems: the book stalls a lot. That would be the main-turn off. Tomei's heist against Kan Chin's coffers is simplistic, though at least there is a surprise confrontation inside the actual vault. A few scenes that would have added spice to the book merely get summarized after the fact; I speak of one death (involving rodents), and one shooting. I just don't know why these scenes were led up to, skipped, and then hastily described later; they would have been very dramatic if depicted as they happened. Meanwhile, a domestic subplot involving Tomei trying to keep his ex-wife from moving away with their child is very successful at showing Tomei's love and determination as an anguished father with a realworld dilemma--but the wrap-up to this subplot is kind of quick and, again, undramatic.

So, you would take your chances with this one. It is slick and very readable, but the tension level never really shoots high enough, except for a few brief moments, many involving Sherri and not Tomei, in the early-going. The end is all about retribution and just desserts, and is another quick morsel of excitement. Not an outstanding entry.

Only looking at the functions of CATIA covered in this book, I see the VERY important functions missing;i.e., SURF 1, SURF 2, LIMIT 2, LAW, etc. all related to advanced surfacing and are extremely impoprtant in the use of CATIA in aerospace or automotive design. Without these functions the book will remain for beginners.

This book was written for CATIA V4, even though the title doesn't reference it. The CATIA Reference Guide is a companion book to this one, so it's best to buy them both. This book is very helpful and provides very good descriptions of the commands. The commands are listed in alphabetical order, so that is helpful in quickly finding the necessary command. Don't expect to be a CATIA master when you get the book. This book is extremely helpful once a basic 2D Drafting course has been taken. The price is a little steep, but if you need help, this is the book for CATIA.

A wonderfully written and presented book with all the glorious photos one would expect from a book describing the Cup. The history, while put forth in a concise and informative manner, comes to dominate the book. The book ends with a quick sketch of the chalangers and then abruptly ends. It fails to cover either the Louis Vinton or Americas Cup. Why a book on the challangers that doesnt document the challenge?

Russell Coutts is New Zealand's greatest living yatchsman however not a great author but he really does try to bring out his passion for his love of match racing.

As with his demenor in life, he is a little too humble in his writings but using the America's Cup history he and fellow author, Paul Larsen manage to produce a good coffee table book that is easy to read and leads you right up to the beginning of Challengers series that was a much better spectical than the next event three years later.

All the participants are mentioned and technical talk and actions well explained.

I felt that this book should have been released after the Americas Cup 2000 proper so the end results could have been added. Team New Zealand's only successful defence would have rounded out this book nicely. Of course Russell Coutts was at the healm of Black Magic at the time and we now know what happened three years later.

If you suffer from insomnia, by all means buy this book. It is the worst rehast I have ever seen of old, recycled early 20th century theological garbage. If it were even well-written, it could be tolerable, but it's a collection of ponderous sludge. Don't waste your money or your time.

This book is not an easy read, but the persistent reader will find an intriguing personal vision of the historical figure Jesus and a concommitant sketch of how the Gospel narrative reaches out to 21st century men and women. While not a mainstream covenant theology work because of its emphasis on individual experience rather than group response, the text draws heavily on Old Testament imagery as the root of Jesus's call to what the author terms "sonship." The title is itself an enigma: the Gospel which the author proclaims is in fact known to him by a claim of direct revelation. On the other hand, Christianity does not and perhaps cannot claim this Gospel as long as it is weighed down by human traditions and formulations. For this reader, the book's weakness lies in the ambiguous role given to the Holy Spirit. With the author's emphasis on the direct Word of God the Father to the listening believer, and on the parity of Jesus with all "sons of God," it is not clear what role a mediating Spirit can or does play.

My first impression is that this book is a joke. Granted there is a lot of truth to what is stated but there is so much fabrication intertwined with this truth that a person who is not grounded in the reality about the saints would leave this book with a complete misunderstanding of "the lives of the saints". I don't understand what Mr. Williams' goal was in writing this book. His hang up on sex that is entangled with these holy people makes me really wonder. Please do not read this book. There are many books out there that tell the true story of the lives of the saints.

I liked this book better than The Everything Lives of the Saints. The "Everything" series contained a lot of fabrication presented as fact.

This book includes a lot of legend, that's true, but the acknowledges in the book that there's no real way to separate what is fact and what is fiction. Even though a lot is mired in legend of a millenia or more, I found this book very accessible and enjoyable to read.

I thought the book was very poorly written. First , it was disorganized and very difficult to understand, second, it did a very poor job of explaining anything. The author explained doing the to do list to death, but forgot to ever explain how to do a web page with front page. Later in the book he went to great length to explain the comands to use with certain things, without ever letting you know what those things did, and what it was he was talking about. After I read it and learned nothing, I loaned it to a friend who is very up on computers, and wanted to learn Front Page. He gave it back a few hours later and said he couldn't understand what the author was talking about.

The book reads well, and does teach well, but I was very disappointed with the contents of the CDrom that came with it since it had only a few pictures in it and trivial templates. Not cool templates. I went to their web site and found an empty shell created by running the FrontPage wizard and then letting it die there. If it wasn't that the tips & tricks section of the book was so worth $30 dollars to me I would say the book was a false front, but I also see value in it as a reference. Hot & cold review I know, but still it comes out an 8

The book has a five page introduction, 240 pages for Windoz users, and has only 79 pages about the Mac. It offers little more Mac information than the manual that came from Equilibrium. I was extremely disappointed. It should be titled "DeBab for Windoz" I wish I could get my money back

The book covers both the Windows and Mac versions of the product and is a useful extension to the workman-like manual supplied with DeBab Pro (can't speak for Mac stuff). Chapters 1-10 are devoted to the Win version, though 8-10 are general in topic. Chapters 11-12 describe the Mac DeBab Toolbox.

Unfortunately much of the book, like the program's manual, re-iterates what is in the program's menus and on-screen dialogs rather then explaining what they do or when you should choose the various options.

The CD included adds little value. Some graphics from three of the chapters are included in colour, but embedded irretrievably in a PDF file. There was a real opprotunity here to provide before/after type files to illustrate the less obvious of DeBab's features and allow readers to experiment and learn by example. The CD includes a demo (for each OS) and various filters. The filters and sample files are the same as on the DeBab program CD so of little interest to registered users.

Many of the references to (Windows) assets/files on the DeBab web site are not yet valid. I guess the book (as of 4 Jun 97) is getting ahead of the folks at Equilibrium.

The best chapters are 8-10 on Web images, Animation/AVIs, and CD-ROM/Multimedia which move away from restating the manual. definately picked up some use

On balance worth buying if you want to make more of Debab on either OS (Win/Mac), if only because it is the only book available. Despite the benefit I got from it, I'd rate this more highly if the authors had done more exploration of the tool and less listing of features. I suspect more seasoned users might not gain so much from the book.

Mark Anderson, (Portsmouth, UK