If you are an advanced spirit, you will enjoy this book. This book helped me reflect on the significant person who has come into my life and why we have come together. We feel the same way about Mother Earth and have had similar encounters with the spirits in Nature and Mother Earth herself. This book expresses it succinctly in the phrase..."When Spirits Touch". This book made me aware of the individual changes going on everywhere and that when two individuals who are at the same spiritual level, become one, they can the change the world.

This book is pretty good when you start to read it. It has interesting points of view from the children on their way to Oregon and how they travel on their way.

With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family set out on their trek to claim the uncharted Oregon Territory. They would have to go from Arkansas to Oregon - that's half-way across the United States. All they had was 40 pounds of food and two spare wheels. We like the way Jean Van Leeuwen made the book so realistic. The style flowed so good that we could imagine being in the same place Marry Ellen was and doing what she was doing.

Yes, we would recommend this book to ALL ages because it shows kids how important family is and that you might not know when you'll never see them again. This book is also good for grown-ups too because it can remind them of being a kid again.

This is a good book. It is about a girl from Arkansas moving to Oregon. It shows you what it might have been like traveling the Oregon Trail by a canvas covered wagon. There was a lot of excitement and drama in this book. Will the Todd family make it to Oregon????? And if they do, will they get good land? Is it worth it?Buy it, read it,and find out... BY:JOSH DAVIDSON (KEANAN), JOEY PIPER (PIPES), JOSEPH ALKATHIRI (M.J., KEL)

A pretty imposing stack of prose, but inside is a vast adventure of horror, suspense and vengeance ranging from Egypt to America. Slightly like the new film "The Mummy" if it was set in modern times. Chris Treagus has a tendency! To! Overuse! Exclamation! Points! In this one, but he's got a great talent for historical horror fiction, able to drag the reader through time and space so that one feels like they're actually there. A writer to watch!
--K.K. (Author of CLOWNWHITE and INHUMAN RESOURCES)

The Hunting Sorrow by gifted 'HORROR' writers Christopher Mark Treagus and Alister Jonah, is a unique horror story using a grotesque mummy and horrifying curse-- An engaging and suspenseful tale rising from the ashes. A story that will hold the reader under a spell from the first page to the last.

If you are a reader that is into mummy and curse tales then this is definately the book to read!

The year is 1992. The place Cairo. Cairo is rocked by the worst earthquake in Egypt's new age history awakening something. Something Unimaginable. In tradition of the classic mummy legend a curse has been unleashed upon the world for the violation of yet another tomb but 'The Hunting Sorrow' is no ordinary walking dead!

This fella knows horror and tension! pacing is excellent and the descriptions vivid. When is this author going to publish another book?

Corpsman Up is an outstanding, true to life account of a Marine Corps corpsman in the Vietnam War. The book is easy to read and extremely hard to put down. Corpsman Up's author, Paul Baviello is one of the many unsung heros of the Vietnam War.

This book is a find for any Corpsman, or anyone who served as a Corpsman, with the Marines. There's little written about the unsung heroes that have given lives while saving them - and this book is a tribute to their memory, as well as the Marines that they stood with.

The book itself was riveting - I couldn't put it down - and as a former FMF Corpsman, I found it very realistic. Many people don't realize the intensity of what a Corpsman trains for when they work with the Marine Corps - it's a different world. I recently re-read the book, and found it even more compelling the second time around.

The author manages to bring the camraderie into the book without stifling the story. This is a modern anwer to Stephen Crane's 'The Red Badge of Courage'.

This is a book about heroes, and the men that they really are.

Corpsman up is definately a true account of how the Marines feel about their Corpsman. When Marines call for Doc, they aren't just calling for the Navy Squid that offers medical support. They are calling that one Navy that wears green. Corpsman are one of them, and Corpsman Up demonstrates just that. Definatly impossible to put down. Semper Fi

The book is a believable account by ROK's finest general in the Republic's history, albeit somewhat embellished. I, myself, am a Korean but can cut through the crap, when I smell one. The memoir's contension that the ROK troops have stood and fought despite the insurmountable odds are seriously challenged by the Americans who fought with them.

During the Korean Conflict, the ROK fighting units were, all too often, substandard, poorly-led by inexperienced, underaged incompetents, thus, undisciplined and cowardly. The ROK troops suffered from pathological fear of the NK tanks and the Chinese volunteers, and thus relied heavily on the American firepower to do the fighting for them. (General, your men never could "decimate" the Chinese alone!) The only exception to the South Korean rule were the 1st ROK Division commanded by the author himself, and the ROK Marine Regiment.

In any event, the exploits of the General and his division is well documented. I was quite frankly amazed with his superb English. The author's well-written account is somewhat believable, but the highly-exaggerated tales of the "ROK fighting prowess," prevents this memoir from earning five stars.

I FIND GEN PAIK'S ACCOUNT OF THE KOREAN WAR TO BE REFRESHING AND ACCURATE. ONE MUST NEVER FORGET THE STATUS OF THE ROK ARMY AT THE ONSET OF THE KOREAN WAR. HIS LEADERSHIP AND COURAGE SET AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL ROK AND UN SOLDIERS. I GRANT YOU, THE BOOK IS SOMEWHAT 'HAZY' AT TIMES AND OFTEN APPEARS ROK 'SELF SERVING', BUT THAT IS REALLY NOT THE CASE WHEN ONE CONSIDERS HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THE CULTURE (TRANSLATION) IN WHICH HE WRITES. IT IS TRUELY A REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF A GREAT WARRIOR. IT NEEDS TO BE RE-PUBLISHED SO THAT ALL CAN GREATLY APPRECIATE THE TREMENDOUS SACFICES MADE BY THE GENERAL AND FOR THAT MATTER THE KOREAN PEOPLE. I HAVE READ THE BOOK NO LESS THAN 5 TIMES, OFTEN MARKING PASSAGES, AND EACH TIME I FIND A NEW UNDERSTANDING FOR A GREAT PEOPLE AND A GREAT WARRIOR. POULIOT

Taken in context and compared against all that has been written about the Korean War, GEN Paik provides his personal account of Korea's fight against the Communist North. GEN Paik explains the difficulty his newly freed country has fighting their brothers, winning and then having the Chinese weigh in against them. He looks at his experiences with the U.S. officers and enlisted who shed their blood along side their Korean comrades and helped to preserve a free country in the South. GEN Paik discusses the troubles his new found Army (50 years old this Oct 1998) adapting to modern equipment and tactics after being under the rule of Imperial Japan. A must read if you are truely interested in Korea and the Korean War. This book is an excellent read and a wonderful new look at the Korean War.

This is a fascinating book about one of the best (relatively)young directors working. As usual, Mr. Parish has done his homework. The background material is great and helps give a really vivid picture of the person. I really feel I got to know Mr. Van Sandt from reading this book, not only him, but his family and associates growing up. The descriptions of his early works are especially interesting. Mr. Parish is one of the most thorough writers when it comes to work credits of his subjects. I also enjoy this section of his books. I definitely recommend this book.

Parish does it again.
I've been a big fan of Jim Parish's cinematic oeuvre of literature for 20 years. He has tackled film genres, biographies and anything with his name on it I will buy. His "Van Sant" bio is terrific and covers a career that hasn't had much coverage to date.
If you can find Mr. Parish's incredible "The Swashbucklers" you have a great weekend read in store. After 100 books, you would think Parish would be tired but his two recent works proves he is as fresh as ever and on the top of his game.

James Robert Parish is one of the most prolific and knowledgeable film historians and writers around today, and his book on Van Sant lives up to his high standards of writing and research. Van Sant is an interesting character, going from art house (Mala Noche) to mainstream favorites (Good Will Hunting). This is definately a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about Van Sant and the movie making business of today.

Although the landscapes in this book are beautiful, most of the properties shown were massive, complete with beautiful natural views surrounding them. It was fun to look at the pictures, but realistically, most people aren't dealing with the situations shown here. One terrace garden was shown, but it was small and unremarkable. All the properties shown are on the east coast, so the plant choices are not particularly useful for folks who live west of the Mississippi. It's an interesting way to spend a few minutes looking at the pictures, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone to use in planning a garden.

This method has become my new gardening bible. It has an up to date, environmentally friendly, low maintenance approach. This book will not appeal to those who like large expanses of cut grass. The focus is on reducing or eliminating cut grass and massing plants. This style creates important habitats for birds and insects that we destroy with large lawns and weed killers and fertilizers. And the effect is very beautiful!

I borrowed a dozen books on naturalistic planting from a friend of mine that is REALLY into gardening. All of the books had beautiful photographs and some were interesting to read but only "Gardening With Nature" told me how to design a natural garden for my house. I'm so impressed I'm going to fork over my own money to buy it!

Once upon a time any student interested in computer graphics was referred straight to this book, and indeed what you've got here is an amazing smorgasbord of nearly every technique that was state of the art several years ago. Unfortunately the times have moved on and Foley et al. have not quite been able to keep up with them; entire chapters are still devoted to PHIGS, while modern methods of rotation such as quaternions are covered in only the most cursory way.

Another problem is the book's extremely terse, high-level approach to many important concepts; often a mathematical approach or an algorithm will be mentioned as a solution to a given problem (quadtrees, let's say), but once you try to take that knowledge from the chalkboard to the compiler, you begin to realize that there are some important pieces missing. Of course, no one expects a text like this to be a cookbook of code snippets, but as a primary textbook for an applications programmer this falls short. The tiny print and unhelpful illustrations don't improve matters much for pedagogy.

So, even though this is the Classic Textbook, I've found myself better served by a combination of other, more recent books -- Alan Watt's text on graphics in combination with Eric Lengyel's on 3D Mathematics, specifically. They won't cover *everything* there is to know, but they'll do a better job of getting you started than Foley, and the stuff they don't address can be found in other books or SIGGRAPH papers.

Ok lets see, we have one person complaining that its to hard becuase you must concentrate, another saying its to mathematical. Well I hate to say it, BUT THAT IS THE POINT of this. Computer graphics isn't like 1+1=2. More along the lines of 4(4(3/4 - 1/2)*4)= X. This book presents everything perfectly. A great recommendaiton for anyone 'who wants to learn it' but if your thinking of just a simple, 21 days or don't have time/concentration, don't get this book. I recommend looking into 'other' subjects.

Let me reiterate what a few others have said:

"This book is for thinking and researching."

"This is not a book that you can read while sipping a glass of wine..."

"the bible of computer graphics"

This is not a book that you will end up copying source code out of(a good thing). This book was my first step into the hardcore graphics world, and it was great. I don't think that more source code would enhance this book at all, mabye even the opposite. Source code is not what this book is about. If you are planning on implementing some of these algorithms, you must know how to code well, period. This is not a "here's how to code in C" manual, it's a "these are the principles of Computer Graphics." It's everything it claims to be.

I particurally like the excercises at the end of every chapter. Although I don't do them all, it gives me a guide to practice what I learned. The math in this book is not as hard as some make it out to be. It is Matrix/Vector algrebra and some calc. A glossary would have been a nice touch, as some of the vocabulary can be overwhelming at times, especially the acronyms.

"Recommended for the hardcore programming freaks." Hope the authors (I'm going to give credit to more than Foley) plan to write again.

There are plenty of equations and theory for the mathematician, but even better for folks like me (hackers), there is a nice sprinkling of C code and example images. If you need the most comprehensive reference, go with the unabridged version ("Computer Graphics: Principles and Practicies", all 1175 pages of it!), but if you are looking for an introduction, I would recommend this book.

Are you tired of spending hours of your time searching for 3d documentation on the net? Are you tired of searching for books? Are you tired of spending $50 on a book only to find out that it doesn't cover any of the subjects you were hoping for? Introduction to Computer Graphics covers every aspect of 3d theory to get any beginner started. It is true that some of the math requires more than high school education, but that didn't stop me when I read it in 9th grade. And if I can understand it, pretty much anybody can. If a person reads this book straight through, he not only will learn nothing but will have wasted his time too. Why? Well, half the book is full of mathematical equations and formulas. The author basically thinks like this: I supply you with the formulas and why they work, you figure out how to put it in your program. Although I'm not trying to attack the way the author wrote the book and a lot of his formulas come with C++ code, there's some stuff he doesn't explain like: HOW TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER! A book like this could be classified as an excellent source of reference. The reason that this book stands out from all the rest is that information isn't hidden in the words. It's all straightforward explanations and formulas with a lot of graphics to reinforce the reader's knowledge. Also at the end of each chapter the author gives you a number of exercises to do for those people out there that got too much time on their hands. All together I loved it and I learned a LOT of valuable information.

This is the 3D programmers bible for 3D graphics. It is far from a breeze to read as the nature of the beast is not an easy subject.

One of the most wonderful things about this book is that it supplies an extensive bibliography about each subject covered.

It isn't a "how to" for DirectX or OpenGL it's more of a "here are the equations" for 3D in pretty much every aspect.

You have to have it.

You don't? Buy it!

Expect to brush up on your maths tho! (unless yur a math head :) )

Regards,

Ian

I have read James van Praaghs book Talking to Heaven. It is so comforting to read about someone who has passed over and know that they are with you always. When my mother passed away it was needless to say devasting and I felt such an emptiness and excrutiating pain inside myself. It caused me to question my life. What is it all about? Whats the point? Why am I here? The people we love the most leave us. I felt stranded. When I read the book so many questions were answered for me without me asking. It was so releiving! I now have a peace within and more of an open mind. I am not afraid to die anymore, because we really don't die we just change form and continue to learn. The greatest feeling is knowing we can still connect with our loved one. Life as we know it is not a dead end! Life does continue. We can learn so much if we stay open and listen to what their trying to convey to us. I have had too many experiences now with life beyond to know that what James writes is true. I look forward in meeting him one day soon. I have the upmost respect for him and only wish I could help people the way he has. That has been a hearts desire for me for years. Thank you for easing my pain James. I have such a humbled overwelming confidence now. Tina Marie Gassert

After my husband passed away, 4 weeks after our wedding aged 28 years, I had many questions. Is he OK? What is he doing? Is he around me like he said he would be? Reading James' book has strongly reaffirmed both my late husbands and my beliefs in the after life. Any one who thinks that this earth is it has to really open up their minds. Energy is everything (no matter what form of energy it is) and it sustains all types of life be it physical or spiritual. It is scientific fact that energy can not be destroyed it just takes on another form. The spark that is all of us does go on. I was a true believer before I read this book and now after reading it 3 times I feel nothing but peace and happiness for both my husband and myself. We will see each other again. I've already had confirmation in dreams. Thank you James for helping me with my grief process. I have passed your book on to my husbands family with the hope that it will help them as much as it has helped me. A must ! ! read for those seeking reassurance that their loved one is indeed alive.

James Van Praagh was the most visible and daring medium of the 20th Century, and TALKING TO HEAVEN was the book that galvanized America's attention to this subject.

This book is a first, and brought Van Praagh's remarkable talents from behind the scenes and into print to allow the reader to formulate his or her own judgments regarding remarkable claims of communication with those in "an afterlife."

As a mental health professional who has interviewed close friends and sitters who have had readings from Van Praagh in Los Angeles, I have seen enormous therapeutic gains in some cases as a direct result from Van Praagh's work. TALKING TO HEAVEN offers top notch case studies and an accurate history of Van Praagh's background before going public on TV to perform demonstrations for millions of television viewers.

My personal belief is that TV is not the best medium for mediums, while books are (next to private readings). And this book is a winner from beginning to end.