Would you like to solve a mystery? Well Jigsaw Jones did in The Case of the Great Sled Race. It was written by James Preller. In this book I learned not to steal. I liked this book because I like mystery.

There are good discussions that will stimulate meditational reflection but there isn't the indept exposure that I expected. Analyse the word, give us a picture of the environment then and dig deep into the word. There is a lot of Boice opinion and a feel too much social discourse. I discovered later that the book is a collection of radio sermons, that explains it.

Do not misunderstand me, Boice's work is good, but it isn't exactly what I was looking for. It didn't cause me to raise my eyebrow cos of some academic or historical or language insight.

The introduction had so many typos that (as a purist), I returned it before reading the last paragraph. If readers can live with that, great. Enjoy the book.

As massive an undertaking as the color printing was (first-rate, BTW), the poor attention to proofreading such a small amount of text matter renders the integrity of the rest of the book highly suspect. I didn't want to proofread the 435 plates (in microscopic Roman numerals) for out-of-order errors, missing plates, etc.

Regretfully,

Andy B

This book is neat. I liked reading it, because it is full of information. If there is anything you want to know about America's birdlife, you will find what you are looking for in this book.

This is the best book available for anyone who wishes to see accurate reproductions of Audubon's greatest work, the Double Elephant Folio edition of Birds of America. Produced in collaboration with the uniquely talented printer/artist, Robert Havell, Audubon's massive work is (as the subtitle of this book says) the most famous bird book in the world. As such, the Double Elephant Folio deserves to be reproduced as it really is, with all titles, part and plate numbers, and credits to artist and printer that are part of the original plates. This is the only book of several on the market (whether used or in print) that allows the reader to see the plates-all 435 of them--as they actually appear in the original work.

As a collector and art dealer, I use this book constantly, but I have never spent much time looking at the text. It consists of brief notes to each plate (primarily factual information on the specific birds pictured). Although the 2-page introduction gets the basic facts of Audubon's life right, I noticed many significant errors. The book also has organizational flaws (including the lack of an index to the plates or even page numbers to allow you to quickly locate specific plates). Nevertheless, the color and printing is very good to excellent on most of the images, and it is generally superior to that of other Audubon art books. Until something better comes along, I would consider this book a "must-have" for any serious student or collector of Audubon's art.

I was hoping this would be the sequel to the awesome beginners asp database book by John Kauffman. It was not even close. This book trys to cover so many platforms that it ends up not covering anything very well. The examples are terrible and confusion will set in after the second chapter. I have found that with Wrox books, if there is more than one person on the cover, then it will stink up the place.

My favorites were Section 5,7 and 8. The case studies were okay. Good cover on MTS and Novell Directory Services with ASP.

As a reviewer for this book I have read the book from cover to cover. The strong point about this book is that it covers many different aspects of data access. If you are somewhat new to ASP this book will show the ropes on ADO, XML and how to mix data from many different sources. If you are an experienced developer this book covers many areas that will interest you - data warehousing, the use of several different DB other than the very familiar SQL Server and non-realtional data sources. I have taken my copy of this book to work and everyone wants to borrow it.

Coming on the heels of "Icebreaker" this ranks as a major disappointment from John Gardner. The plot and prose is a collection of disjointed and very uninspiring ideas for our hero James Bond. However, several of these ideas did seem to make it to the screen shortly after in some of Roger Moore's later Bond films and Timothy Dalton's first outing. "Role of Honor" ultimately has a rambling plot that leaves the reader totally disinterested. I was very disappointed with this novel.

The plot to this novel is pretty intrigueing and it's good to see Bond square off against SPECTRE again. The book does have some bad points, but all in all it's one of Gardeners better Bond novels.

Not John Gardner's best, but certanly not his worst. The plot and villians could be spruced up a bit to make it better. At least SPECTRE is in it. This 007 book is very complex and only should be read by true 007 fans!

Please check to see that you got all the chapters you paid for. I bought a copy of this book on June 1,99. After two days I realized more than 90% of Chapter 2 is missing. [PLEASE NOTE: I DID NOT BUY THE BOOK FROM AMAZON. I BOUGHT IT FROM MY COLLEGE BOOKSTORE.]When I went back to exchange the book I was told no book is in stock at this time. The promised "next" shipment has not arrived in 10 days. I have my quiz on Ch.2 on Monday, the 14th. You can imagine how much I am going to score on the quiz. I wrote to the publishers, Course.com. They gave me some regular PR garbage. I wrote back to them saying if by any chance they could mail me the chapter overnight. I haven't heard from them in two days. Unfortunately, I am not the only one in my class. There are other people too. GOOD LUCK TO BUYERS OF THIS BOOK.

Let me begin by saying that I am taking QBasic in order to satisfy a course requirement. I am not going to become a computer programmer or a rocket scientist for NASA; I am getting my certificate in computer programming and computer applications so that I can become a more proficient PC user. I do enjoy problem-solving, I do like a challenge and I have certainly learned a lot from my course. Much of the time this book has been helpful, particularly in the way it gradually tests basic skills by providing more and more complex problems at the end of each chapter. Usually, after I finish my homework and programming problems, I have a pretty good understanding of the chapter's material.

My complaint is that this book is riddled with typos, as well as incorrect input and output data for some of the programming problems. To make matters worse, while my edition of the book may have inaccurate data, other students' editions may have the correct data for the same problem, yet in the next assignment, my book may be correct, while the data in another student's book is incorrect. At one point, after spending hours struggling and reviewing a programming problem, I came into class, checked the book of another student, and found that the data the book was asking me to put into my program was incorrect. What a waste of my time (not to mention all the time I berated myself for even taking this course)! On another occasion, in order to solve a more advanced problem, the book instructed us to use the same input data from a problem we had solved in an earlier chapter. I entered my data, ran the program and got the same output that I had gotten when I had run the program using the old method, weeks before. This is what should have happened, but when I looked at the output screen printed in the book, I saw a completey different set of data. Of course, if you use the same data, you should come out with the same answer! Duh. The output screen printed in my edition was incorrect. For another practice program, the book asked you to refer back to a particular page and input the data on that page. The page was a blank one. And we are only half way through the book!

Computer programming is difficult for me. I am a novice. I need accurate information to put into my sample programs and I want the satisfaction of seeing that my answer compares favorably with the book's answer. I need to feel that I can trust the accuracy of what is printed in my textbook. Why should different printing runs have different inaccuracies and why so many of them? Why are some students' books correct in the same places that other students' books are inaccurate for some problems, while the reverse is true for other problems? Why, in a course in which many students struggle, must we be further confused by the textbook on which we should be able to rely?

This book is used at my college a the main textbook for Qbasic. Without this book I would of been lost. My book was completely intact too. The only thing I found wrong with the book is that some of the information is outdated.

Well, it was a good idea, but...There are far too many omissions to make this book worthwhile. I can understand why genre novels made into genre films could be excluded--after all, how many people know or care that SOYLENT GREEN was based on a Harry Harrision novel titled MAKE ROOM, MAKE ROOM? Or that the movie COP was based on James Ellroy's BLOOD ON THE MOON? Or that DARK OF THE SUN was based on a Wilbur Smith novel of the same name? But at the same time, how could the authors of NOVELS INTO FILM fail to make reference to Lew Wallace's BEN-HUR? Or Howard Fast's SPARTACUS? Or Jack D. Hunter's THE BLUE MAX? Or Eugene Burdick's and Harvey Wheeler's FAIL-SAFE? Or Pierre Boulle's PLANET OF THE APES and THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI? Or Edison Marshall's THE VIKINGS? Or choose to talk about a failed Richard Matheson adaptation like WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, but leave out THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN? Or forget to include..well, never mind. The list of omissions goes on. Yet the above works were all major mainstream novels of their eras, novels that were made into much-beloved and/or critically-acclaimed movies. These novels into films should have been included--especially since the authors of this so-called "Encylopedia" saw fit to pencil in adaptations of currently-popular--but hardly literary--authors such as Stephen King and John Grisham. I bought the book sight unseen--more fool me. I was cheated. Don't get cheated yourself.

Like other reviewers, I bought this without actually looking at it and I agree that it could have been done much better. It's a very good idea which seems to have fallen down in the execution. To the list of serious omissions I would add: The Ice Storm, The Godfather (!!) Rosemary's Baby, Midnight Cowboy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Primary Colours, Lady In The Lake, Fear & and Loathing in Las Vegas (if we are talking about Hollywood here.) National cinemas other than American are very poorly represented. The book does acknowledge that it's the 'abridged' edition, and I would not have liked to have to choose what went in and what got left out, but still. The individual essays vary a great deal in usefulness and quality, with some being really very good and others abysmal. In future editions I would like to see more attention given to non-US filmmaking.

It is interesting if you like to read. It is also interesting to see how what were once thought as interesting and new stories are old, recycled from novels that few knew existed.

If you want to read a good book, do not read this. All James Bond does in it is walk around Russia wearing Mukluks. The book could have been made a lot better if it had some decent action scenes in it to sustain it, but all it has is a part where James Bond rolls over the bonnet of a car and stuffs up his shoulder, a short gun battle at a chalet in Russia which is hardly worth mentioning and a final skirmish in my home town of Baku, which is at least some violent relief for us. The plot makes no sense, as do some characters that change sides later on in the story. Why? Why?

This book is a departure that I think failed. It is a Bond story with very littl action and lots and lots of boring dialog. If this was your first exposure to a Bond novel, don't give up. Read some of the original Ian Fleming books and have a ball.

Amazing! THE MAN FROM BARBAROSSA is full of wild action-packed stunts and action. James Bond is forced to fight against a secret group called The Scales of Justice who want to control Russia and wish to film an legal trial of a spy. If you're searching for thrills, this is the book for you. It is fulled of action, and the besat part is when James Bond fights the men in the house. Disagree with the one and two stars and go for the five, You will be happy with results if you read John Gardner's best. Others best include the action-fulled ICEBREAKER, NO DWEALKS MR BOND and COLD FALL and BROKEN CLAWS.

I'm not sure exactly how this guy came up with his criteria for what to include in this book and what to leave out. There is no Kurt Vonnegut, no Toni Morrison, no Saul Bellow, and no J.D. Salinger. Morrison and Bellow are both Nobel laureates in "20th century fiction"! And Salinger's first edition of Catcher in the Rye is probably one of the most sought-after books in this category. On top of this, the book is full of editorial errors. Not worth the trouble.

a very shoddy and error-filled attempt at a reference manual for modern firsts. has peter benchley, but not james ellroy, dean koontz, but not dennis lehane, micheal dorris, but not robert crais. a waste of money.

Some useful info but it's absurd that this is a "2000 edition" and covers books up to about 1993! What did he do when he updated this book, close his door and stay inside from 1993 to 1999 writing this book, ignoring any books written after 1993? Weird.

What boggles my mind is how few books there are on pricing and grading first edition books, and the ones that do exist are not very good, including Aherns. Why can't someone come out with a decent one like they do for comic books (Overstreet, etc)?

Ducks, Geese & Swans is at best suited for children in the 3-6 years age group. Nowhere is it mentioned that the whole book consists of only 19 pages. Their is nothing wrong with the quality of the book, but it should be pertinently stated that this book is for children. The price also gives the impression of a more in-depth study of waterfowl. If you want a very basic introduction to waterfowl for your children, this might be it. If not - steer clear of this one. Your money can be spent much better elsewhere.