What a shame that this comprehensive study is not adequately illustrated. A meager assortment of badly-copied black&white reproductions. What a spectacular item it would be if there were SOME repro's in full COLOR...

I love this series and I have all the books - so I know. It hurts me to only offer three stars but, simply, this one just isn't as good as the rest. First of all, it's nothing like as advertised above. There are 18 stories, but only 9 of those shown on that cover, which has been redesigned, too - I don't know what happened. Despite the publisher's notes above, there is NOTHING from Bonington, Venables or Davidson - no story of -148 wind chill on Mt. McKinley (the one I anticipated most). We got some wires crossed here someplace. Of the 18 stories you do get, 5 of them are fiction (including the 2 longest )- a greater percentage than any other in the series except "Dark". Of the 13 nonfiction tales, several have very little to do with survival as we've come to know it from earlier books in the series - they really just express wonder at nature. I'm surprised at the inclusion of "The Storm" by Junger - it fits, sure, but it's so well-known by now, and one of the best features of the Adrenaline Series has been how it introduces us to stories and authors we may not know. I do not mean to say that these aren't well-written pieces: the ones by Chaplin, Groom and Gann are riveting. I guess it just depends on what you expect. But don't let this book be your introduction to this awesome series; get High, Epic or Wild Blue instead, and if you've read them already, don't expect as much here.

This book was stupid. For one thing, it had almost nothing to do with Tae Kwon Do or martial arts. It was just a lame adventure about the CIA and a lunatic South Korean military leader who wants to take over North Korea. Emphasis on the word "lame." Save your money for Master of Kung Fu, Master of Karate, or better yet, Master of martial arts. Two thumbs down.

I found Master of TaeKwonDo a little disappointing after reading Brightfield's other books. The book was only about a madman's plot to take over the world and saving your friend Ling. Also, it's impossible to actually defeat the bad guy in book. Save your money and buy one of Brightfield's better Choose your own adventure books: Master of Kung Fu, Master of Karate, Master of Martial Arts, or Master of Aikido.

I admit there are not many happily-ever endings in the book and it's a boring plot about world domination. Yawn. but it's a good storyline nonetheless. Joan Pyun was more than nice to interact with and I liked the interaction with Joan.

Frank Bolle's artwork looks great.

Since the release of the Scooby Doo movie my 3 year old daughter loves the familar brown pooch. I bought this book for me to read to her, thinking "what was the harm?" What I didn't realize was, that in this book there is no man in a mask upset at some meddling kids. There really are witches, spell books and real ghosts. I also think it is way too soon to start teaching children about the wiccan religion.(which it mentions by name). I never thought I would say this about Scooby, but this one is too intense for me and my kids.

I was disappointed with this book. It is almost exactly the same as ISBN: 0439087864, Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost (which I think is good.) and I already have that book. A lot of the pictures in the two books are exactly the same and the story is pretty much the same. I thought this story would be a continuation of Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost where the Hex girls got involved in some new mystery. Instead, I basically received the same book. Why buy the Hex Files copy when you can own the original? I'd also point out that the Editorial Review for this book is completely misleading. The Hex girls cast no spells on anybody. This is the original Witches Ghost story.

This book is truly enjoyable for the kids, with simple words and accurate pictures/drawings, this helps the children understand the stiry better. This also helps the kids learn more words, mostly thorugh the drawings by seeing what the characters in the famous show are doing.

I teach computer applications to 8th graders, and this book is a disappointment to me and my students. It is geared more toward the business worker. The order in which it teaches skills is completely random. For example, it teaches advanced operations such as how to create envelopes and labels before it teaches the most basic functions such as how to format text. It also focuses too much on the Internet capabilities of MS Office 2000 (useless "bloatware" if you ask me).

Another problem is the presentation of the lessons. It lists the steps to complete a task, then has an exercise to be completed. It would be much more helpful if the students were able to DO the steps while the book explains them, THEN have exercises to do on their own. Instead, the book separates the teaching from the doing. This is a very ineffective way to learn.

Finally, the confusing language it sometimes uses doesn't help either. My students constantly ask for clarification. Stay clear of this one. There must be better books out there.

I taught classes of adults with this book. I had many complaints about the fact that it was difficult to follow. Some of the exercises were ambiguous and some were over wrought with typing. It did have poor planning on the organizational side. While it built on the previous exercises, sometimes it was ambitious on some items and lacking on others. A similar amount of time was spent on 'opening' a document as was spent on creating a 'table.' On the positive side, if you already know what you are doing, it was easy to follow. If you already know what you are doing, you probably don't need this book.

Mary Wright, Tech Editor: "For the past 7 years, I have been developing and administering computer skills courses to adults who are both educationally and economically disavantaged. It has been extremely challenging to locate computer training textbooks that can be geared to the functionally illiterate. DDC Publishing is the only publishing company that truly understands and meets the computer educational needs of this market."

Until O'Reilly comes out with a UniCenter book, this is sadly all you will be able to buy. Typical Que coverage of a topic; lighthearted, outdated, whimsicle, and very worthless. I have reviewed many Que 'Pulp-Computer' publications and this one is on par with what they have produced in the past. UniCenter is a complex topic and this book completely misses the boat. If you are studying for a UniCenter designation or are implimenting UniCenter at your site, you will surely fail to find any meaningful answers in this worthless waste of trees. I have both implimented CA UniCenter and have taken the certification exams and can tell you that you will find no help in this book.

This book is fine for explaining Unicenter to a Manager/Directory and for getting an overview, but is USELESS in trying to gain deeper understanding of the product from a systems engineering point of view. The number of good quality screen shots is a nice touch, although the material is hopelessly outdated.

There don't appear to be many titles available on Unicenter, which is unfortunate because it is an extremely powerful and scalable enterprise management tool. Still, I would only recommend this book for managers and directors, not for systems engineers.

This is a VERY generic beginning manual for Unicenter. If you are looking for explanations of how to do something, this is not the book for you. This book for the most part tells what the application can do but does not give any examples of how to do it.

This book just doesn't do the job. It has a poor index, which cripples any textbook. Many facets of C++ are not covered well or not covered at all in the book. The layout and presentation are poor. There are far better C++ books available.

This is a very good text for teaching C++ to a beginning class. It jumps right into C++ and objects, with a strong push towards code reuse. The only complaint about this text is that it is getting a bit dated in its style of C++ and some of the newer advanced concepts(stl, namespaces...) are not covered at all. Also very little C is used or discussed, which is fine for a class where a professor can discuss these issues but for someone on their own they may want to choose another book.

First of all, the $3.50 price reflects the fact that this is a PAMPHLET, not a paperback. It is written in that obnoxious "sensitive new-age guy" style of writing. If your husband already knows that men and women deal with grief in different ways and that he should be there to listen and hold you, he could have written this himself.

After losing our fourth child to miscarriage I found this book. Nearly all the books are written for the woman, this is the first, I found, to be written for the man. It not only helped me better understand my husband's pain, but allowed him an opportunity to express his feelings openly. Grief is such an individual process and all people go through the stages at different times, this book acknowledges how hard and difficult miscarriage and loss can be on a couples relatonship. My husband appreciated hearing from another man (the author) that what he was feeling was normal and helped him better understand my pain so we could work it out together. I highly reccommend this book to any couple that is struggling with the loss of a child and how to relate to each other.

This book was chosen as a text for a networking class. No one in class, including the teacher WHO KNOWS NETWARE was able to make it through the book! Arthor might be competent but if you can't read it how can you tell. Poor grammer. And his description of abstract concepts were generally defined with abstract concepts, not real world scenarios. For beginners as well as advanced users I now would recomend, after hours and hours of reading both, New Riders: Netware Professional, 4th ed. It's very readable, accurate, and just a great overall reference book that you'll return to-depending on how long Netware is around to turn to. Neither are "how-to" books.

This is a comment on one of the reviews. I find it very amusing to read a review that critiques the grammar in a publication by spelling the word "grammer" Richard D. Seepaul

I've seen Peter Belesis' work around, and it is way too confusing and buggy to get any real use out of it. His Hierarchical menus are beautiful, but you never get to see one on your own site because it is so convoluted and screwy!

The book appears very comprehensive, but really needs a quick reference guide on all the elements of dynamic HTML (including scripts and HTML itself).

Dynamic Html Unleashed is a once of great DHTML books. But this is clearly not a introduction book. You should have a good HTML and javascript knowladge .