The insight and rich prose within have helped me finally reach self-actualization. This book is the Cadillac of metal alkoxo and aryloxo texts.

This text is an exhaustive review of the chemistry of metal alkoxo and aryloxo complexes. The amount of material covered and the number of references given are staggering. Chapter 6 was so exciting that after reading it, I had to go outside and do Tai Chi to calm myself down! A must have!

This is the pinnacle of authored texts in my humble opinion. This is a must for anyone interested or working in the field of transition metal alkoxo or aryloxo species. Excellent references and interesting results can be found in this book. A must have!

This edition has the Latin text printed on the left side, with the corresponding English translation on the right. A splendid resource for Classical students or anyone wishing to see the original text as well as the English meaning.

This is a collection of several articles by Bradley which examine the role of slavery in the Roman world. The articles do not flow smoothly together so they are best read separately though best understood as a whole. Too often for a five star rating, I found myself wondering where he got his evidence for certain statements.

I Bought this book thinking it was going to help me, but it didn't, this jonny dude doesn't know how to write a book. all he says is "we will learn more about this in the next chapters, and when you are done reading it, you realize you have learned nothing, please don't buy it.

The book does explain the interaction of Forms, cookies etc through the CGI to manipulation in Perl. This is does well - where would you start to describe programming so you could describe the whole in a sequential manner without any hiccough?

Before reading I had some mixed ideas about CGI/Perl and the other languages. I have programmed for many years so learning Perl is not too up hill - regular expressions are the big learning for me.

I would rate the book higher if it only had the text. The big let down is the CD-ROM. There are the usual couple of time-limited demos plus the all important examples from the chapters. Here is the let down - you spend an age matching example in book to 'what they've called it' on the CD. Worse still you expect to have the Perl script available to pop up on your own server. Think again! So you are forced to run the HTML as is (pointing to Johnnie's web) only to find the web doesn't exist. Now that's bad! To be fair there are some Perl scripts on the CD, but nowhere near 100%. One of the best ways of learning is to examine other people's code.

Overall - gentle explanation of CGI and Perl, at reasonable cost, with some support from CD. 3/5. Improve the CD contents and that would be 4 or 5/5

I felt the last review was a bit unfair. While I agree that the book could have benefitted from additional examples, I thought the level of explanation was adequate.

On the down side: As an intermediate tutorial, I thought that there ought to have been more depth as to what one can do with CGI. Cookies and Forms are interesting, but I'd like to know how to make some of the more complex applications. The book lacked these, and thus I would not recommend it for advanced programmers unless they want a handy reference manual for the quick stuff.

On the up side: I thought the writers did an excellent job explaining the 'why' and 'how' of CGI. With the knowledge of the internal workings they gave me, I feel confident that I can accomplish what I want to accomplish with CGI. That's something I found lacking in quite a few of the other manuals I flipped through.

Who I recommend it for: Anyone who'd like to understand -why- CGI works, and would like to get thier feet wet with some simple CGI scripting.