This book is perfect for those who are short on time but in need of a great escape!

Loved it! A good ghost story. Very creative.

Brandon Toropov has concocted a fun and illuminating guide to all of William Shakespeare's plays that admits to the huge gap between the Bard's language and our own, and bridges it nicely. Each play is summarized and analyzed, plot points outlined, and main quotes isolated for easy identification. In addition, each play contains its own "theme" for the accompanying illustrations: Laurel & Hardy, Woody Allen, and others help new modern readers to quickly identify what it's all about, while long-time Shakespeare fans should no doubt get some delightful chuckles out of the creative way the material has been presented. I was sad to see this is out of print, until I found the website for the publishers...

Well, I bought this book 'cause I wanted to learn some about Shakespeare and his creations. You can find a lot of funny cartons that will help you to understand better this genius.This book is an easy way to discover Shakespeare's play and probaly thoghts.

This manual is a complementary guide to Raymond Chang's Chemistry. It, step by step, illustrates how to solve specific chem problems that are found in the textbook. As a result, a student can learn the process of solving these problems. Furthermore, the manual gives an outline of the different types of problems from the textbook. In addition, tips, tricks, and often shortcuts on solving chem problems are given.

This is the best book that you can get to supplement the Sixth Edition Chemistry book. Even though it has only the even answers, a lot of the problems are very similar to the odd problems. Since you have to send a teaching certificate to McGraw McHill to get the full teacher's edition, this is the next best thing.

This memoir reads more like a unit history of the Third Alabama than General Battle's memoirs. He does not spend much time talking about himself. Instead, General Battle describes the war as his unit experienced it.

I thought the book was interesting, and easy to read. It is very short, so don't look for too much detailed information. The thing I liked most were the battlefield vinettes that General Battle describes.

I recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about how the soldiers and leaders of Lee's army viewed the war.

Third Alabama, ed. by Brandon H. Beck is in my opinion one of the most valuable resources for studying the American Civil War.

Cullen A. Battle the author , Col. of the 3rd Alabama and then a brigade commander fought in all of the major engagements of the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Appomattox. This book does not only go into detail about the campaigns in which Battle was involved but it also puts them into a proper historical context. With the use of context you are able to learn not only about the role of the 3rd Alabama and Cullen A. Battle, but you are also able to learn the fates of both sides during any of the campaigns covered in the memoir.

The book includes six excellently detailed maps of the positions of the 3rd Alabama in various engagements. The maps also depict surrounding brigades and the Federal opponents that they faced off with. These maps are a very crucial part to this book for they give a visual aid of Battle's memoir.

I think that Beck and his cartographer should be given a great deal of credit for making this memoir available to the Civil War community.

It is definitely a must for everyone to have on their bookshelves!

I was suprised with this book it is one of my favorit books. It starts when porue gets a kiss from some one when the lights go out but when they come back hes gone. she has this urge to kiss evry guy she sees. But then she starts to grow weak and begains to die. Will phoebe and piper be able to save there sister buy the book to find out

Kiss of darkness is written by Brandon Alexander. This book is about the Charmed Ones, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe, and how they save one of their own from an evil warlock named Lascaris. This all started when a stranger kissed Prue on New Year's Eve. After that kiss Prue feels the need to kiss every guy she meets. At first, Piper and Phoebe think that it is just Prue letting lose. But when Prue weakens with every kiss they know that it is evil at work. Now Piper and Phoebe must save their sister using only the power of two.
I enjoyed this book because it is based on the hit T.V. series, Charmed, created by Constance M. Burge. The book closely follows what happens on each episode. So if you can't get enough of the show you can read the books. I happen to like the books better because they tell the story in more detial. For example in the book you read, "His blond hair fell across his forehead. She watched him comb it back with his fingers, a grin tugging up one corner of his mouth." This quote tells you somethings that you would not catch from watching the show.
Even though I really liked this book there are things that I disliked. As I read the book I found that parts of it seemed to be stretched out to long and be in too much detial. A complete contradiction to what I said in the previous paragraph. But as you can tell if you did not read any other books in the series you would not understand, ""Well, last year was kind of... intense, if you know what I mean.""
My favorite part of the book is when Phoebe and Piper are kneeling over Prue. They are repeating the incantation, ""I call on the Power of Three. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we imprison Lascaris because we must. To spare the innocent, to protect the meek, we reduce your evil power to very weak. Into the prison you must go, never again to be our foe."" This is my favorite part because the spell failed and Prue is dying. Piper is confused at why the spell didn't work. ""Prue is too weak to complere the link. Without the full Power of Three, we have no hope of saving her."" At this point they are not sure what to do and if you want to know what they do you'll have to read the book.

At a New Years Eve party Prue gets the kiss of her life at midnight. After that she feels driven to kiss every guy she comes across, desperately trying to find the mysterious man who had kissed her with such passion. At first Phoebe and Piper aren't sure what to think about Prue's new lifestyle; even Prue doesn't understand what's happening to her, but for some odd reason she can't force herself to stop. It's like she needs to kiss men to keep her alive, but with every kiss she becomes weaker. It doesn't take Piper and Phoebe long to figure out that a warlock is behind Prue's strange behavior. But what kind of warlock would be obsessed with kissing? And why? Could it be someone they knew? Or was it someone they'd never met before? Prue is fading fast, proving that time is definitely not on their side. They have to save her before it's too late, but can they rescue her from the darkness that is threatening to surround her with only the Power of Two?

I absolutely loved this book! It's fast paced, has plenty of plot twists, and several interesting characters. While reading this book you'll find yourself trying to figure out who Prue's mysterious midnight phantom is. This Charmed book is definitely a keeper, and I can see myself reading it over and over again.

I bought this book with Intermediate Flash skills and intermediate ActionScript skills. This book is far beyond me. That's good and bad. Every chapter can stand alone and the source files are included, but this book won't get me to the next level by itself.

If you are very well versed in ActionScript and the topics interest you as explained in the Editor's review, then this would be a good book for you. If you are an intermediate ActionScripter without the chance to look at this in the bookstore, be cautious, especially if you never return books.

The book does tailor to advanced users, it's just that I bit of more than I could chew. Good luck.

These days there aren't many books out that deal exclusively with ActionScript. There's one from Colin Mook which I like, and the couple others that are out there aren't that impressive. This one isn't worth it's weight in gold but I still find it quite valuable because each chapter is written by a different author, and each of them really seems to know what they're talking about. Assuming that you know your way around Flash, this one won't waste your time going over the usual basics. At times it's a bit difficult to find your way around the sample files, but I'm learning so much just from dissecting them, and the chapters in the book explain reasonably well what's going on. Book looks a bit cheap, but then again, it's not like I'm gonna be using it much once the next version of Flash hits the shelves...

After going through the chapters, I must say there are a few things that disappoint me about this book. The book's layout and design are poor. The information is not well laid out and even though the authors are very well versed, I believe some editorial help on their writing style would have improved the books content dramatically. Understanding that each chapter is written by a different developer, the reader will see that the quality of the explanations varies.

The book has some very interesting concepts and given time and effort an intermediate/advanced flash AS programmer will understand the concepts and theory behind some of the more interesting flash movies on the net.

The authors are true samurai, so if you want to join their clan you're going to need to understand the concepts in this book. If you have your advanced math books from school, you'll want to take them out so you can review some trig and calculus theories, your going to need them.

Novice Flash developers better wait to get this book, trust in my words, you will minimally understand the theories. But if you are adventures, and think you have what it takes. Go for it.

This book was great But i read it when i was eleven, im sixteen now.I've never read a Fear book before this one and have'nt read one since...oh well.

This book helped my obsession with vampiers grow.So what if it was predictable, so what if their love was commercial, you have to give R.L Stien some credibility with all of those Goosebumps books a love story is big jump for the guy.

Any way to get right to the point. One last kiss is a story of a girl who's only family was her father they moved around quite often and fought off vampiers. her father is killed by the main posse of vampiers(in their current town)...Hey you were gonna find out sooner or later. Then shortly after Elenor(the girl) meets Trevor Fear, a local royalty(not as in king but very rich.)So they meet fall in love yadda yadda yadda the rest would ruin the entier impact if i reaveal it to you so pick up a copy for yourself.

For girls there is alot of love,romance, and dramatics.
For guys swords, fighting...its a vampier stoy for crissake!any one will enjoy this story just have a little imagination!

This book was easy to read. The plot was simple, but full of action, which made it really fun! It was slightly predictable, but Trevor was very romantic and he made up for all the flaws! ;) I loved the ending, it was sad but it was sweet. It was freedom at last. I loved the fact R.L. Stine was quick and to the point with his writing! I think the main character, the girl, should have been given a bit more depth, but overall the characters were very well done (especially Trevor.) Ok! I loved trevor AND this book!

I love this book so much. This book is about a girl who fall in love with a vampire. It was kind of romantic and thrilling. It was also suprising. The ending was so sad. I hope you read this book and find out.

This is one of the best books you would ever find on dynamic flash that is if you find any other book on that topic.First there are very limited books on individual topics like generator or asp-flash but this books goes a step ahead and collaborates all the aspects of dynamic studio .chapters like ultradev,generator,asp-flash and Flash-turbine .A must read for all those people who are interested in making dynamic websites.They should refer to this book as it would make their work very easy.The book starts off by taking into consideration that the reader is a beginer and then graduates to more advanced topics.

Hats off !! to all those who made this book possible as this book is goin to be there for a long time to come.

An excellent book! Well worth the investment! It transitions well from more basic concepts to more complex topics -- With lots of substance for people at all levels of experience. Even those with more expertise can learn a thing or two from the different conceptual approaches presented. The book is not just about "here's how to do the same old boring X, Y & Z, just in the updated version of Flash", it also says "here's some different ways of thinking about solutions that takes greater advantage of new features of Flash". I also really enjoyed the mini math and geometry lessons... it's good to know that years of high school algebra and geometry could be put to some use!

The interface design chapters were particularly outstanding; judging by how awful so many Flash sites are at integrating interactivity, PLEASE!! I BEG YOU!!! everybody read the chapters on designing interfaces! They are a "must read" for anyone who wants to improve their site's interactivity.

The game design chapters are also incredibly helpful as well, and I think are some of the first useful explanations of game design I've ever seen for Flash. Even if you're not designing games in Flash, using a familiar game like Asteroids as a vehicle for explaining some pretty clever design elements works very well. Not to mention, it's very cool to be able to make your own video games! Flash isn't just for dull corporate websites anymore!

I'll be incorporating the lessons learned from those chapters into all the stuff I do... even though I only get to do very boring stuff for a corporate site. And if I use what this book teaches, maybe someday I can get hired to make games and do cool interfaces!!! :)

I've been looking for a books for backend for over a year now. This is the PHP, ASP, PERL, JavaScript, Generator, PHP Turbine dream book! 1000 pages of MUST-KNOW knowledge for the serious flash designer/developer. The PHP section is what I've been searching for for months as I've been stumbling through integration for a month now.

This will become the "BIBLE for BACKEND" (sounds sexual, I guess) Flash. Flash IS the future. This is the book I will refer to most for the next year... guaranteed. my "most advised purchase" to date for Flash Developers. Better than Flash 5 Magic at describing Backend application integration.

This will set you apart from the hacks.

Ok, the editor of this book should have really gone through some of the tutorials. It seems a lot of the files that the author copied over still refer to her own drive.

Beware- it is for version 3.0

This book touches on different types of techniques for character animation. It is a little bit advanced. If you are new to 3ds stay away! If you are comfortable with Max, then prepared to be confused with tutorials that don't have many diagrams. There is a lot of reading to do. I am a visual person; I need things drawn out for me.

There is one cool tutorial on max scripting. There aren't very many of those around.

There is a little bit about Character Studio. Not enough for it to be of any value.

This is the first Max book I got that covers the finer points of character animation in detail. It gives you good background info, but doesn't skimp on the "how to" and gives plenty of examples. Great chapters on facial animation with morph and a jawbone, and informative character studio tutorials. Saiko da!

Since I began work in MAX, modelling has always been second nature to me. However, my animation technique has never been up to par with my modelling; until I read this book! I must confess, I am a video game freak, and what originally drew me to this book was the fact that the author had created and animated many of my favorite characters. When Pro Animation came to my door, I was more won over by the fact that it covers all of the fine details of animation; from bones to Character Studio. The companion CD has many video examples of the projects that Angie Jones works through with you so that you can compare your work with her work and see where you need improvement. I can't say enough about how much this book has helped me, but I can say that if you need help in animation, it's not far away. Buy it...

Most of those amazing Flash films share have the very same secret: mathematics, especially geometry. Many basic and advanced techniques in this area need to be taught. A review of some basic concepts would also be helpful. It's true that a lot is done by trial and error, but those who grasp the basics are the ones who know what can be done with what is available.
This book has beautiful, colorful pages and many contributors, some with great ideas - learned from some imagination and from some trial and error.
Yet this one book fails considerably. Great opportunity, great idea. But no math is really taught, no basic technique is really given. What can be found is only a mixed bag of ad-hoc math solutions to produce some nice effects and little meat.
What is wonderful about this book is its potential. What is tragic about this book is its end result.

I always knew somewhere in the back of my head that Math and physics could be creative. I remember getting through Calculus and Intro to Physic course back in college by trying to understand the concepts visually. Mind you, I failed Intro to physics once and got a D in Calculus3 by doing it that way. Fast-forward 4 years. I've been using flash on and off for about a year but started doing actionscripting, about 2 months ago. I picked up this book when I bought ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, I think this book is a great companion. I found that I was using this book as a springboard to learn creative visual Actionscripting techniques. Though I found the explanations hard at time, definitely not a book for beginners, its a great source to get your hands dirty. I've coded examples and found myself going off in my own creative direction afterwards. I think the most satisfying moment I had was relearning Trig but seeing it on a screen. It definitely gave me a deeper understanding to some math concepts and proving my thoughts way back, that math can be visually creative.

After having had this book a year now and well into Flash MX, I still find this one of the best resources for moving Flash MX (or Flash 5) into a level of creativity not available by mere hacking through script or twiddling with tweens. Even now I keep finding new little gems in this book. However, as some reviewers have found, this is not for those saddled with sluggish imaginations or sense of exploration.

This book is one of the few that assumes some background in or appreciation of math as a tool for developing algorithms. It's not a book for everyone, and one reader rightly pointed out that it's not a primer in math. So if you don't have math savvy, this book may not be your cup of tea. However, from what I saw, one need not be a math whiz to work through the different kinds of interesting algorithms contained in this book, and you will learning something about both Flash and math.

One of the best lessons this book can offer (besides the sheer joy of experimentation even though you're not sure what you'll create) is how to use different elements of geometry and a little algebra with Flash to do some very interesting things. After beginning by following instructions to make a snail spiral, I quickly found myself doing my own experiments by changing different vectors, values, colors and whatnot just to see what would happen. I was surprised by my own results, and then I took elements from different chapters, mixed them together for even more new discoveries.

This book is not a paint-by-the-numbers book, and unless you like to explore for the sheer joy of the exploration and learn something for no particular reason other than it's sort of cool, the book is not for you. It is not a "practical" book in the sense that if you learn how to create a Flash site for some suit, but it is very practical if you'd like an invitation to discover concepts in their own right.

Finally, I found it ironic that such a book using Flash 5 would be published almost exactly at the time Flash MX was unveiled. Well, the algorithms are even more appropriate for Flash MX because you can do so much with movie clip drawing methods with MX that were not available in Flash 5. It's probably not even going to have to be revised for Flash MX because the kinds of people who would buy this book would have little problem in taking its wisdom and doing even more with it in the new Flash.