I buy this book to help learn .NET to take MicroSoft tests. Did not know book is writen for beta .NET. I did not pass test since I learned from wrong version.

DO NOT BUY. Is old and no help.

Forget this book, unless you application the same as theirs.

This book provides an exellence big picture of .NET in developing an e-commerce website. It will definitely save you a lot of time in developing a website. It does not provide in detail on how do you implement it though. You would need specific books on asp.net and on VB.net or C# to complement it.

Superficial at best, this book is not worth the entry fee. Unless you have a burning desire to sample the writing style of the famous Ms. Weinman's sibling or learn how to use Sausage Software Java utilities, look elsewhere

I can't believe this book is out of print now! Rarely do you find the expertise and clear writing that is found here. I found it easy to read, easy to follow, and brimming with information.

If you are able to get your hands on this book, it's definitely worth your time. If nothing else, as an example of coding whiz Ms. Brown's fine editorial efforts.

I was somewhat disappointed in "The Grand Fleet 1906-1922," this latest effort by D.K. Brown. It's just not up to the standard of his earlier works, of which I have a high regard.

He second guesses US designer's analysis of British ships (like I always say, 20-20 hindsight is a wonderful thing) but then admits that these were probably for ships for which he (Brown) lacks references for. He then puts up future DNC Goodall's contemporary analysis of US designs without noting the errors contained in them that have been exposed for literally decades (see Friedman's "US Battleships" for one).

Mr. Brown also raises the old bug-a-boo about the all-or-nothing protection scheme of the "Standards" as being possibly overwhelmed by numerous hits on their unprotected ends. Somehow, he seems to be forgetting the fact that every post-war British capital ship design used nearly the same scheme, to say nothing that such fears were shown groundless by the pummeling that the USS Colorado received during WWII. If the all-or-nothing protection scheme was so bad, why then was it copied in most of its essentials in British post-WWI capital ship designs? Why didn't the Nelson's, KGV's, Lion's and Vanguard continue to use the incremental armor scheme so favored in the pre-war dreadnoughts? Perhaps Mr. Brown is saving such thoughts for the next volume in this series, but it's a glaring omission, nonetheless.

But, my very favorite passage was where Mr. Brown discusses the wartime exploits of British battlecruisers. In what can only be called revisionist history, Mr. Brown states that "the author believes that the basic concept of the battlecruiser was sound. Invincible's glorious career at Heligoland Bight, Falklands and Jutland justifies that statement. The three magazine explosions at Jutland (and the later case of Hood) have obscured the real value of such ships."

Sorry, but that just reminds this reader of that famous U.S. saying, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" The exploits of a single ship, no matter how glorious, can not be said to justify a ship type that is most remembered for "sinking and leaving barely enough survivors to man a Yugo," to use a phrase I wish I'd thought of first (my hat's off to Cen). I'm afraid that the author's admiration for these ships' undeniably powerful appearance has kept him from applying his considerable talent for design analysis to their equally obvious flaws.

That said, this book does offer very interesting insights into the ships of all classes being built in Britain in the 1906-22 time frame. If you stick to following what the author knows best, the British design process, you won't go far wrong. His examples of British naval design thinking are mostly original, and include details for the lessor known ships, such as destroyers and submarines, that are so hard to find for pre-WWI vessels.

Finally, he cleared up something that has always puzzled me; why the British were so reluctant to fit super-firing turrets on their warships. For that alone, this book was a worthy addition to my library.

The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906-1922 covers exactly what the title sugggests, the developement of primarily the British fleet in the years leading up to, during and immediately after World War I. In my opinion this was a well written scholarly book that focuses on the design process and underlying assumptions that led to the developement of the modern battleship navy. The work is broken down into sections for each class of ship, I found the section on aircraft carriers to be extremely informative on the British methods of carrier operations and the developement of this naval arm. Each section is chock full of technical drawings and photos of the ships concerned. The actual descriptions of the shipos in combat during the World War is rather limited so I would not consider this book as a source for combat operations, the focus of this volume is on naval architecture. If you read John Massey's Dreadnought and are seeking more technical information then this book is definetely for you. If you are looking for a light read then I would steer elsewhere.

While I am a landscape architect and not a botanist, I consider myself observant of the patterns and ecology of plant communities for my own professional practice...especially in the high deserts and high plains. Accuracy is very important to me, as well as spending the neccesary time to study before reaching conclusions.

"Desert Plants: Biotic Communities of the American SW..." and the accompanying map, while detailed and thorough most places, missed the badly-needed opportunity to provide accurate info. on the natural flora and fauna for several parts of New Mexico. Fast-growing Albuquerque, is one example. From the two routes the authors visited in our city, it might look like "Plains Grassland" / "Great Basin Transition" on the surface. Upon closer study of our area's climate and specific indicator flora / fauna, Albuquerque and central NM actually fits into their book's own classifications of either Semidesert Grassland, Chihuahuan Desert, or Interior Chaparral far better. Ditto for the accuracy in the northeastern plains and valleys of New Mexico...missed alot of critical Chihuahuan Desert region habitat at probably it's northernmost range in the US.

Just wanted to express my concerns of accuracy in this very under-botanized and misunderstood home state. Other than those concerns, this is a good resource to be recommended for reading with caution in NM, and the authors did a fine job of delineating much of the southwest.

I read all the editions of Peter Jackson's Expert System book. All the editions were equally good with respect to the developments of the subject at that time.The current edition covers a wide disciplines of subject with a very simple but elegant style of presentation. I liked the book for its coverage and simplicity. I recommend the book for my graduate students specializing in knowledge-based computing. I wish you all to see the book once and recommend it to your colleagues

Its quiet good book for novices. Using this book we can learn how to create plug-ins and other things like how to install plug-ins, uses etc.,.

I was very disappointed in the content and undercover marketing scheme to get signed on to telescan. We need books to enlighten new investors not pay to play.

The book did do a fair job of showing the reader what is possible with a stock search programs; one in particular Telescan (which a trial version was included with my book.) Overall it lent itself too mush to this single program and read like a user manual for it; the book would be pretty much usless if you don't own telescan at a cost of arround $500.

David Brown and Kassandra Bentley have produced a practical and very real approach to cracking the market. Through real life examples, you will learn what makes prices move and how far those prices are likely to move . After reading this book you will have the tools to approach trading with confidence and a very good basis for further growth. You will keep it as one of your favorite book

Completely worthless and a waste of time. About a third of the book that is supposedly about Linux is about how to write and publish HTML documents. Gives no valuable help on how to set up ppp, only gives the theory of it and *no examples*. Do not get this book, even though the cover looks nice.

This book is only good if you want the software. By now (2/98) the software is outdated. The other reader is correct about the Red Hat image being incorrect but the correct image is in another directory. It doesnt say it anywhere in the docs, you have to poke around the CD for it. The chapter on recompiling the kernel is incorrect. I had to use one of my older books for that. It also omits crucial ending steps so linux will see the new kernel. The chapter on PPP with pppd and chat is good but you can get that info anywhere. Actually the PPP HOWTO on the CD is better. In its section on Networking, it doesn't tell you that you have to add networking to your kernel to make all that TCP/IP stuff work. This requires a recompile but oops, that part is incorrect

My first try at Linux--at least I got it and x-windows installed and running, after the publisher put a patch on the net--the Red Hat boot image was wrong and it couldn't load from the CD! After installation, the book becomes less than useful. It's vague, applications mentioned aren't installed (in Red Hat version), file names and paths are often wrong, and ultimately it's a poor guide to Linux. I just bought "Discover Linux" by IDG, and while it isn't as "meaty" as this book, and doesn't go into as much depth into things like networking and TCP/IP basics, it GIVES THE ANSWERS YOU NEED to enjoy and use Linux!

Bill Platt details and analyzes the tensions between Black Americans and Latinos. He covers a range of controversies from Miami, to New York, to Los Angeles. He argues why the two minority groups need to get along better. I have two major problems with this text. First, it overlooks the many instances in which blacks and browns get along quite well. I am an African-American and I think that the majority of us would say that we get along better with Latinos than we do with whites or Asians. Particularly in this age, many minority programs have to be split between blacks and Latinos (thus the proliferation of made-up words like "Af-Lat", "Blatino", "Blackano", etc.), thus forcing the two groups to see eye to eye. Further, I think the book is written in a simplistic style that borders on insulting the reader. I love the topic, but I was a little disappointed by the book.

This book was horrible and pointless. Stop now and don't buy it