When i purchased this book it was because i had to for a college course but i was already an intermediate programmer. Although i already knew most of the contents of the book, i couldnt help but notice if i had bought this book when i was first starting out i would have saved so much time and money. When i started i purchased 2 books one of them being from the **** for dummies collection which i would highly vote against doing and the other was too technical without enough explanation. This one is highly detailed and step by step, after each chapter it gives you a full rundown of the code with detailed notes. If your serious about learning VB6 i dont know of any other book out thatll get you programming well in such a short time.

I finally found it!! I had checked this book out from a library and it was the exact kind of book I needed. If I remember right the ladies that wrote this book had written it for a Visual BASIC college class that they taught. It's mostly revolved around the necessities and doesn't stray away to off the wall graphics programs or anything dramatic, but maintains a clear learner's course of Visual BASIC. Plus, it doesn't try to teach you VB in one day, wich seems to be the trend of many popular books.

If you're tired of all those "Learn VB in X Hours" books then I'd recommend giving this a try. Heck, there's even a book out now called "Learn Visual Basic in Ten Minutes". lol

The authors start with very basic elements in the first 3 chapters: the IDE, form design, controls, properties, methods, datatypes, and variable scope, etc. But the book moves right along, by chapter 11, you're learning to access database files. The authors present the material with a very logical progression, I didn't find myself skipping around, which I had done with other books on the subject. The explanantions are concise, no boring filler here, but there are many examples of syntax and code. At the end of each chapter, a complete program is presented to bring everything together. I've attempted to learn Visual Basic with other books, but I wish I would have found this one first. It is written in a manner that anyone could understand, gives good code examples and the projects are enjoyable. I've recently started the Advanced version of this book and hope to move to the next level. I would definately recommend this book for any beginner in Visual Basic 6.

A great book with suprising stories from the best country singers. It is a great book, very inspirational stories just one problem, wish they had more stories because they run out quickly, and your left wanting more.

What a great job Julie Clay did writing this touching book. Even though the book is about "Stars" you can relate to their stories of childhood days. The way Julie tells their stories, you can picture them in your mind like you are right there. The illustrations in the book are wonderful. I hope Julie will do another one of these type books in the near future.

What a joy to have this collection in our home! We promote reading with all of our three children although it is sometimes hard to find material that they will all enjoy. This is it. The Stars That Shine is a beautifully written and illustrated collection of true stories retold to us in an eloquent fashion. From Bugger Red to little Mae, these stories will warm your heart and remind you both of your childhood memories and of the importance in creating positive memories for your own children. It's a 'must have' addition to any family library.

I agree with a previous reviewer, this book is perfect if you've ever lived in a closeted relationship. The story starts out on a classic plot line, two lovers are together at the beginning and then they run into problems. The ending is classic but I won't spoil it for you. What stars as two lovers moving to a small hick town so one of them can have a job turns into a warming novel of love, friendship, and what it's like when you feel like you're the only gay person in town. Simply perfect.

I had some trepidation when we were assigned this book for an Appalachian literature class. Naiad does not, after all, publish things for me, but this book is a southern classic. Its gentle mocking tone limns the characters in a small Kentucky town with love and shows us that through community one can find acceptance. I went out and bought all of her books after this one and think they are all brilliant.

It is time for everyone to discover this fine writer. Maybe think about her as Appalachian if the gay thing makes you queasy. In a class of 28 people everyone, male and female gay and straight, even people in their 60s, thought this book was the best we'd read. You should read it too.

Living in the "Boston Lesbian Ghetto" and having relationships that are similar to that of Bev and Andie makes this book even harder to put down. This book is perfect for anyone who has experienced the pressures of closeted relationships. The author has a way of bringing life to the page. This book is highly recomended.

Svetlana Aleksievich is a prominant Belorussian feminist writer. Her best-known work is "War's Unwomanly Face", a collection of interviews with rank-and-file women soldiers of World War ll. Despite her personal anti-war sentiment radiating from every page, the author's treatment of the veterans is sympathetic and respectful. After all, they sacrificed their youth in the Great Patriotic War. That titanic struggle is commemorated every year, its soldiers honored as heroes of their Motherland. Not so the Afghanistan War and its veterans. Not unlike American Vietnam vets, afgantsi were damned and forgotten by their homeland. "Zinky Boys" takes its name from the zinc coffins which transported Soviet remains from Afghanistan. The USSR did not learn much from the American experience in Vietnam, but one lesson they did realize early was public reaction to planeloads of returning coffins. "Zinkies" were delivered to families at night, in a government attempt to conceal information about numbers and types of casualties. Like her previous work, this book is a collection of interviews from the author's distinctly pacifist viewpoint. Fully half of her contributors are women. Most are grieving mothers, sisters, sweethearts, and wives of soldiers. These did, and still do, comprise Russia's largest and most influential feminist movement. Their stories are absolutely heartbreaking. Other correspondents include female medical personnel who treated wounded. Theirs are harrowing stories of the mutilations committed by mujahedin ("holy warriors"), whose favored attrocities were dismemberments and castrations. Some victims were tournicated and left alive to be rescued by their comrades. They often begged their surgeons not to save them. The sealed coffins of those who died of dismemberment were horribly lightweight on the shoulders of their pallbearers back home. Cynically, the military learned to weight such coffins with dirt to prevent questions from bereaved relatives. The final group of female contributors are "civilian workers", most often a euphemism for prostitutes, who went to Afghanistan for their "international duty". These correspondents speak of the emotional burden of officers and young conscripts. The majority of the men interviewed by Aleksievich are suffering from physical ailments, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, nightmares, alcoholism, and other maladies which also affected their "vietnamtsi" counterparts. These men fought a largely unsupported war against an enemy who spurned conventional tactics. They witnessed violent death and unspeakable torture of their comrades. Often they were forced to slaughter innocent Afghan civilians used by mujahedin as human-shields for their strike-and-run operations. Aleksievich has little compassion for Afghanistan vets. Like a Soviet equivalent of Jane Fonda, she accuses them of being murderers and baby-killers. She simplistically lauds the mujahedin for "defending their country", perhaps ignorant of the fact that they were mostly foreign jihadists recruited, funded, supplied, and trained by the USA to fight a proxy war with the USSR. Not surprisingly, Aleksievich was hailed by the Soviet anti-war movement while hated by the government and veterans. It is ironic that her book mimics the Soviet press by publishing only a single POV. She does give a sound-off platform to one offended and anonymous afganetz, but presents him as a disturbed psycho. Vietnam vets would probably identify. This is not the best book about the USSR's disasterous, decade-long conflict. Readers wanting to know the history and reasons behind it, as well as its present-day ramifications, are urged to get John Cooley's "Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism". For better understanding of the ordeal of the Soviet soldier, get Artem Borovik's "The Hidden War". But I nevertheless recommend reading "Zinky Boys". Despite its shortcomings, it succeeds brilliantly in its own category: a feminist treatise against war and a voice for those whose lives were destroyed by it.

I read this book last year, long before the September 11th attacks on the US. At times I had to put the book down because it was too disturbing. Top brass at the Pentagon and Fort Bragg, as well as prospective recruits in UK and US, need to read this book soon as it is one of a few books available from the grunt perspective. The information in this book aligns with what we are now hearing from US and British operatives who worked against the Soviets for ten years. For historical reinforcement read THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER by Rudyard Kipling!

This book is the absolute best I've ever seen on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When I picked it up, I was expecting a collection of dull narratives with occasional interesting ones. I was VERY wrong. Every story presented is fascinating and gives a human side to the Soviets who participated in the long Afghan war. The reader will learn of the zinc coffins supposedly carrying remains of dead soldiers winding their way home to families. However, these coffins often didn't contain anything. The reader will learn of the savagery of combat in the Afghan War and recoil at the mutilations done to Soviet prisoners. The reader is also exposed to the inhumanity and corruption of the Soviet government. For example, the government abandoned its soldiers in depots in central asia and made the troops (many of whom were from the eastern part of the Soviet Union) make their back as best they could. No paid transportation, nothing. Also the government forced secret funerals to be held for the dead so that the general public wouldn't find out about the war's growing casualty list. I highly recommend this book to all history buffs and to those who just want to understand what was going through the minds of average Soviets during a war often remembered by those outside Afghanistan and Russia as a blurb on the nightly news.

This is a great book to have handy. As a complement to this guide and a realistic approach to the genealogy issue I recommend the "Ancestry DNA Toolbox" available at .... Many studies with the human Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA have made it possible to trace back our ancestry. In many cases names and DNA markers can be coupled to study our genealogy. It is not an easy task but worth investigating.

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For those of us who have learned to begin our days with morning pages, this calendar provides little reminders of the "artist's way" journey. While very much an engagement calendar, it does not scream "DO THIS NOW." Instead, it gently suggests a creative task for the week. This is a gorgeous calendar that will serve well, whether you've read The Artist's Way or not. I plan to buy one every year as long as they are available.

I have not read the Artist's Way, but you don't have to in order to become inspired. Each month and each week has a meditation or exercise to become more creative or more in tune with your spiritual side. The graphics are lovely, the paperstock is of the finest quality, and there is plenty of room to enter your engagements. I am very picky about my engagement calendars since I have to live w/ it for a year... this is one which will become a favorite for sure!

My grandchildren have all three puppy and me series books and love to have me read to them from the books. Julia Noonan is a talented illustrator and writer. I hope she writes and illustrates many more books.

This book is a gem. It makes a perfect companion to the Puppy and Me Breakfast Time. This book wonderfully illustrates the charm and wonder of an "outdoors" bath. The story is a simple one of a baby and puppy bathing together and the spontaneous fun that ensues. The illustrations are particularly unique and soft - almost the look and feel of the 1950's. The story is in rhyme also, which is always a plus for the reader and listener.

Blue Ridge Shadows is the first collection of fictional stories that I could not put down until I finished the entire book. Her character discriptions had me wondering if I knew these folks or if just maybe, these were my relatives.

All in her collection held my attention and my imagination. Davis Lee, Chanson Triste, and Dancing on Graves were three favorites. The Jacket, continues to haunt me and is by far my favorite. I attended a reading by Duncan and asked her to write a sequel with a different ending. Something touched a nerve in me. Maybe I saw too much of myelf in some aspects in Mason, maybe I knew a Mason.

A wonderful book for almost any age level. I highly recomend anyone reading this. We want more, Julia.

This is the first collection of fiction from Iris Press, a small publisher in Oak Ridge, TN, which has previously published a number of substantial "literary" poets, mostly from the region.

Duncan's abilities sparkle in this collection. Her prose is precise, seamless, and completely authentic. The reader never gets the feeling that Duncan is just an observer of her characters. The intimate relationship that she has with the blue collar people of her region is clearly demonstrated over and over in her loving presentation of these "ordinary" lives.

While "Isaac's Room," "Dancing on Graves," and "Davis Lee" are the best of this volume, there are many other of these dark stories that will linger with the reader long after the book has been finished.

Duncan is another undiscovered talent that deserves the attention of a NY publisher. To its literary crown, North Carolina adds another star.

What more can be said about this book, then simply wonderful? It's a great story, that is enjoyed by children and the illustrations are just as captivating. Enjoy!

I have had this book since I was very young, and it has always been one of my favorites. I always found the story fun and entertaining as a child, but now that I'm a bit older, I realize that I still enjoy it. The story is enjoyable, but the illustrations are wonderful also. Highly recommended!

Julia Alvarez creates a rousing literary work in both Spanish and English with A Cafecito Story, the engrossing story of a Nebraska farmer's boy who becomes a teacher and eventually finds his life changed by a sojourn to the Dominican Republic. A Cafecito Story is highly recommended as being an intriguing blend of sparse writing, specific images, and involving discussions.

This simple story of a man, a new life, and a family struggling to survive and to be literate was moving to me. The lovely illustrations are woodcuts by Belkis Ramirez, an artist from the Dominican Republic. Also, as a rabid coffee lover, it brought back memories of rich aromatic coffee in cafes in Guatemala and Mexico. I recommend this book for anyone who is trying to live her or his life deliberately, trying to help with sustainable agriculture, and trying to make a difference in small but vital ways to a more balanced global economy.