The resplendent writing style is what nourishes the readers' attention in these exploration narratives of John Fremont. His exploring responsibilities were to map and survey the American West, and gather scientific data on geology, botany, zoology, geography and natural resources. In addition to these responsibilities, he was to observe Native American cultures and suggest locations for future military forts for the protection of the soon to be thousands of overland emigrants. These exploration narratives are a total pleasure to read, being very descriptive, vivid and realistic as to their day to day existence. Fremont and his expeditions covered thousands of miles, gathering a plethora of information for future generations and setting the tone for westward migrations. The first one to coin the phrase "Great Basin" because of his exploration efforts; put an end to the mythical Buenaventura River legend which was suppose to be a major waterway connecting the Rockies with the Pacific; and discoverer of Lake Tahoe. He and his men suffered through hunger, thirst, frigid temperatures, snow, Indian confrontations, etc. Should have access to a map however, as this version does not contain one. Excellent book. Highly recommend.

This comic is just great. It is a series of vignettes with a different artist/style to each one and each has great artwork, writing and dark sensibilities. Wow Bob wow!

read quite a few!) Just a great, plain-language explanation of the rise of life on Earth. How bacteria evolved, how fish evolved, how we evolved. The illustrations really make the book too, with gorgeous scenes of prehistoric life. Mr. Reader weaves the last 3.5 billion years into a smooth flowing narrative that really made me want to continue reading. I've never had that effect from a "scientific" book before! I can't believe it's out of print. Get this book back in print for the next generation!

This is an excellent book for those who are seeking answers to what the book of Revelations has to say about our future. I am very grateful to the Authors and have learned much about what my attitude should be towards those who are "spiritually lost". I pray this book will be a tool for reaching them.

Butch Cassidy, thought to be dead by friend and foe alike, encounters Charlie Siringo, an ex-pinkerton who chased Cassidy's gang 20-years ago, meet in Hollywood and are soon bound for the deserts of Mexico with a beautiful Victoria Hartford and ther film crew. They come face-to-face with Pancho Villa's revolution in one of the greatest adventures of thier life.

An elaborate melding of careful research and lively invention bring Butch back alive.

Reading this book is an cheerful thing.it is fit for all kinds of people.

This is a great critique of Charles saatchi. It is the best one I have seen I highly recomend it to all people intrested in it.

I'm more into photography than anything else, which is why I read this book. The photos are fabulous -- Tibet is so complex and fascinating and funny! Not just monks and solemn things, also farmers having picnic lunches with beer, kids playing, markets, festivals, fabulous costumes and headdresses. Really, if you want to see how extraorinary and intricate Tibetan culture was (before the Chinese, at least!) this is the book to buy. Fab fab fab!

I've just received this book, and I must say I'm so very impressed. I also own John's book Win32 Core API (win 2000 Edition). I found the Core API reference to be only barely what I needed, it was dealing with fairly advanced topics, and gave a scattering of information I actually needed.

But This book, the Shell API has everything I ever wanted in a Delphi Win32 API reference. This is a fabulous reference indeed. Using Win API functions some times can be easier to impliment than understanding complex Delphi structures, and some don't offer the flexibility you want, and others suffer from speed in the translation between Delphi and API. This book shows you very well how to put that "one little add on" into your Delphi Applications you need to make it work the way you want, without having to muddle things up with a huge component of which you only need one part.

This book also deals with the basics, explaing the ideas of programming API in Delphi, explaining the basics of fundamental things like Callback Functions as well as the basics of handles, constants and strings in Windows, even a bit on Unicode.

It has sections on:

Window Movement functions, with everything you ever wanted to do to a window in one line or less

Windows Information Functions, with wonderful calls to obtain information on the status or information of any window, including Setting parent and so on.

File IO, while Delphi handles File IO well, this excels at finding the information on the information in Files, including flushing file buffers, on change notifications, Locking files, and so on.

Input Functions: A rather bare bones section o n getting data from windows (carets, cursurs, etc), Mouse joystick, and Keyboard data. Would have been nice for Serial and USB information...

String and Atom functions: Dealing with formatting of strings which probably doesn't meet with the flexability of Delphi itself, but is helpful in those rare circumstances.

Clipboard Manipulation Functions: A wealth of dealing with the clipboard in Windows, one of the great sections of the book.

System INformation Functions: Getting almost anything you want to know about the system, this is VERY valuable information indeed.

Icons, Cursor, and Caret functions: Of all the things I hated, was the inability to mess directly with the windows icons/carets and so on effectively in Delphi. This offers Everything you could possibly ever need to create Icon's on the fly, setting the cursor, hiding the caret and more.

Help Functions: Explains the WinHelp architecture, shows how to create an HTML help file.

Shell File Functions: This, is why you should buy this book more than anythihng else. The information in here is extensive Dealing with all kinds of storage, streams and so on in a Delphi manner (streams were always oddly implimented in Delphi to me).

Shell Folder Functions: Another Must Have, this is just fabulous stuff including querrying the Recycling bin, browsing for folders, getting settings of folders, and so on.

Shell Extension Functions: Teaches you the basics, URL hooking, copy, shell executing, Drag-Drop handling, and more.

Specialized Shell Functions: From control panel message handling, writing control panel applications, application bars, and more.

INcluded is also a very helpful reference of all the windows Data Types, as well as a total Virtual Key code chart (very helpful), and something called the Tertiary Raster Operation Code Chart, which I don't know what it is, but hey it's extensive as heck!

Well worth the money, this is a must have book. Should have been published BEFORE the Core API book in my opinion, but the wait was well worth it.

Ed Williams

Dr. Charles Feinburg is a scholar and the people that have contributed articles compiled in this book are outstanding. The book essentially deals with a lot of Old Testament materials. I happen to take interest at John Feinburg's article on "Old Testament Salvation". This book was truly helpful as I was working on a paper for Adavenced Biblical Studies, on the very same topic.