I was surprised and excited to receive a signed photo journal from George Thomas. I had looked in books that offered good quality, applicable pictures that I could look at while researching and reading other books (i.e. Undaughted Courage- Steven Ambrose, and Out West- Dave Duncan). I was surprised how hard it was to find a book with many pictures of the trail highlights

This book has not only pictures of the many landmarks along the trail but also suggested old camp sites and river forks described in the story books and journals (I believe they were taken around the same time of year the explorers traveled).

I would suggest this book for everyone!

The photography was breathtaking. It is an excellent book for the layman. I would advise any history buff to read this book. It is also an excellent resource for teachers.

After the first three books which consisted of pure sublime Gregory in a cell with an imaginary rat, Gregory is moved out to live with a family. This is my favourite of the Gregory books as he takes back stage to the family around him. It has towards the end one of the most touching moments I have ever read. Well worth a read, but get at least one of the earlier Gregory books first to understand quite how not on this planet Gregory is.

This is the best factual reference book I've seen on the Vietnam War. Not only are the entries concise and PREcise, some of them are humorous as well. The author's personality shines though the entries even though they are treated with respect and...pride. Highly recommended for authors, researchers, and Vietnam veterans.

Great book for Golive users who want to go to the next level.

Golive is a very powerful web authoring program and Golive 6 Magic is very good in showing some of the features that I might have never duscovered on my own.

Text macros, Quicktime and Flash sniffer techniques, creating Quicktime sprites and skins, cool DHTML projects (I like the online calender), authoring your own javascript actions, getting into the SDK, setting up your own Dynamic database content management system with PHP and MySQL are some of the 14 projects included.

There is a companion CD that has all the data for Golive 6 to use when you follow along with the book.

Some of the projects seemed a bit intimidating to an intermediate user like myself, but the book is layed out so clearly that it was fun to delve into the projects.

I have set up my own MySQL,PHP database for the first time thanks to Golive 6 magic ( a sample database is included).

This is a needed addition to the Golive library.

If you want to take GoLive a few steps further then this is the book for you. Though this book is not for the novice GoLive user, as somone who considers himself in the intermediate/advanced user category I found it very useful indeed. My biggest problem was installing the Dynamic Content Servers from the GoLive CD so that I could work through the "Building a Dynamic Content Management System using PHP and MySQL" Project!

Author Paul Vachier brings in "GoLive Superstars" such as Rob Keniger as contributors to great advantage.

I have really enjoyed working through the tutorials which are very well edited. Often I get frustrated with books like these because I find that the text does not always match up with the practical steps to be taken. However in GoLive 6 Magic they matched very well indeed. I actually had fun doing it. And now after working through "Creating Quicktime Sniffers" to "Displaying Random Images and URLs" to "Building Dynamic Content" and the other 11 tutorials I think that I am a much more skilled user. What more can I ask?

If you use Adobe Golive to create web sites and want to dig deeper into the powerful program, this book will help you do it.

It has 14 projects, along with a companion CD (contains all the necessary data to use in Golive), that will increase your knowledge of Golive and help you to create more advanced web sites.

Creating and using text macros, authoring your own javascript actions,
very cool dhtml projects (I really like the online calender), authoring wireless handheld web sites, and setting up your own dynamic content management system using PHP and MySQL (with a sample database included).

Some of the projects may seem a bit intimidating to intermediate users like myself, but when I went thru the book,I found that it is layed out so clearly that it became fun to delve into the projects.

I am setting up the PHP and mySQL Dynamic link as I write and I have never done it before!

A very cool and needed addition to the Golive library.

David Cowles and other faculty at BYU have come up with a very decent introduction to critical theories. I enjoyed reading it and found its explanations helpful.

That the book is too reductive is the major complaint I've heard as I've spoken with other students who have used it. These are usually English M.A. students, though. Especially after studying more in-depth the theories that the book covers, I admit that it's reductive, but I also wonder how I would go about writing an unreductive INTRODUCTION to anything.

I think that this book can be extremely useful to students wanting to get acquainted with the general aspects of theory, and the key is that they remember that it's only an introduction.

This is a super introduction to various critical approaches. Unlike authors of other books of this kind, the authors of "The Critical Experience" write in easy-to-understand language rather than stilted Academian. It was probably not designed for MA students, or even for undergraduates who sit in the library, bantering about the benefits of new historicism and why relativism is impractical.
Now, as an MA student, I have found myself returning to this book on numerous occasions throughout my academic career, and sometimes it's refreshing to go to a textbook for clarification and finding it without being made to feel like a dolt because I have to look up every other word in my elegant, pretentious textbook.
Admittedly, there are moments in this book when the authors become excessively chatty (esp. in the Poststructuralist chapter) and it is maddening, but there is a lot of good information to be taken from these pages. It isn't the ultimate Critical Experience, and it doesn't set out to be. But it's not "Dick and Jane's Pop-up Book of Literary Criticism," either.