With all the books written on Roman architecture and art, I was thrilled to find this comprehensive book on domestic Roman interiors. Written in a reader friendly manner - the book covers all elements of Roman interiors from mosaics, architectural elements, layout and visual axis to the four decorative styles. It even helps the reader to understand the motivation behind these styles, and how the Romans felt about their interiors. I would say this book is a must have for any interior design student.

The selection of tales in this book is excellent, the cover and the illustrations are luxorious, and more than worth what you pay. I was very pleasantly surprised when I opened the package and saw this book, because I needed it for a friend, and it is, indeed, a wonderful present.

If your looking for a great book about care and maintinance of your boxer look no further. This is everything i ever hoped for in a book.

There sun classes are interesting, but outdated now. The book contains many typos and misprintings. This author seems to write books in a rapid succession and unfortunately includes a lot of mistakes. Mistake-riddled seems to be a common theme in most reviews of Rusty's books.

This is not a book where you gonna learn how to write HalloWorld.java and that's GREAT!! This book allow you to learn some new things about java that you didn't know before, but not as much new stuff as the author promised you in the beginning of the book. If you have programmed java for a while and want to discover new tricks of java, this could be the book for you.

This book promises a lot, and often delivers. However, there are enough deficiencies that the prospective buyer should consider waiting for the second edition. The biggest problem with the book is that, like so many other Java titles, it was rushed out the door. This is most apparent in the book's figures, which range from perplexing to downright misleading, due to widespread errors and omissions. For example, the diagram of the byte layout for a little-endian machine is simply wrong. Various other diagrams which show the stack before and after various bytecode operations are half-finished -- literally. They have one or two parameters filled in, and the rest are blank. It's mind-boggling that the editors thought it wasn't important enough to get these simple things right and delay the book's release slightly. But that seems to be the current thinking behind many current Java books. Fortunately, Harold's text is generally correct, even when the figures aren't. So if you're willing to pointedly ignore the figures, you can get some good information from the book. My only other complaint is a more subjective one: While promising to reveal Java secrets, much of the book focuses on the Sun classes, which are not guaranteed to be portable at all -- Harold addresses all this well, but the bottom line is that well over 50% of the book is devoted to these non-portable classes. If this is what you're looking for, it's a great resource, but if you are not interested in the inner workings of the Sun packages, you may be somewhat disappointed.

These people love their research, and they do a credible job of singing the songs. The music is what you'd find at a coffee shop -- pretty much sounding all the same after an hour. The style is definitely Western, i.e. not as much influenced by Scots-Irish or Appalachian styles as it is by the 1930s folk singers like Guthrie.

Don't bother with this book. It's really, really, really bad. It's not written well at all and it's like reading the dictionary.

As an avid reader of westerns, I picked up this book because it was by a local author, and I thought it would be interesting to experience the west through a new type of hero that has not been explored much, the African American cowboy. But this book was painfully trite and boring. The main character is nothing more than a caricature, and completely full of himself. Not wanting to judge too quickly, I read another book by the same author following the same caricuture, er character.The author can't even keep his own characters straight. In a previous book the main character Jay, was half African American, half Apache. In this book, he's half white and half African American. Please don't waste your time on this book, stick to the classic westerns like the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy.