This book was used by my plant propagation teacher while I was at the university. It explains the basic principles of plant propagation in detail. All the information is back-up by scientific data. Very good for the professional grower or a plant science student; not very appropriate for the common gardener.

A very informative book with many examples of plant species and their specific propagation requirements. Very detailed but also useful for the beginning propagationist. Great chapters on tissue culture.

For fans of plant propogation, this is a must-read. I read it every night, and I can't get enough of it. Be sure to dog-ear the section about the "stigma fertilizing the stamen." It's hot!

Excellent information for the person just starting to study ballet. Be it child or grown up, this book is filled with facts from ballet technique to history, and even includes a dictionary of ballet terms. A must for any child starting ballet.....although one must realize that the ballet studio described in the book is not what one will ALWAYS find... studios' set up and rules do vary... Especially informative is the section about famous ballet dancers and choreographers, as well as the sketches showing how to do the basic positions and steps. You will not be dissatisfied with this one.

I went to the library and tried every book they have on the topic... we keep renewing this one, so now I'm going to buy it. This is like all the other books combined... it has everything!

The diagrams of steps and positions, in adition to the basic first five, are extensive and well-organized into chapters on Exercises at the Barre, Centre Work, Jumps and Travelling Steps... rounding off with A Simple Dance (combining various steps, etc.), and ending with a short (1-page) discussion of steps for two people (no diagrams here, just a few illustrations of people in costume).

My daughter is barely 3 and loves it... first thing in the morning we do some of the excersizes together and practice some of the basic positions. Before nap time, we read the story of how ballet began, look at the pictures of the costumes and the pictures of clothes people wear to a ballet class, talk about which ones she wants to wear someday when she is old enough to take a ballet class, and how you make up your own ballet. (She has made up her own silly ones, too.) And before bed at night, we read (and re-read ad infinitum!) the Stories of Ballets (though you do have to ad-lib to soften them a bit for kids this young, because most of them end in tragedy) and of Famous Dancers.

Our day does not revolve around ballet so much as it does around books and playing... but for over 2 months now, this book has not been out of the lineup one single afternoon or night.

And I'll never give up our morning exercise routine, so this book's big collection of diagrammed positions is something we will be able to grow into over time.

My daughter isn't interested in the sections on The Structure of a Ballet Company, Ballet As A Career, or Life At A Ballet School, but I thought they were great, and I can see how they can put some reality into the fantasies of parents or pre-teens.

On top of all that, there's a glossary at the end and a full index... it's just a very well-written book, appropriate for ALL ages.

"Meet Thomas and His Friends" is the perfect book to introduce your baby to these characters. The simple pictures and sweet expressions appeal to babies, as do the bright colors. My toddler has advanced to other books featuring Thomas, but still enjoys the My First Thomas series.

This book is loved by my one year old. The flaps lift in different directions and he never gets tired of seeing who is behind each one. The book is also pretty sturdy for his clumbsy fingers. The pictures are colorful and the text is short enough that he doesn't get bored before turning the page.

I've been using TCP/IP for longer than I care to remember. Over the years, I've seen two kinds of TCP/IP books - pure technical detail, and administrative trivia (more dialog box shots than actual text)

This book is exactally what it says it it is: a great technical reference. The book works through the layers in the TCP/IP stack in a ethodical and logical way. Each layer in the TCP/IP model is cleanly and clearly described and well illustrated by network traces (which are all included to be on the CD).

So far, I've not found ANY mistakes (unlike some other 1st editions of TCP/IP books). I only wish the author had been able to do more (eg RADIUS, QOS0. Naybe the author can write a volume 2. And if he does - I'd buy it!

I bought this book based on the reviews here, and I sure got my money's worth. Who knows, maybe I'll meet the author one day.

Ken

As a junior windows 2000 network administrator when I first purchased this book I needed a reference with easy to understand information but technical enough to help me with my everyday task. After reading this book I went from barely knowing how TCP/IP worked in a Windows 2000 environment to knowing how each type of ethernet frame was made thanks to the extremely well explained (and detailed) schemas. The IP routing chapter is also very well written and explained. The book also comes with a CD which contains all the network monitor traces for the examples in this volume. I personally can't wait for the .net version of this book comming later this year...Congradulations on a well written book to Thomas Lee and Joe Davies!

Why read RFC's, white papers, and boring technical papers? Because until this book that was the only way to disseminate excellent information on a very important subject. TCP/IP is the protocol suite, and Thomas Lee makes it all make sense.

The input of the other authors Laura Robinson and Joe Davies make this complete volume worth twice the price.

This book will go proudly between Comer and Albitz & Liu on my bookshelf. Those are some pretty big pages to fill, but this book delivers.

It's all about quality.

After reading just a few pages I flew with my book over 1000 miles to have Thomas Lee sign my it at a Microsoft Professional Trainer Conference. He was very nice about signing it and signed others who purchased it at the conference as well. In fact, they sold out in the first couple of days of the conference. No wonder after you pick it up to look at it, you just can't put it down. I just wish I could of had Laura sign it too.

A wonderful little book. Dangerous is full of incongruities, but he's loyal, dogged, "canny" in his own way, and seems to hold no grudges. I make a point of rereading it every year or year-and-a-half because it always makes me smile. (I close my eyes and I can almost see Dangerous charging up the stairs with a bucket on his head.) It helps that it is a competent mystery with a surprise ending. For a double treat, see the English-made movie by the same title starring Bernard Cribbins.

Just read it. You'll know what I mean

Henry, the green tender engine in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends series, tends to be a bit boastful about his abilities to the smaller engines. When it begins to rain, Henry lets his vanity go to his head and refuses to come out of a tunnel and risk getting rain on his lovely green paint. To teach him a lesson, Sir Topham Hatt has a wall built at the tunnel exit, forcing Henry to remain there until he changes his attitude! As days pass, Henry's green paint gets sooty and cold, and the other engines go about their business around him. Henry must then reconsider his stance, and just in time to help Gordon the Great Engine out of a real fix. This story is a wonderful one for illustrating what one misses out on by being haughty and not cooperating with others.

So I was getting ready to reread Don Quijote (1605)(Miguel de Cervantes 1547-1616) in the excellent Burton Raffel translation and as I was looking for information about the book and author, saw repeated references to Fielding's Joseph Andrews. I'd read his Tom Jones a couple of years ago and found it kind of tough sledding, but when I stumbled upon this one at a library book sale for a quarter, it seemed a stroke of destiny.

The parallels with Don Quijote are readily apparent. First of all, the book consists of a series of humorous travel adventures; second, the travellers involved seem too innocent to survive in the harsh world that confronts them. When Joseph Andrews, the naive footman of Lady Booby, deflects the amorous advances of both her Ladyship and Slipslop, the Lady's servant, he is sent packing. Upon his dismissal, Joseph, along with his friend and mentor Parson Adams, an idealistic and good-hearted rural clergyman, who essentially takes the physical role of Sancho Panza but the moral role of Quijote, sets out to find his beloved but chaste enamorata, Fanny Goodwill, who had earlier been dismissed from Lady Booby's service as a result of Slipslop's jealousy. In their travels they are set upon repeatedly by robbers, continually run out of funds and Adams gets in numerous arguments, theological and otherwise. Meanwhile, Fanny, whom they meet up with along the way, is nearly raped any number of times and is eventually discovered to be Joseph's sister, or maybe not.. The whole thing concludes with a farcical night of musical beds, mistaken identities and astonishing revelations.

I've seen this referred to as the first modern novel; I'm not sure why, in light of it's obvious debt to Cervantes. But it does combine those quixotic elements with a seemingly accurate portrayal of 18th Century English manners and the central concern with identity and status do place it squarely in the modern tradition.

At any rate, it is very funny and, for whatever reason, seemed a much easier read than Tom Jones. I recommend it unreservedly.

GRADE: B+

This pocket size reference guide includes equations and functions used in common circuits. The book also provides printed BASIC programs that may be entered and used to calculate most of the equations.

The book contains twenty chapters packed with equations. 1. The DC Voltage 2. Resistors 3. DC circuits 4. Network theorems 5. Time 6. The AC Voltage 7. Capacitors 8. Inductors 9. DC Transients 10. Electromagnetism 11. AC Circuits 12. Phasors 13. Transformers 14. DC Supplies 15. Transistor Amplifiers 16. Operational Amplifiers 17. Oscillators 18. Filters and Attenators 19. Denary, Binary, and Logic 20. Two And Three Phase Systems

This is a handy if somewhat eclectic little collection, with works by some poets who are hard to find elsewhere, such as Henry Howard. If you don't have a copy of the long-out-of-print Hebel and Hudson anthology of English Renaissance Poetry, pick up this.

Leslie Thomas writes an amazing variety of books from "travel guide-ish" non fictions to comedy dramas from a female perspective. This is one of a series of comedy/mysteries about an unorthodox detective called Dangerous Davies who is continually falling on mishap after mishap. It is a good read but perhaps not as touching as some of his other works. If you're after a good mystery, read Agatha Christie. If you want to read a great tale about ordinary humans, try one of Leslie Thomas' other novels. Unfortunately, this is somewher in the middle.

this book is an excellent example of the genre... not meant to be in a league with pulitzer prize winning novels but a good lighthearted read about an interesting anti-hero...i liked it enough to have amazon searching for the earlier novels.