I'm a long time fan to Herriman work. When I find a new book with his drawings I go get it that instant. I got this and had a great shock!!! This is a b/w book that does not show all the greatness of Herriman art. Herriman used colors, shapes and shades at such a great level that you should try to find a book that will do him justice.

Regarding the review below: Sunday Krazy Kat strips were not printed in color until 1934, so the strips in this volume (which covers the period from 1927 to 1928) are presented as they were originally published. While there are many pre-1934 strips that were hand-colored by Herriman, they were intended to be personal gifts to fellow cartoonists and not for publication.

Comics do not get much better than Krazy Kat. These new editions have brought me out of mourning for the Eclipse series (the single volumes of which sometimes go for $100+ on e-bay). Plus, these are great looking books and each one is filled with extra info and photographs in the introduction and some cool tidbit in the back (this one has a picture of a wooden Ignatz doll complete with box from the 1920s).

Krazy Kat can be classified as art, but hopefully it won't be classified TOO MUCH as art, because it can be appreciated on many levels as well as an artistic one. Krazy's worst fate would be to end up as solely a museum piece for aficionados. Krazy doesn't belong in a museum, he/she belongs in books; which is what makes this series so great. I just wish they could print all of them at once.

Krazy Kat works by means of the tension of 3 forces: innocence, evil, and justice. Krazy is the ultimate innocent who, when Offissa Pup pummels Ignatz with his club, merely says "Those two play so well togedda." Ignatz is evil and maybe obsession. His grand purpose in life is to "bean" Krazy with bricks. He sometimes goes to Rube Goldberg extremes to succeed. Offissa Pup is justice which is sometimes just, sometimes political, sometimes personal. In an old daily strip, Offissa Pup grabs Ignatz and says "To the jail, viper!" When Ignatz replies "Why?" Offissa Pup only says "Because it gives me pleasure." Things get more complex because Krazy loves Ignatz and Offissa Pup often insinuates that he loves Krazy. A futile love triangle and battle of good, evil, and justice gets mixed up in a strange salad.

It is simply one of the best comics ever produced.

The book does a good job showing you how to use AutoCad 2000 in a mechanical environment. However the book did not deal with the menu and commands found in AutoCad Mechanical 2000 that I will be using to do mechanical drafting.

I am a novice, self-taught autocad user. This book bridged the gap between me, a mechanical engineer, and my autocad drafters. After completing each chapter, including the exercises, I am now a fully capable and independent drafter. The mechanical engineer version is perfectly tailored to everyday designs for the M.E. I highly recommend this book for those new to autocad and for those who want to greatly improve their autocad efficiency.

Middleton, Shaw, Fortney and Lynch. If you haven't had the opportunity to attend a workshop that they are giving that should be a priority. If you can't fit it into your schedule or budget this book is the next best thing to working side by side with them. If you have had the opportunity, then American Vision will serve as an economical reinforcement of the lessons that they present in their workshops. The book is easy to read, and the photos...well they serve as a constant reminder that "anyone" can take good nature photographs.

This is a great little story of a missionary who was arrested as the Communists took over China. When he was arrested the Communist could not find one local person to testify anything against Wallace's character. When you read this book, you will see why.

Bill Cosby is a very funny guy. His spoken delivery has left me in stiches countless times, but unfortunately his humor didn't carry over into print very well in this case. The writing is flat and awkward, and the chapters seem to wander without purpose. George Booth's drawings, however, are delightful as always.

If you've ever laughed at Bill Cosby's standup comedy, you'll laugh at this. Insightful looks into true stories in Cosby's life, it covers everything from skiing to ingrown hairs. He lovingly treats stories about his wife with a touching humor. Cosby isn't afraid to play his own straight man. This book was bought for me as a present, and not something I would ordinarily read. However, I do like Bill Cosby, and now, this book. I had a few chortles and laughs while reading it, and others are quite likely to as well.

For those who will forever be fans of Cliff Huxtable M.D., you will not want to miss "Cosbyology." Bill Cosby has a gentle, down-to-Earth sense of humour and a style that is truly all his own. He can captivate an audience and make them feel raw emotion, whether it be saddness or outrageous humour. In this book we get some "brilliant" obversations from the Doctor of Comedy as only Cosby could tell them.

The only downside of the book is the length; it simply was not long enough. One just became absorbed in this man's flair for humour when the book came to an end. However, the best medicine we can sometimes receive in life is laughter, and on that note, readers will not be disappointed.

Liberal, but not a socialist. Popular, but not deified. Two terms, but not four. Wife rumored to be a lesbian, but not confirmed to be a lesbian. For all these reasons and many many more, all of them richly explored in this authoritative volume, one can fair-mindedly state that if Bill Clinton were a soft drink, he'd be Diet Roosevelt.

Great taste! Less filling!

It is nearly impossible to think objectively about Bill Clinton, the man or his administration. In THE NATURAL, Joe Klein, the once-anonymous author of PRIMARY COLORS, gives us a concise, balanced history of the Clinton presidency. He provides a fair account of Bill Clinton: we are not spared his self-pity or the scale of his appetites and indulgences, but we also see the seriousness and vision he brought to the nation's leadership.

The Clinton administration had a rocky beginning, noted for its naïve political blunders. Remember Travelgate? How about the mere possibility of universal health care? The Clintons relied heavily on their friends, who were not always the wisest or most capable choices. One of the strengths of THE NATURAL is its portrayal of key relationships. We learn a lot about the former president through Mr. Klein's account of his complex marriage and Mrs. Clinton's formidable, imperfect influence. He also describes the similarities and differences between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, who led the failed Republican revolution and masterminded one of the nastiest, most counter-productive political arenas in American history.

It is unfortunate that Bill Clinton's comprehensive understanding of economics will not be what history remembers about his presidency. Mr. Klein points out that balancing the budget was a tremendous gamble and the budget surplus Clinton left the next administration was unprecedented. His sound policies --- welfare reform, Internet commerce, the earned income tax credit --- provided a base for financial prosperity that we are unlikely to see again. One of the melancholy notes of the book is the sense of squandered talent and opportunity. What else might Bill Clinton have accomplished if he had not been so distracted?

Bill Clinton was under constant attack from the right wing and the scandal-hungry media. He fended off investigations into his avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam War, his use of marijuana, his finances, his extramarital affairs, his wife's law practice and not one of the fanatics determined to destroy him made the slightest impact until he lied under oath about his affair with a White House intern. Why did he give his assailants such a wealth of ammunition to use against him? How could such a smart man make such a stupid mistake? We may never know what he was thinking, but the disappointment and disillusionment of the president's staff and supporters practically soak through the page.

The strange thing about THE NATURAL is how distant the Clinton presidency seems. September 11, 2001 was a moment of such enormous import in American history that the overwrought peccadilloes Bill Clinton became known for now seem trivial. Bill Clinton never faced a challenge to the presidency like al-Qaeda's attacks; he made his own challenges. It will take a much longer, more in-depth book to really examine Bill Clinton's complicated character, but THE NATURAL captures his administration, a time that is simultaneously recent history and a long time ago.

--- Reviewed by Colleen Quinn

Bill Clinton's presidency was characterised as much by media frenzy as anything else, therefore it is probably appropriate that a journalistic approach to the overall history of his presidency is taken at some stage.
While not a scholarly work, this is a very well written, balanced account of the Clinton years and the major events that shaped his administration. Mr Klein (thankfully) spares us the gory details of Whitewater, the Lewinsky affair and so on and instead presents these scandals in their proper context.
The author makes a convincing case in describing how the landscape of US politics in the 1990's was shaped by trends which began with Watergate. The years of dirt-digging, media hyperbole and inter-party warfare all converged during this period to new levels. In terms of Clinton's own failings, in the author's view the moral self-indulgances which are characteristic of the nation as whole, and which themselves derive from years of prosperity and peace, are epitomised and exemplified by the president.
It's not all doom and gloom however, and Klein presents his case very well in showing the concrete achievements of the Clinton era. There are also great portraits of the other major personalities such as Gore, Gingrich and of course Mrs Clinton.
There may be more exhaustive and analytical accounts of this period to be published and of course it will be some time before Bill Clinton can be placed in his proper historical context, however in the interim this book explains the Clinton years with great insight. Well worth reading.

Does not display the depth or completeness of a Childress book, but certainly entertaining enough for little league umpires.

Outstanding! A must have. Better than anything ever written by Carl Childress.

This book does have a solid base, and easily covers all of the requirements for the DB2 Fundamentals exam. However, it begins to come up short for the DB2 Administrator test. Many areas are not particularly well explained, and the description of the DB2 product family is a complete hash job, and really leaves you none the wiser.

Perhaps the most annoying part of this book is that there is no public errata, and I quickly found two errors. Given that this is a certification book, it's crucial that it's accurate. The author e-mailed me and pointed out that the mistakes were corrected for the Version 8 book, and that the publishers didn't give them any web space for an errata.

Overall, a good book. However, a book written by IBMers on an IBM product for an IBM exam should be final word on the subject. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and I would suggest looking at the 'All in One' Gold books.

As I write, I have passed exam #512 DB2 Family Fundamentals and i'm presently studying for exam #513 administration. Although I only studied from this one reference for the first exam I felt that when I actually took the exam I was hit with more than a few questions that I was unprepared for. In particular more detailed knowledge of (IBM specific) DML statements would have been helpful. The text of the book doesn't really contain a DDL/DML refernce.

I do feel however that if it were not for my previous experience as an Oracle DBA many of the SQL questions would have gone over my head.

The toughest part of the exam in my estimation is the section on concurrency and locking. And although I feel that the explanations given in the book are satisfactory the wording of the questions on the exam was a bit more difficult to comprehend than I was really prepared for. So I would advise you to study that section of the book very thoroughly.

In preparation for the administration exam I have purchased DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning which gives very thorough attention to performance and tuning issues. The exam prep guide only gives cursory information about this oh so vital subject area. I feel that with both of these texts I will be more than adequately prepared for the admin exam.

And even though I have not checked out the accompanying CD to this point I would advise you to investigate its' contents as there may be some valuable information available.

I am not a DBA before and base on this book, I pass both exam 512 and 513.

512 is easy. My colleague who is fimilar with SQL pass 512 with only half day study of this guide, and with the tips that I gave him. 513 is more difficult, I think I will fail when I took the exam, but the result is I pass. Concurrency, authority and privillege is a must read topic. You can skip the chapter for typed table, NT security.

Don't waste time on reading other IBM DB2 manuals if you just want to pass the exam.

This classic text of the environmental movememt has influenced groups as diverse as The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, and Earth First! Devall and Sessions explore the emotional and spiritual underpinnings of hamanity's ties to the earth in this deeply philosophical work. They link a plethora of sources in their exploration of Deep Ecology, including numerous religions, the words of such notables as David Brower, Aldo Leopold, and Edward Abbey, and the perspectives of many cultures. Despite all of this, though, I found it somewhat lacking. Not present is the graceful beauty of Aldo Leopold, nor the raw passion of John Muir. Perhaps this book might grow dog-eared with use in the library of a Philosophy Professor or a career activist, but I suspect that most people, like me, will find this book a bit dull. Call me simpleminded, but I was more deeply moved by Leopold's heartfelt musings on the chickadee in "A Sand County Almanac" than by Devall and Sessions' philosophical ruminations.

As a long time environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy I found the book wonderfully comprehensive in its analysis and explanation of deep ecology. The book delves nicely into the sources of deep ecology and its response to other perspectives on environmental issues. I found it a quick read (I read it at the gym, but then, I read Heidegger for fun) and well put together.

It will not, however, make someone who is coming from a perspective far from deep ecology change their mind. For that I would recommend Muir or Jeffers or better yet, spend some time in the real wilderness yourself. What it does is provide extensive background material and elucidation of the philosophy to someone who already believes in the importance of wilderness preservation.

If you plan to underline portions of Byron's work or comment in the margins of the text, avoid this edition as any ink "bleeds" through its poor quality paper (pencil works fine).