Paul Gifford's work is an absolute must for hammer dulcimer students(like me), teachers and artists. It contains a great deal of information and the frosting on this cake is - that it is well written. If you love the music and love learning, you will love this book. Order it before it becomes one of those hard to find books.

An excelleny book for anyone intressted in christianity in Africa today. Much has been writen about the growth of the pentecostal and charismatic churches in in Latin America but this is the first book I have read that also gives a good picture of this churches in Africa. Gifford describes the churches in four diffrent countries (Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and Cameroon)with a lot of details wich makes the book very alive and intressting to read. The best part of the book is when he describes the teologi of Mesna Otabil. This realy gave me new insight to both the problems for African christians and the ways of trying to solve them. I think Gifford ends the book to pesemistict but he has realy showed that that the churches in Africa have a roll to play in development for the of the society in this countries. The only question is if they are going to suceed.

I have to agree with previous reviewers, this book DOES cover quite a bit. From DHTML to IIS Applications, but it has to be considered a beginner to intermediate book on Web programming in VB6. Even though the long-term viability of Web Classes is under question, the utter lack of any quality material on the ONE thing Microsoft touts as "Web" enabled in VB6 is extremely disappointing for a book so expensive. You can debug problems with your objects in VB6 with WebClasses that you can't perform with an ASP page and a compiled dll. Do they even mention this? No.

For the interested, you can find most of the material discussed in this book by simply looking on MSDN or other web sites for articles on the subjects you're interested in. With multiple authors, that's all you will get out of this book, anyway.

This book covers it all. I was looking for a book the thoroughly covered VB IIS Applications. I found only 2, each dedicating only 1 chapter to the subject. This book not only covers IIS Applications in detail, it also covers DHTML apps in detail as well. It also shows how to incorporate MTS, MSMQ, ADO and other technologies into your VB web apps. A highly detailed chapter on ASP, 4 well thought out case studies and appendixes including HTML Tags, VBScript and Jscript Tutorials, VBScript Reference, Configuring IIS4, ADO, MTS and MSMQ among others completes this book. An absolute MUST for any serious VB Programmer doing any kind of web development.

Having purchased many other WROX books, I was eagerly awaiting this one for a current project. When it arrived I read through it like a mad man. Soaking up everything I possibly could. The examples are very clear and there are plenty of them! It covers everything from IIS, ASP and ADO to RDS, SQL, DHTML, MTS and WebClasses. All in one book! Plenty of examples with detailed descriptions and tables explaining the various methods for each function. I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about using VB6 for web development.