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This is a treasury of generally interesting stuff about London. There are 8 chapters, covering Architecture, Art, Fashion, Festivals and Religion, Food and Drink, Music, Sports and Leisure, Theatre. Lavishly illustrated, and designed in a very modern way, it is a really interesting look at various cultural traditions and the people that make up modern London. It gives you a real feel for the vibrancy of compolitan, multicultural, multiethnic, multifaith nature of London, rather than an anodyne view of "little white Englanders".

Not a travel guide, but a book anyone planning a trip would find interesting, or anyone interested in this great city.

Graham has been around the block and it it shows. This is really the A-Z of OO. From the basics through artificial intelligence and fuzzy set theory, this is a book that you can grow into over time as you develop skills and understanding. When the math gets deep, he gives signposts warning "If you are not interested in the math behind how this database stuff works, skip over this section". 800 pages of gold.

Communications play a vital part in modern life. Communications technology has been largely responsible for "shrinking" the world, carrying news, information, and entertainment all over the globe and bringing live events from the other side of Earth - even from other planets - directly into our homes. In the Communications Close-up series, all aspects of communication are investigated, from printing to photography, telephones to e-mail. This book examines the latest developments in the fast-moving world of communications technology and gives some ideas about what the future may have in store.

This documentation was one of great wisdom and discovery. Captain Ian Tew pulls the reader into both he and his grandfather's sea journey. I was captivated by the depth of detail Captain Tew used to express such heroic exibitions. I highly recommend this documentation to anyone who truly appreciates the sea and the many discoveries that unfold on a sailor's journey.

I used this book to write a research paper and I found it to be very informative. Discusses thermal and electrical solar power, different applications and future uses.

I can thoroughly recommend this small but extremely valuable book. There is a mass of literature and expertise for all the equipment, chemicals and materials students will encounter during the course of their research but there is nothing equivalent for the most important piece of equipment, the mind!

This book attempts to provide that by persuading the reader to take a step back from the humdrum or obvious and look at their projects from beginning to end, even before it is begun!

There are real-life examples (I had great fun trying out the puzzles) that encourage the ability to ask the right questions and highlight the pitfalls so often encountered in scientific investigation. You'll be amazed at what you learn and how easily you can avoid unnecessary work. By the time you have read this book you should have a great understanding of the reality of experimental investigation: from design of experiments, through analysis and interpretation of data to presentation of results.

Buy this book, adopt this book, recommend this book!

Clear, precise, pure, systematic. Imagine an ice mountain in a cold, blue ocean. That same clarity for XML arises in your mind, when you read this book. (Still, don't forget "The XML Handbook", if you want to know, how to apply XML in business applications :-)

This book is not for a novice. You must have experience regarding technical books with lots of jargon. If so, you will like this book immensely.

This is the only possible reference for XML. You will not find here XSL, XLink, etc., but you will find an help to understand the XML specification itself (with the annotation of one of the authors), and an 'hard' tutorial to go in depth in the bare XMl language. If you had still doubts after reading other XML titles (is it possible to represent this, to represent that, how to model this, can the DTD do that, etc.) you have absolutely no choice. Not for newbies.

I do website development and I found this book to be very helpful, both as a reference and as a learning tool for mastering this new version of the web page markup language. XHTML is pretty much the same as HTML except for a few syntactical changes, but its biggest innovation is XHTML's extensive use of cascading style sheets, which are a great advancement in web page markup in allowing much greater control over page design and management (change just one master style sheet and you can change the formatting of all pages that use the sheet). This book provides many examples of style sheets in action. Soon after reading a few chapters you will be incorporating some of them in your own webpages.

This work is filled with many examples that illustrate the sections in the book (all of the examples are downloadable for free from the author's website). It helps a great deal to see and experiment with actual examples that use the markup techniques the author discusses. This work is logically presented and clearly written, which is surely a virtue in technical books. The excellent job that the author did with this work makes me want to read the companion book, the Web Development Sourcebook. I would recommend this work to anyone who does website development or who wants to begin learning it.

XHTML 1.0 Language And Design Sourcebook -- The Next Generation HTML Ian S. Graham John Wiley & Sons, 2000 ISBN: 0-471-37485-7 Paperback, 692 pages, ...XHTML 1.0 Language And Design Sourcebook -- The Next Generation HTML is an extraordinary book. Before I explain 'why' it may be necessary to explain 'what': What is XHTML?

Some months ago, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) replaced the HTML language with a more complex, subtle, precise, and powerful language called XHTML. In January of this year, another acronymic body, the OEB, selected XHTML to become the standard language for the world of publishing ebooks. XHTML works optimally with the new language called Cascading Style Sheets (or 'Style Sheets' for short, or 'CSS' for shorter), which not only yields handsome formatting features, but also allows designers to make instant updates throughout the website by simple changes via one master document.

HTML was relatively easy to learn and use, so why the change? ... XHTML documents are easily convertible to an influential language called XML. And XHTML documents will be readable by the plethora of new browsers: Braille, text-to-speech, TV browsers, browsers for PDAs, cell phone browsers, and more to come. While these benefits are appealing, they are useful only to those of us who become fluent in the new languages. Learning these new languages is the problem, and the solution is Graham's new book, devoted to the details of XHTML and CSS.

Let us return to our sheets. Aristotle, the great Greek Philosopher, once explained his literary method: "Think like a philosopher and speak like a common man." Throughout this work, Graham tackles all the intricacies of XHTML and CSS with this same kind of intelligent prose. The very first pages of the book's introduction, which describes the six components of the Internet, made me understand -- deeply understand for the first time -- the structure of the whole Internet. Each succeeding chapter confirmed this first impression: as a technical writer, Graham is a genius. He illustrates how each part fits snugly into a greater whole; he anticipates every one of his readers' questions; and he explains how things work -- the easy, the uneasy, and everything in between -- with a style that is patient, vivid, easy to follow, brilliantly clear.

Graham begins by exploring markup languages in general, then gives the best explanation that I have read anywhere about how to convert HTML documents to XHTML. The chapters that follow delve into CSS details, progressively moving from the simpler topics to ones which are more complex. After thorough lessons in the how-to basics about all the essential CSS features, the book concludes with advanced Style Sheet tools, scripting, XHTML handled as XML, and a whole chapter containing all the elements and attributes in the latest specifications of XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01.

There's no CD-ROM with the book, but there's something even better: a companion website... which can be downloaded in less than five minutes. The site provides updates to the book, and codes for many of the book's examples.

Beginners and expert users will find here, in one book, everything they need to immediately begin writing simple and complex documents in XHTML and CSS. Clearly, as a comprehensive reference book as well as a lucid tutorial about the hottest Web topics in town, XHTML 1.0 LANGUAGE AND DESIGN SOURCEBOOK is headed straight for the computer bestseller lists, and for all the right reasons. We eagerly await the book's companion volume, The XHTML 1.0 Web Development Sourcebook, scheduled for release during this Summer, 2000.

Michael Pastore, Reviewer

Ever wondered what next after HTML 4.0.... There will not be a HTML 5.0. HTML is not extensible.... imagine needing new tags for some purpose,... you will be stuck with what is available in that version of HTML. Thus the need for an extensible markup language and hence the need for XHTML...

Whether you like it or not, XHTML which uses ideas from XML will be here to stay. This book is your key to learning XHTML, and also the explanation on style sheets are well done.

What I regard as good is the clear explanation provided by the author, with references to the coding in the book. I find line-by-line explanation of code the best way to know what is going on; in contrast, some authors do not provide detailed explanation and I think this will leave the reader unsure of some parts of coding.

Why code in this way and not in another way?--- Yes, it would be certainly enlightening to know answers to such a question. He does bring this up where appropriate. That is a plus, plus to me.

If you have a firm foundation of HTML and some basic knowledge of CSS, this book will be a gem to you, otherwise, if you do not know HTML well, XHTL is not for you yet and you cannot blame the author if you cannot understand (since you do not have the foundation).

After HTML, the next step is learning XHTML. This book will help you to see, appreciate and learn XHTML. Thanks Ian, for writing such a book !

Graham is able to explain things quite easily if you have any questions. Rarely, however, could I find myself reading a book like this cover to cover. If you want to learn how to design in CSS, then this book can help you, but you could save some money and look for on-line resources. This book is best used as a reference tool and detailed information when you need to understand something better. It can help you become quite proficient.

On the plus side he is thorough and easy to understand, on the negative side, all of the pictures are black and white. "Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web" by Lie and Bos has all color pictures, making certain examples more powerful in nature.

Bottom Line: Both books are highly recommended, but neither should be used for people just starting HTML. Be proficient in HTML before you get these books or you may be confused. I feel confident in CSS specs with these books as a resource.

This book concentrates heavily on how the programming would affect typography on the web and explains in detail in how to achieve that look. Graham explains selectors, properties and values in detail and points out bugs in the popular browsers such as Explorer and Netscape. Every chapter has a summary. Inside the front and back covers of the book has a table of property summary for quick reference. Readers have to have some basic knowledge of HTML but this book does review some important HTML tags. As a typographic designer, I strongly recommend this book.

I am a web developer and designer. When I can't remember what CSS properties go with which elements, I get my copy of the HTML Stylesheet Sourcebook off the shelf. I especially like the CSS language reference that explains exactly what each property does.

This is the book that got me away from font tags two years ago and set me on the road to HTML 4.01 compliance. The fact that I still haven't found a web site with the same information as accessible and well-organized is either a testament to the quality of Mr. Graham's book, or a lack of decent online CSS references.