Wonderfull book that encourages children to thnk about their ability to make a difference in environmental issues. One 11 year old boy I know missed dinner to finish the story! Great story with a likeable heroine.

After checking out the book for couple hours in the Book store. I realized why some one would want to create a simple Window by writing extensive API code, which takes about 15 lines, when you can do it in delphi by visually creating it (Chapter 1). I was hoping they would cover Windows Messages as opposed to APIs which Borland takes care of them with their wrappers. I personally I find this book neither helpful nor informative at all.

I cannot find out for an expert trick or undocumented windows API. I expected more about this book ! Badluck for me :( But , It may OK for some beginner programmer , who know ?

I believe, it's on every Delphi programmer to concentrate on this book.

First things first -- I've gobbled up several books about the Clinton White House -- the best of which is Ambrose-Pritchard's "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton." I found "Damage Control," the offical autobiography of Larry Nichols, to be a below-average read. Though Nichol's is an interesting personality, this book is poorly written. Most annoying is the fact that the author, David Breshnahan, constantly repeats himself from one chapter to the next. I remember doing this in Jr. High School when I needed to write an essay X number of pages long. Another disappoinment is the Appendix where evidence is presented to support Nichol's story. This should have been the beefiest part, but instead we only get an appetizer. Bottom line: If you have read books by Pritchard, Aldrich, et al., and you crave more, "Damage Control" still might be worth $15 -- one thing it will do is stir your anger, Liberal or Conservative.

gets the message through.
Either way, it shows how the liberal media covered-up Clinton with their stranglehold on the American minds through their media control.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to see how twisted and deviate the mind has become thanks to the liberal media.
To all my cnl 6 viewers.

I'm a huge fan of Larry Bond -- Red Pheonix is one of the best war/techno-thriller books I've ever read, and I really enjoyed Vortex and Caldron, too. But Day of Wrath left me wanting more -- frankly, I find the main love interest a little trite in this story, and the main plot line is more derivative than I've come to expect from Larry Bond. Still, I found it an entertaining read, though compared to other recent works in this genre (Clancy's new Rainbow Six, for example), I'd have to give it a low passing grade. I will buy Bond's next book, though, and hope for a more original effort next time.

Bond delivers a story that could be true to today's world. Prince Ibrahim of Saudi Arabia, a millionaire, is the guy behind the terrorism across the world, financially supporting various factions. He also owns a powerful corporation, known as Caraco, and is very influential with the current administration in the White House.

The story revolves around Thorn and Gray, the Army Colonel, and FBI agent who were featured in Bond's prior novel, Enemy Within.
A Russian cargo jet crashes in northern Russia with U.S. officials onboard. Gray and Thorn both meet at the scene, and that's when their lives get interesting. Trailing clues to why the plane crashed with the help of a Russian MVD officer, Thorn and Gray pursue Germans into parts of northern Russia, into Norway and Germany. They get into trouble with Russian locals when the MVD officer is killed in an ambush.

They have a hunch that, jet engines are being used to smuggle nuclear weapons to the U.S. Disobeying orders from their government, Thorn and Gray pursue the leads to the U.S. and get help from General Farrell. With the German and Arabic terrorists after them as well as their own government, Thorn and Gray must elude them and get to the heart of the problem, before Ibrahim can unleash 20 150 Megaton nuclear bombs on the U.S.

A well-paced actioner featuring the main characters from THE ENEMY WITHIN, Col Peter Thorn and the FBI's Helen Gray. This time a plane carrying UN weapons inspectors crashes in Russia, and investigations lead to the trail of blackmarket tactical nuclear warheads for sale . . . and what interest does a Saudi prince have in these weapons? The outcome may be predictable and the characters may seem like they have leapt out from a LETHAL WEAPON movie, but the strengths of this book are the story, the research behind the weapons themselves and how they could be transported into the US and a good, fast-pacing and simple prose. The action scenes are undeniably entertaining, and the bit that made me laugh was the bad guy's last word before being shot . . . Noooooooo! That is sooo Hollywood! In fact, why hasn't this(or any other of Larry Bond's novels, for that matter) been made into a movie yet?

The book is not bad and somewhat practical. If it was sold for half of its present retail price, I'd give it 4 stars.

I am the senior web developer at a small company looking for a good book to bring my less-experienced people up to speed on JSP. I bought this book because the introduction says, "This book is designed to teach you JSP, even if you have no Java experience whatsoever." Sadly that is not true.
Just three pages into Chapter 2, 'Creating a JSP Page', the author hits you with several pages of Java source code as he compares and contrasts the java source produced by JRun, Tomcat, etc as a result of processing a simple JSP page.
The first piece of JSP you see is the page directive, and this topic begins with references to java packages. First, I would think that there are kindler, gentler ways to dip ones toe into the JSP waters. Surely some simple JSPs could be written that do not require the <%@page import...> directive, saving this subject for later. And even so, the explanation of packages would make no sense to someone who did not already understand java.
And so it goes throughout this book.

I have some programming experience but am new to Java/JSP. I choose this book to start out with and am about half way through working all the examples by hand using Forte for Java CE and then "deploying" them to a seperate test server running Tomcat 4.0. Basically, there are several errors in the example code in the book. Some of these are fixed on the versions on the cd - some not. I've wasted many hours scouring the net and pulling my hair out to get the examples to compile and work in both Forte for Java CE and Tomcat 4.0 - EXTREMELY frustrating for newbies like me. Too bad, since otherwise the book is pretty well written. Don't assume the example code is correct and you'll be okay.

This was a helpful book with lots of good questions and financially sound answers.

Just as someone said below, "Good book for a report but not for pleasure reading".

I read Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform for a presentation, but I wouldn't have purchased this book on my own initiative. The book is filled with facts and opinion polls, which only reveal the fickleness of the American public -- claiming that public schools are deplorable one year, and excellent the next. The authors inform the reader of what reforms didn't work, but offer few ideas of how to implement change. The book has potential, but falls unfavorably short of expectations.

Tinkering Toward Utopia is simply the best brief introduction to the history of educational reform in the US available. Anyone with a genuine interest in historical explanations of why grand schemes of school reform fail and why "crisis" is the way the US has tended to view its need for school reform, will be rewarded by this clearly written account. The book substitutes complex historical analysis for the usual simple-minded polemics of writing on education, but the authors do not weigh the book down with a lot of historical evidence and inpenetrable footnotes. I highly recommend this book for anyone who cares about the prospects of reforming public schools in the US.

This is book which will undoubtedly delight regular viewers of "The Larry Sanders Show". Presented as an erstatz autobiography (complete with an identical dust-jacket to the book Larry wrote in an episode of the show) Larry's rambling thoughts read like an extended stand-up show, filled with uproariously funny one-liners and absurd incidents. It is neither an extensive book or a particularly detailed one, though it is loyal to its subject matter and offers plenty of entertainment.

The only thing that really disappoints is the fact that it all seems to be over too soon, with gargantuan text size and a proliferation of full-page photographs. For a book based on a show that was so obsessed with the superficial nature of the television world, perhaps it ultimately reaffirms this point unwittingly, or is perhaps is just a little too clever for its own good.

This is not the best of autobiographies. But nevertheless it was a very funny book. The story about how his mother slept with Redd Foxx and Tito Jackson was a hoot. He's no Ernest Hemmingway but if want to read a very funny book buy it.

Everything you expected and more from Larry Sanders, as he finally reveals not only which guests (female) he slept with, but the tortured and twisted childhood and early comedy years that made him into America's favorite talk show host. Larry takes the gloves off in this hilarious self portrait. No celebrity spared, including Larry. Brutal honesty and even more brutal laughs in Larry's personal saga, as told to to cowriters Garry Shandling and David Rensin. Also revealing looks at the Larry Sanders show staff, an interview with God, and the secret of how Larry Sanders saved Johnny Carson's life. Not just "another book from another comedian" but a subversion of all celeb bios. Funny. Inventive. Funny. Irreverent. Did I mention Funny? We can only hope for a second installment.

Is this a tome? I was expecting deep subject coverage. What we have instead is a reproduction of the API docs. Does that a tome make? I think not. What's missing? Complex examples. Real-world examples (who creates windows with API calls when we have TForm?). Undocumented insights behind the APIs -- things you can't find in MSDN or the Platform SDK. More than anything, this book highlights the bloody lack of good Delphi books. This one is definitely a pass.

I don't know many Delphi developers who can't at least read VB code. Obviously, the authors of this book can, because the examples are eerily similar to the VB Win32 examples in MSDN. So much so that I rather doubt a competent Delphi developer who has MSDN would really get much value from this book. If you can read VB, you don't need this book. I was expecting unique insights into the way that Delphi implements the API, particularly the graphics API, but instead got a lame VB-to-Pascal translation. Can't recommend this book.

Couldn't help but notice the obvious similarities between this book and the examples in MSDN and the Platform SDK. If you have either of these, I don't know why you'd need this book. I bought it thinking I'd get expert advice and insights. All it really is is a rehash of what's publicly available from MS anyway.

Do not buy this book! I was astounded by the number of errors. There are serious mistakes in the core subject material as well as numerous typographical errors and incorrect answers to questions. There are several cases where the "correct" letter answer does not correspond to the detailed answer provided a few pages later. The editors, if they existed, were asleep for this one.

This book's physics presentation is at about a third grade level; it is riddled with typographical, grammatical, and physics errors. A good number of the questions in the practice test are keyed incorrectly to the answer sheet, and I spotted many completely wrong statements in the core material.

This book is wonderful, I read through it before I took the physics test, and I scored 770 on the second try! My first one was only 660. It is great not because it gives a lot of concepts but it presents real SAT II-like questions in the practice tests. you have to use your concepts to solve them.