We enjoyed our first Fox book, Fox on the Job, but Fox All Week is notably less enjoyable for two reasons: 1) it is much less funny and 2) one of the stories shows Fox and his friends smoking cigars. Marshall tries to treat the subject with intended humor, but it is lost on children ages 4-8. This age group is not able to understand such tongue-in-cheek humor until older and the result of the cigar smoking story is confusion about whether smoking is OK for kids.

I never saw my 6 year old nephew laugh so hard. He has several Fox books and has read them all over and over again. We both liked this one because Fox is so funny while he gets himself into some kind of trouble every day of the week! A word of caution: I only gave this book 4 stars because Fox and his friends smoke a cigar in this book. I didn't think the lesson they learned from it was strong enough.

This book was chosen as the textbook for the AP Computer Science C++ class at my school. Having programmed in C++ for quite a while, I must say I was disappointed. Most all of the basics are covered, and I believe a beginner would, after reading this book, "know" C++. However, the style of teaching isn't that great, and the order in which things are taught isn't the best either. Also, much of the code appears untested, and contains errors. The code also does not conform to the ANSI/ISO standard. I've read much worse, but I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who asked me about C++, and I definately would not use it to teach a CS class.

-Alan Johnson

This book is intended to be a textbook for an introductory programming course for students who have never programmed before. You may agree or disagree with the premise (I disagree), but you have to admire the authors for trying.

What's in the book is pretty decent. The writing is clear. The examples are simple and clear enough to read without straining your brain. The authors do cover some fairly advanced topics, such as multiple inheritance and templates, but they concentrate on explaining the basics and make little attempt to cover the weird stuff and pitfalls of the language. You need a more advanced book for that.

Because the organization, writing, and index are better than average, I find that I am continuing to use this book. (I don't usually keep tutorial-type books after the first reading.)

I would recommend this book to undergrad students and beginning programmers who want to learn C++ or to anyone who wants an easy-to-read overview of the language. For advanced programmers who know C, Bruce Eckel's book "Thinking in C++" is a better choice.

This book was an intresting read, but I thought it could have focused more on general scholarships for all students, rather than scholarships for students who go to specific colleges.

Behind David Lean's directorial masterpiece 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) lay a series of attempts to film T. E. Lawrence's life, most of them centred around the abridged version of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', known as 'Revolt in the Desert.' Chief amongst the filmmakers eager to produce this epic was the great Alexander Korda, who bought the rights to both books and also to several biographies that contained their material. Korda was asked by Lawrence himself not to make the film while he was alive. Five months later, Lawrence was killed in a motorbike accident and Korda began his preparations. Locations were scouted, scripts were drafted, and several actors were tested to play the lead. Walter Hudd (who had played the Lawrence-based character Private Meek in 'Too True to be Good') and Leslie Howard were the favourites, although Cary Grant and Laurence Olivier were also considered. The Foreign Office thwarted Korda at every turn, protesting that it would be ill advised to show the Turks in an unfavourable light with the ongoing political unrest in the East. After a dozen attempts to make the film, Korda let it slide. This book is tripartite: part one sketches a brief history of the attempts to film 'Lawrence of Arabia' and includes pictures of all the key players. The second part is an interview given by Leslie Howard on how he would play Lawrence; and thirdly, the final script (1938) of the Korda epic is reproduced. While it is a laudable piece of work, the book fails to hang together and emerges as two articles and a film script that are linked by the same subject, but have no cohesion. Part One is far too brief for the reader to gain an understanding of the forces arrayed against Korda and his project, and it would benefit from more research and more expansion on the views of the various directors and actors engaged for the film in its different stages. Part Two is simply the Howard interview with no editorial comment offered. Part Three, the script, also has no analysis. This is surprising, as it is rich in allusion and with peculiar sequences that (to modern eyes) detract from the overall pacing of the film. It relies heavily on 'Seven Pillars' for dialogue and description, with little or no modification. To those who are acquainted with the Robert Bolt script of the Lean film, the Korda Lawrence is but a pale shadow: eloquent passivity rather than "nothing is written" man of action; cold detachment rather than anger and angst in crucial scenes (Tafileh, the Turkish hospital); the smug imperialist rather than the tortured anti-imperialist. Korda's Lawrence was intended to be heroic, a ( ) puff-piece with a serious bite, but looking at the script today, he seems shallow, self-important and obnoxious. The real Lawrence evaded any attempt to capture him by constant shifts in personality, presenting a different face to each person he met. It would appear that the celluloid Lawrence of Korda's vision was the same; and, as such, defeated him wholly.

Let's just say that this book stated the obvious. If you are a minority, the title grabs you, but it does not give much advice that would differ from other books. It shows a list of the different types of doctors and their current salaries as well as how long the residency would last. Helpful, but I could've gotten that information from anywhere. They go on to categorize the medical schools by price. I fail to see what this has to do with minorities. However, I did enjoy reading the book and was grateful that such a book was available.

The book interviewing: Skills and Applications can prove to be a very helpful guide in giving interviews. The book explains different types of interviews but more importantly it went over the basics of an interview step by step. This book offered one thing very well to me, without good communication a person cannot have a good interview. Many different factors affect communication in an interview. Intrapersonal items can affect behaviors; by this I mean how people perceive their world around them. This can be shown in how people communicate to others, in other words interpersonal communication. These two forms of communication make or break an interview. Nonverbal communication is another aspect that I over looked and this is why the book is important to me because it points out these overlooks. According to the book reading nonverbal clues is half of an interview. Good communication is good but if you don¡¯t have proficient organization you will not have an effective interview.

Interviewing: Skills and Applications explain the different parts of an interview, the opening, body, and closing. Each part is important in its own way. Different types of questions are important, in the interview, each type is used to find different information. I need to know what questions to ask and when to use them. Good questions save time. Organizational skills like these are essential to a good interview. The fifth chapter of the book was very interesting and informational. The chapter explained how to write job descriptions for interviews, how to look at and analyze resumes, screen job applicants, and give tips for an effective interview. The book concentrates on setting up and giving good interviews but the book goes on to talk about different interviews and how to approach them. Counseling interview is one of the different types covered by the book. Counseling is a common occurrence at the workplace however, some times more severe cases a counseling interview is needed. These interviews allow the interviewee to be put at ease, find solutions, and decided what action to take. Information gathering is another type of interview. These interviews are designed to collect data in a small amount of time. The information gathered can prove to be useful in future decision making processes. Persuasion interviews are used more in the work place. The book gives tips on how to refocus people to new goals. The last chapter in the book deals with media interviews. The book tells you how to prepare for giving a media interview or how to prepare for being interviewed by the media. Overall I found Interviewing: Skills and Applications to be very useful. Making your self and the interviewee comfortable is important for a smooth interview. Organization is key if you want to maximize time in an interview. Finally, different types of interviews are needed to abstract different information and the more comfortable you are with these the more efficient you will be. As a whole I believe this book hold some great tips for interviewing. B+

It's a good book. Lot's of good information about the Keith's from Scotland. If you are a descendant of the Keith's you will love the history. If you are just a history buff you will learn a lot about a not very well know person who had a big impact on history.

If you are stuck taking an "Introduction to Financial Accounting" course that uses this book, insist that the instructor read the chapters, provide sample solutions to unassigned problems and work the problems prior to assigning them. There are many exclusions and misprints in the text that resulted in needless confusion when my class members worked the end-of-chapter exercises.

I applaud the authors' attempt to make a dry subject more interesting. The result, however, appears to be a mixture of concepts and terminology from three different CPAs, with problems generated by third parties who never read the text. The exercises appear to focus on providing a challenge rather than providing a clear path to understanding the basic fundamentals of financial accounting. This is clearly a case of "too many cooks spoiling the soup."

I will have to buy another text and learn something useful on my own. This book has obfuscated the basic concepts that I will need to knowledgeably review financial statements as a part of my job.

I'm currently taking a first year course in accounting (ACCT 2301). Honestly, this book should NOT be used for first year accounting students! Luckily my husband majored in Acct., so I have a personal tutor on hand.

The book's preface indicates "We assume the students has had no prior exposure to accounting and financial statements, and has had little exposure to the business world". Hah! I believe these authors (professional CPAs) forgot who there target audiences were.

I have a better understanding reading Quantum Physics or law reference books than comprehending this book. Does anyone remembers Charlie Brown's teacher? Do you remember how she speaks?(Blah, blah, wah, wah, wah!) It's this book in a nutshell. It's dry, too wordy to get to the point, and its a difficult book to understand.

I have bought a supplement book "Introduction to Financial Accounting" by Horngren, Sundem, and Elliot. What a difference! Over the weekend I have read the first 3 chapters with a much better understanding of the foundations of accounting.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE...THIS IS NOT A GOOD BOOK FOR ANYONE STARTING OUT IN ACCOUNTING.

I used this book for an accounting course. Its very detailed and full of pertinent accounting information.

I especially liked the NET TUTOR and CDROM Study Guide. It has helped me score an "A" in my course!

I've purchased "Dummies" books before to get a quick synopsis of a topic. But this one by far, is a terrible buy. I knew nothing about FoxPro before and regardless of what I learned from the book, the author did a terrible job. Most learning books have you build a project or something, but there was nothing like that here. You would think the author was going somewhere with a project, and then he'd just start a new paragraph with something else. Plus, many figured did NOT match the text. The author was also guilty of many "but, we'll cover that later" or "but we covered that in chapter X". This was a poor, poor buy. IDG books are usually good, this wasn't.

Just to keep it short and simple, if you are even slightly familiar with Foxpro this is not the book for you. Whereas if you are just beginning to learn an xbase langauge, this book will give you a great overview of most topics.

This book helped introduce me to VFP 6.0 even though it was written for VFP 5.0. Very elementary and good for the beginner.

The book has several typos and uses terrible examples. I did not like the flow of the book at all. Even some of the basics (like variable declarations), were not properly explained. The bottom line is that the book was obviously rushed. I wouldn't recommend this title at all.

I found it not very useful and I couldn't keep reading the book after the first 2 chapters!

Assumes nothing-does the job nicely Aside from the title(You could wrap it in brown paper): This book assumes nothing about the readers knowledge. It starts of explaining the vi editor and its shortcuts and explains basic strings and arrays and rounds it of basic database files,flowcharts and nested loops. There are hardly any other books out there,that start from zero,this one does. If you want to get started writing shell scripts and/or learn C, you should read this book first.

I would recommend it to anybody running Unix/Linux/BSD flavours. Build the foundation first,then learn the fancy stuff.

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