Don't let the inaccuracies in the on-line synopsis (scathingly detailed by Christenson below) prevent you from acquiring this book. The author has researched and accurately described life in the Klondike/Yukon, and selected great images to accompany his text. The portions dealing with Larss' life outside the Yukon are similarly well done.

Excellent reading. Highly recommended to all interested in the gold rush. Although some facts may be incorrect, the majority of the book is very well written.

The synopsis is incorrect about some things. Gold was DISCOVERED in the Klondike river area in 1896 -- not 1898. Although prospectors who had been in the Yukon for years learned about the strike very quickly (and staked the best claims pronto), it took nearly a year for word of the discovery to reach the "outside world" (e.g., the contiguous United States) in a way that captured the public's imagination -- especially when the SS PORTLAND landed in Seattle in July 1897 with the now-famous "Ton of Gold" from the Klondike area. The first stampeders arrived in Alaska in the fall of 1897, followed by thousands soon after. Most stampeders went over the mountains into British Columbia and then the Yukon Territory via Dyea (over Chilkoot Pass) or via Skagway (over White Pass) during the winter of 1897-1898. The synopsis is blatantly incorrect that thousands of stampeders "arrived in blinding snowstorms"; this is absolute nonsense. Arrived WHERE? The bulk of stampeders arrived in Dyea or Skagway. While it does snow there, it does not snow all the time. It rains a lot. To imply that all stampeders arrived ANY where along the Klondike gold rush route in "blinding snowstorms" is unnecessary hype -- and simply not true.

This book provides a well-rounded look into the life of P.E. Larss, especially about his life before and after the Klondike gold rush. Photographs have been well-selected to illustrate his craft and the events he was involved in.

Gary Christenson

Having now read a mountain of IT books I know how lucky I was to have picked this one to be my first! A tie with Sybex's CCNA study guide by Lammle for the best networking book I have ever read! Even with the exam expired this is the best book I have ever read for someone getting started in networking. I am buying up some extra copies for friends and coworkers since they have worn out mine! For an subject where books are outdated as fast as they are printed this should be considered a classic for us old pro's and a must read for the novice.

Step one in becoming the MCSE is to pass the Networking Essentials exam. In order to accomplish the feat you need the resources to study and this book should be among them. Jason Nash gives you the exam 70-058 in a format that will make learning a breeze.

Nash covers each exam objective and covers it very well. From networking basics, OSI Model and media to design, protocols, administration and troubleshooting along with other topics, you have everything you need to make the grade.

There are figures, diagrams, tables and even step-by-step instructions for the installation of certain items related to exam objectives. The author simplifies the terminology and the reading was very easy and fast.

What I thought stood out the most the IDG's testing software. The software has 3 options, study, exam simulation and adaptive. The cd-rom also comes with Microsoft TECH NET trial version and Micro House Technical Library Demo version. Overall and excellent resource for study.

I have read several books on networking essentials. I was sold on the book when I read his description of the OSI model. Concrete examples were used. His explanations reduced the need for rote memorization. The book is filled with practical knowledge and theory as well as exam tips.

This book so captured our imaginations that I had to purchase a little wooden Dala horse for our son. The artwork is beautiful, the story is culturally sensitive, the scenes are exciting and the language is rich. I've been reading this book to my son since he was two. He's four, now, and still loves it!

My heritage is 100% Swedish. It is difficult for me to find books about Swedish culture in general, and close to impossible to find Swedish stories to which my seven-year old son can relate.

I believe each cultural has its own beauty and much to offer the world. I often encounter people assuming that because we speak English and are Lutheran, then our cultural heritage is the same as Britain's (we're are not Anglo-Saxons, the Church of England has nothing to do with Scandinavia, and our native tongue is Swedish) or since Swedish is a Germanic language, then our culture must be like the Germans'. Like every other society that has evolved on its own, the Swedes are proud of who they are and how they came to be.

I remember Dala horses all over my grandparents' homes and in my house growing up as well. I want very much for my son to enjoy the richness of where his family comes from, and why we still remain so close to our relatives in "the old country." This is simply a wonderful book that has aided in giving my son his own cultural identity.

I am very grateful that this book is so Swedish. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for new perspectives about the smaller European nations.

I recently read this book to my second graders while studying Sweden. Not only did they enjoy the story, but the illustrations gave them inspiration to create their own Dala horses. This book is by far my favorite, for the lesson it teaches and the beautiful artwork it exhibits.

This is a good book telling the philosophy behind RUP. And it also gives some practical advice to adopt, config and apply RUP.Although it is not a thorough description of RUP because it doesn't systematicly describe the disciplines in RUP, it provides some other reference. A good book for RUP beginners.

For years, the only intro for RUP was Philippe Kruchten's book. And it was not enough... Then Larman's book came out (the great one, no doubt!), but this book is too much for someone who wants to understand process without going into UML discussions (the main purpose of Larman's book).
"Rational Unified Process Made Easy" finally closes the gap.
Even if you know (or think you know) RUP, it would be a good idea to buy this one.

This book brings answers to questions with which any process engineer was confronted at one time or another during his work on RUP implementation.
The combination of concepts and practical examples as well as the last part of the book describing five of the main roles in a project (Project Manager, Analyst, Architect, Developer and Tester) make it a multi-use book. You can read it as you would a regular book, from beginning to end; or you can also use it as a reference when you participate in an RUP project or if you have the charge to implement it in a project or an organization.

Best book around I've ever seen on resume writing when job satisfaction, preferences, and career choice are all matched by interests and job tasks. This book outshines them all and goes beyond resumes to finding the right job in the right place at the right time.

Very helpful advice for retirees re-entering job market in computers, including the homebased. I was able to use templates to transfer skills from job pre-retirement to post-retirement re-entry position. Great structure to resumes for people seeking alternative to 9 to 5 work as well as regular jobs. Helpful to boomers seeking to simplify workstyle as well as other age resume writers. Excellent book written by senior citizen homebased with multiple disabilities with very resourceful, creative topics and research.

I rate this book a 10, excellent for finding a job in the world of cyberspace, the Internet, multimedia, and in the computer industry, especially matching your preferences to the requirements and needs of a computer industry corporation.

It includes excellent advice for all computer personnel, especially for technical and science writers, hyptertext fiction writers for multimedia and entertainment technology industries, and both the creative side of the computer industry as well as the logistics part. Great book for finding your career according to your needs and how to match your preferences to the special requirements of the up-to-date aspects of the entire computer and entertainment technology and Internet industries.

There are very few books in Hanson's field (I should know, I reviewed over 1,000!), and this book is by far the best of the lot!

The book is a veritable tour-de-force by a highly knowledgable writer/editor/journalist, with detailed, easy-to-read and eminently practical advice for novice and practitioner alike. The book's pages are studded with insights, tantalizing ideas, and marketing suggestions. This is, in my view, one of those very few MUST-HAVE books for all interested in a writing career!

In Writing For Trade Magazines: How To Boost Your Income By $200 To $500 Per Week, veteran trade editor and professional writer Kendall Hanson provides detailed information on how to research, query, and write articles that will sell to the trade magazine industry. Hanson's advice is practical, thorough, and "writer friendly". Writing For Trade Magazines emphasizes that good trade writers don't need to be trained in journalism or hold English Lit degrees, what they do need is to make effective contacts with potential publication clients and write interesting pieces for trade magazines. Writing For Trade Magazines is "must" reading for any aspiring author seeking to make sales to magazines, periodicals and journals, and holds a great deal of sound and valued information for even experienced professionals on enhancing and maximizing their sales and cash flow.

I found this piece of work to be a fantastic resource for all writers. It is written in an easy to understand language that makes the reading quite easy (most writers get to technical and their readers doze off quickly).

This book is a must for all writers for trade publications and those who want to write for trade pubs.

As a writer for several trade newspapers I found many examples of interviewing techniques that can make my job easier.

This work by Walter Pater, published in 1873, as
a volume of collected (previously published) essays
along with an essay on "Winckelmann", a Preface, and
a Conclusion was [and perhaps still is] an extremely
influential work of aesthetic criticism. The volume
helped shape [influence] the perceptions, the
attitudes, and the approaches of many youthful readers
in the late 1880's and 1890's. It is very interesting
to read, immensely engaging to consider and muse about,
but also offers cautions to the overenthusiastic,
easily influenced [or persuaded] disciple.
This volume consists of an Introduction [by the
editor, Adam Philips], a Preface [by Pater], 9 chapters,
and a Conclusion (in this particular edition
by Oxford Classics there is also a chronology, a
Selective Bibliography, an Appendix titled "Diaphaneite,"
and Explanatory Notes in the back. The chapter titles
(after Pater's Preface) are: Two Early French Stories;
Pico Della Mirandola; Sandro Botticelli; Luca Della
Robbia; The Poetry of Michelangelo; Leonardo da Vinci;
The School of Giorgione, Joachim Du Bellay; Winckelmann;
and Conclusion.
* * * * * * * * * *
What's the problem here? Well, unfortunately, Pater
is not completely reliable as an objective perceiver
or critic. He tends to be a bit eccentric in his
individualistic perceptions and interpretations of
the art works, but he goes ahead and defends this
approach in a very "modern" sounding fashion --
which seems to include a bit of "situational perceptions,"
subjective impressions of perception and response,
and subjective criticism. Which makes for extremely
engaging [sometimes irritating] reading, but leaves
something to be desired as far as objective and
judicious thoughtfulness and truthfulness. Pater
seems to believe that it is acceptable to "bend"
or even create facts to further his own it-pleases-
me-to-think-that-this-is-or-should-be-so desires.
We know that we are on a slippery critical slope
[though it will sound all too familiar to modern
ears and modern apologetics] when the editor Phillips
informs us: "In Pater's first published writing, his
essay on Coleridge of 1866, he had suggested that --
'Modern thought is distinguished from ancient by its
cultivation of the "relative" spirit in place of the
"absolute" ... To the modern spirit nothing is, or
can be rightly known, except relatively and under
conditions." It doesn't take much time to realize
that such a critical position is going to lead to
an end-position of aesthetic, critical, and moral
relativism ("You can't tell me I'm wrong, because
there is no one set way of seeing, analyzing,
believing, or evaluating."-- the spoiled, indulged child's
self-justification for the validity of its own
ego supremacy and authority against that of any
parental or adult restrictions. Such a position usually
means a lack of any meaningful in-depth self questioning
or objective evaluating of personal motives, and a
welcoming of lack of restraints in the pursuit of
pleasure and non-self discipline. And this, of course,
is the critical negative refrain that often comes
against the decadent followers of Pater's credo.]
The second fall-out effect of Pater's evaluations
and pronouncements is that some of his disciples
[self-styled] went farther than even he was willing
to approve with their hedonism and purposefully
shocking lifestyles and "decadent" behaviors and
aesthetic appetites.
But it came from statements like this, which Pater
may have meant one way, but which their subjective,
individualistic perceptions took another way: "The
aesthetic critic, then, regards all the objects with
which he has to do, all works of art, and the fairer
forms of nature and human life, as powers or forces
producing PLEASURABLE SENSATIONS [caps are mine], each
of a more or less peculiar or unique kind. [We value
them --he says] for the property each has of affecting
one with a special, a unique, impression of pleasure.
Our education becomes complete in proportion as our
SUSCEPTIBILITY to these impressions increases -- in
depth and VARIETY."
Let the perceiver and the critic -- and the
experiencer -- proceed with extreme caution and good
judgment.
* * * * * * * * *

This book has changed many lives in a very
peculiar way: although its evaluations are
quite wrong at times, particularly the chapter
on the School of Giorgione(if you care, check
out the edition with an introduction by
Kenneth Clark), Pater's Renaissance still
shines with the very same light that made it a
cult among Victorian youngmen.

The "gemstone flame", the pervasive feelings
of which Pater invited us to share have not
vanished (in spite of the attempts of the
so-called modern art), and the book's
invaluable lesson is that you simply
do not need a fancy objet d'art to see
what true beauty is all about.

So basically this is what I have to say: if
you have ever derived aesthetic pleasure from
anything at all in life, you should read this
little book tomorrow. If you never felt any
such pleasure, you must read The Renaissance
right now, or you'll simply let the good
things pass you by. I mean it.

Not at dull moment ! Suspense and action combined in story that will spellbind you, especially if you are just a bit interested in aeroplanes.
Very well written. I am looking forward for more from the hands of Mr. Hansen.

Being a frequent flyer, I like to read books relating to the airline industry. This book was a real page-turner. From the opening scene of an FBI agent being used as chum to the blending of the story of the loss of the Panama Canal, fanatical drug dealers, government officials trying to cover their butts and creative, frighteningly easy airline sabotage. I don't want to give away the action scenes, but I have say, there is a really incredible commercial airline scene. Rudy will repulse you, Nestor will frighten you, you will be certain of Chris and Zac's demise and you will despise George Drany. While reading, I couldn't help but picture Benjamin Bratt as Zac and Charlize Theron as Chris, John Travolta as the egocentric George Draney, Dennis Franz as Rudy and without a doubt, Johnny Depp as Nestor Avila. Now that you have the visual imagery background for the characters, go read the book!

This is another great book by these authors. Their earlier book `Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy; the second edition' is a must buy for any spectroscopist as is the one under review here.

Theoretical molecular spectroscopy has been the subject of intense activity in the last decade as a result of the increasing availability of powerful computers. Computational Molecular Spectroscopy is the first book ever to provide a comprehensive treatment of modern computational techniques for predicting/interpreting molecular spectra.

Comprised essentially of four main parts, the book is a must for research workers in high resolution molecular spectroscopy and in quantum chemistry. It is also highly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students of physics and chemistry, who are just starting out in the field.

The four main areas covered include:

1. Ab initio calculation of potential energy surfaces and other electronic properties of molecules

2. Perturbation-theory-based and variational approaches to the calculation of spectroscopic data

3. Theory of calculating rovibronic energies, including the Renner and Jahn-Teller effects

4. Special topics of high current interest: highly excited states and local modes, semi-classical approaches, time-dependent phenomena, and the Car-Parrinello approach

Great Book....even though the CRAZY PROFESSOR I HAD USED 15 of the essays and some poems. THE ESSAYS WERE INTERESTING AND FUN.

This book provides a good range of diverse materials for a teacher in a first year English course. There are multiple genres and themes, a section of famous paintings for discussions (useful for discussions on literature and art), among other helpful features. The Conscious Reader is an antidote to readers which have the same standard writing for student use.