If you are looking for an easy way into the work of Harvey Sacks, this is a decent book with which to start. But is isn't a book with which to stay if you seek to understand the breadth and depth of the remarkable work of this enormously talented analyst of everyday language-use, interactional sociolinguistics and ethnomethodological sociology. On the other hand, it IS at best a decent introductory text in a market noticeably absent of such.

Definitely a good book to learn ebXML and its role in the Web services world. Don't worry if you are not familiar with technologies such as SOAP, or UDDI, the book covers it all.

The first section begin with an introduction to ebXML and modeling techniques, followed by the introduction to SOAP. The next five sections go in great detail with topics such as BPSS, ebXML registries/repositories, UDDI, ebXML Messaging, Security and so on.

Overall, covers ebXML nicely.

Get the printed version (excellent!) instead. This high-tech version is underwhelming, especially for the cost. It apparently has the same content as the standard text, but the interface looks like it was written for a computer running Windows 95.

The book is especially good to understand the mechanisms of Cell Biology. The beauty of the book is that it does not look at Cell Biology purely from the aspect of a cell and it's organelles but goes a step further to give a clear picture of how cell organelles and their components function in a cell and how it is impossible to study the cell without it's amalgamation with molecular biology. The chapters on DNA replication and RNA transcription are very lucid. Signal transduction is also very comprehensively explored. The book has kept abreast with latest studies and makes it an especially useful text for 1st year Masters/Ph.D students

Cuba is a visual delight and, with more than 100 color photographs, David Alan Harvey shows you why. Combine Harvey's images of life in Cuba with Elizabeth Newhouse's terse yet thorough style and you have a perfect match for this book.

I have recently visited Cuba and found that Harvey's photography captures the essence of Cuba's greatest resource - the Cuban people. Strong and proud, though materialistically impoverished, the people of Cuba are rich in relationships, music, dance and defiance. Harvey, a photographer for National Geographic, has spent the last 20 years photographing Latin America and is skilled at capturing people in their everyday environment.

Newhouse's chapter on the turbulent history of Cuba is excellent. Without pulling any punches about the glaring deficiencies of Castro's totalitarian Communist government, she writes with objectivity about life in Cuba and she is able to show, with sensitivity to the culture, the strength found in the people of Cuba. "But above all Cuba is music," Newhouse writes, "expressing Cubans' intense joy in life, sensuality and machismo. Garcia Marquez calls Cuba 'the most dance oriented society on earth. And that Fidel Castro is the only Cuban who can't dance, should have warned the people about him from the start.'"

The downside of this book is the publisher/printer's very poor reproduction of Harvey's photos. Almost all of the photos are too dark and thus rob the effect that David Harvey intended. Considering that National Geographic is distinguished for its stunning photography, I called the publisher and asked about this blunder and was told that the printer, not the photographer, was culpable.

This book celebrates the passion, color and sensuality of the Cuban people, and, even with the gray backdrop of Communism framing their existence, and the deficiency in the photo reproduction, the Cubans are still able to shine through the gloom and darkness. Recommended.

I have traveled to Cuba and I have followed the photographic work of David Harvey for more than 20 years. While neither makes me an expert I do know that the Cuba Harvey captured is the Cuba I saw and felt when I visited several years ago while on a teaching visa. Harvey caresses his subjects with intensity and love. He blends in - he becomes a part of the scene - while not changing the scene. He is both a photographer's photographer and a man of the people. We hang with the saxophone player in Trinidad on page 45, we roam the late night streets of Havana on pages 92-93, we are unseen as we observe the barbershop/front bedroom on page 166. I highly recommend this book to those who love photography, those who love people and want to learn something about another place, to those who desire to sit awhile in a culture other than their own, and to those who simply love images and the gift a fine photograph can bring to your life. It is a true gift. This captures the vibrant yet gentle Cuba of today, of now, not of tightly clutched notions that died 50 years ago.

David Alan Harvey, long one of the most outstanding photographers at an outstanding publication, National Geographic, has produced that captures well the beauty, spirit, and reality of life in Cuba. Harvey's masterful compositions with his trademark use of strong, vibrant color remind one of Alex Webb's photographs of Haiti and the tropics.

I suspect that those who complain about "dark pictures" have missed the point; the photographer seems to deliberately have exposed for the highlights, leaving his shadow areas to fall to blackness and lending the subjects in his photos a timeless anonymity.

And the harsh reviews that Harvey has "misunderstood" Cuba seem to be misguided on the part of some reviewers. I guess they'd rather deny that the poverty reflected in some of his photographs actually exists, and bash him for merely bringing a non-Cuban perspective to the land they love with rose-tinted vision, rather than address the actual points his work raises.

This book is for the professional cook in mind not for homestead sasuage makers. It is not what i was looking for.

This book looks good, with lots of pictures and sausage mixes. I have been making sausages for a living for twenty years, I have won many local competions including currently holding the title for supreme champion of hampshire UK. When I first started reading this book I thought these will not work and how right I was. When I changed a few things around the sausages came out ok. This book is not as it states PROFESSIONAL.

I particularly like the spice combinations presented in the different recipes. It covers sausages from around our planet. Procedure-wise, methods can change depending on where we are in the globe but this book is an effective guide to charcuterie-making as a whole !!
... I really do not know what the other reviewers were looking for in a charcuterie book, though !!

Having grown up in Coney Island I found this effort to be extremely substandard. This book takes the most uninteresting pictures of the most uninteresting individuals that I can imagine. Mr. Stein would have done much better to find alot more of the old timers who truly represent the feel and atmosphere of What Coney Island was, not so much the depressing delapidated dangerous neighborhood that it most unfortunately has become. He did not look hard enough to find what is truly representative of the Coney of lore, because had he done so, it's still there, just difficult to unearth. The pictures of the parade just shows how far down Americas greatest playground has gone. Do yourselves a favor and go to the library and pick out any number of other books on Coney Island and then compare. Unfortunately, you might become meloncoly and saddened, for Coney is really just a microcosm of what has become of this nations great cities.

I was EXTREMELY disappointed with this book. The title is VERY misleading. THIS IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT CONEY ISLAND!!! This is a book about carny people and Stein took the sleaziest most unattractive pictures of them. I know Coney Island. I lived there for 15 years and still visit annually. There is history of amusements and cultures that are not captured in this book. Out of 80+ pictures, there are only 3, including the cover wrap, about the attractions of Coney Island. The rest is a picture book of people. If you are looking for a nostalgic journey about Coney Island-SAVE THE RETURN COST & FORGET ABOUT THIS BOOK!!!

I love this book for the way it captures the feeling of the place. While it is not full of text about Coney Island, it is full of visual and emotional information. I am an ex-New Yorker and have a few books I turn to when I feel homesick, this is one of them.

Most people in life accomplish very little creating nothing of lasting value or influence. Mr. Houtkin has been a major innovator in the financial markets sticking his neck out to assure the public a fair shot prospering in todays markets. Rather than being critical of his commentary on the history and reality of the brokerage and marketing making community, one should learn from it and make sure we do not fall back into the era of corruption and abuse. He has every right to speak proudly of the changes he helped make reality. I would like to see any critic of this book create anything of substance other than their self serving hot air. Houtkin's book is a wonderful overview of trading with the new technology that allows the individual direct access to the market---no brokers, order clerks or other intermediaries. Several techniques and disciplines are understandably explained and I finished the book really feeling I knew alot more about the realities and opportunities of trading. Naturally this book is not an end all piece, however, it has given me the necessary tools to pursue a trading career. Naturally I realize no one book could ever be enough to assure success in something a complex as the competitive world of trading and market making. However, Houtkin's book provides the basics to go foward. This book is very clear and understandable doing the job intended-- explaining the opportunity. thank you

Awe inspiring. I think that some of the other reviewers are missing the point... although it might seem like an "infommercial" to some, they fail to realize what this company has established! Houtkin is the pioneer in the direct access electronic trading venue... SOES is simply one way of executing a NASDAQ trade... but all of you other geniuses who are trashing this insightful piece, and claim to be "good traders" would know that... or haven't you really read this book?

I chuckle when I read critical reviews of this book. I have worked alongside Mr. Houtkin for a long period of time and have seen him turn many very unfullfilled people into content successful traders and improve their quality of life immensely. Other books have been written by wannabe traders or academics but there is nothing like the real thing. Most of the critical comments apparently come from losers who are trying to transfer their failure or at least rationalize it by blaming the daytrading concept. The hundreds of successful traders at the many All-Tech offices around the country and the numerous traders operating out of their own homes and offices is living proof that the theories and techniques expoused by Mr. Houtkin are right on the money. Don't be disuaded by envious losers who were cheap and took shortcuts or listened to fast talking promoters. Houtkin is the real deal and so is his book. If you hope to succeed in trading...there is no alternative.

Dr Nahas himself DISCREDITED the FALSE information in this book, why is it being sold, and for $115?? what a joke!

Its sad to see that the US federal governments various anti-drug agencies, still use this information today to LIE to society about marijuana. The War on Drugs is nothing but big business at the expence of human lives.

I am glad the other two comments here are saying the same.

Dr Lester Grinspoon wrote from an unbiased point of view. He didnt even try marijuana till after he wrote the book..

Nahas has impressive credentials, but from all I've seen he practices very bogus scientific research. I think he operates like the red queen in "Alice in Wonderland:" guilty first, then make the evidence fit the verdict. His favorite authority to quote is frequently himself.

There are far better books about marijuna and medicine. "Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine" by Dr. Lester Grinspoon is perhaps the classic. Also refer to the recent Institute of Medicine report. But give this book a pass.

Gabriel Nahas is a totally discredited marijuana commentator. He starts with his personal belief that marijuana is bad, and then finds or contrives "evidence" to support his position.

He has been pilloried and publicly discredited by many legitimate scientists.

Anybody who wants a thorough examination of marijuana's medical efficacy and possible side effects would do well to start with a book by Dr. Lester Grinspoon and the book titled "Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts," by Zimmer and Morgan.