If your a fan of the James Bond films and you want to know everything about the films than this is the book you have to buy. This book gives a great behind the scene look at the films and at the actors who portrayed the suave secret agent. Each actor is interviewed by the author, and share there point of view on Bond. Also each movie is featured and discussed. I think this book is very fun and a great read. I really enjoyed the authors style of writing and hope he writes a book like this about the Bond novels in the future.

Amazing! I've been a fan of the Bond films for over 20 years, and this is the first book that has brought together everyone's first-hand accounts. Almost every Bond book I've been disappointed with because they were written by arm-chair quarterbacks, but David Giammarco is a journalist who has been a part of the 007 world, spent time with most of the Bond particpants, and can truly write what it is like to be on set and behind the scenes. It is very well-written, with many interesting facts and stories that even I'VE never heard before! His interviews with Roger Moore were quite amusing, and reading Sean Connery tell his version of Bond-mania was very fascinating. Getting to hear Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby's side of the story was also quite interesting. It was also great to see how well Mr. Giammarco showcased Pierce Brosnan's contributions to the series. Mr. Brosnan has been vastly underrrated in the media, but this book gives us far more insight into the man and pays him his due rewards (after all, we all know Pierce is the best Bond since Connery!!!) The author and Pierce seems to have a really good relationship, and perhaps that why the normally reticent Mr. Brosnan opens up as much as he does.
Plus, you can't beat hearing all the many great stories from the "classic" Bond directors like Guy Hamilton and Peter Hunt, Ken Adam (his account of Connery almost being eaten by a shark during the shooting of Thunderball was quite funny)as well as the many Bond Girls, Villains, cast and crew. I liked what Desmond Lewelyn told the author and I learned a whole new side about lovable old Q.
Also, the contributions to the book from Hugh Hefner, Kevin Costner, Harison Ford, and that infamous CIA spook E. Howard Hunt were quite fascinating and take this book to a whole new dimension than those other Bond books.

It's clear Mr.Giammarco knows the Bond legacy inside and out and his access to everyone is an invaluable resource for us Bond aficionados. I've been waiting a long time for a book like this - a really fun read. I highly recommend it. No Bond fan will be disappointed!!!

Browsing through this tome transports one to the expedition Bodmer depicts. Accompanying commentary helps place the works in an historic context. The beauty of the works stand alone, but are made especially poignant with 20th century perspective that many of the Native American subjects will soon be destroyed through disease. A stunning collection.

Karl's artistic pieces are some of the best I've seen. He shows the life behind the scenes and people he paints. This is an account of his travels through America when it was still young. If you like watercolor and breathtaking scenery, this book is for you

This is a good book. It tells the origin of Superman, and has an exciting adventure at the end. I'd reccomend this book to any kid who ikes the tales of Superman.

David Anson Russo's incredibly beautiful high detailed scenes featuring countries around the world are chock filled with icons the reader must find. The reader must find more and more with each consecutive spread of art. This book accomplishes something the "waldo" book never came close to on an artistic level. All of our daughter's friends(boys too) love the book, and spend hours with it on play dates. Best of all parents, it works wonders on long car rides. Plus, there is a "not in your face" geography lesson built into the book. We highly recommend this book to anyone that enjoys the interactive seek/find experience. We've bought several for friends' kids over the years, all with rave reviews. When she's asleep at night, I like to sneak over and play the book too!

David Anson Russo is of the most fun and creative maze artists my family has ever seen. His Great Treasure Hunt books made the Waldo series seem lethargic and very dull. And his maze art is second to none on the planet. I highly recommend all of his interactive books! My daughter and her friends have loved his books since age 5. They are 9 now, and still love his books..more than Hanson/Spice Girls! Go figure...You get the point-we think this David Anson Russo is the greatest!!

Collaboratively written by W. Raymond Wood (Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia), Joseph C. Porter (Chief Curator, North Carolina Museum of History), and David C. Hunt (Director, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas), and enhanced with numerous black-and-white illustrations and studio art reproductions, Karl Bodmer's Studio Art is a truly captivating collection of images and an informative, scholarly study of the works of Karl Bodmer, a Swiss artist whom Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected for an 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Bodmer sketched and painted landscapes and Native American portraits which uniquely captured the imaginations of the western world then and now. Enthusiastically recommended for academic and community library Art History and American History reference collections, Karl Bodmer's Studio Art focuses more on the story of Bodmer's journey than the art itself, yet both the text and the illustrations have a timeless appeal.

Beautiful illustrations and very catchy wording will keep your children involved. Great Book.

Well I have been up all night long reading 'Programming Ruby' cover to cover. I've been thinking about getting into Ruby programming for a while now, but lack of documentation and lack of time has always stopped me. However, after reading this book I am thoroughly hooked on Ruby.

Not only does the book have an excellent tutorial which goes over major Ruby concepts and the majority of the language you will encounter on a daily basis, but it also has an indispensable language and standard library reference, as well as an overview of the C API and details on the inner workings of the Ruby interpreter.

This book is definitely worth picking up if you want to start dabbling in Ruby, and is almost a requirement to have on your desk during heavy hacking sessions.

I am very pleased with this book. The pragmatic programmers have made this a very easy and fun book to read. They present Ruby in a delightful manner, making it very easy to assimilate.

I was also quite pleased with the depth and breadth of the book. The initial tutorial does not just gloss over the libraries. Rather, it gives you minor examples showing how to use most of them, and then leads to the library documentation in the back of the book. It's a very effective technique.

After two days with this book I was writing apps that query websites, manipulating html with regular expressions, maintaining persistent object stores, etc. Both the language, and the book are very very powerful.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in Ruby.

I've been using a bunch of interpreted programming languages, amongst them were awk, perl, scheme, python and I'll still use them for what they're at best, but then came Ruby (which IMHO combines the best of them all), and the book known as the pickaxe book. It's an introduction to the language, and a reference guide at the same time. It's not intended to absolute beginners, it just requires the reader to have some knowledge of classic programming languages, and some OO knowledge...

Having read David Edding's other nineteen books, I was very excited when I saw High Hunt in print. I bought it on the spot and delved into it. It was interesting enough, but I found the character interactions were a bit predictable, and seemed a little fake, if not overexaggerated. I must say it was interesting to read my second non-fantasy book by Eddings, but I think he should stick to maces and maidens. But then again, this was his first work, so maybe after reading Polgara I was expecting too much. Worth your time and money, but hardcore Eddings fans may be a little disappointed.

This is the beginning of the spectacular career of one of the greatest fantasy-authors: David Eddings.
But this book is no fantasy, however, it's great. Focusing on human characters on the scene of Mountain Hunt, Eddings creates intrigying book, which will delight the fans.
A must read, like everything by this author.

About ten years ago, I read this book about a bunch of guys going out hunting in the mountains. After losing/misplacing/etc. the book, all I could remember of the book that the author's name was David something and the word hunt was in the title. A few months ago, also being a sci-fi fan, I picked up something by Eddings, saw his other works, and bagged myself a copy of "High Hunt" which I've read a couple of times already, and recommended it to everyone. If you're looking for just a damn good read, this is it.

Incredible. It is true, experienced or newbie - this book is a definite must read for the serious software developer. Practical advise from obvious gurus in the industry. These men are serious about giving you real, solid and invaluable knowledge about bettering yourself as a professional. The information can be applied to whatever language, platform or design you are using.

There are a few reviewers here who rated this book low. To these individuals I say "Hey, I think you missed the point by a mile!". This book is meant to give you some solid development "food" to digest. Every single page is worth the read from top to bottom. In a single summary, you are only doing yourself GOOD by reading this book. Don't agree with a particular point? Well, fine! Turn the page and continue on to the myriads of other valuable points and lessons. A waist of time or harmful, are two statements that do not even belong to the most general reference of this publication...for shame.

Trust me, take the time to read this book and add it to your collection, you'll be glad you did.

The Pragmatic Programmer is the book all programmers should have to read before they are unleashed onto your source base.

The book is nice and terse, covering the ground it needs to cover in little over 250 pages. Clearly the authors are applying the lessons they learnt from Unix, Perl, c++ and a variety of other sources. Rather than wasting words trying to beat home their lessons, the authors have trusted that the reader has some degree of intelligence. They present each nibble of wisdom in a few paragraphs of pithy text which helps to support the 70 tips they provide throughout the book.

The book covers a fair degree of ground in it's 258 pages. Testing, documentation, automation and even requirements specifications all get a look in. Most of the book however, is devoted to that part of the art which is harder to define and learn. It is usually learnt from painful experience, or passed on by a senior programmer if you are lucky enough to have one around. It is this knowledge that makes the book worth the read.

It's value is not so much that you will find anything revolutionary inside the book, you wont, but that the book provides a terse and approachable font of wisdom for programmers of all skill levels. It is filled with the sort of sensible advice that stops you getting third degree burns while cooking, or cutting your hand off while doing woodshop. Managing to convey that knowledge without sounding preachy or ivory tower in nature adds to it's charm.

This book will be required reading for all the programmers on my team at work. It will help them to understand the bigger picture of development, rather than focusing on the minutae of cutting code.

This must be one of very few books I never felt like putting down. Quite a daunting task for any programming book. The reason for not wanting to put it down is probably related to the fact that it should strike a cord with every person that writes code. It effectively force you to ask: Am I writing programs or am I a programmer? If you don't understand this question becuase you think there is no difference then you should definitely read this book.

The techniques and habits the authors describe are very useful. Even if you may not have a use for every single one in every single project, I am quite convinced that you may over a career find all of them useful. The author's don't propogate that this set of ideas are a complete set - what they do propogate, however, is that programmers should work smarter not harder, and that one obviously achieves by thinking about what you are doing (and learning form other - like this book).

The writing style is very entertaining and thus makes a good read. I would say that this book is indespensable in your personal growth as a programmer. It may just prompt you to adapt your way of doing from being a "child" programmer to becoming a "real" ("adult") programmer. If you think you are already a "real" programmer, like I thought, then this book should make you realize that one is never to old to learn, that one should never stop thinking about what (and how) you are doing.

Enjoy a great read.