This book has beautiful pictures, but not enough info & absolutely no help on figuring out values.

I really like many of the designs that Kenneth J. Lane has produced over the years and loved having a reference book of all his different styles and periods. The prose is of a chatty style that I usually am not too fond of but Mr. Lane is so upbeat and aware of the good fortune that has blessed him that you can't help but like him. The photography is wonderful and it is fun to see photos of celebrities wearing his jewels. The book could have been stronger if it has an addendix of technical information about the creation of costume jewelry or had a reference as to current pricing of some of Mr. Lane's vintage pieces. But I had many a fun evening looking and reading and will definately keep this book available for several more readings.

I had to read this book to help me with a report. It doesn't talk much about S. E. Hinton's life, but it's great if you need it to help you write about her books. It explains each character in all her books alot. It also talks about her books' settings and themes. If you need to talk about that, it's very helpful.

This book is poorly organized. It's very hard for the user to get a clear picture of its content. Beginners should avoid this book!

This book wrote by many authors. It does not have a logical thread which can lead a reader through chapter by chapter. It is also have a lot of redundent information and inconsistant namings. Not recommanded for beginners!

While the book is not organised very well - bit of jumping around necessary to get the info you need it is a good book to start with if you have previous knowledge of VB programming.

One criticism I have though is that they are very light on some topics and too heavy on others. Their examples are good and not too difficult to follow. The CD is very handy when you need to cut and paste long sections of code into your apps.

Overall a good book that will act as a stepping-stone to better things.

While this book helped to review the topics for the AP Physics examination, the explanations were non-existant. The practice tests were very similar to the real questions on the test, however, in the answer key, the explanations made no sense, not telling you which equations to use, or why. I would recommend the Princeton Review Physics study guide over this one any day. There are a lot better review guides available than this one, I could have done better on the exam having only used the textbook.

So, also when it is not the Ap-test now and I did not work through the whole book, I worked myself through most of it and now have to say that this surely is not the best buy. There are no tips on how to take the test (they are helpful also when not necessary), there are nop divisions between what is Physics B and what is Physics C, what is very bad and confusing. But the worst is that it is written very dry and does not help to explain the material very well. An shocking example for me is: "Some potential differences must be positive and some negative" this is given with Kirchhoff's rules and that is all. There is NO further explanation of what some is, so confusing you, and in the best case just not helping you, because you need to find out what "Some" actually is. these bad explanation mistakes are made throughout the whole book. I would buy this book only when taking physics C (because you need to know everything in this book) and when you know the stuff pretty well and just try to refresh the memory. Also when I did not have any other books, I think that taking your chances with a different choice might be in your best interest.

Helped me review eveything for final exam. Better than the school text book.

This is neither a biography of jay, nor a history of his times, but a polemic intended to show that, because John Jay was a Christian, the Founders could not have believed in separation of church and state. As you might expect of one who holds such a thesis, the author writes at about a sixth-grade level. Actually, it reads a lot like "1066 and All That," but this author is deadly serious, and deadly dull. I didn't get very far into the book before deciding to return it, and I would give it zero stars if that were possible.

One of the guidelines of Amazon.com for reviews is that the reviews are not supposed to be spiteful. It was my impression that when one had a book review to do whether for college or whatever, the reviewer had an obligation to read the entire book and then give his or her objective summary. This book was put on the recommended list of books to read for 2002 by Marvin Olasky, editor of World magazine in the Nov. 30, 2002 edition on page 36. Mr. Olasky's article "70 mph Treadmill" shows how Mr. Olasky does his reviews- he reads the books that he reviews while he runs on his treadmill. Mr. Olasky is a very busy man, yet he took the time to read the book. The reviewer of my book on Amazon.com admits that he has not finished the book. "I didn't get very far into the book before deciding to return it." What kind of a grade would this student get from the teacher? I ask that this anonymous reader's review be removed or at least that my book is given equal time from a positive review. The book was in 7th place among books on Lawyers and Judges before this "deadly dull" review and has since fallen to 42nd place. I appeal to your staff to include reviews that follow your guidelines and I appeal to readers to have an open mind about the details of the book.

I bought this manual for my 98 Accord. I wanted to remove steering column covers. The instruction said, remove three screws which I did & take out upper half & lower half. But it is not that simple, I ended up breaking my ignition key light.
This book assumes many things. If you are novice like me, it won't help you at all.

I bought this book from you guys about a month ago for my '99 accord. Just two days ago I did a brake job myself with the help of this book and it helped me greatly. It had detailed, step-by-step pictures and instructions for the entire procedure. My only gripe is that the instructions for removing the lower panel(to replace AC Filter) on the passenger side dash was a little vague and I ended up breaking it.. but its okay though, I put the panel back and the breakage is not noticeable. Great tips and everything for a person who wants to work on their own car and save some money while doing it.(I've already saved...in labor from doing my AC Filter and brakes myself) Overall a great book. =)

Shoddy speculative fiction from one of America's worst crime writers.

This book is largely a reprint of Nash's wildly implausible 1970 book, Dillinger: Dead or Alive?, though coauthor Ron Offen is left out of the credits this time. The "evidence" for Dillinger's survival as presented in Nash's first book was based mainly on erroneous notations in Dillinger's long missing autopsy report and has been largely rebutted by more serious Dillinger researchers, notably Girardin and Helmer in Dillinger: The Untold Story. New "evidence" introduced by Nash in The Dillinger Dossier consists mostly of the revelations of "Blackie" Audett, an obscure ex-con and author of a volume of tall tales entitled Rap Sheet. Audett, now deceased, claimed to have known every major outlaw of the 30s, to have been involved in nearly every crime of the period, and to have aided John Dillinger in his permanent escape from justice. This alleged eyewitness to the Kansas City Massacre, who was in Leavenworth at the time, seems to have found a willing dupe in Nash but Audett's word doesn't hold a candle to the three known sets of postmortem fingerprints taken from the dead man by the FBI. While scarred by acid, the prints remained easily identifiable as Dillinger's. This book originally came with a mail order offer of Nash's taped interviews of Audett. It seems that few, if any, who ordered the tape ever received it and at least some got a refund check, with no further explanation. The late Joe Pinkston, author of Dillinger, A Short and Violent Life, owner of the John Dillinger Historical Museum and himself a trained lie detector examiner, once suggested to this reviewer that possibly Nash, or his publisher, realized that the tape could be tested with a PSE (Psychological Stress Evaluator) which would indicate Audett was lying, and removed the tape offer for this reason. At any rate, The Dillinger Dossier, like most of Nash's books, is one best avoided by serious historians but perfect for conspiracy freaks and anyone who appreciates a good joke.

This book (an expanded and updated version of Nash's earlier "Dillinger: Dead or Alive") tells a fascinating tale and (as is always the case with Nash) tells it well. Was John Dillinger really gunned down at the Biograph Theatre in July, 1934, or was the dead man a double set up to take the fall? At first, the idea that Dillinger might have survived the Biograph shooting for several decades seems right up there with alien abductions, but Nash makes an excellent case. And with what we now know about Hoover's FBI, the idea that the Bureau would have covered up the debacle for decades to avoid criticism is hardly shocking -- in fact, it's pretty hard to believe that Hoover would *not* have covered it up.

Even if you don't buy Nash's central hypothesis, the book is a great read, full of colorful period detail. If you have any interest in Dillinger or the early history of the FBI, buy it.

I've seen worse. And I'm actually reading it instead of simply tossing it in the trash. But that's the best I can say. The book is rife with typos, never a good sign in a computer book. There are factual mistakes as well, though usually these are obvious. It's actually two separate books by two different authors: one on Java and the other on the Visual J++ environment. The latter, irritatingly, is really about VJ++ 1.0, not the environment specified in the book's title. I found the exercises useful in learning Java. Answers are provided--just not always to the exercises as stated! In particular, I spent a lot of time trying to get a wait()/notify() exercise to work, only to find that the author apparently couldn't either. In that same exercise, the author candidly admits that he "dunno" why one part of his code is necessary. Bottom line: Don't buy this book. There must be better ones out there.

There are few books more disappointing than a history book that doesn't adequately explore its thesis. Such is the case with Pontiffs. Hughes mentions in his introduction that he selected popes who "...made a difference." He then goes on to profile eleven pontiffs, from the obvious (St. Peter and Gregory the Great) to the more controversial (Pius VII and Leo X). However, these profiles barely, if ever, explain the reasons why these popes "made a difference." As a result, one finishes the book wondering why Hughes chose these eleven instead of others who have made equally powerful impacts on the papacy.

Pontiffs is good as an introduction to the accomplishments and failures of the discussed popes. If read on that level alone, it serves as a handy, easy to read primer on their lives. But, the book advertises itself as an exploration of popes who "made a difference" in the Church. By failing to explore the thesis more fully, Hughes ends up diminishing his power of his subject.

I know William Jay Smith is a respected poet, but I found his poems to be lacking something. His style seems to be stuck in adult mode, but with children's-poem-style. I'm probably not making myself very clear here, but I didn't find myself hating the book. I just didn't like it, and keep seem to work myself up into saying much about the book. And that should say it all.