The synopsis reads:

"This book is a developer's handbook designed to take the intermediate to advanced level Visual FoxPro developer right to the heart of developing a real live application."

I wish I had read these words more carefully before my purchase. Unfortunately, I bought the book on another's advice. If you are "intermediate to advanced level," you have probably already developed a "real live application." And having done so, you have already learned just about everything in this book.

The book is really a standard text on VFP's basic features. As such, it is decent, certainly better than the Microsoft documentation. The foundation classes included perhaps take it a step higher; they are good learning tools for a beginner or intermediate who has never put together a complete application in FoxPro. I found nothing in the text, however (and I read through most of it) that I would say is distinctive to the topic of "enterprise development". If you have an application or two under your belt, even in VFP 3.0, and you're looking to go to the next level, this book has nothing for you.

Contents of the book are purely from Visual Foxpro programmer's perspective and experiences. I am using the book whenever I do Visual Foxpro training on our company because it has comprehensive examples i.e. API routines, OLE connectivity, and Basic Foundation Classes. I also like the Client/Server application development the way it was discussed.

I liked their approach and examples. It includes VFP Foundation Classes in the CD-ROM that can get you working right away.

It is not a basic book for the very beginner. You should at least be a little familiar with the previous (pre Visual) Foxpro way of doing things. It contains the following Sections:

- Analysis and Design. Establishing development standards.
- Object and Coding Development. OOP. Debugging. Multi-User development.
- Database Development. Creating a database and SQL.
- Application Deployment. Clients/Server. VFP and Internet applications. Distributing VFP applications.


I highly recommend this book for any serious VFP5 programmer

This book is more of a buying guide than a book on how to use the tools described. If you are looking for information on how to actually use a specific tool then the information given is too short or non-existent.

This book may be useful for somebody new to automotive tools.

Doesn't refer to an important tool, the P&G Valve Gapper, which is used to assist in adjusting the valve lash.

Well, the Python Fellows have done it again! They have produced a book so funny, so rue to nothing, that it could be just a figment of a madman's imagination. If they think that someone will want to buy this book, they are definetly right on, chaps! I hope everyone will buy this book, read it, and then send it to me! (Just kidding!)

This is the companion book to Monty Python's most outrageous film. Great color photos illustrate the script, but the REAL reason to own this is that it is the only place you may ever get to read/see some sequences cut from the film. These are "The Adventures of Martin Luther," in which Jones plays a very randy Martin Luther making the Jewish parents of two young daughters (mother Chapman and father Palin) quite nervous and an extended version of the "Middle Age" sequence featuring Carol Cleveland as a waitress in the Dungeon Room waiting on Idle and Palin. The text to these scenes is what warrants the high rating - otherwise, it's simply a souvenier.

This Book Is Helpful Becouse it shhows you how to win every battle. which is kind of bad becous than youdont have to think. Thats the bad part the good part is it it shows you how to do almost every super move. All and all this is a fairly good product.

This book is cool! I'm glad I got it becuse I have hard times beating it sometimes but not anymore. Save up your allowances and buy this book.

I teach a course for junior-high and high-school teachers of mathematics, who are getting advanced degrees--either their masters' degree or what Alabama calls an advanced certificate. These students have all had calculus at one time or another, but it may have been a long time ago for some of them. If they haven't been teaching the subject -- and most haven't -- then it's likely that they have forgotten most of it.

This book is ideal for this particular population. It takes a highly graphical approach; almost every unit calls for some graphing work. Moreover, it asks students to interpret the graphs in physical or real-life terms. Then the unit asks the students to match up the verbal descriptions with the graphs.

The book is divided into short units of three or four pages each. Each unit is intended to present some short project that is designed to help the students gain a better understanding of some topic in calculus. For instance, there are several units that show graphs of functions and graphs of derivatives and ask for matches. Later on, there is a unit that asks students to look at the derivative of 2 to the x power -- using the definition of derivative as a limit. The unit then helps students to understand why the base e= 2.71828... is easier to use. At the end of the book there are longer projects for the students to do. There is also a nicely wry sense of humor that pervades the book.

I wouldn't use this book as a *textbook* for a college calculus course; it is designed to be used as supplementary material. I also couldn't use it very effectively in our regular engineering calculus course. For one thing, our course at the University of Alabama has too jam-packed a syllabus -- I always have trouble finishing the assigned topics, much less any extra things. However, with the class of high-school teachers I can be more relaxed. Many of these students remember at least a bit of calculus, but they, too, probably learned it in a course where every topic was covered at breakneck speed. Very likely, they didn't spend enough time on their own to get the clear understanding that a math teacher ought to have. In this course, we have enough time to talk about *interpreting* graphs, limits, derivatives and integrals instead of just manipulating them. This book is excellent for gaining that kind of experience. I usually split the students up into groups and let them present most of the topics in ways that they might use in their own classrooms. I'll usually present some of the harder topics; for instance, I may give an hour lecture on why some elementary functions don't have elementary antiderivatives, and how we could prove such a thing. (This topic is not in the book under review.) If you teach a calculus course whose syllabus isn't already bursting at the seams, you ought to look at this book for ideas for supplementary topics. It's well-thought out and nicely presented.

This is an excellent book for individuals interested in helping people via technology. The topic is not only about counseling via a distance (not in an office, face to face) but also about the history of learning via technology. Learning and counseling cognitively are very similar and have similar technological uses. The editors do a good job of presenting information on theory, practical issues, phobias against technology use with people in need, as well as implementation issues. A wide variety of topics for people interested in all aspects of distance learning and communication. You can pick and choose the chapters that are relavant to your interests or I recommend reading the whole book to see how other fields are using the same types of technologies for different issues.

I happened to pick up this book by chance. Also it is only part of the Island Worlds series by the authors (the others being Act of God, Between the Stars, & I beleive one titled simply Island Worlds though they all appear out of print so it is hard to tell for sure until I find more of the titles), so my opinion of the book is going to note the fact of this book on it's own & not as part of the group. It starts as a rather normal sort of hard SF plot, with the basicis being the exploration of a planet in of all places the Delta Pavonis solar system. It quickly jumps ahead & tosses in characters from previous books without introducing them very well (short one paragrpah discriptions generalizing why the are important), that edge the plot toward a sort of race to decipher some alien artifacts that are found. I like the plot though at times it seems to skip ahead by months or even a couple of years without much of an interlude. My only real complaint abotu teh book is the fact that it seems as if it would work better compiled with teh other books of the serious with the way past characters are handled & the fact that they jump ahead in time without much notice or recap of what happened until they seem to remember they skipped telling us this part of the story. I still recomend it, but if you can do yourself a favor & get the whole series at once or in order.

I was first introduced to Adair's work in the mid-eighties as a student at the Royal Military College of Canada. I've since revisited this book, and have found that the clear, simple expression of what leadership is, what leaders do and the interrelationship between the task, the group and the individual is still as relevant as it ever was. In a world of fads and gimmicks, John Adair's simple, pragmatic and battle-proven techniques are a refreshing change. It is too bad this title is out of print... perhaps the publishers will see fit to re-issuing it. After twenty-plus years of studying and teaching leadership, this is still the best practical guide I've ever found.

Jeff Griffiths Vice President, Management Performance Practice, Canada Training Group, Calgary. jeffgriffiths@canada-training-group.ca

The study of emotion currently is undergoing a renaissance across the arts and sciences. Some of the most interesting and original contributions have been in the area of religion and emotion. This bibliography documents work from diverse fields of the humanities, social sciences and especially psychology. The bibliography is the only one of its kind and is extensive. It is not exhaustive. This interdisciplinary work is a primary research tool for initial research in the affective aspects of religious studies. Recommended for research libraries.

I needed to do a report on a famous person that I looked up to. My favorite hockey player of all time is Eric Lindros. So I went to my library to see if they had any information on him. To my surprise they had just got this book in. When I started to read I was very interested in seeing all the stuff that Eric had to go through to get to where he is today. The book showed me why I liked him so much. It wasn't just his speed, hardwork, and determination that I liked anymore it was also to see him on a personal level not just in the game of hockey.