Graham's book is very well written and goes at an easy pace, while not becoming boring. It is a fertile field of ideas. His commodity buffer stock idea could be a real solution for today's global problems of increasing financial instability and growing inequality. Deregulation has removed almost all government automatic stabilizers. Graham's idea is ultimately an international stabilization policy particulary relevant to the European Union and the Third World.

While this book was written in 1936, and buffer stock ideas have been around for centuries, his monetary forumlation of the buffer stock is a policy still ahead of its time.

Benjamin Graham certainly is one of our century's most important financier and self-thought economist. After the great depression, Graham reenginered his way of investing and his way of looking the world. After suffering the debacle, he made value investing and value thinking the most important things in his life. The book is the proposal for a new monetary system, which uses an index of commodities as it's core backing for the issuance of currency. Graham's idea isn't revolutionary, because as he tells us , the granary system has been used throught men's history. The philosophical foundation of the proposal lies in that the surplus of commodities should'nt represent a disgrace, instead it should represent wealth. As economists know, when there is an overproduction of commodities prices tend to decrease, so why plenty relates to disgrace. If the government stored the surplus of commodities and used the as the backing of the issuance of currency, this problem can be allevianted. The book is easy and fun to read, and shows the genious of the dean of Wall Steet

Briefly, I have been looking for a good non-Microsoft book that will offer a critical review of their latest OS - Win95. I had a client with a number of problems after an upgrade and I found the answers immediatly when I looked in the index. I then looked for other odd index topics and found reference to all of them. Other books, including MS Press titles, did not have reference or at least the depth that this book did. Buy it. Greg Barry

Warren Bodie's book is a marvel of completeness, including photos of all series and one-offs, and favorably presents what was arguably the best all-around fighter of World War Two. All the subjective criticisms of the famous Lockheed twin-boom plane are clearly discussed in their proper historical context, with ample support from the main historical actors. The book also demonstrates that the P-38, as a good child of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson's genius, was several years ahead of its time both in its technology and in the capacity of air strategists and pilots to fully exploit the advances it had over current aviation designs, as well as to foresee its potential. For example, the P-51 Mustang was a pig (and used the same Allison engine of the P-38) before being refitted with the famous Rolls-Royce Merlin engine which made it the masterpiece we know; just imagine a P-38 with two Merlins, something that never happened but that could have dramatically changed the air war before 1944 in all theaters. Bodie demonstrates that the P-38 was already the long-range fighter the Allies needed a couple of years before the P-51D and P-47N, but was stupidly underused and underdeveloped; its firepower was overwhelming and almost unparalleled throughout the war; it could turn with any enemy fighter and outrun most of them and, finally, having another engine was a priceless safeguard in the long flights over the Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean. Highly recommended reading about my favorite fighter plane.

This book is a must for anybody researching the P-38. It gives perfomance data and is packed full of tech data. It also gives you a picture of how the plane performed against german and japanese fighter during ww2

If you had to select only one P-38 book from the 50+ on the shelves, this is the one. Excellent quality from author Warren Bodie, outstanding quality in production, details that just don't quit, and a ton of photos. What more can I say. If there is one fault with this book, it has so much information, an index would be nice.

My mother bought me these books when I was in the 3rd grade. They got me through many book reports and biography assignments in elementary school. I had never heard of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or Benjamin Banneker before. Even now that I am in college I remember things I learned from these books! I can't listen to a lecture on Washington D.C., slavery or African-Americans and not think about this book! These books are simple enough for any child to understand, and it might just spark they're interest in history too.

The story of Benjamin Banneker has been a great addition to my class. I teach 7th,8th grade resource special education students in an economically disadvantaged part of rural east Texas. We read the story and study it with the use of vocabulary and questions which I have developed. The story is well written and easy enough for my slow readers to enjoy. I am very pleased to be able to teach history in this manner. My class is a reading class but we are able to use this simple book as a jumping off place to teach invention, hard work, overcoming obstacles and a myriad of other character building concepts. Highly recommended...

Above average comic book fare, but not even in the same plane as Watchmen or V for Vendetta. I would suggest looking elsewhere. From Hell and Swamp Thing are also both supposed to be very good.

Above average comic book superhero fare, but unfortunately that's not saying too much. Enjoyable, but no depth--but not even in the same plane as Watchmen or V for Vendetta. I would suggest looking elsewhere. From Hell and Swamp Thing are also both supposed to be very good

This book (or these books, as this is a collected edition) are great stuff - Alan Moore crafts a wickedly poignant tale around the return of the original C.A.T.s from their homeworld of Khera. While they originally went to Khera thinking it a utopia of paradise, they leave when events turn bitter. Arriving home on Earth, they find themselves right in the middle of the crime war the new WildC.A.T.S. have started. The conclusion is classic Moore, and the art (a mix of Travis Charest and Kevin Maguire) is top notch, Charest's in paticular. If you are a fan of Alan Moore, WildC.A.T.s, or just good old fashion intergalactic superhero action, this book's for you.

I too bought this book on the strength of the O'Reilly name. I expected to learn at least one or two new facts by reading this book. Not to sound arrogant, but this is a book I could have written myself. I've dabbled in BloggerPro, GreyMatter and MovableType, along with some other, more powerful CMSs (e.g., E107, GeekLog and Drupal).

Unless you've never written a blog before and are a virtual neophyte online, this book is not for you. It cursorily reviews only the "top two" blog tools, Blogger/BloggerPro/Blogspot and Movable Type. It also delves into quite a bit of detail about Bloxsom, which is understandable, I suppose, since Bloxsom was developed by one of the book's contributors. I don't need handbooks for tools I don't use. If someone is interested in trying out a particular content management system, I doubt they'd think to purchase this O'Reilly book to help them do so, particularly since both Blogger and Movable Type have excellent websites and fora for their users to hash out installation problems.

The book starts out with a minimum of information about blogging and its origins. Delves not at all into what blogging is now or may potentially become. There's no insight here.

This book, in trying to be all things to all bloggers, fails miserably and merely becomes nothing to more people than it should have.

My best suggestion for a great book ABOUT BLOGGING is Rebecca Blood's The Weblog Handbook. Spend your money on that; I promise that's one book you won't want to part with.

Bringing together bloggers from across the Web, this book has everything you need to get started blogging. It starts out with a wonderful chapter explaining what a blog is and how to start your own, by blogger and science-fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Once you've got that down, it has several chapters on how to get started with each of the most popular blogging tools (Blogger, Radio, and Movable Type) as well as chapters on more advanced usage of them. It also has a chapter on Rael Dornfest's Blosxom, a simple blogging tool designed for advanced unix user.

The authors provide a wealth of useful information by experienced people (in the case of Blosxom and Movable Type, the chapter authors are the same as the people who wrote the software). The book closes with a series of useful tips collected from lots of bloggers.

While the copy I got had a some small errors, as is bound to happen in the quickly-moving blogging world, the core of the book will likely continue to be useful for a while to come. I'd recommend the book for anyone interested in blogging, web newbie and techie alike. The detailed explanations and copious screen shots make it easy to get started, but the advanced details and the blosxom coverage keep it interesting.

Before I read this book, I had never heard the term "blogging" before. But as I read the book's first chapter, which gives a good overview of what it is, I realized I'd seen "web logs" on several different sites. So now I have some familiarity with blogging.

The rest of the book is devoted to various software to be used in setting up and maintaining your web log. Among the products decribed in detail are Blogger (and Blogger Pro in a later chapter), Radio UserLand, and Bloxsom. Each of their features are explained in good detail, with lots of screen shots included. Not quite a tutorial, but still good explanations of what each product does.

It's piqued my interest in setting up my own "blog."