As the developer of tours at Crown Hill Cemetery where Dr. Gatling is buried I found this book to be very useful. It has much more information about him than I have found anyplace else, though from my more narrow focus, it contained too much information about other family members. I especially enjoyed the photographs.

Though I can offer no direct proof, I also want to comment that given the cemetery's practice of burying blacks in lots next to whites, even in the 1860s when the cemetery first opened, I question the veracity of of the statement about how difficult it was for Jordan to have his black cook buried in his family plot.

But that is a rather small point. For any one interested in the inventor of the Gatling Gun, this has more information than anything else I have ever found.

I purchased this book in hopes of getting a large "database" of different schematic symbols. I found this book lacking many of the schematic symbols that I needed, such as thermocouples, circuit breakers, different switches, etc.

This book is geared more towards a beginner, on "how to develop a schematic diagram" or "how to read a schematic diagram." This is prompted by the title of this book "Schematic Diagrams The Basics of Interpretation and Use." However, I felt that the author could have included a larger variety of schematic symbols as it's hard to find a great book with the 'right' symbols for me to use in drafting.

I'm glad this book cost me under $20.00 used, as I don't feel I have any use for it.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a good example for writing, and the inability to write. Exchange Value was chosen by Gardner as one of the best American short stories of 1982 and has become Johnson's most anthologized short story. Two kids steal from a dead old woman who hoarded her money in fear, and they become as eccentric as she. How ironic. Popper's Disease has some interesting insights into racial matters, but then it degrades into a science-fiction story and anti-solipsistic philosophy. Similarly, Alethia starts out promising, with a sexy black woman blackmailing her philosophy professor, but then is swallowed up in dreamlike imagery and the tired notion that thinking is too much dangerous.

Occasionally Johnson displays that Ron Hansen tic of turning respectable nouns into clumsy verbs, while his classroom admonishment to get as specific as possible, is here shown to date stories. Several times he mentions Sanka rather than coffee. Who drinks Sanka anymore? Wendy Barnes in Alethia also uses trim in the sexual sense at one point, which seems terribly dated to me. But the stories aren't bad, entertaining enough, and there are early references to the Allmuseri, Johnson's fictional African tribe in Middle Passage. But I wouldn't seek out other Charles Johnson efforts as a result of this book.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a good example for writing, and the inability to write. Exchange Value was chosen by Gardner as one of the best American short stories of 1982 and has become Johnson's most anthologized short story. Two kids steal from a dead old woman who hoarded her money in fear, and they become as eccentric as she. How ironic. Popper's Disease has some interesting insights into racial matters, but then it degrades into a science-fiction story and anti-solipsistic philosophy. Similarly, Alethia starts out promising, with a sexy black woman blackmailing her philosophy professor, but then is swallowed up in dreamlike imagery and the tired notion that thinking is too much dangerous.

Occasionally Johnson displays that Ron Hansen tic of turning respectable nouns into clumsy verbs, while his classroom admonishment to get as specific as possible, is here shown to date stories. Several times he mentions Sanka rather than coffee. Who drinks Sanka anymore? Wendy Barnes in Alethia also uses trim in the sexual sense at one point, which seems terribly dated to me. But the stories aren't bad, entertaining enough, and there are early references to the Allmuseri, Johnson's fictional African tribe in Middle Passage. But I wouldn't seek out other Charles Johnson efforts as a result of this book.

The authors do a good job of teaching beginners how to execute SQL on the AS/400. Unfortunately, there have been many enhancements in SQL on this platform since this book was written, and it is sorely out of date. The book can still be considered a good introduction, but it is insufficient for a reader who wants to be able to take full advantage of the SQL capabilities which have been introduced in OS/400 over the past three years.

This is a good book. The book covers the fundamental concepts for adaptive filtering and explains it in a very simple way. You can really learn even if you are just begining in this field.

However I was wonder that this will be a new book and not just a new edition of the book edited in 1986 by John Wiley & Sons. Unfortunately, the structure of the book is exactly the same and just have few matlab examples to substitute the old fortan programs.

I hope that the authors realize that and add recent topics of research in the wireless communication cenario or at least improve the last chapters of the book that are too simple.

This book seemed more informative in the Indian culture that included marriage and relations. It translated the text parts of the Kama Sutra as well as pictures. Except the text that it translated has absolutely nothing to do with the pictures. In short, the pictures although not of the orginal Indian sculptures, are good where the text is not. It does not give directions to how to obtain the positions, just fact. Historically and culturally though, the book is good.

This book seemed more informative in the Indian culture that included marriage and relations. It translated the text parts of the Kama Sutra as well as pictures. Except the text that it translated has absolutely nothing to do with the pictures. In short, the pictures although not of the orginal Indian sculptures, are erotic where the text is not. It does not give directions to how to obtain the positions, just fact. Historically and culturally though, the book is good.

Kamasutra is a engigma.It is from india...now a closed soceity. It is nice to read about a book written in hundreds of years ago from such soceity

Caveat Emptor. I bought this book without really looking at it first... what a mistake! Of the 370 total pages, the first 114 pages are about installing the Slackware CD included in the back cover (installing and configuring Linux was covered in the first of this series of books). Those 114 pages might have been better used to cover "programming" in Linux. The 2nd chapter [C Programming Tools and Linux] goes from page 115 to page 134 (less than 18 pages of content). The 3rd chapter [X Windows Programming] goes from page 135 to page 179 (less than 44 pages of content). Chapter 4 [Using Tcl] goes from page 181 to page 201 (less than 19 pages). And so on... The book tries to cover too much. Most of the information is not even useful for doing anything, not even introductory in nature. I'm sorry I bought the book, and I hope this review will keep others from wasting their money on it. All in all, this is one of the worst computer books I've ever purchased, and I'm very sorry I got it.

I agree with the previous poster's comments on the viability of this book for learning programming. The title is all wrong; it's not specifically about programming! HOWEVER, it is a very good book for those new to Linux in that it answers alot of the questions that new users have. It highlights the many of the strengths of LINUX from a UNIX point of view. i.e. pipes, redirections, job-control, Xconfiguration, programming basics. Patrick Volkerding does a very good job of demonstrating Linux and detailing it's true power. This book should be renamed "Getting started in LINUX". If it was...I'd give it five starz!