I knew nothing about working with contractors before buying this book and found it a great help. I recommend it heartily.

Finally, on paper, the advice of the doctor who has gotten us (nearly) through adolescence! His no- nonsense approach to some tricky medical issues is outlined in the book, just as in his practice. He is, quite simply, the best at what he does - if you care for any adolescent, you will want this book.

Merging shapes works more efficiently than USING QUARKXPRESS 4's Bezier tool to draw complicated shapes. Directly appending colors, dashes & stripes, H&J, list and style sheet settings from previous documents gives consistency and saves time. Hexachrome color prints more vibrant, wider color ranges if the print shop also handles high-fidelity color. These are only a few of the countless valuable explanations and tips from expert Kelly Kordes Anton. She came up with the shortcuts for Steven Bain's FUNDAMENTAL QUARKXPRESS 4, and here is her own encyclopedic help desk. Her superbly written and indexed book consolidates Barbara Assadi et al's QUARKXPRESS 4 FOR DUMMIES, David Blatner's QUARKXPRESS 4 BOOK FOR MACINTOSH & WINDOWS, Galen Gruman's MACWORLD QUARKXPRESS 4 BIBLE, William Harrel's QUARKXPRESS 4 IN DEPTH, and Elaine Weinmann's QUARKXPRESS 4.

I am now reading this book and have completed the first 41 pages. I have found at least three content errors so far, which would certainly confuse someone who did not already understand the topic in question. (1) On page 35, at the top of the page, in an example of multiplication, the text lists "190". This should be 180. (2) On page 38, while discussing integers, it states "The product of a positive integer multiplied by another positive integer will always be a positive integer." So far, so good. But then it gives a series of examples, including 1/2 x 3 = 3/2. Integers are whole numbers, negative or positive (1,2,3,4,-1, -2, -3, etc., and zero), and do not include fractions. So the illustration is not apt and is confusing. (3) On page 41, in a sideabar discussing equivalent fractions, it says "To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, divide both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common denominator." This should read "by their greatest common factor." As I am less than a third of the way through the book, I suspect other errors exist. I still think this book could still be useful because some of the material is good, but be aware that if something does not make sense, it may be the book, not you, that is the problem.

This was an excellent book for me, the parent, AND for my child. We referred to this book many times throughout the 4th, 5th and 6th grades. I only wish they had one for high school!

This is exactly what the title says it is... Everything you need to know about math homework.

My daughter and I used it all last year when she was in 5th grade. At first, I was the user; later she would start looking up her own answers. For homework, she was given math worksheets that would reference something just covered in math class, such as, the associative, or the commutative property, or the formula for finding the area of a triangle. If she didn't remember the rule or formula from math class, she had a ready reference. It covers the same material as her math textbook, but this was always on her desk. The math textbook was sometimes sitting in her locker.

This book is well written, and edited. It includes clearly laid out examples, with colorful graphics. The index and table of contents are complete, and make this reference quick and easy to use. Well worth the money... I highly recommend this book.

My only complaint about this book is the fact that its examples need to be revised, or they won't work with an ANSI strict compiler, such as codewarrior (although I wouldn't reccomend an ANSI strict compiler for any beginner).

For example, all if the main functions in this book have a void return type, which can cause errors, where in codewarrior you need to return an int '0' to flag the end of your program. Also, You'll need to include the "using namespace std" directive in ANSI strict.

This book does go well with Borland C++, however, as it isn't as picky as many other compilers to be had. THe error messages you'll get from an ANSI strict compiler may confuse the hell out of a beginner, so that's my only detracting argument. But team this book up with Borland and you'll have a five star setup.

In the more advanced C++ classes I've had, the book of choice id Deitels 'C++, how to program' which is quite a bit more taxing on the student, but as a result is filled with many more details, and far more ambitious end-of chapter programming assignments, leaving you reeling with facts to sort out and take advantage of (for the more computer savvy students, thats a good thing)

All in all, this book is an ideal intro to students with no prior knowledge of programming (and not much knowledge of computers in general), but for the ANSI thing, It is one star short of perfection. Average students will like this book, but those few who are learning programming out of more than just the vocational value, may want to check out Deitels book.

Learnt quite a bit from this textbook needed for my C++ class in college. I was pleasantly surprised at how well written this book was, considering the topic it is covering. Great Book! I'm keeping mine seeing as it will come in handy with my future programming endevours. Too bad other textbooks aren't as well written.

Could you please tell me when "Starting Out with Java" by Tony Gaddis will be available for purchase? I am a Sophomore at Augusta State University, and my school's first programming class uses "Starting out with C++." I am transferring to UGA and their first class teaches JAVA. So I have to teach it to myself. I love your C++ book -- it makes everything so easy to understand, and I know that I can't go wrong with the JAVA text. Any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot. Christopher Savage, Augusta State University

Both of my children have found this book (and others in the series) extremely helpful. The language is clear and concise. The illustrations and timelines are most helpful. I like the short biographies in each section about not well known, yet important people.

I have the "Updated Edition, 1997" book. My one complaint is that this book's details and explanations of history stops at 1949. There have been many American history moments since then which are acknowledged in an appendix outline. However, many of these events deserve much more attention, like the history before 1949 gets. Shoot, the 1960's alone are a whole chapter! Maybe in the next edition the publisher could include details on the last 50 years.

I am studying for the MSAT and this book was an excellent review for the history section! It is written in simple words and the illustrations were very helpful! I also have the one reviewing world history! =o)

I found the book rather practical.

First three chapters talk a lot about the symptoms and describe the nature of ADD. For a person who is not well acquainted with attention deficit disorder these three chapters would be a great jump-start.

The rest of the book gives very common-sense, down-to-earth recommendations and ideas on how to "get used" to living an ADD life. A lot of time is spent on dealing with depression and anxiety thoughts. Various portions of the book are devoted to issues like ADD vs. work-place environment, family relations, and social interactions.

I personally do not believe you have to be an MD or a professional of any other kind to have a sound and solid opinion on a subject as some of the reviewers have mentioned here. On the contrary - the most brilliant, the most ingenious, if you wish, ideas frequently come from "outsiders" who are not caught in the "routine thinking pattern" of a discipline or a field of studies. I express this opinion as a professional who worked with "outsiders" a lot and found their fresh thoughts very encouraging and breaking-through.

Read this book and let it challenge you to think over the ways you live your ADD life, let it open some doors you were scared to open before, and find peace in acting in the ways you never thought you would ever act.

Would make an intricate and a valuable gift for a person with an ADD! Will not offend your buddy in any way.

As an ADD coach and head of the American Coaching Association I heartily recommend reading this book. One of the primary missions of ADD coaching is to assist clients in learning all they can about their own ADD symptoms. Once they have accomplished this they can begin the process of using this knowledge to develop coping strategies and techniques to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. This book provides abundant information to help coaches and their clients on this journey. Hats off to Kelly and Ramundo!

This book is based on the medical model for ADD; a disorder that is helped by medication and other treatments. Many critizing this book do so because they prefer to believe ADD is just a difference in being, not a disorder. Scientific research is proving them wrong. This was the first book I read after learning I had ADD, seven years ago. Page after page was a revelation. I learned how having undiagnosed ADD affected so many parts of my life. It gave me hope that, with proper treatment, I could learn to function much better. I liked the personal tone of the book and the numerous examples.

I was ripped off by my college and had to buy it for $57, if you see it in the discount bin for $20 it's not a bad buy. What's really nuts is I had to buy this book for a Lab and Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PC's for the Lecture... they cover the same thing and Scott's is better. Oh yeah it comes with a floppy disk...for the money they should at least include a cd-rom Gee do ya think one my teachers is on commission.

this book will enable me to better instruct my students because the labs/exercises will save me many hours fine tuning labs that I have prepared. Other instructors in the same boat know how very difficult and time consuming it is to prepare and test lab exercises, and, be successful in ensuring that labs provide a positive learning experience. The chapter reviews and tests are reinforcement and well written and cover all important topics. I feel overwhelmed knowing that, finally, I will have such an excellent instructional computer book for my students. Please share my thoughts and thanks to Cheryl A. Schmidt. Jody Campbell Pima Community College

This is the only book my teacher assigned and I think it is very good. It's easy to understand and the lab exercises are good, too

It is a shame that this book is not specifically being marketed as a tool for non-profit managers. Leaders of this dynamic and rapidly growing sector will find "Hyperwars" as useful as business managers. Perhaps even more so, since the potential of the internet for more effective marketing and more efficient management is even greater for non-profit than business entrepreneurs.

Filled with simple, easy-to-grasp advice, backed up with many real-world examples.

Some readers will be disappointed in this book because it is not a how-to guide to making a website or marketing products on the Net. But it IS a comprehensive strategy guide for managers who want to see if (and how) the Internet can help their business. This book was an invaluable help to me during my own research.

Bruce Judson and Kate Kelly live in the real world. I have a long commute, so I listen to many audio tapes. HyperWars is the only book I have found that directly confronts the real issues the Internet creates. As far as I can tell, everyone else glosses over what to do when the Internet creates a price war or when manufacturers start to go around retailers direct to the customer. Bruce Judson and Kate Kelly confront the issues head-on with relevant ideas and advice. This book is very different from the other "hot" Internet books. John Hagel's Net Worth is a fascinating discussion of infomediaries--which seems to be the hot topic right now. But, I read a magazine article where Hagel says that no "infomediaries exist today." Net Worth does not help me deal with today's real world issues like HyperWars. A second hot book is Kevin Kelley's New Rules for the New Economy. Kevin Kelley is in the clouds while HyperWars is firmly planted on Earth. Kevin Kelley says success comes from giving eveything away free. Bruce Judson and Kate Kelly provide a much better, relevant discussion of how to use "free" to create a business. Unlike Kevin Kelley, they don't not waive a magic wand and gloss over the difficulties of converting customers from "free" to "paying".

This classic of the english literature, written by Kate Chopin, is a revolutionary novel for the time she had to live. It was bad seen and was forbiden for more than 50 years. The idea that a woman, a married woman, would laeve her husband and her children, to live with another man,wasnt allowed in her society. Im not saying that nowdays such a thing is allowed, but in those earlies days, this thing wasnt even thought, thats why this book can not have a happy end for Edna, because in no way her dream would have been come true. Personally Y think Robert loved Edna vey much, but he knew, he never could have been with the woman he loved. Her friend Madmoisselle Reisz, told her she needed to be strong to face her feelings and let Robert by side, because he finally would destroy her life. At the end that was what finally happened, Ednas complete life turned around Robert until that point, in the absence of her husband, she left home with the only purpuse of beeing alone until Roberts return. Y think that she was so in love, that she was forced to sink in the sea. Personally I found it an excellent book and it could bea very good advice for further generations.

Though at one time I, too, would have rated "The Awakening" one of the worst reads of a lifetime--for its predictability in the context of a woman oppressed by Victorian society, and the most undeveloped, unsympathetic heroine for whom I was unable to muster the slightest emotional investment--a nagging, relentless undercurrent of something I couldn't quite identify festered long inside me regarding this novel until the story, and author, were at last redeemed upon my third reading, in a literature course that finally ended this internal struggle.

Having much faith in Kate Chopin as a writer, I never felt 'the awakening' was about sex. This was too easy, even for a book set in Victorian Society. Further, it occurred to me that although women were limited beyond the domestic sphere in this era, suicide was not particular to the phenomenology of Victorian women (as it was, say, to Wall Street brokers at the onset of the Great Depression).

"The Awakening," in title and content, is irony. Edna Pontellier's awakening is about who she perceives herself to be, and who she actually is. She dreams of passion and romance and embarks on a summer affair, yet she married Leonce simply to spite her parents, who don't like him. She moves out of the family home to live on her own--with the permission, and resources, of Leonce--hardly independent. She claims to crave intimacy, yet she fails horribly at every intimate relationship in her life: she is detached with her children, indifferent to her husband, leery of her artist friend, and can hardly stand another minute at the bedside of her warm, maternal friend, Mrs. Ratignolle, to assist her in childbirth. (Ratignolle was my favorite character of all, read after read, simply because she was so content with herself.)

The Awakening? The surprise is on Edna, who is not the person she imagines herself to be. The irony? Edna Pontellier is never awakened to this, even at the bitter end. Feminists have adopted this book as their siren song...embarrassing at least! A feminist reading would, predictably, indict Victorian society as oppressive to women. Yawn...So that's new?!! Tell us something we don't know! I can tell you that concept wouldn't be enough to keep a book around for a hundred years.

But the concept that has sustained this novel over a century's time is its irony. And it is superbly subtle. I believe Chopin deliberately set up Victorian society as her backdrop to cleverly mask this irony...'the awakening' is not something good (a daring sexual awakening in a dark era for women): it is something horrible that evolves and is apparent to everyone except the person experiencing it. This reading makes Edna's character worth hating! Chopin herself hated Edna Pontellier and called her a liar through her imagined conversation with her artist friend at the end of the novel.

Chopin also cleverly tips the scales in Edna's favor in the first half of the novel, but a careful read reveals those scales weighed against her in the second half. I give the novel 5 stars because it took me three readings and help from a PhD lit professor to figure out this book. And I'm proud to say that I am, at last, awakened.

Can you imagine the impact this book must have had when it was first published in 1899? So scandalous! And it still has the power to make its readers eyes grow wide.

My only complaints are that the ending was unrealistic. (Of course, it fit the BOOK completely---it just wasn't practical.) I also think the portrayal of Edna as a nonchalant mother (as opposed to a nurturing mother) was unfair. Chopin wanted readers to view Edna as a victim, and when Edna turned around and neglected her own children...that didn't help our sympathy for her. ...Yet surely we readers realized this was a woman who was too oppressed and stifled to know what to do with herself.

Anyway, before I forget, a word of caution: HAVE A DICTIONARY NEARBY!! WHOA! Chopin was obviously VERY intelligent, along with being ahead of her time. Vocab. word after vocab. word, I tell ya.

Overall, the reader feels pity for practically every character. But it's not such a melancholy atmosphere that would make one want to stop reading it; it's merely proof that Chopin can weave a web of believable characters struggling with believable circumstances.

I would voice one more disappointment, though, if it wouldn't serve as a spoiler. ...Um, I think I was hoping that Edna would betray her husband a little more than she did...succumb to temptation a bit more...because I was rooting for her! I was sympathizing with her, and I thought she should get what she has longed for. But no such luck. Her conscience probably prevented something from going too far. Rats.

This is a sophisticated read laced with French phrases and lengthy paragraphs, but worth your while.