If I want to hear how good Director is, I'd go to the Macromedia web site. This book does not go into the specific. It tells you WHAT you can do with Director not actaully HOW to do it. The money I spent on this book does not worth the education I received from it. Oh well, Director 7 is coming out by the time you read this, lt's hope these guys would do a better job at actaully writing a reference book instead of a brouchure.

This book was the required text for my multimedia authoring class because no other Director 6 books were available at the time. It was so poorly laid out that after a few weeks my instructor gave up on teaching with the book. Now that I use Director at work, I've realized that it doesn't even cut it as a reference.

Inside Director tries to teach general multimedia rather than the fundamentals of Director. The book attempts to teach you how to create sound and digital movies in other programs(Which has nothing to do with learning Director), yet it severely lacks in explaining how to handle sound and movies in Director. The book also teaches you more about how to write HTML(Which also has nothing to do with learning Director), then how to create streaming shockwave movies with net Lingo.

Save your money and buy a different book.

Personally I would suggest every begginer or intermediate Director user to read this book. I think it explains what outher books didn`t!!

David Day, in writing Tolkien's Ring, has seemingly changed Tolkien's written word to suit his purpose. Not only does he make many factual errors about the books by the author of the title, but fabricates evidence and deforms Tolkien.

"Sauron of the Evil Eye," says Day, is comparable to "Balor of the Evil Eye," and so forth. Unfortunately, for Day, nowhere in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is Sauron called such, thus making the comparison useless. And so on. There are too many such twistings of the original text to cite, too many of Day's own extrapolations quoted as the truth in The Lord of the Rings, for my comfort.

On the plus side, he presents an intriguing collection of stories. Yet knowing how he meddled with Tolkien, I cannot help but wonder if the tales I am reading therein are true to the originals.

The main good thing about this book is Alan Lee's fantastic imagery, which once again shows him to be undeniably the greatest Tolkien artist around. Having portrayed everything from hobbits to bigfeet without ever losing the mythic and ageless qualities inherent in his works, he brings a brilliant touch to the images in this book.

If only the same could be said of Mr. Day's text.

as other reviewers have suggested, the book is attractive because Tolkien fans are ravenous for more materials and this book has Tolkien's name on it in big gold letters. However, I must stress that this is not sufficient reason to buy it:

Pros: comprehensive discussion of the history of the ring as a symbol in lore and of its use in Tolkien. Also fascinating illustrations by incomparable Tolkien illustrator Alan Lee.

Cons: First, to be called Tolkien's Ring, it ought to have more analysis of Tolkien's Ring. On the contrary, it only spends a chapter on that. The title is almost false, so called to attract Tolkien fans. Also, to put it bluntly, Day is boring to read and although the subject matter is interesting, his style is not engaging.

It was a decent read, and i recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the use of rings in lore. But Tolkien fans will not learn anything new or interesting about Tolkien or his work.

Alan Lee illustrates Tolkien Ring, with black and white and some color drawings accompanying a literary investigation of Tolkien's inspirations and stories. Suitable for a gift, yet affordable enough for personal enjoyment.

This book is great about confusing beginners. I haven't read the whole book yet ,but so far it's been pretty confusing to understand the examples that they show because they don't explain the code clearly. If this book is pretty confusing to me even that i have basic programming knowledge, I can't imagine a total non-programmer learning javaScript from this book.

i think that this book is a great book and it helps you realy learn about JavaScript. The problem with this book is it doesn't realy give a real lot of examples and explain how they work. i learned JavaScript mostly from online tutoriols from web pages. END

This is a great book for beginners who want to learn enough to be comfortable with Javascript.

this book is my text and have using for all of my grading examination. this is directed to especiality of laryngology and in compare with other books in otolaryngology have lesser about otology(see chpt.160:otosclerosis). I find many mistake on it!! overall I like this book & I read it every day& I know and remember all on the book!! because i read it more than 5th in my course.

I was disappoited on buying the CD-ROM version of this text. I found it incomplete (ie NO mention on Otoplasty despite being advertised by the authers as the MOST comprehensive text in this field !, and I found it innacurate with plenty of mistakes.
It is otherwise a versatile instrument for reference and revision

There is no access to the authors for feedback comments etc.

I am an ENT man from Taiwan. This book is an important guide for the board examination. I like this book.

...especially not anything you would not be much better off simply scouring the net for. Which happens to be FREE and sports a truckload of such putative blueprints, best practices, ROI enablers, success stories and whatNot -- CRM Guru, CRM Forum, CRM Daily ...ad infinitum. If your reasoning is to skip the information overload and bag all the available wisdom in one neatly bound huggable volume, you'd still do better to look elsewhere, there is easily a wild smattering of CRM wisdom in books that cost a decent coin instead of the Four Seasons price on this tome. After all, it is only fair to expect some ROI on reading dollars, no?

Dick Lee and Bob Thompson are two names that have been around the CRM space for years. But more than their tenure, they're noted for their straight talk and solid opinions. 'Blueprint for CRM Success' continues this no-nonsense tradition.

First, you'll learn CRM is not just software and is not just about technology. Beyond this however are clear step by step guidelines for instituting change and implementing a CRM culture as well as application.

Part II's 'Blueprint for CRM Success' and Part IV's 'Customer-centric Strategies' alone are worth the price of admission!

Poorly designed and conceived this book does a disservice to the legendary comic book artist.

Severely lacking, It reads and looks like a "fanzine." It's all black and white which would have been ok, but the book confines what little art there is into the small comic-book trade paperback size, giving the book a very claustraphobic look.

For a hardcore fan it was a pleasant, light read, but as a "sketchbook" it is really disappointing. John Romita deserves a much more professional tribute.

This book is a must have for any lover of great comic book art. John Romita is a legend.

I realize this is a textbook, and as such, I didn't expect it to be scintilating. This text, however, did not even meet up to my limited expectations- the chapters are way too long and attempt to conver too much material. It would have been useful if the authors attempted to break up the material into smaller, more digestible bits. All in all, this book is extremely dry.

I don't know why, but I didn't enjoy reading this book. It didn't seem right. I guess I'm not a big fan of marketing. However, concepts were explained quite well and overall it was informative. Unlike many business related books this one did have negative examples, complete with explanations what, how, and why something went wrong. For that I rate it at 4 stars.

Bueno, el libro que revise me parecio excelente sin embargo seria interesante colocar mayor cantidad de problemas solucionados.
Serias tan amable de enviarme tu prologo del libro nuevo

saludos

Part A is a General Introduction about the concept of psychopathology (how do you define it? etc.).

Part B is Theory. It covers how environment, psychodynamics, genes, and neurophysiology relate to psychopathology.

Part C is Disorders and Treatments. The focus is heavily on adult psychopathology, with one chapter set aside for "child and adolescent psychopathologies".

This book is far from comprehensive -- for instance, in a discussion of major affective disorders there is about half a page devoted to "Biological Treatments" (three sentences for tricyclic drugs, one paragraph for lithium, and one paragraph for ECT). To be fair: there is more on biochemistry and tricyclics in a previous section on physiology, but the organization is thus a little confusing, so that a reader encounters more discussion of tricyclics under the "physiology of depression" than under the "treatment of depression".

It's also not exactly up-to-date; there's no mention of drugs newer than the tricyclics. Prozac and its cousins are not here. The book relies on DSM-III-R (the official coding system which has since been revised to DSM-IV).

It's still a reasonable choice for a beginning survey of adult psychopathology. The fact that it's not comprehensive means it won't overwhelm you. The writing's fairly clear and you'll come away with a respectable starting batch of information. Just make sure you also find another source to cover newer material.

Maybe it is unfair to evaluate this book by the coverage of one condition, but I ordered it for one reason, to find out what is the best available evidence about inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). The 34 page index includes only one of these terms: Crohn's disease. This leads me to the section titled "Inflammatory bowel disease". In it ulcerative colitis is mentioned as many times (once) as Crohn's disease. Yet those terms have escaped indexing.

The section contains only one paragraph with 6 lines. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not differentiated. The therapies mentioned are surgery and the drugs that are already most often prescribed and most toxic. Nothing about elemental diets and other nutritional approaches. Nothing about nutrients that are depleted due to the disease or due to the recommended drug therapies. Unlike most sections in this book, this one contains no references to literature.

This is a fine example of authority based medicine in an evidence based medicine book. The only reason for including this section must be that the chapter on "Bleeding from lower gastrointestinal tract" would not be complete without it. The authors did not have the time or interest to search for evidence on this topic.

My only other impression is that the frequency of numbers (mainly percentages) exceeds the frequency of words that could be found in a general purpose English dictionary.

I did find a list of references for inflammatory bowel diseases in another book on evidence based medicine. This book is in Japanese but most references are in English. Publisher Kinpodo, 1997/11, ISBN476530874X.