This assumes that you know absolutely nothing about C++, or indeed any other programming language. It isn't bad, written colloqially, so that it takes ages to get the point, but at least it assumes no prior knoledge at all, and how many other programming guides can say that for themselves? It also concentrates very hard on style rules, which must be good. It doesn't take too long to get through, so you can know everything it has to tell, and still be a novice programmer, (like me). Still this an easy-ish to understand, very well structured book, but one must be ready to pay for another one soon afterwards!

It's will be intrested in manufacturing the mold which needs porus characteristics.

This book is not really about Peter Hurkos. It is about Peter Hurkos, the psychic. If one measures this book by whether or not Peter Hurkos is revealed as a charlatan or a true psychic, then it succeeds admirably, as it leaves little doubt that Peter Hurkos was an individual with a highly unusual gift. If you measure the book by whether or not you get to know Peter Hurkos, the person, then it has not succeeded, because the reader comes away with very little feeling as to who Peter Hurkos was. The book, while interesting, suffers from being somewhat one dimensional. Notwithstanding this limitation, it is still a thought provoking read.

Peter Hurkos is the famous Dutch psychic who enthralled the world during the nineteen fifties and sixties with his psychic gifts. Uncannily clairvoyant, he was not always so. Born in Holland to a working class Dutch family of simple means, his youth was relatively uneventful. Interestingly enough, however, he was born with the caul which is often taken to mean by those who are superstitious that the individual may have been born with the gift of telepathy or clairvoyance.

Though his youth was relatively uneventful, this changed in 1941 when he fell off a ladder and fell four stories, landing on his head. He miraculously survived, but as his friends and family put it, the old Peter had died, and a new one seemed to have taken his place: one who could foretell the future, as well as describe past events, with uncanny accuracy. In the nineteen fifties, he left Holland and came to the United States, where he prospered as a well known psychic.

Peter used his gifts commercially, for which he received much criticism. He also became known as a psychic detective for helping the police solve numerous cases. Some of the cases in which he assisted were high profile cases, such as that of the Boston Strangler. For many years, Peter Hurkos astonished the world with his psychic gifts. He performed best through the process of psychometry, the divination of information by touching an object belonging to the subject of the reading.

I have to admit that some of the documented stories are truly amazing. So amazing that the author, an investigative reporter with a reputation for exposing frauds, became a believer. I do not doubt that the reader will likewise succumb and join the legions of those who believe that Peter Hurkos was, indeed, psychic.

I should have read all the reviews here before I bought this book this morning. To be honest, the reason I bought it was because the forward is by Danielle Lamothe, who is the education product manager for Alias|Wavefront - in my mind meant that there was some assumption of quality - I was wrong. I sat all afternoon with this book only to discover that the way Maya 4.5 handles dynamics is not the way it is presented in this book - they must have been working with some pre-release version when they wrote the book. I have hit a big brick wall, and the book is useless. It goes back tomorrow.

Ok im only at the end of chapter 5 and everything was going fine, i grasped all the concepts and commands quite easily Untill the building the head. Its such a loose and open tutorial there is no point in reading it and i can say truthfully you would probably do a better job without the tutorial.

As the Great Tutorial puts it "Cut out the front"

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For the love of maya, I have embarked upon a crusade to purge the world of any and all copies of this book. The tutorials are hopeless and the content is severely overwhelming. They throw thousands of different concepts and tips at you, but of course don't bother to explain any of them.

Please, everyone.. buy as many copies as you can, then burn them all!

In Portugal it was dificult to buy it, so I ask some friend of mine in England to buy it for my and send it by mail. Now 4 year later I have the same difficult to find it in the speciality stores.