Very basic information with photos. OK for a novice, too vague if you have ever grown roses. The book seems aimed at novices in in a zone 6 or 7 growing climate.

I absolutely loved all of the gorgeous pictures! The photos also made pruning and planting instructions easy to understand. I have many other rose manuals, but this one has better care information than my other much longer books.

I believe this book is well intended and cover a lot of useful information; but I have to say, sometimes itfs more like a puzzle than a book. There is a lot to learn from this book, but you better prepare yourself to spend a lot of time deciphering it.

This book contains the most complete and comprehensive topics on trellises and trellis-based decoding algorithms, the material is presented in a simple and unified form, and it is explained in an easily understood manner. It is the most readable coding book.

This book includes the latest research results as well as the material which is essential and useful for practical applicaitons. It is a very good text book for a course on specail topics in coding or a supplemental text book for a course on error correcting codes, and it is a very informative coding book for communication systems engineers.

A Trip to China attempts to tackle issues a typical American college student would face when studying in China. This book pulls it's punches on big issues like democracy and unemployment but is long on social commentary on issues such as hygiene, privacy, and ethics. This book could do a better job introducing vocabulary seen in science, technology, medicine and sports and a little less on college and institution life. Additionaly the binding on these books is very poor. A strong point of these books is their currency (writen in '95) which beats just about everything else out there.

I used this book as a 2nd year college text. I found it to contain a large number of useful words and well grouped into subject based lessons. It provided good insights into some aspects of life in China that made those lessons more interesting. The lessons use pinyin pronunciation guide. The simplified and classical reader is useful for any student. Grammar explainations are adequate and with a fair number of expamples. The examples do occasionally use complicated characters not yet learned and are in simplified only. The one drawbck I found is the vocabulary and grammer guides are separated into the back of both books, a nuisance. Over all it is a good text, consistent, easy to read and has clearly printed characters. One of the more useful books I have used in 4 years of classes.

Comics like "Two-Fisted Science" serve nothing but a good purpose. They remind us that comics - like other art forms - can be about anything, and are not captives of the humor, fantasy and adventure genres.

A science-themed comic is especially appropriate, as the art-text combination inherent to comics would seem perfect for conveying complex/cosmic ideas. This collection features some terrific artists - notably Bernie Mireault, David Lasky, Colleen Doran and Sean Bieri - but I was a bit disappointed in the writing. Ottaviani's stories so intent on being unorthodox and different that they instead become meandering and confusing. Oftentimes I was unsure of what exactly was at stake for each story and why we should care about what was being told. And I would expect to actually learn more about SCIENCE in such a book. Also, the organization of the book into seemingly random sections, and the clumsy, unimaginative publication design diminished the effect.

I give the book high marks for effort, nice artwork, and the especially interesting portraits of Richard Feynman, but overall I'd rate "Two-Fisted Science" a noble failure.

We have given this book to various friends who have enjoyed the hard science topics in the 'comic book' format. We also have given it to nieces and nephews, who may not realize that they are being exposed to science and history. We can chat with them about it later, to see how much they have absorbed and to encourage them to reread it (comics are fun after all).

WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK is late Haggard, written during the Great War, not very long before his death in 1925. Sad to say, it's a retread of the themes and ideas that made such an impact in early works like SHE, KING SOLOMON'S MINES and ALLAN QUATERMAIN. Three English chaps are marooned on a mysterious South Seas island. The natives tell of their powerful god Oro; whom the chaps find has been sleeping for 250,000 years. They wake him, and his beautiful daughter, who is the spitting image of our hero's dead wife, while he is a dead ringer for her lost love...

The story continues along familiar HRH lines, building to a climax which is not too different from that of SHE. However, there are a couple of things which make this yarn worth investigation for HRH fans. Firstly, the 20th century intervenes, with its aeroplanes, Kodaks and telephones. This is a novelty in the otherwise strictly Victorian goings-on. Secondly, the Great War parts of the story, while revealing unpleasantly jingoistic aspects of HRH's writing, are also illuminating in so far as they give a view of that conflict that differs from that put forward by the War Poets, but is nevertheless penned by a writer with a powerful romantic imagination.

I was only searching for this book; I was reading a book by the old master,R.A. HEINLEIN,(rocket ship galileo), when i caught a reference to Haggard's "when the earth TREMBLED". HOW COME THE NAME DISCREPENCY?

This book concentrates on the practical implementation of ActiveX. It is an ideal book for application developers and Web masters who are not familiar with ActiveX concepts, and who want to learn whether ActiveX is appropriate to their specific situation, this book shows readers how to use ActiveX to solve specific problems. It shows how using ActiveX and HTML together provides easy-to-deploy solutions to the shortfalls in both.

This is among the most complete books on control systems design that I have come across. Highlights of the robust multivariable control section include eigenstructure assignment, H2 design, Hinf design and QFT. Highlights of the nonlinear control section include SISO and MIMO inversion-based control and extended linearization. Throughout the book, the presentation of the relevant mathematics is clear and particularly complete, and all sections are illustrated with practical design examples. Note however that issues of implementating the techniques described in this book in software are not discussed.

Very good book. Many styles and techniques of rendering and architectural drawing. Many pictures to trace and learn techniques. Very little text. Text is not necessary

This was my introduction to Lin Carter's fiction (previously just a name of someone Prefacing all the coolest books, like Seabury Quinn short-stories, or James Branch Cabell lost treasures!). This was my introduction to Lin Carter's hero: Jandar of Callisto. And I must say the introductions have gone very well. I am an instant fan.

I had no problem diving into Jandar's frothy exploits with this second volume in the Callisto series, mainly because Carter makes even the quickie sum-up of the previous book--necessary to bring late-joiners like me up to speed--a rousing experience. He then rockets forward into the whole Jandar vs. The Black Legion Main Event with wonderful gusto; we have the supreme pace of all the best action tales combined with the colourful vocabulary we want when heroes roam an exotic landscape. Let's start with the dead-on character names...how can you go astray reading about such characters as Ool the Uncanny, Princess Darloona, and of course, Captain Bluto, giant of the Black Legion? The first, Ool, proves to be the most sinister adversary Jandar will face as he infiltrates the city of Shondakor, where the cruel Legion has usurped power. The second, Darloona, is held hostage in that city, and seems destined to be married to peurile Prince Vaspian, alack and alas! The third, Bluto, is, well, just a big lout of a soldier whom Jandar wishes he hadn't publicly trounced and humiliated early on, while trying to get accepted into the Legion--because musclebound bullies do have a tendency to reappear at the worst posible time, in these sorts of stories.

Can Jandar save a city, as well as a princess who happens to think he's a coward (worse yet, evidence suggests that Darloona may actually be in love with the cur Vaspian, with no coercion involved!)? In truth, Jandar's dual tasks seem impossible: if he rescues Darloona--assuming she even wants to be rescued-- the Legion will retaliate by slaughtering Shondakor's citizens. Worse yet, the dreaded Sky Pirates of Callisto, slighted in a deal with the Legion (or so they feel), are planning a massive aerial assault that could leave the hapless city in ruins.

It's all very exciting, if not totally unique (after all, I've read A. A. Merritt's books, as well as The Sword Of Rhiannon, by Leigh Brackett, and the list goes on from there...). Admittedly, a few of the sudden shocking revelations were not hard to see coming, but despite that, I still never got bored. This is a terrific entry for those who like adventure-story SF with a strong whiff of sword-and-sorcery.

A good fantasy action-adventure novel set in Atlantis, with strong ties to Carter's Thongor series. The warrior Diodric, along with the noble Niane, flee an Atlantean capital under attack, bearing with them an artifact that Atlantis' conqueror needs to take over the world. Some nice action follows, with bits of humor, horror, and romance. The only flaw is that the story ends hurriedly and a bit anti-climactically, mainly due to the fact that it is part one of a proposed trilogy (the next book being "The White Throne").