My five-year-old found this introduction to subtraction entertaining. It has value for parents, as well, because it reminds them that the opportunities to play at math with children are everywhere, even in elevators.

This biography of John Chartres is not only a facinating insight into the events surrounding the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty, but it also provides a rare glimse of the direction in foreign policy that Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith had envisoned. It clearly indicates the preferance of the then department of external affairs for the Berlin mission over the Paris one, with Chartres as its main proponent. A fascinating read for anyone interested in the Irish revolutionary period.

I found this book to be a good authentic action packed western. Murphy is tough, likeable and believeable as a New Mexico Sheriff . The author knows what hes talking about as for as guns and horses and it was a good story.I would recomend this book to other western fans and Ill be looking for other Murphy books.

...and ready to give up to try and save the world all by yourself, this book comes along and gives you the needed encouragement and boost to keep on trying. "Transforming ourselves, transforming the world" is a book that shows how everybody can do their small share to make this world a more just, peaceful and sustainable place. Murphy asks that everybody join in an 'open conspiracy' to overcome the powerful forces of big government and big corporations. Social Action is not only a process to effect change in social conditons but also a process to transform the individual him/herself. This book empowers people to act for change. His chapters on education are especially important. Drawing on Paolo Freire, he demands a critical and conscientious awareness and sees learning as an individual, subjective, inventive and dynamic process rather than a means of perpetuating the dominant social institutions. This book is realistic, encouraging and practical. A 'must read' for anybody who wants to make a difference!

It's doubtful that, on its own, Creating Applications with Mozilla would enable a developer -- even with a reasonable knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and C++ -- to do anything interesting with Mozilla. It certainly won't teach you how to create templates, package applications, or even use JSLib (which should be simple!), let alone write XBL or manipulate RDF files.

To be realistic, however, this book is often more handy than using Mozilla documentation online, and it has the usual high quality O'Reilly binding, paper, type design and layout. Buy it if someone else is paying or if you do a lot of Mozilla programming.

In a nutshell, the main problems I had with the book are as follows.

1. Technical writing should be judged in adversity -- how well it handles the hard stuff -- and on that count, this book fails miserably. When the going gets tough, the explanations become impenetrable and seem to be "preaching to the choir", assuming a deep knowledge of Mozilla programming. Even relatively simple concepts,such as the chrome URL, are poorly explained, and much of the sample code and technical reference material is, unnecessarily complex.

2. Much of the material is limited and incomplete: there are odd gaps in explanations, unenlightening overview sections (such as the description of using Perl with Mozilla), methods and properties listed with limited information (or no information) about their implementation, and incomplete references (such as the list of Mozilla CSS extensions). Crucial information (you can't manipulate datasources unless working via a chrome URL, for example) is often missing or buried.

3.There are numerous typos: misspellings, incorrect punctuation and errors in illustrations (at least three in figure 7-2 on page 181).

4. Code samples have errors and inconsistencies.

5. Much of the code and reference material is out of date (and was obsolete even before the print version was published).

6. The code examples are unfocused (there's too much emphasis on context) and don't always work (and didn't work online).

7. The index is often unhelpful and incomplete, without good conceptual indexing.

Mozilla programming is highly promising and, for the most part, not all that difficult once you know how, but finding accurate information about it is a tantalising process of trial and error. You have to rely on guesswork, intuition, word of mouth, limited or obsolete and inaccurate documentation, and the help of a very few (though extremely helpful) insiders available via the Mozilla newsgroups. Given that the project has been around for a few years now, I think that's unacceptable: I'd hate to see Mozilla wind up as a good technology that died for lack of decent documentation.

I happened to be experimenting with XUL and Mozilla at the time that I ran across this book, so I was very eager to get into it and see if it could help clarify some of the gaping holes in the existing XUL documentation within Mozilla. As an exhaustive reference to XUL and the associated technologies that are used to build Mozilla applications, it was very successful. As a higher level tutorial that explains the relationships between the different technologies and their uses, it was not quite as successful.

Chapters 1-6 lead the reader through the progressive steps required to build and package a Mozilla-based application. The authors create a demo application called xFly which is used as a test bed to show the different features of XUL, CSS, and JavaScript. By the end of Chapter 6, this application contains a tree control, a bunch of sample menus, and various other assorted UI widgets. But it doesn't really _do_ anything. Maybe I'm too picky, but I'd rather see an application that has some function, even if all it does is play tick-tack-toe. Then, to me at lease, it's much clearer how the different pieces would fit together in a "real-world" application.

Chapters 7-12 cover more exotic and difficult aspects of Mozilla
programming such as the Extensible Binding Language (XBL), XPCOM (Mozilla's component object model), and accessing web services from XUL applications. These chapters are very dense in technical details, with good references to online resources for further study. Overall, I found this book to be a very succinct source of accurate information about building applications with Mozilla. Its only weakness seems to be that it focuses too much on low-level implementation details without giving the reader (who may be new to the idea of XML-based GUI
application programming entirely) a good high-level overview of the benefits of this type of development and which technologies serve which purpose. Chapter 1 is the only chapter that explicitly addresses high-level application architecture, and it is only 8 pages long.

The bottom line is that this is a good reference book for people who already know how and why to build applications based on Mozilla, but a not-so-good introduction and tutorial for people who are completely new to the XUL-CSS-JavaScript paradigm of application development.

This book gives a solid grounding in the principles involved and acts as a primer to the nitty gritty of producing a XUL application. In practice, XUL is pretty easy but it's easy to be caught unawares which is where a book like this comes in. If you've ever wondered how to extend Mozilla with a new button, or why your chrome doesn't work, or why Mozilla ignores it, or how to write a new chrome application then this is the book for you. Learn the principles of XUL and things fall into place very easily.

I am puzzled that other reviewers claim XUL and Mozilla are not ready for mainstream since the fact that an entire browser, mail, chat, editor, JS debugger and hundreds more third party extensions and apps have been written using it demonstrates it is. It certainly needs tools and add robustness, but it is already a viable and strong technology for producing platform neutral applications.

It is well worth the money, however it should be revised to reflect the latest Mozilla developments. As an added bonus, the source for this book is actually online so you can evaluate it yourself at books.mozdev.org before buying it.

This book contains information that was probably more relevant when it was first written. Most is passe by today's standards. The links referenced in the book for the support site, and that for a shopping cart are both dead.

Gosh! I found this book useful and am amazed at the flames of other readers. I found information here that none of the other (Que, Sams, Wrox, etc.) books had. For example: Mailto, Submit-it. In this it solved some problems for commercial pages I had developed that I could not (repeate could not) find in any other book (or even the news groups). The only reason I graded it down was due to the organization. There I do agree with the other readers. It would seem that this book was rushed out the door to print.

Laura Lemay's book,Creating a Commercial Web Page is good for starters and corporate business' interested in learning the basics and creating new ideas for web pages. As a beginner the set-up presents simple instructions and helpful tips to continue changing web page from time to time.

Ugh. What a turkey. There's nothing worth having here: The rotes are uninteresting and uninspiring, the information on Mage-ly Seattle is silly and unbalanced and that leaves the information on the "signature characters" used in the examples in the rule books. Surely there's a better way to spend your money.

A collection of off-the-wall junk translated mostly from the Don Army and published at a HUGE price for the value you get. Very little military information, mostly behind the scenes correspondence. Should be free with a hair-cut.