This is irrefutably the most rigorous treatise on the theory of mixtures to date. It is heavily laden with mathematics, but the resulting models and governing laws, developed from first principles, are most assuredly as accurate as you will find anywhere.

Extremely well written book on how television has played a key role in redefining politics and culture in India.

If you're wondering how the heck you'd be able to learn the multitudes of different technologies out there that relate to Windows 2000 development, including ActiveX, COM, ODBC, OpenGL, Multimedia, etc. -- this is the book to get. There is no flusff in this book. Every topic is covered enough and with sufficient practicality. Of course, one can only expect so much depth with a single comprehensive book. Yet, it's an excellent means to get one's feet wet. And you decide that a technology is of more importance to you after reading a section, then buy another, more detailed book.

J Krishnamurti's Commentaries on Living are a living testament to the beauty as well as the complexity of life. The peace of the mind which wrote these is almost tangible.

When the source is pure, every drop (as every sentence in this book) leads one to purity.

But approach Krishnamurti with trepidation, as it is too easy to battle verbally with oneself and others after having listened to him with a haughty seriousness.

All he can do is to make you question your own self. That is the beginning. After that, you are on your own, and therefore, free.

Nobody can teach you, but you can get taught by everything.

This is a remarkable book. It is actually three books in 88 chapters. Each chapter starts with an absolutely magic description of people in nature. That is the first book. The second book consists of people telling about their problems and comments of Krishnamurti. These comments are very fresh, original and give new insights. They evoke the reaction "why did I never looked at it that way". The third book, the third part in every chapter describes his view of life. This is very difficult to understand. I am not sure I am able or should voice an opinion on this part because it so unique. There are no reference points. It is not a philosophy, it is not a religion, and it is not a spiritual path. From time to time you get the feeling, "I understand", the next moment it is again a mirage. When we look at a beautiful landscape, we can be totally absorbed by the experience of looking. We are not thinking or analyzing. Krishnamurti's idea is that that is the way we should live all the time. He refers to that as "experiencing". As soon as we start thinking or want to achieve something, we will forever be unhappy. Buddha teaches that through concentration and meditation it is possible, by "taming" the mind one can arrive at "experiencing". Krishnamurti totally rejects the need for experience, training and effort. The idea of living without thinking is for me not imaginable. One thing I do not like is that Krishnamurti rejects the wisdom of everybody. Logically, he also totally rejects the idea that people should ever consider becoming his followers or disciples. The risk I see with the book is that people read it as a smorgasbord. Pick up ideas that correspond to those they already have and reject the inconvenient ones. All in all for people with genuine spiritual interests it is a gold mine.

When I first got this book I had absolutely no idea who the man Krishnamurti was or what his life was like. I was simply intrigued by the title of the book. After reading the first two commentaries I began to realize that this wouldn't be like anything I've ever read before. I was reading it through the haze of my own conditioning and I would have dropped the book right there, as nothing was making sense. But something made me want to just read on - I don't know if it is the sheer lyrical beauty of the descriptions in his book or the lure of something that is really true. Whatever the reason, I just could not keep my hands off it after I went on.

It can really be a tumultous experience to suddenly realize that the basis of everything that you have believed in and taken support or refuge in is all false. But once you are over that, you then start looking at life very differently. You just stop running with the mad crowd and you stand aside and ask yourself "What have I been doing with my life so far?" Thats the kind of effect that this book had on me and I cannot imagine that a serious reader will go through this book without wanting to change his life after that.

The book mostly throws buzzwords and sample codes to you out of nothing. You cannot follow what the writer had in mind while he was sprinkling concepts so randomly.

I learned nothing from the book and would advise you not to get a copy

Absolutely unbelievable. Take basic information from various "help" sources add, in some wizard generated code, and sell it as an advanced programming book. When I saw the reviews I was hopeful that this book would cover advanced networking, COM, and DB topics. This is beginner stuff with no insight whatsoever. To top it all off, there was no CD included with the book as advertised. Someone else must have returned it in haste as I am about to do.

I've seen people arguing whether this is a advanced or simple windows programming book. This is actually not an issue worth debating. This book is a piece of cake for windows gurus while much tougher for beginners.

For people who rated this book a one star complaining about the simplicity of it, I would say it's their problems not having a brief look at the contents before purchasing. It take only a couple of minutes for a real windows guru to tell whether a book is worth buying or not. My view is that the book is advanced for people who are new or relatively new to windows programming.

The author did a good job on the different aspects of windows programming. You, as a reader, will have a good knowledge on what the windows operating system can do in general and where you can get started when you want to do a specific job.

Keep in mind that the book is more concerned about what the window's operating system can do for u as a programmer. It's not a MFC book or DirectX multimedia programming book. Go find something else if you are just looking for a book concentrating on one specific area of windows programming.

I rate this book 5 star because i think this book is comprehensive and practical for most people. I don't rate it a one star complaining its "simplicity" because the only advanced windows programming "book" talking about every aspect of windows is MSDN which is impossible to put into one book.

Because I am a big fan of previous works from one of the authors, it came as surprise to me how disappointing this new book is. The book contains a lot of material and discussions that are irrelevant to the science of Fluid Mechanics. In many occasions, the clarity of the theoretical expositions is overshadow by lateral discussions that cannot be justified on a book of such basic level. The reader is left wondering if there was agreement and understanding among the authors on the content selected for the book. I read the book and got the feeling that the book contains parts that are original and interesting. The problem is that they never coincide: when they are interesting they are not original - when they are original they are not interesting. As a whole the book did not add to my collection.

This book is unique. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the basic theory of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids that I know of.
It contains a lot of interesting material that is not treated in elementary texts and is dispersed in the research literature, and the authors present it in a rigorous but engaging manner. What I value most of the book are the insightful comments and discussions throughout; it gives one a proper perspective and a deepened understanding of the subject. The book is not suitable for a first course in fluid mechanics, but it should be an excellent text for beginning graduate students -- both engineering students who want to learn the mathematics and mathematics students who want to understand the physics.

There is no other introduction to fluid mechanics that even comes close to this book. I hope it becomes the standard introduction to the subject. It is unique, clear, and perceptive. The best think I can say for it is this: A student could spend decades trying reach the level of understanding they would get from reading this elegant book.

Its hard to find a book which deals with interconnection and comparisons between operating systems so widely used. Its always tight for programmers and system engineers when it comes to integration between different operating systems.

The book takes care of many aspects which where hitherto either unvisited or very superfiically dealt with. A must read for professionals who want to expand their horizons.

A preposterous and disingenuous response to the well documented revelations found in Radha Sloss's shocking book "Lives in the Shadow". One immediately senses how hastily this book was assembled by noticing, for instance, that the 30 year period of relationship between Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals encompassing the years between 1930 and 1960 is disposed of in only 25 pages. And Lutyens, the most prominent of his biographers, by her own admission, confesses that by the time her final biographical volume was published in 1988, she knew about this affair but made no mention of it in her book. This is clearly inexcusable in a biographer.

This books seems to me as pretty good at proving that R.Sloss is an unnacurate and biased accounter of K`s affair with Rosalind R. M.L. shows herself as an erudite on K`s life, who easily points out big mistakes in R.S`s book. Enough of them to untrust R.S as a reliable source. However, the book also keep unresolved some important questions on K's behavior in this affair. The abortion matter is apparently solved by suggesting that R.R. was never pregnant and that if so, she had to abort for the sake of her life. But, even though this may have been true, it still remains the fact that K`s reaction was on the basis that he believed she really was pregnant. And, in this respect, M.L. does not refute R.S account, which shows not only a careful and affectionate K but also a conveniently distant partenaire, who waits outside the abortion clinic for the result(feared of being involved in something illegal?). Also, even if we have to assume that the abortion was necessary, it is not less true that this did not lead K to stop sexual relations, despite the evidence that they may result in the need of breaking a human life process. For somebody who asked to leave drugs just by seeing the danger of them and expressed his devotion and sacredness vision about life, it is certainly extrange that he was not able to stop a relation that showed clearly as liable to demand repeated abortions (recall also the severe response given in Brookwod to sexual relationships between students and the dialogs on sex with them, at "begginings of learning"). Even more extrange is that he NEVER - and I have checked this on his complete works CD ROM - talked about abortion itself. Just in a few ocassions he used the word as a metaphora but he never discussed that especific matter (did he have scruples about it?). Before knowing about this affair, one may think that he never dealt with it as his position on it should be evidently derived from his radical defence of life and opposition to suicide. But, certainly, things are not so clear after this affair has been known.
Also, it is curious to see how K`s attitude towards his life evolves with time. In her previous biography, M.L says how she - and also Mary Z - are encouraged by K to write about his life and how was to live with him. He even suggests that people should make hundreds miles to talk to those who knew him. This approach changes with time conveniently to the one we hear today: what matters are the teachings, not the man. In my view, this puts K on the same level as most of the conventional espiritual leaders or Popes, who only are supposed to tranmit the truth when they talk about it but not in their day to day behaviour (by the way, the roman philosopher, Seneca, used to say his disciples: do what I say not what I do. This is a very old trick). The question is not to make K a perfect being but to see whether the teachings work on real life or not. He could make mistakes but the truth is suppose to reveal also through the way he faced them. The teachings may be like a beatiful architectural design, nice to see and talk about it, but impossible to translate into a real building. And one has a bit of this feeling when sees how so many people fought and even tried to kill (if we rely on K`s account on an attempt to kill him by R.R) for the property of these teachings. One feels that to live them did not matter at all but to have their property, as they proved to be an article with a profitable, loyal and wide market.
What is evident for me is that M.L. was unable to gather from K enough data on this affair. I think K did not try to hide it even though he did not help to put more light on it. It was his right, as a private and personal matter but, extrangely, it indicates a priority given to his image instead to the defence of the teachings (which - no doubt about it - will be damaged later or sooner by this issue). On the other hand, I do not share the views on K`s cheating by proyecting a false chastity image. Read his books and talks. Nobody can find an assesment supporting that view. As far as just this matter is concerned, I do not see any contradiction with the teachings.
Finally, I find no excuse to the fact that M.L. did not mention it in his K`s biography, even though she recognised she knew about it by this time (another "kind" suggestion not to mention it, like "the process" removal from her mother's book?). The fact is that she only wrote about it when she had to react to R.S`s book. Too late and too incomplete.

My opinion of this little book is tarnished by the fact that I haven't read "Lives in the Shadow", to which this is a reply. It should be mentioned that Mary Lutyens was a devotee of K when she wrote this book. She does not like Sloss's book at all and gives her impression of Sloss's inconsistencies. The RS book though is very long (over 300 hundred pages) and it is unclear how the Lutyen book could answer all the allegations in her tiny book Still, Lutyen's book is pretty good at giving some good explanations for K's actions, if that's what you're after. For example, it is quite clear that K didn't exactly say he was celibate or gave that impression personally. Certainly books like Years of Fullfillment give the impression K was celibate, but Lutyens didn't know of K's affair then. I actually agreed with Lutyens on this point, I don't find anything in K's teachings which say he is celibate, or that we should be celibate - and I've read a lot. The other allegations are that K sanctioned Rosalind's abortions. Birth control at that time wasn't what it is today, and it seems unclear what K's intentions were. I think only a fairly bitter person would suggest that K didn't want an heir, and would therefore suggest to kill the child because of that. Lutyens says that Rosalind had a medical condition that would cause her to die if she didn't have an abortion, so who really knows about that. In other cases, RS seems to go too far in her speculations on K. For example, that K faked the process to procure the attention of women. Or that K was always childish or dishonest. Or that K deliberately tried to cover up his affair. On this later point, I have some grave, grave doubts he ever did. I've asked on numerous occcasions for people to give me evidence of this, yet I haven't got any. Also, if RS and her circle know the truth about K, then why is it that it is only her book that make this allegation? Why aren't these "people" who apparently knew K so well in other books? It does seem that Rajagopal (a very, very strange person ... and that's not just going by Lutyen's account, it goes by most accounts of K biographers, often who are actually pretty understanding towards Raja and make excuses for him) felt K was not enlightened. Rosalind didn't think so either. Why not? Pupul wrote revealingly in her own biography how easy it was to get used to K, to take him for granted and not to see his "qualities". It's also doubtful K loved Rosalind as much as claimed. Lutyen's book deals with this in detail. K knew his "position", which was the World Teacher, and that came before other things. He also fell in love with a woman called Hellen Knothe. If you read Knothe's account, you will realise that while K was deeply in love with her, it was not a jealous obsessive love and that K was the one that had lost interest, not her. She saw in his eyes that it was over, and that was that. Yet it seems from many reports that Rosalind's character is in question. People were surprised how badly Rosalind treated K. Rosalind was wrote a letter to Rajagopal when he found a new love which congratulated him, but when Raja wanted a divorse she fought it. Rosalind even by her own admition was a hysterical, and why people place her word over K's seems odd to me. Overall, K and the Rajagopals will seem to confirm the beliefs of those on the "K side" or simply say to those who are not (a very vocal minority) how much his devotees want to defend him. Yet it seems that the truth exonerates Krishnamurti, as far as I see it. Again, I will have to read Lives in the Shadow to make a full assessment.

In an attempt to burst the Krishnamurti bubble with this book, Radha Sloss doesn't sound very convincing and her insight on many things seems to be quite shallow. For example, when Krishnamurti mentions to her that Alduous Huxley's mind was like a dust bin, instead of seeing the truth of it, she represents this incident in a cynical manner. The way she judges Krishnamurti however casts a shadow on the other main issues as well i.e. his clandestine relationship with Rosalind. In many passages it seems that she deliberately tries to distort facts. An earlier reviewer mentions that Mary Lutyens knew about this relationship. Strange, she should have mentioned it in her books. (I haven't read her "Krishnamurti and the Rajgopals".) What the truth is one shall never know. But with this book, Mrs. Sloss has definitely taken the salt out of Krishnamurti believers, whether they admit it or not. They may rationalize, disagree or ignore the contents of the book but the seed of skepticism is well and truly sown. Perhaps Krishnamurti would have been happy with this posthumous publication as he always maintained that it is the teachings that matter and not the teacher. He despised any cult following after his death and this book would probably do just that.

Radha Rajagopal Sloss's unique book is something of an unofficial biography of 20th century philosopher J. Krishnamurti and the events surrounding his career as a religious/philosophical teacher. The daughter of Rosalind Williams Rajagopal and husband D. Rajagopal, Radha Rajagopal Sloss's book is not a sordid expose, it is not graphic or insulting. It is simply a sincere account of her very real experiences growing up in amazing circumstances among amazing people. There is a lot of information here which isn't included in "official" biographies of philosopher J. Krishnamurti, which helps the reader get a better idea of the politics and humanness which even great men may be affected by. Author Sloss in fact, mentioned this tendancy of official biographies to ignore or excuse certain parts of Krishnamurti's life as a reason for penning this work.

Some of the controversy this book generated is due to the fact that certain students and followers of Krishnamurti believe that he was a living example of a perfect human. This volume disspells that myth, indeed, he looks quite human throughout this writing. It was interesting to find how Krishnamurti dealt with some of his biggest stressors, including financial disagreements with friend D. Rajagopal, and the pregnancy (by him) of his dear lover Rosalind Williams Rajagopal. Radha describes her love of "Krinsh" (Krishnamurti), who was like a second father to her, and how his increasing unwillingness to deal with problems damaged many relationships and people. Included are numerous letters to and from Krishnamurti, D. Rajagopal and Rosaling Rajagopal, and numerous other individuals who were active on the Theosophical movement or Krishnamurti's teachings. A very worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in history, philosophy, or the full history of J. Krishnamurti.

Howdy,This book is very interesting indeed. Of course no one can say for sure if the book is correct or not but given that the Rajagopals knew Krishnamurti as well as anyone on earth I think there is grounds to give credibility to Mrs. Sloss' account. I've asked the Krishnamurti Foundation of America about the book. Their response wasn't "the book is a lie" but rather their response was "K's personality wasn't important, what he taught was important". They told me once K was asked "are you living the teachings yourself", K's response was "how would you know?"As a long time admirer of Krishnamurti I can say that these sorts of answers are unacceptable. Krishnamurti soooo many times would speak about the transcendent state of chastity and then say "these are not the problems of the speaker, these are your problems."Well, it seems like they were the problems of the speaker. If he had been honest about where he was in his grounded life with all of this I could be more accepting, but he wasn't. This, at least in part, makes Krishnamurti a hypocrit and makes me question everything else he has written. If K wasn't living his own teachings, is it any wonder he seemed to never find any of his "students" living them either.All "friends" of Krishnamurti owe it to themselves to read this book, in fact I consider it the most important book about Krishnamurti written because it dares to step outside of the carefully crafted Krishnamurti mystique. If the man can't walk the talk, how could he expect anyone else to. I don't judge him for his womanizing, I do feel that the "persona" he crafted over 60 years was, to be blunt, a partial lie. If his personality isn't important than neither are his insights about our personalities. No teacher's teaching is greater than the teacher's ability to actualize or "walk" the teaching.This has really burst my bubble about J. Krishnamurti, I always thought he was one of the ones carrying the flame, but alas his flame wasn't nearly as bright as we thought.Peace,John ( John-on-Maui@webv.net )

This book is good for users who do work on porting nt applications to unix flavor OS.