If you are an advanced spirit, you will enjoy this book. This book helped me reflect on the significant person who has come into my life and why we have come together. We feel the same way about Mother Earth and have had similar encounters with the spirits in Nature and Mother Earth herself. This book expresses it succinctly in the phrase..."When Spirits Touch". This book made me aware of the individual changes going on everywhere and that when two individuals who are at the same spiritual level, become one, they can the change the world.

This book is pretty good when you start to read it. It has interesting points of view from the children on their way to Oregon and how they travel on their way.

This was a wonderful book! I read it a while ago but I clearly remember most of it. It is about a young girl named Mary Ellen Todd, who, with her family, travels west to Oregon in the 1850s. I highly reccomend this touching, sad, and all together wonderful book!

This book ought to get 100 stars. It is a great and realistic account of the trip from Arkansas to Oregon that Mary Ellen Todd's family took. It tells a vivid and seemingly true tale about the six month journey, the life Mary Ellen and her family found in Oregon, and Mary Ellen's reluctance to part with her hometown and reletives--most of all, her grandmother. You can meet Mary Ellen, her parents, her sisters, and her brother, as well as John, the Grants, and other travellers that they encounter along the way. While reading this, I was carried of in a time machiene to join in the trip. I hope that nobody will ever write an accusing review for such a wonderful book.

A pretty imposing stack of prose, but inside is a vast adventure of horror, suspense and vengeance ranging from Egypt to America. Slightly like the new film "The Mummy" if it was set in modern times. Chris Treagus has a tendency! To! Overuse! Exclamation! Points! In this one, but he's got a great talent for historical horror fiction, able to drag the reader through time and space so that one feels like they're actually there. A writer to watch!
--K.K. (Author of CLOWNWHITE and INHUMAN RESOURCES)

The Hunting Sorrow by gifted 'HORROR' writers Christopher Mark Treagus and Alister Jonah, is a unique horror story using a grotesque mummy and horrifying curse-- An engaging and suspenseful tale rising from the ashes. A story that will hold the reader under a spell from the first page to the last.

If you are a reader that is into mummy and curse tales then this is definately the book to read!

The year is 1992. The place Cairo. Cairo is rocked by the worst earthquake in Egypt's new age history awakening something. Something Unimaginable. In tradition of the classic mummy legend a curse has been unleashed upon the world for the violation of yet another tomb but 'The Hunting Sorrow' is no ordinary walking dead!

This fella knows horror and tension! pacing is excellent and the descriptions vivid. When is this author going to publish another book?

Corpsman Up is an outstanding, true to life account of a Marine Corps corpsman in the Vietnam War. The book is easy to read and extremely hard to put down. Corpsman Up's author, Paul Baviello is one of the many unsung heros of the Vietnam War.

This book is a find for any Corpsman, or anyone who served as a Corpsman, with the Marines. There's little written about the unsung heroes that have given lives while saving them - and this book is a tribute to their memory, as well as the Marines that they stood with.

The book itself was riveting - I couldn't put it down - and as a former FMF Corpsman, I found it very realistic. Many people don't realize the intensity of what a Corpsman trains for when they work with the Marine Corps - it's a different world. I recently re-read the book, and found it even more compelling the second time around.

The author manages to bring the camraderie into the book without stifling the story. This is a modern anwer to Stephen Crane's 'The Red Badge of Courage'.

This is a book about heroes, and the men that they really are.

Corpsman up is definately a true account of how the Marines feel about their Corpsman. When Marines call for Doc, they aren't just calling for the Navy Squid that offers medical support. They are calling that one Navy that wears green. Corpsman are one of them, and Corpsman Up demonstrates just that. Definatly impossible to put down. Semper Fi

The book is a believable account by ROK's finest general in the Republic's history, albeit somewhat embellished. I, myself, am a Korean but can cut through the crap, when I smell one. The memoir's contension that the ROK troops have stood and fought despite the insurmountable odds are seriously challenged by the Americans who fought with them.

During the Korean Conflict, the ROK fighting units were, all too often, substandard, poorly-led by inexperienced, underaged incompetents, thus, undisciplined and cowardly. The ROK troops suffered from pathological fear of the NK tanks and the Chinese volunteers, and thus relied heavily on the American firepower to do the fighting for them. (General, your men never could "decimate" the Chinese alone!) The only exception to the South Korean rule were the 1st ROK Division commanded by the author himself, and the ROK Marine Regiment.

In any event, the exploits of the General and his division is well documented. I was quite frankly amazed with his superb English. The author's well-written account is somewhat believable, but the highly-exaggerated tales of the "ROK fighting prowess," prevents this memoir from earning five stars.

I FIND GEN PAIK'S ACCOUNT OF THE KOREAN WAR TO BE REFRESHING AND ACCURATE. ONE MUST NEVER FORGET THE STATUS OF THE ROK ARMY AT THE ONSET OF THE KOREAN WAR. HIS LEADERSHIP AND COURAGE SET AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL ROK AND UN SOLDIERS. I GRANT YOU, THE BOOK IS SOMEWHAT 'HAZY' AT TIMES AND OFTEN APPEARS ROK 'SELF SERVING', BUT THAT IS REALLY NOT THE CASE WHEN ONE CONSIDERS HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THE CULTURE (TRANSLATION) IN WHICH HE WRITES. IT IS TRUELY A REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF A GREAT WARRIOR. IT NEEDS TO BE RE-PUBLISHED SO THAT ALL CAN GREATLY APPRECIATE THE TREMENDOUS SACFICES MADE BY THE GENERAL AND FOR THAT MATTER THE KOREAN PEOPLE. I HAVE READ THE BOOK NO LESS THAN 5 TIMES, OFTEN MARKING PASSAGES, AND EACH TIME I FIND A NEW UNDERSTANDING FOR A GREAT PEOPLE AND A GREAT WARRIOR. POULIOT

Taken in context and compared against all that has been written about the Korean War, GEN Paik provides his personal account of Korea's fight against the Communist North. GEN Paik explains the difficulty his newly freed country has fighting their brothers, winning and then having the Chinese weigh in against them. He looks at his experiences with the U.S. officers and enlisted who shed their blood along side their Korean comrades and helped to preserve a free country in the South. GEN Paik discusses the troubles his new found Army (50 years old this Oct 1998) adapting to modern equipment and tactics after being under the rule of Imperial Japan. A must read if you are truely interested in Korea and the Korean War. This book is an excellent read and a wonderful new look at the Korean War.

This is a fascinating book about one of the best (relatively)young directors working. As usual, Mr. Parish has done his homework. The background material is great and helps give a really vivid picture of the person. I really feel I got to know Mr. Van Sandt from reading this book, not only him, but his family and associates growing up. The descriptions of his early works are especially interesting. Mr. Parish is one of the most thorough writers when it comes to work credits of his subjects. I also enjoy this section of his books. I definitely recommend this book.

Parish does it again.
I've been a big fan of Jim Parish's cinematic oeuvre of literature for 20 years. He has tackled film genres, biographies and anything with his name on it I will buy. His "Van Sant" bio is terrific and covers a career that hasn't had much coverage to date.
If you can find Mr. Parish's incredible "The Swashbucklers" you have a great weekend read in store. After 100 books, you would think Parish would be tired but his two recent works proves he is as fresh as ever and on the top of his game.

James Robert Parish is one of the most prolific and knowledgeable film historians and writers around today, and his book on Van Sant lives up to his high standards of writing and research. Van Sant is an interesting character, going from art house (Mala Noche) to mainstream favorites (Good Will Hunting). This is definately a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about Van Sant and the movie making business of today.

Although the landscapes in this book are beautiful, most of the properties shown were massive, complete with beautiful natural views surrounding them. It was fun to look at the pictures, but realistically, most people aren't dealing with the situations shown here. One terrace garden was shown, but it was small and unremarkable. All the properties shown are on the east coast, so the plant choices are not particularly useful for folks who live west of the Mississippi. It's an interesting way to spend a few minutes looking at the pictures, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone to use in planning a garden.

This method has become my new gardening bible. It has an up to date, environmentally friendly, low maintenance approach. This book will not appeal to those who like large expanses of cut grass. The focus is on reducing or eliminating cut grass and massing plants. This style creates important habitats for birds and insects that we destroy with large lawns and weed killers and fertilizers. And the effect is very beautiful!

I borrowed a dozen books on naturalistic planting from a friend of mine that is REALLY into gardening. All of the books had beautiful photographs and some were interesting to read but only "Gardening With Nature" told me how to design a natural garden for my house. I'm so impressed I'm going to fork over my own money to buy it!

Once upon a time any student interested in computer graphics was referred straight to this book, and indeed what you've got here is an amazing smorgasbord of nearly every technique that was state of the art several years ago. Unfortunately the times have moved on and Foley et al. have not quite been able to keep up with them; entire chapters are still devoted to PHIGS, while modern methods of rotation such as quaternions are covered in only the most cursory way.

Another problem is the book's extremely terse, high-level approach to many important concepts; often a mathematical approach or an algorithm will be mentioned as a solution to a given problem (quadtrees, let's say), but once you try to take that knowledge from the chalkboard to the compiler, you begin to realize that there are some important pieces missing. Of course, no one expects a text like this to be a cookbook of code snippets, but as a primary textbook for an applications programmer this falls short. The tiny print and unhelpful illustrations don't improve matters much for pedagogy.

So, even though this is the Classic Textbook, I've found myself better served by a combination of other, more recent books -- Alan Watt's text on graphics in combination with Eric Lengyel's on 3D Mathematics, specifically. They won't cover *everything* there is to know, but they'll do a better job of getting you started than Foley, and the stuff they don't address can be found in other books or SIGGRAPH papers.

Let me reiterate what a few others have said:

"This book is for thinking and researching."

"This is not a book that you can read while sipping a glass of wine..."

"the bible of computer graphics"

This is not a book that you will end up copying source code out of(a good thing). This book was my first step into the hardcore graphics world, and it was great. I don't think that more source code would enhance this book at all, mabye even the opposite. Source code is not what this book is about. If you are planning on implementing some of these algorithms, you must know how to code well, period. This is not a "here's how to code in C" manual, it's a "these are the principles of Computer Graphics." It's everything it claims to be.

I particurally like the excercises at the end of every chapter. Although I don't do them all, it gives me a guide to practice what I learned. The math in this book is not as hard as some make it out to be. It is Matrix/Vector algrebra and some calc. A glossary would have been a nice touch, as some of the vocabulary can be overwhelming at times, especially the acronyms.

"Recommended for the hardcore programming freaks." Hope the authors (I'm going to give credit to more than Foley) plan to write again.

I don't know why people seem to think they can just pick up a graphics book on theory and grasp concepts without having to wade through mathematical formulas. Computer graphics IS like nuclear physics, it is not a walk through the park. This book, entitled "The Computer Graphics Bible" is your park guide. It has a comprehensive overview of most concepts, and tons of references to more info on those subjects. There isn't much code, but that's a good thing, because the only wy you can learn this stuff is by implementation, and that's how it should be done, not by copying code from a book. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

There are plenty of equations and theory for the mathematician, but even better for folks like me (hackers), there is a nice sprinkling of C code and example images. If you need the most comprehensive reference, go with the unabridged version ("Computer Graphics: Principles and Practicies", all 1175 pages of it!), but if you are looking for an introduction, I would recommend this book.

Are you tired of spending hours of your time searching for 3d documentation on the net? Are you tired of searching for books? Are you tired of spending $50 on a book only to find out that it doesn't cover any of the subjects you were hoping for? Introduction to Computer Graphics covers every aspect of 3d theory to get any beginner started. It is true that some of the math requires more than high school education, but that didn't stop me when I read it in 9th grade. And if I can understand it, pretty much anybody can. If a person reads this book straight through, he not only will learn nothing but will have wasted his time too. Why? Well, half the book is full of mathematical equations and formulas. The author basically thinks like this: I supply you with the formulas and why they work, you figure out how to put it in your program. Although I'm not trying to attack the way the author wrote the book and a lot of his formulas come with C++ code, there's some stuff he doesn't explain like: HOW TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER! A book like this could be classified as an excellent source of reference. The reason that this book stands out from all the rest is that information isn't hidden in the words. It's all straightforward explanations and formulas with a lot of graphics to reinforce the reader's knowledge. Also at the end of each chapter the author gives you a number of exercises to do for those people out there that got too much time on their hands. All together I loved it and I learned a LOT of valuable information.

This is the 3D programmers bible for 3D graphics. It is far from a breeze to read as the nature of the beast is not an easy subject.

One of the most wonderful things about this book is that it supplies an extensive bibliography about each subject covered.

It isn't a "how to" for DirectX or OpenGL it's more of a "here are the equations" for 3D in pretty much every aspect.

You have to have it.

You don't? Buy it!

Expect to brush up on your maths tho! (unless yur a math head :) )

Regards,

Ian

Shortly before seeing Mr. Van Praagh on CNN's Larry King Live program, I had a very strong dream in which my uncle, who passed away in 1980, visited me. His mother, my grandmother, lives in Florida with my parents. I thought perhaps he was coming for my aged grandmother, so I immediately called my parents, who I hadn't spoken with in 6 - 8 weeks. I found out that the evening before my father had had a stroke. On seeing Mr. VanPraagh, I realized my uncle came to see me about his brother, my father. I then read the book and everything really "hit home." Mr.VanPraagh explains how to "make contact" and his book made me see this experience not as a coincidence. It gave me a new view on life, as if I had been truly "born again." It is a MUST reading if you feel you've had any sort of visitation from loved ones who have "passed over."

My grandfather died last summer. I stayed with him and held his hand until he died, surrounded by the whole family. I have been so deeply affected by his loss, it is hard to explain. He was the first person I have lost. He came to me in a dream one night, touched my face and told me that he was "so happy". He died of pnemonia(spelling?), but was in the early stages of cancer. He was very small when he died, maybe 100 pounds. In this dream, he was fat and happy, the way he always was. You can imagine my shock when I saw James Van Praagh on TV, saying that sometimes the spirit of a loved one may contact you in a dream. I was really taken aback. I had to go out and get the book. I find the book very emotionally satisfying. It is worth the money. It gives you peace of mind. I was a bit skeptical at first, because I am a Catholic and still afraid of sinning by consulting fortunetellers, etc. I think that people should try to calm their inner selves instead of pleading to talk to James. I mean, there are a lot of lost people out there, who have things to resolve just as bad or even worse than you or I do.

I enjoyed this book for several reasons. James seems to have a gift for communicating with a world that is unseen. I believe we all too some degree have spiritual gifts. He talks about how our ancestors still care for us and give us messages. My grandmother died earlier this year and a strange thing happened. A month after her death I wore a suit of hers that was given to me after she died. I work at a Bank. One of the tellers told me I looked like a Porcelain Doll in it. I found myself crying after that because my grandmother use to call me that. I felt it was a message. I remember telling one of my girlfriends that I was so sad that my grandmother was gone and who would ever call me that pet name again. I think it was my grandmother's way of saying - hey I am still looking out for you. James has so very interesting stories to tell. It is too bad we don't have more people with such a gift. I believe it would help a lot of distraught people who have lost their loved ones.