Now a few years old, but still a useful introduction for anyone who wants to get a better sense of Internet technologies and the programming process. My copy has been making the rounds among various e-commerce clients, content creators, and publishers.

I am not a programmer, but I wanted to understand Java. The authors started with the fundamentals of the history of programming to provide the reader some background, before jumping to Java. I found the book very imformative about the many terms of the internet: Applet, HTML, Platform etc. The authors developed an easy to understand evolution of program languages from monolith to Java--quite a spand, but successfully convey to the reader. I would highly recommand this book for anyone using the internet, and wants to understand the fundamentals.

The title says it all! Making "sense" of JAVA. What is it, and how can knowing this help you and your company? Perhaps you are not a Manager, but just a curious web surfer who's wondering what all the hubbub is about. This book is for anyone who asks the question, "what is JAVA". As an added bonus, the book describes thoroughly the inner workings of a company's computer setups, LAN, WAN, dumb terminals, it's all here, explained in easy-to-understand language. The book fills a real need for a down-to-earth information source, without all the "how-to's" of other JAVA books

Mandie's in for exitement when she goes to New York with Celia and her mother to vist Jonathan. When they get to New York,Jonathan's father invites them to his house where Mandie, Celia and Jonathan find a dog. But why does the strange girl come and try to take the dog from Jonathan? And why do they find the butler all tied up? There's even more exitement when Mandie, and Jonathan follow the strange man and get locked up on the roof of a building. Mandie has such a bad cold she faints!!!

Hi! my name is Vanessa.I am 11 years old.I have been reading Mandie books since I was 10.I have read almost all the books.and I have been starting my collection.I buy 1 book a month.I just bought this one last month.Any way,Mandie goes to New York with Celia and Celia's mother.and Jonathan the rich runaway they found on the ship to Europe lives in New York.they see him in New York and he insists that they stay in his house for there visit.Mandie overhears a conversation with Jens the butler and a guy she has never seen.and there is a mysterious girl demanding for the white dog they found.the stange guy and the girl tie up Jens and still somthing Mandie and Jonathan run over traintracks and get into a predicament on a roof.and find out something surprising.but you have to read the book to find out!I LOVE THIS BOOK AND ALL MANDIE BOOKS THEY ARE THE BEST!!!!

Hi! My name is Virginia Sulpy and I'm 14 years old. And I mean it when I say this book is PHAT. This is definately one of the best books yet in the super series Mandie. The mystery Mandie gets herself into this time takes her places! She's in NYC, and she and her friend Jonathan find one of the servants tied up. They chase the two culprits, who consist of a Spanish, beret wearing man and a little girl who has been bugging Jonathan for his dog he adopted. Mandie and her friend chase the man over dangerous elevated train tracks, and into a skeezy apartment house. They get locked on the roof, and it starts to snow. And Mandie has such a bad cold, that when they finally get out, she faints! The descriptions in this book are incredible. You can feel Mandie's misery! Not only that, but the mystery is a sophisticated one that will keep you guessing. Don't let the up to "age 12" review stop you- this, and all of the other Mandie series, will be, in my opinion, even better if you're older. A truly great book for all ages! Ms. Leppard, do the world a favor and write more of these soon! We all want more! Thanks!

Don't disdain this marvelous book. Julie Sahni teaches you how to cook Indian food in the microwave, with flair and flavor. In the process, you learn things about microwave cooking you never knew. The microwave really can make "real" food, and Julie Sahni shows you how. The recipes need the quantity of spices increased in some cases, but this book is an endless delight and resource. Wonderful for summer months when you crave the flavor of that luscious curry but want to beat the heat in the kitchen, or just for any time when speed and ease seem the way to go! I love this book. I own over 30 Indian cookbooks, but I return to this often.

I tried several of her recipes after watching Ms. Sahni on the Frugal Gourmet a few years ago.
The dishes I prepared were a hit with family and friends. I would especially recommend making the Indian sweets using her microwave methods. The results were quick and delicious!

This is the first time I've ever read a cook-book that actually gives you real step-by-step recipies that work really well. The directions are obvious, even for a initiate like myself, and at least 95% of the ingredients are the off-the-shelf variety. I also love the way Julie Sahni "narrates" her recipies, giving me just enough outside information to add some depth to the dish, and yet not so much as to detract from the recipies themselves. What else can I say except that my copy is used almost every weekend, and it's already dog-eared and well worn. I just hope she comes out with a follow-on at some point...

For a lighthearted, entertaining, and fascinating trip into the inner workings of children's minds and souls, and how they perceive God and religion, read this book! You'll chuckle, you'll giggle, you'll laugh uproariously, you'll smile in tender recognition. An adorable, fun book!

This book, in some respects, is a Jewish version of Art Linkletter's "Kids Say the Darndest Things!" These kids are Jewish and commenting on Jewish subjects. Many of their remarks demonstrate a guiless intuition that is at once entertaining and enlightening. A joy to read, and a book which will endure.

I enjoyed leafing through this book. It takes us through all the holidays and events in the life of a Jewish child, proving that kids DO say the darndest things!

I'll admit it- I'm a longtime Marvel/DC afficionado. Ask me a question on any X-Men plotline from the last 20 years, quiz me on the various memberships of any JLA incarnation, and I'll knock your socks off with years of inane comic information retention. But recently, starting with the 'Legal Action Comics' Danny Hellman compilation, I've been drawn to that other corner of the comic store... that corner populated by obscure, shadowy... underground comics.
Well, I ran across Monkeysuit, and Bride of Monkeysuit.. and I couldn't be happier with my shocking display of literary bravado. I could sit here and expand upon their multiple stories, but for brevity's sake, I'll summarize- Cool. Neat. Interesting. Shocking. Daring. Innovative. Fresh. What comics are all about. A credit to the genre.

If you're a DC/Marvel/Image fanboy like me, do yourself a favor- these books cost the same as four regular comics. Bonus points to the Monkeysuit folks for their economic savvy. Their stories and art are priceless.

If you're a longtime underground comics fan... hey- thank the Monkeysuit folks for giving people like me this glimpse into a better comics world.

Incredibly constructed, beautiful artwork, intelligent writing, vast range of styles and humor. If you love comics, you couldn't get a better book!

This is a great anthology that will appeal to anyone who has enjoyed Raw, Drawn and Quarterly, Blab! and similar cutting edge collections of not-mainstream comics. "Rover" reads like Pogo done by Chris Ware, "Profiles in Tenacity" will appeal to fans of "Lenore" or anything by Jhonen Vasquez, and "Secret Santa" is such a great idea it's amazing that nobody thought to do it before this. And that's just scratching the surface of what's in this nifty little book.

Poetry is soppy, Zen is impractical and Orientals don't think or feel like the rest of mankind - three myths demolished in one elegant little book. Every poem breathes humanity and warmth, and the pictures complement them beautifully. A translator should above all respect and preserve the intent of the original author; Clements' fine, perceptive translations allow the underlying emotions and sensations of the works room to breathe, and give the reader space to make his own interpretation. These are poets who, attempting detachment from the world, have stood back far enough to observe it and themselves with loving exactness. Beautiful in every way.

A book to savor. If you're familiar with haiku, you keep feeling a shock of recognition when you encounter a favorite redone in Clements's thoughtful lean style. Fresh organization, by time of day. Illustrations well chosen and well reproduced. This would be a fine gift book for a young person you want to interest in poetry.

A beautiful gift book. Each page of three haiku faces breathtaking paintings in the Japanese style. Most of the paintings are of nature, giving a sense of the season as one reads haiku of that season. The combination of painting and haiku gives a much deeper value.

Wonderful & entertaining for kids of all ages. I had great fun reading to kids grades K-4, using different voices for Mucky & the wolf. Kids laughed & laughed. Automatically initiates discussion time. It's my second favorite book, after Charlotte's Web.

A must for kids who love to laugh. Give it to your children or grandchildren and you will enjoy it every time you read it to them.

With Mucky Moose, the never ending search for a good old bedtime story ended here. Mucky's strong character (and smell) are to big a match for the big bad wolf. Morale of the story " If you can't eat him, become a seeing eye wolf " Laugh till you cry till you pee, this book book was a winner for my daughter and me.

This is his best book. I don't understand why it hasnt been reprinted. When I was a kid, a teacher gave this book to me and it changed my life. It is so gorgeous, full of insight and daring.

Do you want to see education change, become more meaningful and substantive? Read Kozol.

The collection of essays in this book are beautiful and still timely. The humanity in Kozol's voice and ideas resound. This book is for everyone, but is absolutely critical for anyone involved in education.

When I started teaching the book gave me strength and a critical perspective on the politics of education. Over time it has inspired me, and I return to it again and again. It helps me believe in what I do. It connects the classroom to the world around it and puts issues like "classroom management" in a new context. This book shows us to not fear students voices --- and to not fear our own. Even more significantly, I use several of the essays in classrooms with high school and undergraduate students. When students read these essays they ALWAYS provoke antimatied and moving discussions about the hidden meanings of school curriculums, issues of power, and most significantly, become empowered by their own ideas. Students never look at the revoltionaries... --- like MLK, Malcolm X, Thoreau, or Hellen Keller ---the same way again. Kozol introduces the possibility of not just worshipping them in a vague and distant way, but of making their ideas come alive, and making them matter. Kozol cuts to the bone. Whether you find him moving or provocative, you can't encounter Kozol and leave unchanged. The essays in this book are amoungst his most timeless works, as relevant today as when he explored them in the 1970s.

Kozol believes that we can enter into history and make a difference in big and small ways. Through this book he has convinced me.

The prose is terrifc and the ideas are accessible and clear. ...

A searing and moving piece of work. Must be made available to the general public.The book is almost impossible to find. With the draconian changes we are seeing as "welfare reform" savages millions of children, women and men Kozal's words must be in the forfront of the American peoples minds. My copy is lost, if anyone can lead me to one please contact.

I am a photographer who lives in Iran. I'm so glad that finally could find somthing about my most favorite photographer Mr. Lee Friedlander in amazon web site.

The majority of celebrated modern photography of the female nude smacks of the conceit of light games. Worse: most of the best-reviewed contemporary works are, if truth were told, more about camera technology than aesthetics. It often seems as if the riptide of post-feminism has rid us of the privilege of inventive eroticism and made eunuchs of photographers and harlots of models. Can the aficionado really bear another misty-lensed Caribbean superwaif or mottled, breastless sub-celebrity? Helmut Newton has taken the daring of Blumenfeld, Man Ray and Edward Weston and spiked it with humor, but Lee Friedlander, in his innocence and directness is - ironically - closer to the wake-up call of Maplethorpe. These are beautiful photographs of real women in real, average rooms, carved with basic flashguns and noonlight, much in the informal style the French Symbolist Pierre Louys (who also used domestic settings and natural light). Texturally they come closest to Weston: the monochrome has his luxurious, colorful feel. But architecturally the pictures recall Georgia O'Keeffe in their adventurous embrace of hip sweeps and knee bends tight-cropped like zoomshots of winderness outcrops. The women are hairy, fragrant and alive. What warms the heart most is the reality of their expressions: self-possessed, agitated, engrossed, bored, antsy - by turns. These are real women, monumental in their personalities, as in their natural curves and caves. Madonna, now pop legend, was one of Friedlander's early models and it is moving, almost disturbing, to see unaffected beauty before the jazzy conceptual tricks of consumerism. Lee Friedlander's work isn't confined to nudes: seek out his other provocative portfolios.

Friedlander exquisitely captures the true essence of real women. These women, usually photographed in their own apartments, are not models -- they are authentic. Friedlander's work shows every blemish, hair, and "imperfection", which made this reader almost feel as if I could hear them breathing, smell their skin. To see such a beautiful work with wonderful women who did not see the necessity of applying thick layers of makeup, shaving body hair, or wearing excessive jewelry was truly refreshing. Thank you Mr. Friedlander for "exposing" what women really look like!

Jonathan Weisgall has done an incredible job of not only documenting the politics and in-fighting leading up to the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, but doing so in a very readable and compelling style. With the kind of factual back-up and verbal acuity possessed by only the most effective of attorneys (which Weisgall must be, given his success as counsel for the Bikini islanders), Weisgall takes the reader from the hallways of the Pentagon to the decks of the target ships swinging at anchor at Bikini Atoll. His narrative manages to touch on a wide variety of diverse topics -- cold war politics, in-fighting within the military bureaucracy, slipshod planning for radiation emergencies, and the popularization of atomic weaponry -- in a manner that is both entertaining and competent.

Weisgall is also adept at humanizing the Bikini islanders and conveying their plight to the reader. What emerges from his book is how, in the arrogance of its emergence as the world's first nuclear super-power, the United States managed to steal away this little corner of paradise and lay waste to it in a cynical exercise of military politics. I read Weisgall's book shortly before spending a week diving the shipwrecks of Bikini Atoll, and cannot adequately convey just how well he captures the tragedy of this haunted island.

Imagine witnessing two young boys outside fighting over a toy, each grabbing the opposite ends and finally breaking it as they pulled too hard. This analogy can also be used between the Army Air Force and Navy over the peacetime use of atomic weapons at the conclusion of the second world war. Jonathan Weisgall's book on Operation Crossroads demonstrates the blistering competition for tax dollars between the Army and Navy in 1946 and beyond.

Crossroads not only was a basis for continuing scientific research with nuclear energy, but also served as an excuse by the United States government to play with this new "toy" and how the civilian and military branches fought over controlling it. It also goes into great depth on describing how the government deceived the Marshalleise inhabitants. This book reveals this and shows the folly of the tests, as well as the long term health and ecological ramifications of atomic testing on both the Marshalleise as well as the rest of the world.

Crossroads was a nuclear catastrophe, probably equaled to that of Chernobyl. Weisgall's detailed information about the first two tests (Abel and Baker) cannot be equaled. He also writes about test Charlie, the aborted attempt to blow up an atom bomb about a thousand feet below the surface of the ocean. Even back then, scientists fought the Army and Navy tooth and nail to cancel this test knowing that it would have caused a greater ecological disaster than the first two detonations.

Operation Crossroads was not only the beginning of postwar atomic testing, but it also signaled things to come in the atomic age. Jonathan Weisgall does a careful analysis of the documentation that came out of the first atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. A must-read for anyone who wants to delve deeper into this unfortunate period of history.

Jonathan Weisgall has given us an astounding account of the atomic tests on Bikini Atoll. This book goes into fine detail about the preparations for Operation Crossroads, the first atomic tests at Bikini. It goes into great depth, describing the mismanagement of America's atomic policies toward the Marshalleise. It even goes as far as to describe how faulty the geiger counters were when the men (and women) who were exposed to the Able ("Gilda") and Baker ("Helen of Bikini") detonations. Also, Weisgall explains how the men would try to "wash" off the radiation, not only from themselves, but off of the hulls of their ships and some of the targets. They used bleach, sand, clam shells and acid! It demonstrates how ignorant we were (and still are!) about the dangers of radiation. This book is highly recommended to anyone who wants to gain an understanding of the early atomic tests as well as the perils involved.