This is a great stand alone Ochem book. It covers enough material for the future chemist and is concise and easy enough to follow for those who only require one or two semesters of chemistry knowledge. Loudon does a great job lecturing and this book reflects his abilities.

I sold my textbooks that I had used for Organic I (Wade), and Organic II (Solomons) in the middle of the semester and bought this one instead (since our teacher don't use the book, only his notes). I found this book so much easier to learn from. Especially for someone who has had trouble learning the subject.

I have the 1984 edition and it's still my favorite. I love this book! The book is conversational in tone and very easy to read. The electron diagrams lead to understanding rather than memorizing organic chemistry reactions. The explanations are through. The graphics and text are balanced. The problems are interesting and challenging. The accompanying solution manual provides all the details needed to completely understand the answers. This book shows that chemistry can be beautiful and understandable. I am sure that it has only gotten better in later editions. Thank you, Dr. Loudon, for writing such a wonderful book.

This work begins with the author's vision of another world, which is filled with vile monsters and harmless spirits. He also describes his wanderings through Paris and his attempted suicide. The book was not completed because he attempted suicide again and succeeded. He was a sensitive man and this world was too much for him. michael in bryan, texas

that's the best way to put it: like condensed Proust. De Nerval's stories of place, love, and memory have found a permanent place in my heart. As other reviewers have noted, these stories seem the very definition of romanticism-- an unexpected quality in a writer often remembered most for his madness, eccentricity, and ultimately, suicide.

this edition by Exact Change Press is also worth remarking upon: the paper feels great, the design is perfect... hmm, running out of synonyms for "good."

all in all, a great volume by a lesser-known master.

Because this book shows what a real romantic means beyond the common meaning of "being in love". Because De Narval is a Romantic, he behaves trying to be the center of everything, no matter the price or the pride. He loves as a tool to make women move around him. His dreams are an extension of his life, so he can live any dream as real because the memorie of the real is the same as the memorie of the dream.

This was a book of children's poems about things that little kids are scared of. It takes those fears and turns them into funny things for children to read. This book took a collection of poems and short story about things that many people think about around Halloween. It talks about things like goblins and scary things lurking around in the dark. This is a book that children can read and laughs about things that they think are scary.
I like this book because it gives children a way to read about things that they think are scary and realize that maybe those things aren't so scary after all. If you can get a child to laugh about something that they thought was scary then they may just be able to keep laughing about it instead of letting it frighten them. I think the person who compiled these poems and short stories into this book for child to enjoy really wanted the children to be able to laugh about these things. Many children have fears of things that can't really hurt them and this allows them to see that and laugh about it.

Marc Brown's Scared Silly! features many scary poems, riddles, jokes and stories. They are by many different authors that each tells about a scary story and about how they deal with those. Scared Silly is filled with many bright and bold colors throughout the book. This coloration undermines the scariness of the book, and offers comfort to a child reading these stories. Another aspect that takes away from the book being scary is the stories themselves. The selections portray the characters as comedic. This also makes light of the fact that the book is supposed to scare little children. One of the stories called "One Hungry Monster" by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe tells of a common fear young children have. It is about monsters underneath a little girl's bed and roaming around her house. They demand food from her and mess up her house. This would normally terrify a young child, but Marc Brown offers relief trough his pictures, colors, and the outcome of the story. The illustrations on the pages of "One Hungry Monster" are very bright and colorful. They also portray the monsters as silly, with wide eyes and their tongues sticking out. An article from Time Warner Bookmark about Scared Silly says, "Marc Brown has collected an array of lovable ghosts, ghouls, and witches, not to mention a pack of deliciously horrid monsters and a parcel of cowardly bullies." When the girl gives them the food, they play with it and put it all over themselves. The end of the story offers comfort as well. Instead of the girl being scared and running away, she told the monsters that she was disappointed because they left her house in a mess. It says that the "ten sorry monsters" disappear back into the chimney. They also have sad looks on their faces, knowing they had been defeated. These things help a young reader cope with a common fear by dealing with it in a comedic manner. This way of coping with scary things seems to be what Marc Brown was going for when he wrote this book. Another story in which the comedy overshadows the scariness of this book is "Witches Four" by Marc Brown. Witches are normally scary things for a child to imagine. They have always been associated with being mean and scary. In this story, Marc Brown conveys a group of four witches doing everyday things like brushing their teeth, eating, washing their faces, and getting dressed. The illustrators show the witches as old with glasses and gray hair. They look like grandmothers, which makes them likeable. Like the other stories, this one is also filled with many bright and bold colors. The witches are smiling on the pages as well. By the time the story says that the witches are "dressed for spooking," Marc Brown has taken away the scary stereotype of a witch. The stories, poems, riddles, and jokes in Scared Silly are meant to downplay the fact that witches, monsters, sea creatures, and old people are sometimes scary to small children. An article from Time Warner Bookmark says that Scared Silly is "a collection of poems and stories designed to help young readers scale their fears down to size by laughing out loud at the things that make them scared silly." Marc Brown and the other authors use bright colors and comedic characters to offer another perspective of things that normally carry a negative stereotype.

These poems are great read-alouds. My 7-year-old daughter loves to hear them read and to read them herself. This book has inspired me to buy more children's poetry books. We especially love the poem "The Adventures of Isabel." This should be required reading for all little girls. My daughter, who hates and fears her second-grade teacher, was inspired and strengthened by this poem. I know we will read this book many times for a long time to come.

I didn't find this book very useful. I found the focus more for some changing jobs rather than trying to get a job in the first place. It would be a good reference for someone "stuck" in a job they don't like.

I bought this book as I found myself in a situation where I am having a job interview for the first time in the US. The book explains characteristics of the current US job market as well as how to deal with it. It is useful anyone in any stage of job hunting, and I cannot think of a better book.

This book will keep you focused on the end result getting the job you want. It will show you step by step instructions on what to do and when to do it. This book would also be a good guide to goal setting since it keeps you focused on the final goal getting the job you want.

The method presented in this book is useful, although it includes no controlled scientific evidence for either short or long-term benefits. I would strongly suggest expectant parents to look at Dr. Sarah Brewer's Super Baby, and especially the proven approach that author recommends, the BabyPlus prenatal enrichment system (www.babyplus.com), which Dr. Van de Carr's method could complement.

The whole idea of prenatal stimulation fascinated me. There was some mention of it in another book I was reading and so I bought this book to find out more. I was not disappointed. It is easy to understand the concepts behind the communication you are having with your unborn baby because the book explains why you are doing what you are doing. It also backs up the notion of prenatal stimulation with case studies and results. This is my fourth child, the other three being ages 19, 22 & 23, so this concept is very new to me and it's wonderful and exciting to be able to participate in a process where I can give my unborn child "one up" by the time she is born.

Good and sober information about bonding and teaching your child. During our pregnancy we carried out the majority of the suggestions in the book with amazing response. Today, although our daughter at present is only 2 months old, we have a wonderfully alert and happy daugther. She is very intelligent, good at focusing and way ahead of the normal developmental curve for an infant.

Also we enjoyed the advice on nutrition and living in general.

All in all highly recommendable to any expecting parents.

I spent a semester at Africa University in Zimbabwe studying African Theology. Out of all of the theologians that I was exposed to on the continent of Africa, I found Ela most helpful. IF I could read French, I would have read much more of his work. Jean-Marc Ela is the finest example of liberation theology on the African continent, outside of South Africa.

This is an excellent book for helping professionals of all stripes, as well as relatives of those in the throes of addiction. This would make a great text for addiction counselor training courses.

I work with a Native American Tribe, as a drug and alcohol program coordinator, in the Phoenix Metro Area. I found this book to offer some insight into the ritualistic use of chemicals, as well as the spiritual deficits spin on addiction.

Our Native populations are so disenfranchised from the main stream; having had their cultural practices so drastically altered, and carrying such heavy intergenerational trauma, that it is no wonder chemical addiction is rampant.

If the Indigenous people want to break the pattern of addiction, then the return to ritual and initiation ceremony of pre-contact culture may offer some hope.

Hand Rhymes has been a great asset to my toddler classroom. The children love doing the fine moter actions to the fun rhymes. The children love the pictures also. This is a great book for any age!

My husband and I love to camp and have done so since we started dating. We got this book to add insight to our endeavors durings our trips and it definitely added a bright side to our humor and technique. I hope you will enjoy!

The Swing classes eliminate Java's biggest weakness: its relatively primitive user interface
toolkit. Swing provides many new components and containers that allow you to build sophisticated
user interfaces, far beyond what was possible with AWT. The old components have been greatly
improved, and there are many new components, like trees, tables, and even text editors. It also
adds several completely new features to Java's user interface capabilities: drag-and-drop, undo,
and the ability to develop your own "look and feel," or the ability to choose between several
standard looks. Written for the experienced Java developer, Java Swing provides an in-depth guide to
getting the most out of Sun's Swing/JFC user interface classes. Mixing
real-world code examples and expert advice on advanced features, this book shows how to make use of this powerful
library effectively within your own projects.

As a general Swing reference, this book is very good; where it excels is at covering the numerous
important aspects of Swing theory and application. I was initially disappointed by the lack
of coverage of layout managers, however the rest of the content has been extremely useful
in helping me understand the key aspects of Swing GUI development.

Java Swing gives you in-depth coverage of everything you need to know to take full advantage of Swing,
providing detailed descriptions of every class and interface in the key Swing packages. It shows you how
to use all of the new components. Whether you're a serious Java Swing Developer or just trying to figure
out what Java can do you will find this book as an indispensable guide.

Java Swing is the definitive reference for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) Swing package that has been included in the standard distribution of the Java SDK since Java 1.2. The book is really more of a tomb, weighing in at 1200 pages, and yet none of it seems irrelevant or overly explained. If anything, one would have to complain that maybe there are details missing, but given the length of the book as is, maybe it's better that some of the details were left out.

Publishers O'Reilly have obviously assembled a group of talented Java GUI designers to write this book, because the commentary is rife with real advice and coherent, practical explanations. The book does take some assumed knowledge for granted, such as basic programming skills, knowledge of Object-Oriented programming practices, and UML-style class and object relationship graphs, but I wouldn't say that this book excludes the beginner programmer in the least. Instead, it walks the fine line of being a useful book for both beginner and expert coders quite well, better than other O'Reilly publications that I've read in the past that I felt were overly explanatory.

The book starts off with a little history on the Swing package, where it came from and what its relationship to the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) is, but then almost immediately launches into the format that it uses for the next 900 pages of the book, which is to devote an entire chapter to every major section of swing. Topics covered include: buttons, scrollbar-like components, combo-boxes, containers of every shape and size, dialogs, borders, menus, tables, trees, undo facilities, text (about 220 pages on the major text components alone,) and drag and drop. Each of these sections serves as a useful reference for when you're developing your own GUI applications. The explanations are generally more details and much deeper than those offered in the Javadoc HTML pages provided with the SDK distribution. I've personally used the book on a couple of projects that I've been working on at work, and found that the background given has been incredibly useful, not just for solving problems but for generating ideas for how things could be better. The topic separation is such that you can usually just read the chapter that deals with what you are currently doing, and not have to jump around the book looking for better explanations of the same idea. There is very little overlap in this book, which I consider to be a good thing in a reference book. The final four chapters deal with advanced topics, and a genuinely insightful and useful.

Now for the minor complaints: This book is truly focused on Swing, but sometimes I felt that the focus was just a little too narrow. Mainly my issues come from the authors deciding that AWT is a separate topic from Swing. Thus, any discussions of GUI programming elements that fall under the canvas of AWT are ignored. This is unfortunate, since real-life GUI applications have no choice but to use AWT elements. What's even more unfortunate is that Swing, being built on top of AWT, relies heavily on its architecture. JComponent, the root class of 95% of Swing component, is itself derived from Container and Component, the root classes of AWT. Browsing the O'Reilly catalogue, I failed to notice a book devoted to AWT, though I think it used to exist but has since been discontinued. This leaves me wondering where a GUI programmer should go to get the details needed to do the job. The most obvious omission in my eyes - apart from a discussion of Component and Container - is the failure to properly outline the common LayoutManagers available in Swing. Layout management is a crucial task for GUI programmers, and yet the only mention of them are the new LayoutManagers introduced by Swing. These new managers, however, by no means replace the old AWT managers that are the bread and butter of GUI programming.

My other minor complaint is that the book is cumbersome. This makes it a chore to use, though I fully admit that this is a very minor problem. However, I would have preferred that the publishers ship the book as a two-book set and charged a bit more for it.

Negatives aside, this book is a must-have for Java Swing programmers. The book isn't perfect, but I haven't come across a better reference for the topic.

Pavel Vorobiev and I are currently finishing up an 'advanced' Swing book consisting mainly of examples ("Swing", Manning publications). We have referenced the Swing source code nonstop. Apart from this, we feel that Java Swing is the best Swing reference money can buy. This book is not an API docs dump. It is a high quality reference book for GUI developers who are prepared to do their job professionaly, not blindly. If you are looking for a hand-holding tutorial this book is not for you (for this I would suggest Up to Speed With Swing).

Java Swing is very well organized and full of original explanation. I encourage potential readers to disregard other comments claiming that this book is API repetitive or doesn't explain enough. No book can cover every possible situation that can arise in the creation of a GUI, and no book will fully explain all of the inner workings of each Swing component and UI delegate. Swing is a very complex and extensive library with some very interesting and powerful mechanisms working behind the scenes. Without a doubt, Java Swing is the most informative and rich reference available. I recommend it highly.

Matthew Robinson
"Swing", Manning publications
Swing "Tips and Tricks", The Swing Connection