Sorry, but I have to disagree with the reviews so far. I my opinion this is the worst book from QUE-Books I have ever read (most of the QUE-books are really good). The author never explains the essential details about HTML, he always strays into simple, unneccessary details or into complicated, unneccessary details, but never gets to the point what is really useful. And if there's the rare occasion something is really explained, it will be repeated at least five times... I don't want to say the author doesn't know what he is writting about, he simply just don't know how to write...

I just have to say this is the greatest book ever written. Why? Because it's MY web site that is featured in Chapter 3, Fig 3.12! It's under the heading of "The Wrong Stuff: What Not to Put on the Web"

I never got any royalty money out of the deal either, whats up with that? Can I sue for defamation of web site? Hmmm... probably not, but since it's the first site I ever made back when I was a freshman in Highschool, and now it's immortalized in print - I forgive him.

Greatest book ever written!

This book was great

This book is great for someone who will first see and use Windows NT Server 4.0, but for someone who has already worked with NT will find this book very unusable.

While this book touches on a lot of subjects, it covers very few in depth, and skips over some altogether. With the wealth of NT books out there, a serious NT user or administrator should look elsewhere.

I currently work as an Oracle DBA using Windows Nt Server 4.0 as the operating system. Part of my job requires maintaining two Nt Server 4.0 machines and One standalone Server. I use the Standalone Server as an Internet Information Server with Front Page 98 clients, Back Office Products, and Visual Interdev development environments. The Windows Nt Servers are used to run Oracle Database in a client server environment. I used the Windows Nt Bible to set up a Primary Domain Control a Backup Domain Control, set up a client connect to a Network client, and activate the Windows Internet Server on the Standalone server. The key characteristics, I found appealing in the book was: the book was written with the idea, the reader wants to implement a Nt server immediately (cut the fluff). The second concept, I liked was each chapter provided concise descriptions that help the reader understand the Windows Nt Server Architecture, such as, network layers, network adapters, communication protocols, growing your network, and installing internet information server. The third concept, I like was the interesting stories relating to the authors experiences while working a Microsoft. The stories are just, cool! Bottom line, the book work for me, to get my job done. I believe the Window Nt Server book can help you get started using Windows Nt Server 4.0!

This book starts off in Arundel where Captain Mason falls for a young girl maried to a older cold husband. The young captain Mason enters the Revolutionry war but is captured and put in Dartmoor prison. After a sucessfull escape he is caught with the young girl by her husband. He sends the man back to Captain Nason back to jail and has his own wife arrested. Captain Nasoon survives a massacre in Dartmoor prison but is realeased and is reunited with the youg girl.

I did not like this book. Not that the book was bad but I do not believe it was good. I'm writing a report on the book and I will try to post it on the internet so I can spare anybody the waste of time in reading this book.

Sjakulc Sjakulc Sjakulc Sjakulc Sjaukulc Sjakulc Sjakulc

This novel, first published in 1931, has gone through many editions. It is written in the style of the period, e.g., Errol Flynn type stories. It goes into excessive detail at some points which can make the story drag a bit. In some ways, it reflects a Thomas Hardy type writing style. It is a narrative style as told by the main character. Some parts of the action were borrowed by later writers.

The setting is March 1812 to April 1815. Merchant captain Richard Nason is trading with the British, carrying supplies to the British Army in Spain, and is generally opposed to the war, when he is pressed aboard a British Royal Navy sloop. His attitude changes and (after escaping) he takes a privateer to sea in July 1812 after war is formally declared. Details of sail handling and such are held to a minimum, and much of the story takes place on land. He becomes enamored with the young wife of an older English landowner, Sir Arthur Ransome, first meeting her before the war, then again aboard a ship he captures.

After various adventures he is captured and imprisoned at Dartmoor along with his crew. A major part of the novel is concerned with Dartmoor prison commanded by the evil Royal Navy Captain Shortland. The prison was par for the course for that time period. Similar conditions were found in both Union and Confederate prisons during the American Civil War 50 years later. Deaths from disease were common in active Army and Navy forces, usually higher numbers than battle deaths, and deaths in prisons were undoubtedly higher (smallpox, typhus, etc.). The novel describes the deliberate massacre of American POWs three months after the war ended.

Captain Nason, of course, survives (narrators usually survive), meets the woman again, etc.

Lively Lady's protagonist is the son of two of the main characters in the earlier Arundel books: Arundel and Rabble at Arms. While not as epic as either of its precursors, Lively Lady illuminates a little-known episode of this country's history, when our war against Britain in 1812 (in effect a side-action of the Napoleonic Wars) was conducted at sea largely by private vessels licensed by our fledgling government to attack, capture, and destroy Britain's ocean-going commerce.

Roberts can come across as a bit stodgy and old-fashioned--and certainly not "politically correct"--to modern readers, but if you make allowances for his writing reflecting his times, you'll be richly rewarded with fascinating details and great storytelling.

At slighly more than 200 pages, *Captain Caution* may be Roberts' shortest novel after *Boon Island*. Its historical context- privateering during the War of 1812- makes it very similar to *The Lively Lady*, which I consider a superior novel for its handling of the love story and its potent evocation of Dartmoor Prison. However, a more discriminating reader will probably admit, with Booth Tarkington (Roberts's closest friend) that it is "about an entirely different sort of privateering, and about a phase of war imprisonment wholly unlike the sorry interlude of Dartmoor."

The plot is rather simple: returning from Canton and unaware that war has started between America and Britain, the merchant barque *Olive Branch* from Maine is captured by a British ship and its crew sent to Europe. Among them is the hero, Daniel Marvin, a.k.a. Captain Caution, and the Captain's daughter, strong-minded but easily blinded Corunna Dorman, whose budding attraction to Daniel appears to be crushed by her holding him responsible for her father's death during the capture. As always in Roberts' novels, the two lovers are separated by external forces and the book is basically a story of the hero's undaunted efforts to regain his dulcinea.

*Captain Caution* was a tough sell for Kenneth Roberts, and for the right reasons, I think. Carl Brandt (who must have been Roberts' agent) said that "the absence of the heroine for such a long period... would make monthly magazines reluctant to use it." And reluctant they were. As Roberts noted in his diary on October 25, 1932, "*Captain Caution* has now been to every slick magazine in the United States, and has been unhesitatingly rejected by all of them". Even the editor of *Adventure*, a magazine which Roberts said did not "pay much" and was therefore a "last resort", commented that "slackening of interest in the principal characters had killed all possibility of making *Captain Caution* into a serial".

Indeed, the main characters are much less endearing than Roberts' other creations. Daniel Marvin is first shown as a rather powerless victim and only begins to show the resourcefulness and endurance of the typical Robertsian hero much later into the book. As he puts it himself, "I've always looked for easier ways to do things, and almost always there's an easier way. It appears to me most people make things as hard for themselves as they can." His inventiveness, in the course of the novel, leads him to come up with modern boxing, the gangway pendulum and a winning formula for roulette (in whose efficacy Roberts, who was later completely duped by dowsing, may well have believed.)

For all this deluge of creativity, however, Roberts fails to give Marvin the enduring personality traits of the other fictional natives of Arundel he so lovingly protrayed. As for the love interest, Corunna Dorman, she is so deluded about both the hero and the scheming villain, Slade the slaver, and is so consistently wrong and angry, that her redemption falls rather flat.

In fact, I really thought that she would be another red herring, like Mary Mallinson in *Arundel*, while the much more lively niece of Talleyrand's would turn out to be the novel's Phoebe Nason (I consider the scenes between her and Marvin as really the most delightful of the whole work.) I found the combination of youthful naiveté and deep wisdom in her character really brilliant, and her advice to Marvin priceless: "You are doomed to be an unhappy young man if you think that no woman is a good woman unless she has made no mistakes and had no desires, ever; and in case you wish that sort of good woman, you must be careful to marry a plaster saint out of a church."

It does seem as though Roberts was more inspired by his minor characters than by his protagonists this time: Lucien Argandeau, the bragging, loquacious French privateer and ladies' man, ranks among Roberts' best drawn supporting characters, up there with Cap' Huff and King Dick.

*Captain Caution* also lacks the historical texture of Roberts' longer pieces of fiction, and feels more like a Patrick O'Brian novel, focusing on plot and dialogue rather than on immersing the reader in the period by richly detailed descriptions (indeed, O'Brian may have been inspired by this novel: at one point, Marvin escapes capture by pretending he has cholera aboard, a trick which Maturin uses in *Master and Commander* with the same effect.) In other words, if you want painlessly to absorb the equivalent of a dozen historical volumes, you would be better off with *Lydia Bailey* or *Rabble in Arms*.

This said, *Captain Caution* is a rather enjoyable book, though definitely of a lighter sort than the rest of Roberts' fiction.

Keneth Roberts wrote many great novels and Captain Caution is another fine example of his descriptive narrative style. You find yourself engrossed in the lives of the main characters from the battles at sea to the horrible living conditions upon the prision ships in England. There are twists and turns that will suprise you. Only Roberts could make history so vivid.

Very well written chronicle of our turbulent beginning. I highly recommend for readers of all ages.

I'm in 2nd Electrical/Computer Engineering at UofT. This is the first year they have used this book, and compared to other books, it just isn't as good. The treatment of E&M is extremely mathematically rigorous and heavy in proofs such that the concept is usually lost by the umpteenth integral. Even though this is a mandatory text for this course, I have found that I am doing better than my peers by NOT using this textbook and using other books (such as Hayt).

Dr. Demarest successfully treated the electromagnetic in engieering perspective. The book is slightly different from most of the undergraduate engineering electromagnetic. Demarest's book treated the electrostatic and magnetostatic in material with clarity. The treatment of the transmission lines is also very detailed and excellent. Although the book is good in general, there are several mistakes in printing. Errors are scattered through out the book. But the book is certainly an excellent book for undergraduate electromagnetic in Electrical engineering of any university.

As a PhD student in electromagnetics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, I have seen quite a few books on the subject. For an undergraduate text, this has been by far the best. There are rigorous math proofs as one person commented, but they are accompanied by very clear and understandable explanations.

What makes this book unique is that it is a much needed middle-ground between typical engineering and physics texts, which focus too narrowly on applications and theory, respectively. This book combines both theory and applications seamlessly, with a large number of practical examples. There is also an entire chapter devoted to vector calculus which is very helpful.

Although the text does not cover many of the more advanced topics (it is an undergraduate text after all), I find myself referring to it often when searching for very descriptive explanations of the fundamental topics of electromagnetics. Nearly all of the other books I have seen are written in such a way that you have to be more experienced in the field to understand the unnecessarily complex terminology used. This text is written so clearly I was able to get my own mom to understand some of the concepts (and that's saying something!)

I will admit I might have a possible bias towards this book, as I was fortunate to take the class from the author, Dr. Kenneth Demarest, while an undergraduate at the University of Kansas. His love of the subject is very striking, which is evident in his classes as well as the text. I will say, however, that if you do take his class, whatever you do don't come in late. Trust me...

I have to say at first i was dissapointed. I bought this book as a beginer telescope maker and i had to put it away. Then i bought Richard Berry's book and was enlightened. This is not to say that i don't like this book. If you have some experience with tools and wood i would suggest this book first. Or if you have made at least one telescope before, i would also suggest this book. Robert Miller & Wilson have many insights and examples but in many places they leave you on your own. Fortunately i have a degree in physics and was able to do fine on my own. One of my favoriate scopes was built using 3 of his plans mixed together. If you have a basic idea or have made scopes before... this is the best book to buy. If you have never made a scope before and are just getting into this field of astronomy, do yourself a favor and get Richard Berry's book.. (also here on amazon.com) But i promise that if you buy this book later on, you will be happy. If you buy it now,you will get frustrated. What Robert Miller & Wilson did teach me was to, above all, enjoy the scope you make!!

This book is very imformative and useful to the beginning telescope maker. It does not describe mirror grinding or optical testing but very thoroughly explains construction, design, and tips for making 10 inch or less telescopes

This book makes it easier to understand the great hobby of Amatuer Telescope Making. I read this book from front to back, twice! Included in this book are easy to follow instructions on making six very usable amatuer telescopes. A must for any astronomer's bookshelf. Also included is a great chapter on a portable 8" reflecting telescope,designed by Bob Scholtz.

GURPS Y2K seems poised to be a good sourcebook for post-apocalyptic role-playing. Don't be put off by the name - this book contains much more than just the millennium bug.

Starting with a chapter on Y2K (which we know on 20-20 hindsight never became the calamity that some were predicting), there are ideas in this book for everything from a complete world-wide computer shutdown, to "Mad Max" type worlds, and even the biblical "Judgement Day", along with several others. There's also a section on a super-hero world suffering from post-apocalypse blues.

The "sidebars" (sections of the book along the sides of each page) contain even more material that can be used to put your game world in a state of chaos. Some of these sidebars beg to be put into whole worlds of their own.

But the book suffers slightly when it reads a little like a collection of articles about post-apocalypse scenarios in gaming, rather than a single world presented in RPG terms. The =nine= authors each contributed a section or two to this book, and only the excellent effort by Sean Punch to put it all together under one roof keeps this book from being merely a collection of unrelated after Armageddon articles.

I'd still recommend this book for people wanting to see what their campaign world would look like after a major catastrophe, or for people wanting to explore what happens after.

Well, overall the book was pretty well made. It touched upon many of the common topics and settings for a post holocaust envirnoment including everything from minor computer glitches to the Biblical apacalypse and "Mad Max" and "The Postman" type situations. Even alien invasion was discussed in the essays. All seven authors of the book provided well written source matterial. Y2k also gives information on realistic rioting and anarchy.

There was one point I did not like about the book though. It would make many references to other GURPS source books, some of which were out of print, for more material on a subject. I feel that some of the writing was judt put in a advertisements and "plug" for other books.

Personally, I wish they had touched more on the "Mad Max," "Postman," and "Fallout" (a post-apacalyptic computer game) scenarios, but I do realize that the book was created for post Y2K campaigns and that everyone does not like what I like.

Overall, though, the book provides good post distaster material.

My favorite authors of the twentieth century are Ayn Rand and Kenneth Roberts, and I have always been conscious of the similarities between them. Both started publishing huge, richly plotted, classically written novels in the 1930s. Both had an almost religious reverence for America, with Rand's being more abstract and systematic, and Roberts' stemming more from his sense of life. Both were fascinated by larger-than-life heroes: Rand's were literary creations, while Roberts' were recreations of such figures as Major Robert Rogers and Benedict Arnold. And both were self-taught geniuses in their own field (Rand in philosophy, Roberts in history) who heaped impatient, acerbic remarks on their professionally trained counterparts. Who could tell which of them wrote the following statement, for instance: "Can't *any* American historian write anything but dull facts with all the essentials left out?". (Hint: it wasn't Rand.)

As I started reading *I Wanted to Write*, I was therefore curious whether I would discover more similarities between them, or whether those I had observed would prove to be isolated and purely superficial. The two areas I was most intrigued by were Roberts' politics and his literary likes and dislikes.

In politics, Roberts turned out to be just as fervent an anticommunist as Rand was, and just as early on. Of course, his personal experience with the communists in Siberia during WWI was much less extensive than Rand's prolonged endurance of them. But it was conclusive enough for him to say that "Communism was an aristocracy of superboobs, determined to impose their own murderous and destructive beliefs on the whole world." He even wrote a play ironically entitled *The Brotherhood of Man* about the brutal murder of the imperial family by the bolsheviks.

Of course, I wasn't much surprised by this, Roberts being generally a man of good sense (though he did fall for dowsing in his later life.) More unusual were Roberts' remarks about welfare statism.

There are several references to Franklin Roosevelt, one of the four horsemen of the welfare-state apocalypse in the U.S. (with JFK, Johnson and Clinton), and all of them are highly derogatory. Sent to the capital by the Post, Roberts described Roosevelt as "amusing himself at the expense of the Washington correspondents, contemptuously ignoring their questions, or urging them to don dunce caps and stand in a corner." Roosevelt is also included in Roberts' list of "prominent corner cutters who have botched foreign relations for the United States"- "corner cutters" meaning compromisers, another type Rand abhorred. Roosevelt's 1920 statements on the League of Nations and communism were also characterized by Roberts as "ludicrously incorrect".

More to the point, when Roberts was sent to England to write an article about "Sir Oswald Moseley's British Union of Fascists", he found them "annoyed at President Roosevelt because he had, they insisted, stolen Moseley's ideas for his New Deal without making acknowledgment".

Regarding Roosevelt's 1937 attack on the Supreme Court, Roberts had this to say: "In the Paris Herald, read Mark Sullivan's account of Roosevelt's announcement that he proposed to retire all Supreme Court justices at seventy, and have a fifteen-man court which would make him a virtual dictator. It was the best character news story I ever read, describing the 'voluptuous pleasure' with which Roosevelt read his plans to the press, and the 'cruelty' of his attacks on the Old Men of the Supreme Court." (I must get a copy of this article!)

Finally, Roberts recounts that his wife read a book about a certain Italian island, Giglio, the residents of which "were among the laziest people on earth because of the ease with which they obtained relief from the Dukes of Florence." Roberts' 1937 comment on this is most enlightening: "Anybody who thinks that history doesn't repeat itself needs only to watch what will happen to those who are going to get government relief for the next fifty years or so- or until intolerable taxes bring about another revolution in America."

As far as literature was concerned, Roberts was also strikingly similar to Rand. Hugo, who was to Rand's literary pantheon what Aristotle was to her philosophical one, is one of the few authors whose books Roberts read "straight through" on discovering them, together with such other Randian favorites as Kipling, Dumas and Sienkiewicz. Rand considered the latter's *Quo Vadis* as "technically one of the best-constructed novels every written" (*The Art of Fiction*), while the literary work which is mentioned most favourably by Roberts is Sienkiewicz's *Fire and Sword* trilogy. Rand also admired *Gone With the Wind* as "an example of the skillful integration of plot to theme" while Roberts said it was "a bully book: one that well deserved to sell the 1,300,000 copies it's already sold."

Just as convergent is their opinion of fashionable naturalist authors. Roberts read a few of their novels, and concluded: "They are all about sex and syphillis: all grimness and starkness: not a ray of humor or insight: two unclothed authors committing nuisances in a public park". He also favourably quoted Booth Tarkington's ironical description of Faulkner as "satisfactorily confusing in ways that demonstrate greatness."

Such a remarkable convergence of literary opinion can only be explained by the sharing of esthetic standards. This is most clearly illustrated by Roberts' comments on a naturalistic film he once saw, which he described as "a movie abortion... laid in a brothel, though supposedly depicting the cloak-and-suit trade- a story dirty, false, meaningless, plotless and without virtue": a scathing review which could have been extracted from Rand's journals.

There are many more parallels between the two authors. Roberts' excellent article on "sophisticated girls" echoes what Rand had to say about the second-handers, though Roberts always remained at a lower level of abstraction than Rand. But I don't want completely to spoil the pleasure of potential readers of *I Want to Write*. I just hope that if you admire Rand, this review will make you more than a little eager to discover Kenneth Roberts.

Even though I have not read all of Kenneth Roberts' historical novels (with *Captain Caution* still unopened) and have explored only a few of his competitors in the genre (David Nevins, David Marion Wilkinson, Jeff Shaara and his overestimated father Michael), I would not hesitate to say that Roberts is probably the best historical novelist that ever was, simply because I cannot imagine how historical fiction could possibly be any better. I made the same kind of peremptory judgement, based on just as unrepresentative a sampling of the genre, when I discovered King Hu's *Touch of Zen* about fifteen years ago and called Hu the best author of martial arts movies ever - and I have never felt the need to reconsider.

Made famous for his brilliant epics of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and his exalting evocation of the life of Major Robert Rodgers in *Northwest Passage*, Roberts was often asked for advice by aspiring writers and finally decided to answer them all by writing what might be called a professional autobiography, i.e. a portrait of Kenneth Roberts, the author, at work.

Rather than beginning with Roberts' childhood, *I Wanted to Write* opens with Roberts' birth as a writer (marked by a series of articles he contributed in 1904 to Cornell University's humorous magazine, *The Widow*), then chronicles a journalistic career that took him to Japan, Siberia, Europe and Washington, and finally recounts the painful gestation of the ten volumes of fiction and historical documents he wrote, edited or translated, with copious extracts from his diaries of the 1930s.

Because of the focus of the book, you will find very little about "Roberts the man", insofar as he can be distinguished from "Roberts the author". His wife Anna, for instance, appears as little more than an insubstantial figure, a secretary, a thrifty consort, and a generally unobtrusive and supportive presence. Much more significant are the two men who seem to have been Roberts' best friends and professional mentors: George Horace Lorimer of the Boston Post, an editorial genius whose biography by John Tebbel, Roberts says, "should be an inspiration and a guiding star... to would-be writers"; and Booth Tarkington, the fellow novelist who egged him on, advised him and shared so many nights with him reading and rereading Roberts' manuscripts.

*I Wanted to Write* is the professional testament of a man whose life was guided by two ideals: the love of truth, which made him swim against the tide and contradict the historians of his time (whom he generally considered as incompetents); and the love of his work done his way (to paraphrase Howard Roark, a fictional character with whom Roberts had much in common), which made him devote countless hours to researching, writing and rewriting his heavy volumes.

And it is precisely those two ideals, rather than technical recipes, which Roberts has to offer to those who would follow him on the path to literary greatness. For writing is not for idlers and, as he concludes with Thoreau, "any truth is better than make-believe".

The authors focus primarily on military applications with hostile jammers, rather than commercial applications where co-channel interference is the main concern. The direct-sequence (DS) CDMA parts, however, are neither comprehensive nor up-to-date. This text would not deserve its label of "handbook" in its DS-CDMA coverage.

The frequency-hop (FH) CDMA parts of this text contain much useful and detailed mathematical exposition that I cannot readily find elsewhere in one volume. Quite inconveniently, the FH-CDMA sections are inter-mingled with the DS-CDMA sections. While I find plenty of useful mathematical details on FH-CDMA, those details are presented with little cohesion and offer little qualitative insight. I find myself buried with an avalanche of details with limited perspective.

The technical exposition here is truly terrible. I have just been reading the following sentence for several minutes and am yet to figure out its meaning: "In particular assume the simple repeat m code where for each data bit, m identical BFSK tones are sent where each of these tones are hopped separately." In what sense are these tones "identical" but yet "separate"? A simple equation here would have helped. In fact, I get so irritated by this poor technical writing that I get on the web and write this review to vent my frustration. The authors' aversion to use rigorous mathematics in their exposition does not help. The exposition ends up with very wordy but vague verbal descriptions, in place of concise and exact elucidations.

This book is the master piece in spread spectrum communications. One can find the complete information in this book on the origin of spread spectrum communications, the fundamental knowledge in DS and FH systems, and applications. It gives in-depth knowledge in critical topics, including antijamming, sequences, synchronization and SS system performance analysis, etc. This book has served for a very large number of readers, including undergraduate students, graduate students, engineers and researchers. Many researchers in spread spectrm communication theory started with this book. Many of them have become famous and are leading in communication theory research. The rich figures showing implmentation are very helpful to practitioners.

Good grief, this sort of thing sounds like TORTURE. People become accountants because they failed at something else. And they actually read stuff like this?

This book is very practical and covers all the pertinent information needed for a good foundation in Accounting. The book is easy to understand and gives practical examples and useful exercises.

I am an accounting Professor. I am also an accountant. I am so surprised that you thought people became accountants because they failed from something else. It is totally wrong. I am so pround of it. I am 27 year old. I have a good car, have a good house (no debt at all; I just repaid all my mortgage recently.) I do not think that people who are in the field from which you mentioned they failed can make money and have good reputation like I do. Do you know that an auditor money as much as a lawyer (I am a good auditor; please do not talk about other case)

For this book, I found it is very good. I used Prof Skousen's textbook in first accounting class as well as intermediate. My students like them so much. However, they give a little bit too much detail. A professor should adapt it when using in class. This book is a excellent alternative to another book published by Wiley.