Educator, Family Therapist and Author, Michael Gurian has put together a great resource for teachers and parents. Boys and Girls Learn Differently goes inside students' brains and tells the reader how and why boys and girls process information differently. The author writes as if he was speaking directly to the reader. The book, which is separated into two sections, is clearly focused on an audience of educators and parents. The first section goes into full detail about the neurological differences between boys and girls and howy they learn differently. In the second part of the book, the author provides concrete examples of how to incorporate the knowledge learned in part one into the classroom setting. Gurian suggests steps that should be taken to maximize learning for all students from Kindergarten through High School.
This book is an exceptionally helpful resource for teachers and parents in understanding the differences in learning between boys and girls and compliments my philosophy on education. The one subject that I would have liked to see addressed is the notion that each and every student is a unique individual and therefore learns in his or her own distinct manner. As educators, it is our responsibility to make the learning environment well rounded so all students are cultivated to their maximum learning potential. I recommend that every educator and parent, interested in learning about how boys and girls process information differently, enjoy this informative and enjoyable book.

This book is a MUST for current teachers, parents, and anyone working with children of ALL ages.

This book will help the reader understand how brain research has and should be included in every certified teacher curriculum materials. This "textbook" should be provided for in-service instruction for current teachers, child care workers, parents, guardians, mentors, tutors, and ANY one working with children.

The MI (Multiple Intelligences) approach is still valid and is in fact relied on by many to answer the age old question: "How do Boys and Girls Learn? What are the differences in learning styles." By taking your knowledge regarding MI and include the latest reserach on brain research, the child in your life will benefit and you too will feel like you are making the difference in the life of a child.

Go get the book, read it, then apply that knowledge within the classroom, home, church, day care, and anywhere/anyone working with children.

DG

This book resonates with "a ha's"-those rare moments when something you've just read makes such perfect sense you can actually feel it. What I like is the way Gurian blends brain-based research & classroom observation so the reader really can understand the neurological differences in boys & girls that drive their learning & behavior patterns. The extraordinary value in the book is that Gurian provides dozens of suggestions & real-life examples for teachers & parents to nurture a child's intellectual, emotional & creative development. Gurian's book offers valuable & practical insights spanning preschool through high school so I suspect my copy will be dog-eared from frequent use over the next 10 years. Do yourself -and your child-a favor: give this book to your child's teachers & encourage your school district to develop teaching standards that recognize & reflect the fact that boys & girls learn differently. Teachers, kids & parents will all benefit.

As it is often the case with WROX books, this one is glued from pieces written by different authors. Reading their books is like having deja vues all the time. The synergy among chapters is quite poor.

Compared to Kothari's book this one merely scratches the surface and leaves a lot of important details by the side. If I hadn't read Nikhil Kotari's book first, I would've been completely confused by this piece. Don't get me wrong---the book *does* have valuable information for developing server controls *if you are not a beginner*.

Would I recommend this book? Only if you go through Nikhil Kothari's book first and then want to learn a few more tricks. Don't expect to be taught much from this book.

Overall, 2 stars for inadequate coverage and a ton of typos and errors in the samples and throughout the text. I really wish WROX quit releasing hodge podge books and did a better job at reviewing them prior to publishing.

For the price you may expect twice the book (a tad over 400 pages is small in tech books terms), but don't be fooled, the content of this book is very rich and much of it is hard to come by otherwise. Unless you enjoy spending hours digging though the msdn and Microsoft newsgroups, this book is for you!

As with many of the newer Wrox titles, this one is organized more like a collection of articles. This format has been the cause of many bad reviews, and while I don't care for the article approach most of the time, on Pro ASP.NET Server Controls... it works quite well. I bought the book with a specific task in mind, I needed to create a unique custom control that had multiple child controls inside of it, my only previous knowledge of server controls was what I had from the Professional ASP.NET book (which equates to about a chapter of this book) the material found in the Pro ASP.NET book left me with more questions than answers and I needed something to help me really understand what goes on inside and out of a web server control and how to integrate properly with the .NET Framework, with this book I achieved that goal within three hours of reading and experimenting, it truely was a life saver for helping meet one of our milestones.

So why only four stars? Well, as others have pointed out, the book isn't perfect, I did have to use the VS.NET on-line help to lookup how to generate client-side script for postback events, better examples could have been provided, but overall it's very good.

This is probably one of the best recent books from Wrox. Typically, there books have been rehashes of older books or simple a rehash of the Microsoft documentation. Someone once told me the value of the book is inversely proportional to the number of authors, but I can say that is not the case with book. Very good coverage for writing server controls.

This book gives good coverage to the creating of server controls, with decent coverage of some very advanced aspects of building server controls.

It does suffer however from very simplistic examples that don't have much application in the real world.

It is Redfield's genuine sense of optimism that makes me pick up his books and read them. There is something contagious about a positive outlook on life and spirituality. But I have never read a book by him that did not go miles beyond naive in its treatment of religion/spirituality.

Redfield and his associates have loaded a plate for us at the salad bar of religious and philosophical syncretism. They have put some good things there. But the nutritional balance is suspect. Moreover, like mixing chemicals pulled randomly from under the kitchen sink, the resulting combination may be volatile.

My biggest complaint against this book is its willingness to 'spin' religious and philosophical 'developments' so that they fit neatly into their spiritual evolution paradigm. No matter that their notions run cross-currents with the larger context within which many of these religious and philosophical ideas have developed. It reminds me of a kind of inter-religious proof-texting, whereby religious leaders of the ages are all pointing in the direction in which the authors want us to go. But this is NOT where many of the thinkers and religious leaders of the past suggested we go.

Also disturbing is the book's over-simplification of ideas concerning evolution. While the authors deny that they do so, the book is built on the assumption of a linear trajectory that is not well attested by history or science. While I normally spend a lot of time criticizing Post-Modern thinkers, it might be wise for Redfield and company to take some of their critiques seriously and realize that the universe is not a 'just add water and stir' kind of place.

In truth, this is a digested cut and paste book glued together with wishful thinking.

Honestly, though, I think it is done with the best of intentions. And I will undoubtedly pick up Redfield's next book and read it, too.

Lastly, I would caution the reader that there is basically nothing new here. If you have read New Age books before, you have read this one. The strongest part of the book is the annotated bibliography (for which I commend the authors). Again, I don't agree with their interpretation of what they have read, but they are reading a lot of interesting things. To repeat...I can't help but feel good feelings for the authors. But this book leaves a lot to be desired.

This book is an overview of the entire spiritual journey. It is a like a map of human consciousness, covering the evolution of our understanding of God, as well as giving information about every aspect of the spiritual path. It is not a novel (like Celestine Prophecy, etc.), but rather it is a guide to help each person as they increase their awareness of their own spiritual understanding. Redfield and Murhpy present an excellent overview, which I found inspiring, informational, and well-researched.

Really enjoyed this book. It's clearly written for a curious, intelligent layperson, not scholars. Contains a great, concise, general overview of evolution, getting more specific as applied to the evolution of spiritual and philosophical schools of thought that have shaped our current ways of thinking, very clear presenations of many examples of ways in which we humans appear to be in the midst of (or quickly approaching) a period of rapid evolution in our awareness and capabilities, a significant number of practical ways a person might explore these ideas for him/herself, and a wonderful bibliography/recommended reading list . I found the book, enjoyable and inspiring, and would recommend it to anyone with a sincere interest in a greater understanding of the implications of individual, societal and global evolution of consciousness, and for people looking for ideas for participation and practice.

I bought this book because no others were avalable in Australia and I regreted it. It was poorly designed and structured. The concepts are not clearly explained. After reading half of the book, all I've learn are a few commands and menu ... What I need is understanding the operating system at least at the basic level, not just "if you want to do this, type this at the command line then press Enter ..."

Last year I was a beginner on the topic of AS/400 and I bought this book, because it was the only AS/400 book I could find in Denmark. What I need was a exact description, telling me precisely what to do, when I had to do something on the AS/400. I could use the book for that, because I didn't want to read manuals or take a course in computer operations systems. The book has only 490 pages, not 600 pages!

This is not a "page-turner" but I like it and use it everyday as a quick reference when I forget fundamental commands etc. It is a good, easily read and researched book. As a practical guide, it's much easier to reference than IBM's guides. Information is presented logically and indexed nicely. This book puts a lot of basics at your fingertips and since I was a "rusty" administrator, it has become handy as a refresher.

Most of those now negatively described as hackers are in their teens. Relatively unskilled in both the computer and personal areas, they use simplistic means to break into systems and are often caught. Frequently as a result of bragging about their exploits. In vying for attention, they fail to understand that the computer equivalent of joyriding is a very serious crime. No one knows how much the latest outbreak of a computer virus cost, but some estimates are in the hundred of millions of dollars.
This book is written for teens and is designed to give them fair warning concerning the consequences to both themselves and society if they choose to follow the hacker path. The point is to get the reader to understand where the ethical and legal bounds of computer use are. In that sense, the point is good, but it is not effectively executed. Very little time is actually spent in the gray areas of computing. No one can dispute that disabling an air traffic control system is dangerous behavior. How about middle ground such as playing a joke on another by using their e-mail address without their knowledge? Such more likely situations are not adequately covered.
The purpose of this book is an honorable and necessary one. However, it is written more for the pre-teen age and more ink should have been used setting down the limits of hacking. The user sophisticated enough to be able to hack would find the explanations in this book too simplistic to be of interest.

The book is to-the-point, it answered some of the questions that I had, it is a quick read for an adult. I recommend it for children.

This book is an excellent guide for my students. It explains many complex subjects in an simple manner. This book will stay a fundamental part of my schedule. I strongly recommend it for 4-6th graders, it provides a reference while keeping reading interesting. Way above any other book on this subject for this grade level. If you are unhappy with it, you are probably too old to be reading it in the first place.

Much of this book is effectively unreadable by persons not versed in modern philosophy. I have little basis to form an opinion on Professor Ryan's analysis on deconstructionism and other faddish nostrums of the Modern Language Association. His quota-mongering, while pretending magnanimity, would be a naked power grab for victim-careerists. The practical result of his silly elimination of universal rules (replaced by group-grievances) allows for all sorts of cute if grisly thought-experiments.

Ryan's invective against the concept of "property", however, provides grist for the mill. He either has no understanding of human nature or he is blinded by visions of utopia. A rebuttal to the socialism prattled by academia in liberal arts can be summarized by the entomologist E. O. Wilson's comment "wonderful theory -- wrong species." Ryan cannot comprehend that few people aspire to leadership and fewer still for practical benefit of the community -- this is why he seems puzzled that the utopias he imagines are populated by Stalin, Mao, Pol-pot and others. Power can be concentrated (and typically is for evil pursuits) when countervailing interests are mute and emasculated. For citizens within a society to have the means and the interest to protect each other from demagogues and knaves requires protected property right -- recognized by custom (informal acceptance) and law (judicially-sanctioned enforcement). As such, _Politics_ is a waste of time.

Michael Ryan's book of essays follows his ground-breaking study,'Marxism and Deconstruction', which Derrida himself has praised as an influential book. In this book, Ryan explores the intersections and contributions of a variety of politically-committed western theorists and philosophers in the late twentieth-century, beginning with the confrontations between the mostly-French poststructuralists and materialists (represented by Ryan himself as well as Derrida, Jonathan Culler, Delueze, et al) and the German structuralists and rationalists (represented by Habermas).

Then in Chapter 2, Ryan provides a very useful and unique critical analysis and bibliographic history of Toni Negri and the Italian autonomy movement. This chapter might be particularly interesting for the many readers who just discovered Negri through his and Michael Hardt's amazingly-popular book, 'Empire.' Indeed, if you are intrigued by Negri, I recommend checking out this book.

For more by and about Negri, see the collection of his early works (many of which have been superseded by his more recent works) in the Red Notes publication, 'Revolution Retrieved'. For in-depth analyses on many of Empire's most important topics, see Negri's 'Politics of Subversion' plus Negri and Hardt's 'Labor of Dionysus' as well as Negri and Guattari's 'Communists Like Us'. If you up to the challenge, read his 'Marx Beyond Marx' alongside Marx's 'Grundrisse'. See too, his book 'Insurgencies' and his articles in 'Marxism Beyond Marxism', 'Radical Italian Thought', 'Readme!' and 'Ghostly Demarcations'. Analyses *about* Negri include the introductions and bibliographic essays in some of the above-listed books, like 'Marx Beyond Marx' and 'Politics of Subversion'; plus the concluding chapter Marcia Landy's 'Film, Politics and Culture' (entitled "Gramsci Beyond Gramsci"); the double-issue of 'Rethinking Marxism' devoted to Empire, to be published in early 2002, as well as some earlier articles in Rethinking Marxism, including an excellent introduction by Jason Read. Note: Thanks to 'Empire's success, more works about Negri are surely forthcoming.

I've seen Peter Belesis' work around, and it is way too confusing and buggy to get any real use out of it. His Hierarchical menus are beautiful, but you never get to see one on your own site because it is so convoluted and screwy!

The book appears very comprehensive, but really needs a quick reference guide on all the elements of dynamic HTML (including scripts and HTML itself).

Dynamic Html Unleashed is a once of great DHTML books. But this is clearly not a introduction book. You should have a good HTML and javascript knowladge .

It's always been a bit of a mystery as to why people buy this type of book (I received mine as a gift). The 201 Best Things Ever Said purports to be just that, a compendium of clever, witty and useful quotes. It takes about 5 minutes to "read" this book, and I found that once I glanced through it once or twice, I never looked at it again.

The quotes aren't organized in any particular way and there's no index, so if you're looking for a quote on a particular subject, good luck finding it. Furthermore, many of the quotes really aren't that interesting (and certainly aren't the best things ever said) and many were said by people I have never heard of. I also find it hard to believe that Lily Tomlin has 3 or 4 of the greatest quotes in the history of mankind.

I think you have to be a real quote lover to buy this book. People looking for a useful book of quotes should try and find a book with an index and quotes organized by subject/theme.

Believe it or not, WEST(by God)Virginia is not a part of Virginia! No, seriously folks, Richmond may be a great book, but it should not pop up under a search for West Virginia books! Sorry. And in case you're wondering, Charleston is the capital of West Virginia!

As the title states it is my belief that trained monkeys with alzheimers would have done a better job on this book. I had to buy this for a college class and I feel dumber just by reading it. The first project they have you do is interview five people to "Create a Personal Network" What the heck interviewing five people and putting their answers on cards would have to do with the internet I'll never know. I know that that was the first project but jeeze they could have at least had you fire up a fricken browser or something. Maybe even turn the computer on. But wait it gets better. Next we go onto sorting your favorites folder. This is garbage and I feel I have wasted money on it. Had I been able to this would have gotten negative stars on the stupid rating.