never received book from Ed Silver

Volume two is THE source for vital stamp information. Delivery by Ed Silver was Very FAST !

The Scott Catalogues, of which this is one, are a vital aide to all serious philatelists, and is used all around the world.

I REALLY like JRB's work. Never subtle, often over the top - but certainly exciting. This book was reworked from a manuscript discovered after his death. Like Brassart mentions in the afterward, one can see the lack of orientation/tightness to the story and that is AFTER it has been edited and reworked. This one has a plot that travels all over the world, hits the media and celebrity between the eyes and never, ever stops. A little too cartoonish and over the top. The bodycount is absolutely amazing. Sadly, there is no real depth here to any of the characters and it's outlandishness, finally, does it in. All that said, it's worth checking out if you are a fan of his work.

i finished this book in one sitting, its captivating

If you're die-hard Drew fan, you'll most likely be disappointed in this book. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
My advice? Stick to "Little Girl Lost" - much better look into her life, and it's written with her own words.
I'm not completely knocking this book - it's cute, but not so chock-full of information.

IT WAS WONDERFUL. THE DETAIL OF YOUNG DREW'S LIFE WAS IN GREAT DETAIL. I LOVED IT

I just got back from a month in Mexico. The book was probably quite impressive back in the early 90's. However, many of the hotels and restaurants listed in the book have gotten so much business that they have lost what good attributes they originally had. Also, many of the prices quoted in the book were way off. The book prices were frequently one-half what the concierge or waiter quoted. The peso has not changed enough for a 5 dollar hotel room to become 12 or 15. Perhaps that is the risk one finds with any guidebook.

Museum hours were consistently incorrect, especially for Mondays, weekends and evenings.

This book might keep you out of trouble, but it is not the guide for a budget traveler.

Lonely planet guides are absolutely invaluable for the independant adventurous budget-minded traveler, and LP Mexico is no exception. Included are informative sections on pre-departure info, cultural tips, etc. I travelled extensively throughout Mexico with the 5th edition last year, and it really got me to explore some of the remote places I otherwise wouldn't have found- such as the silver towns of Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Taxco. Plus, out of the way beaches, hard-to-find ruins, centotes, you name it. They're covered. Don't borrow you'r friend's old dog-eared copy of the 3rd of 4th edition. Spend the money on the latest edition, because price info is almost always out of date within months after printing, and an older edition is usually hopelessly out of date. I found myself disregarding their accommodations recommendations, because once a place finds its way into the LP Guide, their visitor traffic usually increases exponentially, the staff gets surly, and prices go up. If you're just going to Cancun, Mazatlan, etc, skip this book, but if you're not afraid to venture out into the 'real mexico', grab it.

I have just returned to Norway after backpacking around in Latin America for a year (of course accompanied by the Lonely Planet book). I do not claim to be an expert, but I do know what I am looking for in a travel guide.

The Mexico guide is a good, complete guide. Filled with information, history and beautiful pictures about almost every corner of this gorgeous country. Reading the whole book gives you a good update on your history and geography knowledge! (Something to do if you are trekking around by bus like I did!)

I have always been satisfied with the LP guides. The information given is good, just what you need to get around. The only negative with this book (and the reason I give it 4 and not 5 stars) is that it was completely outdated on prices etc. Another thing (that goes for most of the travel guides) is that many of the hotels that are listed in the book has gotten so much (too much?) business so that the service is down to a minimum. This we found especially in Isla Mujeres where the price was the double of what the book said, and really lousy customer service, if any.

Whether you like this book or not will probably depend on whether you believe in creation or evolution! Bell gives an enjoyable story about the spread of evolution, first as a theory, then as so-called "fact." He has endnotes that indicate the history behind the facts in the book, and also lets one know that the part of the book that takes place in current time is the part that is fiction. Evolutionists--lighten up and enjoy the book. You might even learn something!

I love it mainly because it does what Phillip Johnson says it will do: "Darwinists will be outraged." That proves the point of the book - Darwinism is a religion, and nobody gets more upset about finding that religion bogus than the Darwinists themselves! The book does remind me of Vonnegut - only turned on his head. Great Reading

Very much in the vein of Nicholas Meyer's "The Seven Percent Solution", Mr. Bell uses historical figures and events as a fictional setting for this fantastic account.

It's been a while since I've read it, but it's presented as a "factual journal" of one of Charles Darwin's cronies, who conspired with an evil incarnate to misdirect Darwin, and to falsify and glorify theories on evolution.

It's a gripping, can't put down read, with an incredible surmise - "What if Darwin rejected his own theories on his death bed?" - and a fascinating manipulation and exploitation of historical fact and imaginative speculation.

Well documented and footnoted with (I suppose to be) real sources, I also found it to be an engaging look at the history and evolution of Darwinian thought.

I thought the book was very interesting, but it could of been better. The author could of explainedhis life a little better. If the book was explained more with humor it would of been better because it is more likley for a child to read the book then a adult. Over all the book was good and I learned a lot about Jim.

I would recommend the book Jim Carrey to anyone. The book is a little slow at the start because the authordwindles on Carrey's childhood and him struggle to fame, a little to much. but after that the book picks up quickly. Toward the and the book goes very fast and is exciting. The book ends with a quote drom Jim Carrey himself. "Failure taught me that failure isn't the end, unless you give up." I think that the book Jim Carrey is one of the best biography I have read. There is a lot of detail, I think that that is what makes the book so good. I recommed the book to anyone who is intersted in Jim Carrey.

These days Jim Carrey is very much at home on the screen, but there was a time when Carrey had no home. In fact, his entire family was homeless after his father, Percy Carrey, chose to resign from a job that was turning his family into bitter, hateful people.
My book traces Carrey's comedy from his performances at the family's dinner table to his schoolyard's playground and the classrooms of Canada through his years as a stand up comedian, television improvisational artist, and finally as the star of major motion pictures.
Jim Carrey was not an overnight sensation, but he never gave up on his dream. His story is an inspiration for us all. For those wanting to learn more about the plight of the homeless, or how to help some of the millions of homeless people, there is an extensive appendix in the book, following the Carrey biography.

This is a good book to familiarizing on how to implement web services using Java. What I found most valuable about this book is the coverage of AXIS, CapeStudio, SAP and J2EE.
As most other Web Services books, the chapters on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and Web Services Security are very general and take up half of the book. If you're already familiar with these concepts these chapters are useless. Also as most web services related technologies are quickly evolving I would find this book quite outdated today.

I have some gripes about this book:

*First of all, the explanation of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI gets quite confusing and convoluted. I had a hard time understanding the explanations given about these protocols, especially about how they are structured.

*The samples that cover Apache SOAP require the IBM web services toolkit 2.4. However, you can only download the 3.0 version of this toolkit from the IBM website. The 3.0 version is not compatible with the 2.4 version. In essence, you cannot run these samples.

*The security section of this book is only theoretical. No samples. (The reason given was that most of the security technologies are still in development).

Other than these gripes, this book will give you a broad understanding of the java web services so that hopefully, you can get started on implementing/deploying this new technology.

Wrox books tend to occupy a particular niche in the market. Wrox' strategy seems to be to be early into the marketplace with a book on a bleeding edge topic. Their 'Early Adopter' series is particularly aimed at this market, but so are many of their books. If something is wrong or superceded, Wrox will publish another book on the same topic, usually a bunch more books on the topic.

Wrox also tends to publish books with many authors. This makes their books spotty, though in theory it ensures expert knowledge of a wide range of topics. In practice I don't find it so. Certain chapters in any Wrox book will be effectively unusable.

The speed comes at a price in terms of proofreading and to the useful life of the books they publish. When I purchase a Wrox book I know what I'm getting. It's a book with a short useful life which will help get me started quickly on bleeding edge topics at the cost of some frustration and skullsweat.

Typically I will replace a Wrox book later on my learning curve when O'Reilly and other more careful publishers come out with their books. There is a place for books like these. Even if they aren't 100% accurate, they are timely and are rarely completely useless. I usually don't recommend them for beginning technologists for that reason.

This book was useful when I bought it but has now almost reached it's sell-by date.

This book is just a copy of JMS tutorials from java site and has examples which are written using jmq which is no longer available as it has now become part of iPlanet group and they have broken compatibility (Interfaces have been changed) Not the worst book but certainly worst wrox book i have ever read

This book covers a lot of ground about JMS. However, the problem is that it is written by many authors, which results in repetition of some subject, bad structure of the book and more pages than necessary for explaining the subjects.

The first 5 chapters are on 250 pages and cover the basic about JMS, but I think "Java Message Service" by Monson-Haefel does a better job here. However, I appreciate that there are sequence diagrams in the first chapter that shows basic design patterns for MOM-based applications. The next two chapters is code example that shows how to use JMS from a web application and from EJBs. I'm not too found about this kind of lengthy code examples.

The chapter about JMS and Clustering is very technical, but still only scratches the surface. This is a subject that needs an own book to be covered completely. The next chapter called "Distributed Logging Using JMS" is again a lengthy code example, but a very useful one!

Chapter 10 is about XML Messaging with some XML code example. I think this chapter, like some of the other chapters as well, covers too little to be of some real value and too much for just being an overview. Chapter 11 is about Mobile Applications and the criticism against this chapter is the same as the chapter about XML.

All and all this is a book that covers a lot of subjects related to JMS, but it does it in a boring and verbose way.

I expect that with introduction of JMS and Message Driven Beans which are based on this technology we will see very big movement towards implementing various application scenarious based on JMS. This book definitely could help you to decide what should be taken in account. I also like chapter on Clustering and Scalability - each enterprise (and you as developer for this enterprise) should think about this during design stage. List of various JMS providers (SonicMQ, IBM MQ Series, FioranoMQ, WebLogic) and implemented by them features could also be helpful.

This was the idea of Scott Lobdell to do a story where the X-Men are attacked by a new generation of Sentinels with the purpose of wipeing them out. Sound Familar? Anyway from issue 1, this concept went no where expect to rehash story ideas that have been done before. It also marked the end of Lobdell's seven year run on the X-Men and brought about the return of Chris Claremont (although Claremont's second run on the X-Men has been nothing to be proud of either).

The title pretty much says it. This is one of the worst X-Men story arcs that I have read. O:ZT? It seemed like more of a filler story than anything else. I read (and bought!) almost all of the books that had to deal with this before I read them, and when I finally read them I was monumentally disappointed. I think the only good thing that came out of this story arc was Marrow and Doc Reiss joining the X-teams.

All rite, this izn't a storyline that equals Age of Apocalypse or The Dark Phoenix Saga- that's nearly impossible. But I mean, I thought it wuz okay. If yer a collector, you would have had to buy from like 4 different titles (UXM, Cable, X-Force, Wolverine, etc) but this collective book arranged the storyline in a very logical and easy to understand sequence. If they had half-stars, I woulda given it 3.5, but they dont' so I rounded up. I mean, it had it's moments. I guess the fact that Zero Tolerance wuz a government project made it a li'l boring, considering their enemies Senator Kelly or Prime Sentinels (which are a new deadly type of sentinels that take on humanoid forms). They're very minor characters whom we know (and care)very little about and therefore don't have that familiar notoriety that has we've become acquainted to through villains such as Apocalypse, Magneto, and Sabretooth. I still think Bastion made an interesting and mysterious foe. They dont' resolve his past in this book, so that's one of it's many shortcomings. It would have been much more complete if they revealed his true nature. He still manages to keep the books interesting. As for the artwork, Pacheco makes some of the pictures worth looking at. In general, though, they weren't anything special, so I therefore focused on the plot. Personally, I would have enjoyed it much more if they had Joe Madureira instead. At the time, he was drawing for the Uncanny X-Men titles, which brings OZT to another drawback. Half of the team is in outer space and don't return until the final 10 pages or so of the 400+ page collection. I personally like those characters (Rogue, Gambit, Beast, etc.) compared to Wolverine, Cyclops, and Phoenix just cuz, so yeah, I found some moments pretty boring. On the other hand, once you actually get into it, Iceman and Dr. Cecilia Reyes make a very dynamic couple. When Sabra and Marrow eventually join in, they're actually quite entertaining, but moreso through their petty squabbles than their action, though. Cable plays a key role, and he's an intriguing character, too. I normally don't read X-Force ((my biggest branch from X-Men to other titles besides Gambit iz Gen X and the occasional X-Factor which I don't believe exists anymore, so this wuz a big reach I'd never even heard of Rictor or Dani Moonstar til then.)), but began to like several characters from them, too. Overall though, I thought it wuz all rite, juss not enough to blow me away. If yer a big fan of wolverine and Cable, you'll probably like it. I'm warning you though, they seem to have lots of unnecessary stuff in between, like two books about Domino, who has very little to do with the story. But, even though I found the story very enjoyable, I don't think it's good enough to be considered necessary fer a Marvel conossieur. So my review and advice would be thus: If yer a hard core collector, go ahead and get this. It may be valuable in the future, and you may get some jollies out of it. If yer looking fer X-Men entertainment, I recommend the Phoenix Sagas, Onslaught series, Age of Apocalypse, or the recent Hunt for Xavier. I havent' read this yet, but I have also heard good things about The Twelve.

This book has at least 10 authors and is fun to read for the first few chapters. Then I really got annoyed to read the same things over and over again and at the same time I missed some more in depth explanations. A lot is done with the framework itself. This is probably due to the very early delivery date of the book. Though I really enjoyed the C# example (game of life) I think you be better served with Hollis, Lhotka "VB.Net Programming". Also there seem to be quite a few other books out by now.

This is a good introduction to .net, as the cover says, but me thinks it was just a ploy to make money. Not very useful at all, but if you are a beginner to .NET, then you might want to browse through it to get a general feel for the framework.

I have purchased several Dot Net books as of late. I thought the book was very thorough as an overview. This book was not intended to be a programmers guide to any single language in the Dot Net suite. But if you want a book to give you some insight as to what Dot Net is all about, this is a great place to start. I also purchased Wrox "Programming C# with the public Beta", although this book is being replaced with Professional C#, I still learned much from this title as well.