I have been in IT for 11+ years and recently started moving into the client-server area.This book was used as a college prescribed book for my last semester (not enough copies of the regular book were available) but was so bad, even the lecturer stopped using it. We were told to borrow object oriented powerbuilder books from the library instead and this book was removed from the curriculum.

IF you want to own a book that looks impresive and does little to help you understand about Powerbuilder, then this is the book for you. There is more usless information in the book then one can create an object class for.

This is not a quick guide to PowerBuilder but it's a really best reference book out there.

Even for beginner's, this is a good book since learning curve for PowerBuilder is NOT steep.

Also it covers some database stuffs(as advantage of using PowerBuilder stems from easy integration with database through datawindows) that I found useful

This book contains verbatim case decisions from Supreme Court cases, District level cases and Appellate court cases. Each case is followed by a detailed comment section written by the editors which explains in plain English what the Justices are talking about. All the way from the First Amendment and Marketplace of Ideas theory to broadcast regulation, this book covers all major cases that have developed media law into the beast it is today. Good for the classroom, but better without a time limit.