If you're interested in the future uses and directions of digitized images, Alan Rath's joining of digitized images with kinetic sculptures is worth considering. Rath doesn't see kinetic art as alienating, so he's a bit baffled by commentaries on kinetic art such as those in his interview with Meredith Tromble ("There are undoubtedly more electronic circuits in my home than there are bits of painted canvas, yet when I imagine art about daily life I still think of a still life or a family portrait."). Rather he sees our relationship to technology as being just as intimate as our relationship to more culturally established forms of art. His digital video sculptures--built from circuit boards, memory chips, frame buffers and wires--are meant to be playful investigations of people's relationship to machinery and technology. For example, though Rath uses digitized videotaped images of the human eye to lend a psychological presence to his kinetic sculptures, he resists tendencies to anthropomorphize his sculptures in order to discover and create new modes of exchange and social relationships. In Rath's "Watcher," a wall-mounted monitor showing a shifting pair of eyes-neither quite inanimate nor animate-the effect of the image isn't to create a kind of portrait, or suggest any real perceptual ability, but simply to draw attention to our emotional responses as our traditional modes of relating are questioned and thwarted.

A 2-D book format is obviously not the optimal format for experiencing Rath's kinetic sculptures. Nevertheless, if you don't have the opportunity to go to one of his exhibits, the photographs of Rath's exhibited works at SITE Santa Fe is the next best thing.

After living and working overseas for 12 years I have decided to return to the USA and must update my wardrobe. I bought 2 books: this one and Dressing the Man by Alan Flusser. This book is broken into 3 parts: Get Job, Succeed in Job and Get Better Job. Each section reviews the issues of dressing pertaining to that particular category. Basic stuff but necessary for the younger inexperienced man. This book's strong point is its explanation of the 4 dress codes: Corporate, Casual, Business Appropriate and Business Casual Appropriate along with business travel, entertainment and sales meetings. Its weak point is its lack of elegance and sophisticated masculinity. For that please see Alan Flusser's splendid book Dressing the Man.

This book explores systematically the common types of investors: conflicted, depressed, revenging, masked, fussy and paranoid.

You will benefit from exploring the type of investor you are with the help of the classification and the cases.

IMPORTANT: As the authors put in the Preface, this book will neither tell you how to trade nor show any trend-based investing strategy. But it helps you explore how your character, attitude, biases and the like affect greatly on your investing decisions (and results).

Be prepared to take time to digest the book as it contains psychological issues (such as dream, defense mechanism, etc.) which might seem abstract. But I am sure that the time you invested pays off!

H.C. westermann is known for his art objects usually made out of wood. This book presents Westermann the Printmaker. Westermann started working in linocut and woodcut and progressed to lithographs. His first prints were crude almost child like prints of everyday objects. His subject matter is what you know most - objects of everyday use. His later work is more elaborate and he added landscape and figure into his repertoire. The book is well done and conveys quite well the artist's intent. If you already have H.C. Westermann's book of his art objects this is a must. This book is also well suited for wannabe printmakers and artists of all ages.

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The misleadingly named SMART WEAPONS is actually a survey of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

The only good things I can say about this book is that it is one
of the few available on UAVs, and has lots of nice pictures.
Other than that, it is clearly thrown together in haste, poorly
written, poorly organized, and factually suspect. Entirely not
recommended.

If you're interested in the subject, a little hunting on the
web would be much more profitable and much less costly. I
could recommend some sites, but that's a bit out of line for
a review, just drop me a line if you're interested.

I fail to agree with any of Greg Goebel's comments (on-line reviewer) concerning content. As a practicing engineer I found this book incredibly interesting, stemming from an interest in remotely controlled aircraft from early childhood. In the light of very recent events off the coast of China (April 2001), this book if nothing else allows us to glimpse at what tools are currently being used in the world's trouble spots for airborne surveillance. The titling of this book is misleading, as most of the book is concerned with explaining where the technologies were derived from, rather than their usage as an offensive weapons platform. The extensive web links in the appendix are also very useful for further reading.

This book will fascinate anyone interested in military policy. The authors trace the history of un-manned military flight, and do so in plain English. Did you know that drones were used to gather intelligence and select bomb sites in Vietnam? In Beirut? Do you want to see plans for future drones? The book is particularly interesting in view of the recent incident involving our manned spy-plane that was forced to land in China. This book makes you wonder why we spend money and risk lives with manned flights when un-manned can do the job.

I picked up this book because of Rodale's reputation for excellence. However, this one's a real disappointment. The recipes are not low-carb and the nutritional data doesn't add up correctly for many of them. And, it's hardly smart - since when is half a bagel a "smart" choice? Or half a cookie? And who can eat half? That's like giving half a cigarette to a chain smoker and calling it a "smart choice". No- pass on this one. There are so many really good choices now, that purchasing this one would not be very "smart". I would suggest Dr. Atkins and the Drs. Eades programs, that are backed by research, clinical documentation and a great track record for success.

This book is all about intelligent low-carb choices to trim excess sugars (and fats and calories) out of your diet. It is not--thank God!--a high-maintenance program that you will fall off of at the first opportunity. If you want tasty low-carb recipes, sensible guidelines to low-carb living, and well-written facts on how this kind of lifestyle works, this is the book to get. I agree that Prevention could have made better editorial choices (pancakes on the cover is really stupid), but they're no worse than what you see in every issue of a diet magazine (showing a photo of a huge chunk of cake when the recipe's nutritional analysis calls for a razor-thin slice).

This book is not for low-carb "eat a slice of bread and die" fanatics . If you are a sensible type, disregard the hateful reviews, consider the sources, and give this book a try. I did and lost 25 pounds in two months.

When I first saw the title with the words "smart low-carb" I had hopes that this book wouldn't disappoint, as so many others have. Well, hooray! It didn't. This is one of the best diet books I've read and I have a bookshelf full of them. The book is well written and plenty lucid and the suggestions are sensible. The authors tell you straight out that portion size is important and that calories count: you can't gorge yourself and expect to lose weight. I've tried some of the recipes and they are tremendously delicious. The book is a keeper.

I purchased this book per a recommendation and was extremely excited, after reading the cursory synopsis of the book. Upon receipt of the book I first looked at the CD's and found no mention of the Slackware Distribution, Only Redhat's and Caldera's, along with the Star Office. Now perhaps the Slackware distribution is included somewhere on the CD's but it is not immediately evident and will undoubtably lead to confusion. My initial foray into the contents started well, and I was pleased with the explanations of Linux, it history and use. Unfortunately, this is stopping point for, in my estimation, any attempt by the authors at making the subject matter the least bit interesting. It is in the 2nd chapter that the subject matter, while extremely important and manditory reading, as it is dealing with the set up and installation process, becomes painfully dry, an effort to read and definately not for the beginner or casual user. In the 3rd chapter much of the second chapter dealing with set up and installation is repeated verbatum, and again is technically difficult to read. At this point I should say that while not a total computer techniphobe, I do have 10 years of experience with computers, beginning in the days of DOS and continuing into the Windows amd Macintosh families of operating systems. I also over the years have accumulated a certain degree of experience with both hardware and software so I am what I would consider a fairly advanced computer user. I am currently starting into the 4th chapter and will attempt to get some understanding of the Linux OS. I would not however recommend this book to anyone just starting out with Linux, but would only recommend it to those whom already have linux up and running and require a reference book to fall back on. Great for the advanced user , but not for the beginner on thier initiation into Linux. I myself will probably purchase a much more user friendly reference to begin my experience with Linux.

I am new to Linux but have worked on Windows 95/NT for many years. After reading "Using Caldera OpenLinux 2.2," I was able to do just about everything in OpenLinux 2.2 that I currently do in Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. I was able to connect to the internet, create a WordPerfect document, customize the GUI, and install new applications. One downfall to the book is that it often used "print screens" from OpenLinux 1.3 (the previous version of OpenLinux). For my soundcard, the book recommended that I buy a commercial driver from 4Front technologies; I wish the book would have given me instructions on installing the free OSS sound driver.

The CD included with the book is superb. It includes Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 with WordPerfect 8.0 and hundreds of open source applications. KDE, the graphical user interface to OpenLinux 2.2, is better than the Microsoft Windows GUI. "Que Using Caldera OpenLinux 2.2" and the OpenLinux 2.2 distribution of Linux is a must for anyone new to the Linux community.

When I first installed Caldera OpenLinux on my PC, I was a newcomer to Linux and didn't really know my way around. Caldera does provide decent documentation for its product, but the installation and user's guide is a bit spare fora newbie to make much use of. This book is the one that took me from being a wet-eared newbie to a competent OpenLinux user. The book assumes that you know very little about Linux and gives you an introduction to the history of Linux, the open source philosophy, the distributions of Linux and a host of other pertinent information before taking through Star Office, the K Desktop Environment (using and manipualting), the command line, package management with RPM, the file system, configuring the X Server, configuring sound, the file system, networking (including using Samba and NetWare), connecting to the Internet, reading the XF86Config file, tweaking, programming languages, compiling source code, shell scripting, runlevels, troubleshooting, and a range of almost every possible problem that a home user or small office user will run into. This book can get quite in depth, and is suitable for those who want to get into Linux quite deeply, or for simple casual use as a reference guide. This is the one book that should ship with every version of Caldera. With this book, you'll find that Linux really can be quite fun to learn and quite easy as well.