This is a good book which is a good reference for me. However, when I got the book and was working through some of the real world exercises. I wanted to download the files that are referenced by the book for the excercises. This is because the book explains more things related to the files than are in the snippets in the book. Anyway, I went to the site referenced and I am continuously getting the page of Death "page can not be displayed". Needless to say I am left wanting.

Love this book - as a seasoned web developer with heaps of experience I find this book a great reference tool, fantastic prompter when I'm struggling with XML techonologies, all round very well written and did I mention already PRACTICAL.
If your confused now or then by XML or you know nothing and want to learn from scratch then BUY this book.
Chapters are well defined and organised, it covers everything from css - to XSLT, client side, server side applications and good practices. Well written - without this book my XML nappies would be on the floor.

There are dozens of books on XML, the difference is that this is solely focused on the web and very practical oriented; it's not that much about XML theory but it's full of real world examples. The most valuable chapters in my opinion are the ones covering XML support inside the various browsers, the info about client-side XSLT, XML and CSS and DOM manipulation with JavaScript are something that you will not find elsewhere

This book is one excellent (non-doctrinal) approach to understanding something of the attractions and the delusions involved in a genuine American ism. It is not that illuminating for anyone seeking to know the full history or theological foundations of this belief system; that is a tangent neither taken nor attempted by this author, though historical references are inevitably woven into the narrative.

'Beyond Mormonism' is autobiographical, written from an earnest insiders experience. We may question his conclusions but there is no room for doubting that they have been honestly reached. The book is a simple, straightforward, fast-paced (as religious writing goes) account dealing with one man's search for meaning and purpose in life ... and, at the risk of giving away the ending, of finding it. Spencer accepted the religion that promises a Celestial Kingdom, becoming an energetic and devout follower, only to find that it ultimately produced confusion, frustration and disappointment; yet, it left him with a heart and a deep affection for the saints he met (and, in one case, married) along the way.

It is that affection that recommends this book and sets it apart from others of its genre.

The book does open up some of the claims, practices and un-advertised extras of this creed and thus may appeal to someone considering the faith who, perhaps, would like more information than the church has been willing to offer. The author gently turns the inquirer from an emphasis on the church - any church - to the ground of all spiritual truth. The trip is not heavy but heavenly and Elder Spencer is to be congratulated for an unembittered resume of his former faith.

(The 1998 edition of the book adds only a prefatory update to some of the characters introduced to us in 1984. Either edition is highly recommended ... to read or to give.)

I wrote this book sixteeen years ago. It is the story of a miracle that happened in my life. It is all true. Because I have received more than 10,000 letters from people who have read it, I believe it touches a nerve. My story is very much like that of many, many other ex-Mormons.

In a field that is dominated too much by contention and mean-spirited polemic, this book was a delight. Oh, make no mistake, the author, an ex-Mormon, is trying to warn you away from or out of the LDS Church. But instead of writing about the doctrinal errors of Mormonism or appealing exclusively to the intellect, he appeals to the heart: by sharing his own story. Jim Spencer tells of his conversion to Mormonism, his love for the Church, the people, the mythos . . . then starts talking about the nagging doubts he had that just got worse and worse with time. An honest seeker, he finally became a born-again Christian and left the Church . . . and nearly lost his family. The last part of this book, the emotional conflict between his commitment to truth on one hand, and the love of his wife and family on the other, is one of the most poignant stories I've seen, and offers some of the deepest insights into Mormonism. When Spencer's wife becomes seriously ill, a Baptist preacher visits her, has pity and love for the "sick little Mormon girl" and tells her to praise God -- and she doesn't know how! "Praise is a concept foreign to a Mormon," writes Spencer(p. 148). "Mormons sing, but they do not praise. They pray, but they do not worship." Mormon friends, don't dismiss this concept! You can know of God intellectually through Mormonism, but God longs for more of you than your mind. He loves you, he wants you as a friend wants his friend, and a young man longs for his lover. He wants intimacy with you, and that comes through unabandoned, unashamed, emotional worship. I never saw it in the LDS Church. Mormons: God WANTS you -- come home!!

This is yet another good read by spencer. You can read the 1st chapter online at mazeministry.com. Please do yourself a favor and get this!

In this followup to his first book, Heresy Hunters, Mr. Spencer deals with some of the "liberal" evangelicalism that is in the church and exposes it for what it really is - compromise.

Of particular interest to me was how he documents the vicious attack of CRI on his life, ministry, and family after exposing the truth about Hanegraaf in Heresy Hunters. It will make those who hail Hanegraaf as a hero and leader question whether he shows the "fruits" of a true brother in Christ.

Spencer also exposes how Hanegraaf quotes WOF preachers out of context by first showing a CRI quotation of a Kenneth Copeland message and then showing the message by Copeland in full context to prove that Copeland was not saying what Hanegraaf was attempting to make him say.

I give James 5 stars due to his courage. He's not even a WOF preacher, yet he would not remain silent while vicious lies were spreading about his brothers - even when it undeservingly costed him his reputation.

It's always disappointing to get a book that is one-dimensional.
Here's one for you. Linux information? The word Linux is mentioned one time. Apple info? Same thing, so if you're looking for getting your wireless lan truly cross-platform compatible, this book doesn't do it. On the one hand, it's more general than that. But on the other hand, when it gets specific, it's exclusively talking Windows. So that's a minus.

Beyond that, it is an ok general overview of the issues involved with setting up wireless lans, and it also has information on other wireless technologies that one might use. Most discussion is for the newbie, so if that's you, maybe this book could help. Although the way technical writing for Windows is, things always sound more complicated than they really are. The typeface is enlarged Dummies style, which is mildly annoying. Large type = little substance.

This is yet another great book in that old Tab BYO series. If you're the type who'd rather upgrade last year's model than go back to Dell for who-knows-what's-inside, this is for you. I was out to wire my church campus last weekend without a whole lot of success. The problem ended up being the antenna wich I never would've figured out without this book. I wouldn't say it was easy but it wasn't hard either, once I read Chapter 5.

I found this book to be quite useful as I started studying for my APICS exam. As far as reference textbooks go, this is nicely laid out and easy to use. It is a neccessary evil because to make sense of the materials, you have to have a guide. This dictionary seems to be a good guide for getting through the material.

Este libro contiene una amplio análisis de las alternativas que se pueden utilizar en la dirección productiva de toda empresa de manufactura. A mi me ha servido mucho en la implementación del modelo DBR en mi empresa - Incesa Standard.

This is is a fine book devoted to famillar mammals of the US and Canada. It shows full-color illustrations and maps that show you where the specific critter lives for many different mammals. Plus it tells you what a specific mammal eats and wether it is dangerous or not. A must for all nature-lovers !

When I was a kid my uncle gave me a copy of this book and it opened up a world which still intrigues me...reptiles and amphibians. Even today I consult the book for info on some lizzard I don't recognize or to see if salamanders actually spend a lot of time out of water. In fact, I'm sharing it with my own nephew now--age 11--who's discovering this new world of life for himself. This book is well-presented and easy-to-use, as well as full of great illustrations that alone make it worth reading through. Profiles of each reptile and amphibian are thorough withough being overwhelmingly scientific. A timeless classic for young or old...one to share over the generations.

I thought Axis Mundi would be a valuable aquisition to my werewolf stories, but wasn't. The mage storytellers will not understand why, whitewolf told that book would be useful for Mage campaigns. I wasted my money... Don't do the same mistake

This is a pretty good book. If you are looking for information on some of the spirits who support the totems of the werewolf tribes, then this book is for you. You won't be disappointed.

However, I was disappointed with this book. The main reason for this is that I thought this book wasn't far reacing enough. According to the Werewolf universe, the Umbra is populated with thousands, if not millions, of different kinds of spirits, each with their own personality archetypes, wants, desires, interests, etc. But this book focuses mainly on the small number who serve the major tribe totems. This small slice of the spirit world is hardly fulfilling.

Another problem is that the book makes no attempt to describe how the spirits interact with each other, how any of the hierarchies of the totems work, or how any other spirits really behave or act out in the day-to-day life of the Umbra. Spirits are described as if their only purpose is to interact with the werewolves and not as if they are each self-sufficient entities.

So this book is good for what it is, but like many other White-Wolf supplements it fails to be all it could be. A much better book would have given more over-arching spirit information on a macro level so us creative-types could use the information they provided to populate our games with interesting individual spirits on a micro level.

This is a must-have for any Storyteller that deals with the Umbra and spirits, for Mage or Werewolf. It is a very information-rich sourcebook, full of guidelines and expanded rules on spirits, and packed with information on the spirits themselves. There is a spiritual history of the Garou that is very informative

From the book jacket, I know that James Spencer is a writer and has been for a long, long time. I also know that for a brief period in his life he was a B-24 pilot in the southwest Pacific during World War Two. By his own admission he flew 44 missions, some of them very long range, over trackless ocean that would have provided little if any chance for rescue had he and his crew gone down. Such combat flying is unarguably valorous, particularly in retrospect, but at the time was just the flyers' "job." I know a naval aviator who flew similar solo strikes in a PB4Y-1 (the Navy version of the B-24)during the same time period of 1943 and '44 and am familiar with what such missions entailed.

That said, this book falls short in a number of areas, beginning with the opening section about the protagonists' early years, which is full of both unbelievable incidents and characters. From there it goes from combat flying in both bombers and fighters, life at the bases, R&R in Australia and various other ruminations about "what it all means." Combat flying memoirs are beginning to appear again after a long dry spell as veterans want to commit their experiences to print while they still can. Some are good but those tend to be the non-fiction ones. This book is called a "memoir as a novel," which I assume means that there is at least some basis of actual related experience in a fictional context. In this case, I suppose the experience is that of serving in the 13th Air Force in the Pacific and then projecting a young aviator's now mature viewpoints into a few fictional characters? Hey, I'm reaching here, but the author admits that he thinks he should have been a fighter pilot, fantasized about P-38's and one of the characters in this book is a fighter pilot. Of course, there's bomber flying too by another character. So is this Walter Mitty stuff or real stuff that happened to others but not to the author? So this is a novel. It's really not a memoir at all any more than James Jones' FROM HERE TO ETERNITY was a memoir of his life in the pre-war Army at Schofield Barracks.

The truth is less elegant than the alleged new art form. This is a novel and not a very good one. A truly good memoir of South Pacific combat flying is Edwards Park's NANETTE. A truly good novel of South Pacific combat flying is Gordon Forbes' GOODBYE TO SOME. Both of these books, written by men who did the deeds, are well worth the time it might take to find them.

With full appreciation for Mr. Spencer's wartime service and his demonstrated writing skills, presumably non-fiction, evidenced by his having been published for years, I feel that this particular effort was substandard for war fiction... or memoir.

And a minor note to the publisher: the book jacket shows P-51's. While P-51's are mentioned in the author's foreward, the US aircraft in the book are B-24's and P-38's. Pictures exist for both these aircraft -- even shots of them in the Pacific theater, even shots of them together -- so look around if this book goes to paperback.

This is just a super book. Well written, warm, and yet frightening in its description of combat flying. Jim Spencer has a wonderful way of getting into the stories and making them real for us. Having lived just a bit of that life (USMC pilot)I felt in the cockpit and in the ready room with Jim. The out of combat R&R in Australia was just the right tone, and the craziness that permeates everything was right on.
All the guys I know would love this book. There is hardly a pilot alive or that has lived that has not dreamed of air-to-air combat. This is a piece of that dream.