Robert W. Arnold's "Noel", is an exciting book I bought and actually enjoyed reading it. He had set his dream to write something like a book and he finally made it! For a long time since I know that he did say something years and years ago. So there is a book, he did done a fine job and I am proud of him. I know him as my old classmate (at Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Staunton) and a friend (I'm not sure at this time since I had not seen him almost ten years ago!) So well, I am telling you before you start to roll your eyes, this book is set for the Christmas holidays, but I think he's late and the Easter Bunny is more than happy to do his favor to publish it and put it on the market. I think I had my money worth buying the book and I rather not to say that I am lending him my support for his living expenses in the West coast. But actually he did it for the first time and I had seen his ambition in storytelling and he's creative in making the stories when we were the kids. I have to think hard to see if these stories told in the past were true or just plainly exaggerated? Oh well, he did it anyway. The book is so great, real funny at the most, and at least it is the thought-provoking story. Beware about the famous Dr. Feltgood syndrome! Uh? Yes! At least, it did made me feel so great after done reading the book, mind you! The characters created in the book are almost real and easily follow where the story led. Hilarious ones especially for Mr. Tyme! The big guy in the book, Howard Peel,eventually draw you in his world about his consciences after he brought his town into chaos, despair and anger after he once brought them alive with happiness and the riches of the prosperity. And also he ran away, seeking for the perfect gift for the town to redeem his failures but had not seen him for a year, building consequences against him. The tale told by Howard Peel had succeeded to peel the layers of guilt, greed, rich lifestyles and blind ambition of the free enterprise. The distinction of the tale between the town and the dream world seems similar but convincing. Even the outcome at the ending, bringing a hope, not abandoning the purpose to celebrate the Christmas. Wow, it is an unique story! He did wrote something in resemblances of his people in Virginia but nothing in the book is purely coincidental. Who knows? I can tell you to go on and to get the book, read it and you would be glad you did it. I applaud you for the finest writing and hope to see your second book coming real soon!

This book has so many incredible parts. The best part, in my honest opinion, is the character Mr. Tyme - his encounters with the main character Howard Peel are hilarious, yet after a while you realize they are truly profound and amazing. The whole book, set around a Christmas crisis, fools you into thinking it's one of these disgustingly cheerful books about Christmas. And while it IS a feel-good book ultimately, the vivid images conjured up by the author's hand are just amazing. Non-preachy moral lessons, amazing visual imagery, and humor - what more can you ask for from a book?

Buy it no matter what the season.

I thought this book was great! The pictures of the objects are beautiful. Where a picture could not be obtained there is usually a detailed sketch of the object. The descriptions give not only insight into use of the archaological object but also surrounding information like similar objects and archeological context. Then the essays descibe the time period and unknown/debated issue of Egyptian Archeology. As a newbie to Egyptian Archaeology I found the book easy to read and felt that things were explained well.

this book is the definitive guide to the eggbeater... who knew there were so many different kinds? water-powered? pull-string powered!? single, double, triple beaters?

i've got this on my coffe table and the comments are endless...

Sometimes it gets a little too detailed (like mentioning the brand of pens commonly used) and the book would be easier to manage if the photos and plates were all in a separate binding (so you can read the text and look at the photos). Some computer based exercises would be good to see what direction the science is moving in. But all in all, a good introduction to aerial photograph interpretation.

Microsoft Works is an aged application, and its heyday was before the time of user-friendly help files. But the software is still good for desktop publishing, especially if you already own it or are at all familiar with it. Thanks, Mr. Cowart, for making serious desktop publishing possible without requiring expensive new software or a fancy degree in computer science.

Sincerely,

Jeremy

I found this study of Bennett's writing much more than a useful critical discussion of Modernism and Modernity. While many critical works on literature are hard going, this one is remarkably articulate, written in lively and engaging prose that made me want to go out and read everything Bennett wrote. For anyone interested in Modernism as a literary movement, this study provides a sophisticated analysis of the function of content as well as form in the modernist project. It takes on Woolf's criticism of Bennett's work as "traditional realism" in such a way that reveals him to be a much more complex and interesting writer than she gives him credit for; the short discussion of Bennett's reaction to Woolf's work is particularly telling. This is truly a worthy book.

This book is well worth your time. If you have any interest in preservation and /or landscape you should read this book. It is very thought provoking and intelligently written. It poses more questions than it answers...which I believe is the intention of the editors. Because this book raises many questions and issues, I would recommend it for a book discussion club or a seminar class.

Our employees enjoy the worksheets and clear presentations on everything from housing and money to second careers, health concerns, and life-style changes. I consider it "must" reading for people of ANY age

This collection of papers on software change impact analysis covers both practice and theory. The book starts with an introduction to change impact analysis. This intro covers terms, theories and practices that have emerged and are accepted among most researchers and practitioners, and provides a basic discussion of traceability and impact analysis.

Chapter 1 is titled Nature of Impact Analysis and contains A Process Model for Software Maintenance, Impact Analysis-Towards A Framework for Comparison, and The Year 2000 Problem: Impact, Strategies, and Tools. Although the last paper is obviously out of date, some of the techniques are worth examining, especially since a good amount of the Y2K problem required impact and risk analysis.

State of the Practice is the topic of chapter 2, and contains the following papers: An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem, Software Change Impact Analysis for Design Evolution and Configuration Management Survey. These three papers are a combination of practice and theory.

The material in Chapter 3, Automated Support for Impact Analysis, is spotty. Some is out of date in my opinion, while other papers are as fresh today as when the book was published. Papers in this chapter are: The Integrated CASE Manifesto, A Practical Software Maintenance Environment, Intelligent Assistance for Software Development and Maintenance and Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs (the last is excellent!). Chapter 4 contains the most practical material in the collection. The topic title is Dependency-Analysis Approaches, and the papers are: Using Dependence Analysis to Support the Software Maintenance Process, Interprocedural Slicing Using Dependence Graphs, Data Dependency Graphs for Ada Programs, Data Flow Analysis and its Application to Software Maintenance and Change Impact Identification in Object Oriented Software Maintenance.

Papers in Chapter 5 (Traceability Approaches) are also mostly practical, but many are out of date or contain information that was a good idea at the time, but seem quaint by today's standards. Paper topics are: A Hypertext System to Manage Software Life-Cycle Documents (very much ahead of its time, but woefully out of date now), A Software Documentation Support Environment-Its Definition, Traceability Based on Design Decisions (this is *must reading* in my opinion) and A Process for Consolidating and Reusing Design Knowledge. Chapter 6's papers address Impact Representation. While many were written a decade ago all of them are interesting and include ideas that are as valid today. Topics are: The Prism Model of Changes, A Unified Interprocedural Program Representation for a Maintenance Environment, A Formal Model of Program Dependencies and Its Implications for Software Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance and A Graph Model for Software Evolution.

Chapter 7 is devoted to Impact-Determination Techniques and contains interesting papers that are more theoretical than practical in my opinion. Topics are: An Early Impact Analysis Technique for Software Maintenance, Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance, Efficient Algorithms for the Instantiated Transitive Closure Queries, and Approximate Reasoning About the Semantic Effects of Program Changes. Chapter 8 is a synopsis of material in the preceding chapters, with and commentary and observations about impact analysis as a discipline.

Overall, this book represents a substantial cross section of the body of knowledge devoted to software change impact analysis. Some strengths include the fact that this collection of papers makes the body of knowledge available in one book, and the focus of the papers on software engineering aspects of change and maintenance, and how to manage impact to complex applications. A key weakness is that some of the papers are over 10 years old. However, despite the age of some of the papers many are surprisingly applicable to maintenance challenges faced by practitioners today.

Bravo, finally a superb book on the history of Albany and Albany County by the man who lives and breathes Albany, John(Jack) McEneny. Such insight and history into a city I grew up in. From the dutch settlements through the great Democratic political Machine, Jack captures the essence of what Albany was and is like to this day. Memorable photos take you back to a wonderful time gone by. It is truly our great city on the Hudson. I HIGHLY recomend to all.

This Book Tells About Albany's History. John McEneny Did A Great Job On This Book. It Has The College Of St. Rose In It. It Also Has Historic Areas Like Lark St. Albany's Village, The South End's South Preal St., State St., The New York State Capital And Education Building, The Empire State Plaza, N.Y.S. Museum, The Corning Tower, And It's Bus Company Known As C.D.T.A.

The book has many beautiful pictures and may easily be dismissed as just another pictorial Chamber of Commerce celebration of a city's history, a "coffee-table book." But instead, it is a great and accurate account of a city built by Deutsch (Dutch & German) and Irish ethnics, written by a historian and public man of breadth and character, who is intimately familiar, through his family, with the history of the city of Albany to the mid-19th century. I am myself a historian of 19th century New York State, and found the book not only to be very informative, but enjoyable to read as well.