Very Good For Beginners, But So-So For Intermediate Designer

I never began to understand HTML or how to build a web site until I came across this handy book. Trust me,if you want to build any kind of site, from the most elaborate to the most personal, this will be the best (money)you'll ever spend. It explains everything in gloriously plain terms. You'll never believe that negotiating the Web could be so easy!

If your looking for a book that can explain how various suspension designs and characteristics can effect the dynamics of motor vehicles this is for you.

You don't have to be an engineer to follow the concepts. An excellent starting point for budding automotive engineers. The book only lacks in not taking it to the next step, looking at specific setups with precise specifications, even as a case study.

To be fare though, the book does not set out to do this, but does extremely well what it does aim at - Giving an understanding of the concepts, pros and cons of most common auto suspension and drivetrain arrangements.

I tried this book because I wanted some introduction on car suspensions. Also I needed some some basics to help me on designing my own car suspension. I found this book with a good general introduction to what's already done, explanations for basics, principles and definitions, and full chapters talking about tyres, steering, handling, etc. It gives clear concepts and examples on the equations used to design and demonstrate what suspensions are about. In General, I found it with good examples, very well organized and by the way, Great pictures and diagrams. Good book!

Hilary discovers a tryst between her husband and a maid. Hilary wrestles with her anger, guilt, shame, and, above all, her perverse arousal. Compelled to become a voyeur, Hilary learns the extent of her husband's promiscuity and the private deviations of heterosexuals. Striving to exact revenge through infidelity, Hilary soon discovers seceret longings within. Through a series of sexualy submissive encounters, Hilary tries to assuage her guilt and satisfy her deepest desires. This well written erotic novel is my favorite by Daniel Vian.

Hilary Blair living in Paris discovers her husband, Walter, enjoying the sweetness of one of the many maids in their house. Although shocked at first her emotions go from disgust, to anger, to hate and then revenge. Although she never really goes through that agonizing introspection that many authors seem to beat to death, the readers sees the gentle transformation in Hilary's mind as we are seduced into acompaniying our heronie on her quest for revenge that unexpectedly turns into self discovery. Hilary really never jumps on that recriminatory roller coaster of emotion as she describes perfectly, with stunning clarity and simplicity, her sexual awakening with an ever increasing circle of friends and aquaintances. One can easily identify with the thoughts in Hilary's mind as she describes her hesitation, and nervousness while experiencing erotic and sexual trysts. For those that may have read my other reviews, this book does not have the hard hitting erotica that I generally enjoy, but, it's a wonderfull book equisitely written by a master and certainly should be calssified as a Blue Moon classic.

This excellent book describes organizational cultures in terms of different kinds of watercraft. It covers small entrepreneur, dot com like cultures, professional associations, large corporations and bureaucracies and brings a "map" to diagnose and migrate from one to other safely.

This book is highly readable, and contains all the practices you'll need to make your organization successful and ready to meet its challenges. You'll have enough information here to train your staff and peers on a proven approach that has resulted in Fortune 500 successes for Intel, Motorola and other companies that Daniels and Mather have worked with. Once you've started using these methods, you'll wonder how you survived without them.

When Viscount Desford comes upon a young lady walking to London, he stops to ask her where she is going. Charity says she is running away to her Grandfather, so the Viscount vows to help her find her eccentric relative and ends up travelling all over England looking for them. The rather funny antics of Charity and the Viscounts difficult search make a funny story. The outcome is filled with fate, but it all ends well. It is all Georgette Heyer!

While I'm a fan of almost everything Heyer writes, this one was vastly amusing. It's filled with busy plot where the hero attempts to be just that: a hero to laud, all without compromising Charity or himself in the meantime. And of course, we cannot forget about prior romantic connections, the expected behavior of a gentleman, or the comedic lenghths at which the hero must travel to honor his word. The conflicts and characters all add up to great entertainment.

This is a very touching story about a retartaded man named Charly and a operation that made him smart and changed his life.

Charly is a touching story of a man who just wanted to be like others and then finds out that being like them really isn't so great.

You get to see the real Charly in the way it was written.

An excellent book

I have used this book as a supplement to teach my three children how to play chess. The book is nicely illustrated, clearly written, and easily read. If you are looking for one reference book to use at home then I would encourage you to consider this volume as a finalist.

I think this is the one of the best books ever they have the state of the art illustations. But I think if Daniel king makes it more longer and more resourceful it would be the chess book ever. The ones I'm suggesting is the Aspects of all kinds of checkmates from the Art of Checkmate. Tons of quizzess like in Bobbby Fischer Teaches Chess. And a tons of opening book references like in 500 master games of chess. And do teaching board example in another words in the Chessmaster 9000 copy the teachings on the chess chess board but and reword the explaining. And teach how to write hard notation. Like Descriptive, coordinate figurine,algerbraic,and international. To notate all the explaining I'd rather do for beginners is long algerbraic notation. If you had that it would be the best and only higher the price $8 it'll be the reference of chess.

The Chumash Circle was a compelling storyline and a good read. Several intertwined plots. I recommend it for all young adults.

Reading Mr. Phalen's new book reminded at first a bit of the wonderful "Hardy Boys" adventure series I'd read as a youngster. Early on, however, it became clear that more was going on here than just a mystery story. Matters of the soul, personal responsiblity, honor, and mysticism are skillfully blended for a read that carries one from page by page with momentum. All in all, it's a substantive and entertaining book written with a good deal of imagination and care. Young (and old) children will take something valuable away with themselves from having read this book.

The North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France that flared repeatedly through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have long been hidden in the great shadow cast by the American Revolution. How many people today remember King William's War (1689-97), or Queen Anne's War (1702-13), or King George's War (1744-48), or the French and Indian War (1755-62)? But these conflicts should be better known, because in actual fact they determined the cultural fate of most of North America. Howard Peckham's volume, first published in 1964, is the best short survey of all of them.

Beginning in the 1600s, Great Britain began to colonize the eastern seaboard of North America from Maine to Georgia. Even earlier, France had begun to occupy the valley of the St. Lawrence and to spread westward into the Great Lakes and then south to the Mississippi. From the late 1600s to the mid-1700s, conflicts in Europe between these two colonial powers (and between the Protestant and Catholic worlds they represented) spilled over into North America. Indian tribes played both sides off against each other, forming shifting alliances in an attempt to retain their own independence. Because of disputes over who should occupy the Spanish throne, for example, farmhouses were burned in the New England countryside, and Indian villages were destroyed in the woods of Maine. In the end, Great Britain and her colonies gained ascendancy, and France was forced to cede all of her Canadian possessions. The last of these imperial conflicts, the French and Indian War, set the political and military stage for the American Revolution which began only thirteen years after the French and Indian War had ended.

Why should anyone remember these ancient battles? One simple reason is that they have left their mark all over the cultural landscape of eastern North America. They explain why there are lakes with names like "Champlain" along the borders of states like New "York"; why the eastern United States is dotted with towns named "Amherst" and "Pepperell" and "Shirley" (all generals in the colonial wars); and why so many people in French-speaking Quebec, more than 300 years after the colonial wars began, are still trying to secede from English-speaking Canada.

For a short work, this was interesting and exceptional reading. Mr.Peckham's accounts of the four Colonial Wars was accurate and complete. The struggle between France,England and Native Americans for control of North America is lost in schoolbooks and classrooms of today, because it was prior to the Revolutionary War. But the impact that these Colonial Wars had on the forming of our country is unmeasurable. Quality reading for those who want to turn the clock back a bit farther than the Boston Tea Party, and Bunker Hill.

The Coming of the Post Industrial Society; A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell is a renowned sociologist and post-Marxist, his prophetic book was first published in 1976 and republished in 1999 accompanied with a new foreword by the author. Since 1976 many of the concepts, theories and phrases Bell pioneered have become naturalised, universal conventions, and thus Bell should, most definitely, be considered a futurist.

This definitive book explores the 'coming age' and evaluates how this new Post Industrial Society will alter the structure of society. As Bell openly concedes 'the sociologist is always tempted to play the prophet and if not the prophet the seer' (Chapter 1). He does, however, explain that the 'forecasting' he attempts is different from predicting. For, forecasting is only possible where there are 'regularities and recurrences of phenomenon (and these are rare). It is only possible where one can assume a high degree of rationality on the part of the man who influences events-agreement to follow the rules'. And it seems that Bell's sociological background has given him the required understanding.

The new foreword shows considerable contemplation of the books success. Bell explains how there has been an unprecedented increase in the use of the phrase 'post industrial society' but he is not complacent, rather he underlines the lack of 'specificity as to what is connotes'. He describes how the general usage of the phrase, which is often used in reference to the decline in manufacturing and industry, does not acknowledge the parallel changes in social structure, social organisation and the new classes that will be, and have been created, specifically the class of knowledge (this theme is further explored in chapter 3, entitled The New Class Structure of the Post Industrial Society).[ Bell adamantly argues that his vision of the Post Industrial Society does not see the old one displaced by the new, rather a synthesis emerges in which the new society will overlay the old one in profound ways, much as industrialisation continues to coexist within the agrarian sectors of our society.] Thus it seems that Bell does not merely use the new foreword to hail his work a success but to redress, the misunderstood, misinterpreted or inadequately adopted parts of his social forecast.

Bell explains how it is inadequate to define the new society primarily by the services but he does see the productive nature of them. While society naturally embraces the three distinctions of industry as primary, secondary and tertiary in the new foreword Bell makes further distinctions by suggesting 'quaternary' (covering trade and finance) and 'quinary' (health and education), these are the involved in the economics of information not goods or labour. And thus it seems that while Bell has pioneered he wants to pioneer further. He further states that the central and novel feature of the Post Industrial Society is the 'codification of theoretical knowledge and new relation of science to technology'. Major developments of the 20th century came from revolutions in physics and biology as opposed to the 'inspired and talented tinkerers' like Alexander Graham Bell. This suggests the increasing dependence on science as a means of technical and social change, and science is wholly dependent on knowledge and information.

Absolutely amazing book! Castells has done it again!