This is a good over all book, but two things bring the rating down a lot. First, When you are a child in Angel Tower. Moving the blocks is confusing. A person I know found a way that takes 50% less time and is not confusing at all. Second, and the reason that it is three stars not four and a half is the pictures are out of order. It shows different sceans from when you are an adult when you are a child. That is the reason that this book is so bad. If the author makes thoes changes the book will be 100% compleat, not 65% compleat. It would also help to add the best weapon for each character and where you can get it. Lastly, the fishing section is very compleat and good but I can manage with out it and more is needed.

This book was awesome. It was quite helpful in helping me find all the Dragon Genes, helping me fish, provide a walkthrough, providing all the game's secrets, profiles on the characters, how to heal status changes, etc., etc., etc. If you're having trouble, get this book.

This is a great book it gets you all the dragon genes, all the weapons, all the magic, all fishing equipment plus some really great secrets of the game. Before I bought this book I had trouble finding key items or weapons, but now I have everything I need to beat the game. Ryan the Game Player

Good, thorough explanation of chiropractic in relation to dogs. Good illustrations that help you understand the mechanism of the adjustment. As a chiropractor, I appreciate the detail Dr. Kamen goes into regarding adjustments; however, the typical dog owner may not be able to identify serious medical conditions that would be aggravated by performing a chiropractic adjustment versus a simple malalignment or "subluxation" that would respond very well. Good basic book to look at if you're thinking of taking your dog to an animal chiropractor. Great book to understand what it's all about and how your pet may benefit.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who has a dog suffering from bladder control problems and neck pain. The methods are easy to do and Dr. Kamen's explanations are as lucid as I've ever read. Fun to read. Gary Meirs, Chicago, IL.

Dr. Dan has written an easy to follow book for the lay person and he has noted which adjustments should be left to a chiropractor. His drawings really help you understand what he is doing. The next best thing to this book is having him actually do the adjusting. My dog is a patient, he helped her get up and he got my bunny to hop again.My bunny loved him (he prolonged his life). Not to mention he's pretty good at adjusting humans.

Marketing on the internet reminds me of the California goldrush of 1849. There's plenty of money to be made out there but if you don't get there in time you'll be out of luck.

I'm new to marketing. I was asked by an internet based training company based in Chicago to write a proposal to market their web site. I knew nothing about marketing. My expertise was in web design. I got on Amazon.Com and started reading reviews on books about internet marketing. The reviews for Dan Janal's book were very favorable so I decided to buy the book.

I read throught the first few chapters and already knew what to put in my proposal. We are now getting an investment banker to lend us $50,000.00 to develop and market our web site.

I've also started my own business on the side and will definitely implement the techniques that I've learned from this book into the development of my own business.

There is a limited time where you can get into your niche on the internet. I feel that Dan Janal has enough experience doing this himself that anyone who follows his advise will be able to get into their niche and become the next Amazon.Com.

We are a permission email marketing service company, in order to promote the web site for an Association..., I picked up a copy of Danal's latest book to read on my backpack trip in Colorado over this July 4th weekend. The book is one of the treat! on top of the nature, smell of the pine trees, the cool breeze, the lakes and the tough beef jerky..... Janal provides excellent information to cover all fronts of Internet Marketing from PR to search engine tips.

It's a joy to read Janal's book!

Dan Janal has been on the frontlines of Internet marketing for many years. He has written and spoken on the topic well. His latest book, Janal's Guide to Marketing on the Internet, represents the best advice available on promoting one's self online in plain and easy to read language.

Janal covers plenty. The book is packed with a wealth of great marketing advice that will help any marketing campaign. Some of the marketing strategies discussed in the book include creating online marketing plans, Website design intended to get results, incorporating the use of search engines, effectively using e-mail, writing and distributing publicity material online, building relationships with other online people in the newsgroups, establishing virtual communities, creating special focus groups, and offering quality customer service.

Sticking to the business of marketing ourselves online is not always easy to accomplish. A lot of other events and circumstances can compete for our time. Janal is up front with his readers, and at the front of his book he points out that those persons who will most benefit from his book are those persons who are seriously determined to carry out the strategies outlined in it.

Marketing products, services, and information online is big business for a lot of people these days. Consider the opportunities that are available for businesses large and small, public service and private organizations, associations, and average people like you and me. Take what Janal has to offer you in this book and put it to use today!

This book is probably the best book around, but it's still not what it should be. The authors emphasize a lot on assembly language but never bother to explain the big picture. What might have helped is a short chapter on C and assembly language interfacing, and just a road map of function calls with a detailed description of data structures, locking, and deadlock conditions. More emphasis should have been given to tricky things like bh, tasklets, and softirqs (which is absent).

At many places the book is ambiguous. For example, if process A is running when an interrupt comes that will eventually wake up process B -- which kernel stack does this interrupt use? A or B. Well not too difficult to figure out, but the book should point these little things out rather than making general statements like "the IF flags are saved on the stack" -- everyone knows its saved on the stack, but which one?

There is no shortcut to reading the source code so there is no point in explaining one zillion times that mov a, b will move a to b. BTW the author never explains various things that gcc and ld implicitly do to the final image (e.g., how is the function table for do_initcalls created and populated and why does the order of linking change the initialization process. etc etc)

I regret buying the book and I wish I had spent my time and money on grepping and buying coffee. Read the DJASM guide to gcc and assembly and use any source navigator to browse through the source. Its far simpler that way -- and you are uptodate with the kernel releases. happy hacking!

This book is very nicely written. This book will solve the purpose for beginners as well as for experts. I had the source code for linux, but i couldnt find a way to delve into the finer details and associate it with the architectural details of x86. This book helped me achieve that. This book builds up a required base hardware/software for each topic and then delves into the finer details. I suggest referring the Intel systems programming manuals before/during reading this book.

Pavan

This is the linux kernel book thar makes the difference. Although I 've tried some other books on the subject it was "Understanding the Linux kernel" that gave me some answers to my questions. It covers anything (ok, except networking, it is the core kernel book) from booting to other topics with lots of diagrams.

This is a good book on leading change and the effect of change on people (and, in turn, the effect of people on the change initiative). However, it doesn't measure up to Kotter's "Leading Change," Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood's "Results-Based Leadership," or Fogg's "Implementing Your Strategic Plan." The problem is that the book really makes you work to mine the little "nuggets" of wisdom that it contains. Essentially, this book is a large case-study of Honeywell's Micro Switch subsidiary. Buried deep within the case study are the management principles that we're all reading the book to discover. I'm not saying that the book isn't well-written and worth the time to read; rather, I'm saying that it isn't easy. I would have preferred some quote-boxes or other graphics that highlighted the necessary information. Perhaps two or three chapters in the beginning that detail the change process and the book's fundamental management principles. In the end, I think this book would have been a fantastic article in Harvard Business Review. However, as a book, it just takes too long to get to the point. Overall grade: B-/B.

Whenever I ask executives about what their biggest problem is, they always say that it is getting the people in their organization to change. The executive rarely sees a need to change her or him self. This perception of the situation is at the foundation of every change problem I have ever seen in my career.

This slanted perspective usually reflects having a lousy idea for what needs to be changed that is being legitimately resisted, a poor understanding of how to communicate about change, and a one-sided view of who should benefit from any change (usually the executive).

In The Change Monster, Ms. Duck addresses the communication issues directly, the one-sided view of who should benefit indirectly, and pays not enough attention to what the idea for change should be.

The book opens with the perspective of organizations that have to change . . . or else because they have just been taken over, taken someone else over, or won't be around if they don't change. Those situations create the potential for a burning platform to get everyone's attention.

Relatively little is said about getting attention when the wolf isn't so near the door, except to cite Dr. Grove's advice, "Only the paranoid survive." That's the hard part. I hope the author will spend more time on that point in future books.

The book describes a new taxonomy for evaluating where you are in the change process: Stagnation (essentially stuck in a rut that isn't working); Preparation (getting people ready for making an important change); Implementation (figuring out and announcing the details of what to do); Determination (actually carrying through on the plans and new commitments); and Fruition (using the new success to strengthen the foundations of future progress). The author does a good job of pointing out that people and parts of the organization can be at all of these steps at exactly the same moment in time. The leaders need to know where people are, help people know where they are, and encourage progress to the next step.

For most people, the key benefit of this book will be in realizing what the important communications challenges are after everyone has been given their new assignments. Many executives will want to drop working on change at that point, and instead drop the ball on the process. You simply cannot communicate too much after the marching orders start to be developed, beginning with asking lots of questions and listening. The emotional commitment has yet to have been made by most in the organization, and you can get counter-reactions instead of support very easily.

For others, the key benefit will be the excellent descriptions of the kinds of emotions that are often felt at the various moments and stages in the process, and how these emotions can be constructively addressed.

I enjoyed the two extended case histories from Ms. Duck's practice that form the bulk of the book. One involves turning around a fading industry leader that was part of Honeywell, and the other is a consolidation of the research-and-development operations of two merging pharmaceutical companies. The first example is more often on the right path, and the latter is more often not. Good lessons are pentiful in both cases about the messiness and nasty surprises of change that will be helpful to those who haven't been through these major transformations before.

Many people will dislike the examples in the book because the clients are off doing the wrong thing all the time except when rescued by the consultants. I'm a little uncomfortable with a book that relies on case histories with so much intensive consulting involvement as really being a management book.

Most significantly, you can simply put the wrong change in place . . . or at least one that isn't as good as a readily available alternative. This book focuses so little on that issue that I fear it will be overlooked by those reading this material. In that event, the myopic executive who see the problem of change as "my people won't change" will simply be able to use consultants in new ways to "bribe and cajole my people to change in the ways I like." I fear that solution often won't solve the problem.

I admire Ms. Duck's candor about her personal life and her consulting experiences. She's got what it takes to hang in there!

After you finish reading this book, I suggest that you think about where you have agreed with others to make a change that isn't occurring. Could it be that you haven't brought other people along with information and emotional reasons to support the change?

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In emotionally draining management situations, you as a manager, or you as an employee feels totally lost and alone. You think that this dark cloud over your head is so unique that you don't think there is hope. Nobody will understand how this is done. I think the use of this book, akin to personal self-help book, is to tell you you are not alone. This situation you are going through is normal and you are not going out of your mind. Yes, there might not be concrete steps on how to do things, but in dealing with human beings, nothing is set in stone. That's why it's so hard to manage. That's why we have shrinks. There is no formularic way of "fixing the problem". You will just have to learn from experience, and reading about other people's experiences will help you identify potential red flags.

That's what's good about this book. It's loaded with Ms. Duck's personal experience working as a Change Management Consultant for BCG. She presents two real cases (one real and the other one an amalgamation of similar companies), tells us what was going through in the heads of management and employees. She painstakingly details the action that was taken and how it affected the company as a whole. It's a very good book to start your way into the realms of change management.

The Education of a Wandering Man is the story of one man's love affair with life. It is also amazingly well-written and shows Louis L'Amour to have been a thoughtful, philosophical man as well as an adventurer. Ironically, I haven't read his novels. When I tried to after reading this book, I concluded that his autobiography is a far greater work than his novels. I suspect that's because his own life story is a far greater story than any fiction could possibly be, plus he focused mainly on the western. I really wished he had branched out into the historical novel. He started to with The Walking Drum but that was at the end of his life and he didn't have time to follow with more novels that would cover the history of the world. As the other reviews emphasize, he began his wanderings at the age of 15 and from then on educated himself by reading. As a special bonus, at the back of the book is a list of the books he read each year from 1930-1935. It shows how widely he cast his net. If ever you want to show a teenager why reading is important, give him this book with the reminder that Louis L'Amour was a bestselling author for most of his life.

This is the best story Louis L'Amour has ever written--his own life story. In Education of a Wandering Man, he relates how he has been a reader and a writer all his life. No matter where he was, or what he was doing, he retained a love of books and words in general.

This love, of course, led to his present career. But, more importantly, his voracious reading gave him an education that he was missing otherwise. He would live on a sandwich a day so he could afford to buy more books.

This is a compelling story from one of the most compelling storytellers. Anyone who loves to read will find much to identify with, especially those of us who keep logs of what we read. It's so nice to find another like oneself.

After reading this, I want to go out and find more L'Amour books to read, especially The Walking Drum, which gets a specific mention because it concerns reading. Education of a Wandering Man has become a new favorite autobiography. It is one-of-a-kind.

After reading a good marjority of L'Amour's books I finally came across this book. It is a great look into the life of Louis L'Amour, his education, his travels, and gives a background to the books he has written.
It is refreshing to me to read work by an author who uses a lot of reality. Geographical locations, people in history, events, and many other things. Of coarse it is fiction, and does contain that certain piece of fantasy that is easy to get wrapped into. The whole heroic ideal, the fast draw, and the good guy who always gets the girl.

Unix is one of those systems that you can only be for or against, Unix users are normally against as this book perfectly shows. The anti foreword by Dennis Ritchie shows the academic level at which the pro-con discussion normally takes place:

"<...>Your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations. Like excrement, it contains enough indigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some."

The book contains many literal transcripts from uunet news postings which use the same tone.

Many examples of Unix insanity are given, who didn't ever use rm * .o when actually rm *.o was meant, or who doesn't think that the sequence mv a -a; mv -a a should result in file a back where it was ?
Sometimes the complaints are unjust (occasionally footnoted with something along the lines of: well it is possible to do this, but not obvious), outdated or irrelevant, but most of it is very true.

Garfinkel, et. al. have created a masterpiece, by culling the best of the UNIX haters newsgroup and weaving the collection into one cohesive volume.

As a certified SUN OS administrator and former UNIX network manager, this book crystallizes for me the reasons why (like all things painful) I stopped.

It is chock full of precise examples and loaded with anectodes that back up their technical arguments against all things UNIX.

However, it is (most importantly) a well written and very entertaining book. I read it three times with the same enjoyment each time.

I laughed until I cried. When I was done, I laughed some more just remembering it.

This is for me (quite literally) on my book shelf with three or four all-time favorite books.

Unix is a certainly a powerful operating system, but it is not the embodiment of divine perfection, as too many people seem to assume. If you're going to be using Unix, or programming on Unix, this book is an invaluable road map to the pitfalls that lie ahead, to save you from having to discover them all for yourself. No Unix user should be without it.

Pastor Hagee does a wonderful job in presenting Biblical prophecy. He not only describes the book of Daniel and King Nebuchanezzar's dream of the image, he also cites prophecy's from the other Old Testament prophets, such as Ezekiel and Jeremiah, as well as cite New Testament verses, from Jesus, Paul and John the Revelator. This book has many key verses that you can look at and study yourself, and make you realize that the Rapture and Tribulation will be soon and perhaps in our current generation. Although there are a few things Hagee mentions, that I would question, such as the population of Heaven after the Great White Throne Judgment, the key is that you need Jesus now! And to reject to gospel now with all the evidence that is present in the Holy Word of God, means to face tribulation and judgement. Read this book and study the Bible as you do. It will open your eyes.

This book is a useful guide to help us understand Bible prophecies and to eliminate any fear or misunderstanding. Even though I have read the Bible and understood God's love and grace, the way Dr. Hagee explains how deeply God loves his children is very comforting and inspirational. I am ordering two more copies to share with friends and family members. God bless thee and keep thee.

The end is near, that fact is certain. Through the book, Hagee unravels the mysteries of Daniel and parts of Revelation, taking nothing out of context, and remaining biblically sound. His writing is inspiring, yet scary for those who don't know the truth. From Daniel to Doomsday can be a great witnessing tool for skeptics, for it shows the unrefutable EXACTNESS that prophecy really displays. An excellent book, an excellent read, recommendable to pastors, teachers, christians and non-believers alike. It will challenge the thoughts and doctrines and presuppositions that anyone has. EXCELLENT!

I really enjoyed Star Jones new book. I loved her honesty, confidence, energy, focus and most importanly her sense of humor. I am thankful to know the real Ms. Jones through this book. Can't wait for the sequel. She is a TRUE DIVA. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!

"You Have to Stand for Something or You'll Fall for Anything" By Star Jones is the most inspiring book I have read in a long time. Star speaks as hard and meaningful as she does everyday on the hit show "The View". Every chapter has a message behind it that will make you think about your life in a way you did not before. The book ranges from many different topics that deal with our society on a day to day bases. It is one of those books that you start and you just can not put it down.

I enjoyed this book so much. Star Jones is definitely a role model for the young and old alike. She is sassy, educated, and a true DIVA! Her level of self-esteem is amazing and empowering. Her upbringing and closeness of her family members, reminds me much of my own relationships. I must say I can relate with so much of what she wrote. This is a "must read".

Most people who end up with this set are probably more interested in the Anakin 13.5" figure than the accompanying book. Anakin is quite nice, with a high level of articulation and a pleasing expression. The book is smaller than you might think from the size of the package. The first section covering the development of the Vader character is interesting reading. The second part is essentially a summation of Vader's role in Episodes 4-6, which is familiar to most everyone. The third is a fairly detailed look at Vader collectibles, which is fun reading for a Star Wars collector, although intense fans may already know about most of it. The presentation is gorgeous throughout, from the massive outer box to the attractive merging of photos and text in the book itself. All in all, a different sort of Star Wars piece well worth picking up.

First, be warned. The official Amazon Editorial has it right: the story within doesn't have much to say about the Anakin Skywalker we now know from Episodes I and II. The book, co-authored by Lucasfilm exec and author of the Star Wars Encyclopedia Stephen J. Sansweet, was published several months before The Phantom Menace's release and "the early years" of Anakin's life are based on early story concepts, not from the outlines or scripts to the sequels.

That having been said, readers will come to understand that the central figure of the six-movie Star Wars saga is really Darth Vader, and that he is really George Lucas' favorite character. The fiction and non-fiction look at this tragic hero-turned-villain is insightful and very comprehensive, especially in the chapter that chronicles Darth Vader during the time span covered by the Classic Trilogy.

Like the other books in the Masterpiece Edition series, the cover price is pretty high, but I found this edition on the discount bin at Waldenbooks. It was the only one left and the cover had a tear, but that was the box cover and not the book.

The large figure of Anakin Skywalker (as seen in Return of the Jedi but in non-ghostly form) is really beautifully rendered, although it does not have a lightsaber (the small figure -- which is NOT included -- paradoxically does).

The Anakin Skywalker figure was a major total bonus!!! He is a total treasure! The book was excellent in the beginning in discussing the McQuarrie formulation of Lord Vader. The middle section, about Anakin and how he became Darth Vader didn't tell me anything new. I was hoping for some new and interesting info on the Dark Lord, but...... The third part, the collectible info was pretty good if not frightening....especially when you realize that you posess 2/3 of the Vader stuff mentioned therein. Overall, I give the book (and, mostly, the Anakin figure) an enthusiastic 2 thumbs and 2 big toes up!!!! Thanks.