I sincerely expected a lot more. Be aware that, as of 2000, most websites featured in this book either do not exist any longer or have gone under a complete facelift. The CDROM included was quite disappointing: just a directory of the featured sites with a low resolution graphics of their splash page; there is an option to connect to them but the links are mostly outdated. I think the only value of this book is its inspirational content: some of the sites do indeed look great (I wonder about their loading time though) and will inspire some of us to do "a little more". This book was probably great 2 years ago; it has little value nowadays.

Iacocca said, "A man ahead of his times, is broke." Try and go to these incredible sites and discover the failure rate of cutting edge websites. Great designers none-the-less.

This is an awesome book! I'm a Digital Artist and I was very inspired by the designs featured in this book. It will inspire you! You will look at all your previous work and think their boring! This book is on the cutting edge. The full color pictures are awesome, it's beautifully and it rocks! I recommend it to anyone in the design field! An excellent book to inspire web designers. I love it!

WROX books used to be the only ones I'd buy; after having a grand ol' time with the ASP and ASP Databases series. The Professional series has been a real disappointment (and waste of money!). The books tend to be more wordy than necessary and spend too much time on the obvious and too little on the abstract. Cold Fusion is a fairly straight-forward programming language. WROX has somehow managed to make it much more. Perhaps too many cooks in the kitchen; looks like they had 18 authors put this beast together.
Look elsewhere...

Being a ColdFusion user group president, I give this book my seal of approval. This book is well written with easy to understand examples. It will help someone with no CF knowledge all the way to the experts. This book is well laid out and is enjoyable to read. I didn't know what to expect from Wrox on this. I have been a huge Ben Forta fan but this book is just as good as his (if not better)! If you want to learn CF, or just want to get better, buy this book. You will be very happy with it.

This is a very good book!
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For those of you whose idea of American history only stretches back to 1776, you might want to fill in the gaps with this book. Morgan not only takes the reader through the war that made our country independent, the Revolutionary War, but also how "the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom." He takes you into the hearts of the colonists and the minds of the diplomats. At the end of the book, Morgan masterfully places copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution so you, the reader, can see the effects of the events and outcomes that you just read about. Great book to enhance your knowledge of history, I give The Birth of the Republic 4 out of 5 stars making it "almost perfect."

Originally published in 1956 and revised in 1977, this book is probably familiar to a couple of generations of college students. This may well be the most accessible overview of the formative history of America. As an overview, of course, it does not go into great detail about the myriad of topics debated by historians still today, but it does hit most of the predominant features of the Revolutionary story. Morgan builds his work around the premise that the Founding Fathers did indeed operate on principle in building a new nation and that the struggle eventually framed itself as a pursuit of equality among all men. He admits that many of the decisions made by the leaders of the Revolution did equate to economic or property gains for themselves, but he argues that this is not contradictory at all with a commitment to liberty because liberty in the 18th century essentially hinged on land ownership. He also rationalizes the contradiction of slavery's continued existence being incorporated into the Constitution by arguing that the convention delegates acted out of urgent concern for the future of a government in its death throes at the hands of a powerless Congress as set up by the Articles of Confederation--without such compromise, the important new Constitution could not have been ratified by a sufficient number of states before the young nation collapsed at the feet of the British and Spanish.

Morgan first examines the increasingly rocky relationship between the English Parliament and the colonies--specifically, the debate over taxation and infringement of liberties that led up to the declaration of independence. He devotes a few pages to the war but does not delve very deeply into military matters. Morgan does an excellent job explaining why the Articles of Confederation failed and how the problems of that system were widely recognized, frankly debated, and resolved in the creation of a new national government established upon the bedrock of a new federal Constitution.

Aside from Morgan's excellent treatment of the birth of the American republic, this book also features the texts of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and federal Constitution; a timeline of important events; and a pretty expansive discussion of source materials published before 1977. In sum, this book is ideal for anyone just wanting to learn or review the pivotal events surrounding the creation of the United States without having to sift through scholarly criticisms and debates of important yet secondary aspects of the story.

This book is a great over view of the time before, during, and after the revolution. I must confess that I read this as a required text book for my American history class. It is the first and possibly only text book that I can say I liked well enough to read all the way through and like it. This book goes very breifly over the events in a very readable fashion. Those studying history (such as myself) can always read a companion to the revolution along with it to go more in depth into the revolution. For those who only want a brief history this book is perfect.

In 'Faith Seeking Understanding'. Migliore has in this book put together one of the clearest, accessible systematic theologies available today. It is written in a crisp, concise, and engaging style which is short on technical and differently-defined terms, and long on meaning and substance.

Migliore addresses all of the major issues of a Christian systematic theology -- the nature of God, the nature and mystery of the Trinity, the person and work of Jesus Christ, the authenticity of sources and norms, eschatology and the future of faith, as well as other topics. He does a very good job at briefly introducing each topic in a modern historical context, bringing up topics from the past that have impacted upon the development of theological ideas, and then presenting the diversity of current theological positions.

This text is used in systematic theology courses in ecumenical seminaries -- it is particularly well suited for the task because it does not shrink from important issues of faith or morality, but does not force the reader into a particular set of beliefs. All who read this will variously agree and disagree with the author, with historical authorities, and with contemporary theologians at some point or another in the text.

However, this is no mere textbook. It is a wonderful introduction to theological thought processes. Whether your theological framework is medieval catholic or liberation or process or non-denominational; whether your approach to biblical authority is literalist or free-form or skeptical; whether your faith is strong, weak, agnostic, or atheist, this book will give you things to think about. It is in no way preachy, and doesn't even pretend to try to convince. This is the point of faith seeking understanding -- one will not come to faith by simple academic exercise. But this book can help clarify whatever faith is already there.

I have taught theology at the college level for 15 years (including among my students "Captain Bloodloss," one of this book's reviewers), and have found it consistently to be the finest, most readable introduction to Christian theology on the market. Migliore has the genius to draw traditional ideas and formulations into creative interaction with contemporary concerns about ecology, justice and sexism.

His central motif is the doctrine of the Trinity as the church's testimony to the self-giving, other-receiving, community-forming love that God has demonstrated to the world through Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. I think he hews consistently and beautifully to this motif as his theological norm. His writing breathes new and exciting life into every doctrine he considers.

I love this book.

I wanted to add my voice to the reviews listed here, as I read this book first when I was doing religious studies in college. In my senior theology class, we read two books, the first was a "systematic theology" from the traditional conservative evangelical protestant tradition of christianity (its such a same that many adjectives are required.) The second was this book. The former only rehashed all the dogmatic assertions and creedish recitations that I had heard all my life. However this book took those same topics and grently nudged me to think on them in new and reflective ways. As I began to read this book more, I found myself inspiried and strongly influence. It opened up deeper levels of understanding of the issues in Christian theology, and it inspired a lot of my later writing, and well as years of continued study and personal soul searching.

I would call this book and excellent starting point. It's STYLE is the biggest plus in its favor. It is graceful, fluent and never agressive. Migliore encourages the reader to think -- but that's it. There's little in his writing that has the tone of "authoritarian" or dogmatic. That's not to say he writes likea push over. It is to say rather that his book was like a dialoge of seeking and serious reflection, rather than a monologe of some "authority" telling me the right and wrong way to think, period.

Most importantly, it is very beautiful. Migliore's emphasis is on the hope that is possible, on the joy that is rightfully ours, in a life lived in fullness and vitality, with deep meaning and great sigificance. It is a book that can remind a person why Christianity should be relevant in the first place, and speaks without shame about the many different ways in which the true heart of the message of grace has been neglected and lost by the contemporation church institution.

A very excellent book to start with. If you are interesting in seeking understanding, I can almost promise you that this will not be the last book you read, but only the first, and that you'll almost immediately want to do more reading and studying after this one.

The book's preface indicates "We assume the students has had no prior exposure to accounting and financial statements, and has had little exposure to the business world". Hah! As I read through this book, I honestly believe these authors (professional CPAs) had completely forgot who their target audiences were.

If this is a required textbook for your class, I highly suggest looking into a good supplemental book. Good luck.

i realize that a review of a textbook is somewhat of a moot point. after all, you have to buy the book that the professor tells you to buy. but, here it is anyway:

the book was average in every sense of the word. the one thing i did not like about it was that it did not highlight every new word or phrase and define it. only about half of the new words or phrases were highlighted in a text box next to the paragraph. this means that if you were searching for a word or phrase, if it was not noted in the margin, then it was very difficult to find it. this is fairly typical of textbooks, so i figured it was average.

This book is really great. A must have for those interested in Accounting. I own the book and had classes with Professor Libby. He really knows what he's talking about.

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It's easy to assume that this book is going to be a kind of titillating exploitative look at freaks, but that isn't what it is at all. Mannix draws from his extensive carnie experience to create a tender and even sweet look at people who were not like others around them. Mannix is clearly fueled by anger that political correctness has deprived these people of their means of earning a living and forced them into institutions. It's a way of thinking that I hadn't encountered before this book. He covers giants, midgets, people with parasitic twins, hermaphrodites, fat people, wild people and many others-- telling stories and anecdotes of his time on the road. Well worth the time.

This is a very good book for the lover of oddities out there. I especially love the photos and the stories of these people. Very god book!! I recomend anyone interested in oddities to pick thsi gem up. There are many wonderful pictures. I am a huge fan of Jo-Jo The dog Faced boy.

When I first saw this book it was on the bargain/clearance rack at the local bookstore. Having seen Montel's wonderful TV show, I decided that I'd buy the book and take it home for immediate reading. I made a big mistake. Instead of finding glimmering little gems of wisdom and insight throughout the pages of the book, I found nothing but a lot of self-congratulatory references to Montel's supposed superior public speaking abilities and his assumptions that he has all of the answers for society's various ills. When I was through reading this book I experienced a feeling that I have never had before -- I wanted to slowly roast his book in my barbecue grill! No other author has ever managed to raise such a truly unpleasant feeling inside of me like this guy has. Before I read the book, I respected and even admired Montel, but after I read it I began to dislike him immensely. Maybe this would have been a better book if Montel had the common courtesy to check his ego at the door and focused on something other than how great he thinks that he is.

I purchased this book several years ago and found it to be very down to earth. I appreciate the fact that while Montel shared his not always so bright life with the public he was able to share lessons learned that could bless someone else who may have been going down the same path. I commend him as a man to be able to receive correction but to also admit fault and openly correct his behavior to make his future better. I also enjoyed the example of him standing up for his show and doing what he thought was a proper format not matter what the cost or what the network execs thought. Being an example for our youth is important and Montel showed that he could influence our children on their level and not preach at them. This book gives us all a reality check in things we can do to improve ourselves, our relationships, our children and our society. Continued success!

In Montel William's book, he brings much light onto the never-ending battle people have with frustration and "hard times." I was given this book as a gift from my mom. She said she heard from people at work that it was very eye-opening and motivational. I would be lying if I said I didn't agree. From the opening chapter, until the very end, you'll get a feeling of warmth and bursts of motivation as you read about the trials and tribulations of Montel as you begin to relate to your own life experiences. His recollection of a motivational lecture at a high school where he calls on a young boy to discuss issues of morals (chapter 2?) will put an ear-to-ear smile on your face. While this book is not a "billion-dollar" winner, it sure is worth a read. I find myself thinking about this book in particular when I come across situations in my life that require personal integrity and determination. I am now 18 and I still think about the words and wisdom that Montel had to offer. Do yourself a favor and give it a chance, it might be as influential on you as it was me.

This book showed great promise...an indepth look at the American Infantry on today's battlefield. As an Infantry officer on active duty I was very disappointed. I have three major complaints with this book. First, it's super cheesy and hard to take seriously. For example,"Like lightning and thunder, hard fliers and hard grunts together bring down the storm." Very colorful language, but not academic in the least.
Second, this book has little to no in-depth analysis. The author had a great opportunity to demonstrate lessons that we continue to learn across the spectrum of Infantry operations. Instead, he simply retold a few fairy tale versions of modern battle. No origional thought!
Third, this book is overly simplistic to the point of being inaccurate. For example, on page 207 the author describes the Ranger action in Mogadishu on 3 Oct 93. He states that MSG Gordon and SFC Shugart were the task force "final reserve." This is so simplified and dumbed down that its really not an accurate portraite of events.
The only reason I finished this book is because I am stuborn. I consider reading it a waste of my time.

Before I started this book, I was a great fan of Daniel Bolger's and had read all his previous books. Based upon his excellent earlier works of both fiction and non-fiction, I felt that Bolger was both a talented professional soldier and a gifted writer. Death Ground changed that impression. This book is a polemical piece with elitist contempt virtually dripping from its pages. Nor are there any great lessons to be learned here.

Organizationally, the book has seven chapters that focus on different types of US infantry units involved in recent operations. The vignettes include Panama (1989), Desert Storm (1991), Somalia (1993), Haiti (1994) and Liberia (1996). With the exception of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, all these tactical vignettes are company or smaller size actions. Each chapter is used to highlight the unique characteristics of that type of unit. According to Bolger, there are approximately 100,000 US infantry in 91 Regular Army and Marine battalions. Actually, using his tables of organization, the number is 69,189 and that includes non-infantry personnel in those units.

Only regular US Army and Marine units are included in the survey of modern American infantry. Bolger begins in the first chapter by contemptuously dismissing the Army National Guard and Reserve infantry units; "these part-time warriors ...are not manned, equipped, trained, disciplined, or led to the standards of the Regulars. Perhaps in the days when preparing for battle meant grabbing a squirrel gun off the mantel and learning a few parade-ground evolutions, the armed forces could get by with that caliber of soldier... Close combat demands professionals..." Aside from the obvious insult to the over 100 Army National Guard infantry battalions who are treated as pathetic sub-humans, Bolger ignores the fact that the tough Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese infantry who gave us so much trouble in 1950-1975 were conscripts with no special training and usually limited combat experience. The Somali militiamen who came close to annihilating Task Force Ranger were not well-trained professionals, merely motivated amateurs. In fact, when Bolger quips about the National Guard that, "for a variety of good reasons, those happy warriors had not been called to federal service," he ignores the deployment of Army National Guard infantry to the Sinai, Croatia and Bosnia in recent years.

Bolger then moves on to heap derision on the Military Intelligence Community. Citing the 101st Airborne air assault into Iraq in February 1991, Bolger claims that MI analysts who forecast little or no Iraqi resistance on the Landing Zone "could afford to be smug". Bolger ignores the fact that US commanders had the most thorough intelligence picture of an enemy that any army has had in history and wisecracks, "intelligence expertise be damned". In a typical swipe, Bolger claims that "intell analysts work in air-conditioned trailers; they don't patrol." False. I served as a battalion, brigade and division intelligence officer in a light infantry division and we had no "air-conditioned trailers" - we worked off the ubiquitous Humvees liked everybody else. And when not engaged in intelligence activities, MI soldiers must engage in local security which includes patrolling.

Bolger's next target is the armor community, lamenting that the mechanized infantry battalions are "an endangered species" because they are "yoked to a corpse, the US Army's heavy armored force." Bolger insultingly claims, "the combat arm of decision excels at waging yesterday's war. Armor's time has passed...American armor has contributed exactly four days of honest work in the last five decades." Bolger suggests that a few tanks should be retained for infantry support work, but the vast majority should be retired. This blatantly biased view ignores the valuable contributions that US tankers made in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as maintaining the peace along the Inter-German Border in the Cold War.

Throughout the book, Bolger makes constant chest-thumping assertions that "every active battalion is an elite body" and that only Regulars can handle infantry combat. American draftees from earlier wars are derided as lacking intelligence and motivation (World War Two veterans should also be insulted by this book); Bolger claims they were unwilling to close with the enemy. Wasn't one of the greatest American infantrymen of all time, Sergeant Alvin York, a mere draftee with no special training? How many West Point Ranger School graduates have single-handedly eliminated 157 enemy soldiers and 35 machineguns? Check the other Medal of Honor winners from 1917-1972; not many "professionals" in that elite group.

This bad book ends with some truly awful conclusions. Bolger anticipates that the 91 current Regular battalions will further shrink but become even more elite as they "merge" with the Special Operations Community. He forecasts a bright future for the Marines and Rangers, less bright for the airborne/air assault community and virtually none for the light and mechanized units. That only makes sense if you anticipate military operations that only last a few days or weeks, but not well-suited to more drawn-out campaigns. Bolger makes incredibly broad generalizations about the future using only his examples from 1989-1996. For somebody with a PhD in Military History, Bolger shows a great deal of ignorance for that subject. American and British professional soldiers in the Nineteenth Century adapted to frontier warfare, but they never lost sight of the true mission, which was preparation for the Big One, as Bolger puts it. Bolger is correct in pointing out the obvious that there will be more wars, but probably incorrect in forecasting that the next decade will look like the previous one. They rarely do. Should we become involved in a major, long-term conflict in Asia or Latin America - distinct possibilities in the next decade - then a small, elitist US military will not suffice as a deterrent. This book should not be on anyone's professional reading list.

As a former Marine I have always carried the opinion (perhaps biased) that the Army was archaic and hopeless in its approach to modern warfare, that it clung too stubbornly to a method of combat more fitting a full-scale European Theatre conflict (ala the Soviet Union).

Col. Bolger has certainly enlightened me to the Army's ability to handle modern warfare. Anyone with any understanding of the paradigm shifts which have occurred following the end of the Cold War will understand and appreciate this book. Anyone seeking a better understanding of how the military is prepared to deal with the paradigm shifts which have occurred following the end of the Cold War will understand and appreciate this book.

Those who long for the strategy & tactics of the Cold War period and wish the world wouldn't change will have little appreciation for this book. Those who can't see beyond pride in their current units to face reality will have little appreciation for this book.

I hope Army hard-liners will take this analysis to heart.

I would share a fighting hole with Col.Bolger. That's a statement I make about few people.

I suppose if you've had extensive experience with OOP and C++ you'll be able to deal with this book. Otherwise, you're in deep trouble. The book introduces terms and topics long before they're adequately explained, blows through complicated topics without much illustration, and insists on using example programs that are obtuse. I spent more time trying to understand the example programs than learning the construct the program supposedly demonstrated. This was the assigned textbook for a class on Java I was taking, and after 5 chapters, I gave up on it. After searching amazon, I found the truly excellent book by Walter Savitch, Java: An Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. I've completed all my assignments using the Savitch book.

This book provides a comprehensive intro to Java 1.2 using JBuilder 3, with some minor caveats:

For an "introduction", the book assumes a bit too much. A prime example is the frequent use of "packages" in the sample code without any mention of what they are or why they are used, until page 175 in Chapter 5.

Also, the step-by-step instructions on using the IDE are quite frustrating if you have purchased a copy of the "Professional" version, as I have. The menus are just different enough that the Author should have included steps for both, when giving specific instructions to the first-time user.

Although the book has a web site, I couldn't find an errata page at the site. I did find a few errors, which might frustrate a self-studier like myself.

Beyond these points, I consider it good as a textbook or for self-teaching using JBuilder 3.

I bought this book with the intention of learning Java, this after buying a number of other books on the subject, which either assume you have advanced knowledge of C++ or concentrate on coding applets. The book covers Java from a structured programming point of view, with plenty of exercises for hands on practice. If you are really serious about developing industry standard code this book is for you. If however you just want to liven up your personal web page with some applets, perhaps try one of the 'Dummies ' range.

Just look at Table of Contents. This book offers very little practical input on actual installation of cable. It's better suited for network topology design and review of network equipment,protocols, and theory in general. Almost half of the book is an assortment of RFC's and protocol standarts. Regurgitation of irrelevant information. Get 'The Cabling Handbook' by Vacca or 'The complete guide to network cabling'.

I thought this was an excellent book. We liked it so much we used the book to teach our networking basics class.

I like this book so much at I am going to have my instructors use it in my training classes at the Technology Center.