Dave Barry is one of the finest writers out there. Boy, I wish i could have his job, writtng booger jokes all day. This book is another of his comic geniuses just as funny as any other.

I am a banker by profession and also a postgraduate research student for the MSc in Internet Banking. I have read several books and articles on this subject and I would recommend, this book if you want a concise coverage in the area of Internet Banking. The book is unique in the sense that it is the only book I know which covers the use of Portal model in online banking. The book is based on the authors' analysis of 1,753 banks in the US and dicusses areas of Internet Banking which I have not seen elsewhere. For example, chapter 14 of the book discuss exclusively on reasons why a successful bank web site must be entertaining.

In addition, the book is geared towards designing customer effective online banking portals and I would recommend it to banks that are planning to enter into Internet Banking.

However, the major draw back of this book is there is no biographies! I just cannot understand how the authors could have completely forgotten this important area especially as they are all professors. Hence, a student planning to do research or expand his knowledge will be disappointed with the book. (I am!)

So unless you can get your company to buy it as a reference book for Internet Banking, I suggest you glean the Internet for similar material. However, I must inform you that you may not be able to find all that is covered in the book

is again presented by Daniel Bell, Stephen R Graubard and colleagues in 'Toward the Year 2000.' This "work in progress" was started in the 1965 by the Commission on the Year 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It does not try to "predict" the future but rather to uncover and explore those social factor which will have a long term effect. The some 50 scholars contributing toward the study are mostly sociologists and historians with a liberal smattering of theoretical economists. They are not imaginative futurists, cultural creatives, or social activists so the chance of them being unbiased and perhaps right makes this an important resource for anyone seriously preparing for the future.

But not the best in the TMNT Series of RPG books. It has some useful stuff for the TMNT and Other Strangeness world, but all in all, unless you are a hardcore TMNT gamer I would not recomend this particular book unless you own the rest of the series. But then again, now that the line is out of print it might become a nice collectors item.

Came across this book in library. Pretty old, but the style is pleasing and it's less than 300 quite readable pages with exercises!

If it's an up-to-date version, it could fetch at least 4 star. Sorry, so many people got burnt by bubbles.

The coverage is reasonable, but there are a lot of omissions that would be difficult to justify. Check out The Best in Tent Camping, New England, by Lafe Low; the Frommer authors obviously did-- when they cover the same sites, the Frommer guide lifts whole phrases and sentences. On the other hand, Frommer covers a lot more sites, so you pretty much need both. Happy camping!

I am an antropolopy in Turkey. But my job is different job. It's not important to be antropolog. I'm angry and sad.

This book is nice.

This Rand Corporation report, prepared for the U.S. Air Force, presents a tight, concise analysis of the current and future Sino-U.S. relationship. Zalmay Khalilzad and company don't present anything new or earth shaking, nor should they have since the purpose was to analyze and present information useful to policy makers. It's a good Rand report, as most are, and is a good reference -- reassuring to those who have spent time studying the issues, and informative to those just embarking on careers as defense analysts.

The central theme of "The United States and a Rising China" is that our policy toward China should be a combination of the current "engagement" approach and "containment" -- "congagement" is the term coined by the authors. This modified engagement/containment approach recognizes China as a rising power, one which will have a gross national product equivalent to the United States in a few decades or so. It encourages continuation of enhanced economic, political and cultural ties with China, but would be "less solicitous of Chinese sensitivities on such issues as human rights." The key to success of such a policy would be to maintain a balance in the application of its co-principles of engagement and containment.

"The United States and a Rising China" covers these topics in some detail: determinants of Chinese national security behavior (which I found of interest); China's military modernization (which is a good summary, but lacks depth); and U.S. policy options (which are worth a look).

Perhaps most valuable is the analysis that looks at future military implications of a more powerful China. It's not that they would pose a threat as a peer competitor. Rather, China appears to be increasingly capable of projecting power in a limited way around its peripheral areas while still maintaining enough of a strategic capability to give caution.

So, the recommendation of the authors is to continue engagement with China, but to also hedge our bets against a future, possibly threatning regional power. The Rand analysts look out only to 2015 in assessing military capabilities of China. I found this a little bit of an analytical hedge, since Chinese analysts themselves are looking out 20 to 30 years with respect to a true military revolution in technological, doctrinal and organizational change; and the U.S. Air Force itself has studied future military capabilities to 2025.

This book is basically a register of all buildings used as field hospitals after the battle of Gettysburg, also including a description of the large hospital at Camp Letterman. It has pictures of the sites where available and gives an overview of what took place at each one, who owned it, what troops may have been there and what surgeons were stationed there. The depth of available information varies, of course. I found that the maps were on a scale too small to be very helpful -- for example, I was unable to determine what route a soldier would have taken coming off Culp's Hill and walking to the Picking farm. The book would have been vastly improved by a chapter on the type of wounds suffered during the battle and the medical care of the time; some anecdotes and factoids are given but it's really not enough. As it is, the book is probably best read as an adjunct with Patterson's Debris of Battle and possibly Gangrene and Glory or some similar work on medical treatment.

This book provides VERY useful technical models for creating a video server architecture in 1995. Too bad its the year 2000 and many of the price/performance numbers of the hardware used in the models is woefully out of date. I look forward to an updated version.