If you speak Spanish, you don't need this book. The vocabulary is so basic that the definitions wouldn't teach much to a 10-year-old. If you don't speak Spanish, then you need an English-Spanish dictionary, which this is not.

My wife is from Monterrey, Mexico. She got so frustrated with the book that she finally just left it in one of my bookcases. But it didn't do me any good, either, even though I'm a native English speaker. Every word we looked up simply wasn't there.

If you want a good Spanish-only dictionary, check out "Diccionario Larousse Del Espanol Moderno : A New Dictionary of the Spanish Language" by Ramon Garcia-Pelayo Y Gross. We bought this one later, and it's quite serviceable, though still a little incomplete. Check out my review there for more info on it.

Wish I could have seen this before making my purchase. There is not enough here for a book. There is no magic to the storytelling. I read it in ten minutes max. Not even suitable for a child's storybook, as the illustrations are black and white sketches. My Ethiopian husband is totally unfamiliar with these stories. I thought the book would be a nice keepsake for the kids, but there is truly not enough here to justify the hardcover. A staple would have sufficed.

The title implies its for advanced ASP developers or aimed at creating advanced applications / sites.

Sadly the book misses the mark and ends up being in 'no mans land' by sitting in a grey area which neither assists inexperienced developers or satifies and pushes more advanced coders.

Having varying authors to contribute sepereate chapters leaves the book with a lack of cohesion due to the differing writing styles. The content, and the way it is presented, leaves a lot to be desired.

To conclude the book promissed to be a sound addition to a developers library but ends up being a rather expensive coaster to put you coffee cup on while you're sweating over your code.

Avoid at all costs!

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I've read virtually none of the text of this children's Bible, so I'm reviewing the illustrations only. They are awful. The characters, including Jesus, are clownish; there is no emotion or gravitas in any of the figures at all.

I exchanged this book for The Early Reader's Bible by V. Gilbert Beers which I vastly prefer.

I should say, however, that there is an 8-year old girl at my church who loves the Eager Reader Bible, reads it faithfully, and remembers the stories when they come up in church or Sunday School. So I'm not sure children would share my view.

Still, whether they would or not, I'd just as soon my son not think of Jesus as a goofball cartoon figure with a funny nose.

bORING! THATS ALL i HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT

Entering geometry for the first time ever can be an almost initimidating venture, especially for the first time geometry student. After conquering other mathematical courses successfully (like algebra and statistics), I presumed entering "Elementary Geometry for College Students," based on being given exceptional required texts from previous courses, would be a breeze. Oh how wrong I was!

"Elementary Geometry for College Students," by Daniel C. Alexander (of Parkland College) and Geralyn M. Koeberlein (of Mahomet-Seymour High School), has taught me nothing more than NOT to trust a textbook written by a couple of hack authors from unknown schools with a blatant disregard for meticulously explaining important vital and "elementary" steps as to how to arrive to certain statements, reasoning, deducing, measurements, and so much more NEEDED in successfully acheving full reign over geometry. For example, the origins of postulates and proofing are never explored, but slammed in your face, convoluting both topics along with breaking down statements from deducing a particular shape, its angles and measurements. The book's attempts at explaining triangles, convex polygons, congruent triangles, and properties of parallelograms are all but slandered together (with steps in basic algebraic mathematical equations arrogantly skipped over and presumed upon to you) without any form of thorough reason or explained steps bothered in explaining. Important theorems are disarrayed throughout with quick-step problem examples without helpful or detailed reasoning as to how the answer was ever achieved.

The authors have obviously assumed a college student has had some form of pre-geometry course prepping, and expect both instructor and student to know the advanced fundamentals without considering the beginner geometry student at all (just from judging by example and "solutions" given in each section). As a result, students will fail miserably, along with angering frustration, and discontent wonderment over what purpose geometry may ever serve toward a real-life career. Perhaps trying "Geometry for Dummies" by the infamous IDG publishing company would be a much suitable levelage to this otherwise detrimental book attempting to teach an important equation to the universe of mathematics.

By far, this textbook is the worst and most horrible book in teaching the subject of geometry!!

To professors searching a geometry book for your students: PLEASE avoid this book at all costs! You and your students don't need a textbook that presumes you know it all before diving into shapes, proofing, deducing, theorums, solids, and so forth. Most surely, there are much more superior books to this wretched and horrid title worthy of its decommissioning.

of mathematical equations from information theory with little or no physical substance. One of the authors (Brooks) appears to be a misplaced mathematician who formally became a zoologist. It should be remembered that General Relativity was first submitted for publication by a mathematician (Hilbert) ahead of a physicist (Einstein) by a matter of weeks (but essentially by theft from Einstein, being a former mentor of Einstein)and dismissed in favour of the physicist as lacking any physical insights.

The late Volkenstein succintly criticized the book in his outstanding book "Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution"
as follows:

"As useless as the book cited above is the book 'Evolution as Entropy'by Brooks and Wiley. The basic proposition in this work is that speciation is controlled by the stochastic premises of the second law of thermodynamics. One may only regret that in the 43 years since the publication of Schrodinger's work [the book 'What is Life?'] a book has appeared whose authors do not understand the role of the second law of thermodynamics in living nature...the authors are concerned only with the amount of information and, hence, with entropy. But, by confining oneself to these concepts alone, one can hardly say anything about evolution...in the world of living things the quality or value of information is often of decisive importance...No appropriate methods have yet been worked out for estimation of the quality of information...

The problem of the origin of valuable information is very important to biology. It can be expressed by the formula:

V = log(P/P0)
where P and P0 are respectively the probabilites of achieving a 'purpose' before and after the information is received.

As we have seen, interesting results can be obtained with the aid of the tentative definition of information value as the indispensability, non-redundancy of information. However, the transition from static information theory, in which time does not figure, to dynamic information theory, which includes reception and memorizing and, hence, time and semantics has not yet been realized in physics.

The molecular theory of orgasmic evolution has not yet been united with the synergistic approaches and its development is beset with formidable difficulties... The key problem of evolutionary theory is the relationship between genotype and phenotype studied at different levels...As we have seen, this problem is missing in systems that are studied in the Eigen theory."

I have a hard time believing a PHD and Department Head wrote this book. I got the book out of curiosity after hearing Dr. Gibran on TV. The book was unlike any other academic book I've ever read, it would have been a joke at any other college with a real International Relations Department. The poor guy is constantly billing himself as a International Relations expert, a History Expert, a Terrorism Expert, anything he can do to get his face on TV as an "expert" commentator. Save your money, buy Dr. Seuss.

Granted the area of partnership taxation and S corp taxation are confusing, this book is actually even harder to understand and follow than the actual code section itself. The organization of the book is hard to follow. In programming terms, it's like a spaghetti. Links point to everywhere of the code section but does not follow a logical pattern. You're better off reading the internal revenue code itself.