The author presents an enthusiastic view of applying some ideas from object-oriented programming to business modeling. In doing so, he makes a number of unsubstantiated, if not false, claims such as "... object technology reflects fundamental cognitive processes" or "... directly supports the way managers think about their business". Compare this to the sobering statement of Jacobsen, one of the founders of the standard model of object orientation (the "UML"), who said that "it is bizarre to apply the way of thinking that governs computer systems to business processes". Clearly, the software engineering concepts brought up by object technology do neither reflect the way the business world is like nor do they reflect the way we think about it. Another weakness of the book is its age. In a world of rapid changes through scientific and technological progress, it is not suprising that the book is not up-to-date. Today, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) defines the standard model of object orientation. Unfortunately, the book is both incomplete and inconsistent with the UML. For instance, it does not discuss the important concept of associations, it calls attributes "variables", and it uses the terms "collections" and "composition" in a way that is incompatible with the UML.

Pulls you through quite a thought process. Great step-by-step manual. The diagrams and margin summaries would make several classic PowerPoint presentations.

A fantastic EASY book (for: programmers, managers and users) to understand the great potential of the object paradigm to fill the gap between technical and business people. I think this is the future of computer development.

This volume (as well as the series in general), is somewhat helpful for application of the text, but it certainly should not be used in isolation. I found this one to be rather shallow in that it gives little time to the historical situation in the text. A better commentary that includes extra focus on application, but without diminishing original meaning and history, is the NIV Application Commentary on Luke by Darrell Bock.

This commentary is the third one written on Luke by the same author. It focuses on contemperary application of Luke's message. One might need another (more detailed) commentary to determine the original meaning of the text. Those with necessary training in the Biblical Greek should consult his two-volume commentary published by Baker.

This is a great resource for preparing sermons on Luke, or even for just reading along while you read Luke in your own home. It's easy to read, and gives valuable insights. I'm glad I bought it.

As a beginner I found this book to be inadequate for my needs. There are 63 pages of nicely spiral bound(book lies flat) examples of various effects. That is to say... 63 pages of coloful rectangles with some comments about how to achieve a particular effect. It's sort of like reading the ingredients for a recipe but not telling you how to mix the ingredients or cook it.

I imagine that this book has some use to an experienced airbrusher but I suspect that once you have the experience the book is not very useful and is merely a nice 63 page of pretty rectangles.

This was not a good book for me.

Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette

The Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette is filled with wonderful techniques to create hundreds of effects and textures. I would not know how to create hair, skin, wood, metallic surfaces, stone or highlights with my airbrush without this book.

You will need to have some knowledge about color palettes and airbrushes to fully understand the techniques descibed in the book.

The book also contains several pieces of completed artwork. The techniques they used to create the paintings are described with the corresponding painting.

I have enjoyed this book since the day I bought it.

Good book with lots of information. Not a heavy read, but best read by serious students.
Lots of historical info about the people and times that Augustine lived in.
One example was the description of a Goth leader who threatened Africa. The Goth's ships were wrecked in a storm. The followers of this leader diverted a river's flow, buried the guy in the river bed, and then let the river run back in the original bed. Then all the people who had worked to divert the flow were killed in order to keep the site a secret.
Lots of good insight into St Augustine and his views about common place things in life.
Overall a good book. Short, only about 170 pages. A couple of drawings and maps at the back help the reader understand the geography of the Mediteranean/North Africa area.

Bentley-Taylor's book is short [166 pages of text] and easy to read. It includes a plentiful supply of short quotations from Augustine, tells the story of his life and gives an introduction to his writings. It is written from an evangelical point of view, but the author's theological perspective is not intrusive.

In the course of telling the story, he mentions lots of names of people from Augustine's times who modern readers will not be familiar with. This may be necessary, but it would be helpful if he had told us a little more about some of these people, as on occasion, the story seems to be little more than a string of names.

The author is not afraid to tell us where he thinks Augustine made mistakes. He is also fairly generous with him, and explains that many of Augustine's quirky ideas [to us today] are a product of his times.

I highly recommend the book as a simple introduction to one of the most important people in Christian history.

When I started training in Family practice I searched for a large reference book to study from. I choose this text because it was written so well. The Language is direct, the explanations are clear and the advice is well founded. Now that I am in training the book is not as helpful as I hoped. Most of the time I find the treatment on any given topic too shallow for what I have to learn. I belive this is the result of a compromise between size and completness. I now wish I had saved my money and bought three textbooks - Harrison, Williams and Nelson as opposed to trying to find one book to cover all of internal medicine, obstetrics, and pediatrics.

This book is designed in a practical and understandable approach to family practice. It is an excellent text and a comprehensive reference especially useful for a nurse practitioner/graduate student in family practice. Not only does it provide treatment and management of common medical conditions but also includes psychosocial aspects of caring for clients and their families.

"The American Century," a collection of essays edited by Peter Taylor and David Slater, is a formidable and challenging work. Not so much for its intellectual complexity, (although it has that) but for the formidable answers the scholars herein set forth to the cries of all-powerful American hegemony that have been heard in the academy of late. While by no means locating America within the myth of the benevolent, neutral harbinger of prosperity and progress, the authors in the text have a nuanced account of issues in the projection and effectiveness of United States power in the larger global context that remains largely in the neoliberal tradition.

Essays in the book reflect a variety of perspectives, but all of them involve around some similar themes--- the rise of U.S. hegemony as a world-system in a historical context, beginning in the last 19th century and culminating during the Cold War period. The essays within also focus on institutions created or maintained with the imprimatur, if not the actual effort, of the United States, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and to a lesser extent, the United Nations.

An advantage to the discussion of American hegemony is the focus the text gives to economic analysis; a topic often overgeneralized in political discussions of American influence. Michael Taylor chronicles the shift from horizontal and vertical stratification to outsourcing R+D, and characterizes this as a shift to the dividing the managerial aspects of material production and strategizing functions related to global market dynamics. Also well-treated are issues of idealism, isolationism, and Cold War containment, as well as military policy, brilliantly expounded on by David Campbell. Perhaps debatable is the minimization of the many of the scholars of "American imperialism" outside the late 1800's.

Less successfully covered in the study are the results and effects of American influence/hegemony. Essentially, this volume is about the projection of American power. There isn't anything wrong with that, but for a volume written more by those whose work in American Studies is from an internationalist perspective (and international location (as none of the contributors works in the United States) it would have been more helpful to see more scholarship on reception and transformation of American culture within national and sub-national cultures in other countries. This makes the few essays that cover topics in this realm, such as those by Tim Cresswell, Brian Hoskin, and Claudia de Lima Costa, especially important.

Hopefully, future editions will cover more topics in this area. As a politically neoliberal leaning reader, it is perhaps read best in conjunction and dialogue with a more radical reader, such as "Cultures of United States Imperialism" edited by Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, published in 1993 on Duke University Press.

My family found a number of fun projects in this book. We'd been thinking about ways to accent our flower beds and found useful project in this book. We created some different birdhouses as well as a few paths throughout the garden. We very pleased with the results.

Here's a book on e-business that is actually entertaining in the way it approaches its subject. This book takes on the ambitious task of addressing both the B2C and B2B aspects of e-commerce, full of good insights and constructive advice in both areas. Mr. Taylor and Ms. Terhune combine the best of their experience from Gartner with new, independent research and conclusions, all written in an entertaining, informative way. While not outright funny, but written in a light style that makes it more readable that most of the E-Business books I've read.

The introductory chapters offer the nurse or clinician a very good guide to interpretation of ECGs. The different diagnoses are explained and details are given of what these can look like on the ECG recording. A helpful guide for the novice, or a good text to have around to act as a reference.

A good text for reviewing ECGs and understanding the diagnosis. A good selection of practice ECGs. More text would have been helpful in discussing the diagnosis.

The first two chapters provide plenty of introduction, and are quite well written. My guess is that Dr. Taylor is an enthusiastic teacher and a clear thinker. But the great advantage of the book is the practice tracings. The reproduction is excellent, and there is a wide variety. For example, there are more than 70 that are of ischemic patterns. Taylor's interpretations are brief but informative, and he provides a number of clinical pearls. I read the book using the method he suggested: writing my interpretation, then reading answers after a batch of 10-20. By the time I was halfway through, I had a fair amount of confidence. As a beginning 4th year student, I now am better at ECG interpretation than almost all of our medical residents at Stanford.

This book is more like the "The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers" then the "The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft." It starts with a short and somewhat sketchy history of aviation then goes into the encyclopedia which it titles "The A-Z of the World's Aircraft.". All of the entries are just different aircraft manufacturers. It mentions a little of the companie's history and gives a list of the companies products. While there are many pictures of aircraft in the book, no information is given for any of the aircraft that are mentioned in the book. All it is a list of aircraft manufacturers and what they make or made. I was very disappointed by this book and do not recomend it to anyone.

GOOD BOOK BUT No INFO.I BOUGHT IT FOR A ENCYCLOPEDIA NOT A GUIDE OF AIRCRAFT COMPINEIS....

I give this book five stars. I give it five stars because it gives you so much info on each plane. It also gives a great picture of each plane. My two favorite planes in this book is the f-22 Raptor and the F-18 Hornet. This book should deserve 500 stars if it could be 500 stars.