In a world where kids are exposed to more pseudoscience than real science, it's refreshing to have someone like Bill Nye to present the genuine thing. Like his highly successful PBS series aimed at fourth graders(but enjoyed by hordes of science-bereft grownups), Big Blast of Science is infused with Nye's straight-forward perspective on the universe, and his passion for the remarkable way it operates. Everything, in Nye's view, is a marvelous machination of science, from the kitchen toaster's warm convection currents, to the counterclockwise spin of water draining out of the bathtub, to the kneeling Indian girl making us ponder infinity on a box of butter. He was that geeky guy who helped you pass high school chemistry, who won the Boy Scout Pinewood Derby without too much help from his dad, who saved the frat party by fixing the cocktail blender, and gave up a respectable engineering job to teach your kids some science. Without people like him we'd be looking up h! oroscopes instead of telescopes and putting more faith in the Psychic Friends Network than the National Science Foundation. At first glance, we might assume Big Blast of Science is a book just for kids. The inimitable Science Guy, clad in his signature blue lab coat and winsome bowtie, and looking cooler than absolute zero, pops out of a flashy purple cover surrounded by whirling planets, moons, and stars. With schoolboyish sincerity, he thrusts toward us a flask from which bubbles the subtitle: "A Highly Cool Handbook for the Laws of Nature." Kids, of course, will recognize immediately his zany, Disney-ish style and easy-to-understand delivery. They'll want to try all the science experiments in the book, especially the ones that require matches, rubberbands, clothespins, and adult supervision. But be aware that this little tome will find its way into Mom's and Dad's hands after the kids have gone to bed. Not only does America's "Sultan of Science" explain physics on! a level everyone can follow, he also gently reminds us the! re's a lot about the universe we need to know -- basic stuff we should have gotten in high school but didn't because we spent too much time outlining chapters, looking up vocab words, and bubbling in answers to test questions. We don't want this to happen to our kids, and neither does Nye. The message here is clear: It's never too early or late to become science literate. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our planet, to do so. Nye assures us we can understand the familiar things -- gravity, electricity, the behavior of light -- plus the weird stuff, like entropy and quarks and the laws of thermodynamics, if we "just do it." And doing science is what Big Blast of Science is all about. Nye's advice is, grab the kids, the paper towels and cardboard tubes, baking soda, vinegar, scissors and scotch tape, lemons, drinking straws, safety pins, food coloring (no experiment should be done without food coloring!) and whatever else is laying around. Be curious, experimen! t, think about what it means, find out how the universe works. The whole idea is so deliciously simple and fun, we wonder why we didn't think of it ourselves (and why our fourth grade teachers never thought of it either). Buy this one, and know that Bill Nye won't mind if you spill lemon juice and vinegar on it. He won't care if you draw mustaches on the pictures of him or color his lab coat pink. We can tell from the way he explains things that he's an easy-going kind of guy. He won't even mind if you give this book to your kid's teachers, which you probably should. Chances are, they'll put away those monotonous worksheets and vocab lists and ask you to start saving egg cartons, popsicle sticks, 2-liter soda bottles, and leftover birthday balloons so they can do some real science in the classroom.

I have used this journal to write all of my deepest, darkest secrets. It is a great help to have when I don't have anyone to talk to or trust.

Very good book if you like pick-up trucks.would recomend to other people.

How many computer books have your purchased and found them to be about as interesting as watching grass grow. Granted technical material is tough to write. This set is great. It isn't just Cisco documentation rehashed again. The commentary adds an entirely new dimension to it. The troubleshooting tips & strategies give the reader the benefit of the knowledge of several well respected Cisco authorities. I'll use this set a great deal!

This is a must for conservation education professionals. The numerous indexes and summary descriptions of organizations are wonderful.

A teenage boy flees from his East Coast home to Barrow, Alaska, to participate in an Eskimo whale hunt. He discovers his great grandmother was an Eskimo, a fact that has been hidden by racial prejudice. He also encounters reverse discrimination, some of which is healed by the successful hunt. A physical journey and one of self-discovery. Contains good black and white illustrations in this adventure story, and will be of interest to the 4th through the 8th grades.

Being most excellent practical introduction into IP routing I have ever seen the book covers most of the cases which you might encounter in a mid-sized network or on a CCIE exam. All the cases are well illustrated and complemented with real configurations and printouts. For me the most remarkable part of the book is Chapter 6 - "Integrating Multiple Routing Protocols".

If you're a looking from theoretical prespective or a start-up book on IOS - this is the wrong book for you.

I have to say that there are two major issues that are not covered - large and complex OSPF networks and the secrets and mysteries of BGP.

Anyway, if I have to buy this book once again - I'll do it! Add (do not substitute) to it the information from Cisco's web site and you're all set! Good luck!

I used this book to study for the Cisco Routing Exam 640-503. The material is very relevant to real world issue I deal with in our network day to day. The book is worth the money for the great sample configurations and debug info alone. It covers in more detail the practical side of doing ip routing then most of the Cisco Press titles. The authors clearly know the material and put together sample configurations and networks that you might actually do in the real world.
I would pick this book up in addition to any other study materials for the CCNP Routing exam. I personally think the routing exam was the hardest of the bunch. Now I get to study for the new 640-901 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) for the CCIP, the great news is that this book has ISIS, which is on the new BSCI exam.
Ed Horley - CCNP, CCDA

I have been studying "Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks" intensely in preparation for the CCIE lab exam. It is an excellent practical guide, full of labs and complete router configs, and practical wisdom and insight--the kind of insight that separates the experts from the non-experts. It is top-notch. One of the best on my bookshelf!

Buy it. Study it intensely. It's like having two senior CCIEs standing over your shoulder pointing out hidden pitfalls and explaining their router configs to you. When I pass the CCIE lab exam, I know that it will be in part because I studied this book so thoroughly and carefully.

This book was easily 200 pages too long, provided way too much detail about superfluous information like the type of van the Reeds drove etc. The title also suggests that the book is mainly about Clinton's & Bush's involvement in some shady dealings; it is tangentially about those and a good chunk is dedicated to Clinton's efforts to get back at Reed, but the book is mainly about Terry Reed and HIS involvement in those operations. Not that that's a bad thing, but I don't think it's worth 682 pages. I would've liked more evidence on the drug smuggling, Reed only has "proof" of one shipment. I don't doubt that there could have been (and probably was) a CIA conspiracy, but Reed hasn't proved so beyond a reasonable doubt. All in all, though, fairly entertaining and informative.

As I read this work, it became so compelling that I couldn't
wait to wake up to read more. I found myself yelling at Terry
and his wife throughout the book - "No, don't do that!" Knowing
not exactly what was waiting for them in the future - but knowing
it wasn't going to be good.

What was amazing was how they "played his ego", "played his
ambition" and generally opted out when questions that made sense
were asked. Who is ever to know if any or all of this story
is or was true. What is important is: It makes too much sense!

The methodology and policies Mr. Reed explains about the Agency
is terrific. Especially, the Barry Seal flights - which tends
to explain a lot of other "so called" mysterious plane crashes
around the world.

Compromised has changed my life, because it not only brought
lots of new information, but confirmed all my worst fears!

This is the third book I've read on Mena and is by far the best. It links the feds and Bush's end with Clinton's Arkansas. It explains much about the mysterious Barry Seal and the uneasy partnership between Clinton's Arkansas, Bush's people, and North's people. I've read about LD Brown and his experience with the contras. I've read about Pritchard's train deaths case(not discussed in the book. Reed didn't personally deal with it.), and his interview with Bill Duncan and Russel Welch. And this book ties Clinton's Arkansas techniques of reputation ruinment, the drugs at Mena, and the assassin squads trained there by Felix Rodriguez. It is a must read, and a good reason why we must vote libertarian.

This is collection of short stories that offers a wide mix of speculative genres. Fantasy, SF, horror, and just plain weird. The stories run the gambit and most are good. "Jeo Defined" and "Moon Warrior" were excellent stories and well worth purchasing the book. Even just the so-so stories were enjoyable and all the authors are names to keep a look out for. In the end, this is a book of up and coming writers and a few of them will no doubt be big names someday.

I didn't know what to expect from this collection of short stories but I was happily surprised. The stories cover a wide range from fantasy, science fiction, and horror to those hard to classify strange stories. Each one is worth reading. My favorites were the one about a radio personality who was singing the Siren's song and the one about a criminal who is forced to undergo "augmentation" to control him. Some wild stuff for a great read.