This is the thirty third "Wilderness" book I have read. Most have been pretty good. I was disapointed in this one. It was not as much about mountain men and indians as most of the others. It was more about rideing for several days and then fighting prehistoric animals, birds, fish and men. If I wanted a book about prehistoric beings I would have bought one. David Thompson please go back to writing about the lives and times of the mountain men and the indians. Bring back Shakesphere McNair. Please do what you do best. Read the earlier books in this series, don't start with this one.

David Thompson has done it again. I won't tell you anything about the book except to get your tail over and buy it. Another great one in the Wilderness Series.

I really enjoy the Using Series, and look for them whenever I want to learn more about a certain topic. However, this book is deplorable. It is not made for anyone looking to write their own code, or anyone who actually wants to program. All this book tries to do is show you how to use someone else's code. I do not mean another module, such as the infamous CGI.pm moudle, but rather using another script and "tweaking" it for your needs. It also does not seek to explain the theory behind the code. I was also quite disappointed in how it was organized. The Using Seies are good books, but this one doesn't belong in the family. There are much better books out there that will serve your needs.

I found this book to be hard to read and poorly written. The examples are very difficult to follow because most are only code segments not the full code. This makes it very diffcult to follow. As any experienced programmer will tell you "Nothing helps more than a good example.". This book is highly lacking of good examples. I have several years of experience with programming in several languages, which allowed me to fill the gaps in the examples, how ever a beginning programmer would be lost. In conclusion I do not recommend this book to a programmer of any level.

I found this book to be hard to read and poorly written. The examples are very difficult to follow because most are only code segments not the full code. This makes it very diffcult to follow. As any experienced programmer will tell you "Nothing helps more than a good example.". This book is highly lacking of good examples. I have several years of experience with programming in several languages, which allowed me to fill the gaps in the examples, how ever a beginning programmer would be lost. In conclusion I do not recommend this book to a programmer of any level.

...especially not anything you would not be much better off simply scouring the net for. Which happens to be FREE and sports a truckload of such putative blueprints, best practices, ROI enablers, success stories and whatNot -- CRM Guru, CRM Forum, CRM Daily ...ad infinitum. If your reasoning is to skip the information overload and bag all the available wisdom in one neatly bound huggable volume, you'd still do better to look elsewhere, there is easily a wild smattering of CRM wisdom in books that cost a decent coin instead of the Four Seasons price on this tome. After all, it is only fair to expect some ROI on reading dollars, no?

Dick Lee and Bob Thompson are two names that have been around the CRM space for years. But more than their tenure, they're noted for their straight talk and solid opinions. 'Blueprint for CRM Success' continues this no-nonsense tradition.

First, you'll learn CRM is not just software and is not just about technology. Beyond this however are clear step by step guidelines for instituting change and implementing a CRM culture as well as application.

Part II's 'Blueprint for CRM Success' and Part IV's 'Customer-centric Strategies' alone are worth the price of admission!

When David Smith died in 1966 he left his own personal field of dreams at his home/studio in upstate New York. Over 80 gigantic sculptures populated the grounds, pitting man against nature and daring to compete in size and moxie with the mountains around them.

After an initial flirtation with New York City, Smith retreated to the solitude of the Adirondacks. These mountains formed a somber monumental backdrop to the brooding nature of the artist. The sculptures were the landscape of his imagination, his spiritual domain, and his homage to the majesty of being human. Additionally, Smith created drawings, paintings and collages that filled his home with the living presence of art.

This is a lavish book that clearly reflects the artist's magnificent obsessions.

When 'Last Tango In Paris' was first shown at the New York Film Festival in 1972, an ecstatic Pauline Kael declared it a New Beginning, a seminal turning point in the history of cinema, as tradition-shattering and forward-looking in its implications for the medium as Stravinsky's 'The Rite Of Spring' was for music. This kind of hyperbole, together with the film's taboo-busting depictions of sexual relations, led to the film becoming an immediate, controversial legend. Now that 'Last Tango' has become a respectable art-house staple, we can now agree with Roger Ebert who sees 'Last Tango' as an End, the last major European movie to make an impact in America, one of the last dramas to deal honestly with with adult themes, the culmination of a radical cinephile lineage that would be absorbed and defused by the Movie Brats.

David Thompson is not interested in charting this decline. His book is a straightforward account of the film's genesis, context, production and impact. The film arose from Bertolucci's sessions with a psychanalyist, which probably accounts not only for the film's visual motifs, but the confessional monologues that litter it. Bertolucci saw in 'Last Tango' a fusion - of American and European cinema; of formal mise-en-scene with verite and imporvisation, and Thompson sensitively draws out the film's tensions and contradictions. He discusses the film's visual influences (in particular, the paintings of Francis Bacon and the French films of the 1930s), and the contributions of significant crew members to the film's texture. His charting the story's development from Bertolucci's initial idea through financial considerations and crucial script changes and omissions to cuts made after the final premiere and the final release, not only shows us the adaptability and openness of Bertolucci's aesthetic, but also alerts us to the shifting nature of the film's meanings. His synopsis of the film itself, and analysis of key scenes, figures, techniques and the interaction of the two plots, is enlightening.

The book concludes with essays on the three lead actors, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Those on Brando and Leaud in particular show how Bertolucci conflated the actors' iconic image (Hollywood; French New Wave), and their real-life histories with their roles, making the film both more intellectually detached and emotionally engaging. His chapter on Brando, on the personal traumas that fed into his characterisation, goes some way to illuminating the devastating power of his performance.

Nevertheless, Thompson assumes that the reader knows 'Last Tango' is a classic, and so doesn't feel the need to defend it - his eliding the film's alleged misognyny is particularly troubling. Bertolucci says that he undertook psychoanalysis for artistic reasons as a way of stimulating and provoking himself and his actors in the search for those 'secret places' of the mind. It reminds me of the story about Dali who showed Freud a painting he thought revealed his unconscious: 'No, Salvador, that's a painting of what you consciously think is your unconscious'. Doesn't the same problem bedevil 'Last Tango'?

As usual, P.B. Waite has written another biography that reads like a good novel. Whether you are an avid Canadian Historian or you are new to it, this book will shine some light on the life of one of Canada's lesser known leaders. From average Halifax boy to one of the most dramatic deaths in the world. "The Man From Halifax" makes for a great round of nightly reading.

This is the 32nd book in the Wilderness Series. I have read all 32 of them. This one is about Zack King and his bride to be returning to their beloved mountains from visiting her people in St. Louis. They can't wait to get back to the Rocky Mountains and his parents and sister. They encounter a band of settlers who need his knowledge badley. He agrees to guide them because of the women and children they have with them. They experience a run in with the Pawnee. Later Louisa May Clark, Zack's bride to be, is captured by the Sioux. It is interesting how she gets away from them. The book is a fairly quick read. I did not like it as well as the ones about his father Nate King and his mother who is a Shoshone. This book is nearly like one of the others when Nate King led a wagon train himself.I hope David Thompson does not start repeating parts of his books like William Johnstone has appeared to do in his Mountain Man Series. If you like mountain men, early settlers and indians I would suggest the Wilderness series starting with Book one. I think the earlier books were better that this one.

A phrase book and tape, with no grammar or explanation. That would be OK if it were a good phrase book, but it is not. The Danish on the tape is spoken so fast that it is impossible to distinguish the individual words or even to hear what the phrase should sound like. A lot of words are being left out altogether. They are trying to pack as many phrases in one tape as possible and are talking even faster than one would in normal conversation. The written pronunciation guides are imprecise. The translations in the booklet are approximate, ideomatic expressions, so one does not learn the individual word meanings. Buy from the Hugo, Colloquial, or Berlitz series instead.

This product is just a phrase book on tape. The tapes speak at such a high rate that for the beginner the words disappear into blobs of sound. Even looking at the booklet, it's nigh impossible to decipher what is being spoken on the tape. Completely useless.