The ...Dummies series of books was a great concept from the beginning. Never before have there been technical references which could just be read for their entertainment value alone. Beware of ...Dummies books not in the computer genre, they are mediocre at best. This one however proudly continues the heritages started by Dan Gookin in being informative, technical but not more than is neccessary, and allowing you to start from a point where "computer" is still a word to be looked up in your dusty Webster.

For a beginner such as myself, learning any type of programming language was about as much of a challenge as it was figuring out how to stop that blinking 12:00 on my VCR-next to impossible.Mr Wang detailed everything in such a well manner I felt like Capt. Picard venturing out on a new frontier. I almost forgot I was reading a book on programming. I learned alot and had a good time. I highly recommend this book!

This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It's loaded with powerful information on how to survive from Cancer, and live a healthy productive life. The book gives real hope and powerful testimonies from families. Every one needs to know about the author and inventor of China No.1 Tian Xian anti-cancer supplement Professor Wang Zhen Guo. It is a must read.

This book is a big help to cancer survivors as well as their family & friends. It spoke of people who were already at the last stages of cancer and to whom which doctors already pronounced as "no hope". These people were able to overcome their cancer successfully with the use of Chinese herbs.

One of the funniest books I've read in a while, "Please Don't Call Me Human" goes way beyond being a satire of Chinese nationalism--it's an hysterical condemnation of how far people will go for fame. So original, each outrageous event is a huge surprise.

Don't Call Me Human is a shockingly fun read filled with off-color humor and disgusting detail. The plot revolves around a shady Beijing organization called MobCom, which is desperate to vindicate China's humiliating loss at the hands of an oafish American wrestler. MobCom's search for a modern-day Chinese hero who knows the secrets of the Boxers (who, among other things, mistakenly thought they were immune to the power of firearms) finds its unfortunate object in a Beijing pedicab driver named Tang Yuanbao. Written by China's most famous liumang (low-life slacker is an acceptable translation), Wang Shuo,the novel follows the miseducation and shameless promotion of Tang by MobCom, an endeavor which requires multiple press conferences ridiculously devoid of content, ballet lessons given by an octogenarian in an abandoned art gallery, an unbelievable mock-military excercise in which Tang single-handedly defeats more than one battalion, and even an eventual sex change. The rise and fall of Tang and his backers (who manage to consume 7,000 packages of instant noodles, 100 kilos of tea, and 14000 cigarettes in their first week of hardly working) is the best-told tale of slacking off and deep national/personal humiliation you're ever likely to read.

I just passed Part I, and found this book really helped. The neuroscience and psychopharmacology chapters are particularly good.

I am in the process of studying for Part I of the Psychiatry Boards and bought this book. I was particularly interested in boning up on Neurology. Turns out that the biggest chapter of this book (Chapter 14) is neurology. It also includes an appropriately measured section on each topic in Psychiatry. All of the questions have been appropriately challenging, the answers are appropriately explanatory, and overall the book has been very helpful in assessing my own areas of strength and weakness, and provided a very good spectrum of knowledge. I strongly recommend it.

This story is lovely and heartwarming. The pictures are luminous. This book is itself the "perfect" present.

RAYMOND'S PERFECT PRESENT is a quiet,thoughtful story that reminds us that sometimes acts of love bring joy in unexpected ways. In her gentle portrayal of Raymond, the author, Therese On Louie, acknowledges that the small acts of a child really do matter.

The soft tones of this beautifully illustrated book add a richness to the text.

I have all the books in this "Steal .. " series. This one has very similar chapters from the first book along some new topics. It was very disappointing that NO CD was included for this price and I did not agree with their reasoning. The second book included one. Also some programs discussed are outdated. Somewhat same topics as past books. However if you are new, you won't know it! Some negatives about this book, but I still give it a 5 star rating because of the authors effort to inform us about something we don't pay attention to. Plus great sense of humor.

No, you wont be a master-hacker by reading this book. You will however get a solid understanding of the popular techniques used and the more popular underground software. This is WAY better than Carolyn P. Meinel's Happy Hacker. I would also suggest Network Admins take a look at this & familiarize themselves w/ the more popular techniques of today's script kiddies. This book is about concepts more than technique specifics. Very concise and easy to understand for the non-733+ and the freebie software has some very cool toys.

The principles of conflict apply to all forms of competition: business, war, and games. Readers from all fields will find tremendous insight into the art of deception and surprise which leads to decisive results in a competitive situation. For readers of the Art of War by Sun Tzu, this is a beneficial supplement.

Several books on strategy exist and are full of theory but lack in terms of case examples of the strategies in application. The Thirty-Six Stratems takes 36 individual tactics, gives the high-level description of each, then provides an example of the application in historical China. The first 18 strategems are designed for situations where one has the advantage, the other 18 for when one is at a disadvantage. Interestingly, the strategems span from tactical situations to examples of political manipulation that can be used to one's advantage.

The one problem with this book is its availability. It took me a while to find; mine is an AsiaPac production in comic book form. Nonetheless the content is there and it has added tremendous value to the competitive spheres in my life.

A must for the self-employed...... Teaches the ancient tactics that you don't ever want used on you in business but..... they are everyday.

Another wonderfully written book by Paul Borgese. I have given this book as well as "A Sunday Stroll" and "Hunting for the Whipperwoo" to many of my friend's children and they loved them all! The poems are imaginative and fun to read. I highly recommend this book as well!!!!

Paul Borgese is a brilliant and imaginative writer of childrens literature. My children and I thoroughly enjoy reading paul's books, particularly the book entitled "A sunday stroll". We anxiously await his next release.

This book provides you a comprehensive understanding of Chinese accounting and auditing, including historical background and future perspective. If you are going to do business in China or with people in China, it is recommende to read this book.

This is one of the books required by the California State Board. And it's the only one I enjoyed studying.

It was only used at our school by teachers for classroom use or testing purposes. However, it contains some advanced channel and pattern pathomechanisms... the kind we only get a little exposure to in English.

Occasionally a Chinese teacher will talk about something like this for which we have no literature (For example, my herbal teacher mentioned a pattern called "Dragon Fire" which was mentioned nowhere in the English literature), so I already suspected we were missing out on some pathomechanisms, etc. Acu Case Histories fills in some of the gaps.

Especially interesting is the section on neurology. There is some fascinating discussion of the Du meridian, its relationship to neurological problems, pathogens, and other meridians.

This book is acupuncture only... in fact, half the patients in the book had already tried biomedicine AND HERBAL MEDICINE without result. It's easy (with the basic training we get in school) to begin to find herbal medicine more powerful than acupuncture. This book will show you some of the ways in which acupuncture can exceed herbal medicine.