Once in a while you'll come across a book that you can't put down. Well, this is it. It doesn't matter if you're using Delphi 1 or Delphi 5, this book has enough tricks and how to's to pay for itself 10x over. It's well organized, concise, plenty of code snippets, and lots of working programs on the CD-Rom. If you want a fun read and like magical code, this How To book will put a smile on your face and add a shine to your programs!

Once in a while you'll stumble across a gem of a book that you can't put down. This is it! If you ever get to a point in your program that you think you need to put some pizzazz in it, this book might be just what you're looking for.

It has something for everyone. It's chaulked full of usefull tidbits that you can add to any application. I'll list a few entries from the table of contents so you know what I mean:
"Size a form's control automatically"
"Add search and replace to my editor"
"Remember the sizes and locations of my forms"
"Make the ENTER key act like the TAB key..."
"Determine system resouces and display them"
"Modify menus at run time"
"Create a readme file viewer"
"Fade one picture into another"
"Play wave and midi files"
"Make a customizable toolbar like Delphi's"

It has 103 of these "How To's" do make your application really shine. Two or three of these features would pay for the book. That's like getting the other 100 for free!

Even though this book is written for Delphi 1, the majority of these tricks will also work for Delphi 2. All of the sample code is on the CD-Rom so you can easily see it working before you install it into your application.

If you want to spruce up your application, I definitely recommend this book. You'll also improve your Delphi techniques by learning how some of these "tricks" are performed. This book is a keeper. Don't leave the bookstore without it!

An excellent historical mystery, with Collin's Nate Heller filling the role of an real-life private detective who investigated the murder of Sir Harry Oaks.

Look for the reference to Dick Tracy that Collins ames at the end: "It hurts."

A fitional novel about an actual event that held my interest better than any other non-fiction books on the Death of Sir Harry Oakes

As an amateur historian, I like to read books about historical events that are to the point, without belaboring details, but that read "like a novel". Children of the Dragon opened my eyes to the Tiananmen Square incident in a big way with personal accounts of many of the Chinese who were actually there and involved in what happened, and with many photos that captured the action and emotion. This book is a must-read for complacent Americans to learn to appreciate their own democracy, and to support those who die to have one. My heart went out to China and those brave, idealistic students who tried to change it.

This compilation of eye-witness accounts gathered from students, foreign and domestic journalists, professors, PLA men, and workers serves as a memorial for the Tiananment incident, and provides the reader with a minute-by-minute chronology of events. Some of those events are the hunger strike, Gorbachev's visit, student meetings with the leadership, and power struggles within student factions... "Children Of the Dragon" also has printed many of the statements and declarations made by members of student and government factions. This is an excellent, riveting account of the events surrounding the massacre, from Hu Yaobang's death on April 15th to the CCP's crackdown and pursuit of "instigators" through June 5-6.

Very interesting  book; very easy to read.
As a small real estate investor I found it very helpful in understanding many of the ins and outs of real estate and financing, especially on the scale i would like to grow to.

The third edition of Construction Funding by Nathan S. Collier et al is a remarkable demonstration of insight and expertise. Collier and colleagues provide an exceptionally lucid description and analysis of the process of real estate development that is accessible to non-experts while being authoritative at the same time. In addition to being an excellent text for students and others interested in careers in real estate development, this book serves as essential background for all those whose responsibilities include any part of the development process.

This book was so informative. It detail what the effects of diabetes are and how to adapt your life so that this very treatable disease will not overtake you. The writer of this book are the leading expert for Harvard Medical school and a hsuband of a diabetic.

They discuss diet, what to expect from doctor,monitors, medication, diet, complications and what to expect if you do and don't take care of yourself.

I suggest this book for anyone who deals with diabetes on a regular basis or wants to find out more. This book si great for both type I and Type II diabetics.

Ignorance of diabetes is not bliss, this book can scare you at first if you are just dignosed, but the information in this book will help you find the courage to find a good doctor ! and control this disease.

This is the first book on diabetes I have read since I was diginosed with diabetes. It is a great reference book with a philosphy that diabetes is to be controled by you and not you by it. It covers all types of diabetes, treatment, insulin, diet, exercise, complication, pregnecy, and how to deal with your new cronic disease so that one can live a full life.

I recomend this book for all diabetics because of the source, the ease of understanding, and the professionalism of its approach as well as it has tons of useful information. E. J. Boehm

My grandfather has made a stunning book and it truely lets the reader see his deep passion for bird watching and his religious meaning to this hobbie. He captures real passion and makes this book a must have for birdwatchers everywhere.

Jim Schley, South Strafford VT: Leonard Nathan is the author of nine fabulous collections of poems, and the book here reviewed is a hybrid, written in prose, neither fiction nor nonfiction precisely. I use the term "precisely" on purpose, because Nathan's work is replete with exact connections and combinations, images and phrases that defy passing quickly over.

In design and presentation, Nathan's new book is beautiful and compact. In plot, his meta-fictional [ital] Diary is oblique, left-handed in more ways than one, built up like a montage of ruminative passages such as those in a personal diary. One ostensible purpose of Nathan's "entries" is to record the excursions of Thursday's Children, an otherwise unaffiliated gang of aspiring naturalists who gather once a week to carpool to promising sites with their field guides and binoculars. The narrator - a version of Nathan himself, bookworm and unabashed amateur - insists upon the distinction between the serendipitous [ital] birdwatcher and the more zealous [ital] birder, who is "more hunter than looker-on, more passionate about having seen than seeing," and whose Life List is paramount. Nathan playfully interlaces in these pages accounts of hilarious field-trips (grown men and women piling into cars to hurry somewhere because someone has reported sighting), snatches of dreams, poems from various writers, and meditations upon the allure of finally seeing - really [ital] seeing - an elusive exemplar, the snow bunting, which he believes he's only glimpsed once from the edge of an eye. Running through the other diary entries is a series of conversations between poet and scientist, in this case an ornithologist who scornfully questions the idea that an artist could make any genuinely useful contribution to comprehension of the avian world. Our poet is bewildered by the scientist's rebuttals, and he repeatedly tries to reformulate a precept that the scientist will accept. This philosophical confrontation is fierce and grand, even as the genuine friendship of these two men of contrary sensibilities is insightfully dramatized.

I cannot recommend [ital] Diary of a Left-Handed Birdwatcher more delightedly. This is one of the most unusual and evocative books of prose I've read in a long while, as likely to please lovers of poetry as devotees of superb nature writing.

I'm impressed that my own group of friends in New England has become avid for birdwatching. Many of these are people who formerly lived seasonally in different houses, renting or house-sitting or even tenting, and who now have children and homes they've built. We've grown more alert to the other residents of our territory. The activities of the birds around us, arriving and nesting, mating and feeding and fledging then moving on in the fall, keep coming up in conversations as we pass on the sidewalk or in the aisles of a store - the first vireo heard, or last warbler; an unexpected glimpse of a scarlet tanager; the enormous gray goshawk on a maple bough.

In Genesis, Adam undertakes responsibility for assigning a name to each creature in existence, and ever since, poets have defended their task as comparably essential. In actual practice, even poets as skilled as Nathan are less likely to invent than refresh - using the shared vocabulary of our working-day language, to show all over again how bracingly words plunge us not [ital] out of but [ital] into what Denise Levertov calls the life around us. If the aim of scientific taxonomy is to be exhaustive, comprehensive, categorical, and discriminating, the aim of poetic rendering is to crisscross and blend. These are different but complementary modes of precision.

I find this to be a very informative book (from what I've read) and I look forward to taking his course @ UM-Flint this next semester...

This book is an excellent introduction to existentialist thought. The pieces written by Oaklander are very good and help to paint a balanced and informative picture of the main positions of each philosopher. Primary texts are often difficult for the unacquainted reader to understand, so Oaklander's writings are a big help. The excerpts from the original writings are well-chosen and interesting. The only aspect of the book that I did not like is the sparse treatment Camus received. He deserves more attention than he was given. I would imagine that it is difficult to compile a rather concise book that has a significant amount of breadth and depth, but Oaklander has done it. If you are interested in studying existentialist philosophy and would like to begin establishing a foundation, this book is for you.

A wonderful book with an assortment of recipes that will delight the palate and take you through a journey of the people of Jerusalem. Judy Stacey Goldman is a wonderful guide and Joan Nathan is a wonderful cook - together they created a lovely little gem! Highly recommended.

A wonderful book showing the diversity of Israel with a number of wonderful international recipes while giving you a flavor of the city at the same time. Wonderful to read and to cook from. Bravo Judy Stacey Goldman and Joan Nathan

After reading this book I wanted to find out more about the art of designing club flyers. I especially liked the work Nicola Ackland-Snow had done herself, and I admire this work...well done Nicola, Nathan and Steven!

I am, in fact, Nicola Ackland-Snow's sister, and you may think that because of this, my review would be biased, but in fact I thought it was amazing. I'm not an artist, actually, I'm useless, unlike Nicola, but this book provided a different perspective to this kind of art. I really liked it!

As a civilian, there are many aspects of the lives of law enforcement officers that I am unaware of. Before reading this book, I did not know about the daily risks they take, the animosity they face by some members of society, or the role of their families in their lives. For A Tin Star has instilled in me this knowledge and so much more.
The book covers a range of topics from the effects of a police officer's death on his or her family, to the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner by convicted cop-killer mumia abu-jamal. Being from Philadelphia, I had known bits and pieces about this case. However, For A Tin Star filled me in on the truth about this savage murder using evidence like witness testimonies and court transcripts (the foreward is written by Officer Faulkner's widow, Maureen).
This compelling book, which is written so smoothly, colorfully, and beautifully, puts the reader in a blue uniform and illustrates exactly what law enforcement officers feel and experience. It describes a police funeral in detail and goes the extra mile and tells the reader exactly what they can do to better their relationship with law enforcement. After reading this powerful and emotional book, most people will want to heed the authors advice and reach out to our protectors and heros.
For A Tin Star is a must have for every family, those with a member who is a law enforcement officer and those who are simply protected by them.

Wow, is all I can say in responce to this book. It is so nice to see such a young author write about such a touching subject. This is a true tribute to the men and women of the police. Every police officer should read this book! Gabrie L. Nathan delivers his thoughts clearly and with such grace. The pictures are also very touching.