I was there during this era, as the wife of a driver, as a licensed flagman and while I thought this book made a heroic effort to cover this very exciting time I thought it missed the true uniqueness of the era which was the beauty of the people and the mystery of the machines. This book spends a lot of time talking in depth about a few people, one of the author's brothers for example. It is really not so much about American racing as it is about California racing - lines saying that Sports car racing (even Vintage car racing) may have begun in the Northeast but came to maturity in California give evidence to the bias toward covering this era with a definite prejudice toward certain people and certain geography. Like a previous reader, I too would like to see Volumn II perhaps the authors can cover the era with more of an eye to history and less self interest. However, to their credit these authors have assembled a tremendous number of interesting photos and despite the wordiness of the text much fascinating data.

When my book "American Racing ~ Road Racing In The 50s and 60s" was published I was deluged by calls from the West coast. Everybody wanted to know, "When are you going to do a book about West coast racing." I had to tell them I never photographed over there.

Well here it is "American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s" by Michael Lynch. And it is a winner! I learned things about the racing scene on the left coast that boggled my mind.

Michael Lynch's words hooked me and I could not put the book down. He owes a couple of nights sleep!

"American Sports Car Racing in the 1950s" is the perfect companion to my book.

I highly recommend it. Buy it today.

Tom Burnside

I was there at St Jo and Elkhart and Sebring and the airport circuits in the Midwest and this book is awash in memories. The pictures are perfect for bringing back the cars and the people that as a teenager I worshiped...remembering the ride with neighbor Masten in the Allard to the Leawood drug store on snowy streets to buy the lone copy of Road & Track. We didn't have California, but the trickle down was pretty good...Denise at Meadowdale, Hall in Kansas, Bunker and Katskee and the rest. I sold my '32 Ford for an MG and never looked back...American Sports Car racing as I recall and Lynch describes formed a life long love for the era and the cars...as I read now sitting in my '54 Morgan in my garage with a can of Schlitz. This book is a keeper.

This book comes nowhere close to living up to the claim that "no volume will provide more compelling and inspiring answers to our children's questions" about what it means to be an American. It is important to remember that while we might be tempted to buy into the kind of simplistic view Bennett presents in The Children's Book of America, what America was and is and who the people are who have lived and are living here are far more complex than he seems capable of conceiving. His stereotypic images might resonate with some people who long for simplicity and the "good ol' days" that never really were, but telling a story the way one wants to does not make it so, ignoring things one doesn't understand doesn't make them go away, and buying into ignorance is never a good idea. His sanitized vision of America should offend our sensibilities in light of the reality many of us live, and represents the co-opting of our children's education and future for the perpetuation of a grossly unequal and unjust status quo. Rather than serving up the pablum offered to our children by Bennett, we need to help them understand and critique the society in which they live, and prepare them for the kind of participatory democracy that can bring about the kind of social justice and egalitarian society that will permit each of us to live a bit of the American dream. We need to develop more critical and democratic thought than that evidenced by a BarnesandNoble.com customer-reviewer whose attempt at critique concludes,
"The unintentional irony of juxtaposing Martin Luther King's 'dream' speech with blatantly racist folksongs is typical of Bennett's charmingly naive and confused view of morality and virtue. The inclusion of songs and stories promoting racial harmony appears to have been driven by a simple-minded sense of political correctness. But Bennett nonetheless succeeds in providing the children of America with a much needed lesson in patriotism and morality. God knows that the public has completely lost their sense of morality. Thank you, Mr. Bennett, for teaching my children what is good and virtuous." This is part of what is wrong with America.

I really liked this book, and so did my children.

Bennett has taken familiar vingettes (Pilgrims, Paul Bunyon, Johnny Apple Seed, Martin Luther King, Jr., moon walk, etc.) and presented them in a short form that is perfect for four to seven year olds and above.

Each story teaches lessons based on core values and can lead to good discussions with children in trying to explain the underlying values. The tales are also a wonderful introduction to the story of our country through our history and myths. They cover the range of the American Experience and are exactly the kind of tales that can serve as a launching pad to introduce youngsters to a wider exploration of our national heritage.

The stories themselves are well written and captivating (though my four year old's attention wandered with some -- it is for older than pre-school on the whole). The illustrations are first rate and help younger children understand the written story.

The format is perfect for bedtime stories -- good length for a one story a night reading. It is also one you'll want to return to again.

This is a wonderful book for children to become familiar with the people and events that helped shape this great nation. The stories are inspirational and guided by a moral purpose. Our children need to know what a special and great country they live in!

This book gives good insight into the agent domain and good coverage of ongoing interesting projects regarding mobile agents. This book also provides a good overview of Aglets workbench, Agent Tcl, and Telescript. This book is very good if you want to know about intelligent agent technology and some of the implementation details.

I teach a course on mobile agents with this text and find it quite nice. There is no other book that I know of that provides the basics, along with real working systems. The books does not kill us with the latest, incomprehensible research but rather works from the ground up. It is a not to be missed text if you are attempting to teach the basics of mobile agents!

Mobile Agents by Cockayne and Zyda is the first book to provide tutorial coverage of the world of mobile agents. Mobile agents are programs that go out across the network and act on your desires for purchasing, travel or whatever you desire. The book has a nice, introductory overview for those not full up to speed on mobile agents and is targeted for that audience. It is well written and concise. It discusses in detail three complete agent systems: Agents for remote access (Ara), Agent Tcl, and Telescript. In addition, it discusses Aglets workbench, a Java-based agent system. There are some newer agent systems that should have perhaps been included in the text and they may be included in a second edition. The CD provided with the text provides development environments for agent systems and is an excellent resource for those just starting out in agents. This is a major contribution and the authors are to be congratulated!

This compilation contains tradition books covering the Sons of Ether, the Virtual Adepts, and the Order of Hermes. The first three are two of my most favorite traditions so I was very excited about the overall bundle. Since this volume is essentially three books I will go over each one of them separately.

The Sons of Ether book was very entertaining to read. It was presented as a introductory issue of the Etherites' science journal 'Paradigma'. Their form of science and history was discussed in detail and served as a strong foundation for their tradition's past. Discussion on their paradigm was limited and could have been elaborated on more. In terms of actual game statistics, new rotes, and devices, there really wasn't much. I was expecting a lot more wacky procedures and neat gadgets.

The Virtual Adpets' book really showed its age. This book was written before the Internet went mainstream and before digital music was in. The VAs indulged themselves in MIDI music and BBSs. There was a strong impression that most VAs were arrogant hackers who cared too much about being elite. If that is what you are looking for than this book delivers well. Their history section was nicely done. The information was delivered as emails or chatroom logs. Much like the Etherites' book, this one only had a handful of new rotes and gadgets. Despite its age and a few flaws in terminology, it was still an entertaining and somewhat useful book.

The Order of Hermes tradition book was the best one in the bundle. Not only was history described, but detailed initiations, the Order's structure, the many Houses, and their paradigms were discussed. This book had a lot of very useful information for both players and storytellers. There was so much information that the authors had to leave out the standard 2-page templates in the back.

The overall compilation was a fun read. This book is tough to find so only search for it and acquire it if you are interested in the 3 traditions. Otherwise, stick with the other two tradition books.

This book features the out-of-print tradition books for the Sons of Ether, The Virtual Adepts, and the Order of Hermes. The first two represent my two most favorite traditions so I was very excited to acquire this book.

The Sons of Ether book is a very fun read and does a fine job in showing us that some of the Etherites are not crazy mad scientists. There paradigm was discussed but could have used more work. The list of rotes and devices was short and could have used more additions.

The Virtual Adepts book really showed its age. The book was written before the Internet became mainstream and before digital music was introduced. The book portrayed the VAs as a group of arrogant hackers who relished anarchy. It's a good book for players who want to run with the stereotype but is not quite as good for those who want to play something more varied. The list of rotes and devices was brief and could have used a few more additions.

The Order of Hermes book was the best one in the compilation. Not only was their paradigm thoroughly discussed, the internal politics and dynamics of the Order was also presented in great detail. The Order is more diverse than most players would think. They have a house that is very similar to the Syndicate and one that is like the Hollow Ones in addition to many others. Despite the diversity, they all share the Hermetic paradigm. The amount of useable player information was enormous and helpful.

This compilation was entertaining to read but could have used a few improvements in the Etherites and the Virtual Adepts' sections.

If you, for any reason, want to play either an Order of Hermes or a Virtual Adept this is the book to read. There are somany misconceptions about these two for new players, how to fit them in, what they can and can't do, the politics of variouse groups ext. that it's almost become a required for the games I play and ST. The Sons of Ether have a great section as well that explains a great deal about the group you wouldn't think about. And even if theres no interest for the traditions inculded, the book makes a good and intertaining read for those who don't want to play. I'd say it's a good buy all around.

The chapters on object -> RDBMS mapping and implementation using non-OO languages are worth the whole book!

It's outdated because it uses the OMT, I would really thanks Rambaugh if he could write a new edition!

Lets face it, this is the best book to get started on Object Oriented Programming. An object is still an object, whether you show it in a cloud or in a box. Plus this book has some valuable tips on programming the right way, and puts reusability in perspective. Its written in extremely readable fashion, quite unlike some of the UML documents out there. The only thing that bothers me is the price tag, which seems to be a bit high.

A landmark in OO literature: always was and always will be. Taking things from step zero to discussing very advanced issues. The notation used is the one where UML has borrowed most of its elements (especially the class diagrams). The process it describes has become the typical process for OO development (especially 2nd generation OMT as described through a series of articles in JOOP by Rumbaugh). In all, a book that leaves nothing uncovered from notation to process and more importantly in depth discussions on OO concepts and techniques that will always be true. Finally, this is one of the few books that discuss how to implement an OO design into a non-OO language such as C, Pascal, Fortran etc. END

Academics are presumptuous. This is not for the everyday reader. Too bad. The topic is interesting (being mixed heritage Asian Americans). The book is boring --too academic. This is not for the average reader who wants to read something for fun. I would prefer What Are You? by Pearl Gaskins and the book, Half and Half (by biracial and bicultural writers) before I'd recommend this academic mumbo-jumbo. The book's title is misleading. It should be titled, "Academics Gotta Make a Project Out of Everyting, including hapas" The writings are presumptuous.

I commend this book for a lot of reasons. First, there are already enough anthologies of personal essays from mixed people. This anthology both shows and proves that mixed people can be subject to rigorous academic study. Second, most books on mixed people, focus on black-white. This book focuses on part-Asian, and not just Asian-white and not just biracial in the USA. Still, I have to agree with other reviewers that this book is a little dry. So many of the articles are just academics commenting on OTHER people's studies. The chapters read quickly, but while some are rich, others have little to say. For instance, the chapter comparing white-Asians to black-Asians said less about black-Asians than many of the other articles in the book. Further, this book is broken into four sections and the best section is the one where people speak more personally and avoid sociological studies. The best essay is about lesbigay mixed Asians. I applaud the editor for her piece. I'm glad this book was made, but lots of it left me unimpressed. As a whole, this was decent enough, just some things were problematic.

This book isn't for the simple minded or someone who just wants an easy answer -- skip this one and read People or something. But if you're really interested in hapa issues (and I'm hapa so yes) it's a great, articulate, intelligent group of essays covering many different aspeacts of hapahood. Some of the writing takes some mental acuity to comprehend but I found it really worth the effort.

This is one of the few stat books that I'm keeping. I've used it to help me through Linear Regression, Experimental Design, and Multiple Regression classes. This book will be a good one to keep, even after I graduate.

It was a bit over my head, at first. After 1/2 a semester (and after reading many text books that are much worse), I soon was able to get into the text.

I was only interested in regression, when younger, as this seemed to be useful in physics labs and in scientific literature. Early programmable calculators could do regressions. But what was behind this mysterious line through the points? This book explains it every way they can think of...there are so many ways they apply the simple y=mx+b that once you can master the line in cartesian space the rest is easy. I took this book in the two semester suggested way with regression first, ANOVA second. I did very well with these course and got a stats degree. I am very fond of this book now. Yes, my data diskette was corrupted at one point and I did have to ask our professor to make me a copy. I also agree with another reviewer that the examples are good. These allowed me to learn about the application areas and remain critical of the models. However, I can see that this book could confuse some and it is very expensive. Also I agree that when solving the later problems in the book one has to flip back to the first occurance of the dataset but if your working on a computer this isn't really as much of a problem. But it is still a problem because you have to know what variable is what. A favorite school book? Yes it is.

Graduate students, and people professionally involved into dealing with data every now and then will find this book to be an indispensable comprehensive reference for most types of statistical tasks you may encounter; deep, solid, non nonsense, and all contained in one book. This is probably the only stat/math book you will need to keep.

I teach a class of 2nd graders this book is even too childish for them. I don't even think that this book deserves a star, but it looks like i have to give it one so I did.

I think this book is very creative but there is nothing to do with the animals when you finish them. and so i just put them in a drawer.

I bought this book for my son,who just turned 8. He had wanted to make animals out of pipe cleaners, they had done this at school. He really liked this book. I liked it because it comes with enough pipe cleaners to make everything in the book. It really does! The pictures are step by step and really clear. We had a lot of fun with this book.

Some great pictures, I won't deny, but particularly, my expectations were way beyond that what I could get from this book. Most of the pictures are in plain old B&W, instead of bein in living colors. The great majority don't even have a subtitle, therefore, we get a little lost sometimes. Besides, as this book was supposed to be something like a filming diary, it could depict much more behind-the-scenes stills, making of candids and so on, and even could show some text in it. I think if you only like to see pictures then the book will be ok, but if you're a die hard fan, searching for news about the filming of the picture, then this book will be the wrong choice. I think maybe to those photo admirers the book will be a disappointing, so, I wouldn't recommed it at all. I am quite disappointed myself!

The most recent James Bond films have had 'making of' books published to coincide with the films cinematic release, and it seemed that Die Another Day would be no different. However, Greg Williams 'Bond On Set' isn't quite a 'making of' book, it's something more special.

Past 'making of' books are a mixture of text and pictures, with the latter receiving the least attention. With Bond on Set Williams has reversed that factor and provided a book that is mostly a compilation of pictures.

At first, the change did cause disappointment. I wanted to read behind the scenes stories, find out little pieces of trivia about Die Another Day, and hear of complications and unexpected successes. However, Williams' brilliance with a camera, described by producer Michael G Wilson in his 'forward', really eclipsed my initial disappointment.

While promotional pictures from the book have already been circulated across the Internet, some of the best photos are definitely found within the book. Look no further than the Williams' photos of actress Rosamund Pike to highlight his skill; these are definitely the best photos of Rosamund published to date. Other behinds the scenes photos are just as unique, and seem to have definitely benefited from David Tattersall's cinematography.

Disappointment aside, Pierce Brosnan's small introduction really sums up the book, "never before have we seen back stage intimacies of a Bond movie in such a classic book as this."

Bond on Set: Fiiming Die Another Day is perhaps one of the most unique 007 books on the movie ever. When you open it up don't expect to see text. This book is filled over the top with behind the scenes pictures of the cast and crew. Greg Williams does an absolutely fantastic job of showing off the film. Pictures include Rosamund Pike in her fencing suit, Michael G. Wilson in his cameo, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rick Yune, Toby Stephens and many more. From the forward by Michael G. Wilson to the end of hundreds of pictures, this book is a treasure to all Bond fans!