Adapted from the Disney animated film of Hercules. I can't help but be amused by it. I know, I know - it's pap, pulp and historically bunk. But then I don't have a huge issues with modern interpretations, or even inspiration from the classics (legends anyway). After all, I love Xena on the tube!

If you've ever seen a Disney adaptation, you get the idea. Cheaply produced, and dirt cheap to buy. These books are found in supermarket check-out queues. And why not! If they encourage adult/child closeness in the act of reading, that's a good thing. If they encourage the independent emerging reader to "have a go", then why not?

Oh, dear, now I might as well admit I even like the PlayStation game based on Disney's barrel-chested muscleman in the cute pleated skirt! END

This is a pleasantly written introduction to Shakespeare - life, times, and works. Sort of a Shakespeare Survey for 10th graders. A somewhat oversized paperback, its 304pp are printed in large type with colored emphasis, presumably to attract the younger reader. In a relatively few words, "Everything" succeeds rather well in surveying everything and leaving a newcomer primed to explore more deeply in the mind and works of the great author. There are appendices on further readings, resources, and web sites, but these are weakly annotated, so a beginner will need additional guidance.

The "Everything" style is to highlight certain sections as "Essentials" and others as "Facts." I can't imagine that the "Essentials" often reflect what a school teacher is going to be quizzing, let alone what serious students would call a central issue. I also notice that the "Facts" are sometimes highly unfactual ("Some scholars feel the sonnets are..."). "Facts" is a daring words to employ anywhere in the realm of Shakespeare. Hamlet could have been speaking most candidly and fittingly for Shakespearean authors: "Believe none of us!" (i.e., In God we trust - for the rest we check footnotes). On the other hand, this mostly un-documented survey does at least acknowledge many of the debates that remain unfinished about the times, the man, and his works.

Overall, it's not a bad compromise between readability and honest scholarly equivocation in a book for young bard novices. If they continue on with Shakespeare they'll have time enough to be disabused of the "facts" they've learned.

Brief introductions to each play fill out the second half the book after the first has given you chapters on Shakespeare's World, The Elizabethan Stage, Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Rivals (nine discussed), Elizabethan English, and The Sonnets/Poems.

But much of the book, which reaches just 150 pages, strays merkedly from the purported subject. The author has a pithy writing style, but his efforts are sometimes misdirected.

Some parts of the book are great but some are not. I hope you make other books that will really attract people.Like some that will make you have night mares.

This book consists primarily of a series of articles written by Peffer in 1899 on his political party. It serves as a good history, especially since it comes from a primary source, but is obviously biased for the same reasons. Peffer, while being petty on occasion, does a good job of removing himself from the story, putting the focus on the populist movement itself. His style is a bit dry, but not any worse than that of your typical historian. Recommended for those interested in populism, though this probably would not intrigue the layman with little historical concern.

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Do not buy this book, and for your own good, don't even read it!

First of all, I am an experienced computer programmer, and have developed code for the Java core programming language. I have read many-a-programming book, and can tell you to stay away from this one. Why?

This book:

* is not practical
* is filled with *serious* errors - not just typos
* fails by attempting to cover too many topics
* lacks examples and good diagrams
* lacks a sense of continuity from chapter to chapter

Many of this book's chapters are written as if they were a theorem: generalizations and buzzwords that don't get you anywhere. For example:

"If a set of permissions can between them imply a permission - even if no single permission in the set explicitly implies it completely by itself - you will need to provide your own implementation of PermissionCollection." Ha!

"Because sockets are just *programming* abstractions for network protocols, the other side of the connection does not have to use them. For example, the network program on the right side of this example may be coded in an exotic system that does not use the socket abstraction. That is, sockets don't use any additional communications mechanism other than that provided by the encapsulated protocol." Gimme a break!

Some of the errors in this book are the following:

* Chapter 5's author says that java.io.InputStream's "public int read(byte[] buf, int offset, int length)" method reads the input stream starting at 'offset' bytes deep into the input buffer - skipping the bytes toward the front of the buffer. This is incorrect. The author even has a diagram and examples to complement his error. This method actually reads starting at the front of the input buffer, and reads the bytes into 'buf' starting at buf[offset].

* As if all of the previous chapters' authors' errors weren't bad enough, Chapter 9's author took me to a screeching halt and compelled me to write this whole review when he said this: " It should be noted that the java.net.Socket object returned is bound to an ephemeral port number that is different from the one the ServerSocket is listening to (most applications don't care about that port number)." Whoa! This is absolutely, fundamentally wrong. In truth, the returned Socket has the *same* receiving port number as the ServerSocket. (Otherwise the client's Socket (whose destination port number is the same as the ServerSocket's receiving port number) wouldn't know what this "ephemeral port number" is, and so wouldn't be able to send packets to the server's newly created Socket.) IP packets are demultiplexed according to their *connection* (The 2 connected sockets, i.e. 5 parameters: the common protocol, the source's IP address & port number, and the destination's IP address & port number) and according to socket specificity, not just according to the receiving side's socket.

* Wrong diagrams. p.163: The diagram is of a program's output which shows "access denied", while its caption above says, basically, "tada, and it works." p.52: This diagram belongs in the I/O chapter.

The only chapter I found to be somewhat good was the Thread chapter (and a chapter on threads shouldn't even be in a book on networking). This book also suffers from lacking continuity due to the fact that it was written by 10 authors! For instance, this book has no consistent (or good) way of listing the API's and diagraming class relations. Chapters do not pedagogically build on the previous ones. I could go on...

If you want to learn about networking using Java, then here are your prerequisites. You should learn each of these from a book which specializes in the given topic.

* Basic Java Programming including I/O and Threads
* The TCP/IP protocol suite and TCP/IP networking
* Cryptography (optional)
* Java Security

After you do that, I highly recommend the book "TCP/IP Sockets In Java: Practical Guide for Programmers". This book gets the job done at only 110 pages. Another reason I recommend this book is that it lists references to 22 other good and relevant books/documents.

If you want to learn about HTML, Javascript, Servlets, JSP, RMI, CORBA, etc., then you should find a book specific to that topic. For instance, Marty Hall's books on Servlets and JSP are great.

Just because a programming book is thick, doesn't mean it's good. The book's publisher, Wrox, does put out some good books, but this just isn't one of them.

I bought this book in hopes that it would help guide me on the path to learn Java programming. Numbering over 1000 pages by several different authors, this book does not have a very consistent feel to it, and jumps around to various subjects about Java and various networking principles. The first 200 pages would be good for a university networking class, but as for being a decent tutorial, it is horrible. This book gives little code snippets here and there, but never fully combines them into one large, solid, and useful application.

If you are looking for a book to act as a Java tutorial to networking, this is not the book for you. It is very comprehensive in some areas, and much more than many people are willing to spend in getting through sections of this book. However, if you are looking for a little more general purpose Java networking Bible, then this book might be more suited for you.

I was looking to do more than what you normally find documented in Java and this gave me the details I needed. It has a lot of network protocol details right in the book so you don't have to keep switching between a protocol book and a Java book. Although it's titled, "Beginning Java Networking" it would also benefit an advanced Java programmer interested in writing networking programs.

As an instructor I found this text VERY DISAPPOINTING. It has many errors that persist to the 2nd edition. In addition, there are several instances in which references are made to sections that are only found in Atkin's larger P-Chem text. I attribute this to simple lack of effort on the part of the author and publisher. The errors and inconsistencies have made this text difficult to use. In addition, for students with the background to understand straight forward calculus based descriptions, it was confusing to wade through algebraic description before encoutering the proper "justification" at the end.

While the descriptions in the book are helpful, I reccomend you pick another Atkins text. Both my class and my professor are unhappy with this selection. The book has many contradictions and innacuracies, and while the correct parts may be very good, a text book _must_ be reliable. It is important to know what is true from the errors. For this reason I used another Atkins text. "Physical Chemistry" 5th edition is accurate and helpful. (I've heard the 6th edition of "Physical Chemistry" also has errors.) "Physical Chemistry" is calculus based, so be aware that a math background is helpful (including Multivariable Calculus). The solutions manual to this book is _full_ of errors.

Like all the books that Atkins has written entirely on his own, the "Elements of Physical Chemistry" is a work of extremely high quality. With this, I mean that Atkins has succeeded entirely in achieving what he aimed for - writing a condensed booklet that collects in one place all the physical chemistry there is in General Chemistry, with very slight additional depth. The layout does not interfere, organization of material is perfect; but then, most General Chemistry texts would of course be very much easier to read and understand if all the flow-charts, dialogue boxes, summary boxes, review boxes, review question boxes, exercise boxes, problem boxes, concept question boxes, application boxes, margin notes and hundreds of flashy pictures were removed. As a child, a man that one day would become my professor, on one occasion said to me "you simply must know every WORD of this book, for it contains the elementa of the discipline". I followed this and other advice of his, and today I enjoy the effects of his wisdom. WelI-meaningly I now say to all people taking General Chemistry - get this book and learn every WORD. I urge you. With concentration, you will have learned everything well in one week-end. (You will be the best in your class with only this minimal investment of effort, if that is perhaps your concern.) The [elementa]of Physical Chemistry is really an inadequate title, as the foundations of Physical Chemistry come from many disciplines that must be studied separately; some catch-all volume is impossible. The "Postulates of General Chemistry" would be more descriptive, but extremely unlikely... Thus, do not be grightened by the title - this is GENERAL chemistry at its best. If you know what a definite integral is, you will be perfectly alright. The only weakness is the binding (as with the last edition of the Physical Chemistry proper and its accessory manuals) but that is no different from other books. Soon, the greed of publishing houses will have wiped out the last memory of that book binding really is an art. (Those who dream of obtaining a conscientous understanding of chemistry and physics, I also urge to read this book - since it will, as said, require only three days of work and will definitely save you many, many hours of inefficiency that a loose understanding of General Chemistry would steal from your restless struggle in your first Physical Chemistry or any other post-G-chem. course! Besides, conscience is always in constant movement and no one book, or even a thousand, good or bad, can anchor it securely for you! I take this opportunity of warning against trusting oneself too securely in the gentle arms of pedagogy: you should naturally listen to your masters carefully, admire their skill and persistence and remember all their words, but the only truth is that which you wholeheartedly believe in yourself. Now, as you try this out, you might find that believing is an infinitely beautiful and human thing, but one surprisingly hard to do (that is probably why so many have left church) - and then there is hope for you! The desire to come to rest, in belief, will force you to derive every relation that you come across and think about how all hangs together, day and night, in sickness and in health, in your sleep and while you have supper - until your conscience says "enough!...for now." This fascinating process will let you taste the "real" science, follow its gradual discovery, and build the tremendous skill that you will need carrying it forth. Last, but surely not least, you will be given a chance of discovering yourself in a way that no Navy drill ever could succeed with. MUCH ENJOYMENT I WISH TO YOU!)

While I agree with the previous review that most people who have trouble with the book just have trouble with the topic, there are times where the text is much too concise to be useful. Much of the mathematics of thermodynamics and kinetics is more easily understood if the steps in deriving them are explained. Here, however, they are not. The illustrations in the margins greatly help imporve one's understanding of the material. Plentiful, rigourous exercises at the end of the chapters - in conjunction with the solutions manual or a good professor - really help to drive the concepts home. It may have been improved by being divided into several more expanded textbooks on specialized topics, instead of being a concentrated "everything there is about physical chemistry" text.

I have read the other reviews and I believe that the students who rate this book poorly are mistaking their inability to grasp physical chemistry with a poor textbook. The textbook is excellent and any good professor can teach physical chemistry from it. It is well organized, starting with some basic thermodynamics background and moving to more complicated thermo. The next section is kinetics, which is also presented not nearly as well as the thermo, but Atkins does a good job nonetheless. Spectroscopy and statistical mechanics come next and although they are not simple to understand, Atkins is concise in his presentation. The remainder of the book is additional material which may or may not be covered in a physical chemistry course. What should also be noted are the appendices at the end. Atkins includes very helpful supplemental material in mathematics which is needed for the thermodynamics discussion. The tables are somewhat lacking, but any good reference book can supplement this information. Overall, I would say the book is well worth the money and I have yet to see another physical chemistry text which contains as much information as well presented as it is.

This is simply one of the best text boks I've come across in my study of chemistry. I plan on going to graduate school in physical chemistry and this book has been extremely helpful. It's well set up, good at explaining concepts, and full of challangeing problems at the end of each chapter. As for the revies that disliked the book's lack of deriving every single equation, I think that anyone who has made it to a course in p-chem should have the math skills required to derive equations in order to master what is a highly mathematicaly driven subject. An excellent book, and one that will stay in my reference library.

I've seen Peter Belesis' work around, and it is way too confusing and buggy to get any real use out of it. His Hierarchical menus are beautiful, but you never get to see one on your own site because it is so convoluted and screwy!

The book appears very comprehensive, but really needs a quick reference guide on all the elements of dynamic HTML (including scripts and HTML itself).

Dynamic Html Unleashed is a once of great DHTML books. But this is clearly not a introduction book. You should have a good HTML and javascript knowladge .