"Nell of Branford Hall" was very undeveloped and only gave a brief feeling of what the Plague experience was like. The beginning gave Nell's routine and no hint of the Plague. By the time the Plague occurred, I had lost interest in the book. By the time I became interested in the novel, it was over. The entire book should have given a blow by blow experience of what happened. On the plus side, this book is good for young readers interested in this era. Good for preteens: I recommend; not good for 13+: I do not recommend.

A brief look at the Great Plague of 1665, this story has been written better elsewhere. Though there is nothing really wrong with "Nell"; it reads more like a nonfiction book on 17th century life than a story about a young girl. As a reader who likes to experience the story she is reading, I found myself emotionless throughout the book. You will find a more compelling read in Jill Paton Walsh's "A Parcel of Patterns".

This book was the story of a fictional thirteen-year-old girl and her experiances during the Great London Plague of 1665. Nell Bullen lives with her family in a spacious manor house outside of Branford, a town not far from London. Nell narrates the story of the terrible events that occured when the plague spread to her village. I highly reccomend this excellant book.

My father and his siblings were here during the depression. It's nice to see a synopsis.

I learned about this book as it was reference in an article, then got it from the library, then bought it here at Amazon. I am writing a book about the Catholic version of the Jewish Orphanages Mr. Bogen writes of, called "Home Kids" and I feel singularly qualified to say that he has done an outstanding job of researching, and writing this book. He includes lots of relevant photos that make the story live. I was moved to write to him from Calif to NY, and he has been a great help, and a dear man. Don't miss this one.

The number of examples in this book that don't work in one browser or another is astonishing. While this is in the nature of html, it makes the book rather useless for development of an internet site. For development of an INTRAnet set, where MS Explorer can be enforced, it's not bad. Better proof-reading of the CD that contains the examples would have been helpful. Some of the scripts needed editing to enable them to conform to the filenames on the disk.

Well, when I read this book I found that you really need to know HTML and Javascript. Back then I had no idea what Javascript was and I wasn't very good with HTML. Even though I didn't understand most of it (I was only 11) I still enjoyed the Humor that Michael Hyman put into this book. I now love making the money with DHTML, CGI, HTML, Java, Javascript, VB and more..... Buy this book if you now HTML well and can Scrap up a script in Javascript. Get this book.

i now get paid to write dynamic HTML for website

Well researched text that provides a snapshot of the struggle of South African youth in the 1980s, during the rise of the UDF. While there is no strong path the book takes, it instead reads like a diary of the main character, Anna (a White schoolteacher in a Black Bantu School). The book provides flashbacks of Anna's childhood, and her realization of the political alignment of her father, and the mental anguish of her brother. In the present part of the story, Anna struggles with harboring two of her students from arrest, as she tries to probe into their lives and understand their fight. The book is extremely historically accurate with many references to historic figures and events, but it seems that for the 190 pages the story doesn't go anywhere, it instead serves as a vignette for a much longer narrative. Enjoyable.

I normally look to the For Dummies books as intro's to a subject (book you can read to get the basics of a new topic, and then move on to a more serious book if you need to.) And one aspect I've always liked about these books is the humor the author's use in the material to make them more entertaining.

However, this author uses way too much humor or effort trying to be "cute". Even the Chapter titles are attempts to be humorous and or witty. To the point you can't look anything up in the table of contents because the titles don't tell you what's in the chapters!!!

And although "For Dummies" books are usually not great reference books, at least they have most of the basics and could be used as a light reference. This book is totally worthless as a reference.

Other than as an example of what the author thinks are "cool" effects, it was a huge disappointment for me.

And now you may think that programs that do it all for you would be easier to start with. However if you do not have a basic idea of how Dynamic HTML works you will not be able to answer the questions on what to do. This book goes from the fundamentals to building a practical website. Unfortunately it does not show how to mail "form" information back to you from the website. There are a lot of practical examples but this book is somewhat dated. The book is also geared to Apache server and UNIX concepts therefore it should work on 90 percent of the web sites that you encounter. The code is also more transportable because of this.

You need to check with your potential I.S.P. to see if they're using Internet information services (ISS) if so this book may be of little use because it is proprietary and uses a weird syntax.

It's a good book, but you have to know a little about HTML to start with. It also doesn't teach you, it shows you cool effect you can do. If you want to learn HTML, then you should get HTML for Dummies, then read this. I have to tell you the software wasn't half bad.

I'm a web newbie trying to learn Java from scratch, and I bought Visual J++ with this Dummies book. This book is very confusing, jumping from one subject to another. After a day's read, I became far more confused. It doesn't even teach the fundamentals of Java programming, and simply makes a few applets and scripts and expects the reader to get along.

Sad as I may be, I completed the book, and yet do not know how to make a workable Javascript.

Its title is misleading, making us believe that it actually was written for dummies. But it's not. The author has to rewrite this book for true beginners who want to learn J++ programming in a clear and concise way.

The book goes a long way in describing the Microsoft Visual environment. (It's nice to see the same environment as used for C++). Unfortunately viewing the online (humorous) descriptions of the contents page makes it impossible to evaluate the true contents of the book without actually reading it. This is not the book you want to learn Java the language. You want this book to learn how to implement Java in the Visual J++ environment.

After reading this book, one can not help but see that is a biased view of discipline. It only gives the author's point of view without giving attention to the other side of the issue. He is strongly against corporal punishment and gives false accusations about using corporal punishment as a disciplinarian method. After further investigation of this author Hyman, it is plain to see that his main agenda is to abolish parents' and teachers' rights to discipline children as they deem necessary. Further, the norms he uses in the Teacher Variance Survey, should not accurately be the norms. Because he does not use enough respondents(only 608) to accurately represent the vast number of educators that work with children in the nation.

As a person who values options in discipline, this book is terrrifc because the author aligns major theoretical perspectives with reasons for a child's behavior or misbehavior. Dr. I. Hyman, a reputable child psychologist/researcher, describes useful methods which can help both parents and teachers identify their own patterns of discipline, which may or may not include techniques such as punishment. I like the book for what it is; a no non-sense approach to understanding how and why, we as teachers or parents, respond the way we do to a child's behavior. Hyman provides some terrific scenarios demonstrating these approaches. Also, folks who highly support the right to hit their children may not like what the author has to say since he provides other options for discipline, including reinforcement, investigation of the environmental setting, and understanding WHY a child behaves a certain way. This info is useful since professionals in the medical and psychological professions agree (as is seen in their organizational position statements) that there is little place for corporal punishment in our schools. It's worth it to take a look at other options which have proven to be more effective, and this book provides a curious, open-minded reader with an opportunity to do so.

Everyone here who has already mentioned how unintentionally hilarious this book is-- right on! Yet it is also a tragically exploitative book; as opposed to the genuine anguish depicted in "Mommie Dearest." While Christina Crawford may or may not have been motivated by revenge in writing her book, she actually had something legitimate to avenge. There has been ample evidence from countless sources-- family, professional associates of her mother's, and subsequent bigraphers --that the horrors Christina catalogued were far from fictional. B.D. Hyman, on the other hand, has received no such affirmation. With very few exceptions, even those who agreed that she had every reason to resent her mother's faults were concerned by the manner in which the truth was manipulated in MMK. As nearly every Bette Davis biography written subsequent to MMK's publication has evidenced, B.D. Hyman, her husband, & her sons were COMPLETELY DEPENDENT UPON BETTE DAVIS FINANCIALLY. The fact that Bette Davis had NO CHOICE but to work to support the Hyman family, despite advancing age & its attendent diminished career options, goes far in explaining much of the tension between Davis & her daughter, not to mention Davis's well-chronicled antagonism toward her son-in-law-- a man who had not maintained consistent gainful employment since the mid-late '60s. This is all documented in various Davis biographies published after 1985. By her own admission, Hyman decided to write MMK only AFTER witnessing the extent of Davis' recovery from two strokes & a mastectomy due to cancer. Fearful that her mother would no longer be able to work/support her (just prior to her illness Davis had saved the Hyman farm from foreclosure), Hyman decided to cash in. Even after receiving a six figure advance for MMK, the Hymans were still in such a bad financial situation that they didn't sell their farm before relocating to the Bahamas; they abandoned it for the bank to reclaim in their absence. HAD SHE MENTIONED THE EXTENT OF HER FAMILY'S FINANCIAL DEPENDENCE ON HER MOTHER IN MMK, DO YOU THINK ANYONE WOULD HAVE EVEN BOTHERED TO PUBLISH THIS SHAMEFUL ABORTION? Bette wasn't a particularly good parent during BD's childhood or adulthood, but nothing in the book or in any book about Bette justifies the treachery of BD writing this book in her mother's lifetime. Financial necessity & the sense of entitlement of all spoiled, over-indulged children drove her to it. As Bette herself concluded, "B.D. thought I was going to die. That's why she wrote the book."

Bette Davis' only natural child, B.D. Hyman, has written an account of her mother's life that obviously tried to capitalize on the success of "Mommie Dearest" by Joan Crawford's daughter. Both books are published by Berkely and both book covers are practically identical in design - not to mention that both stars were publicized as arch-rivals throughout their careers. After reading the tale, however, I was disappointed to find very little shocking and abhorrent in the personal life of Bette Davis as told by Hyman. Hyman describes multiple occasions 'ad nauseum' covering the same banal theme that her mother drank heavily and acted like a bossy celebrity much of the time. It just does not seem like that much of a shocker for a Hollywood celebrity from that era - or this era for that matter - only today narcotics are more typical. Nevertheless, the final theme of the tale is: spoiled, rich girl who has accomplished precious little in her life felt she didn't have enough and wanted things her way and just couldn't win. So she quite boorishly publishes a book in her mother's lifetime, knowing that it would devastate her. In the final analysis, if anyone knows anything about Bette Davis, she was never kept by anyone, especially not by her self-centered and pretentious daughter. It was either her way or the highway... Bette Davis considered her daughter a traitor after the release of this book and never spoke to Hyman again (deservedly so) until the day she died in October 1989. Don't worry, Bette, you won !

The infamous "expose" in which the only natural daughter of screen legend Bette Davis gave the world a glimpse of just what a "monster" her mother really was. Pure, silly malarkey!!! It is VERY obvious that B.D. was indeed interested in getting HER 15 minutes of fame & getting paid handsomely for it, too (the advance alone for this book was reportedly $1OO,OOO). Is there anyone who can take this book all that seriously? Granted, Davis was an egomaniac who could be a fiesty witch in her private life, but so what??? She wasn't evil incarnate like Joan Crawford was: there was a legitimate book in MOMMIE DEAREST. Although one can see B.D.'s view upon occasions, it was in horrific taste for her to publish this book at all, let alone crucifying her mother when she was still alive. Davis wasn't famed for being a Martha Stewart model of a mother - it was her superlative efforts as an actress of which the public cared about: we all knew she was fiesty. That was her appeal.

Even though it's cliche by saying a dummies book IS for dummies, I have to say this is the first book where I've felt that way. I read this cover to cover, and I found it to be useless.

The first 9 chapters are essentially the only portion of the book that explains Visual C++ 6. If that isn't odd, this is: The first 9 chapters explain almost no programming--they explain the wizards that you can find in C++ compilers. They aren't teaching you anything, that I could find, and the programming they do mention is dove into suddenly, and they don't even tell you what the programming means.

If you want to "learn" Visual C++ 6, I recommend a different book, unless you want your programming career to come directly from a Microsoft of Borland wizard.

I bought this book with the notion of learning Visual C++ 6.0 in my spare time. I was very disappointed. There are a lot of examples but some did not compile. I worked every example in the book but I do not see how some of these examples fit into the big picture. The book may have been better if the author had chosen 1 specific example and then built upon that example to give you a real-world application. The examples in each chapter had nothing to do with the examples in the chapters before it. The author just shows you several different ways to accomplice the same thing.

This book takes the ever interesting and entertaining "for dummies" viewpoint and attempts to make Visual C++ 6.0 and OOP a bit easier to swallow. The book is broken up into 3 main sections, the first a rather handy guide to the many different menus and wizards that Visual C++ 6.0 has to offer. The second section is probably the best part for new programmers, offering good (albeit brief) examples of using C style programming. The writers decided to use an ever increasingly complex Jukebox program for their examples instead of the old and hackneyed "Hello World" programs. The code examples are well documented and the CD included with the book has all of the authors example code as well as some useful demo programs for C++ programmers. Section 3 would have to be the big letdown of the book. Section 3 discusses Object Oriented Programming, and while the authors explanations are clear enough, the authors introduce too much, too fast, which will end up bogging down new programmers in an object oriented nightmare. I do, however, recommend this book as a supplemental guide to new programmers, as the examples and simple language that the book is written in will help students understand the more complex ideals of C++.

The book just contains a brief description about the food and people she encountered. The book is more like a travel log or journal. There is nothing significant about how the food come to be and the history behind the devolopement of cuisine culture.