This book has nothing to do with Albert Einstein, the scientist, apparently. I can't imagine why the author chose this title for his collection of strange and disjointed thoughts. I am careful about what I feed my mind and will not read anymore of this book. It is the most diappointing book I have ever tried to read.

either the other reviewer of this book is a practical joker, or there is a different book called the autibiography of albert einstein that was written by gerhard roth and translated by malcolm green.or perhaps there is indeed a third possibility. one that is much more sinister. this book has nothing to do with einstein. if you want to read his autobiography look elsewhere. this book is a post-modern experimental obsessive-compulsive sort of investigation into the chemicals which spurt around the body of einstein and create as a biproduct his subconcious. and maybe its not even that. if you like your literature to be bizarre and have nothing to do with albert einstein, go ahead and read this. i really like it. but i also like to drink cough syrup, so...

This is possibly the best book ever written. Its a wonderfully crafted book by Einstein that portrays the truths of ambition, love, and skill that go against modern views of success and status. A must read for anyone interested in science, knowledge, and life.

The most unfortunate thing about Jim Silke's book is that he writes about Bettie Page (and very poorly, at that) as an object rather than as a person--his interest in Bettie doesn't seem to extend beyond his own masturbatory fantasies. It doesn't appear that the author spent much time researching his subject (beyond looking at her pictures). While there are a respectable number photographs and some nice artwork by Dave Stevens and Robert McGinnis, there are far too many pages devoted to Silke's own drawings of Bettie, many of which are based on old movie stills or Olivia paintings.

If you are looking for an intensive study of the life and career of Bettie Page, look elsewhere. If you want a bunch of fun pictures and art of and inspired by Bettie Page, then this book is for you. This one focuses on the culture of the Bettie Page revival, and her influences on fashion and art. It's not a chronological narrative of Betties life, but it's more about the Bettie culture than Bettie herself.

Let me just say if your a bettie page fan you,ll love all the pic,drawing and hard to find nude of Ms page. Its a short book but well layed out.

This book was filled with a great assortment of lists that displayed many different aspects of the Civil War. When I first saw this book I thought 'This is great! A book of lists on the Civil War. How could a book of lists have a bias?' However, the author continually interjected his slant which caused the book to show his bias. (Ex. The author constantly referred to The War Between the States as "The war of the rebellion".)

I was hoping to find some of the more obscure facts such as:

1.) How many blacks fought in the Confederate army as well as
the Northern army? (Chapter 17, "Black Soldiers", only
refers to the black soldiers who fought in the Union army.)

2.) How many Northern states still practiced slavery even after
the war had ended? This is largely due to the
'Emancipation Proclamation' only freeing the slaves in the
South.

Unfortunately these details are not as widely accepted in the 'Politically Correct' world that we live in. These facts aren't as important in society if you want to say that the
Civil War was fought to end slavery! It's like the old saying goes - 'The victors write the history books'.

Compiled and written by civil war buff Donald Cartmell, The Civil War Book Of Lists is a singularly fascinating compendium of literally thousands of true facts about the deadliest war in American history in terms of fatalities and injuries. From a list of five famous female spies to the five most frequent court-martial offenses to 17 rules for Civil War Reenactors, The Civil War Book Of Lists is filled cover to cover with amazing details. The Civil War Books Of Lists is strongly recommended reading for Civil War Studies supplemental reading lists, academic reference collections, and American history buffs.

This is a great book for anyone interested in the Civil War.

I didn't see a listing of the songs included in this book, so I bought it on blind faith. Some strange, obscure titles by well known artists are included while their more popular songs were omitted-why, I don't know. If you want a variety of fairly tame tab, this book may be for you. As a part time working musician, I don't find this publication very useful. John Denver, but only one Led Zep tune? C'mon, Hal Leonard....

This is a very useful books for people who wants to know how to play a wide variety of good songs, detailed note-for-note transcriptions, as recorded by the artists, you might not find every single song you like, but you'll find classics like Tears in Heaven, new punk bands like Offspring and Blink, some other old stuff like leaving on a jetplane, etc. More than 1000 pages, more than 100 songs. Awesome Book.

This book is so awesome. 1,023 pages of guitar tab that separately would cost much more than 29.95. From Aerosmith to ZZ Top, this book covers some of the best songs I know. Unlike other books, this one crosses several music genres: Folk, oldies, hard rock. For the 29.95 that I paid, I feel like no other tab book is close to this 150 song collection.

I bought all four of the books in this series. I found that the contacts are all mixed up? For instance, in the "Press" section, there are Production Companies, Entertainment Companies, Studios etc. listed. I was hoping for the money I paid that it would be a bit more organized. Also, a lot of the data is out of date.

I purchased every volume of this directory and found them all to be very useful to me at one point or the other. The information is very fresh and up to date. Thank You - Balil

Very complete information. Extremely helpful. Let's of sources and contact information. Definite must buy!

I bought all four of the books in this series. I found that the contacts are all mixed up? For instance, in the "Press" section, there are Production Companies, Entertainment Companies, Studios etc. listed. I was hoping for the money I paid that it would be a bit more organized. Also, a lot of the data is out of date.

I purchased every volume of this directory and found them all to be very useful to me at one point or the other. The information is very fresh and up to date. Thank You - Balil

Very complete information. Extremely helpful. Let's of sources and contact information. Definite must buy!

I spent a long time... trying to decide between this book and Budi Kurniawan's "Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB" - the only two I can find that give an integral treatment of this trinity of J2EE technology.

I ultimately decided to go with Kurniawan's book mainly because he is a better teacher and explainer, and that the book is better organized. Jorelid's book is for you if you are a hard-cored geek to whom reading UML and standard specs is second-instinct. He started the book - chapter 1 - with an extended, class-by-class coverage of the servlet package - no practical example until chapter 2. There ARE flashes of brilliance here and there though, for example his lucid explanation of the evolution of servlet-collaboration technology, from direct invocation to filters. However, the lack of sub-chapter headings in the TOC makes it VERY difficult to locate a specific topic.

Jorelid scores a clear point over Kurniawan in covering struts. But then he does not provide the still-larger discussion of application design (e.g. a chapter dedicated to a sample project from design to deployment, showing how to translate UML from design/analysis into servlets, JSP and EJBs - where his use of UML would be most justified).

In short, you may like it if you are a Wrox kinda guy. For other mortals, Kurniawan is a gentler guide.

"J2EE FrontEnd Technologies" refers to itself as a "programmer's guide" and that is probably the best description of it. While it also claims to be "chock full of code examples" and contains "what you need to know," it falls short in both these areas. What you will find is a fairly detailed and yet limited explanation of the three major J2EE technologies, servlets, JSPs, and EJBs. Although you will find extensive information for these three areas, there are many details left out and there is little attempt made to tie the three pieces together. For example, you will not find any examples of linking servlets and JSPs other than by using the Struts framework. You will also find no more than a brief mention of message driven EJBs. There are numerous UML diagrams throughout the book but in many cases they add little beyond what you can get from looking at the APIs. The examples in the book tend to be overly simplistic, in some cases wasting many pages to show an example that could have been summarized in a few lines of code. The best section of the book is the section on EJBs. The author's detailed description of EJB deployment descriptors is better than what you will find in most EJB books. This section also features the most complete examples found in the book. Overall this book does contain value, although it fails as an introduction or tutorial on the technologies that it covers.

I found this book to be very well written, organized and helpful in learning J2EE concepts. The book is very easy to read. Author is very experienced and discusses pros and cons for various decisions programmers and designers have to make. The topics covered include Servlets, Shopping Cart Example, Struts, JSP and EJB.

Illustrations used throughout the book for describing classes, packages and working of programs is excellent. UML is used extensively in the book. Class diagrams and Interaction diagrams are used throughout the book to explain Java Servlet API and it's working. Screen dumps and nice figures are used to give pictorial views of situations being discussed. This helped me quickly understand various concepts.

At various places, the author explains reasons for deprecating some methods in the API. He also gives examples of such cases. This helped me learn some better programming skills and made me aware of common design mistakes. The author explains many design choices from security point of view also.

In my opinion the book is an excellent buy.

You will find this book very helpful if you are new to Active Server Pages. The book describes very clearly what ASP is, how it works, what it does, etc. This book will also make the beginner comfortable with how to write basic VBscript or similar in order to code their Active Server Pages. Wonderful coverage is given to all the basic ASP objects, their properties, and methods and how to invoke the power of each. This book has some funny prose to it and is not overly in-depth, but it will make a newcomer comfortable with integrating their current html skills, client-side scripting skills, and ASP into useful applications.

This book is not just about ASP. This book contains chapters on just about everything you can put on a website. (dynamic) HTML, client (in vb) and serversidescripting (vb & jscript). Building components, java-applets, database-access. You name it, and it's there. The downside is that this quite expensive book it not detailed enough. The only chapters that are reasonably complete are the ones about Jscript and VBscript. The others will not get you much further than some "hello world"-like application. The other thing that I don't like about the book that it is very Internet Explorer oriented. The chapters on HTML are completely unusable for netscape-browsers, and this is the only book I know that boasts Vb as a client-side scripting language. Add the very irritatng introductions of the chapters and there you have it. Not a book for pro's, but I can imagine it being usefull for people who wish to know a little about a lot of things and are prepared to buy seperate books for the items they are actually interested in.

Excellent guide for developping dynamic, Interactive Web Site. This book goes into relevent details and guides you through the process of development without assuming that you have 20 years of development experience behind you.

I would recommend it for junior developpers

As a collector of hard plastic dolls, I'd hoped that this would be a helpful guide to identifying dolls of the 1950s and determining their original accessories. But there are very few dolls depicted and the coverage is inconsistent. There are no dolls in the first selection (for 1950), 2 pages for 1951, none for 1952, none for 1953, 2 pages for 1954, 5 pages for 1955, 1/2 page for 1956, none for 1957, none for 1958, none for 1959, 5 pages for 1960 (that year's excerpt from the Wish Book is all dolls), 1/2 page for 1962, 1 page for 1963, none for 1965, 2 pages for 1966, none for 1967, 2 pages for 1968, and 2 pages for 1969.

The explanation for this cursory treatment of dolls in a book titled "Girls' Toys"? The author evidently was reserving them for another compilation, advertised in this volume, titled _Doll and Teddy Bear Department_. That book showcases the doll and bear pages from the _Sears WishBooks_ from 1950-69. (...)

Aside from silently restricting the doll-coverage in order to produce a further volume, the author has selected for some years pictures of exactly the same toys (the electric piano, the tea sets, the toy kitchens), so the coverage is repetitive.

I was led to buy this book by the recommendations of the other reviewers, but if, like me, your primary interest is in the 1950s and in doll collecting, I would advise you to save your money.

This is really a great book for the Baby Boomer Generation! I have a super time just looking at all the childhood toys that I had totally forgotten existed. My Favorites are from the 1960's! If you are a Chatty Cathy collecctor then this is a Must Have book....Her Sears ads are in here!

Thomas Holland's book Girls' Toys of the fifties and sixties is a faithful reproduction of the fantastic Sears Christmas catalog toy pages from 1950 to 1969. The large 8 1/2 x 11 inch format of the book allows it to show close ups of the popular toys from each of these years. These pictures are an invaluable resource to help collectors of toys from this era decide what pieces actually came with the toys. As a collector of tin dollhouses, I found the pictures a huge help in identifying the furniture and tiny accessories for each of my houses. The only drawback to the book is the fact that it is in black and white. I enjoyed this book immensely, it was like being a kid again, devouring each page of toys and memories.

I purchased The Industry Yellow Pages, and was extremely disappointed! Not only does the product appear as if it were created by someone on a home computer(amateur) - it is NOT a book as indicated - it is a PDF document on CD (Very unprofessional). In this format, you cannot print labels, sections, or do anything constructive with the information. Quite frankly, spend your money elsewhere!

I purchased every volume of this directory and found them all to be very useful to me at one point or the other. The information is very fresh and up to date. Thank You - Balil

Very complete information. Extremely helpful. Let's of sources and contact information. Definite must buy!