A great teaching or learning manual for PageMaker! I used this text teaching DTP and PM at a community college. It is well illustrated and has step-by-step instructions. Each lesson has labs that, if completed, will make you proficient in PM. The only drawback to the book is the changes to PM6.5. While the supplement covers the changes, some of the excercises cannot be completed as directed because they do not account for the changes. (for instance, the grid manager in PM6.5 is set up differently). PM6.5 Plus (newest release) has some additional features (such as a tool bar) that may require an additional supplement but can be figured out easily enough until it's available. Overall, a good, comprehensive book for beginners or intermediates.

From the developers of MMPM/2 itself, this book covers all sorts of information that you just can't get anywhere else. If you're doing any sort of OS/2 multimedia programming, even if you think you know what you're doing, you really should have this book. The one drawback is that it doesn't cover any new features in OS/2 Warp 4 like DART and the audio mixer API's.

John Bradley and his colleagues are imbued with wisdom and insights that are very practical and applicable to our daily lives. I use the insights presented in this book to develop the talents of my three teenagers. My students love this book as a major reading material in my Personal Development classes and Leadership Development training sessions. Now, I can honestly say to myself and to my Creator that "I love what I do and I do what I love!"

Ms Anderson has done a wonderful job of weaving the threads of geography, politics, economics, history, religion, etc. into a solid cloth of Durham county history.

This book was well reasearched and has extensive endnotes that add a treasure trove of information additional to the text body. (In fact, my only negative critical comment about this book is that the author used endnotes instead of footnotes, causing one to either ignore the endnotes for later or risk carpal tunnel from flipping back and forth!)

Ms. Anderson delves into the social and economic complexities behind Durham's prosperity and its poverty -- which often shared time and space -- and she manages to humanize the complicated personalities who so greatly influenced the city's growth. The Dukes, Carrs, Mangums, etc. are well known to have been the driving busienss forces behind the tobacco and mill industries that made Durham properous, but it is refreshing to learn something of their personalities and their struggles.

Anyone who grew up in Durham knows what a huge contribution black business leaders made to the economic success of the area. This is the only book where I have seen the subject treated as a integral portion of the area's history and culture, and not something set apart from all other events and influences, outside the "white" history.

There are some wonderful photographs of historical buildings and people - both influencial and "just plain folks".

Every historical account has dry patches. I found two of them (albeit small) to be at the time frame around 1920-1940. I urge the reader to work through this as the information there is important to understanding the material that follows.

Despite the fact that I was born in Durham and lived in the area for over 30 years, I only developed a curiosity in the history of the county. As a native Durhamite, I found this book to be a wonderful education into the area. I believe a non-native would find it a very readable and fascinating view into the birth and growth of a Southern city that defied a lot of stereotypes and a lot of odds. To be honest, when I left the area Durham was headed on a downhill turn of high crime, strained race relations, poor schools and a wide gap between have a have nots -- many of the same problems the county faced at its inception. It will be interesting to see if the region manages to persevere with the same success as in the turn of the century.

Revised and Expanded - with scores of new VGA programs and now including the VESA Super VGA Standard Version 1.1 Put yourself on the cutting edge of microcomputer graphics design and applications with this state-of-the-art technical guide to the IBM® Enhanced Graphics and Virtual Graphics Array Written for software developers, engineers, and technicians involved in microcomputer graphics design and applications, this practical guide is the first and now the most comprehensive to detail the technical aspects of the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter and Virtual Graphics Array - the business and professional microcomputer graphics standards.

Concentrating on advanced assembly language programming for the EGA and VGA, the Programmer's Reference Guide gives you tips for working around bugs in the EGA and VGA BIOS ... a complete description of EGA and VGA BIOS calls not available elsewhere ... many innovative programming tricks and techniques ... and the possible pitfalls. It presents routines for applications such as word processing, graphics programs, animation, and computer-aided design.

Special features of the book are its sample algorithms for specific graphics applications and its many practical programming examples to give you "hands-on" experience. EGANGA is a definitive working tool that appeals to a wide range of PC-DOS and MSDOS programmers and everyone else interested in designing and implementing programs for the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter and Virtual Graphics Array.

I have used this book in my Environmental Biology classes at Stanly Community College. It is well written, but at a reading level not beyond that of most high school graduates. It covers basic knowledge and current environmental problems. I really enjoy the Global Perspective sections. I highly recommend this book as a beginning environmental science book.

The author and photographer of this new guide to the Ephrata Cloister show their love and understanding of this unusual historic site. John Bradley does a wonderful job of capturing tons of history and the flavor of this religious experiment in a few, well-crafted words. The photographer, Craig A. Benner, obviously selected only the best of a lifetime of great photographs that take you to all corners of the Cloister and capture the distinctive look of the medieval-style architecture and peaceful atmosphere. There's nothing in my extensive collection of books on this site that captures the experience of this unique place as well as this book. Short of a visit there's nothing I'd recommend more... and then, the book would serve you well with it's map and site guide.

Dr. Kuhns book is written in laymen's terms and is easy to understand. It starts with the basics in Homeopathy and explains the concept of using this alternative medicine for one's health. In contrast, with so many other books out there using their own various Homeopthic combinations, this book takes one through the actual homeopathic single remedies and how they are used for various illness and disease. I would recommend this CD-ROM, book for anyone that keeps an alternative medicine library.

It looks like book was written by a person that actually used these techniques. It would be a good earning tool at polygraph schools and police interrogation classes. If this porson writes other books, I would buy it based on the ease of understanding in this particular one.

When Francis Herbert Bradley published this work in 1876, utilitarianism was riding high in British ethical philosophy. As he notes in his preface, Bradley was not trying to develop a complete system of moral philosophy or even to determine what is the proper subject matter of that field. His purpose was critical, and his target was utilitarianism.

However, his work is probably more positive than he gave it credit for. While it is undoubtedly not a full moral philosophy, he at least sketches the outlines of an ethic of self-fulfillment that does not collapse into either amorality or tautology.

Utilitarianism has moved on since Bradley's time and its arguments and doctrines have not stood altogether still. But Bradley's critiques of hedonism and its inability to provide a rule of life are still trenchant; his dissection of "duty for duty's sake" should still have the power to make Kantians squirm a bit; and his essay on "My Station and Its Duties" is surely a classic of British moral philosophy.

The meat of Bradley's own positive case, though, is presented in the final two chapters, on "Ideal Morality" and "Selfishness and Self-Sacrifice." It would be a mistake to regard "My Station and Its Duties" as Bradley's final word on ethics, for he did not thus regard it himself. On the contrary, in his closing chapters he sketches a view of the moral life as a life in which one's "good self" is fulfilled by overcoming one's "bad self" -- the former answering to our "true being" and the latter incapable of being desired for its own sake. And this "good self" is not simply or fully exhausted in our practical obligations.

Bradley did not allow the book to be republished for many years after it had gone out of print, but in later life he did begin to make notes toward a reissue. This reissue was published in 1927, some three years after Bradley's death, with the help of H.H. Joachim; this edition, which is the one here made available, incorporates Bradley's rough notes as bracketed additions.