Ms Savage does a very credible job of introducing the Aurora Borealis to the average person. The book begins with historical interest in the aurora and how different peoples view the lights and works its way up to the modern day physics of the lights. Interspersed throughout the book are wonderful photos of the lights and pithy quotes. This book is a must for anyone who enjoys the aurora and wants to know more about it. The one short coming of the book was the tendancy of Ms. Savage to be a little long winded at times. Shorter explanations and more pictures would have really made this book perfect. As it stands, however, the book is well worth the purchase price, if only to adorn your coffee table.

This Hebrew-Spanish Dictionary is very complete and also it contains a great hebre-spanish translation of words, the way the verbs are exposed and everything...Excellent Job! 4 stars Hebrew Spanish Dictionary

This book introduces the term Maximalism to descibe the current trend of 'more is more' design. An example of a minimalist space is given, juxtaposed against the featured design of a similarly used space (offices vs. offices, restaurants vs. restaurants, etc.). Highlights include the colorful designs of the MTV headquarters, the Queens Museum of Art, and the Christian Lacroix Store in Tokyo. A section on Maximalist furniture closes out the book.

This book opened my eyes to what life on the western frontier was really like. Forget current media fictionalizations, the frontier was not a shooting gallery. No handsome stranger rides into to town to save the cowering inhabitants from evil. The crooks and crooked politics are all there, just like they are today. The sheriff was not always the stalwart defender of the law, in fact he sometimes had business interests to protect.

McGrath offers a carefully documented narrative of the day to day goings on during the gold rush. The data is from public records and the fill-in is from newspaper archives. A detailed yet readable account of frontier life. Far better than any cowboy novel, this is the real west.

Steve Hurst

The materials in Minimalist Spaces are thoughtfully selected from broad range around the world. With its good quality graphics, it's a book worthy to read. If more specific details and graphic illustrations could be included, it would be much more helpful. Anyway, this is a good book of its kind.

The emperor of China Has every thing, and his palace are so beatiful. But one day he hears of a little Nightingale that sings so beatiful. And he really want to have it... Read what happens with him in this book. You can't help it being touched of this sweet storie, I can say that I was it... Like I have said before I will say again, H C Andersen can really write good childrens books!

This book provides an excellent account of the Mexico city earthquate. Yet what is most poignant about it is that it describes the events through the eyes of the urban poor. IT is very detailed in description, and at times graphic. Some of the accounts are inspiring, while many of them reveal the true nature of the Mexican ruling class. If anyone is interested in urban poor in South America, this book is a must read. It will have you cheering the silent heroism of so many poor Mexicans, while at the same time arousing a feirce anger towards the government that let so many of them down.

The book also conveys to the reader a sense of the magnitude of Mexican city and how devasting the earthquake was. It reveals how the poor are so dramatically affected by such an event, yet how they are so often forgotten. Literally, to the point of death. This is an excellent book.

In the world of Trinity, the Earth is treatened by various forces: the alien Chromatics, the all powerful and lunatic Aberrants and the crossbreeding Coalition. The Earth has the Psionic orders, humans with great but sometimes limited powers. This book tell us about one of the orders: The Legions. Like an armada of soldiers but with the ability to use their mind with the gift of Psychokinesis. This discipline devides in 3 branches: Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis and Telekinesis. In the book they explain how the Psion uses this powers and the full structure about the order. Besides being an Order book, it explain us about Australia, the Legion's homebase. From political conflicts to local lifestyles, this book tells us what we need to run a chronicle on Australia. A good book, worth a look.

I made my selection based on the editoral review. However, I found the review very misleading. This is a picture book with practically no text, not even captions for the pictures. All of the text would probably fit on 10 pages and most of the pictures are too small to show much detail. Very disappointing to say the least. Imagine watching a movie on a 9" screen with the volume turned off.

The one-star reviewer is right -- it's all pictures. Perfect! Who needs text when you've got all this incredible visual material? (And I found what little text there is to be well written and informative.)

I like the format, which includes a feature-specific gallery up front, then case studies organized by country, with useful thumbnails at the start of each section. It's like a continent-hopping parade of homes. I LOVE this book.

I love this book, gave me tons of idea for my future house. Highly recommended.

Given its relatively high price (when compared to other more substantive references), I was most disappointed with this book. I found this book to be scarcely more than marketing white-papers on the subjects of JDBC and RMI. The source code examples are incomplete. Going to the Que website to retrieve complete source-code for the samples also included only snippets of code -- not whole working sample applications. As an "introduction to enterprise java", I think this book does a fine job. As a "most complete reference", however, it was very disappointing.

I don't agree that this is an RMI/JDBC marketing book. But I believe that "Using Enterprise Java" is a misleading title. This book does *not* cover the 800-pound gorilla that is all of Enterprise Java, but it far exceeds the countless introductory clones that all seem to have the same Table of Contents. This is a deep drive into RMI and JDBC. As this is more than just some abstract theory book, it's not bedside reading - but it has some great models for how to get your brain around relational databases in Java's object oriented world, including the quite good Chapter 7, "Object/Relational Mapping".

I am developing a 3-tier Java RMI based application, and found this book to be a great reference. Excellent coverage of RMI and JDBC, with alot of good example code. The section on developing RMI JDBC applications has been a big help on my current project. I haven't had time to read the whole book, but it appears to cover the use of Java w/CORBA and other topics in an equally thorough and practical way. A real bargain, especially w/the $10 rebate!