This book was a real disappointment. The overall point of the book was well recieved and enjoyable but poorly written. Unfortunately, the book came off to often as a very long Hallmark card. There are some very good points, but the overall sound and feel is something like this: "Life is good, but life can be bad. What do we do when life is bad, how do we forgive? Here is a story... You can see, from the story, that life is pretty and forgiveness is like leaf or a stream or like the wind, blah blah blah." That may sound harsh, but I am being honest. I think that there should been more time spent on actual intelligent discussion of forgiveness rather than sappy descriptions of nature and melancholy anecdotes. I guess I just expected more from someone with a Ph.D. The book was 95% fluff and 5% meat. I, personally, would not waste my time.

This is a good book on forgiveness and how difficult it is at times. I would also recommend the book An Encounter With A Prophet for some powerful ways to achieve forgiveness.

When I saw that Kent had written a book on forgiveness I was concerned. There are so many books that confuse forgiveness with forgetting and equate forgiveness with turning away from the cruelty in the world. I was hoping that he wouldn't go for such easy answers. Boy, was I right. He didn't disappoint me. He wrote about hard, hard moments in everyday life. He just took me along with him and made me look at the confusion surrounding all our ordinary lives. If he can find a wise way to talk about forgiveness when he sees a woman reading a book to the grave of her dead child, then he can talk to me about forgiveness. And that's just what he did. Buy it. You won't be sorry.

This book could have been/should have been a "bible".
It may be be to some regardless because of the wealth of info it contains.

But when I unwrapped my copy I found an errata sheet that detailed 38 corrections. These corrections are not, by and large, minor wording errors. Lots of errors in levels, etc... (e.g. mg/ml vs. mg/L, 600 vs 60, hypotension vs hypertension) I'm going to keep it because of the wealth of info it contains, but I'm going to have to double check the numbers and what is said everytime I use it.

I'm amazed that the publisher didn't pull this one back from the shelves until it had been really proofread one more time and all the errors corrected.

This is a concise and well-written toxicology handbook. Many additions and updates since the 2nd edition.

This is a great text. It is wonderful for a speedy consult or general tox review, and is great for those in Emergency Medicine as well.

"Why me" This book have 191 pages.This book is write by Deborah Kent. This book is about a 15-year-old girl named Chloe Peterson. She is a normal teenager and she is very active in drama, until she gets a virus that sha can not seem to shake off. She goes to her doctor and she is given vitamins for her stress.Then, she gets a really bad sunburn, she start feeling horrible. She ends up fainting at a tryout for "The sound of music" and she lands in the hospital where she is diagrased with lupus. She has to learned how to live with lupus,and she learned to cope with a disease that is unpredictable. This book was important to me, because I learned how the people feel when they have lupus. I learned a lot from this book, and I hope people will bernefit from it.

This book is about a 15-year-old girl named Chloe Peterson. She is a normal teenager and she is very active in drama,until she gets a virus that she can't seem to shake off.She goes to her doctor and she is given vitamins for her "stress". Then,she gets a really bad sunburn in the middle of March,and she starts feeling horrible.She ends up fainting at a tryout for "The Sound of Music" and she lands in the hospital,where she is diagnosed with lupus.She has to learn how to live her life with lupus,and she learns to cope with a disease that is unpredictable.This book was important to me,because my mother also has lupus. I was devastated until I learned that survival is very well. I learned a lot from this book,and I hope people will benefit from it

I loved the BOOK beause I that Chloe was trying not to give up. Many teenagers her age go thought the same thing feeling sorry for themselves but the book made you think just because she has lupus didn't mean she was going to give up living and I would HIGHLY Reccomend this book and that's all I have to say.

This book is an exceptional follow up to the fluid dynamics publication by the same author. The material in this text is presented in a very straightforward manner which any mechanical engineer should be able to comprehend and apply. This is a must have for the engineer who wishes to design functional fluid thermal systems. This is my second copy.

The content of this book is easily read for me!! It contains almost all practical equations and criteria in the field of thermal system design. The most important point I like the book is that it has really help me a lot with my work in many times. It is so suit to asist engineers in preliminary design of fluid thermal system.

This is an outstanding book. The text is very readable, and the material very practicle. This book could be picked up, read briefly, and applied to real world problems without any further instruction.

I found this book quite useless. I ama beginner with scheme, though I have written LISP and Haskell before.

The parts of scheme I already understood it did not really clarify much, and the parts I did not understand it did not usefully explain. In that sense it did not match the promise of the title: other books in the "The X Programming Language" model do actually introduce you to the language in a usable manner.

For example the sections on macros and continuations are models of terse unclarity. In general the book fails to clearly explain new concepts, and even the early examples are too advanced for a book which is meant to explain the programming language.

This book may be of some use to someone who is a reasonably advanced scheme programmer who wants to get a few new ideas.

However as an introduction to scheme it is in my opinion a total failure. I felt it was more of a vehicle for the author to show off all the nifty coding hacks he could invent than a disciplined attempt to produce a useful book.

There are numerous better introductions to the language on the web, and the R5RS or R4RS documents do a better job of telling you what is in the language.

To be honest, without this book, I would have certainly failed "Programming Introduction", a course I had to attend last semester. This book teaches you everything you need to know about such a complex language as Scheme, giving you deep and abstract examples of recursion. At the end, you will be able to solve the toughest problems using all the elements recursion has to offer, thus making your programs easy and short. However, you must beware of the following. This book has a high technical language, and sometimes, the examples get too complex for one to understand. If you have some experience in programming, this a must for you! However, if you are beginning to programm, or if you are too used to iteration, you can get into this book but will find some trouble understanding some of the recursive structures. However, learning a level of Scheme complexity like the one this book teaches will help you get used to some commands that many other books don't even mention.

This is an excellent book for _REFERENCE_! If you are looking for an introduction to computer programming or Scheme, try _The Little Schemer_ by Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, _Scheme and the Art of Programming_ by George Springer and Daniel Friedman, and finally Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson et.al.. somewhere along the way, Dybvig's book becomes an essential text for reference. I use it whenever I work with Scheme because it defines the entire language within its mere 230 pages. Any Scheme programmer should have this in his/her collection.

on the whole this is a very good book for beginners
The last two chapters which i thought were the
most useful was RUSHED!!

The performance chapter should not have been a chapter
since it was non-existent

The most important chapter of all the bidding web site
construction, I failed to get it to work!! one error
after the other. For a book with so many authors, I
would have thought at least one of the would have had the
time to review the code for the last chapter.

I give this book a 3 but it deserves a 4.
Unless the code in the last chapter works, the last chapter
might as well not be there either

I went through this book. It is great for the beginner to ASP.Net. However, I think it is because there are many authors worked on this book. Its contents is NOT so integrated.

I felt I gain a lot from chap 1-6, however after ch7, it seems worked by another author. The concept between two of them has conflict. For example, the author ch1-6 said using ADO.net data adapter you don't need to open and close the data connection, but in ch7, the author said, you must close the connect obj after you used DataAdapter??

Their writting style are also different, after ch7, the contents is not so good and has a log of mistakes.

This one gets you up and running with database prograaming with ASP.NET in a matter of few hours. In the process, it also provides you with useful real-world tips. Great book for getting your feet wet with ADO.NET.
The treatment is to-the-point and precise.
All the sample codes work.
The pathway followed is quite logical, starting from establishing connection to database, to various ways of reading and displaying records, followed by inserting and updating records, all using ADO.NET. Each chapter builds on the previous one, and the net effect is a coherent, easy-to-follow, enjoyable book. It really takes the complexities out of ADO.NET and helps us understand the simplicity behind the model.
The later chapters on componentization, performance etc are a real bonus.
Good value for money.

Quick reference with information that can be found inside Cisco's public web site. (CCO) More than 30 pages wasted with the Mib-II and Cisco's private mib extension that are also public domain. If you're really looking for Router's performance analysis and troubleshooting tips do not buy this book.

I looked through a dozen Cisco books trying to obtain an insight into tuning my organuzations router. Unfortunately, most book do not cover this topic to any extent, with the exception of this book that I stumbled upon. I found this book refreshing, as the author shows some examples that are both practical and illustrate his use of routers. Some of the other books I bought make you wounder if the author ever used a router. Even the price of this book was outstanding. The only real regret I have is I wasted $55 $70 a book for junk when I should have bought this one first for $29.95. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb me!

This book places all the important metrics concerning Cisco router performance in one easy to read reference. It is well worth the $29.95 price when other books selling for double the price only peripherally cover performance.

As a distinguished historian of ancient science, Francesca Rochberg remarked, do we need another book on the Medici? I think not.

As an art history student working on a thesis concerning the patronage of the Medici family, I have found this monumentally intellectual work to be the best source of both information and explanation, articulately and interestingly stated. I have read at least 40 books, and many many papers written on this subject, none as well done as Ms. Kent. She looks at patronage from a completely different standpoint than almost anybody else has done and worked it beautifully. The fact that the spiritual feeling of the day has been understudied and overlooked and undervalued is very clear and makes the patronage of the Medici very understandable indeed.

Thank you so much Ms. Kent for making my thesis easier to write and giving me so much information I haven't found elsewhere. It is for a colleague of yours. If only I could be as articulate as you, I would be very happy indeed.

I highly recommend this book to any student of Art History who has an interest in the Renaissance.

This is a gorgeously illustrated and beautifully written exploration of Cosimo's patronage and the political, civic, and religious motivations for his many commissions. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Renaissance or art patronage.

This is a good book. However, the NCIDQ exam is changing -- a new exam will be administered in October, 2000. This book may not be as helpful for those that will be taking the new NCIDQ exam in October.

Despite a couple of misstatements this book was invalueable to me in studying for the NCIDQ. Although the format of the exam has changed, the nature of the questions have not. The chapter questions force you to really think about what is being asked. I doubt I could have done well in first two sections of the exam without it.

This is a required text in my Construction Documents Course at Parsons School of Design. The Guide is indespensible for Interior Designers and Future Interior Designers.

Bolitho is feeling distraught. It is peacetime 1791 and he's on the shore. He's recovering from fever. His romance in the South Seas has ended. Of Viola he has only a gold watch. France is under the Terror. Then Bolitho gets his first multi-ship command, a flotilla of topsail cutters with the newly installed Smashers (nasty short-range carronades), but hardly the frigate he deserved. He's in charge of the hated press gangs at the Nore, site of a later fleet mutiny. His loyal coxs'n Allday deserts him! And he suspects his superior and a captain or two of collusion with English smugglers, who are taking heinous advantage of refugee French women. Life is ugly all around, and dominates the dark mood of this novel. Bolitho races about on many filthy errands, in foul seas, and against big odds. That, at least, is nothing new.

Deja vu: the story line is reminiscent of "Midshipman Bolitho," once again chasing smugglers. Again the smugglers have a deadly intelligence system and protection from a mystery authority. Nominally in command of his destiny, Bolitho encounters a master politician who sends him on highly dangerous secret missions into Holland. Curiously, for all Bolitho's empathy and respect for his crews, he never seems to invite his officers to dinner. There's little in this series of the sumptuous larders most captains supplied.

Kent includes nice bonus appendices, one on the specialist warrant officers, the other on the origins of some naval customs. But nary a word on the possible historicity of the events told here.

Although not one of the best in the series, this novel captures the grim life at sea and the struggle against nature. In this book, brutal smugglers ply the English Channel between Holland, France and England. The central characters are well written and alive with problems, dialog and several seem destined to re-appear in future Bolitho novels. However, Mr. Kent seemed to have Bolitho dwell in his past too many times. A dark, brooding side of the naval hero seems to fill many pages, but it does make Sir Richard that much more of a fleshed out character. He does feel for his dead friends, former ships and in some cases, former enemies. That aside, the tale moves along like a nimble sixth-rater with all sheets unfurled in a southern wind. The action is swift and brutal as Bolitho gives battle to the smugglers and their allies. Stormy weather, plenty of thunderous cannon fire, smashed bulkheads, parted ratlines and terrified crewmen. The author once again details the sea as an angry foe without mercy. The battle at the end of the book between a couple of corvettes and three cutters is suberb Kent writting. A welcome addition to the collection none the less. Well worth reading and blends seamlessly into the very next novel. An excellent series that has re-defined nautical fiction.

With All Despatch is chronologically the last of Kent's pre-Napoleonic Wars Bolitho novels. It is also the most recently written depicting that era. As such it is one of his most polished if somewhat familiar.

Kent has used the structure of With All Despatch before. Essentially he has written the novel in two linked sections with a mini-climax in the first followed by the major climax and denouement in the second. In Gallant Company was particularly effective using this format and in With All Despatch the two sections are linked even more solidly.

In this entry Bolitho who is still mourning the loss of his lady must obtain men for His Majesty's service while battling smugglers on England's North Sea coast. Complicating the matter is possible collusion between a senior officer and the smugglers. The head smuggler seems unreachable and there is an obvious parallel with organized crime and drug cartels of today. As the novel progresses it is also obvious that France and England will be at war soon. Can Bolitho meet all of his objectives and defeat his enemies? To provide a clue, the series will continue with many more novels for 23 more years.

In spite of being a popular series the reader has to know that Richard Bolitho is a tragic figure. The chronology in most books shows his death in 1815. By With All Despatch Bolitho has lost both his parents and his brother who turned traitor before dying. His faithful sidekick Stockdale was killed after nearly 10 years with him and Bolitho notes that his replacement Allday has been with him for 10 years. The reader has to be waiting for the other shoe to drop with Allday. The series could be really depressing if Kent didn't fill the novels with nail biting tension and thrilling action sequences. Kent's obvious knowledge of sailing and love of the sea also provide charm to the series.

With All Despatch is one of Kent's most polished. Perhaps it doesn't have the fire and intensity of earlier offerings but it is still good. While the entire series is violent some of this novel is particularly gruesome. I wouldn't recommend With All Despatch for younger readers unlike the earlier novels.