This Author is nothing more than a person posturing herself for expert witness status. This book is just one more way she is attempting to legitimize herself in order to earn the thousands of dollars earned as a expert witness in court. Of course this is me exersicing my first amemdment right to my free speach and opinion.

This is a terrific addition to the library of practicing neuropsycologists. The authors have really done their homework and it is clearly evident that they are excellent scholars. Each of the NP tests reviewed in this book (popularly used tests and some lesser known ones), which is by no means an exhaustive review of all NP tests, is a tour de force of a literature review, a critical analysis, and recommendations. The reader is struck by the huge amount of research that the authors did, and the work that went into such integration. I don't think this norm reference, however, can stand alone, notwithstanding its excellence, since it presents a selection of NP tests and does not try to be all inclusive. But rest assured that those tests discussed are presented comprehensively. Practicing neuropsychologists will also want Spreen & Strauss, of course, as well as regular updated norms of other tests. But this text goes a long way in helping to solve the 'norms problem' in contemporary clinical neuropsychology. It really is a must have!

This is a terrific addition for practicing neuropsycologists. The authors have really done their homework and it is clearly evident that they are excellent scholars. Each of the NP tests reviewed in this book, which is by no means an exhaustive review of all NP tests, is a tour de force of literature review, critical analysis, and recommendations. The reader is struck by the huge amount of research that the authors did, and the work that went into such integration. I don't think this norm reference, however, can stand alone, notwithstanding its excellence, since it presents a selection of NP tests and does not try to be all inclusive. But rest assured that those tests discussed are presented comprehensively. Practicing neuropsychologists will also want Spreen & Strauss, as well as regular updated norms of other tests. But this text goes a long way in helping to solve the 'norms problem' in contemporary clinical neuropsychology. A must have!

This book provides the best introduction to the concepts behind Obj-Oriented Programming I've ever seen. It makes every other attempt to reach beginners that I've read (and there were several) seem ham-handed by comparison. After reading it, I didn't feel like I was a master, but I did feel that my basics were on totally solid ground, and I had ample confidence to go to advanced-level books.

I agree with some critics that a chapter on how to use MRJ would have been a good idea. Since I had CodeWarrior Pro already, I can't comment on the software that comes with the book.

I've always been interested in Java and C programming, and had purchased several "beginners" books. This is one of the finest I've read. The book takes you by the hand and slowly introduces you to essential concepts as you go along, rather than throw the "vital" stuff and theory at you all at once (another beginner book called "Learn Java in 21 Days" does this, and was a very confusing book for a newbie like me - however, I am confident to return to "21 Days" now that I've read this book). The book is not all-encompassing, nor should it be. Rather, it is a perfect springboard to the rest of the Java "how-to" bookshelf. You do need your own compiler to create your own applets, but no book is going to give away fully functioning software. I recommend Metrowerks' "Discover Programming for the Macintosh" - it includes Java, C, C++ and Pascal compilers, all for around 80 bucks.

I have 3 "Java for beginners" books sitting in my shelf, but this is the one that really got me started. Easy to follow, yet not trivial or boring. Great intro on OO programming. For the beginner, I think this is the book to go with - not only on the Mac!

This book was average.Houston leaves out an important detail in that he says nothing about young Daniel Boone's part as a teamster in the Braddock Expedition to take Ft.Duquesne during the French and Indian War in 1755.While Boone did not play a significant role during the battle(by his own admission he cut loose the horses and took off shortly after coming under fire from the French and Indians)he was one of many famous personalities who were present that day.More importantly,he met one John Finley during this expedition who told Boone about the wild and unsettled lands that he had traveled to on the frontier in what is now Kentuckey.

Houston's Boone is a diminutive book but one brimming with contemporary insights plus editor's annotations into frontier life featuring new stuff on Boone, hide tanning, buffalo, Indians, and early hunter anecdotes. An elegent little book with a gorgeous jacket, a highly collectable bit of old-time Kentuckiana.

Murray State University (Kentucky) history professor Ted Franklin Belue discovered the only known copy of Peter Houston's manuscript about his personal recollections of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone, in the Lyman C. Draper papers at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in 1990. Written in the 1840s by a friend and neighbor of Boone's, the original manuscript was stolen from the author's grandson in 1887, but luckily for future historians, the grandson had, mere weeks before the theft, mailed a copy of the lengthy work to the prolific historian, Lyman Draper. Belue has done a masterful job in presenting this rare piece of Americana to the reading public. Replete with extensive annotations and notes, a pictorial section, and an impressive bibliography, the book goes a long way in shedding light on everyday times on America's first western frontier during the 1770s and 1780s. For those of WWA's membership who believe, as I do, that "western" writing is defined as that which encompasses the entire American frontier experience, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific shores, this book will provide several hours of interesting reading, indeed.--Jim Crutchfield, Managing Editor, Roundup Magazine April 1998, Western Writers of America

A short biography of Daniel Boone (1734-1820) written by James Daughtery for children, probably for ages 10-14. It won the 1940 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature. This was a good biography when it first appeared, but better ones have been published since 1939.

In a nonfictionalized text and bold illustrations, the author not only portrays the famous American trailblazer, but provides an authentic picture of pioneer life at the beginning of the great Westward movement. The biography begins with Boone's youth in Pennsylvania and closes on the day he died in Missouri at the age of eighty-six.

Appropriate emphasis is put on Boone's important role in the opening up and settlement of Kentucky. Boone proved to be the ideal man for this time. The author's style, vigorous and simple like the subject's life conveys the pioneer spirit and suggests the frontier speech without reproducing the idiom in tedious detail. The lithographs of pioneers and Indians--done in black, brown and forest green--enhance the epic proportions of the narrative.

Unfortunately, the publisher seems to have abandoned most of their previous authors and recruited rookies with dubious qualifications and almost no experience in South America. The chapters done by the authors of their individual country guides are reasonably accurate, but the ones by new authors are appallingly bad.

It is hard to concentrate so much information in a single book, covering all of South America from Colombia to Chile. Lonely Planet have tried and have done a good job, but the target was too ambitious... If you are literally running through South America with little time, and perhaps you don't want to carry the weight of too many guides, then do get this book. It is of some use, and offers interesting reading. Yet, if you plan to get to know each country more thoroughfully, you are much better off with Lonely Planet's (or other publishers') single guides on each individual country, and there are lots to choose from.

This book is an absolute must for the budget,adventurous,willing-to-stay-in-a-funky-hotel-with-lumpy-beds traveler. In a writing style as colorful as the cover, Lonely Planet helps you plan your trip with concise information on: restaurants (with many references to vegetarian places), lodging, festival dates, nightclubs, local language and customs, safety information and more. Lonely Planet South America can also lead you to out of the way villages and towns where you are thrilled at the sight of a real toilet after a five-hour bus ride which left you covered in dust. Nothing comes more in handy after starving on the long bumpy ride than grabbing your guidebook out of your backpack to find out the best fried plantain stand and cheap posada (inn) in this block-long town. And I was very grateful for those tips the book gave on where to ask for that guy "Juan" who is the only person who sells stamps within miles! From the Amazon to the Andes to the Caribbean, Lonely Planet was there for me. Seeing other tourists leafing through the same guidebook, brimming with over 1000 pages of invaluable information in a small book you can cram in a purse, was always a comforting sight in such different-from-home lands.

A quick, enjoyable read, Boone provides the reader with insight regarding the motivations of corporate executives -- self preservation. T. Boone consistently highlights one theme -- creating shareholder value -- as the justification for his actions throughout the 1980s. The book provided an altogether different slant than that portrayed by the media and by corporate America. The reader should be prepared however, as T. Boone is self praising and absorbed throughout the majority of this book. In fact, one should consider this book to be the "other-side" of the corporate raider story.

Overall, Boone is a read which provides a glimse into the personality which exemplifies the corporate raider. Upon finishing the book I was taken two things: 1. The names of some partners: Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and so forth. 2. The continued "bloatedness" of big business (regardless of the industry) in America -- apparently things have not changed much in the last 15 years since Boone was originally written.

A great story about T. Boone, his dreams and his company. T.Boone, like David is not afraid to take the Goliaths head on. This book has some great quotes, like "Is you is or is you ain't, my baby". I also learned why you should never borrow neckties or shotguns. Really an enjoyable read about a great corporate raider.

Despite Pickens constantly patting himself on the back this
turned out to be a very good book. You are able to get a good
history of Picken's very own company,Mesa Petroleum.You also get
an insight into Picken's marriages and life. Most of the book
was taken up with the various corporate raids that Picken's had
a hand in initiating on some of the bigger companies in America.
It is a very interesting look at the actions of a corporate raider.Pickens also gives you his insight on the management of some of the big companies that he was raiding. All in all a very
interesting book.

Having read and very much enjoyed Lonesome Dove, I was disappointed by Boone's Lick. It's the story of Shay, who travels with his mother, uncle, and assorted other relatives and followers from Missouri to the West as part of his mother's attempt to locate her long-gone husband.

The book has some of McMurtry's strengths: the humor, the clear, spare writing style, the appealing working-class characters (including the mules). But the plot is shallow, the characters are never really developed, and the end sudden. Overall, the book feels as if the author were just going through the motions; as if he were bored with the work. Mary Margaret and Seth, particularly, might have been interesting people, but the reader never gets to know them. I'd skip this in favor of McMurtry's more carefully written work.

With his clever eye for detail and unerring ear for great dialogue, Larry McMurtry makes a welcomed return to his roots in this fine little book. Told from the perspective of its 15 year old hero, this terse Western tale brought to mine richer, more emotionally satisfying work, from the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Yet on its own terms, "Boone's Lick" is a sly, often funny, look at the West in the late 1860's. Having not read "Lonesome Dove", it is impossible for me to compare this to his earlier, critically acclaimed work. Yet I found it quite captivating, showing McMurtry's great love of the West and the strong empathy he feels towards its aboriginal peoples. Anyone who thinks the Western as a literary form has run its course should read McMurtry's tome.

What do I like about Larry McMurtry's writing? He does not write as if you had no brains at all about the Old West. But he writes as if you were his equal and he just wants to tell you a good story. Boone's Lick did not reach the status of Lonesome Dove, but on its own it was a very good and well-written book. He shared a great tale of the Old West with me.

The book is about the trip of the Cecil family as they travel from Boone's Lick, Missouri to the West. Mary Margaret, the mother and matriarch of the family, wants to get a divorce from her wandering husband and she aims to get it even if it means packing up and traveling all those miles. In the meantime, it tells of the story of the United States in the post-civil war era--the lack of meat, Indian massacres, renegades--everything to make this tale a hum dinger and hold your attention. He also tells his tale while winking at you at the same time. The asides, the Mark Twain-type wry pundits makes this book very hard to put down.

Even though it started out slowly, it turned into a quick read. Mainly, because after a while, I could not put it down.

I read through about 3/4 of the book before turning to the Deitel text instead. I found the Boone book to have several errors, and I thought the examples did not illustrate the points well. I thought that I could leverage my C++ experience best with this book, and I probably did get a fast superficial understanding in the first few chapters, but I am not sure it is a worthwhile purchase.

I picked the book out of dozens on the shelf based on its title. It *may* be a good book on Java (I don't know, since I don't know Java yet). But it certainly is not a book for C++ programmer. In the first two hours of reading it, I picked at least a dozen cases when the author didn't bother to find the C++ concept corresponding to the Java concept he introduced. The unimportant differences are exaggerated beyond reason. The subtle but important differences or similarities are apparently not known to the author.

A long time ago I was a long time C/C++ programmer. I was looking for a book that could take me from C -> C++ -> Java. Mr. Boone's book does a very good job of accomplishing this.

I found the book an easy read and the examples very reader friendly. He spends a lot of time and detail explaining the migration of code syntax, in straight forward examples and helps the reader move into OOP concepts. The book could easily be subtitled "Transitioning to OOP for old C guys".

Sticking with the platform-independent nature of the JAVA language, Mr. Boone tries to be non-platform specific, yet in doing so somehow comes across as anti-Microsoft, which I'm finding out is quite popular in books on JAVA. Bottom line, since I own a copy of Microsoft's Visual J++, I found some of the examples hard to get working. This was a bit fustrating, but learned a lot more about VJ++ in the process. I got a sense that if I had a SUN computer, the examples would work flawlessly.

Once Mr. Boone gets through the easy examples, "Hello World", goes inta, goes outa, classes, etc., he kind of blows through several applications and implimentations, some of which could be useful. By then, I was ready for a book that went deeper in to the lanugage.

Although I found the book to be tailor made for the likes of me, I do not think it is an obvious choice for beginning or advancing one's understanding of the language. For me, it accomplished exactly what the title states.

As other reviewers have mentioned this book is short and the story is mirrors the brevity of the pages. I might have been more engaged if the author had provided more information on the protagnists.

Even though the reviews say the book is short I still couldn't believe HOW short. This is a novella, a one-issue story without any real depth. Even so, shortness is no reason to have shallow characters (a 3-page short story can present a fully-realized, engaging character) and these two women were shallow. They had no complexity at all in their thought processes beyond "She's beautiful! Oh, I'm in love!"

I didn't want to know them and most romance novels make me yearn to meet the characters. I wouldn't recommend this at all. If you like shorter reads with more emotional depth, I'd recommend Peggy Herring.

Overall, this book is a cute romance. However, the author could have developed the plot and the characters a lot more. The premise was great but I didn't like the Brady Bunch treatment of the story. The challenges and conflicts faced by the two protagonists were resolved too easily and much too quickly. Not bad if you're looking for a quick read that won't make you think too much.

Much of the info in this book is already available on the internet, and it is unfortunate that the author feels she is an expert on the subject. Her comments on oil qualities and what they do in soap are not backed up by any hard data (much less experience of other soapmakers), and I wish that she had at least consulted with a chemist who could elucidate some info on fatty acids and what they bring to the finished soap. You do not have to be a chemist much less a scientist to make soap, and this book is proof of that, but the author is clearly neither and unfortunately that comes through in approach and attitude.

I had problems outlined by others here, e.g. knowing when the soap is "done" cooking, how to deal with a batch that too much water cooked off from, getting rid of bubbles. Clearly, either you do it the author's way or you don't do it at all. That's a poor way to view one's students.

The attitude about HP vs. CP was overly defensive. A lot of us in the CP community awaited this book with baited breath because we'd never really gotten straight answers out of the author on the HP lists she runs, but the book was simply more of the same. Either one "gets it" and does HP and it comes out swell, or you're clearly messing up.

What I would recommend in lieu of this book is the Ann Bramson book and/or the second Susan Miller Cavitch book. At least the oils info is right on, the technique is okay, and if you're on the internet, you can find instructions for doing HP and adapt recipes accordingly.

This book is wonderful for the beginning soap maker, or the beginning hot process soap maker to use. The step by step color photos leaves little doubt to an inexperienced soap maker what is happening or how the cook progresses. Seeing an exact is a good stress reliever that one does not find on Internet boards or email lists where you will get different opinions as to what you should expect. Each person cooks with different temperatures. The buy different brands and shaped pot and fill the pots to varied levels. This book teaches the new soapmaker the safest way to prepare and cook the soap so it will decrease the risk of boil over to nil as long as they follow directions
accurately.
Hot Process soap does take a little practice to recognize when the soap has newly finished. The book advises to not stir the soap during the cook so the new person can see the by-product of saponification (glycerin) floating on top of the finished soap. This is mentioned in the book, most event on page 101.
If a soap maker reduces the water amount needed or lets her soap cool too long before adding fragrance then yes she will have a poor texture soap. But if one knows the tricks on how to add low flash point fragrances at a slightly higher temperature without losing the scent they do not need cool the soap to the point of it looking like mashed potatoes rather than hot Petroleum Jelly
it should resemble.
As for needing a chemist to explain soap making it is not that hard of an equation: fat and oil plus lye plus water will create enough heat to saponify those ingredients into soap and glycerin. My understanding is that synthetic detergents are what chemists have worked with since about 1942. If that is what a reader is searching for they can probably find this information in Essentially Soap written by a Chemist named Robert McDaniel. But if someone is interested in making real soap the safest way possible, and have patience to practice the craft she is learning, then this book is great! Anything unexplained in the book can be easily asked of the author herself who offers her soap list address in the back of the book. I found this an extremely gracious thing to do and as person who signs my real name as opposed to being anonymous, I will say that this act does not sound like someone who willfully put out a poor book.

Put out by North Light Books it's purpose to show BEGINNING hot process soap makers how easy it really is to make wonderful soaps from scratch that are safe to use when cooled. Included in this book, besides full color pictures on every page, are wonderful charts, tips and vendor listings naming reputable sellers of soap supplies, digital scales, packaging supplies and hard to find items.
I am on the author's list and even though I had already made my first HP soap while waiting for the books release I had to get the book because it is the first of it's kind.
If you are an experienced soap maker then you may not want to invest in a this how to book. But for a beginner it is perfect, explaining to the timid newbie how to make lye soap using heat without worries of soap boil overs. There is a reason for doing it the author's way as opposed to what might be found on the Internet: safety. Whether you are a list member of her group or someone she has never met but purchased her book your safety is her first concern and it shows.
The only down side of the book is what the editors cut out of it! What was turned into them was so much more but there was no room in the predesigned format for everything and the editor chose what to add and what to cut. They chose make a great book into a beginner book. Insulting the author is misdirected by those who criticize. Publishers invest money and make most of the decisions on book content. It is a pity they failed to listen to the author who wanted to put it all in because it truly would have been a soap makers bible if they had.