Sixteen-year-old Esther watched in horror as her father was led away to be burned at the stake. For the year was 1492, the place Spain, the Inquisition was determined to cleanse the country of all non-Christians, and Esther and her father were Jewish. Through a bribe, Esther obtains a place on the Santa Maria, under the alliance of Pedro, a Christian boy. Esther doesn't know where the ship is going and she doesn't care. All she wants is to get as far away from Spain as possible. At every moment, she fears that someone will discover that she is a Jew, a girl, or both. I had high expectations for this book, and was rather disappointed. The plot was paper thin at times, the characters cardboard cutouts, and the romance just made me queasy. It's not the very worst book I've ever read, but it isn't really any good, either.

This book show its age. It was written over 10 yeares ago, when it was thougth that iguanas were carnivore(they are folivores). The only parts that are really good are the list of plants and a few of the tips on setting up tanks. It has soome really nice photos too. I would not really reccomend it. It was proabably very cutting edge when it came out, but a lot (not most) of the info is out of date. I reccomend buying a newer book.

This book is a waste of paper and my money! You can get more info from the online help in Visual Studio or Web Matrix for free.

This book is terribly written, and in a lot of cases, misinformative. The author does not offer any insight to the various uses of properties and methods of the object structure, but simply states fundamental effects. Examples are the explanation of the HTMLButton.CausesValidation property... there is no explanation as to what is going to be validated when this is set TRUE.

Other serious oversights are misreferences. In one class he discusses the OnServerClick method, in other classes he refers to it as ServerClick.

Although the book is intended to be a programmer's quick reference, there is very little use of knowing the names of classes, properties, or methods if you are not given any explanation as to the effect such items will have in your programming.

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Here's a Tip: save your money and try an ASP.NET for Dummies instead. ...

Do not buy this book! One in five of all the photographs do not match the weapons described in the associated text! The text itself is also full of errors. This is the worst World War 2 technical history I have ever read. It is obvious that neither the author nor the technical editor know anything about WW2 artillery.

Poor text, hard to read, in a book which exists solely because it is a gimmick and will be picked up by people who do not know children's books. If you want a toy, buy this book. If you want a book, look elsewhere.