This book has VERY little to do with elearning. In fact, it is a very watered down Dreamweaver MX tutorial. There is virtually nothing about elearning in the body of the book. It does have one "extra credit" appendix which deals, albeit very briefly and in a pretty general sense (approximately 28 pages), with coursebuilder and learningsite. I am extremely disappointed with the content of this book. Not much bang for your buck for a fairly expensive book!

Excellent book for learning Dreamweaver for use of e-learning.

The textbook contains a great deal of relevant basic information on politics in Western Europe. Unfortunately, it needs to be better organized. This goes for the organization of chapters and organization within the chapters. I used it in my Western European Politics class, but students did not respond favorably. The textbook sometimes picks up a topic without any obvious reason for doing so, and then, having said a few sentences about it, leaves it off, also without any obvious reason. This makes individual chapters hard to follow.

For those who teach European politics, their students, and those who wish to gain a basic understanding of the topic, this text is quite nicely done. Each country section - including the EU - is about 80-100 pages long. While good for those who are new to the topic, it doesn't bore those who aren't. It's one of the better textbooks I've found on the subject, and I will use it in my class.

It's a smallish book with not quite the usual photos that we normally see and are familiar with. I love Las Vegas and love Las Vegas books. This one is just one of the bunch. Not really a stand out but all together not bad. Its a good to average read, photos interesting but not that memorable. Keep looking I think, there are better books out there.

This book contains descriptions of the most common data mining techniques and examples of how they can be applied in different industries with real case studies.

It's a good book if you want to have an overview of data mining and get some ideas about how to use it and it covers a quite a broad perspective and is very much uptodate. I would maybe have prefered a book which was more like a reference guide for practical every-day-use.

On September 8, 1900, the island city of Galveston, Texas was hit by an extremely devistating hurricane. The city was almost totally destroyed, and more than 6,000 people were killed. There are many stories of courageous residents who did tremendous things in the face of danger while the storm raged. This is a story about a Galveston family who survived this storm. Ned, a young boy in this family, overcomes his fear of swimming to save his friend, Jimmy. This great story demonstrates the determination of the people of Galveston who banded together to save their city. The city, businesses, and homes had to be rebuilt. A new seawall was eventually built, which has since saved the city from further destruction from hurricanes. This is a great story for every young child.

This book is for those who want to learn more about distance learning, but don't know where to begin. The title of the book says "An Implementation Guide for Trainers and Human Resources Professionals" but this book would be helpful to any manager involved in distance learning, whether it is developing a program or evaluating the feasibility of implementation. Chapters include basic overviews of audio, video and web-based learning, determining if your company is ready and program design & delivery. The book includes some valuable information about the differences between the different methods of distance learning. This is a no-nonsense approach without a lot of fluff, but offers some sensible, solid content and a good introduction to the topic. Recommended.

Isaac Coates was Asst. Surgeon attached to the 7th Cavalry during the beginning of hostilities with the Plains Indians. Coates' recently discovered diary notes form the basis of this book. Two major problems with the volume are obvious. First, the diary covers only a short period of time (and that only partially) and thus Kennedy, the modern writing collaborator, must fill in large gaps. This is not wholly successful, as the narrative changes tone drastically and even jumps back and forth in time. Second, Coates is not an impartial observer, being a pal of Custer at times and an ashamed accomplice in genocide of the Indians at others. The horror of the conflict is manifest nonetheless, and is the strongest reason to read this book. Did the Civil War so morally anesthetize these Generals (Custer, Hancock, and Sheridan in particular) that they felt nothing wrong as they butchered Indian women and children and callously treated their troops? This sure isn't the 7th Cav that I saw on movie screens as a kid.

I purchased this book because my greatgrandfather was a colleague of Coates, serving in the Medical Department at various frontier posts at the same time. I hoped to see some insight into the duties of an Army surgeon on the Plains, but I was very disappointed that there were almost no references to his medical work.

Paul Hancock's entry into the Great Lakes shipwreck genre is a very nicely produced book with many dramatic photos and a high level overview of a small sampling of accidents. The book is a good coffee table style book for the casually interested, but will disappoint those already acquainted with the genre or those looking for a more comprehensive and accurate reference. Despite the lavish production, the book is poorly researched, relying solely upon the secondary resources of a single archive. Subsequent errors in photo identification and historical fact abound, such as the misidentification of the schooner Northwest and the outright fabrication of the loss of the sidewheeler Planet, while details concerning the losses of several others vessels are grossly inaccurate. The book contributes no new information to the historical record and is simply an unchecked rehash of the (sometimes erroneous) work of previous researchers. The book is solely for the entertainment of the casual enthusiast and is a blatantly commercial effort bearing a striking similarity to the now out of print book Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes by James Barry. Of the small sampling of Great Lakes wrecks considered, nearly all have already been written about extensively by previous authors, usually with greater historical accuracy. If you are seriously interested in the history of Great Lakes shipwrecks, this is a good book to skip. However, if you are looking for a coffee table book with large, dramatic photos of Great Lakes ships and shipwrecks, this is an excellent volume.

This book contains many errors. Someone should apologize to Adam Osborne, wherever he is.

But it helps to get the mind in "test mode" which is a good thing. And you can learn from it.

this book simply does not model the actual test even one bit. Like everyone else says, the questions are too redundant and the same idea could be reduced to a couple of lines. This book has detailed questions about scripting (which isn't on the test) and it had other questions like how to log on to an IBM mainframe and some other stuff like that (also not on the test). It did, although, do a good job of explaining, and if you could answer about 60% of the questions, you will pass. The questions on the I-net+ are mostly 1-liners, so this book did not help that much in preparation. But if you wanna test yourself with the deepest and most complex questions imaginable for this topic (up to 1 1/2 pages i think, addressing complex scenarios), then get this book.

Many of the question are worded way too long compared to the actual exam. Does provide some helpful study information while some errors were seen with the answers.

I have read all of Graham Hancock's books more than a couple of times and his writings have turned me on to other topics and authors. This one is a dud....sorry. I even paid full opening day price. The beginning about the close of the last Ice Age, land mass change, rising water and early civilization was great. It gave me what I want from his books, to spark thought. Then, he dives deep into detail of the spoken texts of India, his travels, BBC 4 issues, learning to dive, tricky tides, ancient map makers, and more travel issues. Then it becomes 400 pages of endless speculations of sunken structures in Japan and the Far East...blah, blah, blah...you lost me. I like the idea but it is not worth 300+ pages...it should have been 50 pages with some thick facts. Fingerprints of the Gods was filled facts, I would read that again. Also, Graham if you are reading this, what is the deal with mentioning 20 places in the book over 4 pages and having a weak half page map with 2 cities listed on the map??? More detailed maps...I should not have to use my own reference maps of India.

I am a fan of Graham Hancock, having fallen in love with his books on ancient civilizations. I was so eager to read UNDERWORLD that I sent away to Amazon.uk for it. What I received was an 800-page tome that stirred the mind as well as put me to sleep.

To summarize, Hancock theorizes that the end of the Great Ice Age ended with vast areas of precious real estate innundated by seawater. These often were coastal cities settled by civilized members of the Indus, Japanese, Maya and other cultural groups. The theory makes a great deal of sense, especially in light of the amazing findings a Russian submarine research vehicle has been finding off the coast of Cuba.

Surely, all combined, the vast, lost areas of Africa, South Ameerica, Asia and other continents could more than make up for a lost Atlantis. So, Hancock dives, searching for a lost civilization that all that traditional archeologists have ignored.

This is fine work, until Hancock gets bogged down with incredible details. We slog through a boring discussion of whether molars on Malta were Neolithic or not. We meander around India, never quite getting to the bottom of what lay between Ceylon and the mainland. Hancock swims over the famous Bimini Road in the Bahamas only to leave undecided whether the formation is natural or man-made.

To make matters worse, the usually fine photographs by Hancock's wife Santha Faiia are so murky and indistinct that it's impossible to make up one's own mind.

Hancock's done an impressive bit of scholarship here. And I'm glad he's dropped his previous pet notion that Antarctica was Atlantis that somehow "slipped" to the bottom of the planet. I only wish the book weren't so mired in trivia and digression. A good editor could have trimmed this book by more than half and produced an exciting, revealing work of nonfiction.

Author and explorer Graham Hancock continues his pursuit of uncovering clues to the past, this time under the sea. Underworld is the narrative of a journey through the Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Bay of Bengal and the Pacific Ocean around Indonesia, Japan and Taiwan in which underwater structures of possible human origin are explored. The government of India has recently authenticated two of Hancock's discoveries off the coast of that country. In both cases, these structures are dated between 9000 and 11 000 years before the current era, which supports the theory of a great flood that submerged vast areas of land at that time. What I really like about Hancock is that he provides the orthodox view at the same time as his own theories. I cannot but agree with his statement, "There's something wrong with the underpinning of history." Hancock has indicated the most likely places for pre-flood civilizations with the help of Dr. Glen Milne of Durham University who is an expert on glaciation-induced changes in the sea level, and taking into account the plethora of flood-myths found amongst all cultures on all continents. Underworld is lavishly illustrated and well served by a thorough index and extensive bibliography. This gripping text will amply reward the reader who enjoyed Hancock's earlier titles like Keepers of Genesis and Fingerprints of the Gods. Hancock deserves credit for stimulating interest in history and archaeology. He was the writer that created interest in those little doors in the light shaft of the great pyramid that was recently in the news. Let's hope something will be revealed behind the second door! In the mean time, I thoroughly enjoy Hancock's speculations.