An amazing account of the ruthless acts of lawyers and how abusrd many of the new environmental laws are. A real eye opener.

Seton's unique gift brings us inside the minds and feelings of the wild creatures who share our continent. His groundbreaking empathy and insight foreshadowed the animal rights movement. A refreshing look into real life.

I liked this book in that it gave me a basic knowledge of the M1903 rifle - that's what I was looking for. It didn't go as deep as Scott Duff did in his books on the Garand, but still a good beginner's book. I recommend it.

This is a fast and easy read, and much more enjoyable than the more "authoritative" texts on the subject, such as Lt. Col. Brophy's volume. Canfield narrows his focus to only the 1903 variants that actually served in training and combat in the US armed forces. This narrower view allows him to cover the subject in 160 pages.

Canfield takes you step-by-step through the evolution of the Model 1903, with good close-up photographs showing design changes alongside of earlier or later models for comparison purposes.

There's a lot of great history in this book as well, with many excellent photographs of the 1903 in action, from World War One to the Korean War. Canfield includes a wonderful story about the demise of the early "rod bayonet" after President Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated its ineffectiveness by snapping it in two with one blow from his Krag rifle bayonet.

This is a great book for the entry-level collector, for the war history buff, or even someone who wants to find out more about that "old Springfield rifle" that was inherited from Father or Grandfather.

COLONEL BROPHY'S BOOK IS "THE" GUIDE FOR THE COLLECTOR OF THE MODEL 1903 SPRINGFIELD AND ITS VARIATIONS. COVERING THE RIFLE'S DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION PROGRESSION...THIS BOOK CLEARLY IDENTIFIES WHY THE RIFLE WAS DEVELOPED, HOW IT WAS DEVELOPED AND PRODUCTION MEANS AND METHODS. FOR A HISTORY BUFF, ARMS COLLECTOR, OR A PERSON WHO FOLLOWS DESIGN TECHNOLOGY. IT ALSO ILLUSTRATES HOW THE GUN WAS DISTRIBUTED TO THE ARMED FORCES BEFORE WWI, USED IN WAR, LATER SOLD ON THE CIVIL MARKET AND RETURNED TO PRODUCTION FOR USE THE WWII. OF SINGULAR INTEREST TO PEOPLE WHO WOULD BUY THIS BOOK IS THAT: IN AN ARTICULATE MANNER THE TEXT DESCRIBES ISSUES THAT WOULD BE NECCESSARY TO DECERN THE HISTORICAL VALUE OR "COLLECTABILITY" OF THIS RIFLES

Have a lot of springfield books, but this one is by far the best.
I don't know why I didn't buy it earlier. Very informative and a lot of great information.
If you like springfield 03's you need this book. A little expensive, but worth it.

I read this book in a day and found myself drawn in by the absorbing stories of family life and story telling. Not an autobiography in the traditional sense, Portwood instead uses the mechanism of story telling -- practiced over her family for generations -- to tell about her own life and her family in rural Illinois. Her account is touching, often humorous, sometimes sorrowful, and overall inspirational. Although Portwood explicitly addresses the issue of segregation and racial discrimination (as well as black resistance to oppression), her stories will also resonate with anyone interested in everyday life in rural communities in the 20th century. This book would also be appropriate for readers in junior high and high school.

Precious! Poignant! Absolutely wonderful book. I was struck by the great writing style. I could hear Portwood telling the stories, with such thoughtfulness, sensitivity and humor. There are lovely portraits of family members, told with a gentle, wry smile. It is definitely a special treasure.

I could see similarities to my childhood in southern Wisconsin: the sense of community and extended family, the frugality of Depression generation parents, a mother who was more critical than nurturing, the need to grow up fast and take on adult responsibilities with younger siblings, the joy of spending time with story-telling elders. And the strong emphasis on education--I must have been at least 10 before I realized that not everyone went to the University of Wisconsin and that some didn't go to college at all!

I didn't deal with the pervasive racism which Portwood faced and our community was a particularly prosperous farming community, with little poverty. Still, much of her story resonates with me. This is a wonderful story of a resiliant and strong family. I loved it.

I really enjoy this cookbook. It reminds me of a church cookbook where every receipe is submitted by a different person. I find that you can make almost anything out of this cookbook. The poultry and fish section has so many receipes. Everything I have ever made from this cookbook has been a great success. The other nice thing about this is that the ingredients are normal things you can find at any grocery store. Down home cooking at its best.

This is a great cookbook for someone who is not only extremely busy, but who also wants to enjoy a nutricious, delicious meal. The recipes are easy to follow and include the prep and cooking times at the top of the page, making it easy to go through and pick a recipe based on the amount of time you have to spend cooking. All of the recipes are modified to be as low fat as possible without compromising taste, using fresh herbs and vegetables. The "Just Kiddin'" section at the back of the book contains recipes and craft ideas involving food that are suited especially for children. The addition of "Ozark Myths" sprinkled throughout makes this particular cookbook unique and an enjoyable read.

If you are limiting your development to Visual Studio 6.0, then this book is the perfect text for learning ATL 3.0; a five-star book all the way.

On the other hand, if you are using Visual Studio .Net with ATL 7.0, then I would advise borrowing this book from a friend or buying it used. 75% of the information contained carries over to ATL 7.0, but the other 25% has a few gottchas. For example, the authors mention a suite of undocumented ATL classes for the Windows controls (CButton, CListBox, etc.), but these classes have been removed from ATL 7.0. OUCH! It *is* tempting to use them! :^) There are also a lot of new classes added to ATL 7.0 that could use the explanatory skills of Mr. Rector, et al. I give this book a three-star usability rating with ATL 7.0, therefore, the four-star rating over-all.

This is a good book that is in need of an update-a fate shared, sooner or later, by most computer books. I hope the authors and the publisher have a new one in the works.

I had often looked into Atlbase.h, Atlcom.h et al. and quickly got lost into so many structures and templates floating around. I have read many books on ATL, and the Online doucumentation..but things did not click! After just reading chapters 3,4, and 5 of the book, it is now a joy to look under the hoods of ATL and "get it". It is, by far, one of the best well-written books I have read.

This is simply one book that you do not want to be without when designing and implementing a COM project. I purchased the book after I found myself in my first COM project and without any coworkers with any experience in this area. As a comment, I've also rummaged around the Internet and purchase ...books in the effort to come up to speed as quickly as I can. ATL Internals is the best source of data on ATL that I've found so far.

ATL Internals not only discusses ATL but also does and excellent job discussing COM's theory of operation and how a Win32 OS supports COM.

As a warning, however, ATL Internals isn't the only book that you need on a COM project because it is specialized on ATL (and on COM in general). While ATL is useful it is not the only thing that you will have to deal with on a COM project. You will probably need to work with IDL files and for that I can unequivocally recommend "Essential IDL" by Martin Gudgin.

ATL Internals accomplishes several things well; I will try to describe the most valuable aspects of this book. One of the best properties of this book is that it is thorough. It covers ATL in depth.

The following is a partial list of the material in ATL Internals:

1) ATL Internals covers using the wizards and explains how to proceed beyond the point where the wizards quit.
2) A though discussion of ATL facilities. For example: CComPtr (a COM smart pointer), CComBSTR (a class wrapped around the error-prone BSTR datatype) classes are covered in detail. The text conversion macros are completely covered here. In other books and on the internet I saw code examples that used them but will little explantion.
3) Bug warnings, both your (potential) bugs and bugs within ATL. The authors point out the buggy parts of ATL and they invest the necessary effort to warn out about aspects of ATL that, if naively used, create bugs. Numerous pages are dedicated to showing both how to correctly use certain hazardous parts of ATL as well as examples of buggy code. Depreciated techniques are also described for completeness.
4) Discussion and examples of various COM issues, including threading issues, connection points, the Service Control manager (SCM)and so on.
5) Detailed discussion of the numerous macros that Microsoft uses to conceal substantial code, (e.g. BEGIN_OBJECT_MAP, COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL, etc.)
6) One of the appendixes shows a cross reference between ATL classes and header file names. This was a welcome convenience (yes I could have greped, but this is quicker)

ATL Internals not only has great content but it is written in a very readable style. The typeset is easy to read and the diagrams are well done.

I am a huge simpsons fan, and I probably have seen every episode yet, but this book was a little bit of a disapointment. It is obvious that it isn't one of Matt Groening's greatest books. I would recommend a diiferent one for anyone who wants to find out about the Simpsons and is just starting out. For anyone who needs extra information to fill their appetite for Simpsons mania, it would be okay. Still, its not exactly the most entertaining and humorous book written by this author. "Bart's Guide to Life" + "Guide to the Simpsons" + "The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album" are better books if your looking for a great book. In conclusion, unless you are a Simpsons fanatic, one who needs every bit of information that they can grab onto, don't go buying it.

This was an absolutely hilarious addition to the Simpsons universe that made me feel giddy all over. It is an absolute must for Simpsons fans. If you're a Simpson's fan an/or have Simpsons Virtual Springfield don't turn off the computer without buying this book.

In its many years as a successful TV series, "The Simpsons" has spawned a number of entertaining books. But the best of them all may be "The Simpsons Guide to Springfield." Written as a parody of a travel guide, this profusely illustrated book is a superb celebration of Homer's hometown.

The book is, like any travel guide, divided up into several sections: Lodging, Dining, Shopping, etc. Along the way are a number of brilliant parodic features. There are essays written by "Simpsons" characters (example: Rev. Lovejoy's guide to worship in Springfield); sidebars with short quotes from many Springfield residents (Dr. Nick Riviera, Martin Prince, and more); another series of sidebars highlighting many of the historic artifacts of Springfield (Jebediah Springfield's prosthetic tongue, the trillion-dollar bill, etc); and much more. From a map of Itchy and Scratchy land to the marquee of the Googolplex, this book is full of glorious detail.

Yes, "the Simpsons" is an entertaining TV show, and this book is a witty and well-constructed tribute to that series. But I think there's something more here. The world of "The Simpsons" is like the world of "Star Trek," J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, or some of the other great fictional universes of human creativity: it is an enormously rich and detailed alternate world with its own inner logic and mythic history. "The Simpsons Guide to Springfield" captures this compelling alternate universe in all its comic glory.

True Buffalo Springfield aficionados will be excited that this high-quality book is available, documenting the short but spectacular career of the seminal 60's band. Although too many typos, and some awkward sentences slightly diminish the book's literary attributes, it is nonetheless a fascinating and accurate chronicle of how Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin came together from far-flung locations and synergized into this all-time group. The individual bios of the band members are extremely interesting, descriptions of the heady Sunset Strip club days enthralling, and accounts of group crash pads, groupies, jams and friendships with such diverse legends as Jimi Hendrix and Peter Tork absorbing. I was a slightly too-young teen to participate in the Hollywood scene or attend the nightly shows by not only Buffalo Springfield, but The Doors, The Byrds, and so many others, so I'm happy for this book whichs evokes in me the excitement, the dreams, the disappointments and the triumphs of the times. Towards the end of the book, we learn the causes of the group's breakup and get a compelling comparative description of how Stephen Stills and Neil Young exploded into large-scale success stories, while Richie Furay struggled, and Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin foundered. A great book for readers seeking inside knowledge of the times and places of this great band from the magical 60's music period.

This is an outstanding book on what I still feel(after 33 years)is the best band ever. The one aspect that I appreciated about John Einarson's approach,is that he refuses to draw conclusions on each Bandmate,as to who was responcible for the Band's demise.Instead,one is given everyone's take.I cannot say enough for Ritchie Furay's contribution. For one who was literally stuck in the middle of a sometime's maelstrom,his love and respect for each one of his Bandmates shines all throughout each page.No one could have written a better account.

I can't see why the other reviewers don't rate this a 5 star. I've read all the other CSNY books and this one really has the scoop plus there is a tremendous amount of content in this long narrative. One of the things that I enjoyed most about the music of this era were the characters involved. This is the band that spawned Stephen Stills, Neil Young, CSN, CSNY, Loggins & Messina, Poco, (in a way, the Eagles). This was the best of folk rock and yet Buffalo Springfield was largely a disappointment. This band played at my high school for an after-school assembly and what I remember was that the PA system went out. This book recalls that moment. I think the real fans of this era will really enjoy this book...it should have sold more copies.

This book was ok, the ending was nice. I realy cant say to much about it. I think its one of those books that you like it or you don't. The book did nothing for me. It was very easy reading.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a great read! Don't you just love "lost love romance," I do! Tracey and Cornell are great together. This book was filled with people making love connections! If you like this one, try Clark's previous work, you will enjoy that one too!

I enjoyed this book for the mere fact that it involved the past relationship of college sweethearts and the choices they made. We often find ourselves making decisions based on the influences of our parents not knowing at the time what price we'll have to pay. Well Tracey Hamilton and Cornell Robertson experienced at first hand but now their sudden meeting after many years brings nothing but the test of true love. If you just enjoy stories dealing with these type of relationships, sacrifices, trying to be loyal to family and just love of the heart, this can be an interesting story to read. Some of my other favorites by Beverly Clark are: The Price of Love and Yesterday Is Gone.