This account of the Vigilantes of Bannack and Virginia City is well documented and verifies, or, is verified by, Dimsdale's account of the vigilantes. My great-grandfather, Bob Dempsey, was a citizen of Bannack and had a ranch between Bannack and Virginia City. He was not involved with the members of Plummer's gang but somewhat on the fringe of things. My grandfather James Dempsey married Ellen LeCompte in Virginia City. Williams was the leader of the vigilantes but did not want his name used in the Dimsdale account. This account is accurate and can be verified by historical records available. Vi

Callaway does a great job of presenting real life situations that are both entertaining and insightful. This book goes beyond theory and addresses management application. Whether you're starting out as a new manager or a seasoned professional, you'll find this book worth your time.

I bought this for my father and he loves it.

Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art In Nineteenth-Century Australia is a unique and impressive work surveying the history of Australian visual culture, theatrical performance legacy, and cultural peculiarities. A richly detailed, nicely illustrated, superbly well written, comprehensively researched and presented history is an engaging as it is informative and highly recommended to students of Australian popular culture, theatrical history, and non-traditional art forms.

A great way to familiarize yourself with the Dead Sea Scrolls. I like the layout of the text, examining the scrolls cave by cave. Many beautiful color photos, almost a coffee-table book, but more than just a photo album. For those hesitating to purchase this book because of Davies' involvement, I would suggest that his minimalist views on the historicity of the Bible are not a factor in this book. My only complaint - more than once, documents/scrolls were mentioned in passing as if the reader should already know about them, then, a few pages/chapters later, the document was explained in detail. Coupled with "Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls", the reader would have a good introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Where does one start the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls? One would do well to start with copies of the texts. The biblical texts may be found in _The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible_ translated by Martin Abegg et al. The non-biblical texts which includes the sectarian texts, may be found in _The Dead Sea Scrolls_ translated by Michael Wise et al. (Incidentally there are no unpublished texts of any significance. These two volumes cover the field.)

Then one needs a book which explains where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found such as Jodi Magness' _The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scolls_. But as the starting point one needs _The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls_.

Philip Davies, George Brooke, and Phillip Callaway have written a "complete" introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first section of the book discusses the discovery of the scrolls, their editing, and their publication. The second section discusses the history of the time of the scrolls, including the sects of that time.

Perhaps the third section should have been divided into two. The third section begins with chapters on how to make a scroll, script styles, Carbon-14 dating of the scrolls, and how to reconstruct a scroll from fragments. (If one has never read of the techniques for scroll reconstruction, this chapter is a must.)

Next comes the bulk of the book. The most significant scrolls from each cave are discussed. Cave 1 had a number of the sectarian scrolls. Cave 4 had the largest number of scrolls. The scrolls from Caves 5 to 10 receive only two pages of attention despite the sensationalism surrounding the Greek scrolls found in Cave 7 (and see also page 190).

The fourth section of the book discusses the settlement of Qumran. (One should be sure to refer to Magness' _Archaeology_.) The fifth section discusses the meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I will leave these for the consideration of the reader.

Included in _Complete World_ are a list of the contents of Discoveries in the Judean Desert, a chart of paleographic Hebrew, a list of the scrolls by cave, etc. _Complete World_ is a feast of reading with the scrumptious photographs of a coffee table book. This book deserves more than a five star rating.

The three authors on the latest book about the Dead Sea Scrolls are among the top in the field of archaeology. Together, they present careful evidence into the history and meaning of the manuscripts found in the Dead Sea. The book is easy to follow, starting with the finding of the scrolls, then moving into a historical backdrop of the world as it was in ancient times for the authors of the texts. An added advantage in this book is it lays out exactly where each scroll was found, the condition the text was in, and the background for the scroll being reviewed. A small section was devoted to the Copper Scroll, one of the biggest mysteries in all the scrolls found to date. This is an easy read with a comprehensive account of one of the most important archaeological finds in the past century

This book provides detailed background information on family life and child rearing in China, as well as a full description of the development of services for deaf children in this heavily populated and vast country. The core of the book consists of interviews with parents of deaf children, followed by extensive information from letters written by parents from all over China. These convey the parents' main concerns in trying to do the best for their children. Overall the book is very readable and informative.

This book presents a comprehensive description of conditions for young deaf children in China. The author is a medical doctor specialist in Ear, Nose, and Throat with experience living in China. In 1994 she traveled back to China to conduct the research presented in this book. On this trip, she collected volumes of information about the conditions and educational opportunities for all children, as well as the status of the deaf, particularly young deaf children. She interviewed 26 families of children attending a deaf preschool, visited and observed classes at the preschool, and surveyed hundreds of letters written by relatives of deaf children to a leading Chinese educator of the deaf. Callaway has integrated the information from all of these sources into a wide-ranging and extremely informative report.

In general, Callaway finds that there are few groups or institutions providing support to parents of deaf children in China. Almost all parents are left to their own devices upon diagnosis. As a result, most of them spend vast amounts of money that they don't have searching for a "cure" rather than investing in hearing aids or learning sign language. It was encouraging, however, to read of the existence of preschools for the deaf, and that some schools for the deaf in China use a form of signed Chinese as the medium of instruction rather than sticking to a purely oral/aural method. A very disturbing fact that Callaway points out is that the third leading cause of deafness in China is entirely preventable, namely deafness due to ototoxic drugs- -inappropriately prescribed antibiotics. Callaway found little evidence of a strong Deaf culture in China such as found in many Western countries. She hypothesizes that the lack of Deaf culture may be more likely in a homogenous society like China. Personally, I think that the explanation for the lack of evidence of a Deaf culture may be more closely linked with a long-standing educational tradition for the deaf and acceptance of sign language. It would be interesting to explore these ideas in a society such as the UAE which is highly heterogeneous but does not have a long history of deaf education.

What a beautiful book this is! Everyone that looks at it has trouble putting it down. Sure, some of the politically correct will say that Curtis exploited the Native American and that scenes at times appear posed-I hate to tell you this but that was the ways things were at the time-period. Just the fact that Curtis traveled to these places at that point in history is a marvel. His images are magical at times and I thank him for his artistry. I am sure that the people in his portraits were willing participants and have gained an immortality of sorts with the beauty of his work. Enjoy this book for what it is-not what you think it should have been.

Regardless of your personal feelings about Edward Curtis as a photographer of native Americans, the quality of his photography is superb and the reproductions in this compilation are outstanding. Instead of using the conventional halftone printing technique, the publisher used the digital Agfa CristalRaster(TM) technology which produces reproductions of exceptional clarity and sharpness. This volume is far superior, technically, to the recently released compilation entitled "Sacred Legacy" by the same authors and if you only want one book for your library "Native Nations" is the one.

Edward S. Curtis' work is absolutely beautiful, his work shows his in dept knowledge, respect and affection to his subjects. This edition featured Mr. Curtis' significant works, the reproductions of the photos were outstanding in every detail. I highly recommend this book and is a must for evry photographer's and anthropologist's library

While the pictures are wonderful, for an aging dinosaur like myself they are just too small. It is very hard to see the pictures!

Would have given it 10 stars if it was just a larger book. Some of the flowers are only one inch high, much too small for me to appreciate the detail.

Where can we find this in an 8.5 x 11 version?

A picture is worth a thousand words; and one hundred pictures that happen to be O'Keeffe's are priceless. The works accurately portray the artist's keen eye for the beauty found in the smallest of mother earth's gifts: the flower. The book is an overall thorough and concise summary of the artist's most prized achievements.

O'Keeffe can magnify the beauty of flowers magically in her paintings. Her perception allows the everyday art lover to escape into God's garden and visualize the serenity found in heaven.

Servlets represents a vast and very exciting topic in Java technology. D R. Callaway covers it deeply, thoroughly and in simple terms. Author takes you for a fantastic voyage through Web development based on Servlets. He starts to expose basic requirements needed in Servlets-based developments such as protocols, sockets, standards, and so on. Then, he presents Servlets and compare them to well-know Internet/Intranet technologies such as CGI; larger comparison to other Internet/Intranet architectures would be appreciated in the forthcoming releases. Advanced topics are also tackled (multithreading, transaction management, datasource accesses, and so on). Miscellaneous Web servers are also tackled and necessary add-ons to use for using Java Servlets. Each part contains Servlet API to know and plenty of examples (source code on the CD) showing the power of the Java programming language. After having completely read this book, you will have almost all knownledge and skills for beginning enterprise-wide Java developments. It's really a worthful book. Very good job Dustin.

This book does an excellent job of clearly and concisely showing how to create production-quality servlets. It provides useful foundation material about protocols and the Web, which you can skim if you already know this stuff. The servlet topics themselves are presented in a step-by-step manner that never leaves you "hanging". Anyone with basic Java programming skills should find this book suitable. Programmers with some familiarity with servlets should also find some useful suggestions for more effective techniques.

I highly recommend it.

I am certainly not new to programming, but I WAS new to Java servlets. And even though I hadn't written a lick of Java before this book, it was not very hard to follow along. One of the great things about this book is that it's not a monster in size! I got through it in a few days and I'm ready to put my first servlets into production. It covers a lot of topics in just the right detail. I was extremely pleased. I've also e-mailed the author with some questions and he has been amazingly receptive and helpful. Go buy this book! And tell Dustin that Neil sent ya!"

The film was much better than the screenplay in my opinion. I did enjoy the movie, in fact I plan on buying it when it comes out on video. I am a huge horror buff. I know what you did last summer, was great because, Kevin Williamson wrote it. He in no way did or helped with this movie. To all of you, who think this "book" is the novelization of the movie, you're sadly mistaken. Lois Duncan wrote the first and original. This is only a screenplay of I still know what you did last summer. I can't believe how many of you readers actually thought this script was a book. Just think about it for a minute, how many books have you read that came in a screenplay format? None. Once again, this is only the SCREENPLAY and nothing more. Just to clear up everything. If you liked the movies, read this screenplay because, there isn't one published for the first film, only the novel by Lois Duncan.

I read this book in one day. It was that good. It is written in screenplay form and has been edited for bad language. The violence is all in there though (some more grusome than the movie). The book contains about 8 pages of photos from the movie inside. It is an easy read and any age could read it. I have not seen this book in librarys, but it is on the internet and in stores. It is a great, scary book!

Well The Moovie was aswon so I thought I should read the book. You would have though that Julie and Ray would have confessed after all this time but I gess not they though they should still keep it a secret. Well the other thought that the other did atleast. i would recomend this book to a lolt of pepole and would love to read it again.