Well the book gave many details on his life of where he was born and so on but the main information was given in such context that one could read it if he had not tried! The book also tells a point! It's point would pretain to the mear fact of survival! You never stick to one idea, you let your mind flower!

Don't get confused with the title of the book (Windows 98 in 10 Minutes). 10 minuted refers to time needed to study each of the 28 chapters of the book. Content of this book is good and embedded with nice tips and cautions. As there is no Q&A section, some self tests may be added for self evaluation of the reader. This book is most recommended for beginners only.

This book brought back memories of family viewing as a child. We were all fascinated by the imposing and commanding Bishop Sheehan. Lynch has written a thorough analysis of the Bishop's programs in great detail, including his anecdotes and jokes. What looked effortless on Sheen's part was in reality a skilled, measured, and effective use of the TV media to inform Americans about a minority religion that was little known to most at that time. An excellent book that's well-written and interesting.

This is an excellent book for those who are new to Excel and to documenting business (and other) data in general. In 27 chapters it covers all of the kinds of things a beginning-to-intermediate user would want to know. Included are basic concepts as well as more advanced topics such as design elements, importing data, functions, working with multiple spreadsheets, interaction with the internet, and other enhancements. Its use of graphic design helps the reader enormously - using blue typeface in a variety of fonts to accent certain terms and concepts makes it easier for the reader to negotiate through each chapter, and placing "quick tips" in boxes throughout the chapter makes for easy referral. It also has a helpful index to use when you forget just where you had found a certain piece of information. I've been wanting to learn Excel for a number of years and this is the first guide that enabled me to create a simple spread sheet in an hour. Highly recommended!

This is a really bad buy, I would not advise any one to get this CD. It has some serious flaws in its use of the Internet Explorer web browser and claims that Microsoft would have fixed it in the IE 5 version. This is very mis-leading mainly because they don't tell you this until you read the fine print that comes with the CD. They even encourage you to use Netscape which does not have any problems when using this CD. I think that they, as the author of this CD owe a responsiblity to the consumer to make this fact known before purchase and not to bundle such information with its installation instrcutions. Further more I think they should have corrected the problem themselves instead of shifting the blame to others.

I don't know what the guy from singapore was talking about. I got this working in ten minutes using internet explorer, and it has dozens and dozens of tutorials and free models. I got stuck on an advanced lesson, emailed the publisher and they wrote right back with an answer. You can't buy a better training product - its better than any book I ever got.

having used autocad for a number of years i decided to look at the visualisation side of architecture and purchased a copy of viz3. but being new to this side of cad i need something to give me an instant start at producing visuals so after much searching for the right help, i happened upon the above title from opencad who are leaders in this sort of tutorial. i found the instant access and methodology of the cd both easy to use and intuitive and as a result i have managed to produce a few visuals albeit crude ones given that i have only had the disk for a few days (3). i will definately be looking at the 3d max tutorials and would have no hesitation in purchasing further titles from opencad in the future.

This is a 4 stars book, but is outdated.

My old commentary:
With practic examples and tutorials since the beggining, it teaches in a easy way.

This books has good tutorials and explanations about topics like, methods of object creation/modeling, textures and lights. This is what you have to understand before making a scene or animation. You can also work with animations, if you pc is good enough. This book gives what it takes to start working or work better with 3DSMax fx. By the way, the book is about 3D Studio Max 1, but since the way lights, materials and objects work is the same, it's a good choice.

Go to #3dsmax at Undernet if you need help.

This IS the book to get if you are a biginner with MAX! I bought Inside 3D Studio MAX Vol. 1 about a week ago. I now know that 3D Studio MAX Applied is the book i should have bought. I learned more in the first fifty pages than i did in the two- hundred of Inside 3ds!! Excellent!

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My only return in a sea of books and CD's. You figure out how
bad it must be! Even the interface does not work, I very much doubt this work is done by a computer science educated programmer. Don't ask me the studio max content, it is so elementary you will be shocked. Check out a freebie internet exercise instead such as the soccerball which will familiarize you with enough max interface.

This book gives you a good, beginning knowledge of 3d VIZ. It teaches you how to apply materials, use lighting, etc.

The only problem (and it exists with all books of this type), is that the tutorials are parts of projects which you have to repeat many times to master the technique of that chapter. The only way that you'll will be totally motivated is to create your own building, and most likely it involes an element that is not covered, so you are on your own. Nothing truly replaces taking a class, but this is definately cheeper!

I purchased this author's MAX 4 Training CD and
really liked it. So I bought this product too. Its
just as good if not better.

Most authors seem to think its enough just to rewrite
the manuals. This one actually provides training
on a CD. You follow the steps, you learn the software.
By the time you've done half the tutorials on this
CD you can do your own projects.

Also, there are links on the CD that let you email the
author. Following the steps on the MAX 4 CD, I ran into
trouble. I mailed the author. She wrote back to provide
me with help!

What I love about Amazon is that you can buy products
you would never hear about otherwise. This is a great
training CD. I highly recommend it.

I think it's very sad that so many aspiring novelists go unpublished, while someone who obviously lacks writing talent is able to get something published based on the fact that they're a "name". While the storyline had some potential, this was probably the most poorly written book I've ever read in my life.

The author's constant use of exclamation points was very amateur. The dialogue between characters was contrived and asinine. The characters themselves were completely undeveloped, with only the slightest description of them physically. I was uanble to form a picture of *any* of these characters in my mind, as I usually am when reading a novel.

As I said, the storyline had some potential...had it been better developed. I mean, what 18 year old from "the midwest" (since when is Virginia in the midwest?) gets a couple of hundred bucks from her widowed father, hops on a plane to NYC, checks into her conveniently-arranged Village sublet and within weeks is suddenly the star of a television soap opera? What widowed father readily hands over money to his wimpy teenage daughter (and yes, this character is a wimp) and sends her off alone to NYC to break into show business? Why does Jade take such an instant dislike to Amanda? Why does Monique treat her like a daughter? Why does a guy who fights with her on the plane trip to NYC fall in love with her almost immediately the day he meets up with her at the show? Why has her ex-fiancee stayed around for months while she makes her decision? These are just a few of the things the author really should've developed if she wanted to put out an even halfway decent novel.

This book is an embarrassment. Poorly written with cardboard characters and a boring plot. Eileen Fulton needs to concentrate on her day job. A compelling author, she is not. This book would never have been published if she wasn't a soap opera star. I've read much better work by beginning writers.

Fulton creates some very fun and credible characters and weaves them into a plot which is very suspenseful. I found it to be a quick read, and after the first few chapters I couldn't put it down. The plot twists and turns in ways which were clever and very original. I especially loved the wonderfully wicked Jade Savage--a true soap opera vixen if there ever was one!. Anyone who loves soap operas, romance novels or mystery and suspense novels will love this book.

I have gone through a few Studio Max books and I thought a CD may be more helpful in helping me train on this software that typically has a steep learning curve. I'm sure there is a lot of us who think the books on 3ds max generally leave much to be desired. I run into Nancy Fulton's CD on Amazon and ordered it right away thinking it's going to be great.

What a letdown! Her examples and exercises are so elementary I started thinking the books I had bought are much better. Please don't be fooled by the pretty picture on the jacket cover of this CD, it is just horrible. You would not believe that somebody is making money off of this CD. It has very klunky interface, using an Internet browser. The examples are elementary school crude and simple. There is NO WAY you are gonna start modeling faces, or even house interiors using this CD. It doesn't even teach you properly how to implement the MAX UI which as we all know can be intimadating to a newbie. You can't really become a MAX user simply by learning how to create a circle or sphere. The trick is how to turn that sphere into European soccerball with hexagons, leather creases, diamond blacks on it, and then go set it on a grassy field (with real MAX blades of grass) and a goal with netting and a sky in the background. That's what Max'ing is about and this CD only teaches you how to create a circle. I'm sure many of us who have access to this software are intelligent enough to a a circle on our own, right? We dont need to shell out [the money] to be told how to do a sphere, or a box.

You are an absolute beginner and want to familiarize yourself with Max interface in a fast, easy...way, buy the book from the QuickStart Guide. This CD at [the price] doesn't do anything more than that[less expensive] book. In fact I find flipping through the examples of the QuickSTart Guides much easier than trying to get this CD to work.

Overpriced, written by a person who is obviously not an expert on Studio Max or programming, I rate this CD *** 0 *** stars!

I took a class in MAX and the instructor gave us this CD. It was great. All the info was tutorials, so it was easy to learn. Better than those books that just say how to do things but do not show you how. I use it all the time even though class is over. I reccomend it to all new MAX users. Some advanced stuff - but I wish it had more stuff for video games people.

I bought this CD for my son who is in college. I can't believe how fast he is learning MAX. The tutorials are completely step-by-step, the examples show practical things people really have to do, and the CD is easy to install. I highly recommend this product.

While the book jacket calls this "The SCI-FI Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction," it is more a product of England's TVTimes. It is a very good resource for British SciFi and, for the price, is worth owning for that reason alone. However it is more notable for what it omits than what it includes. Space limits a point by point critique, but two things became apparent almost immediately. First, it does not have an index. While, like most encyclopedias, it is in alphabetical order, with out a comprehensive index it is impossible to cross reference information. Second, It has many glaring omissions. No work can be total, but the history of TV Sci-Fi is not that long. In the whole realm of TV shows, few are Sci-Fi, so a complete list should not be that hard to assemble. The authors have made a good try, but where they fall short is questionable. If "Journey to the Unknown" is classified as Sci-Fi, why is "Thriller" omited? If Sci-Fi comedy such as "Captian Nice" and "Holmes and Yoyo" listed, where is "My Living Doll," "Mr. Terrific," or "It's About Time"? Why didn't the "Star Lost" make it to the "41 obscure Shows. . ." list at the end of the book? The inside jacket says that, "no true SF fan should be without this up-to-date reference guide." In reality, any true SF fan will find this book cute but annoying. And any casual TV fan looking to add to their reference library would do better buying "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows." It tends more to deliver what is promised

I'm a life-long fan of Science Fiction who was raised with TV as my primary grow light, and as such, I gotta tell you that THE SCI-FI CHANNEL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TV SCIENCE FICTION, by Roger Fulton & John Betancourt, it is pretty cool. It contains lots of information about all those great--and even not-so-great--Science Fiction, horror, and fantasy TV shows that we SF fans all love and cherish, including some stuff on obscure, nearly forgotten shows like NBC's short-lived SF comedy QUARK. There are also program guides for a lot of the shows listed, with air dates and short episode synopses.

While I really like the book and think it is a must for any serious fan of SF, there are, alas, a few shortcomings--but only a few. For one, it does not contain an entry for BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER, which is surprising not only because the show is an American classic, but also because the show itself is currently broadcast on the very network that is sanctioning this book. Also, fans of certain less-popular but relatively recent shows may be disappointed to find that the entry for those shows do not include an episode guide (e.g., THE FLASH or THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY, JR.). I must also mention that there are a few mistakes in the book's Table of Contents, but this is only a minor annoyance and is easy to surmount.

In short, if you love SF, especially Television SF, you will enjoy this book.

"The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction" is an impressive achievement by co-authors Roger Fulton and John Betancourt. The book is a guide to dozens of science fiction TV series dating from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The authors include British and U.S. series (as well as a few productions from elsewhere). A nice touch is the inclusion of children's series and short-lived series (such as TV's "Planet of the Apes" and "The Fantastic Journey"). Fantasy, as well as sci-fi, series are included.

For the main series profiled, the authors provide an introductory article as well as a complete episode guide. For each episode, they give a plot summary, as well as writing, directing, and guest-starring credits.

Not all the series are given such detailed attention; some only have the episode titles listed, and some don't even get that. In general, shows that get less comprehensive attention are shows that are primarily thought of as representatives of another genre: "Bewitched" (sitcom), "The Six Million Dollar Man" (action/adventure), etc.

Despite its sometimes incomplete nature, this is a wonderfully informative and entertaining book. Sci-fi staples and cult favorites are well represented: "Babylon 5," "Blake's 7," "Quantum Leap," "Star Trek" and its various sequels, "The X-Files," etc. I particularly liked the ample attention given to short-lived shows that were nonetheless loved by devoted circles of viewers.

Of course, a book of this nature is generally out of date by the time it hits the bookshelves, so I am already anticipating a new edition. But until then, this book remains in an honored position in my library.