Provides better understanding and greater inspiration to pray for your children when they need it most. Provides powerful testimony of how Norvel Hayes learned to "stand in the gap" for his daughter, with her own story of the years that God used her father to pray her back into a close relationship with Jesus Christ. Includes five scripturally based prayers.

A solid work, for the most part. Good distillation of Operatins Strategy. The first half of the book lays out the basics in the right amount of detail. And the second half explores some of the more "interesting" options available to managers today.

While I thought Pisano and company did a good job overall, they seemed to underestimate the power of simply being better than the competition in ALL arenas. This is a strategy that, if achieved, would really make JIT, TQM, and so forth, superfluous. Interestingly, this receives no mention thoughout the entire text.

One particular work of Alexander Stirling Calder has inspired me to live, learn and write. For that, I am eternally grateful. His statue of Leif Eirkisson, possibly the most famous statue of the Norse Explorer in the world, is a true tribute to the power of the Viking Age.

Good guide for 1997, but 3 years later it is out of date and does not contain many new sites. Web directorys should be updated yearly at the least.

I was very unhappy when I saw the cheap quality of The Big Basics Web Directory published by Que.. The paper is the kind used for coloring books, and the printing is poorly done. In some instances it is all but impossible to read the black print on dark gray background. I had expected to receive a book of at least as good quality as Que's Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 95. Sorry about this poor review. This is the first time in a long time I've been so disappointed in a book I had ordered sight unseen.

     There are literally millions of Websites online today that provide a wealth of information on a variety of topics. There are a handful of good Internet Website directories available that can help surfers find the information they need. Most of these are bulky, though, and can take a while to thumb through. Que and Macmillan Computer Publishing has published The Big Basics Web Directory to provide readers with reviews of their top picks!

     Que's editors have selected the best Website in each of the 101 categories covered in the book. Additionally, four more (best of the rest) Websites in each of these categories are also reviewed. Topics include business, car buying, computers, cooking, education, government, health, hobbies, humor, investing, job searching, news, pets, religion, software, sports, travel, as well as a number of controversial issues.

     This large 8 1/2" by 11" directory features quarter-page screen shots of every Website reviewed. A convenient listing at the back of the book lists every Website and its URL to provide quick and easy access to them. Website reviewers will find this directory to be a great reference tool for review material when facing a deadline. Website designers can pick up some top-notch Website design ideas as well!

     This concise directory will point readers to some of the best Websites available at the turn of a page. Thumb through it at your leisure. There is something of interest here for everyone! Highly recommended!

I have already written two reviews of this book, the latest of which was written on Februarty 16th 2003. None of these has been published. Is there something going on that I should know about?

[Note, I read Alan Haynes' 1997 book "Untam'd Desire: Sex in Elizabethan England"; I suspect this is merely a re-titling; but I'm not sure whether there are other differences.]

In short, fascinating subject matter hampered by a needlessly complex writing style.

The author is in love with his own cleverness, and seems to purposely obscure meaning in favor of sounding erudite. Take the line "for many quotidian behaviour caused a slide of such things into desuetude." That could be written much more clearly as "for many, daily behavior caused such things to slide into disuse." In fact, there are several other places the author uses "quotidian" where the more intelligible word "daily" would suffice. I have a rather extensive vocabulary, and still wanted to have an OED beside me much of the time.

Similarly, Haynes drops names all over the place, without much elaboration or explanation. You should already have a fair knowledge of Elizabethan history (literary and court politics) before attempting this book. It's easy to get lost when he drops asides like "not long after that lamentable fracas at Mrs. Bull's" -- if you didn't already know that Marlowe was killed in May 1593 at the house of Eleanor Bull, you'd be lost.

A lot of this book did go over my head. But if you can learn to skim somewhat and pick up the gist, it's still quite an interesting read. I found the details about daily life in Elizabethan England both fascinating and entertaining. Although I've done a great deal of reading recently about Elizabethan society, I still learned a lot, and came up with new topics and titles that I want to explore further.

And, though I was put off by his writing style, I still want to seek out another of his books, titled "Elizabethan Secret Services" -- so it's not *that* off-putting.

I found the book to be knowledgable and thorough, but extremely dry and hard to read. I could not believe that someone could make a subject like this so dry. ...P>That said, you won't find too many straightforward sources like this, and it's got some neat photos and portrait reproductions that make the book worth getting. The information contained herein isn't particularly suited to children, but it isn't shocking or titillating. It reads more like a lecture by a very prim history prof. Anybody of any morals should be able to digest this without dying of offensensitivity.

First off amazon says that this book is 412 pages. Ok I'm very disappointed because the version of the book I got is only 112 pages. This book is way too small to be a study guide for any test. Each chapter only has 3 review questions. I was really disappointed with this book the only reason I gave it 2 stars is because you get %15 percent off when taking the ($$$) dollar test. I think I will wait until someone does a better version of this book before taking the Flash MX Designer test.

I passed the certification, but the information on this book was not enough. I used it as a reference along with the online help and the test outline from the Macromedia site. If you you don't know what all of the titles of all of the items on that outline are, then don't waste your money taking the test.
The book is good, but it would have been better to cover a bit more. I would say it covered around 50% of the test, unfortually you need to get at least 70% to pass.

I found Christopher Hayes book of good use as a general guide, but it is not by any mean all inclusive. It touched on almost everything, but a bit too lightly in some areas. Definately bundle this book with FlashMX Bible and possibly Collin Mook's Actionscript for FlashMX/The definitive guide. The online test is a good resource as well as the test discount.

If you really want to pass, then I do think this book is a help. Be prepared to use along side other books as well though.

This was the textbook chosen by my educational institute to introduce us to PowerBuilder and Object-Oriented Fundamentals. I'd have to say it fails on each of those counts.

You're not introduced to PowerScript until nearly halfway through the book, the code is NOT laid out in a step-by-step fashion AT ALL after the first chapter or so (and even then), there are coding errors all over the place, and the finished product that you can download has all sorts of inconsistencies with what's in the book (it's as though they kept the application the same from PowerBuilder 5 and never bothered to check the new text against it or something).

I'm in the process right now of trying to reverse engineer the example from Que's website and compare my own to figure out what snippets the book has omitted that are preventing my application from functioning properly. Thank you, William Heys, for depriving me of some much-needed sleep. :P~

While the book is good for referencing topics when you already know PowerBuilder. You might find yourself lost if you're starting out and trying to follow the example from the book. There are points where the figures in the book don't match where you are at that point in the code. Not to mention the fact that the code that you can download is different then the code descibed in the book. Definetly not a book to learn PowerBuilder from.

Its a very good book but I don't think it targets beginners as much as it claims to. There is a tutorial that runs through the book but it doesn't give concise instructions of the steps one should follow. If these were clearly indicated I would give the book 5/5. I feel that one should know a little about Powerbuilder before attempting to approach this book. However it is so detailed that it takes a while to complete, this can be percieved as a good or a bad thing.

I've reviewed this book once already. It was a rather poor effort. The book reads like a textbook of case studies for psychologists. This was not designed for the layperson who is trying to gain insight. Very dry.

An interesting view of the world of mistresses. Paints some thought-provoking ideas about marriage and the idealism that most mistresses seem to have about the man they're with. Short on humor but at least sympathetic and understanding. A must read for any woman who finds herself in this situation - if only to make her feel less of a social outcast. We debated well into the night - whether you agree with the content or not, it certainly made us think again.

This book degrades women and homosexuals. NOT FUNNY at all.

This book is not a very original idea and some of the lines are the same ones repeated over and over.

This is the 3rd pick-up line book I've bought, and this one is easily the best. Must-read.

The Pan Am 103/Lockerbie bombing was the largest killing of American civilians by a foreign government since the sinking of the Lusitania. It has been covered for 10 years ad nauseum by journalists - and teachers of journalism like Joan Deppa - in the Oprah Winfrey style "let's get the reaction of a sobbing relative" school of journalism. Deppa herself recognizes, in the introduction, that "this particular disaster was international in the ultimate sense of the word: it seemed from the outset to be aimed at an American airliner, probably in retribution for some action by the US government" the book that follows ignores the whole question of what was the US government response, was it adequate, was the investigation by the US press adequate, how and why in this essentially American disaster the US press mustered nothing more than "sob stories" and mouthing the information handed to them by Regan/Bush spokesmen like Oliver Revell. The has been a lot that has come out - the NSA report of Iranian money, Pierre Salinger's interview of embassy personel, Oliver Revell's (the FBI's counter-terrorism chief) own son's escape from Pan Am 103 ...but you won't find it here.

Deppa systematically devotes separate sections to every conceivable reaction, families, police, journalists, but the government, which she acknowleges is at the heart of the issue, gets a few dishwater pages late in the book that say nothing incisive or new. Deppa's book is more of this self-absorbed journalistic omphaloskepsis, or "self-abuse" - and a lot of "sob story" journalism. There is no hard look at why American journalism in regard to this event has never been above the level of supermarket checkout-line rags. All of the important stories have come from European papers - and the most important ones have never even been published in this country. How this disgraceful state of affairs came to pass ought to be the heart of this book; Deppa can't even see the problem.

How is it that any attempts to produce stories other than the "State Department version", especially in the US, have been stifled or quietly withdrawn. There have been libel cases, threats of libel, perjury charges ...to restain the press (Revell brags about using such threats himself) - and Deppa spends her time dithering over newspaper picture selection! The watchdog - which is the most important role of the media functioning at its best - was muzzled from the start; how did it happen? That is the real media issue - the one that is particular to Pan Am 103. Its spineless tripe passed off as analysis.

There are only two types of story about Pan Am 103 in the US. One is the "cops and robbers" whodunit treatment, the other the "human interest" story. The former have been strictly limited to a State Department version, reflecting shifting politics and occasional awkward revelations that have appeared in European media and could not be kept away from the American audience indefinitely. Recently even significant items - like the Guardian article (7/14/97,p15) about an high-level Iranian defector who implicates the Iranian government - currently not a popular view in the American establishment - are simply not reported on in the US. (For anyone interested a Norwegian security consultant, Stein Erik Sandvold, posted a remarkably unbiased webpage which contains three different published Lockerbie stories - the "official US State Department" version and two from Europe). The other type of Lockerbie story is the "let's get the reaction of a sobbing relative" school of journalism. That is 90% of what has appeared in the US media - and basically it is the substance of Deppa's book. The self-indulgent reflections of journalists who never uncovered anything or produced anything above the level of supermarket checkout-line rags. The only reporters who ever broke stories about Pan Am 103 were in Germany and to a lesser extent the UK. Years after, this is tiresome - and its the only book that is available in the US. The only other book - a reprint of a UK book, was mysteriously "postponed indefinitely" (information courtesy of a very helpful Amazon.com staffer who called the publisher who declined to give an explaination - but one of the non-US Sandvold articles states that the UK publisher is being sued by a US government employee, warning enough?). How this disgraceful state of affairs came to pass ought to be the heart of this book; Deppa can't even see the problem.

It is really disappointing that when Deppa herself recognizes, in the introduction, that "this particular disaster was international in the ultimate sense of the word: it seemed from the outset to be aimed at an American airliner, probably in retribution for some action by the US government" the book that follows ignores the whole question off what was the US government response, was it adequate, was the investigation by the US press adequate, how and why in this essentially American disaster the US press mustered nothing more than "sob stories" and mouthing the information handed to them by Regan/Bush spokesmen like Oliver Revell. How is it that any attempts to produce stories other than the "State Department version", especially in the US, have been stifled or quietly withdrawn. The watchdog - which is the most important role of the media functioning at its best - was muzzled from the start; how did it happen? That is the real media issue - the one that is particular to Pan Am 103. Deppa systematically devotes separate sections to every conceivable reaction, families, police, journalists, but the government, which she acknowleges is at the heart of the issue, gets a few dishwater pages late in the book that say nothing incisive or new. Its spineless tripe passed off as analysis.

The Pan Am bombing was not a natural occurance - like the Grand Forks flood, the Northridge earthquake, or even some airline disasters. Deppa's treatment, which evades issues by using the Pan Am bombing as thought it were a just another natural disaster, one pretty much like another, is certainly taking the easy way out, but it is an insult to the the very people she interviewed and those who died at Lockerbie.

This book is very important for everyone to read, regardless of whether or not you are in the media. I have read the other reviews of Joan Deppa's book, and let me say that when I first opened it up, that's what I thought. But, I also have a different perspective: having known people who studied abroad when I was in college, it was important to learn that no matter how good something seems, your life can change in seconds by people you have never known. There were students on PAN AM 103 who never made it home for Christmas that year. They never made it home for the New Year, and that is only part of the story.

It may be somewhat romanticized for some. For others, it may be nothing more than a brief look at how the media has changed. For others, it gives insight as to how media coverage changed, and when the invasion of our personal lives and "live" television reports started. As well, as when that brief live shot delay came into effect.

If anything, this book may gloss over a few areas, but please do not blame Deppa. Many people have glossed over areas of tragedies, and she is no different. If you think this book just glosses, and romanticizes the bombing, the loss, the grief and the media coverage, then maybe you should wipe the sleep out of your eyes, take a deep breath and re-read the book. It covers a lot more than you think, and a lot of it only sinks in after a second or a third reading.

It is especially important for anyone who reads the book to realize that people in the media make mistakes - Mistakes like running a list of victims before notifying families, asking the useless question of "How does it feel to have lost your child?" to a grieving parent. People in the media are human. They care, some of them more deeply than others, but like everyone else, they have a job to do. Deppa is no different. In this instance, her job was to tell one story of the events that happened around December 21, 1988.