This book is good for beginning programmers or for those who wanted to learn Java. The book is very detailed about the methodology of programming and such. However, as you continue along in the book (about chapter 3) you start finding more and more code errors in the examples you are working with. It makes it really hard to learn if the examples are wrong. Also, the Author doesn't follow his own rules in his consistancy of variable naming. I wouldn't buy this book if you are trying to learn the most current version of java and techniques. I would buy it if you are interested in learning the fundamentals of programming.

This is a nice book about a little boy and his big brother. It's written for small children who I think can enjoy the book very much. Especially small children with an older brother or sister.

There's one thing the little boy in the book wants more than anything else in the world, to play with his big brother. But like most older brothers he doesn't really have the time to play with his little brother. One day he have to babysit for his little brother and they have a really nice time together playing all the time. The big brother is learning his little brother lots of plays. He also promises to play with him the next day. But will he do that? or will he play with his own friends forgetting what he has promised his little brother?... You just have to read the book to find out!

I think it's a cute little story, althought Ulf Stark has written other stories that are better. His best book is "Dårfinkar och Dönickar" (I don't know the English title, I don't even know if it's translated into English), but that is written for older children, from about ten years of age.

Taking a EE grad course on Random Variables, I found this book to be unbelievably hard to read from. The material in the book is not written in a way that makes it easy to look things up. The funny thing is, the course I took was Professor Henry Stark's Class and I still had a very tough time looking to this book for answers to questions. I actually had to look at another book, a digital telecommuncations book, to get the answers to most of my questions. Don't buy this book, it is not very helpful.

In using this book for a class last semester, I guess my greatest impression was that this book is certianly complete, containing exact definitions and proofs in good detail. My biggest complaint was that the worked examples were, at least in my mind, somewhat vaguely written. To me, examples are good when they take situations practical and familiar to the students and apply the material being discussed to them. For instance, a textbook discussing area might give an example regarding a swimming pool or a parking lot. The examples here more reflect around definitions already used "Let there be an X by Y grid- compute the area?". It's certainly a good book, but if you get it I suggest getting a supplimental book as well for working some of the simpler examples and getting a 'feel' for the material. I had good luck with REA's Problems Solvers on Probability.

This book was my text book for a graduate level course in probability and I really found it useful.It is the type of book that makes you think and it won't explain every unnecessary detail. Specially I found the problems in the text book very well organized.

I like Alternity; a very nice rules system with a pleasant, if not terribly inspired space opera setting and an X-files style modern setting. This book is a psionics add-on to the base system that provides some interesting genre notes and a minor additions to the rules, but, to be honest, the core rules cover it in plenty of detail for most purposes (I disagree with Thomas Denmark over this, obviously). If you want to go into a lot of psionics related detail in a game, maybe think about this book. Otherwise, pass.

I almost wanted to give this product 3 stars, because the production value is very good, but the content is too lacking in material. Psionics are such a basic staple of science fiction, and this book treats it in an adequate, if uninspired manner. Apparantly the purpose of this book was to provide generic information to be used in any kind of campaign, but it comes across so generic that it has no flavor. Alternity is a noble attempt, but drops short of its goal of creating the definitive sci-fi game. The fact that the information in "Mindwalking" is in a separate supplement is proof that Alternity is lacking. Note to Wizard of the Coast: next time you do a sci-fi game, put a full treatment of psionics in the core rules books.

I didn't want to review the book so much as let folks know that JD Wiker wrote the book.

As a USS Stark FFG31 Plank Owner, I found the book informative, but, somewhat biased toward the Investigators point of view. I believe that the book would have been much better had the Authors interviewed the Crew members since apparently there was a little too much reliance on the "Official documents." Hopefully, some enterprising Author will do this and publish another book from the Crew Members perspective.

Despite my first review, this is a very important book and the only book about the USS Stark.

As a former Firecontrolman onboard FFG-7 Class ships I found this book good reading...I know the capabilities and LIMITATIONS of the weapon control systems onboard that ship and I would like to be able to read the real version. Even the Navy's report was more factual.

I read this book because I had to: I was reviewing it for The Edmonton Journal. My conclusion is simple and straightforward: while beautiful, this book is so filled with glaring mistakes, howlers and omissions, its authors and editors should be ashamed of themselves. In fact, if it were possible, I would give this volume no stars at all: the first thing a book on history must have is its facts right.

You know i really liked this book just because of that its nice to see great european players past and present in this book. unlike other books where it's just nhl players, this book has both nhl players and european players included. As a international hockey historian i really enjoyed it. gretzky-kharlamov-nedomansky-salming and many other great players are in this book. the price is my only problem with the book, it cost some bucks.

If you have never worked with WORD, have no clue how to cut and paste, and are generally clueless about fundamental editing technicques with MS products, this book might help; others will find it sophomoric in its techniques, useless in its organization, and a waste of money. Apparently, it was written for classroom student; not for active users trying to solve a particular problem. For the former, it might be ok; for the latter, its utility is at negative infinity.

The content of this book is OK, but the poor physical quality of this book makes it feel like a magazine instead of a book. The cover, the binding, the thin paper are actually less substantial than some high quality magazines. This book set a new LOW standard in this respect.

If you haven't worked on Publisher much and need to for your work or school, etc. I would definitely recommend this book. It teaches about many different features in Publisher that I didn't even know existed. However, don't spend the money if you don't use Publisher much. ...

You can learn how to design all sorts of print materials... you can even post what you have designed in Publisher on websites... I think that is one of the nicer features. The instructions in the book are very easy to understand and give you step-by-step instruction for working hands-on on your computer.

If you really doesn't have anything else to read, read this one, nothing of what is written in this book of this super hero can be true, since the beginning till end.
The plot of the book is the following (I will write it because this is the first review and is nothing written about this book).

Parker who is a bank robber went to jail when he was betrayed by some friends, when he went out of jail, he found those friends (of the mafia) and try to kill them, the super Parker goes for the mafia himself because the mafia owns him part of his last robbery.

If you have one day at the beach without children, you can finish this book in one day.

I bought this book in hoping to learn Java programming; instead I found a book that DID NOT explain the fundamental aspects of java programming in a clear and in an understandable format for a beginner. After reading the introduction chapter, I was confused by the author's explanation of simple OO terms. But I let it pass, since I thought the important aspect was knowing how to create components and codes for java. I was wrong; I should have returned the book back after reading the first chapter.

After going through the first few exercises in beginning chapters, I was unable to complete the supplementary labs since these labs were completely irreverent to the chapter exercises(There are no solutions in this book for the Test Your Knowledge, In the Lab, and Cases and Places- a section devoted to producing labs on your own). In the Case and Place section, the authors want the beginner reader to create some labs after every chapter on their own. They only provide a case scenario but they DO NOT help the reader produce these labs by providing a solution or step by step instructions in the back of the book if you get stuck(which WASTE a lot of your TIME and makes your head spin). However, these labs are completely IRRELEVANT in their designated chapters since the authors ask you to create components and programs that they DID NOT TEACH you in the previous chapters. Furthermore there are no solutions for these labs.

The explanations of the programming terms and coding are NOT clear and are NOT understandable; rather it was CONFUSING and VAGUE. The authors did NOT properly explain all the programming terms AND coding in a comprehensible language. Furthermore, this book did NOT SHOW the new programmer how to develop simple components in an understandable format, so the readers would be able to implement these components in their future programs.

This book is more of a SUMMARY than introducing a beginner to java programming. It seems to me that the authors expected that their reader must have some experience in java programming or needed a refresher in this language prior to purchasing this book. This book DOES NOT MAKE THE READER FEEL CONFIDANT IN learning, coding, and implementing java programming, rather it makes YOU FEEL VERY STUPID. You would be WASTING your MONEY and TIME if you purchased this book! This is one of the worst Java programming books that I purchased.

I bought this book in hoping to learn Java programming; instead I found a book that DID NOT explain the fundamental aspects of java programming in a clear and in an understandable format for a beginner. After reading the introduction chapter, I was confused by the author's explanation of simple OO terms. But I let it pass, since I thought the important aspect was knowing how to create components and codes for java. I was wrong; I should have returned the book back after reading the first chapter.

After going through the first few exercises in beginning chapters, I was unable to complete the supplementary labs since these labs were completely irreverent to the chapter exercises(There are no solutions in this book for the Test Your Knowledge, In the Lab, and Cases and Places- a section devoted to producing labs on your own). In the Case and Place section, the authors want the beginner reader to create some labs after every chapter on their own. They only provide a case scenario but they DO NOT help the reader produce these labs by providing a solution or step by step instructions in the back of the book if you get stuck(which WASTE a lot of your TIME and makes your head spin).These labs are completely IRRELEVANT in their designated chapters since the authors ask you to create components and programs that they DID NOT TEACH you in the previous chapters. Furthermore there are no solutions for these labs.

The explanations of the programming terms and coding are NOT clear and are NOT understandable; rather it was CONFUSING and VAGUE. The authors did NOT properly explain all the programming terms AND coding in a comprehensible language. Furthermore, this book did NOT SHOW the new programmer how to develop simple components in an understandable format, so the readers would be able to implement these components in their future programs.

This book is more of a SUMMARY than introducing a beginner to java programming. It seems to me that the authors expected that their reader must have some experience in java programming or needed a refresher in this language prior to purchasing this book. This book DOES NOT MAKE THE READER FEEL CONFIDANT IN learning, coding, and implementing java programming, rather it makes YOU FEEL VERY STUPID. You would be WASTING your MONEY and TIME if you purchased this book! This is one of the worst Java programming books that I purchased.

Not exactly what I was looking for. Many out of date Railroad and Military freq's. Some of these listings have been out of service for 15 years. Very little coverage of the Marine Band. I bought the book for these reasons and was very dissapointed. I could have written a better book on these bands from my own knowledge and limited resources.