THIS BOOK IS ALL ABOUT BRET IN WCW WINNING THE US TITLE AND MATCHS WITH STING IN THE SHARPSTOORER.PS IF YOU LIKE BRET IN THE WCW DAYS THAN BUT IT.

This is a very handsome package, with many pictures and an attractive un-wonky book design (so distracting and unnecessary in the Mankind and Rock books). But after the content expectations and standards set by the WWF autobiographies, this book disappoints.

1. The author credit is Bret Hart's, but it's written in third person--except for the reprint of Bret's Calgary Sun eulogy for his brother Owen. Roddy Piper's intro is nearly the same length as the eulogy--he should have gotten cover credit too! This book is clearly not written by Bret Hart; that he is credited is very misleading.

2. Roddy Piper writes as if wrestling is not "a work." Given the context of the Foley and Johnson books which take pains up front to explain the realities of the business, Piper's point of view is somewhat embarrassing. The body text takes a "work" tone as well, focusing more on the drama inside the ring than the enigma of the man.

3. Most jarringly, the text obviously spends a lot of time talking about Hart's classic WWF matches...but as beautifully reproduced as the photos in this book are, there are very few pictures of the WWF days...no pictures of Davey Boy Smith, his brother-in-law and the man with whom Bret had his finest match, only one picture of tag team partner Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart. It's a really HUGE gap. No pictures with his major belts. All recent photos are from WCW. It makes the book a somewhat disconcerting read, as biographies go. Clearly this is based on Bret's and Vince McMahon's emnity and that rights could not be obtained for WWF-era photos. I am sorry for that.

4. Finally, while the book is a treasure trove of Hart-family-growing-up photos, there are only two small photos of Bret's wife Julie, and none of his four children. The book's text doesn't even go near what I would think are two important life dramas--the end of his marriage, and the filming and release of Wrestling with Shadows.

All in all, a must for Hitman completists, of which I am one, if only for the rare Hart family photos. It's more an expanded article from Pro Wrestling Weekly than it is a true biography. Bret Hart's life is one of the more interesting and heart-wrenching human dramas in this whacked-out industry, full of beauty, idealism, tragedy, and irony. It's a story that's very far from over. I can't wait to hear him tell us about it someday.

If you were new to wrestling, which I am not, and would like to know what happened this is great book. It takes care of many unanswered questions. It's basic great information, Thanks Bret!

Up to this point, I have loved all the Clancy books I have read. This one was simply horrible. Please note that the author of this book is Steve Perry, not Tom Clancy, and it is not up to par with the works Clancy is known for.

The story line is very simplistic and they characters are very one dimensional. About 50 pages from the end you could predict the ending with a good degree of accuracy.

If you haven't read any of Clancy's books (the ones HE wrote), then pick one of those up. This one isn't worth the time or the money. Too bad 0 stars isn't an option.

First, let me tell you a little about the book. This series follows Net Force, a division of the FBI set up to deal with net crimes in 2010. CyberNation deals with a group trying to form a nation based completely on the net. Their main goal throughout the book is to get more people to sign up with them, so that they have the numbers to get the attention of current nations. To get people to join, they disrupt the internet, in a not very legeal way, and so Net Force is called in. The rest of the book is Net Force trying to catch the hackers doing the disruptions.

In general this series has a very well thought out discription of what needs to be done to protect and police the net. Having said that, I have noticed that the Net Force books have been going down hill, and this one continues that trend. A lot of time is spent on character development, but no development actually comes out of it. For example, we see Jay Gridley question his upcoming marrage. But in the end, the final decision has nothing to do with the pages of inner questioning that he goes through. Then there is the introduction of new 'toys' for the military, that never show up again. Add to that the fact that every other scene leads to sex, and that there is almost no technology discription, this book is only a shadow of Clancy's work.

IMHO this series has become a soap opera, with most of the time spent on generic character development and sex, and very little time spent on the action and discriptions that brought me to Clancy in the first place.

As I said above it isn't a Tom Clancy. I find his books very indepth and leaves nothing to the imagination. I love his books. I picked up Net Force Cybernation in an airport because it has his name on it. Agian I repeat it's not Tom Clancy and anyone who compairs this book to him isn't going to give it a good review. I loved this book because it was easy reading and got right to the point. A nice change for Tom Clancy himself because I sometimes find it hard following the charachters because it changes so often.

It was dishonest, I was in Sierra Leone when she was there and her relationships with people were not good. She was arrogant and not helpful.

I simply enjoyed the book!

I have always wanted to travel overseas, and live the kind of life that this book describes. This is a book that really inspires us to do more with our lives, to push straight through the barriers that others place before us (or that we place before ourselves) and realize our dreams. Right after I read this book, I started making inquiries about development jobs overseas -- something I'm sure I never would have done, had I not read this book. There is something in this book for everyone.

If you like tabloid trash - you'll love this book. While it does give a good bio on the (already published) life of Costner, the author also goes on to speculate on the intimate details of Costner's personal life, future, and career. One plus...it has pictures.

Unfortunately, Kevin could never distinguish any truth between his love for a movie and that of his love of himself. The films never were about anything but, you guessed it, Kevin. It is sad...a little less self absorption...a little more talent....who knows...maybe a film that would actually recover some production costs.

Amazing insight comparing Costner to major stars and films from Hollywood's Golden Age. Further, the book accurately predicts Costner's career would start to decline if he began having enough power to choose films he thought people wanted to see instead of ones they did. He has and his career has stalled. The book also accurately predicts his divorce two years before the fact. All around good job!

I had bought the book on line to save money, however waiting for one month and still having not received the book for school is definitely no worth saving 15 bucks.

This is a great text for learning the fundamentals of nursing practice. However the binding does not hold up for even 1 semester. i would reccommend that this be published in 2 books, or better yet in a 3-ring binder for durability & ease of use. Our school uses this book, but mine and 9 others of 25 have fallen apart within the first semester. we use it for 3 semesters. It is very frustrating to keep up with loose pages, so instead of a 5 I rate it a 2.

This is the textbook used in my first semester of nursing school. I read very little of it because I found the size intimidating, and the print was very small. It would take me several hours just to read one chapter. But the CD that came with the book has a tutorial on acids, bases and electroytes that I found extremely helpful. The Virtual Excursions workbook (purchased separately) was excellent. It was like getting extra clinical time. The study guide was good but it made the process of getting through each chapter even longer.

If you are a new reader to the Perry Mason series do not make this your starting point. I haven't read a Perry Mason mystery in more years than I care to count but I am still familiar with them. Looking for a good Mason case to read I was intrigued by the description provided for the book here. Don't be fooled! This is one of the most annoying books I have suffered through in some time. The plot begins well but too soon the characters all become sources of painful irritation. The normally lively banter between Mason and Tragg seems draggy and lifeless; the mystery is incredibly contrived and has too many plot conveniences; an ever astute Perry makes a simply unbelievable sighting of a key witness. Then, near the end of the book, two of the characters exhibit exasperating behavior that Gardner seems to believe adds to the readers enjoyment. It doesn't - it aggravates all the more! And finally the payoff isn't at all acceptable. I may return here to buy another Perry Mason book sometime in the future, but I won't be holding my breath until then.

The title means a scarf printed with three monkeys, "see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil". It may not be a great Mason story, but a good, enjoyable Mason story. A very complicated story, involved with a organized crime and a secret investigation. Mason and a reader can't see what is all about until the near end. When Mason catches a glimpse of Lady Luck, he quickly grabs her hair to turn to him. I admire his vitality.

The author states that the purpose is to encourage the readers by showing what current, high-level, Christian leaders are doing (p. xii). However, there is much more about his own thoughts than on what others are doing. And his thoughts are so boringly basic. In fact, I found it very hard to stay awake while reading this book. I am presuming that someone reading this has a (relatively) clear view of Christ in that it's the first word of the title. If you can't figure out on your own that Christ would value people, then read this book. Otherwise, move on to something more helpful, inspiring, or convicting.

Mr. Pascarella is able, in this book to let the working man and woman know that there are people setting atop large corporations who not only live their lives according to sound,ethical principles, but also conduct business according to the Golden Rule. The book is written in an interesting and easily understood format. Thank you Perry for the reasearch and the work...

First, be warned that the book largely covers OS 9; what coverage of OS X there is, is now largely dated (pre-10.2).

As other reviews have stated, it's hard to get anything done when using this book as a reference. AppleScript is a very unique technology, and the book makes an admirable start at explaining how it works.

But any time I pick this book up, I'm goal oriented: I want to set the topmost window in Terminal to 100x50 and make the text yellow. How do I do that? I want to open a URL in Mozilla and execute some JavaScript via AppleScript. How do I do that? I want to show the Desktop by hiding all applications and making Finder minimize its windows. How do I do that?

Again, as others have pointed out, finding scripts on the Net has been my best resource. This book has helped marginally at best. One good thing the book could have done: when I open an application's dictionary, how can I write loops and subroutines to manipulate the objects I see? How can I write code to discover what they do?

The problem with any book on AppleScript is that every application has a different interface (sort of... they all have the standard suite (and the book doesn't seem to tell you how to even manipulate the standard suite, very frustrating)) but then any decent application will have lots of custom commands and objects you can manipulate.

I'll give a tepid "yes" to buying this book, but it's certainly not the genre-breaker we are all still looking for.

This book is more like an expansion of the Apple downloadable resources for Applescript. It covers most everything regarding Finder scripting, and has some examples. I feel that the actual script examples in the book need more of the surrounding script for better context, but overall you can get the idea. This is more of a desk reference for me, since I can't fathom trying to read it straight through unless I've had waaaaay too much caffiene. Of all of the Applescript publications, this is the closest there is to a reference book, but it will not teach you to program in Applescript per se.

After a weekend with "the book", I can say that this one is a real winner. I'm very happy with the detail and the way it was intelligently sectioned out. The writing is clean with no excessive story telling and nothing extraneous to read - it was obviously edited by real pros.

An example in the section on "Application Switcher" the author outlines the "cycling keystroke" class as follows. "cycling keystroke(keystroke object) You can set the keyboard combination for cycling through open programs (each program will become the highlighted program on the desktop in sequence as you press this key combo). This example changes this cycling keystroke to Control-F1:

tell application "Application Switcher" set stroke to {key:F1 key, modifiers: {control down}} set cycling keystroke to stroke end tell

The keystroke object takes the form of a record type..." and it goes on in more detail. Then it tells you a little later what would be valid keystrokes to use.

This is merely one example. The breadth of material is somewhat narrow, however it goes into great detail about all universal Applescript functionality. It's not specialized to one program's library, but extensively covers the details of Data Types, Operators, Reference Forms, Variables and Constants, Flow Control statements, and Subroutines.

This book will help take you to the next level of AppleScripting. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in AS, though. If I'd had this a couple of years ago, I could have had much tighter and reliable code now. I'm really looking forward to reading this one several times over the years. I think we have a new AS reference for the pros, folks. IMO, of course.

The book is full of hypothesis. Till now nobody would have implemented all the checklists/templates/procedures mentioned in this book, in their real environment and I can bet on this.

Checklists are needed if the task of review/testing is very critical and the organizational processes shall demand that. An attempt to define a checklist/template to make it global is real childishness.

The definition of Verification and Validation itself is written wrong in this book. I dont know if these terms had such definitions during the past years.

Summary: We are in 2003 now. If somebody wants to go back to 1970 then this book will be very useful for them. A wise decision for normal readers would be to move away from this page. Thanks.

i find the book too advance to understand

There are a few things to say in favour of this book:
1. It does walk through on how to approach testing in your organization (however, it is definitely oriented towards organizations with established testing principles).
2. It does give you some background information on software testing. Sadly, these are mainly explained in a textbook like manner, making them hard to digest.
3. It provides a thorough, detailed and tested methodology for software testing throughout the various life cycles. Yet again, due to the book's textbook like manners, I found it hard to actually implement the offered methodologies.

Whatever positive attributes the book has to offer, they pale in comparison to the book's negative aspects:
1. Total unreadability: The book written in such a boring manner, you will find yourself reading every page thrice, and still lack the satisfaction of being able to quote the meaning of what you just read.
2. Lack structure: Paragraphs are thrown in one after the other; it's hard to decipher what leads where.
3. Repetitiveness: Items like "building the test plan" repeat themselves for no particular reason.
4. No examples: It's hard for the text to find any foundation in your mind when there are no examples to help the reader relate to. Given its monotonous descriptions, nothing could hinder the reader's efforts to understand and implement the book's ideas more than that.

The final verdict: Look for another software testing book.

Then you will love this reactionary tract. If you are an Islamic fundamentalist or an aspiring member of the inquisition, this is your stuff. Alas, pluralists, religious liberals, democrats, lovers of freedom of thought and tolerance need not apply. There is nothing especially new here, just the usual authoritarian blather about the One True Tradition underlying all of humankind's True (read dogmatic) Religions and Best (read repressive) Societies. As another reviewer rightly observes, this is mostly warmed over Schuon, with quotes from religious liberals like Emerson and Thoreau thrown in to mislead the less than wary. And we need this now?

The title is a bit of misnomer and the same for the introduction. As stated by Huston Smith in the intro in the book is political/polemical in nature. It is not a text on awakening, being or dealing with spiritual psychology per se. Nor does it have anything really to do with following in the footsteps of Emerson or Thoreau. Perry merely quotes them because of name recognition. Emerson and Thoreau would have been aghast to be associated with such an antedeluvian like Perry.

What Perry attempts to cover he does well and flows from one topic to another smoothly. Style wise at times his writing reminds me of Schuon's - he has a penchant for being a obscurantist. In essence this work is a political meta-commentary on spirituality as found in Hinduism, Buddhism with a smattering of Islam and Neo-Platonic Christianity(as defined by Erigena not as understood by either the Catholic or Eastern Churches) and Taoism thrown in for good measure. He also tries to find common ground between them all and make the case that they are all talking about the same thing. In addition he tackles modernity and societal issues and lays out the problems as he sees it.

Problems:

Being a Perennialist Perry considers Judaism and Christianity as inferior spiritual paths and promotes Hinduism and Budhhism as superior ones. (Perennialists are generally followers of Sufism and Hinduism or Buddhism as Perennialism implicitly repudiates strict monotheism as understood by Jews and Christians). So if you are a Christian you will be offended by this book.

The book is also marred by Perry's fundamentalist beliefs about society . Perry attacks democracy, human rights as being untraditional and degenerate, churches for being active on social issues and especially Vatican II.(Vatican II is a favorite bugbear of Traditionalists along with Jung). Essentially anything post-reformation is bad. Engaging in historical revisionism and elitism he defends and even supports aristocracy and the divine right of kings as the best form of government! He claims that it is divinely ordained and uses scripture from various wisdom traditions to justify it. He even justifies Attila the Hun and Ghengis Khan as the wrath of god.

There is more than a bit of Manichean world hating stream of thought in his work. For him there is only the via negativa, the path of dealing with the pain of existence in order to gain release from life. There is no via positiva, the path of celebration and thanksgiving, no via creativa, the path of human creativity, no via transformativa, the path of creation renewed and mended. A truly hateful view life and creation to say the least.

His criticism of modernity is third rate(as he is Muslim living in Egypt). Writers like Lewis Mumford, Ellul, Theodore Roszak and Philip Sherrard have penned far better and thought out works than this one.

In Closing:

This book may have value for you if believe that inquistions, reducing women to chattel, theological fanaticism and priest kings are good for the world. Otherwise skip it as it is one of the most odious books written since Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged or Mein Kampf.

Skip it and get Hossein Nasr's Knowledge of the Sacred. Nasr actually knows what he writes about and neither does he insult the reader.

A reviewer, from Boston, December 26, 2001,
A good introduction to the Perennial Philosophy
If you're interested in the philosophia perennis -- but have found the work of Frithjof Schuon sometimes difficult to penetrate -- this book provides not only a good introduction, but an in-depth discussion of many of the concepts underlying the Perennial Philosophy.

Also recommended: The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon, The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Beyond the Post-Modern Mind by Huston Smith