Triopia and the Burden of Excess is an entertaining story about a young American's six-month study in the Middle East. As a Mormon facing internal conflicts about his own spirituality, Daniel arrives in Jerusalem with a quest to gain a wider understanding of religion, civilization and humanitarianism.

Daniel contemplates the roots of the three main religions of the region - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and how each has historically shaped culture and society, and affected individuality and group orthodoxy.

It is during this time that he realizes none of these religions, nor any government has managed to resolve a continuing cycle of conflict: the fight against racism, the fight for unity and the fight for diversity.

Seasoned with a youthful and often amusing narrative, Triopia is also an intelligent philosophical novel that offers perspective on several controversial subjects, especially the clash between individual thought and group orthodoxy.

Triopia and the Burden of Excess is based on the author's personal experience as a student in the Middle East. When Bryan Richards went to Israel in 1988, it was with a pro-Israel mentality, but after witnessing the age-old conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis firsthand, he came home with an understanding of both groups and the inspiration to write this thought-provoking novel.

Triopia And The Burden Of Excess by Bryan Richards is a coming-of-age novel (based largely on the author's own real life experiences) about spiritual conflict, personal doubt, and human transcendence. A dedicated missionary for the Mormon Church comes to a crossroads in his life while studying Judaism and Islam, and must weigh the values of group orthodoxy and individuality hand in hand. A compelling, serious, superbly crafted parable, Triopia is very highly recommended reading.

If you are looking for a trucking book with lots of pictures of trucks, this is not for you, however if you want a photographic pictorial book which captures the mood of truckstops and the variety of patrons who frequent them, this is a worthwhile addition to your library.

This book truley captures the life of an average truck driver. It shows the experiences of the road and best of all the truck stops. The truck stops are wonderfully photographed.

A good book at debunking some of the unfounded nonsense that has grown up around certain events in NM history, like the myth that Billy the Kid was not killed by Pat Garrett, who murdered the Fountains and who shot Pat Garrett.

This book is easy to read, and fascinating. The author backs up the old timers stories with facts and adds to the history where appropriate. I found this book to be extremely interesting.

The authors have spent years researching Will Rogers. In this book, they provide insight into the friendship of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. A friendship which ended in their untimely death when their plane crashed in Alaska. The book tells the biography of Rogers and Post. Will Rogers has been writtten about and spoken of often. However, it is hard to find articles about Wiley Post. This was what I was seeking when I read the book, as Wiley and I descended from the same Post family. The book contained articles which I'd never heard before. Very well written and interesting.

IF YOUR INTERESTS TEND TOWARD HISTORICAL FIGURES AND AVIATION, THIS IS AN INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER REHASH OF THE POST/ROGERS CRASH IN BARROW, BUT RATHER A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ALL THE PERSONALITIES AND HISTORY BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE CRASH AS WELL AS HOW THEY ALL TIED INTO THE TRAGEDY. THE AUTHOR BUILDS A FASCINATING, FACTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ACCIDENT AND A CONVINCING CASE AS TO WHY IT HAPPENED---AND IT'S NOT WHAT THE AUTHORITIES OF THE TIME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE.

This slim novel begins with a scrawny young girl sleeping in a dung heap. The heroine, who is nameless as well as homeless, uses the dung for heat, a decision that Jane Sharp, the town's midwife, recognizes as a clever one. Jane hires the girl and names her Beetle, for dung beetle.

Beetle is a smart, compassionate girl, but a timid one, too. She allows Jane Sharp to boss her around and the local boys to tease her mercilessly.

Karen Cushman chose the England of the Middle Ages as a setting for the book, and has researched the subject exhaustively. We learn about village life, medicine, feudal structure, and the place of women in that society. Most enjoyable to follow is Beetle's progress from a scared, meek little girl to a self-assured young woman who has chosen her own name: Alyce.

While not romanticizing Alyce's situation, Cushman makes it clear how much more is available to her than to upper class women of her time. At the end of the book, Alyce chooses her own future from several options. She selects the life that will allow her the most independence. With a name and a career of her own choosing, Alyce has come far indeed from the dung heap.

I really liked the way this book portrayed the period that it was written in. From the filthy surroundings to the bad health care to the extreme superstition, not a detail was missed. This book also shows that with a small chance and a lot of courage, you can make anything out of yourself. Here's how the plot went:

Beetle was living on the street the night she decided to use the dung heap for a bed. The heap provided warmth, and, in the morning, a day's work and some food from the local midwife, Jane Sharp. Soon, that one day turns into months, as Beetle becomes the midwife's apprentice. Eventually, she gets a new name, Alys, and a new status. But all is not well, for failure comes knocking at Alys's door, and instead of facing it, she decides to run away. She goes to an inn, and here, with the help of her cat and a scribe, she learns that she is smart, she is pretty, and that maybe failure her failure wasn't so bad after all.

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman is a splendid book that will transport you to the 14th century medieval England. Her vivid details and rich language will virtually place you right into the story. Through the eyes of Alyce you are taken on an amazing journey of self identity. Alyce, the main character starts off her journey nameless, and moves from being called Brat, to Beetle, to her most valued name Alyce. The beginning of the story portrays Alyce as a homeless, nameless, frail girl, searching for a full belly, a content heart, and a warm place to sleep. She wanders from village to village finding scraps of food and warmth inside dung heaps being teased and taunted. One day to her surprise she is found by Jane a midwife. This is where her true journey begins. Through the tough, stern, and greedy midwife, Alyce learns important midwifery skills, courage, and discovers her place in this world. Karen Cushman succeeds in creating a character who is coming of age that young people can relate to today. Although Alyce comes from a different era and time as young people today, Karen does a fabulous job of displaying the same difficulties and experiences that contemporary readers today are facing. Alyce is a heorine that you will fall in love with. Through her hardships and her courage, Alyce establishes a sense of identity. I would recommend this book for ages 12 and up. This age group can relate to the struggles of Alyce, as well as enjoy her qualities. The language and content is something I feel that 12 year olds can understand and have the appropriate background experiences to truly engage with Alyce. I loved the book and would recommend it to my 7th grade students as well as others.

Could "Who's your clan mother" and "Who's your clan father" take the place of the late sixties and seventies icebreaker question "What's your sign"? This is just one of the questions that comes to my mind after reading this very interesting book that brings state-of-the-art genetics to bear on genealogy, anthropology, and archeology. The other questions, while less amusing, are rather more profound.

About 95% of white Europeans, according to the study of donated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) described in this book, can trace back their matrilineal descent (their mom, to her mom, to her mom, to her mom, etc. etc. etc.) to just seven women who lived between about 45,000 and 10,000 years ago in various Eurasian territories. Sykes gives a name to each woman starting with the letter designation an Italian colleague had assigned to each of the seven clusters in their mtDNA population; hence, in chronological order: "Ursula", "Xenia", "Helena", "Tara", "Velda", "Katrine", and "Jasmine". All these women in turn can be traced back to the mother of the clan who first left Africa for the Middle East, "Lara". In her turn, "Lara" traces back to "Eve", the female point of origin for the entire human species.

Read back that last paragraph again and let it sink in for a bit. Like the statement that the universe is expanding and thus at one time in the past must have been a singularity (or a near-singularity, as Hawking would have it), it doesn't take long to summarize the story, but it's implications are of metaphysical magnitude.

Here are five examples of how this new information is causing or may soon cause a ruckus:

(1) The hypothesis of multi-regional emergence of Homo sapiens from Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus stock now seems to be weakened gravely in comparison to the "out of Africa" theory.

(2) Working up to the study that discovered the "seven daughters", Sykes was able to give a firm boost to the theory of southeast Asian, as opposed to South American, origin for the Polynesian peoples. My condolences to Thor Heyerdahl!

(3) An entrenched notion that Middle Eastern farmers had migrated into Europe and almost completely displaced the resident Paleolithic hunter-gatherers at the dawn of the Neolithic age was challenged and now appears defunct.

(4) No genetic evidence for surviving lines of Neanderthal descent in modern Europeans or anyone else has been uncovered. Either Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal hybrid lines went extinct long ago or such hybrids were infertile or were never born in the first place.

(5) Should legal names include a "matriname" in addition to the given and surnames? ("Hell, yeah!" I say!)

That's just for starters! Who knows what other anthropological mysteries will be cleared up and what new mysteries will emerge?

So why four instead of five stars? Well, I get the feeling that this book was rushed somewhat to capitalize on the buzz Sykes' and others' findings have generated in the popular press. MtDNA forms the main thread of discovery in this book. The definitive picture will come when this can be fully interwoven with data from those groups (such as Ornella Semino, Giuseppe Passarino et. al.) tackling the nonrecombining Y chromosome markers (NRY haplotype). Sykes' can only give the most cursory treatment of their results so far.

Go ahead and pick this book up if you're interested, you'll probably have it finished off in no time as it's an engaging read. But you'll likely be wondering "who's my daddy" as well as "who's my mommy"! Hints to patrilineal descent (your dad, to his dad, to his dad, etc. etc. etc.) need NRY data so pick up a copy of the 10 Nov. 2000 issue of Science at the local library and check out Ann Gibbons report (p. 1080-1) as well as the actual paper of Semino, Passarino, et. al. (p. 1155-9). Kudos to you if you can hack through the jargon in the paper. Anyway, there would appear to be "Eight Sons of Adam" in Europe: One west-Aurignacian, one east-Aurignacian, one Gravettian, one southwest-Gravettian, and five Middle Eastern Neolithics (the other two haplotypes of the dominant ten in Europe arriving much latter with the Uralic peoples in the far north).

Unfortunately not as much data of either kind, mtDNA or NRY, has been complied for non-Europeans (yeah, just the majority of people on this planet!!) This book will only say that there are currently twenty-six known matrilineal clans in addition to the featured seven. If you can't trace your mothers back to Europe then you may be feeling major let down two thirds of the way into this book.

Five stars and mega-kudos besides will go to whoever can nicely relate to us how the descendants of the "clan mothers" and "clan fathers" have interwoven to populate the globe! What an undertaking that will be, but it is sure to come off the presses not so very far in the future if things keep up this gangbusters pace.

A nice point of departure for those finishing off this book would be Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" which asks the question: "If we are all so similar under the skin, then why did western European and Anglo-American civilization rise to dominance?". Or one could go back further and ask why we are so different from the surviving hominids in our family tree. For this I'm going to pick up Elaine Morgan's "Aquatic Ape Hypothesis". I'll let you know how that goes. Cheers!

Bryan Sykes in THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE tackles the ever interesting question about the origins of humanity. Where did we of the 20th Century come from? Sykes likes to use decision trees to show how one generation leads to the next. He acknowledges that since documented geneological records are notoriously unreliable, to date human evolution through the ages, a more reliable indicator was needed. In mitochondrial DNA, Sykes has found just such a barometer. Most of the early chapters are full of college level genetics that indicate that human beings can unerringly trace their lineage even over many milennia through the use of mitochondrial DNA that is passed only from mother to daughter. Sykes asserts that the majority of Europeans owe their ancestry to seven clearly identified females who lived in Europe at various times ranging from 50,000 years to 10,000 years ago. His evidence is compelling. Sykes strays from hard evidence to fiction, however, as he attempts to recreate a fanciful 'history' for each woman whom he assigns names like Ursula, Helena, and Katrine. These stories are nonsense, of course, and detract from his core thesis. Yet, his masterful explanation of the mechanics of DNA, while occasionally dragging, still point out that the physical differences between human beings are to be seen as more falsely dramatic than truly individuating. Sykes suggests that we today who are the descendants of these Eves ought to acknowledge our kinships rather than squabble over our dissimilarities.

This is a popular book of scientific discovery written in an affecting and engaging style by a geneticist who has the all too rare gift of writing extremely readable prose.

Professor Bryan Sykes draws the reader into his story as easily as a best-selling novelist. And this is just the "science" part of the book which lasts for fourteen chapters. Then come the fictional chapters about the seven daughters and their imagined stories, so touching and so full of the very human struggle to survive in the prehistory that I could not read them without misting up. (But then I tend to the sentimental.)

Sykes begins with the story of how he was able to identify a living descendant of the five-thousand year old "ice man" found in northern Italy in 1994 by comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mitochondrial DNA is contained only in egg cells (thus, "Eve" and her daughters), not in sperm cells, and transmitted without recombination so that the changes are all the result of mutations that occur at a predictable rate over time. Then he tells the story of how the bodies of the murdered Romanovs, the last of the Russian Tsarist families, were identified through DNA fingerprinting. Both of these stories are more about media events and ventures in forensics than original scientific work. But then comes the story of where the Pacific Islanders originated.

When I was young I read the engaging story of Thor Heyerdahl in his book Kon-Tiki in which he attempted to prove that the Polynesians originated in the Americas by sailing west into the Pacific. This beguiling theory is demolished once and for all by the DNA evidence that Sykes presents. He shows that the Polynesians were originally from Southeast Asia and made all their great ocean discoveries by sailing against the prevailing winds, going east toward the Americas.

Sykes notes that because this was the prevailing scientific opinion his work met with mostly agreement. However when he and other geneticists were able to show that the current population of Europe is mainly descended from the original hunters and gathers that lived there prior to the arrival of the farmers who brought agriculture from the Middle East roughly ten thousand years ago, they ran into resistence. The prevailing scientific opinion was that the farmers overwhelmed the hunters and that most of today's Europeans are descended from those farmers. Sykes relates the story of the scientific controversy and how the genetic proof finally prevailed against entrenched opinion. Incidentally, to me the intriguing thing about this discovery is the question, not addressed in the book: What, if any, conclusions can we draw from the fact that 80% of our European genes came from hunters and gathers and only 20% from Middle Eastern farmers?

There is also the story of the "Cheddar Man" and how Sykes learned to extract DNA from the bones of people dead tens of thousands of years. Finally there is his argument for all people of European descent coming from just seven women who lived ten thousand to forty thousand years ago, the so-called, "Seven Daughters of Eve." (World-wide Sykes identifies 33 "daughters of Eve.")

To round out the book, Sykes writes an imaginative chapter about each one of the seven daughters. Here is where some readers are displeased, claiming that Sykes's imaginings are unscientific and even slanted. One reader complained about the men out hunting and the women remaining behind in caves as a kind of stereotype that has been overcome. But remember Sykes is writing in six cases out of seven about European peoples who made their living primarily from hunting during the ice ages, not from gathering. Think about how much "gathering" the Inuit do and you can see why he emphasized hunting. In the seventh case, about Jasmine, whom he sees as being from the birthplace of agriculture in modern Syria, his story is different. Indeed he has Jasmine and her non-hunting mate inventing agriculture! I might also point out for those who skimmed the "daughters of Eve" chapters, that he also has a woman playing a major part in the invention of water-going craft.

If I were to criticize this book I would say he was too generous in his depiction of human beings in the prehistory. He describes their lives as hunters and gathers, their hardships and their short and difficult lives with an emphasis on their humanity and how that helped them to survive. He downplays any part humans may have had in the extinction of the Neanderthal. He relates no rapes or murders or tribal wars, and de-emphasizes tribal sexism. He shows the beginnings of trade and cooperation. The result is so warm and touching I'm surprised that Stephen Spielberg hasn't taken out an option on the book. (Maybe he has!)

Finally, this is not an academic tome. It is a popular science book meant for educated lay persons. There are no learned academics writing glowing blurbs on the cover. Most academics would be afraid to write a book like this because of the imaginative chapters which are quasi-scientific and can be so easily criticized.

In short Professor Sykes is a tremendously engaging writer (with guts) who happens to be a world-class scientist. His goal was to communicate something about what he has learned to a wide readership, and I think he did a good job. If you can read this book without feeling better about humanity, maybe you should read it again.

I knew nothing of sendmail (or Unix!) when I was asked to implement a new mailhub, mail-gateway, and mail-relay. While I was learning ls, cp, and vi, I was also learning how to compile, install, and configure sendmail! -Thanks to this book.

If you're going to be involved with sendmail, you've heard of the sendmail.cf file. Don't be scared, just jump in and learn it once and for all. With this book, you'll quickly master the .cf file and amaze your friends by configuring SMTP mail servers in no time. More than the complete sendmail reference, this book gives many real-world examples you can adapt to your environment.

The only drawback concerns the release of sendmail 8.9. With the significant changes between 8.8 and 8.9, O'Reilly would do us all a great favor by releasing a 3rd edition covering what's new in 8.9. Regardless, the "Bat Book" will maintain its position within arms reach of my keyboard.

I too, am awaiting a third edition to address the major changes in versions 8.10 (which I use) and now the latest 8.11.1. Many of the reviewers are correct where they recommend that you need to have some admin, UNIX/LINUX, and some C++ language experience to fully understand the book. I had to delve into the sendmail.cf file myself and then correlate the applicable section of the sendmail.cf file to it's applicable section in the batbook and learn to understand the book and the inner workings of Sendmail. Once I made the connections and correlations between this book and sendmail.cf, this book became invaluable. In fact, it is the only legitimate complete resource on this software. In one sense, I wish it was a little more tutorial based in nature when I first started learning how to configure sendmail pressured and on the fly when our e-mail server went down and I had to become the "official expert" replacing my ex-boss the former "official expert", who left for "greener pastures". It's easy to read the book now since I know more about sendmail. I'm glad the book is here, Surfing through the sendmail.org page to find info is a nightmare. Surfing many personal webpages concerning sendmail, Many have incomplete answers to your questions and these people always tell you that if the answers to your questions are not present, "BUY THE BATBOOK"

...then you almost certainly need this book.

This is the definitive reference on the program "sendmail", which is used to handle over 75% of all e-mail on the Internet. This is the number one book on the bookshelf for all the employees I know at Sendmail, Inc (the company Eric Allman set up to help commercialize sendmail).

It's slightly dated, in that it doesn't deal with version 8.10.x and later, but most of the more recent changes have not been excessively large, and this book is still very highly relevant.

I'm on my fourth copy now. I keep one at work, one at home, one is signed by the author and Eric himself, and thanks to the O'Reilly "Network CD Bookshelf", I now have an electronic copy on my laptop that I can search online -- a true God-send if there ever was one.

Of course, I was also one of the reviewers of this book, so I am a little prejudiced. ;-)

Let me start by saying that as a diehard fan of superhero comics, I found the Authority to be a wonderful read. The characters, especially Jenny Sparks, are interesting and the variety of powers in the group is good.

However, that said, let me turn to what I didn't like. As intriguing as the characters are, they suffer from a lack of depth. Apart from a few tantalizing scenes, we get almost nothing of their personal lives. The Doctor in particular is a total enigma. Each of the two story arcs in this collection present the team with a massive threat to defeat, which they of course do. But what else if there? Warren Ellis is a fine writer, but here I think he allows the concept to take precedence over the characters.

I would suggest to anyone who buys this volume that they continue with the ongoing series. Even though Ellis left four issues after the stories presented here, it continues to develop and even improve on what you get in Relentless.

In conclusion, if you can only buy one collection, pick up Ellis' Planetary: Around the World instead and then start getting the ongoing monthly Authority series.

The Authority is a secret global-protection group ('superheroes') who protects the earth from things 'normal' human agencies can't handle. Things that aren't known to the general public. With a wide variety of superpowered 'humans' they are pretty well equiped in every situation.
Although this series spawned off the earlier 'Stormwatch' title, you needn't be too familiair with it. Knowledge about what happened in Stormwatch is a pre, not a must. It's not like you'll miss out on anytthing vital in here if you haven't read it, only you'll know some more on the back-ground of SOME characters if you have (not all).
This first collection collects #1-8 of the series, which are basically divided in two four-part sub-plots (the complete Warren Ellis run/storyline goes on for another four issues in the second volume, along with the first four Mark Millar-written issues).

Storywise intro:
The first sub-arc is called "The Circle". A dictator/tyrant ruler of the island called 'Gamorra' is trying to put his mark on the rest of the world in a rather brutal, unconventional way. It's up to the top-secret global defensive group "Authority" to put him to a stop. In this arc the group is forming and deciding who it's members are gonna be. It's mostly used as an explanation to the reader who the characters, led by Jenny Sparks, are and what they are about (powers, a little background and such).
The second story-arc is called "Shiftships". Earth is under attack by creatures from an alternative earth. Jenny Sparks knows these creatures (half humans) from her past, but she was convinced they were long dead. The question is how to stop them, but luckily Jenny has an ace up her sleeve which should give her group a fair chance. The intentions of the invaders get revealed to be even worse than first pressumed though.
In here you learn more about the ways of the Authority. It's wise to pay good attention here on subjects as 'the bleed' (in which they travel) because it is pretty vague at first but important in the long haul.

Overall my conclussion is that this is a pretty nice title. It's not ALL that but it's certainly above average and won't be a waste of your money (which is a good thing in this day and age of comicdom). Compared to the other Warren Ellis Wildstorm title (Planetary) this one is artwise a little better. Having said that I'll be quick to add that storywise Planetary is better by far. The biggest problem with Authority is lack of debt character-wise. These people do the things they do but miss an explained motivation. Were Planetary is very slow in revealing it's characters fully, it has a certain thing that makes you curious about them, making every revelation anticipated and welcome. It keeps you wanting to read on. That doesn't happen at all here and curiousness isn't sparked. That's a shame because otherwise it could have been great I think. But still, worthy of 4 outta 5 stars.

In the '70's comic book writers began to add greater depth of characterization and take on adult themes, and for the most part this was a welcome change. Books like Alan Moore's Miracleman and V for Vendetta; Los Bros Hernandez' Love & Rockets; Garth Ennis work on Hellblazer and Preacher; (and so many others) did more than entertain, they actually enriched my life. It was (and still is) a great time to be reading comics.

Yet the attempt to add meaning can become portentious or simply pretentious. Over-complex characterization can result in intermindable soap operas that go nowhere. And sometimes, you just want to "kick it" (in both senses of the phrase). In this sense, Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch's twelve issue run on The Authority (the first 8 of which are reprinted here) represents a breath of fresh air. Yes, it helps to have read Stormwatch, but then it helps to have read Batman before reading JLA. Ellis does introduce interesting ideas & character development; but he does so in a piecemeal fashion the better to keep the emphasis on the action. And for once it's worth it.

People called The Authority, "the JLA (or the Avengers) finally done right," and I have to agree. Ellis & Hitch do it so well! Realistic cinematic art with a touch of grandeur, incredible world-shattering threats, Jenny Sparks "appallingly bad attitude," and a group willing and able to force change on a global scale, not just to neutralize the enemy but to build "a finer world" whatever the vested interests arrayed against them. It's been a wild ride and great fun to boot: the comic book equivalent of a really well made summer blockbuster action movie. Turn off your brain and give it a try. (Again) for once, it's worth it.

Teaching HTML for the past 5 years I have certainly found that there very few really in depth reference manuals, this book does have some really nice features, however at the same time there things that confused me about the book.

One thing I found odd was the 4 pages covering XML/XSL, after reading this I think the author could have left this out of the book and expanded and very good section on severs and server options.

Part III, development of pages with HTML is very good with fairly good coverage of each section. In the next edition they should bring some of the web editors more up to date. One section I found to very well written is Part IV or CSS, the authors seem to have everything covered here.

Part VII - cross browsers, deal with DHTML and JavaScript, I found this section to be okay but certainly more, much more information should have been included. One of the most impressive sections of the book is Appendices A through G, which is by far the best breakdown of attributes, CSS syntax, color and hex conversion I have ever seen.

The cd included is mostly made up of trial version of software and most of the software has newer version available, so this will also need fixing for the next release. Overall, since I don't need the eval software, I found that the book certainly serves a purpose and for those new to the HTML arena this book should be helpful.

This is a great book for an experienced Web developer. The authors take special pains to draw attention to what's new in HTML 4 and to indicate what works in each browser (and browser version). This book is always within reach of my computer. The index is excellent and the explanations and examples are clear and relevant. The appendices are also very helpful in showing what works in which browser.

I've seen many HTML books and this is the best one out there. So many of the books that are sold as HTML 4 books are really just re-packaged HTML 3.2 books. This one was written for HTML 4, which is really a different animal than HTML 3.2 It includes a comprehensive section on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), and Javascript, and how the three work together to make Dynamic HTML.

What I really like about this book is that it is so comprehensive. It discusses issues related to helping Web site visitors navigate around your site in greater depth than any other book I've seen. It really has some great insights. It also has heavy-hitting chapters about CSS and dynamic HTML. This book tackles both advanced issues and the basics in a way that is easy to read and great for future reference. I can't recommend it enough.

The Only Way I Know is a good book. IT tells you alot about Cal Ripken Jr. It talks about him as a child, a baseball legend, and a father. I enjoyed reading this book a hole lot. I recomend this book to any Cal Ripken Jr fan. The book helped me understand what it is like being a profesional athlete

If you are a fan of Cal Ripken Jr., "The Only Way I Know" is the book for you. In this autobiography Cal shares information with us on how he got to where he is today and what it is like being a profesional baseball player. He overcame a lot during his brilliant career as a Baltimore Oriole. In Ripken's illustrious 20 year career with the Baltimore Orioles he broke several records and appeared in several all-star games. This book is 326 pages and took me about three weeks to read. I am a big fan of Cal Ripken Jr. so I really enjoyed this book. Ripken is one of the most recognized profesional athletes ever, so you can only imagine how good this book really is. As you all know Ripken broke the record of consecutive games by playing 2,132 consecutive games; he is known as the iron man. There are also many pictures in the book from different points in Ripken's career. I hope you enjoy this book.

In this book Cal Ripken talks about his career. How he accomplished his consecutive streak of Games played. He talks about being ordinary like every body else. He puts his heart into the game he loves. This is an excellent book, Vibrating that touches the heart. It changed the way I feel about the game of baseball. Now I try my hardest when I step on the diamond. And appreciate being able to be apart of the game.