This is a complete book with color pictures of beatifully prepared dishes. For non-vietnameses, you can find popular dishes like Hanoi soup, crab egg rolls, shrimp rolls, and the 7 courses of beef (with her modifications to adapt with the available ingredients from the supermarkets). For vietnameses, you can find the recipes for common meals like ca kho, canh chua, etc...The only dish missing here is the noodle soup from Hue (bun bo hue).

Nicole Routhier was trained from the Culinary Institute of America, so her intructions are meticulous, elegant and easy to follow. Her instructions are two to three times longer than those found in typical cook books. She is obviously a talent chef who has grown up in vietnam and is familiar with the foods.

However this book was written back in 1985-1989, so the taste is very strong with fish sauce and salt. My recommendation is to buy the book because it is cover all of the basics like techniques and ingredients. Except for the dipping sauce, you have to play around the amount of the fish sauce and salt used in seasoning. I usually cut down the amount called out in the recipes to 1/4 or none at all. If not, you will be intoxicated with fish sauce.

I am Vietnamese and love to eat Vietnamese food. I tried several recipes from this book and they turned out great. I highly recommend this book to whoever wants to learn about Vietnamese cooking. The instructions is very easy to follow. The only disappointment that I have is that there is no "Bu'n bo` Hue^'" recipe in this book.:=(

My mother is a superb Vietnamese cook and I have been able to teach her a thing or two from this book. Notably, the recipe for the Steamed Meatloaf takes a fraction of time than my mother's recipe and tastes just as good (if not better). The recipes are superb and easy-to-follow. If only all cookbooks delivered such consistently delicious results....

It is about time someone took the time to write about one of the most talented and underrated bands out there---silverchair. Any fan will find this book enjoyable and interesting.

This is an excellent book to buy if you like silverchair, Spiderbait or You am i. It has a lot of really great information on all three groups. I love it, and anyone who buys it will, too.

If you're a fan of silverchair, Spiderbait, or You Am I, this book is a must. It's full of information on these three Australian bands as well as many pictures. Overall, Mathieson has done an excellent job on this book!

Years ago, this was the first Titanic book I ever read, and it had an incredible influence on me. End of a Dream is a wonderfully-researched, wonderfully-written account of the aftermath, a fascinating subject given only a few pages in every other Titanic book I know of. However, it does have its flaws. I don't believe that Wade gives too much credit to Senator Smith, but I do think that in promoting his hero's place in history, he neglects some aspects of the story. For example, he pays too little attention to an area of the inquiry that raised many voices in 1912 -the question of whether news of the disaster had been covered up- as well as Philip Franklin, the major figure in that controversy. Franklin played a part in the inquiry almost as great as that of his employer Ismay, but he is a made minor figure in Wade's drama, as well as a rather ridiculous one. (He also gets his first name misspelled.) I don't mean to be over-critical of Wade, whose book was a landmark in Titanic study and remains one of the two best works on the subject today, but I do think that in order to increase the light shining on Smith he may have dimmed those shining on the equally interesting people around him. His book could have also benefited from a more appropriate title and cover blurb.

This book provides an excellent review of the Titanic sinking, with the main focus being the U.S. Senate inquiry into the disaster led by Senator Smith of Michigan. There is general background information on the Titanic itself, passengers, etc, however most of the information presented is based on the Senate inquiry. Actual selected transcripts of witnesses are reproduced, and one gets the flavor of this inquiry (the entire transcript is much too long for one book) and the times it was performed in. This book presents quite a lot of information and background, especially on the times and the social climate in which this disaster took place. The social impact of the disaster is also examined by the Author in some depth. This book is a must have for all who are interested in this subject, however keeping in mind that the main focus is the U.S. Senate inquiry. Readers who are interested in other aspects would enjoy, Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" "The Night Lives On", and Dr Robert Ballard's book on the search for the Titanic. There are also reprints of books written by Titanic surviors also available. Again, an interesting book on the times, social climate, and Senate inquiry that will probably inspire further reading on this subject.

This book concentrates on the US Senate investigation of the Titanic disaster. Mr. Wade promotes, and perhaps inflates, the part played by Senator William Smith in the entire Titanic epic, but his book is a well-researched account of the American reaction to the tragedy. Mr. Wade is a member of the Titanic Historical Society, and this book was produced with the Society's support. A must-have for every student of the Titanic.

SOLDIERS OF GOD: WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND THEIR HOLY WAR FOR AMERICA is an excellent introduction for anyone who would like basic information about the extreme right-wing white racist groups in the U.S. The authors took pains to win the trust of leaders and participants in such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and others holding the fundamental belief that America was created by and for the white race. The corollary to this belief is that their inheritance is currently under attack by a government (usually described by them as Jewish-controlled) bent on subverting white racial purity and true Christian values.

The authors spent a good deal of time attending meetings, rallies, and social events sponsored by the groups under study, as well as conducting extensive interviews with their leaders and reading widely in the printed and online material produced by them. Bushart, Craig, and Barnes do an admirable job of carrying out their intent to present the belief systems and viewpoints of white supremacy adherents as straightforwardly as possible, leaving it up to the reader to judge the credibility of these beliefs. One especially thought-provoking point made by the authors is that there are quite a few issues and concerns raised by the white supremacists which also resonate with more mainstream American citizens. I have met and chatted with Howard Bushart. He is a very thoughtful and articulate man, and I was impressed with his genuine desire to understand his subjects on their terms, to learn from his own research, which is the starting point all good scholarship.

The book is very well written and includes exclusive photos taken in the course of the authors' research. I highly recommend it.

The authors are to be commended for letting their subjects speak for themselves, rather than presenting the reader with an editorial on the evils of white supremacist movements and using selected quotations to back it up. That said, I find the book incredibly frightening: the members of the groups profiled have made the common mistake of confusing "We're sincere" and "We can find Biblical support for our beliefs" with "We're RIGHT." (In fact you can find Biblical justification for just about anything, but that's never stopped anyone.) They resent being lumped together with "racist groups" by the FBI et al., but they themselves lump all sorts of unrelated phenomena together and call it the Satanic plot to take over the world.
These groups may contend that they're not "racist," but according to the maxim attributed to the late Cardinal Cushing: if it walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I say it's a duck.

The authors of the book take a neutral stance on these white supremacists. They present their ideas without actually condoning them. They have a reserved sympathy for these people since the authors live in the rural conservative culture of Texas that breeds this sort of extremism. They also mention that they had repugnance towards some of the ideas presented, but avoided editorial comments as part of their deal with the extremists.

Many racial extremists have the religious theology of an antisemitic variety of Christian Identity. They interpret the scriptures to mean that whites are actually the chosen people and the Jews are the seed of Satan. They believe that the stone of destiny that the monarchs in England swear themselves upon when being enthroned is Jacob's pillar in the Bible because English tradition says so. Not all Identity Christians are anti-semitic though.

The extremists are firm believers in conspiracy theories involving the Jews and their Gentile freemason cohorts. They believe everything is controlled by ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) and that the Jews and freemasons involved shape society to their own benefit and to the detriment of the white population.

The authors do not sanitize their accounts of what the extremists truly believe. They believe in the elimination of homosexuals, Jews, race mixers, and the unproductive. Some of their beliefs on these matters are influenced by their interpretation of the Scriptures. (The more violent, younger and secular Neo-Nazi gangs believe in elimination of the unproductive.) The religious racists see themselves as soldiers of God in a righteous fight against what they see as evil. These religious beliefs make them very committed and sometimes they will attempt violence or lawbreaking to achieve their goals of having a Christian theocracy. They believe they are at war with a corrupt government that needs to be overthrown. However, they think that Timothy McVeigh was actually a government agent that worked to put the blame on racial extremists for OKC bombing and to create an incident to pass an anti-terrorists bill targeted against patriots.

They have problems with the theory of racial equality since they think affirmative action is used to promote people who do not merit the position and that blacks often make formerly all-white neighborhoods crime zones.

The authors do not try to confirm or deny any of the many conspiracy theories that they believe in and I think that this is weakness to the book.

The racial extremists have a battle strategy of leaderless resistance in which they form a small group of no more than seven people who know each other well. This strategy guards against infiltrators because the group remains very quiet about what they plan to do. They plan to have hundreds of these groups who will reek havoc upon what they see as ZOG controlled society as they attempt to implement a revolution.

I view the group as ultra conservatives with unorthodox Christian beliefs that do not want to live in a multi-culti society with race mixing and little adherence to some of the more thorny traditional Christian beliefs. They are unable to get what they want at the voting booth and are willing to use violence to get what they want. They also see through the weaknesses in the theory of racial equality and racial sameness when they observe reality. They are scary, but at the same time, fascinating to read about. Although milder conservatives may have the same complaints as the extremists do, they do not have the same nuances in their beliefs that will lead them to violence. Nuances in belief systems are important.

More people will probably be radicalized enough to join extremist groups in the future if the economy keeps sputtering and more foreigners come to live here making the nation less of a predominately white culture. Resentment will be stirred if non-whites are still considered a protected class as opposed to whites according to the law.

This is an informative and readable book that covers extremists in depth while avoiding the simplicity and distortion that the media usually resorts to when covering extremists.

A _fascinating_ look at power above, below and throughout government agencies during Kennedy's era, and more importantly, the tracing of global power throughout the past centuries.

Drawing together an impressive amount of data gathered through research, Roberts paints a picture of behind-the-scenes power, and conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination. These theories are tied into the rise of the Rothschild family, international banking, and the economics of war.

A VERY mind-opening read. Even if you don't agree with any of it, Especially if you don't agree with it, this book is a must read for insights into the games of power politics and money. This book is to macro world-scope power what _The Prince_ by Nicolo Machiavelli is the national politics.

As another reviewer said, the title is a bit misleading, as this book is far more vast in scope than just the Kennedy assassination. Ever wonder why there are no conspiracy theories about his brother Robert? Maybe the conspirators learned their lesson after the Dallas mess-ups? That would be a _very_ interesting investigation in and of itself.

All of the above is imho, of course.

If you know anything about the books of Daniel and Revelation
from the Bible, all you have to do is read between the lines
of "Kill Zone", and you will be amazed at what you find.

You don't have to look very far.

The clues are clear.

Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Like the author, I am former military man who sensed something very ominous on my first visit to Dealey Plaza in Dallas. It felt to me like an ambush site. Indeed, this is exactly what is was, as vividly depicted in Craig Roberts' excellent book.

If you want to understand what really happened on this blackest day of American history, you simply must read this book. The chances are it will go quickly for you. I ordered the book through Amazon and found it on my door step on a Saturday evening. The following morning at 1:30am, I turned the final page of the narrative with the assurance that I finally understood what really happened on November 22, 1963 and, most importantly, why.

In particular, I was intrigued that the author was led to investigate the facts through his warrior instincts and that his investigation led far beyond the scope of what he originally thought to be an unsolved murder. The trail of this investigation leads beyond the Mafia, the CIA, the FBI, the US military, and all of the usual suspects right up to the small group of extraordinarily powerful men who truly control this world.

To Craig Roberts, Bravo Zulu! The good news is that, in the end, despite the sinister plotting of the terrible forces uncovered in this outstanding work, the good good guys will win and win huge!

This book was not only very interesting to read, but also had many areas which focused on the business values of implementing e-commerce environments. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject of Internet e-commerce. These authors have obviously been involved in some interesting work in this field.

This book is a very well written book, and easy to read, which provides a wide spectrum on many e-commerce initiatives.

The authors have captured many relevant subjects in the Internet commerce world. They have done a great job presenting very interesting topics, and contrasting these topics to many large businesses involved in this area.

The information the authors present on business initiatives required to achieve successful e-commerce environments is very useful. Contrasting the many companies, mergers, and other e-commerce collaborations I found to be very informative.

I would recommend this book to both business executives, and technical executives (and practitioners) interested in e-commerce. This book was well worth the investment and I look forward to future books by these authors: They seem to be very informed on the subject areas and they also seem to have many experiences in this areas, as described in the content of the book.

This book is well written and presents many industrial success stories on E-Commerce. The graphics in the book are excellent, especially business transformation graphics which show the typical models for many companies converging in the E-Commerce market.

I highly suggest to anyone interested in the topic of E-Commerce to purchase this book. Out of all the books on the market today, I find this book to be right at the top with excellent content on the subject. I am a senior business leader in a large global company, and have experienced many situations where the text in this book, maps into the problems which the biggest firms worldwide have experienced during E-Commerce business transformations.

These authors have obviously experienced the work challenges associated with Internet Commerce challenges. It is very clear that they not only are seasoned in this field, but also practitioners in the field, as well.

This book is an excellent study tool for the Remote Access Exam. The sections on ISDN and Frame Relay are well-written, as is the rest of this certification guide.

Oh, and I passed the test on the first try.

I was able to pass the 640-605 test handily using this book as my primary source of study information.

There were a good number of small mistakes, (for example a 2511 router has 16 and not eight asynchronous interfaces) which were mildly annoying. One would hope that it would have been better edited technically. Still, it's better than the other choices out there, some of which I've been very disappointed in.

The text was organized well, and was surprisingly easy to study, especially considering the subject matter. As a Cisco book, it seemed to have a clearer idea of what the test would expect; I noticed no major oversights as I took the test.

Overall, very good, with some improvements possible.

I worked (hard) on this book for 3 weeks (without doing the labs), and I passed the #640-505 today with a 808 (703 required). To be clear I will just enumerate the good and bad points; here are the good ones:
1. It covers very well the exam (except for the chapter about Win95! there were questions in the exam, but hopefully very easy), and some questions in the CD were in the real exam
2. Short and clear
3. Only a very very few mistakes (actually I found only a couple of them, mostly on the CD, which decided me not to buy any book whom reviewers say it is full of mistakes)
4. Feeling to learn something, not just working for an exam (just a feeling, not a proof it is a good book !)

The bad ones:
1. The test exams on CD do not respect the format of the exam; when it is about IOS commands, you have to choose within a list of 40 or more commands, not just 4 as usual. Actually, I found it more difficult to choose within 4 commands than 40, because the 40 ones are mostly all different one from another. But he could have told me what was the exam format!
2. It covers the exam, but the study is not in depth; too often I had questions on topics I had seen, but "ah, just on this case, what happen ?"
3. Consequence of the (2): I will not keep this book; I've taken my little notes, now I can sell it. The advantage of this book is also the disadvantage: it is designed to make you pass the exam, no more. But it is in the informal contract from the beginning.

If you want to pass the exam learning things, buy this book. It is really more than enought, and a pleasure to read.

As part of the AP Bio program, I feel that a lot of information must be crammed into a student's head. Purves et al meticulously explain each process, allowing for easier memorization and, more importantly, understanding of the complex processes. Some chapters, however, are still extraordinarily difficult to master. For example, chapters 14 and 15 were practically impossible (snrps anyone?) Other than that, this book is flawless. The pictures and the explanations that accompany them are very useful. I would recommend this book to those that are considering an AP biology course or even a college course (Did you know Harvard uses this book? That made us high school students feel smart!) Enjoy everybody!

As an 11th grade victim of AP Biology, I have found some solace in this textbook. It is well-written and illustrated, and it is usually clear and informative. Aside from the occasional chapters that threw me for a loop (For example: Chapter 14 - The Eukaryotic Genome and its Expression. Huh?) the book is very good and I would recommend it to future AP Bio students.

I have reviewed Campbell, Curtis& Barnes, and other fine textbooks in biology, as a teacher and a scientist, I find Purves, etal; Life , A Science of Biology as the best textbook on the market. His clear explanation of the concepts with bright, colorful pictures have helped my students to understand biological concepts for the AP Bio exam as well as preparing them for college. The questions after each and every chapter plainly incorporate the chapter's lessons as well as inclusion of the continuity of life that is important in all biology teaching. His book had already included the new domain designations and included the reasons as why they were being changed. ( As this was the infamous #3 question on the AP Bio exam.) As a trained molecular biologist, I am finally satisfied in the explanation of the molecular process of life. Again his use of good solid pictures help to re-enforce a difficult concept. I also know that MIT uses this book as well as Harvard, I urge every biology teacher professor to at least have this in their personal library.

If you have a little programming experience, this is an excellent source to get started with ASP. Objects, methods and properties are clearly and concisely explained, and their use is well illustrated with (very) short snippets of code. You can quickly find out just about anything you need to know about ASP-- which is exactly what a reference should provide.

Each of the chapters is well-organized and easy to navigate. The appendices are also very useful.

I judge my programming books by how often I resort to them, and I use this one all the time because the answers I need are always there.

I would have given the book five stars if the index had been a little more friendly to non-ASP programmers. Though the index has entries for all ASP objects, it's not very useful unless you already know the name of the object you are looking for.

For example, try looking up "array" in the index, as you might naturally do, coming from any other programming language. It's not there. A simple note in the index like "see dimensions" would be helpful.

Bottom Line: This book has all the info you need to write just about any ASP program you'd ever need to write, and it's well worth the money.

This is no book for people who want to learn ASP. They should first read some other book, but after that, they need this book. This is the most complete ASP reference I have seen, loads of components are documented in a way people can understand and there is lots of functional sample code. All code is done in both VBscript and Jscript. Pittfalls, do's and don't are very clearly noted in the text and pages about win-nt configuration have screenshots. Yes, this book has made my life a lot easier. The only reason I am not giving it 5 stars is the fact there's no 2 small chapters on VBscript and Jscript, so I still need to pick up the beginnersbook. Like all wrox-books no paper is wasted, and every page (1200+) is filled with small fonts and margins as small as the printer would allow, which makes the pagecount even more impressive.

As an intermediate ASP programmer many times you need to find reference for how to do something in a hurry. Well this book is the answer. Concise clear well organized. Good reference coverage of XML to the end. I've had it for a couple months and it has proven invaluable to me and my team for reference. This book is not designed to teach you to code elegantly and efficiently, but even if you are a seasoned ASP programmer.. don't pass this one up. Definitely a good buy for your reference shelf.

One of my Unix lab professors once said that Unix was so vast that one lifetime is not enough to really get to master all aspects of it. After reading several Unix/Linux books, this operating system still remained somewhat of a mystery.

Thanks to the authors of this book, I can really say that I'm well on my way to a decent level of proficiency. No question, this book is of the highest quality. The material is presented and explained in such a way, you get a sense that the authors truly possess a profound understanding of the SA and Linux fields. The book tries to be distribution neutral by covering Redhat linux (vesion 6 to 7) and dishing out to other distributions (especially Debian) when things are done differently.

Unlike other books that are recipe oriented or adaptations of technical documents, this is a true SA book because it helps you gain control of your Linux system.

This is the perfect book for someone who has a general understanding of Linux, but wants to know more about config files, the boot process and needs answers to questions that the sys-admin type of person has. This is definitely for someone who wants to know the core of Linux and how to do tasks in a more 'UNIX' kind of way. So when you boot up a company server, and discover that there's no X installed, you can accomplish what you need via the command-prompt.

What I don't like about typical 'bible' or 'unlimited' types of Linux books is that they cover system configuration via the KDE or Gnome - which is totally useless if you're using one but not the other - or if you're not using either at all.

This is an excellent book. It's well-written, so it's easy to follow for someone fairly new to Linux, but it's not patronizing. Best of all, it doesn't spend time on creating web pages, playing games or editing images - instead it focuses on what you'll really need, like compiling the kernel, troubleshooting a boot problem, user management, package installation and management, etc.

I have been working with Linux for about 2 years now and have a number of books on Linux administration. I have had this book for a couple of weeks now and I'm totally impressed with it. There are so many explanations of commands which are so clear and concise I'm envious of the new users who will cut their teeth with this book. The sections on scripting seem to have a lot of information on scripting that I've actually used and had to dig out of man or books on scripting. It's just not fair:-). I can hear new users saying "Learning Linux just wasn't that hard". But hey there was a lot of information in here that was useful to me also. Using tar to archive files remotely, cpio, explanations on getty, mgetty, serial port communication along with the basics. Well enough said "This is just a good book". Did I mention the discussion of xinetd?