Primero que nada el libro no es malo, es bueno, pero creo que el titulo no hace justa referencia al contenido. Compre este libro con la idea de adquirir una herramienta oriendada al desarrollo y configuracion de firewalls, pero me encontre con un buen tratado general sobre seguridad, un analisis sobre diferentes sistemas y su seguridad, problemas con hackers pero no puede hallar en ningun lado como cuales son las reglas de filtraje para un servidor DNS o SMTP.
Asi que estimado amigo, este es mi consejo para ti. Este no es un libro tecnico profundo y concreto sobre configuracion de firewalls, es un libro mas bien general sobre seguridad en internet, analiza numerosos productos, analiza numerosos sistemas operativos y brinda algunas herramientas de proteccion sobre los sistemas operativos descritos, menciona normas de seguridad y da algunos parametros sobre recuperacion de sistemas comprometidos.
Deseas tener en tus manos un fascinante libro que te abra los ojos a el mundo de la seguridad en Internet? este es el libro que buscas. Deseas tener en tus manos una herramienta de configuracion de un verdadero firewall?, Uhmm !, mejor compra Building Internet Firewalls.
Espero que mi consejo te sirva. Saludos.
Piyux.

This book does not only teach you about firewalls - it also teaches you the details of network security, hackers etc.. It helps you set up your own firewall from really small (DOS!) to huge networks. It has excellent case studies where the author gives accounts of his own real life experiences. It shows you how to set up and use the most popular firewalls around, and gives you excellent security tips. This book is not about theory, but it is about real life. If you are a systems admin who is concenerned about secuirty but do not know where to start from, then buy this book. NOW!. Jeremy Pullicino Malta

I'm an admin. and needed to get up to speed on firewalls fast. This is a great introductory book. Follow this up with "Building internet firewalls" by Zwicky, (make sure to get the second edition). Couple that with some work and you will know as much about firewalls as any expert.

I didn't like this book. The stories were too short, lacking in detail and just plain boring in my opinion. I struggled to stay interested and gave up half-way through.

A tome of meaningful "temp-isodes" from a woman who has truly bridged the gap between the worker and management in Beverly Hills, California. A work life fully lived! What's next for this author?

I have not read this book yet, but I recently had Ms. Perkins as a substitute teacher. I am a high school student in an Honors English class, that had the pleasure of meeting her. She sat down, and discussed with a few other students and I about temp jobs, and TV/Radio appearances she made. I just want to say that I think that she's an awesome woman, and I look forward to reading her book.

I was very dissapointed by this book. When I bought it I was expecting the book to teach me how to implement shamanic teachings, how to heal, how to dream, how to direct our dreams, how we can change our dream, but instead I read pages and pages of discriptive text. Talks only about Mr. Perkin's travels. It doesn't even give in-depth examples of how people were healed.

John Perkins' book, THE WORLD IS AS YOU DREAM IT is one of those rare books that tells a riveting story at the same time as it provides deep insights into what makes us who we are and the world what it is. I was so riveted to this book that I couldn't put it down for a second until I finished reading it.

The big idea in THE WORLD IS AS YOU DREAM IT is outlined by shamans in Ecuador who describe to Perkins the difference between living one's fantasies and living one's dream -- and how this difference has enormous personal and global repercussions. Healing involves changing one's dream; replacing a dream of illness with one of health. As one shaman tells Perkins, "I don't heal. I simply help them change their dream."

Perkins has been bringing people to learn from native shamans for many years -- living true to a desire he had since childhood to see indigenous peoples teach westerners their ways, and in so doing, change the course of history. Shamans have a strong need to change things, and Perkins does a fabulous job of describing some of his experiences visiting native shamans in Ecuador who demonstrate their healing and psychonavigation skills. A doctor who was part of Perkins' group was certain she died after ingesting ayahuasca (also known as "vine of the soul", or "vine of death") -- and she was also certain that a Shuar shaman brought her back to a healthy body by sucking the toxins from her and vomiting them nearby.

What impresses me most about THE WORLD IS AS YOU DREAM IT is the way Perkins illuminates the big picture of what humans are doing on Earth at the same time as he shares moving personal accounts of people who come to the Amazon and Andes to receive healings and gain vision in their lives. We are all interconnected, and dreaming this dream together... and we change this world by changing our perceptions. Dream change is an essential skill that everyone concerned with the future of humans on Earth has a vested interest in, and that we all can learn.

If you are ready to journey to a place where "what we dream, happens", this is the book for you!

I dreamed a new world as a result of this book by John Perkins, as well as "Shapeshifting" by him. I have become a new person -- happier and much more fulfilled. I can't wait to read his new book "Spirit of the Shuar" which has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His true stories are magnificent teachers!

If you like puzzles, you'll be intrigued to see all the puzzles in this book. But if you like puzzles you will have met them all before. Only one or two were not familiar oldies. More serious are the outright mistakes. The writer coins a buzz word, "Klondike" for his theories and that word is scattered liberally throughout the book. Every time I read it I was reminded that when he introduces it, on page 46, he informs that the Klondike is in the Yukon Territory (correct) and the Yukon is in Alaska (wrong). On page 175 he tells us that ash is a compound of charcoal and oxygen. A man who claims so many fancy degrees ought not to be making High School mistakes, and his publisher ought to have cared enough about the book to hire a competent copy editor.

Excellent book by David N. Perkins who explores "breakthrough" thinking. The author reflects a "need to understand" demeanor that is profoundly the essence of real learning. Archimedes'Bathtub expresses the contemporary motivation of the intelligent person's need to understand. Don't put the book away until you really make a "connection" to what the author is saying. He is brilliant. When does one know the moment, they cross the invisible line of "affluence" to "opulence"?

...Rob Harriman, Ed.D.

This book itself is a breakthrough. I have yet to read a book on creativity that so effectively combines real-world advice on how to achieve breakthrough thinking in such an engaging and clearly presented way. As a book which is targeted toward the business person, rather than the academic, it does an excellent job of focusing on the key points and practical applications of breakthrough thinking without getting bogged down into too much detail.

The authors start out by drawing you in with simple and compelling points on creativity and problem solving along with simple exercises to illustrate each point. They then build from there to elaborate and drive home both the techniques and the rationale behind those techniques in a way that continues to be engaging.

As with any book of this sort, 50% is stuff you already know (but may not be practicing). However, I'll bet the other 50% will really make you to think about ways to improve your personal and your company's ability to achieve breakthrough thinking.

The first reviewer was right. This bok was far too easy to relate to. Because it could easily happen. And it did happen to me. I didn't like this book because it struck too close to home and it hurt me to read it. But that's just me. You might like it.

All Alone in the Universe was a book almost everyone could relate to because it could really happen. It is a realistic fiction story about a girl who loses her best friend to another best. When Debbie, the friendless girl, is left in the dust, she realizes how lucky she was to have friends. It is about how she has to start over and finds out ther ARE other peole who care about her. While she is going through this, Debbie feel all alone in the universe, hence the title. I would recommend this book to kids who are having troubles. It really helps people realize how lucky they really are and realize that it isn't the end of the world have an obstacle gets in the way. It shows how to overcome that obstacle, even if it's not easy. It was a good book and once I started I couldn't stop. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone, because it was an easy read. To find out the end of this book, read it for yourself.

There's not a whole lot that happens in this book--it's basically an account of how one girl gets dumped by her best friend and then gets over the heartbreak of being cast aside.

But the book is an amazing little gem, both funny and sad and full of casual profound moments that the narrator comes upon in really natural ways. The prose is sharp and funny and nicely complemented by the author's hilarious pictures.

The best compliment I can pay to the work is to say that I wish I'd read this book when *I* was thirteen and coping with the painful fact that my best friend and I had grown apart. It would have made a world of difference to me. A great book. Enough said.

Perkins had some interesting ideas here. Hoare is a potentially intriguing character: nearly muted by a spent musket ball and constantly having to fight over insults to his surname, he could be something different. And the setting, early 19th century British aquatic, while hardly untrodden, is a good one. The female lead character is refreshingly robust in several senses.

However, this book reads like a rough draft. The plot is that of a mystery, and rather than letting the reader discover the characters and events for him/herself, Perkins lets everything out fast in a rush of exposition. Nothing here unfolds slowly. Scenes which should be dramatic, such as the explosion of a frigate, are so rushed that the reader feels deprived of the opportunity to participate. The author badly needs to learn to "show" rather than "tell". The book has a slight, inconsequential feel, so despite occasional nice touches like Hoare's ship, which the hero gives a different name in every chapter, I cannot recommend it.

There is something about the expanse of the Napoleonic Wars that invites a series; whether it is Bernard Cornwell's wonderful Richard Sharpe or Patrick O'Brian's finely crafted tales of adventures on the high seas.The canvas is too vast to limit to one book, unless it is War and Peace!

HOARE AND THE PORTSMOUTH ATROCITIES marks the beginning of a promising new series by Wilder Perkins. Naval Lieutenant Bartholomew Hoare, reluctantly sentenced to shore duty due to an incapacitating injury, finds himself emeshed first in the murder of a Naval Captain, which leads to even darker deeds of sabotage and espionage which cost the British Navy hundreds of lives. Hoare is drawn deeper into danger -- more danger than he had faced in battle, but he perseveres, and wins the day despite his handicap.

The mystery facing Hoare is intriguing enough, but I found the characters even more involving. Hoare is a wonderful hero; not perfect, but so human,and so vulnerable, that he is utterly charming. He loses his heart early in the novel to the equally charming Eleanor Graves, who is not beautiful,but intelligent and resourceful. I can see a fruitful partnership of hearts and minds in the future.

HOARE AND THE PORTSMOUTH ATROCITIES moves along briskly, wrapping up several mysteries in just over two hundred pages, but the flavor and charm linger in the readers' mind much longer. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

As a British naval officer in the Napoleonic War, an assignment on shore is like exile. Mr. Bartholomew Hoare is permanently in that state at the beginning of "Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities," when a spent musket ball took away his voice, and an officer incapable of shouting orders is of no use to the Royal Navy. So the naval lieutenant is given work as an assistant to the port admiral of Portsmouth. Hoare has few compensations for his lonely life. His reduced responsibilities may introduce a discordant note to the reader. We have here a maritime mystery that never sails beyond sight of England. "Hoare" wends its way through the story like a ship sailing amid contrary winds, as the lieutenant encounters a woman being set upon by two ruffians on a beach, a mysterious clockwork device found in a small barrel on shore, and at one point investigates the murder of a captain on board his own ship. There's quite a lot happening, and author Wilder Perkins crams into little more than 200 pages no less that three possible life-changing events for Mr. Hoare. The story adheres close to the conventions of the mystery genre, especially at the climax, and it seems that the operations of the conspiracy at the heart of the matter is too complex for its own good. But Perkins has a fine grasp of the Napoleonic era, with its jolly tars, its devotion to a just cause and its officers at home more on board their quarterdeck than on land. One only wishes that Perkins gave us more time to enjoy the experience.

This book is part of a GREAT series and has some nice effects, however the tutorials are so specific that I found a hard time using the book for anything besides just following the tutorials step by step. I say spend you money on Photoshop 5 Type Magic instead.

The book shows how to create a number of files, each of which is helpfully provided in part on the comprehensive CD. While the ideas are certainly original, the format, layout and writing of the book let it down substantially, and are points that need to be fixed in later editions, if there are to be any. Partly, it is the awkward prose, but more of a problem is the lack of description about exatly what each stage does and why it is implemented. Instead, while there is plenty of "wow-factor" in getting to the end of each project, much of the journey there remains opaque, and I question how useful the book is in the long term. In addition, the taste of some of the projects is decidedly questionable. Incidentally, I didn't find it foolproof at all; at least one project does not work if you follow the instructions eaxctly as written. Verdict--showed great potential, but careless and clumsy writing and overproduction (why the black page edges?) has seriously limited the impact of this overpriced book. Shame.

Do you have a need to create really outstanding graphics? I mean really outstanding. If you do, Photoshop Magic will go a long way toward helping you achieve your goal. This visually-rich book takes the reader through each aspect of truly great design. Learn about changing day to night, creating a fantasy image, using light to set the mood, changing the weather, simulating stained glass or water reflection and much more.

Of particular interest to many is the section on photographic restoration. Now, at last, you can scan in all those old photos or great-grandma and great-grampa on their wedding day and bring them back in full glory, even colorize them. There's also information on how to restore a photo.

The book is well organized and offers step-by-step, full color examples. It's also chock-full of good ideas-a great starting point for that new fantasy graphic or vignette you need to create.

While I wouldn't recommend this book for the beginner, Photoshop Magic is a great tool for those already familiar with Adobe Photoshop and design basics.

Mr. Perkins is obviously very experienced, not to mention talented and he imparts that knowledge in an easy-to-follow manner. He'll have you producing fantastic images in no time at all.

Forget all that: how do I get my hands on the image on the cover?

This book may be an easy read, but at over (...)for just over 100 pages it isn't cheap. As an example of an e-book it drives home the lesson that books need to be edited by real editors: "Cheap and Easy" contains numerous simple errors that would have been corrected by a copy editor. For someone who doesn't know anything about the subject, though, this is a reasonably good introduction, with rather less of the inevitable repetitive empty hype than some of the other how-to books in this field. (But that doesn't mean it doesn't have any meaningless hype. For example: "Right now there is an engineer from Bangalore, India, an architect from Malta, a nurse from Hong Kong, a construction worker from Sweden, an automobile worker from Germany, a homemaker from Salt Lake City, and a school teacher from Italy, who want to read your e-book! Act now and feed the world with your creativity and mark the world with your brilliance!") The general lessons about such things as selling from your own web site are useful. Readers should, though, be prepared for information in the book to become obsolescent; this is a rapidly-changing subject. For example, anyone following the advice in Chapter Three, "How to Publish Your E-book in One Day", will find difficulty registering with the one recommended publishing site, (...), which closed on January 12th 2002. On the next page you might notice that mightywords.com is mentioned as belonging to the parent company Fatbrain.com, but if you go to (...)you will find that it now belongs to (...) and has this discouraging little note at the bottom of its Publisher Information Center page: "We no longer post self-published digital content on our web site." It would have been helpful if the author's commitment to the World Wide Web as a publishing medium had led him to post amendments to the book on a web site, but if you follow the link on the back of the book listed under "Contact Information", (...), you reach (end-January 2002) a temporary page with no information, just a link to another address where you find an advertisement for a two-hour (...)teleseminar.

Cheap and Easy is packed with quick and dirty tips and pointers. It provides a good starting point for those of us who have written a book, but are clueless how to begin self-publishing. It's a small book, but worth the money. I wish Wayne Perkins would write a more in-depth sequel. Those who buy this book might want to make their next purchase: "How to Publish and Promote Online" by M J Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy, which goes into more depth and contains articles by many successful self-publishers.

The organization of this book makes it very easy to read and understand. The author knows his subject and shares all with an enthusiasm that is contageous. With a sprinkle of humor Wayne guides and encourages you to do what might have been considered - just too hard.

Tales from Shakespeare was one of the few books that attracted me by its title. I've heard a lot about William Shakespeare, however, I never really got to listen or read his stories. I think they're really special because everyone knows who he is and they say his stories are wonderful.
In this book, there are many, many stories, so I decided to read two of them I was interested in: ¡¥The Tempest¡¦ and ¡¥A Midsummer Night's Dream¡¦. But I'll only tell you about The Tempest.
The Tempest was the first story of the book. It was about a man and his daughter, Miranda, a young girl living on an island with spirits, and no other humans. However, before they decided to side there, there lived before them, a witch name Sycorax. She prisoned all the good spirits, including the leader, Ariel. When Miranda's father decided to side on the island, he defeated Sycorax, and Ariel, as the head of all good spirits promised to serve Miranda's father in any way he can.
As Miranda grew older, she became more beautiful. Her father thought that it was time for her to get married. He sent Ariel to carry Fernando, a prince to marry his daughter. At first, he was so angry at Miranda's father for doing such a thing, but once he saw Miranda, he decided to marry her. As they were getting married, Miranda's father had some revenge on his brother.
What I like about this book is that, Shakespeare has a lot of good ideas.
What I dislike about this book, is that, his stories are too confusing for me to understand. And every time I finish a story, I don't see the point of it.
But I really enjoy reading his stories though.

I read this book as a child; my mother gave it to me and my brother before we went to see the plays. It was an excellent introduction to the plays and to the world of Shakespeare, and helped me understand what I was watching. I also enjoyed reading the stories themselves, and familiarized myself with Shakespeare this way. It made a huge difference, as became quite clear to me when we read Henry IV in ninth grade in school, a play for which I had no Lamb version. I didn't understand that play and took no pleasure in it, whereas I did enjoy much harder plays (e.g., Othello, A Winter's Tale, etc.) that I had the Lambs' help with. Depending on reading level, the Lambs' book would be appropriate for anyone from seven or eight to 13 or 14 years old.

I read this book as a child of eight (back in 1970). It was a gift from my scientist father (an avid Shakespeare fan) as an introduction to Shakespeare.

The book served its purpose very well and I have now given it to my sons aged 7 and 9 who have found it extremely enjoyable. The best part of this book is the way it weaves a rich tapestry in layman's language without the confusing and often ambiguous old English of the original transcripts.

Lamb's Tales makes an excellent primer for those going to see the plays in traditional old English. The book allows all the complex plot elements and characters to be understood and spotted in the live play. The prose format allows the reader to conjure up the images and situations more readily than if struggling with the poetry.

I heartily recommend this book to all ages.

I am doing a term paper on cults for a sociology class. I picked this topic because I have always found cults, their members, and their leaders particularly interesting. I bought this book to help me in my research, but didn't read far before knowing it wasn't going to be what I had hoped.

The book is not very maturely written, with a little too much tongue-in-cheek wit for its own good. Aware of its own stability among the seemingly lost sanity of the cult, the writers become presumptuous- even boring.

The biggest problem I had with the book is that it is more of a review of cults and sects in general... while it is certainly helpful to offer insight through comparison to other cults/sects, the comparisons in this book overtook it. For every piece of Heaven's Gate information, there were five facts about cults in general-- information that is certainly good to know, but should be in a book titled, "Cults," not a book claiming to be about a specific incident.

The book handles the history of the leaders, but gives little insight into their emotional stances or those of the members. After reading the book, I am slightly more knowledgable about cults in general, fairly well-versed in tidbits about other cults, somewhat aware of what happened in Heaven's Gate, and accutely aware of where the cult's leader went to school and the general idea of hysteria over armaggedon.

Read this book for a little more info on Heaven's Gate. Don't read it expecting insight on the specifics of the cult itself.

This book expored all that was evident in the the tragedy of Heaven's Gate and i found it to be very descriptive in that it explored the subject to a rather deep extent. I enjoyed it and found it quite interesting.

Suicide cults! Apple sauce! Sexless androgenoids! Sure there are satanic cults, drug cults, Ufo cults, Christ cults, Hip hop cults, beenie-baby cults, Ebay cults, and even tupperware cults, but none come close to the inspired zaniness of Doe's Heaven's Gate cult.

I've been an observer of cults for most of my adult life and I must admit that I've got a soft-spot in me for all of them. Many books are written in the aftermaths of these cults and most are a boring lethargic read. Victims families are trotted out for the dog & pony show and stoic lawmen denounce the "crimes". NOT IN THIS BOOK!

Here, Forrest Jackson and Rodney Perkins become entrenched in the genesis of the Heaven's Gate cult as well as interpreting the parallels with other cults and pull back the veil on our own cult dominated society, exposing our fetishes for some cults and our poison hatred of others. Not only is this book a fun read because of the scalpel-altered DOE and his suicide-prone squad of comet pilots, but this book takes it's subject matter seriously, and never in a Bugliosi tone of superiority. The closest equivalent that I can think of to this book in terms of cult research is MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION by Dr. Jacques Vallee.

COSMIC SUICIDE is one of the best books written about the Heaven's Gate cult, hands down and it's written from the desk of someone who did the leg work and circumvented all the idiot editorializing that this book would have been subjected to had it been published by a major publishing house. To put it simply... if cults are your thing... especially the Heaven's Gate cult.... then BUY THIS BOOK!