Save your money and your time. I recommend leaving this potshot at the Native American non-fiction genre in the pile of unread books next to the rest of the myth-and-legend creation stories written and edited by "white" authors where it belongs. The problem is not Fuller's overambitious and sometimes nonsensical prose, the lack of basic evidence to support much of what he deems factual within the text itself, or the fact that Fuller himself presents fuzzy portrait of the man he is trying to recognize. The words of Yellowhorse himself are absent from this book; in that emptiness, there is little left that furthers the recognition of the integrity of Native Peoples in history, aside from that which has been outlined being of great importance in conventional, non-Native society.

Through Fuller's careful research and beautifully written poetry, we get a unique, intriguing, and entertaining biography on the life of Mose Yellowhorse. As a proud member of the Pawnee Nation, I highly commend Fuller for his dedication to see this work to its completion. For without him, Mose's story would have remained untold and what a shame that would have been for Native American history, Native American sports history, the Pawnee Nation and for Mose Yellowhorse himself.

...1) This book is about the first full-blood American Indian to play baseball in the major leagues. That he accomplished such a difficult thing in an era when not even African Americans were allowed to play in the majors, is something that all American Indians should be proud of (not just the Pawnee). 2) From this book, Non-Native society learns that Indians DO exist, not just in the historical sense but in contemporary, everyday existence. Non-Native society learns that Indians CAN accomplish great things, such as, playing major league baseball. 3) It could be that Yellowhorse's own words are absent from this book because he passed away nearly 40 years ago and also, it states very clearly in the book that Yellowhorse left no journals or other writings behind. (Possible explanation for that "emptiness," I don't know).

What the author has done in this work is bring together varied perspectives--from Native to non-Native--in order to tell the life story of a neglected, yet historical, Indian ballplayer. (I had never really heard of Mose YellowHorse before reading the book.) That someone has finally taken up this task is admirable, and the author does it with as much research, creativity, and passion as can be mustered. For that, I think he is to be thanked. As a baseball fan, I was intrigued to read about such accounts involving Ruth, Cobb, etc. To include well-written and balanced poems alongside cartoons, tape transcripts, and letters is quite a feat. I first became interested in reading this book after reading consecutive strong reviews in Booklist and the Native American Times.

I spent quite some time mark down the errata and tried to get the code to work. It turned out that the original code was working after cleaned up some typos, while the one in the errata did not work at all. The Clock example in page 29 is one.
The jokes example in Chapter 2 got another problem. Something is missing and code did not work. No errata for this one on support site. May be the other review is right - this book is not for beginners.

This book is divided between accounts of ASP.NET and databases, and their integration with Flash movies. First of all, this is not a book for beginners. You need a reasonable amount of IT under your belt to take advantage of the content. In short you need to know something about programming to pick up the threads in the text.

I found the examples interesting and the last two case studies are quite well elaborated. I found PenPad particularly interesting. The code is downloadable from the authors' website and that makes up forthe lack of a CD (just about).

Throughout the book the authors use C# as the server scripting lanaguage which surprised me. You won't learn C# from thisbook and I suspect that without some background reading, the scripts will seem meaningless.

The database examples (using pubs2) are fairly standard, but again there is the unwritten assumption that you know something about these artefacts anyway. If you don't have a few undergrad CS course under your belt, the two chapters on databases will lose your interest very quickly. The flash elemetns are really introduced to illustrate principles (which I was happy with) rather than develop red hot applications.

Overall, I was pleased with the book. It fills a gap between the traditional programmer and the web designer. The examples are good and reasonably developed.

If I have any reservations, it is that the authors rarely take the time to develop a design before presenting code snippets. Personally I dislike this approach intensely. I find many students unable to decouple their designs from pieces of code and it encourages bad software engineering practices. there is no excuse in a data processing textbook for not throwing up half a dozen flow charts to give a flavour of the control logic. That point being made, I would certainly recommend this book to any reasonably experienced programmer, but not to a beginner.

This book is a great reference for both server side coders and the more flash orientated.

I used this book while migrating our site from classic asp to ASP.Net and didn't have a clue about flash design. This book shows you everything from interacting with web services using flash to using flash to make online drawing apps!!

I would recommend this book to anybody wanting to learn either of these technologies!

99% of the tips are one liners, many are 5 words or less. Things like 'learn to waltz' or 'share your fantasies' are very common. It's definitely valuable to just read through casually and see if anything stands out, but most of it is so pedestrian as to be completely silly.

We spent three entire meals when we first got the book sitting around the table with our 12 year old son, reading the various tips aloud to each other. At one point we were laughing so hard at the thought that these were "helpful tips" that my son snorted milk out his nose! C'mon, tips to share your umbrella when it's raining? What, you're going to let your girlfriend or boyfriend get soaking while you huddle under your own? Tips to let your lover in when he's locked outside?? Yikes :)

At least 20% of the tips seemed to do with speaking in a "romantic" French accent, giving breakfast in bed, giving flowers or saving flowers, and love notes. We decided that if you gave your true love a breakfast in bed with a rose on the tray, a love note by the rose, and spoke to her in a French accent that it would just overwhelm her and she'd faint dead away :)

A fun book to have around, but not terribly helpful for practical advice.

I read this book after my girlfriend gave it to me and I really liked it. I found lots of useful tips for both men and women. My girlfriend and i have been together for a long time, but we have never really done anything fun or thoughtful just because we wanted to. I used to give her flowers on valentines day and a present at christmas and on her birthday, but that was it. Now thanks to this great book, I have surprised her with home cooked meals, strawberries and champagne in bed, I go out and buy her lingerie, take her on overnight picnics on the beach and she really liked it when I filled our bedroom with "I LOVE YOU" ballons and roses. Because I'm more loving and romantic, she's more loving and romantic, for a guy, it doesn't come natural. This is a great book and it offers good advise for everyone.

This book is amazing...coming up with 2002 ways is not easy. It's an entertaining read and even more entertaining when you bookmark interesting ideas to surprise your love ones. Must have the 2002 Romantic Ideas, the friend I bought this for loved it! What a way to re-light the fire!

Do not buy this book! The subject is hashish oil, and thats fine. And you could problaby produce some fine oil you read this book. But it seems the writer has read "Cannabis alchemy.." By D. Gold, and then made into a cartoon. There is so little information in the book, and insted the writer has filled the book with pictures of a mad sicentist.

If you want to make hashish oil then buy "cannabis alchemy". Here you will find many details and a lot les junk!

This book and D Gold's "Cannabis Alchemy" describe basically the same proccesses, but "Cannabis Alchemy" has better illustrations, more information, and more lucid prose.

There are many people who have been very critical of this book. This is completely undeserved. This book deals with the process of turning regular everyday herb into both hash oil and hashish with cartoons and easy to understand 'baby' directions.

The method described in this book really works! It can help you take any plain Mary Jane (both high grade sativa and low grade kack) and create some very potent hash oil and hash (increasing in potency by 6 to 12 times on the Adam scale from what you started with).

...Dr. Atomic has a really useful and easy to follow cartoon drawing which uses kitchen utensils like a wok and soup pot... I would like to point out however that this book only deals with part of the process described in Cannabis Alchemy. It covers the chapters on making hash oil that is either (a) a crude extract or (b) a purified isomerized extract. From this you can also make hash - Dr. atomic breaks Gold's seven recipes down to four simple ones). Dr. Atomic does not bother describing the acetate process mentioned in Cannabis Alchemy. This is a disappointment but understandable... For some really incredible smoke expect about 25-30 hours of pretty well continuous work. The benefits are the increase in potency, far less toxins ingested and some incredible bragging rights :)

I was a little disappointed in both the images and text. The author/photographer could have done more with the landscapes he had to work with.

There seems to be little content here. Some nice images, but I didn't learn any how-to from the techniques. This is another guide to lucky dice-rolls with infrared.

Damiano has done an exceptional job in completely focusing in on the photography techniques at hand. Formal and complete descriptions make this a wonderful experience for any photographer.

Only 27 pages devoted to actual RMNP destinations and the rest a basic beginners guide to flyfishing. Better than nothing, but I recommend stopping by the Estes Angler for some real advice.

This book provides a basic introduction to fly fishing in Rocky Mountain National Park, but left me wanting for a lot more. The focus is on lake fishing, with little emphasis on the beautiful little streams throughout the park. The information on hatches and flies is sparse, something I'd expect a lot of information about from a book targeted at such a specific area. There's a lot devoted to casting, knot tying and general fly fishing technique that I found of little use, but that's not uncommon in this type of book. All in all, if you'd like to get started in RMNP, this is a decent way to go, but realize going in that there is a lot missing here.

This book is a phenomenal find. I live just 25 miles south of Rocky Mountain National Park. Each year, for the past three years, I sit down with my fishing buddies, we open up Fly Fishing Rocky Mountain National Park: An Angler's Guidebook, and plan approximately eight trips to the "park" using this book as our guide. So far the trips have been fantastic. Every year the question is raised "How can we go to another spot when the last trip was so great?" The guidebooks advice never fails us, have faith, read the book and GO! I have caught Colorado River cut throat, green back cut throat, rainbow, brown trout and brookies. The book is well written and will serve as a guide for anglers wanting easy, moderate and difficult hikes. A must buy for someone who doesn't know the area. I am looking for a recommendation for Yellowstone.

The book has wit, and some useful info, but in an attempt to make it too cool it is virtually impossible to really find what you are looking for, and harder even to look for stuff you don't already know it exists. Skip the book, get a reverent guide that will give you more info.

Having lived in Boston now for 2-1/2 years, I was looking for a guide that could provide both insights on what I've been missing and good perspectives on what touristy spots would be best for out-of-town friends.

While it's refreshing to read both pros and frank cons of various venues, I felt the Frommer's Irreverent content wasn't as broad as I'd expect from guides built up over several years: my favorite sushi joint, Jae's Cafe, was mentioned six times in 20 pages as a great spot for Terminally Hip, Vegging Out, Global Harmony, Same-Sex, Thai, and After-Hours dining experiences. Additionally, I felt it lacked the benefit of a local editor (the John Hancock tower is referenced not as being on the well-known Clarendon Street, but rather on a fictitious Claridence Street).

I would heartily recommended the Irreverent Guide as a complement to another book to give any recommended itinerary a reality-check, but I wouldn't exclusively depend on this guide to plan a multi-day visit.

I go to Boston at least twice a year and always am interested in the nightlife scene. This book hit all the hot spots in retstaurants and bars. My friends who lived there were going through the book and saying, "yep, that's in," "that's still hot" If you're into that sort of thing, this is a great guide to have, especially if you're only going for a short trip.

It seems to be standard DC policy these days to tell the least interesting stories possible. And this books is standard fare. Todd Dezago writes like he was putting this story together at the last moment with uninteresting concepts like having Impulse and Superboy and Robin solve a case without much teamwork (or brain work for that matter). This book led to a monthly series called Young Justice which is about as interesting a comic as an old pair of worn out shoes.

It's stories like these that give comics and graphic novels a bad name.The story was bad, the charecters are one dimensional and the artwork did not come from the Joe Kubert schoolof graphic arts. Ignore this book at all costs.

its Absolutely magnificent , with each part of the stories you can enjoy, for unlike Superman & JLA comic box which mostly show you excitement and action in a too serioce Kind of way , this comic book is also Fun , which make it far batter then the other Marvel comics books I sow .

also the part of it seeing the young JLA in action together for the 1st time , though they did make superboy alot younger then he is , which isn't a problem since he fit the story very well.

THIS BOOK IS ONLY WORTH ABOUT $15. IT INCLUDES SMALL PAGES WITH LARGE TYPE AND ONLY LOW QUALITY BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS. I OWN ROLLER COASTERS BY DAVID BENNETT. IT IS A MUCH BETTER DEAL, ABOUT TWICE THE SIZE OF THIS WITH COLOR PHOTOS TO GO WITH EVERY DESCRIPTION. CHECK IT OUT INSTEAD. IF YOU ARE STILL SET ON BUYING THIS IT IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BN.COM FOR $29.95

This book is an exhaustive listing of the roller coasters in the United States as well as Canada. It includes a 35 page history of the roller coaster from its earliest ice slide beginings to present steel and wooden coasters. All of the pictures in this book are black and white; most aren't anything spectacular. Also included are short coaster designer profiles, coaster record breakers, a coaster census by state/province, and a chronology of wooden coasters in operation. This book lists the coasters in alphabetical order by state/province and then by park.

Overall, this book is a dissapointment for its price. If you are a major coaster fan and you have the money it is a worthwhile purchase. It is an excellent reference with an interesting history, ect. It is also current to the year 2000. If your looking for an interesting roller coaster book with excellent color photographs check out The American Roller Coaster by Scott Rutherford.

If you did not like this book than you are no true coaster fan. It gives a great and complete listing of all the roler coasters in the U.S. and Canada uop until the year 2000. I am a roller coaster addict so I can tell you that he made 2 tiny errors. Otherwise the book is absoulutely wonderful. A must buy.

Read on RPGnet how the authors of SenZar were "anonymously" promoting their own game on the net, and it's evident that "reader" is such a person. I'll be equally "anonymous" and let you know they're doing this.

I purchased this as a guide to how *not* to write an RPG; I wasn't disappointed. There are many good, or at least interesting, ideas in this book but the overall effect is one of Munchkinism gone awry. It has some positive points such as a surfeit of imagination; however, the overall tone of the book can be inferred by the 'About the authors' at the end, which is as full of hyperbole and imagination as the rest.

If you have not played SenZar, then you do not know what you are missing. This is the BEST Fantasy Role-Playing Game! This is the game that beats the Wizards of the Coast (formerly known as TSR) Dungeons and Dragons / Advanced Dungeons and Dragons hands-down. No more are wizards limited by how many times they may cast a spell, or are priests limited to blunt-edged weapons only. Physical combat is simpler with characters having "Combat Value" (divded into "Attack Value" and "Defense Value") which determines what they need to roll on a d20 in order to achieve a hit.
Players can buy helpful skills for their characters (such as stealth, which enables them to surprise their opponents by moving without making noise and special powers (such as toughness which allows them to continue fighting even after receiving near-fatal wounds).
Players get to round out their characters' personalities with Karmic Attributes like "Overconfidence" or "Greed." There is no alignment nonsense. Characters are either "good," serving the "Cause" and the "Good Earth"; "evil," serving the "Anti-Life" and the "Dark Earth Mother"; or "neutral" serving themselves only. No need to worry about other ridiculous concepts like "lawful, "neutral," or "chaotic."
Do yourself a favor, buy SenZar, and begin playing the BEST FRPG in existence. It is the FRPG of the 3rd millennium. You won't regret your investment (both in money and time) in this game.