I found the examples given on the CD to be irrelevant, flakey, very badly designed and confusing. Henderson may be a wizard, but a communicator he is not. He comes across as an arrogant geek who can't remember what it is like not to understand, and as a consequence his manner and method do nothing to enthuse the reader. This book needs to be completely overhauled and re-written, as it is unbelievably difficult to follow. My first project was to produce a CD rom with some interactive buttons which had no more than the usual light-up-if-the-mouse-passes-over-it kind of action. If this was detailed in the book, I couldn't find it, or anything like it, so I had to go to a bookshop and read other books, as I paid £40 for this one and couldn't afford another. I can honestly say that I learnt nothing from this book of any value to me, and I feel thoroughly ripped off. The author is obsessed with listing Xtras and apparently not particularly interested in orgainising basic information in an attractive and coherent manner. An awful book, and an awful shame.

the book is a drag , it is not clear on important cocepts -lingo to

I cannot recommend this book. The examples (and CD-ROM) are totally useless, and the book goes in no apparent order. The largest chapter is on third-party Xtras, which have nothing to do with learning Director. Anyone trying to learn Lingo will be totally confused by the Indexes and References, and should probably get a Lingo Refernece Manual instead.

I wasn't impressed with this collection, though I had looked forward to reading it. I think the Goatswood mythos has possibilities, but these stories didn't light me up and slap my emotions and imagination around the way most of the Chaosium fiction series collections do. Chick says you can miss it.

scymanski has an ok story here. price has a good one about the gorgon. that one was very enjoyable, and had some lovely details. otherwise, this was dreary read. so many of these stories were not only badly invented, but seemed so uninspired to. i almost felt sorry for the writers, for making so bad stories. i think this is chaosium's worst.

This is a reprint of the 1916 book by the inventor of the Lanchester equations. Here Lanchester advances his N-Square Law, which has become what we now refer to as Lanchester Equations. The interest of the book is its historical value, as better presentations are to be found elsewhere. There are other interesting portions of the book beyond the mathematics, such as "aeroplane versus dirigible." The book's value is as a historical record of both the advent of military aviation and military operations research.

i loved thet part about how billboards were made! I couldnt believe some of the aspects learned fromthis marvel!

I've already built two of the projects from this book. However, I had problems with both. The authors seem to have stock in the woodfiller companies as they are consistently advising you to put screw holes through visible faces. There were parts missing in the list of materials from one project and the diagrams didn't match the finished product. Some of the ideas seem a little tacky, like the Grandmother Clock. Overall though, there are some good ideas, and it's a great way to get started. I can just see a beginner getting frustrated as pieces don't fit or don't work due to the mismatched diagrams and lack of instructions. I think a little more proofing on the part of the publishing company could have really cleared this up.

Its not that its a bad book, but that it was certainly not a book that I feel makes the subject easy to understand or comprehend. I feel that there must be other books, such as those in similar fields by Cengal and Boles.

If its prescribed for a paper I would reckomend getting it out from the library rather than buying it. I had to buy it for an open book exam, and am now having trouble selling it, no one wants it!

If you want a book to read to learn about thermodynamics try other titles, this one wont do your effort justice.

(I got a B in the paper anyways)

I ordered the Visual Quickstart Guide with high hopes. It seemed a concise and easy to understand tome for understanding MS Office 98 for the Mac. Concise yes; maybe too concise.

I've been struggling with the outline features in Word. I hoped that the book would neatly lay out how to make an outline. Nope! Nary a mention of outlines in all of the Word chapters. Frustrating. My simple Claris works made beautiful outlines, easily, quickly, and that software was free!

Maybe it's just Office 98 that is a poor product. It makes many tasks harder and more frustrating than they need to be, with MANY more steps than older word processing programs, including Word 6.0. This book didn't help to dispel some of the above problems because it didn't mention how to properly perform them.

In all fairness, the book is great if you know little about Office 98 and you really do just need a "Quick Start" guide. That's all it is and it's nothing more.

I'm probably going to invest in one of the huge, dumbell weight Office 98 books so that I can really learn all the things I need to know to wring the most out of this frustrating software. I think MS has over-engineered Office 98. It does too many things for you! (yes, too many) And it makes others, like outlines, way too complicated.

That brings up another shortcoming of the book. It tells you how to do something to an already existing document, paragraph, or work in progress. For example, I don't want to turn a paper into an outline. I want to make it an outline from the first line. The book never addresses this task. It only shows you, BRIEFLY, how to add bullets or numbers. Why not just simply show us how to do an outline in Word from the beginning of the document? Is that too difficult? Once again, my basic Clarisworks (now Appleworks) did a better job, simply and effectively. I don't make outlines frequently, but being a student means I make them often enough for presentations, papers, proposals etcetera that I want a quick, slick way to make them. This outline problem is but one example of a simple oversight by the book's authors, and a testament to the bloated nature of Office 98.

I'm disappointed in the book and the software. And I was born and raised only miles from Microsoft! Viva Bill! (ha ha)

If you need a guide to MS Office 98 for your Mac, save yourself the headache, get one of the BIG, comprehensive ones. I'm going to.

-Cary W. in Seattle

For the most part, the author seems to have pretty good information for the time of the book's printing, but for anyone who wants to read this book on purely scientific terms, be warned; there are several places where the book goes awry, for example: the author states that tracks of tyrranosaurus indicate that it was a solitary animal, occasionally hunting in pairs. Problem: no tracks of a t. rex have been discovered to date, a decade and a half after the writing. Aside from that and a few other points, though, the book is good reading.

A dark alley, a stationary car, a gunshot... and the London police officer Toms is lying seriously injured on the street. Immediately his colleagues of Scotland Yard start a large-scale search to find the perpetrator. But when they finally find some important clues, the most difficult is yet to start: finding the evidence. Only one question seems valid: "What should be done about criminals whose guilt is known but whom the law cannot touch?"

The opening of this book, where police officer Toms is getting assaulted, has a lot of potential. Sadly enough, none of these possibilities have been explored in the further development of this rather plain story. It reads almost like a boring police report. Characterisations of the main figures are nowhere to be found, apart from some dry factual descriptions. The revengeful ending is a real bummer and has nothing to do with the story-line.

The Haynes family of repair manuals are VERY limited in their scope of information. They try to cover too many variations of a car in one book. The Taurus early 4 cyl, 3.0L and 3.8L, all of which are very different engines, are all lumped together in this book. Many times it is very difficult to obtain specifics on an engine. An example is, they may mention the 3.0L and not he 3.8L which leaves you many times guessing about the location of a sensor or a wire harness. The significant downfall of this book is when they don't explain HOW to do something! They will often times just say "remove" part with out mentioning how. Again, this is just because they try to cover too many engine types in one book.

The book claims to cover '86-'95 model year Taurus/Sables, but if you own a 1995 Model like me, the pictures of the '86 or '87 Taurus they show in the book won't really help you much. Among others, If you have any engine OTHER than the 3.0 V6, You won't get much useful information. For me this was a strong point with this book, some of the coverage is lacking, but overall, it will get you through at the end of the day and back up an running. I wish this book had better wiring diagrams, and finally, pictures of a more current Taurus would be a real plus.

I purchased this book shortly after buying a used 93 Taurus wagon with 80,000 miles. I went through the maintenance chapter and performed all the steps. It was full of clear pictures, easy to follow instructions and also helpful suggestions. The coverage was excellent considering the number of years covered for such a small book. I also replaced my brakes and this was my only source. It covered my optional ABS brakes in detail. I had the experience in the past using other manuals where there was too much technical language and you were left guessing at what the instructions really meant. Not the case here. I would recommend this book to anyone of any level of experience.