Sara Klein is woken early one morning by the FBI who have a search warrant to search her house and seize her husband's possessions. When she tries to contact her husband he is not where he told her he would be and after extensive efforts she can not find him. Neither can the people whose money he has supposedly stolen and their not happy or nice people. They don't believe Sara's claims of her husband's innocence or hers for that matter and definitely do not believe she does not know of his whereabouts. The FBI doesn't believe her either so she must find out where her husband has gone or suffer the consequences.

This isn't the greatest book ever written but it is worth reading. Sara Klein isn't the greatest fictional character ever created so you don't particularly care what happens to her. For better financial thrillers try the author Harry Bingham, especially the novel The Money Makers.

El título del libro sugiere una presentación alejada de prejuicios en pro o en contra de la religión católica, sin embargo no logra su objetivo de imparcialidad y su crítica sobre las prácticas y creencias católicas romanas suele ser ácida y evidentemente no-constructivas.

I was IMMENSELY disappointed with this book, as I was expecting more versatile information. ALL the scholarships in this book are exclusively limited to schools. But what about the national scholarships that seem to appear throughout the country no matter what school you go to? This book ignores those, and truth be told, you could save yourself the money and just ask the schools that you find in your search what scholarships they offer yourself. I would recommend this book as a good buy.

The problem with this book is that the scholarships listed are based on the SCHOOL/COLLEGE that gives the scholarships. In other words it will list (in alphabetical order) for example: Juilliard. and then tell you the scholarships that JUILLIARD offers. It doesn't have much of a listing of national scholarships that can be used at any school. It makes this book pretty useless, because once you choose what school you're going to, all you need to do is ask the SCHOOL what scholarships they offer. About 95% of this book is useless because 99% of the schools in there were schools I was not going to even APPLY to, so I didn't even need to know their scholarships.

don't get the book, call the school you're going to and ask them. OR search for scholarships on the internet.

The sad fact is that not all schools offer scholarships for students in the arts. On the other hand, almost all schools offer scholarships for athletics. This is one of the few books that brings attention to schools that appreciates those of us in the performing arts. I would choose my school based on this book alone, just because someone in my field is getting money. It's nice to be appreciated. You could simply contact the schools directly, but this is easier and worth the price.

this text is required for my course on introductory topology. Not only does it omit entire branches of the subject, for example only giving cursory treatments of vector field topology, metric topolgy, and combinatorial techniques; but, the presentation is mostly unexplained. The author has concentrated on following a very dry quick example-theorem-proof technique instead of theorem-proof interspersed with discussion and example technique. I have yet to find a superb text, though for algebraic things i like massey

This is the book we used in my first undergraduate course in topology. I remember it as being one of the worst textbooks I ever came across in my undergraduate math studies. The explanations were too short and many definitions were buried into the text. I remember constantly having to flip through the pages of this book to find something I was looking for. Stay away from this book!

I'm surprised that several previous reviewers have given this book low ratings. This book is far superior to the standard introductions.

As someone who has studied topology for several years now, I have found that the greatest failing of many introductory texts is the inability to give a real 'feel' for the subject. By 'feel' I mean not only familiarity with the necessary tools and ways of thought needed to progress to higher levels of understanding but also experience with the kinds of problems that plague(excite?) topologists on a daily basis.

Several texts proceed in the logical progression from point set topology to algebraic topology. Munkres is among the best of this style. But the logical order is not always pedagogically best, especially in topology. To start one's topology career by spending one or more semesters on point set topology is utterly ridiculous, given that such point set subtleties are to a large degree not used to study the beginnings of geometric or algebraic topology. This is how these texts fail to give students the 'feel' for topology; the student has no idea what it is that most topologists do, and in fact will not get a good idea until much later.

Armstrong tries (and succeeds for the most part) in grounding concepts in real applications, the way the tools are actually used by research mathematicians. Perhaps this is part of why it may be confusing to the novice; introducing topological groups and group actions on spaces right after the section on quotient spaces may appear a bit much, but those concepts are a big part of *why* quotient spaces are so important! Incidentally, the material on quotient spaces is the most complete I've ever seen in an introductory book; Armstrong covers cones and also gluing/attaching maps.

The book is certainly fun. Imagine learning about space-filling curves right after the section on continuous functions. Armstrong keeps things spiced up throughout the book. He also goes at some length into triangulations, simplicial approximation, and simplicial homology. Then he *applies* this stuff to get results like Borsuk-Ulam, Lefschetz fixed-pt thm, and of course dimension invariance. Throw in less standard material like Seifert surfaces, and you have quite an interesting mix.

The exercises can be quite varied and hard, but are designed to give the reader a realistic view of the difficulties of the subject. The reader will get considerable insight from them, and loads of fun too. I say this, because as someone who already knows the stuff, I find more than a few of the problems enjoyable even now.

Having wrote all that, I should add that I did *not* learn out of this book! But I wish greatly that I had! I would have known sooner whether topology was the right subject for me to pursue and had some 'lead time' to absorb some very fundamental concepts early on. If you pass over this book, be warned that you are shorting yourself in the long run.

The author brings a little too much 1990s sensitivity to the 1870s, creating a world which just didn't exist. In the author's view, the indians were good, pure, clean, and represented just about every good quality; while the settlers and cavalry were less-than-bright exploiters of the wilderness and ravagers of the environment and the local populace. This kind of revisionism gets tiresome, and luckily my 10 and 12 year old kids recognized this as well as I did. The author's reliance on politically-correct ideology creates unbelieveable characters and situations. If the author had himself been a settler in Kansas during that time period, I believe we would have had a different point of view in this story.

A Beautifully Written Story about a Young Boy and His Horse who face and Overcome many Challenges. NOT meant to be a True to life Historical Novel. My Son and I loved it! Nice to read a Warm Inspiring Story about a Different Time and Place.

Who would have thought? A story recounting George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn is about as exciting as a worn 7th-grade text book. Initially, the idea seemed appealing. A novelization of this infamous battle in the vein and tradition of Michael Shaara's brilliant "The Killer Angels." But there's just one problem - author Edwin Hoyt's interpretation of these historical characters (Custer, Sitting Bull, Elizabeth Custer, Frederick Benteen, Marcus Reno, etc..) displays the life spark of a department store mannequin. No hyperbole here, but that's not a plus. This novel plods along to the inevitable climax on those slopes of Montana and we never get to know these characters. Their motivations, their weaknesses, their thoughts - it's a mystery in "The Last Stand." Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. No book about this subject matter will ever match the power of the Evan S. Connell's classic "Son of the Morning Star." So why do I keep buying this drivel? Why do I continue to torture myself by reading book after book on this battle? Because it's a supremely entertaining story. "The Last Stand" does not do this historical story justice. In fact, I'm not sure if I have ever read a book as agonizingly monotonous as this one in reference to this event. Hoyt chooses to recount Custer's undocumented affairs with women in New York - including a graphic sexual encounter which takes up two pages - rather than detail the the Rosebud battle between General Crook and Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse, by the way, is only mentioned two or three times in this entire book. I guess Hoyt would rather dote on a laughable myth, which is suspect at best, about Custer's supposed Indian child. Oh Yellow Hair! A tragic child caught between two worlds! And finally the battle itself. It takes up about two pages of this sterile account and suddenly - our tale has been told. If you hold out for a thrilling conclusion, a moment of supreme realization - "Yes, that's how it happend!" - you're not going to find it in "The Last Stand." From a technical standpoint, Hoyt's interpretation of the final battle (and there have been many) is essentially accurate. If he just could have added some color, a dash of detail, the residue of drama, the caterwaul of desperation. I suppose if your only exposure to Custer and the Little Big Horn battle comes from a black and white Saturday afternoon matinee starring Errol Flynn and Anthony Quinn, this book may interest you. But for any reader even remotely knowledgable on this subject matter, "The Last Stand" rings with the scrawny chord of a rusty bugle.

Book is really mediocre. I only finished it to see how Custer died this time. Go read Little Big Man instead if your looking for a Custer novelization. Heck see the movie too.

I bought the EA1 edition through Foyles bookstore. Unfortunately the EA1 edition is massively out of sync with the current FCS version of the software, and the Cd didn't contain the examples (or at least not where the book said they were).

So I ended up downloading the examples. The build.xml files in the download are laughably different from the book, and several steps need to be taken which the book mentions nothing of.

It's a major shame since the book looked very good. But I completely wasted my £38 and have wound up using the (confusing) online tutorial.

Apparently a FCS version of the book is coming out in several months. Wait for it. Assuming that they haven't changed version yet again it should be a good book. Right now it is a waste of money.

I feel sorry for sun: they have to give away so much for java to succeed, and their direct java revenue must come from J2ee licensees, JCP membership fees and books. This book is a dead-tree of the online JWSDP tutorial, with the benefit that you can read it while off line, the disadvantage that you pay for the privilege. Either way, I dont think it is that good a tutorial; it covers the Sun way of thinking, but doesnt get into the details of interop problems, maybe because SUNW dont seem to be participating in the SoapBuilders interop fests. Interoperability is the bane of and key to the success of web services, and if all you are doing is taking existing EJB beans and turning them into web services, you arent building a real web service. If you are using the Axis framework, there are better books, like the SAMS press one. No doubt something great will come along for the Sun product, but this is not, yet, it.

This book is basically a packaging of Java XML EAE packages of what you can download from the Sun's JavaSoft site.
After skimping thru it briefly, it appears to be very terse and I'm not sure if it can be said as a helpful "tutorial" as such for any beginning/intermediate Java Web Service learner other than showing what EAE(Early Access Edition) is all about.
This book in my opinion needs to be evolved into 3 volumes:
1) Basic XML parsing(SAX, JDOM)
2) XML Schema & Java mappings
3) Java Web Services implementation framework(HTTP, Servlet,RMI,etc).

My verdict is this book is not worth its weight and price at the moment.

I picked this book up recently because I like the Indian Wars and saw "Savas" on the spine. I have every one of their books, and all of them are of high quality and wonderful. I also have the Titanic and Alamo books in this series, which are both great. Man, is this one a lot different than all the others. The organization is just awful. The "facts" are set out one after another: "Fact #766," and then "Fact #767" and so on. What a nutty idea. It makes the entire book mechanical and pedantic.

The writing is also ploddy and unexciting. Really, REALLY dry. Many entires read as if they were just keyed in--and are lifted almost verbatim from other books. Without an index, no footnotes, and about 75% of the entries worthless tidbits of information, why was this book published? I guess every good publishing company lays an egg now and again.

This book is a disappointment in that it has three very serious flaws: 1. Aprroximately 200 of the 1876 facts in this book are nothing more than a listing of the birthplaces of members of the 7th Cavalry, or aliases they enlisted under. Now who cares! 2. Not more than one in thirty of the 1876 facts are referenced! If you want to check out a specific fact in this book by checking the source, you will have no idea what reference in the bibliography Mr. Russell got the fact from! 3. It has no index, which is always a huge handicap for any non-fiction book. This leaves the question "What audience is this book intended for?" It has too many details for LBH beginners, and cannot serve as a reference for the serious LBH student.

Some of the 'facts' mentioned tend to dispute one another and seems that the author just wandered from book to book without looking up any real information. Considering that the last ten years yielded a wealth of information that the author ignored especially about the type of weapons carried by the seventh cavalry. Shame on you Mr. Russell for this sham.

This book is poorly written, often repeating phrases over and over. I could find nothing endearing about either the hero, who seemed overly arrogant, or the heroine, who can only be described as annoying. I'm not even sure why I bothered to finish the book. Don't waste your money on this, you'll be disappointed.

For the characters, Rory Jones and Dominique Lindwall and their individual hang ups, they did weave a possible, passable life style. I do have problems with heroines who have kept their virginity and then suddenly give in to an importunate hero? [Is he a hero?] Seduction is the name of the game but where are the moral inner strengths of all of our women -- down the tubes. Ah well, that is when I begin to find a story boring. I do enjoy reading about Australia

This book contains some very valuable insights toward interpreting various books. Unfortunately, these insights are all presented in the first chapter, and are subsequently beat into the reader's head repeatedly afterwards. The author pulls out every obscure, thirty-letter vocabulary word you can find in Webster's, and some that I couldn't. The most useful part of the book is the Prologue. The Prologue is extremely well-written, and sums up Armstrong's entire argument in about ten pages. I would suggest that potential readers read the Prologue first, skip the Introduction altogether, and take the rest of the book as they may.