The videos are very clear and do propose sequences that has help me imporve in a consistent way.

What can I say... is well design, great method, videos are nice, and it is part of a complete method of understanding the dance.
What makes it superb.

It's difficult to imagine a more exhaustive work about tango. The Tango Discovery Series is great!

or anyone interested in knowing who that bearded man is. Thought provoking. Fast read. You'll love it!

This books describes in detail the author's experience in dealing with UFO. Not only does it reveal many intriguing ideas, but also it encourages further investigation.

Enrique also suggests that "groups led by super-endowed individuals who claim to have links with UFO entities... I ask myself how best to stop these evil leaders, who are so capable of corrupting people's minds and of thoroughly brain-washing them into terribly wrong beliefs. Liberation from such fanatics can occur only when we use our free will, powers of inquiry and discrimination, and conscience to recognize, fight against, and defeat all falsity and deceit." The negative evil force should be taken care of.

Ps. Rumor has it that the English translation may be modified by secret agency of the US. Anyone has read the original version?

This is a very good book on UMTS concepts. Although the title emphasizes air interface techniques, this book pay attention both on UTRAN and core network as well. There is good enough detail on core network also. There are many good diagrams which help to understand. This book is rich in mathematics and covers theory also in some details. It is not for pure academic studies but perhaps this book could be more suitable for engineers rather than managers and marketing people. There are good books in the market on UMTS explaining how it works (Kaaranen and Korhonen). But if you were an engineer and if you wanted to know why it works that way and what is behind it then perhaps this book is the most suitable one for you. Warmly recommended.

This is one of those rare historical works where the facts are bolder than any fictional account would dare to be. It is a page turner that puts to rest some of the conventional wisdom of the Khrushchev-Kennedy cold war period. For those of us who lived through those dark days, it is a startling revelation about what really went on behind the scenes and how close we nearly came to total annihilation. For those not yet born, it is an insightful portrait of the times and a microcosm of the cold war. The book never seeks to place blame; its apparent goal is only to reveal as many facts, communications and miscommunications that forrmed the calculus for all the critical decisions of the times. It reads like a good spy novel and has the additional capacity to inform. A great read

Reviewed by Nigel Clive in International Relations, Volume XIV, No 1, April 1998

Aleksandr Fursenko is Chairman of the History Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Timothy Naftali is a Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University. Their book, based on unprecedented research into Russian archives and exhaustive unearthing of official American documents, provides the most authoritative account of superpower brinkmanship before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which at its height was arguably the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. Their analysis explains how and why by 1960 the Cuban issue had come to define the superpower conflict as forcefully as the future of West Berlin or nuclear testing. Rightly, the story begins with what has often been forgotten: the popularity of Fidel Castro and his triumphant visit to America in April 1959, less than four months after over-throwing the Cuban dictator Batista. Castro's primary objective was to decrease American leverage over Cuban affairs, while the Kremlin was planning a covert operation to assist the Cuban army at the request of Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, who was a secret member of the Cuban Communist Party, a fact then unknown to Fidel. The opening of KGB and Presidium documents shows that Moscow was ready to do more for Castro than Castro felt it prudent to accept, given his domestic struggle for legitimacy. By March 1960, however, the explosion of a Belgian arms shipment in Havana harbour convinced Castro of the need for overt Soviet assistance to deter American intervention. By July 1960, Cuba had moved into the Soviet camp when Khrushchev gave a Soviet commitment to defend Cuba. From January 1961 Khrushchev identified his leadership of the communist world and the prestige of the Soviet Union with the health of Cuba and Castro.
Cuba was an immediate priority for John Kennedy in December 1960. On 12 April 1961, he assured the world that America did not intend to invade Cuba. This book gives a detailed description of the bungled Bay of Pigs operation later in April, which was largely caused by the failure to understand how essential air superiority would be to the success of the entire operation. Thereafter, Moscow took a commanding role in the Cuban security service. The choice of communism had been made by Raul in the early 1950s, by Che Guevara in 1957 and by Fidel in 1959. Now a proper police state had been set up at an eight-minute flight away from Miami. After the Bay of Pigs, the link between the Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the GRU (Military Intelligence) representative, Georgi Bolshakov, gave the Kremlin the best look inside the thinking of the Kennedy administration that any intelligence service could hope for. Notably, the KGB file on the younger Kennedy showed him to be more anti-Soviet than his brother. Cuban security intelligence, improved by the KGB, thwarted CIA and central American attempts to assassinate Fidel, Raul and Che Guevara in the summer of 1961. This prompted Castro in September 1961 to ask for increased Soviet military assistance. Moscow could see how the situation was heating up when John Kennedy made contact with Khrushchev's son-in-law and slyly compared his problem in Cuba with what Khrushchev had faced in Hungary before 1956. Kennedy wanted the problem to be solved without an American invasion, but his wish was opposed by the CIA..
In May 1962, Khrushchev discussed with his closest advisers in the Presidium the plan to put medium-range missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba. Although seriously criticized by Alexseev, the KGB representative in Cuba, the Presidium approved the missile proposal, which Khrushchev explained had the dual objective of demonstrating to Castro that the Soviet Union would defend his revolution, while reminding Washington of Soviet power. Castro interpreted the Soviet plan as a gesture to improve the position of the socialist camp in the international arena, not as a desperate ploy to prevent an American attack. In July 1962, the Kremlin used the Bolshakov link to warn against the use of American reconnaissance planes to photograph the cargoes on the ships making their way to Cuba. Before the end of the summer of 1962, Khrushchev instructed Bolshakov to explain to Robert Kennedy that the Soviet Union was placing defensive weapons in Cuba. He now took the line that the Soviet Union and America were equally strong, and in September 1962 he authorized the sending of six atomic bombs while emphasizing his control over their use. This meant that by the end of September 1962 Khrushchev and Kennedy were much closer to military action that they had ever wanted to be.
On 2 October 1962, Kennedy ordered the armed services to start preparing for military operations against Cuba. Three days later, Bolshakov claimed to Robert Kennedy that the weapons being sent to Cuba were defensive. In fact, he was not informed of the truth. Bolshakov lived to see the end of the Cold War, but he never got over his bitterness at having been used to deceive the Kennedys. On 16 October, a U-2 spotted two nuclear missiles and six missile transports south west of Havana. But on 20 October, from a divided Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ex Comm) the blockade group carried the day against those favouring an air strike. This was reflected in Kennedy's quarantine Radio/TV address on 22 October, while Robert Kennedy assured Khrushchev via Bolshakov that America had excellent evidence of the missile deployments. So by 25 October, Khrushchev decided to dismantle the missiles, conceding that a head-to-head struggle in the nuclear era could only bring devastation to the Soviet Union. His letter of 26 October to Kennedy was a climb down. The following day Moscow was informed from Havana that Cuba expected an American air strike in the immediate future. But Khrushchev stood apart from most of the Presidium in believing that America would not attack Cuba and he did not want to threaten nuclear war when it might actually lead to one. A negotiated settlement was now within reach, as Back Channel diplomacy seemed to have succeeded.
But Castro was furious that Moscow had cut a deal without consulting Havana, as Mikoyan soon learned at the start of his visit when no common ground could be found between the two. Indeed, by 16 November, Khrushchev was prepared to pull the plug on Soviet assistance. On 20 November, Kennedy announced that Moscow had agreed to withdraw their II/28 bombers within thirty days and in response America would lift its blockade. On Christmas day 1962, a Soviet ship quietly left Havana with the last of the tactical warheads. Khrushchev's anger with Castro subsided in January 1963 as he sent him a 27-page letter, which received mixed reviews in Cuba. However, in March 1963 Castro agreed to visit the Soviet Union where he stayed for a month and had several meetings with Khrushchev discussing Soviet policy in Algeria, Angola and Albania. Khrushchev also authorized military support for Cuba and renewed the nuclear guarantee that he had first made in the summer of 1960. In June 1963, Kennedy looked forward in his ground-breaking American University speech to an early agreement on a comprehensive test-ban treaty. The 'Hot Line' was also established. The Cuban missile crisis had passed into history; but Castro still loomed in the background as a potential obstacle to the achievements of the new Kennedy/Khrushchev relationship.
NIGEL CLIVE

In One Hell of a Gamble, Fursenko and Naftali cut to the heart of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the surrounding politics. Due to the end of the Cold War, they were able to obtain many first-hand accounts of the superpower rivalry from the participants themselves. Using this newfound knowledge, they craft a timeless account of the behind-the-scenes politics that formed the backbone of US-Soviet relations during the Kennedy era. A chilling perspective is offered on how close the world really came to nuclear annihilation in the fall of 1962. Congrats to Fursenko and Naftali for producing a gripping work that I highly recommend to all students of the Cold War or politics in general.

When I bought this book I knew the bare minimums about HTML. I went through it in about three days (just reading it) then sat down and gave myself a project - create a web page that uses frames, cascading style sheets, and a little bit of JavaScript. I had a fairly decent (and professional) looking webpage in about 1-1/2 hours of tinkering around and using the book as a reference. I found the book to be easy to follow and fairly quick to reference - Appendix D is a great way to quickly find the pages in the book that will guide you. One significant note: Ms Castro points out several tags in the book that are deprecated in HTML 4 and the WWW Consortium suggests you use style-sheets to perform the same function. I found that quite a few of the style-sheet methods that are recommended DON'T work with Netscape 4.08, but work perfectly with Internet Explorer 5. Well, at least Ms Castro still shows you how to do these tasks the "old-fashioned way" with good 'ole HTML!

Not much time is wasted in steps trying to teach someone on how to click here or create a text file.

The whole HTML subject is broken down into tasks: formatting, text, layout commands, and cascading style sheets. Then individual HTML commands or tasks are illustrated one to a page. The steps fall down the outside of the page and colorful illustrations line the page's inside. All pages feature step-by-step instruction, tips, troubleshooting advice. A good book for novices and a reference for experienced users. The books strength is the visual approach it includes with screenshots and code examples. The book takes an easy, visual approach to teaching HTML, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do.

The book presumes no prior knowledge of HTML, making it the perfect introduction for beginners. I enjoyed the book and I hope you will too!

Elizabeth Castro's clear and concise book is an absolute must for HTML beginners. Seasoned web page designers will also find it useful as a quick reference guide.

Everything a beginner needs to create excellent web pages is included. Elizabeth tells you:
All about the HTML tags needed to produce pages that most 'readers' will find visually appealing.
How Netscape and Internet Explorer differ and how they will display your page.
Information about other HTML tags outside the 3.2 HTML standard.
Great tips on images and colours including a fold out colour chart.
Tips on how to test your page, including taking into account those 'readers' who do not have all the latest software.

However, one of the key features of this book is how well Elizabeth and Peachpit Press have organised its layout. The pictures on each page are small but very readable and they add so much to the usefulness and enjoyment of this book. I wish more books would do this. The other plus is the size of this book. It is very portable and I now take it everywhere - well .......

So, well done Elizabeth and Peachpit Press, I look forward to other titles.

To everybody else, get out (or dial in) and buy this book - I'm glad I did - and no, I am not on commission, related to the author or awaiting the publisher's feedback for MY book!

The book was a very good read. Unlike other (recent) novels on Spider-Man this one drew on the wealth of background information on the character from his many comic series - without going over board or assuming the reader is aware of every aspect of the Spider-Man mythology.

I also like the fact that this book does not have Venom - this super villian seems to have had a lot of exposure in other books (and that is not to say I don't like the character). But the gathering of the Six has a lot of plots to follow which kept my attention through out the entire book.

Too bad the publisher could not tell me when Parts 2 and 3 will be available. If it is any longer I may have to re-read the book to keep the story fresh in my mind.

But I'll be ready to get the next two instalments.

Spidey has the greatest cast of villians in the comics. Here in this wonderful book by Adam Troy-Castro, the Sinister Six are gathered by a mysterious man who has some kind of secerat plan to destroy Spider-Man. The ending of this book only makes you wonder what plan this will form into. According to more recent information from the publisher, Book Two of this trilogy should be out in late 2000 and Book Three sometime in 2001. I can wait for it.

This book is an excellent launch to the new Spider-Man trilogy. Mysterio makes an excellent villain in this first book as something he's never really been before: A bloodthirsty killer. It is an excellent book to read. It also introduces the intiguing new villain The Gentleman. I can't wait for the next book to see how badly they beat Spider-Man up when the Sinister Six takes to battle.

I loved this book. It's wonderful and exhilirating. It makes me focus and understand the misteries of tango like I have never experienced before in my life. It's magical. It's tangasmic. The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of five is that I want more, and I hope to get it in the next volume by Mauricio Castro - the super talented maestro.

I had 3 years of serious tango experience when I ordered this book. At first I was puzzled and didn't understand what mr. Castro was telling that I not allready knew. I thought the diagrams were funny and confusing. Then I saw mr. Castro teach and walk and vary on the 'basico' and walk and walk... and everything became clear to me. It gave me a complete new outlook on what I had learned and what I still want to learn. The book is not only a good help in learning the first steps, it is especially a good help to lift you up to a higher level, where variation and improvisation are more important than the movements. I understand a CD-Rom is in the making, I can't wait!

This is the most appropiate subtitle for this book. Because, after a read it, the dance seem so much simple.