Wonderful book with well worked and worded examples. Only one complaint (the reason its 4 stars not 5)and that is the disk that came with the book does not work and i have never been able to find a replacment.

Good introduction to programming worth buying

Jessie Woods,my great great Aunt, has had such a wonder and histerical life. Her facinating stories of her early life as a wing walker, have been put in a book that couldn't of been written any better. I would recomend this book to any one who is looking for a good laugh and some teeth gripping tales o walking on the wing.

This book has helped me many times as a reference in restoration of my 1967 Mini Cooper S. It is also just fun to read from front to back. Excellent photographs.

I read this book as part of a research project I was doing about the design of college campuses. I found it to be extremely helpful in my project and I plan on refering to it in the future; I am pursuing a Master's of Landscape Architecture. What I liked about this book is two-fold:

1. Each chapter is a self-contained guide to designing a plaza, park, campus, or playground with people in mind. This important to me becuase I try to focus my designs around the people who will be using them. Each chapter gives useful design tips and helps about the given topic.

2. This book was academic while remaining readable. The authors refer to studies relevent to the topic at hand, but do not become bogged down in theoretical nonsense.

I recommend buying it to anyone who would like a well-organized general design reference book. I would not recommend it to anyone who needs in depth information on any specific topic covered in the book. Check it out from the library if that is your intent.

Physics in the 20th century has become something that even non-scientists know something about. Albert Einstein and some of the other greats have become household names, invoked almost as often as the names of deities. On the other hand, the purity and innocence of physics was forever changed by the development of the atomic bomb, causing a kind of dreadful fear of science in mainstream culture. C.P. Snow gives a wonderful picture of how it all came about, up to 1980. His anecdotes and personal sketches of the major figures read like short biographies of old friends. He shows how atomic weapons were developed, each step building on the previous ones, until the ultimate destruction became inevitable. He also writes of hope for the future: hope in new minds and new discoveries. The book is well-illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings and it is not too long to read in a couple of evenings.

I found this book to be an excellent guide to understanding the dream process. It is the first book on this topic that I have read and I found its contents regarding "dream logic" very clear and easy to understand. The book also contains a dictionary of objects,events,and places. While this section is not as large as other dream dictionaries it does capture the essential terms and meanings found in most dreams.

This book was a great up to date book on a complete review of dental hygiene. It was easy to read and understand. Anyone in a time crunch should invest in this book. It has prepared me well for boards! Good Luck!

This book is one of the few 'middle books' I've ever read that hasn't dropped the pace from the first book or served only as a mildly interesting prelude to the third. Fantasy trilogies tend to have a certain pace, I think, that I've gotten used to: setting the stage in the first book, holding it or slipping a little in the middle, and then bringing it all up fast and furious in the end. So I started _The Pretender_ with fairly high expectations- I'd loved everything else by Louise Cooper that I'd read, and _The Deceiver_, the first book, was very good- but thinking that it would follow the same pattern as most everything else.

I've never been so glad to be wrong.

_The Pretender_ has two main plots- one focused on happenings in the Star Peninsula and the Circle, the other on the Summer Isle in the south. Both have excellent scenes- especially near the end- and both are resolved (as much as plots in a middle book of a trilogy get resolved) beautifully. Without giving too much away, there are scenes where both the main characters in the book are in contact with more-than-mortal powers. Those scenes were the best, played out with awe and reverence as if the author had been there and wanted the audience to feel what she did.

The writing maintains a level just below this for the rest of the book, and the character development fits the writing style extraordinarily well. At times- especially, it seems, in middle books of trilogies- I have had the feeling that the style the author uses for one character has influenced the style he or she uses for another, and they don't seem like separate people. In this case, they were. Every character had his or her own means of telling the story, dealing with fears and concerns (even when those concerns were similiar), and growing and building on what they were in _The Deceiver_ to what they must become.

I didn't give this book five stars only because it isn't the best book by Louise Cooper that I've read. (That's _Star Ascendant_). But don't let that discourage you from reading it, or the rest of the trilogy. High marks, very much so.

This book starts kind off slow, but don't let that stop you. This book has everything: sex, preference, murder, vanity, celebrity-you name it! I really enjoyed it and would like to read more from M.K. Cooper.

Robin Cooper is Professor of Management at the Graduate Management School at Claremont University, California; Robert S. Kaplan is Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. This article was published in the July-August 1998 issue of the Harvard Business Review. They are also the authors of 'Cost & Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance' (1998).

"Now enterprise resource planning systems promise to integrate operational-control and activity-based cost systems and, by delivering on-line, real-time information, release managers from their normal one-month accounting cycles." But first managers need to understand that both cost systems have fundamentally different purposes and are separate for good reasons. The operational-control system provides information about process and business-unit efficiencies, the activity-based cost systems provides strategic cost information about the underlying economics of the business. The authors use tables and graphs to explain the differences between the two systems. They also explain the possibilities for integration between the systems: (1) Linking ABC to operational control = activity-based budgeting; (2) linking operational control to ABC; and (3) linking ABC and operational control to financial reporting. The authors conclude that the main impact of these integrated enterprise systems is that it promises to increase the relevance and contribution of managerial accounting: "In this way, virtually all organizational expenses become variable and subject to management's control."

Great article by the inventors of activity-based costing ('One Cost System Isn't Enough', 1988; 'Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions', 1988; 'Profit Priorities from Activity-Based Costing', 1991). This article follows the natural evolution of enterprise systems and discusses the impact the integration of operational-control and ABC-systems has on managerial decision-making. Useful article for MBA-students and for people using ERP-systems. I also recommend Thomas H. Davenport's article 'Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System' (HBR, July-August 1998). The authors use simple US-English.