The Boy Who Drank To Much is a exciting book and it tells how much drinking can effect your life,and other family memebers that you love and care about. Buff gets into drinking with is father, and his father is an alcoholic and if his father doesnt get what he wants he starts to yell. Because of this Buff and his father would fight all the time. Drinking can effect what you do, and what you say to others. I suggest that everyone should think on what can happen to them, if they become an alcoholic or if someone they know is an alcoholic.

The Boy Who Drank To Much is a exciting book and it tells how much drinking can effect your life, and other family memebers that you love and care about. Buff gets into drinking with is father, and his father is an alcoholic and if his father doesnt get what he wants he starts to yell. Because of this Buff and his father would fight all the time. Drinking can effect what you do, and what you say to others. I suggest that everyone should think on what can happen to them, if they become an alcoholic or if someone they know is an alcoholic.

The book was overall well written and kept me interested. Now I understand how drinking can be a family problem. For Buff and his father it pushed them apart. It made them have fights and arguments that otherwise they might not have had. Things probably wouldn't have turned out the way they did if Mr.Saunders didn't start drinking.

This quirky thriller begins in bleakness and continues through a trail of failures and deaths in a very foggy England, culminating in a parody happy ending. D., a former professor who specialized in _The Song of Roland_ and has survived imprisonment, the death of his beloved wife, and years of civil war, has been sent to contract coal by a government that is not specifially identified as the Spanish Republic beset by a civil war in which the anti-government side has the support of what is not specifically identified as Nazi Germany. He runs into L., the rebel forces' agent many times. He inspires fierce loyalty from two Englishwomen, and dodges bullets, double-crosses, a major explosion, the police, and trumped-up murder charges. There are farcical interludes at an Entrenationo (Esperanto) school and dangerous whiffs of precocious female sexuality (something of a Greene leitmotif). It is an odd book, with the multiple failures of D's mission oddly exhilirating. Some have read it as anti-Semitic. I don't think that it is, but a charge of derogating Asians could more convincingly be made.

I liked the book a lot because it is a very interesting story. At the beginning it is a little bit hard to understand the plot because there are so many characters, which you do not know. I did not really understand either what D was supposed to do. I realized it after a while and there it became really fascinating. You can feel for D and you do understand his fears and thoughts.
I only did not like the ending. I guess it is too simple. Not everything should come out this perfectly. That makes the story less dramatic and somehow untrustworthy. But I would recommend the book to anybody who likes agent stories with a romantic happy ending.

Good book in line with other Graham's ones as The Third Man or Our Man in Havana. Nevertheless not so bright, intelligent and fun as Our Man in Havana.

This book is a good reference but not for those who are not proficient already in MAX. As others have stated, the examples often skip steps, assume knowledge of the workings of the program and show "this is what you should end up with" pictures that don't relate at all to what the instructions give. I get the impression also that each chapter was written by a different person because they cover material that has sometimes been discussed or later chapters cover basic material that was left out at the beginning. If you are beginner, don't buy this.

Well, Boss Hog may get confused easily, but don't let him shy you away from an excellent text. I still recommend this book to people learning Max 3. The tutorials in the first several chapters are very intelligently written, and attempt to tackle very complicated concepts in a very concise manner. The text has helped me master more advanced concepts and tools of both Max the program and animation in general. The section on character work, while a regurgitation of what you'll find in Illusion of Life, Timing for Anim, and Foster's works, is still helpful to the beginner. The first third of the book is also an excellent source of principles that any budding animator who's transitioning to 3D would be wise to read. I've been animating professionally for 7 years, and I think that this text is great. If you get lost on the tutorials, then just read the text and LEARN the PRINCIPLES since that's really the important thing that these experts have to share with you!

This book is Great. It provides an indepth explanation of the concepts and abilities of 3D Studio Max2. It is definately for the more advanced user and is definately a must. The first Vol is like a big encyclopedia that explains the concepts but does not provide real hands on learning methods, This Vol. is by far the best of the 3 and is an important tool in every animators libary.

The story was very stupid, I was not able to understand anything. There are so many different places where the story plays that you have to take care not to fall asleep. The main person Drover, who killed a police officer, never appears. For me the book was a nightmare to read.

Greene depicts, through a grey, dreary London, a picture of a society ill at ease with itself, struggling to come to terms with its lack of direction. Beneath a rather shabby, faded facade, London has a seamy, rotten core. The feeling of stagnation even applies (ironically) to the Communist party, which instead of working to overthrow the social structure is integrated in it. The characters lead solitary lives, from the Walter Mitty-like Conder, through to the Assistant Commissioner who (like the nation?) has never come to terms with returning to Britain from the colonies. A much deeper and more meaningful work than many of Greene's early "entertainment" novels.

We are all essentially alone, caught up in our own chemical, physical and social orbits(or "battlefields"), unable to connect with other people or affect our own destinies, like a man on death row. Apparently. Greene plays out a typically existential perspective in terms of the death row simile and, as usual, everything is not as it seems. This is not a story about a man unfairly condemned to death (we never get to meet him), or the machinations of various individuals to get him off. Rather it's about how his situation affects them and, as you can imagine, being part a Greene menagerie, it isn't at all pleasent. The half dozen or so characters we become aquainted with vary wildly in class and preoccupations, and one gets an idea of the variety of London life in the thirties. But they also tend to vary in interest. Undoubtedly, Conrad Drover, the condemned man's brother, is the strongest character: his paranoia provides the only real suspense in the book. But I was rather fond of Condor, a journalist who lives alone above a pub, who creates elaborate fantasy lives which are taken at face value by his friends and workmates. There's a weak section dealing with Condor's landlord, the pub owner, and Drover's sister-in-law going off on a jaunt in the country, a brief and illusory moment of liberation. On the whole, though, this is a poignant novel on the human condition told with Greene's characteristic irony and economy of style.

A photo reference should of course contain plenty of photos, but here there may be too many, or maybe it's that they're crammed four or five to a page. I've worked with small print photos of my own as a reference and it's no bother ( I can enlarge them if I need to), but when a smallish image is one of a group on that same page, well...it's just too crowded.
Perhaps less would be more.

Maybe it's my merely-intermediate stature, but I'd rather a larger format, such as a volume called "America" (or "American Landscapes") that I found at the library, with one or two great photos to a page.

"Artist's Photo Reference: Landscapes" is helpfully organized into categories and sections within those categories, and offers a few demos. That's a good thing.

I may not unload this book, but I'll more likely hit the library for some general photography books.

Most of the photographs are too bland to use. Too much sun, too many similar photographs, not enough mood photographs. Where are the rainy days, why are there so few foggy pictures, why no gardens? I can photograph pictures like these. What I wanted from this book are photographs I can't shoot. Windy days, mountain towns. I am using it, but it's hard to find a good subject and combine it with others, they are so similar.

This is a really good reference book for landscapes. I use it often when I need a good outdoor scene for a painting. I really like to use the landscapes that depict sunset/sunrise. This book has most definitely been the most used art reference book in my studio.

My only complaint is that I wish he had incorporated scenes that invoke Alaska. Other than the absence of glaciers this is a pretty good book. I hope if there is a second edition that he remembers to include glaciers and frozen ponds. Afterall, the Alaskan landscape is a part of America too.

The first half of this book is very good detailing the Maine Coon breed, history and standards. Wonderful photos. The second half fails miserably. It is too generic. It does not go into specific details about this particular breed. It just gives the general feeding and caring patterns which are similar to other cats and other books that I have read. It does not tell you what the ideal weight should be, etc. Another area that it fails is to tell you about a specific hereditary trait which I found out about on the internet: hip dysplasia. So only two stars for this book.

"Guide to Owning a Maine Coon Cat" starts out strong with a detailed exposition of the various Maine Coon origin theories: the 'Marie Antoinette'; the 'Viking'; the 'Racoon cross'; the 'Lynx cross', among others (I favor the 'Viking' since Maine Coons and Norwegian Forest Cats look an awful lot alike).

The author then spends a good deal of print on the Maine Coon personality and the breed standard and colors. The photographs are beautiful, professional and in color.

It's when we get to the chapters on care, grooming, and feeding that this book strays away from Maine Coons and becomes generic and uninteresting. The photographs deteriorate into advertisements for various grooming and food products. Some show the covers of other books from the same firm that published this book, i.e. T.F.H. Publications, Inc.

Go ahead and buy this book, but buy it for the first 38 pages.

The basic content of this book is generic to all cats, but what sets it apart from others is the very high quality of its pictures.

The reader can get a very good idea of all the background, behavioral characteristics as well as colors and patterns without a lot of further research. Easy reading for the new MC owner but not as complete as "That Yankee Cat," or "This is the Maine Coon Cat."

As an introductory book its fine but as a 'Most Complete' you want it to expand beyond basic examples into e.g. interaction between the cartridge types, practical implementation advice etc.

I'd have used the money back guarantee if there was one as I expected a bit more from it.

Does a reasonable job of covering Oracle Web Application Server 3.0, but the Oracle Press book is better.

This book does a good job of providing an overview of the architecture surrounding OAS 3.0, but certainly does not hold to its claim as "The Most Complete Reference." Its biggest shortfall is its lack of detail concerning Inter-Cartridge Exchange (ICX). It mentions this topic at least a few times, and explains the premise behind ICX, but doesn't provide any examples of how ICX is accomplished from a PL/SQL cartridge to a C cartridge, for example. A good book for people who are just learning about OAS and want an introduction and then some.

This writing may be easy to follow to which we give credit to the author for his ability to communicate his point. Theology, however, is becoming more and more diluted with the complexities of the so-called Theologian. The more time goes on the more diluted the messages of modern preachers become.

This message leads people from the basic fundamentals of Christian doctrine to blatantly disobey the word of God.

Tithing is not, as many have eluded, an old covenant instruction only, but a biblical ordinance which was founded from the time of Adam. This ordinance was established not to fund "Church Programs", but to worship the Lord!

The rudiments of the Tithe are much deeper than supposed by others that herald triumphantly this books victory in story telling. We should stop trying to make excuses for what the Lord has commanded and just obey His word.

What I have found is many have confused giving with the tithe. This, of course, causes many to err believing the New Testament teaches giving only and that the tithe was done away with on the cross. This is an errant doctrine and should be noted as such.

Many have attempted to establish their point by using writings by early church fathers, and the history of the church. We cannot, however, use such writings or the movement of the early Roman government to establish new doctrine for the body of Christ. In fact, any good student of the word will allow the scripture to interpret itself.

Many excuses are made to disobey God in the biblical ordinance of the tithe. Who will follow the truth of the scripture? That person shall truly be made free.

George Green has done a service to the Body of Christ by dealing with a subject that is often taken for granted as preached. What's more, most Christians are taught not to dare question this doctrine for fear of being a "God-robber."

I understand those who support tithing; I tithed for many years. Did I ever receive a blessing so big that I could not receive it (as those who teach tithing usually teach is a promised blessing)? Hardly.

And this was not due to lack of faith, "tithing the tithe" incorrectly, or failing to claim the promise. Truth is, this was a promise made under OT Law that was applicable for those who were the servants of Christ. Those who were under the Law. And if you are a Gentile by birth, you were NEVER under the Law to begin with. Only the Jews were.

We are Sons and we are also heirs. We give because we are already blessed NOT to get blessed. What is the basis for a NT Christian to be blessed? Tithing? NO! We are blessed through the same vehicle we are saved: the Cross of Christ. We through His poverty become rich...not through our tithing. This isn't to suggest that sowing and reaping do not work. It is a Biblical law. It always works. But it is not through a legalistic tithe but through what we have purposed in our hearts to give.

Ask yourself the question: "Why can't I tell the difference between those who tithe on my street and those on the other street who don't?" Something is seriously wrong with the way tithing is taught today.

This book is highly recommended--should be required reading for every Christian.

I am very glad that this book liberates Christians from the limitation of 10%. If tithing is restricted to the Old Testament, how can New Testament Christians give less?! Now we are free to give 20, 30, 60, or even 80% of our income. Praise God!

This book had a few good things, like some training activities and basic strategies, but much of the info was wrong like how the plasma I's work or some of the ship stats in the back of the book. Now that the game has went through so many revisions to fix bugs and balance the game, the book is completely lacking or incorrect for most of it's information. No info on Plasma D's since they are new, and the ship information in the back is even more incorrect. Don't waste your time with this one. Wait for an updated version.

This official strategy guide contains very helpful information on how to defeat each race, including the Interstellar Concordium. It explains other aspects of the game not included in the manual. Highly recommended.

Very neat, also very informative on how to beat the game.

Knights of the Rose appear to follow very much the same plot as the previous book in the series, Knights of the Sword. The premise is that the Istarian expansionist ambitions led it once again to send an army to assert its authority and influence in foreign legions, this time, towards the elves of Silvanesti. Anxious to prevent a military endeavour that would probably cause Istar (further) shame and drag the Knights to a dishonourable campaign, Sir Marod despatch Sir Pirvan & Company (this time, accompanied not just by his wife Haimya, but also his son & daughter as well as protegé Darin). Along the way, he won the confidence of the Plainsmen, known as the Free Riders. Finally, Pirvan reached Belthukas, a sanctuary for all races, led by a couple of half-elven rangers and their daughter Ryth. Belthukas was to be THE meeting point of all forces as the Silvanesti elves send a delegation there to parley with the tax-collectors from Istar (in the form of mercenary companies and Istarian regulars and another delegation of Knights led by Sir Lewin, another disciple of Sir Marod).

Like Knights of the Sword, it becomes a tightrope situation for Pirvan who had to steer the situation from escalating into a full-blown all-out war. Greedy and ambitious mercenaries, anxious to make a name for themselves and win credit for Istar preferred to force conflicts against outnumbered entrenched local defenders. Pirvan had to defend Belkuthas as best as he can, keep them surviving until cooler heads can prevail.

Noteworthy of the author is that the detailing of the journey which added interest in the earlier books were skipped over, avoiding the tedium it would become had it been included in this book. More attention also given to new supporting characters and the stage is set in a totally different location - no eventful maritime voyages!

What went wrong with this book is that the author opened up a lot of possibilities: romances among the youngsters, titanic battle of the arcane arts between wizards, elven racial prejudices and political intrigues back in Istar (or civilisation). Also, nothing was mentioned with regards to Sirbones being more than familiar to Darin and Pirvan & Co from the previous book.

Sir Marod and Sir Lewin who played important (but short) roles were not properly fleshed out. The enigmatic behaviours of the lord of Belkuthas, Krythis and the elven ranger Tharash were not explained at all, leaving a strong sense of dissatisfaction.

Last but not least, the slightest detail regarding the political resolution at Istar which culminated with the resignation of the Istarian commander and elevation of Sir Pirvan to Knight of the Rose is completely left out (given the title of the book, it should be no spoiler) - the same brickbat for Knights of the Sword.

Roland Green had simply left too many things in between unaccounted for.

This book was passable. Nothing impressive. The plot was hardly in a hurry and the characters were not that memorable. One thing I found amusing was how the Solamnics took their families with them on campaign. What an interesting idea. Apparently it's not hard enough to make a decision in battle, you should add familial problems to make it more difficult. That and every scene with the two married couples ended in them having sex. Rather exhausting for them.

If you have read the first to book, go ahead and buy this one. The story of Pervin is okay. This is not an unique story. it won't leave you astounded at Mr. Green's writing ability, but I don't believe you will feel you have wasted your money either.