This 'everybody's guide of the Internet' is a very useful to understand the Internet. I recommend it the fundamental guide for learn all programs such like WWW, FTP, email,Telnet,gopher and many others. Youngkil Park Ph.D ykppharm@mail.hitel.net MokpCity/Korea

Filled with stories, legends, songs, and recipes, The Everything Christmas Book is a fun read, as well as an authoritative reference. The editors observe that the true spirit of Christmas is a sense of wonder and "this book is intended as a celebration of that wonder."

They begin with the history of Christmas and how it "evolved over many centuries, enduring occasional tribulation, scrutiny, and abolishment along the way." Folklore, such as why red and green are Christmas colors, complements the historical facts. They also explain how decorated trees and Santa Claus became a part of contemporary Christmas celebrations.

The chapters on stories and poems include such well-known tales as Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," in addition to other favorites. Music and complete lyrics are provided for forty Christmas carols. The list of Christmas videos contains more than fifty titles.

Do you know in what year "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was first broadcast or when "Miracle on 34th Street" was first released in movie theaters? These are two of the 106 questions included in "The Ultimate Mass-Media Christmas Trivia Quiz." (Answers are at the end of the chapter!)

If you're up to a little traveling, check out the section on local festivities. Tree-lighting ceremonies, parades, Yule log celebrations, feasts, and lighting festivals are available all across the States. The editors provide times and contact information for each event listed.

No Christmas is complete without lots of good food, and the editors have selected a tantalizing sample of holiday recipes, including wassail and "Special Green and Red Vegetable Salad." Recipes are divided into sections for breakfasts and brunches, appetizers, side dishes, main courses and accompaniments, sweets and desserts, and drinks.

The next chapter offers recipes for gift-giving. And yes, it does include fruitcakes!

The editors conclude with a section on how Christmas is celebrated in other parts of the world and a discussion of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

The Everything Christmas Book is an ideal gift for people of all ages and interests. Be sure to get a copy for yourself also--it will soon become a treasured favorite.

With over 7,000 listings of employment services, this book is a great reference for job seekers and recruiters. The most complete listing of its type I have seen. Belongs on your bookshelf.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author, "Breakthrough Technical Recruiting" docwifford@msn.com

This lab manual is the best I have seen. Both experienced and novice practitioners will find this book a valuable resource. Field and clinical tests are presented for each component of exercise physiology: aerobic, anaerobic, pulmonary, cardiovacular, body composition, etc. Each chapter begins with enough theoretical background to fully understand the physiological responses. The methods are detailed enough for the novice to follow, but advanced enough for the experienced technician to gain insights. The results and discussion sections provide excellent insights as well as tables of comparative and interpretive data. It is one of my most used shelf and lab references.

What a wonderful geography resource for upper elementary grade students for teachers and parents! This book gives ready to use task cards that a teacher can use in his/her classroom as a free time activity or as part of a lesson plan. The task cards list websites featuring many different countries and questions that prompt the student to explore. The questions are thought provoking and require critical thinking skills.

Unfortunately, websites are added and deleted every day, so this book can become outdated very quickly. Even so, it is a great book to be used as a tool for teachers to introduce students to explore the world on the internet.

Trevor Scott does it again with Extreme Faction. As up to date as today's headlines. A real roller coaster of a thriller. When does it hit the silver screen?

David Adam writes on Celtic spirituality from a biblical point of view, inspired on the old hymn "Be Thou My Vision", based on the Celtic Christian tradition. Every chapter begins with one line or phrase from this hymn, which Adam uses to develop his main theme. For those interested in Celtic spirituality, the book deals with issues like our relationship with God's criation, spiritual wilderness, stillness, fellowship with God, faith and confidence, God's protection, God's love, His presence, etc, which are the favorite themes of this tradition. After each chapter there are suggested exercises to help the reader experience the subject of that chapter. The author's purpose is to stimulate the reader to worship God. Among these exercises there are many prayers that Adam himself has written or colected from others and "tried and tested with small groups from his own parish and on retreats". David Adam is an authority on Celtic Christianity, and has written at least seven other books on this issue. He used to work as a miner and for over twenty years he was the Vicar of Danby in North Yorkshire. For the fans of the Irish band Iona, it might be intesting to know that their album "Jorney into the Mourn" was inspired by this pleasent and deep book.

Storm Thorgerson is best known, of course, as the premiere album art designer with a 30-year association with Pink Floyd. If you became fond of his work because you're a PF fan, you don't want to miss this book just because Floyd art isn't the primary focus this time around. Storm's writing in Mind Over Matter was very entertaining, but in Eye of the Storm he's assumed an even more relaxed, personally revealing style. His character comes through more clearly, and he's a very engaging character indeed!

Among the book's features is an art concept that was originally intended for a Hey You 1994 concert video. He confesses that the Tree of Half Life concept didn't begin as Pink Floyd art. It tells more than his previous books about his talented associates, for example Keith Breeden (who is unfortunately now retired from the business).

The book is compelling entertainment, and it fills a gap for some of us who missed seeing his intriguing work for less famous bands than Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. My favorite at the moment is the Catherine Wheel art he selected for this book's cover.

I read the book in other language, i.e. Korean, and with other
illustration. However, this is a really beautiful story whatever language it is written in. There is an wolf who has been captured by men and put into a zoo. When he was caught, his one eye was injured, but he didn't mind because he decided that one eye is sufficient to see the sad, miserable world of men-to his eye, men are as sad and miserable as the captured animals in the zoo. There is a boy from Africa who stands in front of the wolf and look at him directly in his one remaining eye. He himself has been through a lat of sad incidents all over the Africa - in yellow, grey, and green ones. What do they see each other's eyes ? How does the wolf change his mind and accept there are something even in this miserable world worth watching with two eyes ? It's a so beautiful and poignant story (and I don't want to spoil your chance to find it^^), worth reading over and over again.

The creation of an American icon through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson is a true example of history. The diverse concepts and ideas embodied by Jefferson is brilliantly portrayed in the means of emotional involvement and reason. Concepts that have moved a country into war and then together is in essence a marvel.