I've bought several books on this issue and am most impressed by the quality of the information here -- it's presented clearly and fully, and includes the best forms I've seen available outside of the legal field. As I'm an ex-paralegal, I find the language of the contracts undertstandable; many of my artist friends seem to think that they are still too filled with legalese, but that's contract law and sometimes necessary. That's the only reason this book gets a 4-star and not a 5-star rating.

I'm buying my own copy since I basically trashed the studio's copy -- it's helpful enough that you'll use it on an ongoing basis.

As the title of the book stated, "Legal guide for the VISUAL ARTIST", the book covers information that is aimed at VISUAL artists, including photographers, painters, printmakers, designers, sculptors, illustrators, textile designers, cartoonists, and craftspeople. Wow!

Wow, all right. That may be the reason some artists may have found the book full of legalese. In my humble opinion, this is a must-have for anyone that claims oneself to be one of the ones listed above. If not this book, what else?

Starting from the minute one decides to have some "interaction" with other human beings regarding the making (or selling) of one's art, this book is of big help. For instance, an artist may decide to hire a model to paint a picture, this book will guide him/her how to prepare a model release form in order to guarantee the artist benefits of the painting created, without problems such as violation of privacy in the long run. This book is also a critical line of defense for the artists in dealing with copyrights, ownership, insurance, and tax income, etc.

My guess is that if one is simply an artist, one would read through the book (or at least sections of immediate concern, for instance, a painter would not have to worry too much about sections for photographers) and scan through the whole book for information. As far as using the book on a regular basis, I believe by frequently reviewing relevant sections, as well as making use of sample forms provided in the book, any visual artist will find this book an indispensable tool for his/her art making/selling process.

Strongly recommended.

A motivational book which makes you realize the true meaning of running. Worth reading for any person looking to find a deeper meaning to your next running experience!

Magical Running: A Unique Path To Running Fulfilment focuses on the psychology and mind-set of running, not the physical training of the body. Author and running coach Bobby McGee draws upon his years of coaching an Olympic marathon gold medallist, world record holders, world champions, and other runners to provide unique and invaluable guide about the mental preparation, the "how to", of a runner's motivation. With a text replete with anecdotes in support of his concepts and exercises, Bobby McGee documents and illustrates that running success is as much a function of attitude and the mind, as it is of leg muscles and breath control. Highly recommended reading for all aspiring runners regardless of whether they are sprinters or long-distance, novice or experienced, amateur or professional.

This main reason to buy this is for the annotated glossary od massoretic terms. It's the best guide to use those oh-so-cryptic massoretic notes on the margins of BHS. Many detailed definitions of the words and abbreviations-- far more useful information than most other similar introductions to BHS. I give it four stars instead of five because I wish they had done the same thing for the critical apparatus at the bottom. Other books cover the critical apparatus, but I think these authors could explain it much better than any other book currently does.

Indispensible tool for any serious Hebrew student: this book answers most questions that I have concerning the notation of the Masoretic. I recommend all Christians to own and study this book whenever they could.

I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ THIS PARTICULAR BOOK.IT IS ALL YOU NEED FOR COMPLETE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.BYPASS ALL THE NEW AGE RELIGIONS AND ACHIEVE A LEVEL OF AWARNESS YOU`VE ONLY DREAMED OF .. THE BREATH CONTROL TECHNIQUES HAVE SUPERIOR RESULTS AND CAN BE MASTERED IN NO TIME FLAT.DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH ANYTHING ELSE.YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED WITH THIS WORK. IT IS CLEAR ,SIMPLE AND,VERY PRACTICAL !!!

I found this book in a used bookstore, as it is out of print and it is excellent! Why it has gone out of print is beyond me. If anyone has read this book and used the methods, let me know what you think of it.

When I read this book I was looking for a detailed account of the natural history of the south pacific-the people, cultures, places, maps, archaeology, geology, biogeography, and so on. This book is very good, but not by any means exhaustive-its 11 chapters provide a useful overview of natural history, initial polynesian and then European discovery, and the various cultures of the Tahitian islands (chapters 1-2), the Fijian group (3), the Tongan group (4), a chapter on polynesian seafearing (5), the story of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty Mutineers (6), the Cook Islands (6), the Marquesas Islands (6-7), Easter Island (8), European Impact (9), Hawaii (9), New Zealand (10), and the future (11).

A strong point is the beautiful colour photographs and cultural depictions, however a notably weak point is the poorness of the maps. Often it is difficult to tell which islands belong to which particular "group" from the text, and the maps don't help in this respect-they are very simplisitic and look hand-drawn. These maps are in stark contrast to the beauty and extravagance of the colour photos of various wildlife, vistas and aerial photographs.

One of the best chapters is that on Easter Island with its stone statues, general cultural and natural history and subsequent decline. It is a little brief, but I found the archaeological accounts of it the islands cultural downfall particularly interesting. Basically, the ruling religious class (hanau eepe) are overthrown by a warrior class (matatoa) after the resource base of the island, and the cultural structure which depended on it, collapsed. By the time Europeans arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries, the island was already in warfare and decline.

Typical useful snippets include the taro root being found to contain natural flouride complexes by western science, which was discovered after someone researched why the polynesians seemed to have such good teeth. After the connection was made, flouide was routinely introduced into toothpaste/water in western societies. The New Zealand Maoris had no pigs or chickens, unlike other polynesians, probably because they were substituted by the now extinct Moa as a food source, after they first arrived in New Zealand. The presence of the sweet potatoe and other South American oddities suggests some natural or cultural influx from South America-either with seafarers from the east, by natural currents and winds (eg some lizards on Fiji, and South American trees on Easter Island), or by the polynesians themselves who may have reached South America, but never settled there. Another bit of trivia is on page 84-it is an aerial colour shot of the island where Tom Hanks was marooned in the movie "Castaway".

Overall quite a useful overview of the natural history of Polynesia, and beautifully illustrated, but not presented in any exhaustive detail.

Peter's journey throughout the Pacific, following in the footsteps of the travelling Polynesians, takes you far and wide across the vastness of the ocean. Excellently written and divided into easily negotiated sections, you can see in stages, how the islands came to be inhabited.

The pictures are breathtaking although the maps of the Pacific and individual islands look a little cheap and could have been more detailed for the price of the book.

Particularly poignant is the story of the most remote spot on earth, namely "Rapa Nui" or Easter Island. This strange tale tells how the island was populated and then brought about it's own extinction, leaving the eerie Moai figures staring out across the sea for all eternity.

A beautifully written piece of work, that I would recommend any arm chair traveller to read.

Overall the book was slow starting, however after the first chapter the book then became interesting with a climatic end. Would recommend to novice fantasy readers.

Recomended to me by my brother, I had no pre-conceived notion about what this book would be like. Agreed, it has somewhat of a slow beginning, STICK WITH IT! It is an amazing book, and I guarantee that it will be a favorite of most fantasy readers. Though I didn't do this, I would also recomend reading Greenmagic before this. It's much better in the right order.

Crawford examines Sumerian culture from an archaeological perspective. Unlike, Kramer's _The_Sumerians_ the focus is more on daily life than on mythology or historical figures. Her discussion of Sumerian religion deals more with its social aspects, how one buries the dead, how temples were laid out and the importance of the role of the priests in society, and less on the doings of the deities. Much more of the work is focused on what types of buildings the Sumerians lived in, what kinds of occupations they had, who they traded what with, and so forth. Also, throughout the work are a number of helpful maps and illustrations. The work appears to be fairly up to date and my first encounter with it was as reccommended reading for an undergraduate archaeology course.

This book deals with archaeological evidence of the Sumer region in a comprehensive and highly illustrated volume. Crawford's book has little to do with the historical view of Sumer like so many other books on the subject. However, she does not wonder far from most traditional views of the Sumerians and always backs those views up with a hard archaeological background. The book covers the physical environment of Sumer, social organisation, Settlement and agriculture patterns, (temple, town, housing architecture), some religious background of Sumer, Manufacturing, trade and lastly the beginnning of literature in Sumer. I suggest this book for any archaeology student interested in the use of technic in the field and evidence gathered from those technics. Crawford's book is a very educational read of the root of Mesopotamian civilsation "Sumer".

THREE LEGGED RACE

The books name is "Three Legged Race" The author's name is "Charles P. Crawford" the book is called Three Legged Race because it is about three kids who help each other get trough the pain of their accident. Also because Kirk said "This is like a Three Legged Race" and that you need somebody to get to the finish line.

I Brent had an accident going in through a trapdoor. It was in the summer when it happened. My family took me to the hospital; I don't think the hospital was a good summer vacation, I found a friend called Kirk he is very cool, he is also very funny. Then I found another friend named Amy, I think I am very dynamic. My major conflict is my accident and having to go to the hospital.

My friends Amy and Kirk and me start to tap about our parts. Also start to make up some crazy ideas to make the future more interesting then we become a team and felt the truth of Kirk's comment. He said "it is like a three legged race," I think you can't make it to the finish line by yourself. Then we all were having so much fun we forgot we were in a hospital. Then we couldn't see the future ahead.

I think you should read this book because it talks about friendship. Also because it talks about how "you can't make it to the finish line by yourself" and how "It is a Three Legged Race". This also talks about how friends help you get trough the tough and tough times. This is a very very good book it helps you find the real you and explains how real life and how reality is, get this book in stores and read it you will be amazed.

The conclusion of the story is that they helped each other get past their feelings. Also that they all got to get out of the hospital and didn't have to stay in hospital anymore.

I love Mr. Crawford. His writing is groovy and stimulating. He makes me want to read Harry Potter. But I like to play with my goldfish. I have Met Mr. Crawford,he was amazing in the arts of eating food. I love Mr. cRawford.

I have read through much of this book, and I was quite dissapointed. In my opinion, it's not worth the avg review of 4.5 stars.

The book starts with introductory chapters, that's fine for new users. But after that, it continues to follow the path of giving out code by code, with little exlaination of the real world requirements and the implemented mechanism.

The book lack a chapter for CFML language (types, functions, etc), which should be placed in the beginning part and should be a base for further learning.

The chapters on application framework and session variables is not even as clear as Allair's online documentation, which is brief itself.

The chapter about custom tag should be place on this book, not on "advanced" one, as modular design should be used in the first place, and not many designers/developers have time to read both books before starting their projects.

This book contains some good parts though.

The Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit is an excellent book for someone to pick up to learn Cold Fusion. I bought the book knowing nothing about Cold Fusion, and having a limited understanding of SQL. Well, after reading Ben Forta's book, I now understand the fundamentals of Cold Fusion and SQL statements.

The chapters are divided up nicely, from covering ODBC database access to advanced SQL statements to access these databases. It covers all of the basics of Cold Fusion starting at the ground up, and assuming you know nothing about Cold Fusion, or SQL. After teaching you the basics, it goes into advanced topics like cookies, stored procedures, etc.

However, there are a few things that I didn't like in the book (hence only 4 stars). It didn't give a lot of space to cookies and session variables (which I think are important). I also found multiple typos, which were slightly confusing for a while.

But other than these few complaints, this is a great book, and I would highly recommend it to someone who wants to learn Cold Fusion and SQL statements.

...but that's not to say it's perfect. There's a couple of things that I definitely found wanting:

* Forta fails to mention that in order to pass a variable from one page to another, you have to declare that variable name on the page to which you're passing * E-commerce should be its own book; I don't see much point in addressing it in the space of this one. * I think he should have included an appendix with a list of useful/helpful websites (ANYONE LOOKING FOR SOME, EMAIL ME AND I'LL SEND YOU A LIST) * That same appendix should have included how to find the nearest ColdFusion user's group (http://devex.allaire.com/developer/usergroups/).

Having said that, I think Forta covers functions pretty well, and does a good job of explaining MOST of the major tags. So I still think this is better than "ColdFusion for Dummies" or Danesh and Motlagh's book, "Mastering ColdFusion 4.5."

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn ColdFusion; if you're considering it, though, I would say it is WELL worth your while to learn HTML and SQL first.

This is a solid introduction to the world of Java development with Servlets and related technologies. This wonderful book has been completely updated to cover the new features of Version 2.2 of the Java Servlet API. The book covers the servlet lifecycle; how to use servlets to maintain state information effortlessly; how to serve dynamic web content, including both HTML pages and multimedia data; and advanced topics like integrated session tracking, efficient database connectivity using JDBC, applet-servlet communication, internationalization, servlet security and how to program Java servlets to create powerful and interactive Web applications.

The book also looks at a variety of techniques for saving session state, as well as showing how Servlets can work together to power Web sites. This updated edition shows you just how to do it with plenty of basic and advanced tips for taking full advantage of this powerful Java standard.

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We have a half dozen books on servlets lying around the office, and I've also read the online tutorial from Sun. Nothing compares in breadth, depth, or clarity to Hunter and Crawford's "Java Servlet Programming".

Luckily, the second edition does not tinker with the tried and true formula of the first: brief overview, hello world servlet, a thorough overview of the HTTP protocol itself and the architecture of servlets, a discussion of thread and resource issues, and a standalone chapter on session management. Despite the 700+ pages of this book (are authors paid by the pound these days?), this core introduction remains only 200 pages and change. Each topic is presented with definitions and clear, yet realistic code examples. The authors not only provide advice on how to use servlets effectively, but also provide numerous suggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls and misconceptions.

The remaining 500 pages cover topics such as security, internationalization, database connectivity and communicating with applets. Although these are not really servlet-specific issues, they are almost always present in some combination on web sites, and the authors indicate the peculiar way in which the standard Java approaches to these problems interact with the servlet architecture. Each is presented in its own clear chapter with several examples. The beauty of these chapters is that like good code, they're modular and can be read in any order.

In what I think is a sensible organization, Java Server Pages (JSPs) and "application frameworks" are left for last. Both are well defined and illustrated. There's also 50 pages of reference, but frankly, I prefer the javadoc.

"The Bible for Java Servlet Programmers!" Well, OK, as with all books about evolving technologies, this one will have a limited lifetime in your collection, but I'm sure Mr. Hunter is continuing his research with servlets as the API evolves, and a volume II will be a welcome addition to any collection.

You can use this book right now to put together an awesome web site using Java servlets. The book is definitely for the intermediate to expert Java programmer who sees the strength of Java on the server-side. If what you've heard about servlets sparks your interest, "Java Servlet Programming" will fulfill those sparks with excellent coverage of the topic. It reads like a chapterized coverage of servlets, and easily evolves into a reference manual. You don't find many technical books that serve as a good read AND a good reference. And you certainly won't find one that does this covering servlets, other than "Java Servlet Programming" by Jason Hunter.

Within 50 pages, you will apply Java Server Pages with JavaBeans and solidify your understanding of the HTTP protocol, a foundation of servlet technology. By page 100, you will never pay for a web page hit counter again, as you find out how a hit counter is easily done with servlets. You will also find out the real advantages of servlets over existing server-side technologies like CGI. Chapter 13 (oddly enough), is a toolbox of servlet odds-and-ends that every servlet programmer can use now.

As a servlet developer who is used to being able to act also as a web server administrator at work, I wanted to learn how to use servlets when I don't have complete control over the actual server machine, in an ISP situation, for play. This book got me there!

Java servlet programming is subject to Web server implementations just like Java applet programming is subject to browser implementations. The text addresses this very well, unlike other Java books that may assume that things will work the same on all platforms, and don't even take the time to consider these real issues.

I have been a Java programmer for a little over a year, and have come up to speed very fast with the aid of books like "Java Servlet Programming." Servlets are for experienced server-side programmers, so learn Java first, then play with applets for awhile before considering the power of server-side Java. Then pick up Java Servlet Programming and launch into the fastest, most stable, most flexible and useful Java implementation yet - Java servlets!