This is NOT a historical overview of Roman history, as one might think from the title. It is a quasi-philosophical collection of vignettes about a few times, persons, and events in Roman history. It reminded me of a taxi ride through Rome, with a driver pointing out interesting historical tidbits about various places while passing by. Not a bad writer, but a generally personal vision of Rome and some of its history.

This is NOT a historical overview of Roman history, as one might think from the title. It is a quasi-philosophical collection of vignettes about a few times, persons, and events in Roman history. It reminded me of a taxi ride through Rome, with a driver pointing out interesting historical tidbits about various places while passing by. Not a bad writer, but a generally personal vision of Rome and some of its history.

August 1997; found at the new Visitor's Center at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Co. Bought the only copy left. Pretty colors of insignias but not much in quantity--only contains one paragraph for each of the 40 squadrons.

I wanted to let folks know that this author is NOT the author of GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict. This book on writing your heritage may be a lovely book, I've never read it, so I make NO recommendation. I'm simply letting folks know that this author is not to be confused with the OTHER Debra Dixon.

Sheridans are expensive and are poorly made much $ is needed to make one useable. Try making an affordable gun.

The book gives sound information on the history of the company and the evolution of the product. It does not have anything to do with the quality of the product.

Probably the worst historical novel I have ever read. One half of the book consists of a syrupy faux-Victorian love story between cardboard characters, the other sounds as if it was lifted verbatim from one of the duller pre-World War I military textbooks. It would seem hard to make the Charge of the Light Brigade sound as exciting as the daily Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, but that is exactly what Ms. Stuart's does. Obviously the publisher is trying to cash in on the current vogue in 18th and 19th century soldier and sailor yarns by republishing this dud, but you'd do better to save your money and re-read the Sharpe series instead.

This book has strong elements of a Victorian romance novel mixed with military elements. There is as much attention to the officer's women as to soldiers. The story takes place during the amateurish British campaign (after 40 years of peace) west around the Black Sea to the Crimea in support of the Ottoman Turks against the Russians. Alexander Sheridan is a disdained but competent English officer. It's hard to like him much, for he's a bit wooden. He's been a bit of a fool in love and gotten himself cashiered from the regular army and fled to India. He's in love with one or the other of the two beautiful Mowbray sisters who suddenly appear in his battle zone. The sentimentality and reticence seen in the relations between the genders may be true to the period (1854), and overlays a still hard world. The main thread is the forlorn lost love between Capt. Sheridan and Charlotte, rather than the fierce personal and battle emotions when he joins the Light Brigade (yes, THAT infamous brigade, so yu know what must happen...). Alex and the girls' eight years together in India are entirely skipped, so tight is the focus on the romantic triangle of the moment. Dialogue is restricted to proper Victorian discreetness. We are spared battlefield carnage, as military affairs are kept in the distance. The author, a WW II British lieutenant herself, foregrounded the suffering of women surrounded by men at war, trying to survive and nurse cholera victims in appalling filth and disorder, and striving to keep or get an officer husband while crazed with fear or jealousy.

The Crimean battles are mostly described in offialese from the generals' and units' perspectives, with no overview of the strategy. There's nothing of the personal fear and shock of raw troops, or the novelistic here. At least until the inadvertant Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade, when we get to see through Sheridan's eyes the confusion and horror of that affair, when "cannon volleyed and thundered...someone had blundered" (Tennyson). Amid the filth it lift's one's heart to see Emmy Mobray open the way for Florence Nighingale to begin the army nursing profession. The presentation is good and includes two vintage maps.

The exemplary part of this book is the reproduction of drawings, photographs and woodcuts which are fascinating and represent many genres of expression. The truly weak part of the text is the inaccurate portrayal of Aleister Crowley and his various followers. For a less distorted perspective on Mr. Crowley, his life, his theory, and his perspective, see Richard Kaczynski's "Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley." For a more detailed book on sex magick and tantra see Nikolas Shreck's "Demons of the Flesh: sex magic" that describes the philosophy and perspective of this path in depth.

Nice book, but not one I would normally choose to spend my summer reading and especially not comparing it to another book! However, if it were for pleasure, this book does have several charming qualities.

This book has a total of 27 pages dedicated to UML. The remaining content is primarily focused on project management and UML is only used in the examples. Even the quality of the project management content is questionable.

The authors focus on the top down approach. Management makes all decisions. Programmers are considered to be nothing more than allocable resources, despite the fact that they have in-depth knowledge of the technology. A recent project undertaken by my company followed this development process. After two years and six million dollars, there were no deliverables and most involved were no longer with the company. Instead of accepting input from the staff programmers, the management gained all their information from salesmen and sales presentations.

If you are looking for a UML book, this book will not fulfill your requirements. Therefore, I give it one star.

This book really is more about project management; UML and its application within a VB project to the authors, seems optional. Here's were the book goes bad: 1)There are no UML syntax definitions.

2)There is no hard reference to UML tools, not even Visual Modeler.

3)The VB source code for the Case Study is passed over in abut 10 pages. (the author seem more comfortable with project management)

4)The CD-ROM is one big promotion for Visio, there is source code but the source is not eve rapped up in a Visual Molder file and you get a MS Project outline of their proposed method (ooh! hold me back)

If you are looking for a book on project management and team development organization, this book is for you. "If you are looking for a no-nonsense book on UML for busy developers looking to unleash the strength of the UML" (from the books intro), this is not the book for you, don't waste your money. If you fall in the later category try "Developing Applications with Visual Basic and UML"

_shawn

I have worshipped Judy 4 25-26 years! Her legacy is astounding - and she continues 2 enrich my life!

This book(I WON`T EVEN MENTION THE WRITERS NAMES) is like dancing or spitting on Judy`s grave. There are 2 many numerous faults - in this book - worth mentioning....

The photographs are good, but years and their origins are 2 often wrong....

Please! If I were the publisher I would withdraw it from circulation. Liza, Lorna, Joey and Sid have plenty AMMUNATION for a lawsuit....

This book makes me cry! The authors HAVE NO SYMPATHY for its subject whatsover....

If u wanna read how CRUEL persons can be 2 other people; READ THIS TRAVESTY....

Garland was a tempestuous talent with serious emotional problems who began to use drugs at an early age. Her drug use served to intensify her emotional problems, distorted her personality, ruined her career, and ultimately took her life. These are facts, and any Garland biography that attempts to gloss over them does a disservice to its subject, who deserves the dignity of truth. But Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon's JUDY GARLAND: BEYOND THE RAINBOW does not simply meet these facts, it turns them into superficial tabloid trash complete with pat explantions and superficial interpretations; worse still, the text is riddled with factual inaccuracy, relies upon rumor and mean-spirited speculation, and makes no attempt to place Garland's difficulties in perspective with the other aspects of her life.

I can think of no other Garland text, including the absolutely abominable biography by Anne Edwards, that so ill-serves its own subject. It is filled with unverified and self-serving gossip delivered in such a nasty tone that one wonders how Morley and Leon manage to sleep at night. If you wish to read a legitimate portrait of Garland, I recommend you seek out Christopher Finch's meticulously researched and elegantly written RAINBOW: THE STORMY LIFE OF JUDY GARLAND (sadly, now out of print) or Gerald Frank's exhaustive JUDY instead--and avoid this piece of coffee table trash as you would the plague.

I have to say that this book is the poorest excuse of a Judy bio I have ever read! It's a disgrace! How in the world did this get printed with all those lies and errors?! I don't even have words to describe my disgust! I feel so sorry for the authors if they have to resort to telling lies about the greatest female entertainer that ever lived just to make money! Judy was the most fantastic singer/actress of all time and I am indescribably angry at how the authors portray her! I am only 16 and I know more about Judy than those authors who supposedly researched her to write the book! How in the world can they even think they know all about Judy when they never even knew her? My advice is that if you want to read about Judy then read Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir by Lorna Luft. Lorna is Judy's own daughter and she knows the facts because she was there. Get the facts from Lorna and don't waste your money on the Beyond the Rainbow rubbish!