Robert Prentice Books

It is an interesting book. Relatively easy to read. Well organized. It would be nice to have more examples. Lists are good but they need to be substantiated. I also found the appendices to be nearly useless. There are many many pages of appendices and they really do not serve any purpose. It would be better just to delete those pages and give us a cheaper price. I bet we paid a lot for those appendices. So yes the price is high. I would liked to have seen many more diagrams. The ones present are helpful. The book needs editing in some sections. Overall, I give it a 3.5.

A must-have for the any professional working in the urban forestry field. Contains excellent information regarding the need for urban trees and the management of an urban forest. It is written in a conversational tone, making it easy and interesting to read.

I think it was the book that I needed and I received it very soon and it was OK from any point of view for me!

The objectives of this book are to introduce the reader to the fundamental understanding of water wave theory and to apply the basic physical principles to the coastal and ocean environments. The prerequisites for understanding this book are knowledge of fluid mechanics, basic calculus, and differential equations. Thus it is presumed that the student is an engineer, and probably an ocean engineer. This book is really quite accessible. I am an electrical engineer and I have been using it to help perform animations and visual effects regarding water and its properties. Its clear examples have been quite valuable in turning seemingly complex equations into actual physical phenomena that can be measured. I consider it a steal at its low price considering its content. Also, it is good as a textbook since it contains plenty of homework problems at the end of each chapter.
The table of contents are:
Introduction to Wave Mechanics
A Review of Hydrodynamics and Vector Analysis (Eulerian and Lagrangian view, Navier-Stokes Equation)
Small-Amplitude Water Wave Theory Formulation and Solution
Engineering Wave Properties
Long Waves
Wavemaker Theory
Wave Statistics and Spectra
Wave Forces
Waves Over Real Seabeds
Nonlinear Properties Derivable from Small-Amplitude Waves
Nonlinear Waves
A Series of Experiments for a Laboratory Course Component in Water Waves

Very good complement to study and exercise Spanish grammar. Simple drilling and good vocabulary building. The authors made a excellent job trying to provide a context for the exercises. The best grammar workbook I have seen so far.

This is not a workbook for the novice. It assumes a pretty good prior knowledge of the language. I have two years of high school Spanish and two years of college Spanish, and it is very challenging for me, especially the vocabulary. Excellent review workbook, however, with all of the vocabulary in the back of the book. If you want the answers to the exercises, however, you need to order them from the publisher.

TREASURE ISLAND is quite simply *the* classic pirate story. It is a supremely enjoyable read, an adventure tale with danger, mystery, suspense, and travel to exotic places--not to mention pirates!

Robert Louis Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND tells of the coming of age of the boy Jim Hawkins, the son of innkeepers. One day, Jim's parents take on a strange boarder, the "captain," later revealed to be a pirate mate, Billy Bones. The "captain" kept in his room a chest within which, it is revealed after his death, there is a treasure map indicating gold and silver buried on a deserted island. Jim takes the map to the local physician, Doctor Livesey, and the squire John Trelawney. Spurred to action, Trelawney secures a ship, the Hispaniola, which is captained by Alexander Smolletts. He invites Livesey to serve as ship's surgeon and Jim as cabin boy. Trelawney also hires the crew--most of whom turn out to be pirates associated with the treasure map's original owner, Captain Flint. The pirates are led by the ship's cook, Long John Silver, a wily, one-legged, parrot-bedecked, opportunistic pirate chief. (Stevenson's Long John Silver profoundly shaped later popular pirate lore.) The pirates intend to kill the captain, squire, doctor, and Jim on the return voyage after having found the buried treasure. What follows is Jim's adventure of a lifetime.

Though intended to be a story for youth, TREASURE ISLAND's nineteenth-century language, particularly the patois of the sea dogs, will challenge readers under ten. Amusingly, it sometimes also challenges Jim Hawkins, who can't always follow what the pirates are saying. Though the language at times may be difficult, the suspense of the tale will keep propelling readers forward to its exciting and satisfying end.

This "Whole Story" edition is lavishly illustrated with color drawings based on the story. There are also pages devoted to types of sailing vessels, sails, knots, compasses and other nautical stuff. The book also includes a number of sidebar-like illustrated fun facts about pirates and other things only tangentially related to the story. In fact, I often found the additional material not terribly germane and sometimes intrusive and distracting. Still, it makes for a handsome gift book. One simply interested in reading this ripping yarn might choose an edition with simple illustrations or no illustrations at all, save for Stevenson's treasure map.

The book has nice pen and ink illustrations throughout and includes the original Treasure Island map illustration from the original edition. The cover art is by a different artist who has clearly adapted the image from the very familiar publicity photo of Jim and Long John Silver from the Disney film--kind of humorous.

This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that leads Jim and his companions to risk the long trip in search of riches. I felt the suspense as Jim's group boards ship with a hardened sea crew that includes Long John Silver and other tough cookies. Then the ship finally arrives at the Island, where Jim and his companions must survive treachery and deadly struggles at the fort - before they even see the treasure.

I just taught this abridged version to English-literate students at a high school in Latin America; most liked it although some wanted even more action. This is a solid read for adventure fans, capable young readers, and those that desire a good story.

My dad and I are reading this book, and we think it's totally awesome! If you are 11 or 12, you may want to read this book with an adult, but you'll love the adventure and pirates, the treasure map and the Hispanola. I think I am going to start learning pirate lingo now, so I'll be ready if Long John shows up at my door! If you read this book you'll have to rate it a five star because of the adventure. Kids, hope you can get YOUR dad to read it with you!!

Cracking good pirate tale hits all the high points of treachery, adventure, narrow escapes, and treasure hunting, usually misfiled in the Juvenile section.

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"

See my review of the new novel Silver: My Own Tale As Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder that tells more of the story behind Long John Silver.

This publication has long since been public domain and unless you are purrchasing this for a good cause, you are wasting your money. If you want this publication FOR FREE, kindleclassics.org is a good place to get it. The formating is very easy to read (unlike this particular copy, as it doesn't have any quotation marks at all). The only disadvantage with using kindleclassics.org is you have to connect your kindle to your computer in order to get them on your kindle, but it's a very easy plug and play operation.

Mr. Hyde is a known murderer. Dr Jekyll is an honorable doctor in the scientific community. These people's lives should never cross, but why is Hyde the heir of Jekyll. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Luis Stevenson is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. The plot focuses on the duality of man and our capability to do both good and evil. The book does not take long to read and can probably be read in under 2 hours depending on your reading speed. This book is not hard to understand, it is written in prose. This book is not a murder fest and is probably better off for that. The book is written as a mystery. It would be better to compare it to a Hitchcock horror film than to Saw. I like it because it was a chance for me to read a classic, but not spend a month reading it. The plot was interesting and raised some interesting questions. All in all it is an interesting, but not time-consuming book.

Mr. Hyde is a known murderer. Dr. Jekyll is a honorable doctor in the scientific community. These people's lives should never cross, but why is Hyde the heir of Dr. Jekyll. This book by Robert Luis Stevenson "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", focuses on the duality of man and Jekyll's beleif that the evil in a man can be seperated from the good. This classic book can be read in as little as an hour and is a peice of literature that can surprise you in many ways. This book is not wriiten as poetry and as hard to read as The Odessy or Shakespeare. This book will make you think

A scientist invents a formula that can bring out man's dual nature. His opposite number, in this case, is somewhat of super-powered wanton, who does whatever he likes. Free of the social restraint of his other half, he happily commits any crime that comes to mind as he feels like it.

Eventually, investigators begin to suspect something, and a hunt is on for who is behind it.

This book was very interesting. It had its ups and downs and at time was hard to understand. I like the suspence and the mystery. For example I liked the part when out of no were Mr.Hyde lashed out and killed another man. I also liked the part were the lawyer went to go see Dr.Jekyll and there was a letter that the Doctor gave to the lawyer which was from Mr.Hyde the scary part was that there was no retern address and the door worker said that no one had hand delivered it. That is why i liked the book.

This is not a quick read. This is not a book with templates that will help you make a site. This book can be useful for beginners, it just may seem daunting to some at first due to the sheer volume of information.

This is a book I tend to use as an occasional reference while I work. I especially like that at the end of each section, the author discusses what is or is not compatible with various browsers. Were I an instructor teaching a CSS class, this book would work well as a textbook.

I've seen quite a few bad reviews on this book and wonder why. I am an experienced user of CSS. I bought this book because weeding through websites, message boards and tutorials have a limited usage. Tutorials are always very rudimentary, message boards are hit or miss for your particular problem and posting to them returns an answer a little too late when on a strict deadline, and web sites are too tailored to a particular problem.

This book gives a good overview of CSS and all of its contructs, from the first working model to new recommendations that haven't been adopted by a standards group. Its gives a summary on all properties and their adoption by differnt browser/OSs, and gives examples of proper application of the properties. It also explains some of the quirks and work-arounds with CSS which is a subject that could be a book in itself.

As a reference, I find it complete, but difficult to access information. It requires a bit of hunting because the index isn't thorough. I actually find it easier to use the TOC instead which is not a compliment.

If you are new to CSS, this book could serve you if you are a patient person. If you are a novice, this book would probably serve you better. If you are an expert, you may get a couple techniques out of this book, but if you're looking for a quick reference, this book will not serve you. It would possibly open your eyes to some techniques, especially with CSS2-3 and IE specific elements, although the execution of IE elements in this book are not streamlines.

Despite having a very good index, this book is not adequate even as a reference book, let alone instructing on the nuances of web-site development supported by CSS, due to its poor use of examples, skimpy descriptions of subjects, large typeface with wide-margins (leaving scant room for CONTENT), and inappropriate inclusion of a worthless color section. As an avid reader of the PH CORE series of books (Cay Horstmann's Java books being the shining jewels, IMHO), this book left me terribly disappointed. This book has sat on my shelves for years, and in the event that I need help with something relating to CSS, I will go online and look it up there, rather than suffer the frustration of trying to find something in this overly-sized book. To illustrate my rant, in many places the book references the fact that "colors have changed on the page," as you could clearly see WERE THE BOOK IN >>COLOR<<, yet the actual color section of the book contains a chart detailing compatibility of CSS properties in various browsers from IE 3.02 to Opera 3.6, which CLEARLY could be represented by a normal black-and-white chart with symbols denoting in which browsers a property is safe to be used. The color section of the book, which is very nice high-quality glossy stock, could be used more appropriately to illustrate how CSS can be used to control things such as, oh I don't know, maybe COLOR?!?!?! And clearly the overwhelming point of CSS is that the styles should be set up in a SEPARATE STYLE SHEET, not embedded into the HTML code, which Keith never illustrates anywhere. It would have been a real bonus if he had included two pages that had the same underlying HTML code, but were completely different looking based solely on the stylesheet used. Perhaps that would have been a good use for one of those pages in the glossy section - showing that you can have a "Halloween" version of a page, and a "Christmas" version of that same page, with no underlying code changes required. This book has made me change my philosophy regarding CORE books, from having no doubts that the content of the book will be worth the price, to being wary of purchasing another tome to be relegated exclusively to propping up the good books on the shelves of my library.....

The book didn't really teach me anything, and it makes for a lousy reference. I do not recommend it to either new or experienced CSS designers. Far better free resources exist on the web.

There's little discussion of external stylesheets, and instead it focuses on inline CSS (which is useful, yes, but not as useful as it could be).

The reference material in the back of the book doesn't refer you to related items, doesn't provide examples, and doesn't refer you to the pages in the main text which describe the reference item in more detail.

Prentice Hall has artfully concealed the lack of content in this book by providing a "Browser Compatibility" section at the end of every sub-section of the book. This pads every subsection of the book by 2/3 of a page. To pick an example randomly, Chapter 4 runs from pp. 53-80 (27 pages). There are nine of these "Browser Compatibility" pads, taking up around 6 pages in the chapter. This suggests that the book should really be about 80% as long as it is -- or, god forbid, have another big chunk of missing content to fix some of the lacks above.

If all of the information in this book was re-written to exclude all of the redundant and worthless muck, it could have easily fit onto 50 pages. As it is, the author managed to strech it into eight HUNDRED pages. Greenpeace should be all over this guy for the monumental waste of trees.

There *is* informative information, but you really have to dig to get to it. The entire text is truly an excersize in copy and pasting. The table of contents alone is over twenty pages. The index (which is really what we use) is only ten pages. A good example of the amazing bloat in this book are the pages on "padding". The primary properties are padding, padding-left, padding-right, padding-top, padding-bottom. Any sensible author would have given a comprehensive description of one of the properties, and then breifly stated the obvious difference between left and right. However, two pages are dedicated to each property. Each two-page description is virtually identical to each other, substituting "right" for "left" where appropriate, etc.

Since it's been on my shelf, I've gone to it occasionally for quick reference, and it's painfully difficult to find anything specific. Far better references can be found on the web for free.

This is a great book for anyone interested in how operating systems
really work and might be thinking about writing their own OS. I found it to be a thrilling read.

John

I found the book complicated but I am not a programmer. The book covers alot of concepts which I found hard to grasp. Overall the book is not bad but if you are looking for something that will teach you programming I would not recommend this book.

I'm taking a college course and this book really bites. Reading it just leaves me in a daze. He goes on and on about how this method won't work and that method won't work which completely covers up what we need to learn. I'm getting 98.18% in the class on term 8 of 10, but it's not due to this book. Unfortuneatley I'm stuck with the book because it's what the school uses. Find another one.

I have been able to, using just this book, read and learn about operating systems in a very thorough and painless way. The writing is straightforward and really demystifies OSs. I am a college CS student taking an OS course and this has been an invaluable asset.

It's a very useful, informative book but I found it more esoteric than it needed to be - I speak from my experience as a computer science student who then went on to write software for a living. Unfortunately, I feel the problems described below plague most popular OS books today, including "Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne".

I'd like to break up the review rating into two parts:

Content and relevance to subject: 4/5
The book covers almost all aspects of what an operating system needs to to do and so is highly informational, from threads to memory management to I/O - the three most essential (and yet elusive) concepts in today's operating systems. The author does a good job of explaining, at each stage, the various design choices that an OS designer must make e.g. virtual memory - use free lists or bitmaps to do book-keeping of used and free physical memory. Most concepts are explained clearly and as such I found this book to be a good reference on OS design principles.

Applicability to real world issues: 2/5
Unfortunately a good reference is not always the best way to understand how things work in practice. The book discusses design choices at each step, but I feel what most computer science students need to learn first is how today's operating systems work - how does the threading scheduler in UNIX work? how does UNIX manage memory, so I as a software engineer can best make use of it? It's great to know all these design pricniples an OS has, but my experience was that when you're at your first job wondering why you're running out of physical memory or why your multi-threaded program keeps crashing, it helps immensely to know well exactly how your OS works, than the myriad choices that it can make. And let's face it - there aren't many OS's in the wold today - the UNIX family and Windows, which is modeled largely on UNIX (albeit not welll and with a few differences). I should point out that the book has a chapter each on UNIX and Winwos at the end, but by the time you reach the end of a 900-page book you're usually out of patience.

I have studied from the book by Silberschatz et al. as well, and I have the same complaint with each book - as a student I felt there was a huge disconnect between what the books talk about and knowing the guts of your UNIX or Windows system. Put it simply, I found the books were too "bookish". Unfortunately, I am not aware of any other mainstream OS book that does any better. I would love to see a book that discusses this critical subject in a different (and more enlightening) way - that discusses in detail how, say threads work in UNIX, and then elaborates on how else it could be done. So that at the end of it, you atleast know to make best use of the OS you work with (even if you don't fully understand how to design the next one).

As a teacher I have encountered many points of view as to what will work best in my classroom. This book presents specific strategies that have the data and research to support their consistent use in enhancing student achievement. For seasoned teachers, like myself, although the strategies are not necessarily new, it is good to know which of the myriad of tools we have acquired over the years actually work and have the data to prove it. An excellent "tune up" for the classroom. I will put this into action right away this year and I am glad I read it over the summer to help me reshape my instruction for the coming year.

The insights provided in this book guide and inspire the new teacher and the master teacher. The book left me excited about returning to school in the fall.

This is a very dry book with a lot of excellent ideas. Though hard to read, it is valid in what it presents.

I felt the book was an excellent read. I liked the way it segmented and summarized the classroom instruction methods. However, I did feel at times it went too deep into the research portion, when a nice short summary would have done the job. Also thought the charts used to document research findings could have been displayed better. Overall, as a non-teacher pursuing a teaching degree, it brought me up to speed on classroom instruction strategies.

This booklet provides vastly more instruction on the nitty-gritty of what teachers need in the classroom. Thank you!

It was entertaining, interesting and a work of pure fiction. Jane Roberts had quite an imagination and I suspect she understood the gullible nature of humans...at least Seth did.

This book will totally change the way you view yourself, as well as the way you view the world. Once you read this....you will never be the same!
I am currently reading every Seth Book that I can get ahold of. Most, I have already read twice. I will be eternally grateful to Jane Roberts, Robert Butts and of course....Seth .

I am very impressed by the material of "how we form objects and events" in "The Seth Material". Seth described the processes clearly of "how we form obejcts and events from mental enery" which could not be found as clear as in "Conversations With God". I am also interested in author's description about her trance state when she acted as a medium for Seth. I like this book.

Very interesting material on Jane Roberts' late 1960's entry into the metaphysical world and how the entity "Seth" comes forth through her in sessions held with her husband, Rob. The wording sometimes is a little hard to read, just because of the way Seth communicates, but worth working your way through.

Seth, who is a being channeled through Jane Roberts is obviously an enlightened being not of this world...not anymore anyway. He passes messages in this book regarding reincarnation, creation, God, parallel dimensions, other realities, and life mysteries with a true sense of humor and understanding that only one who has experienced many existences and experiences could. From his superior vantage point he explains life and all its meaning in ways you've probably never thought of... truly enlightening! Some passages (and even whole chapters) need to be read over and over again in order to be grasped and to have the whole meaning and explanations realized.

This book is a good resource, however, I found that there were a number of problems with the practice questions. It would be helpful if the book included explanations on why particular answers weren't right and more importantly that PH would publish errata to the book. It would also be helpful if people who didn't know that CCNA 2.0 is out that they should be buying the newer material. The original CCNA test expired in the summer of 2000. My test comes up in less than 7 days and I'm scrambling to find out what the differences are. Shame on you PH.

I had taken ICRC and then took a class taught by Mr. Myhre based on this book. The 2 courses did not even compare. There were people that had been through ACRC that did not have a good grasp of subnetting until this course. I've seen some of the other reviews saying there are other outside materials needed to pass the CCNA exam. I think Mr. Myhre would agree. The point of this book is to enable you to understand the concepts and know the basics. It is up to the individual to apply them. And yes, I had a couple of questions on switching on my 640-507. The success rate for the 15 person class taking the test and passing the first time was over 75%!

I bought several books on Cisco and CCNA before taking and passing the exam with a score in the high 790's. With hindsight, I can say that Mr. Myhre's guide was by far the most instrumental in my success because it set the foundation necessary to make other manuals more readable.

There are many factors that make this guide essential to anyone preparing for the exam, but for the sake of time and space here are just a few: --All of the exam objectives are thoroughly covered. --I began my studies with only a superficial knowledge of the subject matter, and found the material highly readable and very well thought out. Very rare for a technical manual.

I had no problem finding the page numbers, the reviewers who did should eat more carrots. This book is ESSENTIAL to your success.

This is a good book, but not great, I am an IT professional and use Cisco all day ansd live in the IOS was looking for a book to help me get ready for the CCNA this isnt it.... Look into the sybex book by Lammle

This book is a good resource, however, I found that there were a number of problems with the practice questions. It would be helpful if the book included explanations on why particular answers weren't right and more importantly that PH would publish errata to the book. It would also be helpful if people who didn't know that CCNA 2.0 is out that they should be buying the newer material. The original CCNA test expired in the summer of 2000. My test comes up in less than 7 days and I'm scrambling to find out what the differences are. Shame on you PH.