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This book is an excellent resource for any clinician who works with children or adolescents that are treated with psychiatric medications. This book contains individual, up-to-date medication handouts for parents/teachers and for youth. This text also includes a DVD that allows for these hand-outs to printed in PDF format. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone who prescribes psychiatric medication to children and adolescents.

I know. It's a VERY long book (in several volumes!). But you don't have to read it all in one month. I am tasting it piece by piece since two years. It is really the best book I can suggest on the history of Rome.

Ferdinand Gregorovius, despite his name, was a German who happened to be living in Rome during the end of the papal Government of the Heternal City (second half of XIX Century). He was so fascinated by this magnificent city - ok, I admit that I was born in Rome, but it IS a magnificent city - that he decided to write a history of it, from the fall of the Roman Empire untill the XVI Century. After that, he wrote, nothing special happened to the City, at least accourding to his artistic and historicist taste.

In the first volume of the book, I enjoyed mostly the description of the Gothic Wars, between Goths and the Eastern Roman Empire during the first half of the VI Century. It is really a fascinating story, it would be a wonderful script for a historical movie. I was so intrigued that I read the story from the original witness of the time, Procopius, a delightful reading as well.

Gregorovius was a histroian, but also a German of the time, and you can tell that just by reading how he describes (and defends) the Goths (followers of the arianism) and the German barbarians. While the late Romans are described as lost in lust and viciuos, barbarians have "fresh blood" and righteus morale. This nationalistic view had some fortune until our days, just remember what nazis thought of arians...

But the protagonist is Rome of course. If you read this book you will know pretty much everything about this city, at least until the end of the Middle Age. If you are interested in Rome this book CANNOT be missed. Every single historian of the city of Rome has to deal with it. The good news is that it is so well written and the content is so fascinating, that even the general public can be delighted by this book.

This book helped me set up my Mac OS X Panther so much. All the instructions are very clear, along with the example pictures. This book explains everything in OS X Panther, along with some other stuff such as iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, etc. Overall, this book has made my OS X Panther... ALIVE!!!

This is my first computer. It was great to find a manual with illustrations especially for me and my computer! I plan to wear it out...

This book was purchased as a text for a class I was taking. It is a very easy to read text and goes into Hypercard quite extensively. I would highly recomend it for anyone wishing to learn HyperCard

This CD is amazing...I cannot describe it properly but it was very touching...I would be surprised if you finised it without a box of kleenex handy. Buy this!

First of all let me confess to some insider knowledge of the author. A few years ago I worked in an internet and marketing communications agency alongside a certain Martin C Brown.

By day he provided both high-level IT consultancy (Mac, PC, Unix et al) and ground-level Mac and systems support to a mixed bag of Mac users - ranging from 'Power Users' to 'Just Plain Dumb Users'. By night he was obviously planning world domination of the computer book market... and he probably dashed off a few macros too that enabled him to download his awe-inspiring knowledge of all things Apple Mac straight from brain to paperback in one easy process!

Falling as I do into the 'dumb user' category, the idea of owning a computer (even a user-friendly Mac), but being cut adrift from the expert support of someone like Martin C Brown, scares the hell out of me.

So, IMHO (in my humble opinion), iMacFYI is a must-buy for every iMac owner on this planet. It doesn't matter whether you've been using a Mac since day one or whether you're a more recent convert. I've been a Mac devotee for over 15 years and I was amazed how much I learned on every page of this book. If I was a novice I reckon this book would provide a pretty good return on investment by around page 25 at the latest - and you'd still have over 250 pages left to go!

Flicking through iMacFYI as I finish this review it becomes apparent just what a great mix of hard facts, priceless info and readability this book offers. Virtually every section has a liberal sprinkling of useful screen shots, dialogue boxes, tips and notes. And the question and answer format adopted throughout leaves no stone unturned. Buy it, enjoy - and sleep easy!

The iMovie 3 Visual Quickstart Guide is a thinner book than most others
in the VQSG series. It has only 170ish pages and is labeled for the
beginning to intermediate user. After looking through the book, though,
I don't see any topic that is not covered (and I have used iMovie
pretty extensively). So I think that maybe there isn't such a thing as
an advanced iMovie user; advanced users are probably using Final Cut.
For any iMovie 3 user, this book would seem to satisfy the need.

iMovie is meant for the novice user; it is meant to give the average
person the ability to produce videos that look semi-professional and
can be easily burned to CD-ROM or emailed. This book undeniably meets
this demand. OK, you say, but what about iMovie 4, the newest version
of iMovie? Well, I chose this book for two reasons: first, there is not
a good selection of iMovie 4 materials yet, and second, only buyers of
iLife '04 and new Macs (since March 2004) would have that program
whereas iMovie 3 is still a free download and usable by anyone with
10.1.5 and up.

Although people argue that iMovie 4 is worth the upgrade, that is
another discussion. My focus on the utility of this book is intended to
reach a larger audience. This book contains EVERYTHING you need to know
about iMovie 3 and has added sections on using a digital video camera
and integration with iDVD 2 (only available on Macs with a Superdrive).
The iMovie 3 VQSG is an excellent resource to have around and will
likely find a home in my classroom where my students can benefit from
it.

iMovie and iDVD are two of the iLife programs that ship with your Macs. Many folks think that, because they are the "simple or basic" programs, that they don't have a lot of features or can't do professional looking movies.

The fact is, you can get VERY nice results with these applications. There was a fellow who won a prize at Sundance Film Festival for a movie he made entirely with a cheap miniDV camera and iMovie. If you have budding aspirations as a filmmaker, or you just want to video a birthday party or wedding, you can get great results, too.

Jeff Carlson's book is aimed at beginner-to-intermediate users. It takes a visual, step-by-step approach. Everything is explained well and accompanied by lots of photos.

I was really pleased to see that he devotes the first 50 pages of the book to explaining how to use the DV camera, including how to take good video to start out with. He covers focus, depth-of-field, lighting, composing your shots, how and when to move the camera, etc. The term "garbage-in-garbage-out" was invented for computers, but it is really true with video and photography, as well.

Part 2 covers iMovie in logical order. He starts with an overview, then tells you how to import footage, edit video, edit still pictures for video, edit audio. He pays nice attention to the audio portion, including how to adjust the audio that came with the video, adding sound effects, music from iTunes and GarageBand, and adding audio from other sources. He also covers transitions, adding titles and making them look good on-screen, and adding visual effects to the movie.

Carlson calls Part 3 "Sharing." He tells you how to get your finished movie back to video tape or export it in other formats, such as QuickTime. Depending on the QuickTime compression scheme, you can put your movie on a CD, the web or send it via e-mail. And ... of course, you can send it to iDVD, complete with chapter markers.

Part 4 tells you everything you need to know to make a DVD. He tells you how to apply themes, customize them, create sub-menus, add chapters to an existing iDVD project, and creating slide shows with background audio. Then, he shows you how to create a project archive and burn the DVD. He finishes up with a chapter on troubleshooting.

iMovie Fast & Easy is just that...FAST AND EASY! Kevin Harreld does an incredible job of breaking down the information for the beginning user and helps them turn bad video into entertainment. The easy-to-read format and helpful tips create a great "beginner's guide," and a book that even the seasoned user will refer to over and over!

INCREDIBLE!