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This book gives a little too much information. Most Professors will require PreCalculus ESSENTIALS. So unless this one is required, get the condensed version of it.

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After going back into this book more and more I can only revise my opinion upward. Sullivan covers almost every topic before calculus and does it in a very straightforward manner. The text has rigor proving many important statements but this is never used in sacrifice of understanding. The student solution manual is also great and highly recomended. A great text and reference book.

I teach high school math and reviewed many textbooks before I chose this title. The examples are diverse and the problem sets complete. Students will appreciate the excellent review at the end of each chapter. Completing this book will leave one in good stead to take calculus and linear algebra.

I read this awhile ago and am just going through a bunch of old books I have around still that I read and reviewing them :) This was I believe my very first 'programming' book I ever read and it brings back fond memories. This book will teach you things like what a variable is and a function...basic stuff but years later it is still helpful! I'd highly recommend it as javaScript hasn't even changed that much since this book was published I even reread it.

Very good book as in introduction to JavaScript. Clear and concise descriptions and examples, that actually work! This isn't a good book for the experienced programmer looking for a desk reference (though it's not too bad in that regards), but is a great book for someone wanting to get started with JavaScript.

This is a neat book. First, it is one of the best intros with useful examples. Part way through, Mr. Ford starts to show us 'Intelligent' apps like simple rule-based expert systems, search, and problem-solving. You can start the book knowing nothing about JS, and end up doing some quite sophisticated programming when you finish the book.

I looked at 10-15 books, and bought this one... it works! LISP and Prolog hackers take a look!

Ford begins with useful code samples to illustrate the basic grammar and syntax of JavaScript. In the second half of the book he provides an interesting introduction to programming techniques that could be adopted for use in any language. I teach a JavaScript course and this will be the text.

I would really recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn JAVA Wireless. The authors really explain the architecture of J2ME really well and better then the average book on J2ME. They have a good chapter on VXML, WML, and WMLSRIPT. You need to be an experienced developer to read this book.

Just got this book and have read most of it. Finally a Wireless Java book that talks about something more than J2ME! The campus portal app is a nice touch and ties all of the previous discussions together. Great fluff-free chapters on MIDP, Web Services, and VoiceXML. I also liked the underlying theme of tying everything together with J2EE.

This is the best Wireless programming book I have found. It helps enhance your Wireless skill set while leveraging your existing Java knowledge, and shows how to actually combine today's wireless technologies for real business applications. It takes a great, all-encompassing approach, and the end-to-end Campus Portal application pull everything together. This book gives you everything you need.

This book really saved me. Taking your applications wireless is a major headache, and it was driving me crazy. There is not a lot of help available out there, but in this book, I finally found good, readable information that shows how to integrate J2ME with J2EE.

I bought this book more than one year ago. But the more I use it the more I like it.Although the book was written for JDK1.0.2, the ideas are still valid. The book is project oriented. The authors used only two chapters to talk about Java and the rest of the book guides users to develop non-trivial projects. I learn a lot by doing these projects. No other books match this one. If the authors will update this book for new JDK, I will jump to buy it.

The code applet for spreatsheet project (part 2), in cap. 3 is incomplete. The library lose the Cd of this book, and I writte the code, but it's not compile!

This book is sensational, but it needs to be updated to the new language version specially about event-treatment.

Doc Savage was the first superhero. He was the inspiration for Superman, Batman and many other of the heroes everyone knows today. An interesting thing to note is Doc Savage's first name is Clark, and Kenneth Robeson's Real last name was Dent. Put them together and you get Clark Dent. HMM. . . Where have I heard that name before?

If you enjoy Science fiction, action, adventure, or just a good old mystery, these books are for you. Written is a fast paced manner, they read very well and keep the action moving as fast as you can read. Unlike many books today, where the author adds so much detail that a minute's worth of dialogue and activity takes 6 pages to read, these novels keep you moving at the speed of an action movie, not a documentary.I have been a fan of Doc Savage since about 1978. I grew up reading and collecting the Bantam editions. In college, I lost my focus and missed the last years of the series and have been trying to find them, ever since. I was excited when I heard this was coming, but after reading my copy, I can only say one thing. Awesome!

This book reprints the two appearances of Johnny Sunlight, one of Doc Savage's most challenging opponents. He is introduced in the first story, where he discovers the hidden research and storage lab of Doc. Doc chases him across the continent back to his fortress, where you think Johnny has been killed, but returns to menace the entire world even worse in the second story.

This book is printed in the original pulp magazine style. in the 1930's entire novels were printed on 7X10 paper with illustrations and extra articles and such. This edition is a true book, with quality covers, printed spine and heavy paper. Even the original illustrations have been used, along with the original cover paintings from the first editions. Additional articles about the author and the series add interest over and above the enjoyable stories.

This edition reprints the famous cover painting by James Bama.

Buy yours today! You won't regret it.

After an official 12 year hiatus, the adventures of Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, are coming into print for a new generation. This is landmark day for die-hard Doc Savage fans such as myself and an opportunity for new fans to discover him. Doctor Clark Savage Jr. was raised by scientists to be a "super-man" who righted wrongs and defended the innocent. He made his headquaters on the 86th floor of the "tallest building in New York" and with his five aides -- all experts in different fields -- he travelled the world looking for excitement and adventure.

The series was written (mostly) by Lester Dent and explored many ideas that were later borrowed by other charaters. (Yes, Virginia, Doc Savage had the ORIGINAL arctic Fortress of Solitude in 1933 fully 5 years before Superman was even published.) Virtually every adventure character since then has "borrowed" from Doc. It is good to have his original adventures back in print.

Doc Savage stands as one of the most remarkable series in the history of heroic science fiction. Although little known to today's younger generation of sci-fi adventure, Doc's remarkable career as the star of his own monthly magazine through much of the 1930s and 40s surely places him in contention for the greatest adventure hero in the history of fiction. Certainly his record of derring-do, exploration, invention, crime fighting and mystery solving stack up against any other character that can be named. This career spans 182 novels (all but a handful written by his creator, the prolific Missouri pulp writer Lester Dent). And now with this brand new series of reprints, a new generation of readers is ready to discover Doc again.
During his career, Doc, with the help of his five remarkable friends, did some pretty amazing things. He battled colorful villians and saved the U.S. and the world from the most insidious of plans. He also came up with some spectacular inventions and innovations; and, in the course of his exploits, discovered dozens of lost civilizations and legendary artifacts. His popularity during his time was so great that the creators of Superman borrowed from him several aspects of Superman's character, including the concept of the fortress of Solitude. However, Doc as a hero is more similar to Batman than to Superman, as there is nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial about his powers - rather they are the result of pure physical and scientific development, the result of an experiment in which Doc was trained from infanthood to become a superior human being.
The selection of the two novels in this mini-omnibus constitute the entire "John Sunlight" saga. Sunlight was Doc's Moriarty, the only villian to survive an encounter with the Man of Bronze for a return engagement. In "Fortress of Solitude" Sunlight establishes himself as one of Doc's most formidable adversaries by stealing some of Doc's most secret powerful weapons and using them for his own campaign of evil. And in the sequel, "The Devil Genghis", Sunlight is back again, with world domination as his goal and only Doc standing in his way.
While I'm disappointed that the editors of these new reprints chose not to follow a straight chronological reprinting of this series, starting with the first volume (the best introduction to the series) and moving on from there, I must say they couldn't have picked two more representative stories than these. And even if you already possess the text of all 182 original Doc novels as I do, these reprints would be worth owning because of the original pulp presentation and art - I've also heard that some of these new reprints actaully offer restored text that never appeared in any published version.

To give a brief background about myself. I have been one of the primary contributor and committer of the Web Tools Platform (WTP) eclipse tools project since its inception through WTP 1.5 release. I contributed the Validation Framework component for this project. I read a large portion of this book and can say that this most comprehensive book that explains the complete WTP in a step by step fashion that can be help you easily understand the whole WTP project, its sub projects, its components and features through several real world examples. I strongly recommend this book to all users and contributors of WTP.

Vijay Bhadriraju, IBM

Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java(TM) Web Applications

This is an excellent book; I specially liked the iterative approach (for example, for presentation tier, iteration 1: HTML, iteration 2: add CSS, iteration 3: add Javascripts, iteration 4: XML and XSLT, iteration 5: DTD)authors have taken. I have used examples from this book, with Eclipse and NetBeans, of course for Eclipse user this book has added value, since it goes through configuration of Eclipse and recommended practices. Please ignore the gripe about errors in the code; there are two minor errors which are detailed in the errata on book's companion site, it doesn't take more than a minute to fix those two issues.

Authors discuss All three tiers in great detail. How about this, by page 85 you would be deploying a simple web service (and you would be amazed how simple it is).

Though I have had some experience in Java, Eclipse, and WTP, a recent project required me to get more into depth. This book got me through the whole development process. It explained to me clean coding techniques when writing web apps in Java, how to get my web server up and running for use with WTP, to get my apps to talk to the server, debugging using different tools, and unit testing in a web environment.

This book was an invaluable addition to my collection, and is also a great reference now that I have mastered these concepts.

i am gratitude when got the book from a senior after he left the company. No one give me advise on how to program an enterprise servlet application and feel desperate. Don't look down on this 425 pages book, inside the book, every chapter is resourceful and practically useful apply to my development.

I have read alot of books on Java, and this one is the only one that seems to clearly explain all of the details. It makes development easy by providing sample code, and explanations. It contains many photos that really give you the grasp of a potentially complicated coding process.

This book is outstanding in that it approaches Java Servlet development more practically than most other books. It shows the problems that you run into during development and heads them off by showing you what you may end up encountering and the approriate solution. This book saved my team alot of hours of headaches in that we ran into alot of the issues that the author had explained about in the book. Also his explanation of object pools and LDAP connectivity was excellent. I highly recommend this book to any development team.

The book is very simple and very directly.

I recommend this book.

I've been an SAP ABAP programmer for nearly 10 years and am very comfortable with the traditional SAP programming model. My exposure to Java has been limited but when SAP announced that their latest version of SAP Web Application Server (WAS) would include a Java stack I knew it was time to dust off those old Core Java volumes I had lying around. However Java is a moving target and my Java 1.2 manuals are hopelessly out of date. A friend suggested I take a look at this book.

The Object Oriented extensions to ABAP were based on Java so a lengthy tome on all the ins and outs of Java was not what I was looking for. I needed something concise and to the point that would not "talk down to me" but would get me up to speed quickly on what I needed to know about Java from an SAP programmer's point of view.

I really believe that this is that book. Mr Rooney covers a very large subject at a fair pace and with a good sense of humor that keeps the reader engaged. Topics are explained from a SAP programmer's point of view (as per the book's title) which in itself is quite unique. Even the complex subject of EJBs is explained with just the right amount of info.

Highly recommended.

I have had the pleasure of working with the author personally. We had the opportunity of bringing him in to a client to help convert their ABAP staff to Java knowledgeable ABAPers. So I know first hand that he knows what he talks about. He gives an excellent class too.
I own this book and as a fellow SAP professional I can only highly recommend it. I have used it and will continue to use it until I get the Java thing down.
Excellent effort.

Low's index has long been the bible for dealers and collectors of Audubon's Birds of America. Painstakingly accurate in its original edition, this new, updated and expanded version is produced with all the care of true booklovers. Elegant and useful. Thanks to Reese and Heald for making this invaluable tome available.

Susanne Low conducted years of painstaking research to write this lovely book. She examined four complete 435-print sets of Audubon's double elephant folio and this detailed, comprehensive Guide is the result. Every variant of every print is described including the birds depicted, the exact size of the plate mark, and where and when Audubon painted the original. A similar section describes the 150 Bien edition chromolithographs that were made in 1858-1860. The information presented is invaluable to antique dealers and collectors because it enables even the casual user to authenticate prints.

I especially like her cross-references and cross-indexes that make it easy to compare the double elephant folio prints with the Biens and the Octavos. She even included a biographical section that describes all the people who helped Audubon along the way. Writing my own book - Audubon Art Prints - would not have been possible without using Susanne's book as a reference.

This book represents a revision and extension of Ms. Low's earlier work, An Index and Guide to Audubon's Birds of America (Abbeville, 1988). It is a valuable reference for anyone interested in Audubon's folio bird prints. If you have a choice, select this more recent version than the out-of-print Abbeville edition. As in her earlier book, Ms. Low includes sizes of the plate marks for Havell Edition prints, and adds more information on the variants she encountered in a systematic review of four complete Havell Edition sets. The book also includes a wonderful bonus -- a detailed description of the Bien Edition (sometimes called the second folio edition of The Birds of America). Ms. Low's treatment is by far the most comprehensive information available in one place on this important and neglected work. As an Audubon dealer, and someone who has prepared web-based study guides of all the major Audubon editions, I have found endless uses for this book. It is a must-have reference for all serious students and collectors of Audubon's art.

Before starting, allow me to mention the fact that I am reviewing solely the poem "Howl" in Howl and Other Poems.

I read "Howl" this summer as a 16 year old and was absolutely stunned and amazed. As far as enjoying the poem I was entirely too confused by it the first time I read it to actually enjoy it; so let me start by giving the reader of this and prospective buyer of Howl and other Poems the advice to read "Howl" several times before forming a concrete opinion about it. To best describe it shortly, "Howl" is the story of a man that has been through and survived and recognized the horrors of the post war 1940's and the 1950's. "Howl" shows the oppression that people faced during this era and gives a ghastly description of the government and institutions in general at this time. The main strength of Ginsberg's poem is to expand the mind of the reader, even if that means confusing the reader. Take for example the stanza:
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue, amid blasts of leaden verse & the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion & the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising & the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality,
This is an absolutely mind boggling sentence. It attacks the areas of fashion and advertising and the powers of editors in newspapers. Stanzas like that are why I enjoy this poem, it is a critique of the time that Ginsberg lived in and allows one to see parallels in the current day and age.

Howl was written over the course of 1955-1956, and is truly a product of its time. This was the beginning of the beat generation, with other writers such as Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey. "Howl" reflects the post war era in which Ginsberg lived; an era of, as he believes, governmental oppression and assimilation. These thoughts are best conveyed in the stanzas discussing mental institutions and how they try to force a disease that may not actually be a disease out of you. Ginsberg also critiques the everlasting effects of a 1950's mental institution with lines such as "I'm with you in Rockland where 50 more shocks will never return your soul to its body again from its pilgrimage to a cross in the void" and "(who were) returning years later truly bald except for a wig of blood, and tears, and fingers, to the visible madman doom of the wards of the madtowns of the East". Along with Ginsberg's encounters with people in the post-war era and his personal experiences of mental institutionalization and the oppression he faced for being homosexual, drugs contributed much to Ginsberg's poem. Howl would not have come into existence without many of the drugs that started the new mindset of the beat generation such as Peyote, LSD, and DMT. Howl was a product of its own culture and it began and shaped much of the following beatnik era.

I do not consider "Howl" to have weaknesses as a peace of literature, but there are certain times where the reader is often confused by what Ginsberg is saying. Much of this is not so much because of the prosody of the poem but because so many of the ideas in an individual stanza are disconnected that it confuses the reader. For me, one of the stanzas that was so disconnected that it was confusing reads "who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union Square weeping and undressing while the sirens of Los Alamos wailed them down, and wailed down Wall, and the Staten Island ferry also wailed". The prospective reader must be prepared to allow the images that Ginsberg provides in "Howl" give them a new way of thinking rather than try and dissect its every stanza. I very much recommend reading "Howl"; it changed my outlook on the world.

It is a shame that this annotated edition of one of the great beat/modern poems is out of print. I strongly suggest you get this book while it is still available at the used bookshops.
Ginsberg claimed to have written this work spontaneously, but this work shows the poem was written over a period of time, and edited. Maybe he was only referring to the first draft! It really doesn't matter,but looking at the drafts does give one insight into how Ginsberg created the poem(s) and the development of a classic.

I reread this little book before attempting to review it. I remembered that it was a mad mantra of transcendent power from the heart of hell, but I didn't remember how nondated it was. This work is fresher and more relevant than 99% of what passes for poetry today. How can something last nearly 50 years without going stale or becoming trite? How can it be even more real now? Maybe it is because Ginsberg ripped it live, screaming, and bleeding from a place beyond time and beyond space. He tore it from the living bowels of MOLOCH itself and showed it to HIM. After all, what does divine madness know of time?

This poem is transcendence itself. It demonstrates that when you plunge into the deepest pit of hell it either kills you, or perhaps it burns out your insides so that you become a soulless zombie, OR you transcend it and rise howling to become a Mad Poet Saint who can truely encompass the Sacred in the Profane.

Read this poem, and the others like America, A Supermarket in California, Sunflower Sutra, Wild Orphan, and In Back of the Real. It's almost frightening how relevant to daily life it is. If you didn't know it, you would never guess that it was written in the 50's. Of course Ginsberg does invoke, holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space the fourth dimension, in the Footnote. Maybe that's why it's timeless. As Cassady used to say, we know time, yes, we know time....

I wish I would have been there for that first public reading in San Fran with Kerouac running around the audience passing the wine jug. On all the planes, the Gods themselves must have jumped back in shock as a flaming monkeywrench of living poetry was jammed through the spokes of the great quivering meat wheel of conception....