Extreme Books

This cookbook is as supercharged as the athletes who contributed their own style of cuisine (however off the wall it may seem to some people).
Robert Earl represented them well. I particularly enjoyed the artistic way this cookbook was compiled - great photos, humorous writings, important etiquette tips (someone must have taught him well), and some great receipes for everyone who has the pleasure of purchasing this exciting new bookbook.
Mahalo Robert Earl, this is the first cookbook I picked up and couldn't put it down! Aloha!

This book is exciting - so much more than a cookbook - you get insite into great athletes - fabulous photos - fun ideas - exciting entertaining tips your mother never told you - and some pretty darn good recipes! This was a fun read - Robert Earl captures the essence of eexxttrreemmee!

well, i'd have to say I was surprised. I hear my grandkids talking about all the x-games and extreme sports, so i thought it would be cool to get into their world, seeing how I am now 78 years old. the recipes sound pretty good and even though i won't be getting on a skateboard anytime soon, I think the ettiquete and manners section of the book will lend some insight the the younger set. soo from the rock and roll Granda I say go get it. great stocking stuffer.

well, after hearing about the book from a NPR radio show in southern California and Robert Earl arriving to the show with food cooked on the grill of his car I had to check it out, sounded like something my boyfriend needed for christmas. after purchasing the book, i was pleasantly surprised by the ettiquette sections and, well I have to admit a few of the recipes where pretty darn good. so as I thought this will make a perfect gift for my boyfriend and will especially be an excuse for him to brush up on his manners and possibly even make me a pleasant dinner. the only problem is i have to order another book i'm keeping the first copy for myself. hope this helps

This book is un-unique. Like the X-GAmes, it's just hype and crap, and a rip-off of something better, just done much worse. The X-Games is the worst thing to ever happen to skateboarding, trying to legitimize something that was always best in it's outlaw form.

And this book is a piss-poor hack-job from the regular cooking column in the '80s Thrasher Magazines, called Skarfing Material. The author of SM, Chef-Boy-Am-I-Hungry, would happily pummel this Earl twit.
Does this Earl , the King of KOOK even skate?
Probably not.

There's no half-star or No star rating, otherwise I'da picked one of them.

And Tony, old buddy, you remember Skarfing Material. Surely you told this windbag that it's been done.
Call me.
Still rockin in Albuquerque.

My name is ... I could not wait to tell you about this book named Aggerssive In Line Skating by Anne T.Mckenna. The Genre is nonfiction becuase it tells you tricks,and it has 48 pages.
The setting is at a skate park in towns.This book is about skating in parks. The cool thing about this book is that it is full of action.
I liked this book because now I sord of know how to skate the ramp. The 2 thing is that I won't fall any more. Now my 3 thing is "I like skating"! I will recomened my friends to read this book.
You should read this book, because it could show you new tricks if you don't now any tricks.The book is called Aggerssive In Line Skating.

This is a good book!I recomend even beginning aggresive skaters or not yet aggressive skaters to get this book!It has realy amazing pictures!I'm realy happy I got this from the school library!

BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ! I recomended it to anyone my kids my wife and everyone loved it and still loves it!

that book was so not the image we need for our sport nobody should make books on our sport they are all trying to make rollerblading a profit sport when its not. More people will be writing book on it then we are no longer gonna be an underground sport.....peace ECR302 for life

I was delighted to read this book. How can you be so fearless? Is there a recipe? I would suggest you have your book available in English now...

This white-knuckle ride read is a must read for anyone wanting to learn how to live life to the full - and live to tell the tale.

Jevto Dedijer writes about his own daring exploits in a way which made me gasp, feeling as if I myself stood on the brink of a cliff or a tower with nothing but a tiny chute to hang my life on. He puts you right into those chutestraps, creating huge sinking feeling in your belly and a small thought of envy - I wish I had had the guts to what he did.

Read it!

First I have to tell you my background. I'm a skydiver with no background in base jumping. I know very little about the sport and even less about the start of base jumping, since there are no historybooks on this subject.
Jevto Dedijer's describes these first years of basejumping in his book, Base 66, in very exciting way. At that time they used equipment that by todays standards, no one would be caught jumping. Not from an airplane and absolutely not from a 100 meters high object. Jevto and his friends are pioneers in a sport that is as beautiful as it is deadly. BASE 66 takes off by describing how Jevto's skydiving career begins at the young age of 18. What makes him leap of his first BASE object and later makes him change his mind about BASE jumping.
I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about the first years in basejumping. It's an exciting book and well worth reading.
BSBD

The pictures are great and from what I could translate so is the text. So if the publisher is reading this, how about an english translation. There is too little writen on BASE.

Walter Laqueur's seminal study "Black Hundred" has already been widely reviewed, discussed and quoted (e.g. Rowley 1994, Vujacic 1994). Notably, it has been translated into, among others, Russian language. The book is important for Russian right-wing extremism studies in that it, for the first time, combines a sharp focus on the subject with a firm historical grounding and consideration of an admirably wide range of disparate ideological phenomena ranging from mainstream Soviet patriotism to some of the most obscure post-Soviet fringe-groups. Laqueur's treatment of ultra-nationalistic tendencies in Russian emigre circles, the Orthodox Church and the Cossack movement are especially valuable. In addition, the author who is also a leading authority on generic fascism introduces some pertinent comparative observations on the Russian Right; he contrasts it to, among others, the Action Français and the early Nazis. In addition, the book is innovative in setting the rise of the Russian extreme Right from the late 19th century until today in the context of an increasing (if somewhat paradox) international diffusion of ultra-nationalist, vitalistic and elitist theories. Actually, an even more extensive treatment of the comparative and international aspects would have been welcome.
As others have noted before, Laqueur's account of the late and post-Soviet groupings and personalities contains a number of wrong labels, names and dates. The section on Zhirinovskii confuses some of the personage around him (p. 255). In view of the freshness of the information at the time of the book's publishing, mistakes such as these are understandable. A serious imbalance, however, is that the author touches only upon in passing the rapidly growing ultra-nationalist tendencies in the Communist Party as exemplified by the rise of Gennadii Ziuganov. He also only insufficiently deals with the ancien regime's often crucial (if sometimes disguised) role in the appearance, promotion and protection of the explicitly ultra-nationalist politicians such as Zhirinovskii.
Notwithstanding, what Laqueur has done with this book is to synthesize finally the broad variety of aspects and subtopics of, and thus to conceptualize, Russian right-wing extremism studies. His conclusion ``Russian Nationalism Today and Tomorrow'' (pp. 272-296) is one of the most thoughtful essays on post-Soviet Russian politics I have read so far.

_Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia_ by Walter Laqueur is about the political and ideological scene in Russian nationalism during the aftermath of the Soviet collapse in the early nineties. _Black Hundred_ was published in 1993, making some of its material and assessments rather dated. However, it gives excellent descriptions of the leaders of the Russian right, where they got their theories and ideas from, and what possible impact they have had on the country. The biggest problem with _Black Hundred_ is its liberal, pro-capitalist, pro-western, anti-religious and (needless to state, of course) pro-Jewish bias. Laqueur's tone throughout is thus cynical, disdainful and condescending towards his subject of study, especially regarding the Russian Orthodox Church and nationalism in particular. Also, the presentation is rather disorganized with too much editorializing on Laqueur's part. _Black Hundred_ traces the history of the Russian right to the 19th century religious groups and theorists such as St. John of Kronstadt who defended the authority of the Tsar against the criticisms of Marxists, communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals, Jews, Masons and other subversive groups in Imperial Russia. It was also rooted in the Russian Orthodox revival in the 1800s, centered on famous monasteries such as Optina. Central to the thought of the Russian far-right is that Jews, Freemasons, liberals and Western capitalism and materialism form a cohesive agent of destruction against Holy Mother Russia, her people and her Faith. Formed in the early years of the 1900s and remaining active until 1917, the Black Hundred was a group willing to use violence to defend the Orthodox Church and the throne of the Tsar. Several pogroms and incidents against Jews are attributed to them. The _Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion_ first appeared having questionable origins in Russia. The _Protocols_ describe a Jewish plan for world domination under their "son of David" by using Masonry, media propaganda, liberal social theory, international finance, usury, and promoting an anti-Christian scientific-rationalist world view: the "Jewmasonry" conspiracy. Sergei Nilus published the _Protocols_ supposedly written in Hebrew, in Russian. The Tsar believed there was a conspiracy afoot to remove him from power, but disbelieved in the overall accuracy of the _Protocols_. After the Bolsheviks seized power, the Orthodox Church was turned into a puppet of the Soviet State and the Royal Family murdered. The right maintains the Jewish origins of the Russian Revolution, Jews disproportionately overrepresented in the communist circles. Joseph Stalin, however, has a slightly better reputation among the right as he developed "National Socialism" for the Soviet Union and purged the original Bolshevik revolutionaries in the 30s. Stalin also promoted Russian nationalism to the extreme, at the detriment of non-Russian peoples in the Soviet Union. Cosmopolitanism is a concept dreaded by the nationalists and Stalin scores some points on the right for his anti-cosmopolitan campaign directed at foreigners. Besides these examples, Stalin is not held in high regard by the right, as he was a destroyer of traditional aspects of Russian culture and persecutor of the church. Some members of the Russian émigré community supported Hitler and Nazi Germany during WWII, hopefully for the destruction of the Stalin regime. The Russian Orthodox Church experienced a schism. Since the Moscow patriarchate was suspect, the Russian Church Abroad broke off, considering itself the true inheritor of Orthodoxy from Tsarist Russia uncorrupted by communist dominance and infiltration. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian extreme right at times ironically found itself in the same camp with Communists, opposing Western influence, the free market economy and democratic government. Anti-Jewish sentiment became more open, but officials in the Communist Party previously published attacks on Jewish interests under the "Politically Correct" guise of anti-Zionism. The Russian nationalists and Communists alike favored a strong military position opposing America as well. As one Communist group proposed the installation of Russian Orthodoxy as Russia's state religion, it appears that that anti-globalist, anti-Zionist Communists are jumping in the same boat as religious reactionaries, white racialists and nationalists in Russia. Some of themes for certain Russian nationalists are occult and anti-Christian: the forged "Book of Vlas" describing Russia's "Aryan" origins, the writings of the Italian occult luminary Julius Evola, Theosophy and astrology being prominent examples. Laqueur devotes a considerable amount of space to describing the Slavophiles, authors who glorified Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fydor Dosteivsky is by far the most popular author among right wingers, with his strong emphasis on the teachings of the Orthodox Church and the redeeming role Russia plays in world affairs. Leo Tolstoy is respected but not considered patriotic enough. In recent times, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian conservative, has become a figure for nationalism. His writings critique the West for its decadent materialism and cowardice in confronting Soviet policy, in addition to exposing the communist slave state for what it really was. Laqueur, however, takes a slightly negative attitude towards Solzhenitsyn, almost portraying him as a backward peasant. Needless to say, Dostievskys anti-Semitism is highlighted. Surprisingly, Laqueur praises the Russian peoples connection to the land and nature. Characteristically, Laqueur constantly refers to the dichotomy between patriotism (good) and nationalism (bad) throughout his study. Patriotism is the healthy respect for ones country and improving its material conditions while nationalism is medieval chauvinism directed against imagined (i.e., imagined in Laqueurs view) external and internal enemies. Obviously, any type of nationalist movement based on the authority of the State, the Church and the Race/People would pose significant threat to the liberal academic establishment that published this book. Nationalist groups of different shades in America have been putting out literature for some time that any revitalization of the West is likely to come from Russia. There is also Orthodox literature pointing to a spiritual rebirth in Russia before the End comes. Also recommended: _Behind Communism_ by Frank Britton, _Utlimate Things_ by Engleman and _The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy_ by Matthew Raphael Johnson.

_The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia_ gives an accounting of some of the far right wing and semi-fascist movements in modern Russia and traces their development from their historical origins before the advent of communism. Russia as a nation has been besieged by totalitarian governments, revolution, and communist tyranny for the last hundred years. However, with the breakup of the old Soviet Union, a void has been created, and this void may be filled by certain political movements of the extreme right. Tracing their origins back to the Russian Whites, the Black Hundreds, and the tsarist loyalists, modern day Russian right wing nationalists have sought to restore Russia as a nation by returning it to its historical (or mythical) past and tradition. Many of these groups hold to certain conspiratorial beliefs involving the Antichrist and the infamous _Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ as well as certain conspiracies involving Freemasonry and the Jews (referred to as "Zhidomasonstvo", i.e. "Jewmasonry"). In addition, many on the Russian right and far right consider the Orthodox Church to be a saving force for Russia adhering to a fundamentalism which rejects other Christian beliefs especially Catholicism. Authors such as Dostoevsky (who expressed nationalist beliefs at one time in his career) and Solzhenitsyn (who expressed nationalist beliefs and anti-communism but with more of a liberal bent) have played an important role in the development of the Russian right. Many on the Russian right embrace pastoralism and the peasantry as opposed to industrialization, the free market, and liberalism. Some on the far right fringe have in fact returned to paganism and rejected even Orthodox Christianity as being too tinged with Semitism. In fact, a certain famous text (believed to be a forgery) referred to as the _Book of Vlas_ which relates tales of Russia's mythical (Aryan) past plays an important part among some on the right wing fringe. Communism occupies a precarious position among those on the right and far right in Russia. Some have embraced a form of nationalist Bolshevism, adhering to standards imposed by Joseph Stalin. Others have argued for a return to monarchism or for a Cossack revival. Among certain members of the far right in Russia, a certain hatred of all outside and alien influences (particularly but not exclusively Judaic ones) is very prevalent. In addition, many on the right in Russia have an innate distrust of America and Americanism (some even going as far as supporting Iraq in the Gulf War). Some on the right have attempted to incorporate ideas from certain thinkers of the "New Right" in France, such as Alain de Benoist, or even the Italian intellectual Julius Evola (who wrote the famous text _Revolt Against the Modern World_). While Nazism is generally considered to be yet another conspiracy against the Russian people, some on the far right have embraced certain ideas of the Nazi intellectuals and have published the writings of Hitler, Goebbels, and Rosenberg in their journals. Two of the more famous political movements among the far right in Russia include the right wing group Pamyat (meaning "memory") led by Dmitri Vasiliev, and that of the liberal-democrat party of nationalists led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Many of these groups accuse Gorbachev and Yelstin of capitulating to alien forces (especially the Jews) and to Americanism and argue for an "iron hand" in politics, centralizing government, and the maintaining of the military and the KGB. Some have turned towards the Orient as a promised land (hoping to incorporate features of Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Chinese thought), while others have sought their restoration in the ideologies of fascism or the "New Right" or even hope for a Cossack revival. This book gives an excellent introduction to the right wing forces in Russia and their growth and development. Although marred by a somewhat overly liberal bias, the author gives an excellent and thorough history and explanation of these movements which have attempted to find a satisfiable solution for the Russian people in a post-communist age.

Gives thorough, factual summaries about various resurgent extremist groups, but ends up whitewashing the role far left Jews in the Bolshevik takeover and in the NKVD (secret police), later KGB, as revealed in Christopher Andrew's "The Sword and the Shield" (available through Amazon).

I read Extreme Exploits because the content looked intriguing and I am familiar with applications written by lead author Victor Oppleman. The back cover states the book is "packed with never-before-published advanced security techniques," but I disagree with that assessment. While I found all of the content helpful, between 1/3 and 1/2 of it is probably available in older books -- including several by publisher McGraw-Hill/Osborne. Nevertheless, I find the strength of the network infrastructure security sections powerful enough to recommend Extreme Exploits.

I found Extreme Exploit's most innovative material in chapter 1 (Internet Infrastructure), 2 (ISP Security Practices), 4 (Reliable Connectivity), 8 (Email Gateways, Filtering, and Redundancy), 10 (Sinkholes and Backscatter, and 14 (Performing the Assessment, Part 1). These chapters introduced projects like RADB, IRRd, INOC-DBA (a VoIP "hotline" for ISPs), the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (an anti-spam system), and Hashcash (to consume CPU cycles and frustrate spammers). Subjects like questions to ask ISPs, ways to multi-home, and using anycast to improve redundancy were also welcome. A comment that spammers are using people who register with porn sites to pass CAPTCHA tests really surprised me! Ch 10's coverage of ISP sinkholes was clear, and I learned about triggered blackhole routing. Advice on checking publicly announced routes was cool, especially the reference to the author's Pwhois system.

Although the vulnerability and patch management information in ch 12 was fairly routine, I also liked the author's mention of recent industry projects like the NIAC vulnerability lifecycle and Common Vulnerability and Scoring System.

Other chapters mainly covered topics found in other books, like Hacking Exposed, Gray Hat Hacking, or Hardening Network Security (all Osborne titles). Most of the book contains sound advice, but I must disagree with several assertions made in ch 7 (Intrusion Detection and Prevention). These include the "rejection" of the value of passive detection (p 116), the "logical transition" where detection and prevention converges into firewalls (p 116), the idea that intrusion prevention systems are "less prone to insertion and evasion attacks" (p 120), and "signature-based IDS normally do not have an understanding of the underlying protocol that they are examining and simply perform byte-by-byte pattern matching" (p 121).

Almost all of the vulnerability assessment material could have been cut, aside from the BGP query and network infrastructure advice in ch 14. The misnamed "exploiting digital forensics" chapter (16) tempts the reader into thinking it will cover anti-forensics, but really it's an overview of network-, host-, and memory forensics in 26 pages. An excerpt from p 332 summarizes the problem with the chapter: "At this point, you might be asking, what do I do with the data?" Still, ch 16 deserves an honorable mention for describing multiple tools with which I was not familiar or had only passing familiarity. These included Foremost by Jesse Kornblum and Kris Kendall, Disktype, and Memdump.

In terms of structure, I liked the fact that every chapter concluded with a "checklist for developing defenses" summarizing important points in an actionable format. The writing is always clear, and the diagrams are excellent. Many of the network infrastructure suggestions are supported by command-line syntax and examples, consistent with Osborne's Hacking Exposed style.

Overall, I think most everyone will learn something by reading Extreme Exploits. Those with a decent amount of experience or who have read books already mentioned might find some of the book repetitive. Despite this, I learned a lot about network infrastructure and I look forward to reading Victor's upcoming book on "Carrier Class Network Security."

The book has two major sections: (a) configuration and maintenance practices, and (b) techniques for vulnerability assessment. The breadth of coverage of many modern techniques and terminology is very good; they go in-depth on a few topics here and there.

The basic assumption of section (a) is that you're trying to defend against unknown/unfixable threats. This is basically the current (2001-2005-) school of thought on security and leads to default-deny policies. This book has lots of good information on how to implement default-deny. The book convinced me that it's much more difficult than a default-deny firewall rule.

The book has many contributing authors; this probably contributes to its strength.
Many books are focused on ISPs, or on enterprises (read: "windows clients and servers with a firewall"), or on software developers, or VoIP carriers. This book has some good material for all of those types.

It's written from a Unix perspective. It does have some coverage of analyzing threats to Windows-based systems, but you'll get the most value from the book as an analyst/administrator if you use some sort of Unix. They have a BSD bias.

The authors also have an bias towards open-source software.

But it's not perfectly integrated, and the organization isn't ideal everywhere. For example, there are two sections of the book that discuss buffer overflows, apparently contributed by two different authors.

The index is only minimal; it only covers one of the sections on stack overflows. Bad indexes are a common problem in technical books from some publishers.

Regardless of how many steps you take to secure your organizational computing environment, there's always some new exploit waiting to nail you. The best you can do is to understand your network and stay on top of the technology. Extreme Exploits - Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks by Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, and Brett Watson can help you in that pursuit, especially in the networking realm...

Contents:
Part 1 - Core Internet Infrastructure for Security Professionals: Internet Infrastructure for Security Professionals; ISP Security Practices - Separating Fact from Fiction; Securing the Domain Name System
Part 2 - Defending Your Perimeter and Critical Internet Infrastructure: Reliable Connectivity; Securing the Perimeter; Redefining the DMZ - Securing Critical Systems; Intrusion Detection and Prevention; E-mail Gateways, Filtering, and Redundancy; Data Leaks - Exploiting Egress; Sinkholes and Backscatter; Securing Wireless Networks
Part 3 - Network Vulnerability Assessments: Vulnerability and Patch Management; A Winning Methodology for Vulnerability Assessments; Performing the Assessment - Part 1, Performing the Assessment - Part 2
Part 4 - Designing Countermeasures for Tomorrow's Threats: Exploiting Digital Forensics; Viruses, Worms, Trojans, and Other Malicious Code; Exploiting Software
Index

The authors of this book are real gurus when it comes to networking technology. I worked with Brett Watson at a prior place of employment, and I can attest to the fact that he really knows his trade. In the first part of this book, they go into networking and security probably deeper than any other book I've had the opportunity to review. To get the most out of the material, it helps to be firmly grounded in networking technology. If you're not a network administrator or if you're just starting out, you'll probably struggle to keep up. Parts 2 and 3 are also valuable sections. Part 2 continues the in-depth analysis of how best to protect your network from attack, along with software recommendations to implement your security plans. And if you aren't already using a formal methodology to continuously review your network security, Part 3 will help you set up the necessary framework to implement a solid security review. Part 4 probably is the weakest part of the book, in that most of the material is available from multiple other sources, and doesn't necessarily fit into the "extreme exploits" flavor of the rest of the book. It's good information, to be sure... Just not all that unique or special if you've read more than one other security book.

One feature at the end of each chapter stood out and works well... It's a "Checklist for Developing Defenses" along with a recommended reading list. Using the checklist allows you to make sure you understood what each chapter was getting at, as well as giving you a roadmap for implementing security in the particular area that was just discussed. And if a particular chapter was really applicable to your organization, the follow-up reading can help you get even deeper into the material. Good practical technique for helping the reader move from theory to application...

If you have the basics of network security down, it's time to pick up a copy of this book. While you may have to work at understanding the material, it will pay off in a system network that is much more secure than most...

Here is the thing - I am giving this book a high score (4) since it contains unique and fun content related to network infrastructure attacks and defenses, which I have not seen anywhere else. In my view, the good stuff justifies such score, although I suspect that some other reviewers will sledgehammer the book for having too much of routine material covered in other previous books, including the venerable Hacking Exposed.

While I had a general idea of how providers mitigate DDoS attacks, I did not know the specifics of unicast reverse-path forwarding method, described in the book. Similarly, I picked up a lot of material of setting up sinkholes for dropping traffic (and, more specifically, how they are better than ACLs in many cases).

From other topics, I liked their coverage on the evolution of DMZ from simple designs of years past to current security zone design.

The book also presents a lot of up-to-date material, such as the coverage of security information management (SIM), vulnerability management and recent security standards, such as CVSS. It doesn't go into details in some places where I'd wanted it to, but still is interesting to read.

On the other hand, some chapters are disappointing and seem to be in the book for it to appear "comprehensive". Forensics chapter is one of those (it is also mistakenly called "Exploiting Forensics", while no exploitation is taking place)

I recommend the book for most people, from beginners to advanced, since the former will enjoy the breadth of coverage while the latter will likely benefit from the network infrastructure protection (and devastation, of course!) tips. In addition, defense checklists in the end of each chapter are useful for those who do not have time to go and study the material in-depth. The book is slightly biased towards the defense side, with good coverage of the attacking side as well.

Dr Anton Chuvakin, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA is a recognized security expert and book author. In his current role as a Security Strategist with netForensics, a security information management company, he is involved with defining future features and conducting security research. A frequent conference speaker, he also represents the company at various security meetings and standard organizations. He is an author of a book "Security Warrior" and a contributor to "Know Your Enemy II", "Information Security Management Handbook" and the upcoming "Hacker's Challenge 3". Anton also published numerous papers on a broad range of security subjects. In his spare time he maintains his security portal at info-secure.org and a blog at O'Reilly"

The kids in my Sunday School Class (Grades 4-6) (Age 10-12) really like this Bible. This is the one they pick (over KidsQuest) to look up bible verses. It is written in very understandable and readable english and it looks really "cool" on the outside. A real winner for this age group!!

This is such a cool bible. You can actually understand what it's talking about better.

I am a children's pastor and have done studies verse by verse which compare this version to the NIV, and NKJ (which I had originally compared with King James). It is easier for young people and new Christians of any age to understand the Extreme Bible, without loosing the True interpretation of what the Bible is saying. It does vary "some" in the wording from NIV and NKJ. BUT NOT from the original meaning-which is the important point. This is NOT a paraphrase type version. Some people feel anything other then King James is not acceptable--BUT remember the KJ itself is also a translation from yet another language which had also been translated! I believe Gods Spoken and Written Word has still made it across most of the translations! In short I would highly recommend the Extreme Bible for Home reading and studies for any age alone or with your NIV, NKJ or standard KJ.

Just a note to say that this Bible is not the true Word of GOD. It is showing a Love towards God that is not true but that is just written so that people can feel better about themselves. Sorry for a real believer, this is not good. I suggest reading the KJV - the true version. It is not hard to understand, well it is if you think about it, but these new bibles really are not any easier, just put in a more complicated way.

Want to try XP, but have no idea where to begin? Buy this book. Examples of test-first programming of Java GUI and non-GUI Code are particularly helpful.

While I am now convinced that Extreme Programming (XP) is an effective way to design small to medium sized systems, I am not sure that much of it is all that different from the informal methods we have used for decades. The pairing together of programmers into teams of two where one types while the other thinks is similar to the informal chats that have gone on between programmers since the proverbial first programming team. It is different only in the formality of the system rather than in the fundamental structure. In fact, applying the partner rule too rigorously could lead to additional problems, in that it may reduce the amount of professional interaction between the members of the larger programming team.
If you have no previous exposure to XP, then this book is just right for you. However, if you know the principles of the process, then you will have to search for points of major interest. The book consists of a listing of the principles of XP as well as going through some simple examples. Some of the major problems that need to be addressed before XP can take its place as an effective methodology are stated but not really examined. At the end of the book, there is a short section entitled "Where is XP going?", with the subsection, "Limits of XP". In that subsection, there is the question, "Can a large team do XP?", with no attempt at an answer. This is one of two questions that the proponents of XP must answer soon.
All the books I have read, including this one, explain XP by going through examples of modest size. No one could possibly doubt that it will work in that environment. In fact, it is ideally suited for such projects. However, no one seems willing to tackle the problem of scalability. If the answer to the question about large teams doing XP is no, then it must be determined what exactly is a large team.
The second of the major problems with XP deals with the stress of working intensely with another human being for long periods of time. There are some sidebars where practitioners talk about how the synergistic effects of pairing lead to a dramatic increase in productivity. In one of the sidebars, there is the phrase, "working in pairs seems to bring out the best in everyone. " In my experience with programmers, there have been many occasions where the result is the exact opposite of the descriptions here. It doesn't always work, we all know it, so why coat it with sugar. This would have been a much better book if the issues of conflict resolution between pairs of programmers had been dealt with. Choosing and managing the paired programmers is clearly the most significant management dilemma that XP will ever present.
This book is a good description of XP at the basic level. Unfortunately, there are still some major unanswered questions concerning XP, and I await the book that makes a serious attempt to address them.

Willam C Wake is one of the first few who embraces XP at its earlier stage. In this book, he talks about the experience and understanding of XP. It clears much doubt any newcomer would have when embracing XP.

The book has examples on test-first programmming as well as refactering. I like to learn by example. It's a great way to learn. The examples are just right, not too complex nor too simplistic, and it brought out the concepts fairly well.

This book, IMO is a nice extension to the book "Extreme Programming Explained". A great book to grab after you have heard of XP and thinking of embracing it. Let the author's experience help you in getting up to speed with XP fast. :)

I'm a big fan of eXtreme Programming. I've read XP Installed (the first XP book I read), XP Explained (the first XP book), and Planning XP. I must say I was a big disappointed in this book. Here's the problem: This book doesn't explain XP in enough detail to be useful as a first XP book. But at the same time it does try to explain XP concepts which are already known to anyone who's read one of the XP intro books (Installed or Explained), making it too basic for someone who's been using XP. That leaves this book some where in the middle, with a little bit of introductory material and a little bit of advanced material. I think it's a good second book on XP (read XP Installed first), but if you've been using XP (especially refactoring and test driven development) then this book isn't going to be very helpful for you.

Also the book is pretty thin and quite expensive for the small amount of content it contains. In my opinion you'd be better off buying Fowler's Refactoring book and downloading the JUnit docs, and reading Jeffries' XP Installed.

Extreme Space: The Domination and Submission Handbook
Amazing book. Not a guide to practical part to bdsm but it's explaining the psychological side of d/s and bdsm like no other book. The author has a great insight and i would recommend the book to everyone interested in d/s and bdsm

Ms Steel, aka F R R Mallory, does not mince words and shares more than just a bit of pertinent information regarding the lifestyle. She cautions when possible and encourages and inspires, as well. I began delving into the "online" realm of bdsm and D/s approximately 5 years ago and began My education through reading her site. Her knowledge and sharing has enabled Me to become an individual whom is aware of the ethics necessary and pitfalls of the internet forum. For this, I will be forever in Her debt. I have found My home...and strongly encourage those who are seeking to "fit in" to read this book. It's more than simply a bit enlighening. It has the ability to change your world for the better!! Extreme Space is definitely not a waste of time to read!

I ordered this book a while back, and we're still reading it. Extreme Space is not a book you can read through once and not expect to pick it up again... great for referencing when you encounter new and old situations alike. Several times, Ms. Mallory addressed issues that I'd never seen addressed before, but had been searching for information on for a long time, such as Primal Space and latent behaviors.
This is definitely a book I'm pleased to have found. I've recommended it to several friends. The only thing I didn't like about it, and the reason I didn't give it 5 stars, is that at times it's not edited for mistakes as well as I would have liked (but I only noticed it because I notice things like that.)

This book is nearly unreadable rambling of random emotions and opinions, leading nowhere. Worse, the author's has the EXTREMELY ANNOYING habit of capitalizing words for emphasis. The overall effect is kind of new-agey: lots of words, but no information. The typesetting is poor and the editing nonexistent. Save your money and buy the New Topping Book, or Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns, or S&M 101.

Another 300 puzzles from Carol Vorderman. This volume throws in some increasingly difficult 9x9 standard sudoku puzzles, together with several variations. As with her Massive Sudoku, you get 16x16 puzzles (using numbers, not letters) as well as the jigsaw sudoku variation she calls "Squiffy." The big add here are several of the variation known as "Killer Sudoku," which require some minor math to solve (as with the new Kakuro puzzles, clues are given as sums and you must deduce the number pattern from the sum provided, still following the other traditional Sudoku rules.)

Was that confusing? That, I suppose, is the value of the book - Vorderman provides solid instruction and very good solving tips for the new variations.

If you have read Carol Vorderman's first book, MASTER SUDOKU, then you will be familiar with how she teaches. This volume picks up where the last one left off. What do you do when a puzzle is too hard and slicing and dicing just isn't getting you anywhere? Well, you could try the lessons in this book.

These lessons take you to new levels of puzzles. Carol clearly shows techniques for solving the hardest of puzzles. She does so in a clear and easy to understand manner. Each lesson is then followed by sample puzzles for the reader to practice their new skills upon.

But the book does not stop there. There is more to sudoku than just hard 9X9 grids. There are tougher variations and Carol takes the reader through some of the more popular variants and shows how to apply her techniques to them as well. You get squiffy puzzles where the 3X3 sub-grids have been replaced by other shapes. Sudoku 16 where the 9X9 grid has been replaced by a 16X16 grid. And then there is my favorite, killer sudoku, where the clues are given in the form of relationships between the answers. 300 puzzles are included in this volume to make anyone a true sudoku master.

I purchased this book based on the author's reputation and was greatly disappointed. Almost one third of the puzzles in this book are defective and cannot be solved. Don't buy this book.

Carol Vorderman seems to be an excellent sudoku editor, in the sense that the puzzles she presents are usually interesting and fairly fit the stated category. Still, this book is on the easy edge of "extreme." It is an excellent book for someone reaching out to more difficult and tricky puzzles than the common "easy, medium, hard" categories. Those looking for puzzles requiring single-number solving and multiple worksheets should pass it by.

This is without a doubt the worst book I've ever read. It is inexcusably bad. Without even commenting on the ridiculosly simplistic theology, it is simply the most poorly-written book I have ever encountered. I'm a PhD student studying literature for adolescents (particularly evangelical writing), and so I've read any number of bad books. This one, though, takes the cake.

It is absolutely horrifying that this book made it to the presses. I have no doubt that the author simply ran his first draft through the spell-check and handed it in, and then Transit published it. It's really that bad. It is riddled with errors in grammar and punctuation (including using "her" instead of "she" as the subject of a sentence in a compound, which is a middle-school level error). The book contradicts itself at any number of points, and many times things whole sentences are basically repeated two or three times within the same paragraph. And, none of the conversations resemble reality in any way.

I cannot believe that an author who obviously has so little regard for his audience was allowed to write more books for this company, and I can't believe the publishing house would allow such a mess of a book onto the presses. (And, again, this is just based on style, not even on "substance," which is another place where the novel is a mess.) There are plenty of Christian novels that don't sacrifice decent characterization, some degree of complexity, and a basic grasp of English grammar and mechanics in order to make their point. This novel, however, isn't one of them. I gave it one star because there isn't a "0 star" option.

This book is an EXCELLENT book for STUDENTS not for REVIEWERS who think they know what students want to READ. It is filled with gritty characters, a plot that is a thrill ride and a message that goes farther than most teen fiction books I'
ve ever read. It's the kind of reading that I, as a student, LIKE to read. It reminded be about my school, the world I live in and the life I want to live. All that...from this book.

I too finished this book the same day I started it. It was so brilliant I couldn't put it down for a second. It showed me that God can take something seeming very bad and bring people to Him through it. The character Liz really touched me. She was so full of hope and was really into sharing her faith. People really noticed something about her was different. I admire this character the most. I reccomend this book for anyone wanting to read a good book.

This book is awesome! I got it and read it all the first day. I went straight out to get the next book, Breakout, that same day. This book really helped encourage me in my faith, and it was just a great story to read. I really enjoyed how the plot jumped around a lot from future to past, that kind of stuff. I look forward to reading the next ones...