Bates Books

Excellent seller. I received the book on time and the book was in excellent condition!

This bundle does NOT include ANY kind of simulator application, despite its misleading and false description. When you put in the companion CD, the ReadMe file bluntly states: "If you need to purchase the student edition of MultiSIM, please ask your bookstore to order it for you." Only then can you run the project files contained on the CD.

But I am NOT a student, I am a working professional, and my "bookstore" is Amazon.com. Since I don't qualify for the $83 student edition of the simulator, I'm looking at THOUSANDS of dollars for the fully licensed software suite that includes Multisim.

While I am pretty unhappy about that, I do not intend the poor rating to reflect on the book itself. I used Electronic Principles 20 years ago in school, and it has been on my desk ever since for reference and for review (great for studying up on those technical interviews). Malvino's elegant exposition makes it a true Classic, and to be fair it's well worth the hundred and something dollars stand-alone. Unless, like me, you have a perfectly serviceable previous edition, and are lured into buying this purported bundle because you think it would be great to review the material with the luxury of some kind of simulator "lite" so you don't have to set it all up in the lab.

It would be more readable if all the pages were left blank. I hate this book.

It was almost a lifetime ago when H.E. Bates wrote A Month by the Lake and Other stories. Perhaps, his writing is a little dated. However, I just love his use of metaphors. For example when Bates has Major Wilshaw describe Ms. Bentley as having "a mustardy sense of humour, a little dry and hot on the tongue as it were."

You just can't get that in "Modern" day novella. Today's authors are too busy trying to discover governmental plots, or shop the entirety of London. Don't get me wrong. I savour these types of fiction too.

I'm just so glad that I stumbled upon these short stories. It takes me back a different time and place where people took time out of their day to feel the breeze brush past them. They peeled grapes, posted mail, and rode trains from England to Italy.

Wouldn't you like to have a whole month to vacation in Europe by a lake flirting with an attractive countryman? That is really all there is to this story, and yet it has a disceet charm which cannot be denied.

I think everyone has somewhere inside a vision which equates roughly to this story. Would that we could all enjoy its charms every year of our lives.

This book may be elementary, but it was certainly a good book. Direct information, lists, diagrams, examples, very nicely done.

If you've had any training in experiential or outdoor education this book will seem elementary. If not, this book contains some foundational material.

The fisrt 60 pages of this book are worthless. Chances are the reader understands the parts of a PC and understands the abstracts of how each piece talks to eachother. Unusable examples. Poor course structure. Why waster paper to include a datasheet? The first real project is overly complex and it suggested you use a prototyping board and not a bread board. I'm not sure who this book is written for, but it is not a very good introduction to the Pic.

If you are a beginner to PIC programming who understands basic electronics, there are far better tutorials online for free. Just dont buy this book, because it is worthless.

The text affords you a good way to learn how to program in assembly language. It shows what is involved in coding barely one step above the silicon. What you can learn here can mostly be transported to other families of microcontrollers or microprocessors. All common ones use a Neumann architecture.

Learning MPLAB is also a good thing. It's a common development environment, and fairly cheap to purchase on your own.

(Observation based only on the cover) While a children's picture book is not intended to be a source of historical information for preschoolers, it doesn't have to totally disregard basic information! A ship's wheel was NEVER on the front of a sailing ship, and while pirate ships often had triangular sails, they NEVER had anything rigged as that shown on the front cover! It's not hard to be accurate and have fun! The Illustrator either didn't do her research or wants to leave it up to others to undo her misinformation. - - Children can have fun and learn at the same time! -Clifton Bencke, "Evening Sailing Adventures!" youth sailing program & children's book author at cdjr.org

My son loves this book. The puzzles, mazes and hidden clues are challenging, but not too difficult for him at age 3 1/2. He has no trouble following Uncle Pete, Mary and Zak through their pirate adventures. We are looking forward to reading other books in this series.

Let me start out by saying that if this wasn't a "required" textbook for a class I am taking in college I would have shipped this back to Amazon a long time ago and demanded my money back. That is how bad this book is.

Have you ever tried to take a class and the book you are using is filled with page after page of errors? We're not talking about small errors, but errors of the magnitude that it affects the subject matter being taught. I've never seen so many coding errors in all my life. I started this class not knowing a thing about Javascript and have no doubt I could have produced a better text than this.

Next, let's talk about the outdated examples. This book may have been great in 1996, but times have changed and technology has changed on the web. Many of the methods the author talks about are dated and just plain inefficient in the modern web world.

Strike three is the author's inconsistent use of programming syntax. In one example he'll close his tags, the next example he uses an in-line close, the one after that he doesn't close the tags at all. It is like reading a paper a 3rd grader wrote.

Unless you ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY have to get this book for your class then don't. Before you spent a dime on it see if you can buy it used (I'm sure there are PLENTY of people who want to get rid of it). Finally, suggest to your instructor that they need to find a different book -- one that recognizes it is 2008 and one that wasn't written by a novice trying to teach on a professional level.

Is it because your professor told you to? Because, by virtue of it being a WEB programming book, every programming technique in here is explained just as clearly online. Go to the table of contents, Google every title. You will find a much greater wealth of resources, and you can choose the tutorials that suit your skill level. Oh, and you can also copy/paste the example scripts online, whereas you'll be typing the examples from the book. This book is currently buried under a stack of DVDs on my desk.

Practicality is the key with this book. Loaded with examples that really made the concepts easy to understand. The "Rule of Thumb" proved to be a very helpful feature in picking out techniques to apply.

This book really got me working right away. In covering a fair number of technologies with supporting examples, the amount of detail was enough to help you to do things straight away without being overwhelming and unwieldy. I was able to understand the things I needed to know, and not worry about the unnecessary details.

Being a student of Bates I can vouch that his java abilities are underwhelming at most. It comes as no surprise that other reviewers have found his java code inadequate, badly commented, but mostly just wrong.

As my teacher of java (at University) all of the above points are manifested in his unworkable tutorial code. In short his inability and blatant disinterest in teaching are echoed throughout the book (and my university course).

I am sure he has made a quick $buck through the sale of this book as a staple coding reference for many of the U.K. Universities and colleges (where his friends work - standard lecturer swindling technique!!), albeit at the expense of students education.

My advice for any java/java applet code references is to look for SUNSOFT PRESS books (real-SUN), as they are fairly easy to follow

This is an interesting booklet on the Southern Yosemite Miwok who inhabited Yosemite Valley and the surrounding region. It was written to go with the recreated Miwok village behind the Yosemite Visitor Center.

The interesting part is the text is in Miwok and English.

The previous reviewer apparently has an ax to grind. True, in the 20th century the Miwok intermarried Piute, and Piute spouses moved into Yosemite Valley, but this booklet covers the life before the disasterous contact with European man in the mid-1800s.

I was looking through the book and it is really faulty. No disrespect to the elder in the back of the book, but she was from Chief Bautista's family. Chief Bautista was the chief of the Potoyantes. Bautista went by other names Keechee, Vow-ches-ter, Vow-chester, Bautista and then later by the last name Howard. Bautista was the one who actually helped James Savage and the Mariposa Battalion. He was the first to sign the Fremont Treaty of March 1851. He would capture run-a-ways who wanted to escape toiling in Major James Savage's gold mines. He was quoted as saying that HE AND HIS PEOPLE NEVER ENTERED YOSEMITE. That they were afraid to venture in there because of the "Yosemites" which in his language meant "The Killers". He also said they feared Yosemite Valley because there were witches there. In the Stockton Alta California dated 1851 Bautista referred to the Yosemite Indians as "Monahs" (Mono Paiutes). When the Battalion entered Yosemite they never found a roundhouse, that was built in later. There was never one there in historic times. The majority of the Indian people in the book are Paiutes, not Miwoks. Giving the reader a false impression that the early people of Yosemite were Miwoks, when they were not. What the Battalion did find in Yosemite were Mono Paiutes and a Paiute camp with items that only came from Paiute territory. I heard many of Craig Bates' works and find them very questionable and inaccurate. I suggest people read the one and only account of first contact and try to get your hands on an original copy, not one made later. That would be Lafayette H. Bunnell's "Discovery of the Yosemites, 1851, and the war that led to that event". Bunnell was the only person to meet Chief Tenaya and write about him, not Kroeber or Hart. Those two MET the Miwoks who assisted James Savage living in Mariposa. Bunnell wrote "Chief Tenaya was the FOUNDER OF THE PAIUTE COLONY OF AHWAHNEE", that he spoke Paiute, that he was born at Mono Lake, that he was 1/2 Paiute and his children were 3/4's Paiutes, that his band was made primarily of Mono Paiutes. I don't know where they got they were Miwok...oh yeah the Indians that were sitting at James Savage's old trading post at Mariposa. The ones who helped chase down Chief Tenaya and not the original Yosemites. I wouldn't buy this book, get Bunnell's book instead for the true history of Yosemite. He actaully met Chief Tenaya...the others never did.

Craig Bates states that he got most of his information from a Howard, who was a Yosemite Miwok. The Howards were the descendents of Chief Bautista AKA Vowchester who was not a Yosemite Indian, but who was afraid of Chief Tenaya and the Ahwhanees. He and Chief Russio were the ones who coined the term "Yosemite" which means "Grizzly bear" or "Killer" and -mite "person". They also told Savage they were afraid of the Yosemites and would not enter Yosemite Valley because they feared the Ahwahnees.
The cover shows a photo of Chris Brown AKA Lemee who stated that he was the last of the Nutchus (Noot-choos). Which were also not Yosemite Indians but signers of the treaties and foothill Indians. In fact the Nutchus hunted down Chief Tenaya for Savage.

I agee with the first reviewer. The only ax to grind is that it is not right to buy books that distort the real history of Yosemite.

Most Indians in Yosemite are Paiutes, Monos or Yokuts. I have seen the census rolls from the earliest point to now.

Unlike the above negative review, I have have some good words about PACIFIC ODYSSEY. The book vividly describes the many tasks placed upon USS Steele in the Pacific[ convoy duty, recon missions, anti-submarine patrols, bombardment,etc.].The reader follows the DE on it's constant missions with little R&R for the crew.The book is complemented with many excellent maps. As a bonus, the reader is also given a good description of the island hopping campaign.
The book could have benefited from a few photos of the USS Steele.

This book was a real disappointment. It is essentially the bare bones description of the movements of this destroyer escort during WWII in the Pacific. A typical example: "April 7 - 10 we escorted three APAs to Saipan where we went ashore for the first time." This is followed by exactly one sentence that provides an insight - or color - to either the convoy or the ship's arrival in Saipan, concludinbg with "April 12 - 15 we returned independently to Eniwetok." Unfortunately most of the book is like this. There is next to nothing about life on a DE, the ship's crew or officers, incidents or actions, and, saddest of all, virtually nothing about the author's own experiences. This book badly needed editorial help. It's also set in sans serif type (a book-publishing no no) but the chapters are short,(the book is 92 pgs.) the font fairly large, so the type is reasonably readable. There is also a loose page (34a & 34b) which appears to have been inserted after the initial printing.

As a lover of medical history, specifically, the effect of pandemic disease on history and society, I believed the reviews and subtitle of this book thinking it was, indeed, a social history, in other words, a history of the human experience. However, after wading through all 370 some pages (not counting the voluminous notes) of this book, I determined that it is actually a history of hospitalization and medical care as provided to an extremely small segment of the population afflicted with Tuberculosis in turn of the 20th Century Pennsylvania. If you are interested in what it was like to to be one of the millions who lived and died with TB in a world before antibiotics, DO NOT waste your money on this book. If you are interested in reading about a small group of doctors and how they attempted to treat/restrict/institutionalize their TB patients, this one is for you. And, as a bonus, you will get lots on information on exactly how much their medical care cost and how many eggs they were expected to eat each day. Sound interesting? Not particularly. There are many more interesting books on PEOPLE with TB out there. Buy one of those.

I was disappointed in the book. It was overpriced and way to general. Most of the book was just general history; very little was even said about the Bates' family.