Hayes Books

i just passed the test. well, as mentioned in other reviews, you need more than this book. and yes, the book is too thin.

however, this book will give you a taste of the questions for the exam, the overall difficulties of the review questions is somewhat similar to the ones in the exam.

afterall, its free if u are planning to take the exam coz it gives you 15% off the exam fee. so why not buying it??

This book is full of errors. The "accompanying" web site to which book corrections or errata is published is no longer active.
What a fascinating purchase. There is nothing anyone can do with this book, except perhaps to level a wobbly table.

This book is awesome in preparing you for the test BUT! the Certification for Flash MX ended December 2005 so this book is out dated..

We all pretty much agree that the book is rather thin and covers topics in a very minimal and thin way, but after all, we were going to get our free 15 % off on the test.

I went to vue.com, after buying the book, signed up for the exam and just when i put in the voucher code a nice message came up:
" This promotion is VALID TIL 31 / 2003".

Great job!

I don't recomed this book simply cause you can buy something better, covering all topics extensivly and in details.
PLUS THE DISCOUNT ON THE TEST IS NO LONGER VALID!

wait for the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Certified Designer Study Guide by James English, it will be out in Nov.
The exam has 4 domains; Planning, Visual Design, Experience Design, and Optimization, Pub, Workflow. Learn these 4 areas
by using the program, reading the manual, and refer to the Macromedia web site.

I have not learned too much from this book

The book does not help beginners at all as it claims to. It assumes a prior knowledge of PB otherwise you get lost. The project which the book takes you through has parts missing when you compare it to the downloadable version. You go crazy trying to figure that out. There are other books out there which are much better. Do not waste your money on it esp beginners as this book will only make you hate PB.

This was the textbook chosen by my educational institute to introduce us to PowerBuilder and Object-Oriented Fundamentals. I'd have to say it fails on each of those counts.

You're not introduced to PowerScript until nearly halfway through the book, the code is NOT laid out in a step-by-step fashion AT ALL after the first chapter or so (and even then), there are coding errors all over the place, and the finished product that you can download has all sorts of inconsistencies with what's in the book (it's as though they kept the application the same from PowerBuilder 5 and never bothered to check the new text against it or something).

I'm in the process right now of trying to reverse engineer the example from Que's website and compare my own to figure out what snippets the book has omitted that are preventing my application from functioning properly. Thank you, William Heys, for depriving me of some much-needed sleep. :P~

While the book is good for referencing topics when you already know PowerBuilder. You might find yourself lost if you're starting out and trying to follow the example from the book. There are points where the figures in the book don't match where you are at that point in the code. Not to mention the fact that the code that you can download is different then the code descibed in the book. Definetly not a book to learn PowerBuilder from.

There are numerous errors throughout which would turn many developers away from PB, especially beginners. I cannot recommend this book.

I have a BS in math and I found this book to be better than Hennessy/Patterson. I see that some of the reviewers don't have a very positive opinion of this book. I think they are wrong and their professors were right! Hayes book is subtle and will widen your perspective enormously. It's well written for someone who enjoys reading classics and doesn't like reading technical manuals that are here today, gone tomorrow.

Though this book is indimidating on the first instance, It might be an ideal book if it is read more for knowledge than Grades.
It presents an extensive views on different architecture and even starts from explaining the TURING machine in the first chapter and ending with the Network architecture in the last chapter.
It has extensive views on how different digital circuits can be created using gates and most of the book covers this aspect of digital circuit design.
Such an extensive book should be considered for a 2 semester course rather than a one semester.

This book is so bad that I simply withdrew from the class that required it. Nothing was explained, possibly the worst textbook I've ever seen in my life.

I understand that not everything in life is going to be delivered in an upbeat and easy to read format, but college texts that cost well over a hundred dollars shouldn't have you searching for better explanations for every item presented.

I have worked in, on, and around computers for over 33 years. At the not-so-ripe-old age of 51, I have decided to return to college and complete my Comupter Science degree. This book is the text book for the Computer Architecture course.

This book is written like a thesis. There is very little explanation or education going on. It is as if the author is trying to convince the reader that he knows what he's talking about (which, no doubt, he does). The book is a poor choice for a college textbook. I know it's been a long time since I sat in an actual college class, but it seems to me that a textbook should make some attempt to enlighten instead of frighten.

Having taking a computer architecture course at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in my opinion, "Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach" by John Hennessy is a much better choice than this text by John Hayes.

This book puts the shallow arguments of Dawkins et al in place. Right now, Burmese monks are pushing the envelope against Myanmar's military junta. Dawkins and the other sinectured radicals are not. All they do is gripe about the Wars of the Reformation (which my book shows were about money and power, not religion - over 95% of Germans were illiterate at the time and loot and pillage was much more important to them than Biblical debates; claim that Hitler and the Pope sang from the same hymn sheet; and rattle off that Darwin is always right. Darwin was a Birtish imperialist cut from the same supreamcist cloth as many of his followers. My book gives this environmental vandal/mysoginist/racist his full colours. This is because people like Darwin have been much more damaging to our social fabric than any major religion.
My book unpicks the historical, philisophical and scientific arguments underwriting this anti religious axis of sinicured evil. I do not favour one religion over another and, though I do not think intelligent deisign is a viable theory, I know that Darwinism is not, even if it gives Dawkins and others a handy living.

This is a passionately written book that achieves half of what it sets out to do. Fortunately, it is the more important half that is achieved.

Let me get the unpleasantness over quickly. Professor Hayes fails hopelessly in his attempts to discredit the importance of Darwin's thought to the development of biological science. His efforts in this respect are feeble. Particularly disappointing are his supposedly statistical offerings. As I understand he is a bit of an Economist, and as Economics is the Queen of the pseudosciences and therefore relies very heavily on statistical arguments, I was shocked to find him rehearsing statistical fallacies that have been discredited by the more numerate a dozen times. The problem here seems to be that Professor Hayes is clearly a very loyal Catholic - and while I do not believe it need be so - Dawkins could not have hoped for a more striking demonstration of his contention that a Catholic education irretrievably addles the brain and mangles the moral sense than Professor Hayes' grotesquely Stalinesque whitewashing of the horrors of the Albigensian (no pun intended) Crusades and the Holy Inquisition. It is perhaps to be expected that one who seems to believe that the Douay-Rheims version of Genesis gives a more scientifically supportable account of the origin of species than Darwinism is bound to give himself a hard time. Professor Hayes proves it.

On the other hand, in one very important respect, Professor Hayes' book is a triumph. One of the most dangerous of the militant atheist arguments put forward by Dawkins et al. is the one that claims that religion is "the root of all evil"... There is the blithe suggestion that, if we were all atheists, we would be much nicer to one another. Perhaps the locus classicus for this position is found in an oft-quoted diatribe by Steven Weinberg: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." It is a position frequently defended by Dawkins, among others. But it is indefensible.

Professor Hayes does an outstanding hatchet job on this preposterous piece of perniciousness. He gives chapter and verse on the staggering scale of evils wrought by essentially atheist regimes such as Marxism and Nazism, and convincingly rebuts Dawkins attempts to distance Darwinism from these on the grounds that they are "not rational"; he eruditely exposes the links between Darwinism and the most unsavoury racist and eugenic policies of his (and our) times; outragedly takes Dawkins to task for blaming the (hopefully former) mayhem in Northern Ireland on the supposed bigotry of Catholic schoolgirls while ignoring the elephant in the room, viz. several hundred years of British oppression; he exposes Darwin's own racism and shows how timely the development was of a doctrine that gave a moral imperative to ruthless competition and the urge to dominate just as Britain was launching itself upon its greatest age of imperialist expansion.

This is an important achievement because there is nothing more dangerous than to attribute the capacity for evil, uniquely, to the other fellow. It was very easy, just after the Second World War, for people to say, "Hitler was a monster!" "Only the Germans could have done that to the Jews!" Etc. But now we have had Rwanda and the Khmer Rouge, and, looking back, we can glimpse the fate of the Armenians... When Genghis Khan said, "The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters," he wasn't expressing his religious beliefs. Those were his personal tastes. We all need to be reminded, constantly, of what Hannah Arendt called, "the banality of evil".

Three stars out of five for a book that challenges the conscience, if not consistently the intellect.

I'm almost tempted to pick up a copy. Then I thought to myself, why would I buy something from Amazon with only one review (by the author himself) for $20. Get it to less than $5 and I might give it a shot. Dawkins' "shallow arguments"?... are you serious?

Well I'm going to go study the history of Santa Clause now, as I find it more entertaining than the fictional stories of any "god"

First I would like to point out the first rating for this book is buy the Author himself so it comes from a biased persepective. This book was really a waste of my time. He proves no points in arguing against Dawkins. If you do happen to buy this book find a useful alternative would be to use it as toilet paper.

     There are literally millions of Websites online today that provide a wealth of information on a variety of topics. There are a handful of good Internet Website directories available that can help surfers find the information they need. Most of these are bulky, though, and can take a while to thumb through. Que and Macmillan Computer Publishing has published The Big Basics Web Directory to provide readers with reviews of their top picks!

     Que's editors have selected the best Website in each of the 101 categories covered in the book. Additionally, four more (best of the rest) Websites in each of these categories are also reviewed. Topics include business, car buying, computers, cooking, education, government, health, hobbies, humor, investing, job searching, news, pets, religion, software, sports, travel, as well as a number of controversial issues.

     This large 8 1/2" by 11" directory features quarter-page screen shots of every Website reviewed. A convenient listing at the back of the book lists every Website and its URL to provide quick and easy access to them. Website reviewers will find this directory to be a great reference tool for review material when facing a deadline. Website designers can pick up some top-notch Website design ideas as well!

     This concise directory will point readers to some of the best Websites available at the turn of a page. Thumb through it at your leisure. There is something of interest here for everyone! Highly recommended!

Good guide for 1997, but 3 years later it is out of date and does not contain many new sites. Web directorys should be updated yearly at the least.

I was very unhappy when I saw the cheap quality of The Big Basics Web Directory published by Que.. The paper is the kind used for coloring books, and the printing is poorly done. In some instances it is all but impossible to read the black print on dark gray background. I had expected to receive a book of at least as good quality as Que's Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 95. Sorry about this poor review. This is the first time in a long time I've been so disappointed in a book I had ordered sight unseen.

This novel tells of an important historical fact, one rarely written about. Well into the 20th century, women could be locked up for their entire lives in mental asylums for their sexual orientation or just about any reason their male family members wanted. The stories of these incarcerations are fascinating. However, what those stories have to do with the romance between the main characters is not readily apparent. As a lesbian romance, this book doesn't do well. That part of the book is a little silly. Very much in the "NO! No. no...yesssss" vein. Yet, though the book is uneven, it is worth reading for its historical perspective.

City Lights, Country Candles is Penny Hayes 7th novel. For some unknown reason she falls down badly on this one.

This novel is one of those stories within a story, that rarely work well.


In this case we begin with Laurie who lives with herboyfriend, Joe.

The year is 1960.

Laurie goes on a vacation without Joe. She goes to visit her long time, best friend, Eveleen, who lives on a ranch.


Once there, Laurie is coerced into sitting up until the wee hours of the morning listening to stories of several women that Eveleen's Great, Great Grandmother is determined to tell Laurie about.


Great, Great Grandmother is 102 years old, and time is running out for her.

Grandma's voice as narrator is dropped, thankfully, as each of these women's stories is told.
The stories are all quite similiar--each woman "gets caught" by some unreasonable man: a brother, husband or father who is displeased with the woman's non-traditional thoughts and actions, and sees to it that she is carted off to a mental institution.

As we progress thru these women's stories, each story becomes less detailed, and less shown.

By the time we get to the last character, Sadie, the story becomes so lacking in detail, one can only wonder what led the character into her concluding situation.

When Laurie begins hearing the voices of these women from the past--the story really gets goofy.


The only part of this book I liked was that the women in Grandma's stories were all from the eighteen hundreds.

An interesting view of the world of mistresses. Paints some thought-provoking ideas about marriage and the idealism that most mistresses seem to have about the man they're with. Short on humor but at least sympathetic and understanding. A must read for any woman who finds herself in this situation - if only to make her feel less of a social outcast. We debated well into the night - whether you agree with the content or not, it certainly made us think again.

I've reviewed this book once already. It was a rather poor effort. The book reads like a textbook of case studies for psychologists. This was not designed for the layperson who is trying to gain insight. Very dry.

As a promoter of haiku, I found these Haiku to be of amateur quality. This is clearly the work of someone keen about the world of Haiku, but lacking in serious talent.

A Hill Without a Name is interesting and subtle. The poems proceed through the seasons giving it an almost cyclical feel. None of the poems are slight, which, in my opinion, is a defect of much haiku written today. However, some are too long, but only a very few. In any case, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Sent email to Barone Books several times to get information on their return policy. Never received any return information even to say they didn't accept returns. Poor form!

This is one textbook that was required for one of my classes. The language is not too complex, it's succint, and you can finish a chapter and not be confused (so many psychology textbooks are)!

Too academic and philosophic. I could not finish the book. If you want to know about Tito, read West's book.

It hardly needs to be said that anyone interested in studying the life and times of the famed Yugoslav dictator Tito cannot avoid reading this book. Milovan Djilas was one of Tito's most trusted deputies during the communist-led antifascist resistance during World War II, and one of Yugoslavia's most influential politicians during the immediate postwar years (considered one of the regime's chief ideologues). Even after his break with Tito in the early 1950s and general fall from grace, Djilas kept abreast of Yugoslav political events at the highest levels, as well as the personalities standing behind them. Here he offers a relatively candid and often critical view of Tito, and provides many insights into his actions and motivations. At one point in the text, Djilas also inadvertently repeats some of the rationalizations used by Tito and other Yugoslav officials for the often brutal political repression of opponents (both real and imagined), especially after the 1948 Comintern crisis. All in all, this is a very readable and illuminating insider's account of Tito and his leadership style.