Shepard Books

It is more common than ever before for families to be dysfunctional and in crisis. Sara Gilbert addresses teens who are coping with family problems. Everything from substance abuse, and sexual abuse to divorce and depression are covered in this infomative self-help book for teens. Though at first glance the text appears outdated and unappealing to today's modern readers, this book is a tome of wisdom full of reason and advice that every family can use, dysfunctional or not. It has become more and more important for teens to be independent with family crisises the way they are. This book will not replace the role of a good parent, but reinforce the ethics that keep a family whole and healthy. Teens will find comfort in Sara's experience, advice, and wisdom.

Photographer and craftswoman Lois A. Wright teaches readers how to turn natural resources and rustic wood into decorative charms, beautiful handicrafts, and handsome centerpieces. The conversation starters you can make with ideas from this book are great. I wouldn't recommend all the projects though unless you plan on inviting termites into your home.

Fun creativity with a less than practical application.

This book was NOT edited by me! It is of limited interest only, but perhaps useful to a few researchers.

Basic Flying Instruction: A Comprehensive Introduction to Western Philosophy
Jannaway's Mutiny
The Crying of the Wind
The Believer
The Raging of the Sea
Seven Stories from Blackwood's MagazineArmada: A novel
A Good Boy Tomorrow: Memoirs of A Fundamentalist Upbringing
Armada: A novel
The River Running By

This book is a paradoxical combination of quotes of famous writers and ramblings of the author. The goals are worthy but the delivery is analytical and dry. This book does not inspire, it does not sing. A better book along the same lines is The Universe Is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme. That book is more a poem than this one but still carries scientific truths.

There are some specific nuggets that can be gleaned, including an interview of the air interface; however having had additional training in WiMAX, this book falls far short of being a comprehensive course where the reader would be equipped to start working on a WiMAX system.

There is quite a long list of filler material, including lists of companies (some of which no longer exist), and an applications section that is full of maybes.

I would say if you can pick this one up used at a discount, it would be worth it for the few nuggets inside, but don't splurge on a new copy.

I completely agree with a previous reviewer - 60% of this book is acronyms and company reviews. The few pages that are devoted to WiMax are useless and will do nothing to further your understanding of this subject. If you are even remotely temped to purchase this book look at it in a brick and mortar bookstore to see for yourself.

In the forward of this book the author starts out saying that this book is intended to complement the technology-focused WiMAX books that are already out there. This book, instead focuses on markets, applications, revenue impacts, and integration.

To be sure, it gives a little bit of background technology, where antennas have to be located, things like that. And there is an awful lot of information about equipment manufacturers, trade associations, and acronyms (this is a new industry, a whole new list of acronyms). This is basically where you can go for more information if you wish.

WiMAX offers the potential to completely change a bunch of the communications characteristics in the world. In the developing world there is a need for digital communications. A doctor in a remote hospital in Africa facing something he hasn't seen before and needing information from the web. There's a picture of a telephone central office in remote South Africa that is built into a shipping container. WiMAX offers communications without having to string a lot of wire. There is some 'looking into the future' in this book. I'd have liked to see more.

This is not at all light reading nor is it a crash course on WiMAX. I never before input any comment on any books. I only felt it important to warn future customer out there. I put the book down after 40min. Seeing that is is mainly made up of pages of source descriptions like company info. No insight on any important items of WiMAX. It is similar to taking the specification yourself and try to make sense of it.

Really dissapointed technology reader.

I work for a chip company in the WiMAX space and we passed this one over for a training piece as there really isn't much on WiMAX in it. The editing and illustration seem a little out of joint as though its some sort of "formula book". Whats really missing is any reference to applications for WiMAX, that is, what is WiMAX to be used for? Who, exactly, would deploy WiMAX and why? The book spends 339 pages and doesn't really get to the point of the applicaitons for WiMAX.

It would have been real helpful if the author had actually interviewed some service providers to see how or where they would deploy WiMAX. Given all the other WiMAX books rushing to market, I give this one 2 stars.

This book is based on a collection of very popular stories that were published in a magazine in England beginning in 1829. The author died in 1835, and the stories were consolidated into this volume in 1869. The stories describe the fictional career of Tom Cringle as a young British navy officer who is sent to the West Indies, specifically Jamaica, in the early 19th century. The author himself went out from Scotland to Jamaica in 1806, working first on several slave plantations and later as a merchant in Kingston, before retiring to Scotland in 1822. Many young "gentlemen" went out to the West Indies from England and Scotland in search of a fortune during this period - the height of the sugar plantation era - therefore this account is of considerable historical interest. The author had an intimate, first-hand knowledge of life there and then to draw from - unlike C.S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian, who have written similar accounts - therefore we should look to him rather than them to learn what that life was really like. I found the book to be delightful and fascinating and was sorry to reach the end as I had learned so much from it. It is one of the best depictions available of the period. The author goes into great descriptive and probably accurate detail about anything and everything, including the dress of the times; manners and customs; entertainment; diet; dining; and relationships among whites, Creoles, mulattos, and Africans. We also learn about architecture, transportation, fruits and vegetables, disease, piracy, and hurricanes. Most of the book takes place on land, particularly in Jamaica, but there are significant sections on Cuba, Haiti, Cartagena, and Panama as well. I was particularly interested in his depiction of the slave fest of Jonkonnu and the arduous and dangerous expedition across the isthmus of Panama. I think this "novel" also allows us to see this period from the eyes of people then and there. They seemed to have a devil may care, live for the day approach to life in a time when life was generally short and in a place where death was always close at hand. In contrast, we today are more or less guaranteed a long and healthy life, with few obstacles, and take a much more cautious approach to living. This is a great book if you are truly interested in colonial life in the British (and to some extent Spanish) West Indies in the early 19th century. It is also far more entertaining than In Miserable Slavery, the famous and invaluable diary of a British overseer. On the other hand, you will probably not be entertained if you are just looking for an escapist naval adventure.

The various chapters of this novel were published separately in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1829 to 1833. They were reorganized into chronological order and published in the present book form in 1833. The author was a businessman in Jamaica during the time period of the story, and was familiar with both the area and the era. The book is of some interest to people studying that segment of history. On the down side, the novel (in narrative form) is written in the fashion of that era, and the fashion required by Blackwood's. It goes into excruciating details describing everything the main character observes. The story sometimes drags as Tom Cringle goes from one adventure to another. The main action takes place from roughly 1811, when Cringle was in his early naval career, to the point where he is promoted to commander and returns to England (possibly 1820 or so), and roughly corresponds to the time period when the author lived in Jamaica. The story starts in European waters, but quickly shifts to the West Indies where Cringle deals with Americans, pirates, and slavers. A considerable portion of the account is spent on land.

I had hoped for a rolicking sea adventure-what I got was a very long and tiresome description of life as it might have been in the Carribean among a thoroughly unbelievable cast of characters. To compare this with Marryat or O'Brien is indeed a travesty.

Having read most everything published by Marryat, all of the Hornblower series, and everything written by Patrick O'Brian I must say this book was a terrible disappointment. There is no plot to speak of; not even the somewhat unevenly spaced episodes of the early Hornblower books. There is little to no character development; after 450 pages of this 508 page edition I gave up because I still didn't really know who was who (or even care!). There was no real discussion of life aboard ships of the time period, nor any understanding of hardships or life during the time period. All this author was able to do adequately, in my opinion, was act as a fashion critic wherein he discribed, often in unnecessary detail, the various clothing worn by the various individuals who floated like some sort of jettsom throughout his "novel." I cannot, after reading close to 100 novels of this period of life at sea, give a worse recommendation than I give to "Tom Cringle's Log." It truly is not worth the time or money.

The real travesty is that reviews like the 1-star above should color people's first impressions of this landmark book. Unlike O'Brian et al., Scott lived the life and times he wrote about, and his powers of description were superb. Scott's style is a bit dated, but his book does repay the modern reader's attention.

I have always wanted to travel overseas, and live the kind of life that this book describes. This is a book that really inspires us to do more with our lives, to push straight through the barriers that others place before us (or that we place before ourselves) and realize our dreams. Right after I read this book, I started making inquiries about development jobs overseas -- something I'm sure I never would have done, had I not read this book. There is something in this book for everyone.

It was dishonest, I was in Sierra Leone when she was there and her relationships with people were not good. She was arrogant and not helpful.

I simply enjoyed the book!

I agree with the previous reviewer ... the book is a good size in pages only ... what is on the pages is a waste. I would recommend this book to is someone who does not know a thing about web graphics and has the time to read 600 pages for an overview of the different technologies.

I have to admit I haven't read it all but browsed it enough to see that the subjects are not treated deeply enough and that there is a great deal of paper for nothing.

This 600 pages book could have been delivered at below 400 with the same content and font size.

Each 2 pages chapter, is followed a 1.5 page lab which asks questions with big space to enter answers (as if we would start writing our answers in the book.) Following, the questions are REPEATED along with the answers to them. What a waste of paper!

It's a very general overview of the different medias that does not really answer most questions. Could be nice for a web graphics 101 course, but not alone for sure. I'm happy I did not buy and could pull it from the library.

As an instructor of computer graphics software, I find Creating Web Graphics, Audio and Video an excellent learning resource for my students. The book provides an ample mix of historical summaries on innovative technologies, from Photoshop to browser protocols, and methodical lab exercises and explanations on just about every topic a web designer/developer needs to know for a well-rounded repertoire.

I love the illustrations and excerpts from the Pooh stories, but there isnt a lot of space available for the calendar. Great for a Pooh fan (unless you are an organization nut!)

The quality of this calendar is extremely disappointing. One of the highlighted selling points of this calendar is "50 color stickers". Most of the stickers are too large to fit in the space allotted for each day. Unfortunately, that doesn't really matter though as you can't pull the stickers off the sheet. The perforations are not cut through the paper and you can't get them off without tearing them.

In the late 1950s and early '60s, photojournalist Jack Engeman published a series of books about different lines of work, and also about the various United States service academies. Of them all, "Annapolis: The Life of a Midshipman" may be the one for which he was best prepared. That's because in addition to being a photographer, Engeman was an Annapolis grad and a former instructor at the Academy.

There's nothing especially wrong with this book. The photos of life on the Yard are by and large quite good, and taken out of context it might be hard to tell, in some cases, whether they're from the 1960s or the 1990s. But there have been a heck of a lot of books published about the USNA since 1965, and so it's hard to argue that this title has any virtues that can't be found in a more current book, and in color besides. One area where "Annapolis: The Life of a Midshipman" does show its age is in the lack of female and, apparently, non-white midshipmen. There's also, on page 90, a photo of what appears to be an actual blackface minstrel show being put on by midshipmen which would no doubt deeply pain the USNA of today. And who, as illustrated on page 78, bothers to study French military policy any more?

Still, if you or someone you know attended the Academy around this time, this book could bring back some memories. Otherwise, it didn't strike me as having more than period interest to offer the reader of 2006 and beyond.