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Take your application design and programming skills to the next level with in-depth architectural information to help you optimize and fine-tune your applications with Visual Studio .NET.
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Weak Examples, Not Much Meat.......2007-08-19
This book may have some content that is hard to find anywhere else but overall it was a big disappointment for me. I was looking for some real insight in how to write effective macros for manipulating text and this book only had 1 chapter on "the code model." The chapter was devoid of any decent example of using the TextSelection object.
I also didn't like the fact that the 3 author approach was so obvious. Some examples were in VB and some in C#. You would think they'd write the whole book in 1 language. I don't care which one but pick one. Since macros have to be written in VB.Net you'd think the whole book would have been in VB.Net.
This one missed the mark for me.
Probably the most frustrating and poorly informative book I've ever read.......2005-12-02
Title pretty much says it all. For each item covered the coverage is peurile and sparse. Each example tantalises you with lore, only to keep most of it hidden inside the authors' brains.
Admittedly attempting to document the dog's breakfast that is Visual Studio was always going to be an impossible task, but I think the authors have managed to fail to live up to even that low ceiling. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Good Stuff.......2005-02-16
This book does a good job of filling in the holes the online help leaves when it comes to the autmoation object model. I found ti very helpful. Much better than the other Micorsoft Press books I've purchased.
Exactly what you need to automate or extend VS.NET.......2004-04-03
All the tools in just one place.
Title is misleading.......2004-03-14
The title of this book should have been ".NET Add-in's and Macros" instead of "Inside Visual Studio .NET". I wonder how many people have been misled thinking they were getting a book on how to use the IDE. In fact the first few chapters seem to indicate this confusingly!
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Mabel Walker Willebrandt: Power, Loyalty, and the Law
Dorothy M. Brown
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Uncertainty and farm production decisions
U Sankar
Manufacturer: Himalaya Pub. House
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The Key Study Guide: Biology 20
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The Key is a study guide designed to prepare students for test and school final exams
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A Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section is a clear and accessible introduction to the use of thin sections in the study of Petrography—the scientific description of rocks. Illustrated with a wealth of full color thin section photographs the book explains how to observe mineral and rock samples under the microscope. It covers all covers all rock types—igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic—with equal emphasis and authority, providing the student with an excellent overview of the subject. Each photograph, specially produced for the book, has been chosen to instruct the beginner and offer valuable resource material to the teacher and lecturer of geology. As well as being a useful teaching and learning tool, the atlas is a concise reference and review of rock and mineral identification.
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good book but shipping took forever.......2005-10-04
good deal on my book purchase but it seriously took 3+ weeks for my book to arrive.
An Excellent book.......2005-10-03
The book is written in a consise and well laid out manner. As the previous writer stated, the colour photos are priceless and are exactly as you would see looking through a petrological microscope both in crossed polars and thin section
Covers polarised and cross-polars nicely.......2004-05-20
I believe this book is ideal for a second year University student to learn to identify rocks and common forming minerals under the microscope.
Regardless of earlier critics, this book is only intended as a help to identify common minerals and nothing else. I personally found it very useful, the colour images are worth more than a thousand printed words.
Avoid confusion!.......2003-12-31
I agree with the reviewer from Fairbanks: this book should not be confused with the Mackenzie and Guilford atlas. The Atlas of *Rocks* and Minerals tries to be too comprehensive (by including both rocks and minerals) and in doing so has lost all of the information about less common and accessory minerals that was in the Mackenzie and Guilford text. Of course, much of what's in both books is now available on the Web, but it's still hard to find large format color photos like the ones in Mackenzie and Guilford.
Another (less expensive) alternative is A.R. Philpotts' "Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks." In my experience as a student and then a TA in a mineralogy course, Philpotts' book does a better job of pointing out the distinctive characteristics of minerals than do the photographic atlases.
MacKenzie produced a better text with C. Guilford.......2002-05-03
This book is overpriced and almost useless. It only serves as eye candy for someone with exposure to the petrographic microscope. Outside of pictures it contains terse explanations and alot of blank wasted space.
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Petrology for Students
P. Nockolds
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Acclaimed by Nature as "an ideal text," this extensive survey provides coverage of defects in nonmetals, emphasizing point defects and point-defect processes. It encompasses electronic, vibrational, and optical properties of defective solids and discusses extended defects such as dislocations and grain boundaries.
191 figures. 43 tables. 1985 edition.
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Very interesting book.......2007-10-07
It is a very interesting and useful book for students and teachers of this field of study (radiation physics and chemistry).
The text and the examples are clear.
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It's brains versus Botox
Lizzie's life is so perfect she has to look down to see cloud nine...until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. Not Lizzie. Until, that is, she loses her job to a younger, more telegenic journalist -- and her husband to a sex goddess who keeps fit by doing step aerobics off her ego. That's when she starts to wonder about brains versus Botox. For Lizzie's sister, beauty is one of the most natural and lovely things money can buy. But must Lizzie go under the knife to win back the man she loves? The answer is as obvious as a pre-1990s nose job. This book will have you in stitches...literally!
Love, adultery, death, and a disastrous bikini wax
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Medicine 101: Anatomy.......2006-04-03
Too full of acerbic wit that in the end became very mechanical and lost its spotaneity. Also characters are too neurotic for my taste. The protagonist, Lizze McPhee is similar to "Bridget Jones", very neurotic. The exception being that Lizzie in this story is trying hard to find justification to divorce her husband, Hugo, whereas Bridget Jones in "Bridget Jones Diary" is trying hard to find herself a lover cum husband.
Female anatomy description is in abundance, so much so that it was frequently bandied around as profanities. You can feel every female organ being hurled and thrust in your face when Lizzie, her sister Victoria and their arch enemy Britney Amore are all together. My thoughts on this are that the author is too over the top with her description and crudity.
Lizzie feels the pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery on her approach to her 40th birthday but is resisting it but ultimately gives in. She later faces a mental breakdown due to her over obsessiveness with her cosmetic surgery enhancements and her suspicious thoughts of her philandering husband.
In my opinion not to my liking but it may suit others if you like this style.
HILARIOUS (AND HONEST!).......2004-06-02
What a find. Just a pulpy pick-up off a random book store, and I find myself devouring the novel from cover to cover. It recreates with fascinating honesty a world where bodily contours are critical; a world with an alternative reflection on the complexities of age, image and marriage in the twenty first century. Gruelling exercising regimes, plastic surgeons, ribald but rip-roaring one liners -- this is fast paced and a highly amusing read. Oh, and it's quite an insightful read too, well-rinsed in worldly ways.
This is laugh-out-loud funny! Chick Lit at its best!.......2003-08-24
Please don't confuse this book with the new TV show "Nip/Tuck"! I like that show, too, but this book is decidedly, 100% comedy. Lette's writing is pure comic genius, with every sentence holding a zinger.
"Nip `n' Tuck" is told from inside the slightly neurotic mind of Lizzie, who's staring down age 40. She's being shoved over at her position as a news reporter by younger, perkier talking heads; and she's having severe doubts about the fidelity of her too-good-to-be-true plastic surgeon husband.
Although this falls squarely within the "chick lit" genre, this is TONS funnier than anything else I've read in years. Not only is Lizzie's inner dialogue hysterical, but the mental images Lette creates are uproarious, especially as she invokes the image of a hyperreal Pamela Anderson-type seducing Lizzie's husband. The story takes a completely unreal turn towards the end, but it makes for a delicious slapstick resolution. Please do not expect this to read like a novelization of "Extreme Makeovers"; it's so much more like the zany misadventures of Lucy Ricardo brought into the 21st century.
If you can get your hands on this novel, READ IT!! It's a wonderful comedic antidote to anything depressing (i.e., real life). Lette is here to stay, and I can't wait to read something else by her!
Funny & True.......2003-08-23
One of the funniest books I've ever read. Lizzie McPhee is turning forty, losing her husband and losing her job. And so she decides to go under the knife, which can only spell trouble. Funny without being a romantic comedy. One of my top reads of the year. (A+)
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Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of its battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote this remarkable account of "Co. Aytch" -- its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.
Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. Among Civil War memoirs, it is considered a classic -- a living testament to one man's enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction.
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a must read.......2007-08-29
There are seveal diary books which are like Co. Aytch however for some reason I could relate to Sam Watkins. When I'm asked about the Civil War/War of Nothern Aggression, I tell them to strat their study of that time with two books: Co. Aytch and Testament:A Soldier's Story of the CIvil War by Bobrick. Both books are a 5 star in my humble opinion. After reading those two then go on and read whatever you want.
Five stars aren't enough...............2007-06-12
Classic is an overworked term, but this one is. Sam Watkins was no general, but a private in Co. H, First Tennessee. Sam "saw the elephant", and lived to tell the tale....a lot of good men, on both sides, did not. [My own interest in the Civil War started with the stories my Dad told me that his grandfather had spent years passing down. James Madison Caldwell, 1841-1828, was a Pvt. in Co. H, 45th. Virginia Infantry. I take this opportunity to put his name in print].
This is an up close and personal account of four years in Hell. The Generals got the fame; the soldiers did the dying, freezing, and starving. [Generals died, too....way too many of them] We get first hand accounts of all the major battles of the Army of Tennessee. Oh, there are errors of fact, but they don't matter. How can a historian say that? Read it, and find out. We also get superb accounts of what the troops thought of the Generals. Their opinions are pretty much in line with those of "learned historians", but I won't spoil it by giving details.
Much Civil War history written by participants, particularly the leaders, is pure bilge. They were either spewing bile, settling scores, or advancing political careers.[The list of Officers from both sides who held office in some form would be impossibly long] Sadly a few were simply writing so their families would be able to eat [Grant, Hood]. There are exceptions....see my review of "A Southern Woman's Story", by Mrs. Phoebe Pember. The best of the works by General Officers are probably those by Edward Porter Alexander, and by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.. This book is not only an exception, it is one of the very greatest works in the English language.
If you have an interest in the Civil War, read this. If you have no interest in the Civil War, read this. [my son and daughter were both introduced to it quite early] If you can read English, read this. "Great" is a most inadequate word, but it's the best I've got.
If you're interested in the War Between the States...........2007-06-05
Buy this book. I've read many dozens of Civil War books, but this is the only one I've read multiple times (I first read it around 1978, and now have multiple copies in my home - extras to loan out).
Although the book was written by Sam Watkins several decades after the war, and I'm sure that many details were missed and others glorified, it gives a true sense of what he felt about the conflict, especially after having several decades to come to terms with it.
The reader senses the bitter miseries, the simple joys, the fear, and the hopes felt by a soldier in the 1860's - whether North or South.
I've given out copies to friends that had nothing more than a passing interest in the "War between the States" or "Civil War", and have never heard back a negative thing back about the book, and have been often asked by them about other Civil War books to read.
Buy it, borrow it, or whatever you need to do, but read this book. Excellent.
An incredible diary of the Civil War.......2007-03-21
Sam Watkins was there from beginning to end of the Civil War. His private's-eye-view of the Civil War is valuable for the insight it gives on the concerns, issues and events of the men who did the fighting. Sam had no knowledge of or concern about the grand strategy. His major concern was doing what he was told, fighting for his cause, finding food, and trying to find comfort when he could. Few other books on the Civil War will discuss the fun soldiers had having snowball fights, their griping about the commanders, their 'raids' on the homes of civilians, what it was like to be on picket duty, etc.
This is a valuable book not just for the Civil War buff, but for those who want to know about the reality of war.
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War.......2007-01-09
This is an excellent book. I first read this book while in high school(20 years ago), and I thoroughly enjoyed it. At the time, I had a slight interest in history, but after reading this book, I became hooked on the Civil War. It's a very good, first-hand account written by Sam Watkins, a private in the Confederate ranks. I'd recommend this book to anyone... be they a Civil War buff or not.
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the absolute best book on the army of tennessee!.......1999-03-07
the best diary of a civil war veteran i have ever read!!
A Civil War classic........1997-06-08
This fast, short read is a Civil War memoir written by a private in the First Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate army, the "Maury Grays", about twenty years after the war. Channel surfers and Ken Burns fans may recognize "Co. Aytch" as a favorite source of quotes for War historians, and for good cause.
The book is not a history of the war - Watkins is at pains to make this point - but rather a view of what one private saw. And by his telling of it, he saw a lot. He was at or around half the Civil War battles you ever heard of - Manassas, Shiloh, Chatanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta - and a bunch of others of which you probably never heard. By the end of the war he was one of seven men still living from his original company of one hundred twenty.
Watkins's classic front-porch, army veteran style was likely developed over the course of many retellings, during which - just perhaps - one or two of the episodes were a tiny bit stretched. Taken prisoner three times - followed by three escapes - grazed or hit by bullets innumerable times, once having his hat removed by a cannonball, Watkins is occasionally hard to believe.
A special strength of Watkins's style, however, is his abilty to switch from, for example, a lurid and breath-taking description of men in battle at the "Dead Angle" of the Hundred Days Battle northwest of Atlanta to scathing sarcasm in his assessment of General Hood's performance in that campaign.
Humor abounds in this book, some of it uproarious - as in the description of a preacher who was courageous in his sermonizing but not in battle. Much of Watkins's humor, however, is gently sardonic: "Well, reader, let me whisper in your ear. I was in the row, and the following pages tell what part I took in the little unpleasant misconception of there being such a thing as north and south."
"Co. Aytch" has many qualities reminiscent of "The Red Badge of Courage". The two works - the former an extroverted memoir and the latter introspective fiction - convey strongly the private's nearly constant condition of not knowing the big picture of an army's movements - a knowledge reserved for generals and for historians. The two works also offer scenes of battle which bring the reader into the action through judicious choice of descriptive detail. Watkins writes: "We were charging through an old citizen's yard, when a big yellow cur dog ran out and commenced snapping at the soldiers' legs - they kicking at him to keep him off. The next morning he was lying near the same place, but he was a dead dog." Elsewhere Watkins writes: "The sun was poised above us, a great red ball sinking slowly in the west, yet the scene of battle and carnage continued", which recalls a famous, and stronger, concluding sentence from a battle scene in "The Red Badge of Courage": "The red sun was pasted onto the sky like a wafer."
It is difficult to know, finally, what to make of Sam R. Watkins. His judgements of his contemporaries are trapped in contradiction by the values of his region and era. His acceptance of the south's aristocractic ethos causes him to retreat repeatedly from his own trenchant, plainspoken criticisms of this or that general's performance; and yet the criticisms, once stated, do remain. Likewise, Watkin's patriotic and religious convictions mix with his stright-talking nature to produce contradictory opinions. All any incompetant soldier need do to be rehabilitated in Sam Watkins's eyes is to get killed in battle for his country. This triggers an immediate suspension of criticism and lengthy sentences of praise, with flowery references to reunions to come in the blessed hereafter.
Watkins's most troubling conflict, however, is between his graphic depictions of the senseless brutality of the war - which of themselves amount to an argument for pacificism - and of his refusal to finally reject war either generally or in this instance. He of all human beings has seen enough to take the shine off chivalry - but he will not give it up. Sam Watkins stays true to the cheers of the ladies and of the preachers who sent him and his friends off to war in 1861. Watkins's social background triumphs over his own moral sense; and so, in the end, we get not a moral document but a wonderfully colorful description.
"The tale is told. The world moves on, the sun shines as brightly as before, the flowers bloom as beautifully, the birds sing their carols as sweetly, the trees nod and bow their leafy tops as if slumbering in the breeze, the gentle winds fan our brow and kiss our cheek as they pass by, the pale moon sheds her silvery sheen, the blue dome of the sky sparkles with the trembling stars that twinkle and shine and make night beautiful, and the scene melts and gradually disappears forever."
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4 cassettes, 6 hours.
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Pretty good........2002-04-17
The only thing I don't really like about this book is the categorization. It discusses Napoleon, then skips to the industrial revolution, but then comes back to Napoleon again and the Bourbon restoration. In my opinion, history books should follow the chronology of history, and include everything from one time period in one section.
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Over the past ten years, the orchid industry is growing at a steady pace in the South East Asia and East Asia regions. In some Asian countries, orchids have become an essential export item. To maintain this progress, there is an urgent need for a book that is relevant to the region orchid growers in improving their cultivation and management skills, and to guide new students in understanding orchid physiology. This book provides a comprehensive account of tropical orchid physiology relevant to commercial growers, research workers and graduate students. An integrated and unifying theme of tropical orchid physiology, with a clearly written factual text and illustration, is presented over nine chapters. Each chapter is designed to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date information on an aspect of orchid physiology. This book complements the existing scientific literature available to improve orchid cultivation and to set new research agenda especially in the tropics.
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A MUST for Researchers and Professional Growers.......2005-01-05
This book is a wonderful reference. It summarizes many of the great research papers not written in English and can be very hard to get a hold of even in a university setting. This book will be a challenge to the beginning and average orchid growers, but a great tool for those in need of scientific information
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Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in the United States and Co2 Taxation in Europe (New Horizons in Environmental Economics)
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