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This book is a very good introuction to Java programming. I compared this book to 2 other books which is Thinking Java by Bruce Eckel and Beginning Java by Ivor Horton I have to say that these two authors were very good but I was looking for a book that was easy to understand and not very technical. This made me smile while reading it, to amazement I didn't get bored while reading it, I was just like reading my favorite magazine. This book clearly explained a lot of Java's basic concepts. Though I would say there are some concepts that are missing, but like I said this book is only good for introduction given that you have no programming experience. If you really want to understand Java get this book and accompany it with Thingking in Java and Beginning Java 2.

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in Hawaiian history, culture, botany or healing practices. It is about the medical practices of the ancient and modern native healers, but it places those practices in the context of history, environment and culture. With it's copious footnotes and extensive bibliograpy, it is an excellent starting place for research into many other areas. I have read it three times cover to cover, and always find something new and interesting.

i'd recommend this masterpiece to anyone interested in french.

HOLA SOMOS FAMILIA JAGUELLO DE PUNTA ARENAS CHILE QUEREMOS SABER TU DESCENDENCIA FAMILIAR CON NUESTRO PADRE Y ABUELO LADISLAO JAGUELLO VON PETRA FAVOR RESPONDER MUCHAS GRACIAS

tin tin in the congo is a great book if you have someway to translate it. If you dont dont buy this book. since they are comics there is not much to translate. Since it is the first tintin it is black + white. It is very racist in the way it portrays other colors/culture.

The value of "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" ("Tintin in the Land of the Soviets") is as much historical as it is literary since this is the first of Les Aventures de Tintin created by Hergé. The date is January 10, 1929 and in Brussels the intrepid young reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième" Tintin and his dog Milou board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero.

Today "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" constitutes something of a false start for Hergé's series. The seven volume collection of the Three-in-One series of "The Adventures of Tintin," which is probably the most common way for today's readers to get a hold of the Tintin stories, begins with the third adventures, "Tintin Au America." Both this story and "Tintin Au Congo" are left out of the "official" canon, the former because of the suspect ideology and the latter because of the implicit racism. What emerges in the other eighteen Tintin tales is more pure storytelling that takes place in a created world that bears only an allegorical relationship to the real world. Besides, Tintin does not even have his trademark tuft of hair at this point.

Consequently, Tintin fans who track down the first couple of adventures will need to take both tales with a grain of salt. Whereas the other stories tend to stand on their own, the first two are clearly dated. "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" especially requires commentary or annotation that reveals exactly what was going on in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s that Hergé and the left found necessary to attack, even in a comic book adventure. I know that Hergé was working for "Le Petit Vingtième," an anti-Communist church-run newspaper, but I also know that he also apologized for this book later in life because he had never actually visited the Soviet Union and had based his story on one book, which was apparently written for propaganda purposes.

Consequently, it is fairly safe to say that this particular Tintin adventure is really not intended for children until they are old enough to understand the politics of the time in which it was written. It might be ironic that you should read the first couple of Tintin adventures after you have read the other eighteen, but that is probably the best way to proceed.

Since this book came from its author's Doctoral Thesis accepted with Honor at the University of Paris, all its contents are based on French Foreign Ministry and French Navy Department official classified documents never released to the public before its publication as a book. At this moment, mid-2001,when freedom for religion,especially for the Christian Church,is a very hot topic indeed aimed at the Socialist Republic of VietNam from critics more or less "politicized" this book if read with a clear-minded,un-biased spirit might help the reader better understand this particular sensitive subject about religion freedom versus national sovereinty,and to some extent,to clarify another topic not less frequently discussed among oversea Vietnamese which is human right against social order and national security.

This book gives detailed instructions for not only teaching reading and writing effectively, but how to reach EVERY child. Kathryn Au has provided us all with a step-by-step method for creating a readers' and writers' workshop in every classroom. This method will work with all children including ESL and SPED. Literacy Instruction for Today is an essential book for every classroom, including inclusive classrooms. Your children will not want to stop writing. Teachers who have tried this method claim that they can't get their students to stop writing. Not only are there step-by-step instructions for teachers to go by, there are also samples of students' work and teacher logs. Summer is a great time to buy this book. Teachers will then have time to plan their own readers' and writers' workshops for their classrooms in the Fall. Good news:this method is applicable for grades K-12 and beyond.

Wishbone turns into a guy who is the kings brother but he dosn't know it. a musketteer comes to help him when he is in jail ordered by his evil brother. Then they switch places when the king is sleeping. I recommend his to anyone who likes mystery, excitment or fairy tales. IT WAS A FABULOUS BOOK!!!

I recently had the opportunity to read "'O Au No Keia: Voice's From Hawaii's Mahu and Transgender Community". As someone with no transgender feelings, it was a glimpse into a part of our community that I knew very little about. Its a very real book, written by the transgendered people themselves. Mr. Matzner interviewed a number of transgendered people on O'ahu, edited what they had wrote and then gave them a chance to review, correct and add to what they had said. So rather than being a book about transgender people, its really a book by transgendered people.

Their stories were real and often touching. Their feelings and lives, while outwardly very different than what I've ever experienced, were so real and human that it would be almost impossible to not understand and feel for them. They openly share both the good and bad parts of the lives in an effort to get those of us outside the transgender community to see how their stories could be anyone's story. They succeed. Its not an cheap book (almost [$$$]) but its worth every penny if you want to better understand our friends in the trangender community.