Binder

I bought this book after reading the previous reviews. I am a QA engineer working in OO systems, and I must say that I did not find this book to all that great. It is a good book, but I found it to be a bit theoretical. I would have welcomed more practical tips say on how to do performance testing on multitier systems, how do you adapt these concepts on hybrid systems etc.

I have several books on software testing, but none of them provides the comprehensive, in-depth coverage of testing that this book provides. No software developer or test engineer working with OO techniques should be about it!

I have nearly twenty years experience in IT, 12 in OO. this by far and away the most clear, useful and thought provoking work I have ever read on testing.

Anyone in the OO world who is serious about testing and has not read this book is a fraud.

The sad thing about this book is that those who need to read it probably will not.

This book provides excellent visual guides for many popular Photoshop functions. Definitely useful for a beginner who is new to graphic design and Photoshop.

I have at least ten books on Adobe Photoshop and eight of them (including the ones supplied by Adobe) are unintelligible. "Photoshop 4 Complete" by Kate Binder and others was the only book that I could understand. So I was happy when Kate Binder recently came out with "Easy Adobe Photoshop 6." (Actually I was not so happy because I was thinking about writing a simplified pictorial book on Photoshop and this pre-empted me totally.) This book is well worth the investment to anyone who wants to learn Photoshop, particularly for editing and retouching digital photos. It is completely pictorial with very extensive clear pictures that show you diagrammatically what to do and what to expect to see on the monitor when you do it. I learned a great deal from reading this book and it is also a valuable reference. I highly recommend it to others. The only criticism I could make is that it is weak on matters pertaining to file size, file formats and JPEG options vs. JPEG quality.

Donald Rapp

The trouble with Photoshop is its just too complete for recreational uses to remember even most of its capabilities. It is therefore an overkill for all but daily, probably commercial users. This book is the perfect solution. Open a favorite image file, and flip through the book until you find something that looks interesting and fun. Do what it says..click click click Shazaam! Hey look at this honey! Now I actually use some of the vast power of this amazing software. Most of it works with PS 5 or even 5LE as well so if you have those but are thinking of upgrading, this is a good way to learn the improvements in PS6. Opps - can't do that with 5 - humm nice enhancement. This is not however a good tutorial for learning photoshop from scratch. It doesn't give any explanation of why something works nor does it connect one process to another. You need at least a basic understanding to get started. Any of really abbreviated books will work for that, my dog eared copy of Photoshop for Idiots was enough for me. This book is great for digital darkroom hobbiests as it opens a nearly endless set of ways to amaze yourself on how creative you can be. And I haven't melted my hard drive with it...yet.

In this extremely well-researched book, Reimers and Binder attempt a task of Herculean difficulty: condensing over three centuries of New York City's immigration history into a 330 page book. Despite the inevitable shortcomings, their work puts forth a cohesive synthesis of the immigrant struggle in a bustling metropolis. Beginning with the Dutch settlements of the 1620's and ending with a general commentary on the state of NYC immigration in the present, the authors chronicle a tale of general stability in the face of internal fluctuation. Reading this book, one can't help but remember the old adage--the more things change, the more they stay the same--and the description fits the story of NYC immigration perfectly. Cyclical in nature, the history of New York's immigration is one of hard labor, (geographic)displacement of a previous immigrant group and a general assimilation of culture--usually in that order. Professors Reimers and Binder show us that although the face of New York City immigration may periodically change, the immigrant struggles and reality of urban life never do.

I read this book as part of a graduate course on the history of New York City atLong Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y. This book tries to include brief and factual history of all of N.Y.'s immigrant groups. It also covers the various waves of immigration. A good book for a multicultural perspective on New York City.

As a profesional Medical biller the days and days I spend using this book are unnumbered. The proccess that american medical association goes about displaying current codes is unmatched. I've tried cd's, websight's, and even mail order code providers. Over and over I keep going back to this book and every year they update this book to keep everyone posted! The end result is as a profesional, you have to get this book before going and spending valuable time and money on so called easy code methods!

This is the most helpful cpt book. I am a new coder I wouldn't buy anything other than professional edition.

I really love this recipe binder but I don't know where to get additional pages for it.

This is an excellent binder for your recipes. It is complete, compliments your kitchen decor, easy to use. I purchased eight copies during the holidays as gifts and will be buying a few more. This is an absolute lovely item.

While the Software Manual that comes with PhotoImpact is fairly complete, it doesn't give you many nice examples. This book gives you some nice examples and ideas of what you can do with the software. But, it lacks some of the technical detail. So, it's a nice companion to the software manual, but not a complete unit in itself. A lot of the color pictures in this book are helpful, but some of the pictures that are used to display differences between different software options all look the same to me.

PhotoImpact Solutions is a great book for those who have yet to discover all the wonderous things this image editor can do. The full color layout and easy to understand language makes for very comfortable reading. It sure beats sifting through the user manual supplied with the program.

The new features are discussed thoroughly and gives the reader / user a better understanding of the power of PhotoImpact 6. Users of previous versions won't find anything essential here besides the new features, but those new to PI should not pass this book up. This is by far the most enjoyable PI book released yet!

Congrats to Jason and company for a job well done!

With PhotoImpact Solutions, anyone can create, edit, enhance, and transmit computer images and web graphics. Jason Dunn and Kate Binder collaborate in explaining PhotoImpact (a program used to design quality web graphics, exciting animations, JavaScript rollovers, and impressive images) in detail. Readers will learn how to use the EasyPalette and create GIF animations. Highly recommended for website designers and anyone needing to create computer imaging, PhotoImpact Solutions will rapidly advance the novice beginner to the level of seasoned expert in the use of PhotoImpact 6 quickly and easily.

I enjoyed this book immensely! I would recommend this book to anyone who ever lived on a farm, grew up in the 60's and 70's, or likes the format of each chapter being a stand alone story.
This book is a better read than some of the "Chicken Soup" books...so if you like them, you would love this one.

This is a great book to lift your spirits, and the stories are funny and heartwarming. It is easy to read, and the short stories make you thirsty for more. I can't wait for the next book!

This book is not only immensely hilarious, but is also written with a lot of heart and soul. D.D. Dunn writes story after story about her memorable, life-learning events that took place in her growing up years. Her sense of humor is constant and her healthy outlook about life is refreshing. I laughed uncontrollably many times throughout this book. I am looking forward to reading and enjoying her next book! Meanwhile, I will re-read a story or two of hers from time to time for a good dose of humor. Thanks for the good feelings! I'm still smiling.

The biggest obstacle in the way of this beautifully illustrated atlas is its rather unreasonable price-tag. Its publisher, (and authors), did overlook the fact that there are lots of moderately priced equivalents out there in the market.
Nevertheless, anyone who goes ahead and purchase this atlas will appreciate its versatile accomplishments. It is very practical, and included high resolution photographs and micrographs.
"Atlas of Human Parasitology" has a unique organization, which enabled it to provide comprehensive laboratory information. Every specimen it portrayed was labelled and analyzed in details. There is complementary taxonomical description in each case. This is a well-compiled atlas, but I still maintain that its price is a great barrier.

I use this book on the bench in the microbiology department and I find the clarity and amount of photos extreemly useful. The other good features are the lifecycles and the methods present within the book. The book is sturdily bound and printed on high quality paper I would recomend this book to any laboratory, or person interested in parasitology.

me too....

Well I was a bit leary about reading this book. I didn't care for the first book I read by this author but was pleasantly suprised by this one. I liked the plot line and the charactrs were well written. The discriptions of everyday life made it feel as though you were watching it happen.

This is a time-travel-historical. The heroine, Ana conjures a warrior to help save her mother. She is hoping for the legendary Irish warrior, Cuchuliann, but what she gets is a modern day man who plays footbal for a team called the Warriors. Kenneth MacKinnon, aka Mac, is suddenly taken from the middle of a game and thrown back in time to 1328. He is totally confused but quickly adapts to his new life. He soon finds himself training to do battle to be the hero that Ana needs. He also finds that he wants to be more than just a hero for Ana. he has fallen in love with her but with his future uncertain he is reluctant to make her his. She feels just as strongly for him but knowing that he must go back to his time she is afraid to let her heart feel for him.

There is action, humor, passion and love in this story. It is filled with many secondary characters that help tie it all together. I really enjoyed it and I hope her other books are as good.

The story of Ana and Mac. She's a 14th century lady, he's a 21st century football player. Ana, desperate for her mother's release from her evil stepbrother, uses a spell to conjure a champion. Thinking she will get the great Irish Warrior Cuchulainn, she instead gets a 21st century professional football player. The two are instantly attracted to each other. Mac agrees to help her champion her mother and she agrees to train him in the ways of sword play and jousting. Together they travel to Edinburgh for the tournament. I liked this book and read it in an afternoon. I thought it was a sweet romance with a fun story. I'd recommend it!

During the reign of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, Ana de Dannon worries about freeing her mother Rhannon. Ana's stepbrother Lord Roderick holds Rhannon prisoner. He will only free her in exchange for the Golden Sword that he believes will make him ruler of the country. A desperate Ana performs an incarnation from the Book of Spells that will bring forth the legendary Irish warrior Cuchulainn.

In the current age, Seattle quarterback Kenneth MacKinnon takes a hit from a linebacker. When he awakens he finds himself holding the football near Ana and her Aunt Danu in Stirling Castle. Ana thinks she conjured up Cuchulainn to battle Roderick and liberate her mother. Though he does not consider himself a warrior, Kenneth is brave and intelligent and begins to work on the game plan to free Rhannon. As he does so, he falls in love with Ana who reciprocates his feelings. However, both expect him to return to the future as soon as he completes his mission.

THE QUEST is an entertaining time travel romantic fantasy that will provide much pleasure to readers. The story line is filled with medieval pageantry and treachery augmented by Kenneth's confusion as he wonders if he took one hit too many. Fans of fantasy and romance will fully relish Pam Binder's spellbinding tale.

Harriet Klausner

First of all I'll state why I read this book. I practice the martial art called Aikido which brought me to get interested in the body energy (Ki/Chi). I also practice Chi-Gung and Tai-Chi. One of my Aikido fellows is a physical therapist and he frequently talks about native-american healers and non-ordinary state of reality. So in turn I became curious to know something about shamanism, even because I came to believe that all this "energy stuff" boils down to few principles regardless as to whether it is applied to combat or healing or whatever else.
I am in no way an expert in this specific field. This having said, I enjoyed reading this book even if English is not my first language. It is well written, and a part of it is very interesting. The author's path toward her meeting with the spirits is intriguing. Tension drops where the too many reports of trance experiences cease to be of general interest while eventually maintaining some relevance only to those who are deeply into this activities. The interpretation of the reports is down to a bare minimum.
On the other hand the author is rather self-involved and she fails to answer some questions someone like me would like to know the answer to. The healer/shaman needs to enter the otherworld to heal or to foresee the future or to fullfill an inner call, I understant that. But "WHY" would ordinary people want to enter a non-ordinary reality when they are not healers? Trancers melt into the ground, fly with big eagles depending on the postures. So what? Is this kind of trance different from smoking pot? Could trance ecstasy still be relevant in our society as the author seems to suggest? The author states that in our modern society we use high-tech surrogates for our innate need of trance. I can buy that but is it proved? Does it mean that posture-induced trance, as opposed to LSD-induced trance, is brain-friendly and approved by DEA? By the way, is trancing brain-friendly or can it fry someone's head? It eventually can as it is somehow connected to demonic possession. What is the real relationship between the use of allucinogenic substances (the mighty Sixties stuff) and shamanic extasy? The information contained in this book is very diluted and obliterated. The discovery that some postures can mediate ecstatic trance is extremely exciting but it doesn't take a whole book to tell that.
I am having the impression that Dr Goodman's main goal in writing this book it to prepare a fertile ground for her future grant applications. From a perspective of a grant applicant I appreciate the effort. From the perspective of a reader I would have appreciated a more concise and more complete book

I was perplexed at the "Publishers Weekly" review of this
book, citing that "all of the descriptions sound the same".
Whoever wrote that must not have clearly read the book.
The experiences people have differ greatly with the TYPE of
posture, and this is clearly explained in this book, as well
as in a book by Belinda Gore ("Ecstatic Body Postures: An
Alternate Reality Workbook). I have personally attended a
seminar of this work, and continue to practice it, with
others, and our experiences are not the "same". They are
amazing, rich, deep, and healing - and different for different
people.
This particular book is a wonderful story of how anthropologist
Felicitas Goodman was led to even formulate her thesis in the
first place- by great trial and error, working with hundreds
of people all around the world - a work which has continued
for over twenty years. She describes in detail the experiences
of many people as they "journey" by assuming the postures, to
a specific drumming or rattling beat. She shares how the Cuyamungue Institute was founded over 25 years ago - a combination of practical hard work and magical, inspirational
experiences. She shares how, over time, certain postures revealed
themselves as "fitting" into various catagories- such as healing,
divining, metamorphosis, lower world journey, and so on. In addition to being a wonderful insight into shamanic types of
endeavor, this is a story of the life of a dedicated scholar, led by many insights and observations, to develop a body of work
which is a scientific research work in progress, as well as being a possible link to the ancient roots of humanity. I recommend it to anyone interested in spirituality,
the psyche, somatics, healing, and shamanism.

I found this book to be one of the most helpful works to the study of shamanic realizations. Ms. Goodman has opened up our minds to astounding possibilities.