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Despite the number of pages, this book does not go into much detail. The GIMP Visual Quickstart Guide by Davis is a vastly better introduction.

If you are looking for something complete DO NOT BUY this book. You will regret that, belive me. Try to read instead "Gimp User Manual" by K. Kylander & O Kylander (which is shipped for example in the package labeled "gimpman" on SUSE distributions). You'll find everything there from how to compile and install a plug-in to how to use and write scripts, really everything

Although it doesn't cover everything that the Gimp is cabable of, it does what it's name says. It goes through almost all the plugins and gives you a good example of each one that you may not have seen before. Worth it for people who know a good deal about Gimp, but are feeling a little stuck.

Overall, my students did not feel that this book really met their needs as readers. They struggled with relating to characters that were developed minimally. For example, Mai seems to jump back and forth between loving and hating Kien due to small actions on Kien's part. She forgives him quickly and returns to despising him pages later. There seems to be no feasible reason for this switching besides the contrived plot. Speaking of the plot, my students found it extremely predictable and a little sappy at the end. Overall, not a bad book for lower level readers, but do not expect to be thrilled by this story.

I teach a 7th grade English/Geography block class. A Boat to Nowhere was adopted by the English department before I arrived. In some ways it was a good choice. Wartski does a wonderful job with setting. She really paints a picture of the jungle of Vietnam and the isolated and tiny utopian village that Mai, the young protagonist, lives in with her grandfather and brother.

When Kien, the "monster" Mai and her brother Loc hear in the woods arrives, their peaceful way of life is over. Kien, an orphan from the war, brings news that the government will soon find this remote paradise and set up new rules. He is right, and when the govenment officials do arrive, it is Kien, surprisingly, who is able to help Mai, Loc and their grandfather, if he is willing.

Most of my students enjoyed reading this novel, so I would certainly recommend it. While studying Southeast Asia, we also read The Clay Marble (set in Cambodia) by Minfong Ho. Both were good novels; however, the characters in The Clay Marble seemed more fully developed.

I am 9 years old and I really loved this Vietnamese story. It paints a lot of pictures in my mind. It has a lot of exciting parts but no like Harry Potter where there's only one suspensful part...this book has it throughout the whole story. I felt like I was in the jungle and out at sea. I think this book is actually better for kids 9 and up. I also thought it was easy to read.

Being the romantic reader that I have become through the past few years (and bored with all the same old same old) a friend suggested I purchase this set by Jennifer Crusie. Sadly, I was disappointed. The stories are average at best. I was expecting something grand...the joke was on me. Ms. Cruise is an okay writer but far from sizzling! DISAPPOINTED!

This book really is mistitled. Chaos theory for markets is not presented, so look elsewhere for that. The book does present a good theory for the psychology of trading such as "traders differ on value but agree on price" as motivation and explains the development of traders from novice, intermediate, and advanced (skip master and expert level)and the goals for each level. Unfortunately, the methodology for trading with a Chaos background is not touched upon.

Good filler read for background on trading and personal development. Poor on methodology for trading with Chaos. Perhaps Mr. Williams had an epiphany and contends all trades are done in Chaos, so traders should relax. To borrow a line from another author, "some trades will, some trades won't, so what, next trade please."

After buying this book, I realize that I had to read over and over again. Dr. Williams are sound, just hard to grasp. Although his method for detecting waves in sequence is an objective way to measure them.

In order to understand his second(The New Trading Dimensions) book more clearly though, I believe you should read this one to grasp his overall objective. It also set a firm way to measure elliot waves in a totally objective manner.

As other reviewers stated, it is not real strong on chaos theory, which the title is misleading. If your purchasing this book for scientific reasons, then don't buy it. But if your objective is learning how to make money, then do yourself a favor and get it.

Although his method here(which is different than the 2nd book)is based more on the general overview of the markets, it is a good
starting point to learn his methodology, even though you may have to read 2 or 3 times(like I did).

The five stars is only for the cover. However, the content of the book is pathetic. I have read many trading books and several chaos books and I can honestly say this book is neither. I fell for the enlightened self-similar structure cover and wasted my money. Don't repeat my mistake.

If you are interested in chaos and trading, start with Edgar Peters books such as Chaos and the Capital Markets.

The publisher, Wiley, should be ashamed to put out this sort of drivel. Bill Williams is a joke. If you think your trading style is based on your body type, then maybe this book will help you feel better about losing; otherwise skip it and Bill Williams, PhD.'s other lobotomized treatises on trading.

I wish that I had not even bought this book! Probably half of the free things in this book were free catalogs, and lots of them were just free hotlines! I definitely advise you not to waste your money on this book, unless you would like to find out about a bunch of catalogs that you can get for free, shouldn't all catalogs be free! I was very dissapointed with this book!

Given the broad nature of this book's title, the reader is struck first by its very narrow focus, even within the confines of the subtitle. As a consequence of his narrow focus, the author unjustifiably and inexplicably ignores important policy alternatives currently being discussed in the field of environmental economics. Ultimately his purpose is to develop a rent-seeking explanation of why direct regulations are invoked more frequently in environmental policy than economic instruments (narrowly defined), even though most economists claim that the latter are "efficient" or "welfare maximizing." However, as I argue here, even this narrow exercise is compromised and may even be suspect because the underlying suppositions embedded in framing the problem may not be accurate.

As noted, the omissions in the book are glaring. On page 1, the reader is informed that "instruments of environmental policy" are divided "according to three ways in which a government can influence an agent's behaviour": direct regulation (command and control), market or economic instruments (tradable permits or pollution taxes), and suasive instruments (education, training, and so forth). I was immediately struck by the fact that this list completely omits the definition and enforcement of property rights as tools of environmental policy. In fact, in more than three hundred pages, Dijkstra does not discuss property rights and their relationship to environmental policy or mention seminal writings by Ronald Coase, Garret Hardin, or any of the more contemporary property-rights analysts such as Richard Stroup, Terry Anderson, Donald Leal, P. J. Hill, or Bruce Yandle. As a result, he inexplicably ignores all the research done primarily by economists in the field of free-market environmentalism (FME). This literature focuses on how the lack of clearly defined property rights has caused most environmental problems and how a clearer definition and enforcement of property rights, possibly through common-law adjudication, would be the best-that is, the most efficient-way to deal with such problems. Even if the author viewed FME as unimportant in terms of actual public-policy considerations, he should have discussed the subject in order perhaps only to dismiss it. Indeed, this approach is the author's way of dealing with so-called suasive instruments.

Even if we accept the author's narrow focus, however, his hypothesis and his book in general still have fundamental shortcomings. First, his review of the literature on the efficiency of alternative policies has at least one gaping hole where it ignores the entire body of work on the relationship between property rights and the environment. If Dijkstra had recognized that literature, then he could not have taken as given the efficiency case for pollution taxes and tradable permits. There is at least an equally valid efficiency case for FME. It is surprising that this project could have made it through both a dissertation defense and the editor's peer-review process without attention being drawn to this omission.

Moreover, Dijkstra's hypothesis accepts as an empirical fact something that seems to be simply an impression on his part and not necessarily true. His premise is that public-policy makers have ignored the economic analysis demonstrating that economic instruments are more efficient than command-and-control policies, while favoring the latter over the former. Of course, for this situation to have been the case, the economic literature would have to have been developed prior to the implementation of the policies, with some reasonable amount of time elapsing between the two events in order for the science to trickle down to the public-policy arena. Yet, in examining Dijkstra's review of the literature, the reader will find that most of the articles cited date from the 1980s, the earliest having been published in 1979. In the United States, the major environmental legislation-the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act-was enacted well before the cited literature appeared. Furthermore, the first important environmental legislation enacted after the 1980s, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, did have as its centerpiece a tradable-permits plan for sulfur dioxide. Although Dijkstra notes this fact, he does not note its incongruency with his interpretation. Most recently, discussions have focused on implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the control of carbon-dioxide emissions. Among true believers in the global-warming hypothesis and in the necessity of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, the only policies being discussed are carbon taxes and tradable emissions permits.

In short, Dijkstra is attempting to explain a phenomenon that he never convincingly demonstrates has occurred. From his literature review, it appears that once the economic analysis had been firmly established, both public-policy makers and environmental advocates proceeded to heed the economists' advice. As Duncan Austin of the World Resource Institute has argued, "Surveys show that about 100 economic instruments were in place in 14 OECD countries by 1987, rising to 150 by 1993. In the U.S. they have been used most prominently to control SO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act" (Economic Instruments for Pollution Control and Prevention [World Resources Institute, September 1999], p. 1). What might actually need to be explained is why public-policy makers have been so quick to embrace pollution taxes and tradable permits. My guess is that in an era when socialism is being rejected around the world, these policies have given central planners an economic-efficiency cover for what are essentially market-socialist schemes.

Aside from Dijkstra's making the now-standard observation that because of rent seeking and special-interest pleading, political processes are unlikely to remedy the "market failures" with which they deal, I find very little to recommend his book. Even if one accepts his analysis at face value, there is not much for public-policy makers to do with it. The public-choice problems that Dijkstra points out are endogenous to the process, and he gives no guidance as to how to break out of the box. In this sense, his analysis is somewhat fatalistic. Furthermore, as noted, from a strictly positive perspective, that analysis not only lacks a basic understanding of the literature but may be based on inaccurate empirical assumptions. Finally, the book is very mathematical and will immediately discourage those readers who are not mathematically inclined; hence, it will have very little appeal to noneconomists.

This book is best used as a review of things you already know, for motivational purposes and things like that. It's a goodprice. But DO NOT buy this book if you're expecting any big news or new findings or anything like that - it's basically a couple hundred pages of "eat less, move more."

I have never before seen a book with so many grammatical errors. I don't care about "proper English" but this is so bad, it's hard to read. It's even harder to take advice from a book that was obviously not done professionally. Don't waste your money.

Consumer Guide completely misses the mark here. They miss major and minor defects with automobiles. For example, they missed paint defects, and head gasket problems with my 1994 Mercury Cougar whereas Lemonaid Guide to Used Cars caught all problems I have encountered.

It appears all vehicles are presented in a positive light and that is not the case. Don't waste your money here. Lemonaid Guide to Used Cars is a far superior choice.

This website is misleading! I clicked on the Recent Customer Reviews" and there are no comments listed. Now tell me, how do I determine if purchasing this book would be beneficial because you DO NOT have customer comments nor do you have a brief description of the book itself!