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I finally got a copy of this after being impressed by the table of contents and previous reviews. Ignore them. This book's coverage of Lingo and interactive development barely makes it past 'go to the frame'. Rollovers are covered in excruciating detail as if they're the be all and end all of multimedia development.

There are horrible proofreading mistakes. Have you got a 'graphic Excelerator' in your computer? Apparently it's good to have one if you're running Director!

There are clear signs that this was a rush job. In the (only) chapter on Lingo, almost the first bit of code you see in a screenshot wouldn't even compile - they've run two lines of code together.

All up, *not* recommended, and I certainly won't be setting this as a reading for my students.

I have always been interested in learning about the contents and applications that Director has to offer. I spend most of my time in bookstores and libraries reading up as much information as possible about this great multimedia program. I have reviewed many books on Director while I spent my time researching in the "ailes and corners" of these places, but this book cuts to the chase and gets to all of the questions I want answered. It was somewhat of an eerie feeling at first when I began reading Director To Go, because it felt as if Dennis was close by and answering all my questions in language that I could understand. The design of all the chapters in this book can best be described as being very intuitive, and serves as an excellent resource guide without the "fluff." The tips and little tricks detailed in this book is "Brain Candy" to the hungry creative programmer. Two thumbs-up Dennis for visually explaining and graphically describing rollovers effects, custom cursors, frame by frame behaviors, advanced layering, applying filters, working with Xtras, making screensavers, etc. It goes on and on, too many to mention.

In addition, Dennis has provided his readers with a color middle section that shows off some killer visual effects. These beautiful color illustrations has only inspired and motivated me to take my Director Projects to the next level. I recommend this book whether you are advanced or just starting out. If you don't have this book yet and you are serious about Director, you need to get it. I am looking forward to other future publications of Dennis' fine intuitive work. Thanks Dennis for also responding so promptly to all of my email questions about Director. If you would like additional information or have any questions about this book, feel free email me at zafkhan6@cs.com.

This is not the book to figure out the program. But once you understand the mechanics of the program, this book will give you a million tips and tricks and ideas and ways to make better movies. And it is well-written. I read the whole thing on a plane ride and by the time we got on the ground, I had filled it with notes and ideas it gave me.

A real winner.

Where do you think the book advanced payment coming from? THe book only tells half of the story.

Some books set out to accomplish the impossible and come admirably close. Barbara Garson's volume is a prime example. Can you deposit money in a little rural bank and really trace its spread across the global monetary system? How do you know that a multi-million dollar loan to, say, shrimp exporters in Thailand, really has anything to do with the actual dollars you deposited? But that's not the point of this book. The author embarks on a whirlwind, worldwide tour of the global financial juggernaut, and shows how money falls like a drop in a pond and emits waves of disruption that seemingly spread out forever. Garson concludes that deregulation needs to be reigned in, a reasonable anticipation of the Enron mess. We from getAbstract highly recommend her book to business people and consumers who want a better feel for what the "global economic order" is all about, why people are protesting at each meeting of the WTO and whether you should be steamed as well.

As a fairly intelligent individual who has never taken an economics course, I've been trying to make sense of the world of investing on my own. The author takes us on her own journey to do the same, and in the process we come to meet the faces and the people behind the whole process. She goes about it with a very open-minded, down to earth approach, and for the most part, doesn't draw a lot of her own conclusions. Rather, she lets you come to your own. At last, some information on investing that is more than just numbers and returns. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is looking for where to invest their money, or is just trying to understand how "money makes the world go around." After having read the book, now I can go to the Reuters newswires and have an understanding of just what is behind the latest news announcements, what they mean in real terms for real people. The book has made me think twice about what it means to be chasing the high returns, and what implications that may have on the lives of others. I found this book to be very heart opening, and my compassion for the world is immense.

Linda Lee's Success Without College is a sobering refutation of the assumption that high school graduates should march straight to the university. Starting with her son's disastrous jaunt into an expensive college, Lee does some soul-searching and concludes that in too many cases college is wasted on people who are not poised to benifit from it. She cites many reasons for not going to college. Among them a lack of maturity, the low rate of college graduation, the culture of hedonism, slackers, and ant-intellectualism, the binge drinking at college campuses, the many students who go for lack of any other alternatives, the outrageous college costs, the "dumbing down" of too many colleges. Lee suggests that young high school graduates might be better served if they take time off and do "character-building" activities such as volunteer work on an Indian reservation, an orphanage, or some such place. Only after someone has matured and is hungry for college learning, Lee argues, should that person go to college. Finally, she points out that many successful people never went to college and that many high-paying jobs only require, at the most, a certificate or a two-year community college degree.

There is much to admire in Lee's critique of Americans' blind march to college. However, some of her arguments seem less than convincing. First, her idea that high school graduates should take time off may result in protracted drifting. These young people, more than ever, may need structure and guidance found in some college environments. Second, the "character-building" activities Lee discusses require a certain emotional maturity, the very thing these young people lack, which is why they're not ready for college in the first place. I'm not sure very many people have the tools to work at an orphanage or a reservation right out of high school. Third, only a small percentage of people have the brilliance to be computer wizards and entrepeneurs. Therefore, I'm not sure these glorious careers can be obtained by a significant portion of the population. Fourth, when Lee wrote this book the economy was booming. She cited Cisco hiring people with two-year certificates at 60 and 70K a year. Since the book's publishing, the stock market has become sluggish and Cisco is probably not hiring as robustly as it did when Lee was writing. Finally, I'm not sure Lee's experience with her son, who by all accounts was a spoiled rich baby, makes sufficient basis for generalizing about the virtues of going to college. Whatever refutations Lee makes about going to college, the fact remains that in this country there is a huge stigma attached to those who don't have a college degree and all too few of us can, like John Cheever or Bill Gates, transcend that stigma.

Knowledge is free, power is money, the feeling of power = priceless. This is for real people who live on the real earth. College pumps out little robots to go back and forth to work every day. I see it all the time. When I am driving around at 5PM once in a blue moon, I see the suites with the cell phone that serous look on their face driving the Honda in rush hour traffic. Well if that is what you want to do when you grow up and make $50,000 a year and a few small vacations per year be my guest. If you get lucky you may not get a divorce like 50% of Americans in the rat race cycle. It's just a cattle race. Id rather grow my enterprise a big as I can because its fun, I enjoy being a leader. This was a great book more people should read it because I do not want to anyone to tell me how lucky I was to be so successful with out college, I am sick of it. Luck has nothing to do with it. With the human body and a brain you should be able to do what ever you want without college. If I wanted to be an accountant ill just walk down the hall and ask one of my employees to teach me and ill give her a raise. This was a good book.

This book has impressed me with the facts presented. I'm a vocational guidance counselor and I have a hard time recruiting students to take one of our technical/vocational programs. Parents are determined from the day a child is born that that child will graduate from college with a four year degree. As the author so well puts it, very few kids are actually suited for college. This book will help me put together a presentation to my students' parents to help them make a well informed decision about their child's education. I can't say enough about how much I have enjoyed this book and how it will help me in my work.

Beware, this is not written for or by Jews! This is some X-tian missionary (and an evangelist, I think) rambling on about HIS INTERPRETATION of prophesies, etc. I am sending the book back after reading the inside cover. By the way, the author lives in Jerusalem and does work that is clearly forbidden by the Israeli law.

Until one has walked in a person's shoes, it is difficult to make judgements. I disagree with the person that claims that Steve is not a Jew. He is a Jew all of the way and he loves the same God all true Jews claim to worship. Not only is this book excellently done, but having met and talked with Steve at length a few years after this book was written, there is no doubt about his sincerity and the authenticity of what is in it.

This book is a fascinating journey into the amazing world that Steve was brought into by the God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob. The same God that also sent Yeshua. In this world, Steve was taken through the former USSR, and led through almost unbelievable situations as God led him to tell the Jews and Christians that God was about to make way for a second exodus of the nature of Moses and the first exodus of the Jews from captivity to the promised land.

Once again, God said to Steve (and we had known several others called to this job BEFORE meeting Steve)to tell them to be ready. The miracles and accounts in this book are fascinating. Too bad the person leaving a review here did not bother to read the whole book.

This can be considered as one of the only testimonies with truth in it from a jewish christian, a man who knows what prophecy can mean today. Don't let yourself be afraid by the christian way of speaking, this man is not part of the christians, he seems a true talmid of Yeshu`a Rabbenou. he knows prophecy workings from first hand. a reference.

I bought this book expecting a good overall look at the Carribean ports of call. Found it to contain mostly the same info and scanty maps as the other guidebooks, but the small size made it worthwhile to take on board with me.

This is more the book to take along if you have already taken a cruise and/or have already visited the ports of call to which you're going -- in other words, if you just want to know what's doing in each port of call THIS year.

Each port of call (listed alphabetically) includes a map and the following sections (in order): Currency; Telephones; Shore Excursions; Coming Ashore; Exploring (points of interest are numbered, corresponding to the map); Shopping; Sports; Beaches; and Dining.

Due to its appealingly small size, descriptions and maps are less detailed than in other ports-of-call guides (e.g., Frommer's). But if you're looking for "just the facts," this book delivers.

I just came back from a 7 island (San Juan, St. Thomas, Tortola, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, St. Kitts on Carnival) cruise of the Caribbean and I found this book to be the most practical guide of the 3 that I took with me. The maps are good and the advice on beaches was helpful. This is a book that you can take onshore with you in your backpack. It serves as a good intro, but of course you'll have to find other sources for more in-depth coverage of culture and history. What I found to be a huge surprise on my cruise was that almost all of the excursions that were offered by the ship were available as you got off the dock from private suppliers for a good 30% off the cruise price. The risk is very small and after a few ports almost everyone that I talked to went on their own privately arranged tours instead.

This is a silly book that little ones will think is fun, but for a parent trying to introduce potty training it leaves one wondering....... For instance, I did not appreciate the part where Chuckie is supposed to be using the toilet paper to clean himself after using the potty because it shows a chaotic mass of toilet paper all over the place. I'm trying to encourage my child to use a few sheets & not to unravel the entire spool of toilet paper! Also there's not much in the way of a story to read. I've read a half dozen other potty books and they were heads above this one.

Whether you're child loves Chuckie, Tommy, Phil & Lil and Spike or not, the pictures and situation in this book will delight. The only thing missing from this wonderful paperback is Angelica's devious influences. In several short pages, author Kathi Wagner and illustrator Ron Zalme capture the babies' individual personalities and send Chuckie on the quest of a toddler's lifetime. Pure fun, whether you're potty-trained or not!

I think this book was a very nice well written book. It is good for cildren of all ages. My daughter is 15 and she really enjoyed it. [Her favourite rugrat is Chuckie.] I think you should get yours today!

This is a fun if not all that authoritative grab bag of humorous travel quotes, the latest in Jon Winokur's fun Curmudgeon quotes series. I saw quite a few that I hadn't seen before, and was richly entertained throughout. For everyone who has slogged through long car trips, hellish flights, and tried to have a good time at the other end. Guaranteed to bring a smile to your favorite quotehound on the go!

We loved this humorous collection of international grumbles about the mixed joys of travel. Curmudgeonly quotes from a wide-ranging assortment of grumpy notables from George Bernard Shaw to Dave Barry cover topics from specific destinations, from Akron to Winnipeg, plus notations on food, transportation, and accommodations. Great little book for bathroom reading, bedside tables, and whenever you're feeling grouchy and need a smile.

Anecdotes, quotes, and excess baggage accompany this jaded view of travel experience. From general words of wisdom ("If you can't see water, don't order fish.") to specifics about countries such as France ("Ever want to slap an entire country?"), Traveling Curmudgeon is impressively packed with insights and humor.

but this book is not helpfull

I have read multiple, as well as a variety of books over the past fifteen years,since I started to invest in the market.I read the first edition many years ago, and I read the latest edition several months ago. The excellence continues.You will not learn technical analysis, but you sure will learn the basis of fundamental analysis in a lucid and highly stimulating manner. Use this book as the foundation and then use any of the multitude of books out there to expand this basic knowledge.When you further your reading it will be done with a sound basis in fact. Good Hunting

I have been a professional money manager, in charge of over $5bil. in international funds. This was the first book I read on the subject of stocks, over 15 years ago, and I still think it's one of the best: lucid, friendly, non-patronizing. It dares to cut through the obfuscating language of the profession and the tons and tons of blah, blah, blah, and answer that basic question, "What is a stock?" This is the one book I'd recommend to anyone wanting to find the answer, complete beginner and seasoned veteran alike. (I am constantly surprised to find out that even professionals can't give a clear answer to this question; and the market's behavior over the past 2 years suggests that many never knew it in the first place.) To first-time readers, I envy you; good luck on your journey!

You would have to be a mannequin to pull off this Doctor's advise. Most people do not have a "whatever" attitute when it comes to their children! You would have to have a seriously flat personality, or perhaps be on large doses of tranquilizers to do what this Doctor suggests! For instance; Your son comes home from school and says, "Hey Mom! Me and Sam took drugs today!"
No matter what Dr. Phelan says, there is no way that a concerned Mother would come back with, "That's nice dear...And did you like it?" "How 'bout a little beer with your meatloaf Sweetie?" Really, this book is so ridiculous it's laughable!

Dr. Phelan gives concise, clear ideas about how parents should interact with their adolescents. Parenting books often fall into the trap of a "one size fits all" approach to parenting. Dr. Phelan acknowledges that adolescents often have different temperaments and may require varying types of parenting approaches.

Communication between parent and adolescent is a tricky thing. It is easy to stymie the flow of information. He lists several "dos" and "don't" that may help keep the lines of comunication open. He illustrates each of these points with real-life vignettes. He discusses general guidelines for when it is better for the parent to intervene; when to just let go; and when to seek professional consultation.

I am glad that this title is available in audiocassette form. Parents today are often busy with work, home duties and carpooling. A casette, or anything that is practical and saves time, is great.

I am a clinical social worker and recommend this book to clients struggling with their teenagers all the time, and all who have read it tell me how helpful it is. The advice is clear and practical, especially in deciding when to be flexible and when to be firm. I also like the emphasis on maintaining a good relationship with your kids so you will have a good relationship with them when they are adults. Highly recommended.

As a soon-to-be film school graduate, I approached Frolick's book with an extreme interest. I have found that film school does little to prepare one for actually getting a job. I was not expecting a how-to guide but I definitely expected a bit more in the way of insight. I felt Frolick's style of allowing the subjects to ramble on mercilessly did little other than spotlight their self-absorption. I found myself questioning the intelligence and thoughtfullness of the subjects, not the harshness of the system.

Additionally, I felt Frolick treated his subjects with a mixture of curiosity and disdain. His description of film students in the introduction illustrates his opinion of film school students as short-sighted and self-involved. His editing of interviews seems to highlight the bad tendencies of each subject instead of treating them objectively. The end result leaves the reader wondering what he's learned in addition to be shocked at how little the subjects seem to have learned.

I don't think that I expected to learn a lot about breaking into the film business when I read this book, but I was shocked at how little sense of the industry many of the subjects seemed to have. It's at once frightening and reassuring to realize that even the "best-of-the-best" are just as scared and clueless (and dumb) as everyone else. What Frolick does offer, though, is an enjoyable expose of the lives of some really disturbed people. Also, when the subjects succeed or fail, you're in on the process and you can see very clearly what they've done right or wrong. I finished the book actually feeling better about my chances of "making it", so it can't be seen as a cautionary tale, but it did manage to provide some insight and was definitely a fun, enjoyable read.

I found this book quite interesting. Upon first reading the introduction about the seven individuals chronicled in the book, I thought I was going to be bored to tears. At that point, only three of the seven even seemed remotely interesting. However, as I progressed through the pages and learned more about each person, I grew to enjoy them. The first third of the book took the longest to read. The middle third is the most interesting. At points, I grew tired of the useless ramblings of many of the graduates (bring a lot of cheese because there is a lot of whine here). However, there are shards of diamonds here and there. If you are interested in movies, especially the real struggles those in the business face each day, this is a must read. Be forewarned, however, this is not a how to guide and it will take a while to uncover the good stuff, but the hunt is worth it.