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Like other reviewers, my copy of The Mind of Christ has been highlighted so many times, the pages look like they are in technicolor. Which is appropriate for how enlightening I found this book. T. W. Hunt uses examples from the lives of real people (including himself) to illustrate the life-changing principles taught, and lived, by Jesus. It helped me unlock not just the power of prayer, but the power of actually living the life of an empowered Christian. As a man thinketh in his heart, so also shall he live. I was particularly moved by Pastor Hunt's vivid description of the betrayal, trial, death and resurrection of Christ. Throughout his book, Pastor Hunt shows that our life won't always be fun and games, that real troubles come to one and all, but that having the Mind of Christ can help us successfully come through the rough (and good) times. Thank you for a helpful, inspirational book! Blessings to you!

I continue to read this book over and over. I get something new each time. I have underlined so many parts of the book that when I recommend it to my friends and family they comment that it's time to get a new copy. I plan to get copies of the book for several friends this Christmas. I thought that I had it all until I began to read this book. If you want to know where you stand in your walk with God, just read this book,you will read it, and read it again and again.

The Mind Of Christ is a life-changing study of the beattitudes and Phillipians 2:4-12. I was encouraged and learned such practical application of this small portion of scripture to my life. It indeed changed me and my thinking and I have begun to do this study again. I encourage anyone who wants to grow in the Lord to do this study. You will certainly be blessed and learn more than you ever thought possible.

Although I went to every class of Corp. Tax at the LL.M. level and read every assignment, things never came to me as clearly as they did after working with this book. Ms. Block does an excellent job of describing transactions and their tax consequences with intelligent simplicity and brings even the hardest concepts within the tax novice's grasp.

It's the best corporate tax book out there period.

Corp. tax is one of the more difficult courses in Law School, but is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in transactional practice, or looking to improve their skills in using challenging statutory material. This book makes the subject a great deal easier---one of the better study aids I've used. The explanations are very lucid, and the problems are extremely helpful for exam prep. Keep this within arm's reach of your I.R.C.

Many times in Bible studies and in associated books theology bogs down the particpants and distants them from understanding where the Lord Jesus is in everyday life. If you need pure "study", this book is not for you. However, if you've been through the studies of Scripture and need time to reflect upon your everyday walk, this book is divine. Very simple written - short paragraphs, each ending with prayer and reflection. I had bought my wife the book "Jesus as CEO", after she received a promotion to a management position where she works. She loved the book, which she still uses today as a tool in working with her fellow employees. Jesus In Bluejeans is very similar - a tool which can be used for personal reflection of your walk with Jesus. Enjoy!!!

One problem many people have with Christianity today is that Jesus seems so mystical and far away. We see Him as a robe clad person of 2000 years ago. Jones puts forth the idea of Jesus coming to us in the cloths of our day. That He is here with us and that His messages are relevant today in this world. Read a sction a day or just crusie through from start to finish. Just read and be comforted in the fact that there is a God here for us today.

This book was a very good book to read, talking about everyday life the way Jesus would see it. I was captivated by her opening remark: I was in a field and I saw Jesus walking up to me in a pair of blue jeans. Why are you wearing those I asked? Because that's what you wear today.

A friend gave me the loan of this book when I asked some questions about synthesis. I read it twice before I reluctantly gave it back. After that I order my own copy from amazon. I really love this book. It is so well written. Enjoyable and informative. There is no maths and everything is explained in a simple fashion. I would like to see a series written by these two authors going into further detail on each of the types of snthesis covered.
I'd thoroughly advise it to anyone especially Music Technology students or Computer Music students.

I got into computer music with Sonar and using only software synthesizers I opened up a whole new universe of sound. This book will help you on your way. A little history not much math but a lot of help. If you intend to follow this path give this book a read!

If you have interest in finding out exactly what's happening with the sound as you twiddle those knobs, this book is an excellent choice. The author does a fine job of presenting an extraordinary amount of material - you will learn real, in-depth background about acoustics and synthesis techniques. I find myself constantly referring to this book when I am in my studio.

There are two MFC books real-world MFC programmers should keep as future references. VC++ MFC Extensions by Example by John Swanke is one of them. This is an essential MFC extension. Swanke presents powerful, yet surprisingly really simple fully implemented solutions to questions MFC programmers most often ask. For example, the author provides a solution to a folder selection dialog box. Swanke presents elegant solutions that are so simple, yet effective, they make Visual C++ Wizard seem overly complicated!

Swanke includes another element that definitely distinguishes this book from other MFC books: MFC virtual function execution sequences. Swanke does an exceptional job mapping the order of which Windows calls different virtual functions and presents fundamental pointers to important MFC messages. I believe the execution sequences Swanke presents help in design process, during implementation process, and ultimately during maintenance of MFC based applications. Lastly, his solutions are mixtures of MFC and Win32 API. Programmers learn to directly use Win32 API in an MFC architecture and get the best of both worlds.

I highly recommend VC++ MFC Extensions by Example.

Kuphryn

The great thing about this book is it addresses so many situations that MFC programmers find themselves in, and it seems like you're always trying to reinvent the wheel to deal with them.

We're currently wrapping up a 1 year project, and we had a lot of user interface issues that seemed minor, but required some investigation in how to deal with them. Just scanning through the table of contents, we found the solution to at least 4 of those issues, and we implemented them in a matter of minutes.

After greater examination of the book, we've discovered many ideas to incorporate in future releases of our software. Things we had considered, but seemed more difficult than they're going to be.

Swanke is a solid MFC coder who really understands the ins and outs of MFC. His examples don't take the bizarre hack routes that many programmers tend to use to implement things that are out of the ordinary. Instead, he uses MFC in very elegant ways that don't always seem obvious to the rest of us.

I applaud him on a very fine book. I also purchased his book, "Visual C++ MFC Programming by Example" and was equally impressed, and my review of it is available as well.

I like it very much for it provide lots of examples and explain many questions about programming. So after I finished this book, I bought the other two books written by swanke.

This book (and indeed all of the books in the "Learning by Example" series) are simply great for people in the education branch. They are ready-made courses with web support. The style is streamlined, the examples are simple but are logically build up, so that by the end quite a high level of complexity is achieved. Why waste time developing your own material when this is difficult to beat, and costs only pennies!

I don't know that I can add much to what the other reviewers have said, except that the book is very very well written and even the complicated techniques appear to be easy and logical. The book has a nice flow, building up stepwise in complexity. With the codes (downloaded from the web support) to help, then you can't really go wrong.

This book has been adopted by us (and other colleges) because it is an excellent introduction to DHTML at the beginner level, for 1-credit courses. The book is well built up, pedagogically correct and at a price that suits the students pocket. It covers HTML 3.2 and 4 tags, the DOM, CSS1 and 2, plus XML, XHTML and Active X. Client side scripting is illustrated using JavaScript and VBScript. Finally the book ends with Dynamic Scripting (CSS, DOM and JavaScript in combination). It covers RegExp (which is unusual and very refreshing for a beginner book) and even touches ASP, Java and UNIX. Recommended for all teachers (and students).

I like this book because it's a learning tool that gave me exactly what I was looking for. I was tired of looking through Make-up effect books that had two pages devoted to doing horror effects. Stephen King and George Romero (or just horror in general) will really enjoy this book. As will make-up effect artist.

This book is a manual for every horror fan, FX student, and lover of Savini around. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this from my schools bookstore, and might i say, what a find! Explained in gory detail, every effect is uncovered. The book has many hpotos, most in black in white, some in nice bloody color! Lots to look at, and plently to read about, this book is THE BEST! Even if your not into special FX, I'm sure you've seen the horror movies he's done, and its worth reading to find out how this talented man created these effects.

A mistake was made during my recent review on this book.Instead of me giving it a 5 star review like I intended,I gave it 1.I am correcting this mistake and I am giving it 5 stars.It deserves it.

I had a class with Dr. McKim as part of my requirements for my Masters. He is VERY good. I must say, I am little biased here, but I liked him as a lecturer and I bought this book as soon as it came out and I love it. I had never actually used the concept of Design by Contracts anywhere until my class with Dr. McKim. If you are a developer or an architect for any OO based language (Eiffel, c++, java, '), you read this book and use it as your reference.

Despite its' power, design by contract is an underutilized software development technique. That is most likely explained by the speed of software development and the time that would be required to learn it well enough to use it. Most developers either do not, or feel that they do not have the time to stop and learn how to use design by contract effectively. Well, the former group simply cannot be helped, as not even design by contract will extend the time in a day. However, for the latter group, this book is for you.
Design by contract is not difficult to learn, as is demonstrated in this book. The examples are very easy to understand and are chosen for their combination of ease of use as well as having applicability to the kinds of programs that developers create. While Eiffel and Java are used to create the examples, it is not critical that you know them to understand the code. The only requirement is that you understand the basic principles of object-oriented programming. While some background in logic would be helpful, all that is needed is what is required for writing correct Boolean expressions in programs.
I am a big proponent of the design by contract model of software development. The writing of the contract principles forces a level of intellectual rigor that can dramatically improve the quality of your software. In this book, you can not only learn how to do it, but you will also learn how to do it well and the ways in which you can do it wrong. I have placed it in my list of the top ten books of the year.

I read this book cover-to-cover, something I had rarely done in the past with technically oriented books; and I truly enjoyed the experience. Mitchell and McKim have done an exceptional job of not only portraying the essence of contracts but also the importance of these artifacts in software design. Design by Contract by Example is written carefully, accurately and with the reader in mind. My compliments go to the authors.

As it says on the cover: "This is the largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. None are otherwise."

The limericks that are included are often funny, some of them, however, are just plain raunchy for raunch's sake, but that's what limericks are. Limericks, like folk tales, come out of the oral tradition, and to be authentic, which these are, ought not to be sanitized, which these aren't.

I found one limerick in the introduction which gives a pretty good description of the 1700 plus limericks in the body of the book.

"The limerick is furtive and mean;

You must keep her in close quarantine,

. . . . . . Or she sneaks to the slums

. . . . . . And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk, and obscene."

That pretty well describes the content of the book. Have fun, I did.

If you are concerned with politically correctness, and how people should function with one another... this book is not for you. It had never occured to me how many twisted things there could be about "A girl from Dallas named Alice." Yes, they are all here; chapters ranging from "abuses of the clergy" to "zoophily." Reading and reciting these cleaver verses is sure to expand vocabulary air in non-linear thinking. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

If any book can come close to this is would be the bible. There is nothing on earth that can compair the wittieness of thought full insight as this book. I recomend it to all.

Recently I posted a review of this very excellent book. I wanted to point out one bad thing about the book, which I guess had to do with timing. Red Hat 7.1 no longer includes linuxconf to do most of the linux configuration, so a lot of the examples do little good for those using Red Hat. (The authors used linux-mandrake, which I guess still uses linuxconf).

One frustration I have experienced with using this book is that it overlooks a description of the files accessible through the command line. Instead the book relies on linuxconf to illustrate. Of course, it's not the authors' fault that red hat no longer uses linuxconf, but that's the problem with explaining things in terms of a gui interface. It would have been nice to include more samples of config files (and commands to run) and less screenshots. I reluctantly conclude that this book wouldn't give enough information to do linux network configuration, although it gives an excellent overview.

This is an excellent book, and one I would highly recommend for anyone looking to set up a network at home (or in a small office). Parts I found especially useful were Chapter 12 "Sharing an Internet Connection", which is probably the main reason why most people would want to have a home network in the first place. The book has a good description of routers. It also does a good job of describing how your ISP provides you with an IP address for your main machine, and then you can give your other machines private IP addresses (Ch. 7) and then use NAT which will change all the private IP addy's to the single address your ISP gave you, so those machines can go out on the net.
I also like the fact that there is some discussion of including Linux machines on your network. In the past I've mostly been a MicroSoft guy, but Linux is free (!) and very powerful and therefore should definitely be included on your home network. This book will get you started on SAMBA so you can share stuff between MicroSoft and Linux (Ch. 9).
This book combined with "Linux for Dummies" and maybe "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" will really get you on the road to some great hands-on networking experience.

A few months ago I compared networking books at a bookstore with a generous collection of computer books. I have a background in PC hardware, introductory networking and an intermediate understanding of Linux, and I needed a book that was not specific to one operating system. Important components of my home network would be linux-based, but I also needed to include some windows 98, ME and 2000 services too.

The problem with many of the networking books out there is that they are geared to the networking specialist with an advanced knowledge of networking already, or they are dumb-ified for the home-user who would be connecting things with Windows 98. So you are faced with a choice between 1000 page tomes which go into more detail about netware, netbui or wiring than anyone would be interested in. Or you can choice a friendly book full of colorful Windows 98 screenshots (a perfect and actually informative example of that would be "Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking Your Home" by by Mark D. Thompson.).

It is surprising to see how few of the home networking books out there seemed to talk about Linux, although perhaps by the summer of 2001 that will have changed.

"Networking by Example" is a remarkable book because it gives equivalent functions by operating system, 98, NT, 2000 and Linux. It does not go into great depth into configuring services for Linux and Windows (like web servers, samba, etc), but it provides just enough detail for the reader to make sense of chapters from another linux book on apache or samba. This book is one of the rare books that covers both OS's and how to integrate them (the only other book being Unix and Windows 2000 Handbook: Planning, Integration, and Administration by Lonnie Harvel)

One of the most valuable things about the book is the space it devotes to choosing the right hardware and how choice of an operating system might affect your choices. Unfortunately, the book gave a shallow treatment of wireless technologies and somebody looking for wireless information might find better information elsewhere. Sometimes it recommends specific products (which is probably not a good idea, given how quickly models change), but the book gives very practical questions about things to look for when buying a router or cable equipment. The book provides a good number of black and white photographs and illustrations for installing things, and the book contained several chapters near the start that discussed PC-hardware. I skipped through these chapters, but others might find them helpful.

The book does a great job of discussing print sharing and file sharing in both Windows and Linux. It also spends a good bit of time talking about setting up DSL and cable modems, as well as advanced firewall and security topics.

In short: this book is an excellent introduction for the person setting up home networking. Because it is so clear and describes everything so well, it might even be helpful for the would-be networking administrator before he or she pursues more advanced topics. At the time I bought the book, Networking by Example was the ONLY home networking book that discussed Linux and Windows in the same book. By now there are probably others. It gives great advice on picking hardware and setting up linux services. It's only 430 pages, but I've gotten more out of it than books that are twice that size.