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Prescribed Burning for Brushland Management : The South Texas Example is a great reference tool for anyone interested in the mechanics, costs and benefits to prescribed burning on rangelands. Although this book is best suited for Texas, as this is where much of the study was conducted, it is a great reference tool to have on your shelf. The book goes into detail about the evolution of fire on rangelands, how it produced the landscape that our forefathers first set foot onto, and how to manage it for ecological and economical means. The first few chapters explains how fires actaully work, to give the manager a broader knowledge of what's actually going on. Guidelines on when to and when not to burn, such as seasonality, relative humdity, temperature, and topography are all taken into consideration. I have taken a Range Vegetation Manipulation class at Texas A&M University under the instruction of co-author W.T. Hamilton, where this very book was part of the required text and know first hand that he has many, many years of prescribed burning experience under his belt. He has worked with such organizations such as the King Ranch, The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and Texas A&M University, to name a few, and is pretty much the "guru" of prescribed burning.

The "reading" wasn't very difficult at all. In fact, I couldn't put the book down! I am seriously considering getting involved in this field, other than "regular" graphic design like I am presently involved in. After seeing beautiful examples of work that's been done, I felt very intimidated, yet excited.

Bootstrap methods have provided new theoretical and practical advances over the past 20 years. These authors convincingly argue the need to make p-value adjustments in multiple testing situations. They have written their own SAS program that allows the option of using bootstrap and permutation methods to compare with the more classical Bonferroni and Sidak bounds. Their program has been incorporated into a SAS/STAT procedure called PROC MULTTEST. I have found the program to be very useful in my medical device problems, particularly in the analysis of clinical studies. One such application is include in my book "Bootstrap Methods: A Practitioner's Guide." Westfall and Young have written an excellent book which serves as a very worthwhile reference book.

One of the best experimental design books I've read. More attention ought to be paid to design as good design makes the analysis at the end that much simpler

"Victorian Houses: A Treasury of Lesser-Known Examples" brings together 116 richly detailed black-and-white photographs of Victorian houses. This is an eclectic collection in terms of architectural style: Italianate, Second Empire, Carpenter's Gothic, "steamboat," octagon, and other elements can be found throughout the book. The houses come from towns throughout the northwestern United States, as well as from Canada.

Most of the photographs are by Edmund V. Gillon, and his excellent work is accompanied by the commentaries of Clay Lancaster. Although Lancaster's insights are informative and frequently entertaining, he often uses a disparaging tone which is unnecessary, and which some might find arrogant.

Throughout the book Lancaster uses phrases such as "a strange conglomeration" (plate 5), "a tight clutter of naive elements" (plate 16), "dull proportions" (plate 53), and "[m]ore gross than odd" (plate 92) in discussing various houses. I think it would have been better to simply have described the stylistic classifications of the architectural elements, and left value judgments to each individual reader.

Despite my dissatisfaction with some of the commentaries, I find "Victorian Houses" to be an excellent book. It is a superb record of and tribute to a remarkable period in North American home architecture. Mansard roofs, abundant verandas, ornate iron cresting, elegant pillars, towers, cupolas--all this and more can be found in here. If you love Victorian houses, you will definitely want this book.

I used this book as the textbook for an online course. Excellent examples of stepping you through the inner workings of the operating system. If you're a novice, it takes you through the basics of working your computer. If you're an expert, you can skip the first few sections and go right into the meat of things. Good examples, very understandable explanations. It's one of the few textbooks good enough to keep as a reference book.

This book has given me a deeper desire to walk closer to the true image that God has for his women.It probes your mind,and provides excellent examples to whom one can relate.Even though the women in the book lived in times unknown to us one can identify with their struggles and their victories. Not only does she look at the biblical times she provides a modern day example that helps you gain an even greater understanding of the message being taught. This is a great tool to help any woman take a look at their life and strive to follow the footsteps of her father.

I read the first 6 chapters of the book in 12 hours then I stopped and gave up from it, because I'm lost and got more confused, and I feel like I need much more than that to know what's in there in the XML much more "TRUST ME", well from its name learn by example but it is not the truth, get confused by examples, the examples are so easy to look at but after reading them and read the little tiny bit explanation about them if any, you will get lost and don't know what is the point, don't know why we want to do that, why we need that from the first place ??
I'm not a new programmer but I just started learning XML and I really don't need a book from the very beginning but still I grabbed this book because I thought I needed something to start with,
there isn't enough examples showing clarity
After that I started reading XML Bible 2nd addition, it has a lot of information and it has away too much details about each topic compared to this book but still difficult to read and has lots of Errata !!!.
I'm still looking for a book in XML that makes me really understand Schemas, namespaces, XSL, and XSLT, Xlink, relations between them and CSS,
I'm using xmlSpy and there you go, you will find everything there about how to make XSL, XSD, Schemas and DTD then the XML files and XSL and XSLT which really need to understand how they all work together but you find nothing about them in XML by example book, I'm not saying the book should explain xmlSpy but you have to know all these technologies to work on XML project.
In the end if you think you want to start with this book then don't, read w3c.School and get all the definition for XML technologies then get a much more detailed better book for it which I'm still looking for.

I have bought this book back in July, I had no knowledge then of XML. This book was helpful to me. The book is logically organized and moves smoothly from one topic to another. Being a new technology, I think the author did his best to cover and compare all different aspects of XML. I have seen worse books on XML (one is Professional XML by Worx)

The reason is that I didn't give it a five star is for the examples presented in the book: for one reason, the examples started easy but got lengthy and difficult to follow up as the topics got more advanced. Another important reason is that the e-commerce example presented in the last chapter is totally in JAVA and servlets, and I couldn't get the examples to run because I couldn't setup the application to work (being an ASP developer, if the sample application was developing it would have been very useful to me)

One last thing to mention is that I couldn't download the code from the web site ( since the codes are not available with the book)

This book is excellent for someone who knows HTML basics and who wants to learn XML. The author does not use only examples, but also comparisons, which are really helpful. For example, XML is structure-oriented and not presentation-oriented, compared to HTML, this book explains the advantage of this difference. The presentation is clear, key notions as Namespace, Style Sheets, Dom and Sax, XLink and XPointer are all introduced in chapter one with examples, and explained in more detail in later chapters. It tells you also how to read this book, for example, chapter 3 is a little abstract, and at the beginning of this chapter, the author suggests you to skip half part and read this chapter later. The author repeats some notions several times, it may be helpful for beginner, but not for advanced. This book covers lots of topics, but not in depth. Overall, it is best suited for beginners. Int/adv readers better read <>, <>, <>, <> and other java/asp xml related books.

Perl by Example seems to be great at first glance, but actually it's not, when you read carefully into it.

The author tried to use examples to illustrate her ideas. However, due to the enormous amount of errors in the examples, I can hardly trust them. I'm wondering whether the author has tried her code on a real machine. Or maybe the code worked at a certain point, but got changed during the author's revision or printing. Thanks to my background in C/C++, I can identify some errors easily. Yet there may be more errors that I didn't realize. Here are some of the examples in the book that either don't work at all, or don't give the output as described: Ex4.49, Ex5.12, Ex 6.21, Ex6.32, Ex7.5, Ex7.9, Ex7.18.

Overall, I don't recommend the book to anyone taking Perl as the first programming language. If you have some background in other programming language, and would like to think about how to fix code in the textbook and play around, it's the book for you.

I'm using this book in a class and, while it's fairly solid, I've found a lot of it to be repetitive and lengthier than it needs to be. The O'Reilly "Learning Perl" book is probably a better place to start, although it's helpful to have a bit of UNIX under your belt before tackling that one (come to think of it, you should probably know a bit about UNIX before tackling Perl, regardless of what book you're using).

As a programmer experienced with Java and C, I needed to learn PERL for a new project. I started out with this book and I'm finding it acceptable, but not great. It certainly has enough examples, but the actual presentation of the language was lacking. It relies far too heavily on examples for me, and reading through hundreds of examples has turned out to be a frustrating and difficult way to learn. I think I'm going to try a different book and hope for something better.

Perry does an excellent job in presenting this topic. Many of the books I have read go to deep for the beginning C programmer. Perry offers a clear concise explanation of the topics and uses easy to understand exercises. I found this to be an interesting book to read as well, and strongly recommend this for anyone who has an interest in C programming, or may be using a text book that might seem hard to follow.

This book should be the textbook for Beginning Computer Programming.

I am a relative beginner to programming. In the past, I have found programming tutorial books to be absolutely boring because they lacked examples. This book is ALL examples. It is a very good way to teach the language because at every stage of the learning process, I am forced to take an active role in the learning process. I am halfway through the book and I have already typed in about 20 mini-programs that have progressively become harder and more complex. The result is that I am naturally becoming comfortable with the C computer environment.

This is an excellent book for beginners. I am fluent in Visual Basic but I had never been exposed to C. Suddenly I find myself needing to develop DLLs in C. I was scared to death because of the short time I had to catch up. I did not think C was that easy to understand until I started reading this book. Even if your previous knowledge on programming is very poor, this book will take you step by step so that you will be soon programming. The style in which it is written is very clear and simple, with very good down-to-earth explanations. The examples are very simple, they just show the concepts and are far from being a technical challenge, but they serve their purpose well. Mistakes: there may be a few, but nothing that can drive you lost (at least to me). However, it does not say much about using a compiler and if you are looking for advanced topics this is not the book, but, in this regard, the editor is very honest: at the back cover you can read it is for beginning to intermediate level users. I am ready to jump into the advanced texts. Thanks Mr. Perry.