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This book was first published in 1856 and is a design classic! Owen Jones was born in 1809 and is a key figure in the history of British design. He was an architect and designer who taught in London during the 1850s.

He traveled in Europe and the Near East, were he helped to bring back ideas to improve the quality of Western design. This collection is a result of his comprehensive analysis of patterns. The sumptuous illustrations are presented in these sections:

Ornament of Savage Tribes

Egyptian Ornament
Assyrian and Persian Ornament
Greek Ornament
Pompeian Ornament
Roman Ornament
Byzantine Ornament
Arabian Ornament
Turkish Ornament
Moresque Ornament from the Alhambra
Persian Ornament
Indian Ornament
Hindoo Ornament
Chinese Ornament
Celtic Ornament
Mediaeval Ornament
Renaissance Ornament
Elizabethan Ornament
Italian Ornament
Leaves and Flowers from Nature

The original Preface to Owen Jones's original folio edition has been preserved and included. The general principles in the arrangement of form and color are listed so you can see which are advocated throughout this book.

If you are interested in reading about over 2,350 classic patterns (color engravings representing a vast range of ornamental styles), this is the book for you! More than likely, you will gravitate to one form of the other and concentrate your reading efforts on those sections.

The actual pictures are all numbered and the mediaeval section is especially beautiful.

Iain Zaczek has contributed to the commentaries in this work. He is an art historian and has written on a wide variety of subjects. He is also the author of The Essential William Morris, The essential Art Deco, and the Art of Illuminated Manuscripts.

The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones is a highly regarded design classic, first published in 1856 and just as relevant today. The DK edition is a pleasure to examine (although you may need reading glasses to see the six-point type for some captions). The small format fits well in the hand and has a nice heft (504 pages at 1.3 inches thick). The paper is superb and the colored inks for the thousands of engravings brilliant and crisp. If you need a version that lays flat on your drawing table or a scanner bed, however, this one has some drawbacks. The images are very tight to the inner margins, and the glued binding difficult to keep open without breaking the back. That aside, the DK edition is beautiful and a great buy.

The Rev. Gitmo Dollars is the most recent in a long line of charlatans (like T.D. Fakes) who are having a field day getting rich by exploiting the crisis Black women are facing these days. This book is basic common sense craftily designed to get the bucks from the confused. Go to a good friend's shoulder and you can save your money on Rev. Dollar's cadillacs.

Pastor Dollar has broken down the fundamental element to christianity in this thought provoking book. He explains that love is the most powerful ingredient to one's faith walk in christianity,though many don't know it or walk in it. If you want to experience more of God and His blessings and want to put your live in perspective, in regards to christianity and your role in it, YOU NEED THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!

"Tao means god, tao cannot be defined." well, which one is it! The book lacked direction and focus, although certain anecdotes taught minor lessons. There are better books out there.

The Tao is an embodiment of practical age old experiance and sage common sense. I personally used the lessons contained in this book to build a ten million dollar company. A common misconception is business is about products, when business is more about people, and their needs, desires, and fears. If money is your only goal, perhaps this book is not for you. However, if you feel the challenge of managment is an opportunity to broaden your life experiance the Tao of Managment can help you realize your goals with insights very relevant today. The Tao is about working with the natural potential we all have, but sometimes forget during the normal everyday grind. You will be surprised how definitive it is in handling the most common problems you will face on a day to day basis.

This is the worst example of a programming book I have ever purchased. The worst insult was the fact that even though on the cover it says using ActiveX. A whopping four pages are dedicated to ActiveX which is just screen shots of what the MS IDE looks like and an explanation blatantly proclaiming that if the reader wants to learn ActiveX then he or she needs to buy another book. Used car salesman and con artist selling an inferior product use this type of tactic (the Bait and switch). Please heed my warning save your money. Yeah John Swank does it again hopefully he will not do it to you.

I purchased his other two books and this one fill sout my library. I love his examples--whenever I have something to do I try his books first

This book has helped me tremendously. The style of the book is exactly what I needed. It seems like most of the other books Ive bought and "borrowed" made COM seem like some kind of mystical thing, but this book just tells it like it is. I agree with the last reviewer that the first few examples have a repeatd warning in them about calling an init function, but the rest of the examples were all new and just what I needed.

The book provides too many examples. Some of them (30%) are useful.
The rest are boring. The definition of the Current Transformation matrix is wrong (colums and rows are exchanged) showing that the author has no idea about linear algebra and matrix products.
However this is the only book available for me, so I had to learn
PS with it.

In fact, I could barely get through it.

My introduction to PostScript was through the Language Reference Manual and the Supplements. Plus it was quite helpfil that I was surrounded by PostScript gurus.

By the time I got this book it read like a Dr. Suess novel. Bored, I was.

Skip it.

This is an extremely helpful book, *if* you are a little familiar with PostScript and want to know more. Although it suffers a bit from lack of organization, the subsections are fairly self-contained and are generally extremely clear. As a hobbyist, my primary interest is in PostScript drawing rather than text manipulation, and this book has good coverage of drawing and graphics. My understanding of PostScript was greatly deepened by this book. (I finally understand dictionaries!) PostScript level 2 is discussed in some detail, which is unusual among the available texts. I have looked at several books and have not found a better intermediate level text.

If you need to know something about relational databases, it is possible to pick out some things. If you want to read on every page about how nobody is doing it right, this is for you. His monomania about the shortcomings of database vendors verges on the insane.

This book may be short in length; however, it is has enormous informational depth. Pascal certainly knows his stuff. In this book he writes about concepts and practices that are greatly lacking in the world of database management and development. He points out how, even, expert players of the database world fail to give the most fundamental and important aspects of database design/development proper emphasis. And he tells us why it is so important.

Readers really should have a good understanding of SQL before reading this book. If the reader has solid understanding of set theory (collage level) they should follow this book easily. If the reader is not too sharp with math they will struggle with many of the advance concepts that Pascal covers. But the reader should still understand the underlying message, database integrity. This book explains why database integrity is vital to a successful database, as well as, how to implement good database integrity. Pascal does get a little too passionate, well actually, he rants. Some people might find it a little dark, but I thought it was a kind of funny.

This is the book that jumped my career orders of magnitude higher than it otherwise would have been. It does take some quiet time to read and understand this book. If you're looking for an MSAccess primer to read on the bus on the way in to your HTML scripting job, this isn't it, buy a "dummies" book. On the other hand, if you want to understand the guiding principles of ALL database design and modeling (which is the critical core task of all information application development), and then be better at it than 99% of your peers, I don't know of a better document you could possibly study. In terms of real world, on the job usefullness, this book surpasses ANYTHING else I've EVER read about Information Technology.

Bought this book for one of the examples which seemed to be exactly what we needed - the Two Keyboards example. We had a great deal of trouble getting it to work, and we contacted the author directly. He was initially keen to help, telling us he was aware that the CD was generally messed up and versions of files were wrong. He pointed us at an updated online version. We tried this and had even worse problems getting it to build, let alone install. We contacted the author again, and he admitted the online versions were broken too, but he wasn't prepared to help us any further. The least you would ask is that the examples work fairly well and have installation advice either on the CD or in the book. I concur with another reviewer who said that the CD seems to be a mess and full of useless product information. It is hard to see a target audience for whom this book would be useful.

We made this purchase in spite of the poor reviews here, however we implore you to avoid this book: it is unlikely to fulfill your requirements and John Hyde does not deserve your money. It is clearly intended as a money-spinner rather than a useful reference.

Short review: this book [stinks].

On the surface, this book looks like it is fairly good although it includes a lot of Intel PR about what a good thing USB is. Digging deeper, you will find serious errors, omissions, and examples of poor programming. Files mentioned in the book as being on the CD aren't. Could not find errata at the Intel Press web site. Assembly code just includes all source files in the project. I still haven't figured out how to debug a project like this. Any normal person would set the project up to assemble each file separately. All but one (firmware) project are written in assembly and the one C example doesn't work. The list could go on ...

Before I bought the book, I read these reviews and, generally, they were favorable. Now, I'm simply amazed that anyone would give it any more than 2 stars.

BTW, I think the book and CD are on-line at the Intel Press web site. At a price of $0.00, I'll give it 2 stars.

John says it's easy. I say that learning about USB can make your head spin. It's not a simple interface to understand. But John's book will help. He begins with a clear and concise explanation of what you need to know about how USB works. Then he starts teaching by example, including source code and circuits. The buttons and lights example has all of the essentials for reading and writing to USB devices, including Visual-Basic source code and EZ-USB assembly code for the peripheral. Many of the examples use Windows 98's HID drivers, so you don't need to write or install a device driver. There's also Visual-Basic code for detecting and displaying information about all attached USB devices. The CD-ROM has tons of useful code. This is a good book!

I have been on QUEs web site and been trying to get the corrections for this book for a while but its a no go. QUE sends me the standard try the web site-which is worthless. The errors start from early on (even the table of contents says "Getting started with programming HP" missing the leading P.) I have been able to slug through but you better know a fair bit of HTML and programming if you are to tackle this book (you will have to correct the mistakes yourself)
I have learned more from Programming PHP by Oreilly. and by reading and altering portions of SquirrelMail.

Toby has put a new face on PHP, and seems more focused than ever. Aside from changing my life, PHP has been somewhat of a source of inspiration for me. I used to have trouble talking to girls and would often find myself talking to pictures of girls in my senior yearbook. Through Toby I have learned that internet girlfriends can be a good alternative to dating.Thanks Toby

Let's get right to the point. This is the Rosetta Stone of PHP books. This book and PHP go together like the Lone Ranger and Tonto (especially episode #114 titled "Tonto vs Microsoft "). All of the ancient PHP secrets will be answered within the pages of this book. If you have any inclination to start up your own website, or just want to do your part as a good American, I suggest you high tail it to the checkout page and buy yourself a copy of this book.

Upfront, in defense of the authors, I will admit that buying the book in 2003 does put it at a disadvantage. That said... The book was obviously "thrown together" with more mistakes than I have ever run into.. especially in the source code. Example: The book references both "the CD included" and a web site to download the files - NEITHER OF WHICH EXIST. The source code listed in the book is full of errors. On the positive side, I've found it to be useful as an introduction to animated graphics; however, if you are a newbie to java, forget it!

Learn from examples? this book needs to learn from the examplethat has been set by just about every other Programmingbook.

1. Include a CD-ROM of all source listing, as well as making it available on a website.

2. Make the website address somewhat memorable...

3. Put the source code in seperate ready to go files. All of the source code for this book is combined into one text file. And most important,

4. Test your source code, and give it's limitations to the user. The source code I am using Network File Transfer does not work. I fear I am going to have to spend many hours decifering the authors code.

I haven't finished the book, maybe it has some redeeming qualities. I'm not sure but I think there are better books out there for the money

This book makes you feel like you're back in college. Unlike other books, this books is a mixture of teaching Java to novices and good programming techniques. With a little humor here and there to wake you up! The authors explain in great dept the purpose, concept and implementation of their example.

On a personal note, where can I find the source codes covered on this book? I'm not in college anymore, and too lazy to type them. :-)

An utter waste of money. I was thinking the creaters of Java would make the best authors of an introduction to Java. I was mistaken. Cool cover art, though

This book was purchased because it was the required book for a second year computer science Java course. The book fails to cover even the simplest aspects of Java. Almost all my classmates purchased another book after discovering that this book did not fulfill their needs

Finally, a book with DECENT examples. While it isn't a book that will teach you everything there is to know about the theory of object orientated programming, it is THE book to learn how to write practical Java applications and applets.