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Many policymakers and analysts throughout the state have hesitated to use the State Controller's data on local public revenues, citing three assumptions about their quality: They do not capture all public entities in the state, they do not accurately reflect the fiscal activity of those they do capture, and they are not produced in a timely manner. The authors compare the revenues reported by more than 6,500 entities in the state with the State Controller's annual report. Although they find that the data are basically sound, the authors offer a number of recommendations for increasing the timeliness, comprehensiveness, and accuracy of the information, thereby making it more useful to both the policy and research communities.

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This tongue-in-cheek Mini Kit™ appeals to self-help readers who don't take themselves too seriously. It includes a miniature sofa that doubles as a stress-reducing squeeze toy, a sand timer, and cards with affirmations. The fascinating 32-page book offers a witty glimpse into the world of psychotherapy.

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Cute and Clever.......2007-02-05

I've given a few of these to some therapist friends and we've all enjoyed the little joke! At the same time, there is a reminder to see a REAL therapist if you are feeling bad...while finding an emotional lift from the jokes, hour-glass therapist and his/her chair...

Funny!

Therapist in a Book: Emotional Healing : Companion to the Audio Series Therapist in a Box

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Therapist in a Book: Emotional Healing : Companion to the Audio Series Therapist in a Box
Anankha K. Chandler
Manufacturer: Penmarin Books
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Do you feel something is wrong with you? Do you feel out of control? Have you ever said to yourself, "I hate myself," or "I want to die?" Maybe you feel very alone or wake up in the middle of the night sweating with fear? Do you keep choosing the same type of negative relationships over and over? Do you find yourself displaying behaviors that defy your control? Do you talk to yourself in a negative fashion? Welcome to Therapist in a Book: Emotional Healing. This workbook provides a step-by-step program to change the way you feel. Written as an adjunct to Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing, the celebrated audio series by Anankha Chandler, Therapist in a Book is a revolutionary new system of "shrink your own head technology" that will guide you through your emotional recovery. You will learn to define where feelings are coming from and how to permanently heal the cause. Within these pages is a process with which you will be able to become your own therapist, heal your past, rework beliefs, and create the emotional and behavioral changes you seek. Each chapter explores a different facet of emotional healing, providing information and observations, and asks guiding questions so that you may analyze and work through your experiences in a logical and easy-to-understand way. Written by a woman who spent years of her life in therapy and has recovered from paralyzing biochemical depression, agoraphobia, and panic disorder, Anankha knows your pain! More importantly, she has found a way to work through the pain and move on to a satisfying and fulfilling life, and she has dedicated her life to helping people heal. Ask yourself how your life would change if you could . . . -- Stop harming yourself -- Let go of fear, anxiety, and worry -- Gain a firm understanding of why you feel what you feel -- Plot strategies to change your behaviors -- Let go of false belief systems -- Use new tools to change your feelings -- Stop participating in harmful relationships -- Heal old anger and pain --- And, once and for all, be your real self!

Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing (Volume 1, Tapes 1-5)

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What a concept!
Finding yourSelf within your world, priceless wisdom!
This is the very best self help book ever publshed

Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing (Volume 1, Tapes 1-5)
Anankha K. Chandler
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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A step-by-step program to change the way you feel, Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing audio series is a revolutionary new system of "shrink your own head technology" that puts you in charge of your own emotional healing! If you are seeking contentment and positive self-discovery in your life, this powerful program of psychotherapy and emotional healing provides the tools for you to change your feelings and negative behaviors, and you can use it in the privacy of your own home. Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing consists of a series of thirteen audiotapes coupled with a companion workbook. The program allows you to change perceptions, rework beliefs, heal the past, and consciously plot strategies to create the life that you desire. On each tape Anankha asks guiding questions to help you analyze your experiences in a logical, step-by-step way, then moves into a hypnotherapy session to emotionally work through those same events. Having undergone years of therapy and having recovered from paralyzing biochemical depression, agoraphobia, and panic disorder, Anankha knows firsthand what works and what doesn't and has packed twenty years of experience into this system. It will change your life. In this program you will learn to . . .
( Stop harming yourself
( Heal old anger and pain
( Let go of fear, anxiety, and worry
( Let go of false belief systems
( Gain a firm understanding of why you feel what you feel
( Use new tools to change your feelings
( Plot strategies to change your behaviors
( Improve both internal and external communication
( Stop participating in harmful relationships
( And, once and for all, be your real self! Points of Interest
? Extremely user-friendly self-help therapy system
? Wholistic (left-brain, right-brain) processes involve the entire self
? Includes step-by-step exercises to change your feelings
? Music creates a meditative, hypnotic atmosphere designed to elicit emotions throughout
? Simple to use; affordable
? Be your own therapist
The Audio Series The audio series Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing consists of thirteen tapes in three volumes. Volume 1
Tape 1 Healing the Inner Child
Tape 2 Permission to Have Your Feelings
Tape 3 Healing Loss from the Past
Tape 4 Stopping the Internal Child Abuse
Tape 5 Ending Pretending Volume 2
Tape 6 Ending Fear, Worry, and Anxiety
Tape 7 Rebirthing
Tape 8 Forgiveness
Tape 9 Releasing Anger and Rage Volume 3
Tape 10

Changing Belief Systems
Tape 11

Opening Your Heart and Feeling Safe
Tape 12

Creating New Behaviors
Tape 13

Self-Integration Workbook for Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing The companion workbook is designed to increase the benefits of the program when used as an adjunct tool. It augments the information you get on tape, plus it has a workbook structure for you to write down your responses to the various questions posed in the exercises and to review and practice the exercises to make the emotional and behavioral changes you seek. The workbook comes as an introductory package with a CD of Title 1 of the audio series, "Healing The Inner Child."

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What a concept!.......1999-12-03

This is a great tool written by a lady who was THERE in the darkness! Finally something written by someone who knows what it's like to suffer from depression, not just a dried up piece of psycho-babble! Kudos to Anankha for not only surviving, but for helping lead others back into life.

Finding yourSelf within your world, priceless wisdom!.......1999-10-18

The true gift lies in the fact that you aren't just given a bunch of 'tools'. You yourself are the tool to healing. No treatment (as in therapy). You are being trained to take back your power to heal and be whole. A tremendously enriching experience. Yours forever to keep. Yours to share.

This is the very best self help book ever publshed.......1999-09-05

I've looked for a way to get "mySelf" back for years and was getting nowhere,everything from antidepresants to psycopharmacoligists and therapy. You name it I did it,or tried it! I'm coming back thanks to Ananka

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THERAPIST IN A BOX
Lou Harry
Manufacturer: Miniature Editions
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N53CMU

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Therapist in a Box
Lou Harry
Manufacturer: Running Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K8620O

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Solid common practice period theory text

Important text, but not for beginners

A very strong text teaching the foundations of tonal music

Good, but don't expect it to cover everything

Be Warned!

Workbook: Harmony and Voice Leading, Volume 1 (Harmony and Voice Leading)
Edward Aldwell , and Carl Schachter
Manufacturer: Thomson Learning
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Binding: Paperback

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A comprehensive volume spanning the entire theory course, HARMONY AND VOICE LEADING begins with coverage of basic concepts of theory and harmony, and moves into coverage of advanced dissonance and chromaticism. It emphasizes the linear aspects of music as much as the harmonic, and introduces large-scale progressions--linear and harmonic--at an early stage. The first three Units of the book are designed to be taught sequentially, but instructors have the flexibility to teach the latter units in any combination and order they choose.

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Solid common practice period theory text.......2005-09-25

I've yet to find an alternative to the Roger Sessions, HARMONIC PRACTICE, which I believe to be the best theory text ever written. However, the teaching of theory has changed over the past forty years since my first "date" with Sessions and his text... and students have changed as well. Hence, I find Messrs Schachter & Aldwell have done a commendable job (a nearly impossible job, I think) in writing this new, single volume edition. Whilst I never expect to find the perfect text, this one will do nicely.

The text clearly cannot stand apart from a good theory teacher. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), a credible do-it-yourself theory text has yet to be written.

Important text, but not for beginners.......2004-12-20

One thing to understand about this book - it was not written with amazon.com beginners in mind. It is a college-level theory textbook, and is probably one of the few books that present basic theory concepts in a coherent, unified fashion. The "restrictions" some reviewers complain about, are actually part of a time-honored approach to teaching theory (think "species counterpoint"). To understand the book, a teacher needs to understand something of the ideas and approach of Heinrich Schenker (Schachter was one of Schenker's students). Unlike many theory books, which are into quick summaries and labels, this book is based on a deep understanding of how western tonal music works (at least from the Schenkerian perspective). Even basic concepts like scale degrees, intervals, and triads, are presented in such a way that important relationships among tones become evident. Chords are not merely chunks of notes that deserve a label, but are part of a larger, contrapuntal whole. Sticking with the early chapters, and especially getting a good grasp of the contrapuntal nature of even the most basic chords (insights gained into the similar "passing chord" functions of the V4/3 and viio6 chords, for example) are well worth the effort. Upon successful completion of the first 10 or 11 chapters, a student should have a new understanding of how tonal music works.

A very strong text teaching the foundations of tonal music.......2004-05-19

When I was a student at the University of Michigan School of Music in the late seventies and early eighties, we used the then brand new first edition of this book. I thought it was quite good then, and I believe this third edition to be an even better book. It treats the subjects of tonal harmony and voice leading quite well. There have been some solid improvements in the way a few things are explained and some changes in the musical examples. However, it is still fundamentally the same sound course for undergraduate music theory it has been since 1978. However, it now comes in one volume instead of the two volumes of the first edition.

The text begins with a quick review of the basics of musical grammar, a brief introduction of the rudiments of musical notation, intervals, rhythm (and meter), chords, and four-part harmony. Part II talks about the powerful relationship between the tonic and dominant chords, chord progressions elaborating that relationship, and even the dominant as a key area (whether you call it tonicization or modulation is up to you). Part III discusses the implications of root position, first inversion, and second inversion chords in elaborating harmonies and in sequences. Part IV is actually about contrapuntal issues, but is framed in a discussion of melodic figuration. Part V introduces chromaticism, modal mixture, and extends the discussion on uses of seventh chords. Part VI extends the discussion of chromaticism and includes ninth and eleventh chords, Phrygian II (Neapolitan chords), augmented sixths, and more types of mixture. There is also important discussion of the implications all this has for voice leading and modulation to other key areas.

Some might wish that it contained some treatments of graphical (Schenkerian notation), and I am one of them, but that is a quibble compared to this book's many strengths. The counter argument is that until the students really have a handle on the basics of harmony and how voice leading is handled through the music of the early twentieth century, there really isn't a way for them to grasp the meaning of the larger structures Schenker's graphical notation was created to represent. I think that is a fair point, but still think there are some basics in notation that could be introduced early in the process when talking about the basic structure of melodies and supporting harmonies and candential formulas.

The explanations are clear and the musical examples apt. In fact, someone could actually work through this book on his own and grasp what is being presented. Of course, an instructor is helpful to check work and explain things that remain unclear in the student's mind, but that is really true for any book on any subject.

There are some wonderful materials to supplement this text. The most important are the two work books (WB I - ISBN 0-15-506226-3 / WB II - ISBN 0-15-506234-4. They are useful exercises that help the student learn the material by actively working through the application of the materials discussed.

Another resource that should not be overlooked is the two-CD set (ISBN 0-534-52216-5) that contains performances of the hundreds of musical examples in the textbook (not the workbooks). It can really help a student to listen to examples that are unclear. If a student can play them herself or hear them in his head, so much the better, but these discs can enrich reading through the textbook and making sure that you understand what is being presented to you.

Kudos to Professors Aldwell and Schachter for this wonderful text and supporting materials.

Good, but don't expect it to cover everything.......2003-11-01

The main reason that I want to write a review here is on the off-chance that any AP music theory teachers or students are coming across this and are considering buying the book. My teacher made the mistake of using this as our primary textbook for the year, hoping that it would cover the AP curriculum. Well, it doesn't. It only helps on about 20% of the test, and for the rest you will be dead in the water.

That said, it does a pretty good job introducing and expanding the concept of basic four-part voice leading. It doesn't expend very many pages teaching the absolute basics like major and minor chords, so it helps to approach the book with some understanding of chords, intervals, and the like.

The progressions and rules that it allows do seem a little bit stringent and antiquated considering the many changes in classical music over the past century, but at least you can voice-lead like Bach after reading this!

Be Warned!.......2003-10-24

This is not a paperback edition of the textbook but rather Workbook I which accompanies the hardcover textbook. I made the mistake of ordering this thinking it was the textbook.

What amazon.ca is calling the 'Workbook' is actually Workbook II, covering the later chapters of the textbook.

Buyer beware!

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harmony?

Buyer Beware!

Useful practice questions but alas no answers included.

Harmony and Voice Leading: Workbook (Volume 2, Second Edition)
Edward Aldwell , and Carl Schachter
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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harmony?.......2007-01-03

Would someone please list each if these Books, Workbooks and CDs in relation to each other so the WHOLE can be seen? I have happily used the Hardcover H & V 1, pub in l978; as it seemed useful, recently purchased the H&V 3rd ed, to find it is a 2 CD set, yet there is a good deal of crossover use for CD #1 to the H&V volume #1; to what study book does CD #2 refer? to what does the 'workbook' refer? Unless there are some printed answers available, there is truly no use to a 'workbook', because you'll never know where you went wrong; even teachers may disagree on the 'rules'. Why can't they make a straightforward offering of these materials?

Buyer Beware!.......2003-10-24

This is actually Workbook II which accompanies the textbook of Harmony and Voice Leading. Workbook I is simply under the description of 'Harmony and Voice Leading' (Paperback).

Make sure you order what you want!

Useful practice questions but alas no answers included........1999-11-19

This workbook presents very practical theory and voice leading problems in order to help you practice the theories outlined in the textbook, unfortunately there are no answers contained in the workbook. Unless you have someone who can correct your work it is not a particularly useful book- especially if you are working on your own.

Harmony and Voice Leading: Workbook, Volume 2

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Harmony and Voice Leading: Workbook, Volume 2
Edward, and Schachter, Carl Aldwell
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OK7CW0

Workbook: Harmony And Voice Leading, Volume 1 (harmony And Voice Leading)

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Workbook: Harmony And Voice Leading, Volume 1 (harmony And Voice Leading)
Carl Schachter Edward Aldwell
Manufacturer: Thomson Learning
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Workbook: Harmony and Voice Leading, Volume 2

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Workbook: Harmony and Voice Leading, Volume 2
Edward Aldwell
Manufacturer: Schirmer/Thomson Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJIH7U

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From re-runs of "classics" like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to current series influenced by the genre like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the action series is enjoying a revival at the center of prime-time tv. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the specific history, nature and appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present.

Action TV explores the historical development of this tv genre from its genesis in the 1950s, its place within the history of television institutions and systems of production, its relationship to other genres, and its position within broader social, cultural and political contexts.

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"An anecdotal and readable history."—nthposition online magazine

"The most fascinating parts of the book are the stories of offbeat radio operations, which Walker describes with humor and empathy."—The Review of Communication

"Both academics and radio enthusiasts will appreciate this book."
—Library Journal

"Without a doubt, this is the most detailed and well-researched book ever published on the history of free radio in America. This includes the most comprehensive history ever written on the modern microradio movement; culled from personal interviews, the writing is mostly engaging and fast-paced...A must read."
—The About Guide

"The book is a great addition to the literature of the ways in which the state uses regulatory edicts and strong-arm tactics to stifle people's freedom."
—George C. Leef, Freedom Daily

"Jesse Walker's lively book is the first to offer a thorough history of what's come to be known as alternative radio."
—Time Out New York

"The story of early radio broadcasting is a fascinating one and well told."—Monitoring Times

"Walker goes a long way toward showing the considerable creativity in nonmainstream radio, despite its lack of funds and other problems. The strongest part of the discussion is that dealing with the last thee decades. An interesting balance to the perceived story of American radio."
—Choice

Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull?

Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived.

Rebels on the Air explores these overlooked chapters in American radio, revealing the legal barriers established broadcasters have erected to ensure their dominance. Using lively anecdotes drawn from firsthand interviews, Walker chronicles the story of the unsung heroes of American radio who, despite those barriers, carved out spaces for themselves in the spectrum, sometimes legally and sometimes not. Walker's engaging, meticulous account is the first comprehensive history of alternative radio in the United States.

From the unlicensed amateurs who invented broadcasting to the community radio movement of the 1960s and 1970s, from the early days of FM to today's micro radio movement, Walker lays bare the hidden history of broadcasting. Above all, Rebels on the Air is the story of the pirate broadcasters who shook up radio in the 1990s and of the new sorts of radio we can expect in the next century, as the microbroadcasters crossbreed with the even newer field of Internet broadcasting.

Customer Reviews:

Finally, a *true* history of how radio happened.......2001-11-27

So many other radio 'history' books just tell you all about what programs were on which corporate network and which DJs were indicted for payola -- without bothering to explore how radio broadcasting came about, where the innovations came from, and how and why most of the current spectrum has become so bland in the last twenty years. Jesse Walker gets into all this and more: he gives just about the best and most complete history of radio broadcasting's *true* pioneers, from spark-gap to internet: the underground and alternative radio movement. I thought I knew a lot about the subject (at least regarding pre-1980 radio), but Walker's book has five times more in it than I even knew existed -- and extends right to the end of the 1990s. I highly recommend this book!

Radio Ga Ga.......2001-10-15

Is radio doomed by the Internet? When was its golden age? Is it a triumph of capitalist business or government planning?

In the course of telling tale after absorbing tale, Jesse Walker answers these questions and dozens of others in "Rebels on the Air."

Unlike most people who talk on the radio, however, Walker writing about radio doesn't come across as a simpleton. He is a very thoughtful appreciator of excellence as well as a fine diagnostician of failure. He understands the theory of radio as a business enterprise, and is unencumbered by a narrow ideology. He knows what happened; he is a master of fact. And he has insight into what might have happened; he is the master of the counterfactual. Further, being informed and no fool, he is as reliable prophet as any; it pays to listen to what he says.

From the beginnings of radio as point-to-point communication through its strange evolution to broadcasting, winding up in recent dispensations of "piracy," micro radio, community radio, and even the Citizens Band, Walker ushers the reader through a rogue's gallery of fascinating revolutionaries. Radio, it turns out, is not just a humdrum affair. It has featured strange people saying odd, perceptive and occasionally wise things, playing music other than top 40 or classical warhorses, turning listeners on their ears.

To most people, commercial radio and NPR delimit the narrow confines of the medium: to these, Walker's history will come as a revelation. To the knowing few who have heard (or at least heard of) Firesign Theater or Jean Shepherd or The Crazy Cajun Show, Walker is a sensible surveyor of diversity on radio, the ideal defender of both idiosyncratic entertainment and responsible "enlightenment."

Radio may usually be boring, but Walker's book is not. For anyone who cares about the medium or its messages, "Rebels on the Air" is indispensable.

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Reference only, no good for learning

AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference

a natural way to learn OO programming

Excelent book written for programmers

AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference
Joe Sutphin , and Apress
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AutoCAD is possibly the best selling CAD software in the world, and while not a Microsoft product, AutoCAD includes Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)--which allows you to control your programming environment. This book will teach you to run Autodesk design tasks in the embedded VBA environment. And with VBA, you can customize everything you do in AutoCAD 2004!

This comprehensive guide to the AutoCAD VBA language allows you take advantage of VBA in AutoCAD 2004. So if you're new to VBA programming, you will quickly acquire a skill set to work efficiently. Power users will also benefit from this text, which serves as a fast reference to the full AutoCAD object model. The book also discusses connecting to Microsoft Office products like Excel and Word, and using the Win32 API.

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AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference teaches how to automate Autodesk design tasks using the embedded Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming environment. AutoCAD is possibly the best selling CAD software in the world, and while not a Microsoft product, does include Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), allowing graphic designers to control their environment programmatically.

VBA allows you to take complete control of AutoCAD and to automate all your AutoCAD drawing tasks. With VBA you can automate and customize everything you do in AutoCAD 2004, so you can work faster and more efficiently. AutoCAD 2004 VBA provides a unique opportunity to build custom applications to create and manipulate AutoCAD drawings, interact with a user and plot your drawings. You can even use VBA to create designs that modify themselves based on user input or computational results.

This book provides you with a complete reference to the AutoCAD VBA language. This book is for anyone who wants to take full advantage of the VBA programming language that comes with AutoCAD 2004. If you're new to VBA programming, this book will give you enough information to start making AutoCAD work for you.

Power users who want to take advantage of the advanced features of AutoCAD 2004 VBA and who need a fast reference to the full AutoCAD object model will find great value in this book. Additional topics covered include connecting to Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word, and using the Win32 API.

Customer Reviews:

Reference only, no good for learning .......2007-02-04

This book is too broad and shallow. Can hardly find a complete and useful program. Seem like it tries to cover everything but nothing covered in detail. Connecting to Excel and words is also just connection only. After connecting, then what to do?? The author said go and read other books if you want to know in depth. If you want to see a lot of API or commands, this book is for you. No good for learning something useful and practical.

AutoCAD 2004 VBA: A Programmer's Reference.......2006-03-19

Our developer says this book has been a great help to him.

a natural way to learn OO programming.......2005-03-02

Sutphin assumes you are already proficient in the manual use of AutoCAD. He does not waste your time teaching this. Instead, he gives an advanced usage mode. Where perhaps you would like to make designs in a programmatic fashion.

There are several ways this could have been done. But Autodesk decided to enable (in a manner of speaking) an "API" that is Visual Basic for Applications. To be sure, there are programmers versed in C++, Java, C# or other languages that may well look down on this choice. But VBA is a decent programming language. Being descended from Basic, it may not have some of the notational elegance of C++, say. Still, you can express a lot of computing logic in VBA.

Most importantly, VBA enables object oriented coding. The book points out that you have two types of objects. Those you can define within VBA, as in any other OO language. Plus the very natural objects that arise in your AutoCAD design. If you study the book carefully, you can see how these two types can often be finessed seamlessly together.

Suppose your background is engineering, and not computing. So that explains your AutoCAD experience. Perhaps you've never had OO programming before. The logical mapping described here is an excellent way to learn the more abstract OO concepts, for you can relate these directly to your expertise.

Excelent book written for programmers.......2004-07-19

This is a book for everybody. The Beginner and the Pro. I come to this book after two years of working experience with AutoCAD VBA and every time when I have the opportunity to read its pages I never cease to find new good details.
The presentation is good and the macros I tried were working without problems.
The Appendix D, "AutoCAD 2000, 2002, and 2004 Object Model Cross Reference", is a good piece for the user with different releases.

Thank you, Joe for so marvelous book.

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