Surviving an Auto Accident: A Guide to Your Physical, Economic and Emotional Recovery

Book Description

A resource that guides accident victims through the recovery maze.

Customer Reviews:

Surviving an Auto Accident : A Guide to Your Physical, Economic and Emotional Recovery.......2007-03-09

If you've ever been in an accident, this book is for you, or even if you haven't, just so your prepared. They're so much in this book. All in plain english

You have no idea.......2003-03-20

If you, or a loved one, have had an accident you really want to at least skim this book. It is all too easy to make less of the event, since acknowledging our lack of control over things is not our nature. Much of the damage is not visible, and can carry on a long time.
In addition the practical advice is practically a checklist of what to do, think about etc.
As one attorney told me "No matter how big the check, you would rather never have had the accident". This book at least gives you a way to deal with much of what results.

Book Description

Although poverty is one of the most serious issues facing the world's population, finding statistical information on this subject has, in the past, required a significant amount of time and effort. Now, this volume provides researchers with a single, comprehensive resource that includes detailed information regarding the worldwide and regional impact of poverty in the developing world and on individual countries from authoritative sources including the World Bank and the UN Human Development Report. The Handbook includes statistics on economic indicators, demographic patterns, income distribution, and other factors that impact poverty in the world today. Two special sections focus on women and children and on poverty in selected cities worldwide.

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It’s the rare bird that doesn’t like Christmas. Sure there are Scrooges and, here and there, cries of "Bah, humbug," but Christmas is a time for celebrating, for giving, and for trying to be just a little nicer to your fellow man. As the song goes, "If every day could be just like Christmas what a wonderful world it would be."

Christmas's Most Wanted™ is a celebration of the fun side of Christmas - the songs, the movies, the television shows, the history, the people, the laughs, even the commercialism . . . all that and more. So you’ll see such top-ten lists as different versions of both "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "A Christmas Carol". You’ll read about traditions and the standard gift givers around the world. You’ll find out about how different song genres celebrate Christmas in music. You’ll relive the great-and not-so-great-cartoons of Christmas past. You’ll discover which television celebrities "graced" the world with their very own album of holiday tunes. And you’ll learn about births, deaths, and historical events that occurred on Christmas Day. With more than forty top-ten lists on all things merry, you’ll laugh, you’ll smile, and you’ll learn a lot of interesting stuff about Christmas that you didn’t know before.

So curl up before the Yule log, pour yourself some eggnog, bite into a gingerbread cookie, and enjoy the book. Merry Christmas, Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad, and Erry-may Istmas-chray. However you say it, Christmas's Most Wanted™ will certainly bring a dose of merriment to your holidays.

Customer Reviews:

Best Christmas Book of the Season!.......2006-01-09

This was without reserve the best Christmas music and movie review book I have ever read. The comments were both intelligent and funny. The whole book was both well researched and entertaining. The world is a better place because of this book.

--Good Coffe table book--.......2006-01-04

CHRISTMAS'S MOST WANTED is a reference book about Christmas customs, traditions, songs, films, evergreen trees, music, cards, foods, and a lot more.

Do you associate a certain film with Christmas? Well, this book gives detailed information in the chapter called Holiday Movie Classics. Some of the old movies mentioned are: Holiday Inn (1942), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), It's A Wonderful Life (1946), The Bishop's Wife (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and White Christmas (1954). With each film, a brief summary of the storyline is given and all of the actors are named. I have to say that was my favorite chapter.

You can also learn about the tradition of mistletoe, sending cards, singing carols, how Santa's reindeer were named and questions you never even thought to ask!

The book answers a lot of questions and I thought it was well researched, but this is primarily a secular book so don't expect many religious topics. Most of the religious references are in the chapter called Nollaig Shona which is Merry Christmas in Irish. The two references that I found to the Magi (Wise Men or Three Kings) was in a paragraph about the song, "Twelve Days of Christmas." In the song, the Twelfth Day is the Epiphany, the day that the Three Kings brought gifts for the Baby Jesus. (That's the reason that many of us leave our Christmas trees up until, January 6, which is the twelfth day of Christmas). The other reference was about a piece that was done by Dave Brubeck.

The word Christmas comes from two words put together. They are Christ's Mass.

A Must for the Holidays.......2005-12-30

Once you get this book, you may not want to have another Christmas without it.

In more than 280 pages, the authors discuss all things Christmas as they pick their "Top 10" in categories ranging from mistletoe to carols, from rangifer tarandus (reindeer) to animated cartoons. The choices are necessarily subjective, and much of the text is funny, filled with references to pop culture, music, TV and film. Pick your idea of the 10 worst Christmas songs on the radio, and see if your list compares with theirs.

The authors include scads of trivia and the inside scoop on holiday history and traditions you may never have heard of.

As you enjoy the nostalgia you'll also find useless but fascinating stuff like this: Somebody figured out that Santa has to visit 91.8 million homes in 31 hours, which means he has to make 822.6 visits per second and travel at 650 miles per second. Whew!

This would be the perfect book to have on hand for guests at Christmas, and it would make a great conversation-starter. It's fully indexed, and the bibliography includes quite a few Web sites for follow-up.

Superb!!.......2005-12-03

This book will definitely put you in the Christmas spirit as you learn everything you wanted to know about Christmas but are afraid to ask! I highly recommend this as a read for yourself and a stocking stuffer for others.

A nice bit of the Christmas cheer........2005-11-24

This book is a real treat. It's a lot of fun to read about all the different kinds of trivia in here. I love holiday music, and it talks about all the great ones, and some new ones I haven't heard of before! And the movies and cartoons, brings back a lot of childhood memories.

Tons of short, fun, interesting snippets of holiday information. Just perfect to pick and read for a few minutes. This book is the perfect holiday "bathroom" book, and I don't mean that in a bad way. There's something in here for everyone, and tons of short, fun, and interesting trivia about Christmas. As the other review said, you can read a chapter or two then come back to it later.

Leave it out for guests to read, too. It makes Christmas more fun!

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Cheers is the greatest

The Cheers Trivia Book
Mark Wenger
Manufacturer: Carol Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

Trivia | Puzzles & Games | Entertainment | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0806514825

Customer Reviews:

Cheers is the greatest.......2002-04-07

This book is great for anyone who loves the tv show cheers it will make you think about most evEry episode. Cheers was and is the best sitcom ever made so if you like cheers you will give 5 big CHEERS for the Cheers Trivia book!

Book Description

With more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes. From Alien Ant Farm to Biohazard - and yes, all the way to ZZ Top - the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal is the ultimate brain-warping A to Z. If you love metal, this is the book for you.

Customer Reviews:

Some suprising some ridiculous.......2007-08-08

As Hector mentioned below, there are some great entries of truly metal bands, then there are head-scratching entries that are clearly not metal.

The author does make it clear in the introduction that the book was not intended to be specifically about metal. That it was supposed to touch on the core of metal and all of its offshoots. I say to that fine great, but don't call it the Rough Guide to Heavy metal then!!! It's more like a general overview of a few core bands and a bunch of related bands.

It should have been called, The Rough Guide to an overview of some Late Hard Rock / Early Heavy Metal bands and a few choice selections to represent some of the offshoots of it.

I'd really like to see a book that is utterly and solely about metal in detail with complete discographies, and not the personal choices of the author.

To the author's credit, his style is fun and from what I noticed the information is correct.

Awesome book but a few strange selections.......2007-04-28

Awesome book, great pictures, awesome bands, but: Why is god's name are Nivana and Pearl Jam and Limp bizket in this book!!?!?!? they are not heavy metal and never will be anything close to it, they are the bane of metal....thus they shouldn't be in a "Guide To Heavy Metal" book. Other than that issue great book for any metal fan, ignore peral jam, limp bizkit, and Nirvana sections as they have nothing to do with metal.

PS: Nirvana suck.....LOL

Good but not definitive.......2006-12-04

Good book, but only to give you an idea of the career and influence of many of the most influential and famous of metal bands. This means there are entries for Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, AC/DC, Nirvana, etc. plus pleasant surprises like Nile, Devin Townsend or Angel Witch, or new bands like Shadows Fall and Lamb of God. If only there were 100 more pages that included Metal Church, Nevermore or a few other bands, but this comes to show that a book of this kind can never be comprehensive enough. And considering the inclusion of Meat Loaf...

Another flaw in the book is the reviews. At the end of each entry, there is one or more album reviews of the band or artist, and some of the choices are suspect. Obviously there isn't going to be a review of half of Slayer's albums even if all of them are classics, but Pearl Jam got, like, 9 albums reviewed, which is kind of silly. Not to mention the cases where a review is of a Greatest Hits package instead of a studio album.

Regardless, this is a fun read. There are many little lists included about the best guitar riffs, guitar solos, metal movies and other interesting trivia. If you don't know much about metal, this can point you to the most well known bands.

Product Description

Junior class Handbook with complete story, crossword puzzle, questions & answers. A great resource for children to learn Ramayana.

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South Kensington Museum art handbooks
George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall, limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Book Description

American Idol is a collectable book that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the show in 64 full-color pages including an in-depth look into the show, its contestants, hosts, and judges, including veteran music executive Randy Jackson, pop star Paula Abdul, and British BMG executive Simon Cowell. The book highlights the contestants’ journeys from audition cities to the selection of the final ten, with full features on each finalist. In addition, the book includes interviews with the ten finalists, judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell, and the hosts.

Customer Reviews:

alot of gloss little substance.......2003-05-04

this book like the show has some talented folks but overall it's all about the stars as to really acknowledging the best talent.I give props to the shows founder because that is One of the Smartest Tv Moves.but like the show this Book doesn't go into much detail.

Could have been better.......2003-01-08

This guide is good, but could have been better. It's basically a brief photo guide through the first few weeks of the series, ending with the wild card episode and the selection of R.J. Helton as contestant. Oddly, the book chooses to end there, a pretty strange place to end. I would have liked it better if the book had gone up to and including the final episode, and maybe included photos from the concert tour and Las Vegas spectacular televised concert. And maybe the lyrics to Kelly Clarkson's songs? Whatever. It's still a nice photo guide, but it's mainly that - glossy photos. There's some brief contestant interviews with the final ten that don't reveal much, a look at the elimination shows and some pages devoted to the auditions. To tell the truth, this book looks as if it was rushed into production. If you're an Idol fan, it'll be a nice photo album, but nothing else.

Great book! Nikki McKibbin rules!.......2002-09-16

If you're a fan of the show, this book is a must-have. It is a collector's item, or better yet, a novelty collector's item. Rare pics, insightful articles and interviews, behind the scenes anecdotes, and intimate contestant profiles make this an essential purchase. That one picture of Nikki McKibbin (my favorite finalist, the pretty lady with the sexy voice, wonderful smile, and sparkling eyes) is enough to warrant the purchase. I recommend this book to everyone! And also, thanks for voting for Nikki - close, but top three ain't bad! Looking forward to the DVD and the CD as well!

Not really worth it........2002-09-15

This book focuses mainly on the season 1 contestants of the show "American Idol". There is a page dedicated to each of the Top 10 finalists, 3 pages explaining who and what the 3 groups were, a description page, and a page on the judges. I actually bought this book hoping there would be more on the judges and there wasn't. Overall, looking back, this was just a stupid purchase. I never looked at the book again. Don't buy it, unless you were/are a big fan of Season 1 of American Idol.

Book Description

This book covers the topic of ShaderX programming, a game development skill in great demand.

Customer Reviews:

Nice book with some flaws.......2005-05-04

ShaderX2 is broken in to two volumes, with this volume intended as an introduction to shader related topics to prepare the reader for the other volume, or for other shader books. It fills that role fairly well, though it does have a few shortcomings that keep it from being a great book.

The book starts off with an extensive, well-written introduction to HLSL that most beginners to the language will find quite helpful. This is followed by a handy introduction to Shader Model 3.0, which explains the changes that have been made since 2.0, and the practical applications of these changes and additions.

The next several chapters are devoted to implementing "foundational" techniques using shaders. The first covers several lighting and shading techniques, providing sample shader implementations in HLSL and assembly. Most of the shaders come in multiple versions for the various shader models, which is useful for supporting these techniques on a wide range of platforms, as well as in understanding the capability differences between each model.

The next chapter covers five different fog effects using HLSL shaders. Then there are two chapters on shadows, one on shadow mapping and the other on shadow volumes. The latter weighs in at over 80 pages, providing in-depth coverage of the theory behind the technique.

Next up is a tutorial for using the shader development environment RenderMonkey. The usefulness of this chapter is marred by the fact that the current version of RenderMonkey has undergone some interface changes such that the text is now out of synch with the tool, making it a bit more difficult to follow along. Still, if you can work through this, the chapter will help you quickly get up and running with RenderMonkey.

The last chapter of the book is about creating shader-friendly models. This chapter seems out of place since it's written more for artists than programmers (who are clearly the audience for the rest of the book), and the chapter is too brief and vague to be of much value.

If you're new to shaders and HLSL, you'll likely find this book useful, though it's a little expensive for a small book (I imagine the color plates contribute to this). If the shadow and fog chapters had been moved to the other ShaderX2 book, and the final chapter had been dropped, I think that they could have reduced the price considerably and made the book more focused, turning it into a great value. As it is, though, it's still a good book that many people will benefit from.

Lots of good here.......2004-07-16

So let's focus on the good.

First, it gives a fair intro to HLSL and shader assembly language. That seems hard to come by. Microsoft's documentation, in web-entangled form, is hardly a tutorial. Vendor documentation mostly points to MS standards, but those are hard for us mere peons to acquire in any intelligible form. This isn't a langauge ref book, but will do until I see a real one.

Second, it gives a good bunch of tips'n'tricks, with lots of listings for illumination models, shadows, and fog. The careful reader will look into the references, the places where new knowledge makes its debut, and will be stronger for it. There's also a chapter that devotes itself to v1 vs. v2. vs v3 compatibility and more. Compatibility is the pits - if you've never dealt with it, your career is probably happy and probably very young.

I was looking for something a little different, though. I just wanted the HLSL and assembly references, with versions, with complete syntax and semantics. This gives enough info for me to guess my way through a lot of it, but really does leave me guessing. For example, p.47 talks about the "_bx2" modifier. It shows three different ways to coax the compiler into emitting that suffix. After about ten minutes of looking at source and asm code, I finally figured out what _bx2 meant - something the authors neglected to tell me.

Shader programming is still a [forgive the phrase] dark art. This book offers a few chants and incantations, but does not make it a science. Still, it's the most coherent reference I've seen, and I'm sticking with it.

Good source of information, but a so-so book overall.......2004-05-12

If you know nothing about the High-Level Shader Language (HLSL), then the information you need is in this book. Unfortunately, it's not a particularly well-written book. It's not horrible either, but it could have used better organization and clearer writing. For example, the "Introduction to the DirectX HLSL" chapter never gives an overall picture of how vertex and pixel shaders interact, and how data flows between them and the hardware. The author jumps right into to discussing shader syntax. Then, when he's barely explained enough to see what's going on, he jumps into a section on optimization, then a section on compatibility details between various shader levels, then he abruptly starts talking about code sequences that generate "_bx2" modifiers, without any set-up or real explanation of why. I realize that each chapter is written by a different person, but all of this random gear-shifting is in the same chapter.

As in any book with many contributors, the quality varies. The chapter on shadow volumes is detailed and useful. But overall I wish there had been emphasis on clear and succinct presentation, and not just what seems to be a stream-of-consciousness approach to covering a huge amount of information.

Excellent Book.......2003-12-30

This is probably the best book for writing Shaders in DirectX 9.0. It starts off with the basic concepts of the language and builds up slowly to very advanced concepts. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants some learn and practice some serious Shader programming.
A note for newbies though. This is a book for advanced readers. People who already have a decent knowledge of DirectX 9.0. This book WILL NOT teach you the basics of DirectX 9.0. It is meant for Shader programming and it does that with great elegance. However, if you are looking for a beginner level book then look for some other book about general DX programming.

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