Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2005 Wall Calendar

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Anticipation is high for the June 4, 2004, (US/UK) release of the third installment in the Harry Potter franchise. This calendar skillfully captures key moments from the film.

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A Lovely Harry Potter Calendar.......2005-12-23

At first glance when I'd bought this calendar, some of artwork was so realistic looking I thought they were photographs. Some of it is photographed, but not much. I think it might be a mixture of photography and artwork.

I really love all of the artwork being done sort of in collages. But not with so many pictures that all end up being real tiny. You get a good view of everything there is to see.

I was fond of all of the months except with the Shrunken Heads. They gross me out, and I actually took my calendar down that month, although I don't actually remember which month that was.

Classsy.......2004-12-26

Okay, I want to give it three stars, but, I will give one star for the title, "Harry Potter."

I have brought all the Harry Potter calendars ever since it came out on 2002...or 1? I forgot, my mom threw away my old calendars without asking me, which I am still furious about. Anyway, so I have been collecting HP calendars, but then this year make me quit. The pictures on this calendar are not pretty or good, or anything that's nice. The pictures in here is set to drawn, even though the some of the pics are from the movie, but they edited it. Anyway, after editing it, I think that it looks pretty bad. They kind of make Ron (Rupert) look like a badly drawn clown...which, I am not really happy about. Harry (Daniel) looks okay in here, but then the backgrounds are a bit, blah...well I don't like the werewolf picture, I mean, it is so big, they should have made it smaller, so I don't have to face a werewolf for an entire month. Also, isn't there pictures of dememtors or any of those ugly beasts? I mean, can't they at least make it smaller, but not fill up half of the calendar? I don't want to wake up one morning and the firs thing I see (I look at the calendar to check out the days) is a ugly dementor giving the kiss.

Maybe the guys don't mind, because, doesn't guys like weird stuff? I don't know.

Nice Artwork.......2004-12-02

This is a very nice calendar for the Potter fan, especially if you're a fan of the "Prisoner of Azkaban" film. The arwork is well done and the pictures are vibrant with colors. Sirius Black, Lupin, Snape, and the rest of the major characters from the film are included. Harry, Hermione, and Ron, as expected, are all featured prominently in multiple pictures.

Overall, a really nice calendar to give as a gift to yourself or any Potter fan you know. Just be advised that it is a twelve-month calendar. Many people look down on this, but that doesn't really bother me.

Calendar offers more than dates........2004-09-18

This calendar has high quality pictures from the movie that are put in collages. The only downside would be that most of the pictures are redrawn, but they still look very nice. The other downside would be that the calendar doesn't start sooner. :)

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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods.

The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.

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Absorbing and Provocative.......2007-07-28

This opened my eyes to women's status in the Gilded Age in a typical good-sized Midwestern town. I couldn't put it down.

Revelations about Davenport in the Gilded Age.......2007-07-03

My godson is taking his orals for his PhD, and as a requirement, was told to read this, among 100 other assigned books. As he knew I was a Davenport native, he thought I might enjoy reading this. As a female, I found it especially fascinating as it deals mostly with the status of women, both prostitutes and women who owned small businesses, worked as clerks and in other professions, in the Gilded Age. I had no idea that prostition was once legalized in Davenport and such establishements were licensed. I also was surprised to learn how the German influence led to widespread flauting of Prohibition. I had gone to the Lend-A-Hand club as a small girl after school, and reading the history of that venerable institution was really heartening. My grandfather ran a Shell Service station at the base of the Government Bridge and it was amazing to read how that area was a hotbed of vice from 1880-1920.

I bought this book for my mother, who grew up in Davenport, and who is now 90. She knew many of the names in the book, attended school with one of the girls, and was amazed to hear all this come to life. Many of the facts and stories were told her by HER mother, and she was taken back in time when these stories were confirmed. She is now busily engaged in digesting the book.

But the book is better than simply a Davenport history snapshot. As a woman, I was disheartened in the extreme to read of the cruelty practiced on young girls, as young as 11 who were forced into prostitution after having been raped. The Good Shepherd Home in Dubuque proved a godsend for many of the unfortunate girls. They were given a new life and dignity. It left me with new respect for the work of the Catholic Church in restoring people's lives.

This book gave me a view of middle America that caught me off guard. I hope this book gains wide currency, as it deserves it.

Gender, Work and Space (International Studies of Women and Place)

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Gender, Work and Space (International Studies of Women and Place)
Susan Hanson
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415099412

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Gender, Work and Space explores how boundaries are constructed between women and men, and among women living in different neighborhoods. Focusing on work, the segregation of men and women into different occupations, and variations in women's work experiences in various parts of the city, the authors argue that these differences are grounded, are constituted in and through space, place and situated networks.

The authors use a case study of a contemporary city to establish that many women are dependent on extremely local employment opportunities, especially those women with heavy household responsibilities. Women's dependence on locally available jobs focuses attention on the existence of different employment districts throughout the city. The argument is that social, economic and geographic boundaries are overlaid and intertwined. This book contributes to debates about the geography of labor market segmentation, to our understanding of sex-based occupational segregation and, in the close attention given to the construction of social, geographic, economic and symbolic boundaries in ordinary lives, provides a counterbalance to the focus on mobility within contemporary feminist theory.

Children at work in rural northern Nigeria: patterns of age, space and gender [An article from: Journal of Rural Studies]

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Children at work in rural northern Nigeria: patterns of age, space and gender [An article from: Journal of Rural Studies]
E. Robson
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Children are increasingly recognised by geographers and other social scientists as independent actors who make valuable (albeit often overlooked) economic contributions to households and society. Hausa children in rural Northern Nigeria are highly mobile and play important economic roles supporting married women who spend much time in their walled residences (gida) because of the local socio-religious practice of Muslim seclusion. Secluded Hausa women have low mobility and do not attend local periodic markets, but make essential day-to-day purchases from child house-to-house hawkers while sending children on errands to make purchases on their behalf. This study shows how children work both independently and alongside adults in the spheres of agricultural production (on farms), domestic reproduction (in homesteads) and trade (within markets). The research reported documents the variety of children's work activities, predominantly through time use measurement, in order to examine aspects of the socio-spatial construction of childhood in a rural Northern Nigerian community. This is innovative on two counts. First, most earlier discussions of divisions of labour in Muslim Hausaland neglect both the work of children, and reproductive work. Second, even work that considers reproduction, or children's work, does not provide detailed time measurements of reproductive burdens. The paper examines divisions of children's labour and analyses how gender, space, age and other factors shape young people's experiences of rural life. The evidence presented here of children as competent agents making significant economic contributions in rural society challenges prevailing conceptions of children as mere dependent burdens on adult society.

Crossing borders: the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space.: An article from: Journal of International Women's Studies

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Crossing borders: the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space.: An article from: Journal of International Women's Studies
Jennifer Langer
Manufacturer: Bridgewater State College
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Title: Crossing borders: the extent to which the voices of exiled and refugee women have adapted to their new Western diasporic space.
Author: Jennifer Langer
Publication: Journal of International Women's Studies (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Bridgewater State College
Volume: 5 Issue: 3 Page: 66

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Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time

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Negotiating Gendered Identities at Work: Place, Space and Time
Susan Halford , and Pauline Leonard
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Drawing on the heritage of research that demonstrates the thoroughly gendered nature of work organizations, this book explores a key question that, as yet, remains unanswered: how does gendered organizational life affect individuals' identities as they go about their everyday working lives? This question is explored with theoretical insights from disciplines including sociology, geography, history and gender studies interwoven with a major new empirical study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service.

Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre

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Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre
Peta Tait
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ASIN: 0754606384

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Dimensions of the Hospitality Industry, Third Edition, offers students a dynamic and accessible introduction to the broad world of hospitality and tourism. Newly revised and updated, this Third Edition gives students the foundation they need to prepare for managerial careers in this rapidly growing field.

Organized into seven major sections, the book begins with an overview of the hospitality industry and concludes with a discussion of the significant issues facing managers today and in the future. It covers the history of the industry and provides an introduction to the management and operation of the three principal segments: food and beverage; lodging; and travel and tourism.

The book offers focused coverage of each sector within hospitality: food and beverage, lodging, and travel and tourism. examines the size, scope, and operations of each of these key areas and shares essential information on related concepts products, and services. Throughout the text, this Third Edition brings the material out of the classroom and into the real world with a set of powerful new learn-ing tools.

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Clarinet Secrets is a 52-week course of performance strategies for advanced clarinetists. This revised edition contains updated information on harmonics and other techniques, electronic music and equipment, expanded techniques for playing Klezmer music, and new and updated photos and diagrams.

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Can YOU keep 52 secrets?.......2004-12-11

Looking for a quick fix to some really annoying clarinet problems? Now you can surely relax, because Michèle Gingras is here to save the day. In size, this book is smaller than your average method of study, but in content, look out! She has divided her book into 7 sections of 52 secrets for common technical and musical issues in clarinet practice and repertoire. Gingras' writing is very "to the point" without the life stories, personal experiences, and strongly directed opinions of many other current books on the market today. I believe that because she uses this particular style of writing, she is able to cover so much more in such a miniature book, perfect for having with you at all times.

Never does she state a method of instruction without also telling you exactly how to practice it. This book really uses nature as its primary example of what clarinetists, and really all musicians, should follow. Gingras feels that rather fighting and working against nature, we should use it to help us in every way possible. Although this book is intended for the advanced clarinetist, many of her explanations would be very helpful to intermediate and even beginning students; her book is that user friendly, and not intimidating in the least. I especially feel this way when she refers to tonguing and finger/hand positions, which are probably two of the biggest challenges younger students face when first approaching the instrument. Included at the end of her book is a CD that demonstrates with her own playing each musical excerpt inside "Clarinet Secrets." In my opinion, you'll never be without a clarinet teacher as long as you have this book. Anyone who knows this professor can see that inside "Clarinet Secrets" is one hundred percent Michèle Gingras. One more thing...these "secrets" really work. An alternate title for her book could be "No More Secrets!"

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A great book for studying and teaching about masculinity.......2000-06-29

Bloom's well-researched study of baseball collectors in the 1980s is a wonderful text for studying and teaching about masculinity and popular culture. His book raises important questions about the crisis of masculinity in the latter part of the twentieth century, and the ways that popular culture practices like baseball card collecting both challenged and, ultimately, shored up traditional gender boundaries between men and women. Bloom's work also focuses extensively on the issue of nostalgia, particularly the idealized memory of 1950s American boyhoods. An accessible and engaging tone makes this a fine text to use in popular culture classes or in gender studies classes.

A great book for studying and teaching about masculinity.......2000-06-29

Finally something intelligently written!.......1999-02-01

As a baseball card collector for over 20 years, I have read countless articles in countless publications about baseball cards and card collecting. Almost every one of the has focused on either the financial aspects of the hobby or on how great it is to be a collector. John Bloom has written a thought provoking and academic book which examines WHY we collect.

While I do not agree with some of the authors positions, specifically about race and homoerotocism, I feel that they are well thought out and presented. His description of the MCC, a card collectors club, is very similar to my own experiences in the two clubs to which I have belonged in the past, and offers a unique look at the pettiness and power struggles that often arise in these organizations.

Many collectors and hobby writers came out very strongly against this book, but I think that many of them looked at Blooms' conclusions as an attack on the hobby of card collecting. They are not.

While the academic tone of the book can make it difficult to read at times, the insights that it offers and the fact that it at least makes the reader THINK about the nature of collecting are reason enough to read "House of Cards".

Acadamia runs amok, to make sensational, exaggerated point.......1997-08-23

Collecting baseball cards evokes memories of crisp wax paper; the assault of a preadolescent nose with the aroma of sickly sweet, often stale, powder-sugar coated bubble gum; the thrill of your first Ted Williams card; and of clothes-pinning your sixth Pedro Ramos in your bicycle spokes.

In stark contrast, Bloom's book portrays collectors in the angry, white man role; discusses the collector's insecurities about their rapidly declining social position; their disturbing attitudes toward blacks and women; and their apparent inability to get a date in high school. Why is Bloom saying such disparaging things about the people who collect baseball cards?

Bloom spent some time in the late 1980s attending baseball card shows in Minnesota. His observations at the shows, sports card shops, interviews with hobbyists, and secondary research, form the basis for this adaptation of his doctoral thesis.

Baseball card collecting can evolve from a children's hobby to an adult's business. But the hobby took on an entirely new dynamic during the Reagan years. Many American boys collected cards, and in the economic boom of the 1980s, price's escalated, and collectors found (if mom hadn't gotten there first) treasure troves in long-forgotten, old shoe boxes. Unfortunately, many believed, including Bloom, that the newfound wealth corrupted the hobby.

Bloom's typical adult collector is white, male, and lower-middle class. In turn, Bloom blames these card collectors for failed marriages, deceit, deception, the manipulation of children, the exclusion and derision of women, and distancing the races.

But is the assertion valid that adult collectors are sexist, merely because the majority are male? Similarly, are they racist because a majority are white? Is the fact that Mickey Mantle's 1952 Topps rookie card sells at a higher price than Willie Mays' 1952 card, justifiable evidence of racism among the collecting enthusiasts as the author brazenly maintains?

The impact and social ramifications of collecting baseball cards appear to be stretched beyond the realm of plausibility to make an alarming, though questionable, point. Is it possible that collecting bits of cardboard, emblazoned with the images of childhood heroes, really be the cause of this much social discord?

But the author has missed a critical point. Bloom states that the cards, in and of themselves, "are of no real consequence." Most collectors would vehemently disagree. Baseball cards derive their value by resurrecting the reminiscences of the collector's youthful heroes. There is a collective social memory which envelops the collectors and their cards. The fact that trade guides indicate that selected cards may have some extrinsic value is nice, but for the majority of collectors, not paramount. The same native affinity does not permeate collecting spoons, stamps or coins, or even football or basketball cards. The fact that these collectibles are baseball cards matters a great deal.

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A House of Cards : Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (American Culture Ser., Vol. 12)
John Bloom
Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Taking Foucault's notion of Governance--the conduct of conduct--Gareth Palmer applies it to a range of television formats which have loosely been described as "reality TV." Big Brother, Video Diaries, Judge TV, Ricki Lake, and Stupid Behaviour Caught on Tape use a technology of discipline to produce confessions, revelations and transformations which render citizens more transparent than ever and can punish those of who dare to be different. Looking at how various agencies of the state have exhorted us to report crime--such as tax evasion, street crime, even benefit fraud--the author shows how constant surveillance is now integral to the process of citizenship.

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Web sites have become a powerful marketplace that can capsize a company when attacked by a virus or hacker. With this book, you can take the necesary steps today to avoid compromising the integrity of your company's data and communication tomorrow. Web Security Basics give you the knowledge you need to keep your network safe and gain a competitive edge.

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google, hack, hacking
Great starting Point for New or Intermediate- Reference for advanced
got the warm-fuzzy i was looking for...
Best-of-class book at using the power of Google!
That is a lot of info!!!

Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
Johnny Long
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ASIN: B000FBHNNG
Release Date: 2006-04-06

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Google, the most popular search engine worldwide, provides web surfers with an easy-to-use guide to the Internet, with web and image searches, language translation, and a range of features that make web navigation simple enough for even the novice user. What many users don't realize is that the deceptively simple components that make Google so easy to use are the same features that generously unlock security flaws for the malicious hacker. Vulnerabilities in website security can be discovered through Google hacking, techniques applied to the search engine by computer criminals, identity thieves, and even terrorists to uncover secure information. This book beats Google hackers to the punch, equipping web administrators with penetration testing applications to ensure their site is invulnerable to a hacker's search.

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google, hack, hacking.......2007-01-19

Very informative book, I've been using some of the knowledge I got in the book to improve my searches as well as to test the security of some of my company's web pages.

Great starting Point for New or Intermediate- Reference for advanced.......2006-11-08

You name it someone may have left it in the wrong place. This text is a good reference for everyone interested in information security and honing their research abilities to a razor's edge. As Obijan says "know your target- get inside of his mind." Experts might scoff, but a handy reference. I use it to nail airline miles, among other things...in all honesty I have found some wild things using the standard techniques- really you need a guide on unraveling people's stupidity or, if you are feeling rather viscious lay a trap and hook it with cheese that has unexpected side effects. Fun for the whole family!

got the warm-fuzzy i was looking for..........2006-08-22

I work for a Forture 500 company that is upgrading intranet Search capability using Google Appliance. I bought this book to help determine what risks Google Appliance might expose. The book begins with good overview of the basic Google interface and includes tips for searching. I then expected to get the low-down on hacking using Google. What i discovered was somewhat anticlimactic, there really aren't any serious hacks to be had using Google. Obviously, you must be careful about web-content publishing processes. Also, Google is respectful of content you don't want crawled or exposed (using both Internet Search and intranet appliance).

The book is well-written and was a quick-read. Most of the info can be found online at Google website itself. I am glad i read the book cuz i got the warm-fuzzy i was looking for.

Best-of-class book at using the power of Google!.......2006-02-26

Syngress's "Google Hacking for Penetration Testers" (GHPT) by Johnny Long demonstrates to average Joes the power of Google. The author is the authority on how to use Google to recon an intended target. Considering the narrow focus of the subject, the book is able to thoroughly dissect the various tools and weapons Google offers. Certainly, this book is not admitting anything not already known in the hacking world, but the books does provide a valuable asset as a one-stop-shop at using Google.

First and foremost, before scouting a target, you must cover your tracks. GHPT first focuses on anonymity (I was particularly impressed with using Google as a proxy server on page 95). After masking yourself, the book focuses on network mapping, and locating exploitable targets. The book then offers 10 searches to find oodles of information that website owners probably don't want you to have. One chapter is devoted to tips to hunt usernames and passwords. Chapter 12, on automating Google Searches, was particularly valuable to me as I'm an extreme novice at scripting.

The book is written in a very simple, plain-spoken (or, more correctly, plain-written) style. While this book should not be the first book on one's security shelf, the subject cannot be any better defined than this book.

I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
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That is a lot of info!!!.......2006-02-21

It has everything you NEED to learn how to hack w/ using something as simple as Google. i never in my life would have thought you could get that much server info and vuln. info with just using Google. Johnny knows his stuff and this is a must have if you are a novice hacker that wants to stem-away from the title; "script-kiddie", this book will help you. Thanks to the authors for this great release.

Safety in the Cybervillage: some guidelines for teachers and parents.(list of useful web sites)(American Library Association's basic rules for internet ... An article from: Childhood Education

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Safety in the Cybervillage: some guidelines for teachers and parents.(list of useful web sites)(American Library Association's basic rules for internet ... An article from: Childhood Education
Larry L. Burriss
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Title: Safety in the Cybervillage: some guidelines for teachers and parents.(list of useful web sites)(American Library Association's basic rules for internet safety for children)
Author: Larry L. Burriss
Publication: Childhood Education (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Association for Childhood Education International
Volume: 79 Issue: 5 Page: 318(2)

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Stingy on comments and explanations
Avoid this book like the plague!
Nice but..... lack in content
Comprehensive and well written.

VB.net Developer's Guide
Cameron Wakefield , Henk-Evert Sonder , and Wei Meng Lee
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Release Date: 2001-09-03

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The introduction of VB.NET has sent many Visual Basic gurus back to the drawing board! VB.NET introduces a new set of standards, protocols, and syntax that previous users of Visual Basic will need to learn to regain their guru status and be positioned to create enterprise-critical applications. VB.NET Developer's Guide will help you master VB.NET!

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Does many things, badly.......2004-02-16

I'm new to VB, whereas this book intends to explain VB.NET to developers who were familiar with earlier versions of VB. Even though that probably retards my learning, I'm still convinced this book fails. Imagine, nothing but brief code fragments, and no hands-on exercizes, until page 219?? Actually, there are no hands-on exercises even at that point, just source code for some apps on a small CD.

Every chapter is skimpy, every chapter leaves something out. This book is too clumsy to help beginners and too incomplete to help competent developers.

I learned some VB.NET, and I'm continuing to learn it, but not with this book - with the MSDN documentation on the web. That's not how it should be when you buy a book.

Stingy on comments and explanations.......2004-01-05

I would not give this book 1 (one) star as Bill/Beverly did but I understand their frustration. I woudl give it 2.5 stars but they don't allow for 1/2 stars. I agree more with J Michalany this book lacks content.

My view is the authors were too stingy with the explanations and comments. The book would have been much better if the explanations following the sample code truly explained the sample code. Or if the sample code had sufficient comments.

The authors spent 20 page on programming fundamentals. This could have been covered in one chart/table (i.e. List the programming function and tell us how it has changed in .Net). I wish they had spent those pages on some of the newer concepts. For instance the GET and Return and how that effects the processing in the properties.

The authors also introduce new items and then they fail to explain them. They also do not inform you that they will be explained later (i.e. the Imports keyword) in the book. This leaves you scratching you head trying to understand an under commented abbreviated slip of code.

However they have the most comprehensive index I have ever seen in a textbook. More textbooks should take note of this.

Avoid this book like the plague!.......2003-12-11

Unless they have come out with a new edition that throws out 80% of the original edition, this book is so badly written and has so many egregious errors that it might take you weeks to unlearn all the wrong stuff it teaches you.

It was written by many authors, and it shows. A few parts have good content and actually teach worthwhile stuff. But for the most part the chapters either (a) just echo the online documentaion, telling you that you can change the font by applying the font property [doh!], (b) attempt to explain a complex topic in a dozen paragraphs, and so you learn nothing useful, or (c) are just plain flat wrong.

I don't have time to go into all the errors I found. The book is so bad that I couldn't even consider donating it to any charitable drive. It's now being used for starting fires in our fireplace. Come to think of it, that might be the best use for it.

Nice but..... lack in content.......2002-12-05

Ok, it's a nice book. But it lacks in code examples, (i.e., lots of methods and properties, but not codes). It really shows you the new features of the .Net Framework, but sometimes the book is boring... Instead of teaching you what things are used for, it just shows you other informations, in a deep manner, but not the code by itself.
Anyways, it's on my reference library, but if you want to learn .Net by other ways, like practicing with codes, I suggest you to look for other books.

Comprehensive and well written........2002-02-20

This book, although it doesn't include enough code, is the best VB .NET book I've come across so far. Well written, easy to understand, and concise. Enough said.

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