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Celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne now offers her equally inspiring and forbidding prophecies in this discussion about the future of humanity. Browne pays homage to many famous prophets, including Nostradamus, Madame Helena Blavatsky, and Edgar Cayce. She then explains how prophets glean information about the future. Not all prophets should be trusted, she warns. Browne lists ways to recognize a "false prophet," such as recognizing that "any prophet who claims to be infallible is a false prophet." On this front, Browne claims that her own accuracy rate is 87 to 90 percent. "Only God can truthfully claim 100 percent." Many of Browne's predictions include good news, such as the end of common cold by about 2009 or 2010. In approximately 2025 all but a few of the world's religions will join "forces and funds" for the good of humanity, creating numerous global interfaith "Healing Centers"--offering round the clock medical care, food, shelter and counseling. However, around 2020, there also seems to be a serious reckoning with global pollution that coincides with a collapse of many long-term institutions, including the end of the "one-man" presidency, the end of the stock market, and the ending of marriage as a viable institution. Around this time, she also sees domed cities emerging in the U.S. in order to protect citizens from pollution—-an assertion that's been met with much skepticism. Reading between the lines, Browne sees a collapse in our economic, corporate, and religious structures in order to contend with the rampant pollution and human greed that are destroying the natural world. Maybe you don't need to be a gifted psychic to foresee this development, but Browne certainly offers a fascinatingly detailed account of how it will unfold over the next 50 years. --Gail Hudson
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In Prophecy, Sylvia Browne turns her psychic wisdom to the puzzling, often contradictory predictions proposed by major historical and contemporary figures, ranging from biblical prophets and Nostradamus to George Washington and NASA scientists.
Examining the most famous-and notorious-prophetic voices throughout the ages, Browne offers a clear and fascinating vision of the world as it will be from five years into the future to five hundred, with a startling and revealing look into the future of our nation and our world-and a beacon of hope in these uncertain times."I've personally witnessed Sylvia Browne bring closure to distraught families, help the police close cases, and open people's hearts to help them see the good within.
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"In Prophecy, Sylvia Browne turns her psychic wisdom to the puzzling, often contradictory predictions proposed by major historical and contemporary figures, ranging from biblical prophets and Nostradamus to George Washington and NASA scientists. Examining the most famous-and notorious-prophetic voices throughout the ages, Browne offers a clear and fascinating vision of the world as it will be from five years into the future to five hundred, with a startling and revealing look into the future of our nation and our world-and a beacon of hope in these uncertain times.""I've personally witnessed Sylvia Browne bring closure to distraught families, help the police close cases, and open people's hearts to help them see the good within."
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Awesome Book.......2007-10-13
This is an incredible book. It is an intimate look at Sylvia's predictions for the future,as well as several other great psychics that have made "right on" predictions.
Prophecy - Review by an author.......2007-09-22
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Browne gives apercus of many leading prophets of various religions, including American Indian tribes, and explains what a prophet is and how one, as well as herself, might gain insight into the future by astral travel (traveling in dreams), spirit guides, infused knowledge from the other side, and Akashic Records (collective memories). Browne's ideas of the "other side" are similar to Betty Eadie's in Embraced By The Light, and sequences. Some of the animated statements sound like a fairy tale, but a few concepts I found believable such as what evil really is and communal knowledge being infused from one to another. I find the book inspirational, though not profound. A part of the book is devoted to her prophecy in regard to ecology, weather, space travel, and gets definitive about new politics which is interesting. She has some inspirational prophecy about religion collaborates and appearance of the antichrist. Being a teacher for eighteen years, she elaborates on what lies ahead in education. Technology and crime fighting, DNA, fingerprinting, and lie detecting take on unimagined edge. Health, medicine and "aura scanning" will be highly developed and also a way for cancer cells to destroy themselves. She elaborates on spiritual and mental health. No matter what faith you claim, the book can broaden your view if read with an open mind.
Trish New, author of The Thrill of Hope, South State Street Journal, and Memory Flatlined.
Not her Greatest.......2007-07-09
I have been a fan of Sylvia Browne ever since I first saw her on the Montel Williams show. This book is somewhat boring. The only part I really liked was the beginning because it had some history, but when it came to the prophecies, it became boring and somewhat stupid. Sylvia is about seventy, so has researched alot and knows what she's talking about, but skip this one. It was kind of bad that I just skipped to the end and didn't really finish.
Great Book!.......2007-02-20
This was my first Sylvia Brown book that I have read and I will be buying more of her books. This book was very interesting and exactly what I had expected it to be.
Who really knows what the future holds.......2007-01-09
In the book are statements that are interesting to say the least. You can read them and make your own opinions from it.
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Large print edition of Sylvia Browne's book on Prophecy. Learn all you can about prophecies, prophets, and the future.
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Confuting the cozening.......2006-06-06
Opening note: I do not know who Lindsay Harrison is or how much she contributed to the writing of this book. For the sake of convenience, I will assume that Sylvia Browne is the author of every passage I will discuss.
One dead giveaway that a psychic is bogus is if his or her prophecies are pervasively and relentlessly optimistic, since while this isn't very likely in terms of the real future of such a large and complex world as ours, any more than pervasive and relentless pessimism is, on the other hand it is exactly the kind of vision of the future which fraudulent psychics will offer. A large part of their job is to tell people what they want to hear. So it is with this book: on the rare occasion that Sylvia Browne predicts something negative, there's always a reassurance that the bad thing is going to be temporary and in the end everything will work itself out to a spectacular extent.
I find it hard to tell whether Browne is a bogus psychic due to deliberate deception or mere delusion, or a strange mixture of both. After all, on page 224 of the first edition paperback (the printing from which I will be giving all of my page number references in this review) she says, "The last thing I need in this world is one more voice in my head that isn't mine." Not a good thing to be saying for someone who repeatedly expresses concern, as Sylvia does in this book, that people will think she's psychotic. On page 237 she points out how schizophrenia is a condition where "the person might see visions and hear voices that he or she will never believe are imaginary...." You'd think she'd offer some justification of herself here, but the connection doesn't seem to occur to her.
I would have to write a book of my own in order to point out everything wrong with this one, and I see no need to waste that much time. I won't even bother with issues like her misunderstanding of some things about Islam. At least they're tolerant misunderstandings of my religion rather than the kind of prejudiced misunderstandings that are much more common. Instead, for brevity's sake I will discuss only my favorite flaws from the book.
I have to admit, though, that some of what Sylvia says is a little too truly incomprehensible for me to criticize it easily. For example, on page 77 she says, "The Other Side isn't `out there somewhere,' it's right here among us, a mere three feet above our own ground level. It's another dimension, operating at a much higher vibrational [sic] frequency than ours here on earth, and duplicating the earth's topography almost identically." I don't know where to begin with that sentence. How about with the illogicality of the afterlife having a location that can be measured spatially in this life? I also find it kind of hard to picture there being a Romanesque building with a "scanning machine" there, as Sylvia avers on page 78, or how souls worthy of salvation in Sylvia's Gnostic Christian worldview would be the sort who would gather to worship a bunch of "Akashic records", as she avers on page 80.
My favorite part of the book is where Sylvia discusses the issue of how she reconciles her Christianity with the Bible, which warns of false prophets and says, "Do not turn to mediums" (Leviticus 19:31), and, "Harken [typo is from Sylvia's book] not to your prophets, nor to your diviners" (Jeremiah 27:9). Here she inadvertently pretty much admits that she is a false prophet. You see, she had just spent thirty-five pages giving anecdotal evidence about fulfilled prophecies by numerous famous people (including, of all folks, Winston Churchill and H.G. Wells) without citing a single source or even telling you where you can look to verify her stories--she just wants you to take her word for it that George Washington foresaw the American Civil War and et cetera. Now, on page 72, four pages after that section of the book, she says, "The only way a false prophet can take hold is in a vacuum where no other information but the prophet's is allowed inside." (She follows this up with, "Many false prophets will also find countless ways to separate you from your money at every possible opportunity.")
In fact, this presenting-information-in-a-vacuum philosophy is her attitude throughout the entire book writ large. For example, on page 87 she says, "Tiresome skeptics say, `Prove it.' I've finally started replying, `You prove we're wrong. We're busy.'" Or take Sylvia's claim on pages 96-97 that she's "been tested a bazillion times by a whole list of psychologists, scientists, paranormal researchers, psychiatrists, hypnotherapists and MD's". (Let's forget for a moment that an MD is a kind of educational achievement, not a kind of person.) She continues: "According to the tests...my accuracy rate is somewhere between 87 and 90 percent if I'm recalling correctly." Now if this list is real then why does she mention it but never give it to us, when doing so would only increase her credibility--not to mention making an otherwise pointless passage into a meaningful allusion?
Of course Sylvia never returns to those passages from Leviticus and Jeremiah telling us not to consult mediums at all; apparently she hopes you will have forgotten about them by the time she's finished with the stuff about the other biblical reference she offers regarding false prophets. Keep that in mind when you consider how in the first chapter Sylvia the self-professed Christian cites the supposed Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament to support the idea of prophecy being important in Christianity, and then on page 72 she says, "False prophets tend to make up their own rules for their behavior at their own narcissistic whim, having nothing to do with God's rules whatsoever, but then cite a message from God as their excuse when the need arises, as if God bends his own rules sometimes for their personal convenience." I imagine that most Christians reading all this rich irony will probably laugh out loud.
Yet another of her own criterions for detecting a false prophet backfires on her, one she offers on pages 73-74: "Any prophet who believes he or she is exempt for [sic] the laws of God and society and somehow in a position of divine immunity from consequence is a false prophet." There's probably something to that, but this declaration is coming from the same woman who, during one reading on Larry King's show, broke the law by giving professional advice on psychological medicine (specifically, Tegritol) even though she doesn't have an MD and a PhD in psychology. As Sylvia says on page 209 of this book, "If there's no medical degree and license among those credentials, run. I don't care how much money you're supposedly saving by nothing bothering with that pesky `doctor' detail." It also bears notice that on page 195 she says, "You'll never hear me recommend any `medication' that can't be bought over the counter at your nearest health food store...I wouldn't follow an idiotic suggestion like that myself, so why on earth would I ask you to?" Tegritol, of course, cannot be bought over the counter at any health food store.
Now you might be wondering about the prophecies which make up the thick of the book. Like I said, I won't bother discussing everything, but here are a few favorites:
* On page 117 Sylvia says that "we may see a large new land mass emerging among the Hawaiian islands" because of Japanese tsunamis around 2026. She adds, "I'm sure you'd like something more absolute, but that's as definite as I can get on that subject for now." All I want here is something more definite than the word "may". After all, I may end up winning the lottery someday, but saying so doesn't really communicate anything, now does it?
* On pages 126-127 Sylvia says that aliens live among us disguised as humans, still hanging around even though they already learned everything they need to know about us thousands of years ago--maybe because they like the pizza here, I don't know--and around 2018 they will, without any clearly stated motive, come "out of the closet" (Sylvia's phrase) after spending thousands of years incognito.
* On page 159 she says that around 2020 no child will be able to graduate from sixth grade without being able to read and write. How many of them manage that now?
* On page 170 she says that in the bathrooms of the future, "when you've finished your shower, you'll simply stay right where you are and be flash-dried by some combination of heat, lights and thermal energy. Including your hair. In ten seconds or less." I think I'll stick with towels. And is it just me or are heat and thermal energy the same thing, and also the only possible way for lights to dry something? How can heat be combined with heat and heat?
* On page 174 she says that sunglasses will someday "double as digital recorders, cameras and transmitters, as well as personal stereo systems, kind of the boombox or Walkman in designer sunglass form". (On the previous page Sylvia assures us: "If some of [the prophecies here] sound suspiciously inspired by James Bond movies, let me assure you, any resemblance is completely coincidental.") It's a little strange for someone who's predicting the future of music technology to be so behind on current music technology, but never mind that: the thing is, some people had already been putting micro-cameras on sunglasses by the time this book came out.
* Sylvia claims on page 185 that "databases of iris images as part of our overall identification profile will...make it even more difficult for criminals to find a place to hide". Who agrees with me that she's probably seen Minority Report?
* On page 190 she says, "To give law enforcement one more added edge, by 2015 their custom-designed high-speed vehicles will be atomically powered and capable of becoming airborne enough to fly several feet above other traffic." Who agrees with me that she's probably seen the Back to the Future movies?
* On pages 199-200 she says that cancer will be cured because scientists will feed the cancer cells addictive drugs which will cause them to eat each other up rather than the healthy cells (???). Oh, and you have to read this sentence from page 203, it's just so classic: "And if we think the medical community is too riddled with fakes and charlatans now, just wait till those fountain-of-youth injections and surgeries hit the market."
* On page 208 she says that childbirth in the future will consist of women being suspended by "strong, padded, comfortable straps" and the baby will drop down "into waiting soft, sterile pillows in the hands of the doctor and nurse in attendance". Since Sylvia is herself a mother, I don't understand why she wouldn't know that, considering how fragile a head and how weak a neck a newborn has, it's dangerous to drop one on his or her head even onto soft pillows.
Occasionally Sylvia will interject common sense into the midst of her bogus prophecies. For example, I strongly approve of her statement on pages 103-104 that "if you're determined to be frightened about some kind of pervasive threat to the future of life on our planet, don't waste another moment looking up, braced to duck from a killer asteroid. Instead, look around, or in the mirror, because we human beings are the most ruthless, relentless threat--and the greatest hope--earth has ever known." If she would simply have written the whole book along those lines then it may very well have been worthwhile, but as it is, Prophecy: What the Future Holds for You is a waste of time even for a New Age book.
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The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany
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The Social Foundations of Industrial Power challenges the theory of industrial convergence, which maintains that as societies become more modern, they develop increasingly similar industrial structures and industrial relations and "converge" to resemble a single model of the advanced industrial society.
The book opens by analyzing the considerable differences between the pay scales for direct labor in French and German industry. It then takes up and summarizes the results of the authors' research into such questions as: How has the wage-labor relation developed in each society? How are skills developed in the labor force (the educational factor)? What circumstances affect job mobility (the occupational factor)? How are authority relations established within the firm, and what kind of cooperation exists between labor and management (the organizational factor)? How are conflicts resolved (the industrial relations factor)?
The authors' own theory is explained in relation to the prevailing economic theories of the labor market, theories of organization, and theories of industrial relations. And after empirical observation, they conclude that one can find no homogenization of French and German work relations and that, in fact, national specificities exist and are maintained through relations in education, training, and promotion.
Marc Maurice and J.-J. Silvestre are heads of research at the National Center for Scientific Research, Laboratory of Economics and Sociology of Work, Aix en Provence. Francois Sellier is Professor of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Paris-Nanterre University.
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Difference in Approach to Skill Formation between Countries.......2000-10-21
The importance of the book lies in their accounts of differences in approach to skill formation in two countries - France and Germany. The authors spare the space for reader to answer, which countries has the best systems ?
Germany has a very intergrated appraoch with employer, unions, local and federal governments involved in addressing present and future skill formation. France does not have. He gave a description of both country's approaches and all the different institution involved (societal approach).
He gives a summary at the end of the book.
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This digital document is an article from Monthly Labor Review, published by Superintendent Of Documents on December 1, 1989. The length of the article is 857 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany.
Author: Oliver Clarke
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Date: December 1, 1989
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Volume: v112
Issue: n12
Page: p58(1)
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Tourism Challenges in the 21st Century: Human Resource Development in Asia and the Pacific
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Peops: Portraits and Stories of People
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Peops visually and verbally documents the artists, activists, writers, anarchists, and musicians Fly met during a nationwide tour with her band, God Is My Co-Pilot. The result is a memorable gallery of all manner of characters eking out an existence, and occasionally finding joy, on the edges of modern capitalist culture. This graphic tour of America's counterculture includes 100 color and black-and-white illustrations.
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fly i love your book!!!!.......2004-11-29
fly i love your book. i wrote a prior review and don't see it anymore so i'll
start over. fly draws local people on the lower east side of nyc some who i know
some i don't and other's that live in other places. around her drawing she writes
what each person wants to talk about. its a really cool idea and underneath
the words and drawings is a description of who the person is and how fly
met them. i'm looking forward to a peops 2. keep at it fly love your work
You'll start mentally peop-ing the people in your life.......2003-11-30
Fly has made a beautiful tribute to her outside-the-mainstream East Village friends and neighbors. Completely compelling and bears infinite rereads. This is a real slice o' New York living. I learned a lot about people I've wondered about for years.
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A price-friendly book with a free music compact disk, Masterworks is designed to introduce readers to the most important music of the Western tradition, classical and popular. The CD features the “greatest hits” from the book, encouraging active participation in the musical concepts presented, enabling readers to focus on their own experiences as they come to integrate music into their lives. A comprehensive introduction, called “Hearing the Music”, chronicles composers and performers, and describes the interactive learning experience the book and CD will provide. Topics that follow include: fundamentals of music study; the history of musical style (the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Baroque, The Classical Style, Romanticism); and music today. For any reader with an interest in learning how to listen, this book/CD package is an excellent start on the road to music appreciation.
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An Update on Music Appreciation.......2000-10-25
A 2nd edition of this worthy text increases listening examples to four CD's and still includes an interactive CD-ROM and companion website. Congratulations to the author for configuring a text that could work in a ten week quarter calendar. The nine chapter format with introduction would be difficult to complete without careful choices-- but a tri-mester calendar would be a snap. The last third of the text considers evolution of American music to the 20th century, after following the traditional Euro-centric focus on art music. Other texts (like Willoughby) attempt to include more diversity from world music cultures, but require a longer term-- the semester calendar.
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Seasoned Authors for a New Season: The Search for Standards in Popular Writing
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Sound, Synthesis and Sampling CD-ROM is an interactive database of information, sound files and animated diagrams concerning all aspects of digital and analog sound synthesis. Based on the book Sound Synthesis and Sampling, the CD-ROM allows you to actually hear the effects of the techniques discussed in the book and view the corresponding waveform and spectrum diagrams. The CD uses high quality audio examples, animated diagrams and text notes to teach the fundamental principles of sound synthesis and sampling, whilst multiple choice questions re-enforce learning. The user can search on any specific topic, highlight several examples to be worked on at once, or browse the CD via suggested routes according to specific interest categories. A searching glossary supports the examples and interactive timelines illustrate the historical development of the technology. The audio tracks of the examples can also be played on an audio CD player.
This is the perfect accompaniment to classroom teaching or home learning. Used in conjunction with the book, or as a standalone source of information - this CD is a fun and easy way to enhance your knowledge of the subject.
Contains numerous audio examples with animated diagrams and text notes
Multiple choice questions test aural and visual recognition
High quality audio can also be played through an audio CD player
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good but could be more mathematical .......2005-08-31
I like this book 'bout being very concise and detailed about the various synthesis processes, but a bit more mathemtics could get some of my curiosities fulfilled. The theory is excellent and understanding the different synthesis types is a breeze; the flowcharts are intuitive and diagrams are detailed. I love the presentation of each topic, and the humour of the author while reading it. A great starting point for music technology enthusiasts but no advice on programming synths or using advanced software like reaktor, so it could be more expansive on some perfomance and programming areas. Overall great reading value.
Hopelessly and uselessly academic.......2004-12-08
I was disappointed by this book. It is 100% theory and history of synthesis, written in a typical pedantic British style of writing (sorry, Brits) with 0% actual practical content. It's a mix of a bit of synthesis history with a bit of acoustics describing how these things make sound. But it seems to miss the point, and one could learn more just by playing a synthesiser for an hour than learning this book from cover to cover. If you're investingating this book with an eye towards learning how to program synths or better understand them, I think you'll be disappointed. It spends a lot of time discussing the pioneers (DX7, etc.) but doesn't even mention some of the most important synths of the day (Waldorf, Virus) and there's only a brief mention of softwaresynths (Reaktor, Reason) and none of softsamplers (Unity, Giga, etc.)) I think this book misses the mark; it fills your head with facts and figures but doesn't give you much that's actually useful. Sorry fellas.
EXCELLENT - couldn't put it down.......2003-05-10
A friend gave me the loan of this book when I asked some questions about synthesis. I read it twice before I reluctantly gave it back. After that I order my own copy from amazon. I really love this book. It is so well written. Enjoyable and informative. There is no maths and everything is explained in a simple fashion. I would like to see a series written by these two authors going into further detail on each of the types of snthesis covered.
I'd thoroughly advise it to anyone especially Music Technology students or Computer Music students.
yesterday today tomorrow.......2002-11-09
I got into computer music with Sonar and using only software synthesizers I opened up a whole new universe of sound. This book will help you on your way. A little history not much math but a lot of help. If you intend to follow this path give this book a read!
Dense and far-reaching material - excellent resource.......2002-06-22
If you have interest in finding out exactly what's happening with the sound as you twiddle those knobs, this book is an excellent choice. The author does a fine job of presenting an extraordinary amount of material - you will learn real, in-depth background about acoustics and synthesis techniques. I find myself constantly referring to this book when I am in my studio.
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Indispensable.......2006-06-02
I love this book; I was tempted to write this review since I saw a few negative comments by others that might put a potential purchaser off, and I would not want that.
As someone who both develops and specifies medical imaging applications in Java and other languages, I buy every book that has anything to do with the subject, and this is the one that I find most helpful and the one that I refer to most, even after all these years of using it.
This is NOT a book dedicated to JAI, however, and it pre-dates the JIIO stuff, so you will still need the Sun material for that, as others have pointed out.
It is also very elegantly presented and produced, for those who appreciate the aesthetics of a book as well as its content.
David
Worth it more for the examples than the tutorial.......2006-04-19
This book is an OK tutorial on Java imaging technologies, even though the book is 5 years old. Some things have changed, particularly with the Java Advanced Imaging API, but not enough to invalidate the book's tutorial. I would say if you are a complete novice to imaging in Java, you should read "Java 2D Graphics" by Knudsen. Also, the chapters on Swing in "Core Java Volume 1" by Cornell are essential. For the Java advanced imaging API, go to the JAI API website and download the "Java Advanced Imaging Programming Guide" that is freely available online from Sun Microsystems.
After you know the essentials, this book is good for specific problems you'll encounter in the AWT, Java2D, and JAI. For example this book talks about how to load images from Jar files, how to build region-of-interest (ROI) applications in Java 2D, the use of Java Beans and imaging, interactive graphics, and curves.
Finally, this book is good because it goes into details - including code - on how to perform certain common but often difficult imaging utilities in Java such as pie charting, image histograms, viewing very large images using JAI tiles, image processing with JAI, and performing Internet imaging by using the JAI with servlets.
If you are serious about imaging in Java it is an essential reference, but don't use it as your primary source for a tutorial.
Don't buy this book!.......2004-10-07
I bought this book with the intention of learning the JAI API for dealing with imagery. I have read the book from cover to cover three times, and all I have learned is how wonderful a developer the author believes he is.
This book does not go into enough detail on any of the API's, but it is especially lacking with regards to JAI. He has some sample code in the book, but all of the sample code is wrappers he has written around the Sun API's. Instead of explaining the API's one would like to learn, we are given a full detailed explanation of the wrapper code he has written, and leaves the API explanation details to the reader to figure out for themselves.
This book is a complete waste of time, and has to be the worst book I have ever read relating to Java. Next time, save your development skill advertising to your resume.
Excellent Resource.......2004-02-13
This is an excellent resource for imaging development with Java and an altogther beautiful book complete with glossy, color pages. The only downside to this text is that there seems to be a new imaging API every week in the Java world. Even still, this is a great source to help you get started.
Should be good, but it isn't.......2001-12-30
This book suffers from tacit knowledge oversight, a situation where the author assumes that the reader already knows the subject matter. Reading this book didn't help me understand the design behind Java 2D API or how to use it effectively
The concept of the Alpha channel is not discussed at all. How do you use Java 2D with ARGB data? This book does not tell you.
An example of a simple problem that I couldn't solve after reading this book is how do you use Java 2D when your data is ordered BGR instead of RGB? You would think that interchanging the values in the BandOffsets would do it, but Java 2D throws an Exception. In general his short examples seem too contrived to be useful, and the examples that use random numbers as images are not useful because you can't tell if the image is displayed correctly.
On the positive side the region of interest example included looks very interesting (though I haven't tried it).
I'd like to see a second edition that explains the design of Java 2D, how the APIs are supposed to be used, and why certain things don't work as expected.
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