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Successful interventions with sex offenders: Learning what works
good value and great writer!!! The layout is clear and the colour plates give the visual complement that is needed with such a broad topic.
Penthouse of the gods;: A pilgrimage into the heart of Tibet and the sacred city of Lhasa,
Theos Bernard's Penthouse of the Gods relates his unprecedented 1937 stay in Lhasa, Tibet, "the foribben holy city". He was a student of Buddhism and Tantra, something of an adventurer too. Unlike the few others who saw Tibet in it's period of strength when it was truly autonomous (as the Chinese would have us believe it is today) Bernard spoke Tibetan (badly, but he tried), wore Tibetan clothing, lived with a Tibetan nobleman for three months, was welcomed into the great monasteries, met everyone who was anyone in Lhasa, including the Chinese Ambassador and the British officials. He took thousands of photographs, including a film (still existent but in need of repair). Bernard's dense diary of his stay is at the East Asian department in UC-Berkeley. I have read it and read his letters to his wife, for whom I worked several years. The diary is an invaluable artifact giving insight to a culture that has been entirely destroyed. Readers of Penthouse of the Gods get some inkling of the complexity of the country,Bernard's writing style is often overblown, and he fabricates his initiation as a lama, which is troubling. But most of the book is derived from the diaries and is a very worthwhile read for anyone curious about what Tibet was really like. Two very different biographies of Bernard have appeared this year (2012), each has strong points and is worth reading.Consider how Lhasa has been rebuilt by the Chinese, and that Tibetans are marginalized in their own country, their wealth stolen, their religion degraded -- read this book and weep.
Whitaker's Almanack 2004
This is an excellent reference source on England and the world at large from a British point of view.
Visual Basic 6 Client/Server Programming Gold Book: Building Better Enterprises and Departmental Environments
Yikes! You browse through the first few pages on this book, and your interest is built up, because it pretends to be a comprehensive, state of the art review on the status of VB 6 as a development technology. It reads like it. You keep on reading, and the writing style throws you off completely. A topic is usually not developed well enough before the authors jump to the next one, and then the next, and sometimes back to the original one... it is pretty much like watching someone with ADHD browsing the Internet on Visual Basic topics. Code examples in the book are jumped straight into without much intro, and the ones in the CD have bugs in one or two of them.They want to cover so much so quickly, they take on so many interesting topics, and yet they mix them up so inconsistently that following this book through is almost impossible. A potentially great book, but terribly edited. reading it gave me a migraine. I'm trying to read it through again, but slowly, as to not get so frustrated, and with my word processor open in outline mode as to make sense of the mess. Too bad.
Visual Basic 6 Client/Server Programming Gold Book: Building Better Enterprises and Departmental Environments
... and hope it will never see the light of day again. This is one of the worst books on programming that I've ever read. The examples are terrible, and most of them don't work.Too bad that there is no zero star catagory.This book appears to be some class notes slapped together to cash in on the client/server "dot com" boom of the ninties. If you see it in a used book bin for a dollar, don't waste your money.
Visual Basic 6 Client/Server Programming Gold Book: Building Better Enterprises and Departmental Environments
The book has the worst explanations of programming concepts I have ever attempted to read and the CD-ROM is nearly worthless. You will be fortunate indeed if the examples work with your installation of VB6. Several of the examples that were to supposed to use a data control actually displayed a picture box and never did work as a data control. The only way that I could get them to work was to delete the picture boxes, add a data control and program it. For that I didn't need this book or the waste of my time trying to make the examples work. As a database programmer, I feel that the money spent on this book was a waste. I might as well have burned the money for warmth.