Corbin Reviews

This book is about Magic, a palomino mare, and Robin, a boy. Together they have to face a hungry mountain lion. Magic is considered an old horse without much time left, and Robin can't work, play, or go to school like everyone else. Robin generally has to sit and daydream about what he would do, but eventually he gets to go on his own adventure, against the mountain lion.

There's an Act-Up poster around the Bay Area now that reads 'It's easy to sell hope in an epidemic'. This book is about hope through and through. The hope that the black gay man has about his future and success. The hope that the Mexican man has in a possible treatment for AIDS only available to him because he has a twin. but he isnt out-of the closet to family. He tells Dexter 'You wouldn't understand'. He can't explain the latino Machismo. At the beginning of the book the lead character is a hot writer with a promising career. At the end he is forced to call the twin of his partner for money. They are wealthy. The topic of money runs as an undercurrent throghout the book. Corbin (now deceased) weaves a tale that has very real characters with very real (and sad) problems. In the end the book is not about Machismo, money or hope. It's really about finding love and trying hard to keep it

The new properties can be received at the expense of simulation of frame of a materials.

This book gives a great introduction to the care of lizards and snakes in captivity. It is well written and easy to read.

I was very pleased with this book. For a low cost, it provides you with a comprehensive explanation of Dreamweaver's capabilities and how to achieve the effects you want. As the title suggests, you get excellent pictures to help explain the concepts.

I found the book to be well organized. J. Tarin Towers avoids repetitiveness and babbling and gets right to the point. Once you complete the book, it acts as a nice reference to quickly look something up - should you forget.

The book even teaches you some HTML as it goes along. So if you're unfamiliar with some HTML commands, you'll get help from the author so you'll know what is going on. However, I wouldn't rely simply on this book if you're completely new to HTML.

My only complaint about this book is the online appendix. You are required to go to this book's complimentary website in order to get information on the following 3 things: The Image Map Editor, Roundtrip HTML, and Browser Compatibility. Why not just include them with the book? Some of those things seem odd to include in an appendix, too (e.g., include the image map section with the chapter on Working with Images). The whole website ordeal seemed suspicious to me.

Despite the quirks with the appendices, I found this book to be quite informative. It goes through and explains Dreamweaver's functions successfully and quickly. Let's face it, you don't want to bore yourself reading a book 2 inches thick on how to use a fairly simple program. You want to quickly get through a no nonsense book and actually use the program. And for that, The Dreamweaver Visual Quickstart is what you need.

I read it cover to cover in less than 3 days. I went from knowing "0" about how to fully use DW to giving advice and tech support to co-workers. I even upgraded to DW 2.0 because I read a friend's QuickStart book for 2.0 and saw all the new features. Just about all of the VQS books are GOLD! The local university requires its Graphic Design students to buy them too :)

I have gone through a lot of software books,but none that made learning a new software as easy as "Dreamweaver 1.2". This book explains everything in a clear and brief way without being boring. It was the first time that I have finished an entire book without frustration or confusion. If just all tutorials could be that simple, uncomplicated and yet bring such an amount of information across.

The book covers from the basics of Distributed Appications and to the design of one of those. It concentrates on the SUN's RPC library. It does deal with good and simple examples, but on in depth. Certain examples can be dealt with more elegantly and more interestingly. Only few examples are given which doesnt cover much of this vast field. I think an example is worth 1000 words. But the book doesnt progress in that way. Infact the SUN's tutorial in docs.sun.com deals more of examples and explanation than this book does. But one thing to be appreciated is that the XDR portion of this book is great and a master piece. For a beginner like me it helped me in understanding a lot into it. I does cover only the basics of every thing. Nothing in depth. The chapter on rpcgen is worth mentioning for the author's lucidness in explaining the beautiful concepts involved in it. Finally the book ends up with the mention of the future of RPC. According to me it is the best ONLY for Beginners.

Corbin, the late French Islamicist initially influened by existentialist thought, should be credited for rendering Ibn Arabi more difficult than the Muslim sufi himself -- this by itself is quite an achievement: the obscurity of an Arabic theosopher compounded by the obscurity of a French philosopher. Only in the academy!!!

This book falls short of living up to it's Title, and maintaining the level of quality we appreciated in Mrs. Corbin's first work on the subject. "Curse of the Dutchman's Gold", and was not well received by her Peers, Superiors and Sources of Information on the subject material.

A modest amount of research on the Internet...discloses a considerable amount of discontention among Lost Dutchman Enthusiasts concerning her Moral Right to publish some of the material she presented in this book.

Mrs. Corbin takes full advantage of the "Author's Prerogative" in her very subjective presentation of what she refers to as "Facts" and "Evidence". An unusual amount of errors, omissions and fragmented information indicates the lack of "Quality" Editing and Review.

Poorly Edited, Casually Reviewed and Way Over-Priced.

I've been in private school for 14 years now. I have never before read a worse book on religion than this. It seems that this entire book is based on inaccurate data and unjustified opinions. In my opinion, A Metaphorical God is nothing but a bunch of babbling accompanied by large words in an attempt, perhaps, to seem intelligent to collegues or superiors -- an utter failure. I do not recommend this book.

Author expands poorly documented facts that could be presented in two pages into a class "c" melodrama. Save your money.