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Any avid Brown fan fascinated by the titles will want this.
THE DAN BROWN COMPANION: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE FICTION is for any avid fan of Dan Brown novels as well as for lending libraries who have a strong representation of Brown titles on hand. It offers up a lavish gazetteer/analytical blend of Brown's fiction and features a focus on the places featured within The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons as well as the characters in the books. Any avid Brown fan fascinated by the titles will want this. ... Read more

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Compilation of the literary, artistic and historical references in Dan Brown's brilliant thriller "The Da Vinci Code". In much the same way that Dan built his novel on the brilliant, fascinating, and just plain odd stories that make up our history and culture, this compilation is built on the web pages, images and analysis that others have created to enhance your enjoyment of reading "The Da Vinci Code." ... Read more

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To Go A Step Beyond
If you loved DaVinci Code or if you hated it, you must admit it did get a reaction from you....which in itself is one definition of a successful novel. Many readers have found themselves more interested in the information detailed in Dan Brown's books, and if so, this book is a good choice to begin to learn about the amazing history of the Christian Church.

Especially Gnosticism and the early Christian Church, and especially the creation of the New Testament Bible. For a different review....here is my review of books that build on these interests, especially the "lost" books of the New Testament Bible and the concepts of Gnosticism.

Nearly all knowledgeable Biblical scholars realize there have been a wide range of writings attributed to Jesus and his Apostles..... and that some of these were selected for compilation into the book that became known as the Bible.....and that some books have been removed from some versions of the Bible and others have been re-discovered in modern times.

The attention focused on Gnosticism by Dan Brown's DaVinci Code may be debatable, but the fact is that increased attention on academics tends to be predominately positive, so I welcome those with first-time or renewed interest.At least first-timers to Gnosticism are not pursuing the oh-so-popular legends of the Holy Grail, Bloodline of Christ, and Mary Magdalene.

This is great......I seldom quote other reviewers, but there is one reviewer of Pagels' books who confided that he had been a Jesuit candidate and had been required to study a wide range of texts but was never was told about the Nag Hamadi texts.He said:

"Now I know why.The Gospel of Thomas lays waste to the notion that Jesus was `the only begotten Son of God' and obviates the need for a formalized church when he says,`When your leaders tell you that God is in heaven, say rather, God is within you, and without you.'No wonder they suppressed this stuff! The Roman Catholic Church hasn't maintained itself as the oldest institution in the world by allowing individuals to have a clear channel to see the divinity within all of us: they need to put God in a bottle, label the bottle, put that bottle on an altar, build a church around that altar, put a sign over the door, and create rubricks and rituals to keep out the dis-believing riff-raff.Real `Us' versus `them' stuff, the polar opposite from `God is within You.'`My God is bigger than your God' the church(s)seem to say. And you can only get there through "my" door/denomination. But Jesus according to Thomas had it right: just keep it simple, and discover the indwelling Divinity `within you and without you.'"

Here are quickie reviews of what is being bought these days on the Gnostic Gospels and the lost books of the Bible in general:

The Lost Books of the Bible (0517277956) includes 26 apocryphalbooks from the first 400 years that were not included in the New Testament.

Marvin Meyers' The Secret Teachings of Jesus : Four Gnostic Gospels (0394744330 )is a new translation without commentary of The Secret Book of James, The Gospel of Thomas, The Book of Thomas, and The Secret Book of John.

James M. Robinson's The Nag Hammadi Library in English : Revised Edition (0060669357) has been around 25 years now and is in 2nd edition.It has introductions to each of the 13 Nag Hammadi Codices and the Papyrus Berioinensis 8502.

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (0140278079)by Geza Vermes has selected works....a complete work is more difficult to achieve than the publisher's marketing concept indicates.His commentary generates strong reactions.

Elaine Pagels has 2 books(The Gnostic Gospels 0679724532 and Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas 0375501568) that have received considerable attention lately.For many, her work is controversial in that it is written for popular consumption and there is a strong modern interpretation.She does attempt to reinterpret ancient gender relationships in the light of modern feminist thinking.While this is a useful (and entertaining) aspect of college women's studies programs, it is not as unethical as some critics claim.As hard as they may try, all historians interpret the past in the context of the present.Obviously there is value in our attempts to re-interpret the past in the light of our own time.

If you want the full scholarly work it is W. Schneemelcher's 2 volumeNew Testament Apocrypha.

Also, to understand the Cathars......try Barbara Tuckman's Distant Mirror for an incredible historical commentary on how the Christian Church has handled other points of view

Chapter - by - Chapter Reader's Guide of The Da Vinci Code
This book is a compilation of the literary, artistic and historical references in Dan Brown's brilliant thriller "The Da Vinci Code". In much the same way that Dan built his novel on the brilliant, fascinating, and just plain odd stories that make up our history and culture, this compilation is built on the web pages, images and analysis that others have created to enhance your enjoyment of reading "The Da Vinci Code."

It is presented in a chapter-by-chapter format so that the reader will be able to see available references and weblinks as they read (or reread) The Da Vinci Code.

Not bad
Betsy Eble does a reasonably competent job of walking through some of the issues in Dan Brown's novel, but it doesn't compare to Steve Kellmeyer's "Fact and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code" (0971812861). Eble's discussion of Jesus and Mary Magdelene, for instance, doesn't cover the obvious argument that Kellmeyer brings forward. Brown's assertion that Mary Magdelene came from the line of Benjamin is used by Kellmeyer to demonstrate why this simple fact makes it virtually impossible to believe she was wedded to Jesus or given any authority in the Church. Eble misses the whole line of reasoning.

Similarly, not nearly enough is done with the fact that much of Dan Brown's "theology" is based in 19th century German anti-Semitic theories concerning the origins of Scripture. Likewise, the Wiccan connections to German influences on England between the two world wars is pretty much overlooked.

In short, Eble has done a pretty good job, but Kellmeyer does a better one. ... Read more

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Title: El dulce olor del dinero: el Código Da Vinci.(efectos sociales de novela del autor Dan Brown)
Author: Guillermo García Oropeza
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 30, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 50Issue: 2659Page: 36(2)

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Preaching Another Jesus: Decoding Dan Brown's DaVinci Code Hoax. "Abetted by his carefully-applied image of scholarly piety, Dan Brown has pushed his way into many Christian homes on an allegedly missionary agenda. THE DaVINCI CODE has been consumed by millions worldwide as revelatory history, and a moving call for us to return to the rich spirituality of the early Apostolic Church. But deferring to Brown's teachings is like inviting a Jehovah's Witness into your kitchen. Broadly stated, their objective may seem noble, and Christian, but as soon as they start in on the specifics it becomes clear they are preaching another Jesus. A large population of nominal Christians have been led into a false promise of enlightenment by a smug and supercilious armchair provocateur, 'teaching things which [he] ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.'" - From the Foreword to PREACHING ANOTHER JESUS ... Read more

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Too polemic and too expensive
The positives:
1) McDonnell addresses 10 issues in "The Da Vinci Code" with some information that hasn't been published in book form so far. These issues include "suppression" of gospels, dating and reliability of the New Testament gospels, the gospels and the "sacred feminine," Jesus' "marriage" to Mary Magdalene, Peter's ouster from power, the "sacred feminine" in the Old Testament, Constantine and the deity of Jesus, Mary Magdalene as the holy grail, the Priory of Sion, and the secret message of Leonardo's painting, "the Last Supper."
2) McDonnell has obviously taken time to do research on a wide variety of complicated topics. However, McDonnell's a bit disorganized in presenting all of the detailed material in a short amount of space. Tracking down the source material may also prove to be difficult (see below).

The negatives:
1) The price is high for a short, large-font publication--probably due to its independent publisher.
2) The polemic and sarcastic tone not only targets "The Da Vinci Code," but also Roman Catholicism. It's better to focus on refuting only one party at a time. (I speak here as a Protestant evangelical.)
3) The enthusiastic style is unfortunately immature, with so many words italicized that it's hard to pick the book titles out from the prose.
4) Most disappointingly, the documentation is formatted very poorly. Book titles and article titles are both italicized in the bibliography (article titles should be enclosed in quotes). It's hard to tell what is a full-length book, what is a periodical article, and what is an online article. Many of McDonnell's sources are from web sites. He does not include in his notes or bibliography the web address or the date the material was accessed.

I can give readers sites for a few of his references. Paul Smith's material may be accessed at http://priory-of-sion.com. Matt Slick's material is available at www.carm.org. James Patrick Holding's article may be found at http://answers.org/issues/davincicode.html.

With all of the foregoing qualifications, the book may be useful to someone who already has a balanced library refuting "The DaVinci Code" and is looking for more secondary source material.

Good information, but with an agenda.
It's good to see an independent researcher using an online self-publishing resource to present another contribution to the cottage industry which has grown up debunking Dan Brown's silly pseudo history.The reviewers (who all seem to be in dire need of remedial spelling classes - 'ludacris'?!) who shriek that Brown's book is 'FICTION' seem to have missed the fact that Brown has repeatedly presented the 'history' in his book as valid, legitimate and plausible.They have also overlooked the fact that *many* readers have taken the 'facts' in the book seriously - a recent Canadian survey found 1/3 of DVC readers believed its version of 'history'.

McDonnell's book is a good, brief survey of the many and various errors and distortions in the novel's historical claims and for this he is to be highly commended.This is a good quick reference guide which packs a lot of information into a brief format.

On the downside, the author's overuse of italics and capitalisation for emphasis gets rather irritating after a while.It is as though he feels the reader isn't going to get what he is saying unless he SHOUTS about once every five words.Secondly, no-one buying this book should do so under the impression that his analysis is coolly unbiased and objective.McDonnell has a clear Christian agenda, and a defiantly conservative one at that.Add to this his problems with the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, which actually puts him at odds with most of the Christians who would be the primary audience for his book.

There are a number of highly intolerant, bigoted sideswipes in the direction of the Catholic Church, and at one point - when he discusses the Knights Templar - McDonnell veers from real history into weird, Nineteenth Century Masonic pseudo history and declares that the Templars' real purpose was to excavate under the Temple Mount for the Ark of the Covenant!This is every bit as silly as anything Dan Brown tries to pass off as history and seriously undermines McDonnell's claims to scholarly analysis.

For a truly objective, scholarly and entirely non-Christian analysis of much of the same material, I'd recommend Bart D. Ehrman's *Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine*.

Good but there are caveats
I bought this book, because it purported to not use biblical evidence to dispel Brown's claims as many other Da Vinci debunkers have done. After all when arguing over the Code, it's nice to not have to also argue for the historicity of the Bible. McDonnell does a bit of that but in a fitting manner and some were new to me (like Gesthemane).

I have not double checked the author's facts but assuming they are true, he does lay down a solid case against the Code. There are a couple quibbles though. His attack on the use of the imaginary department of Symbology in the novel was uncharitable at best. I suppose in a novel like Brown's, one gets the feel as to what the author is proposing as actual history and what elements constitute mere storytelling. It appears that Brown wants his novel to be more of a historical novel than a true fictional novel (why else the FACT page at the beginning?)

My main problem with Preaching Another Jesus, is the author's heretical views on Christian dogma or more specifically the Holy Trinity. For this reason, I would caution lending this book to a non-Christian friend, because while escaping one pitfall, one may be lead into yet another. However, for the secure believer, the book is a fun short read (however pricey).

History at it's Best
I have no idea what the fuss is all about.Dan Brown clearly states his book is a 'novel', fiction.I have not witnessed any person or persons trying to pass it off as non-fiction.As a person who usually hates history I found this book an excellent source of history facts that made it fun-learning and just opened my mind to taking a different view.[...]The bible is fiction too people and is less believable than Dan Brown's DaVinci Code

Markvon
I'm not sure what the fuss is about.The Bible is also a fictional work! ... Read more

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Brilliant
Angels and Demons was a brilliant masterpiece of real historic artifacts and events contributing cunningly to a modern thriller. With unexpected plot twists and every character, however small, making a difference Angels and Demons captured my attention and didn't let it go until the end of the book.

"A hundred thousand miracles are happening every day" (Flower Drum Song)
Robert Langdon a Harvard symbologist is woken in the middle of the night by a phone call that is going to change his life.This phone call may also change our lives.

Dan Brown weaves many story threads in to a tapestry of intrigue. The story takes place over a 24-hour period.A positive thing about this tale is that it is told in a linear fashion with very few flashbacks except when it is necessary for a back-story.In this story he treats Robert Langdon's character as if Langdon is not aware of many, well known technical items and theories; this may be true of Robert Langdon, but Dan Brown also irritatingly treats us as if we do not know these things!

On the surface, we are treated to a "who did it" and "will we get there in time" story.We must separate the goats from the sheep. However, we are also confronted with science versus religion.Is science and religion like oil and water or is science and religion just two of the facets of God?

The Da Vinci Code: A Novel by Dan Brown
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Ten key strategies and concepts that can help church leaders unleash the hidden potential for ministry in their congregations are the foundation of this book. ... Read more

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Excellent start to build strategic systems of your church
I got this book 2 years ago and it has been a prized reference for me. The ideas presented in the book will challenge old paradigms and stir up strategic thinking & evaluation of your church. Daniel Brown will bring you into thinking of designing a process that transforms people's life (as in a river) instead of just focusing on programs, attendance, performance, series of unconnected events just to attract people (as in a lake). If you are serious about strategizing your church to transform people's life, get this book. ... Read more

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Outstanding book in text and photographs
Just moving to the Texas coastline I have fallen in love with the Pelicans here:brown and white. This is a fabulous book with thedetailed pictures, and I was fascinated as to how Dan G gathered/tookthe pic's to illustrate Joseph Brown's detailed text so wonderful. It is the best book for all ages and a purrfect coffe table book for anyone who lives in the Pelican areas of the coast. Looking to buy a good used copy so I can finish this FAB book.

Really good
This book was really good. Even though i'm kind of young, i understood it and thought it was an amazing book. ... Read more

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The official illustrated tie-in book to the film adaptation based on the novel by the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks.

Featuring more than 200 photos, drawings, and historical images, this official full-color companion book captures the film's amazing visuals, and details the complexity of bringing Dan Brown's bestselling thriller novel to the screen.

In Angels & Demons, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to Rome to embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals. What he uncovers is unimaginable. The Illuminati, a secret society whose existence dates back to the 1700s, is alive, well, and murderously active-masterminding a deadly plot to blow up the Vatican.

Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion offers a behind-the-scenes look at the stunning production design and process of filming the famous locations featured in the movie. Director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and executive producer Todd Hallowell share how they accomplished this formidable task on such a tremendous scale, employing hundreds of artisans in Italy and Southern California.

Contents include:
* In-progress shots of the re-creation of the Sistine Chapel and its artifacts
* Details on creating 8,000 books for the Vatican Archive library, including the Galileo book that holds the clue to the mystery
* Creation of intricate sets, down to precise architectural details, for St. Peter's Square, the Pantheon, and the Piazza Navona
* Never-before-seen storyboards and drawings used to plan the film's action scenes
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Don;t Waste Your Time!
Dan Brown is at it again! Not content with his vilification of Christian religions -Protestant and Catholic Churches alike - in his Da Vinci Code, a book (and movie) of fiction posing as fact, he has now come out with this piece of excrement, which is being glamorized in this so-called Illustrated Movie Companion, by those having the most to gain by the movie's "success". For them making money while attempting to damage our culture and our society through attacks on the Christian religion and on people of faith, is a game.

Regarding Brown's book and the movie Angels & Demons, if he had written this work attacking the religion of Islam, muslims everywhere would be after his scalp. In fact, the movie changes one of Brown's characters from a crazed muslim to a lapsed Catholic. Wonder why?

For years Christians have put up with and tried to ignore these types of destructive diatribes against their religion and against God. Not any longer. At least with me, the gloves are off.

For more of what I mean, go to my website, http://www.saccoservices.com, or my blog, http://anthonyjsaccosr.townhall.com.

But for now, here's an article which informs readers and reveals the truth about two "issues" Brown includes in Angels & Demons, "issues" which he has slanted into yet more distortions of Christianity. Please read on:

"Slanderous Anti-Christian Falsehoods of `Angels & Demons'
by Dr. Ted Baehr, Dr. Tom Snyder

"Angels & Demons," Ron Howard's new movie based on author Dan Brown's series of novels featuring a fictional anti-religious zealot posing as a pseudo-intellectual professor, is another Christophobic, slanderous liberal attack on faith and reason.

Though the movie tones down the hero's knee-jerk atheist attitude against the historical Christian faith of Protestants and Catholics, it still manages to attack those of us who have strong faith in God, Jesus Christ and the biblical accounts of God's interaction with His creation. In other words, the movie still reflects Dan Brown's false anti-Christian, secular humanist worldview.

For example, although (unlike the book) the movie's dialogue has some positive statements about faith in Jesus Christ, the person making many of these statements turns out to be the real villain, a mad clergyman who also is one of the most conservative Christians depicted in the story. Furthermore, when confronted by these various statements about Jesus Christ, the hero keeps his agnosticism. In fact, the movie's ultimate impression is that Christians throughout history are mostly a bunch of well-meaning but bumbling fools with a few really bad guys and hypocrites included in the bunch.

Also unlike the book, the assassin henchman of the mad clergyman in the movie is not a rabid Muslim as he is in the novel, but a very lapsed Catholic. He is not killing for Allah, but for money.

One of the biggest lies fostered by both the book and the movie, however, is the lie that science and religion are always at odds. In making this point, the movie clearly takes the side of an atheist definition of science that denies the existence of God.

For example, the movie alleges that the Catholic Church executed four scientists for their scientific beliefs or theories. It also alleges that the church condemned the astronomer/philosopher Galileo as a heretic because of his view that the earth revolved around the sun.

Both of these allegations are false! First, as Professor Thomas Lessl of the University of Georgia notes in "The Galileo Legend," history records only one scientist put to death by a public authority before the 20th Century--chemist Antoine Lavoisier, executed during the French Revolution. The secular, anti-clerical leftist tyrants of the French Revolution also closed the nation's Academy of Science.

Second, several major historians, including David Lindberg, Stillman Drake and Jeffrey Burton Russell, as well as Prof. Lessl, have proven that Galileo was put under house arrest by church officials for theological and political reasons, not because of his scientific theories and research about the earth revolving around the sun. Until Galileo started ridiculing and mocking people (including Pope Urban VIII) who did not accept all of his theories, the Catholic Church did not try to officially condemn him, as long as he kept out of the fields of theology and biblical hermeneutics. Thus, it wasn't until Galileo began talking about theology and the Bible in a mean-spirited way that some church officials decided they had had enough!

In fact, until that time, many of Galileo's chief opponents were scientists, such as the scientist Horatio Grassi, who disputed Ga lileo's false theory about the nature of comets. In reality, therefore, the opposition to Galileo and his theory about the earth revolving around the sun was actually started by some science philosophers and scientific academics of his day. These nascent scientists rejected Galileo's theory because they accepted some of the false scientific theories of Aristotle and other pagan philosophers that Galileo and other Christian scientists believed were false. In fact, the wide acceptance of these false scientific theories by the respected pagan philosopher Aristotle had led many people in Galileo's time to distort various Bible passages so that they agreed with Aristotle's pagan views.

Thus, the church did not start the persecution of Galileo. It was started by "science" itself!

As Dr. Jeffrey Burton Russell writes, phony historical incidents like that of the four executed scientists and the Catholic persecution of Galileo for his scientific beliefs are examples of the attempt, by anti-religious bigots in the "scientific" community, to create the false idea of an "eternal war between science (good) and religion (bad) throughout Western history" ("The Myth of the Flat Earth," The American Scientific Affiliation Conference, Aug. 4, 1997 at Westmont College). "This vast web of falsehood was invented and propagated by the influential historian John Draper (1811-1882) and many prestigious followers," Russell writes.

Russell believes these historical lies are a slanderous attempt to defend Darwinistic Evolution. Be that as it may, as journalist George Sim Johnston notes, it was the theological worldview of medieval Christianity that "made modern science possible in the first place" ("The Galileo Affair," The Catholic Educator's Resource Center). Adds Johnston, based on his extensive review of the writings of such modern philosophers of science like Stanley Jaki, "It was the insistence on the rationality of God and His creation by St. Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic thinkers that paved the way for Galileo and Newton."

Consequently, contrary to what "Angels & Demons" says, the Christian church, in neither Catholic nor its Protestant incarnations, never declared Galileo's scientific theories as heretical. Nor did it execute four scientists for their scientific theories. For some reason, however (most likely our dumbed-down education system and the constant attacks on Christianity by the mass media), too many people believe the kind of specious, fallacious and mendacious science and history spewed by movies and books like "Angels & Demons." People are open to the claptrap theories that writers like Dan Brown and filmmakers like Ron Howard push because they have been fooled by the lies and myth conceptions against Jesus Christ and His followers spread by their enemies.

And, too many Christians believe Dan Browns lie in the movie that Christianity "is flawed, because man is flawed." The Christian faith comes from the Bible that is inerrant, and the Bible reports on Jesus Christ who is sinless. If Jesus Christ had sinned, then he would not and could not have been a flawless sacrifice for our sins, and all of us would be under judgment. The Good News of Jesus Christ that turned cowards into fearless, faithful apostles was and is that Jesus Christ gives us the free gift of salvation by paying the penalty for our sins. He is flawless. His Word written is without error and flawless and even His Body, the true church is in God's eyes redeemed from the flaws of this world by His perfect loving sacrifice for our sins. Man did not invent Christianity. God, who is Jesus Christ, gave us Christianity to give us freedom from our sins. This is great news.

It is time for Christians to counter lovingly but firmly these slanderous attacks instead of ignoring them or, even worse, acquiescing to them. You don't have to murder somebody to know that it's wrong to murder. And, you don't have to read or see "Angels & Demons" to realize that Dan Brown and Ron Howard are grinding an ax, not only against the Catholic Church and Bible-believing Christians, but also against Jesus Himself."

See? So now you know.

A fine addition to any movie buff's collection
Any fan of the movie "Angels & Demons" will find "Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion" a treasury, packed with quotes from all the principal filmmakers, concept sketches, drawings, period paintings, color photos and more. With its many vivid images and insights, "Angels & Demons: The Illustrated Movie Companion" will prove a 'must' for both film libraries and library patrons with special interest in the movie.

Amazing Illustrated Movie Companion!
This book is nothing less than amazing! Every detail from the motivation behind lighting and dialogue, to descriptions of scenery and characters is here. Because this is a controversial story, the Catholic Church refused to allow ANGELS AND DEMONS to be filmed on location. Can't blame them. But the extreme extent to which the producer, Ron Howard, went to make this movie realistic on a budget is nothing less than amazing! From creating "marble" floors out of photocopies of real marble, forcing the stars to wear booties over their shoes, to reproducing the massive sculptures in the Vatican, it is all here. Many photos overwhelm the reader with the actual scope of the project! ... Read more

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Idaho trip
Our family just returned from a trip to Salmon, Idaho and I wanted a book for the grandkiddos (all under age five) and the picture book was perfect.

Very good illustrations


The illustrations in this book convey a great deal of the context and emotion.They are very well done and they do more than half the work of the storytelling.Great illustrations of the Shoshone village and Fort Mandan.

The book is good information, and it's easy reading.We are using it for our summer home school unit on Lewis and Clark.This is not a thrilling book, but it's good.

A Picture Book of Sacagawea
This book was a biography of Sacagawea. It begins with her birth in 1788 or 1789 on the western part of the Rocky Mountains. It goes on to her capture by the Hidatsa warriors and her marriage to Toussaint Carbonneau. The biography also covers significant events that occurred during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I liked how this book gave more insight into Sacagawea's life as well as the Lewis and Clark expedition. There was much information and details that I did not know before. It also included great illustrations. Overall, I thought it was a great book.

Sacagawea's
I Liked this book because it wasn't to hard to read and it didn't tell every single detail it stayed on Sacagawea it didn't like start talking about clark or anything it stayed on her not her baby her.


MaryGrace Cruser

use in a classroom
This is a great book that will give students an insight into the life of Sacagawea.It details her time with Lewis and Clark.It also gives students an idea of what life was like for explorers traveling west in the early 19th century. ... Read more

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Del mismo autor de los Bestsellers "El Código Da Vinci" y “Ángeles y demonios,” FonoLibro les trae una apasionante novela llena de claves secretas, mensajes ocultos, engaños y crímenes. "Fortaleza Digital" los mantendrá en suspenso y no podrá dejar de escucharlo hasta que llegue al final. La supercomputadora de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional se encuentra con un código el cual no puede descifrar. El subdirector de la agencia llama a la hermosa criptógrafa Susan Fletcher, La única pista para romper ese código parece estar en el cadáver de un hombre fallecido en España, donde ha sido enviado el prometido de Susan, David Becker. Mientras David intenta hallar la clave y sobrevivir a la persecución de un metódico e implacable asesino en las calles de Sevilla, Susan se enfrentará a su propio drama en las desoladas instalaciones de máxima seguridad de la Agencia, durante una larga noche en la que la mentira y el asesinato acechan tras cada puerta.Añada a su colección “El Código Da Vinci” y “Ángeles y demonios” de Dan Brown, en unas magnificas producciones con la reconocida e insuperable calidad de FonoLibro. ... Read more

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Fantastico, tan emocionante como Angeles & Demonios
Aunque fue su primer libro en ingles, y ahora el mas reciente en español, Dan Brown es definitivamente en nuevo maestro del Thriller! Entre codigos, pero esta vez de computadoras, y entre asesinatos, no pude parar hasta terminar de escucharlo. La narracion de Karl Hofman es increible. ... Read more

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Allows you to start programming right away and see actual results while learning the Perl language. Teaches you step-by-step, how to streamline or automate virtually any Web development task using Perl 5.Softcover. DLC: Perl (Computer program language). ... Read more

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The above review is misleading
I liked the book, and if you go to the website, you can download all the code for the examples.

For the extreme beginner
Most 'beginning' programming books are written by very experienced programmers who are often out of touch with how much the newbie does not know.
Too often, certain key bits of knowledge are assumed and I found that too often, my mind was about ready to explode from frustration.
I admit that I just didn't get it, whatever 'it' was.
Then I found this book.It is extremely simple, but that is what I needed to get off the ground.Just as I learned to read from books by Dr. Seuss, I learned to program from reading this book -- it got me off the ground.
Just remember that finishing this book does not make you a programmer -- its code examples are very simplified and full of security holes.On the other hand, this book will fill in the concepts that other books miss and you will finally be ready to take on the more complex books that WILL make you a programmer.

Excellent Perl for Web book
An excellent example of real world Perl. I highly recommend this book to any IT professional who is interested in implementing Perl with their web servers. I've been working with Perl in system administration for many years. Despite some of the dogma of "experienced webmasters" who may review this book with a critical eye, it meets the expecations of it's target audience. Those people who want to get the system up, the web site generating revenues, and move on to the next project.

A must read.

This book is bad.
While in the beginning it may look harmless, this book ignores CGI.pm, the REAL way to write Perl CGI. Using there pitifully simple interface to the POST method, newbies are led to believe that their scripts work fine using a simple hash. Their supplied function leaves a blatant security hole that any average hacker can use to bomb the script and potentially your web server. All examples are oversimplified and remain poorly explained. The reason other people rate this book as GREAT is because they are not aware of the potential harmfulness that a few lines of insecure code can do. As a webmaster, I am qualified to bash this book. The book follows up by NOT mentioning anything about taint checking, warning flag, or the use of the "strict" pragma which should be used in ALL CGI scripts (if not all Perl scripts together). This book is a NO-NO! Real advice on perl/CGI can be found at PerlMonks.org or by reading the CGI manual pages included with every distribution of Perl.

Excellent
A very good book, I must say. Although i wasn't very good at understanding the language, this book is very specific and includes a wide explanation on every line written in a script it contains. What I liked most, was that thebook included ready made scripts, which are used just like "cut n'paste", but still, every line was explained thoroughly! ... Read more