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Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2
$39.99
I bought this book because I get tired of searching for solutions when getting acclimated to a new software package. Having used Frontpage extensively, I had no great fear of transitioning to Expression Web, but I had deadlines and am somewhat impatient. I viewed the book as a ready resource to solve my urgent needs.

It serves that purpose pretty well. I haven't taken the time to really dig in and read it all the way through. I pick and choose the info I want when I need it. I find I spend more time working directly in the CSS style sheets now, and have found books that have helped me learn CSS more helpful.

That said, I would recommend this book to anyone that wants a complete overview and has some trepidation about just jumping into Expression Web. I chose it from a list of potential books and have not been disappointed. It serves its purpose with me.

Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth
$39.99
I was really looking forward to getting this book when it came out to help me learn how to use EW3. Once I started looking through the book I immediately noticed the poor quality of pages. The graphics are all dark and mostly unreadable. I would advise waiting on either a reprint of this book or just find another book when it comes out.

Expression
$14.98
Coltrane is one of those few artists I have a degree of trust with, espeically after Giant Steps. Anything he does I will always listen, and never trash, no mater how I feel about it.

I feel his work lost some fire when Coltrane lost Tyner and Jones. Alice and Rashid Ali are great musicians, but the 1966-67 music did not have the drive that Coltrane did with the great quartet. Some of the 1966 gigs, like Live At Vangard Again, seem to decompose into spinleless mush--though Trane's solos got even more powerful. The free time concept really did not work for him; there was just too much going on in his music for Ali's gentle drumming to sustain it. It was Elvin Jones that made the 1965 music so great by blasting through the chaos and binding it all together

Perhaps, or perhaps not, even the master himself realized he could not go any further "out there." Listen to the first track of Expression, and it is a blues. Of course, Trane leaps into avant gaurd combinations, but there is something cleaner, simpler about this music than the work he had been doing. It was as if he was trying to stay on the cutting edge of the "new thing" but do it in a way that he could find the songs again. Listen to Giant Steps and you'll know how much Trane loved songs, and Expression may have been the start of a "third way" for Coltrane.

Expression is not the masterpiece Ascention or my personal favorate, Sun Ship, is, but it shows Trane continuing to invent. Had he lived, this album might have`been the start of a whole new direction for Coltrane, maybe even a whole new genre of jazz.

Our loss.

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours
$29.99
This book is the perfect guide to using Microsoft Expression Web 3 software. It provides step-by-step instruction with easy to understand text. I couldn't be more please with it! Great book at a very affordable price!